Zhenren Empire, Mo Overlordship, Mo Domain/Capital, Council Room
In the council room sat down 12 members with each one of them atleast at Initial Soul however only 4 of the 12 could be really considered powerhouses in the Empire. Five of which were at initial souls and where known for there wisdom and one of which was a pill alchemist capable of creating 45% effectiveness pills. whilst the rest could at best do 25%. (pills are graded by 1-100% effectiveness only considering pills below immortal stage).
If they were of higher cultivation then they would be able to produce higher level pills however for them to create pills for themselves would take to long as they would give the pills more to the new generation to ensure the empire's vibrant young generation to work hard. The other seven believed more of increasing their cultivation as well as them spending a large amount of their time already on cultivation instead of pill-making it would be better for them to continue their current path.
The were also 3 more in which they were all Great Souls and were known for their seniority in which they were older and had more power than the Emperor as the Emperor was usually just a cultivator of the royal family and most of the power came from retired Emperors whom managed to get themselves within a high realm of cultivation. These retired empires with great cultivations were known as Zhenren Ancestors! They had to atleast be Grand Soul and there had only been at most a hand's worth and only one was currently living at the time.
As for the remaining 4 there were two Grand Souls both at middle stage other than them was a Soul King and this is was none other than the Zhenren Ancestor! of current day whose descendants were the Emperors, princes, princesses and great kings the ancestor's name was Zhenren Ling and he was at the age of 3773 which was near his lifespan limit of 4000 however his descendants were merely the same as always just focusing on government studies instead of cultivation this lead to a great anguish on Zhenren Ling's heart as he saw his descendants die due to age whilst he lived on through the years as generation and generation passed he saw the rise of genius after another genius as well as their falls. However most of all not a single genius to his liking appeared. In the past one of his descendants were a genius however he commited great crimes which lead to oceans and seas of blood at the Empire causing great turmoil in which Zhenren Ling personally killed his own descendant!
As he watched them die one by one Zhenren Ling longed for someone to continue his legacy with the hope that whilst they weren't very pure blooded but instead a faithful son or daughter to continue what he had left behind as he feared his lineage would only dwelve further down if this continued after all whilst the Zhenren Empire was a long standing Empire it was my all means not the oldest and was infact established a mere 13000 years ago with the oldest empire the Infernal Dusk Empire being established 47000 years as well with the Holy Illumination Empire at the same time. (3 empires)
As Zhenren Ling thought of this he seemed to have forgotten all about the Ye Zhou figure and then disappeared into thin air to think about his family as he usually would do. However deep within Zhenren Ling's heart lied one genius he believed in and it was none other than his descendant Zhenren Bai a young girl who had managed to reach the Spirit Master stage before 12 and the Spirit Lord Stage before 14! She was currently 13 years of age and her potential was limitless likely allowing for her to easily reach Soul King without any trouble!
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However Soul Emperor as the pseudo stage of Enlightenment and this meant they needed something and this was none other than a small understanding of one of the heavens or hells. True Enlightenment beings would need a thorough and great understanding and understanding didn't have much to do with cultivation talent or appitude on certain elements unless they helped the cultivator in understanding the heaven and hells then all the talent and apptitude would be useless. After all in order to understand not just a high cultivation base is needed but as well a strong mind which would either be strongly attributed to either good or evil to understand heaven or hell.
There were also neutral based cultivators who managed to create their own heaven or hell... however this was an event that hadn't happened for hundreads of thousands of year and were seen only as myth even on the immortal galaxy they were on... Soul King's did indeed need to know enlightenment but this was an minimal amount which could be achieved easily with the help of a Soul Emperor or somewhat harder with a Soul King.
It would not really matter that much whether he was there or not as there was to much talk which stopped others from talking. An old man seeing Zhenren Ling leave opened his eyes which shined brightly then closed them and reopened them however with no longer the same lustre it had just then. If Zhou Ye was to be here he would recognise this old man as the same one who noticed "Ye Zhou" arrive at the council room.
The Old man was none other than Yuan Zen the one and only Soul Emperor of the Zhenren Empire and he was the ancestor of Yuan Li by an untold number of generations he was at the age of 7876 and he was nearing his lifespan limit of 8000 and due to that he didn't have that much to fear knowing he would die anyway he would do what he could and "Ye Zhou's" appearance was of somewhat surprise to him.
Yuan Zen had just about completed everything he had wanted to do, of course he wanted to reach a higher cultivation realm but he knew that he was far to old to advance another realm so that was not on his mind. On his mind was really to make sure his family lineage continued for countless generations infact if he tried it wouldn't be foolish to say he could take over the Zhenren Empire in an day or less however he was not that type of person as he was helped by Zhenren Ling's ancestor before and because of that felt an immense amount of gratitude being owed towards them.
Even if Yuan Zen however did take over there would be many people whom all wished to go against and in the Zhenren Empire there were countless amounts of people in fact even in an ordinary general country (Empire is biggest then Kingdom and finally General Country) there would usually be around millions to ten million people within. Most of these people lived in the lands of the Zhenren Empire thus therefore after a few generations they would naturally be patriotic for their own empire after living their for a long time.
All of a sudden near the gate of Mo Domain Yuan Li appeared it had clearly been some time for him to travel and luckily he had a Soul treasure to help him travel otherwise it might have taken even a few days.
Zhenren Empire, Ven Country, 3rd Class City, Mountainous Outskirts
Zhou Ye Then said "My name is Zhou Ye! I have been living here for quite some time! Whered you live before you came here Cheng? Ye Cheng then got confused and didn't know what to say and looked greatly confused and tried to change the subject however had trouble doing so "Uhh... i came from.. lets talk about something else!" Zhou Ye despite being 10 years and a few months off to being 11 he was naturally very mature due to Tang Xuan over the few months continually teaching him about how to be in life especially in that of the higher class as Tang Xuan himself was born as a noble.