Whilst the students were taking their leave, preparing to return to their rooms to rest, Cesar, who was holed up itle he had made for himself, had just taken out the tome Arianna had given him earlier.

  “I wonder wha…” Cesar couldn’t even finish his sentehe momearted reading, he was immediately hooked.

  He was currently reading the same tome Ace had read, which listed each of the profound mysteries for each of the seven natural ws.

  Though the tents of the book were retively straightforward in its tents, if the saints, and even some of the deities, khat this book existed, it would cause a bloodbath as those that stood at the top of the food went to war to get their hands on it.

  It had to be uood that due to certain circumstances and altercations from over ten thousand years ago, those of the Yun ti had a limited uanding of things that should be simple to those of their level.

  It meant that the majority was forced to stumble around in the dark as they desperately searched for a path forwards.

  The truth was that Cesar was far beyond your average genius; in fact, if he had ehe Pavilion with Ad the others, he would be a genius at the level of Amira.

  sidering he had no masters or seniors to help guide him, it was incredible that he made it to his current level at all, especially as his element – darkness – though not as rare as the four edicts, was still one of the two rarest natural elements – the other being light.

  All that is to say that his simply getting an uanding of the profound mysteries of his element was like giving wings to a tiger.

  “I didn’t think he’d actually have a sudden epiphany,” Aiden said as he looked down at Cesar from the clouds above.

  “It makes sense,” Arianna expined. “With his talent, and sidering how long he had spent fumbling around blindly, the moment he found out the truth, it was only natural that he saw a dramaticrease in training speed.”

  “That’s true,” Aiden aowledged casually. “How much do you think he’ll improve? Do you think he’ll break through to the deity realm?”

  “I don’t know,” Arianna shrugged. “But I doubt it with how close he was already. If his epiphany had anything to do with the profound mystery of the body of darkness, he would’ve already broken through.

  If I had to guess, I’d say he’s prehending one or more of the other mysteries.

  What about you? Are you any closer to your breakthrough?”

  “Hmm, I guess so,” Aiden replied zily. “But who knows how long it’ll take before my soul finally ehe deity realm. At this rate, it could be tomorrow, or it could be a millennia from today. This is all still unchartered territory.”

  “Just be careful,” Arianna said softly, taking her husband’s hands in hers.

  Havihere from the very beginning, she knew better than ahe cost of using [The Imposing Devourment]. She could only imagihe pain he was in each day, yet he tinued pressing forward every day, never onpining.

  “Don’t worry,” Aiden smiled reassuringly. “I have no iion of dying any time soon.”

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  Over the couple of days, Ad the others forwent training, haviraining like crazy these st few months. Instead, they spent the following couple of days rexing together.

  It was the first time in almost two years that they’d all been together, and from the looks of it, they had missed it, but after 48 hours of rexing, it was finally time to get going.

  “Where’s Cesar?” Ace asked impatiently.

  As much as he ehese st couple of days, he was dying for his adventure, and right now, the person holding them up was the addition to their group, the master of Alissa’s biological father.

  “Acc to Arianna, Gramps is in the middle of an epiphany.” Alissa sighed. “She hoped he’d be done by today, but she said if not, they’d have to postpone our departure date.”

  When Alissa’s words came out, it was met with the groans and grunts of her cssmates. Ace wasn’t the only oed about their uping missions. Each of them was geniuses, and although there was likely no oer to pete with thaher teens around them, they uood each other exceptionally well by now.

  They all wao face a new challenge, especially after seeing the improvements made by Amira, Killian, and Ace after this st year.

  “Okay, guys,” Mathias said, addressing the students. “It doesn’t look like Cesar will be…”

  “What about Cesar?” A pyful voice asked from seemingly nowhere.

  “Gramps, is that you?” Alissa asked as she looked around for the source of her voice. “Where are you?”

  It wasn’t just her; no one could seem to locate the prolifig of killers. Not even Ace, who had one of the best sensory abilities out of all those present, fared aer.

  “Looks like he finally made his breakthrough,” Aiden said zily as he g Mathias’ feet.

