She guessed right, because in the next moment, the memory changed to an adult and more, more experienced Feicui Long sitting on his throne and magnificent, no, incredible throne room.
The memory is more vivid and highly detailed than before, showing that whoever is showing her the memories is using the last bit of energy that it has in this moment.
But she silences her loud mind and concentrates on it again.
Feicui Long on his throne, in his palace, in his divine realm, the core of his empire and temple religion, was thinking how ironic all of this was.
Because he never wanted an empire, a temple, or even a divine realm. The first were mostly pushed by his disciples and some subordinates, but particularly his disciples. Not counting his brothers and sisters, who weren't only trained by him. He only had seven disciples, including Mariane at this moment.
In that moment he only had three disciples, each from one clan where he is the sovereign: the space clan, the time clan, and the dragon clan. They begged him to make an empire to compete against his brothers and sisters, but he didn't change his opinion until they brought all of the most powerful members of each clan to kneel and beg him to let them help in protecting this universe.
They even prepared proofs of how the empire could help him in this task.
The second one was created because of the mortals, surprisingly, since he didn't care about faith or other things, as he didn't need it in order to be the strongest in this universe.
But one time he saved a planet full of mortals from extra-universe invaders. He killed all of the invaders and took the most valuable corpses to use the materials, but left the others on the planet.
The mortals were not only grateful because he saved their lives and their planet, but they were also grateful for the corpses, since that material helped them so much, and they were also impressed by his appearance.
They started a cult, called the Emerald-Golden Order and began to adore him, but also, with that material, became a truly powerful force in that galaxy, even conquering it. But that wasn't the only group of mortals that started a cult, temples, churches, etc., since he fought and killed invaders all over the universe, more religions started to worship him religiously.
After that point, all of them sent 'emissaries', although all of them were beautiful women, to beg him to unify them in one temple. The leader of this effort was the Emerald-Golden Order. He wanted to decline, but his disciples, subordinates, and people from the empire who already venerated him again begged him to do it.
He did and unified them in a temple. But although his temple is now all united, the temple still continues to have branches, beyond the composition of the main branch which has the classical division: the four branches, three representing one aspect each and the last one, the combined aspects, that divide into many areas.
These other branches beyond the four were the original religions erected in his name. Many of them wanted to integrate directly. He let some of them do it, but some not, because some were more useful operating like a branch. He convinced them with his blessings and gifts.
However, some wanted to operate like a branch, but again, he only let some of them, and the others integrated. For the ones who integrated, he had to convince them with the same treatment.
The third was a little special, because every god, no matter the type, could make a divine realm. They don't even need to know about the space law, although it may help since you don't need materials or to have other things or know something else.
But any god could do it. They only need a space energy-infused material and to combine it with their law. But not just any material, they need a valuable material and one that is very rare in the divine quality level or another thing at that level, even techniques. So it's not that easy, but it is one of the things gods value most.
Because it could help them regenerate faster, take faith faster, cultivate faster, they are stronger in their divine realm, recover energy faster, and other things. But this is not perfect, because the destruction of it could hurt the god, not only monetarily and in manpower, but it could also hurt their soul, mind, spirit, and body.
Also, there's a limit on it. You can only make one divine realm per law. So, to Feicui Long, who has dominated three laws thanks to his intense learning but also thanks to his divine authority, this is significant. Because the divine authority gods also instantly learn the law at the highest level while they have their divine authority. Of course, the highest level is proportional to the rank of the authority, its level, grade, and rank.
However, if you look closely, this is the same situation but a little different from the faith gods. You didn't dominate the law, so if you lose your authority, you only retain a part of that knowledge. So, if you wanted to truly dominate it, you need to learn it at the same time.
His divine realm was made at the petition of both his empire and temple. He didn't want to, but people begging him all day, for so long, pushed his patience to the limit. Instead of making three separated divine realms, he fused them, creating the biggest divine realm in the universe, especially since he has a stronger dominion over his laws than any other person has over their own laws.
He smiled to himself, thinking about this, but that was when a vision of the future came to his eyes...
...
