Seeing Yue Lan and Sylvia looking at him, he replied.
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Han Chen's POV
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" I can't solve him as I do it normally. He is a person with an entity inside him which is very beneficial for me and if I looking for him, it will alert him and protect him. " I said.
" It's the first time I am seeing you powerless against someone. Hehe" Yue Lan joked.
" I like peace. If I were to go and eliminate him now, we will lose it. Regarding his threat don't mind and stay here to cultivate. I believe both of you used disguise as you ventured outside. You both had enough experience and accumulations outside. Now just retreat."
" I think he only knows yourself about your hidden talents and features but not necessarily your true appearances. But he could well, may associate them.
Unless he have strength of tribulation realm peak he wouldn't actually come to us and even if it were his statements were to be judged no one could actually verify the guess, with my techniques as a high dimensional seal employed on consciousness not the soul itself. " I explained and now turning back to Sylvia
" Or I could just remove it....now. Sylvie you have been with us for many years now. We never really intended to attract someone into our family one but I made you stay with us for so long. You know about our secrets and stuff.
If we didn't meet you, you would still reach this place. I didn't free you from slavery but I kept you as one. May be it involves much more conflicts and struggles you would one day free yourself.
But it may also have given you a man you love who you have history with , a royal family considering your bloodline, and even after ascension you would be sought after by elven people here, it may be peaceful or forceful, but it would happen eventually under trials and tribulations.
Coming with me, your fate changed, life was uneventful as far I know. You have been serving us wholeheartedly I can feel that. So, I can give you a chance again now.
This is no threat, I assure you. I will erase all your memories about ourselves, give you treasures of great benefits and introduce you to the nobility and earn you a good social status. I believe with your noble bloodline and high cultivation you would be sought after greatly. I will protect you for a period until we move and then you would have to deal with that yourself. "
Even though she was in tears, I completed my speech. " You are so heartless to her. Can't you see she is shedding tears halfway between?" Yue Lan complained.
" Hey, I need to put the fact out there. I am accepting her choices." I regretted blurting out that.
" Oh yeah? Will you come to me next then saying the same? ...How come I fall for you anyway?" Yue Lan complained angrily consoling Sylvie.
I shut up and slowly sat down. Pretending to enjoy the carvings on the platform, I wish time could pass little more fastly. The uncomfortable silence passed by.
They left and discussed something for a while after returning to meet me again.
Yue Lan replied " We were sisters all along. Unlike our past we are now powerful enough to accompany others with us. So Sylvie say it."
" Master...I,..I love you.....Keep me for yourself...Always." She seem like she have put down a heavy weight from her heart.
Looking at the woman confessing her love to me, I thought I would feel awkward, loose composure etc. but none whatsoever happened. I didn't feel joy not sadness. Is this brought by my distrust towards heroines with great luck as in past lives? Come to think of it, I never revealed nor my wife asked about where all my knowledge is coming from. I should reveal myself. Is this the last shackle of my mind?
" Come with me to my inner world...Both of you, have a seat." I asked them softly after we reached our resting place inside the bead. Yue Lan frowned seeing me becoming serious and finally took a seat. I expressed my reply.
"I accept your love Sylvie."
"And you know what, I have some confessions to make, you both never asked me where my innerworld came from, where my knowledge about cultivation came from, why I didn't have much of a problem leaving behind our parents without anyworry? "
" You didn't want us to know. I love you. That's all it matters. Anyway I would always love to hear more secrets" as usual Yue Lan sweetily replied seriously but joked towards the end with a light laugh.
I closed my eyes, but still vividly recalling my past lives.
" Yue, I am a person who lived three lives. In my first life, I was your husband in name. You know the rest. But for Sylvie, you should know this too.
I was a mortal devoid of anyways to treat Yue Lan who was then utterly helpless staying as a vegetative person in bed. My parents died under someone's design. My relatives used me for their benefit. We both were left to fend for ourselves and it didn't go well for both of us.
I couldn't even pay for her medical expenses at the end even after begging others I received only scornful gazes. She died first and I was left for myself. In the end I died myself too."
" So what happened later? " Yue Lan asked eagerly.
" Atleast my body and soul did die, but not my consciousness and memories.
I was reborn again in name of Han Chen even resembling the facial features into a world of cultivation. The level of world was similar to spirit world. I thought that life would be my time for a change. But reality told me otherwise. I was with broken spirit roots destined to be ordinary at best. Then while I was cursing my fate, a part of powerful entity helped me improve my comprehension. "
" Who? What entity?" Sylvia curiously questioned.
" A part of fragment of original firmament. A realm where if I spoke of the complete name with intention, I would be targetted instantly. Just a gaze is enough to change reality of this entire dimension."