  “Alright Cesar, that’s enough,” Arianna said lightly as she pointed her index fi her eldest disciple’s feet, causing Mathias’ shadow to start to glow.

  “Ahhh, okay, okay, that’s enough!” Cesar yelled as he magically hopped out of Mathias’ shadow, smoke ing from his head as though he had been singed. “Spoilsport,”

  Although he seemed perfectly calm on the inside, Cesar was anything but. ‘I knew I still wouldn’t be that woman’s match, but after prehending a portion of a new profound mystery and fusing it with my inal one, I thought I would at least have been able to close the gap slightly…

  Just how strong is she exactly?’

  During these st couple of days, as a result of his enlighte, Cesar had not only prehended a signifit portion of the profound mystery of shadows, he had even fused it with the profound mystery of the dark-body allowing his body to physically ehe shadows.

  Although he still hadn’t reached the power of a Demi-God, he had definitely surpassed the average level of a prime saint. As it stood, other than Arianna, he doubted that a single being below the Deity level could stand up to him, including the invincible prime saint who ruled over the dragon’s pit.

  He had wao show off a bit ao see if anyone could sense his presence, but not only had both Arianna and her husband seemingly been able to feel his presence, Arianna was capable of directly attag him. How could he not be astounded?

  He went from cloud o instantly humbled!

  Still, now that his strength had taken a step forward, he had a sudden urge to go and find some of his old rivals to vent a little, but that would have to wait…

  “Mathias,” Arianna called out, her voice as soothing as ever. “Now that we’re all here, it’s time for us to get going.”

  “Yes, master,” Mathias nodded before turning to the rest of the group. “Okay, everyone knows where they’re going and who with. All I want to say before we leave is that this will be the first time the pavilion truly makes its presenown to the world.

  I want to show the whole world that we’re the number one school on the ti, and for that to happen, each of you has to go out and suppress all the other so-called elites of yeion.

  With that being said, I only have one question…”

  As he said that, Mathias paused as he looked into the fident and unwavering eyes of each of his students. “ you do it?”

  Hearing his question, the blood of each of the disciples thrummed with excitement as they thought about their head teacher’s words. The words “suppress their geiing in their ears over and over.

  It was an achievement that had never been done before, and ces are, it would never be done again. If they were successful, their names would likely go down in history feions to e.

  Thinking to there, each of them answered in unison. “YES, WE !”

  “Good,” Mathias nodded with pride, thanking his lucky stars fetting such a capable bunch for his school’s first cohort! “The’s go show the world the invincible might of our Yin-Yang Pavilion!”

  No more words o be said; each of the students rolled out with their chosen instructor towards their individual targets.

  It went without saying that Ace’s group was both the biggest and the stro, with two saint-level beings going, but with Ace’s knack for causing trouble and the potential dangers involved, it made sense.

  The two saints in Ace’s group were Arianna and Carter – the bloody-eyed mane lion – and sitting on Carter’s back was his son – Leo, Ace’s subordinate – Cirulus, Lance, Milianna, and the main man, Ace.

  “Are you ready?” Milianna asked as she stroked her son’s hair.

  “100%!” Ace replied with a calm fidence before turning to face his mother’s elegant face, a hint of worry and c his features. “What about you? It’s not too te to turn back…”

  “You don’t o worry about me,” Milianna smiled gently.

  She would be lying if she said she wasn’t nervous and scared, but more than anything else, she was determined! She was determio no longer be that c woman she had been these st 16 years!

  “Plus, this isn’t just a ing out for the Pavilion,” Milianna said resolutely. “This is the stage ol family es out to the world; how I, Gol D. Milianna, not be there?”

  After learning the truth about her son’s mysterious past life, she decided to support him by taking his true father’s name.

  As an orphan, she never had a st name, so it was no skin off her back, but her choice meant the world to Ace.

  A radiant smile lit up Ace’s face when he heard that. His mother’s decision that day was the best gift he had ever been given iher life.

  Even though he didn’t regret taking his previous mother’s name in his st life, since reg his emotions, he wao do something to show how much he loved his father.

  He didn’t know if Roger was looking down watg him, but if he was, he wao do something that would make him proud.

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