After Feicui Long says that, the room remains silent for a moment.
It is not until Caroline, still with a worried expression, raises her hand to ask a question, "What is that emerald-colored divine authority?"
Feicui Long looks at her and answers, "That is the authority of the dragon clan and power."
Caroline wants to say something, but she does not have to.
Feicui Long quickly understands what she means and says, "You want to know why dragons and power are related, right? I can explain it later."
This time, it is Arianne's turn to ask curiously, "So, if when a god with divine authority dies, the authorities can go looking for an heir, why do you still possess them? And how can you continue possessing them without fulfilling your duty?"
Feicui Long looks at her and calmly says, "Let's answer the second one first. I am allowed not to fulfill my job because I do not have the power to do so. To fulfill it, I would need at least the divine realm. Or, in my case, since I already mastered the laws, I would need at least the demigod realm to do the bare minimum, as it requires divine energy."
Feicui Long then touches his chin and says, "Now, for the first one, that is only a possibility. But the authority can choose to stay beside its god's body until they are found or revived, if they do. But more importantly, before dying in battle, I used a technique I had learned from the Supreme Goddess of Reincarnation and Destiny, Yuna Mikoto, called 'The Seven Phases of the Life of the Threads of Destiny,' and with it, I managed to take some things with me."
Upon hearing this, Arianne understands everything or at least almost everything because her face says it all. There is still something that makes her doubt, which is why she asks another question, "Didn't the Emerald Dragon God, that is, you die from poison?"
Freja, who has been silent, says, "Yes, that's what I heard at the Temple of Order, that you had died from the poison of the invaders after bravely saving the universe."
Mariane then bursts out in rage, "My master would have never died from mere poison! Even if the poison was Emperor-level, that would have never happened, because my older sister holds first place among all the alchemists in the universe. It's all the fault of those damn ungrateful traitors including that bitch, the Supreme Goddess of Order…"
Mariane adds, "If my master wasn't being affected by that poison, none of them would have left that battle alive…"
Freja makes an angry face but holds back, knowing Mariane is far stronger than her, given how easily she defeated Isabella, even while suppressing her own cultivation.
After a moment of silence, Feicui Long answers the question, "I didn't know they had said the poison killed me. That explains why there is no animosity between my temple and theirs in this world. But in a way, they are partly right. Suppressing the poison and the poison itself were technically the causes of my death. But as Mariane said, the poison alone couldn't have killed me."
Feicui Long lets out a sigh of sadness and disappointment and says, "In fact, by that point, I already had it completely contained. Containing it took 90% of my strength, but in the end, I was in full control. It was the attack and betrayal of all my brothers that truly killed me. Normally, I could handle all of them, although Yun Hua, Catalina, and Adolf together could be a bit troublesome."
Gloria Doubtful says: "So they betrayed you and said you died from the poison? Why would they lie? Also, was the difference in strength between you and the others really that great?"
Mariane is the one who answers her: "Of course they would. To begin with, even though my master wasn't as adored as the Supreme Goddess of Life, he was one of the most revered in the universe. Second, my master was practically the one who single-handedly stopped the invasion. He created the formation that wiped out countless enemies, eliminating 75% of them before the battle even began. He killed two Universal Creators out of the five they sent and seven Divine Sovereigns out of the twenty they dispatched."
Mariane pauses for a moment before saying: "Moreover, he wiped out a large percentage of the remaining ones on his own. If it weren't for the fact that they used an Emperor-level artifact to escape, he would have killed them all. And on top of that, he saved countless cultivators in this universe. His popularity was at its peak, even within the traitorous factions."
Feicui Long coughs a little, coughs, and says: "What Mariane says is true, so I have nothing more to add. But the answer to the last question is simple. Why do you think they call me the first among the gods? Just because I was the first to be born when the universe was created? They called me that because I was the strongest. Unfortunately, because of this, many of the brothers and sisters I loved so much feared me. If they had never done so, maybe they would have never betrayed me..."
Mariane hugs her master, trying to comfort him, and says: "Master, it's not your fault that those ingrates don't know how to value your kindness. You shouldn't blame yourself for what others do or don't do."
Isabella, feeling a little jealous, then asks another question to interrupt this: "Darling, you've already explained this, so how about explaining the meaning of this ring and the titles of those that Carlotta, that dragoness, was talking about?"
