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Chapter 554: The Ceremony

Hua Li turned back, his face calmer His clothes fell away to reveal his perfectly sculpted forht suddenly shimmered to life between his brows It looked like a drop-shaped power geht enveloped his entire body With a single step, Hua Li ed into the beaht As he vanished into it the star-shaped pendant on his chest, Cerulea, seethed isps of pale blue power

Huht intensified, as did the buzz of power The people in Corinth all stopped and turned to face Poseidon’s Palace

A ht shot froh the shield and the vast fathoan to shake as waves of water eleht responded that covered all The central beaeny or servants of the Poseidon bloodline As the light fell upon them, one by one they piously fell to these knees in praise This was the ancient rite passed down froenerations, the ceremony that heralded the birth of another Poseidon

Hua Xu stood just outside the coluolden crown from his head All the while, a faint sh he wasn’t perfect, he was his son Hua Li was destined to take this step just as his father had before him And he achieved it five years earlier than his father had

He hadn’t attended, but Hua Xu had watched the Great Adept tournaence ofAdepts But where there were riches, there edy He had also heard the Clairvoyant’s prophecies

The future belongs to you, the youth Go, my son, and put down your burdens Chase your wishes In e to seek what I desired You are a stronger ure appeared silently at Hua Xu’s shoulder The only people allowed in this place noere those involved in the cererets He says he owes you too htly to face Mo Xiao, clad head to toe in black

She was exceptionally beautiful today Her full length black dress made her porcelain skin seem to shimmer Upon her head sat a beautiful silver tiara, but that was all That was all it took to al

Her eyes took on a far off look as she faced the pillar of light Hua Li reht She murmured softly, “I was destined to be his wife froree, or refuses for any other reason, in e the fact I am his mate, forever I will bear his children, and they will be the glory of the Poseidon bloodline”

Hua Xu nodded slightly at her affir further He turned away, but looked back once more to look upon his son, and Mo Xiao as her form became like crystal

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Lan Jue’s consciousness returned to the roo had coone He moved even easier than he had before Captus carved at his Core

The Pharmacist narrowed her eyes and focused on him She could tell he was still at the peak of ninth level She couldn’t be sure how much his Discipline had improved when not joined with Qianlin, however she could sense that Lan Jue seemed completely different It was a sensation she only ever felt froentleness that radiated around him Even someone of her capabilities had to adiven by a Banishing Blade! The Pharmacist was surprised, for she could only co process His was much smoother and more complete by coer than she and her husband had been when they atteye was also a uided her Then there were other reasons

What the Pharmacist saw, Xuanyuan Shishi saell

The sword-spirit looked carefully at Lan Jue “You , some special treasure I can sense the essence of an immortal around you Io and passed into infinity Things are different now – it is inconceivable an iye’s instruction, I consumed some thunder essence That aura you feel isn’t mine, it must be from the essence”

Surprise was clear in Shishi’s voice “The product of e, thunder essence?”