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The group of Raizen was now at the village of the two children.

??: "My name is Feng Baichuan and I am the current clan leader. This is my wife Feng Caiyun."

FCaiyun: "Thank you for saving our children"

YChe: "It was nothing. We saw them being held captive and we saved them. That is all there is to it."

XYuanba: "We also took care of the mercenary group so you don't have to worry about them in the future." *smiling*

FBai: "We can't thank you enough for what your group has done."

FXian'er: "Big brothers and big sister were strong. Just the four of them defeated the whole mercenary group" *doing some chopping moves*

Cang Yue was having a solemn look while looking at the children and their parents. Yun Che noticed this and ask if she wanted to talk about it. The two of them distance themselves and talk about killing the mercenary group for the safety of others.

Xia Yuanba asked Raizen where Cang Yue and Yun Che went and told him that Cang Yue was having a hard time accepting of killing people and Yun Che was consoling her. Yuanba nodded and talked to the children.

The next day, Yun Che got curious about the circumstances of the people in the village and asked why they have the same surname as the royals from Divine Phoenix Sect. Feng Baichuan then explains about their past. The story continues until he told about the phoenix trial.

Jasmine told him to go through the trial and he will surely get something out of it. He then told the others that he will do the phoenix trial. Unfortunately, only one person can do the trial every month so even if Cang Yue and Yuanba want to do it, it would take them three months to finish the trial.

While Yun Che is doing the trial, Cang Yue and Yuanba were being trained by Raizen. In the training, he slowly opens the profound entrances of Cang Yue to increase her rate of cultivation.

After a month, Yuanba is now at the second level of true profound from the seventh level of nascent profound while Cang Yue is now at the eighth level of the true profound realm from the previous fourth level. She could not believe that she increases her cultivation by four times in one month of training with Raizen. She asked him if he has something to do with it but she only got a reply of "maybe". Yun Che also finished the trial and now has the cultivation of peak nascent profound realm.

Before continuing their journey. Raizen asks them for a spar of three versus one to test their new strengths. In the end, the three of them were still defeated by Raizen. Yun Che even used his new attacks, Empyrean Dance of the Phoenix Wing and Star Scorching Demon Lotus, but Raizen just shrugs the attack just like he did with his fight with Xuan Yu from the banquet in New Moon Palace.

Jas: "I understand now after your strike hit him, a thin layer of energy is protecting him from the attacks. The control that he has with this "profound" energy is on a high level that even an attack from an emperor profound cultivator will not penetrate it."

YChe: "He can do that?"

Jas: "Apparently someone can for his level. This kind of technique starts when you are in sky profound realm because of the qualitative change in profound energy use. That is also why they can use the "profound floating technique"."

YChe: "That does mean he can fly while still being in the spirit profound realm?"

Jas: "I am not sure. Just ask him."

Yun Che then asks why Raizen was not affected by their attacks. Raizen then explains how his control over profound energy works and how to get to his level of control.

YChe: "If you have that kind of control, can you also fly?"

Raizen then lift himself a few feet from the ground that astonished the three of them then get back down after a few seconds.

R: "Even if I can, the amount of energy of a spirit profound is vastly different from a sky profound cultivator. At most, it will help me travel faster on foot increasing the level of my movement arts."

Raizen then disappear and instantly appears again from his spot but this time he was holding a fish a few tens of meters away from them. They asked if he can teach them and he replied that he will do so along the way to the Blue Wind Empire.

A few days later, they finally came to the empire. Cang Yue told the three that she will meet her father. They already know who her father is when Raizen told her to tell the truth to Yun Che and Yuanba. Raizen then left the two to enter the Blue Wind Profound Palace. Yuanba would not be bullied too much because he is already in the true profound realm and even if he was, as long as he retains his kind heart and resolute will then his veins will help him gain strength.

A few days later...

