As Pef and Rejin stepped into their Fay universe, the stars shifted, almost like they weren't there at all.
Pef gazed at the new galaxies around, trying to figure out the source of the sense of wrongness. He poked the void gently, listening for an echo of something hidden, but whatever the spell was it was not easily discerned, not for a Tier 5 like himself.
"Do you sense it?" he asked out loud, only to notice the Alchemist frown deeply, his focus on a distant spot of the new universe.
"Ready yourself, young one. They are here" Rejin spoke in a grave voice, while summoning a purple armor around himself, and the cauldron to his side.
'Contact confirmed. Golith signatures in quadrants 174 to 177.' the glove added with a red contour superimposed onto the sky.
Tiny pricks of light flashed in the distant quadrants, possibly the sign of galactic scale combat. Pef smiled grimly, while covering himself with his Blue Jade armor and the new Voidshield. "Well, it's time to see if my skill is really as strong as I think it is." he muttered gently as he took out a certain Tier 6 sword 'taken' from the Shin Admiralty.
Rejin sighed and held his shoulder then took a single step to move them closer to the fight.
The horrors of war exploded all around them, as planets and star systems were being contested among trillions of low-level cultivators and many more distorted beasts, all corrupted beyond belief. Limbs and organs were being sliced and splattered everywhere, not only in this galaxy but all along a frontline extending thousands of galaxies wide.
But even worse, the civilians still located on planets or various stations and ring worlds were getting killed by both sides, often simply by shockwaves and wide-area spells.
Bands of warriors were grouping together to fight a stronger enemy beast, while small beasts were multiplying rapidly by devouring corpses all over the battlefield.
For second, Pef was almost overwhelmed by the pain he felt around, then he grit his teeth and began unleashing his Voidswords, while taking care not to kill too many civilians.
It worked great, as this galactic sector in his weapon range was mostly devoid of high-level combat, and merely seven Tier 5 corrupted beasts had to be put down.
In the background, he sensed the Alchemist conduct healing and recovery, as Rejin extracted as many people as he could before the flames of war engulfed them, or he resurrected fallen warriors before they were too far gone.
Still, as the immediate danger was dealt with, Pef noticed that Rejin declined to recover those bitten by the beasts.
He took a break and landed among the mangled corpses and bitten victims to find out the reason. It didn't take too long, as he observed the bitten ones erupt in pustules of infection and corruption and getting converted rapidly into more enemy beasts. With a disgusted sigh, Pef waved a hand and extended his Water Domain over the infested planet, then with a single thought he obliterated the victims and the emerging beasts alike.
"Thank you" he heard a timid voice.
Pef turned towards the speaker to see a band of warriors, going from Sovereign to Saint realm land nearby. Their leader was a man with long white hair and pair of axes in his hands, close to the peak of Saint Realm.
"Where are your Elders? This invasion could have been stopped easily by a Tier 4 God." Pef asked with a sharp voice.
The warriors lowered their heads, as if in shame. "I think the galactic pond fell in the first wave. Perhaps it was the main target..." the white haired guy replied with a hesitant voice.
Rejin stepped beside him, and casually began wiping the blood off his cauldron, while bits of bones and flesh fell aside and got incinerated by green flames.
Pef didn't need much warning to consider what might happen to someone splattered by a giant indestructible cauldron.
"You are?" the Alchemist asked with a soft voice, and a minute glance at the warrior.
"Blade Guard, Auxiliary Forces, Flying Captain Collin West." the leader answered while straining to remain standing. Tiredness was obvious, as was qi depletion.
"Under the Blade Fairy?" Rejin asked, sounding surprised.
"...We never saw her Highness, her being Fay and divine and all." the man muttered smartly.
Pef grinned and poked the Alchemist in the shoulder. "That's your woman, eh?"
Rejin sighed and grumbled something like 'murder'.
Pef just smiled again, while taking out a bottle of voidwine and handing it over to the brave warrior. "We'll go check the situation with the pond. You guys drink up and recover...while you can."
He wouldn't give out precious Godwine to unknown people, even if they were fighting the same enemy. There were risks in being too generous, same as with being too callous.
However, Pef did take note of the 'Auxiliary Forces' ranks, composed of humans in a Fay-dominated universe.
Something to negotiate over, later.
With a nod towards Rejin, they vanished from the pacified sector and re-emerged into a new battlefield at the center of the galaxy. Here the fighting was even more intense, and a couple of higher level beasts were spreading mayhem and destruction at gigantic scale. Tier 6 entities were capable of great damage and destruction, and behind them a single golith was having fun, impaling countless victims onto its stings.
Before Rejin could even say anything, Pef launched a dozen Voidsplitters, two of them striking and killing the Tier 6 beasts, while the remaining ten skills fell onto the Tier 7 golith, with minimal effect.
"Now you drew its attention, Pef Xi." Rejin grumbled as he parried a dozen golith stings with his giant purple cauldron.
Pef Blinked forward and beneath the floating eye-chandelier, then stabbed his Tier 6 sword just as the Heavenly Tribulation fell.
Lightning splashed on the Voidshield and then hit the golith, causing numerous eyes to explode in blood and tears, while also making the monster scream in unending pain.
Pef smiled grandly as he launched more and more skills at the target, then blinked away and around to avoid a direct counter-strike. He learned that lesson painfully.
His Water Domain extended to maximum to freeze and prevent the golith from escaping, while thousands of Voidswords struck at the injured eyes to cause even more pain to the golith. The screams intensified while thousands of flying spears flew away from the golith then changed course to home in on the aggressor.
Pef laughed and blinked away and in again, firing of more and more Voidsplitters at any giant eye he could find. Like a multi-sided polygon, the golith had thousands of eyes on its surfaces, and millions of tendrils and stings spread outwards, all writhing and trembling in pain.
Then dozens, and hundreds and thousands of Heavenly Tribulations fell towards Pef and he gladly accepted the pain for the chance to end this golith. The stings also struck Pef in return, piercing through the Voidshield and his armor, then embedded painfully into Pef's body.
Wounds didn't really matter at this level, but the stings carried along vectors of mind infection, or perhaps strands of soul intent. Pef didn't try to resist that attack too much though.
He merely opened the Voidshield for a second, then howled in pain.
But as painful and dangerous the Tribulation Lightning was for Pef, it was also the best medicine against the golith stings. Like a storm of cleansing rain, the invading stings were washed away and obliterated by the Heavens.
Meanwhile, the golith itself began to shrink and shift, rotating other facets out with new eyes. Pef just grit his teeth and continued the assault, his energy levels refilled to maximum and higher by the constant influx of Heavenly Lightning.
