Chapter-16

(Flashback- Sacred Family Grounds)

In the Sacred Family Grounds, in a luxurious room, a boy was sleeping on a bed, suddenly the boy opened his eyes and sat on the bed and looked around with shock and confusion, and suddenly crouched down and hold his head in his hands and started rolling down on the ground, after some time, the boy stood up, his whole body was covered in sweat and was panting hard, after some time the boy went towards the mirror and looked at it with a smile on his face and said,

The Boy-"I really cross-over, that God doesn't lie to me, and I became Shen Yue, the filthy rich and talented young master from 'Tales of Demons and Gods', and my cheat also arrived, but the process of soul fusion was way too much pain, and from the looks of it, this universe is an AU, as people are coming from another place in Glory City, I should be careful around them as I or the whole Glory City doesn't know about them and they had also taken my two waifus as their disciple, and I should try to build a friendship with Nie Li, as he is a treasure trove of techniques."

(Information and flashback)

The Boy, now Shen Yue, is a person from a different Universe, he was the type of person who could be called a Genius as from the moment he was born, he found everything easy, he became the biggest Scientist and Doctor and made many new things and cured many diseases, but he never found satisfaction doing that, the only time he felt happiness was reading novels and mangas, his favorite were fanfictions and he always imagined himself getting reincarnated like that, but he always thought that those fiction universes were fake, until one day he was watching the Manhua of 'Tales of Demons and Gods', suddenly a multi-colored lighting fall on him and he lost his life.

After that, he found himself in a white room with a Light Humanoid being in front of him who said,

Humanoid Being-"I am sorry, young man, due to me you had died, as a compensation, I will let you reincarnate in any world you want, and those fiction universes are real, so you have one wish to choose and the world of your choice."

Hearing that the Young Man was very happy and thought about many things and decided on,

Young Man-"God, I would like to have 'Instant Mastery' as my wish, and the world I choose is 'Tales of Demons and Gods'"

Hearing that the Humanoid Being nods his(?) head and said,

Humanoid Being-"I hope you will have a happy life."

Hearing that, the Young Man lost his consciousness and a portal appeared and sucked him into it, seeing that Humanoid Being said with anger,

Humanoid Being-"This damn human had increased my work, can't he just make weapons or something like that, but he had to cure the diseases and make the things to make things to make life easier, if only his karma was not high, I would have sent him to the hell or purgatory to rot, but I guess he would like the gift I had given him(Maniacal laugh)"

After saying this the figure vanished and the whole room crumbled.

(Flashback End)

Right now, Shen Yue looked around his room and found a sword and picked it up, upon picking it, he felt that he knows how to use the sword like he had used it for years, upon feeling it, he smiled feeling that and started to wave it around.

After some time, he placed the sword down and slept in the Bed.

(Flashback-End)

In the class, Shen Xiu started the class and Anos sat down along with his group and looked around.

After Shen Xiu finished her class, Anos took over and started to teach them about weapons and skills, during which he beat the hell out of all the students except Shen Yue, who was making a noticeable growth, seeing that Shen Xiu smiled at her nephew making such great progress but Anos looked at him dead stare while Ophis looked at it with a curious expression and Grayfia was shocked at how fast he was learning and looked at Anos with a questioning stare, Anos seeing that made a barrier and said,

Anos-"He is a reincarnated soul, a genius one at that and a being of Lv15 world had reincarnated him here."

Grayfia-"Then Anos-sama, why can he master the sword and bow so quickly?"

Anos-"That being had given him a cheat or skill, 'Instant Mastery'."

Grayfia nodded her head hearing that and asked Anos,

Grayfia-Then Anos-sama, why have you not created a skill like that?"

Hearing that, Anos sighed and said,

Anos-"Because there is no point in doing that as that skill give the person, muscle memory of another person about weapons or other things and I, myself believe in doing hard-work, rather than to take another person's lifetime work, This Shen Yue is a genius but he chooses the 'Instant Mastery' which make him lower than an animal in my eyes. If he had just asked for the Knowledge, then he would be good as he would do his work to practice those skills and make them his own rather than taking them from others."

Hearing that Grayfia nods her head as she believes in hard work to increase her strength rather than to take from anyone else.

After that Anos removed the barrier and resumed the class, and started training the class.

Nie Li was also having various problems during the class as his adult soul is in the body of a child which makes it a problem for him to adjust, and seeing Shen Yue, he was shocked as to how Shen Yue was using the weapons and improving so quickly.

After the class, everyone left and Anos and his group along with Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er came to the Library as Ye Ziyun wants to read more about the inscriptions and the rest tag along.

