Lin Huang's official arrival in the great world after resolving the crisis in the gravel world had, in fact, only been nine months ago or so—not even a year.
Most of his time had been spent in cultivation.
As for cultivation resources, most of them came from Death Sickle.
All this while, the resources he had obtained from Death Sickle via exchange had been sufficient for his needs.
Therefore, he had also never contacted Royal this entire time.
It was not until Virtuoso brought the matter up earlier that Lin Huang remembered his existing status as a Rank-A member of Royal.
From being a nobody in the gravel world to becoming Royal's elected Emperor, all this had come about because he had passed Royal's trial and became an official Royalty.
However, ever since he arrived in the great world, he had set aside this identity.
After ending the call with Virtuoso, Lin Huang took out Royal's identity token.