In his hand, there was a ring named the Dust King Ring, bestowed upon him by the Dust King, Chen Ji.

Chen Ji had told him that once he put on this ring, his flesh and blood body would transform into a dusty constitution, indistinguishable from the people of the Dust Tribe. Besides, he would gain the power that resided within the Dust King Ring.

Originally, to prevent any infiltration into the Dust Realm, the Dust King who created the realm had cast a spell, which sealed the Yin Qi Spiritual Power of anyone who entered.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Dust King, Chen Hao would only be able to kill his brother, Chen Yu, by harnessing the power from the Dust King Ring.

However, what he didn't know was that Chen Hao possessed strong Yang Energy Power, as well as martial Inner Strength. More importantly, Chen Hao could actually use Yin Qi Spiritual Power as well.

The ancient spells of the Dust Tribe could not seal the power from the Nether King's Heart, for the Nether King's Heart hailed from an even more ancient existence.

A quarter of an hour later, as the first rays of dawn touched the city gates of Dustfall City, Chen Hao saw the gates begin to peel away until they turned to dust and scattered into the air.

"I didn't expect the gate to open like this!" Chen Hao exclaimed in surprise.

After the gate opened, two rows of soldiers immediately appeared, arrayed at the entrance, their expressions extremely stern. In an instant, people also filled the city walls.

After slipping the Dust King Ring onto his right hand, Chen Hao instantly felt a soft, cottony strength merge into his bloodstream. He moved his limbs a few times, finding his body had also become cottony soft, with no sensation of bones, as if his entire body was piled with sand.

He walked toward the city gate.

He was the first person of the day to enter the city.

Glancing with the corner of his eye at the suspicious and stern looks of the soldiers by the door, Chen Hao's heart rate involuntarily quickened.

When he reached the entrance of the city gate, two soldiers blocked his path.

Suddenly, without saying a word, the soldiers forcefully tore Chen Hao's left arm from his body.

Chen Hao was dumbfounded.

He thought he would be in excruciating pain, yet he felt nothing at all.

To his amazement, he saw his violently torn off left arm turn into a pile of dust that sprinkled to the ground, and instead of blood, dust flowed from the severed part of his body.

"What are you dazing out for, hurry into the city!" a soldier urged.

Chen Hao's expression returned to normal, and he realized that the two soldiers were checking his identity.

Looking at the Dust King Ring on his right hand, he suddenly understood everything that had just happened.

After entering the city and walking a few steps, Chen Hao felt a force driven by the Dust King Ring surge into his left arm, and soon his left arm grew back.

"What a miraculous ring!" Chen Hao marveled, "It's even more wondrous than the Nether King's Heart!"

No sooner had he spoken than he felt a searing soreness in his left eye, which was the Nether King's Heart protesting to him.

"But then again, the power from the Nether King's Heart is ultimately stronger!" Chen Hao quickly corrected himself, thinking how petty the Nether King's Heart was, somewhat reminiscent of Ye Yuqiao.

Thinking of Ye Yuqiao cast a shadow over Chen Hao's heart.

"Yuqiao will worry and be upset for an extra day if I'm late by a day. I need to leave early to see her!" Chen Hao buoyed his spirits and headed deeper into Dustfall City.

Like Dust Rising Town, Dust Settle City was also a city built upon gardens. However, the houses here were taller and more varied in style, the lawns paved roads cleaner and more orderly, and the city's scale and the bustle of the streets were beyond comparison to Dust Rising Town.

After walking north for over two hours, Chen Hao finally located the royal palace of Dust Settle City.

The moment he saw the palace, Chen Hao was astonished by its appearance.

It was like an airborne garden! The homes, featuring the characteristic style of the Dust Tribe, were neatly and symmetrically distributed among the flowering woods.

Beneath the airborne garden was another garden. The flowers of the two gardens were different in color, creating a sense of depth. Connecting the two gardens were hundreds of hollowed-out giant tree trunks.

Chen Ji told Chen Hao that a Seal Barrier had been laid around the palace to prevent commoners from breaking in. The only way to enter the palace was to climb up through the giant tree trunks.

Half of these trunks were used to draw water from underground, while the other half were for the discharge of waste and domestic water.

Naturally, Chen Hao would not choose to enter the palace through the trunks designated for waste disposal. Among the hundreds of trunks used for water, the one in the very center led to the backyard of the Dust King's and the queen's grand hall.

Like a gust of wind, Chen Hao avoided the eyes of the soldiers guarding beneath the palace's garden and successfully infiltrated the garden.

After several confirmations, he found the trunk that led to the backyard of the grand hall where the Dust King resided.

Chen Hao carved out a hole in the trunk and climbed inside. In the darkness, his hand found a rope.

When his left eye emitted a purple Nether Vision light, he looked down along the rope and saw a bucket floating on the water. Looking up, he saw the swaying shadows of the trees.

"So there's a well above here!" Chen Hao exclaimed, and then he leapt up to the mouth of the well.

"Ah!" A shrill scream suddenly erupted from two maids washing dishes by the well.

Chen Hao quickly knocked out the two maids and then activated the Nether Vision Technique in his left eye to survey his surroundings.

The well he was in was located in the northeastern corner of the courtyard, quite a distance from the backyard's gate, so the maids' screams did not attract the attention of the dozens of guards stationed at the back door.

What puzzled him was that there were so many guards standing at the entrance of the back door, yet no one was guarding near the sleeping quarters, not even a single maid. If someone truly came to assassinate, unless they shouted very loudly, the guards would have difficulty hearing.

However, this was more than convenient for Chen Hao, and would facilitate his actions later on.

Then, his gaze shifted into the sleeping quarters.

He saw, albeit disrespectfully, a man and a woman making love on the bed.

These two must be Chen Ji's brother, the current Dust King—Chen Yu, and the queen, Yingji.

Chen Hao was about to deactivate the Nether Vision Technique when he heard a sobbing voice.

"Don't touch me, don't touch me!" Yingji cried, her voice filled with misery.

"You are my queen, and you must bear me a prince to inherit my throne!" Chen Yu said while moving his body brutishly.

"Ah!" After two cries, Yingji wept even more bitterly, "I have a child, he has the purest lineage, and you've killed him!"

"But he was the child of you and that man; I couldn't allow him to live and become a threat later on!" Chen Yu snarled. "We're tens of thousands of years past that event; why can't you forget about it?"

Chen Hao turned off the Nether Vision Technique and suddenly understood why there was no one around this vast sleeping quarters.

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