Demoness Sect - Outer Sect City.
Inside the inn, little Fred was sitting beside his great uncle, watching him draw pictures of some devices on paper.
"Great uncle, I know this!
This is the machine for 'leg press'!"
Little Mortal patted his head,
"Aren't you smart?
Yes, I trained you with it while we were recording the scene for '40 Years' journey.
It's for Ronnie, I'm giving him a complete set of bodybuilding machines to be ready for his competition."
"Who is Ronnie?"
"He is the man with the most developed muscles in the history of all existence.
I'm going to meet him now, you can come with me to see him, but be ready to catch your jaw!"
Little Fred asked, astonished by his great uncle, who described someone like this,
"My jaw? Why?"
"Because it's going to drop when you see him!"
Little Fred didn't understand what he meant, but he was ready to catch his jaw at any moment!
Not long after, the two, one riding the motorcycle with his sunglasses on, the other sitting on the backpack with folded arms, both looking arrogant, left towards the sect.
On their way, little Mortal cut another part of the 'silver platform' and asked his backpack to start building the machines.
...
Inner part of the sect.
A girl was sitting on a big rock, meditating in an area with tall trees all around.
She was Elder Sun's disciple, who was supposed to find the missing disciple of the Sect Master.
But because the competition between the two sects was near, she tried to hide here and train for half a day to try something.
She didn't know why, but when she was touched by that little troublemaker, not long after, she felt a chance of a breakthrough show itself to her!
And now she was here to try her luck, but it didn't work at all, and she couldn't feel the same opportunity as before...
While in her own world, she suddenly heard a familiar voice that made her heart skip a bit!
"Sup, junior sister."
She opened her eyes and saw that in front of the big rock, the little boy that she was supposed to find was looking at her arrogantly.
He was riding a weird bicycle, and... He wasn't alone this time?
Another little boy was sitting on the big backpack behind him!
While puzzled, she jumped down,
"Greetings, senior brother!"
Little Mortal nodded,
"What are you doing here, junior sister?"
While walking towards him, to see if she gets closer, she can feel the chance to break through again, she said,
"Senior brother, I was trying to break through to the Mahayana realm.
I have a better chance in the sect competition this way.
Then she looked at the other little boy on the big backpack and wondered who he was.
Silver hair, silver eyes, silver robe...
If his robe were imperial, she would be sure that he was related to the imperial family.
Little Mortal rubbed his chin and said,
"You mean 'Mama Mia' realm?
What's your root?"
She looked back at him again and, while puzzled about the name he used, answered,
"Earth.
By the way, senior brother, we can't bring others into the sect if they aren't the sect's disciples..."
Little Mortal rolled his eyes at her,
"Don't be silly, junior sister.
He is the Emperor's son!
His father owns this land, and all the other lands!"
Then he looked at little Fred and smiled apologetically,
"Little nephew, don't take it to heart; she is just an ignorant peasant."
Little Fred, in his arrogant mode, snorted arrogantly but nodded to show he didn't mind...
The girl was speechless!
Emperor's son?
And then ... she broke through!
"Eh?"
Her mind stopped working at this point!
The mixed, unrelated information entering her brain made her confused!
And even a dark cloud appeared out of nowhere above her head!
With a shocked and terrified face, she looked up, and the fear of the scene above her head made her brain start working again,
"Oh no!
I didn't prepare anything for my Tribulation!"
But then she heard the little senior brother speak again,
"Old man, stop it!
This is my junior sister!"
The junior sister, with her stiff body, who saw the dark clouds above them disappear as fast as they appeared, could only look down at her senior brother, who was already leaving and only left a sentence behind...
"Don't tell other junior brothers and junior sisters.
I don't want to see a 'breakthrough queue' at my door."
Then she saw in her shock, a path opened in front of him between trees, and after he left, the path closed a moment later...
Far away from her, the sect master and supreme elder were the two who saw the anomaly in this place first and rushed over.
When they saw the tribulation cloud come out of nowhere, they thought,
'Who is making trouble in the middle of the sect!'
And more importantly, how?
The Tribulation clouds would only appear if someone were trying to break through to the Mahayana realm!
Only elders and a couple of disciples like Snow White were in this realm,
and after the spiritual energy became less and less, and the change it brought by itself to the world,
The higher your cultivation realm was, the harder it was to break through.
It was basically impossible to break through to the Mahayana realm in recent years!
