Chapter 481: An Anxious City
Hearing the question, the king couldn’t help but sigh. Shirong was interested in knowing more too and focused on it.
“As far as we can tell, both of the beasts involved, both the one that flooded and the one that burned, are at the Dao Treading realm at least.” The King answered.
~gasp~
~Hiss~
People couldn’t help but take in a breath of air in shock when they heard this. Of course, this was the people who actually knew what the Dao Treading realm was. Many commoners didn’t really know about it.
King Hong could see the mixed confusion among the people and knew what they were thinking.
“To those that don’t know, the Dao Treading realm comes after the Dao Shell is two realms above the Nascent soul realm which most people should know.” The king spoke.
~thud~
Hearing this, some of the more weak hearted commoners directly passed out. While others were filled with fear. Even the Nascent Soul realm was something they were in awe of and this beast was two realms above it.
Many commoners didn’t even know something above the Nascent soul realm existed and thus they were scared. Especially since these were spirit beasts and not humans. If it was a person, they might have managed to communicate and figure out a solution with them, but with a beast, that wasn’t an option.
Even Shirong was surprised, as he had not expected something like this.
‘How many Dao Treading realm beasts are there even on the continent? From the clan records, we know there are less than thirty Dao Treading realm cultivators, but there are no concrete records of beasts.
I’ll need to check again once I return. Perhaps the ancestor has a better idea.’ Shirong thorough to himself.
The king saw the reactions of the people and had expected it. But he knew giving them this information was necessary. If the people heard it from some other source, the chaos that broke out might be even more terrifying.
What the king didn’t tell them was that they did know what one of the beasts was, but not the one that burned the Dread Coil marsh. It was also that very unknown beast that was the most problematic for them, since it had caused far more damage.
“My people… I know these are trying times, but we have to be brave. I assure you we shall do our best to protect our kingdom and our people.” The King assured giving the people a sense of comfort.
Only the aristocrats and nobles knew just how much truth was there to it. Defending against a Dao Treading realm being wasn’t something their kingdom could handle. At most, they would evacuate as many people as they could, but even then the death rate might go very high.
It wasn’t like this hadn’t happened before in history either. There were several stories ran records from thousands of years ago that described events like these. Each of those events was like a calamity for humans.
Whenever a beast of that level was enraged and it got directed towards Humans, it would turn into a one sided massacred. It was not often that this happened and there would be sects that would intervene of course, but oftentimes till then, the damage was already done.
Having completed his announcement, the King and his officials decided to return to the palace while the commoners and other aristocrats dispersed. Shirong looked for Yu Guowei among the official but did not find him there.
Shirong did see that some of the nobles headed to the palace instead of heading to their own homes. This prompted him to do the same.
“Hmm… guess I should head on to the palace, too. Not like they can reject me anyway… but that old minister… he’s not simple.” Shirong muttered to himself.
Thus, with that in mind, he went to the palace. There were several nobles heading here and the king knew of it already and thus he called for a court session to be held where the more specific questions of the nobles might be answered.
After all, while the king wouldn’t need to explain much to the commoners, he did have a higher obligation towards the nobles. Not to mention the fact that a lot of these nobles were also linked with the royal family, while some were even external members of it.
“Halt, who are you?” One of the royal guards stopped Shirong, who was trying to enter the royal palace.
Shirong causally let out his spirit Qi and looked at the guard.
“Inform the King someone from the Ji clan is here.” Shirong said calmly.
But him saying this was just a formality as when his spirit Qi flared up, the others in the royal court had felt it. There were several Nascent soul realm cultivators in the royal court who were part of it and the King was one himself as one.
Letting out a wave of spirit Qi could be seen as being offensive, thus Shirong caught attention rather easily and the people looked outside the door of the court.
“Who’s letting out their spirit Qi so audaciously?” A minister commented.
“They are certainly arrogant but do have a strong aura.” Another older minister stated.
The king looked towards the door as well and his spirit sense extended. The others did the same and went towards the common target. Usually using spirit sense like this in a public setting could set of a lot of problems, but when everyone was doing the same, they had a free pass to use it.
Shirong could clearly feel several spirit sense probes approaching him and he frowned. Before, he had been reluctant in coming out publicly since he was worried about there being spies of his sisters in the capital.
But now, that was no longer necessary as he knew that even if there were spies, there would be no use for him to be low key with the current situation.
