Rex was standing beside Xiu Ying looking at Altan curiously flying in the sky like a headless fly.
"He… Is what again?" She asked while looking at him.
The concept of a human-like clone or beastman was still too much for people of the Middle Realm. Rex was explaining to her the concept of demi-humans, which was already going above her head, and now that the clone entered the explanation, she lost the track of the topic.
"Don't run your little brain over the limits, just hand him the tasks of building and establishment of facilities, he can take care of them alone," Rex said as he made a grasping motion at the sky and the flying Altan crashed into the floor.
"Ouch, what's wrong chief? Be more gentle, if I got injured then…" Altan said while rubbing his head.
"Then what?" Rex narrowed his eyes.
"Then… Who will do your work?" Altan said then quickly stood up with a sincere look on his face.
"Amazing, his appearance might not be that same but his temperament and shamelesn- bravery is exactly the same as you," Xiu Ying said with bright eyes.
[Was it just me or she said something suspicious there?]
"Whatever you say…" Rex chose to ignore her mistake.
"Rex, I thought of a good plan to exact dominance over the other sects, how about we organize an intercontinental fighting championship where everyone including people from five overlord sect can participate? We don't lack resources now, so we can offer a part of it as rewards which will catch everyone's attention, and if we win it then most forces will see our might, resulting in immediate surrender which is way better compared to them showing resistance later on," Xiu Ying said.
Rex looked at her not saying anything.
What she said was the exact same thing cultivators of the Middle Realm usually do, it was a way for every sect to show their dominance over each other and attain a ranking.
Rex didn't participate in that competition because it was mainly for the younger generation, although he met the requirement in one way but entering it himself won't do much good and his other men didn't meet the requirement, they were either older or had low cultivation base, people like Aeneas who met the requirement liked to lay low.
But here, doing it might work.
It was way better compared to traveling for days defeating all overlord sect then letting the news spread all around, dealing with the after effects, and finally give proof to every sect who didn't believe in the rumor. It was more efficient to gather them in one place and show the absolute might.
"Do our sect have candidates who can win?" Rex asked in doubt, if Liu Wei was still here then he had confidence as for the rest he didn't know about them.
"Humph, of course, we have them, do you think we were slacking off here? Did you forget Zhao Ming? The girl with inborn Divine Strength, she is only second to Liu Wei, except here we have Luo Ru's elder sister Luo Yan, she is a genius of ice path, there is also Rock Lee…" Xiu Ying said.
"Leave that fellow out of it," Rex interrupted her midway. He had quite a lot of doubts about Rock Lee.
"The competition is indeed a good idea, we need to make good preparations for it," Rex grinned while thinking of something.
"Hmm... But there is still one problem, many sects might not take our invitation seriously and come here, they might not send their best disciples even if they give us some face and come here," Xiu Ying said, she was talking about overlord sects.
"Hehe… Don't worry about it, leave it to this fellow," Rex said in a meaningful tone as he stared at Altan.
Altan understood the meaning and felt a little excited, he finally had a mission that allowed him to go out and travel.
….
A few days later…
Western Continent…
Monster Taming Sect, the overlord sect of the whole Western Continent that held dominance over all the big sects and economy here. Monster Taming Sect is also said to have well ties with Frozen Flame but the main reason for it was the visit Rex paid to them to slay the Alchemist that schemed against Luo Ru in the past.
His actions of bluntly killing the Alchemist in front of them and suppressing all the elders of the sect at the same time left a deep impression in the heart of not only the main elders but also the Sect Master.
Today, a party was going on in the grand hall due to the sect gaining a new Spirit King.
The new Spirit King was none other than the son of the current Sect Master of Monster Taming Sect, his name was Krilin, achieving Spirit King stage when being less than 300 years old was an achievement in itself. With this achievement, his position as the next Sect Master was already confirmed.
A robust man with long yellow hair standing beside a big lion-like beast laughed out loud and patted the shoulder of a man standing in front of him.
"Son, you had not let me down, reaching Spirit King stage at such young age shows your limitless future and achievements, I have prepared a strong Monster Beast as a gift for you," The man said while patting his shoulder.
The elders standing around smiled and clapped with a look of jealously in their eyes, due to their network they were fully aware of the Three Eyes Wolf that he was going to get, but they still acted like they had no idea what it was and sang endless praises.
"This is expected of Young Sect Leader,"
"Haha... To tell the truth, I am not that surprised, after all, he is our Sect Master's blood,"
"We all know Young Sect Leader's amazing control over monster beasts, he was bound to become Spirit King sooner or later,"
"The future of our Monster Taming Sect is bright,"
"Yes, if it wasn't for that Liu Wei our Yong Sect Leader's talent is unmatchable,"
No one knew who said it among the crowd but the second these words came out everyone became silent, the expression of Krilin also became ugly.
"Humph, that Liu Wei has an endless amount of resources at his disposal if our Young Sect Leader had the same condition as him then he would have surpassed him long ago," One elder stepped out and said to ease the mood.
