The Liberty Federation was a subsidiary force of Black Lotus Sect. And Black Lotus was a human. So, in the areas under Black Lotus Sect, it was hard to find other-race individuals. Races like Demons, Dragons and Elves also existed in this super-plane. They too had their own divine beings and widespread territories. But the general day to day life of different people in the Black Lotus Sect's territory had nothing to do with these complicated matters.

What one experienced in life depended on one's strength. This was true of all worlds. Mortals hardly ever experienced things on the scale of different races. Even demi-ascendants never saw a person from a different race in their lives. Only after becoming an ascendant, one gained enough power to participate in events where all races of the plane participated. But most of the lower transformation realm cultivators only remained to guard their territories. They would teach cultivation to the younger generations and enjoy their peaceful lives. Only after reaching upper transformation would cultivators have the opportunity of leaving their own territories and handling diplomatic relations with other races or researching on their own. Such individuals would travel across the low ocean and cultivate their own paths. But again, this was the case for people who did not have a strong backing.

Divine children, for example, found their peers among all the different races even when their cultivation was in the Mortal stage. It could be seen from the fact that divine children existed that Jupyter was countless times stronger than Aterna. In Aterna, condensation realm experts could not conceive even in tens of thousands of years. But in Jupyter, every few hundred years, divine beings could have heirs as well. This was another reason why super-planes were precious. Only in these planes could the divine ones feel mortal again. They could gain families and children and form clans. Black Lotus divinity too had many children who held many important positions in the Black Lotus Sect.

But at the level of small countries like Glandor, each of their major families only had a demi-ascendant patriarch. These families all had their main branches in the liberty federation capital - the liberty city. Each of these families was a behemoth in the capital. But even they did not have enough ascendants to station in all the small countries. On a certain day, in the Lang family branch, a figure appeared in a flash in the secluded chamber of Grey Lang - the current patriarch of this branch. As soon as the person appeared, Grey Lang looked up and said:

Grey : You are here. Come, I have made all the preparations.

Other Person : That is what we discussed. Since we already have an agreement, there is no reason to rethink. Let's begin.

After that, the person sat down on in the meditation chamber as well. Grey Lang brought out many many resources from his space ring. Then, he began mixing different medicines together. The resources were all very well known in the entire plane. They contained beast souls, some refining metals, naturally occurring plants and herbs. All these were mixed in unique proportions. What was impressive about these resources was that all of them were extremely potent and pure. After the mixture, he brought out something extremely expensive - a spirit stone. In fact, this was a high-grade spirit stone with a value so high that branch families would find it incredibly difficult to obtain many of these. After concocting the mixture, he placed the spirit stone in between the paste. Then, he started using his own spirit energy to boost the dissipation of spirit energy in the stone. The semi-solid paste seemed to awaken and started wiggling. Fibrous growths emerged from it and it became extremely porous. Ultimately, the thing turned into a bunch of extremely thin strings.

The entire process took an hour to finish. The other person kept on observing the process in minute detail. He did not speak at all during this time. Grey Lang still remembered how a month ago, this person had appeared out of thin air in his meditation chamber. Initially, Grey was extremely wary of this unknown expert and thought that he was facing an assassin. But the person made no moves to harm his life and instead spoke in a calm manner.

Grey was not an idiot. After seeing a demonstration of the other party's calmness, he was convinced that the other party had some trump cards to rely on. While the other person's cultivation was still lacking, he had an aura about him that only veterans of many wars managed to obtain. Grey Lang who was not a prominent disciple of the family rarely had to fight. Thus, even though his powers were greater, he was not confident in killing this unknown expert. Thus, he did not rush to attack which gave way for a conversation to happen.

The person made him an offer which was actually quite reasonable. After listening to his story, Grey was finally convinced. Thus, he agreed to deal with him. Of course, this was only on the surface. Only recently did he find out that the other person was actually an internal path cultivator! This had given him quite the shock. It also increased his wariness against the other person. He abandoned all his plans of scheming against him and carried out his end of the deal sincerely.

The other person inspected the new wriggling mess for some time before swallowing it whole. After some time, his entire body started oozing black blood but there was no change in the person's expression.

As I thought, this is a ruthless battlefield tested expert! Opening one's meridians is a strenuous exercise that generally takes decades to finish. But he is doing it in a few minutes!

Indeed, the pill he had created at this moment was the meridian cleansing pill. It thoroughly cleaned the meridians of one's body. But the side effect was immense pain that came with it. Another side effect was that it destroyed countless meridians. But the person in front of him was different. It was as if his meridians were forged from steel. The tyrannical medicinal energy could only flow through the meridians and not damage them in any way.

