PoV: Daichi
I am the patriarch of the large clan Kaiyo. We have spent the past millennia defending ourselves and the humans on the continent from the encroaching Golden-Kin.
It had started when our forefather met an Asura and befriended him. They trained together and did battle together before the Golden Kin invaded their homeland. The land fell quickly and the Asura was crippled, however, even with his crippled limbs, he could still teach martial arts to children and to his friends.
Our forefather built a clan around his friend and had him showered in care till his final days. The final words the Asura spoke was, "In the future, a great descendant will be born. Their talent will be immense and their power will bring peace to our family. They will close the fighting between the Golden-kin, after her, there will be never another invasion of our lands." Now, of course, the family took those words to heart and it became the unofficial rule to train all children in as many aspects as possible. This caused a huge growth in talents.
They made Master Blacksmiths, Peak Fighters, Royal Scholars, even genius Brewers. The family expanded and then it became a rule to bring as many outsiders into the family to diversify the genes. This made the family start their own huge country.
The Golden Horde was feeling restless so they attacked the growing empire. This sparked a massive war that led to the annihilation of both parties. The Golden-Kin retreated and the Kaiyo's retreated. They both still fought frequently and they both still attempted to strangle each other but neither could gain the upper hand even after more than ten thousand years.
Even now we have an extremely large amount of warriors battling against them and attempting to retake some small islands. We knew that it would do nothing in the long run but after the resources gained by the mainland empire, it became easier to make high-quality equipment.
This gave a small edge in favor of us.
We instantly decided to push as forcefully as ever. If we take complete control of those islands then we are sure to gain another warrior training site.
If we are lucky then we will get a foothold on the old continent. That is farther than we have ever made it since the forefather was pushed out.
So, in short, the treaty between the empire and us was pretty important. If it fell through then it was sure to make us lose land to the Golden-kin. We will have to subdue the entire region and then make relations good. It would just lead to large amounts of pain.
Now I am going to visit my Daughter, she lives in that little empires capital. I don't know which household she was actually married to but I was promised that it would be important and rich. I didn't want my sweet little girl to marry some scholar nor did I want her to marry into some money grubber lineage so I practically blackmailed the emperor into those terms.
I heard that she had given birth already and that was why my trip was planned. I wanted to take her child back to the clan and train them in the ways of cultivation and fighting. They would probably become a strong warrior that could do battle against the Golden Hordes.
Well, at least that was my hopes. My daughter was born with inborn blocked Meridians that prevented training in Qigong. With those thoughts, most people decided against marrying her and many cousins started vying for the Patriarchy of our clan. I had another daughter as well but she was more skilled in assassination and spying then running a business or a clan.
So I had high hopes for my first grandkid!
On my way to the Capital, I heard rumors of the Prime Minister having a falling out with a concubine and that the Emperor took the side of the Concubine. At first, this rumor barely registered in my mind, however, after getting closer and closer, the rumors stopped becoming vague and then a name appeared.
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Olivia Kaiyo, My daughter.
Almost instantly I flew into a rage, the Emperor himself promised that my little angel would be the main wife! I bet that they secretly suppressed her in revenge of the countless lives lost when they tried to invade us.
Needless to say, I picked up the pace and began collecting information at every stop.
I charged towards the Castle the moment I arrived in the city.
Only at the castle gate did I stop and yell, "Emperor! I, Daichi Kaiyo want an explanation!" After all, could he really afford to insult our family like that?
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PoV: Emperor
For the past couple of weeks, there has been a rumor floating around the capital that a Concubine married to my friend's Prime minister house and that I personally took sides against the Qiang clan.
This was extremely hard to quash and even harder to deny when the Kaiyo girl's name got out into the public. I secretly told my agents that they were to cut out many known weeds in the Cabinet of Ministers before they could do anything stupid like trying to charge Olivia Kaiyo with treason, and other various crimes to make themselves look better in the public and repair the Prime minister's name.
Only after a solid four weeks did anything actually start to quiet down.
Even then there was still the random rumor of 'Kaiyo girl this' or 'Kaiyo girl that'. I believe that it was pretty close and it didn't spread too far and I still have high hopes that the Kaiyo family won't discover our fuck up.
"Emperor! I, Daichi Kaiyo want an explanation!"
Fuck!
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PoV: Alexia
These last couple of days have been extremely hectic and quick. We started the cleanup of the more bizarre experiments a couple weeks ago but we still had many prisoners that were undergoing treatments and tests with how their body reacts to things like the Qi in the air.
We had my mother get some lower class cultivation manuals to use as a base of experiments. We then changed them in certain ways to attempt to increase productivity and effectivity.
So far we have created ten or so cultivations that are perfected as much as possible with the resources provided. We couldn't quite work out every kink but the kinks are so minuscule that it doesn't really matter. Stuff like getting vertical pupils or growing horns.
I started my own cultivation the other day with the only way to guarantee become strong. It sort of mixes the four energies in the air and creates a sort of high-class Qi. It is purer and more stable then the normal volatile shit most cultivators use.
The only reason I said it like that because I seem to have a knack for sensing these elements and moving them with my Psionic powers was easy, plus the fact that my pores absorbed rapidly and more effectively. I was extremely glad that I changed my body to this instead of relying on the normal genes that I had inherited.
I used a specially created version of a cultivation manual that used a lot of poison and death Ki in the Qi. It created a sort of venomous aura that can either cure sickness, disease or even speed up injuries natural regeneration. However, that was just for show since the real reason I chose it was because it would turn your weapon into a human weapon.
The Blood in your veins carried a cold poison that could slow down the body and cause a weakening of the targets organs. The blood in the arteries carried a hot poison that would attack and destroy the flesh and muscle of the target.
This was only in the more upper reached levels of the cultivation though, at the opening phases the body would go through many changes. First, the Body would clear unwanted junk from the body, then the body would reinforce a layer of super strengthened flesh, and skin on the upper layers of the body.
That was considered generally normal for the medium levels of cultivation but the Upper to peak levels also dealt with reinforcing the organs and bones.
The last step in my methods cultivation would make my inner body super strengthened and generally tougher.
The next steps include things like Soul setting, then Soul cleansing, or even Nirvana Soul Rebirth, etc.
The was the Cultivation works is that the starting realm is one method then you have to work your way up into the higher levels with a different manual.
This makes the cultivator into a machine that can problem solve issues with cultivation skills, and even strengthen the fighting abilities between transitions.
The skills mostly used by a grappling master were very smooth and soft in their theories while the more aggressive attacks in other skills relied on the hard theory.
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By using her memories from her past life Alexia knew both and could use them to her advantage when facing off against people larger or heavier or maybe even more physically strong.
With the training, she had put her body through to be able to use fighting, and when she used her strengthening techniques, her body was like an Iron Pillar. Unyielding, immobile and tough as fuck. With her body becoming more feminine she decided that it was time to fix her body and make herself into a proper young miss when her Grandfather came.
She used her cultivation to her advantage and fixed the manual into her body. The side effects of cultivating it were small and so unnoticeable that most would just ignore it.
Her eyes became green with a horizontal pupil, her hair became a bright pool gold that gleamed in the sunlight and changed into a dark whirlpool of death in the dark.
colorin colour was a snow white that made her seem like a bloodless corpse.