Behind Yan Wuhe, Bai Wei and the other disciples stood protected by Wuhe's aura, while the 16 sovereigns remained still, their hands clapped together, waiting.
Huai asked the 16 figures, "Can you answer one question for me?"
Ji Wuxuan, the leader, quickly said, "Your Highness, I am Ji Wuxuan. You can call me by my name. I will answer any questions. You don't need to be polite."
Huai nodded and asked seriously, "Is the person who gave you this box still alive?"
Ji Wuxuan was shocked. He looked at Yan Wuhe, who was also watching him.
He said, "Yes, Your Highness, he is still alive."
The sky turned dark again, with terrifying thunderclouds threatening to strike. Ji Wuxuan's face turned pale. Huai saw the thunder was because he asked about the person who gave him the box.
Huai looked at Ji Wuxuan and asked, "You are not allowed to tell his location, right?"
Ji Wuxuan nodded and said, "He told us not to tell you until you reach a certain level of cultivation."
Huai nodded and asked again, "Do I know him?"
Cold sweat appeared on the heads of the 16 sovereigns. The other 15 looked at the thundercloud. Ji Wuxuan gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, Your Highness, you know him."
Boom!
A dark thunderbolt struck the spot where Ji Wuxuan was. But just before it hit, Huai gently pushed him away with his palm. Ji Wuxuan fell to the ground a distance away.
Huai looked at the sky, where the dark cloud was still rumbling.
He asked his system, "System, can you stop this thunder?"
[ Ding!
Congratulations, host, for asking your system!
You have used the feature, "asking your dear system."
System's mood is now excellent.
Giving you the power to eliminate the dark thundercloud for once. ]
Huai pointed his finger at the dark cloud. A pure white ray of power shot from his finger.
The white energy was so strong that it completely trapped the dark cloud. It then shrank until it became a small, condensed drop of dark thunder.
The dark thunder ball returned to Huai's hand. Huai looked at it and felt its immense power. He realized that if he used this thunder, thousands or millions of cultivators on this plane could die.
He put the thunder ball into his system space. The 16 sovereigns stared at Shen Huai with horrified eyes.
They knew Huai was powerful, but seeing it firsthand made them even more afraid.
This time, Yan Wuhe asked Ji Wuxuan, "Can you tell me if this thing is dangerous to Huai or not?"
Huai looked at him in surprise; he never thought about it. For him, it didn't matter even if it was dangerous.
If it were dangerous, his system would definitely ask him to avoid the thing. But his system even told him to collect all the fragments.
He looked at Wuhe because he never thought that Wuhe cared for him. He had known Wuhe for only a few months now. A gentle smile appeared on his face.
Wuhe looked at Ji Wuxuan with eyes full of questions. Ji Wuxuan said immediately, "I don't know, Your Highness, but I know that person won't harm His Highness Shen Huai."
Shen Huai thought for a moment, while Wuhe was not sure whether to believe it or not.
He asked Huai with more concern, "Huai, if you feel that thing is harmful, you can discard it..."
Before he finished, Huai said to him, "Don't worry, Wuhe, that thing is really important to me."
Then he said the rest using telepathy, 'System notified me to collect all of the other parts of it too.'
Wuhe looked at Huai and nodded in response. He felt a little relieved after hearing the details.
Huai then said to the 16 sovereigns, "Today I met you here accidentally. I was here for my disciples."
" But I never thought I'd meet some ancient powerhouses of this plane who were responsible for saving this plane millions of years ago."
"Now I want to give you a chance to ask me for anything you want."
Ji Wuxuan and others looked at Huai with respectful eyes. They had already received mercy from that person millions of years ago. Now Huai was also asking them what they wanted.
Ji Wuxuan said immediately, "Your Highness! We have already gained enough from that person. We don't..."
Before he finished his sentence, Huai asked again, "Do you 16 sovereigns want to join my sect?"
Ji Wuxuan froze, and the other 15 sovereigns looked at Huai with confused eyes. They were dead; only their consciousnesses were left. How could they join the Eternal Sect?
Ji Wuxuan asked stammering, "Your, Your Highness! We are already dead; how could we join your Sect?"
Huai just waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "So what if you are dead? Just tell me if you want to join or not. If you are ready to join my sect, I'll just resurrect you all."
The whole place became still. The 16 sovereigns looked at Huai in utter horror. These few words shook their understanding of cultivation.
Just what kind of method does His Highness have to resurrect someone who has been dead for millions of years?
Even Bai Wei and the other 7 disciples also looked at Huai with huge curiosity.
After Huai took control of the sect, they never got the answer as to what realm their sect master was in. Now he was saying he would resurrect 16 galaxy sovereigns?
Even by seeing the faces of these 16 people, they could guess easily that even galaxy sovereigns couldn't resurrect someone who was dead.
Ji Wuxuan asked with a shaking voice, "Your Highness! Is what you just said true?"
This time, before Huai answered, Wuhe said with a smiling face, "Just answer the question, Ji Wuxuan, Huai never lied to anyone before."
Huai looked at him in surprise. 'How did you know I never lied? I can lie if I want. How did you know I never lied before? Just how much trust do you have in me that you said those words,' he thought.
[ Ding!
Congratulations, host, for gaining the trust of Yan Wuhe.
You get a reward of a beautiful dress to seduce Yan Wuhe.