Feicui Long didn't exaggerate when he said that he could see all futures, all pasts, all presents, all places, planes, dimensions, realms, etc., also the power flows, energy streams, law flows, strength vectors, etc. His species has a special eye called the dragon space and time eye, although in reality, this special eye is not exclusive to his species, but to all dragons with space and time attributes.
But his version of these eyes, however, this special version of the eyes, is indeed exclusive to their species. This version is called the emerald dragon space and time eye. Normally, the common version of the eye is not this powerful. Even the special versions of each dragon are not.
But between his talent, all of these attributes, him being the Supreme Sovereign and being the Supreme God of each attribute, empowered his eyes to the maximum exponent.
The worst part of this was that he could process all of the information for three reasons. The first one is biology. The dragons and some of the superior species have not only a superior physiology compared to mortals, but also their constitution and the level of each attribute are stronger and better in everything.
This is because of all they need to do. They were created to serve as soldiers and in other jobs for three races. The three original races are perfect beings who don't die of old age and can even regenerate, even before reaching the Great Spirit Realm.
So they not only needed to live forever and avoid senescence, but also to be able to process that enormous amount of information. This was one of the reasons why dragons became stronger the older they got. Of course, there are other reasons, like the absorption of dragon energy, dragon law, and more, but that was not important now.
The other reason is the cultivation realm. In all races, each part of their body grows stronger, further enhancing each part. This is not exclusive to external cultivators, although their bodies grow much stronger. The last reason is slightly connected. The soul, spirit, and mind realm also grows in strength, but also, the species that have a unique special soul or a more generic special soul can further enhance this.
So, he could not only see it, but also comprehend and look at every part, because his visions are fully of what is going to happen. The vision reproduces everything, all the process until the consequences or results, and it may be days or years ahead or much longer. But that duration, although thanks to these eyes, even the normal version could do this, those days or years can be seen and processed in one hour or less depending on the duration of the vision.
This is why this skill is a blessing and a curse to him. Seeing all of these surprise visions was very annoying. On top of it, he was not only seeing visions about himself like others of his species, who only had to see like 10 or 20 or more depending on the strength of the individual, but also their visions were only about themselves.
But because he was connected to his empire, temple, and this universe, he saw everything that could happen to them, bad, good, everything.
By the way, he could also use it at will, so it was not only uncontrollable visions, but the uncontrollable ones acted like an instinct to protect him or what was connected to him.
However, this was very annoying. That made him create a formation and technique to control the power, to filter the visions to only show the most probable futures and also the most useful to him. Of course, he could deactivate the formation and the technique at will to see all visions.
Even with all of this, he had to say, this skill has helped him too much in his self-imposed duty, in his empire, temple, and other areas, because despite the skill being a bit annoying, it is in situations like this that he is thankful for having it.
That's why he created the technique and the formation, because thanks to seeing all the processes in the visions, he could change the most probable future and choose the most beneficial one for him and the universe… but this is not always the case, some futures don't have redemption…
...
Because while thinking about these things, he was doing something, preparing to defend against an invasion...
He was clearing his mind after thinking all of this about his eyes, sighing to himself. This time had to come sooner or later. The Feilou clan is invading.
To understand the reason why a multiversal clan wanted to invade a universe, excluding the desire to expand their territory, Feicui Long had to remember the stories about his master's past...
When his master was young, she lived in the Sacred Palace of the Stellar Sky, an omniversal force and a force in the rank Absolute Seven Stars, with some Absolute Sovereigns Realm. Yes, they shared the same name as the Sovereign Absolute, because they were named in his honor, since that was his title.
The force has one omniverse, but has seven multiverses with ten universes each one. They had the numbers, they had everything to live peacefully, but someday an unknown force attacked. The force had the quantity against it, but that was useless since the unknown force used all of its forces to shock and destroy the palace in record time.
Since the palace was a branch of the Celestial Judgment Palace of the Ninth Heaven, a force not only too strong in the Absolute Rank that goes above even the Absolute Rank 9 Grade into the Special Rank, but also a vassal force to the Clan Above the Heavens. Although now it is integrated into the Absolute Clan, that only makes them more dangerous.
As the Absolute Clan is even stronger, much, much stronger since it combined the three Supreme Clans of the Absolute Universe, the Celestial Judgment Palace of Ninth Heaven is now the vassal of the Absolute Clan. The destruction of a branch of one vassal of this clan is a death sentence to any force. There is no way to avoid it.
