Ascend The Heavens

Immortal soul realm

Gu Junxiu felt so happy about her achievement. She tamed her first beast and increased in ranking. She ran back to the Lord to gloat but the Lord was nowhere to be seen. She pouted when she had no one to show her achievement to.

[Entering the immortal soul realm]

"What!" she asked when she heard the weird voice sounding so close to her ear. She didn't get to receive an answer because she dropped to the ground the next moment and her soul left her body. She watched as she floated away from her body and went up to the sky. Her soul passed through the clouds and traveled to a tree that floated in the sky.

[Task; Retrieve the golden egg from the golden eagle]

Gu Junxiu stared at the tree in awe, it was a big tree with bright yellow leaves that glowed like gold. It had no roots and just stood atop of the clouds.

[Passage granted]

Her soul passed through the tree and appeared in a completely different realm. There was a very thick fog that made it difficult to see anything.

"Get your sword ready, this place is dangerous," warned Ting ting after he felt a dark presence in the fog. Gu Junxiu summoned her sword and held onto it as close to her as possible. "Bear in mind that if your soul is harmed in this realm it will be harmed in the human realm."

Gu junxiu held on to her sword and walked ahead into the fog. "How do I find the golden eagle?" she asked Ting ting. She waited for some time but there was no answer from Ting ting. She continued aimlessly walking in the fog trying to find or reach its end. She walked for a long time but neither was she getting anywhere nor was the fog clearing. Her feet were tired and her eyes were sleepy, she dropped the sword in her hand and next to her soul dropped to the ground.

Just as she closed her eyes a pair of hands picked her up and carried her on his back. She was taken away and the fog cleared, the man carried her on his shoulder and lifted her off to the sky, and flew up to the sky. He wore a red robe and had black hair, he flew in the sky but his hair laid down and didn't move with the wind.

He stopped on top of the mountain and found a cave entrance and went in with her. He entered the dark cave and lit a fire from his hands and let it lead the way. The flame led the way as he walked behind it carrying the unconscious Junxiu who was unaware of the things that were going on. They reached the end of the tunnel and the flame disappeared, using his Qi he opened a hole on the ground and jumped inside it with the girl.

The whole lit up the moment he got in revealing a well-decorated underground house. There was very luxurious furniture inside there and a chandelier to light the room. There was a kitchen area that was well equipped with utensils and ingredients for cooking. He walked past the main room and went down a bright corridor to the room at the end and opened the door. Going inside he placed Junxiu on the bed, he took her sword and her celestial ring and kept them with him, and left the room.

He went back to the main room and placed Junxiu's things on the table and poured some tea for himself to drink. "Master, what do you plan to do with her?" asked a young man coming out of the shadows.

"Nothing, she is not here for me."

"But master the girl is the one. Is it safe for her to be here and it is still early shouldn't we have waited a little longer," he advised his master while his voice trembled lightly? The master did not reply and continued to drink his tea.

The ground shook tremendously and the young man who had questioned his master got back into the shadows. The darkness had arrived in the cave and he was not one to play with fire so he retreated. A dark shadow entered the cave and into the room where the young man who had kidnapped Junxiu was happily drinking his tea. He wasn't shaken in the slightest by the arrival of the shadow and wasn't bothered by it either.

The shadow went past him and flew to the room where Junxiu was kept. It took the form of a man on reaching the room and removed his outer coat and kept it on the stand. He removed his shoes and climbed on the bed to sleep. He opened his eyes as he felt another person next to him, he turned the crystals on with his Qi giving the room some light. He turned around and saw Gu Junxiu sleeping peacefully on his bed.

His eyes were filled we're black with no pupils and it was like staring into the black hole when you looked into them. He stared at Junxiu without doing anything, "Why is she in my bed?" he asked the man drinking tea using telepathy.

"She is the one that you have been waiting for. Consider this a gift as an act of kindness from me. I will be sure to collect what you owe me soon," he replied taking another sip of his tea.

Looking at Junxiu the man used his telekinetic powers and lifted her out of his bed and to the floor. "Whether or not she is the one that I have been waiting for bear in mind that I don't like it when strangers lay on my bed."

He got under the covers and went to sleep, a strong fog engulfed his body as he slept. The fog was only on his body as the rest of the room was clear of any fog and was clear. The man in the main room finished his tea and got up and left the cave. He flew towards the direction where he had kidnapped Junxiu from. He got there and disappeared, reappearing outside the golden tree. He looked at the tree and the tree shed blood from its branches.

"Don't even think of telling anyone that the girl is in the immortal soul realm. She will come out at the right time and if you dare get her out before then, I will end your life," he said making the tree shake in fear. The man flew away to the spirit realm and picked up Jinxiu's body from there and left to the mortal realm. The array that kept Jinxiu in the spirit realm broke alarming the Lord. He woke up from his sleep and went in search of her.

The man took Gu Junxiu to a faraway mountain in the Phoenix Empire and set it down in a cave similar to the one on the immortal soul realm. He laid her nicely in the room and surrounded her bed with crystals that kept her body alive and stable for when her soul returns.

The girl was prophesied to release and set them free. They have been waiting for her for over five hundred years and he couldn't be happier with her arrival.