Raizen was now waiting for Chu Yuechan to come and buy the Devil Flaming Blood Crystal. While he was waiting, he was buying ores and plants from left to right. Not a minute when he was done buying, Chu Yuechan finally came and she was still poisoned.

R: 'Even though her profound entrances were all opened, she was still at the Tenth Level of Sky Profound Realm. Hmm... probably told by Saeko to make her foundation in sky profound rock solid so the transition to emperor profound will be smooth. But this kind of backfires because it makes the excess energy from her body a source to spread the poison faster.

Chu Yuechan was about to buy the Devil Flaming Blood Crystal when Raizen stops her.

R: "The poison that you have in your body is already spreading faster than normal. That crystal will not be able to help you even if you only have a few amounts of poison in your body. I need to update Saeko with this discovery."

CYue: "How can you tell that I have poison in my body?! And why do you know of that name?!"

R: *looking at her* "This is not a place to talk" *looking around*

Raizen then exit the merchant guild and walk away. Even though she is wary of the person who talked to her, she still followed him to ask about the poison on her body and how did he know senior Saeko.

A few moments after Raizen and Chu Yuechan completely left the merchant guild. Yun Che showed up and bought the crystal.

In a forest outside the Blue Wind Imperial City. Raizen and Chu Yuechan were now faced to face.

CYue: "Talk, why do you know of that name?"

Rather than replying, Raizen opens a portal big enough for a person to walk through it. At the other side of the portal, Chu Yuechan recognized the person. She is someone that has greatly helped the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace. Everyone in the sect knows of senior Saeko. Not only she is strong even though having only Nascent Profound cultivation, she even opens the profound entrances of all the sect's people. But there is something that bothers her before, senior Saeko wants to be called "sister" by her. She then said in time she will know.

Chu Yuechan was shocked at what her senior did after she step out of the portal. She kissed the man that talked to her.

Saeko: "What is the reason you have called me dear?"

R: "One, I missed you... *kissed Saeko again* two, a discovery was found" *look at Chu Yuechan*

CYue: "Senior Saeko, do you know of this man?"

Saeko: "Yes, of course, I have already told you that I am already married. He is Raizen, my husband"

Chu Yuechan was shocked that the man who talked to her is the husband of senior Saeko. She almost bow down to apologize but she was stopped by something invisible.

R: "You don't have to apologize. You do not have any knowledge about me previously. Besides, I am not offended by your actions so relax. For now, let us deal with your poison."

Raizen wave his hand and Chu Yuechan was covered in energy. After a few seconds, the glows disappears and Chu Yuechan felt much better.

R: "Before taking out the poison, I made sure your body will be immune to it."

CYue: "Thank you"

R: "Your welcome. But I have something to tell you."

CYue: "What is it senior?"

R: "First don't call me senior, just Raizen. To be honest with you. I am preventing something bad or maybe something good depending on how you look at it."

CYue: "What are you talking about?"

Rather than replying, he put his finger between the brow of Chu Yuechan and transfer her possible future. From the time she met Yun Che, helping him, going to the dragon god trials, being pregnant, leaving her sect, up to giving birth to Yun Wuxin.

Chu Yuechan stood there for a moment then she finally ask Raizen.

CYue: "Are these real?"

R: "Yes or it would have been if I didn't pull you out from the merchant guild."

CYue: "Why would you do that?"

R: "Because I am being selfish. But that is also why I have changed my mind and told you the truth. At first, I plan to take you away from him so that you would not go through that suffering again but it will sacrifice someone."

CYue: "Yun Wuxin, my daughter in the future."

R: "Yes... and I don't have the heart to not let her live."

CYue: "But you have already changed so much. You helped the Frozen Cloud Immortal Sect to get stronger. You change the rules about marriage and now they can marry anyone they like without giving the frozen arts to their spouse. I think that it's already too late."

R: *smiling* "See, fate is quite strong between the two of you. It will do in its power to push certain things to happen as intended one way or another. Like changing my mind for example."

CYue: "But our meeting..."

