Novel Full Chapter 1078 - 1078: The World Changes!
In the Kulu Nation, the world turned upside down in a single night.
The moment the news spread—Kent King had crushed Shui Lan, humiliated the twin-sword prodigy in one blow, and been declared the Golden Heir—the streets erupted. Taverns lit bonfires, merchants rewrote contracts, and sects convened urgent councils.
But the family that felt the tremor deepest was the Han family.
The Han estate—usually bright with arrogance and gilded lanterns—was that night cloaked in gloom. Patriarch Han sat in the main hall, veins bulging in his temples, the clan’s high elders around him. Scrolls of intelligence reports littered the table, all repeating the same cursed name: Kent.
One elder slammed his palm on the table. “He should have died when we schemed against him with Lee! He was a stray dog! Now he sits on the throne of the Golden Heir—above every family in the Seven Nations!”
Patriarch Han gritted his teeth. “What’s done is done. If he holds a grudge, we will be ground to ash in a single breath. Our only chance is to bend.”
“Bend how?” another elder spat. “Offer him half our wealth?”
Patriarch Han’s eyes narrowed. “Not half. All. Our coffers, our mines, even our jade forests. And…” He hesitated, then forced the words. “Our daughters. We will plead guilty for every insult, every plot. Wealth softens wrath; women bind the future. We must gamble our bloodline itself.”
A silence fell over the hall. The Han clan—once proud and merciless—had been reduced to begging before the man they once sought to murder.
Elsewhere, at the Royal Academy, the mood was the opposite—bright as spring festivals. Scholars raised cups of wine, disciples danced in courtyards, and the name of Kent was shouted like a war cry.
“Golden Heir! And he was once a disciple of our academy!”
Teachers proudly claimed to have instructed him, even if Kent had only sat through a single lecture. Scribes etched his victories into stone tablets. The emperor of the academy himself declared three days of celebration, banners unfurled across every branch.
But in their fervor, many forgot a single truth: Kent’s path in the academy had not been guided by its shining elders, but by one eccentric man shunned by nearly all—the Poison Elder.
Deep in the shaded valley of his swamp garden, the Poison Elder sat among jars of venomous insects and herbs that pulsed like beating hearts. Disciples ran in, breathless with the news.
“Master! Kent has become the Golden Heir! The entire nation sings his name!”
The old man didn’t even lift his gaze from the bubbling cauldron. He tapped a bone spoon against the rim and muttered, “Hmm. The boy was always too calm to die young.”
“Master—should we not celebrate? He was your disciple!”
The Poison Elder’s lips twisted into a faint, mocking smile. “Celebrate? For what? You think thunder owes thanks to the cloud for birthing it? No. Thunder walks its own sky. Let the world shout. I have my poisons to collect.”
He turned back to his cauldron, ignoring the world’s frenzy as if Kent’s rise was no more than the shifting of a leaf.
Yet for some, Kent’s victory meant freedom.
At the edge of the Kulu capital city lay the slave village—a place of dust and chains, where the Han family’s cruelty had reigned for decades. Beatings, starvation, and humiliation had been their daily bread. But that night, whispers spread through the huts like wildfire.
“The Han family is finished…”
“Did you hear? They’re offering themselves to Kent!”
“The Golden Heir… he once came from villages like ours, didn’t he?”
For the first time, children laughed without fear. Old men lifted their heads. Women wept, not from pain, but from relief.
The next morning, a thunderclap shook the village—not of lightning, but of arrival. The Emperor of Kulu Nation himself descended, draped in dragon-embroidered robes. The villagers fell to their knees, trembling in disbelief.
He did not come for them, but for one woman—Ai Ping.
His illegitimate daughter, long abandoned to govern the slave village, now stood before him.
The emperor looked at her with something almost like guilt. “Daughter… you must go to Kent. Speak well of our nation. Speak well of me.”
Ai Ping’s eyes widened, years of bitterness colliding with the sudden warmth of power. The emperor pressed scrolls into her hands—deeds of land, titles of rich provinces, resources worth more than villages could dream.
“These are yours,” he said. “From this day, the slave village will no longer kneel. You will oversee prosperous lands, rule as a governor in your own right. But remember—place a word of favor in Kent’s ear. Let him see Kulu Nation not as an enemy, but as a pillar for his rise.”
The beast slaves who once cowered in mud now watched their mistress rise in silks and authority. Tears streamed down their faces. Their tormentors were silent. The chains had turned to crowns.
Far away, in the depths of the ocean, the news reached the sea clans.
In the halls of the Naga Clan, the patriarch coiled on a throne of pearl. His golden eyes glimmered as he listened to the whispers of his advisors.
“The boy who carries the Sea God’s sword has risen to Golden Heir. The tides themselves rally behind him.”
The patriarch tapped the scales of his arm. “Then the sea must answer.”
From the Coral Spirit Clan, he claimed treasures of glowing reefs, pearls that sang in moonlight. From the Ancient Shark Clan, he demanded relics carved from teeth older than empires. Together, he gathered gifts that no surface nation could rival.
“Send these to Kent,” the patriarch commanded. “Let the sea embrace its child. One day, his storm will reach our waters. Better we swim with the tide than against it.”
And so, across mountains, valleys, palaces, and ocean depths, the name of Kent King, the Golden Heir echoed.
To some, it was salvation.
To others, terror.
To a few, an opportunity wrapped in chains of gold.
But in the heart of the storm, Kent rested quietly in his pleasure house, watching the world bend of its own accord. His sword lay idle, but his net grew wider with every whisper, every gift, every scheme.
The boy they had once scorned was no longer a shadow. He was the tide rising beneath their feet—slow, inevitable, and merciless.
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