Chapter 89: No Shame

“Pleased to meet you as well. My name is Mon Dupa, from the Candle King Sect. It seems you may have heard of me from brother Lain and brother Hui Shi.

I was actually investigating the whereabouts of the little girl that was accompanying the two of you earlier, using another body of mine, when I was ambushed by Mr. Groundworth. We got into a short fight, and I technically lost. Which was reasonable, since fighting someone at my level of strength or higher requires all my bodies that I’ve scattered around to help me investigate crimes for the city to come together as one in order to barely win anyways.

Just one body of mine definitely won’t be enough to handle a celestial of Mr. Groundworth’s caliber if he truly became serious.” Mon Dupa replied. He then reached over his head with his right hand to pat down his slightly unkept blue flamed hair, without the slightest feeling of shame. Looking at his happy face, Lain, and Hui Shi could tell that losing a fight wasn’t a big deal to him.

“I see. You must be truly powerful to fight Elder Micas, and live to tell the tale of it.” Annette added after looking at Mon Dupa’s smiling face, that looked like he didn’t say anything shameful just now. She then started to fear the old Micas, after remembering Hui Shi’s description of him from earlier, as well as Mon Dupa’s earlier emaciated and old figure.

“I finally understand now why you fought Elder Micas. He’s actually the grandfather of little sister Elena, who we were escorting earlier. Her father was facing a crisis, and Elder Micas teleported us to his house, in order to help us quickly attend to her father. That was why we teleported earlier.

You investigating little sister Elena, must’ve caused Elder Micas to assume you were a villain trying to abduct her, just like his daughter was abducted years ago. So he attacked you, in order to subdue you and get vital information that could lead to the arrest of the villains that abducted his daughter.” Hui Shi stated, after coming to the realization, that Mon Dupa truly did not understand the events that occurred since they last met.

“Is that so? It’s understandable for him to react that way, since many people have been missing all over our city for years now. I’ve also been trying to investigate these missing persons in my free time as well.” Mon Dupa replied, with a look of realization on his face.

“I hope we can find out who’s responsible for this very soon, brother Mon Dupa. I’ve also been working on investigating this issue in my free time as well, like all heroes in the city.” Annette added, shyly.

Chapter 88: Youthful Transformation

These butterflies, after appearing and dancing freely around the room for a couple of seconds, making everyone witnessing them feel relaxed, and mentally refreshed, dove straight into Mon Dupa’s glowing body.

As the butterflies dove into Mon Dupa’s body, his long hairs started to recede back towards their previous length. His old face that was filled with age marks also quickly started to look younger again. Within a span of a few seconds, the old body of Mon Dupa, quickly regained its youthful appearance.

Feeling his body get younger, Mon Dupa whose head was bowed couldn’t help but mutter in gratefulness. “Praise our glorious lord, Ensieth!”

After Hui Shi was done with his healing, he muttered a silent prayer underneath his breath, before letting go of Mon Dupa’s head.

He then asked Mon Dupa, with concern written on his face. “What happened to you? Are you being targeted psychically by an enemy somewhere?”

Mon Dupa, after healing, couldn't help but take in a deep breath of air, in order to clear his mind. He then took a moment to reason out his thoughts before answering Hui Shi. “I met an old man called Micas Groundworth, while using a separate body of mine to monitor Elena. We got into a scuffle, due to a misunderstanding, and he did this to me.

I almost died and became a cold corpse, just waiting for a corpse race member to rape me. As we all know, the sum of one corpse race member plus another corpse race member, equals rape, hahaha!

But let’s not talk about the sinister corpse race for now, me and Mr. Groundworth are currently in the midst of solving our issues verbally, so my life is completely safe. Thanks for your help, brother Hui Shi. You truly saved me a lot of time and effort that I would’ve had to spend looking for a cure for my depleted lifespan, by lending a helping hand.”

“You’re welcome, brother Mon Dupa. Lord Ensieth’s grace is plentiful.” Hui Shi replied with a dashing smile, then stepped back to give Mon Dupa some space.

Lain, who was listening by the side, couldn't help but feel that Elder Micas was an extremely dangerous man. ‘How did he cause brother Mon Dupa to age so rapidly?’ He thought to himself.

“Brother Mon Dupa, did you just say that you met Elder Micas? Why were you two fighting? My name is Annette Duet, by the way. Pleased to meet you.” Annette stated, after noticing that Mon Dupa, was finally safe and sound.

Chapter 87: Divine Butterflies

“I’m sorry for my mistake, as well. Earlier while I was outside the gates of the city, I noticed a villain from the Fang Clan entering the gates prior to your granddaughter entering, so I took it upon myself as a superhero of the city to monitor her, in order to make sure she was safe and sound.

An hour after she entered the city, I noticed her presence vanish through a teleportation, so I decided to investigate her whereabouts. I truly thought she might’ve been kidnapped.” Ignoring his growing desire to grab a fruit from the table to eat, Mon Dupa replied, with a slight feeling of anxiety welling up in his mind, again. He didn’t want the two old men thinking that he tried to do anything untrustworthy to the little girl.