"Yes, if it wasn't for all those resources..." Another elder supported the statement but he got interrupted in the midway.
"Surpassing Liu Wei my foot, the gap is not of few days but hundreds of years, go look in the mirror before talking,"
The second this statement was said, the atmosphere again turned quiet and gloomy.
The elders gasped in shock, they were wondering who was so brain dead, were they not aware of this fact? Why didn't they mention it? Because mentioning it in front of the future Sect Master was purely courting death.
...Crunch... Crunch...
Only the sound of someone chewing on crunchy meat was audible in the whole hall.
Everyone turned to the man who spoke those words earlier and now was leisurely eating the meat skewer in his hand.
It was an unfamiliar face, he had long black hair, his deep black pupils had a golden ring around them, the long black coat he wore too wasn't the dressing style of people from the Western Continent. His appearance shocked everyone, they looked into each other's eyes and communicated among them but no one seemed to recognize him.
"Huh? Sorry about that, it just slipped out of my tongue," Altan said when he noticed everyone looking at him.
They were speechless.
Coming to their party, insulting their Young Sect Leader and then you say it was slip of tongue?
"Who are you?" Krillin asked with a grim expression.
"Me? I am Altan, a Guardian Of Frozen Flame, by the way, your food doesn't taste good at all," Altan said as he finished the skewer in his hand.
The expression of everyone present changed rapidly. In the current age, Frozen Flame was the last sect they wanted to offend.
The robust man, Sect Master of Monster Taming Sect stepped forwards and greeted.
"I ask that fellow Daoist give me some face and overlook the ignorance of my son," He quickly said. He had noticed the facial appearance of the man in front of him that looked similar to Rex, if their temperament was also the same then his son would have a hard time in the future so he chose to take a step back and use his face value backed up with some gifts to settle this matter.
"Don't worry, why would I care for any random fly buzzing around me? I just remembered I came here to give this to you," Altan said as he handed out a blue envelope.
His words highly dissatisfied everyone but when they received Sect Master's Qi messages telling them that they have to face strong penalties on rash behaviour, they all kept quiet.
"I wonder what it is?" The man took the envelope with a smile on his face and asked.
"It's an invitation for the fighting tournament organized by Frozen Flame, if the newer generation from your sect can secure a good ranking then you can get things you don't even know exist as a prize, whether it is weapons above 9th grade or cultivation techniques above Earth grade if you are lucky you might even get something that let any Form Synthesis expert to breakthrough to Spirit King stage in one go or extend your lifespan, you can get them all, of course, others are the same," Altan gave a vague explanation then told them to spread the news to other sects or else they cannot join in as overlord sect.
When he finished speaking, he disappeared from the place and left the hall filled with dumbfounded civilization.
.....
Southern Continent...
Iron Knights Legion...
Several men clad in metal armour were surrounding a man in black with grim expressions on their faces.
Mr. Black standing in the center looked around and spoke again.
"I ask again, who is the Sect Master here?" He asked in an emotionless tone.
The knights looked at him with a vigilant expression but didn't answer, they were tired of continuously attacking but not even leaving a scratch on this man's body, if he was willing to submit then they could still let him proceed but he wasn't.
"State your identity or don't think about leaving,"
"If you want to meet the leader then disarm yourself first,"
"Obediently wait if you don't want conflict,"
"Quiet down and back off," A loud shout echoed in the sky, and a big blurry man clad in silver armour descended from the sky.
Everyone stopped shouting and immediately bowed in respect before backing off.
"I am the leader of the legion here, what do you want?" The main said in a heavy tone.
Mr. Black nodded, he took out a blue envelope and gave it to him.
"I am just here to deliver the invitation letter from Frozen Flame,"
Every knight's expression turned dark.
.....
A similar situation appeared in the Spirit Sea Sect of Northern Continent and Royal Family of Central Continent.
But they didn't have it easy either...
The Sect Leader of Spirit Sea Sect was caught off guard while bathing near the waterfall when Mr. Black no.2 delivered the letter.
The more pitiful was the Emperor who was interrupted in the middle of the night while holding his one-on-many session to expand his lineage.
They weren't the only ones, many big secluded sects and lone cultivators famous throughout their region also received a personal invitation.
The competition soon became a heated topic throughout the five regions, and the preparator behind organizing the competition put it in the back of his head not paying it any more heed.
Rex wasn't interested in this child's fight, it was just a way to show everyone how far behind they are from Frozen Flame, if someone doesn't agree after this then he can only use force.
What made him happy was the fast progress of his continental reformation plan, several facilities were already built up all over the Eastern Continent. Now, all he had to do was wait, once the competition was over he could just finish his business here and take the people around him to Middle Realm.
At present...
Rex was sharing a table with an elderly man having a big body built but aged white hair on his head.
"So Grand Farther-In-Law what did you decide? Coming with me or living here in the sect?" Rex asked with a smile.