After a few minutes, the entire process ended. There was a small pool of black blood at the place where the person sat. Grey Lang looked at the person for a while before saying

Grey : Like I promised, I have opened your entire spiril channel. Now, you can cultivate spirit energy at a tremendous speed. I have also prepared many resources and pills to hasten the process. In a few days, you should be able to consolidate your spirit energy and step into the purification realm. I have made inquires and will be able to find the spirit cleansing pills. That way, your spirit cultivation will catch up with your internal cultivation. It will only take a few months. I have also made your arrangements in the liberty city. You will be able to enter without many problems.

Other Person : Very well, I will take my leave then.

Saying so, the person immediately left. Grey Lang sighed.

A month ago, the person had made him an offer. He was going to bear the cost of the entire process of concocting the meridian cleansing pill and would even pay for the resources for his cultivation. What he wanted from the Lang family were their channels to buy the materials and concocting the medicine. As the remuneration, he had agreed to pay even more.

Grey Lang had agreed on the surface but later, he had arranged for many experts with condensation stage cultivation to try and rob the other person. None of them returned. He only managed to get back the battle video transmitted by a scout. Even the scout had been found and killed midway. But he saw what was important - internal energy! After that, Grey Lang gave up all his plans. There was no use making an enemy of such an expert. Especially for such a small sum of money.

Many months later, the same mysterious person emerged from the teleportation gateway of the City of Liberty. This person was naturally Michael though he did not look one bit like himself. He looked like a middle-aged man.

Currently, Michael was in the late perfect realm. In fact, he had almost completely mastered the third chapter of his laws as well. In a few months of time, he was confident in reaching the demi-ascendant realm. But, currently, there was a reason not to do so.

His spirit cultivation skyrocketed through his wealth. It reached the law conception realm quickly. Using his familiarity with the laws of life and death, Michael's spirit cultivation was almost catching up with his internal cultivation. But, only having a cultivation base did not translate into power. In fact, Michael's powers had not increased much after reaching the late conception realm. He did gain powerful spirit cultivation but was not versed with using spirit energy. He had not studied spirit cultivation ever. So, even though his progress in cultivation was extremely shocking, it was not representative of growth in combat power.

Michael had made use of his great wealth to boost his cultivation in an extremely short amount of time. This was the most sensible option he found. After spending even more money, he even managed to get entry into the City of Liberty.

Michael's intention in coming here was to join the Royal Federation Academy.

Of course, Michael was not planning to join as a student. He was going to join as a teacher.

Year 13678, Era 6, Epoch 8.

In all the super-planes of the 26 dominions, divine decrees descended. Year 35000 was set as the time for the opening of Stairway to Heavenly Realm. This was a huge undertaking where more than 6000 divine powerhouses had signed the decree. It was sufficient to shake the entire 26 dominions. Such was the significance of this event that all the super-forces were left stunned. There was no need to say anything about the remaining forces of the different planes.

The decree signed by the different powerhouses gave strict rules and guidelines for the different powers across the different planes. These rules had to be followed for the next 20 thousand years. This was in preparation for the event.

The same year, in a corner of the 26 dominions, in the super-plane Jupyter, an apprentice scholar was appointed in the Royal Federation Academy of Liberty Federation.

Apprentice Scholars obviously had to pass the tests from the Academy. All of them carried great knowledge. They were also the main teachers in the academy. Scholars were much more knowledgeable and their social status was also much higher. They were employed by huge corporations, families and even super-forces to research economically feasible products. They were the researchers that drove the quality of life ahead on these super-planes. They also researched cultivation methods, paths and different methods of increasing the race's power and influence as a whole.

Aterna was a tribal area and hence, only strength decided the way of life. That was because the resources were too little. They had to make do with whatever they had. But life in super-planes was much different as the resources were much more abundant. Cultivation and strength were still valuable but other talents also had a chance to shine. Researchers who gathered knowledge, Doctors, Engineers and several mundane jobs were available for the plane-dwellers to choose from. Apart from that, the growing of herbs, maintenance of beasts, alchemy, refinement of treasures and many other occupations existed for the cultivators to earn their own share. All in all, the economy of super-planes was a complicated web with several giant sects, corporations and clans leading from the front. In a world like this, any scholar was a hot commodity valued even more than a layman demi-ascendant.

As the 26 dominions entered the 706th era of geniuses, all geniuses began their own preparations. A glorious era was about to unfold.