So who was it?
But the clouds disappeared a moment later!
So they felt something was wrong and rushed over.
When the two arrived, they saw Elder Sun's disciple, who seemed to be the one responsible, sitting cross-legged and meditating.
Snow goddess thought for a moment and said,
"Sister, it seems she is at a critical point because of a sudden breakthrough.
I will watch over her here, you go and ask for Elder Sun to come here."
The Supreme Elder nodded and left.
Not long after, the elder sun came in surprise,
"She really broke through?"
Snow goddess furrowed her brow,
"Why is it like you knew she might break through?"
Elder Sun scratched his head,
"Yesterday, she said after your disciple grabbed her by the finger to stop her from leaving, she felt a chance of a breakthrough...
I didn't believe it, because it didn't make sense at all, but it seems it worked for her.
But where are the Tribulation clouds?"
He looked at the sky, puzzled...
Snow goddess answered,
"It disappeared before activation..."
Then the three suddenly looked at each other in shock!
Supreme elder gulped and said,
"You two thinking about the same thing as me?
This child can help with people's breakthrough, and even the Tribulation cloud might ignore them.
Could this be the real reason for the former sword god and my master to send him here to hide?"
Snow goddess furrowed her brow,
"You are telling me that those immortals who kidnapped my daughter were probably looking for him?
They knew he was sent here to my husband with that recommendation letter, so they tried to lure him out with a hostage because it's impossible to find him in any usual way."
The three felt they had uncovered the biggest secret of the immortal world!
A child who can help you break through?
Help you get rid of the Tribulation cloud?
Help you bypass any restrictions?
Go anywhere unnoticed?
The perfect thief, spy, and breakthrough machine?
What was this if not the most valuable treasure for any cultivator or organization?
"But, where is he now?"
Not finding any sign of him, they could only wait until Elder Sun's disciple woke up and told them how she had broken through, and if she had seen him.
Up in the sky, the old manager who heard the conversation between them said to himself while laughing,
"These kids' imagination isn't bad, the only problem is, it doesn't matter how highly they think of him, it's not enough..."
Then he looked at the orb in his hand.
You could see blue lines that seemed to be sending spiritual energy somewhere, emerging from it and connecting to the sky above the old manager's head, spreading in every direction.
Then he looked in the direction of the forbidden jungle.
His eyes zoomed in and locked onto the old lady, the third sister, and he muttered to himself,
"You are lucky that little guy let you join his team, or I would get rid of you right now..."
Then he shook his head,
"Forget about it, she didn't do anything all these years anyway.
But I never discovered her origin or where she came from..."
...
In the deepest part of the demoness sect, elder iron, on a silver platform that was already sunk into the ground, was squatting with 20 plates on each side of his barbell!
He fell in love with this move.
It was like he could feel every single muscle in his body work together to perform it.
When his set was done, he heard the sound of clapping and a familiar voice,
"Ronnie!
You already doubled the weight?"
When he turned around, he saw two little guys,
One clapped happily, while the other, with a jaw dropped, looked at him.
He smiled and went forward to greet them,
"Boss, how have you been?"
Little Mortal started running around him,
"Look at him!
What did I tell you, little nephew?
This guy is the 'peak of muscle development'!
Any man who sees him should be ready for his jaw to drop!"
Then he patted the backpack,
"Big guy, send out the goods!"
Then under elder iron's surprised gaze,
All kinds of machines that, while it was his first time seeing them, he felt familiar with started appearing!
Then lots of plates and dumbbells with different weights in a row appeared!
And after that, a bunch of big pockets filled with 'spirit creatine'!
Elder Iron felt this was the happiest day of his life.
His heart was beating so fast that there was a shock wave spreading around him!
Little Fred, with jaw dropped, eyes widened in shock, felt that this man was the god of muscle!
"Listen to me, Ronnie, there is a competition on the way,
I've made these ready for you to win!
Do you hear me?
I only want you to win!
Come to the stage with negative 3% body fat!
I want everyone to see how dominant you are when the competition is only about muscle!"
Elder Iron, who couldn't take his eyes off the new toys, just kept nodding.
When he came back to his senses to thank him, he saw him already gone, and thought to himself,
'How could he know what I need better than myself?
Is my blood really the same as the Ronnie he says?'
On the way back to Outer Sect City, Little Mortal bumped into the same little boy he saw on his first visit to the main mountain peak...