Just as they grasped the power level behind the absurdity of what I spoke, I continued.
" I am being selected was my fortune. With that I changed my destiny but still, after getting involved in the fight between lucky persons, I was hurt badly and decided to be low profile. I gathered knowledge and become an immortal under 10000 years. Nothing much happened in those years other than seclusion and secretly ransacking some low level cultivators upon adventures to secret realms. Bullying would be more apt. Ah.. good times."
" Hmm, let me guess, you tried to steal some big shot and was nearly dead. The you vowed never to leave solitary confinement and cultivated honestly." Yue Lan joked.
" Hey, I was much less stable then. I chose my enemies wisely. Later I indeed ascended to immortal realm, where I wandered around. I cultivated for million more years, I dabbled in whatever I could learn of, practically every subject I could get experienced in and reached the peak and govern an immortal domain and it's subsidiary realms for 100s of thousands of years. "
" No wonder you were so good at sex. Initially I thought you were some sex god or ultimate play boy.." Yue Lan wondered outloud.
" Hey, it's million years anyone would feel lonely. Besides don't judge me with rules of our homeland. Lust cultivation is a major cultivation path it's neither righteous nor forbidden techniques or demonic practises.
Besides I never took on a harem. It was on mutual consent. And longest relationship was only like... Never mind. It's only sex not much feelings involved ok.
You could still see these things here in distant lands of this empire among the half beasts and humans specifically. It's not so uncommon as you think."
" Anyway, coming to myself, there wasn't any record of ascension to higher planes so I created one. While I was at my emperor tribulation the girl I considered as my life partner then, carrying huge luck destined on her, plotted with a hero to kill me, a villain.
I have been pretty lax after gaining much power in previous life, feeling like achieved everything, I went to fight a protagonist and killing him, I thought it was over but he found a way to comeback and kill me, and collude with the girl I loved."
" Wow, wow and...wow. it's a sudden change. Who was that girl? Don't skip over the details. " Both were curious and shouted like little girls.
" Ah, her name is Lín Yǐn. She was a bitch. She was like these female protagonists you see in the stories you hear. Check all boxes. Arrogant yes. Pretend to be innocent but actually is a wolf, check. Accept your every gifts like it was her birth right with zero commitments back, check.
I noticed this too. How much can I endure eating and pretending under my name but shoving me away from affection. I indeed done some questionable things with her. Don't ask. Later, she was much more proactive, but she had to collude with another devil, Ye Chen who I was sure, turned into a meat paste by my attacks. Some other dickhead resurrected him again just because of his luck."
" Luckily I made preparations to preserve my consciousness and was reborn again but this time to a new timeline. Which means, including myself and all the people around me are variants of their original self. But after coming to this spirit world where we are now, there was a shift in temporal field accompanying the ascension. Which means I am back on the original timeline. It would have been many years passed. But my enemies are still there, possible achieved more success."
" Wait. You once explained to me the complete mechanism of physical laws. So there was some mentions of people finding themselves and merging. So you mean to say, we were like duplicates? " Yue Lan asked shocked.
" Hey don't confuse too much. By that logic I am a duplicate too. We all were one possibility among many. My, yours and hers past selves exist. But once, one crosses certain life level, it becomes separate entities. We are all now originals of ourselves. At divine levels, we could erase our original pasts or modify them. "
" We are offering topic. I was very distrusting to people after these incidents, you know that's why I want to be in control of the situation I am in. That's why I used excessive measures against you, Sylvie.
I have been aware of your thoughts to me. But after the recent tribulation of mind, I felt that I need to say this to you before proceeding anyfurther."
"..."they both were in silence after hearing it all from me.
Yue Lan went to hug me. Seeing the hesitating Sylvie, I embraced her too.
" Han Chen, I just want to insert here that, getting Sylvie isn't a license from me to check for others also okay, even if you were some dual cultivator in previous life.." Sylvia emphasized.
" Ah you have been with me for nearly 350 years and still is doubting me? It's you and Sylvie I should doubt for, my little Yue grown up and is easy to fall into temptations. I should put more effort into you from now on."
Looking at Silvia being left out, I said, " Sylvie, it's one thing to accept confession but to return the love is another. I am new to this, so are you let's take this slow. Faking it is not my style. Ofcourse of you want to take this to next level, I am all for it."
After a few moments of intimacy, Yue Lan joked.
" So that explains everything. You are too steady. You are a million years old. Wow I am dating an old man."
" ....Yue, Come here the old man will show you his martial poweress."
