The World Of Demons And Gods

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This surprise hug immediately startled Cyrus but eventually, he felt warm on his heart.

Suddenly a voice rang out from his mind, [Wow, your mother is sure is strong!" That was Lily's voice, which is songs to Cyrus ears that could calm him down. {Of course! she said she is above Paladin Rank!} Cyrus responded on his thoughts.

I can speak to her this way. Isn't this cool!?

However, when Lily heard his response made her utter a *Pfft!* sound, [Heh, you degraded her rank too much! Wait this is weird, didn't she told you her real strength? Well, well, be sure to make your ears in your brains to listen to what I say! She is actually two realms behind my rank!]

This, however, shocked Cyrus as if he was struck by lightning, but... {What is your rank again?}

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{...}

[Why the did you get shocked if you did not know my rank?]

{E-ehh, hahaha... Because it sounds surprising?}

[Idiot, Listen well, my rank is a peak of the mortal realm! Tyrant Stage!]

{Pfft!} "Pfft!"

Both his thoughts and his mouth uttered the same shocked sound that startled Shane while hugging him.

The peak of the mortal realm! Tyrant Stage!? Meaning the mother of mine, only two steps from above her stage, she can be a peak of the mortal realm!

My god, why are people around me are all monsters. Cyrus could only bitterly smile deep inside.

Seeing his odd-looking face, Shane stared at him but suddenly a voice resounded on her Cyrus's back, "Oh! Finally, you're back, I was finding you, son!" It was Cyrus father, James as he scrubs Cyrus' hair while smiling at him, "I'm sorry father. That won't happen again."

[What? Your father too?" Lily's voice resounded once again, her voice sounded like as if she was shocked; it did not only shock her but Cyrus too!

{Father too? Isn't this makes my family strong?} Cyrus could not help to say that aloud from his thoughts making Lily heard it clearly.

[Yeah, pretty much, Cyrus; there is something that I have to tell you later.] With that, Lily stopped talking as if their communication with Cyrus was cut off.

"Hmm?" Shane and James had finally noticed a bundle of feathers being held together with cloth both of them was startled inside as they observed it carefully.

"T-This is..." Shane walked slowly and lowered her body to inspect the feathers.

Seeing their reactions and movements had startled Cyrus. Don't tell me, they actually know about it? He cannot help to get nervous as his heart quickly beating faster and faster.

Actually, he was amazed he had initially thought that his parents were actually mysterious and he knew that both of them are a secretive person, but remembering their powers and the way they analyzed things, it was as if they are already peak experts.

I wonder if Sis knows about this things...

That makes sense... Cyrus had realized why when he was asking about their job, they would not disclose things at him, and since they want to keep quiet about it. Cyrus could only respect them and act the way they wanted for him to act.

"Son, where did you find these feathers?" Shane asked as she took one feather and closely inspected it.

"Ah, those feathers came from a scarlet falcon that I killed earlier to test my abilities." Cyrus lied as he casually said it as if nothing.

However, lying to his parents had actually made Cyrus hurt inside. He cannot also disclose matters about Lily.

The reason behind this is, he thought that telling his parents about the Phoenix, and its spirit is inside of his Dantian. Since they obviously have a high-class identity, Lily's existence is dangerous if matters about her are spread throughout the country.

Although he believes in his parents, he cannot just tell something s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e matter that could make a ruckus in his life and he doesn't want his parents to get worried about him, especially if they knew about him finding things in the two continents.

"Oh... Is that so, I thought of something else... Anyway, are you hungry? I prepared a meal for you, dear." Shane serious gaze had suddenly turned to a soft and caring gaze.

Mother is seriously creepy...

Shane stood up and secretly yet swiftly kept the feather inside her pouch.

"Ah, okay! Man, I'm quite hungry!" Cyrus laughed as he quickly lifted the bundle of feathers and put it in his room upstairs before he could go to the kitchen to eat.

[Pfft, hungry you say.]

"..."

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Outside the house, James and Shane were talking seriously.

"James, there's no doubt that this is a phoenix feather," Shane said as she showed the feather at her husband. James took it and observed the feather closely as he held his chin with his other hand thinking oddly.

"Here I thought that the Divine Phoenix Clan would remain in Heavenly realm, to think that our son coincidentally discovered it and also killing it is very unlikely as for his powers couldn't kill even a single one... I think the Phoenix is already dead when he found it or already weak on its deathbed... Something must have happened in the Heavenly realm..." James slowly explained things to Shane.

If my son had discovered it already dead, then its spirit must likely have faded away, but what if it is on deathbed that he discovered it? Then there is a possibility that the spirit is residing inside of him. Shane thought to herself as she set aside the matter for now.

She looked at James once again and asked, "Did you finished our son's sword?"

"Yeah, I had finished it early in the morning, and that sword is extremely beautiful... Thinking of it, I have an urge to create another one for me and good thing that I have a copy of the sketch of the sword that our son gave me!" James suddenly snapped like crazy, once a topic about the sword is started, he will talk non-stop about it.

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"For the sword! It was extremely good! Handling it might be heavy because of the metals I used for it was very special and expensive to make that blade perfect!" As he said that, he puffed his c.h.e.s.t proudly.

"Che, you talk about your personal opinion on that sword and you only answered me a small phrase." Shane looked at her husband annoyingly as she crossed her arms, she continued, "Did you put perks on it?" she asked.

