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  Inside my Inner Realm, above the skies, several of my Doppelgangers moved around, trolling hundreds of materials together. There were several Formatiht below them, which helped them refine and enhance all the materials into usable parts, and right in the middle of everything, the Giant Floating Pagoda Divine Relic was being structed.

  Its form was that of a beautiful pagoda building, with five different floors and a errace with a garden on top. There was also a surrounding area that would have training grounds and other facilities for my disciples to train aronger. Portals were also being made, and I had already finished creating the accessories to grant them access to the Pagoda. By using them, they would instantly teleport through the portals inside of it.

  It was ing along nicely, and I was using a lot of expeerials for its creation. White and Yellow Heaven Alloy, Yang Tree Wood and Sap Cursed Dokaebi Souls, Phoenix Feathers and Bones, and more. It would probably bee the greatest treasure on all of Earth, and many might desire it o appears.

  So that’s why I am increasing its defensive powers as much as possible, so even if a god just steps in, they’ll have a very hard time even trying to touch it.

  Meanwhile, bae, Yanisse had finally woken up, looking still sleepy after taking a bath. She was eating pancakes and coffee.

  “Hmm, thank you for your hospitality... I am still quite tired,” she yawned again. “Ah, these pancakes are really good, though. Who did them?”

  “Me,” Urbosa smiled. “You eat them all if you want, Yanisse. You look quite exhausted. If you’ll bey mate’s wife iure, you must have a strong body capable of giving birth, so better eat a lot.”

  “Ppfff… What?!” Ya embarrassed, growing as red as a tomato.

  “Urbosa! You shouldn’t have said that out of nowhere.” I sighed. “Please be more careful with your words.

  “M-My bad, I thought she was going to be another mate?” Urbosa wondered. “She isn’t?”

  “W-Well, it’s plicated…” Yanisse was getting even more embarrassed. “P-Please don’t say s-such things…”

  "Uood, a story about that... I e from another world, so I might be quite out of touch with human s,” Urbosa apologized. “I assume the c process is much slower with human women, then, honey?”

  “Y-Yea, I mea’s not talk about that, pirl is dying of embarrassment,” I sighed.

  “Haha, okay, I get it,” giggled Urbosa.

  I think she was also doing it to tease Yanisse a bit.

  “Anyways, Yanisse, are you ied iering the pagoda o is done? I’ll start the assembly soon; it will be right outside the city,” I said.

  “Sure, I would love to! I don’t really have anything much to do now until we get a proper response from the King,” Yanisse sighed. “Usually I would... Either I would be doing missions requested by the gover or I would be climbing and leveling iower. I need a break, definitely.”

  “Alright,” I nodded. “Once we’re doh the Pagoda, I guess we take the rest of the day off, waiting for a response. I think we might spend the rest of the week here, mostly spending days teag you and the other disciples various things. After that, I pn to go back to the Tower and climb to the sed Floor. I really hope that this time there won’t be any more interruptions.”

  “I hope so too,” said my mother. “Right, the King… Are you really going against that man, my daughter?”

  “I don’t really pn on doing anything to him; I just wao make... A deal, perhaps,” I said. “But I am beginning to think he’s either scared or pnning something nefarious; he’s taking too long, and that is only creating more suspi than anything.”

  “I have only met him once.” Yanisse said. “But he was a very intimidating man, someone much strohan me back then. I don’t know if he’s still strohan me, but he was certainly on another level pletely.”

  “It makes sense, seeing how he es from another world,” I said. “But then again, the fact that he has protected Earth remains, so I ’t really be hateful against him, even if he’s an outsider from our p.”

  “ we apany you to see how it’s being done? Juan’s ing here, so we’ll meet him oskirts of the city,” Ruby said.

  “Sure, everyone e if you want,” I nodded. “Let’s get there then!”

  Once we were done having breakfast, and once Yanisse ae took a bath, respectively, as they wao wake up fully, we moved out.