While the trio continued their conversation, back at the stone house where Lain, Hui Shi and Annette were currently situated, Mon Dupa, who had just finished talking to them, trying to explain why he had arrived inside the stone house, came to an abrupt halt. The flaming hair on his head and face started to grow longer, every second, until the flaming hair on his head grew all the way down to the floor, and his beard grew to just below his waist. His previously young and handsome face grew old within seconds, before stopping when he started to look over a hundred years old. Withered, and emaciated.

Looking at the aged appearance of Mon Dupa, Lain, Hui Shi, and Annette were shocked. Annette then quickly exclaimed, “What’s going on! Are you alright?” due to fear that the Mon Dupa in front of them was dying before her very eyes.

Hui Shi, seeing the aged Mon Dupa, became very concerned as well. He then quickly walked over to him and reached towards him with a glowing right hand, while saying. “Praise my lord, Ensieth!”

Watching Hui Shi’s approaching hand that spewed out a relaxing golden light, Mon Dupa acquiesced and bent his head forward, in order to allow Hui Shi’s hand to reach his head that was filled with long blue flames that reached all the way to the ground.

After touching Mon Dupa’s head with this hand, Mon Dupa’s body started to glow in a bright golden color. Countless butterflies of many colors started to appear all over the room. Some were green, and appeared majestically as they flew gracefully in the air like young green leaves in early spring, some were red and appeared capricious in nature, as they dance slightly haphazardly in the air, like old leaves dancing gracefully in the autumn air. While some were white as snow, and danced gently like beautiful snow flakes in winter. Some were even yellow, and danced like young and happy birds in the early summer mornings. Every butterfly had its own graceful way of flying, and each was etherically beautiful to watch.

Chapter 86: The Peaceful Sage

Noticing the change in environment, as well as the familiar old man on his right, Mon Dupa couldn't help but draw in a deep breath, before exclaiming in shock. “Are you the Peaceful Sage, Trent Shiler?” The anxiety in his mind, vanishing from his mind, at the sight of this familiar man. For he finally realized where the feeling of delirium that he experienced earlier came from.

The Peaceful Sage has always been publicly recognized as a great illusion expert, and Mon Dupa believed that he was one of the few people within this city that could create such powerful and strange phenomena within his mind that he couldn’t get rid of by himself.

After his mind relaxed, he noticed his body was still aged and almost at death’s door. His once handsome face had now transformed into that of an extremely old, sickly and scrawny man. His previously well-kept blue flamed hairs had also now messily grown to reach his feet.

Looking at his aged appearance, he thought to himself, ‘I can’t believe this body of mine almost died in that mind field.’ Mon Dupa thought to himself in sadness. ‘Now that I have the chance, I should transfer my depleted lifespan into one of my other bodies, situated elsewhere just in case this is another mind game created by that celestial.’ Before using a unique ability that came with his immortal will power.

Within a span of a millisecond, his old and weak looking body, quickly transformed back into his youthful appearance from before, as if nothing had ever happened to him.

“Yes I am, child. This fellow right here, is Micas Groundworth. You may have heard of him.” Trent, replied to his question, before pointing towards the old man sitting opposite Mon Dupa, who was still busily sampling the various fruits on the table. Completely ignoring Mon Dupa’s youthful transformation, as though it was an expected outcome.

Hearing Trent’s words, the now youthful Mon Dupa looked at Micas who was still busy sampling the delicacies on the table, and couldn’t help but exclaim. “Are you truly Micas Groundworth of the Groundworth Industries from the distant Yearning Trust City? I’m sorry for my earlier transgression!” Mon Dupa didn’t have the slightest grudge concerning their previous battle in his heart. He even felt slightly pleased instead. Not many times would he meet with a business mogul at Micas’ level. ‘I could use this opportunity to build a friendship that can help my sect members in the future.’ He thought to himself.

“Hello son! Don’t worry about earlier, I was in the wrong anyway. Sorry for my mistake. By the way, I wonder why you were monitoring my little granddaughter earlier?” Micas asked, after chewing, and swallowing a small, finger sized, red colored, oval-shaped fruit in his mouth. Mon Dupa could tell, from his smiling face, that the red fruit that he had just eaten was truly sweet and juicy.

Chapter 85: A Peaceful Forest

Hearing Mon Dupa’s bluffing words, the old man couldn’t help but chuckle for a brief second. But after a second of chuckling he quickly ceased his chuckling, as he started to feel that something was amiss. He then quickly looked down at his feet. Strangely his two feet had already turned to wax. With the wax quickly spreading from them upwards towards the rest of his body by the millisecond.

Looking at his body that was quickly transforming into a wax figurine again, he couldn’t help but chuckle to himself even more before looking towards the distant Mon Dupa, with a smile. He knew that facing someone at his level wouldn’t be an easy fight, but he didn’t expect his enemy to use all his will power sometime during their battle to brand an irremovable curse on his body that followed him through time. Even his powerful will power couldn’t remove the curse, that previously felt like a violent force that tore at the insides of his body.

“You immortals truly are a nuisance to kill.” He muttered under his breath, before his eyes, which were currently dark brown, started to brighten up again. They then turned into two pale white, glowing moons that stared at the distant Mon Dupa with malice.

But just as his eyes transformed into bright shining moons, an aged, but crisp voice echoed out within the quiet universe filled with moons of various sizes. “I think this should be enough, Micas. No need to scare the child. I believe he is not a criminal.”