While the rest was sitting there, Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er were learning about Inscriptions from Anos and the rest was quietly waiting for there as it's still not the time for their training.

A distance away from Anos and the others, a group of students gathered together, extremely lively.

Student-"This piece of armor in my hand is called Flaming dark armor. It's bronze ranked and unless one had hundred thousand demon spirit coins, they wouldn't be able to get it!"

One student proudly showed off his red armor. With his tall build wearing that armor, he had some martial aura around him.

He is Chen Linjian, belonging to one of the major families. He is one of the Divine Family's direct descendent, 15 years old and already at the 5-star bronze rank, soon reaching 1-star silver rank. Among the major family, Divine Family is the wealthiest. Chen Linjian is quite prestigious among the students, with a bunch of brothers.

Fangirl 1-"Putting on this Flaming dark armor, invincible under silver rank!"

Fangirl 2-"Cool armor!"

Upon seeing it, several girls revealed envious expressions. Among them, quite a few of them threw flirtatious glances towards Chen Jian Lin from time to time.

Chen Linjian-"I gift you this!"

Chen Linjian waved his hand, throwing that Flaming dark armor to one of his men.

Battle armor that was worth 100 thousand demon spirit coins, gifted just like this? Everyone was a little dumbfounded.

It was just that 100 thousand demon spirit coins weren't much to Chen Linjian. Faintly laughing, he said,

Chen Linjian-"There is six 5-year old Holy Dark Grass here. They were taken from my home, as long as you follow me and work hard, there won't be any lack of benefits for you guys!"

Holy Dark Grass is solely the Divine Families. It has the effect of strengthening one's soul force based on the age of the grass, the older it is, the stronger it becomes. A single 5-year Holy Dark Grass is worth 50 thousand demon spirit coins, as for 10-year and 20-year Holy Dark Grasses, they are several or even a dozen times more expensive.

Random Mob 1-"We'll listen to Young Master Chen!"

Random Mob 2-"Yeah, we'll listen to you!"

Chen Linjian looked around and counted the number of people present saying,

Chen Linjian-"A total of 20 people, but we still need to find some more!"

Recently, there were city ruins found. Most likely left behind during the Age of Darkness, quite a several people went there to explore. Therefore, Chen Linjian was now finding more people to explore together.

Anos and his group looked at it with an interesting expression and Anos looked at Grayfia and said,

Anos-"Invite that Chen Linjian here."

Hearing that Grayfia nodded her head and went towards Chen Linjian's group and said,

Grayfia-"Young Master Chen, my master would like to have a word with you."

Grayfia may have spoken in a respectful tone but she had said those words with power and that she was not going to take NO as an answer.

While seeing Grayfia, several of the mobs beside Chen Linjian showed a Lustful expression but suddenly they all started screaming and held their hands, the fingers on their hands had frozen, but Chen Linjian ignored it and bowed towards Grayfia and said,

Chen Linjian-"Greetings, Lady Grayfia, I will go with you."

Chen Linjian said those words respectfully as he knew who Grayfia is and most likely who her master is. He is from a noble family and they had all of this information and the elders of his family also went there when they had come to the Glory City a month ago and he knew that they are Legend Rank experts.

Meanwhile, some people around Chen Linjian knew who was Grayfia, and the rest who doesn't were shocked as Chen Linjian bowed his head towards someone and ignore the mobs around him.

Grayfia nodded her head and started walking back where the rest are sitting, upon reaching there, Chen Linjian bowed towards the Group and said respectfully,

Chen Linjian-"Greetings Lord Anos, Lady Ophis, and everyone."

Hearing that everyone nodded their head and Anos said,

Anos-"Chen Linjian, Are you planning an exploration of the ruins?"

Hearing that Chen Linjian nodded his head and said,

Chen Linjian-"Yes, Lord Anos, We are planning to explore the ancient ruins outside of Glory City, as we heard that there may be some treasures there."

Hearing that Anos nodded his head and looked towards his group and asked,

Anos-"Want to go?"

He hadn't asked Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er as they had to come whether they like it or not, and both Ophis and Grayfia nodded their head and Juddeca simply looked at Anos as Anos knew that she is always going to be near him and Anos turned towards Chen Linjian and said,

Anos-"Me and Everyone here will also come with you, and there is also one more person, so we seven will go with you to the exploration."

Hearing that Chen Linjian nodded his head and said,

Chen Linjian-"No Problem, Lord Anos."

Anos then turned serious and said,

Anos-"And you should choose your followers carefully next time."

Saying that Anos waved his hand and the people who looked at Grayfia with a lustful look turned into dust.

