A boy of exceptional charm and beauty was lying down on the grass. He was in such peaceful harmony with nature that even small birds, bees, and butterflies were around him.
Unfortunately, the sun disappeared from the sky, as ominous thundering winds blasted away the serenity of this picture.
"Child, it is time to go." Then, Felix heard the familiar voice of Grand Elder Sieg.
Just now, he was having a vision of a strange symbol, but the voice of Grand Elder brought him back, only to see the dark clouds up above.
"It seems my time to overcome this hurdle has come." Felix was eerily calm.
Even the storm winds evaded his body.
"This child has comprehended something extraordinary!" Sieg looked at the child with astonishment.
After a simple jump in space, they appeared in Tribulation Realm.
The Westgate Clan made this small pocket dimension close to the laws of the Ximen Star.
After them, the Ancestors and seniors used incredible amounts of recourses and wisdom to create thousands of formations to help their descendants pass the Heavenly Tribulations.
"This is still such a formidable place!" Felix looked at the worn-out metallic ground and millions of formation pillars around him.
Precisely ten people were waiting for him. He only recognized Sieg and Empress Xi.
"Child, we are the Council of Emperors of the Westgate Clan!" Sieg smiled and said in a reassuring tone.
"Ten Emperors!" Felix was shocked, as he had already learned that the most significant powers only had three or four of such powerhouses.
He read that God's Starfield had over seventeen living God Emperors, and it was already more than double from the second most powerful authority in God Realm - Tang Dynasty!
"Child, all powers hide their full strength! Our clan is one of the Ancient Clans in this universe! No one in their right mind would think that we only have three Emperors! Hahaha!" Empress Xi laughed lightly.
"Seniors, do you think I can overcome this?" Felix asked while looking at the sky where purple and black lightning was sparking.
"Oh, child... You haven't seen the world, nor haven't lived your life to the fullest, but the heavens put you in this position anyway. We are here to help you externally! What you experience here will die with us! Only other Emperors will read of this legendary Tribulation in our records!" Felix looked at the speaking warm looking granny.
"Felix! Ancestors instructed us to help reincarnations to the best of our ability! No matter what peril comes your way, we will use all means and recourses possible to help! Now begin. This storm will be your most difficult trial yet! Survive and see what lies beneath the curtain!" Sieg said with a calming smile.
"Thank you, elders! I always felt at home here! I hope we will have a chance to meet again!"
Felix smiled brightly and even had some tears in his eyes as he remembered his parents, grandparents, and his comfortable life here in the Westgate Clan.
He knew his Purple Sand branch was too weak to survive such an event in the Tribulation Realm, so he didn't wait for them.
Grand Elders watched how Felix calmly walked and sat in the lotus position.
He smiled at the sky, and everyone heard his mocking voice:
"Come on then, show me what's so scary about a little storm!"
Felix almost roared at the end, and the first lightning bolt struck his tiny body.
God's Emperors were already in formation, as all the possible means were working to help Felix.
Bolt after bolt struck Felix, trying to defend himself with his inner energies.
"This child has already absorbed all soul power from the last Tribulation! I can see him absorbing pure power from the Tribulation!" Sieg said with a bit of strain in his voice.
"This Tribulation is transforming to Celestial Ordeal Tribulation! The heavens like that test only the destined people! If he makes a mistake, Heavenly Dao will erase him from history!" Empress Xi shouted through the gale and thunder.
Felix entered an unknown state as he experienced his past life, and soon he saw himself in the life before that.
"So I have reincarnated for so many times already! Heavens recycles souls and then places them in new hosts!"
Felix experienced hundreds of lives as a human soon. He saw that he was even a beast, plant, stone, and a treasured spirit.
Thousands of different life forms, millions of lives, trillions of years!
Outside the outside world, only a few moments passed, but centuries turned into seconds as time eroded his mind.
"Something is wrong. This child has such an archaic aura! Send him mental energy, quick!" Empress Xi commanded as she was the most experienced healer.
"What is he going through?! This amount of mental energy is beyond our means! Use external recourses to open formations!"
Grand elders used precious mental energy stones to fuel formations.
Felix received the energy endlessly as his quest to relive his life consumed it quickly.
"So Gods Realm isn't the only place that our universe holds? I can faintly recall Immortals Realm, Devil Realm, and even Dream Realm!"
Scanning his all lives to find relevant information was unbearable, but he soon figured out that Heavenly Dao maintained more realms.
However, the strain to contain so much information was unbearable for his tiny soul.
"I should envelope my heart, mind, and soul! Let the energy flow according to the Heavenly Dao!"
Felix felt his Law Runes cry in joy as they quickly moved to form a strange symbol!
"This looks like a body of a human!" Felix was astonished as he examined this new symbol.
Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind fused seamlessly, and the primordial might of Chaos Energy quickly formed Chaos Law Runes!
