42 With the Universe Watching, I Announce my Presence!

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Space sundered as the duo soared into the sky, their wings propelling them at even higher speeds. Their spiralling frames spun at such a velocity that it became indiscernible to the youths below.

The Sanguinary Felicity Tree was situated just behind the ascending duo, while the flower apparitions rotated around it akin to an escort.

Even in the midst of their ferocious dance, the two friends maintained eye-contact, their eyes glimmering with excitement. They were akin to a soaring commit lighting up the world, their brilliance and charisma prevalent to all.

Astrallis turned his attention to the atmosphere above them.

"Eversnow, when a cultivator attempts to ascend to the Immortal cultivation realm, they will need to ascend through the Nine Heavens of the world's atmosphere. Each layer of the Nine Heavens places more pressure on the ascender than the last, many Immortals fail their ascension as they can not break through all nine layers," Astrallis sent a mental message to Eversnow.

Eversnow's eyes flashed with excitement, although her kingdom was strong there had never been an immortal in their ranks. This information was only privy to the Holy Lands.

"Although we obviously can't ascend, if we are able to break through the first layer of the Nine Heavens, through the help of the Art of Dance, this will be an incredible boon to our cultivation path." He said seriously as he stared into Eversnow's eyes.

"Our qualities are similar, both a Rose and a Lily. Our connection of Yin and Yang is very coherent; although we've both realised that we do not match perfectly, it is still enough to break through the first layer."

"Eversnow followed my lead; I will help us traverse this tribulation!"

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Bataar having confirmed his suspicions immediately sent a communication talisman to Grandmother Anemone.

He didn't even have to wait a few seconds before she materialised in front of him, she was already laughing like a maniac.

"Where's my baby boy!" Anemone turned her attention towards Astrallis, her eyes lighting up seeing the number of apparitions around him.

Although Bataar had already informed her of it, there was always the saying, "Seeing is believing".

Anemone immediately pulled out her CA (Com-Array) and turned on the recording function.

"Don't look at me like that. What do you think I've been doing for the past five months while my favourite boy has been adventuring? Connecting the Astral Realm to the Cosmic-Data-Array. It's not like that vagabond Astral God is going to do it." Anemone said in disdain when she saw Bataar's look.

Bataar rolled her eyes upon hearing her 'good' dead. "Come on, we both know why you did it."

"Haha. You got me! I just wanted to show off my grandson as quickly as possible. So, how about a live stream? Maybe I should blur his face out, yeah, that'll do." Anemone's face became so crazed even Bataar shivered.

Anemone infused her CA with her qi, allowing for it to zoom in relative to the strength. Thus, there would be no problem for her to live-stream in picturesque quality.

"Inhabitants of the Universe! Come watch my dear grandson perform an unprecedented event, with his dance partner. Have you ever seen a young man attempt the Nine Heavens at the World-Wandering Realm? @SeniorCultivators @RisingGeniuses @PinnacleSects #FelicityReligion #FelicityEmpire #GirlsGoneWild #FelicityStrong #MysteryOfFelicity

Anemone quickly sent a message on to her CulviPage, at the same time informing all the peak powers of the universe. As a result all the followers of the pinnacle powers, and the authorities themselves noticed her message and it immediately picked up momentum akin to a universe-sized snowball being fired from a cannon.

When a pinnacle Immortal messages, and one with the reputation such as Grandmother Anemone, one is sure to read it.

The viewer count of the live-stream went up astronomically, rising into the trillions in a matter of moments.

Anemone's crazed laughter rang throughout the heavens, if laughter was able to break through the Nine Heavens hers was sure to do so.

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Central Realm.

Two girls of heavenly beauty sat upon a gorgeous pink lotus, their eyes piercing daggers into the screen before them.

One of the girls had bright flaming orange hair, with a tall and fit body, emitting a heroic aura. While the other girl had pink pony-tails, a calculative but pleasant atmosphere emanated from her.

They both turned to each other, the anger in their eyes prevalent, "Who is that white haired girl!?"

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A youth with bright turquoise hair, and a sabre similar to shimmering water in his hands, sat on a rock at the peak of a waterfall. A suffocating atmosphere akin to sharp sabre was pressured upon his surroundings.

Noticing his CA lighting up with a flurry of commotion, he looked at it. He soon noticed Anemone's live-stream.

"Oh, interesting. If he manages to break through the first layer, it will be an unprecedented achievement. Come, come, come… the more geniuses, the merrier."

There were hundreds of beasts laying shredded behind him, carmine pools of blood around them.

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Similar scenes happened around the universe, as many emerging geniuses immediately glued to their CA screens ready to watch the 'Mystery Of Felicity' attempt something never before seen in the history of the Universe.

The chatrooms of the geniuses and pinnacle immortals immediately lit up with numerous messages being sent.

"So, this is the Mystery of Felicity? The only male disciple of the Felicity Religion."

"It seems Immortal Felicity has great confidence in her grandson. Seems a new hero will reveal himself to the universe."

