Ten Buddha District

Lin Fan's reputation had spread all the way to the Empyrean world and specifically started rapidly spreading through Sacred Light City and Ten Buddha District. The battles that took place in the Forbidden Tournament were showcased live on the Empyrean Battle Arena Network.

The network had millions of watchers that were a small part of the billions of Empyreans that lived in Sacred Light City and most of those watchers were in Ten Buddha Disctict. Lin Fan's defeat of the Empyrean Youth League Captain made some bullied by Blare Ron and Boris Lang extremely excited. The Empyrean League teams were extremely vile, sinister, and nefarious to the normal members of Sacred Light City. The only ones who earned their affections were those who could make them stronger, provide them support, or had potential to increase their rank.

The Empyreans were a special race where your fighting prowess meant everything, and your rank determined the pain and suffering you had to endure on a daily basis. There were nine ranks and the lowest ranks were considered trash while the highest were considered peak existences. In Ten Buddha District, there were some extremely talented members that detested the ranking system and specifically those who were blessed to be at the top of the pyramid. They formed a coalition called the Seven Devils Alliance which grew into a small palace known as Dark Light Palace.

Dark Light Palace even gained the respect of Gin Ran and was given techniques, resources, and weapons even though he couldn't increase their rank. Gin Ran was an Empyrean King, but he was a figurehead that ruled over a single Empyrean Province. There were still men closer to the Overlord Rank who he had to listen to or risk being killed and replaced by the man who was given his daughters.

This was not an exaggeration to say that Gin Ran really had no control over improving the rank of Dark Light Palace regardless of how hard its members worked. The members were all the lowest rank, the ninth rank, when they were born and were unable to ever go past the seventh rank. The reason they couldn't get higher in rank was because of an ancestor that all ninth rank individuals had in common! That ancestor was actually the father of one of the three universal fathers with Zhou Kan being one of his sons!

Lin Fan's grandfather, that's right, had decided to slight the Empyrean Kings over one hundred thousand years ago and decided to have children with one of each of the kings concubines! The kings didn't find out until Lin Fan's grandfather left a note describing the intimate nights he had with each of the ladies one hundred years later.

The kings were all so enraged at their immoral concubines that they killed them, but were unable to kill all the off spring of Lin Fan's Grandfather without risking cultivation deviation. There were three reasons you could experience cultivation deviation from acts and three of those acts were killing your own family, pushing yourself too far, and being badly crushed in a battle. The Empyrean Emperors thus decided to thrust the offspring of those children to the bottom of the barrel! Even the strongest of those children, that seemed to be birthed from the universe itself, wouldn't be allowed to ever receive the same treatment as someone like Boris Lang or Blare Ron.

The only reason they were allowed to keep existing in the Empyrean's Twelve Provinces was because they were used for odd jobs and to help those like Blare Ron and Boris Lang get strong enough to crush the competition in other worlds. However, hundreds of years after, the people in the Empyrean Capitals had split into those who chose to help the descendants of Lin Fan's grandfather and those who chose to try and crush their spirits. Luckily, one of the cities they were fairly well treated was Sacred Light City. That was until Boris Lang became the leader of the Empyrean Championship League and brought his disdain for their lineage to the capital!

Boris Lang grew up in a different city and as thus tried to impose order on those that created the Dark Light Palace. The Dark Light Palace was a school that Gin Ran made for Van Kan's descendents, called the Blights by everyone else, so they could learn trades like blacksmithing, alchemy, and even building skills so they could help the city. However, Boris Lang did everything in his power to destroy their school, and because of his connection to another emperor, Gin Ran had to turn the other cheek.

This was something that those in the Dark Light Palace were constantly battling until they saw Lin Fan. They immediately decided to send an emissary from the Dark Light Palace to the Fan Sect to give him all the information they had on Grain Kan, Boris Lang, and even Ind Quin. If Lin Fan won against Boris Lang, he would lose his honorary position as Captain, and could no longer cause trouble! Then they could finally regain some of their dignity and continue learning trades like black smithing and above all get back to creating runic techniques to their hearts content!

To deliver their message, they sent a blonde small girl with a large chest that was barely in the Forbidden Rank. She appeared from the Empyrean Temple on top of Forbidden Mountain and then shot like a missile to the Fan Sect.

She arrived just in the morning as Lin Fan sat underneath a tree with leaves growing off his body. He looked like the exact opposite of the man she saw on televison, and gave her the impression of a conqueror trying to slash his way into the heavens...

"Excuse me! I have a delivery for Lin Fan! If you want, you can take me to your room too! I come with the package!"