His World Palace was expanding, as the stars were turning into real suns, and his central light was becoming a replica of a True Sun!
Gravity bent to his will, and Heavenly Dao enhanced his Inner World Creation!
Unfortunately, the Celestial Ordeal Tribulation sends an unimaginable amount of information to his brain and soul.
"AAAAAAH!!!" Grand Elders watched how the child screamed in pain as blood burst through his all orifices.
"Damn, quickly bring Clarity Star Water! His mind is under too much strain!" So Empress Xi send one of the elders to bring it.
"Sieg, create a slowing time zone! He will explode in a minute if you don't!" Empress Xi was horrified by such terrifying mental energy.
"This shocking mental transformation! I remember it in the records! His Tyranum bloodline is waking up!" Sieg smiled in happiness.
"What?! Didn't Ancestor Tyranum record this bloodline as pure Mage lineage? It is possible to attain only for those who comprehend Primordial Chaos Law!" One of the Grand Elders shouted in shock.
"NO TIME TO CHAT!!! PREPARE FOR BLAST!" Empress Xi screamed as the sky hailed.
Thousands of light streams pierced the heavens, trying to obliterate Felix.
Grand Elders used Ancient Treasures to shield him from the light.
More than half of the God Emperors spat a mouthful of blood, as their powers received the backlash from the Heavenly Dao.
Inside Felix's World Palace, an image of a human was forming. Soon, it became an identical copy of Felix when he was just a baby.
However, it was sleeping in hibernation, too weak to respond to anything.
The World Palace was now transforming into Inner World.
Every mage had to form a complete Inner World! Usually, they would create a nascent soul of their bloodlines, bodily constitutions, or the best magics they learned.
The most common Mind Palace was a simple tree. However, when a mage reached the Inner World Creation stage, this tree would transform into an actual magical sapling, where every leaf corresponds to the comprehended Laws!
Felix, on the other hand, was constructing a True World! He could feel how the Heavenly Dao was infusing it with thousands of Laws, Rules, Regulations, and Daos!
He could not understand most of them, but he felt chained by the Heavenly Dao!
"NO! I REFUSE TO BECOME A SLAVE TO SOME EXTERNAL FORCE!!!"
Felix screamed as he began to banish the Heavenly Dao Laws from his Inner World!
Every second, his body tore to pieces by conflicting powers.
"This child is trying to resist the Heavenly Dao! We can't help him do that. Use healing formations! Heal the soul as well!" Empress Xi had a bloody mouth when saying all this.
Grand Elders gritted their teeth, sent more energy, and used more treasures to help Felix mend his body.
Felix watched how his Inner World was crumbling as the foreign rules were expelled.
"No matter! I can mend the world with effort! However, I will not escape the chains if I don't resist them now!"
Felix felt how the Heavenly Dao wished to inhibit his powers, restrain his growth and shackle his soul.
However, as he expelled the foreign powers, his Planet dissolved into earth energy, Tribulation ripped the stars into starlight energy, and the foreign points turned the actual progress into nothing.
Felix observed how his Inner World was destroyed, and the last Heavenly Dao law left his body.
"This is Chaos Law!" Felix had an epiphany while looking at all this destruction.
Soon, his accumulated energies converged towards the Chaos Law Rune.
A spiral of chaotic energy was circling in a formation. Felix commanded his Law Runes to assist Chaos Energy.
"What is this tiny baby doing?" Felix looked at his newly constructed nascent soul flying towards the center of a chaotic spiral.
His Chaos Law Rune consumed all the energies, and Felix watched how a new small planet was born from it.
It was a lot more cohesive and connected with other Laws he had.
"It seems that I will have to grow my world anew! However, this time the Heavenly Dao will not interfere!"
Precisely at this moment, his Ordeal Tribulation was completed, and the Heavens sent the blessings for overcoming the trial.
Grand Elders watched his body heal at a rapid pace, and life's aura came back as the blessing strengthened his soul.
"He completed his Tribulation. Now he needs to complete his Inner Spell Formation, to become Inner World Creation stage mage!" Sieg said with a smile.
This trial was the first success in their clan's history to overcome the final World Palace Tribulation.
"I will protect him. You all go recuperate!" Sieg said as he sat in the lotus position near Felix.
Inside Felix's mind-space, the new Chaos Law rune shined with a lot of power.
He watched as the nascent soul and chaos energy combined to form a new diagram.
"A Primordial Star Diagram!" Felix instantly felt new information flood his mind.
A Primordial Star Diagram was the name of his Innate Spell Formation.
From the new information, he understood that this Primordial Star Chart was how the universe gives birth to creation and destruction!
"I believe this information is all around the universe. You need to be acknowledged by the universe to comprehend it..." Felix was speechless as he tried to understand how to use this chart.