  “{Divine Light Ptforms}”

  Using my Divine Photon Essence, I created several floating ptforms of solid light, which I used to help everyone move around the skies. Floating by my side, we moved across the skies, breag through the invisible barrier proteg New York and reag the wild nds outside.

  Just a day ago, there was a huge battle here between cavemen, hunters, and giant dinosaurs. The results of such a battle remained everywhere; it was quite a harsh battle, and everyone needed several days to pletely rest from all of that.

  “Woah, we’re so high, Auntie!” Hekita was hugging Ruby’s leg while looking down. “I’m a bit scared...”

  “Calm down; the ptform has walls, but yeah, it’s a tad bit scary.” Ruby nodded. “Ah! Is that Juan?! He’s over there!”

  Ruby’s sharp eyes, after reag Rank 3, allowed her to accurately deteeone walking through the wild nds below; it was Juan, who was looking around in plete shock at the huge craters and blood spread everywhere.

  “What in the world happened here?”

  I assume he walked all the way here from the tower, which was much farther into the wild nds. He retty fident in his own strength to e back alone.

  “Juaaaannn!”

  The ptform where Ruby was quickly started shaking. As it moved doidly, Hekita panicked a bit and grabbed her legs, but the ptform quickly stopped, floating right above Juan and slowly reag the floor.

  “Ruby?!”

  Juan gasped as he saw his girlfriend desd from the skies, and then he looked upwards to find all of us up there.

  “You’re back!”

  My sister ran towards Juan, hugging and kissing him. He had even grown a small beard during his training; I guess he did spend a lot of time without shaving.

  “Yeah, I’m back. I missed you a lot, but what happened here? And where are you going?” wondered Juan. “Oh, Hekita, hi.”

  “Hi, uncle!” Hekita greeted him, sniffing her surroundings as she started expl the forest.

  “Ruby, Juan, e up. Also, don’t let Hekita walk too far away,” I called them.

  “Ah, yeah, right!” Ruby nodded.

  She quickly dragged Juan with her and grabbed Hekita, who was about to go running somewhere, her wolf instincts kig in as she probably wao explore a new nd.

  "Wait, auntie, I want to explore!” Hekita pined.

  “Later, Hekita! We’re busy right now!”

  After that, all three of them returo the skies, and Juaed everyone. I guess this man was already part of the family. Although he was happy to see us, he was a bit surprised once he noticed Yanisse was with me.

  “Huh? Is that… the World-Css Hunter?” he asked.

  “Oh? Ah, yeah, she’s with us for a little while,” I patted Yanisse’s shoulders. “Right now I’m going to build the Golden Pagoda, so just stay here and watch. O's done, you go io take a shower and ge clothes if you want, Juan.”

  “Golden Pagoda?” He was fused. “Eh, ah, okay. Thanks…”

  “Anyways, without further ado...”

  I whisked my fingers as several golden portals leading to my Inner Realm opened oer another, and rge pieces of a much rger building started ing out of the portals. Each piece was pletely gold-colored, shining brightly below the sun.

  With just my Divine Photon Essend my I, I started assembling the gigantic building. It only thly ten minutes, but everyone was watg the se in awe as a titanic building was being created in the skies.

  I had said it would have five floors, but each floor would usually be rather wide and tall because the interior of the pagoda would also have a rge open field, full of nature, and many other areas for recreational purposes.

  Therefore, it still had to be rge enough. The Pagoda’s shadow eventually loomed over the wildnds, blog the sun from our position and ending its size at a shog 953 meters.

  “T-That’s immense…” my mother muttered.

  “W-What? Is this even possible? And it’s floating!” Ruby muttered.

  “I-Incredible… I-I don’t know what else to say; she built this so easily too?” Juan asked.

  “Such a rge building! It is like a floating isnd!” said Urbosa.

  “Woah… Our mate sure is incredible,” Merkite was waggiail.

  “Amazing!!!” Hekita was jumping iement. “I wanna go inside already!”

