The World Of Demons And Gods

As Cyrus left the clothes store, he continued to stroll and find something that might catch his interest.

Meanwhile, Both James and Shane are leaping on tall buildings as they arrived at the highest building around the city. Once they had stepped on the highest building in the City, which is the Lord's building. James lifted his right foot and with a faint tap on the roof,

*Swoosh*

A wave of anima quickly spreads throughout the building; however, those people who have a weak cultivation rank, which are those ranks below King's rank, could not sense the energy that James spreads out.

Because what James had sent out was extremely fine anima that only emperor ranks could create, the higher your rank is, the finer and purer your anima is! That is why many cultivators cannot read the strength of those cultivators who are higher than two stages above them, even at the second stage above them, if they had a weaker cultivation technique, they can't identify it!

Soon, an abrupt noise could be heard in the room below only to the roof where James and Shane located.

Hearing this, James and Shane looked at each other and with a single flash, both the two of them disappeared.

...

Soon, below the roof, the room below was spacious and the lighting here was extremely good as well due to the windows being fully covered the entire wall, creating a great view throughout the growing and expanding a city of Emerald!

In the middle of the room, there are three sofas, and in front of them is an office table for the lord of the city.

The Lord who was sitting on the chair had abruptly stood up from his seat as his face quickly went nervously.

This Lord is no other than Shi Xiaoyan.

Currently, Shi Xiaoyan was nervously looking at the two-person wearing a black leather covered with a cloak and the two of them are wearing a strange mask.

However, what makes Shi Xiaoyan nervous was that the two of this person is actually stronger than him and both of them are at emperor rank at the late stage!

Meanwhile, he, Shi Xiaoyan had just recently broken through at King Rank!

"G-Greetings great masters, what makes you visit here?" Shi Xiaoyan quickly moved out from his desk to the front of this two venerated masters as he bowed at them.

"I need alchemy ingredients." Shane's horrendous voice echoed because of the mask that she wore; however, her actions and voice were extremely cold and freakish to hear and feel!

Right now, she is completely different when she is facing at her children!

"R-right... What kind of ingredients would you like to have?" Shi Xiaoyan asked nervously.

"Simple things, ten stalks of thousand years old rainbow grass, three teaspoons of dragon's tears, half kilograms of fine powder of qilin's horn." Shane casually answered.

However, hearing this had shocked Shi Xiaoyan!

'Simple things my ass! That's already half of my clan's treasure!'

Shi Xiaoyan bitterly cursed to his heart, however, he could only wryly smile as he nodded, "I-I see... Let me contact my assistant to bring the items you would like to have."

With that, Shane and James turned around and sat on the sofa comfortably, even James rested his foot on the coffee table in the middle!

Seeing this, Shi Xiaoyan could only sigh in resignment because not only he feared these two strangers, but also his benefactor for having such a stroke of luck meeting them.

It was because of these two people, he had grown into power in this forsaken kingdom, and not only that, they guided him on how to handle the nobles and gain benefits from them!

They gave him a heavenly treasure that it was so rare, that one could only find that thing in every one million years! Yet these two casually gave it to him to keep their identity secret outside the country!

It was that treasure that had caused him to broken through to King rank! Not only that, during war recent years ago, the masked man had helped him to fend those armies and mercenaries from the Alexandria Kingdom to stop them from invading the entire country to its destruction!

Shi Xiaoyan was glad because that masked man had prevented the Lightning clan joining the fray from invading the entire kingdom, in which if they indeed joined the war, then this kingdom would be destroyed in just three days! Because the Lightning Clan despite low in number compared to any major clan, they are all formidable and extremely powerful, that had gained the unshakable top major rank in the entire Celestia continent!

Thinking of Lightning Clan...

He could not help, to remember that female youth from the lightning clan bearing a formidable aura than his and her unstoppable strength... It was that moment of his life; he concluded that there was no one from her generation could surpass her!

"Ugh... I better not think of that demonic tomboy." Shi Xiaoyan muttered as he shook his head.

...

Soon, outside the room, there are multiple footsteps running quickly towards the door of the office.

*Knock knock knock!*

The door has been knocked multiple times in the short amount of time meaning, that person is in a hurry, soon, before Shi Xiaoyan could speak, the person outside spoke in nervously, "Lord patriarch, young lord Shi Poyun had broken his arms due to offending some young master from the outside the city!"

