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  Because of what had happened oh, I had to pletely shift my priorities. The twins uood that my world was important to me and didn’t mind me leaving the Sed Floor Exploration for a week from now, as I quickly grabbed everyone, pg them inside my Inner Realm, and quickly left the Tower’s First Floor, arriving bay home world, Earth.

  About the vilgers, I left the reinforced, new barrier I had created just retly—a new and enhanced form I used to power the barrier surrounding New York. I also left Doppelgahere, so the ohat had just sin the Primal King disappeared so they could all get the power back over there.

  As for the gods, I had thought about leaving them behind, but after a quick talk with Leviathan and his Divine Spirit Guardians, we agreed that he would personally oversee Nexus City and the beast people’s vilge, so if anything happened, he would defend them personally.

  So, with that taken care of, I came bay phe one I’ve beelessly proteg all this time, even when I wasn’t eve the moment I ehe tower. On the way, I saw the Primal King dying against my Doppelgangers, which I swiftly dispelled afterward; they cost quite a hefty sum of Primordial Energies after all. I hought I would be forced to use my stro Martial Arts Teiques to get rid of that bastard; it truly seems like there might eventually be entities out there that will match my power.

  And it is quite obvious that the Gods are a big didate for that. The Gods of these lower floors might be all weaklings, but as we get to higher Floors, I am beginning to think they will only bee stronger, ultimately being capable of matg my strength or perhaps possessing a prehension of their own divio the point they somewhat pare to mine.

  As someone whled to survive for eleven thousand years, I never uimated my foes, and I alrepared ahead of time, sometimes almost paranoically. But it was all for my survival.

  I o get stronger if I’ll ever front them, especially a god such as the “Grandfather of Time,” who seems capable of opening portals to not just other worlds but parallel worlds from different timelines altogether—a power not even I jure.

  Why? Because it’s a bination of both Space Dao and Time Dao whose prehension has reached the maximum level, he’s only oep closer to being oh the os at that level.

  Could there be Gods iower that are already parable to the Immemorial Void Realm?

  The possibility terrifies me, holy.

  I o get to that Realm first, whatever the cost.

  But for now, I suppose it is time for some rest. We’ve done enough; everyone worked hard; they survived; everyone did, and I made sure that such a thing ossible.

  The invaders of what I’ll call “Primal Earth” or "Prehistoric World" were elimihe Primal Dinosaurs and Primal Cavemen were incredibly formidable but had no magical powers or skills, only sheer physical prowess and superhuman abilities that surged from their bodies.

  Their Levels were high, despite their world not being ied with the System yet. This means that they were slowly being ied. I could tell that as I fought the Primal King, the more we fought, the stronger he became. The System was helping him bee stronger by giving him Skills.

  If I let that monster tinue growing, he might have one day surpassed me in physical abilities, and that’s something I couldn’t let happen. The Chimera was also destroyed; that thing and the Primal King were most likely the stro beings in their worlds, as it showed in their levels.

  I imagihey were given such high levels because it was the system assimiting them with their strength included maybe something simir would have happeo me if it wasn’t because the system was uo calcute my power.

  But I suppose that when they assimite incredibly strong beings, they calcute their power ahead of time and assign a level parable to their actual strength, iingly enough.

  Well, that’s only my theory, though.

  I mao save Yanisse from falling, though, which was a very dangerous move. She possessed Ki now and had merged it seamlessly with her Void Esse ended up overdoing it just to defeat all enemies ahis ond for all.

  I admire her bravery and strength, but like many of the humans here, she’s very reckless. I suppose it is part of our nature to be reckless. Maybe it is something we have over others—the adrenalihat flows through our bloodstream as we find ourselves surrounded and fighting against all odds.

  It might be seen as a virtue of humans—o stand, a st remnant of our primal instincts, of the past we once had. Seeing all these cavemen and dinosaurs made me think of how far we’ve evolved, and it also made me wonder what sort of world these barbarians came from.

  Luckily, not all of them were brutish monsters; two groups of people had appeared, pletely different from the brutes, who willingly fought them and helped the other hunters defeat the chimera.

  We’ll meet soon, though, as of now, I had proposed something to Yaer she kissed my cheek as a show of gratitude for saving her, I assumed.

  “Will you join my sect?”

  “Eh?”

  She seemed eager to hear my question, but once I asked her, she became... paralyzed. Her blushing face quickly cooled down, and she went back to her usual, expressionless face.

  “Sect? What do you mean by sect, Bing Xue?” She wondered. “Like an evil cult?!”

  “N-No, that’s not it!” I sighed. “I guess Earth doesn’t have this cept right now, or it is often fused with another, huh? Well, in a way, a Sect could be sidered both a Family, a Guild, a pany, and even a try or Kingdom. A bination of all of them.”

  “What?” She asked. “You’re… building su anization?!”

  “Yes, I’ve already decided that I would.” I nodded. “I ’t simply leave my people here to despair and be saved by me all the time. I was doubtful at first, uain of whether I should step in or not. But after everything I’ve experienced, I’ve made my decision.”

  “I’m listening…” Yanisse seemed ied.

  “I will recreate the Heavenly Court I once founded ba Murim, a rge anization, a Divihat will be in charge of order and justice,” I expined. “We will protect Earth with it, a rge anization of Elites and tless talented disciples, and I will personally teach the ways of Cultivating the Heavenly Dao.”

