As fatigued as Hong Zhou was, he still carried the two teenagers as if they were his own children. Following Yang Sen, he finally reached the location of Yang Sen's house. "This is the house you were talking about? How can you call this a house? It looks like a prison from my hometown."
"Master, I have never left my village before; this is the best I could muster," Yang Sen replied. Though he had built a house, it was only big enough to accommodate one person. The house resembled a large sugar cube, with just one entrance designed like a prison door.
[DING]
[Notice: You have reached the location of the inheritance of the Heavenly Emperor.]
"Really? Where is it?"
[Behind that cubic house, there's a lion array that needs to be broken. Inside the array lies a damaged temple and the emperor's blood. This is a good location to bind the Invincible Astral Domain.]
"Master, who are you talking to?" Yang Sen asked, extremely curious as he noticed Hong Zhou speaking to himself as if he had gone mad.
"I'm talking to myself in another part of the world to pay attention to it, just think of it as my personification."
"Personi what_____?"
Hong Zhou knocked his disciple on the head. "That should put some sense into your brain."They both laughed for a moment.
"Master, what are we going to do about my house? It's quite beautiful if I say so myself!"
Hong Zhou destroyed the wooden house with a Qi blast from his palm.
"My house… Master, where are we going to sleep now?" Tears dropped off from Yang Sen's eyes.
"Relax, there's a better house behind that wall, a temple, in fact."
[The lion array is a large wall, and attacks capable of breaking this wall are very rare. The only way to break it is to draw the dao name of the emperor using your blood.]
"So what's the Dao name of the emperor?"
[....]
[Heretic Heavenly Emperor.]
[Warning: If you write the name of the emperor on the stone, some sacrifice will be needed to remove the lion array.]
'What kind of sacrifice?' Hong Zhou thought, his heart sank in despair.
[Cultivation.]
"It's a risk again. As long as I don't sacrifice my lifespan, it should be fine."
"Yang Sen, hold these two boys and move at least five meters away from me."
"Alright, Master." Yang Sen didn't ask any unreasonable questions and shifted away immediately.
"To write the emperor's name, I need to use my blood, right?"
Yang Sen was concentrating on what his master was trying to do.
Hong Zhou bit his hand and started writing the emperor's name on the wall.
"with each letter he wrote, his cultivation was decreasing, and his True Qi was vanishing into the air."
Crack. Crack. Crack
The walls started cracking, and after he finished writing the name, the wall broke down into pieces.
"I'm mortal once again," Hong Zhou was displeased by his progress, but he didn't make it visible for Yang Sen to see.
Soon enough, the sun rose and everywhere was now bright.
The two brothers woke up, but as they woke up the younger one was in a deep trauma
"Please don't kill me," he said while covering his face.
"Nobody is going to kill you; my master saved you from whatever you were going through; it's going to be fine."
[...]
Yang sen, what are you doing? Let's go inside; as they entered, Hong Zhou saw a derechned-looking Temple.
The temple had a sign board called "God Valley"
"Let's go, Yang Sen!"
"Right!"
Hong Zhou and Yang Sen entered the place that looked like a cave, and the two teenagers followed as well.
Inside the cave, there was a very large altar; on top of the altar was a rusted sword and a golden box.
Hong Zhou walked close to the temple and said "Alva, pair the invisible Astral Domain to that temple!"
[Invincible system function has been activated.]
[Pairing to the abandoned temple—1%]
[12% / 100%]
[24% / 100%]
[56% / 100%]
...….
[99% / 100%]
[99.1% / 100%]
Oh come on, what's the hold-up? There's only 1% left.
[100% / 100%]
"Yeah... yes, now that's what I'm talking about, but I don't feel any different."
[Try moving your hand out of the domain.]
"Okay," Hong Zhou said as he put his hand outside the domain and pulled it back immediately.
"That was terrifying; it felt as if my hand was numb and cut off from the rest of my body."
[Notice: Activating the invincible domain awards you absolute defense and absolute invincibility.]
[Every 100 points can be exchanged for a 10-meter increase in the invincible domain.]
"Awesome!" Hong Zhou exclaimed. "What do absolute defense and absolute invincibility do?"
[Absolute Invincibility: Within this domain, you have complete and total control, allowing you to do practically anything—from reshaping reality to imposing your will with absolute authority. This includes granting powerful abilities and even raising cultivation or creation and destruction of things you can do anything. The only limit is your imagination.]
[Absolute Defense: This ability provides you with total and complete protection over all concepts. It negates all forms of conceptual damage—life, death, existence erasure—within the domain, ensuring no form of damage can affect you.]
Hong Zhou sat down in front of the temple and gently said, "Bring them here."
Yang Sen directed the teenagers in front of him.
He commanded, "Heal." The teenager who had suffered severe burns felt the pain vanish almost instantly, while the one who had inhaled too much smoke experienced instant relief, as if all the impurities in his body had been washed away.
"Wow, Master, can you heal people? I didn't know that!" Yang Sen exclaimed, surprised.
"I can even raise the dead!" Hong Zhou replied.
Yang Sen's eyes widened in shock. "Master, you're joking, right?"
"No, I'm not. I can do anything here—create armies, build worlds; you name it." Hong Zhou was subtly declaring his god-like status without explicitly saying it.
'Yes, inside the domain I'm a god, but outside of it, I'm as powerless as a chicken. I need to increase my domain quickly so that I can continue to cultivate and eventually surpass Alva,' he thought, momentarily lost in consideration.
"Now, you two, what are your names?"
The younger one, about 167 cm tall, handsome, with black hair, was too afraid to speak, deeply terrified by the events of the night.
Meanwhile, the older brother, slightly shorter at 160 cm, stood tall with courage. His features were quite similar to those of his younger brother.
"My name is Wang Muwon, and this is my junior brother, Wang Sung. Thank you, good sir, for rescuing us," Wang Muwon said respectfully, bowing his head.
"I didn't save you for compliments; you have to repay me someday. Remember, I risked my life to save you."
"But sir, we don't have any money," Wang Muwon pleaded.
"Who said anything about money? I don't want money; all I want is for the two of you to become my disciples."
'I didn't rescue any of you because I was selfless. That would have been stupid of me; I'm not a man who makes selfless sacrifices for anything. That was my past self. If I want a better life, I have to be sharp, wise, and selfish. That's the only way I will survive and ensure that I'm not constantly betrayed by anything or anyone,' Hong Zhou thought to himself, his face portraying that of an emotionless man with high moral values.
"Okay,mister," the siblings said, bowing to show respect to their new master. "We hope to stay with you for all eternity and become your shield in the future."
"Very well, on your feet."
[Ding]
[You have achieved 300 domain points for accepting three disciples.]
[Should I use the points to upgrade the domain?]
'Go ahead.'
[Your invincible domain is now 30 meters.]
'The invincible astral domain is actually not visible to the naked eye of any other person, except for Hong Zhou, so he made sure not to cross his boundaries.'