Heavenly Dao Child

Ryuu looked at the gate with a frown on his face, 'How is she moving back and forth without me knowing about it? The arrays that I have placed should inform me about any movement through the gates the one in the lower levels that I had placed is still working so how is bypassing my arrays, as far as I know, neither is she skilled nor is she knowledgable enough, but it could also be a ruse to lower my guard, I have to treat her threat a tad bit more seriously, maybe I should dispose of her.'

"Is there any problem Ryuu?"

Ryuu looked towards True-Spear as he spoke with a sigh, "Yes there is a huge problem, every time we pass through a gate I place arrays on it that enables me to know when someone is passing through it, I checked those arrays and rechecked them for the fifth time since we came here, they are working perfectly yet for some reason Chasing Winds was able to bypass them, and I do not know how."

True-Spear frowned at the implication as he spoke, "That is dangerous, if she has such means then it is disastrous for us the last two levels have proved to be a very bad time for those Preta sc.u.m and I do not doubt that they would seek revenge on us and if that wench is colluding with the enemy we would be done for."

Ryuu nodded at that as he spoke, "You are absolutely correct we have to deal with her fast though she had managed to make a few friends and casually killing her would only cause problems amongst ourselves which I want to avoid."

True-Spear tilted his head as he spoke with an innocent look on his face, "So an accident."

Ryuu let out a tired sigh as he spoke with a mournful look on his face, "Such a tragedy that took her from us, she had so much to live and accomplish.", True-Spear could not help but let out a burst of booming laughter at that.

Sylvana raised her cup to her lips as she took a drink from it, Khygnos sat beside her but she seemed to be meditating without paying attention to her surrounding, as time went by more and more people entered the room, some followed Khygnos's example while as a few decided to simply chatter amongst themselves.

A few minutes later Bhakhtyar entered the room looking a bit tensed he turned towards Khygnos and Sylvana sending only them a small bow as a voice called out to him, "Why have you called this meeting Bakhtyar, you are calling meeting too much and some of us are extremely busy."

Bakhtyar looked towards the speaker as he spoke with a small smile, "There has been a situation, a few days ago we caught a spy amongst us, a spy from the Preta Realm."

At his words, many paid their undivided attention towards him including Khygnos who had opened her eyes as she peered down at him as he continued, "An Empyrean level cultivator was caught who was masquerading as a Celestial, working in the administrative department, we have managed to extract various information and the situation looks dire."

Sylvana frowned at his words as she questioned, "How so?"

Bakhtyar grimaced as he replied, "Their agents have not only infiltrated but have managed to seduce many of our juniors to their side corrupting them, and he was one of their handlers, and from what we have gathered there are another three like him, and following the intelligence we were able to take three more into custody, but that is where the good news ends and the bad one begins."

"They cultivators we had managed to capture were those who had been seduced by the real infiltrators but unfortunately they are out of our reach now."

"Why is that Supreme General Bakhtyar?"

Bakhytar looked at Megara as he replied, "He alone had at least at least a hundred working for him, and they along with the rest of infiltrators under the other two handlers are currently in Eden, their plan is simple, gather and learn about us and then help the cultivators from the Preta to kidnap ours."

Sylvana gripped her cup hard but she did not let her facial expression change as she listened to the reports intently.

"We have reached out to the Deva Lok and from what we have learned the situation is dire for them, they had initially started with a 40,000 strong cultivators but now only about 10,000 remains of the original number, most of them fell at the fifth level from what we know we can easily conclude that there is a chance that they were defeated by the Preta Lok cultivators."

Khygnos felt a colossal headache forming about the entire situation, since the creation of the separate realms, there have been tensions between them maybe not at first the entire reason the army was created was to prevent the rise of another creature that devastated them, but it soon became the army for their Manushya lok, as slowly the other two became completely separate.

It had been gradual but slowly it seems that the Preta Lok was overcoming the other two, their numbers were increasing, their quality of cultivators was not bad either, not to mention they were more organized.

