"what do you mean they all just died!" an angry one-eyed man shouted at a calm sickly looking man.
"the corpses were treated with respect brother, no need to shout at brother Yu." a busty onex-haired beauty waived a fan at the two
"Master Jia would not allow such insult to stand, senior sister knows even showing respect to the dead is no excuse to stand against the Blood-burning sect." a chubby cherub of a man chirped.
"Regardless we must retrieve the treasures carried by the three direct disciples and receive compensation. the question is how? Could any of you kill 200 well-armed and prepared disciples in an instant?"
Silence filled the ornate room.
Hart of the empire
"General the Blood-burning sect is on the move." A man dressed as a farmer removed his hat and bowed as he handed the notes over.
"good work shadow squad, you may go." General Qin busy looking over several documents. paused and looked up. "why are you still here?"
"apologies General but this has deeper implications than a small quarrel between sects." the intentionally nondescript man tapped on the report before bowing and leaving.
general Qin read the report with deep interest and quickly took it to 'the princess of plots' strategist of the empire "Your majesty urgent news." on one knee hands clasped the report hand over fist just over his head.
"Leave us!" the princess waved away her attendants "So is this a threat or a boon to the empire?" she sat expectantly. "Yes." the general smirked and she smiled gesturing him to approach. "Oh? do tell..."
Lee family manor
"Xiao-mei, I have decided to rejoin the main house, my cultivation is at its limit here and I have already failed as an ancestor, so you shall take my place." two extremely attractive women sat in the Lee family's tea room.
"but ancestor you saved us . . . that man would have killed everyone for brother's offense." Fear of Dave had spurred on an investigation, and Xiao-mei found out how hated her family actually was.
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"no little one, my failure led to our family's decline in morals, my grandson was too arrogant to be the patriarch and he spoiled your brother . . . while you, on the other hand, took a servant girl as a friend and kept her to this day a 60-year friendship with a mortal is a testament to your kindness. take this and cultivate I shall wait until you are ready before I take my leave."
"yes, ancestor, I will do as you ask and restore our family honor." she accepted the pill that had caused so much grief, bowed deeply wiped her tears, and went into seclusion.
The heavenly realm
"GAAA!, that man keeps using stinky magic why doesn't he cultivate properly!" the goddess in charge of the world Dave was currently in did not like sword and sorcery worlds.
"why don't you just ask him to stop? he will listen to a request from a goddess, he's a good guy." the goddess of many sword and sorcery worlds had known Dave from the moment of his first reincarnation.
"Sister you know the laws I put in place of that world do not allow for my appearance." The world was made to be self-ruled allowing the residents to ascend to the point they could change the laws as they saw fit.
"no need to pout, he has the profit title and the revelation skill, you can talk to him whenever you want." the words sounded sympathetic but the look on her face said otherwise.
"You usually don't take this much interest in mortals, what are you up to?" now more suspicious than upset.
"Well, you see . . ."
Serene jade sect
"saintess, why do you look so troubled? Have you had a vision of a disaster?" The young attendant of the inner sect had been with the saintess for long enough to know her moods.
"No not a disaster per se but an enigma, a man and his disciple shall arrive soon, I cannot see the truth of him." Although the saintess was blind she could see things others could not. her confusion was not that she could see nothing but that what she saw made no cents to her.
"What would you have us do my lady? welcome him graciously, treat him as normal, eliminate him?" the attendant's loyalty to the sect was second only to her loyalty to the lady. having been abandoned at 4 and brought to the saintess as a direct disciple made her both mother and master in her heart.
"DO NOT OFFEND HIM." for the first time in her 10 years of service Mèng yáo was snarled at . . . she almost cried "Have him be brought strait to me, see that he is treated as a most honored guest."
"ye-yes my lady as you command." the saintess had no official power in the sect but her word was law as far as the sect masters were concerned. "how shall we know him, my lady?"
"he is small for a giant, tan for a snowwoman, hair of gold and eyes that hold the sky in place . . . a god walks among us." Mèng yáo now understood the rebuke.
The world of the broken sky
"oh, Dave you shmuk, when we do eventually meet I am not going to let you live this down. HA HA HA!" a man dressed in shadows looked at a sky that was more a stained glass window than a starry night.
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