The Rise of the Black Plain

Seven months after the proposal of the Travisani family's Spiritual Sage...

Sarah Stuart was flying around the outskirts of Dry City above the mount of her father, Little Green, who was currently at level 78, one of the most powerful beasts in the empire.

Over the past few months, she and her family members had been cultivating extensively within the Spatial Kingdom.

Minos had been making short, month-long seclusion in the Spatial Kingdom and then returning to Dry City to deal with matters in the Black Plain Empire. Then, after seven days of dealing with local matters, he would return for another four-week cycle of seclusion in that cultivation sanctuary, sometimes taking new soldiers or sect members there.

In this period, no exchange had happened between the experts of the Gray Clouds Sect in this state and the Flaming Empire since the people in Clouds City were already very strong. Only with the appearance of a Spiritual Sage could Minos help to be able to bring more people from that state into his territory!

Anyway, Minos thought that soon Queen Mcbride would arrive in his territory for their one-year agreement, so he had already returned from the Spatial Kingdom with his wives and family.

Because of this, Sarah took the opportunity to play a little on the days she would have rest from her seclusion.

She loved to fly, and there was no better beast than Little Green to give her a good experience through the local skies.

As such, on this sunny day, one could see a large green beast flying through the skies of Dry City, with a red-furred young man riding on it and smiling.

These were the only ones allowed to fly through the local skies, so some of the population couldn't help but stare at them, seeing this unusual event unfolding in that city.

Meanwhile, Kendrick had grown up a little in the last few months, but he was still a baby and was in his mother's arms, watching his sister fly under that great beast.

He had his two little hands pointing up, opening and closing as if he wanted his big sister to take him for a ride.

But Abby was very attached and protective and would not allow something as dangerous as a flight with her son.

Minos and Gloria were working now, taking advantage of the days ahead to care for church and empire affairs before they could return to the Spatial Kingdom to cultivate.

Minos had already gone to the Endless Snow Mountain Range and taken most of the bones from that place to the Spatial Kingdom, leaving only one behind to deceive the Queen of the Flowers Kingdom.

So besides taking care of local affairs, he didn't have much else to deal with in the days ahead in waiting for Hannah.

Coincidentally, Isabella had finally come from the Flaming Empire to stay by Minos' side just after the end of his last seclusion in the Spatial Kingdom.

She didn't intend to stay long, as she had some business to take care of in the Flaming Empire so she could be free of some of the responsibilities she had gained over the last few years. But that was for a good reason, so she could finally live with Minos in the Black Plain Empire!

She was currently at Ruth's side, doing business between her family and the local imperial house, which was becoming increasingly frequent among their powers.

As the Black Plain grew stronger, more and more local resources interested the Flaming Empire. At the same time, with more local wealth, locals had more funds to order things from the state of Isabella.

The result was strengthening relations between the two imperial families!

Anyway, while Gloria was dealing with more invitations from Church factions for her to join them and Minos was dealing with more states trying to start relations with his, little Kendrick narrowed his eyes as he saw something glowing appear near his sister.

Simultaneously with this baby retracting his hands close to his eyes to protect himself from the brightness, a hole appeared near Sarah, causing this woman and the beast below her to shiver.

But not only did they feel that sense of near danger, all the cultivators above level 70 in Dry City felt something strange at that instant, promptly looking in the same direction.

When all eyes were not far from Sarah and Little Green, a woman emerged from that hole, looking at this city and especially these two creatures near her with interest.

When she saw that beautiful woman there, Sarah opened her mouth as she realized that she could not sense the cultivation level of such a person due to the immense difference between them.

But Little Green had a vague sense of that person's strength, the first Spiritual Demigod he had seen in his entire life!

"Demigod..." This large creature transformed into its humanoid version quickly, holding Sarah in its arms but lowering its head to that woman.

Before Minos and Gloria arrived, Hannah looked into Sarah's eyes and noticed the lineage of Emperor Stuart in her body.

"You must be Minos' daughter, uh?" Hannah approached Sarah, smiling.

She then placed one of her hands on Sarah's head and murmured. "Golden talent, Saint-grade Physique... As expected. His genes are excellent!"

"Who are you?" Sarah asked shyly.

"Child, this here is Hannah Mcbride." She replied as she ran her fingers through Sarah's red hair. "I'm here to do business with your father. Where is he?"

Hannah didn't need to ask that. She knew the location of every single person and beast in Dry City right now!

This city had millions of inhabitants, but that was nothing to her!

Amid her short dialogue with Sarah, hundreds of local experts watched that woman with eyes and mouths open, seeing a 10th-stage expert for the first time.

The most impressed of all were not the weaker ones seeing her floating near Sarah and Little Green, but the stronger ones, who knew how difficult it was to cultivate at a high level.

This woman was at level 93, something extremely above what the strongest one there, level 79, had already managed to reach.

Not only that but for most people in this city, the 10th stage was an impossibility, so seeing a Spiritual Demigod so close was shocking and capable of silencing an entire city.

Anyway, amidst the millions looking in Hannah's direction, Minos, Gloria, and other important people in this city arrived next to where this woman and Sarah were standing.

"Your Majesty Mcbride, you arrived a little earlier than I expected," Minos said as he gestured a greeting next to his wives and high-ranking elders of the Gray Clouds Sect.

Kendrick was there too, in Abby's arms, under the intense gaze of that woman who had given birth dozens of times.

"Ah, I didn't know you had gotten another child..." She said sweetly, quickly moving closer to Abby and running her hands over Kendrick's little head.

"This boy will be just like you in the future. I can tell just by the look in his eyes!" She commented, feeling that her instincts were not wrong. "You are to be congratulated, Your Majesty Minos Stuart... It's just a shame you didn't do one of those with one of my daughters."

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