Sky Shattering Illusions

On the day of his birth, the little jade dragon, there were monumental changes across the horizon of the dracophoenix planestella. the silhouette of a true dragon bathed in golden light let out an earth rendering roar. This roar marked the change of an era and made the experts on this planet pay close attention to what caused this.

Fortunately, for teal long, his birth was kept a secret from the world, his father knew the sky shattering illusions were definitely linked to him. Given his worldly experience, he knew if people were to know that his son was the cause of this phenomenal event, not only would it foster ire and envy, but also the scheming and machinations of all his opponents. Though the azure dark dragon knew that none of those people could even harm a hair on his own head, he also was painfully aware that the child blessed by heavens, at this moment was pitifully weak.

Thus making a decision to delay the news of his birth by a month. Though it wasn't the best of safeguards it was effective in the sense that no one correlated the phenomenal event with his son. Unfortunately, for Azure this son of his, was an exceptional child of the heavens, and a night before the announcement he had already started speaking with his parents. This wasn't just unintelligible babble of a new born, but more of what you would expect from a curious child of 5 years of age. Though this made the couple very proud of their offspring it also bought on a headache about how they could explain why a newborn baby could start talking the 'day' he was born.

Noticing his parents anxiety which they did their best to hide from him, teal went upto his father and mother opened his mouth and said words that baffled and flummoxed them.

"Do not be worried about my presentation ceremony, the only ones i speak with for now are you" after saying this the one month old baby kowtowed to his parents. He was the reincarnation of a god who had been plotted against treacherously, making it so that he had no doubts about the truth of human nature.

He could trust in his parents from this life, maybe because the bonds of blood are strong, but having spent 2 million years without any family he was determined to keep them protected even moreso than wanting to get vengeance.

This was the vow he made at the age of one month, to become the protector of his family. A calling which no longer included the entire universe but just those closest to him.

The presentation ceremony thus went off without a hitch, not drawing any unwanted suspicion.

After the ceremony, Teal had already started sifting through his memories of his past life, not to reminisce but to find the most appropriate techniques to train in. Despite the tremondous troves of knowledge he had of the god realm, the techniques he could practice well in this lower world were severely limited either due to the resources required to cultivate those techniques or the high cultivation level requirement to begin the process. After sifting through the thousands upon thousands of techniques he managed to select three extremely obscure techniques which had even piqued his curiosity in his past life. the only drawback was these techniques had to be cultivated when one was just starting out. These techniques were the 'Soul realm of gods', the 'unmatcheable Vajra physique' and the 'Roaring heavens blood-qi sutra'. These were one of a kind techniques which evolved with the cultivator, and the only way to comprehend them was to be untainted by any other technique. He knew if he had cultivated any of these 3 techniques in his previous life no schemes or plots would have ever been able to harm him, unfortunately he only came across these techniques well after establishing his heavenly domain. The incapability of cultivating these techniques was something that made him feel rather unfortunate in the past. Which is why when he came across these techniques in his memory he knew that no other technique would suffice in front of them.

This was the start of his new journey, one that would be much harder than the previous life, since these techniques at the final stages is beyond even the realm of gods the requirements to cultivate them are equally preposterous, thankfully the beginning three stages of these techniques had no resource requirements, only limitations of physique, bloodlines and soul strength. For a being with a divine soul, a true god dragon bloodline and the one god physique which even he was unaware of.

Teal knew that he possessed an otherworldly soul and bloodline, he wasn't sure if he would be able to cultivate the third technique the 'Unmatcheable Vajra physique'. In order to get a grasp of his own physical vessel he decided to begin with this technique. If he failed to cultivate the technique he would switch for something that has a lower requirement as to him giving up would never be an option.

Before beginning his cultivation journey he decided to inform his parents about what he had thought about, leaving out the techniques and his previous life for now, he mentioned in a fleeting manner that he would like to begin cultivating. This undoubtedly flabbergasted his parents as even the most blessed children of heaven would at the earliest begin their cultivation journey at the age of seven years. But thinking about his advanced mental capacity and thoroughly confident aura they could not find even one reason to dissuade him. Sereena was more apprehensive about it than Azure but looking into his tiny eyes and seeing the resolve inside them she finally agreed to let him do what he wanted.

This would only be the start of his journey.

A journey that would one day render the heavens obsolete and shatter the fetters shackling the earths.