The other side of one and half a year

Alice's POV:

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This one and half a year have gone peacefully for us. We reached the peak of the fifth stage, the Shao family's army was armed with our armors, weapons, and pills. I was at the prime of my life as I've grown up to be about one hundred and sixty-five centimeters tall, while Hiro had grown up to a height of a hundred and ninety-five centimeters.

He wasn't overly muscular, but he had sexy, bulging muscles. He had a buff body, which I loved~ Both of us wore our armors and our weapons. (AN: Alice's armor, Hiro's armor; I don't own the pictures, they are here only for illustration. Alice would look sexy in that...) We were walking around on a plain, setting up traps. We made little formations, and poured our mind powers into them and filled them with elements.

We used every kind of element in our traps. This is going to be our battlefield against the Wu family's soldiers. We came here before the expected time to set this whole thing up. Of course, we also told about this to Shao Xian, and he is training his army so that they aren't going to fail in the little act, we have thought of.

Upon stepping into any of these formations, a chain-reaction would start and all of them would explode our enemies' faces. Since we have been using up every ounce of our mind powers literally daily in this one and half a year, our sea of consciousness has grown by a lot. Although we weren't satisfied by reaching only the peak of the fifth stage after such a long time, but Shao Xian was more than surprised with our progression speed.

He questioned us numerous times about our backgrounds or where we are coming from because not even the descendants of cultivators from the higher realms would be as quick as us. If they would be a quarter as quick as us, then they would be more than happy...

He knew that we weren’t descendants from the higher realms because children are born in the same realm as their parents. Naturally, they also had to train just like their parents did and reach that level of power. It didn't matter in which realm you were born because after cultivating to the second level, you were going to be teleported to a random second level sector, under your level.

It didn't matter if you were born in the fourth or in the eighth realm because, in the end, you are going to be teleported into the second realm upon reaching the second level. Everyone had to climb up the ladder to reach the higher realms, and there was no exception about this. Not even the high-borns. (AN: This is going to change in the 54th chapter thanks to the happenings, but that's in the future.)

How did he know that we weren't such people? It was because we didn't have storage rings and we weren't loaded with treasures, which would make our progression speed into a joke. Storage rings can be made only by people at and above the fifth level so it’s impossible to find them here, except on a young master’s hand...

But if anyone would dare to touch them, then those people would meet a bad end by the descending and enraged parents, so no one dares to challenge these young masters. Even we wouldn't dare to do such a thing. These descendants had treasures which would record their surroundings if something were to happen to them. Once that happens, there is no way out for the killer!

If a fifth level cultivator were to descend, he could easily sweep through this numerous sectors and sense the location of the killer. How could anyone escape from a mind power which reaches through sectors?! Even we would rather leave these descendants alone than to try killing them before being powerful enough.

In the end, Shao Xian still wasn't able to find out our background, but we didn't intend to tell him out of fun.

--------------- Wu Shan's POV: -----------------

Ever since that day when I was tricked and left standing in the poop, I felt enraged. No one had ever shamed me as much as those two brats whose name I still don't know since the Shao family was tight-lipped. Not like my soldiers who tittle-tattled about every fucking thing! I was anger by not only those two but even these idiots! I still didn't know a damn about them, which made me very enraged.

Knowing where are, but not being able to go there only made it even worse! Although thanks to those two bastards, they say it otherwise, but I'm not an idiot!!! If I were to go there like this, then I'd quickly lose my life. I'd have no chance. I wasn't too far away from ascending, but I haven't cultivated for a long while because I don't want to live a struggling life.

I want to become a great ruler who would be looked up at! I want everyone to lick my boots, for women to serve me, and for men to kneel before my might! That's what I wanted! I wanted to conquer this sector and then using the people inside this sector, I would have killed the beastmen in our neighboring sectors, turning both of them into Human Sectors, instead of Stagnant Sectors.

I had big dreams and I was so close to achieving it, thanks to that formation, yet these two came and my whole family started falling apart! Many of my soldie- slaves have left after knowing that they wouldn't get their hands on the liquefied Universe Energy. Luckily, most of them made an oath that they would serve me, so they weren't able to leave! Hahaha! Unfortunately, I didn't have enough people like this.

I didn't want to become a small fish in a big pond, I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond! Since I didn't have enough people, I started thinking of ways to gain strength. When the formation was created, a cultivator at the sixth level has descended. He was searching for a piece of a map, which would open the gates to a created world, which was full of treasures.

He said that it was the legacy of a cultivator at the eighth stage!!! At least that was what he said to me. If not for me helping him in finding it, then he would have never talked to me. It was at that time, that I realized that I don't want to ascend only when my life would be nearing its end. He was talking with me as if I'd be an ant, a pest! I didn't want to feel that inferiority anymore.

That's why I've decided to stay here and become a leader of these pests! Now I'm the one at the top! After begging for him for a long time, I was able to make him descend another realm lower and make that formation in that sector. It was a new sector at that time and it was a very, very young one. So that's how I was able to gain strength after I started selling the liquefied Universe Energy.

Originally we were only a little team, called the Wu team. After I betrayed them and killed them to became the sole leader, I took upon myself the Wu name. Heh- those losers didn't have what it takes to become as great as me! Those ants in the lower realm can all go and die for all I care. It would be very good if that person were to descend once again. Although I'd feel my inferiority once again, but I'm sure that I could ask him to help me out a bit once again.

Only a single sweep of his mind power would be enough to kill all of my enemies, then I could easily take over these two sectors. Just how great would that be!? Of course, that was unlikely. He showed me that map at that time. There was a little planet on it, with many X on it, showing the places where the treasures could be found. What was it called...? Ehm... Earth I think? Or something like that. Who would name a planet the Earth? They should have named it as Wu!

There is no way that he would ever come back. Out of that reason, I had to start thinking of other ways to gain support. I had to negotiate with these our neighboring sectors. These two bastards kept asking for money because 'it's really hard for them' and because 'we have to fight against the beastmen'... Thankfully, after so much time, they finally decided to move their asses and accepted my offer.

Interestingly enough, they decided to accept my invitation to overtake the Shao family only after hearing that they had a pharmacist... I bet that they want to invite that person. I don't know who is that, but I'll be sure to make him, or her, serve me. With a pharmacist's help, it would be easy for me to reach my dreams and become the lord of all three of these sectors! Who knows? Maybe I could reach even greater heights!

Since they've decided to come, I've prepared my army and paid for many spaceships to take my whole army to Orbon planet. I also had to pay for the other two sectors' traveling expenses... bastards. I didn't have any money left. We have to win, or else my life is going to go down the drain!