The son of Snow White, whom he called Little Peanut.
While speechless to see him abandoned again in the middle of nowhere, he picked him up, shook his head in disappointment, and asked Little Fred to let him sit beside him on the backpack.
Not long after, the sect master, who was waiting for Elder Sun's disciple, heard her own disciple's scream coming from far away,
"Where is my child?"
And two strong auras exploded, scanning the area with their spiritual senses!
Supreme elder couldn't help but laugh,
"I bet it's him!
He retook their son!
And he probably was here too.
Is he on patrol again!?"
Snow goddess gritted her teeth and left after saying,
"Elder sun, you ask her what happened, I'll go see what's going on there..."
Elder Sun nodded.
"Alright."
He wondered what would happen if this little troublemaker stayed in their sect for a month or two...
Or worse, until he grew up...
Not long later, Snow Goddess arrived at where her disciple, 'Snow White', was.
She and her husband were looking at the handwriting on the tree beside where their child had previously been.
[If you can't raise a child, why make one?
Humph, if you don't want him, I'll take him then!]
Snow Goddess felt helpless.
"How did this happen?
Where were you when he was taken away?
Can't you two take care of your child like a normal mother and father!?"
Snow White, with tears in her eyes, said,
"I just went farther away to fight my husband...
I even placed all kinds of restrictions around him to be sure about his safety!"
Snow Goddess didn't know what to say...
You placed restrictions?
Even mine don't work against him...
"Alright, let's look for him.
And don't worry, he won't harm him...
He thinks your son is his own now!"
Then, with an annoyed tone, she said,
"Can't you two stop fighting every second?"
The two could only look down, their faces flushed with embarrassment.
And so, the search began.
...
Outer Sect City.
Close to the inn, which was now bustling with people, Little Mortal parked his motorcycle and got off.
"Little Peanut, jump!"
Little Peanut, without hesitation, jumped down into his arms.
If both of them weren't so small, the onlookers might have thought they were really father and son!
Little Fred, who was still in shock, jumped down with a blank look and followed him inside.
While going into the inn, Little Mortal said to the little boy in his arms,
"Little Peanut, don't worry, I'll take care of you,
And I train you to become strong enough so you can stand up for yourself."
"Yes, Boss!"
Everyone in the inn who saw him coming in with an extra child greeted him,
"Greetings, Boss.
Greetings, Royal Highnesses!"
Little Mortal nodded.
"Sup."
But Little Fred was still in shock and didn't hear anything.
Rose saw her boss coming in, and when she saw the child in his arms, her eyes widened in shock.
"Boss, isn't that Snow White's son?
Why is he with you?"
Little Mortal snorted.
"It's mine now.
I found it on the ground.
Not once, but twice!
I gave it back the first time, but there won't be a second time!"
The people in the inn were at a loss for words.
'Isn't Snow White the Sect Master's first disciple?
He took her child from the ground?
This little demon is indeed free from any restrictions, doing whatever he wants!'
They all noted to themselves to tell everyone that if you leave your child in a random place, he or she might be taken away by this little boss and change owners!
Rose, who didn't want to see her mother's disciple worry for her child, said,
"Boss, we can't just take away someone else's child!"
Little Mortal, who everyone thought might get angry at his assistant for questioning his actions, just rolled his eyes at her.
"Assistant Rose, this is a gangster's stronghold...
Whatever you find is yours!
Anyway, I already trained him to your level so that he will stay with us until the end of our training program."
Rose was going to say something, but stopped.
Wasn't this the best opportunity for this little boy?
Why would she ruin it for him?
So she instead said,
"That's his blessing to train under you, Boss!"
Little Mortal puffed his chest.
"You, Assistant Rose, understand me the most!
Now take care of him."
Then he threw him at her.
Rose hastily caught him!
This one-year-old was a cultivator at the peak of the 'Favorite Station' now, so it was fine to throw him around.
But she suddenly heard the little boy say,
"Assistant Rose!"
Rose was surprised, but only for a second...
With so many blind and deaf people being cured, it was only natural to see one more getting cured too.
She knew about him being deaf from her mother, but nobody mentioned it in the sect.
Little Mortal then went to Luna.
"Manager Luna, what do we have for lunch?"
Luna clapped her hands and said,
"Boss is back, bring the lunch."
Little Mortal patted her leg.
"As expected of the best manager around here."