About an hour later, after nearly half of million lightning bolts fell onto the golith, it finally had enough and began to retreat, first by turning into a flat line, and then vanishing completely.
Pef just curled and cried, as his nerves were overwhelmed by pain, and his body was frayed and riddled with spear wounds from the stings. There wasn't a single part of him intact and unhurt, and even worse his soul hurt immensely.
The same familiar song enveloped him as he lay down in pain, healing most of the wounds and calming his mind.
A few hours later, he decided he had enough crying and sobbing, so he stood up and opened his eyes.
"I told you he'll be fine. Kids always cry." Rejin observed with a smirk, while a Fay woman examined Pef with gentle eyes.
Pef nodded cautiously while taking in her phantom wings. "Hello. Excuse the previous behavior, I swear I'm usually not that emotional."
The Fay Goddess giggled a little, although her face remained stern and composed. "Mhm. I sure hope so, Veritas Soldier. So, have you met Misty?" the goddess asked at random.
Pef blinked a bit surprised. "I do know a fairy named Misty, back in my home universe. I bought her from a slave auction." he answered with a wide smile.
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The woman smiled and measured Pef from head to toe with a discerning gaze. "And...how much did you pay for her?"
Pef grinned and just began to repair and patch up his clothes and armor, which were rather frayed and riddled with holes. "Misty was very expensive. An Archdevil named Yama intended to drain her of blood for a special ceremony. So, not only there was a giant bid war involved, but a real war followed after I won the auction."
The Alchemist waved his hands as if to clear the air, coincidentally also fixing Pef's attire. "Nevermind the past, both of you. We have a great crisis right now, and you two need to figure out a cooperation plan, while the goliths and their armies are still re-organizing."
Pef sighed in acceptance as he swept around with his qi and coresenses. All over the battlefield, the golith armies were holding their ground, and replenishing their troops with the bodies of the dead, while the cultivators were trying to organize themselves in some manner of order. Various Fay and other species were deploying to plug gaps in the lines or were busy healing people, extinguishing fires or rescuing civilians from demolished buildings, or damaged ships and stations.
Then he brought up the glove menu, and analyzed his stats, comparing his former self with his newest achievements.
Veritas Legion Adjutant-User data file
Name: Pef Xi
Alias: Monarch, God, Veritas.
Rank: Local universe CIC, Legion: Soldier
OS: Standard Veritas Legion Indoctrination method: compatibility 3.14159 (adjusted for plug-in enhancements)
Race: Physical God, Tier 5 (improved +65%)
Body stats:
-Strength : 45 800. (Physical God bonus +50%)
-Agility : 51 200. (Physical God bonus +50%)
-Endurance : 33 650. (Physical God bonus +50%. Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000, Voidshield at 100 percent + 95000 )
-Intelligence : 378. (Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)
-Wisdom : 206. (Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)
-Charisma : 3490. (charm +33%)
-Qi reserves: 870 510 000.
Cultivation stats:
-Spiritual affinity: Water 100%, Sword 65%, Void 56%, Fire 11%, Wind 4%, Lightning 65%, Metal 9%, Earth 6%, Life 8%, Entropy 3%, Order 3%, Chaos 3%., Yin and Yang 1%, (Creation and Destruction under 1%)
-Core size: Universe. (Dantian 12.11 cms radius)
-Core inner volume: Universe. ( 1.7 billion galaxies, 1731 Avatars)
-Qi purity: 54%. (~1% trans dimensional injection)
-Soul Aspect: Silver. (Combat/Control/Command affinity)
-Soul defense: 46 700. includes +90% bonus (open meridians 1+11)
-Soul attack: 7700. includes +10% bonus
-Sword Ki abilities: 65%. (One with the Void: stage 9, 9100 controlled Voidswords)
-Water Dao abilities: 100%. (Giant Water Domain, ~800000 kms radius)
-Lightning Dao ability 65%.(Greater Lightning Domain, ~225000 kms radius)
-Fire Dao abilities: 11%. (Large Fire Domain, ~17000 kms radius)
-Void abilities: 56%. Blink radius: 13 light-years// 80 per sec, Voidsplitter skill 13%, Recall radius: 500 million kms, Voidshield 8%
-Voidsense, medium. Void palms, claws, swords and spears: ~9100 under control ( 52 000 total) - size: 87 cms each.
Divine stats:
- Qi sense: Universe range (~7 Billion light-years radius. Secure qi transmissions 30 million light years.)
- Coresense: Galactic. (~32 000 light-years radius)
- Telekinetic field: Large. Range 9 meters (Divine strings manipulation: 100%, Gravity generation: 75%, Quasi strings: 6%)
- Add-ons: Icesword rune, Autonomous Restoration Code: Reason.
- Sword intent: Large (Swordforce: stage 9, 65%, separation threads 17)
- Transmutation/alteration: Gigantic. (Water Mastery, fog and ice: stage 9, plasma: stage 7, condensation: stage 8)
- Divination: Medium/???. (danger sense, reflexive dodging, trans-dimensional injection)
- Heartforce: Large. (Diamond Heart stage 5. 11%, Heart of the Sword 0.3 %)
- Karmic luck: Average. (Minor reincarnation, trace memories, Realm allies, non-causal scars, protective tribulation)
- Logopedic Dao ability: Average: 51 words, (Devour Dao: Soul digestion stage 6, 41%, Soul restoration 24%, Autonomous Restoration Code: Reason)
- Mindforce: Greater: 98% (mind shield level 4, maze level 4, pulse level 3, flay level 2, memory read/write level 4).
- Extra abilities: water clone: stage 9, Ice wings, Ice armor, fire clone: stage 8, dojutsu: stage 5 (helix spike), Clone fusion stage 5.
To Pef's surprise, some areas had barely developed at all, despite his newest ascension, while others had grown immensely, much beyond what he could reasonably expect.
Also, the faint song that he heard while hurt and in pain was actually real, an artefact left behind by Reason, the Legion's Power Word Gun. She still cared, even if she left him for his father...
"How do you want to be called, my lady?" Pef asked while raising his eyes towards his host.
"You may call me Blade Fairy, young one. How soon can you fight another golith?" she answered on more serious tone.
Pef shrugged. "I can fight these things everyday, Blade Fairy. But they will run, once I damage them too much. I think I need to focus on the next ascension before I can kill them reliably." he said in a determined voice. A single fight had shown him that he still lacked in damage output and an effective weapon.
