3 Chapter Three

The fresh air was a nice change even though I was only down there for a few hours at most. Everyone else with me seemed to enjoy taking in the beauty that is the divine continent by inhaling deeply and looking around with excitement. It does look beautiful with all the nature around us even some of the cute demon beasts make the whole experience wholesome. But this was nothing to be excited about for me since I came from a world where I could see this every day by going to a state park.

I wasn't heartless so I let them soak up the atmosphere and gave them enough time to adjust to the surface. After they got used to their surroundings we began moving again, I needed to reach Glory City before it turned night. We passed small groups of a few demon beasts with the strongest being gold ranked. But with our strength defeating them was as simple as waving our hand to swat a fly away.

We are making good time, almost reaching the ancient orchid ruins before a 5 star legend rank Nether Horned Dragon flew down upon us. I wince at how terrible our luck is of all things to run into in the Tiny World we would run into one of the few things that can give me trouble. A demon beast of the genuine dragon bloodline was extremely rare to encounter within the tiny world with only a few ever being sighted in history.

Thankfully its strength is hindered because of the world creator's barrier placed on the divine continent. If we encountered this thing at its full strength not even a group of dao dragon experts could take it on without a few losses. I order everyone to stop and hide in hopes this thing won't be interested in us. Dragons were different from normal demon beasts since they could think for themselves and didn't just do everything based on instinct.

For a moment it sniffs the air as if tracking something, it looks a side eye in our general direction and smiles as if it knows where we are. But instead of killing us it decides to once again fly off in the opposite direction we are going. All of us collectively let out a sigh of relief as we get back on our feet as we hear the flapping of gigantic wings off in the distance. The brothers are pale faced and sweaty while the three black golds didn't seem to understand just how much danger they were in.

"What was that?!?" Liu Yan asked with his voice slightly shaking.

"A Nether Horned Dragon if it wanted to it could have killed us with a flap of its wings. Thankfully it was feeling benevolent today and let us live."

The black gold ranks seemed to have finally realized how much shit they just stepped in as they let out a collective gulp. After a moment of thought I tossed them each a demon spirit of only good growth rate and told them to merge with them as we moved. They obliged and began the process as we quickly dashed our way through the thick forest. Where we eventually stopped at the ancient orchid city ruins in order to loot the valuables below it. Though the blue armed apes were around they weren't even an issue for the Liu brothers because of their demon spirits.

I tell them all to wait outside while I go looting alone and tell them to cultivate while I wait. Knowing where everything already is, I take my time to collect what I need while rummaging through the items. It takes me close to an hour to take anything and everything of value while casually exploring everything. I wanted to give the guys above some relaxation and some time to cultivate. After leaving the ruins I put on the Abstruse Gemstone and toss the soul stone to the Liu brothers who happily accept it. At the rate we are going we should be able to make it to the city by the time the sun begins to go down.

Thankfully we managed to make good time as there were no demon beasts blocking our path to the city. Knowing we were coming up on the gates I unleashed the full force of my powerful legend rank aura to alert the city lord and any other family in the city. We could hear the sound of people shouting and clambering off in the distance along with some loud bells ringing. They knew we were coming whether they liked it or not and were getting ready to confront us.

The first person we see is Ye Zong along with the heads of each major family and the other black gold rank family members. We slow our pace to a walk in order to not be even more suspicious than we already were. Liu Qing and Yan shot dirty looks at all of the experts protecting the city walls and gates for which I thumped them both in the head. I rang the dinner bell so it would be easier to get an audience with Ye Zong and be allowed into the city much faster.

"That's close enough! What is your business here?" Ye Zong shouted.

"We come from the spirit gulf, our city was destroyed by a demon beast horde, we are all that remain." Ye Zong raised his eyebrow with curiosity and a slight show of pity.

He had never heard of the spirit gulf but the fact a city was out there and had been sacked by the demon beasts was all too familiar to him. Hordes were constantly threatening Glory City so he could sympathize with us on that. The other heads of each family looked a bit more skeptical and took my words with a grain of salt.

"Which of you let off such a power aura earlier?" He asked, eyeing us all up and down.

"Me, we were confronted by a group of demon beasts and were too tired to fight." I say stepping forward.