She paused for a moment because of the pain, then Isabella added: "Besides, there's this other thing she told me, about preparing for the challenges of the Dragon Clan, since mortals like us don't understand how it works, or what it really is."
Feicui Long put on a serious face, but he knew this would come sooner or later, so he said: "How much do you know about the Dragon Clan?"
All the girls, noticing that he asked the same question as he did with the gods, this time tried to answer with everything they knew.
Arianne was the first: "I know that it's one of the three first clans created by the three Supreme Clans of the Absolute Universe, created to serve them. They are also considered the strongest race, second only to the three original races."
Caroline said: "They are the lords of the heavens, the earth, and the seas, lords of beasts, walking destruction, and strength without limits."
Gloria adds: "They are very intelligent and wise creatures, but very proud and arrogant. With their great power and long existence, they see other species as children."
Freja also replies: "According to the Temple of Order, they are the strongest race, created to help maintain the order and balance of everything, although now and then a few deviants cause damage. Their existence is necessary for existence itself."
Andrea, a little calmer, says: "They are terrifying beings, but ironically calm as well, since they ignore everything that doesn't affect them or their territories and treasures."
Isabella, who have rests from the pain, says: "Although I don't understand why they are part of the Beast Clan, despite being a separate clan, I learned that they are one of the races of beast rulers, and also one of the most respected. So much so that almost any beast would love to be taken as a mate by one."
Feicui Long nods and says: "That's what I imagined, they only know the basics..."
Looking at them seriously, he then adds: "Well, you'll see, the Dragon Clan is much more complex than you imagine. To explain it, I would like to begin with its creation..."
Immediately after, with a small trick, he takes them to an illusory zone where all kinds of images unfolded before them.
...
Feicui Long begins to narrate while images of what he narrates appear in front of everyone.
A long time ago, but a very long time ago, far beyond before even other universes existed, two races were born, each embodying 10 supreme laws. The "good" one embodied the law of power, the law of space, the law of origin, the law of order, the law of creation, the law of life, the celestial law, the savage law, the magical law, and the elemental law.
The second race, the "evil" one, embodied the law of supremacy, the law of time, the law of the end, the law of destruction, the law of chaos, the law of death, the infernal law, the law of spores, the demonic law, and the monstrous law.
Yes, I know you are all wondering, weren't there originally three races? And technically, you are right, but at the beginning of everything, for a short time, only these two existed.
These two races, as you can see, were completely opposite to each other. One gave life, created things, provided order, and brought good things into existence, giving the universe the absolute power to move forward and expand. The other, on the contrary, loved to take lives, destroy, cause chaos, and bring about the end, to dominate above all. This would cause an outbreak of conflicts where every time they encountered each other, they would end up fighting to the death.
This normally wouldn't be a problem in the current Absolute Universe, but back then the Absolute Universe was so fragile and weak that the struggle of these monster beings with the power of 10 Supreme Laws caused havoc in the reality and existence itself. So, although the Absolute Universe, that is, the Absolute Heaven, still didn't have a defined consciousness or physical form, it instinctively felt the danger to its existence.
Everyone saw the images of different beings causing havoc all over the place, destroying everything with every clash.
To eliminate that danger, what it did was create a neutral race, one that could act as a mediator. This race embodied other of its 10 Supreme Laws: the Law of Infinity, the Law of Reincarnation and Destiny, the Law of Yin and Yang, the Law of the Balance of Hell and Heaven or Limbo, the Law of Green, the Law of the Void, the Divine Law, the Spiritual Law, the Law of the Mind, and the Law of No Death.
This race quickly and instinctively knew what to do. Every time these first two races were about to fight, they randomly supported one side. This may seem nonsensical, but it was tremendously effective because, although it didn't completely eliminate the fights, it reduced them, as neither of the other two races could predict the behavior of the new one.
What it did made them distrust the idea of being the ones who lost everything and thus have less desire to risk dying. And for the fights that still occurred, it wasn't a problem either, because those fights were now 2 vs 1, which made them end much faster than before, minimizing the damage.
Everyone could see how new beings joined the fights, taking the old combatants by surprise, causing them to lose the will to fight.
