AIR Chapter 189

Chapter 189

The qi streams carried me throughout the void, shortening the distance I’d have to traverse without it. 

A good voidwalker technique did two things, one was protecting you from the void and the other was helping you traverse it. The qi stream did one of those. It naturally pulled in ambient qi and created a flow path that could be used to interconnect different realms.

You normally saw people below the fourteenth or fifteenth rank using these streams, sometimes you’d see tired thirteenth realm people, and rarely would you ever see a fourteenth rank. 

But that was probably because they could hide themselves and not be seen by anyone below their rank. I kept staring out at the void. 

I was close to the center of existence, to the place called Lynoria. From here, I could see the many realms and many axes it touched. But of all the axes, the ones that shone the brightest were the ones that I was using. 

The Central Realms, the name for the axis between the Heavens and the Healls, glowed like a galaxy in the sky. The Chaorid Bound, the axis between the Chaos Realms and the Law Lands, burned just as bright. I could see infinite realms all glowing, all fighting for the glory to be seen. 

And then, where the two met, I could see Lynoria. The home of the Monkey King shone in the dark sky with bright power and persistence and as I neared it, I saw all the others that had followed the journey as well. 

I passed by the point where I had met Wukong a while back, and now I was nearing the point where he had knocked me out after rambling for a while. 

The seven favors, I had figured them all out by now. 

But they seemed pretty dull at this point, not that I was ungrateful. I would be burning in a pot somewhere in Tai Jey’s realm if he hadn’t found me. But since Wukong, I had seen three other Imperiums, The Tome, Nei Lo, and the Fisherman. And aside from Nei Lo, all of them had done something to me. 

The Tome gave me information when it felt like it and flat out refused me at other times. The Fisherman had changed my fate to attract stronger and stronger opponents. The greatest one was Nei Lo and that was because she just left me alone. 

I approached the realm of Lynoria, my senses taking in all its majesty. 

Ships sailed past me and people walked next to me to its gates. Some ships were as big as my big toe, just enough to hold ninth rank beings. The same could be said for the people, but there were also cultivators who towered over me like beacons of qi approaching the city. World-Kings and fourteenth ranks, even thirteenth ranks that made me feel small, each one of them a giant compared to me. 

Dragons, beasts, insects, eldritch beings, angels, devils, gods, and demigods, all of different forms and sizes entered the city bit by bit. 

There was no line, they all just  meshed into it and the city itself would sort them out depending on their abilities and reasons. 

A ship faded into the realm’s barriers, bit by bit, and a God-King just pushed past it and onto the other side. 

A hive of humanoid insects all walked in single file. Above everything though, stood twenty God-Kings, each carrying a sword and each standing still, as if they were statues. 

I stood, still amazed by the amount of qi and activity just outside the place, and then I stepped through. 

“Please provide the reason for your visit, as well as the estimated length of your visit, and possible enemy forces you wish to avoid. Also, please make sure to mark which realm and/or service you plan to visit.” 

A familiar stone monkey sat at a desk, its head barely peeking over the large wooden table. 

It was the same monkey that had greeted me last time I was here. 

“Its you,” I said. 

He looked at me, squinted, then nodded. He remembered me, but only because of his immense memory as a godling. If not for that, I’m sure he would have forgotten me immediately. 

“Did you go on vacation?” I asked, remembering about his planned break.

“Just about to. You’re my last job.”

“Am I? Well congratulations!”

The stone monkey smiled and pushed the jade piece towards me. 

“Oh wait, would it do anything if I had this?” I said, pulling out the Tome and my tale.

The monkey’s face instantly brightened. 

“Yes, that means you are an associate if not member of the sects of Lynoria and that they should have done the procedures to allow your existence within the realm!”

He jumped onto the table and using his prehensile tail, he pushed himself up and grabbed at the book between my hands. He laid his palm flat against it, then opened it. 

“Official,” he said, nodding at the book. 

Then he put a jade piece against my tail, and nodded again. 

“Official!” The small monkey shook my hand and handed me over the jade piece. 

“You are now an official citizen of Lynoria. You are a gatherer under the Keepers of the Eternal Tome. You may enter without questioning with this jade piece anytime you wish, now leave!”

I took the jade piece from him and shook his little hands. 

“Thank you, and have a good vacation.”

“I will!” He smiled as I stepped out the door and into the streets of Lynoria.