Along with the voice came a feeling of extreme delirium that washed the dying Mon Dupa’s mind in both fatigue and chaos. He quickly fell into a deep trance that took him over 10 minutes to awaken from. By the time he was freed from the trance by an unknown force, he found himself sitting on a wooden chair, located deep within a peaceful wilderness of sorts.

With vibrant green grasses and large foreign trees of various species as far as the eyes could see around him, and the gentle calling of birds in the distance, as well as the fresh breeze that blew by, the entire scene that met Mon Dupa’s eyes after he had awakened, was a picture of peace and tranquility.

After clearing his mind, Mon Dupa quickly glanced in front of him, in slight anxiety and fear, only to see a brown colored, square table in front of him, with all sorts of delicacies situated on top of it.

Sitting on the opposite side of the table from him, was the mysterious old man from before that he was previously fighting, calmly watching Mon Dupa look around, while sampling some of the fruits on the table. Sitting on a chair, on the right side of the table, was another old man, who looked very familiar to Mon Dupa.

Chapter 84: Back In Time

After snapping out of the trance, he immediately noticed a change in his environment. The old man that was just in front of him had somehow teleported himself to countless light years away from him at some point in time. Noticing this, shocked Mon Dupa greatly, as he soon also noticed that it wasn’t teleportation that just occurred, because the old man and the moon he was standing on looked exactly the same as when he had first arrived within this universe filled with moons, with the old man sporting a wicked smirk on his aged face.

Realizing it wasn’t teleportation, Mon Dupa quickly looked away from the smirking old man, to look at his surroundings. That’s when he accepted that his earlier conjecture was true. The old man hadn’t teleported, he had somehow reversed time to just after Mon Dupa arrived within the universe instead.

Looking around the universe that was previously covered in his wax, everything was just as calm, quiet and peaceful as it was before, when he had first arrived. His current position was also completely different from where he was just a moment ago as well, he was now floating in the exact place where he previously floated, before he launched himself forward towards the old man.

But strangely, Mon Dupa soon noticed a great difference from the last time that he was at this current location in time. His body was still strangely aged and withered, and was currently still aging rapidly by the second. His skin was also losing its luster by the second, and as well as his entire body, which was actively growing weaker and weaker.

Noticing his rapidly aging body, that was filled with exhaustion from his previous bout with the old man, Mon Dupa finally realized that he had lost the battle. He was forced back in time by the old man, along with his injuries from the previous battle.

After realizing this, he quickly looked towards the old man that was currently smirking at him. Who now looked exactly the same as he did before, when Mon Dupa first arrived, without the slightest look of exhaustion or damage to his body.

Mon Dupa then smirked as well, before proclaiming to the old man, in an aged and haggard voice that sounded nothing like his previous self. “You think you've won right? Well, I believe it's a draw. If you don't stop now, we'll both die here!”

He couldn’t help but bluff, even though he knew that a celestial of this caliber that could easily drag his body back in time, was definitely someone with more aces up his sleeves. But thankfully he was already prepared for this celestial’s time manipulating witchcraft when the battle began, so he left a little surprise for the old man to discover before the old man could drag him back to the past.

Chapter 83: Baffled!

Due to the entire universe being transformed into wax, there was only a small empty space left. From his viewpoint of his surroundings within that empty space, only a circular milk colored, wax wall surrounded him. Now he strangely noticed that a portion of the wax wall situated in front of him seemed to instantly transform strangely into the shape of a human being within the blink of an eye.

Seeing the human shaped wax in front of him caused him to be baffled. He couldn’t help but understand the cause of his current predicament, the young man from earlier that he thought he had successfully gotten rid of. Looking at the human shaped wax that materialized in bafflement, and anxiety, he heard a chuckle echo from that wax figure.

After the chuckle, the wax-like human then quickly transformed into the flesh and blood human called Mon Dupa, who then looked menacingly into the old man’s moon-like eyes, as if he was looking at an evil villain.

Mon Dupa while looking into the old man’s eyes asked in an angered voice. “Who are you? What's your relation to the little girl? Did you kidnap her?”

Looking at the now old and haggard looking Mon Dupa in front of him, the old man whose head, which at some point in time had already started to transform into wax, came to another realization. It seemed he may have guessed the identity of the person in front of him wrong. It seemed the wax manipulating man in front of him wasn’t the criminal that he thought he was.

But instead of answering Mon Dupa’s question, due to fear of being turned into a wax figurine, the old man’s moon-like eyes started to lose their previous glow. Knowing that he was soon going to turn into a wax figurine even before he could answer the question, the old man used his last bit of strength to make one final move.

While staring at the old man’s eyes, Mon Dupa quickly fell into a slight trance. He soon noticed in his trance that when he looked into the old man’s eyes they had no resemblance to regular eyes to him, instead they looked like two, glowing full moons situated in a cold and desolate night sky.

And strangely the two full moons started to wane, until they slowly turned dark, causing the night sky to lose all its brilliance. The old man’s once bright moon-like eyes waned into two dark moons, as they stared back at Mon Dupa menacingly.

Looking at the dark moons, situated within the cold and desolate night sky, mesmerized Mon Dupa deeply for a brief moment before he forcefully snapped himself out of the trance using his will power.