Hearing this, Shi Xiaoyan was about to explode in anger because he was a doting father who loves his kids, no matter how troublesome they are, he would accept them and forgive them! In addition, to those who hurt his children, he would surely teach that person a lesson even if he/she is a kid or an elder!

However, he could not just shout in anger because there are two powerful masters here inside the room with him! He cannot just ignore them and disrespect them.

When he was about to stood up, a cold voice rang out.

"Stay at your feet... We're not done yet." Shane coldly threatened as she faced Shi Xiaoyan.

Seeing this masked woman circulating her anima around her body and focusing it on him, he could not help to get startled and quickly got scared.

He hesitated to take another step as he strangely stared at the masked woman.

"Your son most likely had offended my son, Shi Xiaoyan. Do you dare to vent anger to my son?" James directed his masked face towards Shi Xiaoyan, not only that, he released his yellowish aura radiating around his body.

Realizing the possibility and knowing that these two powerful figures had a son along with them, he was quickly terrified as his malicious thoughts popped like a bubble!

Adding to the fact that, these two benefactors are threatening him, they could not help to get quickly terrified.

Forcefully smiling, "I-is that so, I had never thought that it was your son all along... If that was the case, then forgive me." Shi Xiaoyan bowed as he apologized. However, both Shane and James shrugged him off as they did not pay any attention to him any further.

He looked through the door as he coldly shouted, "Hmph! Let that brat learn his lesson!"

"Ye-Yes! wait wha?"

"I said, let that brat learned his lesson!"

"Y-Yes lord patriarch!" The person outside was shocked as he could not believe to what he had heard! Because this is the very first time, his lord became very strict to his children!

(This random person couldn't hear what had happened inside the office earlier.)

...

Hearing this news had both made Shane and James quietly sighed in resignment, despite saying not to make any trouble two times, their son didn't listen at all.

James, inside his mask, he stared at Shane as he connected his spiritual sense to her, "Are you going to make a Stamina expanding pills?" he asked.

Despite James has a lacking of knowledge about alchemy and mastered smiting, he could still remember and know basic concocting recipes. Moreover, hearing what Shane had asked Shi Xiaoyan, he quickly caught what Shane was planning.

"Yes, and also, for the time being, we can't fasten the healing process of our son's injury... I want to concoct another pill for him that could lessen the setback when he got exhausted and some random rejuvenating pills." Shane faintly said as she was calculating the items she would need and the pills she could create for her son.

If James was a master in smiting, Shane could be said that she is a master in alchemy; she can even heal Cyrus quickly if she had complete right herbs, crystals, and other rare ingredients. However, right now, she was empty-handed.

If other alchemist knew that Shane was a master alchemist and begging other for ingredients, they would spat a mouthful of saliva at her and cursed her ancestors for disgracing their profession.

*Knock*Knock*

The door was being knocked once again, however, this time it was softer and it was a knock that respects the people inside.

Hearing this, Shi Xiaoyan immediately smiled as he stood up and opened the door.

"Lord Patriarch, these are the valuable treasures that you had asked me to bring... However, I would like to know-" When the steward had handed the spatial ring to his lord, he wants to ask something that most people from the Shi Clan that wanted to know for why bringing those valuable treasure out from the treasure vault of the clan.

However, to his dismay, his patriarch lord had immediately closed and locks the door before asking him completely.

...

Inside, Shi Xiaoyan checked the items inside if the right items were inside, and seeing that it was indeed there, he wants to cry and beg for forgiveness for his ancestors for bringing these precious treasures that they had acc.u.mulated for thousands of years.

With a hoarse sigh, he looked at the two masked people who are sitting on the sofa for a couple of minutes.

Soon, both James and Shane stood up and walked towards him.

When Shi Xiaoyan extended his hands where the spatial ring is at, his body went stiff as if it was hesitating on its own.

He was, after all, a pride member and leader of Shi Clan, he was thinking of the future of the clan when he lost these treasures now.

Seeing this, James flashed his hands as an object suddenly appeared on his palms, "I know you would hesitate for the sake of your clan, in exchange to that so-called 'treasure' I will give you a 'real treasure' instead.

When Shi Xiaoyan looked at the object at the palms of the masked man, his eyes went blank as it twitched in absurdness.

