Chapter 12 Bancquet

Our family recived invitation from Hong Yue family, so it was alright to go along.

The auction went as it is, involving Nie Li buying stuff. I got the gold rank armour. Which he willingly gave up and I thanked him for that. Finally the pot was went up in auction. It was in my range and I effectively copied the item and put it inside my world. It began to absorb heavenly energy to gradually grow. The item inside the storage is still within the limit given by my body outside. So no problem in keeping it inside.

Dark guild leader is for Nie Li to handle.

I went back to my home. And by now my body has completely refined every medicinal remnants. Physique has reached Legend rank peak. My physical body has reached its limit in divine continent. If my cultivation has increased to heavenly fate inside the ring, then I can return to the world and still train my body, but if it's not it will remain as it is limited by the laws of this world.

I consumed the soul spirit elixir and it took 5 hours to break through black gold 3 rank. After stabilizing cultivation I proceed to refine rest of the medicine content remaining inside me. So like that my cultivation further increased to 4 star by next day. 6 star by end of the week..I have reached black gold rank peak.

I have started training with swords recently, with the experiences and information about sword will and sword heart. Like that I had an unfair advantage to get into the entry of sword dao.

After a week, I inspected nightmare demon pot with LoHP, found some damage in inscription associated with it, which needed heavenly energy. I restored it and now absorbing heavenly energy, the demons pot efficiency increased.

I took out the different demon beasts spirit I collected till now it's about 2000, including the 500 I collected from ancient ruins. I managed to combine many of the darkness, void and shadow devil spirit to form.. mutated Void phantom a god level growth rate demon spirit. After recombining all the nightmare and void beats, even God rank ones repeatedly. Similarily, the mutated fanged overlord panda, capable of merging law energies and having superior fighting sense. Psychic abilities from mutated dreamweaver butterfly. A force weaver beast manipulating vectors.etc..

I absorbed each of the beasts power and the power and efficiency of each of my abilities increased over ten fold. My abilities will also grow with me due to soul form absorbing God level growth rate characteristics.

After I emerge from the cultivation section, I was met with yang xin who came back after dealing with assassin from dark guild. She heard about the fight with sacred family I agreed before. And wanted to learn about the winning chance.

Seeing that it's a good way to make some money, I showed Yang Xin, my gold rank cultivation base. She agreed to bet for me.

I rested for a day outside and went around my place to see the scenery and visit family members cultivation on the second day.

The fighting date, reached next day and Yang Xin proposed the bet and sacred family agreed for a 50 million demon spirit coins bet. With Nie Li and Yang Xin maintaining the performance of betting, I was much low key even though they are betting for me.

In the ground..Looking at the colosseum and fighting grounds and people shouting praises for Shen fei, I felt very amusing.

Shen Fei: " Why?, Having second thoughts now, there is no backsies at this point. Unfortunately for you, I have seen you close to the woman I fancy. If I can't get it now one can...."

" Sure, Mr. Eunuch , I heard you fancy men during these days...how's that working out for you?"

His momentum suddenly lost, this problem of his came very recently in which he couldn't suppress his heart anymore and even tried it, even though he hated doing it, he did it once and it felt to him as very disgusting but his mind will ask him to repeat that once more every now and often...driving him nuts. There was small rumour about him visiting such a place but no one actually spread it around. But he got severe thrashing from patriarch himself for it.

"YOU BASTARD..."

He merged with his demon beasts scarlet black tiger and came running towards me sprouting flame beam from his mouth.

I didn't wait for him to strike me but transformed into overlord panda expecting some serious fight but...

As soon as the fire arrived it went back to him using a combination of fire manipulation and vector manipulation, I set out unconsciously, as it was very bright looking, my human instincts involuntary sent it flying.... 'I need to learn to suppress some of it and do things more rationally in a fight.I could have stood still and fire engulf me or dodge it none of which matters anyway, but I can't enjoy the battle right...'

And when he came near me jumping and falling from air , I watched everything in slow motion punches him in the gut with my half physical force but made sure to distribute it evenly in the front. A shockwave followed by multiple sonic bursts and he shoot upto the sky like ....

'whatever, this human missile will come down, may be he will use all that falling power to accelerate and strike me hard... May be it will overpower my vector controls maximum output? That power I recieved is from a gold rank beast, which was mutated and after merging many beasts with attack power it rivals black gold rank. So the falling strike should be of black gold rank if he were to strike me which is ....impossible.'

He was already unconscious.

Looking at the guy who is falling unconscious from about a 2km height, I was disappointed very much and walked and positioned directly under his landing point. Waited for about 19 seconds and he came down. I stopped his momentum midflight and placed him down. I don't want a black stain on me for crippling a sacred family member.

I am powerful enough to fight a legend rank cultivator with my physical force alone, so the fight was boring after I saw his slow movement and decided no pointing in standing here fighting others.

