As soon as Ruri woke up, the two of them left the castle together. The whale gathered with Langrum and the important people from the four families and began preparing them for their departure. The people from the four families were living in the city, eager to meet him; among them were many high elders elves and Yangtas.
Alm and Bruno saw their looks and sighed. They didn’t need to test them; everyone had already demonstrated their loyalty by rebelling against the hero. Their anxiety came because everyone was experienced and had seen all the events clearly. This whale did something completely inconceivable, brought everyone to another universe, and then...
"Yes. That body is mine." The whale spoke to all of them emotionlessly. At that moment, the Yangta leader, all the high elders, and even Langrum, who had spoken with everyone and knew their doubts, forgot to breathe at the revelation.
"You... are an immortal being..." The Yangta leader spoke completely in shock.
"Indeed, that original body of mine reached the immortal realm. But as you can see, I had to start from scratch in this new body; it was the only way to go to that universe without being noticed by the enemy."
The whale began to give a simple explanation about the queen, her domain, and what the heroes were. Everyone listened completely stunned; for these family members, being an Empyrean and having the possibility of becoming a hero was a glory and a lifelong goal.
"Anyway, we have five thousand years in her universe. In this universe, thousands of years have passed, but the laws here are very simple, my original body was abandoned, and it will never advance. And my current body cannot cultivate here. I have to go back..."
Everyone swallowed hard; the enemy was something completely beyond their scope. Even if they had all the time in the world, they would never be strong enough to deal with it.
"I can’t defeat her alone." The whale’s words cut through everyone’s thoughts, leaving them stunned. "I’m going back, not just to cultivate, but also to support everyone..."
The whale explained about the unique opportunity for everyone there. The laws of chaos were something that no cultivator could master, it was impossible, after all, it hardly existed in any universe. But they had it in abundance.
"Probably none of you will be able to take advantage of this. But the future generations born in this environment surrounded by them will have infinite potential. I’m telling you all this because the future depends only on you in the present. I have many problems to solve and can do no more than provide support and opportunities. But it’s up to you to teach and guide the future generations. I will leave all my cultivation knowledge behind, along with everything I can. And as I said, I can’t win alone. I need this universe to bear fruit to help me. I will plant the seeds, but it’s you who must water them and help them grow."
Langrum and everyone clenched their fists firmly. The whale looked at Langrum and spoke calmly, "I will leave and take some with me to assist. Loeus is not someone with great ambitions like you; he will stay, and once I leave, we will hardly meet again. So, I’m counting on you to take care of everything. In the future, I want to see what your descendants will be capable of."
Alm and Bruno already had the method to transmit things to this universe through Gaia. So, they planned to get everything ready and only return near the final date. The time that will pass in this universe, even a divine cultivator in their prime would die of old age. Not only Langrum, but her children and grandchildren must have already died. Of course, if they reach the immortal realm, everything will change; but it was practically impossible.
Langrum looked at the whale deeply. She remembered the first time they met face to face, in the test to be a malignant cultivator. He was abnormal even then and committed an absurd slaughter in the prison test. Then, their destinies crossed strangely, just because he needed someone to complete his group. Since then, her life has completely changed. She saved her master Calirer and her entire clan. She cultivated to a level she never dreamed of and lived fully and satisfied every day.
She spoke seriously, looking into their eyes. "When you return, you will see an invincible army here ready to fight. I will dedicate my life to taking care of my children and descendants; rest assured that everything we have been through together, and the enemy of all, will be passed on correctly to everyone."
The whale felt Ruri’s trembling grip on its hand. It wasn’t goodbye yet, but it would be a painful farewell for her. After that, the leader of the Yangtas, along with everyone from the families who were there, knelt down and swore to fulfill their expectations.
The whale nodded, and after that, everyone was transformed into Empyreans. Not just them, but in the city’s statues, any talented faithful who connects with it could be transformed into an Empyrean. When they leave and the connection through Gaia is active, everyone will be able to become Empyreans easily.
After the conversation, the whale gathered with Corin, Thea, and Rehva. Gaia would take a few years to complete the cultivation of the Dao. Waiting ten or twenty years wouldn’t make much of a difference, and this time wouldn’t be unproductive. They wanted this time because they gained knowledge of the laws of chaos and would spend this time studying this abundant law in this universe.
