The body was that of one called Mo Sha. A member of the Mo Family from teh Abyss Prison Realm. This person let Shen Yue know his changes were starting to increase which was good in his opinion. The more he changed the less he was barred from.
"How did Mo Sha get here?" Duan Jian asked after Sikong Hongyue finished explaining who he was to them. She kept her eye on Shen Yue to gauge his reactions. "Without the Teleportation Array, the other ways into the area should be most difficult. Right?"
"Not necessarily, but not our concern at the moment." Shen Yue called a guard in as he wrote up some orders. "The Sikong Scouts and the Horse Riders are going to do a full sweep of the area. If stopped, tell them you are looking for Dark Guild personnel and doing combat exercises in preparation for the Demon Beast Horde coming."
"Understood!" The guard left to implement the order quickly.
"I will coordinate the findings to help." Sikong Hongyue wanted to excuse herself to work on other matters. 'Maybe we can get a few to find that place first and arrange benefits for the family?'
"Not necessary." Shen Yue stopped her causing a few puzzled looks to turn his way. "You are going with Shen Xiu with some guards to the Winged Dragon Family. Inquire about anything strange that may have happened the last few weeks."
"That sounds.." Sikong Hongyue zipped it, seeing the flash of domineering purple light in his eyes. 'I need Duan Jian to get me out of this. But how?'
"Afterward, depending on the response, take some Assassins to go in and kill those in the Divine Family." Shen Yue rather test the two to get this done then have others go. "The best way to test your capabilities as well as make the troops happy. Morale has dropped a little."
"What do you want me to do?" Duan Jian asked.
"Take Huyan Lanruo and the others on an expedition." Shen Yue felt a tingling sensation in his chest that matched the frequency of the Flame Vortex Core. "Zhu Xiangjun will take a few to make inquiries at the Auction House as well as prepare to lead a few in military exercises."
"What will you be doing?" Shen Xiu asked.
"I will be recovering from my "injuries" I gained recently." Shen Yue moved to a new chamber that was prepared. He also needed to contemplate on the different Laws further. As well as find out about how well his people will work with extended orders. "Do not bother me unless something troublesome happens."
He was remembering more and more that the Laws were something weird but his memory on the matter was buried pretty deep. So much to sift through to get ahold of it all.
The throbbing in his chest was the feeling that appeared when he sense holes in the Dimension he was in. But this one was not far away but right in front of him. It even moved a little when he moved. Not a full breach but like a hand pushing against a sheet.
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Breach In the Dimension???-
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Shen Yue worked at it for a few days and finally made sure the tear in the Dimension was stable. It seemed like someone was working on it through the otherside but no hostile intentions came through it.
*Schup!* A small opening was made. On the other side, he could see a young man with black hair with gold tips stabilizing it on his end. Next to him, a beautiful redhead who looked to be a mix of Russian and greek ancestry stood by.
"It's stable Rexford.. what is that place?" The redhead asked.
"It is.. I don't know or care." Rexford shook his head focusing on the task at hand. It would be just their luck it collapsed. He had to be really careful not to break any rules. "The person is what matters. Hey! Have you seen a guy like this by chance?"
Rexford needed peace of mind and this would bring it. Not to just him but others as well. He pushed his Aspect of Destiny to it's fullest focusing on one of his friends and it led him to this Dimension and Person.
He threw a full sketch of Leroy through the opening. It landed right in front of Shen Yue. Who picked it up causing the paper to shine in Gold Qi.
"Umm!" Shen Yue nodded as his eyes glowed Gold for a bit. "Yeah, I know this. Because this person is me. Long time no see Rexford!" His voice changed significantly to a different one. "You look.. young."
"Yeah been a few months since we last saw each other." Rexford said emotionally a little. "We may not look like how we did originally but at least I found one of you."
"A few months?" Shen Yue shook his head in dismay in shock. "It has been centuries. Well, decades in one place but I spent some time wandering in between places kind of. Deities causing troubles and acting petty. Man, you would think they take into account who petty we humans can be."
They both chuckled a little at that.
"That's... sorry to hear that." Rexford sighed feeling himself drain pretty quickly. No time to have fun. His power over Space was not high enough to keep it open between Dimension let alone the power consumption it took overall. "Running out of time, take this!"
He threw a box of modern items through. As well as some cultivation items he could spare currently. Well items made from the Black Gold Vortex.
*Schup!* The sphere that kept the DImension open closed a little.
"Well.. I don't have much in return." Shen Yue looked around before pulling some fruits out of his Internal Space and throwing some of the Flame Vortex Glass through in a bag. "Pretty potent stuff! Be careful!"
The moment the bag went through, the sphere closed. Rexford collapsing on the spot from exhaustion ignoring the excruciating pain. The smile on his face had Sini Dova shaking her head as she picked him up lack a sack of potatoes.
"Well, I wonder how he did that with out damaging the Dimension?" Shen Yue touched against the area but found nothing amiss. In fact, the Dimension seemed to be reinforced some and stronger than before as a whole. "Guess I will look at these items since that issue is solved."
Going through everything took a little under an hour. An assortment of mixed items that were tailored to any one of their group of friends. But a name on a few envelopes with letters in them caught his attention.