R: "One way or another. I returned a portion of the poison in your body so that you can let him cure you. But I cannot let you tell him about Yun Wuxin. So either lose your memory or I will put a blocking spell in it until she is born."

CYue: "I choose the second"

R: *nods* "This blocking spell will stop you from telling anyone in any shape or form about what is going to happen in the future."

Raizen then put the rune spell on her soul. She said her thanks and dash away towards the place of Yun Che.

Saeko: "Will you not regret this?"

R: "No... In the first place, I just don't want her to be taken advantage of by Yun Che. But this way, she will be strong enough to fight off the dragons and not lose her cultivation by sacrificing herself. They would fall in love naturally and Yun Wuxin will still be born."

Saeko: "You used the time stone just now?"

R: "Yes... In the future where I get her to come with us. After I told her the truth, she hated me for that and she became my enemy. The hardest thing is to kill her with my own hands because she killed my other wives for her revenge. I don't want that to happen. That is why I let her go now rather than letting her feel pain by my side."

Saeko: "Will you be ok? Won't we be able to come back here after we get stronger?"

R: "I do not know and even Layla doesn't have any idea so this might be the only time we will be here."

Hearing that, Saeko just consoles Raizen for his failed love.

Fast forward to eight months, the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament is about to start.

In the past eight months, similar and other events have happened. Raizen disappears from the Blue Wind Imperial Palace so Cang Yue has to rely on Yun Che, Xia Yuanba, and others to get a top spot in the tournament. Yuanba became an Earth Profound cultivator. Yun Che is at Peak True Profound, Cang Yue is at the Seventh level spirit profound because she took care of her father most of the time after Yun Che took out the parasite in his heart. Chu Yuechan is now carrying Yun Wuxin in her but she did not tell Yun Che. Yun Che still pass the trial and gained the inheritance of the Dragon God by himself.

Back at the tournament

Participants were coming one by one. The venue of the tournament is Heavenly Sword Mountain Range where it was given to the Heavenly Sword Villa by the Emperor to gain their favor.

From a distance, a loud sound was heard by many...

ROOOAARR!!!

The elders of each sect were getting ready to fight but when they saw where the source comes from, they were feeling fear from the beast that is coming to them. They wanted to run but something was preventing them to move from their spot. The beast got closer and the pressure from it is being felt by all the people that came for the tournament. The people who were in the sky profound realm and above felt the cultivation base of the beast and they could not believe that a beast of peak level emperor profound realm will come here. Not only that, several people recognize the beast, especially from the Burning Heaven Clan. The elders were sent to kill a dragon in the past but they failed their mission because the dragon was already at the emperor profound realm so they had to retreat. Now, they are seeing it again and this time, the strength of the dragon is a half-step to becoming an "Overlord".

But then they noticed that seven people were at the back of the beast. Six of these people were women and the last one is male and he is at the front with one female beside him while the other five were behind the two.

The dragon then landed slightly far away from the entrance and roared again. This time, those who have the strength below spirit profound instantly pass out while the others were having a hard time breathing. The people at the back of the dragon disembark and every one of them was wearing a mask. The dragon left after that.

Five of them have white unusual clothes that do not hide their curves even though they were wearing white coats. The other two were also in similar clothes but in different colors. The man is in blue while the woman is in purple. When the seven of them were near the entrance. One of the women in white gave the guard, who is still shaking in fear, a letter which is the invitation for the tournament.

G1: "So it's the people from the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace"

CY: "Yes. These two *gesturing to the man in blue and female in purple* are our elders."

Before the guard could talk some more. A heavy pressure descended on all the people in the tournament. The people who are still conscious felt the profound energy that can only come from someone who is in the emperor profound realm. The pressure that is being released comes from the man who came with the group of Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace. Those who were half-step emperor profound cultivators can tell that the man is at the higher level of emperor profound realm. Now the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace not only has another emperor profound cultivator, increasing it to three, but they might become the new number one sect in the Blue Wind Empire.