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After few days of steaming love making session, I took back the seal on Sylvia's consciousness but gave her the soul corridor to both of us. All of our thoughts are now transparent. Now we could communicate across realms and due to recent improvements in strength, even communicate across different time streams.
This time, revealing my secrets doesn't result in any clearing of mental blocks but it made the thoughts flow freely. Spirit will control improved more subtley. Our relationship also moved much further.
I put some effort into adjusting the cultivation technique of Sylvia and managed to push it's threshold to immortal lord level.
I already gifted her the auxiliary double cultivation technique, and her physique has a furnace feature. So it took effort to adjust the technique to induce mutual benefits while cultivating. Both of our cultivation jumped.
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Time passed.
Yue Lan reached second layer void tribulation and her tribulation was heavy and Han Chen had to aid her as her understanding and control hasn't reached that level of cultivation. For Sylvia, she jumped to God transformation second stage. So, everyone plan to undertake seclusion again.
Since bound by contract, Han Chen can't move excess spiritual qi created by him to innerworld, so he left it in his courtyard. The efficiency of time chamber began to reduce again at their cutlivation realm so they chose to cultivate outside.
Han Chen went deep underground to heavenly cover and created transmission array using immortal stones to his courtyard, where both of his wives present. It would directly transmit spirit qi all the time. Along with it he also created a teleportation formation to reach in case of emergency. After that he transformed back to world tree form and cultivated chaotic energy mass again.
He cultivated here and years passed by. Multiple universe formed inside and spiritual qi density inside his Dantian world is almost trillion times more than that of a similar realm cultivator with a normal Dantian void. Though it may sound very much it's actually very sparse for cultivating a world.
So after all the elemental transformations into primitive universes completed, he didn't try to stabilize them but switched to filling up with spiritual energy. 30 years went by. His cultivation of Dantian world felt tribulation of heaven. So he went inside the small world.
This time he encountered world tribulation. Sensing his thoughts, his small world manifested outside in a smaller scale for the first time. It engulfed his figure. As the tribulation fell, the sanskrits absorbed and transformed the energy into world energy, inside and strengthened the bonds.
Towards the end of it, as if losing some shackle, more than 1000 seperate planar dimensions remerged and rule layer mixing happened again and returned back to 10 seperate dimensions again. But this time, the land mass which got seperated in to the same dimension came together and established a heavenly cover with themselves as domains.
So more than 10000 worlds shifted and become 10 worlds in 10 dimensions with multiple dao domains within them. His world reached 100th layer of rules, which also meant he had reached 100th layer in proficiency.
Any further resonance with world rules will make him ascend. Returning back to accompany his wife, he stayed in elven domain. During these years, Vorinath, the Elven warrior had many developments. From Han Chen's wives he gets to know that he achieved bloodline reversal and is now a pureblood elf. His noble visage is greatly looked upon.
His powers increased very much, that he even started looking for them again just 10 years ago. People heard rumours about elf with noble bloodline kept as slaves and many were enraged and requested to find and kill the people who desecrated their bloodline in their own land.
But they ultimately didn't find anything and considering Han Chen's powers no one actually ventured into his courtyard which on the outside posted "retreat for cultivation".
Few more years passed, Han Chen sensed final transcending tribulation. The myriad law cleansing tribulation, appeared in legends to people with merits or for those with abnormal talents. Inside his small world, he sat in the tribulation array.
A spiralling vortex of lightning fell through. But gradually as it forms the complete tribulation it became a mixture of world rules at 100th layer bombarding himself. If it's the outside world, heaven wouldn't try to kill you like that, but Han Chen ofcourse requested with heavenly dao of chaotic bead to expend something like this.
He used tribulation to further refine his spiritual body and his body became as durable as it can be under heaven. Usually at this stage people would try to pierce the heavenly barrier with rule layers which make them ascend.
Han Chen heard of red dust immortal. Spending mortal life incarnating again and again for a thousand life times to manifest his heart will to cleanse his body and mind developing true immortal energy. Having huge combat difference and so. But it requires too much effort.
Returning to his courtyard, he shattered the contract in his mind on spot and suffered no backlash as his cultivation reached on par with heaven themselves, he quickly employed covering heavenly secrets to prevent sensing him in any way possible.
His original suppressed divine sense returned to its full strength and further increased over a 10000 times further covering entire elven domain and massive parts of endless sea. As his spiritual qi attained further refinement resonance with everykind of law turned to avenue of nature.
Being a part heavenly Dao of his saint domain inner world, he felt the power difference. Beyond of laws and rules of 100th layer lies the eternal avenue of dao.
The avenue of natural divine dao transformed into world energy coursing through him. He felt the transformation and felt the power to crush his previous selves with just his physical body.