the party

a few days after the incident, just as she had promised, a party was held for Tang long as congratulations for reaching the spirit refining stage, it also doubled as the birthday for the said prince,

on the day of the party, the mountain on which the imperial palace is constructed on is filled with people,

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at the edge of the mountain, in the imperial city,

"look at that!!, it's the people from the absolute flame sect, just look at those core sect disciples, they all look so handsome" said a middle-aged woman

"forget the men, look at those women, ah I would die a happy man if even one of them were to look at me!!" exclaimed a common man on the side of the street,

the carriages of the absolute flame sect kept moving forward, all the people from the sect were dressed in deep red robes with different markings on them, these robes also worked to separate their status, the robes which had single lightning bold on them was a core sect disciple, those that had two were elders, those that had three were grand elders and the only one that had four of them was the head of the sect

soon the carriages went to the mountain after which another set of carriages came along, these people had white robes and had blue waves on the robes, the waves were the same as the lightning bolts and worked to differentiate,

soon after that, the four great clans arrived,

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in the main hall of the palace,

"""""we greet the king""""

everyone bowed as the king of the central continent Tang san came into the hall followed by his only wife Yun Yue whose beauty had everyone in awe, following her was a boy of 6 years of age with blond hair like his father and blue eyes like his mother, this was Tang long, the prince of the continent, the moment he arrived and sat beside his parents, all the gazes in the hall rested on him, while on the outside he looked calm and collected, on the inside was a completely different story,

'the hell are you all staring at?'

'have you never seen a handsome boy?' (author notes: narcissistic much??)

'you aunty, why are you staring at me as if trying to eat me up with your eyes alone'

'you baldy over there, why are you grinning like a maniac while staring at me??'

'ah!!!, I want to sleep, I wish for this party to be over!!'

while this was happening, the king got up and said,

"thank you all for coming, today is the 6th birthday of my only son, it is also to celebrate his advancement into the spirit refinement stage!!!"

immediately the stares became more intense and so did Tang long's irritation.

"as expected of the prince, to reach such a high stage so quickly, this old man is thoroughly impressed," said the head of the absolute fire sect

"truly, the prince has no equal in this generation, congratulations my king!!" exclaimed the head of the immortal saint sect,

while the various heads were busily bootlicking the king, the core disciples and young masters and mistresses of the various families and secs were completely dumbfounded and staring stupidly at the prince,

they had to work day and night their entire lives and combine their peerless talent with it to achieve their current cultivation of earth realm, yet in front of them was a child of 6 years old who had already achieved spirit refinement realm,

many of this young mistress and young masters felt like killing themselves, while the core disciples who were all acting arrogantly until a moment ago wished that the ground would swallow them whole,

unaware of the demons that he had produces in the hearts of all these young people, the prince was still busy cursing the heavens in such colorful words that if heavens had a physical form, it would immediately kneel in front of him in submission and admiration,

"as a gift for the young prince, we the absolute flame sect gift him the absolute flame demon heart!!" he said to which everyone present gasped, even the king himself was stunned at such an expensive gift,

the absolute flame demon is a very rare demon that dwells in the grounds of the sect, this demon has absolute control over the flame and can give that same power to the person who absorbs its qi core which is called as the absolute flame demon heart, however the method to harvest said core had been lost in a war over 600 years ago, hence, in the entire world there only exist 7 hearts at the present time, the head had three of them, the two grand elders had two each,thus it can only mean that the patriarch was giving away one of the three that he had,

after that, the immortal saint sect head came along and said,

"the gift I prepared cannot hope to compare with that of brother zong's but this old man has prepared an ice jade lotus for the prince"

again tremours passed through the hearts of those gathered, the ice jade lotus was an extremely rare herb which is said to grant the consumer and absolute control over ice, it is a herb that can only be found in the forbidden continent as such it was very much valued,

soon the four clans presented their gifts as well, which although quite rare and expensive, were unable to compete with the two sect's gifts,

soon the party came to an end as all the people headed home, the moment the party ended, Tang long immediately used the sonic steps to escape from the palace and arrived at his spot in the gardens, in his hands were the absolute flame demon heart and ice jade lotus,

the moment he had seen these two treasures, the dragon form started to circulate on its own and was on the verge of absorbing the two treasures then and there, it was only thanks to his sheer will that he was able to hold it back until the party had ended,

the arts kept absorbing the energy from the two treasures as Tang long's cultivation kept going up,

within a few hours, his cultivation had gone from spirit refinement first stage, refining qi to the final stage refining the spirit,

suddenly his body was covered in deep black flames and dark purple ice as his cultivation directly broke through the bottleneck which had over 70% of the population stuck in the stage for many years,

as the flames and ice receded into his body, he was left naked on the ground while his cultivation reached the middle stages of the earth realm,

as he was inspecting his changes he heard a laugh, he turned around to find his parents staring at him, he only realized now that he was naked

as he futilely tried to cover himself, his mind had only one thought

'i wish a hole would open up in the ground '