“One year, a whole year! Ethan Brooks, you really are capable of enduring! If you truly are someone with great abilities, then let me personally take action and dig out all your potential. I want to see for myself whether you really have the potential that Logan Bennett sees in you, the kind that could rival this Sword Saint himself.”

Volume One: Meteor Festival

Chapter Ten: Turmoil Rises Again

Although the incident with Huang Hao caused a stir at the beginning of the banquet, it was quickly suppressed by the crowd. Sword Saint Logan Bennett, this young man who might very well reach the pinnacle of alchemy and become an immortal figure, was someone no one dared to disrespect.

With the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor, the banquet soon commenced.

At this banquet, neither Ivy Foster, Wang Shendu, nor the second prince Ning Tianqi—whose prestige in the capital was at its peak—were the main characters. The true stars were the outstanding Sword Saint Logan Bennett from Famous Sword Mountain, and the daughter of the mighty Lord of the West, Princess Qingping, Claire Harris!

From the very start, almost every activity at the banquet revolved around these two. Nearly seventy or eighty percent of the conversations were related to them. Some young men and women who considered themselves influential or well-connected tried every possible way to appear in the sight of these two, hoping to build a relationship with these highly esteemed figures in their respective fields.

Of course, due to Logan Bennett’s influence, Ethan Brooks, the young man he favored, should have received some attention as well. However, Ethan Brooks’s personality was simply too baffling. So far, everyone who had greeted him received nothing more than a nod, and no one had even had a proper conversation with him!

One or two times wouldn’t matter, but when more than five people experienced the same, many began to think he was using Logan Bennett’s reputation to throw his weight around.

Fortunately, the appearance of Ivy Foster shifted the topic and timely resolved the awkwardness. Otherwise, the crowd’s resentment toward Ethan Brooks might have grown even stronger than before.

With no one bothering him, Ethan Brooks naturally calmed down, sitting quietly in his seat, continuing to ponder the issues related to the “Stellar Guide.”

He had less than two years left to calculate the trajectory of a new usable star, so that it could overlap with the four stars “Divine Moon,” “Azure Dragon,” and others. By relying on the powerful star energy fluctuations emitted during the overlap, he could continue advancing toward the ancient world at the center of the vast star sea. If he missed the opportunity, “Divine Moon” would be affected by the gravitational field of “Azure Dragon” and enter its satellite orbit. The star he had barely managed to control after three years of effort would be lost again.

Solving this problem was already an urgent matter!

Not long after Ethan Brooks fell into thought, a young girl in colorful clothes sat down in the seat in front of him.

“Sir Ethan Brooks, may I sit here?”

“Hmm? Not speaking? Then I’ll take that as a yes.”

“I’m really curious. Although my senior brother is always kind to everyone, I’ve never seen him praise anyone so highly—not even the cultivation genius Henry Walker, who is as famous as he is! I just can’t figure out what it is about you that caught his attention.”

“Don’t want to say? Then let me guess?”

“Huh, Sir Ethan Brooks, could it be that you’ve fallen asleep with your eyes open?”

“Really asleep?”

“Sir Ethan Brooks? Ethan Brooks? Little Ethan classmate? Little Ethan junior brother?”

“Hey, hey, hey, I’m talking to you—did you hear what I said?”

After saying so much and seeing that Ethan Brooks didn’t even blink, Logan Bennett’s little junior sister Grace Cooper finally couldn’t help but stand up: “What’s with you? Hasn’t anyone told you that refusing a lady’s invitation to converse is very rude?”

Nearby, Ivy Foster, who was chatting with a young talent, seemed worried that Ethan Brooks’s attitude would offend Logan Bennett’s precious little junior sister, so she quickly came over to smooth things over: “Miss Cooper, that’s just how he is. He hardly ever says a word. Don’t take it personally.”

Lily Foster nodded in agreement: “That’s right. Last time I waved in front of him for several minutes, and he didn’t even blink.”

“Is that even possible?”

Grace Cooper looked curiously at the motionless Ethan Brooks, walked up to him, and stretched out a slender, jade-like finger, waving it in front of his face...

No reaction...

She waved again—still no reaction...

A sudden wave—still no reaction...

“It’s true! Most people would instinctively blink if someone suddenly moved near their eyes, but Ethan Brooks doesn’t blink at all!”

Hearing this, Lily Foster became interested too: “He doesn’t even blink at sudden movements near his eyes? When did Seventh Young Master get so impressive? He wasn’t like this last time. Let me try too!”

“Alright, let’s both try. Whoever makes him blink first wins!”

“Deal, it’s settled!”

Ivy Foster: “……”

Ethan Brooks: “……”