After the general learned about it he was furious and shouted "goddamnit, now the emperor will be furious, no we have to keep finding, spread out again and if you find anything tell me and don't be like this fools, now spread out quickly and find him for me he mustn't escape"the general said and the army split again searching for Ryu.
The soldiers split up and they and they started searching for Ryu.
When they were searching, In a squad, a bald fat round man who had an average face with a hooked nose started grumbling when the squad moved quite far away from the general, the man that wasn't even fit to be a soldier said to one of his colleagues
"We have been here for more than half a month now and we haven't seen anybody and when some stupid squad got a chance to catch the person lost it and here we are now searching needlessly around"the fat man was very dissatisfied about this, now he was dead tired and just want a nice sleep but the general is still making them find a dangerous person who can kill a squad in an hour of fighting in the squad! What for?to get them also killed?
"What did you know you fatty, all you know is eat and rest, don't you hear the general saying that the emperor will be furious if we didn't return with that boy called Ryu, even me too I'm angry with that, but being angry doesn't mean amount to anything in front of the emperor, I will give you this piece of advice if you don't want to be one of those the emperor will vent on just keep finding as it will be better for us all," the other man said.
The squad with the other squad kept finding Ryu but the distance between each other is not more than 2km to avoid being ambushed by Ryu.
They searched and searched for Ryu but to no avail as the person they are finding is inside the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE.
Earlier when Ryu was running, dragging his exhausted body to the enemies, he was forcefully dragged inside a place which has light and darkness mixed by didn't merge, it was like a light and darkness taiji diagram, he was confused but not alarmed as he knew he was inside the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE as he is the master of it and can feel It.
"What happened, what am I doing here so suddenly and what is this place"Ryu asked and looked around, he was curious about this light and darkness mix and he remembered his vision when he cultivated the indestructible Primal Body Techniques the first time.
When Ryu asked the questions he heard a distanced voice saying,
"Don't be alarmed master, as this place is the core of the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE and I'm the spirit of this ABODE, I just fully awakened and subconsciously dragged you here, I was awakened by your imprint on me from my slumber after the last war!" the spirit said.
'i thought so too, how can an exalted natural god-grade artifact not have a spirit where even a god-grade artifact has one' Ryu thought in his mind and answered the spirit.
"Ohhh...so you just awakened now, and it's my imprint that awakened you, so the palace has a spirit too, I thought so too"Ryu exclaimed and continued.
"Okay, but before you dragged me here, I was being chased by my enemies and as you dragged me here the Abode will be in the open which will be quite conspicuous and will expose me even if you have shrunk it already as cultivators at spirit realm has a spiritual sense which will expose us, so let me out and hide and after that, we will continue our conversation, "Ryu said and explained his plight to the spirit.
"Don't worry master, though before the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE only can shrink to dust, and can be undetectable now I can merge with space and time through this light and darkness mix taiji diagram after the last war through some miraculous circumstances where I went into the slumber! " the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE spirit said.
"What!? you can merge with spacetime?, but how is that possible!, little long only said that the palace can only shrink through the Heavens /Earth encompassing Array but now you said you can merge with spacetime, I don't understand"Ryu said very surprised.
"Yes master, that is the function of the palace before and I don't know if it can merge with space before now"little long interjected and answer Ryu to defend himself.
"But the spirit just tell..."Ryu wanted and was again interjected by the abode spirit.
"Yes the universe dragon is right, I just got the ability to do that after the last universe war, where I was damaged by the invaders," the spirit said.
"Okay, but I have been hearing, the last universe war' since, so can you tell me what is it, " Ryu asked the spirit, he had totally forgotten the army chasing and searching for him outside as he is assured by the Abode abilities.
"Hmm.... hasn't the universe dragon explained to you, he was there with me and master and the remaining natural god-grade artifact in the last war," the spirit said surprised.
"If I know will I be asking you, "you said annoyed!
"I'm sorry master, I don't know why he hasn't but I will tell you," the spirit said.
"Master, before I start, you should first know that there are many universes around our universe, we called the Universes the CLOSED COSMOS and every billion years the Universes have a competition called the universe Heir Competition and an heir of the universe like the last heir Mo Ren will participate in the competition and every universe must participate in the competition if a universe doesn't have an heir to participate It will be destroyed by the joint effort of the UNIVERSE GUILD which is the joint association of the CLOSED COSMOS".
The spirit of the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE continued.
"We the people of the universe don't know the purpose of the UNIVERSE GUILD, but all we know is that they are there to protect us, it is only the heir of the universe that may know the purpose of the guild as even the universe dragon doesn't because every time the heirs wants to leave the universe, they always abandon the universe dragon because the universe dragon power is useless outside the universe.
So master the last war was started by the last jointly destroyed universe by the guild when they broke into our universe, the last destroyed universe was beside our Universe and they have always competed as we were told but the universe before the war, when the last universe was destroyed, the last heir of our Universe Mo Ren returned to our universe and as usual, the cosmos energy cover around our universe opened for him but the consciousness of the universe and even Mo Ren doesn't notice that an indistinct figure enters the universe with Mo Ren.
The figure goes directly to the universe's energy source, the core of the universe before the universe's consciousness notices but was too late as the figure attacked the core with his full explosive power which shakes the universe and dispersed the cosmos energy cover around the universe and the hidden enemies if the last destroyed universe rushed inside the universe after the Cosmos energy cover dispersed for a moment but that moment was enough for the enemies to rush inside and sabotaged our Universe" the spirit explained thoroughly to Ryu who petrified in one place looking into the distance thoughtfully.
"But how can the universe not notice the figure and the ones outside it"Ryu was confused, he believes the universe isn't so dumb and can't even fish out the figures around him.
"The universe isn't dumb master, it was tricked by the person that slipped in as the person was the last heir of the destroyed universe who has explored the cosmos and gained many abilities which can't be underestimated and it can also be said that the universe consciousness too overconfident and relaxed as our Universe was among the top 10 of the surrounding universe, precisely the 4th position from the universe competition, so it believes it is omnipotent and all-knowing which leads in the underestimation and carelessness.
And master I didn't tell you something before that every heir of the universes in every era which is a billion years leave the universe, nobody knows where they go after that, rumors are saying that they go and defend our CLOSED COSMOS or explore the cosmos and many more rumors but as we said they are just baseless rumors but the sure thing is that none of the heirs have returned after leaving the universe it was like they just vanished, it is this heir of the last destroyed universe that has ever returned and seen after his era has gone and attacked our universe, and for him to return after 2 billions years of exploring the cosmos, he must have gained some abilities which deceived the universe consciousness"
Ryu and the Earthly Asura/Buddha stone were stunned when the spirit finished his explanation. The stone and little long has been listening to the spirit of the IMPERISHABLE GOLDEN ABODE since the beginning but the dragon wasn't surprised as he already knows he was just feeling melancholic when listening to the spirit.
The spirit continued and said.
"When the heir of the last destroyed universe attacked the core of our universe and his accomplices which are the people of the last destroyed universe entered our universe, his disguise was exposed and the heir of our universe Mo Ren attacked him while the people of the last destroyed universe attacked the universe and war happened between the people from our universe and them which sabotaged the universe and heavens and earth was disrupted.
The war at that time was epic and destroyed part of the universe because Mo Ren and the heir of the last destroyed universe whose name was Ark Myrl fought inside the universe.