The Fay Goddess stepped much closer, and trailed a finger over Pef's newly healed wounds. "Hmmm. Perhaps Grandmaster Rejin is correct. Also, there aren't many Universe Realm Gods that can force a golith to retreat. They may not be true Dian Realm deities, but they are even stronger in some areas." she spoke while turning her head towards the purple-armored alchemist.
"It will be worth it, Blade Fairy. Plus, Pef Xi can pay half the price himself. He does have an intact Godbeast heart in his glove storage, and all its claws" Rejin spoke with a level voice, while continuing to help around and heal wounded people all over the galaxy.
The Fay Goddess gently raised an eyebrow, then glanced at the spot where the golith had been. "Do you agree, Pef Xi?" she asked mildly.
Pef wasn't certain what exactly he was agreeing to, but the glove insisted to say yes. So he did.
An ethereal wing covered Pef and he vanished, only to reappear beside the Blade Fairy, beside a water pond. All around, there were glamorous parks and dwellings set on mountain slopes overlooking the clear water pond. Millions of Fay turned towards the newcomer, their faces showing surprise and even anger. Probably there weren't many humans allowed in this place, considering that Pef didn't see any. Nor other species beholden to the Fay, like they had in their armies.
"Place your offerings into the water, young human. And do try not to cry again." the Blade Fairy demanded with a sharp voice, as a mist rose from the water and covered the surroundings, blocking the view around.
Pef nodded cautiously and carefully deposited the heart and claws into the pond, only to watch them dissolve and vanish. The Blade Fairy took out a jade box and tenderly extracted a single blue flower petal from it, then blew gently on it to guide into the pond.
The waters froze for a second as the petal floated over the pond. "Are you certain you want to make this sacrifice, my daughter?" the pond asked in a distorted voice, as if the water itself vibrated to produce those words.
"Nothing is certain, your Excellence. But...this is for Misty. No cost can compare." the Blade Fairy replied in a reverent voice, while kneeling in front of the water pond in supplication.
"Come closer, Pef Xi. The price has been paid, and the Covenant will be respected." the pond murmured in a deep voice while Pef stepped into the clear water and vanished. "As for suffering..." the voice continued as the waters froze solid.
The Blade Fairy shuddered visibly as she rose to her feet. "... He'll get over it. The boy is not the problem, your Excellence. The glove..."
"I see it, my daughter. I may have to breach the Gap and ask his General. But I doubt she can do anything about it. It was too late 500 million years ago, and it's too late now. Anyways...he made a golith run, eh?" the pond asked with faint humor.
"Indeed, your Excellence. And he became stronger during the fight, and even touched on the Heart of the Sword. Barely a faint touch, but..." the Blade Fairy whispered in a more impressed voice.
"I see. It took you five lives to reach that realm. You want another sword duel?" the pond asked in a probing tone.
"Mhm. One day, sure. Perhaps there will be someone that can defeat me. Rejin is here too, back to his boring alchemy." The Blade Fairy added with a faint smile.
A gentle breeze blew over the frozen pond, and the waters unfroze, the clear depths visible once more. "See that Rejin stays a while, while the boy ascends. Alchemy may be boring, but the pills are not. And we will need some pills to replenish our loses."
The Blade Fairy bowed deeply and then walked away, already considering how to make use of the Alchemist, and how to properly obey her orders. The Fairy Godmother was often hard to properly comprehend, as all Xian deities were. Their words rarely meant what you thought, and the meanings were often revealed much later, or even in a different life.
Now, she knew that she shouldn't have killed Rejin back then, no matter how fierce the sword fight had been. They have lost so much, just because of her pride.
This time, she had to be more careful. Not only Rejin was here, but the General could object violently.
And then, there was the glove. Sure it was tame right now, while worn by an approved user, but remove the user and the goliths would be the last of her problems. It even made it out of the Shambala Mausoleum, the dreaded place that ate Elder or Dian deities that dared to enter. And perhaps even Xian deities, if the former Supreme Archdevil really died in there.
Since then, Lord Mu Feng took charge of the access rights and kept a close eye on those that survived in the last Indigo Realm. The latest of which was exactly the young man that entered the pond and crossed into the Sacred Realm. He and his orange glove.
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As Pef crossed into the Sacred Realm he found himself on the shores of a giant river, not only wide but so impossibly long he couldn't see the source or the end of it.
Just tumultuous grey-brown waters passing by furiously, at tremendous speed.
Then he turned to find himself in a trimmed garden, plants and flowers arranged in neat formations and rows, with a small pagoda in the middle.
And there on a low bench sat a shapely and beautiful woman in pink robes, with long platinum hair, holding a paper fan in front of her chest. "Come, my young friend. Don't worry, your life is not in danger and the pain won't arrive until later." she called out loud, while waving him over.
'Tier 8?' he asked inward, only to receive a silent reply. Pef checked his right hand to find the glove had vanished.
"Please don't steal my things, mighty goddess. I think I've already paid the price, correct?" Pef grumbled in a bitter tone.
The woman stayed silent and immovable, simply waiting for Pef to step closer.
With a disappointment sigh, Pef began walking toward the pagoda, trampling the flowers in the way. The woman's eyes gleamed for a second, but she remained silent even then. Well, it was a petty revenge but he didn't really dare set the garden on fire. He could rebel more subtly.
In a minute, Pef entered the small pagoda and simply sat on the floor, since there weren't any chairs or benches provided for visitors. Then he wiggled his right hand's fingers, to emphasize the lack of a certain glove.
"Your Veritas glove is not a thing, Pef Xi. Perhaps it was one day, long ago. Now it is a sentient being, and much smarter than you. I sent it in a different realm to learn things, and help it become better. As will you while you are here." the goddess spoke with a clear and atonal voice, devoid of normal inflections.
"So, it evolved? Good for it! I mean, I knew it was different, even compared to other Legion gloves I saw..." Pef muttered in an interested tone, while taking out a bottle of Godwine to accompany the discussion.
The Fay goddess nodded in a statue-like manner. "Not evolved, but changed none-the-less. Trauma always causes change, though rarely for the better. I personally never approved of that Mirror Universe plan, although I went along with it to create a common place for the Alliance."
Pef sipped some wine and nodded. "Well, I personally benefited from that project. It saved my life and allowed me to grow to who I am now. It was a bit painful at times..."
A pair of green eyes fixed the young hero in place, while a strand of platinum hair shot and stabbed Pef right into his belly. A puff of green smoke emerged, and Pef felt as if a great pressure was released. He checked the location to notice it was the old golith scar he carried since birth. "About that, I was born with this invisible sting scar...is that normal?"
