In The Beginning

More than 100,000 years ago, the Ashikaga clan fell to the Tiny World through a one in quadrillion spacial storm strong enough to tear through the protective array that surrounded the Tiny World.

In a time before a seal on the Tiny World from outside influence, The Ashikaga Family fell victim to a battle at their ancestral home where two experts decide to have a battle utilizing the powers of space and time that tore open a space bridge that drug the entire clan in. Many died and legacies were lost.

The Ashikaga family then took the time to gather their bearings and collect anything that made it through the spacial rift with them. Months went by and they settled to re-establish themselves after the realized that there was no way back to the higher realms. Even with their level of cultivation, there was no way off the Tiny world.

Over time, the Ashikagas lived in peace. Due to their high cultivation. The majority of the clan watched the rise and fall of empires. Though, they were cursed to watch the descendant fade away.

The Protective array around the world not only acted as a shield against outsiders, but it stagnated the cultivation of the native. The Ashikaga clan birthed new generations and watched them achieve the rank of legendary. But that rank of Legendary could only keep them alive for so long.

After some time, the Clansmen the lived for thousands of years began to give their lives to prolong the youth of the younger generations. Leaving behind nothing but their life experience and knowledge, they provided life for the descendants until their life was no more.

Eventually, only one elder remained. A cultivator at the peak of the Heavenly Star Realm. The Tiny World was in chaos and the demon beasts were wiping out humanity. Cities fell until non remained. The Ashikaga family stayed strong and found themselves surrounded by a horde of Demon Beasts. Unfortunately for the Demon beast, Every member of the Ashikaga family had the rank of Demigod and they were led by a Heavenly Star cultivator. It was a massacre. They slaughtered the demon beasts without an ounce of mercy.

The Family once again found peace, but they were now alone in the world. And the Ancestor was on his last leg. As his last act in the world of the living, he forcibly raised the cultivation of his youngest descendants to the legendary rank by relinquishing the last of his depleted essences.

200 years then went by the Ashikaga family encountered a battle-worn human army.

The current patriarch of the Ashikaga family and the leader of the human army, Ye Yan, come to an agreement and become allies. The human army created Glory City. However, once the city was established, the now declining Ashikaga family became the Ashikaga Clan. The Ashikaga clan retained its lands and Glory City was created a few miles away.

Over time as Glory City expanded and eventually touched Ashikaga clan territory. By this time, they became a Noble clan within Glory City to legitimize their territory. With many of the legend rank cultivators dead and dying. Their replacements came to slow, Many of the youngers spoke the modern language and neglected to learn the language of their ancestors. A language that was only written and spoken by elders.

The clan population fell and the branch families merged to thicken the bloodline until it became one main family and 2 branch families all under the name, Ashikaga, for unification and because of the merger of blood over the years.

They now had a handful of black-gold cultivators and not a single legend rank cultivator.

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On the outskirts of Glory City, the Ashikaga Clan welcomes a new heir and heiress into the world under the light of the full moon. A small boy is born to the brother of the clan Patriarch, Ryuji Ashikaga. However, in another room, the patriarch, Satoshi Ashikaga's wife, Yumena Ashikaga, is giving birth to their first child.

During the birth of the young Ashikagas, the world begins to change and the moon turns blood red. A great titan with three heads and six arms manifests above the Ashikaga Clan, cloaking them in its mighty aura.

The world suddenly changes again as a great purple fire manifests in the form of a humanoid woman. She reaches out and caresses the middle face of the great titan. Awestruck, the brothers look at each other and almost immediately understand the other's thoughts.

Leaving their wives, Ryuji and Satoshi begin to cull the family of known spies and to weed out spies they had yet to discover. While Ryuji was leading the charge, Satoshi activates the ancient array powered by stones of light to isolate the clan.

With spies rounded up, Satoshi calls for a clan assembly to charge the men and women with treason and publicly execute them. He then proceeded to search the soul of the remaining clansmen, if they resisted the technique killed them and if they gave in, they came out alive with a slight headache.

After that night the remaining Clansmen were bound to secrecy and reunified under the hope of the two children returning their clan to their former glory.

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Like many clans, my clan had it's legends and origin myths. To say the least, I didn't believe them. At least no in my past life. But now, everything is different.

I achieved the pinnacle of existence and then I was blessed enough to be reincarnated in another world. A world similar, but vastly different than my last.