When the whale gathered everyone to go into space, Ruri and Corin gently stopped the whale, then Kaiyka and Calirer approached.
"Master, we will leave eventually; we want to take them with us. You will need many people for unimportant tasks, they will be useful. Having more trusted people will be helpful." Ruri spoke softly, and Kaiyka lowered her head.
Corin held Calirer’s hand and calmly commented. "You saw how she was useful and amazing in this last battle. She won’t be left behind..."
The whale just snorted and looked silently at Kaiyka, and at Calirer with expectation and fear. "Having helpers won’t be bad, but I won’t be merciful if anyone slows me down. Let’s go already."
They didn’t mind, the two of them could indeed be useful; Kaiyka, despite everything, during the battle against the hero, proved to be somewhat reliable; as for Calirer, after she started mental cultivation, she was like a dragon soaring into the sky. Thea and Rehvka watched everything in silence and pondered. Without saying anything more, the whale and all seven of them left the planet calmly.
Arriving in space, the whale nodded, and everyone turned in one direction, feeling a chill down their spine. A sinister shadow appeared completely outside their senses, it had been there all along, but it was one with everything. If the whale hadn’t triggered it, they would never have felt it. When their eyes landed on it, their minds trembled; it was their master’s old body.
The immortal corpse, shrouded in a black cloak, slowly emerged with closed eyes. That body was dead, but it would never be destroyed naturally; just its presence made all forms of life feel an innate worship.
To others, that was just a treasure impossible to harness. But for Alm and Bruno, the original owners, using their divine souls, they could use it and regain some of its former power. Of course, this was only possible because the laws of this universe were simple. If they took this body to the queen’s universe, its power would be only a tenth of the real one. They would still be very powerful, but by using it, the entire universe would feel it, and it would be automatically hunted by all the heroes and the queen. It wasn’t worth the risk, so this body would stay in this universe, but they had plans for it.
Ruri looked carefully at that body and took a deep breath, while Rehvka gasped. Ruri had seen his appearance before, but he seemed much younger; it was when Alm showed her his last happy memory with his wife. As for Rehvka and the others, seeing it up close was a shocking experience. To others, that was the incarnation of evil and malevolence, but to them, and even to everyone on the planet, it was the exact opposite.
"Get ready. I will create in all of you an internal chaos rune. This way, you won’t lose much when you leave this universe. It will be a painful and dangerous process; with the slightest mistake, you will explode."
The whale spoke and extended its hand towards its body. In the next second, the two souls were transferred, and the immortal body opened its eyes.
Using the laws of chaos to create an internal rune was madness just to imagine. The level of complexity and power of this law was something Alm and Bruno could affirm without fear; if it weren’t for the celestial knowledge, they would never even scratch the surface of this law on their own, even if they had this universe to study forever. Creating a rune, the amount of this law used was so much that not even the queen’s heroes must have this privilege.
With all the power of that immortal body, doing this was possible. The cosmos of that universe stirred at the same time, as if a black hole capable of swallowing the entire universe had been born.
With the laws of chaos left by the Behemoth, perhaps in the future, this universe would restore to 60% of what it once was. But now, Alm and Bruno absorbed such a large amount of these laws that this number dropped to 50%.
Space-time fractured, celestial laws trembled, and the whole universe seemed to roar.
BOOM!!!
The celestial laws responded immediately, furiously, forming a tribulation and discharging towards the runes that were being born.
"Fuck it."
A dry voice coming from the immortal body sounded, and he waved. In the same second, the entire universe trembled as if it were the end of the world. It lasted a minute, then all the tribulation stopped.
When the seven looked at the whale and that body of his, they saw seven grayish runes floating in front of it. He didn’t give them time to think about anything, with a wave, the runes shot out like arrows hitting directly at their cores.
"Seal the runes and incorporate them into your body... or die trying, let’s see what happens first."
The words sounded sarcastic and diabolical, but no one had time to tremble. Their bodies began to crack immediately; with the level of power of that rune inside them, one slip and they would explode for real.
