"Cross and Long Chen slashed at the void together and Enpuda's figure blasted out of the void and smashed into several buildings. Cross sneered and said "Come, you fat fuck! Today, I'm going to turn your head into a shit pot for real!" Enpuda seethed but Xia Guhong threatened everyone and they eventually left.
Cross clicked his tongue and Guo Ran, Xia Chen, Lily, Artemis, Yu Qingxuan, and Feng Xue'er ran over.
Long Chen held Yu Qingxuan's hand and Duke Wei said "You!" Long Chen was enraged and slapped him flying across the sky. Cross pulled Feng Xue'er to him and checked over her, then he looked at Lily, and Artemis, before letting out a breath of relief and a big smile.
He caressed Feng Xue'er cheek as he said "Xuexue, thank you." Xue'er smiled sweetly and leaned on his shoulder. Cross looked at Lily and Guo Ran and sighed, he looked at Xia Chen and this guy was avoiding his eyes.
Guo Ran immediately flattered "Father-in-law! You see, Xia Chen has taken a fancy to Amelia!" Cross felt veins appearing on his forehead and Xia Chen turned white, Lily added "Not only that, but Amelia likes him too! Aiya, I can see it. She even gave him a keepsake!"
Feng Xue'er froze and burst into flames before calming down and smiling sweetly "Xia Chen, can we have a chat?" Xia Chen started trembling and Cross closed his eyes, he was really about to beat all these kids to death.
He patted Artemis and said "Thankfully, my Artemis is a good girl. All she needs is dad, right?" Artemis started fidgeting and looking around. Cross felt like his heart was shattering with every fidget, he almost started crying! He looked up to the sky and said "Why? Why did you do this to me?"
Long Chen said that he would clean this Duke Wei thing which wasn't man or woman up when he proposed to Yu Qingxuan at the Rosefinch Empire. Yu Qingxuan was so embarrassed, she dragged Feng Xue'er, who finished 'talking' to Xia Chen, away and left.
Xia Guhong brought the group away back to the Wine God's Palace. Xia Chen was dazed the whole way. Cross saw Feng Xue'er beating him up and then she spoke some words, he said something and then Xue'er beat him up again but this time she had a smile on her face.
He decided not to ask, are you kidding? When his wives were angry, even he was afraid! They got back and immediately relaxed, Cross went into the Inner World and saw the massive Sect and was slightly dazed.
It was safe to say, everything from the 3000 Worlds was in the sect. The sect directly sorted everything and erected new buildings. The Lightning tower was replaced by a giant pagoda, there was a giant stele in one corner, and many more inheritances. There was even the pseudo Tree of Life at the back.
The 3000 Fusang and 3000 Taiyin Trees were mixed together in a forest, if you looked at it from above the forest had a Taichi pattern made of black and gold. The black soil expanded and the bowl got bigger, now there was even an altar!
There was a set of stairs similar to the one in the Luo can, the Blood pool was sparkling with a Supreme Aura and much bigger. The Ancient inheritance pavilion was a giant building now and the main Sect building was giant, towering over the entire sect at the back.
The entire world had condensed to a normal Star Realm, not as big as the 3000 Worlds but the Qi inside was directly Chaos Qi and 1000x richer than the Qi inside the 3000 Worlds!
In short, the Inner World was new and better than ever baby! The Library had also filled to 6%! Crazy!
When he came out the group left the Wine God's Palace and went outside. Long Chen took out the Ancient Corpses for Guo Ran, Xia Chen, Lily, and Artemis to study. He showered them in the light of the 7 colored tree he got.
Days later
Long Chen and Cross were ready to leave and go to the Rosefinch/Vermillion Bird Empire and scoop up Yu Qingxuan, Cross was going to get Feng Xue'er obviously. He still felt his blood boiling at the thought of the young masters crowding around her, asking her to marry them.
He sneered in his heart 'When this daddy enters the Rosefinch Empire, you're all going to Hell.'
The duo sped off, streaking across the sky. Long Chen integrated the Kunpeng wings and his speed exploded but Cross still kept up with him by 'walking'. He was still wearing the Kimono, looking like a fresh scholarly long man with a messy bun.
In actuality, he was a cold blooded killer who doesn't even blink at killing fools.