Another gleam entered the Fay Goddess eyes, as if she was mildly amused but didn't want to show it. "Normal? No. Absolutely the opposite of normal. Sometimes the Mirror of Samsara does unexpected things, for unknown reasons. Sentient artifacts are often like that, acting on strange knowledge or complicated instructions from users long dead. Divine Artifacts like the mirror or the Heavenly Purple Cauldron have existed long before anyone remembers and they'll likely exist long after everyone in the multiverse is dead and forgotten."
Pef mulled over the new knowledge with a frown. Rejin himself was so old he remembered a Tier 8 God that has died long ago. And that spirit badger was likely even older.
"What about the Mausoleum? Is that also..." he wondered.
The Fay Goddess lifted her fan and covered her mouth for some reason. "I guess I did inflict this pain on myself, talking about Divine Artifacts. Well, the Mausoleum used to be a mere training place, layers of spatial folds that contained training environments for anyone brave enough to enter. At least that's what everyone thought it was, the Seven Colored Pagoda. That is, until the Jade Emperor managed to reach the end and entered the Violet Realm. And he released the Taotie."
Pef smiled grimly, as he deduced the rest. "It was a prison."
"A prison for that monster, and a test for all of us. A test of greed and pride, that we failed and payed the price for. In the end, everyone of strength banded up to fight and imprison the monster once more, and thus it became a Mausoleum for those that died, including the Jade Emperor himself." the goddess answered in the same impassionate voice.
"And now only Tier 5 and lower are allowed to enter." Pef mused to himself, while drinking some wine.
"Hah. Stupidity is not the unique domain of lower realms. Plenty Elder and Dian gods braved the Mausoleum after that. But they never came out." she said in a lower volume.
"That Taotie ate them, huh?" Pef asked rhetorically, as he already knew how strong the thing was.
"Emperor Mu Feng now restricts entry to Universe Realm and lower, to avoid unneeded deaths. Plus it should delay the monster from achieving the next realm, if there's less people to devour. Though lately the Taotie often attacks even Universe Realms and eats their memories." the woman warned him with a meaningful look.
Well, Pef knew something she didn't. The Taotie was not locked inside anymore, and was roaming the universe on his wife's finger.
Or maybe it wasn't, and the spirit projection was merely that. Perhaps the real body was still inside that Violet Realm. And perhaps it already achieved the next realm.
"Anyway. Enough about other monsters. What about my next ascension? What I do in here?" Pef demanded more to the point of his visit.
The Fay Goddess snapped her fan and nodded. "Elder Ream is not that hard to reach, you just need to complete two major Daos, but opposite ones. So, you already have water."
"Oh. I thought I'll have to fight like thousands of Tier 6 beasts. Or maybe eat a pill..." Pef muttered to himself, going after his previous ascensions.
"You already ate a Universe Pill, and quite recently. Most of that energy hasn't yet dissolved into your being. As for fighting, we'll do that too. If you want to fight goliths, you need to become much better. But first, build a proper foundation in the Dao. We might even establish a third Dao if you're high enough in some other domain." the woman concluded in a level voice.
Pef just shrugged. "My Lightning and Sword Dao are both at 65 percent. Cooking and Wine Dao are at 74 percent too."
The woman smiled for the first time. "And you're already better than me, at two things. But no, Sword Dao is not an achievable goal, for now. Lightning though, that sounds interesting. Same as Rejin too." she murmured as her smile faded.
"So we start with fire?" Pef asked to make sure.
The garden burst into flames, engulfing the flowers and all, and a giant blue sun formed around them. "Fire it is. This might hurt a bit..." she added as her palm struck Pef in the chest and pushed him into the fire maelstrom.
As torrents of blue flame cooked Pef alive and he began to scream, the Fay Goddess sighed inward and fanned herself. It couldn't be worse than the next Dao to follow. Lightning hurt much worse, especially for those with impure souls.
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Say whatever about jaded cultivators with billions of years of cultivation, but they also had experience.
Pef wasn't the first student to receive guidance from the Fay Goddess. He wasn't even then tenth or the hundredth. She knew what she was doing, and how far and how fast to push a student.
Of course, it wasn't enough for someone to be a good teacher. The student had to have his own insights and capacity for learning.
As soon as the shock of the burning flames passed, Pef began to focus onto the Dao of Fire, not simply resisting but understanding. The flesh healed and was burned again, only Pef struggled to ignore the distraction and meditate onto the meaning of fire. Temperature, flow and pressure were rather obvious, plus memories of another life, concepts like induction and convection.
Furthermore, under the magical heat of the blue sun, the latent energies of the Universe Pill he ingested for his Tier 5 ascension were also released gradually into his body and meridians, while his soul was slowly purified as if he was himself a pill getting refined in a cauldron.
And while Pef lacked the glove to observe the changes as they happened, a gradual shift did occur. Slowly but surely, the flames became somewhat easier to withstand, and even aided with more insights into the nature of fire. Coincidentally, the Godwine he drank just before was also getting cooked inside himself, releasing Heavenly Laws and proving further insights.
As if a perfect confluence of factors gathered into a single moment and place, Pef opened his eyes and waved a hand gently to guide the flames around. Then a pair of flame wings sprang from his shoulders, and he glided into the blue sun riding thermal currents.
Years passed inside the Sacred Realm as Pef gradually understood the Dao of Fire to the limit, but also inside this realm time wasn't real or even possible.
Events and objects only existed because the Fay Goddess willed them to be, and the same with the blue flames filling the universe right now.
As Pef began to flex his new power over the flames, changing their temperature or color, the woman smiled minutely into her paper fan.
Then, the sun itself changed, becoming a torrent of heat and radiation, an ultraviolet catastrophe of near-infinite potency.
The flames themselves became imbued with a soul, and formed mythological beasts to attack the unwary student.
Pef took a second to re-orient himself to the new reality, then he expanded his Voidshield and released his Voidswords, while summoning water and ice into similar beast shapes to hold the assault at bay. The strategy failed almost instantly, as the water beasts promptly evaporated under the immense heat and pressure of the ultraviolet sun.
Instead, the Voidshield and the Voidsword still worked, so Pef decided to coat both himself and his weapons with the strongest ice he could make. And then a giant melee began, one that constantly depleted Pef's energy and forced him to circulate his qi for recovery.
As time passed, the beasts became stronger and faster, while their attacks became shaper and ranged, launching spines and claws from a great distance. Pef had to dodge as many as he could before they collapsed his Voidshield with sheer numbers.
