A whole new world exploded into being around Fu Anwen. Somehow, he could now sense everything within hundreds of feet around him in every direction. What he was experiencing wasn't quite the same as seeing, feeling, or hearing, but it contained elements of all three, while also being so much more at the same time.

  The Jade Court was about as far away from the pace as it was possible to get without actually leaving the pace grounds and directly bordered the rge forest adjacent to the royal estate. Fu Anwen had never been inside the forest, but he was now sensing it with a level of crity that he could never even have imagined before.

  A deer was slowly stepping through the leaves scattered across the ground, moving as cautiously and quietly as possible while searching for food. Squirrels scrabbled up and down trees, a rabbit hopped through the undergrowth, and all sorts of other small critters lived their lives, every bit of which Fu Anwen was now experiencing on a deep, even invasive, level.

  Not only could he sense the forest's many creatures, he could even sense inside their bodies. Their beating hearts, pumping blood, and stretching muscles, all that they were made of was now visible to him. However, due to there being no light inside the creatures' bodies, he couldn't tell exactly what the various bits he was sensing actually looked like.

  Seeing all of these creatures for the first time was an incredibly exciting and novel experience for the young boy. He was able to instantly map each creature to the descriptions of its species that he'd previously only read in books. He smiled as he realized that he no longer had to draw these animals from his imagination.

  His previous guesses about what the forest's creatures looked like had definitely been more than just a little bit wrong. With a blush, he wondered if he'd be able to get those old paintings back from his mother's personal collection so that he could fix them.

  While the forest was very busy and full of life, there was less going on in the other directions around the Jade Court. No other buildings were within Fu Anwen's sensing range, though he did notice some interesting items buried underground. He could 'see' four containers that had been hidden beneath the two rge pear blossom trees in the backyard.

  Just like with the forest creatures, he could see what was inside each of the containers. While there was definitely no light roughly twelve feet underground where the containers had been buried, the shapes of the objects made it very clear what they were.

  Shockingly, all four containers were completely filled with riches. He figured that some Fu family ancestor must have hidden their wealth here long ago, only to never have a chance to dig it up before passing on, leaving Fu Anwen the lucky beneficiary thanks to his new sensing ability.

  With greedy eyes, he moved past the buried treasure and started searching to see if there was anything valuable hidden inside the house. In some of the stories he'd read, both martial artists and nobles were fond of adding secret storage pces and even secret rooms filled with treasure behind the walls of their homes.

  The two little girls were still asleep in the next room. They hadn't woken up before he'd left for the Awakening Ceremony or to do their morning work, which, in truth, was completely normal for them. His maids would have to improve their work ethic in the future, but for now, he thought it was fine for the little girls to sleep te and py around.

  Moving upstairs, he saw his mother and her two servant girls inside his mother's room, where they'd headed earlier after being debriefed on his experience during the Awakening Ceremony. The three young women's hands were rubbing all over each other's bodies as they kissed one another as their clothes were hastily stripped off and tossed onto the floor.

  Fu Anwen's eyes shot open when he saw what was going on in his mother's room. While this wasn't the first time he'd witnessed his mother having fun with her maids, as she'd done plenty of that back when he was still so young that he'd slept in a crib in his mother's room, he'd only listened to the dies' activities in a dark room back then.

  Witnessing what was happening right now with the depth and crity offered by the enhanced senses of his new ability was a completely different experience—one that he very much didn't want to have.

  He could close his eyes if he wanted to stop seeing or block his ears in order to stop hearing, but how was he supposed to stop using this new sense?

  Suddenly, he detected a slight movement in the deep shadows just outside of his mother's room. When he focused his attention there, he was shocked to find a hidden woman dressed in an all-bck outfit out on the room's balcony. The woman was peering at the three dies inside the room through the gss door.

  'An assassin?' he thought incredulously. 'Why would there be an assassin waiting outside my mother's room?'

  The woman in bck seemed to be focusing intently on what was going on inside the room. Every so often, she'd adjust her legs, which Fu Anwen could only guess was in preparation for an imminent attack as soon as the perfect moment arrived.

  As the activities inside his mother's room escated and the three women grew increasingly distracted, the hidden assassin reached her hand into her clothes. Thanks to his new senses, Fu Anwen could see over a dozen hidden weapons tucked away in various corners of her outfit.

  He panicked. 'What should I do?'

  He could feel intuitively that he now had an inner space contained within his body. He also knew that he could use his mental power to pull objects into or out of the space, and he could inspect, interact with, and manipute those objects in various ways, but he didn't know exactly how to use these aspects of his power yet. Learning the specific details of this new ability would require practice, but he didn't have time for trial and error right now! He had to—

  "Nnnuuhhh..."