System is rooting for you, host, fight for more. ]
Huai almost vomited blood from this notification. What did his system want to do? It even gave him a dress now, just because he gained trust from Yan Wuhe. He felt a headache.
Ji Wuxuan said hurriedly, bowing towards Shen Huai, clapping both of his hands together in salute. The other 15 sovereigns did the same and said together,
"We are ready to join The Great Eternal Sect, Sect Master."
Huai smiled a gentle smile towards them, then he released 16 resurrection cards from his system space.
16 pure white, gentle lights appeared before Shen Huai, then ran through the whole hall and landed on each of the consciousnesses of the 16 sovereigns. The dao inside the hall changed completely.
One after another, the flesh, blood, bones, meridians, even the clothes started to reform around the consciousnesses of the 16 sovereigns, until they became full human again.
16 galaxy sovereigns were resurrected again. They also looked at their bodies with complete surprise. In just a mere second, their new sect master resurrected them.
Bai Wei and others also looked at this scene with utmost fanaticism. The more they saw the miracles done by their sect master, the more reverence they felt for Huai.
The 16 sovereigns all bowed towards Huai and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for saving us from our adversity."
Huai just waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about it. Now that you guys are resurrected, you'll return with us to the sect and assume the post of 16 hall elders."
16 sovereigns nodded with smiling faces. Even if they were given a menial disciple post, they would definitely have joined the Eternal Sect.
But now they were given the post of 16 hall elders; they felt huge respect towards Huai.
Huai explained, "Now there's a problem: you can't leave this secret realm with this tower in front of everyone."
"There is a galaxy sovereign outside; she'd get the information the moment you left this secret realm. So..."
Huai waved his hand, and a huge vortex appeared inside the 21st floor of the Tower of Consciousness. Huai told them again,
"This vortex is connected to my Eternal Sect. There, she or any other galaxy sovereigns can't see through at all. There you'll be safe until I reveal you guys myself."
Ji Wuxuan and the other 15 sovereigns nodded to Huai.
Then, with his permission and the sect tokens provided by Huai, they left the 21st floor with the Tower of Consciousness and returned to the Eternal Sect.
Now, Huai, Wuhe, and the other 8 disciples were standing in the void inside the secret realm.
Huai said to his disciples, "Bai Wei, Zhao Tie, take your brothers and sisters and leave the secret realm as everyone did before. We'll wait for you outside."
Bai Wei and others nodded their heads in response. Huai and Wuhe looked at each other and disappeared from their place, while Bai Wei and others appeared in front of the crowd who were waiting outside the tower.
Just a few minutes ago, the disciples from the five regions became anxious all of a sudden because the Tower of Ten Thousand Mountains disappeared abruptly, and even the people inside it didn't appear outside.
They were indebted towards the Eternal Sect disciples, so they didn't want to see them face any danger at all.
But now, when they saw Bai Wei and others appear in front of them, they became excited again and ran towards them.
Someone said, "You guys are incredible; you even managed to enter the 20th floor of the tower!"
Wei Chen said excitedly, "How was it? Tell us what rewards did you get after conquering 20 floors of the tower?"
Other cultivators also wanted to know these details; they opened their ears to learn about it.
Bai Wei and others described the rewards they got up to level 20 but never revealed the rewards they got on the 21st floor.
The tower didn't even announce to the outside that Bai Wei and others had entered the 21st floor; that's why no one guessed that they had entered it at all.
At this moment, outside the secret realm,
Huai and Wuhe appeared together, just beside Goddess Nexus and Commander Vulcan.
Nexus looked towards the void from where they appeared.
Nexus asked with great curiosity, "Where did you guys go for a few minutes ago?"
Huai looked at her and said, "What? We can't even go to relieve ourselves?"
Nexus's face turned red in shame; even Commander Vulcan coughed.
Nexus never thought in her life that Huai was this shameless. He even said that they had gone to relieve themselves.
But inside, she gritted her teeth because she knew for sure that this person really did something that he didn't want to tell outsiders.
At this moment, the huge tower had already disappeared outside; only the secret realm vortex was left. The vortex was now small compared to before.
The vortex shook, and one after another, the disciples who were still inside the secret realm left.
The sects and forces became excited to meet the rest of their disciples; they immediately ran towards them and helped them recover their power.
Bai Wei and others spotted Shen Huai and Yan Wuhe and returned to the place where they were. To show outsiders that they had just met, they even saluted them with utmost respect.
While everyone was discussing the journey inside the secret realm and the Tower of Ten Thousand Mountains,
The people from the central region gritted their teeth, looked towards the disciples from the Eternal Sect, and recorded their faces in their memory.
Bai Wei and others were discussing matters with Shen Huai and Yan Wuhe when all the people from the Five Regions,
no matter if they were from 8th-tier sects or rogue cultivators, came towards the team of the Eternal Sect.
Huai and Wuhe and others also looked at them with genuine smiles.
They all bowed towards Huai and his disciples, saying in unison,
"Thank you, Eternal Sect and its disciples, for saving our sect members and cultivators from our region!"
"We, the five regions of the Blue Star planet, will never forget the hospitality and mercy shown by the Eternal Sect."
"No matter what difficulties Eternal Sect will face in the future, we, the five regional sects and disciples, will be in the front to defend against your enemies."
Huai just waved his hands and said, "No, no! You don't need to worry about it too much; it was our duty to save humans. And you are from my same planet; how could my disciples ignore you?"