Khygnos knew someone was working behind the scenes but who she did not know even her spies have gone silent over the years and the last time she had heard from any of them was at least half a millennia ago, she was unsure whether they had been captured and killed or simply defected though she was betting on the latter, just the thought of it made her blood boil with anger.

'If I remember correctly Ryuu is inside Eden now, I hope he is alright.' her eyes once again wandered off towards Sylvana for a moment, 'I will have to speak with her I doubt brother Maheswara would not have something monitoring his disciple.'

"Bakhtyar how did this happen and why did we not notice it."

Bakhtyar once again grimaced as he spoke, "From what we have learned they had arrived young and had managed to worm their way into the folds of various powers of our realm from then on they had gone on to recruit others who in turn hold very high positions as subordinates of some very powerful people.", seeing a frown appear on Sylvana's face he spoke hastily, "We have already detained those people whom they had used for shelter and to further increase their agenda and as of this moment we are interrogating them."

"They might not like it and it is bound to cause problems later on."

Bakhtyar looked at the speaker as he spoke with a shrug, "It cannot be helped by prime concern is making sure that the Preta sc.u.m stays cowered hiding inside their realm not try to raise their hands against us and if I have to step on some toes then so be it, after all, it is their problem for not noticing their disciples were going astray."

The person grumbled as a voice came to Bakhtyar's mind, 'Clear your schedule I want to speak with you alone.'

'As you wish my Lady.'

The meeting went for some time before it ended and soon Bakhtyar found himself alone with Sylvana, Khygnos and surprisingly Megara herself as such Khygnos could not help but ask out, "What are you doing here Megara?"

Megara shrugged as she spoke, "My home is being threatened, the future generations are being kidnapped or led astray so yes it is important for me to know and help."

Khygnos shrugged as she spoke, "Fair enough.", she turned to speak with Bakhtyar only to be interrupted by the arrival of Saidhal.

"Sorry, I had some pressing concerns as such I had to step out of the room for a minute."

Megara smiled at him as she spoke, "Please Brother Saidhal you went to simply greet your son so there is no need to offer any excuse."

Sylvana gave a curt nod which was returned by Saidhal as Khygnos spoke as she sent an intense glare, "What about Project Bloom?"

Bakhytar gulped as he replied, "It has gone unresponsive."

"How long has it become unresponsive?"

"Since the last five years."

An intense burst of KI and killing intent followed as Bakhtyar fell on his knees, the pressure and killing intent disappeared as Khygnos spoke with a snort, "Work hard and increase your strength child a small burst of my power and you are already on your knees is rather insulting for the Supreme General of Our realm."

As she spoke her glare increased as she spoke with anger in her voice, "I am disappointed more so, on the fact that you failed to inform me about its failure five years ago."

A bead of sweat dripped his forehead as he felt Sylvana's glare on him as well as she spoke with a drawl, "So what happened are they even alive or not."

"Most of them are not though some of them are still alive and.."

Sylvana sighed as she looked towards Khygnos whose face was marred by a scowl as she spoke, "So a failure then?"

With a heavy sigh, Khygnos replied to her, "Yes it seems.", her eyes then fell on Bakhtyar as she spoke, "Leave Bakhtyar and the next time remember to inform either me or Sylvana when something similar happens."

As Bakhtyar quickly left Megara could not help but ask Khygnos out loud, "what was that about?"

A small smile blossomed on her face as she spoke, "There is no need to worry about such small matters Megara.", she then turned to look towards Saidhal as she spoke, "So how is your daughter doing, Saidhal?"

"Well, as far as I know, she is fine though I hope she had not entered that place until and unless she was at least a Peak Mystic Immortal Emperor, though I am happy that at least Ryuu must with her."

Khygnos nodded at that while Megara looked at Sylvana as she spoke, "I hope that the disciple of your parents is doing well."

Sylvana sighed at her question, 'Should I lie or should I tell them the truth.'