The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 928: From a Far Star Cluster
On the next day, an announcement was made by the three noble families that had animosity against Zander, stating that they were in the wrong and that they apologized for bothering him. The announcement spread to many places across the continent, and it finally reached Zander himself.
Once he heard it, he could not help but feel surprised because the result was much better than he had initially thought. He never expected those nobles to apologize to him because he knew what kind of pride those families possessed.
For him, making those families back off and deterring them from acting was enough. He could look for a way to entirely solve the problem with the nobles at later date, when he had already grown stronger.
Was the Adventurer Guild powerful enough to make all those nobles in a faraway kingdom show this kind of apology? Or was this some kind of plot by those nobles?
He did not know.
But whatever the case, he was glad that the problem, for now, had been solved, at least on the surface. But He needed to wait a little longer to make sure that those families truly meant what they were saying.
As Zander thought about the current situation, he suddenly thought of another piece of news that had spread today. He heard that the Avilandis imperial family was conducting a large-scale hunting operation against the Dark Vipers members within their empire. The imperial family was truly serious in their actions against the Dark Vipers, deploying many of the imperial armies.
Strong cultivators of the imperial family spread out to hunt the Dark Vipers members, which made many people wonder what had happened between the imperial family and the Dark Vipers.
They had never seen the imperial family send so many of their cultivators to hunt the Dark Vipers before, so why now?
Zander knew that the Dark Vipers were one organization that pursued his friends.
’Does this have something to do with my problem?’ he thought. The timing was coincidentally perfect. His friends were almost caught by those people, and just yesterday he had asked for help from the guild master, and then today something like this happened. It was as if what happened was one of the results of him asking for help. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
He did not know what was really happening, but he was relieved that, one by one, the threats against him and his friends were being taken care of.
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In the Aster Empire, in Aldrian’s palace, Aldrian himself sat on his throne as he spread his domain sense across the Orian Continent. He was observing how Zander was doing and the things that were happening on the continent, and he could not help but smile.
’Well, it looks like I’ll need to invite Emperor Rozwald and King Frederick for a drink in the future,’ he thought.
In the end, because they realized who Zander was, they decided to help him in their own way. Aldrian sighed, because even if Zander hid his identity, at the end of the day he still had weaknesses that made him recognizable to some people on the Orian Continent.
Moreover, many had already seen Zander in the grand tournament, so Aldrian did not doubt that they could somehow see through Zander’s disguise. All of that hiding was useless against those powerhouses who had already seen him in the tournament, and it certainly reduced the "reality effect" of his training in the Orian Continent.
They would likely help Zander to make his life easier. Unless he told those leaders to not actively help Zander, then the situation would likely be the same in the future if Zander fell into trouble again.
’It looks like Zander needs to go to a place where no one could recognize him,’ Aldrian thought with a smile.
While he was still thinking about his disciple, he received another incoming communication from the Xin family elder about guests who wished to visit. Not long after, a group of five humans entered the throne hall, three men and two women.
They were wearing red-black robes with an insignia that he had never seen before. The strongest among them was a middle-aged man and a woman at the high pseudo-immortal stage, while the rest were at the low pseudo-immortal stage. This was quite an exaggerated composition if they were only envoys of some power.
As the group neared him, they bowed.
"We greet the great Emperor, Aldrian the Great," the strongest of them said with full respect.
Aldrian nodded. "Well, I have to say that I am slightly surprised by a group that consists entirely of pseudo-immortal stage cultivators visiting me."
"My apologies, Your Majesty, but this is our way of expressing our sincerity and showing the seriousness of our visit. Please allow me to introduce myself first. My name is Geodard Alfemin, the patriarch of the Alfemin family from the Blue Pearl World of the White Ring Star Cluster," the man said.
"White Ring Star Cluster? You came from quite a distant place. You are the first ones to come from that star cluster. I hope that you find my empire to your liking," Aldrian said.
He knew that the White Ring Star Cluster was located much farther away than the four cardinal direction star clusters, around five months of travel from the Ancient Blue Gate World.
It was one of the star clusters that rarely had connections to the central star cluster, even more so to the Ancient Blue Gate World, so the visit of this group was truly a surprise to Aldrian.
Although he had already received many guests from other star clusters, this one was the farthest so far.
"Of course, Your Majesty. There is nothing that made us dislike Your Majesty’s great empire. In fact, we really like it, and our visit here is not only to greet Your Majesty, but also regarding something else, and it has something to do with this continent," Patriarch Geodard said.
Aldrian smiled, feeling curious. "Oh? What is it, Patriarch Geodard? Now I am intrigued."
"We would like to move our entire family to the Aster Empire, Your Majesty," Patriarch Geodard replied.
Hearing that, Aldrian slightly raised his eyebrows. "Move your entire family here? Why? For the record, you are not the only one who wants to move their family to this continent. Of course, I am open to anyone who wishes to move to this empire, as long as they can adapt to my rule and do not create disharmony."
"Well, I know it may not sound convincing, but we plan to move to this continent to fulfill a prophecy that has been passed down from our ancestors, Your Majesty," Patriarch Geodard said.
"A prophecy?" Aldrian asked curiously.
Patriarch Geodard nodded. "Yes, a prophecy. Our family is a long-standing one that has existed for millions of years, and this prophecy seems to have originated not long after the establishment of our family."
"From our records, our first ancestor encountered a great difficulty. After that, he met a wandering Buddhist monk. This strange monk helped our ancestor resolve his problem, but he also gave him a prophecy that we still hold to this day."
Hearing that, Aldrian became truly curious.
"A strange monk, you say?" he asked, and Patriarch Geodard responded with a nod.
"Yes, Your Majesty. There is even a picture depicting that monk’s face in our secret vault, which has existed since the time of our first ancestor. Because our ancestor deeply respected that monk, he made a picture of him and hung it in the secret vault."
Aldrian thought for a moment. He suddenly felt intrigued by this monk, and he decided to ask the patriarch, "Could I take a look at that monk’s picture? I am suddenly intrigued by this monk in your story."
"Ah, my apologies, Your Majesty, but I did not bring the picture with me. However, I can recreate the monk’s image like this..." Patriarch Geodard said as he drew in the air with his index finger, using his energy. The process was fast, and with his precise and refined control of energy, he shaped his energy into a picture of a face floating in the air.
When he finished and Aldrian looked at the face, he was quite astonished because...
’Isn’t that Tianlian? He met their ancestor?’ Aldrian thought.
The face undoubtedly depicted Tianlian Buddha.
"This is the monk who gave the prophecy," Patriarch Geodard said. The manifested image held for a few seconds before disappearing.
"And his prophecy for our family is like this: ’There will be a time when the red evils close in on your family. Keep holding on until the evils of the Northern Star are swept away by the brightest light. Stay near the light and follow it. Your family will be safe and reach glory.’"