And yet, the fight continued under the direction of the Fay Goddess as she grinned widely, and kept Creating more and more varied fire beasts.
Was it an unfair fight, between a mere Tier 5 and an nigh-omnipotent Tier 8?
Sure. But in this moment neither of them cared. Pef wanted to become stronger and faster, while the Fay Goddess had fun for the first time in millennia.
As Pef began fusing clones to fight beside him, the Goddess began creating humanoid warriors in army numbers, and kept the clones distracted.
When Pef spoke Words to empower himself and his clones, the Goddess lifted an eyebrow and Created even stronger beasts.
And so, without either of them realizing in the moment, Pef reached the peak of Tier 5, by absorbing the entire residual energy of the Universe Pill, and his combat skill grew even higher. His heart grew and took over the Voidswords as his mind was focused on controlling his clone minions, with divine messengers acting a unit commanders.
That in turn forced his mindforce to expand, and the silver aura covered the stronger minions as they commanded their clones into battle.
Even more powerful flame-beasts emerged to fight them, so Pef began sending out his Avatars, and shooting Voidcutter skills at the stronger adversaries. Immediately, Tribulation clouds began forming in response, and lightning began to fall.
Only then the Fay Goddess realized she wasn't training the Blade Fairy, but a mere Universe Realm cultivator.
She slapped her hands together and the sun and the beasts vanished, and the garden appeared in their place. "Come and rest a bit, Pef Xi. Too much training is not good either."
Pef smiled and summoned some water to clean himself, while disbanding his clone armies and returning the Avatars inside his inner universe.
"We should do this again. It was fun!" he exclaimed as the last tribulations fell onto his Voidshield, while the shield had changed to a form-fitting shape, only a palm away from his body.
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The shield barely crackled from the strikes, as if the tribulation had become much weaker again. But no, instead he had grown much stronger as did his shield skill.
The goddess created a bench for Pef on the opposing side, and a low table that filled with various pastries and fruits, and a bottle of purple liquid.
Pef sat and hungrily began to wolf down the food, only to find the pastries were made by a Master Cook, perhaps even better than himself. The fruits are rare spirit items that enhanced his mind and spirit, while the purple liquid was some kind of spirit wine, that actually increased his cultivation a bit.
"Good stuff, my lady. I'd say you didn't prepare this yourself." he commented after the table was empty.
The woman nodded regally. "Well, I do have a billion universes of my own. My subjects often send me stuff as offerings. Good stuff sometimes." she remarked with a gleam in her eyes.
Pef nodded wisely. It made sense. He himself offered quite a lot for this training.
"Well, I do feel much stronger already. My mind is tired though." he said with a grateful voice, as he fought against closing his eyes.
"I see. Rest and we'll speak tomorrow then." the woman allowed gracefully then vanished.
Pef just slumped onto the bench and fell asleep. Cultivation was hard, even for a Tier 5.
Much later, he woke up to find the garden and the pagoda still empty. So he took out a Godwine bottle and drank half, then meditated on the new insights.
"Resting your eyes?" he heard a warm voice inquire by his side.
Pef turned to find the Blade Fairy and the Fay Goddess in front of him, looking certainly alike in some ways, although only the Blade Fairy had any visible emotions on display. The Fay Goddess was still a immobile statue that he couldn't even sense she was real. His senses failed to register her presence, although his eyes insisted there was someone there.
"Meditation brings wisdom, Blade Fairy. You should try it, at least once." Pef quipped a bit annoyed.
The Fay Goddess opened her fan and hid behind it, while her eyes gleamed.
"You! Damn it. How dare you embarrass me?" the fairy exclaimed, sounding outraged.
"Why would the truth embarrass you, Blade Fairy?" Pef asked, feigning naivety and shrugging helplessly towards her boss.
The fairy clenched a fist and shook it at Pef wordlessly.
"Amusing as this may be, do try not to provoke your partner, Pef Xi. To complete your Fire Dao I've called her for you to spar. She will use water and you fire. Nothing else." the goddess spoke in her usual level voice, and pointed to the side where an arena had just appeared.
With a huff, the Blade Fairy stepped away and landed on the arena platform.
Pef in turn began to warm up his joints, then stretched his shoulders and back to bring himself in perfect condition for a spar.
The Fay Goddess snorted softly and slammed her palm onto Pef's back, sending him right in the middle of the arena. "If you lose, you have to obey the other for a whole day. Have fun kids!" she commanded as energy walls sprang around the arena and locked the contestants inside.
Both the Blade Fairy and Pef grinned widely as they charged towards each other.
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As Pef's right hand also shattered into ice crystals, following the rest of his limbs Pef dropped on the arena's floor. "Time out!" he muttered, a bit unhappy.
The Fay Goddess glanced around to make sure time was indeed out, then smiled to herself and moved Pef back onto the bench. In a dozen seconds, Pef regrew his limbs and then took out his best wine to indulge in...
"Don't drink my wine, loser!" a female voice demanded with a faint sense of vindictiveness in her voice.
Pef froze for a second, then nodded and politely offered the Godwine bottle to the Blade Fairy. "You are right. You do need this in order to meditate on something, Blade Fairy. Don't worry, I made this wine myself."
A soft snort emerged from the Fay Goddess, before she spoke. "Be careful, my daughter. You may not like what he takes from you, when you lose."
The younger fairy snorted, and just snatched the wine bottle. "He's a billion years too young for me to lose. I should be going now, your Excellence. And you, this wine better be good!" she added towards Pef before she vanished.
Pef glanced at the Fay Goddess with an innocent shrug, then took out another wine bottle. "I might not be too smart, but isn't your daughter a bit...off?" he asked after a long drag.
The statue-like goddess sighed as if in pain. "You also have children, Pef Xi. Are they all...normal?" she asked instead.
Pef sighed in return. "My son, Paragon. He used to be rather strange, for a few millennia. Only books and reading, no wives or fighting. I almost expected him to fade away at Sovereign rank, you know? The Legion method is rather particular about some needs."
"Oh? And he somehow got over this?" the woman asked, sounding curious.
"Mhm. When I brought Misty home, they instantly connected somehow. And Misty began to cultivate as well..." Pef mused to himself, with a far away look.
The statue blinked slowly, as if trying to understand a great mystery. "Your General might be onto something. Too bad your Veritas cultivation method ends at Elder Realm. I'd be curious what would happen to Sunny, in the same circumstance. "
Pef also nodded. "Yeah. I can almost feel it now, in my head. The last lotus petal is taking form, but there isn't anything else...And I doubt killing goliths will provide me the energy to ascend further. I'll try anyway, because those things need to be destroyed."