My old world cultivated our Martial Souls with spirit power and advanced our cultivation with spirt rings taken from Spirit beast that we hunted. Here, we cultivate soul force to break through the ranks of Bronze, Silver, Gold, Black-Gold, and Legend, in that order. From there, my new mother tells me that the mythical ranks of Heavenly Fate, Heavenly Star, Heavenly Axis, Dao of Dragon, Martial Ancestor, and Diety awaits us. A system that is far more complex than the old.

In my first life, I was born on the Douluo Continent to a lowly farmer that raped an injured woman with a Bodhisattva Supreme Beast Spirit for a Martial Soul. Nine months later, I was born and my father was a puddle of blood.

My mother told me stories of her clan and their greatness. I called bullshit until the sins and enemies of my ancestors and the monsters in those tales came calling.

Now I lay in the arms of my new mother, suckling her engorged pink nipples that adorned her large creamy breast, I listened to my mother's soft voice gently pushing the silence of the world aside as she weaved the clan's stories of titans, demons, and gods. How our clan fell from the heavens and were trapped here by a supreme existence.

I listened and retained. This time, I will not fall to the enemies of my ancestors.

The world then eventually went quiet and I fell asleep to the sensation of warm milk gracing my system and the gentle rock in my mother's arms.

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Kai began walking, talking, and reading at 4 months. But what Kai didn't realize is that it was normal for children in the Ashikaga clan to be intelligent the only thing they lacked is cultivation due to the lack of Clan legacies.

Once Kai discovered this, he convinced his father to take him on weekly trips to Glory City to read the books in the library. Books spanning from inscriptions, alchemy, cultivation, history, geology, and dead languages. His original purpose was to find a language that matches that of his ancestors to help his clan. What he found is that his new world was as big as the world he had once resided in. And what he took interest in the most was the Ancient Orchid Ruins. A small ruin near Glory City with possibilities that could solve immediate problems for his clan.

"Kai!" his father called out to him.

Ryuji asked him what he was reading as he noticed everything was around the same period and focused on the Ancient Orchid Ruins.

"Son, what are you looking for?" Ryuji asked.

Kai took a moment to contemplate his answers although this life felt a little unreal at times he had goals that he wished to accomplish in this life. And no matter what, there were things he just couldn't do without help.

'How do you know if you can trust somebody if you don't give them a chance to prove themself?' Kai thought before answering his father.

" Father, I know I'm young and have an active imagination but, after coming across the history and mapping of the Ancient Orchid Ruins. I can't help but think there's more there than what people think." Kai explained.

'Give just enough to wet the tongue and you'll see how thirsty people really are. '

Ryuji thought about what his son had said and released a deep sigh. " Put everything in your storage ring we'll talk about this with your uncle once we return".

Kai did as he was told, once the father-son duo was outside of the clan, Ryuji looked over at his son and said with a clear and stern voice, " Kai, If you never listen to a word I say again. Listen to this. Ashikaga may not be strong, the highest rank we can achieve for the past 200 hundred years is black-gold but, our intelligence is above average and people know that. So, never research anything in the library that you don't plan on sharing with the world. Our clan just isn't strong enough to protect treasures anymore."

As Ryuji was speaking, Kai thought to himself, 'This is the most perfect situation anyone could ask for. A clan that has nothing to lose except each other. I should give them everything as long as they give me loyalty'.

"I understand father, and one day we shall be the strongest family in Glory City."

Ryuji smiled from ear to ear as his well-defined face muscles contracted " Good, Son. Now, let's go show the others what you've found."

As the father-son duo walked in to find the family surrounding the Dinner table. Ryuji sat next to his wife, Sachiko, and Kai sat next to his cousin, Mikoto.

" How was the trip to Glory City, Kai?" Sachiko asked.

" Wonderful, I found a lot of great things. Things that I think can even help the clan," Kai replied with childish enthusiasm.

Satoshi raised an eyebrow and looked at Ryuji who was wearing a satisfied smirk. " Would you care to share this discovery with the family, Kai?" Satoshi asked.

"Well, as I was going through the Library today, I came across the Sacred Empire Era. It was notable for its amazing elixirs and the Ancient Orchid Ruins. Yet, no precious herbs are surrounding the area and no treasure was found beside a couple of gold chests here and there...

Another thing is that the ruins on the maps in the library are way too vague to actually capture the complexity of the once-great civilization. So I had a couple of questions. What's missing Ancient Orchid ruins map? And where would I hide my treasure If not in my clan? The first question is irrelevant because I've already answered the second question…

I'd hide it underground somewhere close to my loyal soldiers. The military barracks and training fields. And just like we would not give our wealth to the City Lord. Some of the noble families at the time wouldn't turn over their wealth either. Unless the man in charge was I tyrant, so I figured If we could find treasure under the only training grounds and barracks on the map, then maybe we have a good chance of finding the other treasures if we assume that every noble family built their clans based on similar outlines and had fighters of their own."

