20 Golden Crow and Divine Realm

'I hate him! I really hate him! In all my life I never hate someone so much that is making my mind fume from the injustices of this situation. I know that they are people favored by the havens but THIS IS INTOLERABLE! I was screaming in my head at the injustice and absurdity of this situation and above else my feelings of hatred are shadowed for Jealousy! Yes Jealousy! Why is that he only gives the good stuff to his wife? Why that I'm prettier and beautiful didn't receive anything?!' (Caiyi)

Well everything commenced when the three of them entered the Golden Crow's Valley, when they were walking a precious plant was in the feet of Lucius, a few kilometers later he encountered a Flame Jade; this phenomena continued for hours no matter if they were precious herbs, ores, jades, metals, or even beasts! Lucius found everything and was sucking dry the Valley. Caiyi at first thought that it was pure coincidence and maybe luck but…

"That's impossible! Why is that you encountered everything and give all that to your wife?! Why is that I didn't discovered anything in this place?!" I was screaming at the indignation.

"Well she is my wife. She calls dibs in everything that I encounter. And the why I can find a lot of treasures maybe my luck? Speaking of…SHIT! Hong'er!" (Lucius)

Lucius was speaking when suddenly he screamed and with a quick moment he took something from thin air and a pearl appeared in his hands.

Lucius POV

I took the sky poison pearl from the gate of Babylon and sent a spiritual thought to check on Hong'er. What I saw make me almost choke in my own spit. Hong'er was watching Korean soap operas in the TV that I installed and was crying. She was munching the Profound Crystals that I gave her like popcorn. Silently I returned the sky poison pearl to the gate of Babylon and continued our journey.

Caiyi POV

I saw Lucius shout a name and the next thing he did was take a pearl. When I saw that pearl my mind was blank; how is that he has the Sky Poison Pearl? Why one of the heavenly treasures is in his hands? Who in all that is dear to me is he?!

"Why!? Why do you have so many treasures? How is that you could find all the earthly treasures in this place? What is wrong with you?!"

"Don't worry empress, this is nothing. When we enter the trial grounds you will know how fucked up his luck is!" Mordred tried to appease Huang Caiyi that her mental fortitude was collapsing.

The three of us continued our journey to the depths of the trial grounds. In the road Lucius decided to help me and gave me a ring that contains a wealth equivalent to the entire illusory Demon Real. I'm gonna be honest, the smile that he had when gave me the spatial ring, make my hearth flustered. Now I know why his wife doesn't leave him alone. He is caring, strong, handsome and rich; I talked to Mordred in one occasion when we were resting.

"Excuse me Mordred! I want to talk, it is possible?" I used a polite tone because she is a good person although if you make her mad you are for a very ugly death.

"What's up?" (Mordred)

'W-w-what's up?! Urhggg, these barbarians!' "I want to ask you, how is Lucius as a person" (Caiyi)

When I asked that, Mordred was making a thinking expression. After a few minutes of mulling for an answer, it seems that Mordred reached a conclusion.

"A black hearted man; the only ones that he cares are his family, friends and masters. If you are his friend he will help you only when is needed not before or after. As a warrior I will put him in the upper echelons because he knows his weakness and that is something that very few can recognize." (Mordred)

"So you are saying that only a few can be together with him?" (Caiyi)

"Yes, although right now he only has me as his wife I think I will need more people that can help me. His endurance is something else!" (Mordred)

I heard that and involuntary blushed. Now I know why they will leave to someplace and comeback later sweating all over. But her words about that she need help… maybe I could help her? No! I'm the Illusory Demon Empress! I stand above everyone else.

After resting a little more, we continued our journey. Three days later we are standing in the entrance to the place that the Golden Crow is. Before my purification, the simple fact of standing here make my body and soul hurt so much that I always nearly faint, but know I can stand here without a problem.

The three of us entered the Holy Land and before us a massive cave with walls decorated in red veins that in them fluid magma is waiting. An altar in the center of the cave is the only construct that exist in this place. We approach the altar when Lucius told us something.

"There's someone watching our every move. Becareful" (Lucius)

Lucius POV

When we entered the cave I fell that someone was watching us from the moment that we set foot here. This presence has the same power that Qin Shi Huangdi in the throne of heroes, that man was very powerful.

Looking at the surroundings I start walking to the altar, when we approached it, an aura of heat assaulted us, next a pair of beautiful golden eyes and a feminine voice was in the altar.

"Who are you?!" (???)

When I was thinking of answering that question, Caiyi beat me for a few moments.

"Good day divine Golden Crow, I'm from the Huang Royal Family that shares your bloodline, this persons that are with me are Lucius and his wife Mordred. We came because we want to obtain your inheritance. I hope that you could give us the chance to prove ourselves." (Caiyi)

So this pair of eyes is the remnant of the Golden Crow. Wow this is interesting; I look at Mordred and she is also staring at the remnant soul of the Golden Crow with vigilance. Well that is obvious that thing has a lot of power and right know we don't have the power to fight with her.