"Hmph! My wife, do not underestimate my swords! In that sword, I had put a special and precious spirit so that it would not even if it was placed in the moon, it would return to him no matter what! I had also put a receiver so once Cyrus had encountered a life and death situation and when the sword sensed a death qi coming from his body so that we could know and rescue him in time, which I put a teleportation Jade inside the handle of the sword! And because of the special metals I used to create it, it had a weight of 150 tons so stealing it would be hard." James explained as he scratched his nose.

His voice kept louder and louder because of James pride of his over his swords, and even the people from the streets after hearing all those absurd perks, they could only puke in shock!

"Hm, that's good." Shane nodded, as she was satisfied with it.

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When Cyrus had finished his delicious meal, he gave a good night on his parents before going into his room.

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As soon as he closed the door of his room, Lily's excited voice rang out from his mind. [Your cultivation technique is unique and powerful! I thought that your cultivation technique was weak, but remember that you are a cripple, it made me shocked!]

[Also... I had seen everything in your memories of the past and your past life! Therefore, you are a reincarnator! Back in your world was interesting; however, it was so lame because you are practically struck on your home.] Despite knowing the secrets of Cyrus yin-yang tattoo, she was still amazed on Cyrus life as a normal human.

"Lily... How rude can you be? You actually are looking from my privacy without telling me about it?" Cyrus frowned, as he was not impressed by what Lily had done.

[...Sorry, I am just curious about you, your life, and since your parents are powerful, and the fact you had powerful cultivation technique... Do not worry, this is secret is only on me and on the other spirits you have. In addition, we are bound to be together in your life. So knowing you is a good start for us.] Lily said and from the sound of her voice, she was serious and was happy at the same time.

"..."

Cyrus quietly sat on his bed on lotus position and started to cultivate.

When he had opened his eyes inside his dantian, what he first saw was that Lily face was extremely close on his face! This made him petrified quickly.

This up close, Cyrus could clearly hear Lily's breath, despite being a spirit and a soul it can still breed and touch material things.

Cyrus blushed as he stuttered, "P-please, don't get too close to me and my heart is killing me."

"???" "Sure, Cyrus, you do have a kind and warm eyes." Lily turned around and walked away slowly while her hands are both clasped on her bottom.

My heart really did skip... Hm?

"Pardon?" Cyrus did not completely hear what she had said as he still concerned to himself.

"Nothing, I just noticed that our age is not that far away from you. I'm already forty-three years old while you, on the other hand, are already forty-six!" She said.

Eh, so that is how old I am? I feel old already...

Cyrus had also noticed that the way Lily is speaking to him had changed; it was as if her seniority voice had now gone and talked to Cyrus like a childhood friend.

"Never did I expect I am older than you, because I thought that you are still older than me because you are a Phoenix and the only record in the history is that Phoenix had existed only during the Era of Creation!" Cyrus said, he also felt terrible for thinking that Lily is already older than his great great great great grandmother.

In addition, because he is older than Lily, It made him looked like a cave dweller instead!

She is only forty-three and she is younger than Shane is!

"Hahaha, that's too much exaggerated, our clan indeed existed since the era of creation and in fact even before this world is created since Divine Phoenix Clan is residing in the heavens, not in planetary rock like this world of yours, and during the era of creation our ancestors were all free to go around as they wanted."

"However, our leader until now, he prohibits our clansmen to roam in the outside world as it was a forbidden and a taboo to do," Lily explained with a frown on her face as she crossed her arms showing a disagreement look on face.

I wonder what happened, Cyrus thought before asking, "Then what happened? There something happened up there right? For you to come here almost near to death."

Lily stared at him for a while as if she was processing something on her mind, but soon later, she gave a soft sigh, "Well, for now, that's a secret. Knowing your a.d.u.l.t and intelligent mind, I think you can already guess what really happened..."

For now, that is...

"Yeah, okay... I won't annoy you about it since it's YOUR privacy." Cyrus crossed his arms before sitting in lotus position and started a dual process.

Lily was startled before pouting.

My bad okay!? You do not have to intentionally say that!

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After an hour had passed, Cyrus finally stood up.

Looking around for Lily, he noticed that Lily had ripped some parts of her clothes and used it to wipe the scarlet egg while humming a sweet melody.

What a good mother...

Seeing this made Cyrus sigh in happiness as he gave a faint smile.

He walked towards her and when she noticed him, "Oh, what is it?" She asked as continued wiping the egg softly as she smiled.

"You know... I don't what to do with all of those feathers..." He said as he carefully touched the scarlet egg.

"Hmm, Just keep a hundred feathers and you can do whatever you want with it, just keep in mind that a Phoenix's feathers are harder than steel, so it's actually good for armors even though it's light." She casually said.

This woman... Sigh~

Cyrus could not help to sigh in his thoughts, as he still could not believe at Lily for her to casually say things like that, because her feathers are actually a part of her own body.

Oh, right...

"One more thing, what is my parent's rank?"

"You see, I don't know if you already know this but the reason for why you can't sense their real strength is because you're way too weak for it to sense it, the only thing you can sense is two ranks above you. Your parents are actually already at Emperor Rank, which is really strong in this continent or even on the other two continents! My spiritual sense could actually spread out throughout the entire continent, and what I sensed is that there is one more person who is powerful than your parents. And I think that's the leader of this continent, its rank is only below me." Lily explained.

Cyrus couldn't believe what he had heard; his parents are actually this powerful? Wouldn't they can destroy a kingdom if they wanted to?

I wonder how many steps of ranks before I could catch up to them?

"Thank you, so I'll be going back to cultivate again Lily, I can't sleep because I might die from dehydration of anima hahaha," Cyrus said sarcastically as he turned around.

Like hell, I would allow that to happen!

Lily did not say anything as she thought of that.