Apotheosis – Ascension to Godhood Chapter 163: The Mo Family

Chapter 163: The Mo Family

It was actually unnecessary for Aura to display her ruthlessness, but at least she had turned the tables on her and saved Zen, who was fortunately uninjured.
Whatever Aura had done, her sole purpose was to make everyone understand that she hadn't demonstrated her true power yet because she disliked being a show-off, but anyone who dared or even tried to annoy her would undoubtedly be a target for her sharp thorns, no matter who he or she was.
“My princess, do you think you have gone a little too far...” Saint Viana choked out.
At this point, he had no choice but to stand out just to say something. After all, this entire thing was on him; even Saint Zara had become his scapegoat.
“Am I out of line?” Aura questioned back with a shake of her head. Saint Viana didn't get to respond as she immediately followed up her answer.
“In fact, I haven't asked for too much at all. Because of your wrong judgment, Zen has been nearly put to death. Now, I only require you to say sorry to him. Is that too much? As an old saying goes, a fault confessed is half redressed. My request doesn't embarrass you that much!” she exclaimed.
“Although it is advisable for you to put it that way, but look at our identities. Our position is superior to Zen's. Then, how can we...” Saint Viana tried to explain. However, Aura was not having any of that.
Before he could finish his sentence, she abruptly cut him off and said, "Viana, Zen is a disciple I have chosen in person. Just wait and see his future achievements. He will become very powerful and enjoy a fairly high position. By that time, even all of you will have to look up to him.
And so, you don't need to make any excuse for not apologizing to him just because his current identity is inferior to you."
Now, she had even claimed that a group of saints would think highly of Zen in the future!
It wasn't very easy to become a saint of Cloud Sect. These ten saints had made considerable contributions to Cloud Sect's development. Only through nearly a century of hard work had they gained their current power and position.
In the Eastern Region, any of them would be admired by others.
However, just now, Aura had even firmly boasted and believed that Zen would be able to far surpass these saints in the future. All others present thought that Aura had been rather overconfident about Zen.
Then again, Aura was their princess, so no one dared to retort back at her words even if they wished.
After a while, Saint Zara spoke up.
“Ah, anyway, it was my fault today! Hence, I am supposed to apologize to Zen,” he said and admitted his faults.
As soon as he did so, he took a step downwards from the front side of the hall and politely bowed down to Zen!
The sight of Saint Zara's bow did not paint a happy expression on other saints' faces. A dark cloud seemed to hover above their heads, as though a downpour threatened to fall out.
Although the one who was apologizing to Zen was Saint Zara, all of them felt humiliated as he represented all the ten saints of Cloud Sect.
After bowing to Zen, Saint Zara remained silent. Then, he walked straight out of the Commandment Hall.
A few moments later, all other saints followed suit and consecutively walked out.
Just then, the members of the Zhuge family left as well from the side door after casting deep and forlorn looks at Zen. Since Aura was there, it was almost impossible for them to get a hold of Zen and revenge Fren. They would disgrace themselves if they chose to stay in the hall.
Soon enough, only Aura and Zen were left in the Commandment Hall.
The entire hall was silent when Zen turned around and looked at Aura who sat on her throne, a smile etching on his lips. He then walked towards the throne as if he had a purpose. When he got closer to the princess, he clasped his hands together and greeted Aura with a smile, “My princess!”
The princess in turn leaped down from her throne happily and reached out her hand to playfully knock away Zen's own. “Now, you are even smiling at me. I asked you to take part in the trial for slaying demons. At last, many people came back from the trial, but only you didn't. Now, you have just come back, but troubles came your way as soon as you arrived here. As you see, how troublesome you are!” she teased.
During the trial for killing the demons, the demons suddenly invaded them. Thus, the disciples of Cloud Sect went back by big, flying chariot. However, Zen was left behind because he was imprisoned by Yolande. He had no other choice but to stay in White Emperor City.
After those events, he found some clues about the fairy palace when he passed by G County. That took up more of Zen's time and further delayed his return to Cloud Sect. Therefore, Zen got back much later than other disciples.
“Master Su, I am still confused by one thing,” Zen suddenly blurted out. After a while, he asked, “Why is what happened that day presented by the Picture Slab?”
In reality, the fact that Aura had recorded everything that had happened the other day was merely a coincidence.
Zen hadn't come back from the trial for slaying demons after quite a long period. Although Aura had known from some other people like Cleve that Zen was fine and he was just held back by a master of the imperial army.
Based on Cleve's descriptions, Aura guessed that the one who had arrested Zen was Yolande.
In return, Aura couldn't do anything except to patiently wait for Zen to come back to Cloud Sect.
However, many days had passed then, but Zen still wasn't back. Aura couldn't help but worry about his safety, and even wanted to dispatch people to White Emperor City to pry into news about Zen's whereabouts.
Just then, when Aura occasionally opened her Picture Slab, she found out that she finally could track where Zen was.
She had fiddled with Zen's disciple card and because of that, Aura had even monitored Zen all his way when he went to Mountain alone last time.
Zen wore a disciple card all the time, and Aura was able to track wherever he was with her Picture Slab as long as he entered the territory of Cloud Sect.
Therefore, Aura's Picture Slab documented everything that occurred the other day. After watching the records of the Picture Slab, Aura discovered that Zen was threatened by Saint Viana. This discovery made her immediately get in touch with Caspar and rush towards the Commandment Mount together with him.
At this very moment, Zen asked her why the Picture Slab had recorded the events that transpired that day. At this, Aura didn't answer but gave a small chuckle. She was rather unwilling to tell Zen the truth.
