Chapter 4: Chapter 4.
At the edge of the federation space lies another galaxy called the Mingjie galaxy, and at the center of this galaxy exists its primary star called Mingjie star, the planet has an usual blue star, it was wide and the atmosphere was covered with a bluish hue, on the planet exists a sect known as the Tang sect, the sect isn't so grand like the other sects of this planet and its influence seemingly doesn't go beyond Hailan city where they are located, inside this sect mansion designed like a spreading lotus flower sits eight beings, at the head were two men and on each side of the two men were three people on the left were three women and on the right were three men.
If anyone from ten thousand years ago were here, they would be able to see that these eight people were the two masters of the Tang sect the Ruthless douluo and the Amorous douluo and to their left were the Titan Angel douluo, Star god douluo and the Starry sky douluo, and to their right were Holy Angel douluo, Space-time douluo and the Destruction douluo, the six of them were the Shrek seven devils of that generation and to the federation they were believed to have long been dead, but here they lay dormant, seemingly waiting for something. As they sat down in their council room, the space before them suddenly rippled and a projection of two people appeared, the people were a man and a woman, the man and purple-blue eyes and long blue hair, dressed in a purple gold robe, in his hand he held a brilliant white spear with a purple gold spearhead, at the center of the spear head was an eight directional star radiating with purplish red light,
The woman standing next to him had long silver hair and purple-green eyes, she was dressed in a green gold dress and in her hands she held a beautiful silver halberd, at the top where a spearhead was supposed to be lay a beautiful green gold orb surrounded by intricate golden leaves overlaid onto of each other to form the appearance of a spearhead with the green gold orb at the center, these two people radiated opposing energies but despite the energies being opposites, when the two of them stood together the energies seemed harmonious with each other, although what appeared was simply their projections, the space around them was trembling like even these projections couldn't be sustained by the space around them.
Seeing the two projections the eight people smiled, while the two men at the center addressed the man as Wulin, the six other people addressed the two people as captain and vice captain. The two people were exactly the destruction god Tang Wulin and his wife the life goddess Gu Yuena, seeing the eight people the two of them smiled, Wulin said "It is about time to start our plans, the preparations on the side of The federation are about done and in at most ten years the people you are expecting will venture into this galaxy, before they arrive the Tang sect must be prepared enough to receive them." After hearing this, the Titan Angel douluo stepped forward and asked "How about her, how is she doing in our absence?" Gu Yuena smiled back and with a wave of her hand a projection of a young lady appeared she was strolling across the shores of a brilliant blue green lake and in hr background a massive tree loomed, she girl had beautiful red-gold hair, with deep green eyes, she was dressed in a red Shrek academy uniform signifying that she was in the inner courtyard,
"Your daughter is outstanding, at sixteen years she has successfully broken through the six ring soul emperor realm and entered the inner courtyard with her two character battle armor as a special invitation, presently one needs to reach the seventh ring before they qualify to enter the inner court but she was invited specifically because of her talent, her accomplishments on the path of space and time are beyond outstanding and she has brought out the true mystery of the Space-time dragon and I believe that within ten years she should have crossed the planet tribulation and reached the god level."
Hearing this, the Space-time douluo moved to his wife, holding her hand and saying, "little Yuan will be fine, she has your talent and the captain and vice captain are keeping an eye on her," Wulin then said, in six years the five talents we are expecting will enter the academy and I want to place them under her care, four years later when the five are deployed to this galaxy she will come with them, at that time maybe you will get a chance to see her for yourself." When he said this the Titan Angel douluo smiled and said "ten years, we can wait for ten ten years. Thank you Wulin," the eight people were all smiling, just then the Ruthless douluo said "we need to start the process, however the powerhouses of this world aren't so weak, although we have all already reached the god level it doesn't mean we are invincible in this place," Wulin replied, senior Cao is right and a short while ago I came across a few treasures that I hope will be of some help to you." As he said that the space around then cracked open and a sealed box came out of it and landed before the eight people.
