"You're going to participate in the assessment for the Primordial Academy too," Zhou Hong greeted with a smile.
"Yes, Zhou Hong, I didn't expect such a coincidence that you're going now too."
"Then let's go together, it's good to have company." Zhou Hong nodded.
These four or five youths were Gu Dao Chen, the third top young genius of Purple Cloud Continent; Jiang Cai Yue, the fourth; Shui Yang Mei, the fifth; Lu Yi Long, the seventh; and Zi Xiao Ming, the ninth.
Zi Xiao Ming was the eighteenth prince.
"Hmph!" Just then, the eighteenth prince looked at Zhou Hong and snorted coldly, seemingly displeased with him. The reason for his displeasure was naturally Zhou Hong's earlier refusal to become his subordinate. Originally, he had intended to get rid of Zhou Hong, but later, his father, the Emperor, issued a decree forbidding all princes from provoking Zhou Hong. Thus, the eighteenth prince didn't bother Zhou Hong further. Otherwise, even if he didn't act, the other princes would have definitely sought out Zhou Hong and demanded his allegiance, threatening to eliminate him if he refused.
"What are you hmphing about?" Zhou Hong's expression darkened when he saw the eighteenth prince snort at him. He was unhappy. Even the Emperor was his subordinate, and a mere prince dared to snort at him.
"Nothing, Zhou Hong, consider yourself lucky." The eighteenth prince said coldly.
"What do you mean, lucky?"
"Don't you find it strange? Why is it that none of my many brothers, elder or younger, have approached you to be their subordinate?"
"Hmph!" How could Zhou Hong not know? It was precisely because the Emperor was his subordinate.
"That's because my father issued an order that all princes are not allowed to approach you. Otherwise, you would have died countless times over by now and wouldn't have had the chance to participate in the Primordial Academy's assessment."
"Slap!" Zhou Hong immediately slapped him, sending the eighteenth prince flying from the cabin to the deck.
"Ah." The other youths inside the cabin, seeing the eighteenth prince thrown out, turned pale with fright. Before Zhou Hong arrived, although they ranked higher than the eighteenth prince on the young genius list, they had shown him immense respect.
But they never expected that upon Zhou Hong's arrival, he would directly slap the eighteenth prince out of the cabin.
"Zhou Hong, are you crazy? He's the eighteenth prince!" Gu Dao Chen looked up at Zhou Hong.
"So what if he's the eighteenth prince? Dare to be disrespectful in front of me, believe it or not, I'll beat him into shit and then chop him into eighteen pieces?"
Gu Dao Chen, Jiang Cai Yue, Shui Yang Mei, and Lu Yi Long were all speechless.
Just then, the eighteenth prince, who had flown out of the cabin, got up in anger, rushed back into the cabin, and roared, "Zhou Hong, how dare you disrespect me."
"Heh, who do you think you are? If you babble any further, believe it or not, I'll chop off your dog head."
The eighteenth prince was stunned, seemingly unable to believe that Zhou Hong dared to speak to him like this. He was a prince!
The other youths in the cabin also wondered if Zhou Hong had gone mad. This was a crime punishable by confiscation of property and execution.
"Zhou Hong, you will deeply regret everything you've done today. I guarantee your family will pay a heavy price for your actions," the eighteenth prince threatened.
"It seems the beating earlier wasn't severe enough," Zhou Hong said, then instantly lunged forward, grabbed the eighteenth prince's head, and slammed it hard against the cabin wall.
"Bang!" The eighteenth prince's head immediately started bleeding. As a cultivator at the early Fusion stage, he was no match for Zhou Hong.