Chapter 1910: Chapter 1902: Secrets Known |
Fifteen days.
After exactly half a month, the Utmost Purity Galaxy's upper echelon began to notice the absence of a particular person. While the Neo Zenith Tower was consolidating its presence, authority, and connections through overt and covert abuse of wealth, resorting to nonviolent negotiation tactics with the implied possibility of force, the various organizations started to notice that most matters were intelligently delegated to a capable unit of management, with Luo Ning at the helm.
The one regarded once as a foreigner was unable to be directly communicated with. Normally, this would be reasonably understood given his recently ascended status as a Heavenly Saint Alchemist, but an incident sparked a need for attendance!
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Suo Haoran sat upon a grand wooden throne forged of peak Mystic-World grade material, surrounded by six oval mirrors, and at the center was a large spherical orb of glossy cyan light resembling an egg wrapped loosely by black silk. His unfathomable presence exuded the supremacy of mysticism and majesty of the heavens, and his eyes illuminated the room with scorching, soulful radiance of rage. However, the oval mirrors each pulsed with an aura that wasn't the slightest bit inferior.
"..." Reflected in one of the mirrors was Superior Yanzi, the Superior Sage who Su Yi defeated. Despite his fate of losing a cultivated Avatar, he wasn't exuding any anger, only a calm indifference.
Displayed in another mirror was Superior Yushi, her bald head and phoenix-shaped azure eyes were unforgettable, alongside her tribal markings and voluptuously abundant lower half. She flatly asked: "Superior Suo, is this necessary?"
"Necessary?" Suo Haoran barely contained his anger, laughing with a sneer. His eyes observed the other four mirrors. They were all Superior Sages, and among them were Superior Shizi of the Zenith Extraction Tower, Sovereign Shadowjoy of the Joy Boy Hunter Union, and Heaven-Saint Thunderhaven.
These were all Superior Sages who were invested in Su Yi's outcome, either foreign or domestic. The sixth mirror held the image of a tall female, her slender body enveloped in black, silky robes and a bone-white spider mask with eerie scarlet eyes.
Their headquarters within was the weakest out of the Holy Void of Fortune, and this woman was sent by the headquarters to handle the hectic events that had happened or were happening within the Utmost Purity Galaxy lately. The most important event was the crippling of an entire unit, severely affecting their ability to spy or gather information. She was the reason for Suo Haoran's rage! She was the reason they were meeting like this!
Superior Yushi sighed, witnessing Suo Haoran's enraged state with no amusement in her heart. She felt that all this was unnecessarily performative.
Heaven-Saint Thunderhaven, who was halted by Sovereign Shadowjoy from acting against Su Yi that day, said with a grim voice laced with anger: "It was your people that initially divulged the information regarding the truth of Heaven-Saint Neo-Dawn. Sovereign Abhorrent Sky has confirmed the truth as well. What are you defending?"
The glossy orb at the center flickered a few times. The faint spiritual image of Long Shiya existed within. After losing his physical body, he still retained great, divine-like power, and sending a spiritual projection while maintaining the mystery of his location wasn't outside of his means, but this wasn't that. This orb was Long Shiya's Resonant Soul, captured by Sovereign Black Widow.
From the faint destructive aura he exuded, it was clear he had survived a Mythical Punishment. If Wei Wuyin were present within the Utmost Purity Galaxy, he would have noticed the Mythical Punishment unfolding within a Secret Realm in the Void-Blank Space just beyond the galactic border. And if he wasn't within a Heavenly Realm, he would have sensed the shattering of an oath and the karmic ties within.
Unfortunately...
Suo Haoran's eyes narrowed dangerously, having half a mind to crush Long Shiya's Resonant Soul with existential erasure.
Superior Thunderhaven said, "Your Heaven-Saint is a fraud. A Mystic Ascendant Realm youngster who is relying on an overabundance of Supreme Heavenly Treasures and Faux-Immortal Talismans to paint an image of invincibility and mystery. You all played into his hands like fools, allowing him to strut about as if he owned this galaxy. “Moreover, he offended the Arachnids, laying siege to their base of operations within our galaxy and crippling millions of their cultivators. Did he think he was truly invincible?"
