Bowing, after receiving the orders of my Lord, I descend the mountain. On the way I couldn't but admire the power he wield, he warp this entire mountain into something beyond it natural state. Even if I was given a thousand years, i would not be able to accomplish anything close to this.
Walking on the road that lead out of the Imperial City, my footsteps echoed on the smoothed pavement. He could feel a depth of energy hidden beneath the surface, that could erupt at any notice, which was probably left over from His Lord creation of the city
On the way down, he met many animals that run from the mere sight of himself. As an Undead, he was the thing that living creatures fear the most, because in some sense he was the closest thing to Death in their perception.
It didn't take long to reach the base of the mountain, thus he began his search for the village His Lord spoke of.
Wearing a black robe, as to not scare the mortals around, he quickly gathered enough information while visiting a city call Yi City, he learn of the location of the village and some other info. He learned that the Gui Yuan Sect rule everything in Jiangning County, which was something he believe His Lord should know..
In the beginning he couldn't understand the language but after interacting with the people and watching them talk he acquired the ability to understand them. He believe this was a blessing he gain as a summon of His Lord, otherwise such a fast learning ability, even for an Elder Lich was too quick.
Casting [Fly], he flew to the location that he was told the village was at, reaching after a couple minutes. He think if he had walk it would have taken probably three times the amount of time required, with his unlimited stamina.
Flying above the village, he could see that it was a place that could host a couple thousand people easily. The place was full of many houses and a large building that resemble a place of worship of some kind. The place was well organized, meaning someone had put a lot of focus into the village layout.
As he stood in the air, many people noticed him and started shouting, alarming the people of his presence.
They knelt down, in a motion of worship, something that confuse him but after remembering that beings that could fly in this world were equivalent to immortals he understood. They wouldn't be wrong to worship him as such since he was really immortal.
Lowering to the ground, he approach the people while shouting, "I'm a servant of the Imperial Emperor, under his majesty's order, I'm here to retrieve a person by the name of Teng Qingshan."
The people of the village was confuse because they don't remember someone of that name. Plus since he was an immortal, how could he just be a servant? Who is this emperor he speaks of?
Hearing the commotion outside, Teng Yongfan, Teng Yunglong hurriedly came out, leaving Yuan Lan with the midwife and some guards.
Coming outside the notice the man covered in a black cloak and saw the family kneeling down. Questioning a few of their family members they learned this man flew above the village and came for someone name Teng Qingshan under the orders of the Imperial Emperor.
Teng Yunglong frowned as he had not heard of this Imperial Emperor before, but for him to have a Insightful Emptiness Expert as a subordinate, his power might be horrifying. Angering such a person might lead to the destruction of the village but he couldn't allow his grandson to be taken to who knows what fate.
Turning to his son, Teng Yunglong whispered, "Go get Teng Qingshan and escape, we will buy you time., i don't know how this person know about Qingshan, when you just name him."
"Father, we don't know if he is here in good faith, provoking this person would not only put our entire village in harm, it would also provoke this emperor person." Teng Yongfan, even though he was reluctant to give up his son, he knew he didn't have a choice and he didn't want to see his family gone.
He could hear and see all the discussion going on around himself, but he didn't care. They could willing give him the person he came for and live, or fight and all died he didn't care. His top priory was completing His Lords mission not else.
"I will speak once more, I am a servant of the Imperial Emperor, I under order to retrieve a person call Teng Qingshan of the Teng Jia Village. If this person doesn't appear in front of me in the next minute, I will destroyed this village and everything in it."
Cold sweat started to drip from the brows of everyone present as they could hear the coldness in his voice. It was like no matter what they did, the conclusion would be the same, so he didn't care, as long as he reach he same result.
"I will go get him now. Please don't do anything." Teng Yongfan said as he run to the delivery room, with a somewhat panic look on his face.
"Good, while I don't know what His Majesty requires from Teng Qingshan, i can say with one hundred percent guarantee that he would not harm him. In fact, it might be a blessing instead." While he didn't get any information about His Lord during his creation, he knew for a fact that if His Lord wanted to kill this Teng Qingshan person all he needed was one spell and it would be done. Since he was going through all this trouble to retrieve him, it meant he didn't want him dead.
Before the time limit was over, Teng Yongfan came back along with a woman and a child. The woman had a pale expression, as lean on the shoulder of Teng Yongfan for support. The child, Teng Qingshan look around curiously and soon notice the cloak man, and the wave of power erupting from him.
Teng Qingshan was shock as such power, even at his peak as a Internal Martial Arts Grandmaster he was not even remotely close to this height. Of course, in a head on fight, it was hard to say what the result would be.
