The explosion of Lou Yan's power caused a huge commotion, Lou Min flashing from her seat and appearing in front of Patrick with a murderous gaze, eyes becoming bright, immediately using the Heavenly Eyes to try to see through him, some of the Lou family members and guards making stances all aimed at the boy, even the representative from the Moonflower Sect moving, floating above the stage with a serious expression, glaring.
"What have you done to my daughter?"
Lou Min asked as her eyes constantly shifted left to right, trying to predict his moves and future events, still to her disappointment the Heavenly Eyes she always depended on did not even predict a millisecond into the future, or more to say they did not work, a technique from the Immortal Realm meeting a boy who had already cut a timeline and put it back. Patrick did not answer her, watching Lou Yan instead, not reacting much to his surroundings, wanting to see the effect of the pill he had made out of a tiny wisp of qi from the Broken World, which was a kindness if you counted rewriting a genius as a gift.
Lou Yan was suspended in the air while an abundant flow of qi moved in her meridians, causing her to break through cultivation realms every second continuously, eyes and mouth shining brightly, blinding everyone except the three infinite beings of Patrick's group, Athena and Anna and Anastasia drinking through the glare as if glare were weather. The light got brighter until everything became unseeable, moments later dying down, Lou Yan's body remaining floating, the surroundings silent, everyone seeing her hang there like a verdict the heavens had forgotten to sign.
From the higher stands Jiang Shi of Heavenly Rain was first to notice her qi presence, one of the popular unwritten rules of the cultivation universe being that if one cannot sense a person's cultivation base they are mundane, or their base exceeds the level of comprehension of those below them, and Jiang Shi noticed he could not sense Lou Yan anymore after she passed the Sage realm, which was his realm, a Sage going blind in a stadium. The other powerhouses noticed the incomprehensible level, the Moonflower elder floating as she asked.
"Little Yan, are you ok?"
"Elder doesn't have to worry, I am fine."
Lou Yan looked at the elder and replied, examining her body, noticing the unbelievable amount of qi in her meridians, realizing the cultivation realm that gave her the sensation of immense power and authority, and like all Immortals she could also sense the will of the Broken World like it was her own body, but it did not stop at Immortal, there was something else, a force trying to pull her to another realm, the Immortal Realm, because when one breaks through Half Immortal and reaches Immortal the heavens force them to ascend, the lower realms unable to withstand their presence without breaking the realm balance, and she was already past the place where that rule was supposed to bite.
On the stage the elder representative remained in the air with a fierce gaze directed at Patrick, ready to attack if he tried to kill Lou Yan, Lou Min standing before him with a folded fist, expressing shock, unable to use the Eyes, slowly turning her head when she heard her daughter's voice, and when she saw her the shock grew even bigger. Lou Yan's looks had completely changed, the beauty of a fairy, skin clean and creamy, black hair grown longer covering her waist, eyes more clear and vivid like crystal, and though her beauty was unparalleled she was not even imaginarily close to Athena and Anna, Anastasia sitting in the same insult. Lou Min could not comprehend the situation, her daughter in Mind Accumulation when the competition began, and after taking the pill this unknown genius gave her she had surpassed a realm her own mother could not comprehend.
"Yan'er, are you alright?"
"Am fine, mother."
Lou Yan looked below her at the destroyed stage, raised her hands as the debris began gathering back to its original state, slowly landed, saw the person who caused all this commotion, walked to her mother with a smile, able to see Lou Min's realm and secrets like looking at a fishbowl, Lou Min hugging her, feeling smooth skin and a slightly grown body, the fan in her sleeve forgetting how to open.
"How, how is this possible?"
"What type of pill that kid must have given that girl to cause such an unbalanced effect in the cultivation world."
"And how was she not struck with a tribulation when she rose so quickly in rank?"
The crowd was completely clueless, a few understanding little, most left with open mouths, but the elders and powerhouses from families and sects were the ones to react, knowing most about cultivational concepts and the diversified rules of this reality, especially when it came to balancing them. If a cultivator caused imbalance to nature or the conceptualized reality of the cultivation universe, heavenly tribulation, lightning from the heavens, would identify that person as an abomination and eliminate them from reality, and Lou Yan's continuous ascending had broken the universe's rules, which should have initiated a tribulation to destroy her existence, but not only was there no heavenly punishment, there were no consequences at all, and that realization was why the powerhouses and sect representatives were overreacting, Ju Han's remaining throne handle still pretending it was furniture.
After a couple of seconds Lou Yan left her mother, Lou Min returning to the higher stands followed by the Moonflower elder, and on the stage Lou Yan stood opposite Patrick, trying to see through him, like the others unable to see anything other than the cultivation base he allowed displayed.
"Don't try it, it's just a waste of time, the Saint realm is nothing but the beginning of cultivation in the Immortal Realm."
He said it when she tried to probe, and she was completely baffled, unable to see through anything even after surpassing Immortal, thinking who is this person, even after reaching this realm I cannot see through him, wait, did he say Saint realm, is that the realm beyond Immortal. After taking the pill she had ascended beyond Immortal and reached Saints, the mysterious realm no one in the Broken World had reached after the war ten thousand years ago between demons and humans, impossible to reach while in the lower mortal realms, a door that was not supposed to open over a sect-selection stage.
"Since I want to enjoy a casual brawl, I will let the heavens of the cultivation universe give you a thousand years to live in the lower realms, after that you will be forced to ascend to the higher realm, or more to say the real main cultivation world."
