2 Base

As the convoy headed towards the base, the young man, Zhao Tian, closed his eyes. As he closed his eyes, he started to recall his past. The past where he reigned supreme and the past where he was betrayed by his beloved wife.

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Eternal Mountain was the tallest mountain in the heavens and only one person was allowed in, the Lord of the Heaven. The Lord of the Heaven was the person who had lived as long as the Heavens. He even created the 33 Heavens to help him govern the realms below the Heaven.

On the peak of the Eternal Mountain, there was a simple 2-story house. The simple 2-story house was the home of the Lord of the Heaven. If someone had told you that the one who controlled everything lived in a simple house and not a grand palace, you wouldn't believe it. However, the truth was the Lord of the Heaven loved to live simple.

Inside the house, there was a study room where the Lord of the Heaven lived most of the time. Currently, the Lord of the Heaven was sitting on his seat while enjoying tea. Beside him was a woman. The woman looked to be in her twenties and her beauty would topple the Heavenly Realm. She was the wife of the Lord of the Heaven.

"My Lord, please enjoy this new tea which I acquired yesterday," the beauty spoke in a sweet and gentle voice.

In response, the Lord of the Heaven smiled as he sipped the tea from his tea cup. The taste of the tea made his smile twitch; however, it wasn't noticeable, so his wife didn't notice it. Then he stopped drinking and looked at his wife. He then opened his mouth and asked in a gentle and calm voice, "Where did you get this tea?"

"Mhm? What's wrong? My master gave me these tea leaves and said that it would help one's body. I thought you would enjoy it," the woman answered with a smile. She hadn't noticed anything wrong with the tea; thus, she naively believed the tea was harmless.

"I see... Well, thank your master for me then," the Lord of the Heaven said after thinking for a bit as he took more sip of the tea.

"Okay," the woman replied.

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Next day, a rare guest came to the Eternal Mountain uninvited. When the Lord of the Heaven saw the man sitting in his living room, he frowned as he hadn't noticed the man at all. What was wrong with the Lord of the Heaven… why hadn't he noticed the man when he usually would have noticed even the smallest microorganism moving. It was very strange.

As the Lord of the Heaven was going to greet the man with a smile even though he was frowning inside, his wife came out from the bedroom and saw the man. When she saw the man, she hurriedly ran towards him and greeted him before the Lord of the Heaven even had the time to greet the man.

"Master, you are here," the woman said excitedly. She was extremely excited as her master rarely came to visit her after she had married the Lord of the Heaven. However, it was strange. Why would her master come here without notifying her and her husband? Her master would always notify her or her husband if he wanted to come visit; however, today it was strange. However, since she was extremely excited, she threw those thoughts away and she went to the kitchen to make tea for her master.

"What brings you here?" the Lord of the Heaven asked in a voice that sounded unfriendly. The Lord of the Heaven had a good cause for his unfriendly voice as the man had disobeyed him before. The man knew who the Lord of the Heaven was and how powerful he was; however, the man still had disobeyed the Lord of the Heaven before and his reasoning was that the man's disciple had married the Lord of the Heaven and that had put the man a generation above the Lord of the Heaven, even though, the Lord of the Heaven was as old as the Heaven itself.

"No reason, just wanted to see my beloved disciple," the man replied in a calm voice as if this was his house and he was the host.

When the Lord of the Heaven heard that tone and that answer, he immediately frowned and had a bad feeling about this.

"Leave now and I won't pursue this matter," the Lord of the Heaven immediately ordered the man after the bad feeling rose in his heart. If the man wasn't going to leave, he would use his powers to force the man to leave.

"What's wrong?" a voice came from behind the Lord of the Heaven, who was still standing at the doorway. Then a beautiful woman came from behind the Lord of the Heaven as she held a tray of tea cups and a bowl of cookies. Then she went to the tea table and put down the tray and looked at her husband and asked again, "What's wrong? Why can't my master be here?"

"No reason, he just has to leave," the Lord of the Heaven replied as he held his ground. Usually, he would give way to his wife; however, today was different. This bad feeling, which he was feeling had instead of declining, rose. It was still rising, and he didn't want to waste another second. He wanted the man out, even if it made his beloved wife unhappy.

"Give me a reason as to why my master has to leave? Why can't he be here? He is my master!" The woman asked as she looked at the Lord of the Heaven. She felt her husband, who was always reasonable, was being unreasonable right now. What was the problem with her master coming her me without notifying them? She had no issue over this.

"Because he is your master, I am reasonably asking him to leave. If he was someone else, I already would've made him leave by force," the Lord of the Heaven answered his wife. His bad feeling hadn't disappeared, and he felt that if the man didn't leave, this bad feeling would keep rising.

"No need to argue, I will leave if that's what you want," the man replied in a calm voice as he stood up from his seat. His eyes were filled with happiness as this was what he wanted. His plans and arrangements were coming along nicely. He just has to wait a few more months and his plans will be completed. Just thinking of it made the man happy and he wanted to laugh out loud; however, he didn't dare to laugh here as it would ruin his plans.

"No master, you don't have to leave," the woman tried to persuade her master to not leave. However, her master insisted on leaving. Seeing her master leaving, she glared at her husband before going with her master towards the front door.

When the man left, the bad feeling suddenly stopped, and he felt at ease again. The Lord of the Heaven didn't want to feel this feeling ever again. Even though nothing could kill him, today, he felt like he would've been killed. He didn't understand this feeling as it was the first time, he felt like this.

After a while, the woman returned to the living room and glared at her husband before she went to the bedroom.

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"My Lord, we have arrived at the base," a voice woke Zhao Tian up. When he heard the voice, he looked at the man at the seat near him and said nothing. The driver turned off the car and got out of the car. The man sitting on the front seat also got out and opened the rear door for Zhao Tian to get out. When Zhao Tian got out, he saw that all the other men had already got out of the car and had formed two rows of 12 men on each side. The row lead to the building that was the base. Zhao Tian started walking towards the building and the man followed three steps behind him while the driver and the passenger followed five steps behind the man and the 24 men followed three steps behind the driver and passenger as Zhao Tian passed the 24 men. The third in commands were still in the dark and nowhere to be seen.

The building that Zhao Tian was walking towards was a building that was 5-story tall. It looked like this base wasn't tall; however, this building was just a decoy. The true base was in the basement of the building. The basement housed everything from an experiment room to a shooting range. Then there was a secret room where only Zhao Tian and his most trusted men were allowed in even though everyone in the real base had absolute loyalty to Zhao Tian. Zhao Tian only had absolute trust in three men, they are the second and third in commands. They were trusted the most in the clan. The people in the decoy base were nothing but pawns of Zhao Tian for his enemies, even though Zhao Tian really didn't need to fear his enemies, he still wanted pawns just in case.

After walking for a few moments, Zhao Tian reached the entrance and the third in commands were already there to open the door for him. Then Zhao Tian entered the building, which was his temporary base of operation on this universe. Zhao Tian already had planned to build his permanent base of operation somewhere else and this was just a temporary one while he regained his strength.