"..." Enforcer Shizi could only silently watch as this all unfolded. He was here because of Suo Haoran and Luo Ning. The latter of whom privately sent a friendly gesture of appreciation—a bribe. He wasn't one to refuse good intentions since he wanted to establish relations with the newly ascended Heavenly Saint Alchemist, and he had a young wife who was talking his ears off to obtain an Arising Sage Elixir of low-perfection or higher. While he was a Superior Sage, perfected products were still difficult to procure, especially peak-tier Mystic-World products.
Despite that, he could only support Suo Haoran silently as repayment for their efforts. Even he was caught off guard by this revelation. While he was aware that the Neo-Dawn Alchemic Saint was a Mystic Ascendant and relied heavily on multiple Supreme Heavenly Treasures to establish dominance, he didn't know he was a youngster who might genuinely be at the Mystic Star Phase.
While his age and things had long since been exposed, who would believe he was only a hundred or so years at the Mystic Star Phase? Who could?
However, Long Shiya had observed him fully and knew that he relied on Faux-Immortal Talismans to create a Domain imbued with qualities of that eternal great dao and six Major Authorities and possessed an external wellspring of soul energy. According to Long Shiya, this was all designed by Wei Wuyin to elevate his position on the level of Supreme Existences, but that strike was unable to be replicated.
Normally, this wouldn't matter, but he had offended the Arachnids earlier. With their means, they not only verified his age, cultivation, and the “truth’ of his powers. They didn't seem intent on allowing such an offense to go unpunished.
“Invincible?” Suo Haoran spat with a scoff, “Even if this young man schemed against the Zeniths and our galaxy, what of it?"
“What of it?" Superior Thunderhaven coldly questioned.
“Yeah. What of it?" Suo Haoran bit back, "He's young and a Heaven-Saint Alchemist. You've said it yourself, he's incomparably talented, potentially beyond any youth in the entire Holy Void of Fortune. And you want to act against him? He likely has Faux- immortal Talismans and possibly the Bloodline lineage of the Immortal Jiaolong of his home galaxy, the Onestar Galaxy, so he's not without means to defend himself. What do you expect to do?"
“.." Superior Yanzi, Superior Yushi, and Enforcer Shizi turned to Sovereign Black Widow's mirror. Their gazes all said two words: “He's right.
Discovery or not, the facts suggested that Wei Wuyin was an unprecedentedly extraordinary figure, even if he relied heavily on external tools to establish his dominance.
“That's for us to decide."
"..." Suo Haoran's lips twitched. This meeting wasn't to ask for permission to act against Wei Wuyin; it was to evoke the Mythical Contract that the Zeniths signed. The Arachnids wanted to hold the Zeniths, the entirety of the Utmost Purity Galaxy, from interfering when they took action or assist them in acting against Wei Wuyin!
And because of this contract, there was little he could do. In fact, he had to pave a solid path for them to do so. And he knew why the Arachnids wanted to act. Suo Haoran was itching to participate despite his relationship.
The great dao of eternity was mysterious, and it was the pursuit of every last Resonant Soul Realm cultivator. They wanted Wei Wuyin's body, his aura of eternity. That tirade he had shouted was nothing more than verifying his thoughts: they were after the Immortal Jiaolong's bloodline.
Because no Resonant Soul Realm cultivator could enter the Onestar Galaxy with its Faux-Immortal grade Sky Source Seal that was placed during its immortal ascension attempt! With the Jiaolong's bloodline in hand, there was a strong chance...the Onestar Galaxy, which contained one of the greatest treasures in the entire thirty-three galaxies... ...could be entered!
While there was speculation regarding his unique, indecipherable bloodline, there wasn't any certainty until Long Shiya's oath-violating account of a domain far beyond his comprehension. While they said it was a talisman, they truly believed it was an ancient bloodline ability of the great dao of eternity!
Akin to a cultivator possessing a Worldly Domain before the Realm World Phase of the Astral Core realm! Only a cultivator with such innate advantages could be so devastatingly heaven-defying!
This information was limited to the Superior Sages present, and there was a strong possibility that Sovereign Black Widow didn't inform the higher-ups of her organization, only allied with those present for ease of convenience to eat a bigger piece of the pie. And from Sovereign Black Widow's response, she was certain that she could obtain the bloodline!
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Standing on a rocky hill, Wei Wuyin stood upright, his battle armor had changed despite the stains of blood, decorated in black, silver, and white, with a saber etched on his chestplate, with his saber sheathed at his hip. Beneath him was the gathering of thirty- three soldiers, all carrying the mark of the saber, performing various duties such as disposing of dead enemy corpses and repairing sabers.