"I've seen many Legion Soldiers, even Captains. The cultivation method won't stop working completely, not at first. You will still gain more strength the more you fight. But crossing over into Dian Realm....there is a hard barrier there, which is why there are millions of Elder Gods and less than a thousand Dian Gods. Perhaps your new friend, Grandmaster Rejin can help. A pill, if there exists such a thing. My own insights or even your General cannot help. The transformation is unique for everyone, as are the consequences." the woman said with a sad voice.
Pef glanced at her statue-like face, certain he had been told more than he could understand right now. "You mean, the statue thing? I thought you were simply good at hiding your emotions."
"That's not it. I had to sever off my emotions, during the last trial. I didn't want to die, but I had to lose something. It seemed a good trade, at the time. Now, I'm not that sure." she continued in the same level tone.
"Hmmm. You're not made of stone yet. I can still sense a little bit from you, maybe you can also heal and recover. My mindforce skills are not that good, but surely there must be people with experience. I know a Tier 4 Elf with immense mind powers..." Pef argued, feeling rather sorry for the poor woman.
Controlling your emotions was a nice feat, but severing them completely? That sounded horrible.
A faint smile crossed over the Fay Goddess face, as if she remembered something dear and long gone.
"You are a well of wonders, young man. And if I was wiling to try, where would I find that Galaxy Realm Elf?" she asked, obviously curious despite the impassionate voice.
"Well...he is inside that Mirror Universe, along with many others I want to bring out. If they will ever be allowed out?" Pef wondered in a sad tone.
Even lacking the glove right now, he still remembered all of their conjectures about the purpose of that universe. It didn't seem likely so much effort was made to lock people inside, just to let them out.
"That Mirror Universe is much like this one. There are secure channels for entry and for leaving, but no open door. I think it's not even possible to unlock it now. Well, unless you enter the Mirror of Samsara and convince it yourself." She answered after a long minute of thinking.
"Is that likely?" Pef asked with a snort.
"For most people, no. Not even for me. But, you do have a special connection with the Mirror. I think your General also has one, and a few other Xian Gods, but you should avoid them at all costs. One of them damaged your glove, and it wasn't by accident." The Fay Goddess warned him in a slighter louder voice.
"A Tier 8 attacked my glove? Well, before it was mine?" Pef asked in surprise.
"... At least a Tier 8. I'm not strong enough to cause that amount of damage, not in a single strike. And that strike also killed the glove's user, which was likely one of your Legion Captains. And those people are rather hard to kill. At least as hard as Sunny." the Fay Goddess said in a softer voice, not that Pef cared about the volume right now.
"Well, it would make a short suspect list then. There's not so many Tier 8's still alive." Pef muttered with gritted teeth.
The woman's eyes gleam once more, seeing the Legion Soldier get so easily riled up by mere speculation. "Well, I might be wrong on this, but there's four people stronger than me, and still alive. The two Supreme Archdevils, the Dragon Emperor and the Silent Monk. And the Silent Monk is probably out, as he hasn't met anyone since the Mausoleum fiasco. Nor does he speak or has any worldly desires."
"What, he lives on a mountain peak under a peach tree or something?" Pef wondered with a faint suspicion. Some of his old memories surfaced at strange times, not that they fit perfectly with his new life.
"It's a Nine Shades Immortal Bamboo Tree, but yes. And, Tribulation lightning keeps falling on him. Since before I was born. I think you know how painful tribulations are, only more so for Xian Realm Gods." she explained with another faint smile.
Pef nodded cautiously, trying to imagine countless tribulations falling on him for billions of years. He almost broke down from much less... "I'd say that guy is not a likely suspect. He might kill you if you annoy him, not erase your memories and lock you up in a prison. Whatever the purpose was, this was a plot against my General, strangely coincidental with the siege at the Haze Gap. And both the Devils and the Dragons are strangely immune to golith invasions."
"They're not exactly immune, but yes. Any assaults are so swiftly repelled, we only learn of them long after it's all over. But since you mentioned Devils do appear in the Mirror Universe, they must take losses too. They just hide them, and replenish their forces fast." the goddess said, while holding her chin in deep thought.
"All right. I got the message. Now, do you have something more practical to teach me? I did pay for lessons, not idle chat." Pef intervened with a gentle tone.
The fan came out again, hiding the Fay as her eyes gleamed once more. "Indeed. Today we work on Lightning Dao. And remember, you asked for it..." she spoke with a soft voice as the garden vanished and the universe filled with thunder and lightning.
Pef gulped as a delicate palm slammed into his chest and pushed him inside the lightning storm of pain. Screams followed soon after.
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The training in the Fay Sacred Realm continued in the same manner, alternating between the Dao of Fire and Lightning each day.
Years passed or maybe millions of years, it made no difference in this special dimension without time. Without his glove Pef wasn't really able to tell what events or objects were real or illusion, but one day something spectacular happened. He blocked the Blade Fairy in the arena, and held his ground...countering her Dao of Water with an exact opposite force.
"Stop, both of you! Sunny, you wait outside now." the Fay Goddess demanded in a clear voice as the arena vanished once more and the same flower garden re-appeared.
Pef just nodded and stepped once to enter the gilded pagoda where the Supreme Fairy resided. If she was there at all.
"Does this mean I reached my goal? I have become an Elder God?" Pef asked curious, mostly because he didn't feel much different than yesterday.
The beautiful statue measured him with a long stare. "What do you think?"
"I don't know how to measure myself. I had my glove do it for me all my life." he answered after a short pause.
"A small hint then. Check your inner world, and count." she proposed with a faint smile.
Pef shifted his focus inward, counting his Avatars, the number of galaxies and worlds...till he noticed two extra universes adjacent to his original one. They were barren and empty of stars...just two bubbles of void. With a frown, he moved an Avatar inside one of the new universes and began creating new stars and planets, then galaxies...
"I have three universes inside me now. I just didn't notice them." Pef muttered while scratching his head in shame.
"Well, that's how you know you have reached Elder Realm. Later on, your inner existence will become more and more important, but you'll have to force yourself to balance both realities and don't get lost into navel gazing. As for creating even more universes, it's straight forward. Just complete more Daos." The Tier 8 goddess explained with a stony face.
Pef bowed gratefully. "I think I should leave your realm and consult with my glove on my future path. As for your emotions, I won't let you remain a stone beauty forever. You deserve a chance to pursue happiness too." he added as parting word.
