Poison God's Heritage

*** Some time ago ***

Back in the arena, the eight lords had decided to postpone the coronation of Shen Bao as the clear winner of the trial. Since the objective was to retrieve the handkerchief was not possible to complete due to them being stuck in the fifth zone.

That is what the people were led to believe. After all, what the Eight Suns knew was something that could threaten the safety of the Beyond as a whole.

The Eight Suns were all doing a meeting with each other, trying to figure out a way out of this mess.

"Like I said, let's just blow the entire thing up, how tough can it even be?" the Cryptic Sun was the first to speak.

"Besides the loss of the knowledge from another race that have had a person who reached far higher than even us, the mere fact that we can risk releasing those things in the beyond in case they somehow survive is enough a threat not to do it," the Blue Sun said.

She was far too invested into the heritage of that race to agree to the destruction of the Bastion.

"The Blue Sun is right," the Lord of Lords said. "The risk is too high, also believe in those children. They can get out, I'm sure of it," he added.

"There are far too many factors that are against them, the mere fact that those fiends, the Rakshasa as Shen Bao named them are at the Origin Shattering realm is enough to put anyone in despair," the Red Sun said, "But I'm of the same opinion as the Lording Sun, believe in them. If I know anyone below the Origin Shattering realm that has a shot at leaving that place, it is definitely Shen Bao."

"You two are only saying that because you're invested in Shen Bao, you're overlooking the safety of the people in the beyond!" the cryptic sun shouted.

"Calm down now," the Flamboyant Sun, against his own charismatic and overly loud and colorful personality was the one that looked calmest.

His eyes were wide and didn't seem to focus on anyone, yet at the same time you'd think that he was looking right at you when he talked.

"There has been no indicator so far that they would fail, not to mention they can also use the woman who talked to them, she opened up the paths for them to save her body, she can definitely let them out," the Flamboyant Sun said.

"I know that kid," the Dusking Sun said, "You better not try and ruin his fun. He'll definitely get out, just don't bring down the entire building on top of him while he's doing so. Also, you've seen how many puppets he used just to save her body, he definitely has more."

"He's out," the Darkest Sun said.

Immediately the Darkest Sun resumed displaying what his disciple was seeing.

Since he had the ability to look through his own disciple's eyes and control bits of his body even though the distance was great, this allowed the suns to see and hear what the Darkest Sun was able to witness.

Shen Bao who had went to help cure the Queen's body returned alone.

This made the Darkest Sun interject and control his disciple's mouth, "Where is her body?" the Darkest Sun asked.

To which Shen Bao asked what use he has for a dead body.

Of course, everyone was interested. The body of a person close to their cultivation level if not slightly higher was of great value. And it would be wasted if it remained in the hands of Shen Bao.

"It's the body of a person from a land far away, they reached great heights in cultivation their body is useful," he said.

Shen Bao's expressions were that of disappointment and disgust, the latter showing more on his face.

He gave an argument that was sound, due to her body being completely deprived of Qi, it rotted beyond help. Even a Sun Stage cultivator would have his entire body eroded if it didn't have access to heavenly Qi.

Though the corpse of a cultivator can survive the weather and natural decomposition phenomenon for a long time. That is only the case in situation where the body is perfectly preserved. Or out in nature, where the Qi from their dead bodies would slowly nurture the land around them.

In this nurturing, the land itself would stop the factors of decomposition to further preserve the body so the land can gain even more Qi from the corpse.

But in the Bastion, where the Heavenly Qi was heavily restricted to stop the Rakshasa from acting at full power. And due to the queen's frozen body, the factors of decompositions were slowed by the ice and the body didn't rot, but the Qi was all completely depleted due to the passage of time.

And since the body lost its internal Qi, it became nothing but the corpse of a normal body.

Shen Bao handed the Fire King a small urn, in which the Darkest Sun forced the Fire King to taste the remains. A Revolting taste of death spread through his mouth. The culmination of body fluids in the jar were more than enough proof of the death of the body.

It had lost all of its Qi but still kept some fractured laws of great knowledge that the body earns when they reach the Sun stage of cultivation.

She was truly dead.

The Darkest Sun withdrew his control over his disciple and only used one of his eyes to see what they were seeing.

The meeting continued.

"I guess it's a hopeless cause then, let's just exile the whole thing if you're all too scared to blow it up," the Cryptic Sun added.

"Exile it where?" the Wisest Sun said. "You're not planning on sending this to the Vast Expanse right?"

"And where else? The Vast Expanse is nothing but a dumpster. The Qi in that place is barely enough to make an Emperor stage cultivator once every tens of thousands of years," the Dusking Sun said.

"If even one of these things were to get to the Vast Expanse it would completely ruin it. Not to mention, the pressure from so many of them will destroy the Heavenly Dao that's keeping that place running. Life isn't easy to create don't think of it too fickle no matter how weak or feeble it is," the Wisest Sun's anger seemed to show in his words.

After all he had an imperative role in the creation of the Vast Expanse.

"There will be no exiling of anything," the Lord of Lords said, "They're not dead yet, also unless you're blind, you can see that he has enough forces to fight back."

What the Darkest Sun was seeing was the incredible number of fully armored up puppets stationed in the open prairies. That is an army capable of eradicating an entire country by itself. The weakest of the puppets is at the Emperor Stage which is comparable to the Rakshasa.

Although they have a numerical disadvantage against the Rakshasa, if Shen Bao uses the terrain well and his wits, there could be hope.

The Cryptic Sun who was more than willing to completely obliterate the Bastion had to take a step back and compromise.

"If they look like they're failing, I'm going in there personally to exile the entire region. And if you're too worried about your useless little trash world, then I'll hold the entire region within a spatial fold in my territory, I would assume no one will have any issues with that," the Cryptic Sun said.

Though cryptic, his intentions were as obvious as the sun he was.

"From the beginning, you were leading the conversation to this point," the Dusking Sun said. "You never change do you." He smirked.

The Cryptic Sun snorted.

"I cannot agree to this!" the Blue Sun's eyes flared. All her heard work was going to go down the drain if the Cryptic Sun ends up taking the Bastion.

"You cant keep good things to yourself, also you didn't offer any valuable or helpful ideas. I'll be sheltering all the responsibility when they fail, and I'll have to seal and control the entire thing by myself." The Cryptic Sun said.

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"What gives you the right to do so?!" she shouted, her Qi was flaring.

"My ability does!" the Cryptic Sun flared back, "Only I can seal that thing, no one her can dare say that they're better than me in the art of seals and formation making!"

The wisest sun inwardly snorted, as although his art of sealing and inscription was top notch, Shen Bao still managed to one up him back in the trial of the Tower Defense.

"ENOUGH!" the Flamboyant Sun who acted as mediator shouted, "The Safety of the Beyond is our first priority! In the case where they fail, the Cryptic Sun will take all responsibility over the sealing of the Thundering Domain. In case they manage to leave, you will not touch the domain and allow the Blue Sun to finish her study."

The Blue Sun was about to interject on the unfair judgement. Since the risk of them dying was far greater than survival.

But the Lord of Lords sent her a divine sense message in time, "Calm down, we set up the Flamboyant Sun as our Arbiter due to his neutrality, if you disagree against his judgement you'll cause strife we have no business with, also trust in Shen Bao, he won't disappoint you."

The blue sun swallowed her words and sat back down, while the Cryptic Sun smirked down at her.

Rage was willing inside her, but she decided to trust the Lording Sun, after all, he was the oldest Sun of the eight.

So, they watched as Shen Bao's army came down and their fight begun.