"So this chart is like a piece of paper! I can put my Law Energy to create spells. If I construct the correct patterns, those spells will work!"
Felix laughed in joy!
"I should use the previous information! After all, I can remember those simple formations!" Then, Felix recalled his Fire Law blessing to control fire energy as he memorized several universal formations.
He quickly placed fire law energy in a weird three-dimensional pattern.
Sieg observed how all the fire element energy flew towards Felix in the outside world.
"What is this? It feels like a fourth-star spell!" Sieg watched with interest as the fire energy began to spin around Felix.
"Burning Domain Vortex!" Felix chanted in the ancient language.
Sieg watched how the Tribulation Realm raged in a spinning fire blaze.
Hundreds of kilometers around Felix became a volcanic wasteland, where fire winds attacked anyone but Felix.
"Congratulations, Felix! You are now officially a four-star mage! The youngest to ever appear in the Westgate Clan and probably one of the youngest in all history! I believe now you will have many questions, but you will find all the answers later! Now go rest!"
Sieg patted Felix on the back, and he fainted.
Even though the blessing reconstructed Felix's body and soul after overcoming the ordeal, his mind was still exhausted.
Sieg teleported him to a magnificent mansion, where Sitri, Silver, Abbadon, and Ofelia waited.
Three months passed while Felix stayed in a coma.
His parents observed his condition, and after a few days, they noticed his body, mind, and soul absorb outside energies constantly.
"I will ask High Council! Maybe there is something we need to do!" Gyro said as he teleported out of the room.
Soon Fairy Athena and Sieg teleported into the Purple Sand district, where Felix was taken care of by his family.
"This child has constructed a very sophisticated Inner Spell Formation. It seems to transform his body, mind, and soul passively! Next, I will bring him to the energy pool! He will recover faster there!" Sieg said as he smiled at Aretha, who nodded.
"Thank you, Fairy Aretha, Grand Elder Sieg!" Sitri said with some tears in her eyes.
"No need to be polite, little girl! Your son is a fourth-star mage at the age of nine! He is already considered a core disciple! Ximen Academy will help him study with all his might! The Westgate Clan will fund his cultivation without any misgivings! The day he passed that Tribulation marked him as one of the most talented mages in history! We will meet again!" Sieg said as he took Felix in his arms and vanished.
"Lady Sitri, Lady Ofelia, you don't need to worry. Now Felix will begin his real training. As you know, the Titled Mage stage requires a lot more time and effort! Now he will get access to our clan's secrets! I hope you will understand not to pry information from him later in the day! Even though your contributions in giving birth to such a prodigy are great, we can't let the core secrets of the clan spread freely!" Fairy Aretha said with unquestionable resolve.
"We understand, Fairy! We will act with prudence!" Ofelia said with a gentle smile and a proud voice.
"Good, I hope we will meet again!" Fairy Aretha said as she vanished.
"Silver, we don't need to worry about this child anymore!" Sitri cried with joy and relief as all these years of worry that her child would die were washed away.
Felix was taken to Lady Reishi and placed in the second energy pool.
"How long will he stay here?" Lady Reishi asked.
"For as long as he needs! Observe his condition, and transfer his body to a higher grade pool if required! He is a core disciple now, so there is no need to spare expenses!" Fairy Aretha instructed and left the underground cave.
Elder Reishi just nodded and observed the boy who slept.
Time passed, and Felix remained in hibernation.
Inside his mind-space, his Inner World was reconstructing quickly. The planetary bodies created a system around a colossal sun. Moons traveled in orbits, and even stars in the distance appeared one after the other.
Felix's Law Runes were together around Chaos Law Rune. They all pulsated with harmonical energy whisps and leaked to Primordial Star Chart.
This weird diagram made from energy strings and colors formed images and transformed the energy into fundamental particles to fuel the Inner World Creation and even slowly enhance Felix's soul and body.
If someone were to stab Felix with a simple kitchen knife now, they would be surprised to see his skin as hard as enchanted metals!
"This boy is exuding such a mystical charm. Even his hair is sparkling with colors while remaining dark black like his mother's!" Elder Reishi was intrigued by such a weird change.
Time passed, and in three months, Elder Reishi changed Felix's energy pool five times, as he increased his absorption of elements and even mental energy.
Today Felix was nine years and three months old precisely. He opened his eyes and breathed out a turbid black mucus-filled breath.
This loud coughing and spitting attracted Elder Reishi's attention.
"Oh, child! Let me help you a bit!" She turned on the formations, and Felix felt the outside world become a mist as a tiny stream of clean water appeared.
"Clean yourself up from these impurities! I activated security formations so you have complete privacy. This water is cleansing, baptized by the sacred light!" Felix heard Elder Reishi's voice and smiled.
