Nether Realm

Mikoto was resting in Kai's arms as she listened to him speak about the wonders of Law energy.

"Can I become a spiritual God?" she asked.

"It all depends on you," Kai replied. "Tomorrow you can look through the Ten Thousand Book of True Intent. If you resonate with a Dao intent, you can meditate on it and deepen your comprehension."

Mikoto smirked when she learned of thousands of possibilities to catch up to Kai. " What about the Nether realm. Will we go with Ye Mo?"

"Why wouldn't we, this can be a great opportunity. Our clan has always kept to its territory. Who knows what mysterious this world hides. The treasures that we've found so far are a sign of this world's boundless potential."

"If That's the case, we should leave this mountain range. This world is immense and we can explore it and strip it clean of its treasure. You said you found a soul weapon that grows with the owner. Stuff like that can easily support us and be invaluable to the clan's strength in the higher realm." Said Mikoto.

" We start with the nether realm and work our way from there. Slow cultivation with a sturdy foundation is worth more than fast cultivation with a frail foundation."

"Is that why you went to see Yang Xin. To test how sturdy her foundation is?" Asks Mikoto.

"Something like that."

Mikoto scuffs. "If you bed her before me, I'll burn this city to the ground."

Kai chuckles and replies, " I believe you will. I'm going to see her tomorrow."

"New cultivation technique? You know humans need a good demon spirit as well, it can halt their growth if the demon spirit is ordinary and lacks potential."

"I know. Its a problem easily fixed," said Kai.

"Especially if she comes to the Nether realm with us. You should invite her. Who knows how long we will be gone. You don't want to lose her to time." Mikoto pursed her lips and formed a smile.

She then leaned over to give Kai a few soft kisses before getting comfortable and closing her eyes for the night.

The next morning, Kai was at the City Lord's mansion to speak with Ye Mo.

"So you've decided, I assume," says Ye Mo.

"Without a doubt. Mikoto and I will join you. I also want to bring an alchemist -Yang Xin, with us. Will that be fine?" Kai asked.

"Ahh, President Gu Yan's apprentice. Isn't she just a Silver Rank spiritualist?" Asked Ye Mo.

"For now. When do we leave, Ye Mo?"

"Three weeks. My people have to gather their supplies and settle their family affairs before we travel." Ye Mo replied and his face suddenly became serious.

'What's got the Old Man all tense?' thought Kai.

"The Nether Realm is extremely dangerous. I saw people who aren't human and felt spiritualist with cultivation that surpassed mine. This is an expedition that will be dangerous." Says Ye Mo.

"Without risk, there is no reward."

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At the Alchemist Association, Kai and Yang Xin sat across from each other in the lotus position.

"Okay watch close. This called the Heavenly Storm Mantra. It will work perfectly with Soul form and attributes." Kai explained before he projected the complete cultivation in the air written in golden script.

The cultivation technique hovered in front of Yang Xin as she gawked at the profoundness of the cultivation technique that Kai presented her. A moment later the golden script collided with her mind and etched itself into her soul realm.

"It's mysterious and Dao is deep. As long as you can comprehend it, your cultivation will progress by leaps and bounds."

Yang Xin was at a loss for words. When Kai said he would give her a new cultivation technique, she never thought she would be gifted such an unworldly technique.

"I'll do my very best, brother Kai. Thank you."

Kai smirked. "Will you be traveling with us? We leave in three weeks."

"If you'll have me, I'll be honored." Yang Xin replied.

Kai nodded. " Cultivate well. If you can break into the Gold Rank. I'll have something special for Sister Yang Xin."

Kai vanished again appeared at home to lock himself in his room again. Kai looked into his spacial and pulled out an old crown with two great Spirit Gems

The Great Spirit Gems are rare items that greatly strengthen a Demon Spiritualist of the same attribute. Their Soul Force will grow several times its original amount and all combat abilities of the matching attribute will increase in power when using it.

Kai pulled the two great spirit gems from the crown and threw the crown aside. In one hand, Kai held a gem with a sliver of Lightning energy at its core. In another hand, Kai held a Gem with strings of wood energy at its core.

Kai smiled and put the Great Spirit Gems away and called out the final item that he ceased from the Ancient Orchid City Ruins. A long wooden box.