Back on douluo star, time moved quickly, before long six years passed by in the blink of an eye, on Douling continent, Hao Lian led his disciple Ming Yan into the Spirit pagoda, after tireless cultivation for several years, Ming Yan finally stepped into the soul ancestor realm, at this point his original Titan boa serpent spirit soul couldn't provide him a fourth ring, despite how talented Ming Yan was, the qualities of the Nether vine were still there, his cultivation was slowed down drastically, with how much effort he had put in, he was supposed to be much farther than the fourth ring,
The fellow geniuses of his age had already stepped into the fifth ring at this time and although his combat strength was already above them, his soul power had just now broken through the fourth ring, his original spirit soul was still at the thousand year level so he couldn't obtain a fourth ring from it meaning he needed to find a second spirit soul. Arriving at the spirit pagoda they displayed their identity as people from the Tang sect, since the two organizations had practically become one they were treated as VIPs and led to the upper executive floors, once there they were received by a spiriter who addressed them respectfully,
"Right this way your majesty, the tower master is ready for you." Hao Lian simply nodded apprehensively and followed the spiriter, they moved to the end of an office on the floor end the office was named tower master, entering the office they found someone waiting for them in there, this was another middle aged man, as he saw them walking inside, he addressed Hao Lian first, "you are welcome Lord Sky Ribbon Zhenshen," and Hao Lian replied, "Thank you for having us Lord White Phoenix Doushen," listening to the titles of these two powerhouses Ming Yan was humbled, six years ago he embarked on the path of cultivation right after taking on the Sky Ribbon Doushen as his teacher, it was a few weeks later that he found out that his teacher was actually the lord of the whole Tang sect and his presence on Douling continent was simply a planned visit.
Although it would have been much easier to take Ming Yan with him as he returned to Douluo continent he chose against it, he left Ming Yan under the care of the Douling branch sect master his majesty the Leaf metal douluo Zhao Xin, during his time training on Douling continent he came to learn alot about the soul master world, after the return of the god realm the rankings of the soulmasters was revised, it still remained soul Scholar, soul master, soul grandmaster, soul elder, soul ancestor, soul king ,soul emperor, soul saint, soul douluo and titled douluo like it was previously but since the limit of cultivation had risen to rank 129, there were still three levels unaccounted for,
So from rank 100 to 109 was renamed doushen to represent the fighting god, rank 110 to 119 was renamed Zhenshen to represent a true god and rank 120 to 129 was renamed Chaojishen to represent a super god. To go beyond that level was actually theoretical and those that qualify to pass that rank would be picked up by the fine realm, however it wasn't a given that one needed to reach rank 129 before entering the god realm, rather those geniuses that display outstanding talent can be picked up from when they reach the Doushen rank, and when they reach the Chaojishen rank, as long as you display outstanding talent, you could be picked up earlier and brought the divine realm earlier,
Or one needed to reach and surpass rank 129 before they would break through the planar barrier and ascend to the divine realm. Therefore to become a true mainstay in the current federation one needed to reach the god level or at least become a doushen, anyone that reaches that level would become known and addressed as a lord, in the past six years Ming Yan had witnessed the scene when his majesty the Leaf metal douluo Zhao Xin broke through the mortal barrier and ascends from the rank 99 quasi god to the rank 100 Doushen rank. His ascension was accompanied by a four element planar tribulation which was a testament to his talent, this tribulation meant that he could ascend to become a Zhenshen in the future. For a long time he had believed that tr branch master had actually caught up his with teacher who was the only person he knew to have reached the Doushen rank, but now he finds out that his teacher had grown within the past six years and reached the Zhenshen rank,
As his student this was also a source of pride for him, but at the same time it reminded him of the gap in the talent of the two of them, the higher one goes the harder it becomes to actually raise their cultivation, but despite how far up his teacher was, he actually managed to rise from the doushen to the Zhenshen in six years and Ming Yan even failed to reach the fifth rank, his fellow students at the Tang sect managed to rise to the fifth ring with some even reaching close to the sixth ring, but he was still stuck with his slow cultivation,
Powerful as the Thunderclap nether vine was, its growth speed couldn't even be described as crawling, it was much too slow, despite the resources Ming Yan had at his disposal he still couldn't raise his rank to the fifth ring in six years, there were even rumors of kids his own age reaching the sixth ring within these six years and he was still at the fourth ring, this couldn't be described as poor talent, it was really poor. However when he expected his teacher to be disappointed whenever they spoke in douluo world, his teacher was just pleased, although he repetitively reminded him to be more diligent in his cultivation, he was always pleased with Ming Yan's progress.
Like when he hears that Ming Yan had broken through to the fourth ring at 12 years old, he was so pleased that he traveled to Douling continent just to help him obtain a powerful second spirit soul, as he was reminiscing about the past, his teacher and the spirit pagoda tower master of douling continent were having an intense discussion on their end, he was only drawn into their conversation when he was summoned by his teacher, "Ming Yan, unleash your martial soul for the tower master to see." At that time he simply complied, with a wave of his hand the surroundings around him appeared several dark purple vines arching with purple lightning, at the same time three dark purple soul rings appeared around his body, the air within the office suddenly turned electric.