"Now give me the child and I will be on my way." Extending his hand, waiting for a while, he still didn't feel anything in his hand.
Teng Yongfan and Yuan Lan hesitate before speaking, "We decide to go together with our child. I'm sorry to say this but we don't trust your so-call emperor."
Pondering, it didn't seem to be a problem, since he was doing exactly as His Lord wanted, plus as an undead he and his fellow undead didn't have skills pertaining to childcaring.
"That's find, I do not want to keep His Majesty wanted any longer than I have to, so lets be on our way." Casting [Mass Fly], the four of them began to fly. The undead was calm but the others scream as they couldn't find their center of balance, spinning around.
Teng Qingshan eyes kept shining with splendor as he couldn't believe that flying was possible. The ancient world was truly the place he belong, only in this world can internal martial arts truly show its true potential.
If the people of Teng Village didn't believe this person was an immortal, now they did. Compare to the people Gui Yuan Sect, they rather believe in the strength of the people they can see.
"We will be arriving soon to the Imperial City, I hope you all show respect to His Majesty, any disrespect will be punish. There are some rules but since your are guest of His Majesty, you should be fine. Here we are." As the Elder Lich spoke, the couple became paler, as they could imagine the might of the 'emperor'.
Appearing in view is a huge city that glistened under the rays of sunlight, making the couple and their children shock. From what they remember, there wasn't a city on Boyan Mountain, and yet now there was one. The last time they were here was three days ago, yet a city had grown out from the mountain?! They were afraid that only someone of Emperor Yu level could do something like this. Their fear of the Imperial Emperor began to grow.
The Elder Lich landed on the road and began to walk to the city, while explaining, " Its impossible to fly in the city without permission from his majesty. if you do, you will be shot down, no matter how high your strength."
Since they didn't land far form the city, it only took two minutes, maybe less to enter the city. The people of the Teng Village was amaze as they looked at everything, before getting bored as they notice that the city was empty without anyone.
They walked towards the tallest building in the city, the Imperial Palace, before reaching the throne room in which a man that look to be in his twenties was sitting on the throne with boredom. The man had a head of long black hair with dark brown eyes. His lips curled in a smile but wasn't a smile as he star at the three before him. He was wearing a golden robe in which phoenix and dragons adorn, on his finger, rings made of gold sat, looking extremely bright.
His dark brown eyes seem like black hole as they bore into them, placing extreme pressure on them, forcing them to kneel. The sound of kneecaps hitting the ground was heard, making unknown if their knees was broken or not.
Looking away from the couple, Levi look at the child that look at him coldly, with indifference, "I'm the Imperial Emperor, Levi Bloodhound, standing before me is equal to disrespect." Looking away from the couple and Teng Qingshan, Levi look at the kneeling undead, " You have fulfil your duty, now what reward do you desire." This undead will disappear in a couple days anyway, anything i give will return to my pocket so he was willing to pretend to be benevolent.
"Your Majesty, this servant desires a name of my own." The Elder Lich notice that everyone that it met had a name, something that can separate them from others of their species. Even His Lord had a name.
"A name? Hmmmm, I will shall give you the last name Zenith, you can decide on your given name."
[Ding! Undead name Zenith is now a permanent undead.]
[Ding! Alternate way of making a permanent Undead found. Reward: 100 points]
Levi froze, before laughing out loud. He had thought in order to have a permanent undead he would to kill others and use their corpse but the Dimensional Wheel, solve that problem. Of course he was not against killing, he just didn't want to lessen the number of his living citizen if he didn't have to.
"Ahah, Zenith, from this day forth you are in charge of registration of newcomer in the city. You can directly report to me, and recruit subordinates if you deem it, no more than a hundred. You are dismiss." A radiant smile was on Levi's face, as he look at the retreating back of his first permanent undead.
"Now then, you two must be the parents of Teng Qingshan, Teng Yongfan and Yuan Lan? While i would like to talk to your son alone, I guess with you here, it solve some problems." Standing up from his throne, he walk towards the kneeling couple and knelt before them, looking directly into the eyes of the baby, " Teng Qingshan, you have broken the law that I set in place and travel to the distant past, gaining new life, how do you explain yourself?" A smile was still on Levi's face as he watch the shock that appeared on the baby's face.
Teng Yongfan and Yuan Lan was confuse, not understanding what was going on. Traveling in past, gaining new life?
"If you can't give me a worthy answer I will have to destroy you and your parents' souls, forever ban from the river of reincarnation. For a person from the future to reborn in the past, an item of this time period of significant value must have been responsible, such as one of the nine cauldrons." Standing back up, an horrifying aura erupt from his body, causing the skies and the room to shake, it was like a sleeping god was waking up.
