Chapter 1: Seeking the Seed

The The Bennett Kingdom is like a vassal state sprawled across the vast territory of the ancient behemoth, the Great Zhou Empire, with a land area of several million square kilometers and a population of hundreds of millions. It is divided into eighteen prefectures, each governed by one of the eighteen powerful lords under the King Bennett.

The Great Zhou Emperor has enfeoffed dozens of vassal kingdoms, among which seven are the most powerful: Qi, Chu, Qin, Zhao, Wei, Han, and Yan, ranked by national strength.

Wars rage constantly among the seven kingdoms, with land being devoured and re-devoured in endless local conflicts. For survival and to avoid destruction, all seven kingdoms vigorously develop their military might.

‘Martial strength as the foundation, ruling the country by force’ is the highest national policy shared by all seven kingdoms.

Today is once again the day when The Bennett Kingdom, one of the seven great nations, holds its heavenly sacrifice to pray for the ‘seed’.

Of course, this ‘seed’ does not refer to the primitive piston movement of animal reproduction. Rather, it means the royal family of The Bennett Kingdom is offering sacrifices at the Temple of Heaven, praying for the heavens to bestow the ‘martial fetus’.

Because every citizen of the kingdom wishes to become a martial artist. But first, on the day of the sacrifice, they must receive the inheritance of the ancient gods and have the martial fetus sown within them to qualify for martial cultivation.

Otherwise, you can only live your life as an ordinary person.

Evan Bennett was inwardly frustrated to the point of madness. He had followed the orders of Deputy Leader Ethan Clark, leading the elite members of Special Operations Group A to fight crazily with the American Black Panther Special Forces and their female warlord, Night, over an underground ancient tomb.

It was said that this tomb was extremely ancient, possibly dating back to the Zhou dynasty of antiquity.

In the end, a strange light burst forth in the tomb, and he inexplicably found himself in this The Bennett Kingdom, which was still under an ancient system. Even more bizarre, his soul had possessed a hapless youth also named Evan Bennett.

However, this unlucky youth’s identity was far from simple—he was actually the eighth son of King BennettEric Bennett.

But his background was not impressive. The King Bennett’s harem had five palaces: Central, East, West, South, and North.

The Central Palace was the main harem, and the queen of the Central Palace, Lily Foster, had only recently died. Since it had not yet been a year, according to royal tradition, a new queen could not be appointed during this period, lest the people gossip about the King Bennett. Thus, the Central Palace’s position remained vacant for now.

The other four palace mistresses could only be called ‘Consort’ and not ‘Queen’, because there could only be one queen, the mistress of the harem, known in modern terms as the ‘Mother of the Nation’.

Besides these five palaces, the King Bennett also had several noble concubines, whose status was just slightly below that of the five palace mistresses.

Yet, Evan Bennett’s mother, Grace Carter, didn’t even attain the rank of noble concubine. She had originally been a lowly palace maid.

Once, while serving the King Bennett, he got drunk and, in a sudden fit of passion, ‘had his way’ with Grace Carter on the spot. By a stroke of luck, she conceived and gave birth to Evan Bennett.

By order of birth, Evan Bennett was titled the eighth prince of The Bennett Kingdom. And as the saying goes, a mother rises in status with her son, so Grace Carter was promoted from a lowly maid to ‘Noble Lady’.

However, among all the mothers of princes and princesses in The Bennett Kingdom, only Evan Bennett’s mother held the title of Noble Lady; the rest were either noble concubines or consorts.

It wasn’t that Grace Carter’s family was weak—on the contrary, her family could easily rank among the top clans in The Bennett Kingdom.

The tragedy was that even within the The Carter Family, Grace Carter had no status, as she was an illegitimate daughter. Moreover, it was said that not long after she was brought home, she brought misfortune and caused the death of the powerful second elder, Adam Carter, of the The Carter Family.

Naturally, she was ostracized from a young age.

Especially the descendants of Adam Carter’s line, who hated her to the core. If not for the fact that Grace Carter truly had The Carter Family blood and her biological father Brian Carter was still alive, she would have been beaten to death long ago.

Because of this, a dignified daughter of a top family was sent to the palace as a lowly maid. The The Carter Family didn’t care for Grace Carter, leaving her to be bullied by other consorts and noble concubines.

Without the The Carter Family backing her, Grace Carter’s final status could only be that of a Noble Lady, just a notch above the palace maids.

In this country where ‘martial strength’ determines one’s value, a prince is expected to possess great power. Otherwise, even survival would be a problem.

Originally, as a modern person arriving in this ancient version of The Bennett Kingdom, he could have used his modern knowledge to shine. But Evan Bennett sadly discovered that the eighth prince was extremely unlucky—at sixteen, he still hadn’t managed to sow the martial fetus and form a qi aperture.

However, the previous Evan Bennett was a tenacious youth.