Boundless Human World - Chapter 43 The Heavenkins Origin

Shura walked to the nearest city exit. Corpses filled the ground all the way from where he was to the city’s exit. He could see the fire and smokes billowing high into the sky. Some buildings had been burnt to the ground and only a blackened and burnt ground indicated that someone’s home had once been there.

Just as Shura was about to step through the gate and leave the city, someone called him from behind.

“You, stop!” the voice of a young woman sounded.

Shura stopped his step mid-air and retracted his foot back to where it was. He turned around to look at the person who had called him.

A young woman accompanied by a group of warriors walked up to him. The warriors behind the woman looked like veterans who were accustomed to fighting.

“Can I help you?” Shura inquired.

“I saw you fight earlier. Can you please accompany me back to Tanghan, the capital city of our Heavenkin race? the woman asked politely.

“Sorry, I’m not interested in being employed,” Shura immediately declined.

“It’s not for you to join us, don’t worry about that,” the young woman said.

“Then why do I have to go with you?” Shura asked. There was somewhere he wanted to go and someone he wanted to meet. What is this about him having to go somewhere else?

“I’m sorry, I can’t really explain it, but it’s really important. Can you please trust me and come with me?” the young woman asked again.

Shura observed her. She didn’t seem to be lying. Her words and facial expressions told him that she was being genuine. Shura looked at her and the warriors with her with his eye technique. It told him that this meeting was very important.

His eye technique hadn’t failed him yet, he would trust it and this young woman.

Although Shura did want to directly go to the Immortal’s territory and find Claira, there were lots of things that he didn’t know about this world. It wouldn’t hurt to become more familiar with everything and get more grounded before he made any major moves. He also needed to have enough strength to back whatever it was he planned to do as well.

“Alright. I will go with you. When do we set off?”

“Thank goodness! You really believed me. We’re leaving now, come on, let’s go,” the young woman said and smiled happily.

And like that, Shura followed the mysterious young woman and her escort of warriors. They went to a stable and all got on a horse. The young woman got a horse for Shura as well. After that, they left the city.

On leaving the city Shura could see an army of soldiers fighting and killing off the surviving swordsmen in black-and-white robes. It seemed like the Heavenkin army had arrived to relieve the city under attack.

Shura didn’t understand why they had just arrived. They were too slow to respond to the attack. There should’ve been an early warning and the army should’ve immediately arrived to defend the citizens. This was too inefficient. By the time they arrived countless people were already dead. The dead didn’t come back to life. What were the survivors supposed to do?

Shura gave all of this a casual glance as he rode away with the group. Everyone had their own difficulties.

It wasn’t long before they arrived in another city. The group dismounted their horses and walked on foot until they arrived at a grand and large building in the middle of the city. Shura didn’t know anything so he just walked behind the young woman and her guards.

They arrived in a spacious room. A massive teleportation array carved with countless intricate symbols was embedded on a raised platform in the middle of the room. The group walked to the middle of the teleportation array and it activated.

A blinding flash of light engulfed the group and shot high into the sky. When the pillar of light disappeared, Shura and the rest were also gone.

In another place far away from that city, in the capital of the Heavenkin Nation, Tanghan, a pillar of light descended from the sky onto one of the many teleportation arrays in the megalopolis.

Shura along with the young woman and her guards appeared in that flash of light.

Even after the teleportation, Shura still followed behind the young woman. They made their way through the large and wide street of the city. The city was really bustling with activity.

They made their way to a large and walled area.The walls were very high and imposing and it was very, very wide. This was undoubtedly an important place in the massive city. The guards of the young woman didn’t enter. Only Shura and the mysterious young woman entered.

They entered an enormous building and kept walking. Shura thought he was going to meet someone important or something, but that didn’t happen at all. On the way he couldn’t find a single person at all. What kind of place was this? It was weird. The two of them kept walking deep into the building.

Finally, they came to stop in front of a large hall. The dark-redgate to this hall was half-open. The two of them entered. The hall was long. The roof was also very tall. It was cold here. There was a path in the middle that led to the end of the room where there was a large boulder with inscriptions.

On either side of the path was large stone tablets inscribed with words. Shura couldn’t read what they said at all.

The young woman led Shura to the large stone boulder.

The woman took out a dagger from her spatial ring and handed it to Shura.

“I need a drop of your blood,” she said.

Shura made a small cut on a thumb. The dagger couldn’t cut through his skin at all.

The young girl’s eyes widened in surprise. Shura was surprised as well. Was this dagger dull or something?

Shura poured his energy into the dagger and cut with more force this time. He made a small wound and blood dripped out of it.

“What do I do now?” Shura asked the young woman.

“Touch the stone with your blood,” the young woman said.

Shura did as the young woman instructed, he pushed his bloody thumb into the large boulder. Shura’s blooded immediately seeped into the stone. The stone turned red all over, and then the redness contracted and turned into small lines and symbols that combined to form some sort of word or symbol that Shura could not read. It was similar to the symbols he had seen carved on the tablets earlier.

The symbol kept transforming at a very fast speed. Shura’s cultivation was high and his eyesight was capable of capturing minute movements, but even then he had trouble following the change that this one red symbol made.

The red symbol finally stopped changing.

Shura turned to the young woman and asked her: “What does it mean?”

The young woman stared at the red symbol on the boulder with her eyes widened.

“I don’t know,” the woman said.

“You don’t know? If you don’t know, am I supposed to know?” Shura teased.

“I don’t know, but I know someone who does,” the young woman said as she hurriedly ran out of the hall.

Shura waited for a long time in that hall before the young woman came back. This time she came with an elderly-looking man.

The man came up to Shura and started telling him things. First, he talked about the Heavenkin. The Heavenkin were people that did not belong to this universe. He went on and explained what a universe was to Shura in case Shura didn’t know.

A universe was the entirety of the existence of one independent and true ‘world’. It was complete and independent all within itself. Within a universe were countless smaller ‘realms’ that were worlds of their own. But these worlds were smaller and were a part of the bigger universe. These realms had different ranks. The lowest had few spirit energy and weren’t suitable for its inhabitants to cultivate at all. Thus, the inhabitants of such realms could only live a mundane life as mortals.

Those who lived in realms of higher rank had access to spirit energy and were able to cultivate, allowing them to live more fantastic lives.

There were innumerable low-ranking realms. But fewer and fewer of higher-ranking realms until there was only one realm that had the greatest density and quality of energy.

This Godly Realms was the realm that stood at the top of the period of realms within this universe.

The Heavenkin race escaped the destruction of their universe. That destruction was a natural process that the universe went through. There was creation, and then there was destruction. The Heavenkin race had no difference to humanity at all other than that they came from another universe, and they had obtained special powers now that they were in this universe.

The Heavenkin arrived in the Godly Realms and made it their home. There were already Immortals, people who came from the lower realms and also made the Godly Realms their new home, and the gods, the original inhabitants of the Godly Realms who were born naturally powerful thanks to the boundless and profound spirit energies. When the Heavenkin arrived, these two sides were fighting each other for territory and due to mistrust.

Ever since the arrival of the Heavenkin to the Godly Realms, the relationships between the different peoples had changed. The Heavenkin had been attacked by the Gods constantly ever since their arrival. The gods even encouraged the Immortals to do the same.