“Today, they have said sorry to you and the matter has come to an end, but the saints have been infuriated. I am not fearful of them, but I am afraid that they would take revenge against you!” Aura said.
In turn, Zen nodded in understanding.
"I am very aware of this. Even if it isn't because of this thing, they will definitely refuse to let go of me.
But like them, I won't leave them off the hook either, especially Saint Viana and Saint Adrian!" he said.
He was certain that he had annoyed the saints today because they were forced to apologize to him in public. When Aura heard Zen's arrogant words, she only sighed heavily. Just now, she had forgotten who Zen was.
Deep inside her, she knew that Zen would not show that much hatred if he himself was hurt. However, if anyone dared to hurt any of his close relatives, it was beyond doubt that Zen would make them repay it at much higher costs.
However, Zen didn't act so ruthlessly this time... This reflected that Zen was humane.
“Well, let's save those for the future. Depending on your current strength, you are still unable to confront a master of the Illuminating Soul Realm, let alone these saints. To save your little sister, you have to further enhance your strength,”
Aura chided once again after a few moments.
Zen simply nodded in agreement at her words, and walked out of the Commandment Hall with Aura.
After taking the trial for slaying demons and the journey to the fairy palace, Zen had really improved his strength by a mile and immediately become a nature creature.
Outside the Imperial Capital, a nature creature would almost always occupy a dominant position and be powerful enough to maintain the survival of a small clan.
However, a nature creature meant nothing at all inside the Burning Sky Imperial Capital and Cloud Sect, where many people had reached even much higher levels.
Upon his return, Zen decided to set another goal for himself and then concentrated on diligent cultivation.
When he had returned to Drizzle Peak as its outer disciple once again, awe from the people and a sense of pride washed over him.
His amazing feats in the trial for killing demons had been spread and rumored among the outer disciples for quite a long time.
Before Zen became an outer disciple of Drizzle Peak, Henry ranked number one among all outer disciples.
However, in the trial for slaying demons, it turned out that Henry was no match for Zen at all.
“Zen has slain a demon general!”
“Lenard, the one from the Skytop Peak, has been only capable of breaking even with the demon general in the trial. However, Zen has even put the demon general to death!” These words of praise were showered upon Zen. It was even said that the whole Skytop Peak would have been totally defeated if it hadn't been for him.
“Zen didn't merely kill one demon general. According to the news from the Lady Peak, Zen even slew several demon generals together!”
These outer disciples murmured to themselves and sighed at Zen's fearsome strength at the same time. They had also sensed and encountered the evil spirit of the demons, but they already found it hard to resist the evil spirit of even just one demon soldier.
On the contrary, Zen could even defeat demon generals. He had surely made an idol out of himself among the outer disciples.
He had far transcended all of them and even Henry. Thus, a majority of the outer disciples firmly believed that even no inner disciple of Drizzle Peak could beat Zen.
“Wow! Brother, I have news for you. You are famous now!” Across the distance, Nory and Sean had spotted Zen. They rushed over to him and enveloped him in a bear hug.
After a while, they both stepped aside. Then, Wurth immediately wrapped Zen in another bear hug.
Soon after having caught up with each other, the four of them walked towards a restaurant. Since Zen had just come back, they naturally wanted to dine together and indulge in a feast of drinking.
Both Wurth and Sean were very excited. Before Zen's return, they had already heard different rumors about his excursions. At first, they even doubted if Zen had really confronted a demon general. However, Cleve told them in person that it was true and so, they finally realized that there was nothing impossible for Zen in this world.
Although Cleve wasn't in the list of top five among inner disciples, he had been strong and valiant enough. With that in mind, it was impossible for Cleve to talk nonsense.
The thought of the demon general and his strength still sent shivers up their spines. Even a mere glance from the demon general would frighten them out of their wits, but Zen was capable of even slaying the demon general, and just by himself. Compared with general outer disciples, he was far stronger. Therefore, although they had believed that Zen had succeeded in killing the demon general, deep inside them, they still felt it was a truly incredible feat for Zen to have achieved.
While they were eating and talking between plates and plates of delicious food, Zen noticed that Nory looked a little unhappy and uneasy.
He cast a worried glance at his friend.
“Nory, you seem to have something in mind. What's wrong?” Zen asked curiously.
Nory was from the Imperial Capital. He usually acted a little mindlessly. This made it seem that nothing could ever displease him. Now he looked kind of sad, so Zen thought that something must have happened.
At Zen's curious questioning, Nory's eyes suddenly widened in mild surprise.
“Ahh, it's nothing! Zen, I feel happy to see you come back today. Come on! Cheer up!” Nory said. He lifted his cup in the air to toast with Zen.
The more Nory behaved that way to conceal his true feelings, the more Zen felt that something was off. Instead of lifting his cup up, Zen asked, “Just tell me frankly if you treat me as your close friend.”
As soon as the words tumbled out from Zen's mouth, both Wurth and Sean slowly shifted their gazes to Nory. At this moment, they had also noticed that Nory behaved a little weirdly.
After a short pause, Nory suddenly smiled at them. “In fact, it is not a big deal. My family is going to hold a party next month. In fact, our Mo Family is also a noble clan, but lags relatively behind among noble clans...” he replied.
Upon hearing Nory's words, Wurth asked, “Nory, are you from the Mo family in the northern part of the city?”
Wurth's family ran businesses in almost all areas of the Imperial Capital, so he clearly knew about almost all of the families in that capital. Hence, he immediately guessed which Nory's family was when Nory told them that his family was also a noble clan.