Chapter 303: Deals - 303
"Do you have any idea why I've called you here?" Tian Ren's wife asked.
"No clue." Guang Fu responded.
"I expected. To make it short, we need you to succeed Tian Ren." She said.
Guang Fu didn't move for a while as he took in her words.
"Huh?" He asked.
"Pretty simple, there is no Heavenborn more talented than you besides Yao Mun." She explained. "Naturally, the death of a leader has never happened before, but we can assume what he would have wanted done in such a situation. According to his words, you are the ideal person."
"That makes sense, but what are the details?" Guang Fu asked.
"We decided to keep Tian Ren's legacy ongoing. I can explain more details later when we meet with the rest of the space shattering realm cultivators, but in a few months, we plan to declare you the young master of the Heaven sect. In other words, once you reach a high enough strength, you will become the sect master." Tian Ren's wife explained.
Guang Fu held his head as he felt a headache coming on.
"I don't think I can." He said. "There is something I need to do, and I may die doing it."
"We likely have the same idea. There is a requirement besides reaching the space shattering realm for you becoming the sect master." She added. "To become the sect master of the Heaven sect, you must kill Yao Mun. That should align with what you have in mind right?"
"Yes. Then I agree. However, I have a question." Guang Fu said. "Why don't you kill Yao Mun?"
"Because he would now be protected by space shattering realm cultivators. According to our very little intel, he has become the student of Bi Chong. They have the same goals, to crush the Heavenborns and, if ever possible, destroy Heaven." She explained.
"Then I suppose I have to kill Bi Chong as well." Guang Fu said with his eyes closed.
A faint strand of killing intent leaked out of him.
"That brings us to the second point of you coming here." Tian Ren's wife said as she clapped her hands. "It seems that you won't have to take care of Bi Chong. Not alone at least."
"What do you mean?" Guang Fu asked.
"Recently, a mysterious organization reached out to us. They said that we shared a common goal, and only together could we reach it. In order to even meet, we have to sign a contract of secrecy. You may have to sign it too. If it goes as planned, we will have a meeting in a month. We would like you to attend." She explained.
After a moment of thinking, Guang Fu nodded.
"Fine. Taking on Yao Mun and Bi Chong working together would be too much no matter how strong I get."
"I'm glad you think that way. Our discussion will continue on in a meeting room with the others. Just know that your training will be done by you alone unless you request otherwise. Complete access to all of the Heaven Sects techniques had been given to you." She said as she tossed over a metal token.
"That will be your entry and exit pass. Follow me." She said as she walked away.
Guang Fu followed.
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A month later, Guang Fu sat in a room away from the Heaven sect and deep underground. He, Tian Ren's wife, and one other space shattering cultivator sat on one side of the table. The rest of the table was currently empty.
Guang Fu had signed a lengthy contract and took an oath, but it had no nonsensical clauses. It was meant to keep both sides quiet about everything that happens in the meeting room.
Guang Fu looked around the huge room as he waited. The ceilings were a thousand feet high and the walls were a thousand feet apart.
He guessed that it was meant for meetings between non-humanoid transformed beasts. After looking around for a few more minutes, a giant door on the opposite side of the room opened.
What walked through were two flying men and a large beast behind them.
"I apologize in advance for my friend here's size. He has yet to reach the soul formation realm." The man in front said.
"No worries. I've worked with plenty of supreme beasts and can understand your troubles." Tian Ren's wife said.
Guang Fu was enlightened.
'So they are supreme beasts. She likely just figured that out.' He thought to himself.
"Yes. Luckily, he is not one of the super gigantic kind." The powerful supreme beast laughed.
The supreme beast was at the space shattering realm, while the man behind was at the void traversing realm.
The lead man and the other man sat down while the beast stood behind them.
"Let's get down to business. Us beast world supreme beasts may be struggling to even survive and are countless times weaker than the beasts or the Heavenborns, but we have an incomparably valuable asset with us." The man explained.
"And what is that?" Tian Ren's wife asked.
"Talent. The beast behind me, Lernean, is a nine headed hydra. He has nine affinities and can be considered one of the most talented beings in the galaxy." He explained.
As time passed, many things were discussed between the two.
"We spent a lot of resources, time, and power building a teleportation array to this planet. Luckily, we had the help of you Heavenborns." The man said. "It was quite the job to build one big enough for lernean."
"Indeed it was. I hope it was worth it." Tian Ren's wife said.
Building a teleportation array usually required people on both ends.
"You will see." The man responded. "So, I would like to move our supreme beast race to the Heaven world. That way, we would be able to develop our strength. In the beast world, we are heavily suppressed. Growing is simply impossible."
"I can imagine so. Let's cut to the chase, I want your lernean to fight our Guang Fu. They are at the same cultivation level. Afterwards, the final call will be his." She said as she gestured to Guang Fu.
"That's fine with me. Lernean, don't kill him."
Chapter 304: Friendly Spar - 304
Lernean and Guang Fu stood in a field. They were no longer underground. Above them was a large white dome shaped barrier, similar to the ones used during the war.
