50 Chapter 50 (1/2)

It had been reasonably easy for Shen Yue to enslave the three Spiritual Gods. With them restrained and multiple Heavenly Fate experts and two Spiritual Gods to help, their defences crumbled and their souls were branded. After he had finished pacifying the Nether Realm, there would be another two Subsidiary Realms to claim for the Empire. If only the other Spiritual Gods had stayed and fought.

The knowledge he gained from the three gods was not as helpful as he thought it would be. Other than locations to most of the other Subsidiary Realms, the only memories of value was their information on the Draconic Ruins. It gave him the necessary information about the various sects and prominent locations. He had gained a fair bit from Nie Lie, but it was spotty at best, the man had really bumbled his way through his first life.

The only issue left for him to deal with now was Xiao Yu. She was raised by her foster father Ming Fei, but her birth father was from millions of years in the past. After being defeated by the Sage Emperor, he sealed his and his wife's cultivation inside Xiao Yu's blood with a Void Spiritual Array. He then used a secret technique to send her to the future where Ming Fei adopted her, teaching her his crappy half-finished cultivation technique.

But the problem Shen Yue was worried about, was that when Nie Li came close to the Void Spiritual Array on Xiao Yu's chest, his consciousness was drawn into it by Xiao Yu's father. This meant that he could not just enslave her, incase her father had the power to wipe him from existence. Not to mention that her cultivation in her blood will awaken when she sleeps with a man, giving the Sage Emperor the ability to locate her.

So Shen Yue would have to play nice for a change and befriend her. That, or leave her behind when the portal to the Draconic Ruins reopened. It would save him all the bullsh*t Nie Lie went through with her admirers and jealous enemies. This also included his wives and maids that he wanted to take. Should he leave them behind, send them to the Heavenly Note Sect or just accept that they will bring trouble and take them with him.

But it is a vast and fertile land, perfectly shielded from the demon beasts by the Primal Family and their copy of the Amethyst Bamboo. It was a complete unknown for Shen Yue, and the power level and troop size of the hidden Realm could possibly overrun his budding Empire.

Much easier to just seed the main world with the different races he conquers from the smaller Subsidiary Realms. After all, there was seventy-two of them, and the majority were without Spiritual God overlords. Shen Yue would have to plan carefully with his leaders that would stay behind to expand his Empire, it wouldn't take him that long to gather enough power to find a method to return through the World Barrier, but there was always the chance something unexpected could happen.

With Nie Li and the slapper from Earth still kept in a coma, there would be no fuss when he delivered them to the sect he chose for them. Luckily, he managed to capture the ambassador for the Phaseless Sect. With a written order and some of the ambassador's underlings to deliver them, it will be a done deal before they can object. The only set back was that Shen Yue would not be able to make them swear an oath to his enslaved minion, but he was pretty sure God wouldn't let him anyway.

The Black Infernal Tower had been turned into a place for Shen Yue to train his elites, Duan Jian also benefited greatly from his time there. Everything of worth had been stored away, and any demon beasts sealed within were harvested for their spirits and valuable body parts. On the sixth floor, they encountered the ghost of Kong Yan. Unlike in canon, there was no weak person for him to take over and he was enslaved, mind raped and destroyed.

Shen Yue had planned to sign a contract with the Celestial Qilin, but it was too rebellious to be trusted to work alongside him. Not that he blamed the beast as he had been trapped inside the tower by humans for years. Still, there was little mercy for it as Shen Yue harvested its demon spirit and stored its body inside his ring.

The next few months were spent tying up any loose ends before his departure and training in the different Laws. The two Realms belonging to captured Spiritual Gods didn't even need an army to conquer. He just had the gods bring the leaders of their Realm for a diplomatic meeting with his Empire, it was the quickest invasion in history.

With their own God subduing them while Shen Yue branded their souls, the process was finished in a day. When the leaders returned, they simply repeated the process, and two Subsidiary Realms joined the Empire without any fuss. The Empire's rules and laws were transferred over with a bit of dissatisfaction, but when your God, leaders and strongest warriors pushed for it, there was little they could do.