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The heavens above rumbled, trembling as rainbow-colored lightning stantly surged, zapping through its endless white clouds, whietimes ged in color. An overwhelming and all-enpassing presence, a being that domi all and that represehe very ws of everything, roared with anger.
He had been in such a state for several years now, menting the departure of the only thing he had grown ied in these st eleven thousand years. A woman who ended up nding here from another dimension, a faraway world, weak and powerless, known as Earth,.
Surprising him time and time again, her survival instincts surpassed all his expectations, as did her endless resolve and her incredible mental strength, coupled with the morality and righteousness she carried from a weak and pathetic world to this one.
A world dominated by men and their power, where women were nothing but servants and sves due to araditions forced into them by their first-ever aors.
Yet she broke through all ventions, became truly free, aed even the oldest man who created all people in this world—she, the human woman born in another world, Katherine.
The people of the tral ti gnced into the skies, ed. Almost 83 years have passed sihe Heavenly Martial Empress of Light, Bing Xue, their supreme leader, left for the stars to never return.
The governor of the Heavenly Court left everything to her precious disciples, the stro women and men she raised by herself, teag them everything she could and leaving the world in their hands.
Fen , one of Bing Xue’s closest disciples, a beautiful woman with long blonde hair and sapphire-colored eyes, looked into the skies. As a Rank 19 Primordial Immortal, she was the closest to being a new Venerable, but she had yet to fully prehend her Dao to reach such a height.
Without her beloved master, the cold yet always attentive Bing Xue, she felt lost. 83 years for an immortal were but the blink of an eye, but to her, they felt like very painful years.
“Master… When will you return?”
She looked at the rumbling, furious skies, notig how ahe Heavenly Will was; it had been the same for the st few years. He had not even attacked anybody either; he simply couldn’t. The Heavenly Will, although it possessed an ego, was impartial to all things.
Only when they would attempt to breach the walls of the world ahrough space to escape is when he would truly act, because it was against the ws of the world’s pilrs to do such a thing.
However, the Heavenly Will was ing and vicious; it could py in different ways, twisting the world and nature itself to go against those it targeted.
But none of such things have happened yet.
Fen still remembered his master like yesterday: her bright rainbow eyes, her long silvery-white hair, and her radiant aura of supremacy.
And her cold eyes, always sorrowful.
Even after 83 years, she still recall their st iion before she flew into the heavens to never return.
“Master, please don’t leave us! We need you. Without you, how will we be able to mahe Heavenly Court? How will we be able to have a leader to guide us?”
Fen prostrated herself in front of Bing Xue, askio stay with her, with the big family they had made together, with all her disciples, and with the many immortals that had sworn their eternal loyalty.
Yet Bing Xue only looked with sorrowful, yet cold, and different eyes, detached from everything. She helped her stand back up and then held her disciple’s hands.
“Fen , you know, everyone here knows. I am not from this world. My world is named Earth, and I am a human named Katheri has been more than eleven thousand years sihen." Bing Xue sighed. “Yet the only thing I always think about nowadays is returning to see my family. My mother and my sister... more than anything in the world. I am selfish and self-tered. I am not fit to lead yuide you. This is not my world; I don’t belong here. This is your world; you were born here; it is yours to lead, yours to guide, and yours to grow.”
“B-But master…” Even after living for ohousand years, Fen was g like a little girl in front of Bing Xue. “You’re the ohat helped me... You’re the ohat gave me a new life after living as a beggar my entire life… I thought… we would be a family.”
“I am sorry, but I ot see any of you as my family,” Bing Xue said coldly. “And I must return, no matter what. You have yourselves to rely on. I’ve taught you enough; I’ve left everything you o lead this world to prosperity. My disciples, the future is in your hands, not mine.”
Her disciples, human men and women, stone men, mermaids, intelligent martial beasts, and more, all watched as Bing Xue flew into the skies with only her sword in her hands.
And he did what no other Venerable has ever dared to do.
She cshed against heaven itself.
They watched in silence; her battle sted for a whole year. Explosions of divine and primordial Ki stantly csh against one another.
