As the trio appeared in the cave, Kai's pendant started glowing. He frowned for a second before retrieving the broken piece of the space gate.
The piece flew out from his hand and started making its way through the cave. Kai marked the piece with a formation as he saw it get out of his sight.
"Something is definitely wrong with this cave. I will have to create a special formation for this." Kai said as he started drawing symbols in the air.
He then bit his right finger as golden blood started to flow from the wound. A drop of it touched the ground and flowers started to bloom around the spot.
Kai didn't pay attention to that as he dropped four drops of his blood in four different directions before touching the middle of it with his hand.
Symbols started to light up around the trio as the formation came to life. It hit the trio I'm the forehead and a Z-shaped symbol appeared on their foreheads.
"Mark of eternity." Kai murmured to himself as the symbol ignited on their foreheads before vanishing.
"Now the cave won't affect us and time will pass like normal." Kai said as he teleported the three of them to the place where the broken piece of the space gate was.
"Now it all makes sense." Kai said slowly as he picked up two broken pieces of space gate.
Mia and Mariel didn't say anything and just waited for Kai to tell them about it. He stored the two pieces inside his pendant before finally telling them about it.
"Mia was originally supposed to be on the northern continent but on her birth, she didn't have her entire soul because half of your soul was still tied to me. But you didn't even get the first half cause you were no longer on this planet. Someone took you inside the space gate on the northern continent and someone shattered it from the outside. But no human can destroy the gate without losing his or her life so that person is now dead.
Since one of the entrances of a space gate was destroyed, you and the person who was with you were trapped inside. Since all the space gates are probably connected to the central continent, shattering one exit trapped you both of you inside the space that connects the two places. But since time passes differently inside a space gate, you were in there for fifteen years before the space gate randomly spat you out." Kai explained as Mia strained hard to remember anything about her past.
"It's a futile attempt as without any soul, you won't have any memories. The moment you landed on this continent, the person who was with you lost their life as they destroyed the space gate that dropped you on this continent. I wish they hadn't done that as it was only a temporary space gate that would have vanished after some time. And after that, you regained your soul and you know what happened after that." Kai said as he had decided that he would not tell them about Mia's ice goddess killing mode.
'I guess I still have a lot of researching to do and I have to rescue Risea after this tournament.' Kai sighed as an idea clicked in his mind.
He took out one of the pieces of the space gates and put it on the ground. He then bit his finger and dropped a few drops of his blood on the space gate piece.
"It looks as though the space gate here shattered automatically as more than two linking space gates were destroyed. This cave here absorbed that space energy and time and space bent here. It will vanish after a few years and this will be a normal cave after that. But for now, I am going to accelerate the time here so one second here would be a day outside. We will get out in seven seconds and the second round would then start. Be ready to grab me as I will face a huge rebound." Kai warned them as they nodded.
He closed his eyes and started focusing as the piece of space gate broke. Space energy was released from it the cave absorbed it quickly.
But then, Kai summoned every ounce of space energy present in the cave and redirected it to one spot. A deafening sound was heard as the energy was focused at one spot.
Kai's body flew back because of the rebound and Mariel and Mia caught him. He then teleported them to the mouth of the cave as Kai took a few deep breaths before sitting down.
"You are basically like a god of time." Mia said in awe as Kai smiled.
"No person in the entire universe can become a god of time or space. What I just did was use every ounce of space energy present in this cave and morphed the space around us and I even had to use this realm's spiritual energy for this and that's why flew back like that since the realm rejected me even though I stole enough energy to do it.
No person can go to the future or to the past. What's happened cannot be changed and what will happen in the future will depend on you so you should not mess with it or you will die. But this cave was a mutation and I just evolved it to its final stage and it cost 90% of my spirit energy, even though I used some of this realm's energy." Kai said as he stood up and flexed his shoulders.
"You are saying it like the world and realms are alive." Mariel asked in a confused tone as Kai sighed.
"No realm is alive and it only rebounds if the nature is threatened. As for the world, it consists of two alive entities that maintain time and space. And I am not going to tell you anything more." Kai said as he teleported the three of them to the arena.
"Where were you for the last few days?" Riang asked as soon as she saw the trio.
"Never mind that. How were the rest of the fight?" Kai asked as Riang sighed.
"It was like what I expected it to be. But the princess who is the host of the White Tiger was shocking. She had a pure black tiger and a 10th stage heaven spirit realm cultivation!" She exclaimed as Kai nodded.
It was exactly like he had thought of it. It was now time for the second round and it looked as though Yin was just announcing the competitors for the first round.
"The first one is the Blue Moon sect!" Yin said as Kai smiled in amusement.
'They rigged it.' He thought silently because there was no way that the Blue Moon sect would be picked twice. But he wanted to know who his opponents were.
"Can anyone from the Blue Moon sect come down to represent the sect?" Yin asked as Kai jumped down from the stands and gracefully landed on the arena floor.
"And their opponents will be... The Kuraha family !" Yin announced as the entire place cheered. The Kuraha family ancestor landed on the arena floor and glared at Kai.
The Kuraha family was the great family Kai had humiliated in the hotel as they wanted the hotel for themselves and they had believed that Kai was just a nobody without any background.
But it looked as though they had bribed the Zian family so that they could obtain their revenge on Kai.
Kai looked up at the pavilion where Zian Asahi was casually smiling at Kai. It looked as though Asahi wanted to test Kai's abilities.
Too bad that Kai didn't want to fight them. This time, his disciples would fight the great family.
"The match will start in 10 minutes. Please prepare for the battle." Yin said as Kai and the ancestor nodded.
"Here use these." Kai said as he returned back to his sect and handed the participants two vials of his yang qi.
He created a barrier around them so their force of breakthrough wouldn't burst out of the barrier.
All of his disciples broke through to the 10th stage of the hell spirit realm in an instant and they kowtowed to Kai.
"Go win the battle." He whispered in Nezuko's ears as she went up to the stage with confidence.
"It looks as though the Blue Moon sect is sending in someone new. I wonder how this young girl would do?" Yin commented as Nezuko looked at her opponent.
He was a fat man with a 3rd stage hell spirit realm cultivation. the Kuraha family didn't believe that the Blue Moon sect would have any more powerful members, except Kai, Mia, and Mariel. So they sent in one of their weakest members.
"Oh, you are quite beautiful. Leave that sect and become my concubine. I will give you money and will keep you pleased." The fat boy said as Nezuko snorted.
"Never gonna do that. Bye-bye fatty." Nezuko grinned as she released her 10th stage hell spirit realm cultivation and moved with the help of her wind element.
The fatty was so shocked that he could barely move as Nezuko chopped him on the back of his head and knocked him unconscious.
"Good job Nezuko. Let's send in the next member." Kai said, much to everyone's shock, as he randomly chose one of his disciples to enter the stage.
This time the Kuraha family sent in an 8th stage hell spirit realm cultivator and thought that Nezuko must have been someone special but much to their shock, this person was also a 10th stage hell spirit realm cultivator.
She defeated the 8th stage guy after a few minutes of battling and also returned back. the Kuraha family's jaw dropped as they saw that the next person was also at the 10th stage of hell spirit realm cultivator.
They stared at Kai in horror. How many 10th stage hell spirit realm cultivators did this sect had?!
If only they knew that Kai was at the imperial spirit realm, then they would have dug a hole and jumped into it to die.