The Aftermath

"Well, now that I've defeated your sect and emptied out your entire vault, it's time for me to leave. And remember what I told you all."

With his last message still ringing in their ears, the Burning Heaven Clan was left completely destitute, humiliated and broken like never before. And to add insult to greatest injury, they were now forced to leave their ancestral home and try to eke out a living in another land without any of their supplies or any support from anyone. Sitting around their destroyed home, the only audible sounds were the occasional crying or the mad laughter of one whose just mind collapsed unable to cope with their current reality.

It was in this theatre that Xuanyuan Wentian a.k.a. Fen Chu finally made his appearance. Having seen what Mesa had done to the Burning Heaven Clan, he was most impressed with his otherworldly skills and even he had to admit that sparing them while taking away all of their strength and all their wealth and then exiling them was taking the phrase 'kicking a man when he's down' to a whole new level of cruel.

When he showed up, with fake sincerity and anger, he demanded to know what happened here and who was responsible for this devastation. Hearing his voice brought life back to the Burning Heaven Clan and their hopes that there would be justice for them.

"Fen Chu!" Called out Fen Duanhun with extreme relief. "Oh thank the heavens that you are here."

"Clan Master, what happened here?" Asked Fen Chu.

"It was Mesa Uchiha!" Said Fen Duanhun with unrestrained anger and spitting out Mesa's name from his mouth like spoiled milk. "He did this to us!"

Listening attentively, Fen Chu was told everything that happened from the moment that Mesa had arrived after destroying the gate all the way to him robbing the entire senior leadership cadre of the Burning Heaven of their cultivation and making off with the entire contents of their vault.

"I see. Do not worry, I will take care of this right now." Said Fen Chu.

"Oh thank you Fen Chu! Thank y-" Was all Fen Duanhun managed to say before Fen Chu's arm suddenly moved with such incredible speed that nobody there could follow it. All they saw was Fen Duanhun's head suddenly coming off his neck and his decapitated body falling to the ground. Looking at Fen Chu, they saw a bloodied sword in his right hand.

POV Fen Juechen

When Fen Juechen heard Fen Chu's voice as he walked into the devastated remains of their Burning Heaven Clan, he felt a spring of hope opening up inside him. Even though he didn't trust Fen Chu as readily as the rest of the Burning Heaven Clan, he had to admit that he was their last hope now. With him here, maybe, just maybe, this day would not be such a complete disaster and they could salvage something from it. Standing at his father's side as he was explaining everything that happened to them to Fen Chu, he felt even more hopeful when Fen Chu said that would take care everything right now.

That was when this disastrous day went from bad to a little less bad, to nightmarishly horrifying. His father hadn't even finished saying what he wanted when suddenly his head falls to the ground followed closely by his headless body spraying blood from its neck stump.

Standing there, frozen in shock, Fen Juechen could do nothing but watch his father's decapitated head still have that look of hopeful joy on it as the life quickly died out in its eyes. Horrified, he tore his gaze away from his father's dead body and looked at Fen Chu to see a bloodied sword in his hand and one thing on his mind, same as everyone else.

"WHY FEN CHU!" Came the horrified scream of Grand Elder Fen Ziya putting into words what everyone else was thinking in their silent and horrified shock.

The response that they got was seeing Grand Elder Fen Ziya's head come of his body and dropping to the ground. That was when complete pandemonium erupted and everyone was making a run for it. After the horrible devastation Mesa had wrought upon them, there was no way in hell that they could ever defend themselves against Fen Chu, who was even stronger than Mesa. In the chaos that erupted, Fen Juechen put all his Profound Energy into his legs in an effort to get out of there immediately, but to no avail as he felt a blow to the back of his head and it was immediately lights out for him.

When he awoke an unknown time later, what greeted his eyes was a scene straight out hell itself. Lying there just a few inches from his face, was his father's decapitated head staring right at him. Screaming in sheer terror, he frantically backs away from this grizzly scene, only to bump into the decapitated head of Fen Ziya also staring at him. As he backs away from that, he looks around and is greeted by the decapitated heads of the entire Burning Heaven Clan arrayed in concentric circles and all of them staring at him in the center.