"Mmmm, Huang Caiyi you are the first in this place in almost three hundred years. I will allow it but they will be restrictions, the first restriction each one of you will be separated, the second restriction is the place that the trial will be is a vast wasteland that doesn't contain anything.

This two conditions need to be fulfilled, although you will be separated at first, with each passing trial you will be closer to each other.

The trial consists of 3 parts:

The first trial is endurance. Each one of you will appear in three different places in them you will need to resist the heat for ten days straight

The second trial is wisdom. You need to resolve the different puzzles in the form of a maze. The maze contains beasts that will attack you and every beast varies in power, the time allowed is only 6 months.

The third trial is power. You need to destroy all beasts that are in this area for a year.

Be aware, you can die in there."

With that we didn't have time to say goodbye when we were teleported to the trial grounds.

After the transfer I was in the mouth of a volcano; without something better to do I sit in a stone and started to meditate and cultivate. Thanks to the blessings of the four beasts I have a lot of resistance to the elements. But…

"I know that you are there Golden Crow, why don't you show up?" I already know that Golden Crow is watching me, although I told them that someone was watching us, is more accurately to say that I was being watch. From the moment that we entered the valley I knew that someone was watching me, for what? I don't know.

"Young man. Why I can't sense your actual realm? The strength that you display and your actual strength is different.It's like a mist is covering you. Besides there's something more troublesome, how do you know the vermillion bird? He died billions of years ago." (Golden Crow)

"I don't know my actual realm. And because this piece of cloth you can see my strength, and about vermillion bird that's something you don't need to know, because I'm pretty sure that the vermillion bird you speak and the one I know are different. But enough chitchat, why are you here?" (Lucius)

"You are right I don't need to know your strength and your other secrets, you don't have a bloodline in you and it seems you are waiting for something. What it is?" (Golden Crow)

"Golden Crow, this place is a pocket space right? If it is, I need to do something and I don't want that heaven barges in." (Lucius)

"That is right; this place is something that I discovered millions of years ago. I own this place but I'm not the one that created it, I don't have that kind of power. But although heaven can't enter with his full strength, he can send an avatar with strength equals to what is permitted here. And that will be ten leven of Divine Tribulation Realm maybe first level of Divine spirit real but no more. If heaven enter with more power he is asking that the laws of the universe kill him. No one can't disregard those laws" (Golden Crow)

"You are right I don't have a bloodline and I only need to acquire two bloodlines for a certain purpouse. With the power I have I can pretty much sleep here without a problem so how about that if you send me to the next trial?" (Lucius)

"That is not why I'm here but… I allow it. I will send you to the maze. But first answer one question. Why are you helping the little demon empress?" (Golden Crow)

"Sigh… she resemblance someone that I know and if my plans are correct you will met her in a few more months." (Lucius)

"Very well… I will send you to the maze."

With those words Golden Crow send me to a maze that has the same temperature that the volcano, everything was red from the heat, and above all a lot of beasts are waiting for me. I launched myself with Joyeus in my hand to the first batch of beasts that are guarding this place.

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Four months later I was standing in the last fucking puzzle! The first puzzle was easy. It was only something that the sphinx asked. But the next were more troublesome specially the last one, that puzzle is the same as Einstein's puzzle. I lost one month trying to solve it and the occasional beasts were no much help.

Ok let me see the last puzzle…

"Three gods A, B, and C are called, in no particular order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are da and ja, in some order. You do not know which word means which."

"… ok i think that the Golden Crow is a sadist" (lucius)

One month later I solved the puzzle and right know I'm standing in an endless field; a lot of beasts are here –I can't see the end of them- so I need to battle those beasts if I want to do what I came for.

"Come forth my other me

We are one, we are many

I'm them and they are I

We are… Legion!"

I summon my own noble phantasm and before me appears ten thousand warriors with shields, maces, Arthurian armors, swords, lances, bows, etc. giving the order to attack we run to the beast horde and splattering innards, blood and brain matter in the air I commenced the final phase of this trial.

Cutting a beast in two with my sword I continued with the next beast, hacking, slicing, ripping, I continued to go from beast to beast. Although my strength is great it isn't infinite. Concentrating a large amount of beasts I chanted.

"Item creation: Eithr"

"Oh Arrogant Kings Alcohol… Sikera Ušum"

A dome made of poison of ten kilometers in diameter is made; I materialized venom chains to restrain every beast that wanted to escape the onslaught. Using my sword I reaped more lives; I looked at my surroundings and my legion is also massacring the beasts, my body is covered in blood and innards, my sword is dripping blood in the soil but a brutal smile is in my face. I retreated to the rear guard and entered a meditative pose. Passing the days like these I noted that my strength is going berserk. It seems that I can't suppress my energy anymore.

