Realms In The Firmament

Many people had come to the City of Chaos to take up residence because they wanted to live in peace and safety. When they heard the news, they were frightened, so they asked around to confirm it. However, they realized that all the guards in the city were gone in one night.

There was nobody enforcing the law anymore.

The governor’s house was locked!

There was friction among those powerful forces that had been getting along so well before. It seemed that they had started fighting for territories.

The peaceful City of Chaos was going to fall in the chaos of fights.

Many people started to rob others…

People who were clever knew that the forces were attempting… However, it was real now. Nobody cared.

Among the forces… there was one force that was shocking the world.

The House of Chaotic Storms!

In fact, the House of Chaotic Storms did not make any attempts. As they moved, they did it with unstoppable attacks. Many of their men who were wearing clothes with the patterns of clouds on their chest and rain on their back rushed in the City of Chaos like whirlwinds. Since they entered the gate of the city, they started to eliminate their enemies.

From the west gate of the city to the central part, they had lifted the flags of the House of Chaotic Storms.

It claimed their ownership of these places.

At first, people in the city were not so sure yet, so when they saw the cultivators of the House of Chaotic Storms crowding into the city, they quite enjoyed it. Some even gloated about it.

‘If the guardians are pretending this, trying to find out the offenders, the House of Chaotic Storms will be doomed.’

The House of Chaotic Storms rose utterly fast, and it had become one of the three most powerful forces in the Limitless Ocean. However, if there was a war between the House of Chaotic Storms and the Defender Department of the City of Chaos, the House of Chaotic Storms would definitely lose it. In fact, the Defender Department might not need to send all their men out before the House of Chaotic Storms fell!

However, as the House of Chaotic Storms pushed further and further, nobody from the Defender Department showed up. People started to worry.

At this moment, the House of Chaotic Storms had occupied the entire west part of the city!

They had taken the initiative in a beautiful, perfect way!

In fact, the House of Chaotic Storms didn’t stop at taking only the west part of the city. They were moving toward the east, the south, and the north of the city too. They even destroyed the buildings around the streets to expand faster. They were obviously taking down the entire west city. They wanted to turn the west part into a city inside the city, a city that only belonged to the House of Chaotic Storms.

The guardians didn’t show up, even though the House of Chaotic Storms had gone this far. The other forces finally realized that it was real.

They started to take their moves with fights and conflicts. The next three days, the entire City of Chaos became a slaughterhouse which was full of blood. There was no peace anymore.

Luckily, all these forces followed one latent rule, not to hurt the local people or any other ordinary people.

Nobody showed mercy to the enemies who were taking their territory. In the battle between cultivators, showing mercy was to push oneself to death. The sky turned red because of the blood.

The House of Chaotic Storms was recognized as the force that had benefited the most, so far in the chaos. They had occupied the entire west city and stopped expansion in the end. Instead, they started to strengthen the order inside their territory. They gathered all the small sects, businessmen, heads of small organizations in the west sect, and claimed their ownership of the place.

They had kicked out the shops that belonged to other forces and suppressed the small sects that were trying to take more profits from the city.

The House of Chaotic Storms had killed quite a lot of people, not less than any other forces did.

“Obey our orders. Pay in time. We will guarantee your safety. Your life will be just as easy as the old days.”

That was the House of Chaotic Storms wanted everybody to know. It wasn’t quite a clear rule after all.

For the small forces in the city, living the same peaceful lives as before was the best situation they could hope for. However, nobody was stupid. The first thing the House of Chaotic Storms wanted was obedience. That was quite an uncertain term… What exactly should they do?

That was a game of words really.

To obey orders meant that they would have to give as much as they could to the House of Chaotic Storms. Nobody knew how much it would be. In other words, if they couldn’t give the amount that the House of Chaotic Storms wanted then, they violated the order. If they violated the order, there was no peaceful life for them.

Everybody knew how the House of Chaotic Storms slaughtered the native gangs. “Kill the gangs. No mercy.” That was the order.

Everybody was shocked and scared. What else could they do except submitting?

The House of Chaotic Storms had taken full control of the entire west city. What they did next was to make rules in their territory. Everything had a procedure as they started the administration in the city.

All they had to do was to follow the procedures.

Some people in the House of Chaotic Storms didn’t understand. “Why do we just take the west city? We have time, and we have power. We can even take the entire City of Chaos if we want, and the other forces wouldn’t even have time to do anything to stop us. Maybe they would attack us… but we would have at least taken half of the City of Chaos. Why did we stop at just a quarter of it? How do we claim the ruler of the city if we just control a small part of the city?”

Not just one or two people had the question. Many of them had the same thought.

The leader, a high-level cultivator, decisively refused to keep expanding.

“It is the Great Leader’s order! There will be no further explanation.”

In an elegant courtyard, a young man in white clothes was lying in a rocking chair, with two extremely beautiful women waving fans for him.

“Master, we are in quite a promising situation. Why do we stop at one-fourth of the city?” The woman on the left asked.

“That’s right, Master. We could have occupied more places. Aren’t we losing a great opportunity?” The woman on the right was confused too.”

The young man in white clothes showed a bland smile and said, “Too much is as bad as too little. Asking too much sometimes brings you a great loss.”

He seemed to be quite patient and explained it to the ladies.

In fact, he always treated the two ladies better than the others. He wouldn’t explain a word to others, but would definitely tell everything to the two ladies.

After all, these two ladies meant much more to him!

“Wan’er, Xiu’er, we have stayed in the lower realm for so many years, but you two haven’t learned much in strategy. That is such a pity. Those people in the lower realm are weak in cultivation, but their cunning minds could make up your flaws. You two should have learned about it long ago!”

