Poison God's Heritage

"Oi, think again," the Cryptic Sun said.

"Why? Are you trying to intimidate me into giving it to you?" I asked provokingly.

"No such thing," the Cryptic Sun said, "As a matter of fact you should rather offer it willingly for your elders as a sign of respect," he said.

"Sorry, but I believe in hard cold cash, favors are worthless to me especially if I don\'t see myself cashing them out anytime soon," I shrugged. "Also, as much as being in your favor is worth it to others, I already am in the good books of many other Suns, so it really has little merit to me to offend all of them for you."

The Cryptic Sun had an ugly scowl on his face, and the Flamboyant Sun noticed that and stopped the entire thing.

"Now that the transaction is complete, we\'ll have to start managing political and warfare matters, Shen Bao, you are free to leave if you want to. But I would advise you to remain with us for the time being and learn a thing or two about how we\'re going to protect our territory from potential invaders," he said.

That was good advice. Since I am an owner of a territory now, I\'ll need to see how they do things. Also, I\'m considered the weakest Link, not just because the Sea of Demons is vast and has almost no Qi in it, but because I\'m not one of the Suns.

They\'re more than capable of defending their land and protecting everyone in them, I on the other hand will have a lot of trouble doing so. Not to mention that I might be a target for others who would like to come and offer a helping hand in exchange for some benefits. I know that far too well to allow it to happen to me.

"I would like that then, I\'ll listen in to your strategies,"" I said as I remained seated.

Soon, they began discussing how they\'d be defending their territories, and the Flamboyant Sun started by reinforcing the statement, "Remember, since it will be during the Endless Nights, the Darkest Sun will be the leader of the Sun Council. He became the strongest of us all during that time, and we would rather have a powerful figure leading the people.

Now, how are we going to delegate the protection of the Beyond outside personal territories?"

"I suggest we create a force that can move about the territories and allow portals that cross vast distances for all. In case of emergency evacuation and troop dispatch, we need to have an elite force capable of handling all sorts of situations on the spot," the Wisest Sun said.

The Lord of Lords pitched in similar ideas of how they need to have more power roaming about, and how they need to set up an information network, which in all was warfare 101. You can\'t go in a war blind.

The Cryptic Sun added some of his own portable formation deploying discs that can protect cultivators in a pinch and allowed some of his easier formations to be spread among the suns territories to help them against the invasions.

The Red Sun has decided to send in his elite for the task of roaming the Beyond and hunting any Rakshasa that decides to invade. More and more ideas were pitched in and all I could do was listen in.

None of their ideas were bad, but at the same time, none of them were bold.

"You don\'t seem satisfied with our planning," the Cryptic Sun said as he looked at me.

"Oh, not really, it\'s fine as is, but, why are we all deciding to be on the defensive from the start?" I asked.

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The Flamboyant Sun frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Well, from all I heard, you all are planning on allowing the rakshasa to invade your territory then defend it. Why not stop them from doing so in the first place?" I asked.

They looked at each other and back to me. The Dusking Sun then asked, "You want to intercept them?"

"That\'s what one should do, in my opinion. I mean, stop them from space itself, not here, and only think about what to do when they land if they land in the Beyond…"

They then looked at each other and the Lording Sun began laughing, "Hah, indeed, why did we all assume that we\'ll be on the defensive, ah perhaps because since we saw a cultivator higher than our cultivation level crumble and fall to the Rakshasa that we thought we had to be on the defensive, but Shen Bao is right, we should actually stop them in their tracks… so how are you planning that?" he asked me.

"Well, since the space of the beyond is pretty vast and we can\'t have cultivators at the level of a Sun roam about outer space for forces that we don\'t know when and from where they\'ll come, I think we should send in probes to detect and send information to us," I said.

"Probes?" he asked.

I moved my arm and a tungsten pillar emerged from a spatial fold. "Something like this, when sent outside space, it could remain around the Beyond, orbiting it even though through vast distances. It can stay there and act as a watch tower, and once it detects an anomaly it will return to the Beyond and alert us.

All I need to do is modify its inscriptions a bit and send in a few hundred thousand of these separate in all directions. And then just wait," I said.

"That\'s your idea of interception?" the Cryptic Sun said.

"Well, unless you realize where your enemy is coming from you really can\'t intercept it can you, so what do you all think?"