"This... Master Grey, I didn't expect you to be married." Werner said in a slightly disbelieving tone.

Valeria on the other hand had a slightly confused yet stiffened look on her face.

"Daughter you say?" Valeria asked stiffly. "I didn't expect Brother Grey to have a daughter..."

"It's not what you guys think." Grey sighed heavily, he waved his hands and the livestream drones distorted.

"She isn't my biological daughter." Grey spoke slowly.

And as soon as he spoke those words, Valeria's expression visibly brightened.

"She isn't your biological daughter?" Valeria asked, with a relieved expression on her face.

"That's right." Grey nodded. "I found Little Hong inside the secret realm."

"Inside the secret realm?" This earned a stunned look from both of them. "How is that possible? How can someone be inside the secret realm?"

"It's complicated." Grey shook his head. "Now is not the time to explain everything, but this is due to the secret realm itself."

As he said that, he snapped his hands and immediately the space distorted and a spatial distortion appeared right beside him.

"This is the entrance to the secret realm!" Werner said in surprise. "Master... this, how?"

He glanced at the fortress far in the distance, there was no longer a spatial distortion there and the evolvers that had entered the secret realm were all there with a look of confusion on their faces.

"Long story short, I'm the owner of the secret realm and Hong could be considered something like a part of the secret realm, like a consciousness, and now that the secret realm is bound to me, she is naturally connected to me as well."

That was the best explanation he could give them both without revealing anything about the seal and other important details, such as him now being the literal consciousness of the secret realm.

That was because he saw several prying gazes from 2nd ranked evolvers from all across the city, they were without a doubt the family heads of the major families and evolvers from other powerful organizations.

'Bunch of bums.' Grey snorted.

He could already tell from one glance that these people hadn't contributed even the tiniest bit to the cause.

And he knew what he had to do with them.

At the same time, he also noticed the changes in the southern region.

"The cosmic energy is denser now." Grey stared at the sky, he sensed the power closely and immediately recognized the residual power as the power of heaven.

"Did something happen when I was away?" Grey asked curiously as he stared at the sky.

"Yes, something did happen!" Valeria spoke. "When you were inside the secret realm, the northern lands of the southern region were covered in dense clouds and..."

She paused and stared directly at Grey. "Golden light emerged and shone onto the secret realm. We were worried that something must've happened to you."

"Oh." Grey nodded. "You didn't have to worry, It was me."

"It was you?!" Both Werner and Valeria exclaimed.

"Indeed. That's another long story." Grey said casually.

His sainthood would be revealed sooner or later, there was no need to hide it, because he would be using it in battles, he just did not have to mention that it was sainthood and everything will be kept under control.

That was when Eterna appeared in his head.

[With your ascension to sainthood, the cosmic energy in the northern lands of the southern region has increased by 75 percent and the power of heaven had descended into these lands, I believe in a few months countless heavenly opportunities and talents will rise from this place.]

He had already contacted Eterna as soon as he came out, giving her a summary of what happened in the secret realm, but he did leave out things about Brandon and the seal.

He didn't want to tell her anything about it.

But he was sure she had already deduced several possibilities of what happened within the secret realm and being the Ai that governed the Blue Star or the so-called Starcrest continent according to the map he saw from Brandon, she should know about the seal.

"Is it that exaggerated?" Grey was surprised.

[Yes, this is the power of sainthood, you ascending also brought unexpected benefits to the southern region, if you become a full saint with three halos then it might affect the entirety of Blue Star.]

'Well that is interesting news.' Grey thought.

'Also, are you ready Eterna?' Grey inquired in his mind.

[Yes.]

Eterna nodded.

[Everything is prepared, all you need to do now is take action.]

'Good.'

Then, Grey turned to Werner and waved his hand, immediately his spatial ring flashed and a special looking stone flashed out and shot towards Werner's direction.

Werner, seeing this, quickly caught the stone.

Seeing the stone, Werner exclaimed. "A 2 star evolutionary stone!"

"Indeed." Grey nodded. "It's time you switch to the Aether evolutionary path."

As he said that, he took out some of the core essence inside his compressed nexus star, just a tiny portion.

Since Werner was his disciple, he naturally had to help him, he would be his closest ally for the potential future, and hence he took out some core essence to help Werner ascend to late stage by removing his bottleneck.

The amount he took out wouldn't make a difference as it was to assist in breaking the bottleneck.

He then directly pushed the energy into Werner's elixir field.

"This... is this core essence?" Werner was shocked. "This core essence is at least at the level of a fourth rank!"

"Use it." Grey said. "Reach late stage quickly. I will guide you with the breakthrough and tell you how to reach late-stage."

He hadn't even published the chapter on Law Transformation, let alone Law Reshaping, but helping someone convert their path was still something he could do with ease. Once he perfected the Second Rank of the Evolutionary Path, altering Werner's method would be a trivial task. After all, he was the creator himself—if he couldn't do it, who else possibly could?

For now, he would simply push Werner to the late-stage using the standard method utilized by the Three Great Paths… though, of course, with a subtle twist infused by Grey's own unique pat.

"YES! I will do it right now Master!" Werner said with determination.

He felt touched.

He had been stuck at the middle stage for a while now, now his master had found him an evolutionary stone and even core essence to breakthrough.

This was no longer a mere master disciple relation about formations.

No, Werner had already decided to become Grey's full disciple.

Now having seen Grey's generosity, he was overcome with gratitude.

Werner immediately began his transformation, he had already learned the Aether Ascension Scripture, now all he needed to do was directly convert and breakthrough.

Seeing this scene, Valeria couldn't help but pout. "You gave your own disciple good things, is there nothing for your big sister?"

"Disciple?" Grey's expression became odd.

Indeed, only now did he realize that Werner had been calling him master all this time.

Looks like the matters of it had been revealed to everyone.

Then, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face, he stared at Valeria who was pouting at him.

He honestly didn't know what he was going to give her.

Then, he noticed something.

"You." Grey called out in surprise. "You are also about to breakthrough to late stage."

Hearing this, Valeria herself was surprised. "What?"

She sent her consciousness and indeed, she instantly felt it. A breakthrough.

She hadn't noticed it until now because she was depleted of energy.

If she underwent law reshaping right now, she could easily reach late stage.

"Good timing." Grey smiled and immediately, Grey took more core essence out and directly put it inside her elixir field.

"There is no way I will forget about you Miss Valeria." Grey said with a playful smile on his face.

"Hmph, bad guy." Valeria grumbled. "I know you had nothing for me."

Seeing how effortlessly Grey broke her inner defensive of her elixir field, she was certain he was now at the late stage.

"Alright, begin transforming." Grey said with a laugh.

He turned to the Three Guards Province. "Let's get this over with once and for all, I need to sleep, it's been a while since I slept soundly."

He didn't need sleep at all, he could continue without sleeping till the end of his lifespan, but who didn't like turning their brain off and resting?

It would definitely refresh Grey's thoughts and rejuvenate his spirit.

Then, he heard Little Hong speak. "Father, where is Little Hong's gift?"

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