To make matters even worse than they already were, he could see the entire Burning Heaven Clan, his home, in flames and in those flames, he could see all the bodies of his family, of his sect burning, functioning as kindling for the fires.

"NOOOOO!!! NOOOO!!!! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOO!!!" Screamed a broken Fen Juechen in utter anguish, his voice of anguish echoing across the Burning Heaven Valley.

"I see someone finally decided to wake up." Said the voice of the one responsible for his nightmare. Turning around, Fen Juechen could see Fen Chu casually sitting on what used to be the gate to the Burning Heaven Clan cleaning the blood of his family of his sword.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU BASTARD! WHHHHHYYYYYYY!!" Screamed Fen Juechen.

"If you must know." Said Fen Chu irritably and rolling his eyes at Fen Juechen.

"I am a mercenary and Mesa Uchiha sought me out for a job because he wanted you all dead but he had no valid reason to kill you all. That is where I came in. I would come here and make you all believe that I was on your side and help you take down Emperor Cang Wanhe, kidnap Princess Cang Yue and in the process create a just cause for Mesa Uchiha to come and kill you all. After that, he would swoop in, rescue his beloved princess and kill you all in the process."

"But instead, that spineless dolt decided to show you all mercy at the very last second and instead exiled you all!" Said Fen Chu with a hint of anger. "And seeing as how I hate leaving a job half finished, I have taken it upon myself to see this job through to the very end. Now I'll have go to him and have him pay me extra for work that I wasn't supposed to be doing in the first place."

"Then why didn't you kill me too! Why just spare me?!" Said Fen Juechen.

"Call it… a whim." Said Fen Chu with careless nonchalance as he was cleaning of the last blood on his sword and sheathing it.

"A whim!" Said a stupefied Fen Juechen processing what Fen Chu just said. As those words were repeated over and over in Fen Juechen's mind, he felt himself awash with immense humiliation.

"You killed my whole family on and left only me alive on a WHIM!" Said Fen Juechen.

"Yes." Said Fen Chu coolly. "For you see, I have noticed that you, unlike the rest of your idiotic family, never trusted me and always were suspicious of me. And if you are as strong as I am, actual challenges can be few and far between, so I have decided to let only you live and create a potential future challenger for me to stave of the boredom."

"So if you want to avenge your family and make me and Mesa Uchiha pay for what we have done here to your family take this." Said Fen Chu as he threw the pitch-black key he gave to Fen Duanhun when he first came here at Fen Juechen.

"Take that key and use it to become stronger, much stronger. And when you have all the strength in the world, come find me and we will finish what we started here today." Said Fen Chu as he got up and without giving Fen Juechen another look, turned around and departed.

Looking at Fen Chu's departing figure, Fen Juechen's eyes bulged wildly, as his heavily weakened body struggled violently. He yelled out with a voice as coarse as sandpaper: "Fen Chu… you're not allowed to leave! You're not allowed to leave… I have not taken your life… I want to kill you! I want to break your body into a thousand pieces, and grind your bones into ashes! I want to let you experience all the suffering in the world… you're not allowed to leave… get back here… AHHH!!!!"

Despite Fen Juechen's hysterical cries, Fen Chu was undeterred, and in a short amount of time, Fen Chu had disappeared from Fen Juechen's line of sight. He threw himself onto the ground, grasping the charred ashes that littered the ground with his blood stained hands, and began to weep with the utmost despair. More than ten years have passed since he started cultivating profound energy to now, yet he had never shed a single tear. But today, he wept deeply with heart-rending pain.

His parents, his paternal grandfather, all his kinfolk, clansmen, and his home, were all gone! His life as the son of the clan master of the Burning Heaven Clan, disappeared in the span of a day, leaving him with nothing. All that he was left with was a vast and limitless hatred which coursed through his very heart, blood, marrow and soul.

Grasping the pitch black key that Fen Chu threw at him, the entirety of his consciousness had the imprint of Fen Chu and Mesa Uchiha deeply branded into it.