Taking a deep breath I forcibly concentrated my entire energy in my core; using my core as the starting point I canalize my entire energy to the one hundred and eight circuit points in my body. With each passing point I noted that my energy is becoming more powerful. After the last circuit point I heard a "cacha" in my body and I saw a door that was bloking the path of my energy. Using projection, I condensed all my energy in the form of a Gae Bolg and launched the spear at the door. When the spear made contact with the door this was instantly destroyed; an enormous amount of energy was rushing in my body advancing my cultivation realm to the first level of Divine Origin realm but it seems that this level isn't the end. Within a few more minutes and reaching the ten level of Divine Origin Realm the thing that I was expecting appeared.

Tribulation clouds were forming in the sky of this place, the beasts that were fighting my legion retrated and only my legion is standing in this place. Suddenly the eyes of the Golden Crow manifested before me.

"What are you trying to achieve?" (Golden Crow)

"I want to battle the heavens and eat him" (Lucius)

My answer make the golden eyes of her wide of shock but after that the curved in a delighted expression.

"Leave this place, you are only a soul the lightning is the bane of all souls I have my ways to defend myself" (Lucius)

After that the Golden Crow retired and I was looking at the clouds forming in the sky; giving a mental command my legion surround me and I look at the golden lightning that was forming above me.

With a sudden burst the lightning descended and impacted the protectors in my legion, the other used the energy liberated by the lightning and transferred all of that to my body.

The heavens looking at that started to launch strikes more rapidly. The first ten lightning were golden in color but after that they changed to blue, red, yellow, violet, and white.

With each succeful defense of the lightning my strength is incressing as well, right now I'm in the sixth level of the Divine Tribulation Realm and only 45 lighting strikes impacted me.

Heaven seems to realize that none of his strikes is damaging me, enraged he summoned a new color… GRAY. Noticing the change in color I changed all my army in protectors and only a few are in lancer form.

The lightning that heaven launched strikes me with so much force that for the first time a feel it. My body went numb and I throw a little of blood. With blood in the corner of my lips I looked at the aftermath. Only the half of my army survived the strike and it seems that heaven is preparing another launch. I collected all that energy that was dispersed to my body making my realm enter the eight level of Divine Tribulation Realm. Gathering all my strength I summoned a few gifts of my masters.

Opening the Gate of Babylon I took three pendants, the first is Kavacha, the second is Kundala and the last is Bridal Chest. Thanks to galvanism I can use this noble phantasm.

I broke the 3 pendants and my body was shrouded with the armor that karna allways use. Looking at the skies, I saw that heaven is almost finished to charge his next lightning.

"Hey! Heaven! Throw me your more powerful attack!" (Lucius)

Almost as if responding my shout, Heaven strikes me again but this time there's a difference. It seems that my army is destroyed but my body is fine. Kavacha and Kundala resisted the attack and Bridal Chest absorved all the dispersed energy. Laughing to the Heavens I started to mocking him again.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA, IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!" (Lucius)

Heaven seems to be offended because the clouds were converging in a single point; all the lightning was sucked by this single point and a human figure cladded entirely in gray lightning was looking at me.

"THAT'S RIGHT! COME AT ME!" (Lucius)

Taking the Bridal Chest I run at Heaven and start battling him. Throwing strikes with the bridal chamber, Heaven and I were in close combat cuarters. The attacks of Heaven were no joke but my armor protected me and all the energy was being stored in the bridal chambers. Punch after punch we were striking each other with all we got. At one opportunity I summoned the noble phantasm of Quetzalcoatl.

"Oh flame, burn the heavens themselves

What a hot turn of events! It can't be stopped anymore!

You're not high enough! I am a snake! I am a flame!

Xiuhcoatl Tsareada!"

I summoned a twister of wind and launch Heaven to the skies after that my body was engulfed in flames and a vermillion bird was manifested with me. After that I jump and grab Heaven from his body and with all my forces I slammed him in the ground destroying everything in a ten kilometer diameter.

After standing from the ground the two of us were looking at each other. Almost reaching the same conclusion the both of us retreated and decided to prepare our more powerful attack.

For the first time heaven spoke.

"Human! You will pay for this offence!." (Heaven)

"Come forth my lightning!" (Heaven)

I decided to counter fire with fire, connecting my inner world I look at the black lance that was floating peacefully.

"You know Heaven, you are not the only one that can use lightning" (Lucius)

When I took Vasavi Shakti, my armor was consumed in flames, everything In my surroundings became a sea of flame, behind me six wings made of fire were attached to my back. I started to chant.

"On the battlefield, there are no regrets."

"My father, I ask for your forgiveness. For the first and last time."

Heaven seems to fisnish to charge his attack and say

"Be gone insect!" (Heaven)

"Heaven's Strike"

"End everything, Vasavi... Shakti!" (Lucius)