The heavens slowly became more and more scious as they battled her, to the point everyone could hear aheir battle.
The heavens revealed themselves to be an intelligey, a being that could even take upon forms and shapes.
Yet Bing Xue was unmoving, unfazed; she battled without end, trying to asd into her Immemorial Primordial Void Realm.
But she failed.
However, that opped her either; even if she failed, so what?
She kept fighting and asding further; using her sword, she cut through spad escaped, even as the heavenly will raged and tried to tear her to shreds.
Bing Xue was strong enough to resist the wounds for a whole year before finally esg.
It ectaobody would ever fet.
But even now, they were still sorrowful, menting her departure into another world, perhaps to never see her again.
Their master was someone incredible, but her personality... Although she often showed great care, warmth, and love, she would always force herself to be distant.
It was as if she didn’t want to bee close to them, even after spending so many years together.
The door of Fen ’s room opened as a tall man with short silver hair and azure-colored eyes entered, wearing regal silver and golden clothes.
“Fen , for how long are you pnning to cry, my sister?” he sighed. “Enough is enough, please; you must behave as the new leader of our sect. If the other disciples, or even the leaders of the allied sects, see you in such a state, what will they think of the master's legacy?”
“Big brother Yun...” sighed Fen , looking at her adoptive brother. “I apologize, I have... I still ment her departure. I still miss her. She was… like a mother to me.”
“She was for all of us.” Yun nodded. “But that doesn’t mean we have to weep every day because she’s gohere are many things we must do. Maintaining the peaceful world she left behind is not easy. If we want to maintain ahis harmony, we must show our resolve and strength.”
“I uand,” said Fen, quickly standing back up. “Is the meeting now?” She sed her tears with a handkerchief.
“Yes, the Elders of the Sect Alliance have arrived just now.” Yun nodded. “e on, we ’t start without you, Radiant Star Princess.”
“Ah, that’s the Title master gave to me…” she sighed as Photon Essence surged from her hands, f tless small stars.
It was a title given to her by Bing Xue, who had taught her how to cultivate Photon Essence due th affinity with the stars and light elements. After learning such power, she mao obtain her own version of it, Radiant Star Essence.
It was one of the powers that made her s and capable of overp any other primordial being that ever dared to stand up against her. However, Fen had the weakness of being a girl with a delicate ale heart.
Because of this, she he support of her siblings to keep on living after Bing Xue’s departure.
Walking across the Heavenly Court’s golden corridors, she arrived at a huge hall where many Elders sat dowheir own floating thrones.
Every one of them rimordial Immortal who led the stro Immortal Sects in the world. Below Bing Xue’s strength, they created a powerful Alliance, and even now, the Oath they took to maintain this alliance forever remains, as Bing Xue has not died yet, even if she’s far away.
“The spoiled princess is finally here…”
“It took her long enough.”
“Her master might be gone, but that shouldn’t give her justification for this insolence.”
The Elders were merciless. Not many of them ever appreciated Bing Xue, simply feared her power. But now that she was gohey were slowly getting cockier, even against her powerful disciples, whom she left to rule the world iead.
“Silence, you dare talk ily against the leader of the Supreme Court?" Yun asked. “Do you have a death wish?”
“There goes her dog…”
“…”
“I apologize.”
The elders clicked their tongues and then remained in silence, abusing the fact that Fen was too soft-hearted to retaliate against their remarks.
However, that was about to ge now.
“You… I ’t believe you act like this after everything Master did for all of us,” she sighed. “Unifying the five regions, stopping poverty, sying all evil, and creating a nerosperous world. Yet you think that now that she’s gone, her legad everything she left behind once again be vioted aroyed? I could just kill all of yht now, but I know Master wouldn’t approve of that. She never appreciated needless violence, but I suppose you i old men would love that, right? You have learned not a sihing from her... Parasites.”
“Y-You dare…?!”
“How could you say this to us?!”
“We are the Elders of the Nine Primordial Sects!”
“Disciple of the Heavenly Martial Empress or not, you must watch your tongue, you filthy little woman!”