"I want to take revenge… I want to take revenge… I want to take revenge… Fen Chu… Mesa Uchiha… I will… kill you!!!! Even if I am hacked to pieces, and suffer through the nine levels of hell, I will kill you!!!!"

The sounds of his rage filled vow were carried to great distances by the desolate wind, and as the sky became gloomier, the howling wind became hurried, as though the boundless sky was quaking in fear from the intense hatred carried in his voice. As this was happening, a black mist flowed out from the pitch black key and with a demonic presence.

POV Mesa

As Mesa had departed the Burning Heaven Clan with all their treasures, he made a beeline for Articuno. On the way there, he could feel Xuanyuan Wentian approaching the Burning Heaven Clan, followed closely by the massacre he perpetrated on them.

"You felt that too, didn't you?" Asked Jasmine.

"Yes." Said Mesa calmly. "Looks like Xuanyuan Wentian wasn't happy with how I took care of things back there and he decided to intervene himself to ensure that Fen Juechen would go on his path vengeance and ultimate damnation."

"Are you gonna stop that Xuanyuan Wentian?" Asked Jasmine.

"No, I won't. I want to fight Xuanyuan Wentian at his most powerful and show him what true power really looks like." Said Mesa.

"As for Fen Juechen. He doesn't deserve this horrible fate, but I will make it up to him once this is all over. I am just need the Soul Stone in order to do that."

After a few hours' flight, he had reached the place Articuno had taken Cang Yue and Fen Juecheng. When he touched down where they were, Cang Yue immediately came up to him asked him: "So, what did you do with them?"

"I exiled them." Said Mesa, much to Cang Yue's vexation as she wanted them to suffer more. But before she could voice her thoughts, Mesa continued on.

"But not before taking away the cultivation of their entire leadership cadre and emptying out their entire vault."

And this pleasantly surprised Cang Yue. With the Burning Heaven Clan exiled and bereft of all their treasures and their leadership cadre bereft of their cultivation, there would be no way that they'd ever be a danger to them again. But seeing Mesa's serious face, Cang Yue had a feeling that there was something more that he wasn't saying.

"Something else happened, didn't it?"

"Yes." Said Mesa gravely as he told Cang Yue about everything about Xuanyuan Wentian and what he has done to ensure that Fen Juechen would be put on this path of vengeance and why he wants him.

"Do we need to worry?" Asked Cang Yue seriously.

"No, we don't." Said Mesa. "Xuanyuan Wentian has been around for almost 2,000 years. He is a very patient and very persistent man. He knows that this scheme will take many, many years before it will reach its climax and he is ready to wait for that. But by that time, I will have grown way too powerful for any of it to be of concern to us."

"I see. Then I will leave this matter in your hands, I trust you'll make sure that nothing happens to me and my father." Said Cang Yue.

And with matter settled, it was time to finally tie up the last of the Burning Heaven Clan loose ends. What to do with Fen Juecheng. After thanking Articuno for her help, Mesa sent her back into the swallow tattoo. After that, he placed his hand upon Cang Yue and Fen Juecheng and teleported them both away from there, straight to the Azure Cloud Continent. It was there that Mesa told Cang Yue where they were, how he got there the first time and his plans for Fen Juecheng to leave him here behind with nothing on him but the clothes on his back. Cang Yue, not surprisingly, liked this idea very, very much.

So after Fen Juecheng finally woke up and he saw Cang Yue and Mesa sitting there patiently waiting for him to wake up, he immediately backed away in fear. When he looked around and noticed that he was in an unknown place, he demanded they tell him where he was.

With condescending smirks on their faces, Mesa asked Cang Yue if she wanted to do the honors of telling Fen Juecheng where he was. She simply smiled as she declined the honor saying that since this is his plan, he should do the execution.

"As you wish, my love." Said Mesa to Cang Yue as he turned to address Fen Juecheng. "Well Shinji, if you must know, we are currently on the Azure Cloud Continent."

"What! What the hell is the Azure Cloud Continent anyway." Said Fen Juecheng incredulously.