'Once we get the first chamber and prove my theory, nothing can stop us from regaining our former glory.' thought Kai.

"Interesting, kid. I can see some wholes in your theory but I like it and if there's nothing there then we have nothing to lose," An unknown voice projected with a deep rumble.

Kai turned around and saw a man who appeared to be middle-aged with long white hair down to his back and a long full beard with deep golden eyes.

" Father, you've come out of seclusion?"

Mikoto and Tenko were shocked. They just assumed that their grandfather passed away since Satoshi was the current patriarch and the man was never around or spoke of.

" Right, now isn't the time. What's important is how confident my grandson is about risking the lives of his clansmen for wealth that may not even exist," the man replied. " And if there is wealth to be had, what will you do with it and how do you plan to protect it with our struggling strength? My kinsmen are old and we have no hope of breaking through to prolong our lives. So how do you plan to protect your clan from destruction?"

Kai looked around the table and saw various facial expressions that weren't easily read until he looks to his left and saw Mikoto with eyes of expectation as she admired her cousin. So much so, When her mother and aunt told her that Kai would someday be her husband, she had no reservations about the arrangement. Though it was normal, for Ashikaga to marry each other.

With a deep breath, Kai stood up and walk toward his grandfather and said " what is your name?"

A question that confused the table because it was a response they weren't expecting.

As his grandfather looked down on him, in a deep rumble, he replied, " Yoshi Ashikaga!"

" Well, Old man Yoshi Ashikaga, I, Kai Ashikaga, Swear to you before the heavens that I will retrieve that treasure and raise the Ashikaga clan beyond its former glory to the time before the fall of the Ancestors! Where men and women can protect themselves as individuals and as a collective conquer this world under the banner of the Ashikaga clan and I will personally help you and all my elder breakthrough Black-Gold and on to the legendary realm as we become the most powerful clan in all of Glory City!"

Puusshhh!! Lightning struck the earth and Yoshi laughed boisterously. The Childish oath was sealed.

Mikoto blushed as she witnessed Kai's display of determination. Everyone had a reinvigorated drive to break through the heavens and as their hearts and minds forged a common goal because of Kai's path their white hair and golden eyes began to glow and the Ashikaga clan's tattoos adorned on their bodies began to vibe like blood resonance. Their blood began to boil and clansmen began to flock to the main hall.

Pusshhh!! Puusshh!! The lightning began to strike more constantly with renewed intensity as The Ashikaga tattoos began to grow and shine blood red on their olive-brown skin. And as the last Ashikaga entered the clan hall, Kai began to rise up into the air and his long white hair that was in a fishtail braid began to unravel and float. His eyes shined bright with a blinding deeper gold.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Kai shouted at the top of his lungs.

Boom!!! In an instant, The giant gold avatar of the Great three-headed, six-armed Titan appeared

Mikoto gasped at the awe-inspiring sight. Ryuuji and Satoshi exchanged a few glances and the room began to feel up with a foreign pressure. Though it was weak, everyone felt a strange energy. Mikoto began to shake, sweat-soaked her face and hair. Her parents looked at her with worry but took a step back when they felt the same strange energy beginning to bubble within her.

Kai turned to look at Mikoto when he sensed the familiar energy. A moment later something within her awakened and burst forth for its debut. A purple female humanoid made of flames, just as big as Kai's Titan, manifested behind her.

Kai and Mikoto smiled at each other, though Mikoto couldn't help herself and began to cry. Their avatars looked down at the clan and spoke with a mighty voice, separate but as one.

"Betrayed by the Gods, Besieged by the demons. The Titans fell. In the light of the slaughter moon, the progenitors arise, to strengthen the free. to free the oppressed. The time is nigh, The rivers of time are skewed and the future is obscure. The overlord is blind but still has a trillion eyes. Find the door to the Titan's realm and the Sage will fall. The time is nigh."

Mikoto and Kai then collapsed and the Clan watched speechlessly. Things were different after that night. Not just for the Ashikaga clan but for many other clans in Glory City. This year many of them will receive young geniuses of their own, fated to transform the world. For this is the year that Nie Li, Xiao Ninger, Ye Ziyun, Du Ze, and Lu Piao are born.