“There they go again, looking down on me because I am a woman,” sighed Fen . “My master has worked so hard, but as long as old men like you remain alive, the world ot heal... Maybe I should kill all of you now? Yun, what do you think?”
Her aura of gentleness and delicapletely disappeared, and murderous i akin to that of a monstrous beast surged from her body.
The other disciples quickly sighed, notig she had “switched” again.
“Fen , calm down; there is o harm them; they’re bound by the master's oath; they only talk, nothing else,” said Yun. “Calm down; your Murderous I is not needed.”
“But…” muttered Fen , her Aura of bloodlust slowly disappearing. “Is that right? I suppose… I still have a lot to learn.”
“Yes, luckily for you, I am here with you.” Yun sighed.
Although she had not hurt them at all, the elders were left fbbergasted. Her I alone suppressed their entire Cultivation Levels and weakehem tremendously.
They were uo even process what had happened before the “switch”!
But this was one of Fen ’s abilities.
{Mirr Yin and Yang Physique}
It created two versions of herself, ole and nice, and another murderous and almost evil. It ower she was born with, and one she had taken a very long time to harness.
Only Bing Xue was ever able to tame her powers and allow her to trol them pletely.
“Now, let’s begin our meeting. I suppose all of you came here for the issue at hand, the Heavens,” Fen said. “The non-stop rains, storms, and snowstorms have caused rge damage to the Five Regions. And this hasn’t stopped for 83 years since Master left.”
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Above the heavens of Murim, the Heavenly Will kept r in anger, frustration, and even sorrow.
“My Bing Xue! Where are you?! Where did you go?!”
His powerful Primordial Heavenly Eyes pierced through the Cloud of Chaos into the Outer os.
He kept looking and looking, without an end in sight.
There were only endless stars and nothing else.
“Is she truly gone? What I do to find her? How I find her?!”
His obsession only grew as he started to spread his eyes outside of Murim, something the Heavenly Will had ried.
However, because of how obsessed they were with her, they had to do it, even if it meant f their oweo stretd suffer pain.
“Hm?”
The Heavenly Will, however, saw something else through his tless eyes.
Something is sloroag Murim.
A giant floating spire made of bck storavels across the stars themselves.
It looked like a gigantic… tower.
“A moving reli an otherworldly realm? Do you truly believe that, below my supreme watch, you dare enter my world?!”
The Heavenly Will’s giant hands stretched out of his own world through the hole Bing Xue left behind, enormous, they stopped the tower from eveing closer!
CRASH!
The tower started to gain tless cracks as his supreme hands pressed against them, even as his own essence was burning due to the Chaos and the os disrupting him.
Yet, a sudden tremor produced by the tower sent his hands ba.
RUMBLE!
“What?”
From within the cracks, a bck-colored ooze started leaking, slowly f inte, strange, and amorphous entity made of bck tentacles and covered with red eyes.
It slowly flew towards Murim, entering through the cracks. The Heavenly Will allowed the entity to eo better study this alien being.
“Greetings, Supreme Entity of Universe-111. I am a representative of the Supreme Entity of Universe-112. Due to the Alliaween Supreme Entities, it has been stated that you have aplished all the qualifications necessary to join the Alliance. However, the master does not approve of you breaking the tower he-”
CH!
Before the little eldrittity could tinue speaking, the heavens transformed into a gigantic jaw and devoured it.
His entire body was crushed and digested as the Heavenly Will swallowed this aliey to absorb its power.
Its strange soul was assimited as memories, and tless pieces of information about the Outer os entered his gigantid.
He learned tless things he never khe existence of Supremes, the power of the os, the Towers, the Worlds, Mana, Magic, Skills, and the System!
However, the thing he was most fasated by was something else.
A small bit of information he found about a certain woman from a world known as Earth that has wreaked havoc within a certain tower.
Universe-1702.
“I’ve finally found you... You’re there! Bing Xue…!”
His tless eyes, full of obsession, spiraled across the ey of Murim, f endless storms of all colors.
“If she’s there and alive, then there’s always a ce of rekindling!”
His giant haed from Murim’s boundaries once more, sloroag the tower.
“And yoing to get me there... You want it or not.”
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