A while later
Cross was sitting on top of a chariot, drinking, as Long Chen whipped three people to pull the chariot towards the Rosefinch Empire. It turns out, these people were from the Sky Ruler's Seal Empire and decided to attack Long Chen because he was speeding.
They were turned into Chariot pullers.
They arrived at the Gate of the Rosefinch Empire and Long Chen said "Go! Don't ever speak of my Qingxuan ever again, or you will reincarnate so fast, you won't even know what you've become!" turns out it was the 17 imperial prince! Hah! Anyway, he and 2 others ran for their lives, not even taking the Chariot.
Cross stored the Chariot and smiled happily as they walked into the Rosefinch empire, flattered by the guards for being so fierce. They entered the city and the duo went to the Huayan Company to get information before leaving and taking a transmission formation to the Vermillion Bird/Rosefinch Imperial City.
They walked out of the transmission array and someone shouted "Great Imperial Prince has arrived! Make way!" Long Chen and Cross moved out of the way of someone's hand, but that person snorted and tried to push them again. Long Chen slapped him flying, several people shouted "Bold!"
Cross frowned and someone else shouted "Stop!" this person wore a golden crown and looked to be 17 years old. Long Chen slapped another old man and suddenly a carriage passed by, everyone moved out of the way, a normal boy without cultivation was driving the carriage.
An old voice sounded from the carriage with thick disdain "A bunch of monkeys always using violence to solve problems." Cross started laughing and the carriage stopped, the boy at the front said coldly "What? You have a problem?!"
Cross glanced at the kid and the kid turned white in fear, spitting out a mouthful of blood as Cross said "A mortal kid dares to talk to me like this? Who gave you the courage? You and that old moron in the carriage, both wastes. Who the fuck is going to listen to reason when you can kill somebody with a fist? Are you retarded?"
The old man said coldly "Using violence to solve problems is the truth?" Cross said with a sneer "The truth is, I'm stronger than you so my fist is the truth. I could kill innocents and rape women everywhere I went but if you lose to me, I will be revered and become a saint. Without strength, words are just fart. Who's going to listen to you? I'll tell you right now, you'll get a slap and sent into your next life."
Cross chuckled and added "How's this for reason, you're blocking my way with this donkey driving your carriage. The problem is everyone is trying to walk here, according to reason, you're in the wrong no matter what status you have. So I'll give you 2 options, either you scram out of my sight, or I drag you out of the carriage and throw you across the city out of the way."
The surrounding people were awed and nodded in agreement, the old man in the cart sounded like he puked blood and the kid quickly left, Cross had scarred him for life. Cross and Long Chen left, ignoring the Great Imperial Prince or whatever he was.
They went to the imperial city and saw a woman playing the Zither. Long Chen obviously knew this woman and they stood in the crowd. The woman saw Long Chen and ran over before saying "Brother Long!!! Come up!" Long Chen looked awkward and Cross sighed, someone said "Why are you sighing?! Do you disdain the Yuhuang Fairy?!"
Cross sighed again and said "This woman, are you blind? Truly, do you have no brains at all?" Liao Yuhuang was stunned and said "What do you mean?" Cross said "Look around you, are you not attracting bad attention to Long Chen for no reason? There's no feeling of man and woman between you two but these morons will believe that there is. Effectively it's too late and not the connection has been made, now we'll be targeted and waste time with so many annoying flies!"
He rubbed his eyes and everybody was stunned, Cross was right! They were thinking this exact thing! Liao Yuhuang was stunned and Long Chen sighed saying "Just take me wherever, the damage is done." Liao Yuhuang suddenly felt awful and didn't know what to do.
Suddenly a cold voice said "You're Long Chen?!" Long Chen looked over at a woman who said hatefully "I want you Dragon Blood Legion Wood cultivators. Fight me for them!" Cross grinded his teeth and his anger started soaring, he released his endless killing intent and looked at the woman saying "You're a princess, right?"
The woman froze in fear and Cross said "Ask for the Dragon Blood Warriors again, I'll fight you. Right now, a single slap and I'll send you to Hell." The woman was so scared she didn't say anything, Cross looked at her coldly before saying "Listen to me carefully, I don't want to be bothered by you fucking flies anymore, understand? When this Daddy is around, reign in your pitiful pride and shackle your arrogance or this daddy will kill you!"