  His thoughts were interrupted by a low, stifled moan coming from the woman in bck, who was now leaning against the balcony's gss door.

  When he focused his attention back on her, he scrunched up his face at what he found. Two of the woman in bck's fingers were now reaching deeply into the one pce where she definitely didn't have any weapons concealed.

  He immediately cast aside the idea that the hidden pervert was an assassin. She was probably just a secret guard protecting his mother, but he wasn't sure how much protection this hidden guard could offer in her current state.

  Fu Anwen mentally added a fourth person to the list of dies he didn't want to witness doing whatever they were doing, and quickly went back to work trying to figure out how to turn off his new sensing ability.

  He concentrated as hard as he could to block out the locations the four women were in, but solving this problem was clearly not going to be as easy as closing his eyes or spping his hands over his ears.

  As time passed by without success, he began to grow increasingly frantic. His concentration while figuring out how to block out this new ability was growing more and more intense, as was the situation happening upstairs.

  His mother and her maids were now completely nude. Fu Qingyu was lying on her back. Mei was gyrating her hips while straddling the ex-consort's face, and Jing's head was firmly nestled between her Mistress's legs. Fu Qingyu's hands in Jing's hair were forcefully pushing her lower and deeper.

  As time passed and the situation in his mother's bedroom continued to escate, the young genius kept trying desperately to block out his new sense. In his mind's eye, it seemed like a fog was slowly filling his mother's room. He could tell that he was steadily creeping closer to success.

  The woman in bck was now leaning directly up against the window, her bck shirt pulled up high and her breasts squished against the gss. She no longer bothered stifling the lewd sounds that poured out of her mouth.

  Fu Anwen knew that there was no way the dies inside the room couldn't see or hear the woman pleasuring herself outside, but they didn't react to her presence at all, which meant that her actions today were no doubt a regur occurrence.

  As Fu Anwen madly continued with his efforts, his mother climbed up from her bed, walked across the room, and slowly opened the top drawer of her dresser.

  The two servant girls were now leaning back against a pile of pillows, their eyes filled with lust and their legs spread wide as they presented themselves to their Mistress. The ex-consort, with a horribly perverse leer on her face, reached into the dresser drawer and began pulling out an unknown object.

  "I hope you dies are ready for the main cour—"

  Suddenly, the inside of his mother's room snapped to bck. Fu Anwen had finally succeeded, though it didn't really feel like a success to him at all. Instead, he felt like he'd lost everything—most notably, his youth and innocence.

  After picking up another loud moan with his new senses, he quickly corrected his oversight and blocked out the bck-clothed pervert as well.

  He sat in silence for a while, trying to recover from what he'd just witnessed.

  'Is that what all women are like?'

  He thought about the cute little duo next door, Hua and Ying, only to quickly start shaking his head.

  'No! I can't let those two innocent little girls turn into perverts when they grow up. They deserve better than joining somebody's gross and weird harem.'

  He'd have to add some tough training to his pns for the two girls, preferably away from the corrupting influence of the older dies.

  Fu Anwen took a deep breath and did his best to clear his mind of everything he'd just seen.

  After making sure the bcked out area on the house's second floor wasn't going anywhere, he once again started focusing his attention on his surroundings. Just like vision and hearing, he could sense everything within this entire area around him, though there was less detail if he wasn't concentrating on something in particur.

  This was something that he'd remain eternally thankful for. After all, if he'd been forced to witness his mother's escapades with the same crity with which he'd examined the insides of the deer earlier, he might never have recovered from the mental trauma.

  While certain aspects of Fu Anwen's ability would take some amount of experimentation to understand, along with a great deal of practice to perfect, others were extremely intuitive. He could tell that his internal space matched his external viewing area in size, and also knew how to pull objects into and out of it.

  Basically, he needed to wrap his thoughts around whatever he wanted to pull in, then exert mental strength in a certain way, and the object would pop right into or out of his inner space. This process was completely trivial, since it would take almost no effort to use his mental power on anything within his sensing range. He just needed to get used to applying his mental strength in the appropriate way before he could get the ability to work.

  After a few unsuccessful tries, he managed to wrap his mental power around one of the coins inside the rgest chest buried under one of the pear blossom trees. With the slightest mental pull, the coin vanished from his external sight and arrived directly in the center of his inner space, where it quickly started falling. The coin slowly bounced to a stop after reaching the space's bottom.

  Like the underground or the insides of objects, there was also no light inside the inner space, so Fu Anwen couldn't tell what material the coin was made of. A quick inspection of its size and markings showed that the coin was likely a golden Fu, which was the nickname for the golden coins of the Fu Kingdom.

