The Lord of the Gods of the Universe
Ch. 13 - First Lesson

“Li Yuwen, will you be my student?”

Li Yuwen simply fell silent and did not reply.

“Ah forgive me .. it looks like my request is too—”

Yao Jun's words came to a halt after seeing Li Yuwen approach him then kowtowing three times for him.

“Teacher,” said Li Yuwen followed after his salute after prostrating three times.

Seen a satisfied and happy smile on Yao Jun's face that was covered by his iron mask, as well as Li Yuwen who had not expected to return to being a disciple of Yao Jun.

“I receive your honor, from now onwards you are my disciple ... also be my first disciple.”

Since there was already nothing to talk about as well as the mission was over, Yao Jun decided to return to his sect with Li Yuwen when morning arrived.

In the morning they quickly left the Thousand Monster Forest by running, Yao Jun did not use the knowledge to relieve his body for fear that Li Yuwen would be left behind.

But his conjecture was wrong after seeing Li Yuwen who was able to keep up with his speed in running, two hours had passed since they started running.

Yao Jun's breathing was slightly disjointed as they decided to stop for a rest, yet not for Li Yuwen who only looked ordinary and not exhausted.

Yao Jun was a little amazed at Li Yuwen's high physical endurance for a child his age, and it made him curious.

“Wen’er, can I check your pulse?”

Yao Jun changed the call for Li Yuwen in order to become more familiar after becoming a teacher and disciple.

“Teacher, I am a student .. and you are the teacher, of course the student will obey the teacher's orders as long as the student is able to do so.”

Yao Jun became astonished by the answer Li Yuwen gave.

Yao Jun then approached Li Yuwen then held onto his wrist to examine his pulse.

A moment later Yao Jun was both surprised and proud. Not only was he obedient and devoted, he did not expect that Li Yuwen had high enough talent, especially his perfect foundation.

‘Could this be the luck that heaven gave me?’ inner Yao Jun with a happy smile on his face.

After examining Li Yuwen's pulse, Yao Jun decided on his first lesson to teach Li Yuwen.

However Due to the condition that it was impossible to teach martial arts and the like, Yao Jun only explained the common things in the cultivation world.

First Yao Jun told about the sect he was following, the name of his sect was the Lightning Sword Sect, the sect is estimated to be over a thousand years old and is a middle-level white sect in the Tang Empire, and the techniques taught themselves refer more to the sword arts.

In the Tang Empire the sects were divided into three streams; the White Stream, the Black Stream, and the Neutral Stream. And every sect had tiers; the Small Sect, the Middle Sect, and the Great Sect.

The two Yao Juns explained the general thing about the empire, in the Tang Empire led by an emperor who was aided by the 5 Great Nobles Families; the Liu Family, Song Family, Zhang Family, Liang Family, the Tang Family.

The Tang Emperor himself came from the Tang family which was the imperial family, but there was little dispute between him and the other Tang families, many of whom wanted to take over power.

The three Yao Juns explained the continent they occupied as well as the other empires in the continent.

The name of their continent was the Eastern Mainland Continent, and there were 4 great empires within it, among others; the Qin Empire in the west, the Jin Empire in the north, the Xu Empire in the south, among others, the Tang Empire was in the east.

The Qin Empire was the largest and most powerful among the 3 empires, and the Tang Empire was the weakest.

Feeling well rested as well as providing the necessary general knowledge, Yao Jun decided to continue his journey with Li Yuwen towards the Lightning Sword Sect.

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“What's dad?” said a girl who had just entered the room.

“Lian’er ... what are you doing here? Is your training done?”

The girl was named Tang Lian, daughter of the Tang emperor Jianying and empress Liu Jingmi who came from the Liu extended family.

Responding to a question from his father, princess Lian then flowed her Qi into the air, making Tang Jianying surprised to see the eunuchs nearby.

“This ... mortal level class 3?”

“The Tang Empire is blessed by heaven with a very talented daughter,” exclaimed the eunuch in a happy tone.

Although only at the 3rd class Mortal level, but to reach such a level at the age of 15 years old is very fast, and including the category of very talented people is also rare.

Yao Jun himself reached the 3rd class Mortal level when he was only 18 years old and reached the 1st grade Earth level at the age of 23 years, and it was already extremely talented.

“Good good ... very good, you became a more talented person than your father as well as your mother Lian’er,” Tang Jianying praised.

“So what happened dad?” ask Tang Lian.

“It ... well I'll tell you.”

Tang Jianying then recounted the things that had just happened to the Tang Empire during Tang Lian's training.

“So that's what's going on Lian’er, you don't have to worry about it because dad will finish it,” Tang Jianying continued after explaining.

“Kasim .. how about our request for help to the white sect we sent yesterday, are they willing to help?”

“It ... they decided not to engage the noble.”

Tang Jianying became increasingly worried about the answer she got.

“Is there still a sect close to the chaos that might still be able to ask for help?” Tang Jianying asked again.

“There are noble ... they are the Lightning Sword Sect and are a white flow sect.”

“Good, send people to go there and—”

“Dad.” Tang Lian cut off her father's words.

“What's Lian’er?”

“I want to apply myself go there.”

Hearing that made Tang Jianying startled, “But Lian’er .. too dangerous now to go out.”

“It's okay dad, I can't just sit idly by looking at our empire in the mess by the people of the black stream, just calm down because I won't go alone, I won't go alone, it's also for me to seek out experiences.”

“This ..” Tang Jianying convinced herself.

“Alright, you will go together with General Liong to go to the Lightning Sword Sect .. beware.”

“Lian’er thank you dad,” reply Tang Lian satisfied.

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illustration from Princess Tang Lian.

*this illustration is taken from Pinterest*.