"I'll gladly explain it to you. You see, this world that we currently live on is called the Blue Pole Star. It is a planet with a diameter of 2.23 million km and a circumference of 7 million km. The surface of the Blue Pole Star consists of 97% water and 3% landmasses concentrated in three continents. The Profound Sky Continent, where we come from, the Illusory Demon Realm, that Ling Kun told us about at the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament. And lastly, the Azure Cloud Continent where we are right now. And just in case you are wondering, the distance between the Profound Sky Continent and the Azure Cloud Continent is 3.5 million km." Said Mesa in a matter-of-factly way.

(A.N.: This had been merely my own conjecture. Nowhere in the official ATG novel is it stated how large the Blue Pole Star actually is, but you do get some obscure and absurd numbers. So using that, I have drawn my own conclusion. Jasmine, once she had her own body back, traversed 500k km in an instant, but no more than 500k km. And it takes her 7 jumps to go from the Profound Sky Continent, all the way to the Azure Cloud Continent, making the distance between the Profound Sky Continent and the Azure Cloud Continent 3.5 million km. So I have made the simple assumption that the Azure Cloud Continent is at the opposite end of the planet from the Profound Sky Continent. And using some simple math, I quickly calculated the circumference of the Blue Pole Star and its diameter.)

"LIES!" Screamed Fen Juecheng. "It's all lies! There is no such thing as the Azure Cloud Continent! And even if it existed, you could never have brought us here this quickly! Just you wait, I will get back home no matter what!"

"Sure, knock yourself out man." Said Mesa with a condescending smile on his face and with Cang Yue at his side putting her hand on her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud. Locking hands with one another, Mesa getting ready to teleport them back home.

"Mesa my love, wait. I want to tell Shinji one last thing before we leave." Said Cang Yue stopping Mesa from teleporting them away.

Looking Fen Juecheng deeply into his eyes, Cang Yue proceeded to hammer the final nail into his already nail covered coffin.

"Shinji, before we go, I want you to know that Mesa and I have been fucking each other for years."

Hearing this piece of news, Fen Juecheng's face falls into one of complete heartbreak. As if he hadn't already lost everything he had on this already nightmarishly bad day. Now, for the cherry on top, he was also being emasculated.

"Yes, that's right. Whilst you were pining for me from a distance and desperately trying to court me, Mesa and I were fucking each other like wild animals." Said Cang Yue enjoying the look of desperate denial on Fen Juecheng's face.

"And the best thing of all was, when I had 'accepted' your marriage proposal and you were running around like a stupid little lovesick animal organizing our 'wedding', I was enjoying sex with Mesa so much more by imagining this exact same look on your stupid cuckold mug."

"She's right about that Shinji." Said Mesa suddenly piping in. "She was especially wild in bed in the days before right before your 'wedding'. Man, it was like she was fervently worshipping my cock, that's how much she was enjoying it."

"Didn't you, my love?" Said Mesa as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her in for a full on make out session right there. And Cang Yue happily reciprocated it.

Pulling away from Mesa, Cang Yue said: "I sure did, as I am sure you enjoyed my tight little pussy around your huge cock."

And then she dove right back in and they started to furiously make out there. With the sexual energy reaching its fever pitch there, Cang Yue suggested that since her father is safe, he can wait for a few hours and that they should go to their little private cabin and enjoy themselves before going back home.

And gone they were, leaving behind one utterly broken and humiliated little Shinji to fend for himself.

(A.N.: And that is a complete wrap on Fen Juecheng a.k.a. I, like everyone else, utterly despised Shinji and I had originally planned to just kill him off. But then I thought: 'No, I should not just kill him off. That is just not satisfying enough'

And so, I came up with this total package of humiliation for Shinji. He has everything and everyone he had ever known and/or loved taken from him, abandoned in a land that is far, far from home with no way to go back with nothing but the clothes on his back. And as icing on the cake, the woman that he loved for so many years has cuckolded him for years with the man he hates the most and left him behind to go have sex with him.

This is peak humiliation if you ask me and a truly fitting punishment for this garbage human being.)