Luna smiled like it was nothing.
"Just doing my job."
At this moment, a certain little girl jumped out of the shadows and ran outside.
"Breaking news, breaking news!
The Sect Master's disciple's son has been kidnapped by the Sect Master's evil disciple!
The sect's civil war is near!
1 spirit stone for the information on which side to pick!
2 spirit stones for the final result of the civil war between the Sect Master's disciples, as my prediction!"
The crowd looked outside while sweating profusely on her behalf!
'This little girl won't stop until all of us are in trouble, will she?'
Little Mortal furrowed his brow and mumbled to himself,
"Now she even starts predicting the outcome of her news?"
Seeing him not care, the crowd sighed in relief...
They didn't understand what could trigger him.
Or was he just tolerant when it came to children and his assistant?
...
After dinner, everyone started moving towards the gathering place.
This time, they had already reached the peak of the new realm, with no worries.
And not only that, but after turning to ashes and rising from it, they felt nothing could stop them anymore!
While waiting, they saw a group of 5 people coming.
Three little guys in the middle, and two ladies on either side.
If they didn't know them, they would say it's two mothers who brought their children outside to play...
But they knew them very well.
The middle one in a white robe, spinning his chain, was the little demon.
The one in a silver robe was the Emperor's son.
He, too, had a chain, spinning it.
And the new kid, the smallest of the group,
who was looking clueless, and now, in his new dark blue follower's robe, was trying to spin a chain clumsily, was the son of the Sect Master's disciple.
And the two ladies, naturally, were known to all of them,
Luna and Rose.
When they got there, Little Mortal said,
"Before we start, there is a scene that I need to record.
Assistant Rose, please bring five people here to help me with it."
"Boss, do you want them to be men or women? Younger or older?"
"Doesn't matter, just none of them should know each other well."
Not long after, five people, who weren't familiar with each other, came.
They all felt nervous being out of the group.
"Hello, everyone."
They cupped their hands.
"Greetings, Boss."
"Let's get to it and be done with it fast so that we can go back to our main event.
Each of you guys is responsible for saying one sentence and a 'yes' at the end, so don't be nervous,
And from right to left, when the first person is done, the next person should say their line after a brief moment.
Understood?"
The 5 of them nodded.
Then after giving them some more instructions, the scene began.
The five people looked up, as if they were watching a bird, then they began reciting their lines one by one.
"Who is that?"
"I don't know, but he looks like a great leader!"
"You are right, I feel it would be good to be his follower!"
"I agree!"
"Me too!"
And then, they jumped in different directions, like the 'great leader' in the sky was falling to their location for whatever reason.
Little Mortal fell in the middle of them from the top of his backpack, on his butt, and said,
"Ouch! What hit my head...?
Wait! I remember, I remember everything!
I need to become the guardian!
Who are you guys?
Do you want to be my followers?"
Then the five people on the scene shouted together,
"Yes!"
And the 'great leader' said,
"Good, from now on, you are my followers!"
Then, under the puzzled gaze of the crowd, he stood up and said,
"Alright, let's get back to our main event."
Rose walked to him and asked,
"Boss, wasn't this scene too simple?
And you didn't act as magnificently as you always do!
People might underestimate you if they see it!"
Little Mortal chuckled.
"That's exactly what I'm looking for!
Because this is not for my ceremony, but for another group of people who should underestimate me when watching it."
Then he clapped his hands and said,
"Alright, everyone, to your places, please.
Little Peanut, go stand there with my little nephew."
Little Peanut ran to his new friend, Fred.
"Yes, Boss!"
Little Mortal took a gold coin out of his pocket, which was the same coin he wished good luck with for Third Sister when she was going to make the pill.
Then he threw it to the sky after whispering,
"Cover everyone on your way back."
After that, a large screen appeared, with him standing at its center.
"Okay, everyone, in today's class, we are going to break through the next two realms back to back."
The crowd felt numb.
They thought turning to ashes was the worst, but now they are going to break through two realms back to back?
Was it better or worse?
"The next realm, as you know, is Golden Coin.
In this realm, without moving, you should find a golden coin; otherwise, you won't have the opportunity to break through.
So, look for a golden coin, now."
Then he took out a spirit stone, crushed it in his hand, which no one understood why, and just stood there while playing with the shattered spirit stone pieces in his hand.
The gang members, too, stood there, looking blankly at him.