And so I went back to the stadium.

The audience kept shouting losing money. Yang Xin was happy. I was also happy that I was able to obtain 10 million coins as money in addition to the the wager, half of it given to alchemic association and half I kept.After which Nie Li fought with gold ranks and received title of genius.

I was also invited to city lords mansion for being safe against, dark guild. I thought it would be a good change of scenery so I went there. Then after being there for 3 days, I was told Xiao Ninger has entered heavenly sacred border. I also went after obtaining permission from principal. Finding myself in the sacred realm, the rich soul force is good compared to heavenly energy inside ring which I don't have to refine at this point of cultivation rank of mine.I decide to break through Legend Rank.

There wasn't much of an aura fluctuation with my new found domain power by combining vector control ,illusion manipulation and and elemental control.

As I was infinitely close to legend rank,the fluctuation was also minimum. The place suited me so I broke through. But an old soul named ye yan did came blabbering about not being able to see my power levels later remembering his situation, I feel a certain sympathy to the Oldman.

For about a week inside, I have continued my practises involving sword strikes and sword techniques. I tried to include the sword intent and after a few hundred tries I was able to step into basics of sword dao. What would actually takes years to learn is learned within few weeks only because of the insane knowledge, experiences obtained and the adaptable body with muscle memory and parallel calculations assisting supreme body control. As I swing the sword with ancient sword intents I merged and integrated to form my own intent, it will sever barriers,techniques, souls and even laws and other intents.

My sword practise created an intense sword intent and cutting power that permeate inside the heavenly sacred border and even, thunder god meteorite sword responded to the sword intent with killing intent to negate it. I got the feeling that I could clear an opening to outside world within the realm if I wanted to. This action was noticed by Xiao Ning'er and she came to me.

She was already gold rank 4 soul level. I retrieved the demon spirits from her which she saved from ruins just disappeared and went to refine a wind thunder beast inside the ring. It resulted in a mutated celestial thunderbird of black gold rank grade with God level growth rate. I came back and gave her the spirit and a diluted soul spirit liquid. After a bit of dialogue with her she cultivated and raise from gold rank 4 to gold rank peak with the medicinal effects. I also channelled my own soul force to her to facilitate her core stabilizing and now she is a peak gold rank demon spiritualist.

We went outside, I gave her a few materials for her cultivation and mentioned leaving the glory city for a while. She wanted to come with me and we decided to do it sometime later.

I have invited Nie Li to visit heavenly sacred border to cultivate, with intention of him occupying his thundergod meteorite sword ,now that Xiao Ning'er is with me he would lose out if dark guild were to attack.

Meanwhile Xiao Ninger was also moved in with Ye Ziyun within the city lord mansion, which resulted in they bonding over and practising together leaving a disappointed Nie Li behind.

A week passed by Nie Li was able to help city lord arrange the first part of ten thousand demonic beast array and got thrashing from him for some reason.

After a few days the divine thunder array is also completed.

Later that day, dark guild created a distraction of summoning an abyss flame giant while trying to attack Nie Li and myself seperately. But with my cultivation, I have already sensed the summoning process.

I went near Xiao Ning'er. She is a black gold rank cultivator and was with Ye Ziyun( currently gold 3 rank). Nie Li had gone to lure some of them to killing array.

Compared to plot Nie Li is stronger, was 2 star gold rank cultivator now, so he got easily dodging the abilities of a black gold rank warrior.

Two dark guild members of black gold rank came to attack us. A guy who can create ice clones came to me and after one punching him down, he tried to escape using clones. I brought out my iron sword and I swiped with the sword intent, that engulfed every clone instantly reducing them to atoms.

Meanwhile Xiao Ninger was countering the other demonbeast and Ye Ziyun also helped.They were able to restrain him by knocking unconscious with snow and lightning powers. While this is happening, city lord and elder Li already arrived but seeing our battle performance, they chased after the remaining 4 who were hiding and planning attack.

Nie Li was able to kill the guy with tai yi killing array, and later went to activate thunder array with help of his sword to kill off the abyss flame giant but was safe from beingvunconscious as he was of much higher cultivation rank unlike in the plot. Other families people came hastily so they were able to kill a spiritualist and one was seriously injured but escaped, after which they helped clear out the minor flame demons. Only 2 managed to escape and the captured ones were dead due to some soul control techniques used.

My iron sword was reduced to dust since it couldn't handle my power and I have already copied thunder god meteorite sword, but I can't use that since I can't explain the origin. I need to learn forging techniques, to modify the thunder gods sword. Our parents were also attacked my parents reached black gold rank and with so many gold ranks also present those black gold ranks who went to capture were all captured but died mysteriously later on.

