Chapter 145 - fishing

Caelum enjoyed seeing Hephaestus trying to avert his gaze while they ate quickly finishing her meal and excusing herself to began blacksmithing. He let her be and went to his own workshop to refine the corpse that acquired from killing Typhon.

He threw the corpses and began to create an essence of all beast in the world. Caelum own flames and furnaces had exponentially increased the potency of the blood essence being refine. After few minutes, the divine blood essence was created.

He took the essence that instantly cause the sacred lake inside his nine sacred tree to condense into one and transported into his Sea of consciousness that became a small continent. A glimmer of radiating divinity was forming and was unlike his stolen divinity.

From his nine realms had expanded even more create millions upon millions of suns and star that nourish his body. The bloodline of [Ancestral Sage emperor] had the effect to increased his strength in the present of a sun.

What he was doing was creating his own true world and not like the artificial nine worlds he had but now it was fusing into his true world. The sacred water had became a small pond at the center of his sea of consciousness that much more pure than inside the Sacred World tree.

Caelum went inside the said dimension and looked into the pond only to find fish swimming around. He recognize the fish as koi which in his mind would one day become a true dragon. He submerge into the Sacred water and absorbed everything into his body resulted in forming the true nine divine star. The true world began expanding even more than before into a multitude of continent.

The lotus tattoo on his forehead glowed brightly than before as creature began to grow inside his true body. Within his Dantian, the eight golden core began to form appearing like an endless loop that continuously fluctuated. It was the space and time Golden core.

Caelum opened his eyes spending yet another million years in cultivation. Though, it was a minute had past outside. The true world had been created with his law therefore he had full mastery over it. He observe his true world and found the creator in the process of a primate.

"Damn I didn't expect my impurities this much."

The sacred lake was filled with impurities that gradually disappeared and purified by the water. A single scale of the koi fish glowed into golden as caelum instantly felt the power within those scales.

'This is like dragon scales from apotheosis but currently a single one and have only golden scale glowing.'

The koi fish swam around him as the sacred gear glisten like the a small galaxy. Afterwards, he left his workshop and went to visit his wives and daughters. Caelum heard from tiamat that their daughter was about to hatch and without hesitation went to her nest.

"fufufu you're rather fast."

"Hey I can't miss my daughters birth when she's been in that egg like what over three thousand years?"

"Well she will surely be a powerful dragon god."

The sound of egg cracking as both of them watch it released a massive amount of energy then it burst open revealing a little girl with long white hair, dragon wings and tail. She looked around then instantly flew towards her mother.

"Mama! Papa!"

"Look caelum it's our daughter!"

Caelum smiled as Tiamat was the only one that had long wanted a child and now their child had finally hatch from her egg. The quickly went to the ours to introduce the dragon girl which instantly spoiled by everyone. She was quite strong and smart despite only recently hatching. In terms of power she was stronger than Ophis.

He spend his time with them until going back to his journey. Caelum went inside their temporary room and found Hephaestus half naked. When she notice him arrived blink for few moment then realize she was half naked.

"When did you come back!?"

"Just now and thank you for the nice view."

"Pervert!"

Caelum did a prayer while Hephaestus grabbed the closes thing then threw it towards him but it didn't faze him and only laugh and told her to prepare as they would soon leave. Afterwards, they pack their things and continued their journey.

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Far away in the eastern region, the country of china where the a jade palace hover above the clouds were. Within it was an old man with long thick beard ornament with all jade. He held infuriate expression as his eyes bloodshed.

"You fools! Its been more than a week yet you hadn't find the cause of my divinity shifting!"

He shouted releasing a massive amount of energy that push his retainer back. The man was the jade emperor and felt his own was slipping away every moment like his own power is choosing its own master. Jade emperor wouldn't allow it as he was close in reaching the highest immortally and for it to be taken was something he'd do everything to prevent.

"Use every means possible even if we cause a war with the other faction then let it be!"

Jade emperor was desperate due the alarming rate his own power was disappearing. His retainer wanted to refute as being in the crossfire of the other action would result in mant casualty.

"But my lord it would be dangerous to fight the other faction! Tell us what is reason why you are urg-Gaaah!"

The retainer spat blood as the jade emperor piece his heart with one finger. The jade emperor was infuriated that his retainer is beginning to question and if they learn about his power fading then being overthrown is possible.

"Anymore of you wish to question me!?"

None spoke quickly bowing and do their task while the Jade emperor sat back on his throne. He curse the one responsible for his misfortune and tried to slow down the process by eating peach of immortality.

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"Achoo!"

Caelum sneeze confused considering his own body had virtually immune to deceased. He shrugged it off moving forward to their journey and was staring at a huge lake deciding to on fishing to calm his mind.

"What are you doing, Caelum?"

He turned to see Hephaestus who had grown into more beautiful woman growing in her divinity. Its been a two years since they had left the villages and grown fond of each other.

"Nothing much but why don't you join me?"

"No thank you but can I sit down beside you?"

"Sure I don't mind."

Hephaestus sat down beside him watch him silently fishing. She had been tempted to confess but subconscious about what he'll say about her eye once she seen it. Hephaestus feared once she saw it then he'll abandon her like her real parent.

Due having unlock her divinity, she had began to remember her origin and found that she was an Olympian god that was abandon by Zeus after Hera gave birth to her. The degenerate felt disgusted seeing her face that's why she was thrown despite Hera's struggle.

"Hey if you don't mind me asking and you can refuse telling me but can you show me your eyepatch?"

She stiffened hearing him asked and reluctant to even tell him but Caelum who saw it stood up and patted her head then gave kiss on the forehead causing her to calmed down.

"No need to be push yourself. Take your time and tell me when your ready."

Caelum smiled even though he knew about didn't want to feel force in digging someone else sensitive topic. Hephaestus who was up close saw his gaze that entice her whole being. She unconscious close their lips and gave passionate kiss.

"Hahaha I didn't expect for you to be a natural."

"W-What did I! No it wasn't what I! Waaah!"

When their lips depart she quickly blushed then ran away leaving the smiling Caelum. After she left Caelum, his fishing rod caught something and revealed a massive fish. He killed it without a problem and prepared for their lunch.

Hephaestus felt awkward around caelum and only ate silently at the food to continue her blacksmithing. Caelum shrugged it off and decided to take stroll once again to find anything interesting. He heard sound of fighting into the distance and leaped towards the highest peak only two find particular dragon.

"Ddriag just give up as you already know I will win in the end!"

"Hahaha you might have gone crazy, Albion! We will settle this like always!"