On James' hands, there was a wet yet brown curly object covered by a yellowish barrier as it floats mid-air in the center of the barrier, but despite it is being protected it has a foul smell and it stinks so bad that made Shi Xiaoyan had his nose dripping wet just from the smell of it!

Isn't this cow shit!? You call this real treasure!? Are you mocking my ancestors!?

Shi Xiaoyan cursed in his heart; however, he could not throw rage right now, so he hesitantly looked at James because right now, he has an urge to send out an explosion on this masked man!

"A-are you saying that my ancestors' treasure worth shit?" Shi Xiaoyan stuttered as he could not believe at this man!

"Well, if you say so... However, this is not a normal cow dung; it is a cow dragon's dung! Once you ate it, you can gain extremely good benefits! Although I didn't use it, it would be waste if I throw it somewhere."

Hearing this, Shi Xiaoyan's eardrums could explode any moment now, because he would not dare to believe that this shit on his front is an actual treasure!

In addition, in his life, he has not even heard a demi-beast called a Cow Dragon!

"I-I don't know about that..." Shi Xiaoyan tightly held the spatial ring on his hands close to his c.h.e.s.t as he took a slight step back.

Seeing this, when James was about to speak out, Shane quickly interrupted as she extends her left hand and an object appeared.

"We're not going anywhere if we continued to do this, here, take this treasure that worth thousands of times than those alchemic ingredients." Shane coldly said.

What appeared in front of them is some type of a totem, however, this totem is incredibly unique as it was covered by scriptures and special aura was radiating on it.

This was a totem that Shane had used multiple times during her adventure at her teens; this is a defensive artifact that could be placed to any hideout in half-meter radius. Right now, Shane has many kinds of cards for her protection like this totem and much more compact to use than this big thing.

Once Shi Xiaoyan had sensed it, he already knew what this object is and how to use it. With his shining eyes, he flips his hands as the ring flew out towards Shane and when that happened, he quickly stored the totem on his spatial ring very quickly.

"Consider it as a deal!" He said excitedly as he bows his head three times.

"Then, we'll be going now... Don't cause any trouble for my son, if something happened to him, then..." Shane turned around as she warned him while she glanced at him with extreme coldness.

Her aura was extremely cold, and Shi Xiaoyan could already tell that this woman cultivated an extreme element of cultivation technique that relates to a Yin type.

(I added two extreme elements to the glossary; these elements are destruction and creation.)

"Yes, yes, yes... I wouldn't do anything that could harm your son, my lords!" Shi Xiaoyan laughed as he assured while bowing once again.

With that, Shane and James disappeared once again.

Seeing them out, Shi Xiaoyan sighed, "I'm glad it went out successfully." he muttered to himself, but soon, he shook his head and he looked to his spatial ring as if it was a world treasure for him with shining eyes.

...

Only above to Shi Xiaoyan office, Shane and James appeared once again on the roof.

Shane and James took their mask off and looked at each other.

"Where the hell did you pick that thing!?" Shane annoyingly yelled at her husband.

"Eh? When we killed a Cow dragon back then! You can't remember it?"

"That one!? Ugh, that's no treasure it's a plain shit!" Shane cursed at James.

"Aw come on, it has a special aura radiating on it, It can easily make mortals fell for it... except this dude below us." James chuckled as he waved his hand that holds cow dung in a throwing motion.

When Shane saw this, she quickly roared, "D-Don't you dare!"

"Hahaha, I won't, I won't." James immediately stopped as he kept the 'real treasure' once again on his spatial storage.

"Hmph! We need to find a room for now and start to concoct pills!" Shane crossed her arms, as she did not bother to look at her husband once again.

"Okay, but, how about Cyrus, are we going to let him stroll around? There are many people here that can match him." James worriedly asked as he looked at Cyrus direction.

Because Cyrus cultivates the same cultivation technique, James could trace it whenever Cyrus at, as long Cyrus was inside 30 meters in radius.

Hearing this, Shane went quiet before responding...

"Let him be... I'm sure our son might have a conflicted choice for his path, but he is not that dumb, he can handle his situations... If life-threatening comes in, we would immediately save him." Shane seriously said as she decided.

"All right... Let's find an Inn and finish creating those pills quickly before dawn." James faintly sighed as he covered his face with a mask again and jumped out of this twenty storey tall building.

Shane looked at Cyrus location before looking back ahead of her as she covered her face with a mask and jumped out from this building as she followed James.