After all preparations were finished, Yasenia was on the Skeletal Flying Warship, moving toward the Steel Back Wolves territory. Behind her Warship, three others that they had built followed.
Of course, the three following behind Yasenia's were low-quality in comparison, all of them at the low-level Heaven Rank quality.
However, when boosted with Flawless Parus minerals, their combat strength was not negligible against stationary targets. With time, they had the ability to siege almost any defensive formation on Distancia except the ones they built. Their defensive shields were also strong enough to resist Half-Step Dantian Spiritualization cultivators for a few moments.
Leading the fleet, Yasenia's Skeletal Warship looked half their size. However, as the Transcendent Ranked Warship was covered with complex formations, it carried the most people.
In total, Yasenia had taken around 3,000 Fifth Realm cultivators with her and around 300,000 Fourth Realm cultivators.
Her ship carried 900 of the Fifth Realm cultivators and 90,000 of the 300,000 Fourth Realm ones. The rest were evenly split among the other ships. The most important and elite fighting force, the maids, sent 10 to the lesser ships while keeping 30 guarding by Yasenia's side.
This time, everyone came, leaving behind Ghana to take care of the sect.
Laurina, the Nature Dragon Princess from the Sky Continent, asked with curiosity. "Big Sis Yasenia, where are we going?"
The dragoness smiled. "To participate in a wedding."
Laurina blinked, her green slit eyes looking confused. "Someone invited you?"
Yasenia raised an eyebrow. "They didn't." Then, she rubbed her chin while leaving a flabbergasted dragon princess behind. "I should inform the rest; now it is a good time."
So, she entered the Warship's bridge and tapped the formations inside a few times. After doing so and creating an amplifying voice formation, her voice echoed in all four ships. "Well, I've gathered quite a few of you to participate in a very special day for a person who never leaves me alone! They must love me lots."
Everyone began speculating, but most entered a coughing fit when Yasenia said the name. "This person is my dear friend, Fu Lang Zu!"
The girls behind Yasenia felt their lips twitch. 'I think someone just had a stroke.'
Yasenia said with a sentimental tone. "You see, Fu Lang Zu is about to marry! In just two months! Who would've thought that he wouldn't invite me? I even bothered to prepare a sandwich for him!"
The people around looked speechless at such a display of shamelessness.
They suddenly heard Angel's very recognizable and adorable voice. "Yasenia, what's the sandwich made of?"
Yasenia's faint smile became a grin. "I am glad you asked! How could I not reveal that? What if people think I'm trying to poison him or something, right?"
Everyone listened closely, becoming curious. Yasenia said. "I reserved the inner thigh of his own leg I amputated to create this sandwich! It even reached high-level Heaven Ranked! Aren't I considerate? A Heaven-Ranked gift! Not many are as generous as me."
Silence.
Pure silence descended on all the boats as everyone's eyes widened in horror.
The dragoness's calm laugh broke the tense mood. "Fu Lang Zu and his family have been poking at my side for a long time. Testing me here, blocking me there. I am going to be honest. I didn't mean to create the sect I've created." Yasenia confessed to everyone. "My intention was to create an isolated little paradise and then move on, ignoring the entire political sphere of this world. But I was not left alone when I asked to be left alone. Now, you have a dragon that killed her peaceful intentions. They are dead, and the dead can't come back to life… At least not as they were in the past."
A cold and ruthless tone followed. "Now, I don't care anymore. They wanted to provoke me? Sure. They've succeeded. This is the start of a World War where all my enemies will be stomped to the ground like the annoying bugs they are. This time, our objective is the destruction of the Steel Back Wolves. So, prepare yourselves."
The dragoness added. "Oh, by the way. We are not murdering without limits. This is not a purge of a species. It is a purge of the top elites. And, if you are afraid that in the future they will become a problem as revenge-filled people attack us… Well. Don't. We are just taming the wolves and making them obedient allies by snapping their heads."
An Astral Elder spoke aloud. "I don't agree to this!"
Yasenia appeared in the sky of that warship, looking down at him with an icy imperial gaze as she floated majestically. Even with a skirt, the wind seemed to blow perfectly to hide everything and leave an attractive yet elegant figure. "Why?"