Chapter 82: Forced Transformation

Within a couple seconds his body was almost completely healed, making him look like how he used to before the battle began. But strangely, before his body could heal completely the old man started to cough violently. He coughed for over 3 minutes in agony before his body knelt on the ground in desperation and pain. After falling to the ground in agony, he started to cough even more violently than before, with blood coming from his mouth with each cough. But strangely the blood that he coughed out of his mouth looked more like blood colored wax, than real blood.

After spending a couple of minutes coughing up blood colored wax, he forced himself to stop coughing using his will power, as his pale white eyes started to glow again. He tried to use his will power to slow down time around whatever mysterious force was currently tearing his insides apart, using every ounce of strength within him, and causing his entire body to emit blinding moon light towards its surroundings that completely obscured his curled up figure on the ground of the moon.

But before he could accomplish his goal, he seemed to notice something, which caused him to look up from his kneeling and hunched position on the ground. As he raised his head to look around, he shockingly noticed that the entire universe that he had manifested from his celestial will power had at some point in time transformed into a wax figurine.

The entire universe, including the countless moons and empty space within it, had at some point in time solidified into gray colored wax. The only location within the entire universe that hadn’t transformed into wax was only the few feet around his body that had been obscured by the moon light originating from his body.

Noticing this, he quickly tried to get up in desperation, but only to realize that half his body had already turned into wax, from his two feet to his torso. They were wax-like and felt like they weighed tons to him. Even worse yet, he soon realized that he was strangely incapable of moving those parts of his body that had already gained a wax-like consistency. It seemed they no longer belonged under his mental and physical control.

The scariest part of this wax-like lower body to him, was that it was currently rapidly spreading towards the rest of his body by the second. Looking at the wax constantly spreading all over his body, he couldn't help but panic in fear and anxiety. It seemed to him that the mysterious force that had been tearing his insides apart in the past, was somehow still within his body even after all he had done to get rid of it. And he quickly realized that this mysterious force was the cause of this wax-like transformation that his body was currently going through.

As he was stricken by extreme terror, and anxiety helplessly watching the wax spread towards his upper body, he soon noticed something materialize in front of him that drew his attention away from his changing body.

Chapter 81: Moonlight Eyes

Noticing the extremely violent punch pierce through his shield and reach towards his now bare skull, the old man, who was now nothing more than a crack filled skeleton, panicked. He wasn’t willing to die along with his enemy, so he made a quick decision to save his old life, which was on the brink of collapse.

His eyes, which were strangely the only things left on his face, aside from his crack filled skull, quickly changed color. They quickly turned from dark brown to pale white. They then started to glow as if they were two moons in the night sky. The instant his eyes transformed, the punch that was already almost touching his splintering skull, with extreme force that tore the skin and flesh on his body apart, stopped abruptly.

Strangely, after the old man stopped Mon Dupa’s violent thrust, everything in the entire universe also stopped moving as well, as if time had slowed down to a complete stop. The crack filled moon that was already tearing Mon Dupa's body apart, then instantly released a blinding moon light that covered the entire universe, in an instant.

That light seemed to wash everything within the universe away instantly, like illusions disappearing from sight. By the time the moon light disappeared, all the moons, and terrifying blue flames, as well as Mon Dupa had vanished from the universe entirely. The entire universe had now become a dark and empty wasteland, as if everything within it previously were mere illusions.

The only thing now left within the dark and quiet universe was the moon that the old man was standing on, as well as the glowing light shield that enclosed the two.

Noticing something, the old man that was standing on the moon, looked towards the pointed cane that was held in his right hand. The cane at some point in time had become riddled with cracks. After the old man glanced at it, the cane then quickly disintegrated into ash, and fell on the moon below him.

Looking at his now empty hand that the cane used to be in, the old man slowly lowered his arm in regret. But as his arm slowly lowered, new moons started to appear all over the universe, completely filling the universe back up again within a matter of seconds.

The lacerated skin and flesh on the old man’s body also started to heal again. As the old man bathed in the light emanating from the new moons around him, the light from the moons seemed to slowly move time around his damaged skeletal body back in time, towards a time where his body wasn’t injured. Every second, pieces of flesh, organs, tissues and skin, would materialize on his skeletal body, as if they were being pulled from the past towards the current moment in the present.

Chapter 80: A Powerful Thrust

After the transformation, he didn’t wish to wait for the moon to crash into him, for he feared that he may not survive its onslaught. So he quickly balled up his right waxy fist using every ounce of will power left within him, before thrusting it forcefully towards the approaching cane with all his might, hoping to obliterate everything in its path, bring down the old man situated within the moon and end this terrible battle that he was facing.

A large bang echoed out with the powerful thrust that pushed the surrounding flames forcefully away from him. The punch that he threw seemed so terrifying that the space around it warped and cracked. Even the surrounding new moons that appeared, were obliterated to smithereens from the violent shockwaves emitted from the forceful thrust that reached trillions of miles around Mon Dupa.

The terrifying punch quickly traveled countless light years, ahead of Mon Dupa, elongating his right arm. Turning that arm into a long, and dangerous, wax pole that obliterated everything in its path.

The punch quickly arrived in front of the enormous moon that had already enlarged to cover Mon Dupa’s entire frontal view. The moment it arrived in front of the moon, its extreme speed seemed to ignore the time slowing effect that the large moon had around it.

