6 Chapter 6 (1/2)
The City Lord was in a great mood and thanked everyone for their help and support. The contract between Shen Yue and the Divine Family had been signed and witnessed after the tearful reunion and Ye Zong noticed them off to the side waiting.
”Are you sure there is nothing else I can do for you, Shen Yue? You have saved my wife where all others failed!” Asked Ye Zong as Shen Yue was saying his goodbyes, there was no need to rush his relationship with the Ye Family after the goodwill he had gained today.
”The land you have granted me is already too much, I only did what any citizen of Glory City would have done.” Shen Yue humbly replied.
The City Lord had given him a large stretch of land that had yet to be claimed, with the right to own any more land he reclaims and cultivates. The reason being was because it is the furthest piece of land to the east bordering the demon beast infested Infinite Forrest.
”Although worthless now, as soon as I train up some slav... followers, this will be my gateway to the Heavenly Fate Plateau.” He thought to himself. This was a weak human settlement that has survived by hiding. They have little resources and few fighters, a perfect hidden base once he takes it over.
”Well if you're sure. If you need anything you can always come to me, my family owes you a great debt.” Said Ye Zong seriously, forgetting status and giving Shen Yue a salute. Shen Yue would be honoured if he cared about that sort of thing.
”City Lord has shown me too much respect, Shen Yue is not worthy! Please, Lord, you have already shown me immense favour!” Doing the whole humble thing had really worn him out. After a few more back and forth of 'not worthy' he finally made his getaway with Chen Zhenlong. He would now be staying in his own private courtyard in the Divine Family compound.
Nineteen days later and he needed to change his occupation to Slave Master. The slave inscription he was designing had ended up turning into a secret technique! The Library of Heaven's Path was really too overpowered!
Shen Yue had spent most of his time manually upgrading anything that remotely had to do with his ideal betrayal countermeasure. Inside his mental library, he gathered all the revised books and ordered them to compile to create a flawless slave inscription.
The end result was a technique, that while the target was unconscious, would partially draw their soul out ready to be marked. He would then use an advanced version of Soul Separating to inscribe a personal seal onto their soul that linked to a permeant inscription seal he would have to create in his soul realm. This seal would then be capable of killing the target instantly with a thought, causing extreme pain or influencing their emotions! It didn't even matter what cultivation realm they could train too, even if they created multiple fate souls, they would all have a link to the inscription seal, truly godlike! Unfortunately, he would need to be gold ranked to be able to create the inscription seal in his soul realm.
With that option unavailable due to wanting to wait for his ultimate technique, he had to go with option 'B'. Only compiling the three updated slave techniques he got from his Family's restricted library, gave him a decent inscription that would link the target to a seal stone, needing one for every person he wished to mark.
With a drop of the targets blood and an inscription, Shen Yue could use his meagre soul force to create a seal that would turn red if the target was hostile and kill them if crushed. It could even be used as a rough locator/radar and work inside of interspatial rings!
This would fit his needs until he reached gold rank and seal stones where reasonably cheap. After going over his slave induction speech, he asked his maid Mei to gather her parents that had moved into his courtyard with her. This was to prevent Shen Hong from using them to leverage Mei into betraying him. The only problem was her older brother refused to move in and serve him, stating he had his own life and was safe with his bronze fighter status! What an idiot! With no other choice, he could only keep an eye on his new servants and rush the creation of his slave inscription.
”I have called you here today because I have finalized my plans of creating my own organization. As you know I was betrayed by my own Family and this has made me cautious in trusting people. You have chosen to follow me and this has made me happier than you will ever know, but the time has come to make a decision! If you continue to follow me, I will impart a cultivation technique to each of you and ensure you reach gold rank demon spiritualist within a year. This I can promise you with one hundred percent confidence! If you choose to leave, that is also ok and I will give you two thousand demon spirit coins for your service so far. Unfortunately, to be able to trust you I will need to have you swear an oath and receive a loyalty mark that will show if you have thoughts of betraying me. If this is too much, I understand.”
Shen Yue then watched as his three servants looked at each other and came to a decision.
They quickly knelt and then, as if rehearsed, spoke their oath. ”We swear allegiance to our Lord!”
With a wide grin, Shen Yue led them to his personal workspace and proceeded to mark his now fully trusted minions! Each mark took around fifteen minutes to complete but with his limited soul force, he needed to rest in between seals.
Although this wouldn't stop his minions from betraying him and spreading his techniques, it would at least be a failsafe for them literally stabbing him in the back. He would make sure to conveniently forget to mention the ability to kill them instantly. He doubted even Nie Li could decode his seal mark after the adjustments his library had done to it, it was after all an original inscription!
Even this city, as medieval as it was, had a justice system and copyright laws. This came in the form of the Saint Judgement Hall. This is a courthouse in Glory City that enforces the demon spiritualist code of conduct. This code of conduct has been around for three thousand years and is almost universally followed.
All Shen Yue had to do was create an organization and have them register said techniques, being careful to close any loopholes that might be exploited. Nie Li thought himself a virtuous patriot of Glory City and claimed to do anything to protect it. But in the end, he was nothing more than a selfish moron.
He had the ability to uplift the City's people and let them regain the territory lost to demon beasts. He even knew of other human settlements that were struggling to survive and only gave minor aid if they crossed his path, he was truly short-sighted.
But that's not the problem Shen Yue had with Nie Li, he even plotted to destroy the barrier seal placed on Tiny World by a Supreme expert. Because of this protective seal over it, experts from outside of the Tiny World cannot enter it. Only those that are originally from it, and have reached a high enough cultivation, are able to travel between it and the Draconic Ruins Realm. Even the Sage-Emperor could not break this seal, making it one of the only safe havens in this universe!
Glory City was situated in the Divine continent. It was one of six main continents that make up the Tiny World, however, the Divine Continent is often used when referring to the world as a whole. This is because ninety-nine percent of the world is ruled by demon beasts!
Shen Yue was not generous enough to liberate Tiny World for free, he planned on turning it into his personal world! The only thing negative about the seal was it could only be opened once every five years. But Shen Yue had confidence, that when he was powerful enough, his cheat library could fix this.