Yongfan and Yuan Lan face became pale, before passing out cold. Teng Qingshan was the only one awake staring at the person in front of him in shock, fear and anger but there was nothing he could do. As a baby it was impossible to speak, especially as soon as he was born.
"Oh as a baby it impossible for you to speak, I should have thought of that, I guess because you were from the future I expected much from you. [Message]." Casting [Message] a connection appeared between them.
[I have used my power to connect our minds together, so we can communicate beyond the physical confinements of our bodies. Now, I ask again, why have you, the Mercenary call Wolf enter into my world?]
Teng Qingshan's eyes were surprised as the Imperial Emperor seemed to have a boundless power and knowledge, doing and knowing things beyond that of a human.
[If I told you that my appearance here was an accident would you believe me?]
[An accident you say? Indeed if you happened to have a cauldron and you died, it would instinctively try to save its master.] Levi was having fun pretending to be someone from this world, and there was a reason for it. Having the MC of this world believe this, will pave a path for him in conquering it. Even if he was the strongest being in this world, if people rather die than submit it would lead to adverse effects, making him use five times the amount of energy to get to the same result.
[Because of your intrusion in this world, I was awaken, the connection to the Celestial Realm have been opened, the upper limit of this world have been increase. Since my slumber, only two Emperors have been born, Emperor Yu, and the Celestial Emperor but because of you, many might be born in the future, for that I'm thankful.] A good chance to introduce the Celestial Realm to the people of this world, he wont let it go.
[Celestial Realm? Wait are you saying that the gods exist?] Teng Qingshan eyes widen as that would be alarming. Flying was already pushing his imagination but gods? That's terrifying as even if he practiced internal martial arts to its limits, he would be hard pressed to hurt one.
[Gods? There are powerful beings in the Celestial Realm, that could be call gods, divine beast and Immortals. Any of these beings could easily destroy the Nine Province but thankfully, these beings cannot enter the Nine Province at full power, only avatars can enter. Even then, an avatar was equal to the strongest of this world.]
Teng Qingshan sighed in relief but became warily, what if by him entering the past, the future that he knew of was no more? In his future there gods and such but they were mere figure heads in their religions but now because of the opening the Celestial Realm, they were real?
[Truthfully, I should kill you because even though you have increased the cultivation limit, you have also cast a shadow on this world, a terrifying one. Sealing the connection to the Celestial Realm had cost the lives of a beings higher than Emperors, but now only I remain meaning that the Celestial Realm cannot be seal again. However, your potential is high and I can see that, I hope you can help me increase the cultivation of the people of this world.] The people of the Nine Province were truly weak, although he hadn't fought a Omnipotent Expert before, he knew he could kill one, especially since he was a Death Oriented player. A single [Grasp Heart] could do the job.
[I'm willing to help you, but as you can see I'm only a baby, it will take a long time to reach the stage you require.] He didn't have a choice but to help, he cause the changes in the world at present, so he should help to stop it.
[That's no problem, as long as you spread internal martial arts, I'm satisfied. Currently the Imperial City is barren, I need to have some people come and live here. This will be the core of Nine Province in the future, I'm willing to allow the people of Teng Jia Village to live here as it first residence.]
Teng Qingshan was moved but he couldn't decide for the people of the village, after all that had been their home for generations. However, with the knowledge of the Celestial Realm and that more experts will be born in the future, living under the watch of the Imperial Emperor will be for the best. [Its best if you tell my father that. Also I plan to give you the internal martial arts cultivation to pass to my family, I can't appear too extraordinary as they would cause alarm.]
[That makes sense, nothing will spread from our talk. Your parents are about to wake up, I will end our conversation here. Hm, I guess I should tell you that your lover named Cat is also in this world, as for her current location, you will meet her in the future.] Cutting the [Message], he frown slightly as he felt his mana drop a little before being replenished. It seems his mana regeneration is higher than Ainz, which is good.
Shock and happiness appeared on the baby face of Teng Qingshan. He had never expected his lover was in this world as well, maybe others had traveled to the past as well? Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu?
Groaning as they woke up, Teng Yongfan and Yuan Lan check their bodies and were surprised that their bodies were in perfect condition. Yuan Lan was even more astonished as she noticed that her body was in better condition than before giving birth. She felt powerful, maybe it was here imagination?
"Its good to see you both awake, I apologize for my earlier outburst, my aura erupted and you all fell asleep." An apologetic expression dawned Levi's face, "You all can leave now, I have gained what I needed. Take this, give it to your chief, I hope to here some good news."