Heavens Descent - 212

Heaven stared at the second world with his full attention as he watched it grow and change. He stayed sitting for an entire ten thousand years before he moved.

His previous calculations were extremely far off. In the ten thousand years that had passed, the animals had only occupied a third of the world. He would have preferred to continue his watch as it gave him knowledge about living beings and was quite interesting, but he needed to go take a look at the heaven world. 

Between the two worlds he was focusing on, the heaven world was by far the more important one.

Heaven quickly arrived at the heaven world and began looking at it from afar. After a few moments, he felt satisfied at the current progress.

He decided to once again meet with Tian Ren.

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In the heaven world, Tian Ren was sitting on a throne of marble and gold. In front of him were three old men kneeling on the floor. As they were in the nascent soul realm, their lifespans were nearly over. They were each born 2,800 - 2,600 years ago. 

Nascent soul realm cultivators had an average lifespan of 3,000 years, but it wasn't rare for one to die at the age of 2,800

"You three have served the Heaven sect well." Tian Ren stated. "Unless you wish to be buried elsewhere, I will honor your work by burying you in the elder burial field despite your low cultivation." 

Hearing him, each of the three men were joyful. It was a rare honor for someone to be buried in the elder graveyard at all, much less with such a low cultivation. They had already made funeral arrangements with their families, but they would much prefer to be buried in the elder burial ground.

"We wish to be buried in the elder burial ground." The three men said in unison.

"Very well." Tian ren responded. "As of now, you three will officially retire and can relax with your loved ones until the end of your lifespan." 

"Thank you lord sect master." The three men said while standing up. "We will be forever grateful."

"Long live heaven." The three men and Tian Ren said together. Such a saying had long become a standard farewell.

As the three men left the throne room, Tian Ren looked up at the night sky. In order to feel more connected with heaven, he had the roof removed. When it rained, an array blocked it, but that was the only thing there at all.

'There are too few talents in the heaven sect.' Tian Ren said to himself.

In the last ten thousand years, he and his wife had populated the heaven world to 300,000 people. Naturally, most were not directly from them, but the numbers were still a result of their work.

The only reason the number wasn't in the high millions was the fact that heavenborns could not reproduce as easily as humans. Especially those with more powerful cultivation levels.

'Of the 300,000 heavenborns, only 100,000 have reached or have the talent to reach the core formation realm. As for nascent soul realm cultivators, there are only ten thousand.'

The expansion of the heavenborn race was still a burden placed upon Tian Ren's shoulders. He had recently broken through to the 10th level of the void traversing realm, but the second most powerful heavenborn, his wife, was only at the first level. With her talent, the hope for reaching even the 8th level of void traversing seemed unlikely.

If he had more time to cultivate, he may have reached the space shattering realm, but he simply didn't have that much time. Ignoring the 8 hours of cultivation that replaced sleep, he only had four hours of cultivation a day. Managing an entire sect took way too much time. Luckily, he had some elders to assist him.

As he continued to look at the sky, he seemed to see it ripple like still water that had just been touched.

He was about to look closer, but an eye suddenly appeared. In an instant, Tian Ren was on his knees.

Not only him, but the entire population of the heaven sect fell to their knees. They had long been told of heaven's form.

"Hello my child." Heaven said while looking at Tian Ren. 

As for the other heavenborns, they were left ignored for now.

"Heaven!" Tian Ren shouted. "Can you see it? I have bred heavenborns onto your world!"

"Of course. You have not disappointed me." Heaven responded. "I have only come to check up on you this time. Are there any troubles you are experiencing? You can feel free to tell me."

Tian Ren hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should bother heaven with such trivial matters, but he eventually decided to speak.

"There are some minor troubles. Nothing that you need to worry about dealing with. Would you like to hear about them?" Tian Ren asked.

"Hmm."

Heaven considered his offer, but talking out loud in front of so many people seemed weird.

"Yes, I would my child. I trust you enough now. Close your castle and I shall personally descend upon you." Heaven decided.

Hearing him, the excitement Tian Ren felt could not be described. It was as if everything he ever dreamt of was happening.

With his full power, he pulled materials out of his spatial ring and patched every single hole in the castle besides the door.

Not ignoring the door, he put an array on the entire room that would ensure that nothing got in or out. Not even sound.

Everything was completed in a matter of seconds, and Tian Ren jumped off of his throne and onto a seat below it.

The throne was elevated slightly above the rest of the floor.

As he waited eagerly, a figure appeared in the middle of the throne room. Tian Ren stared at it with so much focus that he felt his eyes were going to pop.

When he finally faced the figure of his dreams, he ignored the childish form.

"Heaven! Finally!" He said with tears nearly streaming out of his eyes.