Nie Li's parents were already hidden by their clan patriarch. For dark guild it was a disaster as of the of the 24 people went only 3 or 4 managed to escape. They will surely retaliate.

Our city didn't loose any cultivators but dark guild did. A small meeting for those who fought was held.. Sacred family's two actors were also present. I reported hereing they speak about "Long Sha ordered the attack on city lord mansion and they wanted to know about those pillars being built along with counting our forces..."

After 3 days city was still restoring it's buildings.

The contribution of Nie Li is great but Ye Ziyun hasn't been like the shy girl he knows, now that she knows about him, she had some reservations in heart, but she still values him being an asset to city for his contributions which were increasingly being unable to pay back. And she is in some dilemma. Similarily lord Ye Zong also has also valued Nie Li, but since observing that his daughter is not so reciprocative in their relation, he still doesn't agree to support him other than giving him some treasure from palace treasury.

Now Ye Zongs adopted son came. Ye Han, he who trained hard since childhood to oneday become the citylord and marry Ziyun. But now the legitimate heir also has similar cultivation base, and among many youngsters in the city has exaggerated growth rate in their cultivation ranks making his achievement very dim. His position is also becoming questionable in the eyes of snow family members once again. But adopted son is still his son. So a bancquet was arranged for dinner. Major families were invited.

Sacred family came,but there was no Shen fei. Since his obvious self confidence he developed after being castrated got lost forever after the disastrous lose in the championship fighting tournament and also due to his recent mental troubles, he is on the verge of casting out of family. Shen Hong is deeply troubled by his family situation and most infuriating is that they still have no clue about Shen fei's attacker other than her face, who made a once brilliant young man into whatever he is now.

Xiao Ninger and Ye Ziyun were already present, since they were from noble families and was communicating mainly among themselves. Ye Han came to talk to Ziyun and now she is feeling awkward without anything to discuss after rejecting his gift, which now she doesn't really need, since she is in some fairly high cultivation rank...

Myself and Nie Li entered entered as city lords resident invitation. Xiao Ninger came to me. Ye Ziyun feeling alone also came to greet us. Nie Li was elated seeing her. But his excitement short lived as Ye Han came and was introduced. We were addressed as geniuses and he brought up having a friendly match for giving us pointers, 2 against one, him.

Then things became a little awkward after he realised from one of his lackey, that, myself is a Black Gold Rank and Nie Li is in same cultivation realm as him. He excused himself and went back. Huyun Lanruos came pestering Nie Li who had no choice other than to keep a straight face listening to her ordial.I went to yang xin to talk about alchemic association...from which I took a leave for training.

And later Nie Li proposed to Ye Ziyun again obviously by teasing her, but Ye Han who was paying his full attention to Ziyun, all the while is feeling very frustrated... So he began to plan something.

One more thing is that Ye Zhong is now legend rank one and Ye Xiu is also in legend rank similarily many other family heads also reached peak black gold ranks and many gold ranks. But today, they mostly brought their patriarchs and young masters who were advised to ' keep the techniques they received and their actual powers a secret when we were selling those new items Nie Li sent to increase glory citys' fighting power' for guarding against dark guild.

So those who know knows and those who don't, like for example sacred family who only has heard certain rumours that many gold ranks appeared, is still planning on some actions to enhance their position.

Even though snow wind family and alchemy guild parties are engaging with sacred family some underlying tensions were still there looking from their expressions...

Looks like I missed many parts involving capture of Shen Ming and dark guild parties, by Nie Li and alchemy guild reporting to city Lord etc. But Nie once again lost the opportunity to showoff since there was no Shen Fei present.

Few days passed and every major family's servants and guards having connection to sacred family were investigated and weeded out. Similarily some of their businesses were also affected.

School has reopened.

New and improved techniques were provided. As far as protagonists are considered they will invite trouble without waiting long. So, Nie Li was challenged by Ye Han on the grounds that he was pestering Ye Ziyun and also to re establish his status as a genius.But reality often disappoints especially villains. So he was defeated instantly and so effortously that others felt it was comical.

Shen Xiu was given the order by her family to check if they could align Ye Han to their cause..Some how his intelligence was lowered by heaven and wanted revenge against city Lord Ye Zhong, but decided to wait for his time to investigate Nie Li.

I have reached Legend rank 2. I left the city to the outside.But when I saw those motley walls high up, it felt that I should do something about it. So for entire nights of 4 days in a row, I inscribed some defensive inscriptions and strengthening inscriptions to the outer walls of the city near the areas adjacent to civilian compounds in my void form . I also inscribed some flame burst inscription at equal intervals so whenever an attack is sensed the surrounding aura will be used to strengthen and regenerate the defensive arrays and continuous attacks will cause flame burst arrays to activate repeatedly. Seeing my work done, I decide to travel outside for a short trip. I have to use the realm travel thing sooner or later..