Kai sat the box on his desk and open it up to reveal a sight beyond anything a one could ever imagine. 'The Tiny world is truly a strange and unusual place.' Kai thought.

Picking up on a small crystal ball, Kai focused and peered into the center of the crystal to see a raging, Divine Tribulation Qilin.

"Primordial Bloodline with a divine growth rate. This...This is impossible..." Kai gasped.

A moment later, memories of high-level experts killing Demon beast at a similar level and the extraction of Demon Spirits. The scene soon changed to that of Akasha, Shreya, and an Elven cultivator slaughtering Demon Beast generals and placing their Demon Spirits in Demon Spirit stones before storing them in a storage ring. That Ring was then given to the Elven Cultivator, Situ Qing. Kai then noticed that the Demon spirits were exact replicas of the ones in the wooden box, Minus the Empyrean Nine Phoenix for a total of twelve Demon Spirits.

A tear rolled down Kai's check when he realized that Demon spirits in his hand came from Akasha's old friend Situ Qing. Situ Qing was always short-tempered. This temperament leads him time to fight a Goddess the crippled his cultivation. No matter what Akasha did, Situ Qing was beyond his ability to heal, as a result, Situ Qing could not ascend with Akasha and Shreya.

Kai took a deep breath and convinced himself that Situ Qing must have been somewhere in the Tiny World, waiting on his old friend. Kai put the demon spirits away and summoned the World Egg.

Kai sat in the lotus position and channeled his soul realm to start the refining process of the World Egg. Kai used the Zhou Botong Sublimation technique to refine the World Egg as fast as possible. Though the technique was overbearing, Kai didn't want to leave anything to chance.

Two days passed when the refinement was finished. Peering into his soul realm, Kai looked around until he found a swirling black hole. Stepping through that portal, Kai arrived in an energy-rich land, ripe with herbs, a mighty palace, and land filled with Demon beasts with terrifying levels of cultivation.

The moment Kai noticed that the world Egg was inhabited. Kai channeled his soul realm to control the World Egg.

"I apologize, but to keep you all is a risk that I can not afford!" Kai's voice boomed and the World Egg began to extinguish the lives of the Demon beasts within. Men, Women, Children, and Elderly. Kai exterminated them all. Although their cultivation was higher than his, the world Egg held ultimate authority over the life within.

Kai walked amongst the sea of dead and right into the great place. On the main floor, was a great statue of a beautiful female Blood Fiend. Upon the statue was the name, Wei Xiao Bao, carved into it.

Kai fell to his knees and kowtowed to the statue Wei Xiao Bao and thanked her for cultivating the World Egg.

For the next three weeks, Kai split his time between the outside world and the World Egg. He explored the land and the place, discovering many things. Like the techniques of the blood fiends that seemed to be compatible with his law of Blood and knowledge on the Demon God Sect.

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Kai was currently at the Sky Origin Divine Clan with Mikoto and Yang Xin, Kai was standing in the main Hall holding council with the elders, Ryuji, Satoshi, and Yoshi. They had all recently returned from their perspective ruin expeditions

"We made finds in the Ning You City Ruins and the Clear River Ruins. Most of the Finds are were the usual, though there were a few objects that surpass our knowledge." Satoshi then pulled out six purplish stones.

Kai squinted at the stones then pulled them into his spacial ring. "I'll do some studying on them. I will also like to request a Wind Lightning Jade bracelet."

"Wind Lightning? For who?" The 3rd elder asked.

"Yang Xin of the Alchemist Association," Kai replied.

"Why?" asked the 5th elder.

"My reasons are my own and do not mistake my compliance for the clan rules as an act of submission. You can give me the Jade or I will take it." Kai snapped and the elders swallowed deeply as they tensed in their seats.

"Easy, Kai. The Wind Lightning Jade Bracelet is yours." Said, Yoshi.

"Thank you. Now to why I am here. Lord Ye Mo has invited me to explore a newly discovered subsidiary realm with him. The Nether Realm. Mikoto, Yang Xin, and I will be leaving for a time. We will be absent no more than a year.."

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Ye Mo, Kai, Mikoto, Yang Xin, and other members from the Snow Wind family speed through the forest only stopping at the entrance of the Nether Realm entrance.