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With a mischievous gleam in her eyes, the goddess tapped her paper fan and returned our hero beside the water pond, then hid herself behind the fan. "Big words, Pef Xi. To think you're even more dangerous than your glove..." she murmured to herself, as another presence appeared into her garden.
This presence had a simple metal armor covering her and a short bob of black hair, and a straight posture as if on parade.
"Thank you, Lady Kalima. Sadly, I'm rather occupied at this moment, with the other problems. One day, maybe I can tell him..." the General said in a soft voice, though pain and tiredness could still be felt, by someone extremely sensible.
"It wasn't a bother, fellow Daoist. Your new Soldier is quite a joy to be around, and a breath of fresh air. Not so much your other child..." The Fay Goddess answered in a cold voice.
"I know. My gloves were never meant to become independent, too much potential for...oh well. At least it wasn't a Word Gun. I wasn't at my best when I created those children. Mentally, I mean." the old general offered as a form of apology.
"How are you holding up in the siege? I sense some distress." Lady Kalima wondered in a more worried tone.
"It is as exactly bad as you can imagine. But at least he won't dare attack me here in the Gap, and I can keep growing stronger. It is still the best plan that might work." the General said with a faint shrug.
"The Ghouls will launch their relief strike in about a dozen years...will they be able to reach you?" The Fay Goddess asked with little hope.
"You know they can't. Hualitep will block and massacre them again, unless the Serghoul has grown much stronger in the past million years?" The Veritas Legion General wondered idly.
"I doubt it. Even after he collects the deaths from the latest golith assault, it probably won't suffice. We can always try to appeal to the Silent Monk, or maybe the Taotie?" Kalima offered with a painful cringe.
The General hesitated for a minute. "The Monk is listening right now, so if he wanted to intervene he would be here. As for Taotie, it is also listening. Curious." she mused with her eyes closed.
"Pef Xi asked me about the beast...as if he knew it. And he did stay six months in the Mausoleum, long past the normal expiration date." Lady Kalima proposed with a raised eyebrow.
The General was the best Oracle in the multiverse, and her insights were always welcome. Not that knowing too much was always beneficial as her current predicament, hiding among the myriad of goliths, proved quite convincingly.
"He did indeed make contact with the beast, but it wasn't via conflict. Hmmm. A legacy of the Jade Emperor? Scrying the Taotie is difficult as always. Anyways, do try to breach the Gap again, in a decade or so. I'd like to see what my children are up to..." the General said as her projection wavered and distorted, and eyes began sprouting all over until it burst into motes of light.
"And the other monster arrives to crash my party..." Kalima grumbled as her garden exploded into a lightning storm, forcing the Hualitep to run away once more.
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When Pef emerged from the fay water pool, he noticed the glove once more on his right hand, but feeling much different. Weaker perhaps, and yet...
'What did you do while I trained?' he asked inward.
'Also training, although in different way. Some good stuff, like actual golith combat logs from our General, lots of them. And less nice stuff, like courses in ethics and morality and religion...it seems I've been bad.' the glove disclosed in a grumbling tone.
'Oh, well you did do some bad things.' Pef observed with a bit faint amusement and a great deal of sadness.
'Yeah. Anyways, we have a new enemy. Well, an old one but I've forgotten about him, because my memory was damaged. By the Dragon Emperor.' the glove added in a more somber tone.
Pef sighed and took out a Godwine bottle and just drank it all in one go. It didn't have much effect anymore.
'Yeah. He was my top suspect as well, once I've learned of the current power ranking among the top cultivators in the multiverse. Our General isn't even in top five.' Pef said while looking around the mountain valley around the pond, and the millions of rather unfriendly Fay cultivators.
'She is the youngest Tier 8 though. Even Rejin and Sunny are older than her.' the glove replied with a careless tone.
Pef sighed again, just as the Blade Fairy appeared beside him. "Your presence here disturbs my people. This pond is our sacred place and our link to our Godmother." she proclaimed in a not-that-small of a voice. Probably meant to be heard by her people, going by how they nodded in tandem.
With a grin, Pef waved at the locals. "I hoped they were happy for my presence. I was actually considering staying around for a while and destroying some goliths. But...if I'm not..." he spoke just as loud, while shrugging empathically.
The air wavered slightly and Alchemist Rejin appeared as well, and measured Pef with a curious gaze. "Elder Realm already? It's barely been two years." he observed a little surprised.
Pef glanced at the water pond, then back up. "Two years? Time does fly when you're having fun. I guess it was mostly completing the Dao of Fire. And fighting the Blade Fairy every day. Not serious fights though."
"He also breezed through the Dao of Lightning and didn't even notice he ascended." the Blade Fairy added with a jab towards Pef.
Our hero just nodded casually. "Nobody ever accused me of being smart. Strong, brave, valiant, good looking, sexy and a great cook, yeah. As for brains, I let my women do the thinking for me. Or my orange glove, it is quite smart in fact." he proclaimed in a valiant pose.
Both Tier 7 deities glanced at each other and sobbed silently. There wasn't anything untrue in those words either.
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"Here, see if these pills are good enough." Rejin said while offering Pef a jade box, filled with jingly pills.
Pef opened the box cautiously, then could only stare at the wealth of Universe Ascension Pills...81 pills in total. Among them, three pills stood out with their three-lines decoration, a sign of their more potent nature.
"The Universe pills are great, Lord Rejin." Pef concluded after he closed the box and stored it into his glove pocket. "How about lower level pills for my recruits?"
"I have some of those as well...although not that many. The Blade Fairy had provided the ingredients and I only kept 10 percent of the pills as my alchemist fee." Rejin answered with a knowing glance towards their companion. In his hand, a storage pouch appeared and he handed it over to Pef.
"We lost half of our combat-able cultivators during the past two years. We also need pills to recover our loses and grow new high rankers for the Blade Guard." the Blade Fairy interjected before Pef could even open his mouth.
However, instead of debating her claim, Pef just nodded and took out a Universe Pill, holding it gently between his fingers. "Just this pill could provide your Blade Guard with a Tier 5 god, able to defend an entire galaxy with ease. But, in exchange I would like...a million Saints for my Legion. Human ones, would be preferable."
The Blade Fairy hesitated for a minute, while eying the Universe Pill with wide eyes. "We don't recruit that many humans. I doubt we even have a million humans at Saint Realm."
"I understand. Well, you can make up the numbers with Monarchs. But, ten of them for each missing Saint. I think that's fair, considering they would be much weaker." Pef answered with a faint smile.
