445 Unexpected Encounter! (1/2)
The time didn't stop in the Luvile Universe either. Back then, the Darkness Sacred Land had employed its full force into searching for the remaining Time, Space, Blackhole Heavenly Fragments. In the end, their efforts proved rewarding.
On a planet called Tirank, they were able to find a cultivator called Askol Jofen. The planet of Tirank was a remote one, with cultivators and demon beasts not being able to go over the Soul Forging Realm. It was pretty much at the same level as Makui. The only difference is that it was a lot further away from the powers controlling this region. Thanks to that, no one noticed Askol's presence until now.
Askol turned out to be a genius, easily dominating everyone in the same generation. When he was only twenty, he broke through the Divine Soul Realm. At the age of 32 years, he entered the Soul Forging Realm!
Don't look down on this cultivation speed. Considering the environment Askol grew up in, that is already a frightening speed of advancement. Around a year ago, an emissary of the Darkness Sacred Land arrived at the Tirank Planet. Using his authority, he made all the cultivators and demon beasts from the big sects look for heaven-defying geniuses.
Not too surprisingly, he quickly heard about Askol, who surpassed everyone else in battle prowess and cultivation speed. When the emissary went to test Askol himself, the later was able to escape his pursuit by using his comprehension of the Space Laws. The emissary is at the Void Breaking Realm. For a 1st Stage Soul Forging Realm to be able to escape from him, he immediately understood that perhaps he found the right person.
Instead of keep searching for him, the emissary immediately contacted the Darkness Sacred Land. Sure enough, the Darkness Sacred Land was desperate to find a Heavenly Fragment Owner. With this sudden news, they immediately sent a Divinity Realm over.
With a simple Divine Sense scan over the entire planet, that Divinity Realm quickly found Askol. It doesn't matter how impressive a Space Major Divine Soul is, the difference in cultivation was simply too big! The Divinity Realm guy's comprehension of the Space Laws far surpassed Askol's.
Askol couldn't understand how he offended such a terrifying existence. But not too long after he was confirmed to have the Space Heavenly Fragment, the elders of the Darkness Sacred Land explained everything to him. With no other choice, Askol went back to the Darkness Sacred Land with the Divinity Realm elder. In exchange, the Darkness Sacred Land had to treat his family and sect properly.
The elders of the Sacred Land knew that acquiring Askol's loyalty was the first step. So they immediately helped his sect become the strongest one in the Tirank Planet. As for his family, they helped them with pills, cultivation techniques, and other things. It wouldn't take too long for his parents to soar in cultivation, which pleased Askol very much.
His overall abilities were another story, though. Things like top cultivation techniques, Top skills, Foundation Enhancement Methods, etc. All of that improved several times under the Sacred land's watch. His comprehension over the Space Sub-Laws also soared with the help of the elders.
The Darkness Sacred land finally had one more Heavenly Fragment Owner! Better than that, Askol was not like Uer, who was always a keg of gunpowder that could explode at any second. He was easy to talk and quickly adapted to the Darkness Sacred Land rules.
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At the same time, Trata (the Earth Beaver) and the mountain girl were traveling from one planet to another.
Back then, when Trata was given a choice to help the sects or the mountain girl, he ended choosing the mountain girl in the end.
He was also the one to name her, choosing Lia as the name. Lia seemed to like that name a lot, so she quickly accepted it.
Obviously, the sects couldn't let things be over like that, so they tried all means possible to convince her to stay and go back to her Mountain Form. The mountain girl, obviously, immediately refused that. She had spent her entire life as a mountain, not being able to move at all! Who the hell would go back to that form? She would only do so when she needed to cultivate.
She simply grabbed Trata and went somewhere else. With her power, no one on this planet could force her to do anything. Besides, she would appear with Trata somewhere and then disappear again. So the powers of this planet had a hard time finding her. At some point, a new mountain would appear somewhere on the planet. That was Lia passing her time cultivating with Trata. But when the sects and other powers finally caught news of her presence, she would already be gone from that place.
Lia and Trata entered several different cities. With Trata's help, Lia learned how to write and read too. She also came to understand how the cultivation world worked. At first, Trata and Lia were trapped inside that planet since there were no Long Distance Teleport Formations. But at some point, a Space Ship from the powers controlling that region arrived.
Trata and Lia quickly reached an agreement with the troupe inside, and they brought those two away from there. Obviously, they had no idea that she has the Blackhole Heavenly Fragment. Or to be more precise, they aren't anyone important, so they didn't even know about the Heavenly Fragments to start with.