So they needed to be quick and faster. When she told this to him, he couldn't believe it. Who would be so stupid? Because defying the Absolute Clan could only be done by three types of persons: the arrogant that could only see in front of them, the idiot who didn't know anything about reality, and the crazy one that could understand it.
Although the Absolute Clan only controls 50% of the universes, multiverses, omniverses, to summarize, they own half of existence between their own territory, their vassals, and the ones they protect. They don't conquer the other half because the Absolute Sovereign simply doesn't want to do it.
But his master explained that some forces try to defy them and do it in secret. However, that is also futile. Sooner or later, the Absolute Clan is going to find them. That doesn't stop some pretty arrogant and resentful forces from challenging the Absolute Clan.
The important thing here is that the attack killed the force of his master. As she was the heiress, the entire palace tried to save her and sent her with the palace, which is a powerful artifact, but also with her nanny, the guardian of the palace.
She grew up with fear and sadness, until she encountered a "beautiful" man. Although the man in reality was a bit ugly, the guy was a good man, a good person, one of the kindest beings in existence. Funnily enough, the force to which he belonged...
Is an awful force. Yeah, this guy was a member of the Feilou Clan, more specifically, he was the heir. But the problem was...
The Feilou Clan is a clan of devils, more specifically it was founded by a swamp poison devil hybrid with a human. An awful devil for being really ugly and really venomous. Although their force at adulthood reached the Earthly Divine Realm, the founder was the son of a witch by accident. He was really hated, and the witch, who was the wife of a powerful human emperor, even more.
The story is pretty long, but to summarize it, the witch cheated on her husband for power. The devil deceived her to take her body for power since she was stagnant in her cultivation realm and lied to her. She became pregnant and, though she and her husband at the beginning of their relationship were only married for the good of her family, she later fell in love with him. And the emperor, who always loved her, was alerted by a very ambitious woman who wanted to marry him.
The witch lost all of her privileges after the baby was born, being incarcerated and repentant for hurting her true love. That made her hate the child. All of the castle also hated the child. All mortal races did. She was liberated thanks to the feelings of the emperor, but she was never forgiven. Later, she committed suicide, marking the child founder even more.
He blamed the mortal races for the death of his mother and for his suffering. It's not known how he managed to conquer his origin universe, but he achieved it and created a clan fully built on hatred toward those races and wanted to exterminate each member of them. Unlike the rest of the demon clan, who only hate the Onis and Kijin, since they created them to be slaves and only want to enslave those races again.
The founder and the Feilou wanted the total annihilation of each race. This made him constantly at war and hated by almost all his neighboring universes. Anyone could see what was going to happen when a man, too good to be in this clan, fell in love with a mortal woman, an elf...
At first, the actual leader of the clan, the father of the man, only tried to separate them because he loved his son too much. But when the founder knew about this relationship, he went directly and killed the man.
His master could only survive thanks to the palace and the guardian, who once was at the Absolute Sovereign Realm peak. Although now her nanny is only a carcass of what she once was, since the annihilation of the Sacred Palace.
In order to let the palace prepare to teleport to a random location to escape, she fought 75 cultivators with the same cultivation. She killed all of them. She was a monstrosity of a cultivator, but that destroyed her soul, only leaving fragments. Although his master searched for a technique to help her recover, she never could.
But even with that detail, the body of her nanny, who was a sentient golem with soul, spirit and mind, remained intact with only the last order given by her master: protect the palace and my daughter, and don't move. So she does. By losing her soul, she fell to the Absolute Emperor Realm peak.
That was why the founder let her escape...
Feicui Long sighed because although the guardian can kill all of the Feilou clan, she is not going to leave the palace even if his master orders her. Although her master could order her not to attack some people or eliminate them in the palace...
This is why he is preparing. His master couldn't hide in the palace because that would mean she was going to lose everything again. She didn't want this...
Like he said, this was going to happen sooner or later. Although his master escaped and established her universe far from the Feilou clan, the hate of having their pride hurt by the founder and also the current leader of the Feilou clan, who lost his son because of her, made them never give up on this persecution.