One of the Mortal Worlds: Black Serpent Continent: Zhenren Empire: Ven Country: 3rd Class City: Mountain Top

As Zhou Ye was levitating the shock on the Grand Soul's face was getting greater and greater as well as a sense of fear in his eyes. In the knowledge of the cultivation world only those at enlightenment realm or higher could levitate and those who did at the continent only one lived and the person infront of him was clearly not the only one on the continent he had previously seen. Zhou Ye's body was quickly crumbling releasing even more energy making the pressure even more noticable 

Zhou Ye's body was slightly deconstructing itself due to the sheer pressure and Tang Xuan was barely keeping it stable due to him limiting his strength to that of the peak of a mortal realms entity in fear of attracting tribulation or another immortal. Tang Xuan then used the body of Zhou Ye to barely say "What buisiness do you have here..."

If the Grand Soul was not paying to much attention on the pressure and the fact that Zhou Ye's body was levitating he would've likely noticed but was simply unable to in fear. Zhou Ye's body was being teared apart by the second with more and more energy exuded while this energy was intense it was still being condensed in a small area and anyone close would not be able to sense the cultivation due to their lower levels.

The Grand Soul replied with a scared voice and moved back as if it was an subconscious act and deeply bowed and replied with "This junior is named Yuan Li and is a lowly inital grand soul... Junior is looking for a rogue cultivator named Liu Yan may i ask what seniors exalted name is?" Tang Xuan replied with a "hummph" then lightly smiled and replied again this time by saying "My name is.... Ye Zhou".

Yuan Li had never heard the surname Ye before but was to scared to worry about and simply once again in a scared tone by saying "May i ask why senior an enlightened being is here?" As Zhou Ye was listening he was confused and asked "What is an enlightened being?" Tang Xuan replied "I will tell you later...."

As the conversation was happening from the dephts of the stars a bright blue light was comming down quickly it was none other than a soul tribulation which had sensed Tang Xuan's constant use of Immortal power however Tang Xuan had no time to worry about it however knew that the tribulation would descend however it descended far to quick...

In the distance at the very edge of an immortal realm could be seen a lifeless body opened its eyes if one looked closely at the eyes they were seemingly like an endless space with millions of stars and whispered in an archaic voice "Celestial Origin......" and as he did for half a second the bright blue light stopped and did not move any further as if it dared not to and as he closed his eyes the bright blue light continued.

It was completely outside of the time frame he predicted he thought he would atleaast remain safe for the next few years Tang Xuan thought to himself as his spirit body shook his head and thought "Dammit!! If only this Grand Soul cultivator wasn't here!.. humph i might as well make him reimburse me hehehe ahaha" (couldn't think of a better grin sound and then laugh) 

Tang Xuan knowing he would have to stop whispered to Zhou Ye "I am going to have to.... lay low for a while" Shock appeared on Zhou Ye as he replied "Why" Tang Xuan coughed out a mouthful of blood as he replied "My soul is far more damaged than i thought.. however that is not the problem but rather the light in the sky... can you see it?" Zhou Ye looked to the sky however could not see the fire and replied "No master...". 

Tang Xuan remained calm and replied "As expected... you can't... well if you could you'd notice that it is an azure flame and it is a soul tribulation.... one that i cannot at this current state face.. thus so your time is limited to use my power.. settle this quickly i will return soon..." As this happening Tang Xuan disappeared all of a sudden however as he disappeared he put down a strand of spirit power then a soul clone of Tang Xuan appeared. (Cultivation of soul) As this was happening the flame in the sky was disappearing slowly.

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Tang Xuan's soul clone then said "It could take a day or two or perhaps even a year however right now it doesn't matter.. I'll give you some power you can use three times but be careful with it.... anyway try making a big incident of this i'll be interested to hear what you do with this after your done with him"

Zhou Ye looked to Yuan Li who for all that time was just silent and was to scared to speak out and so Zhou Ye said "You've wasted part of my time... I want your Zhenren token..." Hearing this Yuan Li's face grew to shock a Zhenren token proved one was giving support to another however this was not why he was shocked but why someone like Zhou Ye would have need for it.....

Zhou Ye naturally as a citizen knew how the Zhenren empire worked they were one of the 3 supreme empires with dozens of kingdoms and countless general countries as well as due to the fact that the Zhenren empire was the most high-key albeit not the strongest he only knew what a zhenren token due to the fact that from the lowest officials to the emperor all people that had either great political power or cultivation had one he had only seen one other zhenren token and that was from a travelling official who see who would be the new city lord of the city he lived in however the official was bribed and thus so no city lord was yet chosen as well as due to the stalemate between the two rivalling forces.

Yuan Li knew that he couldn't do anything against Zhou Ye at that stage and reluctantly agreed passing the token over and just before he was to leave he heard a voice telling him "stop for a minute..." this voice was clearly Zhou Ye and as it was spoken Yuan Li immediately stopped in his tracks and saw Zhou Ye opening his mouth and saying "Follow me for now"

Whilst Zhou Ye had nothing to protect his face it was naturally protected by his aura shielding his face and only his voice could be truly heard and he continued with "I will later meet your council of elders" Zhou Ye was not someone who lived under an rock he knew what the council of elders were in fact almost everyone on the continent knew for they were constantly exalted by the Zhenren empire for being known as one of the top forces. Yuan Li in reply did a nod and followed obediently and tried to look at Zhou Ye's face however found the area of it distorted.

 Zhou Ye then decided to return home and realised that Tang Xuan had yet to tell him what an enlightened being was... but he remembered him once saying the "there is but one stage before the afamed immortal stage" and believed for it to be so.

As he was going back he thought to himself that he would likely experience the same life he once did though with slight modifications due to his cultivation practice and as he was flying with the power Tang Xuan lent him he realised it would disappear in one hour and thus decided not to waste it and flew quickly with Yuan Li barely keeping up and as he flew he stopped because he saw a burning city this was none other than the 1st Class city with the name Rusof the name was decided by the ruling clan's surname.

At the 3rd class city he would usually go to was extremely desolate and in a desperate stalemate making none of them city lord however at the 3rd Class City where Zhou Ye was said to be a treasure which many families envied.

Rusof was quite a famous city deemed was one of the cities that could potentially in the future be a Ruler City however it was currently burning due to a civil revolt.

Within the burning city was a young boy at his age (10 and 7 months roughly) and a young girl at 13. He looked at them for a second and then noticed that they had incredible apptitudes of course to an englightened being, appitutes would not matter as Talent only bring as far as the peak of grand soul however in order to reach enlightenment there was only one way and that was enlightenment either by understanding the heavens or the hells and talent could not make up for that.

The boy had a pure appitude for lightning in which Zhou Ye knew that if he was to learn celestial origin it would be a great favour to Tang Xuan as Zhou Ye didn't have appitudes as great albeit Tang Xuan could change he didn't want to make the journey to easy. The girl had a pure apptitude for water and ice and was known as a genius at Rosuf city however the boy was known as a piece of trash who couldn't cultivate but the truth was that the boy had lightning which was an near impossible appitude to use unless one recieved help from a enlightened being. As Zhou Ye saw they were both running from a group of Spirit Practitioners

 The potential they had was great enough for a Spirit Fusion cultivator to look at them with looks of greed to make them his or her apprentices however may it be unfortunately or fortunately the strongest cultivator at Rosuf was only a Late Spirit Master and unfortunately he was the leader of the rebelling side after Rosuf Yan passed away as a Peak Spirit Master from old age.