This caused a slight commotion among the onlookers since I'm so young they could hardly believe it. I take this chance to step forward slightly which causes a slight stur but Ye Zong allows it. Now only mere feet away from Ye Zong I pull a few of the less evil cultivation techniques from my interspatial ring. And toss them at him which he catches easily while trying not to damage the books.

"These are the techniques I have collected, I offer them to you in exchange for residency inside your city."

He begins flipping through the pages and is surprised by how different and powerful these techniques were. While not quite as good as his seven heart technique they were still good for training the younger generation. Ye Zong turns around and gives me the one moment finger before talking with the other major families. A few minutes go by as they talk to themselves and the group behind me becomes a bit antsy. They are not used to standing out in the open like this without taking any precautions.

The family heads turn around and walk closer to me with the techniques in hand ready to pass them back to me. Did negotiations fail?

"Welcome to Glory City. We thank you for the cultivation techniques but we could not accept such a thing from a stranger in need."

"Then consider them a gift for your generous hospitality." I say with a smile.

"Very well, how may we address this young master?"

"My name is Long Sha, I am now the patriarch of the Divine Dragon Family."

"Very well Patriarch Long Sha, Tomorrow I will have someone come by and sell you a plot of land to live on but for now you may stay in the city lord's mansion."

I cupped my hands and bowed then followed Ye Zong into the city which was still hustling and bustling even while the sun went down. While walking to the mansion I was eerily reminded to take care of something before going to sleep here. As countless members of the dark guild hidden away in the city looked on at my arrival. My main objective is to destroy the star restaurant and its employees. Any stragglers would probably find it hard to make it back to the nether realm and tell them what's happening.

We finally made it to the city lords mansion and it was an extremely imposing sight, it is roughly the size of a military base back on earth. Surrounded by a constant stream of guards of at least gold rank or higher. As we enter the guest courtyard around the corner peeking her head out I can see Ye Ziyun trying to see what the commotion is about. She quickly runs back to her building after catching a glimpse of me looking at her.

Our courtyard was the same one Nie Li got to live in while living with the City Lord before moving in with Ye Ziyun. Ye Zong thanked us again for the techniques and then hurried off to go and do more city lord stuff. I decided to cultivate until night rolled around so I sat down next to a pond and began practicing my technique. The pain was excruciating but as evening turned to night I finally managed to break into the 3 star realm. A couple of the experts must have felt the change because they came to take a look including Ye Zong himself before quietly going back to their patrols.

After consolidating my rank up I quickly jumped over the mansion wall as stealthily as I could. None of the guards noticed me so I quickly made my way deeper into the city and found the star restaurant. It appeared to be completely empty but I knew if I went inside there I would be able to find them hiding away. As I entered every step I took broke the silence in the main buildings, but I knew they operated in the basement.

I begin walking down the stairs and can hear a group of people chattering to themselves as I get closer. They grew incredibly silent as my foot broke one of the steps leading to the cellar. As I turned the corner they were all ready for me with their weapons drawn and half of them merged with their demon spirits. When they noticed it was me they all cupped their hands and bowed. I felt bad at this moment since it was going to be like Anakin killing the younglings but I couldn't have them blabbing about me. The vast majority of the dark guild was loyal primarily to the Demon Lord and Shen Hong.

"Long Sha what bring-" A gold rank expert was in the middle of asking a question when I pulled my sword.

Without hesitation I begin decimating the crowd of cultivators including Yun Hua, a deacon of the dark guild. A few of them put up a valiant effort trying to resist but are unable to and soon join the pile of bodies building up around them. The last remaining in the group, a 3 star gold rank, managed to deflect one of my sword swings with the sword in his hands. But ultimately his fate was sealed as soon as I countered his deflect with a strong punch to the gut. Causing him to collapse on his knees and vomit out a large amount of blood onto the floor.

I thought for a moment and figured it would be a waste to not use his body in the future, maybe he could soul transfer Ye Yan into this body. However unlikely this was, it was still a possibility since I have the knowledge to do so. Using my interspatial ring I pick up his body and store it away so it doesn't start decomposing. I looted whatever they had lying around and ransacked the restaurant above to make it look like a robbery. Quietly I make it back to the city lord mansion without disturbing the guards and go to sleep inside the house I picked out.

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