This helped pacify the most crucial stage of the Absolute Universe, and then something important would happen within each of these races, although almost all the details were lost for those of us who don't belong to these three clans or to the new Absolute Clan that devoured them.
It is possible to know that three very ambitious beings emerged. The first of them was the Celestial Sovereign, who quickly created the ability called "absolute control" along with two friends who had founded their own clans. These were the creators of the ability of the celestial third eye, celestial invocation, if the original and highest-level forms of invocation and the third eye. They founded a clan, the Clan Above the Heavens, with a name as arrogant as it was dominant. They began to conquer and unify their entire race without stopping.
The second person was the infernal overlord, a cruel tyrant with no mercy whatsoever. She destroyed two other clans in hand-to-hand combat with her semi-invincible body and subdued them. These two clans were both at the level of the Celestial Sovereign's friends' clans. She called her clan the Clan Below the Hells, a name that indicated her position went beyond the hells, which allowed her to have enough strength to launch a ruthless and ambitious conquest, unifying her race.
The third and last was the Judge of the Balance of Heaven and Hell. Although without friends, she was known by the people of the surrounding areas as someone balanced, just, and worthy of following. So, the two most powerful clans peacefully followed her judgment. With this, her words of reconciliation and justice pacified almost her entire race in her Clan of the Balance of Heaven and Hell, a name to demonstrate why they were created.
The images of each of the three people were impressive: the Celestial Sovereign with incredible brilliance, dividing everything and dominating the battlefield; the Supreme Lady breaking her enemies into pieces; the Judge distributing her judgment with a scale that felt like the entire universe.
Up to here, the story is known, right? Well, over time, the three clans grew in power, dividing the universe into three parts. Even so, none could unify the entirety of their race, but it didn't matter, because even those who didn't unite had to submit or live in the 10% designated, the part that acted as a border between the territories of the three clans.
All the women and girls nodded while they kept watching the incredible images.
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With the division, each clan created what was known as the three thrones, sealing and taking control of 25% of the power of the Absolute Heaven, leaving a remaining 25% that they didn't know how to obtain and that would later become what we know today as the Absolute Being, the disaster for the cultivation world, a being full of desire for power and insatiable ambition, which almost caused the downfall of the three clans.
But that is another story. With these thrones, their positions were secured, at least within their races. In these moments, when the endless war breaks out, the desire to control more territory and resources takes over everyone, causing death and destruction everywhere, to the point that a question arises…
Since the birth rate was very low, as these three races found it much harder, even than dragons and similar races, to reproduce due to their power, every loss hurt them greatly. That's why the question that arose was: how could we create a weapon to destroy our enemies without losing so many people? It was during this time that the other five remaining laws were fully forged: the Law of Mystical Energies, the Law of External Cultivation, the Law of Internal Cultivation, and the Law of Inscriptions, Alchemy, and Refining-Foraging.
Which, although they already existed before, especially the Law of Inscriptions and the Law of Mystical Energies, were only fully completed at this point. Why is this part important? Because it would be necessary for their next step.
The next step was constant research, development, and experimentation. They dedicated resources more valuable than thousands of universes, but all the results failed in their purpose. They created incredible artifacts, formations, and medicines, but none had the power to do what they wanted. And with the thrones intervening, they couldn't use theirs to destroy the other clan.
Everyone could see people running back and forth, creating, trying, and innovating, but even so, with all those achievements, no one was happy…
It was when, in the Clan Above the Heavens, a genius whose name has been forgotten, created what was called the Power Plan. Using the Law of Power within them, they condensed it into a physical form, which had a terrifying pure power capable of destroying everything.
But not everything was happiness, because even with all that power, they couldn't use it for their purpose. Since the power was so strong, so powerful, and so wild, that nothing could control it, even with absolute control, they could barely calm it and make it not destroy them. Every time they used it, they could only kill a few before it almost lost control, so they locked it away and sealed it…
All of them could see an emerald orb, with devastating power. Each use destroyed worlds and fortresses alike. Not even the strongest barrier could stop it, but even with that power, the chains of absolute control put it to sleep…
The genius was forgotten because his invention was a failure, but genius never ends. As one falls into disgrace, another rises. A new genius would soon come, one that this time would give them what they wanted…