It appears that the entrance is rarely used, as the cave is littered with the ancient remains of humans and demon beasts. After following the long tunnel for several thousands of meters deep underground, Kai, Mikoto, Ye Mo, and two black gold cultivators step through a barrier that forces the rest of the team to stop.

"Anything below black-gold can't enter," Mikoto spoke as she looked over the barrier inscriptions.

With a little of her soul force, Mikoto drew an inscription of her own and shattered the barrier.

Through the barrier, the tunnel opens up to a vast cavern

The group continued their trip downwards. Suddenly, the scene in front of them widened, revealing an incomparably vast world.

Kai suddenly stopped and took in the energy around him. His eyes close for a brief moment as he resonated with a new law power. When he opens his eyes again, a smile of intrigue crawls onto his face.

"What's wrong, Kai?" Ye Mo asks.

"You can't feel it?" Kai replies. "The power of Law that covers this world in its aura... the Law of Nether."

"You mean there's a spiritual God here," said Mikoto.

"If there is, we'll find out. Come, a new city awaits us."

The group looked outward and saw a world filled with cracks. In every crack, the flow of blazing magma with white smoke was coming out from time to time. The whole world was filled with the smell of sulfur.

After some time, the group arrives at the closest city to the Nether Realm entrance.

The city wall is vast and grand, stretching to a few dozen miles. It's made from huge black rocks stacked together, issuing a chilling aura - the law of nether.

The Glory City group discreetly enters the city and begin to explore. Looking at shops and gathering information.

"It's so lively here. To think all of these races have come together and live in a place like our Glory City, like humans." Yang Xin spoke in awe.

The group was currently sitting in a restaurant run by a member of the human tribe. They then began to discuss what they had discovered in their brief time there.

This city, Blackrock City, is one of the Nether World's fifteen cities that have all kinds of races gathered together and are under the Master of the Nether Realm's protection. Among them are many human tribes that escaped to here from the Age of Darkness, and are living here as they multiply their descendants. The human clan is one of the twelve main tribes.

Back in the years when the human clan was being chased after by the demon beast clan, there was a demon beast Spiritual God that wielded the power of law that came in here and wanted to continue to kill the humans. However, he was repelled with a palm from the Master of the Nether Realm. From there on, the experts from the demon beast clan no longer dared to come in here.

If it wasn't because they are being chased by the demon beast clan, the human clan's experts wouldn't live in such a nasty place. However, there is no longer a place available for the human clan to live in the outside world; therefore, they can only remain here.

There are many forces here. Between the forces, they would oppress one another in order to gain more resources, which the Master of the Nether Realm doesn't care about. The Master of the Nether Realm has not shown himself in hundreds of years; therefore, no one knows where he is.

Ye Mo and his kin learned that the Dark Guild is one of those forces. A force that had been cultivating the power of the last few hundred years. Though the couldn't compare to the big long-established families that had experts at the peak of legend rank -demigods. They were a force nonetheless and Blackrock City is the location of their Headquarters.

"To think that the Dark Guild has been hiding here, all along." Ye Zhu grunted. He was one of the black-gold experts from the Snow Wind Family.

"At least they can keep a secret..." said Kai.

The group wore questioning looks and waited for Kai to say more.

" Imagine if every tribe new of the paradise that we have above ground. The fresh air, the sun, cool breeze, delicious food..."

"There would be a war." Ye Mo muttered a bit unnerved.

"Exactly, so we can assume that only the Dark Guild knows our secret. So while we're here, we need to keep it that way." Said Kai. "Or risk a war that Glory City can't win."

"What if we have allies?" Asked Yang Xin. "Other humans or a good tribe that doesn't want to live in this horrid place anymore."

Ye Mo's face contorts as he thinking about the possibility of allies. "Where would we start?"

"Here. We learn the clans and their status, we cultivate to a higher level, we make friends by using everything that we learned. But I think, Ye Mo, should god to a different city."

"Why is that?" Ye Zhu asked Kai.

"Because he has fought the Dark Guild many times. And though they know of Mikoto and I. They believe we are Black-gold experts and as long as we pretend not to see them, they'll leave us be. But they will try to kill Ye Mo whenever they have the chance. He is Glory City's only protector."