It then pierced the moon with extreme force that sent massive shockwaves all over the enormous moon, which caused it to crack all over violently, threatening to break at any moment. Within the blink of an eye, the punch then burrowed deep into the center of the moon, before exiting it at extreme speed towards the old man who was situated towards the end of the moon.

The large, crack filled moon that was punctured by the punch, strangely continued forward towards Mon Dupa at extreme speed as well, gaining more momentum by the millisecond, as if the cracks all over it caused it no harm.

It then bore into Mon Dupa, causing him to quickly disintegrate. Turning his body into an illusionary substance that disappeared like a mirage, as if his body was being unraveled by time itself. But just as the moon was tearing Mon Dupa’s body apart, his violent punch entered the moon with overwhelming speed, and barreled towards the old man, the moon he was standing on, and his light shield with extreme force.

Within an instant it arrived in front of the old man’s face, causing the skin and flesh on the old man’s entire body to quickly tear apart, until only crack filled bones remained, even before the punch successfully landed.

Chapter 79: A Waxy Transformation

Feeling frustrated at his inability to withstand the rising temperature, and the tearing force within his body that brought him great pain, the old man quickly raised his wooden cane, after determining that waiting patiently for the young man in front of him to die from lifespan depletion, was detrimental to his own survival, and thrusted it towards Mon Dupa, who was billions of light years away with all his might. In a bid to end the battle quickly.

The powerful thrust of the cane situated in the old man’s right arm, seemed to easily traverse the trillions, upon trillions of miles separating the two in less than a second, as if the distance separating the two of them was an illusion.

As he thrusted his cane mysteriously towards Mon Dupa, the illusion of an ancient moon soon appeared at the tip of the cane. The ancient moon appeared lone and desolate as if it was the only moon in existence, as it hovered at the tip of the cane. After appearing, the ancient moon, then rapidly enlarged, as it moved towards the distant Mon Dupa at terrifying speed, quickly enlarging to epic proportions that dwarfed several galaxies combined, and covered the old man, and the moon he was standing within, completely.

The flames burning in its path seemed to freeze in place as it passed through them, as if time, millions of light years around the moon, had slowed down to almost a complete stop. Its piercing movement also pushed the countless moons in its path to the side violently. Even the heat burning the inside of the old man, as well as the tearing force within him disappeared, as the illusionary moon encapsulated him, and his surroundings.

Looking at the rapidly approaching moon in the distance, Mon Dupa couldn’t help but feel as though he was watching an ancient, desolate moon that was birthed at the beginning of time, cross countless eons of time from the distant past, towards his current position in the distant future, with unstoppable momentum that grew more terrifying by the second.

Noticing the moon that was approaching him at terrifying speed, threatening to tear him asunder, and wash him away within the river of time, Mon smirked in anger and fright for the first time, for he knew he could die if that illusionary moon crashed into him as his body currently was.

After realizing this, his body that was covered in flames then quickly started to change. The flames erupting from his body quickly disappeared in less than a second, leaving a muscular body with wax-like consistency behind.

Mon Dupa had somehow transformed himself into a wax figurine, in a bid to protect his body from the incoming moon. For he believed that only in this state could his body somehow survive the onslaught of the moon.

Chapter 78: Blue Flames

Noticing the shield’s reaction, Mon Dupa finally felt more at ease, and continued increasing the temperature within the universe desperately. Hoping to burn the old man down, before his moons could build up any resistance to his flames, and turn the tables. For he knew those moons could be key to how the old man uses his powers. Making sure they constantly melted into ashes may be of great help, even if it currently doesn’t appear as such.

The old man who was standing on the moon, and calming watching Mon Dupa’s actions the entire time as if he was trying to figure out his origins, and intentions, quickly stopped his smirk, after noticing the energy shield surrounding him emit sizzling sounds as if it was being burnt to ashes.

As the energy shield was emitting sizzling sounds, he even started to feel the temperature within the inside of the shield rapidly increase as well. After a couple of minutes inside the shield that was rapidly gaining temperature, he started sweating profusely.

His sweat even started to evaporate instantly after being secreted from the sweat glands on his skin, after the temperature rose to a certain degree. With his sweat glands emitting gas instead of water, that turned into blue plumes of flames in the air.

Noticing the blue plumes of flames inside his shield, the old man couldn't help but take in a deep, sweltering breath, before saying. “It seems I've really met my match this time.”

He finally realized that the young Mon Dupa before him was truly someone of his caliber. Mon Dupa’s blue flames have somehow bypassed his energy shield and have started affecting his body, from within. Something only people of his caliber could do, within the short period of time that they had battled.

After saying those words, blood started to seep out of the old man’s eyes, mouth and nose, as the temperature increased even more rapidly around him, as if his insides were not only being cooked by extremely high temperatures, but also being torn apart by a mysterious force.

The blood that seeped out of his facial orifices, strangely evaporated as well, into a bloody mist that soon turned into wisps of blue flames, just like his sweat from before.

Noticing his damaged, and aching body, the old man for the first time, couldn’t help but feel surprised. His powerful will power that’s currently appearing as the energy shield around him, seemed to truly be unable to protect his body from the overbearing heat from his surroundings. Even the mysterious force that was tearing his insides apart, he was also incapable of subduing.

