One after another, geniuses in various states of injury were forced out. While this made the likes of Elizaren and the Draco Race elder, feel much better, when they saw the expressions of these geniuses, their own became much more serious. They didn't see not a single happy expression anywhere, it was as though... they were all losers?
What was more odd was that they couldn't sense any God Treasures coming from these youths either. While it was possible to hide with various methods, it didn't seem logical that they would have all used such methods, especially since they should have just received such a reward.
For youths that hadn't seen much of life yet, they would still be waving around their first Fragmented God Treasure around. With their elders here, it wasn't as though they had to worry about having their treasures snatched. Plus, considering the status of the Sky Gods present, they wouldn't flinch in the face of a Fragmented Treasure to begin with, there was simply no need to be so cautious.
This seemed to imply something a step beyond this as well. Clearly, these Sky Gods didn't make the assumption that these God Treasures could fuse with one's body either. It was obvious that Ryu was quite special in this regard.
The more of this the elders saw, the more confused and somewhat anxious they became.
"Vie, boy, stop pretending to be out cold, do you think you can fool my eyes?" Elizaren hissed a qi line message into Vie's ears, startling him awake.
Originally, Elizaren had thought that maybe Vie was pretending to be out cold so that it would be more convenient for Elizaren to take him away without being questioned by the others. But as the situation unfolded,
Elizaren was beginning to think that Vie had only done this for the sake of saving face and avoiding embarrassment. This left Elizaren with a belly full of rage he was just a step away from taking out on this junior of his.
Vie had left their Clan with a great deal of competence even as a small child, how had he come back so useless?!
Some felt that it was a mistake to send their youth out like this without guidance in what should have been their most formative years. Elizaren had disagreed with them because he didn't believe that any real experts could be formed in a greenhouse. But seeing the state of Vie now, he was beginning to wonder if he had been wrong from the beginning.
Vie startled awake without much of a choice. Facing his senior's gaze, the embarrassment of what happened seemed to echo through his very bones.
To the side, Akura was in an even worse state than Vie was, one because he was far more injured, and secondly because Hulidyr's methods were far more savage and violent.
Without a choice, the two could only explain what had happened. At the same time, the same situation was occurring all across the plaza. Even though there was a ton of noise, for some reason, it felt too quiet at the same time, a suffocating pressure radiating out as the elders of the Fifth Heaven realized what had happened one after another.
"... You're telling me that you didn't have enough Heavenly Favor to trade for anything?"
"I... I don't know what happened, but they didn't even send me to the treasure exchange location. One moment I was on the Heavenly Path, and the next moment I was here, just as injured. Everything I had worked for seemed to have just been snatched without rhyme or reason..." Vie explained in a low voice.
Elizaren's expression turned incomparably ugly. Compared to all of the other opportunities Vie might have gained on the First, Second and Third Heaven, there was no doubt that the Heavenly Path should have been the biggest boon. The fact he got nothing out of it basically meant that this entire experiment had been useless. Their geniuses had wasted almost a decade of their growth for nothing in return.
"THERA!"
The voice came out in a booming cadence, causing the entire plaza to rumble. The sturdiness of the Fourth Heaven couldn't be even remotely compared to the Third, and yet the wild fluctuations in space seemed to be hinting toward an existential collapse.
Hulidyr's gaze was tinged with a wild fury as it landed on a confused beauty.
This woman was truly gorgeous beyond compare. As a Sky God, her body had been refined to absolute perfection, but the tinge of demonic air surrounding her only made her all the more enticing. The pair of folded black wings on her back gave her an exotic air, almost akin to a fallen angel, and yet she was no less elegant for it.
This woman was Thera of the Dream Asura Race. Since all the others had sent representatives, how could the Dream Asura Race not do the same for their two little princesses? In fact, Thera was the elder sister of Aantha and likewise the elder cousin of Mae. If those little two girls were the crown jewels of this generation, then Thera was most definitely the crown jewel of her own having stepped into the Sky God Realms at such a young age. At that moment, Thera had just been waiting patiently for her little sister and cousin to appear when she suddenly found herself being roared out. As a gorgeous woman, she was obviously not used to such treatment, but even if she was, given her status as a Sky God, there were very few who dared to be so rude to her. She couldn't help but frown.
When she saw that it was a member of the Draco Race, her frown deepened and her disdain intensified.
"What do you want, Hulidyr?"
"What do I want?! Don't you think you owe me an explanation?!"
Thera's frown deepened once again. While everyone else had juniors to explain what had happened, Thera didn't have such a thing, obviously, so she had no what had occurred.
Hulidyr sneered. "Didn't your Dream Asura Race plan all of this out very well? You didn't even announce that your Princess has a Dao Companion despite her status, doesn't that make it obvious that you were scheming something?!"
Thera was bewildered.
The only true Princess of their race right now was Mae. She knew her little cousin too well, how could she not know if Mae had a Dao Companion or not? Plus, when Mae had left their Clan, she had been barely over 10 years old. Right now she was probably approaching 20 years old, but that was still far too young to pick a Dao Companion, especially considering the drawback of pairing with their Race's women.
There were too many young geniuses who never made something of themselves in the future. Such people were rampant and could end up swallowed by a Dream Aura woman's Primordial Yin, so it was important for their women to wait.
If Mae had a boy toy, Thera wouldn't care, their race was far looser with such things. Plus, she was indeed already at the age where she would start wanting such things. However, the words Dao Companion necessitated a heavier meaning and assumed a fusion of the souls. This was a completely different meaning from a one or two night stint.
"Don't speak nonsense to me, Hulidyr. If you want a reason to fight, just take out your weapon. Do you think I fear trash like you?" Thera replied coldly.
Surprisingly, Hulidyr only laughed wildly when Thera said this.
"Look around you! Do you see how many have the same question?! Your Princess' little husband ruined all of their futures!"
Hulidyr was "certain" that this was a plot of the Dream Asura Race. If Ryu was trash then he would probably make fun of Mae for having no eyes. However, because Ryu was so powerful, it felt suspicious, suspicious to the point he concluded that this must have been a plot of the Dream Asura Race.
There were many Clans and Sects on the Fifth Heaven with the strength to enter the Sixth Heaven but didn't due to various reasons. Among them, the Dream Asura Race was definitely near the top. Something like this might be the perfect flip in momentum they needed to make that final push.
Pairing their Princess with such a paragon seemed like the perfect plan, and it was especially telling that while so many had been ejected, Mae and Aantha still hadn't come out.
Thera's expression changed and she scanned the region, only to find that there were several individuals that were looking at her with unfriendly Her brow couldn't help but furrow once again, but this time, there was a hint of confusion and a bit of worry.
The Dream Asura Race had no need to fear anyone, but getting on the bad side of so many powerful powers at once was bad, very bad. Those two girls had always been mischievous, especially her little sister, but this was a greater problem than what they normally stirred up.
Just then, the blackhole pulsed again and people began to be ejected in large groups. Some were in groups of dozens, and others came out in hundreds.
At that moment, a large number of Radiant Star Sect members were ejected and they gasped for air.
They had done it, they had finally done it.
Among them there was Pibin, maybe the only one of them Ryu knew by had lost many brothers, but those that had survived had come back far sharper.
What they didn't expect, though, was that the moment they did, several suffocating auras would force them directly to their knees.