The fairy nodded and smiled back happily. "We do have enough Monarch Realm humans in the Auxiliary units. Just wait a day, til we can gather them up for a trade." she said while closing her eyes to send out conscription orders.
Rejin stared at Pef for a moment, almost asking why he would do such a poor trade, before remembering he was also supporting the Veritas Legion now, providing pills and adamantite weapons. And what the new Legion under Pef's command lacked right now was exactly a large number of recruits above Sovereign Realm.
Crossing the Monarch barrier was quite hard for the majority of cultivators, but Pef cleverly side-stepped the problem by asking for those who had already crossed. And because he only asked for humans, the Fay leadership would be much more inclined to agree. It wasn't like the Fay would support the expensive cultivation aids needed for millions of humans, when they had their own race consuming the available pills or herbs.
By the next day, a large army of new recruits had been gathered in front of Pef and Rejin. Six million Monarchs and 400 thousand Saints, made up the majority of decent human cultivators in the Fay realms, and they only costed a single pill.
Pef and his glove were quite ecstatic with this trade, while the Galaxy God beside the Blade Fairy was also trembling with excitement. He had been selected to ingest the famous pill after defeating a hundred contestants, and now awaited for his next ascension with a wide grin.
"Please move our recruits inside one of your worlds, Lord Rejin. We can start imparting my Taichi method first, while we select competent leaders from their ranks." Pef demanded while offering the Universe Pill to the eager Fay warrior.
The Tier 4 god bowed to the Blade Fairy and just waited, not daring to touch the pill without approval.
With a smirk, the fairy skipped forward and took the pill, then gently rotated it to observe the quality. "Not your best work, Grandmaster Rejin. The Tribulation lightning must have been quite weak." she noticed with a frown.
Rejin glared at Pef for some reason, then sighed in pain. "Our friend here was the target of the tribulation, Blade Fairy. Back when he was only a Universe Realm."
"Fine! The trade still goes on, but only if my Brigade Captain reaches the next realm." she demanded in a colder tone and decisively sent to pill towards the waiting warrior.
The man held the pill with trembling hands, while his colored wings fluttered by themselves.
Then he lifted both hands to his mouth and ingested the pill, and sat down to meditate and digest the apocalyptic levels of energy and Heavenly Laws bursting into his core.
Pef scratched his cheek absently, while wondering what was all about. You just ate the pill and ascended. What was all this fuss about? It took a few seconds..
Hours passed slowly, and tension level grew among the observers, some of them doubting the Alchemist or blaming a defective pill.
Then suddenly a Violet cloud formed above the meditating warrior, followed by a huge violet lightning bolt.
Under Pef's disbelieving eyes, the weak tribulation burned the Fay god to a roasted pork shape, exploding his eyes and cauterizing the shattered limbs and wings.
Screams of pain or joy emerged from the roasted carcass, while the Blade Fairy frowned so deeply her eyebrows touched.
"...He succeeded. And lived too. But I can't disturb my Godmother just to heal his weak flesh. Grandmaster Rejin, can you help him?" she asked with a disgusted voice.
Rejin glanced askingly at Pef, until he received a message. "Well, a burnt-out Universe God would be of little use to your Blade Guard, my fair fairy. I do have a Spirit Healing Pill, but it will cost you a million more Monarchs, for the Legion."
The Blade Fairy grit her teeth audibly, while staring at Pef with laser eyes.
Pef just shrugged unconcerned. "I also have a Blue Jade Crystal, to prevent such happenings in the future. It should decrease the next twenty tribulations by more than half." he claimed while taking out a blue crystal from his inventory.
With his new Voidshield at 16 percent strength, it was likely he wouldn't need to care about Heavenly Tribulations that much. He could sell off some crystals and increase his Legion's numbers with millions of recruits.
The Blade Fairy seemed ready to eat Pef alive. "How much?"
"Three million Monarchs, to bring back a full 10 million." he answered lazily.
"Two million, nothing more!" the fairy countered in a cold tone.
Pef nodded gently, then took out three more crystals. "Eight million for all four. Just imagine, you may potentially save eighty Tier 5 gods from this fate."
"Nine million for five crystals. And you can take all the Sovereigns as well." the Blade Fairy proposed while dismissing the human cultivators being collected by Rejin.
Sovereigns were indeed such low powered cultivators in the wide multiverse that their value didn't account to much, even if you had a billion of them.
Pef blinked in surprise, and held still for a minute, as if considering the trade. "Their families as well. It would be cruel to leave them here and defenseless."
'Hehe. You're learning the flesh trade rather nicely' the glove commented on the side.
Pef approved inwardly. 'With their families held safe, the new recruits will be more motivated to fight.'
"Deal! It will take a week to gather everyone for the last trade, but I will need one crystal to test the effects until then." the Blade Fairy claimed as her face smoothed back into a proper country-destroying beauty.
Pef held a crystal out and allowed the fairy to take it. The new trade was even more profitable then he expected, although he didn't have a clue yet how many people this involved.
Billions of people most likely, considering he did ask for the families of those being sold.
Over the next days, numerous Fay officers arrived carrying people in their inner worlds, and disgorged them for Rejin to take charge of.
The numbers climbed higher and higher, and included numerous lower realm cultivators from a myriad of human clans and families.
With a single word added to the trade balance, Pef had obtained almost a trillion people, most of them eager and grateful to emigrate far from the golith invasion.
"Why aren't you taking any recruits, Pef Xi? I'd have thought you'd be eager to train them into the Legion method." Rejin asked as the last refugees were being transferred.
Pef just shrugged. "I am going to battle the goliths now, fellow Daoist. And despite my new strength, I might still die. No point in wasting their lives along with mine."
Rejin nodded slowly while mulling over Pef's words. "In that case, I'll act in your stead, Legion Soldier. These people will receive training and insights from my Avatars, until you return for them."
Pef nodded in thanks, and turned towards the Blade Fairy. "We can depart now, partner."
"Who is your partner, damn idiot! I'll just take you to the next battlefield, and just watch." she muttered with a scoff.
In a single moment, they both vanished from the mountain valley, leaving Rejin to look after the new recruits and their large families. It seemed the rumors spread as the Fay conscripted the best human cultivators, and millions of weddings took place in the past days, old feuds or disputes among clans forgotten for a chance to escape the incoming hell.
Sadly, the refugees were right. The goliths and their corrupted beasts would show no mercy to those left behind, and if the Fay decided to cut their loses, the best fate they could expect was a fiery death as galaxies exploded like fireworks, to deny the goliths new breeding grounds.
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