He spoke acknowledging that he was the reason the heavens could not do anything to her even after she had broken the universal laws times in a row, a boy in Qi Condensation talking like a clerk stamping a visa.
"What are you talking about, letting the heavens, universe, what pill was that, who are you?"
Lou Yan was confused about what to ask, this genius named Alex saying something like rubbish, and even after knowing she was a Saint his expression remaining the same, a Qi Condensation cultivator who should already be dead in front of a Spirit King, let alone a Saint.
"Forget about useless stuff, even if I explain it you will be like a child trying to understand rocket science, now I want you to attack with your full power, don't hold back."
Hearing that she smirked, said nothing, attacked immediately, instant zoom, the stage breaking again.
Thousands of feet underground in the Imperial Tower where the guardians resided, a flash of light lit an extremely dark room as an eye opened, one of the guardians, feeling a presence of suppression which should be impossible, he being one of the almost Full Immortal cultivators on the Broken Planet.
"Elder brother, I felt a suppressing presence from above just now, I hadn't felt like this since after the war ten thousand years ago, I will go investigate."
"No need, it's indeed how you felt it, there is someone who has achieved that realm, and she is above us fighting with what's an even scarier thing, an unknown being."
"What does elder brother mean?"
"I felt a fluctuation in the space of the Broken World weeks ago and didn't feel anything after that, but later I also noticed another space fluctuation, the thing is that the person doing this wants to let me know that he allows me to know of these events."
"So you mean the person knows you know about him?"
"No, more like he's telling me to know my place."
The older guardian explained his findings to the second, a conversation in the dark that still smelled of the blood Patrick had already refused to respect.
"Can elder brother tell if this person is a man or woman?"
"No, I don't know whether the person who caused the space fluctuation is a man or woman, but one thing I can tell is that he is not alone, after using the Immortal will sensing ability on the Broken World I noticed three Qi Condensation beings, but no one can see through them, which is why I said that person is not alone."
"Brother, if you know, does that also mean that the Sacred Families know?"
"Those people are not in the Broken World, so they can't notice anything, but if they have an Immortal realm subordinate here, then they might also notice that person's presence, of course if the person allows it."
"Elder brother, if this person is so powerful, then why should they pretend like Qi Condensation realms?"
"Such beings cannot be understood or comprehended, but I guess that they might be here for fun and adventure because nothing in the Broken World will interest such beings, even if it was the Broken World itself."
The elder guardian was a smart man, even without seeing Patrick's group he could indirectly guess why they came, which was more than most thrones managed in a lifetime.
Two hundred meters from the stage Athena and Anna sat like goddesses watching the fight, Anastasia's cup still full, not paying attention to Lou Yan in the least, thinking she might be one of their sisters, because if Lou Yan were one of Patrick's wives, when Patrick destroyed the timeline of the Broken Planet Lou Yan should have survived by using her system and title as a goddess, and she had not, so she was a guest, not a queen.
"That old guardian is quite smart to be able to tell our motive indirectly like that, no wonder the Ju Empire has lasted this long under his leadership."
Athena said.
"Well, there is the elder from the Devil Sect struggling to find our origins and objectives, his sources are quite impressive to be able to tell I am from the Shi family."
Anastasia spoke, Shi Long's daughter playing with a file Elder Mo still thought was intelligence.
"Haha, Anastasia, please, if you didn't allow it, would that guy even comprehend your presence?"
"Well, I need to play a little myself, so what better way to do that other than to let them think they have information about me."
"Well, that's a good plan, let me join when you begin the fun part."
They spoke casually, knowing everything that was happening, their systems only below Patrick's, Anna laughing into wine because a spy-shadow on a god was still a toy.
Lou Yan flashed at Patrick on the stage without withholding a single ounce of strength, hands making a palm attack.
"Heavenly Mountain Palm."
Patrick saw her using her full speed, noticed the smirked expression, held an expressionless face as he raised his left foot slightly above the ground. She slammed into him with the palm technique, but he was not there anymore, she turned looking, could not find him.
BOOM!
She was thrown back, landed on her feet with a hand touching the ground, used the sensing ability of a Saint, able to sense the entire Broken Planet and its pocket dimensions, and still could not find him.
"Sigh, using speed to fight a Saint realm kid is a boring experience."
He sighed as he stopped his movements.
"What speed technique is that?"
She asked with an interested expression, then continued.
"If I win this fight, I want you to give me your movement cultivation method, do you agree?"
"...ok, if you beat me, then not only my movement technique, but I will give you anything you want."
After pausing a second he replied, this his first challenge since he became God, arms behind him.
"You see, you are wrong when you said movement technique, I wasn't using any movement technique or method, all I did was walk."
"Hahaha, if that speed which even I cannot see is considered walking for you, then you must be stronger than you look, you made a mistake by giving me that pill, now I am stronger than everyone in this mortal realm, including you."
She spoke arrogantly, stood, folded her arms on her chest, talking to him like he was weaker than her, a Saint of one afternoon.
"Then why don't you use the Heavenly Eyes technique of your Lou family since you are now a Saint."
He asked, taunting her to use it.
"I was thinking of just using speed and strength to defeat you, but since you have a better technique, I have no choice but to use my Heavenly Eyes technique."
She clasped her hands together, uttering the sentence to use her full power, crystal eyes remembering they had another name.
"Heavenly Eyes technique: Eyes of Asura, tenth form."