Divine Brilliance

The Central Dynasty, within the Imperial Capital, a courtyard ten thousand feet from the Imperial Palace…

A scholarly, middle-aged man was looking at the jade letter in his hand in deep thought.

On it were words and some information being drawn into his soul.

“Gantian, Zong Shou, Blood Cloud Cavalry? Who knew that this world would give rise to such a strong expert. Is it a blessing or a curse for my Shi family…”

Frowning slightly, the brow of the middle aged man was filled with worry. He stood up as he stepped through the garden, entering a period of deep thought.

When he was sitting down, he gave off a scholarly and refined aura, but when he stood up his body was exceptionally huge, close to ten feet tall, giving off a suppressing pressure. He wore a Grade One general uniform, making him look quite proper and respectable.

Thinking carefully for a moment, the heart of the general shook. He looked back, and saw a teen wearing armor smiling as he stood a hundred feet away.

He was in his late teens, his face couldn’t be considered too handsome, but he gave off a heroic temperament, his skin like jade. The armor on his body had dozens of marks. Who knew what the old scratches on the green armor were from…

The general was startled, he scolded, “Where have you been? You finally know how to come back now?”

The teen smiled, not caring at all. First he bowed seriously towards the general. “Son greets father!” He walked up beside the stone table and sat down, grabbing the fruit on it and biting down like he was extremely hungry, one bite was one fruit.

The general was helpless, walking up beside the stone table and looking at the young man there, love flashing in his eyes. He looked at the green armor, and the dozens of white scars on it. They were all half an inch deep, many parts had pierced the armor.

The cuts were clean, obviously made with much strength, leaving him terrified.

“Yue’er, the outer regions are actually so dangerous?”

With his son’s skill, he even nearly fell due to his injuries?!

“That was not the case!”

The young man known as Shiyue shook his head, “I floated from the world river to tens of worlds, their beings and looks were different from our cloud world. Many worlds had no spiritual energy, no martial path or spiritual cultivation appeared, only having the most basic striking techniques. No expert was able to fight shoulder and shoulder against me.

“However, there were some worlds with really strong martial paths, but their cultivation techniques are different from the cloud world. What was amusing was that a few worlds heard news from our cloud world, they said our place is some celestial world! That many years ago as long as one reached a realm where they could break through space and the void they could enter our cloud world. I specially checked their books, someone at Grade Seven they would deem a celestial, how funny…”

“Oh? There is actually such an interesting matter? However, during the ancient era, our cloud world was filled with spiritual energy and was said to be the top of many worlds. It isn’t surprising it was called a celestial world!”

The general shook his head, amused when he heard this interesting news. Moments later, his voice sank down. “Then who did your injuries come from?”

Shiyue looked at his chest when he heard that, and explained without much hesitation, “This time I went to hunt for that Yuan Wushang. In the end he broke away. Everything went wrong and I entered a world occupied by the Night Demon race, fighting with one of the military officials of their army. He stabbed me three times, and I sliced off his head!”

“Night Demon?” The hands of the middle aged general shuddered. He had heard of the Night Demon race. During the Cloud Desolate Era they once ran rampant around the cloud world. In the outer regions, they were able to rule a region!

It was said that the cloud world’s military system was modelled after that of the Night Demons!

A major led a unit, but the soldiers in the Night Demon unit were all above Grade Four, similar to Xiantian experts and Out of Body spirit masters of the cloud world!

The major was someone who was at least half a step spirit realm and had been through numerous battles, different from the cloud world experts, who were training in other worlds.

Such a person, if they in front of him, he would be able to kill them with one finger. However, if it was his son, who knew if he should be worried or happy.

“The personality of those Night Demon race people aren’t good, they couldn’t win one versus one, so they decided to gang up and stop at nothing. I had no choice, during this year I had to flee east and hide west. Two months ago, I managed to kill a Night Demon governor commander before I was able to break free safely.”

What should have been an extremely dangerous matter was said simply in the lad’s mouth, like it wasn’t worth mentioning at all.

The general frowned. The commander-level Night Demon race person would have definitely been at the spirit realm.

He looked harder. The teen in his eyes not only had a bit more killing aura, the energy in his body was something he couldn’t see through!

It was obvious that he had grown up greatly in this year, being chased and killing all about. Although he didn’t break through to the spirit realm, he was just half a step away from it.

As for martial path intent, he had probably entered the soul realm.

He was delighted, a smile appearing at the corner of the general’s mouth. “Such a thing cannot happen again! I don’t mind, I wouldn’t care if out of you three brothers one or two of you die. But your mother thinks about you every day! Don’t let her be sad…”

“Yes! Son has been unfillial and made mother worried!”

Shiyue’s expression was cynical and had no respect, but when he heard the words from his father,, his expression turned serious and was filled with reverence.