After they focused, the immortal body moved another mass of laws. Their seven runes were only a third of the laws they stole; all the rest would be used to create another single rune.
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It took hours just to condense the rune, and they almost exploded it numerous times. The level of that was on another level, it was completely impossible to keep it stable, even if their current bodies were with immortal cultivation. But they didn’t intend to incorporate it as an internal rune. The inventory was opened, and the rune entered directly and landed on the chaos seedling. In the next second, the seedling assimilated everything as if it were a missing piece of the puzzle.
Time passed...
All seven took about a month to open their eyes. They simply sealed the rune within them and incorporated it; now they would have to study it slowly. With the rune inside them, they could cultivate it and, using their Qi, generate an amount of chaos law for their own use. Even in the queen’s universe, they would now have this law to use.
All seven were sent back to the planet to study and prepare to leave. The only thing left was for Gaia to finish her studies. The whale remained in space, watching the chaos laws act and studying its seedling. Every week, he would return to the city, write numerous Jade Slips for the people, and spend a day or two with Ruri, giving her attention.
Thus, the months of waiting passed, then the years... Fifteen years passed quietly, until Gaia finally concluded the principles of the Dao.
On the day Gaia sent the happy message, the whale returned to the city, gave the news, and made all the adjustments to the statues; now they could finally leave. When the whale finished making the preparations, a voice sounded behind him.
"Brother, Master Rehvka said Zaimo is almost finished with the equipment."
The whale turned around and saw his young brother Quirio. He was seventeen and was half-demon, half-human, with a dense Behemoth bloodline from his mother. His hair was black, thick, and messy, with sharp tips that projected wildly in all directions. He didn’t have wings, horns, or other typical demon characteristics, but his pale skin was covered in numerous dark runic marks. These intricate and black runes spread all over his body, seeming to pulse with their own energy.
In addition to these characteristics, his eyes were of a penetrating demonic red, shining with supernatural intensity. Quirio was a handsome and striking young man. Thanks to the Bestial Blood Refinement Technique, neither the demonic bloodline nor the Behemoth’s caused him any trouble. He wasn’t fat and didn’t exude a demonic aura.
The whale nodded and saw his red eyes staring at him expectantly. He sighed lightly and said, "Congratulations, you reached the Elemental Condensation Realm just in time, your talent is enviable."
Quirio arched an excited smile on his lips. "Me and Zaimo broke through together a few hours ago." He spoke and waited for the whale to speak excitedly.
They nodded slightly. "Alright, you fulfilled the agreement. We will be leaving soon, and you will follow your master."
He clenched his fists and turned excitedly. As soon as Quirio began his cultivation, because of his demonic bloodline, his dominance in Yin was something natural; but his past life as Yamar seemed to greatly influence this life. He quickly studied mental cultivation and managed to learn it easily.
Adding Yin to the power of the mind, he had the potential to single-handedly use the technique that Rehvka and Ruri developed together, so Rehvka tested him and accepted him as a disciple. Furthermore, his Behemoth bloodline was not just for show; he naturally had the laws of the earth, which were a defensive weapon that almost no assassin had at their disposal. In no time, he lived up to all expectations, and the whale found himself obliged to accept him if he met the cultivation prerequisites.
After speaking with his brother, the whale went to the forge. Only the sound of one person working echoed through the place. At the entrance, he saw Thea standing, looking seriously at the center of the place. There was young Zaimo working alone, completely focused.
He was also seventeen now. He was a pure dwarf with a youthful appearance and still no beard. He had long tied red hair and a serious and focused face, with an aura very similar to the Zaimo of his past life, which Alm and Bruno remembered.
Zaimo was the son of Vuard and Oldis and grew up being taught by his father about the Dao of the Forge God; but, contrary to expectations, he never showed talent... or, to be more precise, he didn’t have talent for that kind of forge.
From an early age, he made everyone think he had a crush on Thea because he pursued her relentlessly. But she didn’t like people and avoided any interaction, and he never exactly said why he did it. In the end, due to insistence, Thea tested him... He, like Quirio, had very strong remnants of his past life. He was extremely skilled in technological things, something completely different from conventional forging.