"Thank you, Fairy Reishi!" Felix felt incredibly alive and refreshed now.
"Such great power courses through my mind into my body! I can feel comfortable in my soul as well!" Felix observed the Inner Spell Formation, which slowly sent weird power to his body, mind, and soul.
He quickly cleaned up this black liquid on his body and left the pool formations.
"It is very nice to meet you, Elder Reishi!" Felix said with a content smile as he felt that his survival against the Heavenly Dao was an absolute fluke.
"Nice to meet you too, child!" Elder Reishi was quite surprised to hear such a sweet greeting.
"I believe I missed my exams again!" Felix laughed.
"Child, you don't need to be examed anymore! Let's go. I will bring you to the Purple Sand district. Your family is worried about you!" Elder Reishi teleported him to Purple Sand districts entry hall.
"Child, I will inform the clan about you waking up! Now go stay with your family!" Elder Reishi said and left him inside the Purple Sand branch's estate.
"They have changed a lot of things here! It seems we have got rich!" Felix observed how the previously undecorated halls had numerous new equipment and pricy decorations.
Guards and servants were coming his way as they noticed his appearance.
"Hello, young master Felix! We are glad to see you!" Guards and servants bowed with respect.
Felix noticed most of these guards were in the fifth stage. It showed a vast improvement of power.
"No need to be polite. I'll go meet my mother now!" Felix evaded their gazes and went towards the inner palace.
He could feel his mother's aura in that direction and his father's and grandparent's.
"Hi, mom, dad, granny, grandfather!" Felix said in his new mystical voice.
Now he looked like a fairy tale child, as his body and movements brought some magnetic attraction, as magical powers roiled around him.
"Felix!" Sitri rushed to hug him, and others observed him with astonishment.
"Kid, it seems you can't control your new power properly!" Abbadon said with a smile.
He felt Felix exude danger and majesty! "How can this be?! I am a peak Titled God, how can this child as a fourth-star mage make me feel danger?" Abbadon was shocked at his instincts.
Felix felt this abnormal fluctuation of emotions and looked straight into Abbadons eyes.
As laws roiled around the hall, everyone felt a weird fluctuation, but Felix breathed out, and everything calmed down.
"Felix, it seems I can feel danger coming from you! This phenomenon is extraordinary, as we have a full stage of cultivation apart us!" Abbadon decided to hide nothing and discuss freely.
"Grandfather, I can feel that my Inner Spell Formation repelled your simple prying. But, if you keep provoking it, I don't think I will be able to stop the backlash!" Felix chose to be honest as well. After all, now, he could feel even cleared that Abbadon was not his enemy.
"I feel that I could read their minds if I wished!" Felix felt inexplicable power coming from his mind as the Primordial Star Chart exuded that unknown energy through his essence.
"It is okay, Felix! You gained a lot from this obstacle, so you will need time to control it fully!" Abbadon said and sighed.
" Mom, can we go eat something? I think I could devour an elephant now!" Felix said as he felt unimaginable hunger.
"Sure, let's all go and enjoy!" Sitri said, and they all left towards the banquet hall.
Felix stayed with his parents for a whole week, just talking about their past.
They laughed and enjoyed the warmth of a family, but they heard from the guard that a guest had come.
"Professor Penox!" Felix was surprised as he saw this man.
"Hello, Felix! Nice to meet your family, as well!" Penox smiled towards Felix's parents.
"Come inside, Professor. We were about to start dinner!" Felix invited Penox, and they all sat around a huge table.
"Felix, I came today because the higherups finished their decisions about your status! So, from this day forth, you are officially Core Disciple! We will give you a new token and other equipment when you go to the Palace of Magic! Also, you have received your courtyard inside the Central Clan's Palace! Your room and everything in the Ximen Academy has changed so that you will learn about it later! Congratulations!" Penox smiled warmly, as he felt that this student was a very hardworking child.
Felix felt that Penox was intrigued about him and his new power but was glad that Professor refrained from prying.
"Professor, we will talk about my breakthrough later! I still have some questions about core disciple!" Felix said straightforwardly.
"That is okay, Felix. I no longer have the authority to know about your powers! You will learn those core disciples are the highest rank students in the Ximen Academy! Someone will explain your authority and status in the Mage Department. However, I can tell you that your new teachers will all be much more powerful than before!" Penox said, and Felix saw that he wanted to get to the point of his visit.
"Felix, I've come here to inform you that you will have to report tomorrow morning! Also, prepare some funds, as you will need them! Your next homecoming will not come soon. Therefore, it is better to say goodbyes! Also, if you want, you can bring two people to act as your helpers. They will not have student status but will act as your messengers and confidants! I must go now. Thank you for the hospitality!"
Felix saw the Professor off and went to prepare for tomorrow.
"It seems a lot of training is waiting in the future!" Felix smiled and went to sleep.