His voice was laced with killing intent and unlimited power, he really would slap this dumb broad to death if she spoke again. Long Chen patted his shoulder and Cross took a deep breath as he said "Something happened, my power is constantly prickling me, it's very irritating."
Long Chen shook his head and said "Then you shouldn't have condensed your cultivation. You know how dangerous that is?" Cross sighed and they turned to leave, ignoring everyone. A woman suddenly said "Brother Long, please wait!"
It was a woman in a yellow dress, her voice sounded like a flute as she said "I've been stuck at a bottle neck for a while, Sister Yuhuang has told me you're good at music. Perhaps you could guide me."
Cross flashed in front of the woman, so close their faces were almost touching. The woman looked into Cross' wild eyes and felt endless fear. He said coldly "You're obviously deaf, quit the music path." the woman fell on her ass and looked up with tears in her eyes.
Cross looked down at her and said "You're rhythm is off, your pitch is too low, your fingers aren't agile enough. In short, in the field of music, you're waste material. Give up." the woman started crying and Cross looked at the disciples with no emotion as he said "You're all idiots. Complete idiots!"
He looked at them and said hatefully "I hate this place. If it was up to me, I would destroy everything and build something better. Whoever runs this Empire has shit for brains, complete shit for brains. No wonder the Empire is falling!"
A kid with a fat face shouted "You ruffian! What nonsense are you spouting!" Cross said "Look at you all, you think reason can compete with strength. Idiotic. It's a foolish dream! Let me tell you something, wisdom, reason, words, in front of a strong person it's all bullshit! Schemes don't work in the face of absolute strength! You could scheme for a million years and I would steal smash your plans apart with my fist!"
Cross looked at them and spat "A bunch of greenhouse flowers, I'll make a bet with you. If you can survive a single night outside the empire walls. I'll give you my life savings." Long Chen laughed, Someone shouted "You're just a killer!"
Cross laughed and ripped the zither out of the crying girl's hands before saying "Let me show you what a kill can do today." his face went back to expressionless and Cross played the Zither in front of the group.
The tone was extremely gentle and happy, the crowd was entranced. Suddenly, the tone changed to sad and hateful as if the love of his life was taken from him. The tone turned murderous as he continued playing, before going through despair and finally grief.
Cross stopped playing and the crowd woke up with tears in their eyes. The girl in yellow said "What was that?" Cross threw the zither at her and said coldly "The Death of a Lover." he looked at her and sneered "Your heart is too venomous, you can't accept criticism, your eyes are at the top of your head and you look down on everything as if you're the queen of the heavens. I'll tell you today, you're not suited for music because your emotional state is not calm, you cannot accept failure and you pit other people. If this was outside, I don't look twice and slap you to death."
the yellow clothed woman went to kneel, but Cross stopped her with a foot saying "A big joke. You want to kneel to me? Are you trying to shorten my lifespan? Forget it, if I accept your kneeling won't I be pitted in the future? You offend someone once, you offend them for a lifetime. Even if you want to warm my bed in apology, I wouldn't accept you."
He snorted and walked off the stage, leaving the woman to shed tears by herself looking like a wilted flower. Cross couldn't care less, this venomous woman knew Long Chen wasn't good at music and purposely pitted him.
Cross swept a glance over Liao Yuhuang and walked away before being stopped by the Eunuch, Long Chen sneered "So it's the Eunuch Wei, does your face hurt?" Duke Wei was enraged and said "The Emperor wants to see you."
Cross patted his cheek and said with a smile "I bet you purposely discredited use, eh? Don't worry, before I leave, I'll make sure to kill you." Long Chen sneered and Duke Wei trembled in rage as he said "You're not protected by Xia Guhong anymore!"
Cross sneered "Since when did I need, Brother Guhong to protect me? Perhaps your memory was chopped just like your dick?" Duke Wei's eyes went red, Cross caught his neck and lifted him up saying "Say something, go ahead. I dare you. I'll bury you."
A loud voice sounded "Bold!" Cross sneered "If it weren't for my brother coming to propose, I would've stormed the palace! Are you kidding? I'm not afraid of anything in this life!" Long Chen smiled and the voice said with anger "Come to the Palace!"
Cross shook his hand and Duke Wei was slapped 100s of times before flying across the Imperial City, who knows where he landed. Cross and Long Chen walked to the Palace with sly grins.