Chapter 77: Terrifying Heat

But after 3 minutes of melting every moon within the universe in a bid to stop his lifespan’s depletion, Mon Dupa soon noticed that strangely, each time a moon melted, another larger moon miraculously appeared, and took its place. But alas, the temperature of the flames were too terrifyingly high for the new moons to survive as well, so the new moons also disintegrated into ashes shortly after appearing.

This constant destruction and creation of moons went on for minutes, as Mon Dupa constantly increased the temperature of the burning flames using his powerful will power, in order to make sure everything burned down permanently. But to his dismay he soon noticed something troubling. Not only did his lifespan’s depletion not cease, after burning down the entire universe for minutes on end, it seemed that each time a new moon appeared after being burned down, its resistance to the burning flames increased as well. But due to the still rising temperature of the environment, their increased resilience was still futile.

Noticing this growing resilience of the moons, Mon Dupa knew that sooner or later the new moons would gain enough resilience to resist the heat from his burning flames, if he didn’t think of another solution soon. He didn’t know much about the mysterious old man in front of him, and couldn’t tell how much longer the old man could handle the pressure brought by the burning flames to his mind field universe.

Knowing that he had a time limit, he quickly looked towards the direction where the old man was previously standing in order to investigate his appearance. Hoping to gauge whether his current rising flames’ heat were effective.

But to his further dismay, the old man was still standing on the same moon that he had previously been standing on without any blemish to his appearance.

The moon the old man was standing on, was now covered in a white colored, circular energy shield, that enclosed the moon and the old man completely. This large energy shield that looked like a ball filled with moon light, somehow prevented any flames from burning the large moon that the old man was standing on. Keeping him safe from the flames’ terrifying temperatures.

But as Mon's lifespan kept depleting minute by minute, while he stood and studied the old man carefully in order to think of a counter measure, he kept increasing the temperature within the universe rapidly as well, until the old man, hiding within the energy shield, couldn't help but start sweating profusely.

After minutes of being incinerated by the surrounding flames, it seemed his energy shield couldn’t handle the pressure, and started emitting light sizzling sounds as the flames surrounding it burned at its white colored edges ferociously.

Chapter 76: Another Dangerous Predator

But after traveling over two billion light years, he quickly lurched himself to a complete stop, as a hideous grimace surfaced on his handsome face. Looking at Mon Dupa, you could tell that he was very angry. And his anger stemmed from the fact that the closer he moved towards the old man in the distance, the faster his lifespan depleted by the second.

At his starting location, he was previously losing around a thousand years per second, but now however, after traveling two billion light years forward, he started to lose over a million years per second. His face also started to show signs of aging, which was strange given how long he was fated to live given his cultivation level. With small wrinkles appearing all over his face, and facial hair growing every second, his over a trillion years of life that he had gained from cultivating his immortal will power for the past 15 years, depleted constantly as age spots started to appear all over his body.

Feeling his life deplete by the second, he quickly came to the conclusion that moving towards the old man ahead of him was a dangerous mistake that he wouldn’t make again. He also felt that moving backwards would not reduce the speed at which his life depleted. He had a hunch judging from the wicked smirk given by the old man, that the old man wouldn’t be that merciful to him.

After a couple seconds spent desperately thinking of a solution to his shrinking lifespan, Mon Dupa soon noticed that another pair of eyes seemed to be watching him from somewhere. Somewhere he couldn’t see even with his great eyesight, which bothered him. Facing one celestial with his current body, that had been fractalized into many different bodies that are all situated all over the city, was already a strenuous task.

Fearing that another dangerous predator was about to make a move on him, he decided to use a desperate approach. After coming to this decision in his mind, his entire body started to emit large, ocean sized plumes of blue flames into his surroundings that grew larger and faster by the second as they expanded towards his exterior.

Hoping to incinerate everything in the universe of moons that he was currently within, Mon Dupa released extremely terrifying flames that traveled billions of light years within seconds, and turned the entire universe into a field, covered in blazing blue flames. Every inch within the universe soon became ablaze in blue flames. Their scorching heat obscuring the air around.

Every moon within the universe, after being bathed by the terrifyingly hot flames, quickly melted into ashes upon being surrounded by the field of blue flames that covered every inch of the universe.

Chapter 75: Old Man

He then made eye contact with the mysterious old man that was situated billions of light years away. Making eye contact with the old man, made the old man smirk in response. You could tell from the old man’s smirk that he was not happy about Mon Dupa’s appearance within the little girl’s room. Not even the slightest bit of surprise was seen on the face of the old man. As if he was already aware that Mon Dupa was going to appear within the room, before he did.

After seeing the old man smirk, Mon Dupa quickly started to notice his lifespan slip away from him. Every second that he hovered calmly in space, he felt over a thousand years of his life disappear from within him, and evaporate into thin air. Yet, strangely, time itself still flowed haphazardly, around him. Sometimes speeding up, and sometimes slowing down. It seemed his lifespan was evaporating from within him, at a steady rate, regardless of how time flowed around him. The young looking Mon Dupa, was truly growing older by the second, and after a moment of using his powerful will power to try to counter this mysterious life draining force in order to slow it down, he quickly realized there was nothing he could do to stop it.