Her question came accompanied by a deep presence that made everyone feel suffocated. After crossing into the Fifth Realm, Yasenia's soul and aura had finally reached the peak of this world. Other than the seniors and a few peak-level Fifth Realm people, the dragoness would not lose aura-wise with anyone.
The mix of potent treasures and energies in her was like a wall pressing from above, and even the middle-level Epoch Core that protested felt short of breath. 'W-When did sect master gain such strength!? During the tribulation, her aura was nothing like this!'
Yasenia squinted, focusing her pressure on the middle-level Epoch Core and making his knees actually bend under pressure. "I asked you, why do you not agree? Don't make me repeat myself a third time."
This scene left everyone deeply shocked. A creature that had recently broken through into the fifth realm was making a several-thousand-year-old elder bend their knees with just their presence.
The man from a canine race stuttered and changed his tone to a respectful tone out of fear. "S-Sect Master, not everyone is guilty-."
Yasenia smirked derisively. "So what?"
The elderly dog man looked with a stunned expression. "What?"
The dragoness stepped forward, and her body disappeared, appearing right before the elder. Everyone's heart skipped a beat as no one saw her movement. "As long as they support Fu Lang Zu, they will die. This is not a peaceful or merciful war, elder. This is a purge."
"A purge of those creatures who dared oppose me."
"A purge of those beings who dared provoke me."
"It is a purge where I will make everyone understand that going against me is not only stupid but also a one-way ticket to the reincarnation circle."
Yasenia squinted, her piercing golden slit eyes pinning down the elder. "Now, I will give you three options. First, you come with us and fight with your life in the line like everyone here will do. Second, you go back to the sect by yourself and close your eyes as I carry on with this war." The dragoness's hand morphed into a draconic shape, and the tip of her claws poked around the heart of the middle-level Epoch Core elder. "Third, you continue to oppose me, and the first casualty of the War I will start will be someone from my camp."
The elder looked at Yasenia and felt as if his heart would rupture out of fear. He had never felt such instinctual, primal fear, not even when he gazed at peak-level Epoch Cores in the past.
Those people gave him an oppressive feeling of unbeatable strength. However, the dragon woman before himself was a ruler, an invincible monarch that one could not beat regardless of strength and willpower.
Not only him, but many here finally understood what it meant to gaze upon a superior creature that was unreachable.
Yasenia stopped touching his chest, and fourteen stars appeared around her as she used Pegasus Gallop to disappear from that place and reappear at the deck of the Skeletal Warship. "Forward. The sooner we arrive, the better." Yasenia's face was terrifyingly cold. "Those who oppose us, kill. There are no further orders."
In the capital of the Steel Back Wolves, the biggest cave entrance where Fu Lang Zu lived was guarded by many people. The reason was the small fight that happened not long ago.
Fu Lang Zu looked at his new arm and leg and snorted. "Well, it didn't go as planned, but at least I got my limbs back."
He raised his head to look at the chained Zephyrith and spoke. "You are really stubborn."
Zephyrith elegantly sat even when her limbs were all chained, and she sneered. "Is this how you treat your future bride?"
Fu Lang Zu lifted his eyebrow handsomely. "Why wouldn't I? You are going to become mine. Does it matter how I treat you?"
Zephyrtih looked at Fu Lang Zu's limbs and asked. "Are you so eager even when you already have those back?"
Fu Lang Zu chuckled. "Your Pure Yin Essence will be pretty useful for my breakthrough. Although I have recovered thanks to that pill… I still want you. Can you blame me when your body asks to be possessed?"
His eyes roamed Zephyrith's scantily covered body, and he smiled. "One of the most beautiful women in this world is now chained in my basement with such erotic clothes, quite a feast for the eyes."
Zephyrith didn't even blink at his remarks and commented. "Why the change of mind? You went from a few decades to a few years to a few months, not even being able to keep that time frame before you asked your pack to jump my people and incarcerate me."
Fu Lang Zu rubbed his chin. "To be honest, it was easier than I expected. I thought you at least would have one of the peak-level Epoch Cores by your side."
