Early the next morning around sixish, Yuèguāng walked to his father's palace.

The cultivators that were cultivating all stopped to look at the young master and forgot to greet him but this did not bother him, he was going to leave soon.

At his father's palace, his mother, grandfather and siblings were gathered there, Yuèguāng bowed and greet them and got straight to the point.

Yuèguāng: "Before I leave there is something I must ask of you, you can choose to help me or can kick me out."

Father: "Why do you want to leave?"

Yuèguāng: "Father, it is not that I want to leave its just that, I, Yuèguāng no longer have a place here."

Father: "Nonsense!!!"

Yuèguāng looked at his father that was furious and glaring at him, with a disappointed smile on his face.

Yuèguāng: "I shamed our family yesterday with coming out as liking men, but do you and my mother still love me? Do you not feel ashamed of me and resent me for what I did?"

Father: "What you did was unfathomable and is not how a man behaves, you need to apologise to everyone for it."

Yuèguāng looked at his father and grew angry.

Apologise for what? Being Weak? Being gay? Does this really just mean that everything is about-face? What about him? What about the previous Yuèguāng that passed on with resentment.

Yuèguāng: "Father, you have no right telling me that I should apologize, you call yourself my father, but yesterday, you did not say a word, I had to defend myself, you, my mother, grandfather, my siblings, all of you never once cared for me, because if you did you wouldn't have let them leave."

The people in the room grew slightly angry but did not voice any opinions because what Yuèguāng said was true, none of them stood up for him.

Now that they were faced with these questions being angry at Yuèguāng was useless.

Yuèguāng: "Today, is the last day that you all will see me."

Mother: "You don't have to leave."

Yuèguāng looked at his mother and smiled: "But I must if I don't, how will I survive?"

Tears formed in his mothers' eyes and she started sobbing, she almost parted with her son before and now he really was leaving.

All this emotional nonsense, felt like bullshit to Yuèguāng because they weren't family and he had his own life to live, he did not want to be held back because of these people.

At the beginning when he first arrived, he felt love for them but the moment when he started cultivating, he decided to become strong and leave because what child stays forever with their parents, on earth, that just meant you were lazy and Yuèguāng was not the lazy type.

He originally wanted to ask for money, but decided not to, he returned to his room and disappeared with Tae-Ra.

It was reported that Yuèguāng had vanished again and that this time no one knew where he was, no one saw him leave and no one knew where the little girl was also.

Again, news spread and Yuèguāng became the mystery of the town that no one could solve.

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While all this was blowing up, Yuèguāng opened his eyes and what he saw was nothing but blue sky.

Tae-Ra was still in his arms and this time the Red Lightning Anaconda and Black Python were with them.

Tae-Ra: "Yuèguāng?"

Yuèguāng: "Yes?"

Tae-Ra: "I can teach you many things about this world and the Starry Sky."

Yuèguāng: "I'm really interested" looks down at her and smiles.

Tae-Ra: "Mn, I know you are but I can only teach you if you accept me as master."

Yuèguāng: "Master? Teacher?"

Tae-Ra: "Yes, I always thought that I would never take in a disciple but it seems like you and I were fated to meet so I have decided to take you as my disciple and I like you and your gay side."

Yuèguāng: "Haha, that's not something you should like, anyways are you serious about being my master?"

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Tae-Ra: "Mn"

Yuèguāng put Tae-Ra down and she transformed into her older self.

She truly was a beautiful woman.

Tae-Ra cut her hand and a transparent drop of gold liquid came out, it had little flakes of gold in it and shined brightly, she moved her hand towards Yuèguāng's lips and told him to lick her hand clean.

At first, he did not want to because of germs but then remembered, this wasn't earth.

He licked her hand and instantly a rush of information, power and spiritual energy entered his body.

Information about all the world's she's been to and all her experiences, heartache, and physical pain, also all her methods of cultivating were passed on to him.

When he calmed down after taking her drop of essence, she turned to look at the Red Lightning Anaconda and he cut his hand open and blood gushed out into a little wooden bowl that his wife held underneath his palm.

Yuèguāng accepted the bowl but was not allowed to drink from it just yet.

Tae-Ra placed her hand on his cheek and spoke: "The Red Lightning Anaconda's blood is something precious, do not waste a single drop of it, what you do with it is up to you, you can give it away, drink it or sell it, but you must never regret giving it away. This is my first gift to you as your master."

Yuèguāng: "Thank you, master."

Tae-Ra: "Please call me Tae-Ra, I will continue to change into my younger form and accompany you along your journey."

Yuèguāng smiled and placed the bowl of blood away after the black python sealed it, looked at Tae-Ra then asked: "Tae, what are we doing in this place? I don't see any beings or land."