Noticing his depleting lifespan that couldn’t be stopped no matter how much will power he used to control his body and mind, Mon Dupa feared that something even worse was in store for him, if he didn’t put a stop to the old man’s machinations somehow. So, bright blue plumes of flames quickly lit up from his back, as his back from head to heel, lit in flames.

The bright plumes of blue flames that lit up, then forcefully ejected from his back powerfully, quickly launching his body forward with unstoppable momentum towards the old man situated billions of light years away, creating violent shockwaves that destroyed every moon within a hundred billion miles around him. Turning Mon Dupa into a bright burning, blue comet that barreled violently forward.

His barreling speed was so blindingly fast, that it left afterimages behind him. Only after traveling over trillions of miles, did the image of him at his original location start to slowly dissipate.

With his violent lunge forward, the temperature of the space around him quickly increased astronomically as well. It increased by millions of degrees every millisecond.

Due to the rapidly increasing temperature around him, every gigantic moon that he came across, as he violently barrelled forward, melted into ashes before he could even get near them.

The gargantuan moons that made him look extremely microscopic couldn’t withstand the surrounding temperature billions of miles around his body, and quickly melted into magma, before evaporating into ashes, and smoke covered in blue flames, as he flew closer.

Chapter 73: Mysterious Space

Replacing them were the dark recesses of space. The surroundings of Mon Dupa had somehow transformed into a quiet, cold, and silent universe, with nothing but darkness and unfathomably large incandescent planets situated around him.

His lungs, which were used to breathing air, quickly came to an agonizing stop, as they struggled for air to breathe, only to realize that there was no longer air around Mon Dupa for them to breathe in. But luckily, Mon Dupa’s, unique, cultivated body, overrode the shortness of breath that came with his suffocating lungs. Shortly after stopping, his powerful lungs started back up again and quickly went into overdrive, and started inhaling the pure, invisible energy that was hidden within his surrounding environment, in order to compensate for the lack of oxygen in the environment.

With the restart of his lungs, Mon Dupa started to feel at ease again within seconds, as his body slowly started to acclimate to his weird airless environment. But feeling slightly groggy for some reason, he cautiously looked around him, only to notice that strangely, the incandescent planets that filled the dark space around him and the distance, were not truly planets but large moons of various sizes. Moons that emitted gentle moon light that slightly obscured their surroundings in white light. And with his microscopic stature in comparison to them, he couldn’t help but feel dwarfed by the massive moons situated around him, that appeared out of thin air, along with the universe.

While he was observing the moon, his mind kept getting even more groggy and chaotic, causing him to notice that the mysterious light exuded into the surrounding darkness by the mammoth sized moons, not only made the dark space around them brighter than it should be, it also created an effect towards its surroundings that made time move countless times faster than normal at times, while at other times made time move countless times slower than normal.

Being bathed by the gentle light from these mammoth sized moons, the microscopic sized Mon Dupa, situated among them, was easily affected. Just the short few seconds that he had arrived in this unknown universe, his mind had already started to quickly go haywire.

The entire time that he had been trying to acclimate to his new environment, his thinking process and awareness, would speed up by thousands of times, while at other times, they would slow down to a crawl, as if time had slowed down to almost a stand still.

Feeling the constant change in time, caused him to panic, and clutch his head with both hands. He then used a great deal of effort to will his mind and body, using the power of his unique will power, to ignore the irregular changes in time that were occurring within his surroundings, in order to help his mind and body regain stability. Only after doing this, did his mind and body slowly start to function as they normally would, while ignoring the rapid changes in time that occurred around him.

Chapter 72: A Little Girl

But in a matter of seconds, as Lain was observing the two, all the candle wax that covered the bodies of the trio melted to the ground, then quickly moved towards Mon Dupa, who was currently walking towards them.

The melted candle wax then quickly covered his walking legs, from feet to waist, before disappearing into his legs. While this was happening, the walking Mon Dupa, nonchalantly answered Lain’s question, as if he wasn’t aware of the mysterious wax’s movements. ”Earlier, when brother Hui Shi told us that you guys had something important to attend to, I felt the need to protect you from the Fang Clan member that entered the gates before you. So I secretly left a bit of my candle wax on your bodies. Hoping to use it to monitor your presence, for a couple of days to make sure your lives were not at risk, before I withdraw them back into my body.”

40 minutes before Mon Dupa manifested directly in front of the trio, somewhere far away from Yearning Sweet City, a little girl was sleeping on a small, blue, stone bed inside a small room with stone walls and stone floor that was filled with unique, moon shaped, dark blue runes.

While the little girl was sleeping in the quiet and dark room, blue flames quickly started to materialize inside the room. The blue flames that materialized, first appeared as small sparks of flames that danced around the little girl’s body, before more flames quickly exploded from within the body of the sleeping girl, towards the exterior of the room. The exploding flames then quickly covered not only the walls and the bed, but also the entire body of the little girl as well.

But strangely, the blue flames that coerced everything inside the room, did not emit a single amount of heat. The little girl continued sleeping on the now flaming bed peacefully, as if nothing unique was happening, as blue flames flew out of her nostrils every time she breathed out, while blue flames entered when she breathed in.

