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The time in the void moved at different speeds, but within a specific part of the void two years had passed. In those two years, the universe had only moved by two days. Yet these two years were eventful for Rhys and Eternal Paragon, who had some breakthroughs and advancements.
For Rhys, his cultivation had increased as well as comprehension. Eternal Paragon had a few breakthroughs in one of her projects, specifically, bloodline conversion. It was not smoother and less painful. That meant every conversion could be taken faster and in less time.
This is why the current Rhys's bloodlines were purple, it was not much, less than 10%, but it is still a massive improvement from the 3% in a year.
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Currently, Rhys was floating peacefully in the void, Eternal Paragon's domain was less prominent as she was allowing Rhys to slowly get used to the void, his Eternal Paragon Void Body could support him in the void for some time, but it was only limited. Henceforth why her domain was still active.
His white robes fluttered freely as his hair swayed from side to side silently and slowly, if one were to look at Rhys, they would see he was at peace. But anyone who knew where he was would be surprised.
As Rhys floated freely, Eternal Paragon showed up, making Rhys open one eye to look at her before he closed them and went back to relaxing.
"Kid, don't you think our time is getting shorter? You have reached the peak of the Heavenly Saint realm, every breakthrough takes longer. This is why we will start making a schedule for you, I don't want to damage your developing individuality, but you still have a lot of things to learn from me, like my techniques and knowledge."
Her calm words made Rhys 'sit up' and look at her with wide eyes, "Indeed. Three years have passed in total. Okay then."
"Good, now I will start teaching you a few basic knowledge of upper realms." Eternal Paragon licked her lips before she looked straight into Rhys's eyes and began to move her lips.
"You know the Mortal, True, and Saint realm already. So no explanation will be required, but for the Immortal Realms up, the explanations will be very important, so listen.
"In the Immortal Realm, one discards their dantian to form an origin. Said origin will carry you through the rest of the realms. The origin will begin to grow with you in power and serve as a mini-world. Even if it can't host life. You can still store things inside your origin.
"Once you reach the Divine Realm, the origin will shape itself to your will. The origin will become what we call 'Divine Worlds,' places that can host life and you are a god in your Divine World, Divine World will have the amalgamation of your law and any other form of comprehension as well as individuality.
"Divine Worlds are also called something else, Mental Worlds. It is also called this because within one's Divine World, one can implant their mentality and the Divine World would shape itself to match it. Divine Worlds can also be summoned into the outside world as a form of dominion. I can also see your mental world is developing, which is good since mental worlds only begin to develop in the divine world, I don't know how you did it but it's a good head start.
"Your mentality and individuality will shape the type of divine world you make, in a blacksmith's case, they would be able to make a divine world where weapons are constructed or all the weapons they made in their life are replicated and able to be used for fighting.
"Now, in the Celestial World, the divine world will evolve into a celestial world. Having the same capabilities as the divine world but stronger. Now listen carefully. Celestial Worlds also have another use, that is, paving the way to the Paragon Realm. The Celestial World will slowly form itself into a pillar, of course, it won't become one, that only means your Celestial World will be more compressed, tall, and rigid.
"Those are the basics for every realm, there are more but it is too bothersome to explain them, I will also not feed you everything, lest I damage your developing individuality." Eternal Paragon became quiet afterward.
"What about the Paragon Realm? You did not speak about it."
"I can't, even if I could, you are not ready to learn about them. Now shut up, I will begin to tell you a few other things. So when you—" As Eternal Paragon began to speak, Rhys lost himself in his thoughts.
'Not ready? She can't speak about it? Some form of restriction? Well, I guess if she told me how to get to the Paragon realm, it wouldn't be fair.'
As Rhys thought, his ears were still wide and opened, listening to Eternal Paragon's words and engraving them into his mind as to not forget them.
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Days passed as Rhys was fed new knowledge, alchemy, formation, arrays, everything Rhys had stopped doing was forced into him again, forcing Rhys to begin to remember it all.
Her knowledge naturally outclassed Swarslen's knowledge. Allowing Rhys to know that Swarshlen's knowledge wasn't all right, some pill receipts were wrong and some formations and arrays seemed to have hidden mechanics inside.
Rhys kept this in mind before he once again absorbed himself in eating knowledge. He forgot to cultivate at times but still made sure to keep a stable schedule of learning, resting, and cultivating.
Overall, things went well for the next few weeks where Rhys was fed knowledge of different things.
Rhys felt he was approaching the Celestial Saint realm, where his dear Aurora and Edea were, so he had even more motivation to surpass her.
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[Dragon Realm - Home of the Dragon Race]
The Dragon realm is a world hidden within space, secluded from the outside world. But that doesn't mean they know nothing of what is happening outside. They are the wisest beings and have no trouble making special artifacts that allow them to know of the outside happenings without leaving their secluded realm.
