Chapter 22: Elven Domain
The world he descended wasn't named as in a planet name but often referred as spirit realm. Because the place doesn't support descend of immortal, no one crosses the barrier laid out by heavenly dao interfering with physical laws as they are not powerful enough. It's like an unbreakable egg shell for a not yet born chickš£.
The moment you have transcended 30% law layers of peak Immortal realm, here virtually called as half immortal you will need ascension or will be dissolve as heavenly venerate. Hence there weren't enough ways to deceive heavenly consciousness and breakthrough and explore the chaotic void outside, unless you are powerful enough.
The law energy conversion of great dao to spiritual qi is done by world tree. Unlike in the worlds with dragon spiritual roots of earth which converts the energy to qi, here the spirit roots converge to world tree.
The place we were left stranded, is in elven kingdom easily figured out just by seeing the shadow of immense sized tree and heaven covering branches at a distance.
The human domain, elven domain and monster domain are the three major domains near to each other. Qian, Wu, Lan and Zhi are the major sub domains of human world. Beside these racial domains, exists forbidden lands and endless sea. Scarlet Abyss, Nine death valley, Ghastial forest, void reversal ruins, Ever night plains, Azure Floodlands, Burning sands expanse, endless sea, abyssal trench are them.
The spiritual qi here is so dense that most of the cultivation children born are directly in qi cultivation realm without entering body refinement seperately. Mortals do exist but those have the strength of peak body refinement realm just by existing in the world. Everything is more dense here. A regular person from earth won't even have the strength to properly breathe nor even pick up a handful of sand from ground.
Coming to the place we are now in, the native land of elves. There are no 'mortal' elves. Even the worst elves will have a lifespan of 1000 years. They classified humans as a intelligent creatures racially standing lower than themselves simply because for them ' it's only 100 years lifespan and what's the point of existing then?' was the attitude. Just like what flies and insects are, for us. The world tree has blessings offered on them and it will resonate with their bloodline to form divine ability. The divine ability forms around every common element of nature but wood element divine ability is the most common.
Elves has high lifespan but low reproductive rate. There are probably around 10 million or more pure elves. Then exist elven warriors known as a hybrid of elves and other races.Due to existence of blessings of world tree, the hybrid races will have more pronounced elven characteristics than their racial counter part parent. This also lead to nobility establishment based on bloodline purity. Inbreeding is common and due to cultivation advantages in life level, the genetic defects for mortal shells doesn't exist for them.
Humans and elves and monsters follow marriage ceremony commonly accompanied bowing to heaven, earth and parents. But the concepts for partners for life is vague. People usually stay around for roughly 2000 to 7000 years during which they will seek out other love interests. Most of the troubles and problems arises from this, and due to division of profit and ancestral properties, jealousy etc.
The ceremony for concept of divorce exist and is known as severing of earthly ties.
Caixia had a partner before for like 5000 years ago, but he sucked up too much to a villain, he ended up getting killed as an example. Caixia had been single from then. Now as a mistress to radiant pavilion in a human sub domain, she has many pursuers. She, like any other rich women was enjoying being looked upto like a queen until recently she was captured by a ' bad person', as in her words.
This was all the knowledge Han Chen got from Caixia. The place they appeared is not a desolate area but full of towering trees and mountainous areas. They descended to the ground and found a valley with a buried dwelling.
There was a vast space designed for human settlement. 'Hmm is this also his arrangement? Then I should tamper that array destination.' He left Caixia there, and returned. Looking at the hidden array to stabilize the travel, he found that since the travel was across sea region with turbid law fluctuations, the end point array act as a stabilizer but doesn't have two way function. So he simply tore apart the array. Kept the materials.
He released both Sylvia and Yue Lan. They took some time to get used to the new world and strength adjustment. He conveyed the knowledge he has to them. I saw a green aura descending on to Sylvia. It has remarkable resemblance to blessing conferred by cultivators and so he didn't disrupt it.
Her elven features enhanced. The contract bounding her soul got destroyed without any backlash to her. Bloodline got enhanced and runes resurfaced. The area around her suddenly shifted as space expanded around and sent as a wave.
Her cultivation skyrocketed to Golden core peak.I suppressed her from breaking through to nascent soul which otherwise would be successful but she would have a hollow foundation. She hasn't even grasped the true essence of gold core peak.
From the spiritual interference of blessing it is not possible to judge the location but only the extend of blessing. But divination can do that. He created an immortal rank array on spot and imprinted on her as runes to prevent such probing. ' She was supposed to accompany protagonist dude, it's possible that she carry some return to ancestor level bloodine or something. It's best to hide it.'
"I can feel that spiritual energy is extremely close to me. I even have new knowledge in mind to attack with spatial ability." She happily reported. Taking them with him he returned back to the valley.
Seeing him returning with a human and an Elven girl, Caixia was dumbfounded. " She is my wife and this is my subordinate." Han Chen introduced them before even creating a misunderstanding.
" Han..you, how on heaven you kidnapped an elven nobility? Where did you get a wife you just ascended right?"
" As I said before, she is my subordinate."