Thea tried to get rid of him, but couldn’t. His talent was extreme, and he easily absorbed everything she pretended to teach. In the end, he became her assistant and disciple. And today, he was creating something that even Thea was amazed by.
It took three days.
In the end, he put on his creation, and the whale sighed heavily. It was an armor... extremely similar to what the dwarves of that universe wore, more precisely, to what Zaimo’s old brother, Ximo, wore.
He had no hints from the whale or from Thea. Zaimo simply created it by instinct and talent. It was totally different from the armor that Oldis and the dwarves of this universe wore; there was a lot of technology, as if he were literally wearing a robot.
As for its power... wearing that, Zaimo could easily fight someone from a realm above and not lose.
Thea sighed lightly and turned to the whale. She approached gently and bowed. "Sir, my disciple is someone who is very close to my abilities. He will be very useful to me, helping me repair and enhance myself. I’m also sure he will be useful to you using his dwarf bloodline, or doing any small tasks."
The whale waved without caring. In the end, Kaiyka and Calirer were accepted; so they couldn’t deny Zaimo and Quirio following those two. These two youngsters seemed to have a talent capable of keeping up with them; in the divine world, they will be useful.
"Get ready to leave, we’ve wasted enough time here." The whale spoke and turned.
At the exit, the whale met Kaiyka and Venjio holding hands, walking silently. He looked into the man’s eyes and felt a superior will emerging in his eyes; that was a genuine awakened Dao Heart.
According to Kaiyka, Heaven’s Will only gave her objectives and random rewards. It was something without defined patterns, but recently, she received a new goal.
[Master the sword of mind and heart, conquer the void]
[Reward: 01 use of Space-Time Miracle]
According to her, the Sword God’s Dao was composed of three levels: mortal, divine, and immortal. The void was the pinnacle of the mortal level, something she had never been able to reach before. And also to the displeasure of Alm and Bruno, she could use the space-time miracle as she wished and without limitations. They didn’t need to ask, she would bring her beloved to the queen’s universe if she achieved this breakthrough. Venjio, on the other hand, had to cultivate enough to stay alive until then. The two were motivated to the limit.
That night, Almin appeared holding a child in his arms next to Doara. She married a former member of the Moonlight family a few years ago, and it was her son. Almin would go with them, obviously, but he had another destiny. The whale and Almin had thought for a long time that she would want to follow him, but in the end, she found her own path and would live quietly in the city. The descendants of Detue and Alnia multiplied forever.
That night, the whole city and the whole planet wished the whale farewell. Runula, Deryu, and Coltia were already in the beast world, while Ruri and Almin shed tears and bid farewell to Langrum and Loeus.
They just smiled, trying to control their emotions. Langrum already had four new children in this time and was already expecting another. They even had three grandchildren, children of the one who married a Yangta woman.
"Langrum... Loeus..." Ruri tried to say something sobbing, but couldn’t articulate anything.
"That child who claimed to be a furnace is now a married woman..." Langrum spoke emotionally, helping Ruri to stand up. "Follow him, and make sure he never gives up on his goal. My life is already perfect, I will live until the last days recounting our stories together... and I will die happy. Who knows, maybe in the next opportunity, we’ll be close again."
Langrum finished smiling and exchanged words with the trembling Almin. "Revive her. I’m rooting for you two."
In the end, Loeus approached the whale and bowed deeply in front of him. "Thank you for everything, sir." They were simple words, but his voice was trembling and full of emotion.
"Live well and happy."
The whale replied softly. In the past, it wasn’t him who took the initiative to buy and free him; it was Ruri who cornered them. But that doesn’t matter now.
The last farewell came from Quitera. She hugged her two sons tightly, but showed no sadness. She said goodbye gently, certain that the two of them would reach the top, even if she never saw it.
"Well, I can still hear them and even exchange words in the future. But coming back, it’s unlikely to happen with this current generation still alive. Goodbye..."
The whale spoke softly, and everyone in the city waved and bowed grandiosely. The group ascended into the skies, and the whole planet seemed to stop to see them for the last time.
[Activate the miracle?] [Yes / No]
’Yes’
[Define or confirm its use, in one minute]
’Back to the hunt.’