The Tale of the Void Emperor

Athan then asked Valley Master about the whereabouts of Mike and Lafurge.

" They still must be on the way, go straight to this direction and you will encounter them if they have not changed their path halfway. "

After nodding to The Valley Master who was being treated by an elder, Athan and Tiana sped towards the direction pointed by Valley Master.

Now that Athan had Mystic Energy, His speed increased greatly so it didn't take long for them to encounter Lafurge and Mike.

After catching up to them Athan said as heaved a sigh of relief, " You two can go back now since those four people are dead....while I'll pay a visit to the Thousand Deity Palace, Those people of Lotus Ridge Sect still must be there. "

" Be careful bro.."Mike worriedly spoke, while Lafurge's face was also grave as he said, " Don't fight head-on and strike while hidden as long as you can, Caution is not a bad thing even for powerful beings. "

Athan spoke with an assured smile, " Don't worry, We'll make our moves carefully. "

" Yep, Nothing will happen to us, don't worry. " Tiana spoke as she also nodded with a smile.

Athan then conjured Four winged hurricane Tiger before both of them then sped towards the Thousand Deity Palace after asking about the direction from Lafurge.

After several hours, they entered the region where Thousand Deity Palace was situated, There seem to be a lot of people flying in the same direction as Athan.

" Looks like something big is going on at Thousand Deity Palace. "

Tiana also nodded and spoke, " Then we don't need to go sneakily, we can just continue flying towards them just like everyone else, and since we are young no one will suspect us of coming there to cause trouble. "

" Exactly..." he then dissolved the beast and both of them flew on their own.

It didn't long for them to arrive at a big plaza which was situated before Thousand Deity Palace.

The plaza means it was a big floating platform and behind it was a majestic Palace, Even if Thunder-Fire valley's all three palaces were combined it would still look small in front of this one palace.

Athan felt that the palace was approx 1km meter tall and 4 square kilometers wide.

After waiting for 30 minutes, They suddenly saw a majestic chariot being pulled by 6 white pegasuses descending from the top of the Thousand Deity Palace and arriving towards the plaza.

The chariot descended on the plaza as eight people of varying ages but the same clothing as the four people who were killed by Tiana came out and divided into two groups before standing respectfully on each side.

The people's face changed seeing five people among the eight people because they were shockingly big figures who were famous for a long time,

Palace Master of Thousand Deity Palace.

Palace Master of Cloud Fantasy Palace.

Palace Master of Thousand seas Palace.

Hall Master of Four seasons Hall.

Hall Master of Great Storm Hall.

While the other three people were elders of the Lotus Ridge Sect, among them two elders possessed the power at Elemental Dominator albeit around middle tiers.

The leaders of Top five factions were respectfully standing on the side along with elders of the lotus ridge sect.

Seeing this shocking site, The people on the plaza were discussing in low mummers.

Afterward, A man who looked to be in his forties, with long brown hair and clothes with the same pattern but the more luxurious design in his robe came out as he walked majestically.

He swept his gaze around the crowd and spoke as his deep voice reverberated everywhere, " My name is Linus Konzer, Sect Master of Lotus Ridge Sect. You all must be aware of what happened in the last 10 days, The top 5 factions have already submitted to My Lotus Ridge Sect, and I have already have sent my men to subdue the remaining Factions from Rank 6 to 10. "

The Crowd was fell into complete silence hearing that.

" I will also give all you minor Factions a chance to submit to me, If you refuse then I will annex your faction's wealth, or If you can defeat me in one on one then you can stay independently. "

After he finished speaking, He once again swept his gaze across the crowd, seeing that no one was objecting he nodded and opened his mouth...But before he could do so, he heard a voice that was a bit raspy and casual sounding.

" I would like to how strong the so-called Sect Master of Lotus Ridge Sect is. "

The Crowd was shocked hearing the voice and even Konzer was surprised by the arrogant tone of the voice.

He then saw as an individual with a Black shining suit with the design of dragon scales, two dragon horn, and shining black curved plates protruding outward on cool looking gloves and boots....flying towards him.

His gaze became cold as he spoke, " You want to challenge me? "

Athan who was inside the Dragon suit nodded and spoke in a manner that could infuriate another party, " Yes, you look like a joker with that colorful shining outfit and I don't like it, and since you spoke haughtily while not even looking that impressive I felt like beating you, so at the end when you said you were accepting challenges, I couldn't help but come forward. "

" You..." Linus became shocked speechless hearing the rude words, Never in his life, he had heard someone insulting him like this. ' What do you mean by I look like a joker ?? You are looking more like a joker than me. '

He then calmed himself down and spoke in a cold voice, " Since you are so eager to court death then come on. " Saying this, He directly flew upward on the same level as Athan and waved his left hand forward as several wind blades shot towards Athan, while he put his right hand behind his back as energies started to gather in it.

Athan dodges the wind blades not because he was afraid of them but because if that sect master found out that his wind blades didn't even scratch him, there would a chance that out of caution he would run away.

After dodging the wind blades, Athan rushed towards his opponent instead of using spells.

Seeing this, the Sect Master retreated as in his right hand a small lotus which consists of Wood, dark and Water energy was forming, its color becoming Dark green.

After retreating for 5 seconds, he suddenly stopped and waited for Athan to come, Athan couldn't see the lotus but he could feel a sinister corroding energy from the sect master, But he was not afraid because he didn't feel any threat and still rapidly moved forward.

Just as he was 5 meters away from his opponent, He suddenly saw a Dark green lotus expanding rapidly and coming in his direction.

Athan didn't dodge, rather he could not and collided with it, The lotus burst like a bubble releasing dark green poison liquid all over his suit.

Seeing this, Sect Master sneered, " This spell the Mark of our Lotus Ridge Sect, It is extremely poisonous and corroded unless you combine correct amount of Dark, Wood and Water energy while forming the spell, you can't create corroding and poison attribute of the lotu---"

His speech suddenly stopped as he saw The black suit of the opponent shining.

Athan just found out another function of the suit, It could strengthen itself by consuming his physical stamina, otherwise, if it was just a black suit, it would have been corroded by the energy of lotus but with Athan wearing it and powering it up with his powerful refined body, The suit resisted the poisonous and corroding energy.

While the Sect master was shocked, Athan directly dashed in front of him and grabbed his neck with one hand while punching in the guts with another hand.

The sect master could not resist the power of Athan's punch even with his powerful body and blood came to his throat but didn't come out as Athan had grabbed his neck.

" Yeah so much for a powerful Spell of your Lotus Ridge Sect, It didn't even scratch me. " Athan spoke with the same voice that was a bit raspy as he mocked the sect master of Lotus ridge sect.

The leaders of the Top 5 factions and all other people were filled with shock but they didn't dare come forward, Even elders of the Lotus ridge sect who were in the Elemental Dominator Stage didn't come forward fearing for their Sect Master's safety.

Linus Konzer's eyes were filled with disbelief as he couldn't believe that he lost just like that.

He moved his lips as he spoke with struggle, " W-we...ca-can...t-talk."

Athan didn't remove his grip and said with an unquestionable tone, " If you want to live then you will have to become my servant along with the whole Lotus Ridge Sect. "