The Rise of the Black Plain

The next day, Minos and Sarah were already in Dry City...

After finishing their travel period through the various parts of the Black Plain, they returned to the empire's capital before Minos' departure.

Sarah would stay by her mother's side while Minos traveled through the Flowers Kingdom, so she had to say goodbye to her family members who would be staying in Dry City.

Amid her goodbyes, Minos went to see his wives, in particular, Abby, who already had a slightly larger belly due to her pregnancy.

"Honey, I'm back." He entered his residence and found his three wives, one drinking spiritual tea and reading and the other chatting, near a small artificial lake.

Abby was lying with her head on Gloria's thick thighs while massaging her belly with her hands, extremely happy about her current 'conquest.'

Ruth felt like being in the same situation as the Empress. Still, this dark-haired woman had accepted Abby's pregnancy more easily than when she found out about Gloria's years ago.

And when she saw her husband returning, she was the first to hug him, wanting to be with this man more than ever...

"Minos, you are leaving what day for the Flowers Kingdom?" Ruth asked as those two looked toward the two huggings each other.

"In a week at the most." He smiled at her, knowing that Ruth probably wanted to be 'blessed' with his seeds as many times as possible in this period.

After that, he would be in a territory where there were even Spiritual Demigods, so it wouldn't be good for him to visit the Spatial Kingdom, where they would be.

That way, they had to settle their affairs in the remaining days before this trip began!

But before he said it, Gloria asked. "Where is Sarah? What time are we going to do her wake-up call?"

Sarah was about to reach her 10th birthday, and upon reaching that age, she could awaken her Physique, measure her talents and learn a cultivation technique.

All this was done through awakening, a small traditional ceremony done by cultivators since prehistoric times.

The time was coming for this to happen, so Gloria was very anxious!

"Tomorrow." Minos replied, smiling since he was pretty curious to know about the characteristics of his beloved daughter.

The three smiled contentedly, wondering how everything had happened so quickly.

In the blink of an eye, Sarah would already turn ten and begin her journey as a cultivator.

Meanwhile, her parents had come a long way, with Minos at level 71 and Gloria at 74, never before so close to each other in terms of level. At the same time, Ruth and Abby were still at level 70, but it was undeniable how much stronger they had gotten since the beginning of Sarah's mother's pregnancy several years ago.

But such was life. Busy people didn't see time passing; when they least expected it, they already had children, and their status had developed significantly.

That was particularly true for Minos, who 25 years ago was just beginning his journey in cultivation and now already had over 500 Spiritual Saints under his control within the Black Plain.

'Soon, it will be my turn to see my son going through awakening...' Abby thought, her eyes closed as she imagined the future.

Thus, they would continue together until the next day...

...

The entire imperial palace was mobilized early the next day, while a very important event occurred in the imperial hall.

There, the main members of the imperial family, Minos' grandmother, Patience, his mother, Maisie, and his aunt, Angelica, were standing next to Sarah's maternal grandparents, these members of the Spiritual Church.

All of them were there for this young princess's awakening, near Minos, his wives, Dillian, level 69, Eda, Lee, Alison, the three at level 67, and some other important people in the state.

Each of them was in their appropriate place while the little princess, dressed in a light blue dress, walked down a red carpet with a silver tiara on her head.

She had a scroll in her hands and was quite nervous as she came close to where a high-level grade-3 spiritual judge was waiting for her next to an array master.

To awaken a cultivator's Physique, one had to sign a contract with heaven, promising to use their powers to the best of their ability to ensure their existence for as long as possible.

Precisely because of this method of awakening, when someone sacrificed themselves, heaven punished that individual for destroying the gift it had given to that person.

The punishment for this? Complete annihilation of the traces of that being, to the point that such an individual could not achieve reincarnation.

Moreover, the time between the activation of the sacrifice and its explosion passed differently for the sacrificing side and those in the area. While for the enemies at risk from the sacrifice, it felt as if everything happened in the blink of an eye, for the one who initiated such a thing, time seemed to pass slowly.

They suffered from celestial punishment during a time that seemed to be practically infinite for them!

Anyway, it all started that this was the only known method to awaken the Physique, something that happened a few days before cultivators reached the age of 10.

Sarah already knew this, since her father had told her everything and she was a little nervous at the moment.

"Princess Sarah Stuart, raise your right hand and repeat after me..." The old level 78 spiritual judge next to the array master who would test the quality of her talents said this while holding several scrolls in his hands.

"I, Sarah Stuart, promise to respect the power..." Sarah repeated the words of that elder dressed all in white as that individual circled her, drawing something with his feet.

Stopping behind Sarah, the spiritual judge made a small cut on the back of this young woman's head and marked the parchment she was holding with her blood.

"Now place one of your fingerprints here and sign this." He commanded after a few minutes of the ceremony.

After doing as she should, Sarah received the spiritual fruit that man had in hand and promptly ate it after sitting in a Lothur position where the spiritual judge had drawn something on the floor.

At that instant, everyone in that imperial throne hall saw red beams of energy entering the back of Sarah's head, helping her awaken her Physique.

Amid this, Sarah felt a little pain, still, given her non-existent cultivation, that was not torturous enough for her to scream.

But at the same time, the sensation she was slowly feeling, something euphoric, to say the least, was enough to make her quickly forget the pain.

'That...' She kept her eyes closed as she felt a strange control over her surroundings.

As she felt this, Minos and the rest of the people there saw when the tiara on Sarah's head began to float!

"Gravity!"

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