After a few milliseconds, the blue flames that covered the entire room, quickly converged next to the right side of the bed that the little girl was sleeping in, before the figure of Mon Dupa appeared within the flames.

Looking at the little girl, who was sleeping peacefully on the bed, Mon Dupa couldn’t help but breathe out a sigh of relief. He then quickly looked around him, as if he sensed the presence of something terrifying watching him from somewhere.

After glancing around the room, and finding nothing but darkness. He quickly looked back towards the bed that the little girl was sleeping on. But as he looked back, he shockingly discovered that not only had the little girl disappeared, the bed and room had also disappeared as well.

Hello everyone! As of August 24, 2025, I've gone back to make sure all chapters are re-edited to the best of my abilities, as well as uploaded in their proper sequence. I've been having issues with my word editor not spell checking my words properly, so I've had to use a different editor, before i re-uploaded my work. I've also accidently forgotten to upload a chapter recently, which I've just added. It's chapter 66, for those who are wondering.

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New Chapter 70: Candle King

“Yes. We met him earlier, when the Fang Clan villain passed through the gates with his weird insect-like creature.” Lain replied. He couldn’t help but feel slightly vexed when he thought about the man from the Fang Clan that he met earlier.

“We did. But I do not know much about him, other than his origin. Judging from the blue flames on his body, I fear that he’s a very dangerous man from the Candle King Sect. All members of the Candle King Sect emit flames from their bodies of various colors, where their hairs should be.

The blue flame on his body, from the historical records that I’ve read in the past, indicates that he must be a direct descendant of their progenitor, the Candle King himself. Who is a true immortal that’s been alive since ancient times. The Candle King is the main reason why his sect is called an untouchable zone. For he is a truly terrifying monster from ancient times that can destroy the world, and easily rule our empire, if he ever wishes to.

As for Mon Dupa, due to him being called a superhero by sister Annette, his strength must at least be at the unity stage or higher. I believe this because all heroes in the empire are called superheroes, after reaching the unity stage.” Hui Shi stated. But just before he could continue, he noticed the hairs all over his body start to emit blue flames.

Just as he was about to look around in caution, words suddenly echoed out in the quiet room, startling the trio. “Is everyone talking about me?”

As soon as the trio heard those words, they quickly looked around them in shock, only to see blue flames mysteriously materialize all over the living room. Even the two holographic screens in the room, started to burn in blue flames as well.

Hui Shi who was previously glowing in golden light was quickly bathed in blue flames, as the golden glow that emitted from his body was forced by the blue flames to recede into his body. Even the halo above his head began to shine in a hue of blue flames as well, but strangely the halo remained over Hui Shi’s head and didn’t disappear completely. It seemed, the powers of Ensieth were too concentrated within the halo, for it to be conquered completely by the blue flames.

Lain, seeing the blue flames all over his body, that made every breath he breathed out emit plumes of blue flames into the air, couldn’t help but feel that the flames looked slightly familiar.

He noticed that the strangest part of the blue flames that covered everything in the room, from his point of view, wasn’t that it covered their entire bodies, and possibly even their insides, but that there was no heat emitted from them at all.

New Chapter 69: The Unity Stage

“What about Elder Micas, and Elder Trent? What stages are they at, if you don’t mind me asking?” Lain, asked in disappointment, after realizing that he wouldn’t get to understand the next stage of cultivation anytime soon, unless he did his own research.

“Well, although I do not know what stage both elders are currently at, since it's been countless years since they did anything publically notable, I do know that they were once generals in the kingdom’s military. A person cannot be a general in the kingdom’s military if they aren’t at the simple unity stage. Which is the 8th stage of cultivation.

At the simple unity stage, cultivators are given a cultivator title by the kingdom. Cultivators that serve in the military or have helped the kingdom in notable ways, are given a noble title instead, which holds real power all over the kingdom. A noble of a kingdom is well respected all over the empire.” Hui Shi replied.

“Is that so? What titles do Elder Micas and Elder Trent have?” Lain asked again. He even began to yearn for a noble’s title in his heart.

“From the records that I’ve read, I heard that Elder Micas was once called the Moon Light Marquis. Making him a marquis ranked noble in the kingdom. Mind you, a general at the unity stage is given the title of baron, so Elder Micas, as a marquis, must be much stronger than the unity stage. And that was over 100,000 years ago.

His strength today must be countless times greater than when he was first given his title.

As for Elder Trent, it’s been over a couple billion years since he left the military and started this district, so I have no idea what his current noble rank is, but I do know that he was once called the Peaceful Sage Marquis in the past. He could’ve done a lot more notable things since then that could’ve elevated his status within the kingdom.” Hui Shi responded.

“I heard those at the unity stage are god-like beings that can easily destroy planets and galaxies. I can’t believe I met two elders with powers greater than that!” Annette exclaimed, with a shiver.

“I can’t believe the two elders are that powerful. They must be more powerful than brother Mon Dupa that we met earlier, right?” Lain, asked. Remembering the handsome man from earlier with flames for hair, he couldn’t help but believe that he was someone stronger than Annette, not weaker.

“You met the superhero Mon Dupa? I’ve heard of him before, but haven’t truly spent time trying to find out who he is.” Annette said, in shock. She couldn’t believe what she heard, since there were very few superheroes in each district compared to the number of heroes, which were almost countless in her eyes.