He found that nothing much had changed about his body and heaved a sigh of relief.

'If I became someone completely different, then it would be troublesome'.

"Ohh, right I have to buy boxes of torchlights for my business in that cultivation world"

He wasn't planning on selling complicated things like guns, since he couldn't just buy a bucket of guns could he?. It would be very suspicious.

He also does not have so much money to buy those things, so after thinking about it for a while, he decided to first sell some torchlights.

Zhang went out to buy some packages of torches and buy even more from online.

On the central part of the Aru continent, inside the Shu faction there was a sudden appearance of a portal, from which came out two people.

One was a black haired female and the other was a red haired male.

Yes, they were both Feng shu and Bu fang.

Feng shu stood up and she asked Bu fang "Welcome to my SHU faction, are you okay?".

Bu fang was currently sensing a repression of his strength because of scarce elementals.

His face didn't look good, but he still replied `` Yeah Kind of, but not too serious, just that the low amount of elementals are making me uncomfortable".

Feng was enlightened "oh...can you cultivate?" She was curious about that.

"Probably not, I can at most keep my current realm, but I won't be able to increase my strength here."

Feng was expecting something like that, so she said "You can cultivate in the cultivation room of the martial palace everyday with some exchanges, so I don't think there is any problem is there?".

" Yeah, you're right…" Bu fang decided to keep cultivating in the martial palace.

" So, have you made any breakthroughs?" Asked Bufang to feng.

Feng shu shook her head and said "No….it is very hard to improve as you advance in realms, although the qi there was so much better, it was still not enough for me to improve very fast…..what about you?"

Bu fang agreed with her and also explained that he didn't have any breakthrough.

After a while, Bu fang asked for information about the Aru continent.

Feng shu didn't hide anything and told him about a lot of basic information.

Finally, after knowing more about the Aru continent Bu fang asked "So, how are you going to make a trade relationship with the Hu empire? You said that your Shu daction isn't involved with any emperors or kingdom's in the vicinity, just some small trade relationship. Would it be okay to suddenly make such a high profile trade relationship with the Hu empire, which is so far in the south?"

Feng Shu replied " It doesn't matter, our Shu faction didn't make any relationships with any other organisations because of many reasons like no ambition, Fear of betrayal, Peace and many more, but right now, I can feel it and I am sure you can too."

Bu fang listened till here and remained silent.

Seeing that he was silent, Feng expressed her opinions. " Sudden awakening of a palace that could summon powerful people from all over the world, knowing the existence of different worlds, meeting an existence such as Mr No face, sudden decline of immortals or rank 9 magical gods in our continents…...I have a feeling that something big is going on". After saying all this she became silent and waited for his response.

Bu fang looked deeply at Feng Shu and said "I also have this feeling but I don't think it will happen very fast, so what are you planning to do for that important moment?"asked Bufang.

He wanted to know about her plans and then decide whether he could also be a part of it.

Feng went deep in thoughts for a while and decided to tell him her plans.

" With the emergence of the martial palace, I think there will be a chance for us to cross our limits and become immortals, but I don't think it will be so simple.....there are other worlds out there, I am kind of afraid about that…..I want to create a big alliance between the top forces of our respective continents just for the protection of our world."

Bufang didn't know what to say " I am currently being targeted by almost every force in the Wuhan continent, I don't think that I can join your plans"

Feng Shu was silent after hearing that response.

After a bit of silence, Bu fang said " Let's go outside, tell me about your plans regarding the Hu empire, and how you are going to make an alliance between your organisations."

Feng Shu started explaining about her plans regarding the Hu empire to Bufang.

She wanted to send an envoy to the Hu empire with the intention of making a long term or maybe permanent trade relationship with them.

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Bufang would be the one to go to the Hu empire as an envoy from the Shu faction.

Bufang was confused about one thing: " Would your parents agree with your plans?".

Feng Shu replied " My parents themselves were very ambitious in the past, but with no way to progress any further, they became aged and more composed in their behaviour. They would let me do my things as I am a grand elder and also their daughter. In the past I didn't do anything because I just wanted to cultivate and find a way to become an immortal, but after knowing about the martial palace and the existence of many other worlds in the sky, I thought that it is not so simple and decided to create an alliance and advance together to make our world stronger. Martial palace is itself a big evidence that there might exist even more powerful existences than immortals."

Bu fang was quite shocked by her theories, he also had some inkling about it in the past, but never such a bold theory that Feng Shu proposed.

He quite agreed with her theory and decided to join in her plans to gain some real companions.

They both walked out of her room and went outside sneakily before returning back from the main gate.

A member was casually sweeping the floor when he noticed two people walking inside.

The sweeper raised his head and found Feng Shu, one of the four grand elders of the Shu faction walking in from the main gate.

He got a fright and hurriedly went to greet her " Greetings Grand elder Feng" while greeting her, he noticed another person with her, the person had long red hair with a charming face and an otherworldly aura around him.

' He looks like a very strong person, is he a guest of Elder Feng?' The sweeper was confused.

Feng nodded her head towards the sweeper and walked inside with Bufang.