Where could they find a golden coin if they don't move?
Was he joking?
How are these two things even related except for their name?
Not long after, Rose, the richest girl in the group, slowly put her hand in her pocket and brought out a gold coin.
The people close to her glanced over in interest.
Was she going to break through?
But they heard a *jiling* sound, like the sound of iron and glass colliding, and the gold coin in her hand was gone...
They just saw something blue at an unimaginable speed hit the coin!
The gold coin had gone to who knows where, and the blue substance that had hit it was now only blue powder resting in her palm.
Rose gritted her teeth and looked at her boss.
But Little Mortal pretended he was looking somewhere else.
From time to time, if a gold coin tried to show itself under the sun among this group of people, its fate was the same!
Going to the afterlife...
Only then did they understand why he had taken out spirit stones and started playing with them.
After seeing the fate of a couple more 'gold coins', no one dared to bring any more out.
They just waited to see what the deal was this time.
Time passed quietly until Little Mortal, who was looking at the sky, suddenly shouted.
"Everyone, be ready!
Your opportunity is here!"
The crowd, who remembered him sending a gold coin to the sky, thought it must be the same coin that was now coming back!
So it was an opportunity for only one person?
The crowd started praying to be the one catching the golden coin!
Not long after, a gold object appeared in everyone's sight.
It was a golden coin, with no carving on it, rotating in the sky and falling towards them.
Just by its trajectory, they could tell it was dropping at the center of the crowd.
The people at the center became happy, and the people in the outside rows became sad.
There was only one question on their mind that puzzled them.
'Why is this coin so clear while it is so far away?'
But the answer revealed itself to them not long after as the coin got closer to the ground.
They thought.
'So it's not an opportunity for one person?
It's a magic coin that can expand, and more people can catch it to break through...'
They felt enlightened and nodded to themselves when they saw it get bigger.
But as the coin drew closer, it covered the sun, and its shadow fell upon those at the center.
The crowd felt puzzled again.
'How big is this thing that it's still on the way?
There is even a shadow that gets bigger?'
Then the puzzled crowd slowly grew confused, and their hearts started beating faster and faster as the golden coin drew closer, its shadow covering more people as it continued on its way.
They no longer felt excited at all!
Even though the opportunity was for more people due to its size getting bigger, they were horrified!
What was this?
Why is it so big?
We are going to be squished to the ground if it hits us!
Please tell us we are in another dream!
Everyone's mouth was now wide open...
Until they heard the only voice that might be a help in this situation.
"Catch it!
It's your opportunity, a golden coin!"
Tears started streaming from everyone's eyes, while they were screaming in their mind.
'We can see that...
Even if we were blind, we could see that coin...'
At this moment,
Little Mortal jumped down from his backpack,
Ran to the front row where the little kids were,
Adjusted his placement and waited excitedly.
Like it was his opportunity too!
It didn't take long for the biggest golden coin in the history of the cultivation world, while still spinning, to arrive!
Or to be exact, fall on their heads.
The crowd, who felt death was only one step away, saw the coin's edge land first in the area with the little kids, where the little boss was standing with a confident smile, as if everything was under control.
Unlike what they thought, the scene of the little ones getting smashed didn't happen.
Little Mortal raised his hand and caught the incoming edge of the coin, and slowly let it land on everyone's head.
The little kids, who weren't scared at all, raised their hands excitedly to lend a hand!
The adults, too, raised their hands to catch the coin.
What else could they do?
At the same time, a new cultivation technique began to circulate within their bodies, and they started consuming the compressed ball of spirit energy, made of spirit creatine, that was inside them.
The combination of the cultivation technique and the coin's pressure gave them a weird feeling.
But before they could understand it, it was gone!
The coin suddenly disappeared alongside the pressure.
The crowd of people, with tears all over their faces,
colorless and still open-mouthed, felt they reached another 'bottleneck'...
Everyone of them had a different thought now.
The price to break through wasn't big; it was actually a blessing that any cultivator would dream of...
But why is he making it so stressful?
By now they knew he could just let them break through if he wanted to.
What bottleneck? What cultivation realm?
Then they heard the little boss's encouraging voice.
"Good job, everyone!
As expected of my followers!
All talented!"
The little ones started jumping around happily.
And the adults were at a loss for words...
They wished they could be clueless like the little kids in the front row, who enjoyed the world in any situation...