At this moment, a man with green hair and golden eyes was walking down a hall. His steps were steady, yet one could see slight shaking as if he were afraid of something or someone. As he reached the end of the hall, the man found a gigantic crimson door, yet with a mere push, it was opened.
On the other side of the crimson door, was a secluded space, it was a hidden spatial room that spread for billions of light-years. Within the darkroom that shone with mini-stars, a large, blood-red dragon laid on the ground, seemingly sleeping.
At this time, the green-haired man walked in, his hands behind his back as his body was standing tall and prideful, yet all that vanished before the red dragon in front of him. Leaving his pride he kneeled and clasped his hands before he spoke.
"Forgive my insolence for disturbing your rest, My Empress!" He banged his head against the floor to make it bleed, a sign of sincerity for disrupting the rest of the strongest Dragon.
Yet the red dragon did not move, nor did it open its eyes, only words echoed in the room without the movement of the dragon. "Speak."
Sharp, straight, and firm words were spoken, making the green-haired man shake in fear before he gulped and spoke with a shaky voice, "S-some of the Younglings decided to not listen to your words and left the dragon realm to explore the ruins."
"You are telling me you could not stop younglings? You are an ancient dragon, a dragon king. You are telling me younglings escaped under your watch?" Her words contained boundless killing intent that made the green hair man shake and before he replied, sweat fell down his face.
"NO, of course not! we are already behind them and bringing them back soon, I only came to inform your seemed self so that you kne—" His words were cut short by the red dragon.
"Leave. Do you think they could escape the watch of my Dragon Eyes? I know everything that happens within the Dragon realm, let those younglings go free. If they are close to dying, let them die. Don't save them. That will serve as a lesson not to go against my words." Her words were soft, yet one could feel something was wrong with those words.
"Y-yes! Excuse me, oh Dragon Empress of Extinction!" The green-haired man bowed before left, no, ran out of the room, the door locking behind him.
Within the room, the dragon empress remained still, her thoughts to herself before her eye open, shining brightly and with intelligence, "Show me the truth. Foresight, allow me to gaze at salvation!"
Her words made her eyes shine in a blinding golden as the light of destiny erupted from her body and made a hologram in front of her eyes, showing a young man with multicolored hair and golden eyes. The dragon empress watched, seeing the man splitting the sky and earth with his strikes. Destruction rained down every time he moved.
Yet before she could see more, the hologram vanished and a grunt escaped the red dragon as blood rushed down her eyes.
"How? My destiny and prowess are not enough to look at that kid's future!? Only Paragons could trick my eyes! How can he have a Paragon guarding his fate!?" The dragon empress roared in anger before she calmed.
"So that kid is our salvation? One man will save the dragon race from extinction? Heh, that is the funniest thing ever. Oh well, I have the time, I should be more active." Her words sounded as if her long boredom had finally ended and she had found a new toy to play with.
Her long, draconic body shone with a red light before it began shrinking and took the shape of a curvaceous woman with long, fiery hair and golden eyes, but unlike Rhys's, her eyes had a natural vertical slit pupil.
This was the humanoid form of the Dragon Empress, her steps made her breasts bounce and she walked with a sexy sway of her hips, making her buttocks bounce side to side. Her body was naked and her sexiness would make anyone lose themselves in lust. Her body had an hourglass figure, that was how sexy her body was. Large hips, thin waist, and big bust.
'I wonder, how long will it take for salvation to arrive?' The drop sexy woman spoke before a red robe appeared over her body, covering her once naked and sexy body.
Before long, she vanished from her room and appeared outside of the Palace she was in, a veil and beautiful golden high heels now adorned her body. Alongside many jade and gold bracelets, rings, necklaces, and earrings all over her pointy ears, not quite like elves but they were still sharp and pointy.
She opened her fair mouth under her crimson veil and spoke with the majesty of an empress! "Listen. I, your Empress sents a decree. From now on, anyone who does not follow my words will be exiled and left alone, your life and death would be up to you!"
Her words made waves of fear, anger, and other emotions spread, but they did not understand she was buying time for salvation to arrive. She did not know how long it'd take, but she would make the time required.
But each of her words made the Imperial Dragons move, following her will and enforcing it upon the other dragons and dragon hybrids.
During all of this, the dragon empress watched coldly, as a woman, she had to act cold and ruthless, otherwise, how many times would she have suffered at the hands of greedy male dragons who would want to use her as a cauldron for cultivation and descendants?
Naturally, she was the strongest dragon, at least known of, what if a dragon had become a paragon, would she not be in danger? Or some secluded ancient dragon, she did not know and would not take any chances.
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Author's Note:
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Things are moving.