The Empire IX - Shocking News! Someting Deeper...
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Five days later news shocked the whole Green Lightning Dynasty: The second princess was getting married! Rumors spread across the land, did the powerful Roar five days ago have any link to it? Many had thought the second princess would be married in a political marriage with another Dynasty, but for her to now be married to a subject of the Dynasty?!
The Ambassador that had taken Wang Lei to the Capital many years ago had returned to his sect. She was talking to the Sect Leader and the Elders "I am here to tell you about the Dynasty's Rulers Decree: For your Sect to have grown such a once in a hundred lifetimes Talent, you shall be rewarded! For your Sect shall have the honor of becoming part of the Royal Sect! Prepare yourself for when the Sun and Moon meet, for when the sacred Eclipse covers the land! For then your Sect shall move!" she declared, and everyone was shocked to their Core! "Esteemed Ambassador!" they exclaimed.
She then continued "Ahm, the Royal Divinator has said this heavenly event shall happen in nine years from now." This woke the elders out of their Stupor, to become part of the Royal Sect! This was the highest honor a Cultivator could hope for excluding marriage into the Royal Family! One Elder who couldn't contain himself ran outwards and tould the disciples about it.
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Shi Changmao felt strange ever since he expanded the Spatial Ring the Spirit Stone Root was in eight months ago. It was like the Root was calling him. He also noticed how the generated Qi seemed to fuse with his body by itself! His Cultivation progress had also massively speed up since then.
He had just watched the children play and was going back into the Spatial Ring that contained the Spirit Stone Root. Suddenly he was assaulted by a force that dwarfed his by magnitudes! Soon he lost control of his body and his eyes closed by themselves, the last thing he saw was gigantic amounts of deep purple Qi streaming out of the Root.
Changmao found himself within a space that seemed endless, wherever he looked he would see this mysterious purple Qi. Time passed, he did not know how much, hours, days, weeks, months, it seemed like it did not matter.
The Qi formed shapes that screamed like they were impossible, sometimes it was as calm as a lake when the clouds stood still, other times it moved around without pause it was like water falling down a waterfall. He observed uncountable cycles of chaus and order and every so often he saw something deeper.
It was an endless plane, the ground made up by something unknown to him. He would see it from the PoV of someone moving around it, then this person would stop and turn their head upwards. Changmao would see something so gigantic he couldn't comprehend it. Then this vision would stop, leaving him with more questions than answers.
He had seen this Vision at least seventeen times, it was the only thing that gave him a sense of time, when his sight blacked and he again could feel his body. It felt different, like he had changed his skin! He looked around and to his shock the Spirit Stone Root was nowhere to be seen! He panicked, where was the Root?! It was the one thing that made it possible for him to Cultivate within the Rings!
Changmao expanded his Domain and Scanned every Ring to the last grain of sand, but it was nowhere! He was just about to expand his Domain upwards, out of the Rings, when he noticed something, his Domain was way purer than before! His Cultivation had increased!
He retracted it and Scanned his body, what he saw shocked him! Thousands upon thousands of tiny crystals were everywhere within him and all of them generated Qi! "Is- Is that the Spirit Stone Root?!" he focused even more and saw that there were millions of shards flowing trough his blood, and while they only generated minor amounts, together they made as much as the bigger crystals!
"What exactly did happen?" he questioned himself while he looked into the fourth prince's Ring. The kids had grown, he guessed around one and a half years. Then Changmao continued studying the little crystals. They were fascinating, they had fused with his body seamlessly, like they were always a part of him!
Normally a Cultivator would absorb Qi from the Air and when powerful Cultivators fight, the Air would be derived of Qi till it flows in again. This meant during a fight one had only so much Qi to use, but these Crystals changed all of it! He would never run out of Qi! The longer the fight the greater the difference in power would get!
After he had calmed down again Changmao continued looking at the changes, his Cultivation had after all also increased. It was now at the peak of the Domain Expansion Realm! Beyond it lay the Refinement Realm but Changmao didn't know much about it other than that it was the strangest Cultivation Realm of all, as it could be skipped at any point to reach the Lord Realm!
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Living Married was a new experience for Lei, every morning he, his wife the second princess, the other members of the Royal Family and sometimes the Dynasty's Ruler would eat food a normal Cultivator could only dream of together. Then he would be taught by one of the three Archon Realm Cultivators of the Dynasty about Cultivation and their personal experience. This would go on for halve of the day, after this he would have to spar with multiple people of his Realm at the same time to test him, and whenever he won the number of enemies would be increased.
The rest of the day he would spend with the second princess, she was a lovely person and loved by the people. The Royal Divinator, one of the three Archons, had told them a few weeks ago that the second princess would give birth to a little boy soon, he would become a Father!
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While Lei is building a family and training, Changmao is focused understanding the Spirit Stone Root. What would you rather do?