Tae-Ra looked around then she turned back to him and said: "This beautiful place is called Tiānkōng (Heaven). We are in a location where no-one comes but flies here. The reason why we're here is because as my disciple, you shall cultivate with no disturbances and because this is one of the lands with the most martial power, where beings barely visit."

Yuèguāng: "Why do they barely come here?"

Tae-Ra: "Because only those that are powerful can enter the gates of Tiānkōng."

Yuèguāng: "How powerful are you, master?"

Tae-Ra looked deeply at him and said: "This master of your's has reached a realm, that takes some their lifetime."

Yuèguāng: "Avoiding my question again, alright."

Tae-Ra laughed and said: "Alright, start cultivating, I have flower crowns to make, remember there is an abundant amount of martial power in this place so you can take your time the heavens aren't going anywhere."

Yuèguāng nodded his head then sat on the ground and watched Tae-Ra start the flower crown, after observing her for a few minutes, he took in a deep breath and closed his eyes, in his mind he sorted through all Tae-Ra's memories and tears started falling from his eyes.

When he was done, he opened them and looked at her, to his surprise she was asleep in her child form, he looked around and saw that the husband and wife pair were off in the distance flying through the air.

He closed his eyes again and his consciousness went to his sphere, he stared at it for a moment then sat down and closed his eyes.

His breathing slowed down and the sphere spun around him, slower than before, but still at a fast speed.

The martial power in their surroundings was slowly drifting into Yuèguāng's direction and was absorbed into his body then into his soul.

Slowly his martial power grew and he reached the 8th stage then the 9th stage, in the beginning, it took him three months but now with the abundant amount of resources and taking his time to comprehend he reached the 9th stage in 12 days.

He managed to break through to the 8th stage and the 9th stage, but once it felt like he would make a breakthrough to the Origin realm, he couldn't.

He stopped and seeked Tae-Ra for consultation.

After he opened his eyes, he looked all around but did not see her, in the distance he saw the husband and wife and went over to them.

Yuèguāng: "Excuse me, do you know the whereabouts of master, mister Red?"

Red Lightning Anaconda: "Child, your master went down to the other lands to work."

Yuèguāng: "Work?", he looked to the ground and contemplated for a few seconds then he looked up at the anaconda and asked: "Can you help me?"

Red Lightning Anaconda: "Mn, if it is not too difficult."

Yuèguāng: "I can't break through to the Origin realm."

Red Lightning Anaconda: "That is because you need to start learning to use your martial power, not just keep making breakthroughs. Come battle against my wife a few rounds then we'll take it from there."

Yuèguāng looked at the anaconda and said: "I don't have any skills."

Red Lightning Anaconda: "You do, you just never tried them out, you have all your masters skills and techniques, look for an easy one that's in your memory and try it out."

Yuèguāng nodded then looked through his mind and found the list of skills and techniques that were written in the letter she handed him, when they first met, on the list the following was written.

"To all those who seek to cultivate for the sake of preserving the life of nature, you are blessed with the heart of love and I do hope that you will use what I, the mother of nature, Zìrán zhī mǔ, bless you with; my elemental skills and techniques."

Skills

Communicate with nature.

Communicate with creatures.

Heal's barren lands.

Repairs the earth after a battle has destroyed it.

Ability to heal injured creatures and beings.

Cleanse the oceans of impurities.

The power to command nature and elements.

Elements

Water

Air

Wood

Earth

Fire

Lightning

Wind

Gold

Techniques

Each skill and amount of element you can control will depend on your cultivation.

Commanding, with a though any of the elements will respond to you, once you release them, depending on your cultivation, the duration will multiply and destructive force will be disastrous, so beware.

The first technique is The Commander Of Life.

In a battle, you will have the force of all the surrounding and use them to your advantage, but remember to return them to their rightful place and restore the land once destroyed.

The winds will bow to your every command and the fire will burn the heavens if you will it.

The second technique is, Beast Tame.

With this skill, a beast at the command of another is useless against you.

The third technique is World Annihilation.

My Successor, DO NOT USE THIS TECHNIQUE AT FULL STRENGTH...

I have destroyed many worlds and it shattered my heart everytime I, your predecessor used this technique.

Please don't follow my example, I paid a heavy price for being so cruel.

Use this technique to help others.

This technique can be used in 6 stages, the first stage, at 1% can destroy a rock, at 10% it can destroy a being, at 25% it can destroy a mountain, at 50% a continent, at 75% it can destroy half a world, at 100% all life will be lost.

As my successor, I trust that you do what is right and protect life and nature with the powers I bestow upon you.