  Yanisse was only looking, pletely speechless.

  “Calm down, everyone; we’ll go inside in a bit. Now that I’ve assembled it, I’ll synthesize every fragment together like this and that…” I said this as I noticed a few helicopters already approag the se.

  People, mostly hunters, were also gathering right below us, filming what was happening with their cellphones, most of them were on livestreams.

  I guess it couldn’t be helped.

  With a wave of rainbow light, the power of Alchemy was jured, washing over the entire Pagoda and permaly mixing all the pos inside.

  FLASH!

  The gigantic building released a bright fsh of light, and then dozens of rivers of golden and rainbow light started ing out of it, reag the ground below.

  “And ready! There it is! My beautiful Pagoda remade! The Heavenly Court’s Headquarters, the Heavenly Golden Dragon Pagoda!”

  As I annouo the world the Pagoda’s creation, the light ptforms moved, following me as I ehe rge building through its giant, golden gates.

  “Heavenly Pagoda, open yates to your true and only owner.”

  RUMBLE!

  The giant gates, over thirty meters i, slowly opened, revealing the luxurious interior of the first floor, a beautiful tapestry mixing ese aerhetid style almost seamlessly, several ters, rge tables, many chairs, and a passage that led te open area.

  Everyone walked over the wooden floor in surprise, looking around in disbelief. I told them to follow me so they wouldn’t get lost, showing them the interior of the Pagoda. It was so big that it would usually take days to explore, holy.

  “This is amazing... And there are huge opeoo? With, like, dirt and pnts? Holy sh*t, that pond is so beautiful!” said Ruby.

  “I wonder if we should move inside of here now,” my mother muttered. “Living in that apartment is no longer enough when we’ve seen this pce.”

  “Well, it depends on you. I would say you should probably still keep living there; this Pagoda might eventually be attacked by an enemy.” I expined.

  “Eh? Ah, yeah, perhaps… Well, we could visit it if we’re bored,” Ruby shrugged.

  “I guess so…” Mom nodded. “Katherine, how big is this?”

  “Roughly 953 meters tall,” I answered. “It is almost a kilometer i. Unfortunately, I was uo make it rger. Or it would have messed with its band speed; the Formations that keep it afloat ’t take too much weight.”

  “I-I see…” Mom nodded, still trying to prehend what I just said.

  “Anyways! The bathrooms are over there,” I said, pointing in the distance. “I’ll give everyone a special ring to see where you are currently and not get lost. Eventually, you’ll memorize the pce, I hope. This ring will also help you teleport ihe Pagoda at any time, as long as you’re withih.”

  “Amazing, you really thought about everything, Bing Xue…” said Yahank you.” she took the ring and wore it immediately. “It’s a pretty ring…” she blushed.

  “Gd you like it,” I nodded. “Dears, yours too.” I gave some to Urbosa ae.

  “Such a glittering accessory! It will go well with the other rings you’ve gifted us, honey,” Urbosa happily said, wearing the ring.

  “Yeah, I love it,” Merkite nodded.

  Both kissed my cheeks as I caressed their heads and kissed their little snouts.

  “Now that we’re done distributing the goods, Let’s keep the toing! There’s a lot more to explore,” I smiled.

  As Juao take a shower in the enormous bathroom on the first floor, we tinued expl the Pagoda. Eventually, the rest of my disciples arrived, using the rings I sent to them using my Doppelgangers.

  And naturally, their rea was simir to Yanisse…

  I decided to take the rest of the day off, everyone was tired, and I wasn’t going to forybody to move or train for the moment.

  However, ohe m of the day finally arrived, I decided to start the csses with all my disciples, including my whole family, yes, evea.

  “I pn to spend the rest of the week teag you many things, but first, let’s begin with questions!” I said. “I am sure many of you are curious about what Cultivation truly is, and about Murim, the world I was sent to for eleven thousand years. So, to start with, you’re free to ask me as many questions as you want.”

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  Pach