Path of the Tyrant King

The princess stood in the air as a black will power circled around between her brows. Her eyes flashed with a black light as she started to see something.

She saw a vision of an emancipated corpse atop a mysterious mountain. One day a 9 colored bolt struck the corpse and then suddenly it was a whole array of lightning. A red aura engulfed the sky from a blood rain and the corpse inundated in lightning awoke.

The body recovered its flesh and the blood from the skies condensed towards it. The luster of the eyes returned and the heart started to beat once again. Slowly the body reformed becoming a pristine jade body with long black hair and eyes that were dark like the night.

The man materialized a black robe and grabbed a sword and an umbrella near him when he awoke. Both were stabbed into the ground and a strange aura was gathered on them. On the umbrella was a heavenly 9 colored aura and on the sword was a bloody aura that threatened to engulf the world.

The vision cut off there and suddenly the princess' face went pale. Her eyes snapped open as she took deep breaths to calm herself.

"That man, he's..." The princess' eyes flashed with comprehension as the images of the black-robed man and Ye Yuyan started to overlap.

"An inheritor of Venerable Blood." Yunshi politely intoned finishing the princess' sentence.

"The Shadow Sect has no interest in the inheritance. We have been pursuing this man ever since his reawakening." Yunshi continued reassuring the princess.

"But clearly he's planned very well. It's even likely he's got the blood sect waiting for us." Emily interrupted with a concerned tone.

"You're right about that. But this all presents an opportunity, an opportunity to crush that heretical sect once and for all." Yunshi said as killing intent flashed from the eyes all along his body.

"We can work together but how can I help you?" Emily questioned as she probed for the shadow sect's intention. The shadow sect was considered a part of the Noble Path, but its methods and exorcist kings had always been treated as questionable.

"That will be easy, use your city to spread the word that the Blood Sect is active!" Yunshi chuckled as the eyes on his body wreathed.

He had already found out about the princess' plans to create a resupply city for Heaven's Realm adventurers.

This wise idea inspired Yunshi to use the righteous forces to squash Ye Yuyan. He had hidden deeply holding back even before Illathar.

Ultimately going as far as hiding in a crevice of the valley until the Shadow Sect arrived before he finally decided to go after Ye Yuyan.

He sported a big grin as he said: "No chance they won't be interested that way!"

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At that moment inside of heaven's realm, the sky was ripped open. What appeared was a large world that stretched across the lands. At the center was a large continent with a mountain range separating it into two parts.

On the western half of the continent was the bustling of humanity. Civilization could be seen emerging but on the eastern side, there was a variety. There were human auras but also the auras of beasts and far more terrifying things!

At the mountain at the most center of the mountain range, thunderclouds churned rapidly going all the way down the mountain. A constant field of lightning flowed like a river down the mountain.

Over the skies in the western land, the wind funneled together making a tunnel from the sky to the ground. A red light shot through the funnel dispelling the gathering winds as it flew down slamming into the ground.

A red light blasted out into the sky gathering as it formed something. Its light gleamed through the winds as 9 leaves formed, and a red lotus bloomed in the skies.

All around the world, the thunder roared as if welcoming it and from every civilization a sort of beacon shined and the world hummed to life. Shining with a splendor like never before, roars and shouts echoed through the world.

On the ground were three people, one was a young woman dressed in a black form-fitting dress, the other was a white-haired young man, and the most mysterious of all was a young man in black robes holding a pink bamboo umbrella.

The young man's eyes shined with an ancient and wise light as they reflected the world in its splendor. On his glabella was a red lotus with, 3 of the lotus leaves though were different colors.

"This is Heaven's Realm?" Nesilia said with curiosity, her eyes scanned over the sky seeing nothing but darkness spall across the heavens.

"The sky...it's empty." She said amazed but in heart grew a sudden sensation of fear.

Maven gripped his sword feeling the moonlight energies fade from his sword. Just like a stream would dry up when the river faded away.

"My connection to the moon, it's fading away." Maven furrowed his brows in confusion as he waved his sword around.

"Don't bother, where we are is above the vault of heaven." Ye Yuyan shook his head as he scanned the area around them. They landed in a shepherd's plain, luckily the animals had long been brought back down the mountain.

The vault of heaven Ye Yuyan was talking about is rather simple. The heavens held the stars, the moon, and the sun in them. But that is just the vault and very bottom of the heavens, the true heavens begin beyond the sky.

"Where exactly is this?" Nesilia said as she picked up a twig and crushed it looking through it.

"We are currently above the false sky in the immortal graveyard. That is heaven's realm, there is no sky above us making this is the very limit of this world!"

This world had three layers, the underworld which is in the immortal graveyard. The world of heaven which is this world and the extreme void which leads to nothingness. These three areas all combine to create a single true world.

"This structure...it conforms with..." Nesilia eyes flashed with enlightenment but before she could finish Ye Yuyan interrupted.

"Our World, yes it is just like home isn't it?" He said with a sly smile.

Suddenly a bunch of red lights appeared around them on the plain. Maven ripped out his sword as he tried to stir sword forces around him. Only to realize that no sword forces were gathering around him as if they weren't responding.

"Maven! What are you doing?" Nesilia yelled as she put her palm out and tried to gather divine cloud essence. Yet no clouds stirred in the skies and suddenly a lightning aura bounced off of Song Yue's body.

"Argh!" She convulsed in pain dropping her grimoire and suddenly the lightning aura disappeared.

"Like I said the vault of heaven is below. You can't use any powers of the sky in here. Unless of course, it's thunder!" Ye Yuyan said as the red lights gathered around him, each of them coalesced into red robed figures.

At the forefront of which was a white-haired old man with a red river swirling around his robe and at the center was a shadow horned demon with 9 red lines along his body.

"Those robes..." Nesilia said with stunning realization.

"They are from the blood sect!" Fear distorted her face as she looked over to Ye Yuyan seeing his calm expression left her heart feeling colder.

"Sage Red Lotus!" The old man saluted as he fell to his knees with happiness. He looked upon the handsome visage of Ye Yuyan and saw the marking of the red lotus on his glabella. Hope and glee rushed through his body in an instant.

Nesilia couldn't help but wryly smile, as all the other blood sect members went to their knees with zeal right after.

Ye Yuyan had condensed a Red River totem and had profounds insights into the blood dao. No wonder they would receive him so easily, he must be the top disciple of the Blood Sect sent out to spoil Verulyim's plans!

Nesilia couldn't help but fear the Blood Sect's methods, they had sent out one person to destroy their entire plans. Even though Verulyim and the Song Clan had cooperated!

"Rise my warriors! Those who have come before today shall be the most rewarded. As our era has finally come, the kings of this world shall fall before me." Ye Yuyan said radiating a regal aura, He had the demeanor of king, one that was destined to rule over all things.

This was an aura he had been cultivating since his first life. He had grown over the years, not in age but in experience, he'd seen how the world grows and changes with time.

Gathering these little insights bit by bit he started to change. Until he had become something new and gathered a regal aura that could suppress others unconsciously.

This was the root of his confidence, the center of his being that fueled him to go on the path of the throne. At any cost he lives to fulfill this deep desire, to fully actualize himself!