“Oh right! Two months ago, when I tried to return to the cloud world, I met a Lu family person. They specifically asked me to gather some news. They didn’t ask about anything else, just if our cloud world had someone called Zong Weiran. Unfortunately, I only knew that he built a city known as Gantian Mountain, but I didn’t know anything else…”

“Lu Family? The one said to be in charge of eight hundred worlds?”

“Who else can it be? Naturally, it was the Sky Burning Lu family.”

The general leaned backwards, squinting. He had long heard about Zong Weiran of Donglin Cloud Continent, and heard about him having a personal relationship with a direct bloodline woman of the family.

It seemed like those rumors weren’t totally out of nowhere. The current Gantian Mountain monster king also had Lu family blood. This thing was really interesting.

“A while ago I bumped into the Eight Tail Xue family. They hid in the cloud world like they were planning something. I didn’t bother, but who knew that those Ancient Monster Race Emperor place people all heard the news and returned to the cloud world. This world is not far from entering total chaos!”

Saying that, Shiyue felt slightly curious, “I remembered before I left, didn’t Jueyu want to challenge the sects to train his sword? What was the outcome? He was called one of the three pinnacle swords and was said to be a level weaker than Yuan Wushang. I am curious whether or not this person could beat all the sects. I estimate that at such a time he would have already found the five Vast Habitats?”

“Three months ago that person had already lost at the hands of Common People Path Tanqiu!”

Just one flat sentence made Shiyue’s eyes open in shock. He didn’t think that Jueyu would lose, especially to someone who he totally didn’t know.

Who exactly was this Tanqiu?

“I heard that the battle was extremely exciting. Someone said that it was the most entertaining sword battle in the cloud world for the last three thousand years, the videos spreading all over the cloud world. When this Tanqiu was Grade Seven, he formed a soul body, using it to fight Jueyu and defeat him in sixteen thousand exchanges! Your second brother personally went to take a look. If you are curious, you can ask him about it.”

Shiyue broke out into a laugh, “What a talent! Three thousand years most entertaining sword battle. I definitely have to take a look at it. Father, did Jueyu go to the other Vast Habitats?”

The general shook his head, “No! After that battle Jueyu went into secluded meditation.”

Shiyue was startled, then sighed in regret, “How unfortunate, ten thousand sword Vast Habitat has sword prince Jueyu and a Grade Six realm expert who could merge spirit with martial arts-Feng Taiji. Ten Thousand Buddha Vast Habitat has an amazing little monk. That Taoist Vast Habitat and Demon Vast Habitat, there were three who could merge spirit and martial arts. I have always been curious about these people. Won’t Jueyu be afraid that people will say that he is afraid to fight?”

The general smiled and didn’t speak, during these last few days, there were indeed such rumors.

They said that Jueyu was the terrified of the spirit and martial arts merger technique, afraid of those people, which was why he stopped.

At this point he didn’t care, nor bothered to comment.

Shiyue looked at the stone table, and the jade letter. He didn’t hesitate to pick it up and reach in with his spiritual sense, saying, “Forget it! I am not as crazy as Yuan Wushang, daring to charge into our Great Shang camp just to test his sword and kill dozens of generals. Oh? This Zong Shou, how great! Mysterious Cloud Spirit Sect was actually wiped out by him. Blood Cloud Cavalry, sword realm soul intent, marital arts and spirit merger? If there are similar grade elite troops I am confident I can win, but if not, I really don’t want to fight with this person. Although few people in the cloud world have strong sword techniques, he is probably the top! Oh right, Zong Weiran’s kid, wasn’t that the one the Lu Family was interested in…”

His eyes were serious as he asked, “Father, have you been feeling worried due to this person?”

“This person is indeed not normal. Out of the cloud world’s six pinnacle swords, this Zong Shou undoubtedly takes the helm. That Gantian Mountain already has the ability to unify Donglin Cloud Continent. There were four thousand Blood Cloud Cavalry, and also Dragon Shadow protecting him. Even our Great Shang can’t offend him easily.”

As he said that, the general broke out into a laugh, his eyes still filled with worry, “Although they are strong, they are tens of thousands of miles out! They do not have much connection to our Shi family or our Central Continent. I am worried due to things within our Great Shang. Our Shi family looks like we are really strong, but we are at the edge. If we aren’t careful, everything might collapse. Today your father is standing on thin ice.”

“Why are things like that?” Doubt rose in Shiyue’s eyes, “Our Shi family and the country are the same entity, we will proceed and retreat together, we are totally loyal. Hundreds of years have passed, and we have obtained the trust of the Great Shang Emperor. Although our power isn’t that high, we have control of troops. Within the territory, we are quite prosperous. Is there someone in the Dynasty who is plotting against our Shi Family?”

The general scoffed slightly in disdain. “Yue’er, do you know about the God Emperor matter?”