  Yanisse nodded.

  “I will offer resources, aodations, training grounds, philosophy, challenges, and everything necessary for people to bee stronger.” I tinued expining. “And in exge, the sect members will offer me their eternal loyalty to help me protect Earth... and also the worlds I will begin to liberate. I already did that in Eclipse; I killed both of their gods, freed the world from the churches and evil cults trolling everything, and made of Eclipse a world with freedom, away from the clutches of their Divinities.”

  “Y-You did that?!” Yanisse gasped. “Y-You killed… Gods themselves?”

  “And I’ve also bee one myself.” I showed her my Divinity, as Yanisse gasped, stepping ba shock. “I will bee the Guardian of Earth, but I’ll need help. You and other Elites, I will try to recruit all of them. An assembly of Earth’s stro warriors, I will call it the Heavenly Guardian Table.”

  “T-That’s amazing!” She said. “Hahah, but that name is a bit wonky…”

  “E-Eh? It’s not good? But I thought it would sound good and intimidating!” I said.

  “You have good ideas and are strong, but you’ve got a terrible naming sense, Bing Xue! Haha.” Yanisse ughed for the first time I’ve ever seen her. “I am still surprised you ever thought about all of this... And you killed the gods. Actually, I am not that shocked about it; there were specutions that you did it. Some people already oer began to say that you were as strong as the Gods.”

  “Well, I don’t know what to say. I suppose… that’s a relief. Haha,” I giggled. “I will get into more details ter. So, would you join?”

  “I… I am still thinking about it,” Yanisse sighed. “You see, I have a tract with this try; I ot really join any guild anization, and I must always cooperate with the military.”

  “What? What kind of strange tract is that?” I asked.

  “It is so I could bee kind of a guardian of North America. In exge, they provide food, money, and other resources to my try, Russia.” She expined. “Sorry, but I think I might not be able to join.”

  “Hmmm, so the whole problem is because of this tract?” I wondered. “If that tract was abolished, would you join?”

  “I… I think so, yes.” She nodded. “Wait, what are you thinking about? That face you’re making…”

  “Hm, what face?” I smiled. “This is just how I smile. I remember I made a good friend, the Prime Minister of America, that old man… Maybe I should visit him soon.”

  “Y-You’re friends with the Prime Minister? Right, I do remember you having an iion with him. They had summoned me to oversee that, but when I arrived, you were already done.” Yanisse said. “Amongst the three World Css Hunters before your arrival, I’m the only one ed like this because I want to protect my try, but if you could somehow help me... But I wouldn’t know how to ever repay you.”

  “Don’t worry, you think about that once I do it.” I smiled. “Now that I’m really hungry, shall we go back to our home? New York might be a hellhole, but it's still better than the wastends over here.”

  “Right… Let’s go then.” She nodded.

  I didn’t realize we were holding hands this eime, I mostly did this to help her move, because she looked very tired.

  But as I held her hand, her ess slowly warmed up, and it felt nice.

  Yanisse had very soft, beautiful hands.

  She was really a beautiful maiden worth proteg.

  “B-Bing Xue, you don’t o hold my hands all the time…” She muttered while blushing.

  “O-Oh, haha, my bad!” I let go of her after a while.

  Once we moved across the forest, we reached the group that was fighting the chimera, a with all the Guild Masters and the two Tribes of Cavemen that helped us. There were the charcoal-skinned, red-haired muscur giants, and the tall, lean, brown-skinned, and white-haired people with big, hawk-like eyes.

  “Bing Xue, Yanisse! I’m so happy to see you two!” Nichos was the first to greet us, rushing to us.

  “Hello Nichos, I passed out for a little while, but Bing Xue helped me, thankfully.” Yanisse greeted him. “Is everyone okay?”

  “Yeah, is everyone alright?” I asked.

  “Yes, everyone is fihanks to you two… Once more, we owe our victory and survival to you, Bing Xue, and Yanisse as well…” Nichos sighed. “T-Thank you so much…”

  “It’s fine, young man,” I patted his shoulders. “Let us return to New York at once. we host a meeting with the guild masters? I o talk with everyone.”

  “Wait, really? O-Okay!” Nichos nodded.

  The Guild Masters, after finally seeing me in person, ran towards me.

  “Bing Xue! Did you see that?! I used the power you gifted me! Was I strong? Did I surprise you? Am I worthy?” Asked Aiyana, the muscur warrior.

  “It is an honor to meet you in person this time! I am John, the Guild Master of the Justice Guild!” A young blonde man, who would be sidered handsome, I suppose, greeted me as well.

  “Auntie Bing Xue! we practice more of that Magic fused with your energies? I want to discover how far I bring my magic!” Francisco, the you of them all, greeted me; he was aid adorable boy.

  “Do you want to have a coffee?” Jackes asked me directly for a coffee. “I knoce.”

  “Hey you fet back! Stop stressing, Bing Xue! Don’t you think you’re being a bit too overbearing now?” Nichos stopped them. “Let’s go back to the city; there’s still many things we o take care of. She also called for a meeting with all of us at the Hunter Association, so you’ll get your ce for introdus and more once we get there. Now, let’s go.”

  With Nichos leading, the Guild Masters calmed down and stepped back as we moved back to New York.

  It was finally time to annouo the world my new project.

  The recreation of the Heavenly Court.

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