Chu Yueli and I left the manor of the Xia Clan after reaching an agreement about returning one month later with news about their stay in Frozen Cloud. I look at my new companion but every time that I turn my head she starts to tremble like a frightening wolf bullying a small rabbit. Well that's comprehensible after all she saw how I withstood the pressure that emanate from Yue Wugou. We were flying but the speed was how to put it very slow.
We were traveling in silence and only the occasional yes or no was all that she said. In one word awkward; at first I could maintain the silence but with each day I became fidget and decided to stop to summon Charles Patricius.
"Little Lady, let's stop I can't maintain this kind of atmosphere between the two maybe if you are in a place more comfortable you can start to talk to me. I'm not someone evil I'm only doing business and besides if your sect mistress accepts the deal you can have someone that even the sacred grounds need to bow their heads before that person." (Lucius)
I told her that and summoned Charles Patricius without hearing her reply, I think that if I want to make an impression with the ladies of Frozen Cloud Asgard I need to make a grand entrance.
"Summon! The fortress of infinity! (not HAHAHA) Charles Patricius!" (Lucius)
Before our eyes my own fortress stands floating a few meters above the ground. I looked at my companion and what I saw make me laugh so hard that I was rolling in the floor (figuratively). Her mouth was open so big that I imagine something really pervert. Her eyes were almost popping from her sockets and her legs were trembling, I swear that I saw something that was leaking but I'm a gentleman so I forget about that the second that I saw the view.
Without looking more I fly to the gates of Charles Patricius when I the lady before me make a scream and went to the forest was beneath us; maybe something happened or she drop her shoe in the lake that is in the center, Who Knows? After thirty minutes I saw her with a new set of clothes and her hair al wet, in her face a blush could be seeing; with a fast pace she approached the gates and enter with a very tiny steps. I looked at her and seeing that, I pushed her down(not) sorry I invite her to enter and that she doesn't need to be afraid.
"Don't worry I'm not a wolf that devours little damsels in distress, maybe with my wife I can roleplay that but I think that she will become the hunter instead… sorry I was talking to myself" (Lucius)
Chu Yueli was watching my every move and maybe seeing that I don't have plans for her, she summoned her courage and spoke
"What are your plans? Maybe we are weak in your eyes but if we gonna fall we will fall with honor and until the very end!" (Yueli)
I only sighed at her and answered her question.
"Girl let me tell you something; I want to help you and your sect to avoid a future when you are all dead. This is something that your sect mistress knows and when we arrive you can go ahead and tell her my words" (Lucius)
I decided to tell her something that I remembered about the novel. Frozen Cloud Asgard is attacked by two Tyrant profound practitioners from the Sun Moon Divine Hall in an attempt to capture Xia Qingyue from their patriarch Ye Xinghan… Naa if they discover the constitution of her, her mom will turn them in meat paste together with their entire sacred ground and if I'm totally honest if her father and brother awaken their divine veins is pretty much sure that the entire continent will be conquered and became under the banner of the Xia Clan (Something that will not happen because I will be the owner in the shadows muahahahaha) but that is almost all that I remember because I died before finishing the story.
After hearing my words she decided to trust me, so without much fuss we continued our journey, when we were traveling Chu Yuelin was looking at the fortress and its entire interior, in special the bath, she shrieked with all her might and the only thing I heard was "this is heaven!"
I left her bath in peace and went to the kitchen to make dinner. After a few hours she appeared again with her same cold face. I was eating my food but she was looking at me like asking me "And my share?" I didn't care and continued eating alone and silence. Maybe knowing that her attitude was the problem she tried to speak to me but I already finished; taking the dishes to the washer I left her alone and went to the study to read and hear music. This journey will be long.
The days passed the same that the first day, I never gave her food because the meat and vegetables are all from a very high realm and if she eats that, the minimum that will happen was being crippled the worst imagine that you put a frag grenade inside the stomach of a normal human… you have the idea. I tell her that and unexpectedly she accepted my explanation!
At the ten day we entered the place known as a Snow region of extreme ice (A very large name for a place that it's near the north pole of the planet) and after a few more hours we entered the grounds of the Frozen Cloud Asgard and Chu Yueli said something.
"Let us descend if we continued to travel with this fortress my sect will think that they are under attack. Don't you want to talk to the mistress?" (Chu Yueli)
I only looked at her like if she was an idiot. The basis of a good relation is that the parties need to know what place they belong, for me they are only minions. Yes minions! But the difference is that I always took care of my minions; providing everything they need because with that they increase their productivity and in this universe strength dictates who is right so I decided to tell them who is the boss. Mentally I told SERAPH to continue the journey and start descending; a few kilometers later we are looking at the walls that cover the sect. the walls are made from ice, they are finely carved with a lot of engravings (I think they are some kind of array or formation) the gates are made from ice too but they seems to be more reinforced or are maintained at a very low temperature (if you don't know at low temperature the ice is stronger than steel).