  Each golden Fu was bnk on one side, while the other was stamped with the face of whichever king had been ruling at the time the coin was minted. As for the king whose face was stamped on this coin, Fu Anwen had no idea. He hadn't even seen the face of his own father before, much less any of the previous kings.

  His view of the inner space cut off when it reached the sides. From his perspective, it seemed like his space didn't have sides at all. It was strange watching the coin bounce to a stop on what appeared to be absolutely nothing, and Fu Anwen became curious about what the space's sides were actually made of.

  A quick thought sent the coin up to the top of the space, and Fu Anwen watched as it fell all the way to the bottom again. He then sent the coin as far to the side as he could, causing it to slide down the nothingness at the space's edge until it reached the bottom.

  'The inner space seems to follow the same rules as the real world,' he noted.

  He had a feeling that he could 'blink' objects around inside his space practically endlessly. Sending the coin from one location to another seemed to use the same amount of mental effort as thinking a simple thought.

  He also felt like he could manipute objects inside the space, but he wasn't sure exactly how. After a few failed attempts, he finally wrapped his mental energy around the coin and started moving it around in a manner simir to carrying it in his hand.

  After practicing for nearly half an hour, he was able to manipute the coin far more skillfully than his hands and arms could match in the real world. The coin flew back and forth at incredible speeds, twirling and swooping through the air, before finally coming to a stop near the side of the space. Even after his mental energy left the coin, it still remained hanging in the air like a tiny metal sun.

  This was an ability he'd unintentionally discovered during his testing. If he wrapped his mental energy around both the coin and the space surrounding it at the same time, he could exert his mental strength to 'stick' the two of them together. The coin would stay where it was until he used his mental strength again to unstick them.

  After finishing his tests, he quickly flexed his mental power out for another coin, this time making it appear at the space's bottom from the start.

  After adjusting the position of the still-floating first coin so that it id ft, Fu Anwen blinked the new coin on top of it. He wanted to see how much weight the coin's sticky connection to the space could support.

  Coin after coin blinked in and got added to the pile, which eventually ended up reaching over one hundred coins high before finally colpsing due to the unevenness of the coins. By the time the tower of coins fell, the sticky connection between the bottom coin and the space hadn't seemed to falter in the slightest.

  He'd have to do further tests once he pulled some heavier objects inside.

  'This ability is truly unbelievable!' he thought.

  He stopped collecting coins and instead thought about how best to use his new ability. Judging by the ease with which he could collect treasures hidden underground, getting rich wouldn't be a problem.

  While Fu Anwen didn't know the exact value of money due to never having needed to use it, in the books he'd read, one gold coin could feed a poor family for years. Even if his current lifestyle was a bit more expensive, the buried treasures would probably still st until well into his old age.

  More than money, however, he was concerned about his own strength and safety. While he couldn't practice immortal cultivation due to not having a spirit root, he had a feeling that the issues with his weak and small body would no longer be a problem in the future. The feeling of being drained that he'd sensed vanishing earlier was probably the source of his physical issues.

  This meant that he could now become a martial artist!

  Fu Anwen couldn't hold back the huge smile that lit up his face as a feeling of hope and excitement that he hadn't felt for a long time rippled through his body. His clenched fists were shaking as he pictured himself bsting a mountain into sand with a single punch, his seven-foot-tall body standing poised and majestic like a noble dragon.

  He quickly calmed himself down. While his future path now seemed much brighter, the challenges of the present still existed. He was still a prince, which meant that he was still at risk of dying to sibling rivalries or royal intrigue at any moment.

  His most important goal was still avoiding attention. He was already regretting how he'd crazily pulled so many buried coins into his inner space. What if a powerful being had sensed the coins vanishing somehow? Would they come to investigate? Should he put the coins back, or was it already too te?

  His heart rate was rapidly increasing as he panicked.

  'Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale.' Fu Anwen closed his eyes and concentrated on breathing, doing his best to calm down.

  For now, he simply didn't know enough about the world around him to even know what to be afraid of. His number one priority was learning more. While he'd already read every book in his house's little library, his mother had told him that there were thousands of other books avaible in the Royal Library.

  Tomorrow, he had to go visit that library. He couldn't stay ignorant any longer, not with his future path now opened up to him.

  Suddenly, he sensed movement upstairs.

  Jing's head popped out of his mother's room and cautiously looked left and right. She pulled her head back into the room briefly, then she and Mei, both completely naked, quickly hurried across the hall and into their own rooms. Their legs seemed to be wobbling a bit when they walked.

  Fu Anwen quickly exerted a bit of mental strength, causing the entire upstairs area to go completely bck in his outer vision. He didn't know why the two dies were running around nude, and he didn't want to know.

  After heaving a long sigh, and having already made pns to visit the library as soon as he could, he soon returned his attention to the many coins now lying at the bottom of his inner space.