8 year time skip
On the first year, the war had started, before lio went to the war, Ash made him hold a rock inscribed with a basic defensive rune, just in case, and just like he expected, his dad came back with the rock broken, and with some minor injuries, when he told the family that he broke the stone, he was ashamed, but Ash told him it was made to be used anyways.
On the second year, lio vergon broke through the foundation establishment, becoming one of 50 in the elf empire.
On the 6th year, lio vergon was one of the 5 people in the elf empire to become a 5th stage foundation establishment realm, he was invited to the emperor's mansion, where the emperor declared him and his family as a first grade noble of the empire, and he was granted a 75,000 year old tree, as a house beside the emperor's 100,000 year old tree house, the vergon house has moved from a 10,000 year old tree house, to a 75,000 year old house, of course, the vergon family were filled with joy, they never expected to move from the kingdom's royal city, to the empire's royal city, living beside the only elf emperor.
On the 8th year, lio vergon was close to becoming a 6th stage foundation realm, becoming one of 3 in the elf empire, under the current emperor, and the emperor's grandfather. When he broke through, the emperor declared lio vergon a new position in the royal army, lio vergon became the royal army's first Supreme commander, he was under no one but the emperor, and even the emperor respects lio vergon.
Ash was sitting in the family's cultivation room, beside him was his sister, his mother, his uncle, his father, and his aunt, they were all cultivating in the 75,000 year old tree's main branch, there the Qi was very dense, his mom was a 2nd stage foundation establishment, his uncle was a first stage foundation establishment, his aunt was a 2nd stage foundation establishment as well, his sister was going to break through the 8th stage of Qi gathering, so he decided to break through the Qi sea realm, in those 8 years, he made sure his cultivation was only slowly ahead of his sister, and now that she was reaching the 8th stage of Qi gathering, he wanted to reach the Qi sea realm, and so, using his main body's vast Qi, he made a Qi disturbance equaling to that of someone reaching the Qi sea realm, and masked his Qi to that level as well.
As the whole family felt the disturbance of Qi in the air, they stopped their cultivation to congratulate Ash, becoming the youngest Qi sea realm in the world, the previous youngest Qi sea realm was an 18 year old, he was some elf kingdom's crown prince.
On this planet there were 3 empires being, the elf empire polen, the human empire sapphire, and the dwarves empire sapil. Each empire ruled over 10 kingdoms.
The current vergon family, was a family that stood above all 10 kingdoms and under the the elf empire only, and although they stood under the elf emperor, he still treated the vergon family as a part of his family as well.
That night the vergon family was invited by the emperor to the 100,000 year old tree for a late dinner with his family, this time Ash, Isabella, his mom lily, and his dad lio all went there together, wearing the best clothing they have. As the 2 families were having a nice dinner, the emperor wanted to make an announcement, his son, the only prince, reached the Qi sea realm at the age of 10,if it wasn't for Ash, he would have been the youngest Qi sea realm, although his sister will also probably reach the Qi sea realm at the Age of 10 as well, but he didn't say anything about it. After the emperor was done with the announcement, his dad also announced the news that his son, Ash who was currently 9 years old, also reached the Qi sea realm. The emperor was so mad at the moment the he almost wanted to cry, the emperor and his father had a bet, whoever son's reached the Qi sea realm first would win, the loser had to treat the winner to 1000 year old wine. Although both family's had over 5 bottles of 1000 year old wine, losing one was still a sad story.
Although the emperor was mad, he still had to keep his promise, or else he will lose all dignity in front of his family, so although reluctant, he still treated lio to a 1000 year pld wine.