Zephyrith raised her silver eyebrows with contempt. "And, who told you that I don't have one?"
The black-haired, golden-eyed wolfman snorted. "They would've rescued you if it was like such."
Zephyrith laughed. "Really…" She looked at Fu Lang Zu and spat. "I feel that, even if you were the strongest person in the world, you can't even compare to a single hairlock of hers."
Fu Lang Zu approached and grabbed her face, making her look up. "You know why I haven't forcefully stolen your purity, Zephyrith?"
Zephyrith remained silent, her eyes tranquil like a lake's surface. Even if she wanted to mock him, pushing his boundaries was not a clever thing to do. With enough pressure, something might snap that will push him to disregard the consequences.
"The only reason is because you were the female I've been the most eager to pair with. Seeing such a proud and intelligent person writhe below me would be quite a delight, although the number one target for that has recently changed, heh."
Zephyrith sneered. "Delusional. Are you still stuck in the illusion that you can win?"
Fu Lang Zu straightened and smiled. "Will the world accept a Sect Leader that ignores tradition and uses strong arms and legs to rule instead of strong personal strength?"
Zephyrith asked. "Did you never ask yourself that, perhaps, that dragon's objective is not to be accepted?"
Fu Lang Zu frowned. "What do you mean? The reason she is fighting so much is probably to get a spot in the nine sects and become world-renowned."
Zephyrith barked out a laugh. "If she were that simple, things wouldn't have deteriorated to this level before you realized it. What if that dragon doesn't want to be accepted?" Zephyrith's smile was full of mockery. "What if her objective is to make the World hers?"
Fu Lang Zu was stunned and then laughed. It was a completely honest laughter, as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world. "Are you sure you haven't gone mad from stress, Zephyrith? World Domination? Regardless of how strong those 50 women by her side are, they won't be able to do that before they become the number one enemy and are squashed."
Someone entered the cell and kneeled. "Patriarch Fu, the wedding is prepared. Only the procedure is left."
Fu Lang Zu looked at Zephyrith and smiled. "Two months left, but honestly, why wait? I'll start with it since everything is prepared. By the end of this week of rites, you'll be mine."
Zephyrith looked at Fu Lang Zu leave and leaned on the wall while closing her eyes. Opening them, she sighed. 'It seems that my purity will not be yours… Will you accept me regardless?'
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Sierra: …
Author: OwO
Sierra: Can we kill him already?
Author: Who knows~? What if he escapes and comes back later like a cockroach to mess things up? OwO.
The girls: …
Author: Hehe, I summon you!
Luke S.: Hey!
Evelyn: It has been a while. What's today's question?
Luke S.: Well, Yasenia, here is the question.
Yasenia: I am listening.
Luke S.: In regards to the energy that she had before breaking through peak 4th realm, what is the magnitude of the difference between one part of her normal energy and one part of Celestial Energy in terms of strength? Just the strength comparison of normal energy being used to an equal amount of celestial energy being used.
Yasenia: Hmm. If I understood correctly, you want to know what the difference in strength output is, depending on what type of energy I use, right?
Luke S.: Yeah. If you use a fistful of energy from both and make them explode, how different was it before you broke through?
Yasenia: That's difficult to answer… The reason is that the skills that use Celestial Energy do not use Celestial Energy efficiently. So, while I can control and "use" Celestial Energy, it's not efficiently used.
Yasenia: For example, if I could use Celestial Energy with 100% efficiency, just a drop of it at the fourth realm would be enough to compare with my entire energy reserves several times over. However, because of my low level and lack of understanding, I can only squeeze so much out of it.
Yasenia: Even then, you've seen how effective it is.
Luke S.: I see. So, giving a concrete answer is difficult.
Yasenia: Very much so. Sorry, Luke.
Luke S.: No problem. Thanks for answering!
Author: And that's all for today~.
Proofreader Ayan: Every chapter, ending in a cliff. No matter how high, it remains frustrating. Hmph~.
Proofreader Sarah: Well, looks like Yasenia's joke of crashing a wedding becomes reality.