Chu Yueli was visible disturbed and tried to make me relent and it only took a gaze from me for her to shut up. When we were at one kilometer of distance from the sect. I noticed that a lot of women are in the walls holding weapons, they were specially 6 women that stand above everyone, if I'm not wrong they are the seven fairies of frozen cloud Asgard; they are beautiful indeed and if you take in count only the Blue Wind Empire they are strong but in the rest of the world they are very weak.
Suddenly a woman's voice was heard.
"Who are you? Are you trying to attack us? Let me tell you we are all strong" (Woman)
The voice was from a middle aged woman it seems, I didn't care and ordered SERAPH to shot a salvo to the ends of the place that their sect is standing. SERAPH aimed the canon and with a powerful shoot, it destroyed anything in a radius of 50 km barely missing; the power was adjusted at the minimum because if I use the entire power…
The disciples of the sect were visible shocked, the explosion told them who is in charge now. I left Charles Patricius with Chu Yueli that was in panic and make my way to their gates. I left Charles Patricius Active and told SERAPH to aim all the weapons to the sect.
When we were approaching I noticed that a protective formation was active, this is the famous Snow Goddess' Veil. Smirking I pocked at the formation with my finger and cracks were instantly formed in the Snow Goddess' Veil, but I decided to not break the formation. After that I shouted
"I came here because I want to tell you all that I'm the new owner of this place!" (Lucius)
Feng Qianhui POV
That's impossible! The formation that the founder put in the sect was almost destroyed from a poke of this man and what he means with
"I came here because I want to tell you all that I'm the new owner of this place!"
That "attack" almost caused my death, I send an order to the entire sect that they need to retreat to the Frozen End Divine Hall and that we will make our last stand. This is what the prophecy foretold. The prophecy said that we will encounter a tribulation and after we safely pass that tribulation we will prosper for another one thousand years. When I was in my thoughts Chu Yuechan spoke to me
"Mistress my sister is with that man! She is a traitor!" (Chu Yuechan)
I almost have a heart attack from her words and I tried to talk but when we heard someone punching the door of the divine hall. Each punching was louder that the last and with each one cracks started to form in the door. I was panicking this doors are made from a very strong ice and they contain the entire power of the Jewel of icy song! After a few more hits the noise and the cracks disappeared; I was standing together with my entire sect looking at the door when we heard someone
"Man! That ice is really weak! Don't you think that Chu Yueli?"
Hearing that voice all of us looked at the throne of the divine hall and what we saw was a young man in some kind of armor, his blue eyes were looking at my disciple Chu Yueli that was tied with purple chains over her body. Looking at the man my mind was blank, for a second he released his strength and I know that we are absolutely doomed.
"… who is the sect mistress? I want to tell her something" the man was looking at every one of us from the throne when his gaze stopped when he saw me. I blink for less than I second when I lost track of him. trying to find the man I looked at my surroundings when I notice that my disciples are looking behind me, I felt a sudden chill in my back when a hand grabbed my shoulder
"So you are the Mistress of this place… Nice to meet –""Don't touch her!" i heard a scream and saw Chu Yuechan flying with a sword in her hand trying to attack the man. I was in total despair this man is way too powerful, the time seemed to stop because in those moments I noticed all the expressions of my disciples, Chu Yuechan has a ferocious face fill of wrath, Chu Yueli was crying and trying to break her chains, Murong Qianxue was trying to stop Yuechan from attacking… in those moments I watch the despair of every disciple. I was lamenting in my mind for my weakness and the time started to advance again when I heard the words of this man.
"Girl don't jump to conclusions of your own. I only helping your grand mistress to open her profound entrances" I heard the man and looked that the sword in Chu Yuechan hand was stopped by his pinky finger.
"Look girl you are ferocious and I like that but you need to understand something I didn't came here to destroy your sect, my words earlier was only a prank hahahaha, look your sister is all right she never betrayed you or your sect. in all moments she tried to stop me, so could you please put that sword down?" the man released my shoulder and release the sword of Yuechan. After that he disaperead again and we only heard his voice from afar.
"I will wait here. When you are ready send the girl that attacked me to convey your answer. Your disciple Yueli knows what I want"
After that a powerful energy was enveloping the entire sect repairing the damage and making it stronger. All of us look at Yueli when she kowtowed and say to me
"I'm sorry master! I bring this calamity to us, I was looking for the girl that I mentioned you when I was found by him and the mother of the girl" with tears streaming from her checks and blood from her forehead she tried to convey her meaning. I walked to her and lift her head and asked why that man here is?
She started to tell us the story about how he meets that man. "I was going to look for the girl that I told you that have very high aptitude, when I reached the place I noticed that I couldn't hear a single sound so I advanced very carefully when I found five people talking about something; I was dumbfounded because I could see the cultivation of every one of them except him, but later he told the other people something because the mother of the little girl was grabbing her head and for the very first time in my life a feel that I was very weak. The power that the woman released was very strong, I don't know what realm is that but it seems that is way beyond the power of a sovereign. I watched the man walk to the lady and wrap some kind of cloth that make the power that was leaking to disappear. At first I was sure that a ruckus was in the city but after they continued to talk nothing happened, so I continued to spy them when I was discovered by him.