His gaze was that of a True Void Dragon, naturally enhanced beyond understanding, grasping the entirety of the other side of a valley. A gathering of the Banner Faction, totalling sixty-two.
Wei Wuyin thoughtfully observed the terrain, devising a strategy. Beneath the saber insignia on his chestplate were four glowing heavenly runes of uniquely distinct design. If one could read these heavenly runes, they read: "Soldier, Commander, Champion, and Tactician."
The last heavenly rune—Tactician—shockingly exuded a familiar scholarly light of enlightenment.
“By gaining recognition of the heavens, I earn the right to ascend to a higher authority." Wei Wuyin had gained the recognition of the heavens to birth a Seed of Law for the Law of War in those four categories. If he were to have taken a normal Edict Potion, the Edict of a Sage would have given him a chance to establish one of nine paths, potentially more.
However, he now understood what an Edict of a Sage was. These Spirits of War present were representatives of all who embarked on the Dao of War in some form, attaching them to a faction. An Edict Potion would create a stronger version of this representative of will, creating an unseen trial of the heavens to gain recognition that others couldn't remember, likely only recalled vaguely as entering into a region of endless battle or a world of burning fire, and allowing them a greater chance at acquiring recognition of the Heavenly Realm. This also suggested that failure to achieve a Seed of Law was the failure of this stronger version to survive long enough to acquire the right to ascend a path.
An Artificial Edict of a Sage likely doesn't improve one's chances or increase one's Representative of Will's strength at all, hence the incredibly high failure rate. While he didn't know what the trials of other Heavenly Realms were, the Heavenly Realm of War involved incessant battle, slaughter, survival, and more.
The fact the three easiest concepts of War to comprehend were Soldier, Commander, and Champion, this aligned perfectly with his theory as these Spirits of War could quite easily embark on either path without difficulty given the circumstances, while the path of Tactician would likely require a cultivator to have an enormous amount of Enlightened Scholarly Mist to reflect intelligence and wisdom in any potential strategic action, far more complex than taking command of those within your designated Faction.
The transcendent Edict Potion defied that standard. He became his own Representation of Will, gaining the right to fight for his path, relying on the benefits of his natural soul. This was an incredible opportunity that was immeasurable in value.
Every second here, he grasped greater degrees of Intent through killing and environmental conflict, while higher forms of combat, tactics, and understanding of war were infused within his soul. Simultaneously, he understood more secrets of the heavens! This was an insane discovery!
Every living being who embarked on the Dao of War across the entirety of all creation and time was potentially here, fighting endlessly until their existences were erased. Perhaps...when he killed others, claiming the spoils of war using the Nexus War Flag, he not only claimed their souls and essence, but he also claimed their Spirit of War that was here, allowing them to become Spirits of War through fusion via the Minor Authority of War.
He couldn't fathom what would happen if the Representative of Will's origin that birthed them within the world perished. Would they disappear? Or would they be locked forever in combat until killed? What happens vice versa? Do the Spirits of War-like existences just reincarnate endlessly? Does the cultivator that birthed them lose the opportunity to grasp the Law of War?
Not only was Wei Wuyin able to understand more about the Heavenly Realms, but he also now had an idea of how the Heavenly Daos assisted Blessed in acquiring Seeds of Law!
However, after fighting here for so long, Wei Wuyin had decided on how to maximize his gains in a single stroke of his saber. He was going to earn the recognition of all nine paths using his Saber Faction!
“I wonder how a Seed of War born from the totality of the conceptual and metaphysical depth of war will be! Let's find out!" Wei Wuyin's silver dragon eyes glowed with unrivaled fighting spirit. With his advantages of a True Void Dragon, Stellar-Paragon Physique's inexhaustible stamina, a saber that was sharp enough to cut anything in this area, and two minds worth of combined intelligence, he was a dragon swimming with delectable shrimps.
"Men of the Omega Saber!" He roared, and the soldiers beneath him immediately began to get into an organized formation to march, their discipline unmatched.
And he was ready to eat.
“MOVE OUT!"
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Erdiul's Note: Treasures... Treasures... Treasures... I'm numb to this shit after all this time. RIP all theses dumb ass sages though.
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