Seeing that everyone was shocked and Chen Linjian nodded his head and said,

Chen Linjian-"Yes, Lord Anos, I will be careful from now on."

Hearing that Anos nodded his head and said,

Anos-"Then, send a servant to the City Lord's mansion to inform us about the date and time of going to the exploration."

Hearing that Chen Linjian said,

Chen Linjian-"Yes Lord Anos, Then I shall take my leave as I have to make some preparations."

Anos just waved his hand hearing that, indicating him to go.

After Chen Linjian and his followers left, Anos, Ophis, and Grayfia turned towards the corner of the library and Anos said,

Anos-"Student Nie Li, It's not a good thing to eavesdrop on your teacher's conversation with someone as I am sure that you wouldn't want the same to happen to you."

Hearing that Nie Li, who was hiding behind a bookshelf, came out with a silly grin on his face, but his eyes were sharp and said,

Nie Li-"Teacher Anos, I was studying in the Library and hearing you call Chen Linjian, I got curious and listened."

Hearing that Anos looked at with a deadpan expression and said,

Anos-"Talking to an Old man who is talking like a child with a silly grin on his face is difficult."

Hearing what Anos said Nie Li looked at him with a confused expression but his eyes were shocked and asked,

Nie Li-"What do you mean by that, Teacher Anos?"

Anos shook his head at Nie Li, trying to his emotions and waved his hand and a chair appeared behind Nie Li and a screen appeared in front of him, with a picture on it, seeing that picture, Nie Li was horrified as this was his picture from his last life when he was fighting the Sage Emperor, seeing that he turned towards Anos and asked seriously and also on guard and directly dropped his act of being a child,

Nie Li-"Who are you!!??"

Hearing that Anos thought for a while and said,

Anos-"Calm down Student Nie Li, and want to hear a story from me?"

Hearing that all of them were curious about what story Anos was talking about and Nie Li nodded his head as he knew he was going to get his answer from the story now,

Anos-"There was once a boy, living in a city filled with many families, and the boy was from a noble family, But one-day Demon beasts came to the city and hoarded it, mostly all the people died but some remain alive and left to find another place to live, along the way the boy was devastated as he lost his family and friends and the same happened with a girl who also lost everything but that girl was stronger and talented than the boy, but after spending some time together, the found comfort in themselves as to forget about the things."

As the story progressed, Nie Li had an even more shocked face but everyone ignored it and listened to the story, Anos then continued,

Anos-"But then a turning point occurred, and the girl lost her life to protect the boy as they were attacked by the Demon beasts again. After that the boy felt like he lost his life completely, and separated himself from the group and started to search around the world to find something to revive the girl as he had heard from the girl that there were people in the past who could revive someone, during the journey, the boy faced many difficulties and almost died many times, but managed to reach a desert, the boy nearly lost all the hopes but found a temple and decided to rest there, but upon reaching the temple, the boy felt like something is calling him, he went towards that direction and found a tomb, in the tomb, the boy found the skeleton of the died man, a blue-colored orb and a book. The boy reached for the book, but before he could, the orb merged with the boy, but the boy don't notice that and reached the book, upon touching the book, the boy found himself in a different space, floating there, the space was full of knowledge about different things, the boy studied everything there, and, after that the boy found himself in the same ruins again, but this time the ruins were destroyed, the boy managed to find a way to completely revive someone, but the energy required to do that was too much, and the boy was about to step away from the tomb, when suddenly, the skeleton started shaking and stood up, seeing the skeleton like that, the boy took steps back as he got the bad feeling but the skeleton jumped towards the boy and merged with it, the boy started screaming for days and nights but the pain he felt never got less, it instead increased, and after what felt like eternity, the pain finally lessened but the boy always felt the pain all over his body, After that the boy looked around and found the book again and called that book 'Temporal Demon Spirit Book'."

After saying that Anos stopped and everyone digested the information while Nie Li had a shocked looked on his face as this was not what had happened to him and he had a feeling that he shouldn't listen more as was going to lose something even more than his life, but Anos ignored all that and said,