Without other option and knowing that I wasn't a match to the woman or the man I reveal myself to them. They started to talk again and he made a proposition to them, if we could help them settle here the man will help us all in some kind of prophecy that I don't know. Further he told me that he will help us reach the realm beyond the Sovereign realm in less than ten years, at first I was on guard with his words, but I saw summon the fortress that is in the gates of the sect from thin air. So in that moment knew that he is much more powerful that we can imagine. That's all I hope that you could forgive me, if only I run the moment that something wasn't right maybe this calamity never happened." (Chu Yueli)
Hearing her explanation I was given a fright and a shock 'the realm beyond the sovereign realm' that was my only thoughts when I remembered his words "I only opened her profound entrances" inspecting my body I notice that all my entrances are open! My body right now has the Heavenly God's profound veins! This make me tremble in excitement and fear, this man is very mysterious and something that make me agree to take that family in, is because he knows about the prophecy that only the grand mistresses knows.
I told Yueli that she wasn't wrong in her decision, and that we will give him our answer after Qiangxue and the fairies look at the matter more seriously.
When we were talking a disciple entered the hall running with all her might, she wasn't present when that man attacked the sect.
"Mistress bad news! The burning heaven clan with the Xiao Clan is sending forces to attack us, mistress what are your orders!"
I was making my decision when all of us heard a loud boom! The earth tremble and all of us tried to maintain our posture. When we trembling stopped we run to the walls of the sect when we saw the man grabbing the head of an elder of the Burning Heaven Clan! The head was still attached to his body but I think that if he died in the explosion that happened before, was better that being in the hands of that demon.
The man that his call is Lucius suddenly looked at us when we saw him smile and with a swing from his hand he cut the head of the elder, blood was spilled like a fountain and all that blood covered the face of Lucius. With a grin still in his face, his eyes that were blue suddenly started to glow, a fiery outer ring in blue and an inner ring in red was forming in his eyes. In that moment every one of us looked at the death.
Shaking his head his eyes returned to normal and he disappear when he enters the fortress, we looked at the aftermath of what happened and what we saw has a huge hole and nothing more. Experiencing the might of that man all of us gulped and our thoughts were the same. 'For any reason we can't make this man our enemy and that his earlier treat was real'
We continued to discuss the matter and after three days we reached an answer. Telling Yuechan our answer he departed to the fortress and convey our answer; we saw her enter and talking to that man from the walls of the sect that were repaired from his energy alone.
The man hearing the words of Yuechan looked at us and smiled, he descended from the fortress and make way to our walls.
"Wise decision and above else I accept your conditions, bring your disciples here I will open all their profound entrances" (Lucius)
Hearing his answer I lead all the disciples to the place that Lucius was standing and in only a few hours he finished to open all the profound entrances of my disciples. After that he also gave us something very precious that when I saw I shouted
"PURPLE VEINED DIVINE CRYSTALS!"
A small mountain of crystals was formed when they appear from a golden ripple. Who is this man?! That was my scream when I saw him take the crystals.
"This little mountain needs to be equally distributed with your disciples, if you need more call me any time. Other thing I need to take your disciple… sorry what is your name again?" (Lucius)
"Chu Yuechan"
"Right… i will take her instead of her sister. Don't worry I don't have any kind of perverted thoughts… that doesn't sound right…" (Lucius)
I accepted and told Yuechan to take care and to help this man in everything except things that were against our principles.
Watching them leave I looked at my sect and I think that this was the better solution to our dilemma about the prophesy.
Chu Yuechan POV
I'm standing in the mansion of this fortress and if I'm totally honest with you, this place is a wonderful place. In our sect we have open baths but the bath here is in another level. The food also is exquisite, he also told me that the food was fresh, and that he needs to apologize with my sister because when they were traveling he couldn't gave her food since all his food was from beasts with a minimum of first level of sovereign profound realm; it wasn't until he stayed in our sect that he leave to hunt other beasts that were suitable for us and that was very gentleman from him. I asked him if I could help him but he told me that it wasn't necessary. So I continued in my cultivation when
I felt a very powerful energy in the yard.
Running to that place I saw Lucius with two more persons, one was cladded in a white-red armor and the other in silver-gray armor with a blue cape. The two persons took their helmet and I saw two beautiful woman that look like sisters. The two have green eyes, are blonde, tall and… why I'm feeling depressed.
"Well well well. I only leave for a few days and you start to cheat on me!"
[Author note: the moods of lucius change with the use of the mystic eyes of death perception and because a little of the personality of Quetzalcoatl is mixed with his own. Quetzalcoatl is a "benevolent" Goddess but she prety much is a sociopath. if you have more doubts about the different moods of Lucius in the coments i will try to respond.]