Ah Chun: Ascending The Heavens 194 Escaping The Mystic Realm Part One

Several Hours passed and the medical pills Ah Chun took finally allowed her to recover enough to get up. She slowly made her way over to the core and sat down. When she was about to start the refining process the soul fragment of Li Ju stopped her: "Just send a strand of your divine sense into the core it will take you as its new owner. Think of it as my way of apologizing for being so heavy-handed on a Little Lass." 

Ah Chun smiled and did as she was told. She sent a strand of her divine sense into the core and merged it together with it. Ah Chun instantly felt a connection to the palace which made her smile. Although this body was not her true body, any damage sustained would still reflect on her true body. Meaning if she died in this space she would die on the outside as well. She was happy such a thing did not happen. After she finished making the palace hers Ah Chun turned to the soul fragment of Li Ju smiled and said: "When I grow stronger I want  a rematch."

The soul fragment of Li Ju gave a bright smile as he said: "Little Lass you really do not disappoint the Asura clan. I will be here when you are ready, stop by any time if you want me to kick your little butt! Haha!"

Ah Chun laughed and shook her head as she sent her divine sense out. She did not retract the palace just yet since it was still making a cultivation suppression zone. She needed to fully heal before she could leave this mystic realm. She was sure many clans were waiting for her and Ning Shen to leave the mystic realm.

As she was about to open her eyes she felt someone gently wiping the corner of her lips. Ah Chun slowly opened her eyes to see Ning Shen with a cloth in his hand looking at her with a worried look as he gently wiped the blood off her face. Ah Chun's eyes softened as she smiled gently, she reached out and caressed his cheek.  "Thank you, Shen..."

"Why are you thanking me? This is something I should do when my Chun'er is working hard. You did scare me though. You coughed up quite a bit of blood." Ning Shen said. Ah Chun could tell how worried he was. She hated worrying him so but this was just what immortal cultivators were. They lived on the brink of death every day and in the future, this will not change until she could stand at the top.

"I did not expect to have to take on a Deity realm cultivator before I could refine the palace. That damn Li Ju's soul fragment had a split personality than the one you met. But then again that might have been his true personality. It will take a bit of time before I am fully healed." Ah Chun sighed as she took a few more medical pills and closed her eyes once again. She had to heal up as soon as possible before they could leave. 

A week passed and Ah Chun's internal injuries were now fully healed. She opened her eyes and stood up to stretch her arms and legs. "Shen when I store the palace the cultivation suppression array will disappear. So be careful, we do not know how many are waiting for us to step out of the array. I did kinda kill a few thousand cultivators before we entered the palace.  Luckily even though I am just at the initial stage first rank Immortal I should be able to take on a peak intermediate stage Immortal. Anything over that and we might have some issues. " From the Immortal realm and above there are four stages and five ranks per stage. The initial stage, intermediate stage, mastery stage, and then the perfection stage. If an initial stage rank one cultivator was to have to fight an initial stage rank two cultivator, unless they were a heaven's chosen it would be a very difficult battle for those that walked the heaven's path of cultivation. For Ah Chun, it was different she also had her Qi Universe cultivation base which put her on par with a peak intermediate stage immortal cultivator. But she was not sure if she could handle anything above that. 

"Alright, I will be careful.  If we get split up, meet back at the academy." .Ning Shen said as he pulled Ah Chun into his embrace. This was not the first time the two of them had faced such a situation. But every time could leave one worried. Not knowing the outcome of what was ahead could be scary at times especially when it involved your loved ones. 

"Un… If they surround me just go, do not stick around. It would be more likely that they will go after me since I killed more cultivators. I promise to make it out. Not just because of you but for my self as well." Ah Chun wrapped her arms around Ning Shen's waist. The two stayed like that for a good while before they separated. "Shen we will make it out. We have to. Our goals lay behind the heavens, unlike these cultivators who do not wish to reach beyond what they can not see! We can not let them stop us here." 

"Un! You are right our goal is far, far beyond the heavens." Ning Shen nodded his head as he smiled. Never mind the heavens of beyond, Ning Shen's goal was nothing more than to stand by her side. Where she went he went no matter what. He had no great ambitions he just wanted to spend his days with the one he loved.

Ah Chun nodded her head and then stored the palace. The huge palace shrank in size before turning into a stream of light and entering the space between Ah Chun's brow. As soon as the cultivation suppression array disappeared thousands of cultivators suddenly appeared...

Chapter end