Man in blue: "Are you done?" *facing the guard*

G1: *shaking in fear because he is the closest to the man* "Yes senior, let me just call on a servant to guide you to your rooms in the villa."

MBlue: "There is no need."

The man in blue waves his hand and the people from Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace fly above the Heavenly Sword Villa. The people below followed them with their eyes and were shocked to see where they were going. Up above the villa was something that most of the cultivators of the Blue Wind Empire can only dream of having except for the Heavenly Sword Villa because they have connections with the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region, one of the four sacred grounds. The thing that was floating in the sky is a large profound ark that is covering half of the sword villa's overall land.

It is known that no one in the Blue Wind Empire can own a profound ark because of how expensive it is to operate. But now, it seems like the Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace have their profound ark out in the open. When the people from FCIP disappear inside the profound ark, the ark itself becomes invisible but they know that it is still there because a shadow was moving further away from the villa and only stops when the shadow of it is not covering the villa.

The pressure and the invisible energy that has been preventing the cultivators from moving were gone. Those people who were at the sky profound realm that has thick faces tried to get close to the location of the profound ark to introduce themselves to the elder of the FCIP suddenly falls down after reaching five hundred meters before the ark. This put fear in their hearts because someone was capable of preventing the usage of profound energy near the profound ark.

The whole day continues and ends where the most talk of the crowd is the people of FCIP. At night, Yun Che and Ling Yuefeng tried to talk with Chu Yuechan at different times but was denied by the man in blue.

The next day, the tournament is being led by Ling Wugou from the sword villa and witnessed by Ling Kun from the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region.

People were then begun clamoring about the person from one of the sacred grounds but Ling Wugou started by telling the price for the tournament. Getting a Sky Profound Artifact, Dragonscale Armor, that originates from the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region boosts the morale of the participants. Then Ling Wugou also announced that the top ten forces will be able to see a "demon sealing ritual" after entering the "Heavenly Basin Secret Realm".

Raizen, who is still inside the profound ark with the girls, smiled behind his mask with the mention of the Heavenly Basin Secret Realm. This is the thing that he came for in this tournament. Because the infinity stones were still adapting, he can't use the full power of the space stone to travel around secret realms. With the time stone, he was only able to use a part of it while using his own energy to look into the future.

The spell "gate" that he learned from "The Familiar of Zero" world can only be used if the user has a distinct image of the place. Even though the novel was descriptive, it would not help him to travel to the secret realms created by gods.

When its time for the profound strength assessment, the representatives from FCIP were called. The people around were excited to see the fairies from that sect but no one from the group come forward.

Ling Kun: "Where are the people of Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace?" *said it in a loud voice*

After he said that, a large shadow covers the whole place of venue for the tournament. Ling Kun was able to see a large profound ark floating above them then seven figures descend from the ark. Ling Kun was astonished that the FCIP was capable of owning a profound ark of that size but did not say anything. This show of power would only be for one time.

Three people walk toward the assessment stone to be tested for age and cultivation stage. The result shocked a lot of people and mostly the participants.

Shui Wushuang —— 20 years old —— Earth Profound Realm level five.

Wu Xuexin —— 20 years old —— Earth Profound Realm level five.

But they were more shocked at the result of the last girl.

Xia Qingyue —— 17 years old —— Earth Profound Realm level four.

The assessment continues but most of the participants decided that if they faced these three fairies, they would surrender immediately. Then when it's the turn for the Blue Wind Imperial Palace. They have this for the result.

Xia Yuanba—— 16 years old —— Earth Profound Realm level two.

Yun Che —— 17 years old —— True Profound Realm level ten.

The results were very contrasting and the participants of the Imperial Palace have one realm gap between them. They also could not believe that there is someone younger than attain the Earth Profound realm. There is no doubt that the Imperial Palace will have a spot for the top ten just by the cultivation of one of them.