"Oh, wow. His body is so flirtatious, pity we can't see his face."

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"Eversnow, there is another name for the ascension," Astrallis whispered.

"The March of a Sovereign!"

Suddenly a heroic aura shot out from Astrallis, radiating confidence and masculinity. It was if he was a young deity reifying his place in the firmament. Eversnow was immediately entranced.

"I'm ready Astrallis," Eversnow snapped out of her revelry as she informed him.

"Alright."

During their exchange the duo had never stopped rotating, their momentum only increasing, they had already reached a mind-boggling seventeen pairs of flower apparitions.

With a wave of his hand, the Sanguinary Felicity Tree in front of them began to send out its limbs and grab the flower apparitions around them. As a result of the tree's manipulation, the flowers formed the shape of a spear.

"Merge!" With Astrallis' command, the Sanguinary Felicity Tree began to wrap itself around the flower spear. The tree was akin to mangroves, solidifying the formation of the weapon.

A beautiful ethereal spear, with scintillating pink and red, appeared in the sky above the Royal Court. There was an odd juxtaposition to the beauty with the vein-like obsidian tendrils covering the romantic colours.

"Eversnow, land on the spear!"

Eversnow viciously propelled herself towards the spear and placed herself where the pole and the spearhead met.

Without Astrallis having to command her, she directed the flow of Life-Water so that it would land on Astrallis, at the same time she increased the intensity of the hexagonally rotating lilies, vast quantities of the mysterious substances followed.

With Eversnow now standing on the spear, the pressure that once was placed on Eversnow was now directed to Astrallis. His body immediately quaked when the force, double in intensity, landed on him.

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Inside @RisingGeniuses

"What is he doing? Does he think he can handle double the pressure? What an idiot."

"Bern, be quiet. Stop being jealous; some people are better than you."

"Yeah, look at his body with those rose tattoos and that carmine hair! He's like a Supreme Devil. Gorgeous."

"Karen, just stop."

"You know how the Felicity Religions body-art works, even though he looks like a teen he's probably close to eleven."

"Wait. If he's eleven and already attempting this…"

The bustling chat suddenly became ominously quiet.

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Astrallis spun around at multiple times the speed of sound, if any other World-Wandering cultivator were to experience, they would immediately be ripped to shreds. But through his otherworldly body and the laws of the Art of Dance, he was able to succeed in withstanding this onslaught.

He turned his attention to the swirling paroxysm of colour above him.

"I must succeed, and break through the first layer. The advantage will be unlike any other, the essence in the first layer will allow me to advance at miraculous speeds. Grandmother informed me that only the individual can enter the Nine Heavens. Otherwise, the peak powers of the universe would have already utilised the unique essence within." Astrallis thought inwardly as he spiralled around the miraculous spear.

"Haha! Let's go! Experience the power of I!" Astrallis shouted into the firmament as his body began to explode with overbearing power, exceedingly above his realm.

"Rampage of Felicity!" He shouted inwardly.

His battle-grade was instantly increased by four.

Astrallis body immediately increased to the height of eight feet, while the rest of his body expanded relative to his height. The veins appeared upon the surface of his skin, prominently throbbing with vitality. The obsidian wings on his back transformed into the colour of the devil: carmine.

Rampage of Felicity was the unique active ability of the Sanguinary Felicity body-art, it exponentially increased the physical capabilities of the body. One was able to maintain this state as long as their body would be able to withstand it, but if one were to overdraw on it, their body would slowly crumble.

"Astral Blood Harmonisation!"

The Astral bloodline inside his body began to churn, faint golden-light appeared around him, his mind and will became sharper while the fusion of both his essence and body reached perfection.

Four points of battle-grade power were added to the innate three points of battle-grade power that is unique to all body-cultivators.

Astrallis withdrew the Dharmic Sword from its sheath and infused his Dharma Qi into the sword, a scintillating emerald light began to emit from the blade. He pointed his sword at the atmosphere as if he was saying, "Even the heavens cannot withstrain me."

A majestic sword-intent appeared on his blade, in harmony with his Dharma Qi.

"I have close to twenty points of battle-grade power that places me in the realm of power that a Minting Lake cultivator would possess! I can do this, the Heavens only see me as a World-Wandering cultivator!" The demonic looking Astrallis shouted internally.

Using the increasing momentum of the spiral, he shot towards the end of the spear at manifold the speed of sound. Raising his sword, he unleashed his most powerful strike ever.

Space sundered, and gods and immortals gasped.

The sword struck the back of the spear, at the same time the Sanguinary Felicity Tree now infused with the weapon sent out its limbs and gripped Astrallis. The spear then soared off into the sky piercing through the Elysian Paradise, the floating islands and mountains around them spectators to this exalted scene.

With the universe watching, Astrallis announced his presence in a glorious manner.

Astrallis stood upon the head of the spear, with Eversnow a step behind him. His austere vision pierced the layer above him. His gait was akin to a Divine Emperor.

It was as if he could see himself as an Imperator.

The Imperator of the Realm.

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