They went directly to her parents' meditation room.

Feng Shu wanted to tell her plans regarding trade with the Hu empire of the southern side and also some subtle things about the Martial palace, thinking of this she recalled what had happened in the palace.

Luo peng asked the palace voice about whether they can reveal the information of the Martial palace to outsiders and the reply they got was : " It is not allowed to reveal the existence of a mysterious space, but anyone can reveal some subtle information by weakening the abilities of the palace."

Bufang was confused, so he asked:" Subtle means? Can we say that we have created an organisation known as Martial palace on our own without mentioning some unknown person had created it and sucked us here?."

After some silence the voice replied," This is allowed."

The three of them looked at each other and decided to go with this plan for their trade relationship in the Aru continent.

Coming back to now.

Feng Shu and Bufang reached her parents' room and went inside.

Pang Shu and Neng Shu were just meditating, when they saw Feng Shu and a stranger come inside.

"....What are you doing here Feng? Is there something you need?and who is this person?"

Neng Shu asked.

Feng Shu introduced Bufang: " Mother and father, he is Bufang, an acquaintance of mine from a far away place, he is known as the fire monarch and is even more stronger than me in strength. He currently has some problems and he wants a place to stay, so I am making him join our Shu faction for some time, is it okay with you two?"

After hearing about Bufang, Neng Shu looked towards Pang Shu.

Pang Shu considered for a while but finally agreed albeit with some confusion.

Both the parents were about to stand up to greet him, but Bufang quickly went up and greeted Feng Shu's parents, " Sir and ma'am, you don't have to trouble yourself to greet me".

Pang Shu and Neng Shu both were quite satisfied with his manners, even Feng Shu was happy that Bufang didn't show any arrogance to her parents and was respectful to them.

" It is rare to see a strong person with manners like yours, we hope that you will be happy while you stay with us in our Shu faction, don't worry about any trouble coming your way, as you are my daughter's only male comrade we have seen till now…...we will give you some protection if you needed." They could guess that Bufang must be in trouble with some other experts and is currently being hunted down; they didn't mind giving him some protection, as he was the first comrade that Feng Shu ever introduced to them.

" How can I do that? I will not trouble your Shu faction for my problem, I just want a place to stay for a while." Said Bufang.

After some time, both the parents and Feng Shu seemed to be conversing about random things like a loving family.

Seeing the atmosphere, Bufang tactfully left the place silently.

Her parents noticed him walking away, but didn't stop him as they wanted to have a very important conversation with their daughter.

Feng Shu noticed that Bufang had left a long time ago, but didn't give it much thought and explained about her trading plans with the Hu empire to her parents and also explained some subtle information about the martial palace.

Both her parents were confused, " Martial palace? You made this organisation with some other powerful people?Bufang is also a member and your goal is to find a way to break through to become an immortal?".

"Yes," replied Feng Shu.

Neng Shu was concerned " Feng Shu, although it is hard to say it to you, but the path to immortality has already been closed, if there was really a way then we would not be sitting here waiting for our deaths…"

Feng Shui became angry and she said " How can you give up so easily!, Don't give up on living, I don't believe that the path is already closed, there has to be a way, i...no we will find it together!!."

Neng shu stayed silent, she knew that her daughter was stubborn and wouldn't give up just through persuasion, she just didn't want her daughter to experience what she had experienced in her youth. ' After working so hard trying to become an immortal, finally after reaching the peak, finding out that the path doesn't exists is so despair inducing that it will completely melt all your motivation and drive you mad',

As a cultivation maniac in her youth, she almost lost her sanity after finding out that she can't break through from her current realm.

She was only able to calm down because she had support from a person that she loved and that person was Pang Shu.

Pang Shu was sitting quietly with his eyes closed, after sometime he opened his eyes and said " Listen Feng, it is okay to find a way to immortality, but don't lose yourself while doing so, your mother almost went mad in her youth, don't follow in her footsteps."

" Yes father" Feng Shu replied

Neng Shu got a bit irked by him " What do you mean don't follow my step? Were you so cool after finding out that you can't breakthrough? I remember seeing your eyes get red and you shouting out loud to the heavens while cursing it's whole generations with madness. Now that I think about it, it was scary and funny at the same time."

Neng started laughing and Feng Shu looked interested to see her father like that.

Pang Shu coughed and changed the topic, "So feng, you never told us about such a strong comrade of yours before, it seems you have many secrets huh?".

"No father, actually we just met after a longtime and I decided to help because I owed a favour to him before, that's it" Feng Shu didn't want her parents to misunderstand.

Neng shu seemed like she wanted to say something, but stayed silent.

After Feng Shu explained everything, she went outside to make some arrangements.

After she left, Neng Shu wanted to say something but Pang Shu interrupted her.

" I know what you are thinking, let's first observe him and then decide whether he is right for our daughter "

Neng Shu was shocked because she wasn't thinking about that, she just wanted to ask what he thinks about Bufang, she never thought that he liked Bufang enough to even consider him as a potential partner of Feng Shu…...

' well, it doesn't matter anyway' thought Neng Shu