Wan’er was surprised. “Master, you have said the same words to us a lot. For us, absolute power means everything. Even though we were restrained in the lower realm, we were still absolutely dominant. Why do we have to play cunning tricks when we don’t have to? It is disgraceful!”

Master Bai smiled bitterly and said, “Come on you two. It was such a good chance for you to improve your minds, yet you wasted it. It is like walking across a mountain of treasures with empty hands. You two still haven’t realized what you missed, and still insisted that foolish absolute power theory. Did you forget what happened between Ye Xiao and us? You two are much more powerful than Ye Xiao, yet he played you around like you were two dolls in his hands!”

Xiu’er interrupt and said, “That is not true, Master. It was an urgent situation, and we caved in only for our own interest. After all, what we got, in the end, is a great gain. We were not fooled by Ye Xiao!”

Master Bai looked at the two ladies in shock, and then said, “It turns out you two think that we have taken a big advantage out of it! Really?”

Master Bai always felt ashamed to talk about it because he had lost too much. However, he never thought that the two ladies thought they had obtained so much.

The wise man, Master Bai was shocked.

Wan’er was also surprised. “What? Of course, we did! We got all those supreme dan beads that hadn’t shown up in the world for centuries. That was such a great advantage we took. The Nine Turns Heart Dan! The marvelous Agerasia Dan for Xiu’er and me. Aren’t these all great things we got from that thing? Do you have different opinions?”

Master Bai was shocked. He couldn’t think of a word to say anymore. After all, he was a wise man, and he didn’t want to lie. After all, he had indeed obtained a lot from Ye Xiao, so he didn’t know how to deny it!

However, he wasn’t going to talk about this anyway. He wanted the two ladies to learn more strategies, but the conversation went to an unexpected way!

After a while, Master Bai said, “I just want to say that you two are able to take care of things on your own now, but sometimes you must do things in a smarter way.

“The the Defender Department has canceled prohibition in the City of Chaos. It must be real. For a hundred thousand years, nobody ever spread rumors like that ever. It was the most forbidden thing to say in the city. If somebody said it, then it must be true.

“That is why I would get everybody in the House of Chaotic Storms to go and occupied the city as fast as we can.”

“That is gaining the initiative by striking the first blow. When the others were still wondering, we already got our position.

“However, we can’t be too greedy. Now that we have taken down the entire west city, that is enough for now. If we fought for more, the other forces would fight us together. We may need to give them some places that we spent so much to be occupied… That would be a great loss.

“To be more specific, we took a move first, so we got the initiative. In fact, because we were the first and the only one, we might get attacked by the Defender Department. We got not only the opportunity but also the risk.

“We moved, and the Defender Department didn’t. We are lucky. The west city belongs to us because we are lucky. The other forces won’t like it, but there is nothing they can do. We took the west city, yet didn’t expand, because we were showing the other forces some respect. I won’t take everything.

“You are right about absolute power though. We aren’t some regular force. We are powerful, and we are influential. For the days to come, the other four zones of the city, the east, south, north, and center will be in a disturbance. Fights and chaos will boil in those areas. Only the west city, our territory will be the safest and most peaceful area in the city.”

“That is why we should stop. We showed them respect, and they would at least show respect to us in return. The west city will not be targeted in the coming future.”

“If anybody dares to attack us, we can go defeat them with the help from other forces…”

Master Bai blandly smiled and said, “Taking initiative is so important. A small difference makes a totally different result! We are one huge step ahead of the other people!”

“We took a move before everybody else did because we believed the message was real. We took the west city before everybody else started to fight for territories. Before they get their territories, we should bring peace and order to our territory. When they start to work on it, we have done it. When they are still fighting, we have already started to run the west city.”

“We took one step ahead, and we are faster than them in every step to come. That brings us a great advantage.”

“Who has finished the administration, who stands firmly in this city.”

“It is the only way to expand efficiently to move after standing firmly on the ground… It is a world under the rule of nature now. We accumulate power. The more power we get, the easier for us to win the battle against others.”

He paused and said, “We will expand, but not now. We haven’t control what we got yet.”

Wan’er was confused. “There is still one thing I don’t understand. If somebody attacks us, why would the other forces help us to fight the enemy? They should just watch us fight, shouldn’t they?”

“They will help us because we only took the west city. We aren’t greedy. The other forces trust us.”

“If anybody dares to attack us, it means the enemy shows no respect to us. If they show us no respect, they show no respect to nobody else… If we are defeated, the rule of respect is broken. The other forces will be the next targets for our enemy.”

“The other forces will understand it, so they will help us. They are helping themselves if they help us. To fight by our side is the best choice for them.”

“I see.” The two ladies nodded. They didn’t really understand it, but they weren’t totally blank after all.

‘If the Master says so, it must be right!’

Master Bai seemed pleased. As he looked at the two ladies, his eyes were soft. He thought, ‘The two girls wasted such a great opportunity to enhance their minds in the lower realm. They don’t have mature minds. I shouldn’t tell them too much. They should learn it by themselves.’

When the House of Chaotic Storms was making rules in the west city, Ye Xiao was taking his move too.

Ye Xiao and his men went to talk to the leadership of the Brotherhood Alliance about the big piece of land they were going to purchase in the city, while the Brotherhood Alliance was in a troublesome time.

All the forces were fighting for territories. The war had begun.

In the City of Chaos, at least two hundred forces were trying to take their own territories.

The Brotherhood Alliance didn’t get initiative in the battle. If they moved even later, they might get nothing in the end.

When the battle began, what was most important?

It was cultivators!

What mattered next was weapons, resources, and money!

Dan beads and weapons, everything cost money!

When the Brotherhood Alliance needed, Ye Xiao showed up and wanted to buy the land!

Wasn’t he here to give the Brotherhood Alliance money?

The Brotherhood Alliance was surely overjoyed!