" Y..You...you are special, elf! You better not be saying he is your master or else we will be in trouble if we later go to mainland. Noble lineage disdains from affiliating with humans. And you have more noblility features like the least protrusion ears and zapphire eye color even though your bloodline aura is concealed."
Sylvia nodded her head seriously. " Come here" I ordered her. She followed and I put a similar slave seal to Caixia on her. A character Han appeared on her forehead for a brief second before dissolving. " She is free to do anything besides betrayal"
Sylvia accepted it without any grudges. I think she is more willing to have one rather than not which is what her inner voices conveyed to me. He triggered the transformation and Sylvia appeared as a normal elf.
Turning to Caixia, I said " we will leave in 10 years. You are in peak second rank right. You can make use of the treasures to advance to 3rd level."
Then time passed. Caixia was forced to study maid duties by Han Chen under Sylvia. Han Chen and Yue Lan went for hunting in the forest region and returned back with some beast kings of void transformation realm. The daily life continued with occasional cultivation improved everyone's mindset. As such it was faster than solitary cultivation. The spiritual energy consumption by Han Chen was almost a 100 times of ordinary Void transformation realm.
In the 7th year, seeing Han Chen explaining deeper law layers to his wife, Caixia accepted his teaching and triggered her tribulation to third level. Han Chen provided her with arrays to shield some of the effect. For the last 3 years she stabilized her cultivation. Sylvia was having the record transformation. She solidified her externaly received cultivation and improved to nascent soul beginning stage. Yue Lan reached peak first subrealm of God transformation stage.
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They decided to venture out to mainland. Even using void travel, it took them half year to reach Ulys river, adjacent to elven empire main land. This was their first contact with elves.
Borrowing spirit stones from Caixia, we got a place to rest and then boarded the ferry that transport people to main land. The official road is closed under royal command for some reason but the ferry is the only option as of now.
It only took him half a day to learn elven language and speak it more fluent than the natives just from listening to the conversations around. The elven warrior people has sharp and protruded ears and some have horns like ogres and Oni he has seen before.
Elven hybrids wore normal fabric but the pure blood elves and rich or higher status elven warriors present all wore clothes with layered fabric mix in with armored shell with runic motifs on them. It's self healing and self cleaning type, and they don't have expend spiritual energy to maintain their appearance.
Compared to them we wore regular adventure style dress seemingly out of place with them. The first thing we did before boarding is to find a clothing shop by some rune refiner or weapon refiner. So amidst the curious gazes we went to the local shop and got ourselves something to blend in.
The ferry crosses the void, powered by large number of spirit stones and array to make it function as a warp drive. It only took a day before it accelerated and became faster than what they were travelling so far. Like that 5 days has passed and they officially reached mainland.
The main thing that is prominent is the gigantic world tree. It is bigger than his previous peak spiritual dharma body size. Humans were present but either having very high cultivation base or as a guest of elves or elven warriors or as subordinates. There is no slave culture.
Sylvia as a new elf needed registration so as all of us coming with her. The people simply didn't find any pure bloodline aura from her and simply treated as some abandoned child. If they know they are missing out on a princess like character what would they do.
Only reason was due to immortal seal on her. The guards stationed are only nascent soul realm, where can they detect anything. Everyone has been okay in detecting their racial identies and cultivation level except Han Chen. When his spiritual body was detected there was no response from the detection as there was nothing to begin with. The guards suddenly reacted and came to him.
" Explain your reason for visit and why you are masking your identity." They began to show aggression from the beginning. Seeing this the crowd standing behind him also seperated from him almost like beginning of a public trial.
Han Chen who remained low key, didn't want to pretend and was about to ask them to check again this time morphing to biological body. But before he could, an elder looking elven warrior hurriedly parted the crowd of guards and shut them down. " Hmm. Silent! What are you doing? Do you want to repeat what happened before. There's a reason the protocol exist.."
Turning towards me he bowed and said respectfully, " Guest, please follow to the next gate, we will receive you later." The crowd who wanted to watch the show and eat melon was disappointed. Han Chen left with his companions to next gate.
One of the newer warriors stationed questioned the elder. " Why did you do that Mr. Orinith? Shouldn't we do some background checks now?"
" Background checks my ass. You know my divine ability is soulveil gaze. Do you know what I just saw? He is more powerful than high lady Elenia Marial. I can see immeasurable vastness of his soul almost as if I am facing the heaven as it is for a moment. Anyway let's see his cultivation then we will decide. If it's low, then we can actually have some interrogation, but if not, it's not for us to concern about. Go and let's see.."
While at Han Chen's side he only felt as someone peeping through and felt nothing about it. At the next gate, everyone was easily passed and when Han Chen passed through, a hazy aura filled near him same as before for others checking his cultivation level, but result was shown at the guards side left them trembling.' Half - immortal Middle level '.
Obviously the array make use of law depth as a measurement to calculate combat level and judges the cultivation level. The infallible array failed to sense his proper level simply due to a combination of law body and mastery of 80th layer law energy, which is simply impossible for any normal person at his realm cultivation level. There wasn't any precedent for this.
The guards attitude changed completely. Han Chens group was treated with respect and even arranged someone to lead to city in a luxurious carriage. He heard what happened and didn't bother to correct it.