5 Chapter 5: Inheritance part 2

Jun Huang sighed, and decided he would have to explain the situation to this girl slowly.

"Look, it would appear that your mother left the Boundless Spirit Pantheon to you. Seeing as how you now have it and that the mark of the contract is on you, I'm assuming that Yu Yuhan has passed on. She probably transferred the mark of the contract to you as she was dying."

It was true that Yu Yuhan had passed on, but what confused Ying Yue was how she was now in possession of the Boundless Spirit Pantheon, as it was meant for Yu Yuhan's daughter. Since she wasn't this woman's daughter, even though she was possessing the body of her daughter, how was it that she had control? Why was the mark of the contract on her, when she wasn't even the original soul?

Seeing that Ying Yue made no response, Jun Huang assumed that she had no idea what he was talking about."Great," he thought, "First I had to deal with that woman's eccentric personality, and no I have to deal with her moronic daughter." Jun Huang was feeling very pitiful for himself. Who asked him to get stuck with this awful luck? It wasn't like he wanted to be passed on to someone else. He had just finally accepted Yu Yuhan, when all of a sudden she stopped visiting him in the Boundless Spirit Pantheon. He could still feel the mark of the contract, so he just assumed he had been forgotten by his master. Never would he have imagined that his master had not only died, but had also transferred the mark of the contract onto her daughter. This really was completely against his expectations.

While they both were lost in their respective thoughts, time passed slowly. If any outsider were to see this moment, they would have no clue what to think. A young girl covered in blood was standing in front of a drenched toddler, both staring at each other blankly. It really was a rather comical sight. Thankfully, however, as this was happening in the Boundless Spirit Pantheon, no one from the outside could see what was happening, thus saving Ying Yue from having to make some rather awkward explanations.

Jun Huang sighed, quickly excepting his situation. If he got worked up anytime anything went against his expectations, he would of died thousands of years ago, so he had gotten fairly good at letting go of things he couldn't change. Since there was nothing Jun Huang could do, he decided the best course of action would be to teach this stupid girl about the uses of the Boundless Spirit Pantheon. Plus, this girl seems pretty stupid, maybe she would treat his existence as akin to a god's and treat him as someone super mighty. Jun Huang felt pretty smug and grinned to himself when he thought of it, feeling that maybe this new master wouldn't be that bad. At least, she couldn't be any worse than her crazy mother who liked to bully him, right?

Coming back to her senses, and seeing that Jun Huang had spaced out and had a stupid grin on his face, Ying Yue felt the urge to pinch his cheeks. So, as she was never one to restrain herself in the first place, she reached out and pinched his little face. Unfortunately for Jun Huang, she did this with no small amount of strength, causing the poor little phoenix pain, completely shattering his earlier thoughts about how maybe his new master would be better. Did she have to be so similar to her mother! Why was it that upon meeting, bother mother and daughter pinched his face! What horrible deed had he done in a past life to make him have to suffer so much in this one!

"What are you doing," Jun Huang cried, looking exceptionally pitiful, his little brows turned down in anger, "I am the great Jun Huang! The Ancient Celestial Phoenix! Not some child whom you can pinch!" He decided he must quickly correct this behavior, before she turned out exactly as her mother, punching his cheeks and smacking his bottom whenever the urge struck.

Ying Yue looked at the little boy throwing a fit, and smiled. He really was cute. This smile, however, terrified Jun Huang. After all, Ying Yue was currently drenched in blood, added to the fact that Jun Huang was worried in the first place, Ying Yue's innocent smile quickly turned into the smile of a devil getting ready to devour his soul in his eyes. This made the poor fellow begin to cry. Why was he cursed with such fiendish masters?

Seeing that Jun Huang was now crying, but not understanding why, Ying Yue decided to quickly change the subject. "So, what is this place good for?" Ying Yue asked, letting go of his cheeks as she did so.

Seeing as how the demoness had let him go and was showing interest in something besides causing him pain, Jun Huang jumped to answer.

"The Boundless Spirit Pantheon has many uses," he explained, "Firstly, it's good for cultivating. The spiritual qi in here is much denser than outside, so you can achieve greater results in here than you would out there. Secondly, time in here works differently. When you come inside the Boundless Spirit Pantheon, time can either stop flowing, flowing at a slower pace, or flow at the same rate as outside. It is up to you as the master to decide how time will flow. This can help you if you want to cultivate for long stretches of time, without missing anything in the outside world. You also won't age at all while you're in here. Of course, the Boundless Spirit Pantheon has its limits, so you can't reverse or speed up time. Thirdly, this pond here may seem ordinary, but since the water has been her for a long time, it has absorbed the qi in the surrounding air and now contains spiritual energy. If you were to cook with it, drink it, or bathe in it, you would absorb the qi from the water into your body, helping your cultivation further. Lastly, that little cabin over actually isn't that little. It is another space within this space and is actually very spacious on the inside. There's even a training ground and a garden in there."

Hearing all of this, it was quite a lot for Ying Yue to process. It really did seem like this place was worthy of being considered and ancient artifact. Only some old geezer with way too much time and knowledge on his hands could have been capable of creating something his extraordinary.

"So, basically what you're saying, is that I have essentially received the worlds greatest cheat code in helping me to gain more strength?" Ying Yue asked

"Pretty much. As long as you cultivate here, one day you will stand on top of the world."

Ying Yue had many questions. First, how did her mother have something like this? And why would she marry her scumbag father if she had something so great? Who really was her mother? While Ying Yue had all these questions, she had one major concern at this moment.

"But, I can't cultivate." Ying Yue said.

"Says who?"

"What?"