Anos-"The moment the boy said the name of the book, he was sucked inside a portal, and travelled inside the portal for thousands of years while understanding more about the Time and Space Laws and the book, after that, the boy was thrown outside the portal and came to a different world or dimension called 'Draconic Realm', that realm was known for the huge amounts of dragons living in it, after coming their, the boy for the first time felt the need to become stronger, stronger than anyone else, and the boy did, by taking millions of years, he became the strongest and during that time he also found that the book had sent him to the past, he was happy way too much that he could finally get to see his loved one but when he went their, he found that his loved one was never born and not even himself, so he travelled in time again and again to go to the time when his loved one was born but never reached there, finally he had thoughts about giving up, a voice sounded to him, the voice far more benevolent than the God but at the same time more malevolent than the demons, the voice said 'Want to reach your loved one, then grab it.', after the voice said that, a blue orb appeared from his chest, seeing that he grabbed it without hesitation and the moment he grabbed it, the book suddenly came outside of his body and a soul was sucked inside it and the book vanished, while the boy remained their standing, looking at the horizon and suddenly started laughing and then stops and turned around and vanished, after that, the whole 'Draconic Realm' was in frenzy as someone destroyed everything and trapped all the beasts and stronger humans, the experts rose to fight that person but all failed and never succeeded, but never gave up. After their fight, the whole realm was left in ruins, later known as 'Draconic Ruins Realm', the man who did all this, started to refine all the 3000 worlds connecting with the Draconic ruins realm but while he was doing that, many rose again to fight him but only to meet death, during the passage of time, the man erased his records from the world and only some of them knew about him and those who knew about him called him 'Sage Emperor', After thousands of years, In an world, connected with the Draconic Ruins realm at the same time sealed from it, in a city attacked by the beasts, the same thing occurred the boy escaped, along with many others, and met a girl who also lost everything and they again found comfort in each other, but again the girl lost her life to protect the boy, the boy was devastated and further got separated from the group and reached a desert temple and found the book and got the knowledge about many things, and after that he found himself in a different world, 'Draconic Ruins Realm', upon reaching their, the boy was found by a women injured, who practiced the Divination technique and knew that the boy in front of her is her calamity but still took the boy in, after recovering, the boy joined the sect and spend his time their, training while also taking taunts as he had taken the women who saved him as his master and he got to know that she had Demon God blood in her, and during his training, his master was killed but before his master died, she told him not to take revenge, by someone and later he got to know that the women who killed his master was due to the fact that his master and that women were both disciples of the same women and that the his master' master was killed and the women placed the blame on his master as her master got the divination technique while she don't. After some time later, he found out about the Sage Emperor and how he ruled the demon beasts and how he killed everyone who reached a limit of training the divination technique, he would send the deities rank beasts after them, after knowing about it, he set on his journey to kill the Sage Emperor and along his Journey, he found a girl who was from the same city he was from and was happy to meet her and after the girl know about the reason, she also joined him but never said her real name and always wear a mask on her face, during their Journey the girl died while trying to safe him, the boy was burning with more anger towards the Sage Emperor and desire to kill him, and he reached the same strength of Sage Emperor, but, he died in the battle as he was alone but Sage Emperor had his servants with him who were only a level weaker than him but before the boy died, he got the glimpse of next level and before he died the book which had helped him in the past appeared and sucked his soul inside and left that space-time, and Sage Emperor seeing that book had a shocked expression as that was his book and that he need that book as Sage Emperor was not from this dimension, he had gotten here in the past due to his battle with his enemy and so he created a tomb and decided to use the one who came here first and someone did came and that was the same boy who appeared in his battle and his own treasure had helped the same person again, and he knew that the boy is going to appear in front of him again but he can't do anything about that as the book was the sole reason for his time travel and he doesn't have it now. And the boy's soul was sent to the past by the book when he was 12 or 13 years old. Story END"

Hearing that Nie Li had a despaired look on his face as he knew that this was his story and Grayfia was also shocked as she never knew that this had happened as she simply thought that Nie Li wanted the revenge against Sage Emperor but never knew that he was used by him and both Ye Ziyun and Xiao Ning'er had a curious look on their face as what had happened next in the story while Ophis looked at Anos and asked,

Ophis-"Did you use Origin?"

Anos nods his head hearing that and said,

Anos-"I was curious as the world will be not helping him and yesterday when we sensed that soul entering this world, I got to know that this is not the prime world and the history of this world is weird so I use my Origin to know more about it, but I advise you to not use it as its too much knowledge and you are going to get a headache."

Hearing that Ophis smiled and nodded and said,

Ophis-"I am not going to use it, but what are you going to do about the study of fate."

Anos-"We have the perfect person to teach that."

Ophis-"Are you talking about his(Pointing towards Nie Li) Master?"

Anos nodded his head and said,

Anos-"Yes, she is perfect for teaching us about that."

Ophis nodded her head hearing that and Anos then turned towards a different direction and said,

Anos-"Student Shen Yue, it's not good to eavesdrop like that, maybe I should pay a visit to the Sacred Family."

Hearing that Shen Yue, who was hiding came outside and bowed his head towards Anos and said,

Shen Yue-"I am sorry, Teacher Anos, I don't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation like that."

Anos looked at him with interest and thought for a while and said,