The letter addressed to Leroy was read a few times before he placed it away. No longer in the mood to work or cultivate, Shen Yue turned to go to sleep. One of the items was a comfy pillow that felt like heaven.
"Dammit, I can only wonder what he wrote for the others." As he closed his eyes, Leroy never entertained the idea of opening the other letters. Just wouldn't be right. "Till next time, yah crazy bastard." He muttered.
*Shine!* A golden radiance shined along his body before vanishing. The contact mostly reinforced Leroy's sense of self. Helping to restore his past memories with out burning up mental energy.
But for Rexford, if Shen Yue died, it was a chance to pull his friend over to him. Preventing him from getting sent to another Dimension by the effect of the Pantheon or Other parties.
"Huh!?" Shen Yue felt it odd that his Aspects started to reform and he couldn't stop them. They seperated from the Laws and resisted his combining of them once more. A Gold and Black energy swirled around separating it. Almost warning him it was a bad idea to leave it like this. "Well.. that is just stupid."
Thinking it over, he thought about his control and understanding of Fire. In seconds it formed into the Law of Fire. Then changed back into that of the Aspect of Fire. He felt a stirring in his soul that felt absolutely restless.
A damaging backlash struck against him when he tried to force it. Damaging his soul and specifically the Flame Vortex Core. The Stat Dragon Separated from it and started to circle around above a little in his Soul Realm.
"Kuk!" Spitting a little blood was nothing compared to vomiting blood. He tossed and turned as the blue-white runes on his body started to burn. "Bad Idea! I got it, stupid soul!" Repairing his soul was next top priority.
Several Weeks later and Shen Yue was fit as a fiddle and clear on several matters to deal with. Thanks to his Astral Sense and the Connection to those under him, he was able to keep apprised of the situation when needed on outside matters.
*Fwish!* Red white flames appeared as Shango formed out of the blue.
"Either you have good news about what happened.. or we have a problem." Shen Yue's eyes narrowed a bit. With the visit from Rexford recently, he was able to control if he shifted over to his thinking as Leroy fully or not. There was no reason to, considering he was going to continue training right after this. "Got a name who caused this?"
"I do not." Shango looked around the room not sensing anything besides a few changes to his Champion. A touch of Destiny and the Unending Army circled around him now. It was really thin however. 'The Dimension has been reinforced, so he must have rebuffed any deal or agreements with them.'
"That is a shame." Shen Yue had a diamond floating in front of him. A very pain-in-the-ass diamond that took a lot of effort just to do one engraving. "Where in the hell did he find this stuff?"
"Who find what?" Shango floated around the room facing him but it didn't matter since Shen Yue was looking at the Diamond intently. 'What a powerful gem.'
"Rexford, still the same as always. But a little darker in some Aspects from what I pulled from the refining of the metals. The others will have to make do with the important items I saved for them. Well, if I even come across them first anyway."
"When did you meet Rexford?" Shango blinked rapidly in surprise. "Is he here somewhere?" Shen Yue shook no at that. "Did he say anything or ask about anything?"
"Just a little mention of stuff. Only spoke like..2 minutes. If that." Shen Yue channeled his fire to his fingertip and started making the rune marks deeper compared to the drawn-on ones from before. "Finally! This will be exhausting but worth it!"
Shango talked a little bit only receiving simple answers. Shen Yue was not happy about the lack of answers those was given. The Diamond was put away as he burned through his spirit energy quickly.
The metals were all fed into the Metal Seed increasing it even further. How Rexford refined them, he didn't know or care really. But the density of them was superb. Better than any natural metal he came across in any life.
*Bzzt!* The Thundergod Meteorite Sword floated in front with powerful energy currents around it. Reforged even further, it was just shy of a few items to make it complete. Three Laws floated around it now. Lightning, Sound (Thunder), and Metal.
Dismissing the sword to let it nurture further in his Internal Space, Shen Yue looked at the gems received from the package next again. It would take days to engrave the runes and arrays onto them. Emptying out his entire Spirit Energy each time he figured.
"One Sapphire, 2 Rubies, 1 Emerald, and 5 Opals left." Looking the gems over, Shen Yue was amazed at how potent they were compared to any from this Dimension or his last one. They could hold his Power in better than anything item thus far with no leakage. "Was like the method used is suppose to work with my Flame Vortex Core perfectly."
He didn't know how right he was. The improvements and techniques in the books would be given to some of his people that held close ties with him. The Enhanced Taiji Exercises give to the populace for basic health improvements.
"Hope he can use the Flame Vortex Glass without an issue. Sure he will have a method to nurture those seeds." Storing the items back into his Internal Space in a protected area, Shen Yue put on the freshly created clothes made from the dense but soft fabric that were in the box. "Hmm, Mia would lose her mind if she had this. Much better than what I wore so far."
*Schup!* The sound seals in the room were powered down as he stepped out. The Flame Snake completely asleep in the corner barely even budged. It ate one of the Black Gold pills and went to sleep a few seconds after. That was a week ago.
"At least I stepped into the Legend Realm Rank 4, but my health took a hit from the damaging of my soul." Thinking about the time frame currently, it was best to make a few more moves ahead of time. "The Highland Plateau is ripe for the picking, plus.. need to do something a little good for the bad thing I am about to do."
Shen Yue had know idea where Shango went but he was sure the man-god didn't leave the Dimension this time.