It was quickly set up by the supreme beast leader and Tian Ren's wife in order to stop anyone besides them from seeing what was going on inside.
Guang Fu and Lernean stood across from each other. Lernean was already standing tall, ready to display his full power, while Guang Fu was holding a sword he had borrowed from Tian Ren's wife.
Without a word needing to be spoken, both Guang Fu and Lernean moved at the same time.
Instantly, Lernean spat out 9 breaths containing different Qi's. Not willing to get hit by them, Guang Fu dodged by moving far to the sides. The breaths continued moving forward without any sign of changing directions.
'He cannot control his breaths once they leave his mouth.' Guang Fu noted.
He was neither glad nor sad. On one hand, his future ally had a weakness. On the other hand, his current opponent had a weakness.
Guang Fu's speed was extremely fast. He moved so quickly that Lernean could barely react.
Nine different spears appeared above Lernean's heads and shot toward the quickly moving Guang Fu.
Guang Fu had no trouble dodging them at all. He was simply much smaller and much faster.
'This guy clearly doesn't compare to Yao Mun. Can he really beat Bi Chong?' Guang Fu asked himself.
Guang Fu was just about to feel dejected as Lerneans heads moved together. It only took a moment for all nine of them to be touching, forming a circle.
Then, they continued moving inwards. For some reason, it was as if they were in separate spaces.
Before Guang Fu could reach Lernean, the heads had all layered over each other. Then, a light appeared. It almost blinded Guang Fu's eyes, but he was able to see through it.
He watched as the nine heads formed one, multicolored head.
Then, Lernean opened his mouth and roared. Guang Fu felt danger for the first time since the battle started and put his sword in his sheath. He held his hands out and two hands twice as big as his body appeared in front of him. They were made of Light Qi.
It was a Light Qi defensive technique heavily based off of Buddhist Qi techniques. A breath made of nine colors and nine Qi's reached the hands before Guang Fu could react.
The hands resisted for a second, but quickly broke down from the breath attack.
'His nine heads merged to form one. Different from that, the nine breaths retained their own individuality instead of combining. The power increased by about ten times, but what if they merged? Is there some reason they aren't?' Guang Fu thought as he jumped upward quickly.
He had already spotted Lernean's weakness and easily evaded the breath.
'Perhaps if I stood still and took it with my bare body, that would have killed me. He seems talented, but he doesn't feel all that strong. Maybe it's because I fought Yao Mun. Am I getting arrogant?' Guang Fu casually thought to himself as he grabbed his sword's handle.
As he began to pull the sword out of its sheath, he continued to think.
'No. No. This guy is the one who is arrogant. He really thought such a subpar mastery was acceptable? I can't be arrogant compared to this guy. I'll just consider this teaching him a life lesson.' Guang Fu thought as the tip of the sword exited the sheath.
At that moment, the sword disappeared. Then, a giant hole formed in Lernean's one-headed body. He hadn't even had time to see that Guang Fu dodged.
Lernean fell to the ground as nine heads appeared once again. Guang Fu sheathed his sword since the battle was clearly over.
He flew towards Lernean's laid down body as the supreme beast and Tian Ren's wife watched carefully.
"You seem subpar, but you have talent. If you can control that breath of yours, you may become an actual threat. Before that, stop thinking you have a chance to scratch Bi Chong. If you two were at the same level, he would kill you ten times before you attacked once." Guang Fu lectured.
"So what will it be?" Tian Ren's wife asked.
Both she and the space shattering realm supreme beast were shocked by Guang Fu's performance, but they did not let it show on their face.
"He can work with us. At the very least, holding back Bi Chong may not be an issue. Of course, that is assuming he gets much better." Guang Fu said. "Let the supreme beasts relocate here. If me and Lernean train together, he may improve much more than when alone. Sparring with each other may even help me."
"Then it is settled." Tian Ren's wife said as she clapped her hands with a smile.
She and the space shattering realm supreme beast went off to discuss details of their cooperation further while Guang Fu came closer to Lernean and started healing him.
"Thanks." Lernean said.
His voice was gruff and deep, but the tone was quite kind.
"Don't thank me yet. I'm not much of a healer. At the Heaven sect, we have better healers. Come with me." Guang Fu said as he stabilized Lernean's condition.
"No need. I heal quickly." Lernean responded.
"The point is to get to know each other a bit. Come on." Guang Fu said.
"Are you sure we can just go out without saying anything?" Lernean asked with a confused tone.
"Hah. Let me introduce you. Welcome to the Heaven world. A world of peace and freedom. Nobody here goes asking for a fight with people like us." Guang Fu laughed.
He made sure that Lernean could move well before they began flying back to the Heaven sect.
The world was huge, but they hadn't gone that far away from the Heaven sect. It was only a day of travel before they arrived at the Heaven sect's gate.
At first, Lernean's huge body put them on edge, but Guang Fu fetched an item made specifically for these occasions.
He put a talisman on Lernean and Lernean's big body became smaller until it was only twice as big as a normal Heavenborns.
"This will temporarily shrink you, but don't get into any fights or bump into anything too hard. It will lose its effect."
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