Chapter 163 Nine Planes Of Existence
"The Golden Demon Cat is one of the demon lords of the undying lands. Several Supreme realm Spirit Warriors and even demi-god realm Spirit Warriors fell under its paws during the great expedition." The might beast king of the legendary realm was shivering in fear. "If it knows that its kitten was abducted, the Golden Demon Cat will send its army of beast kings and fierce to invade this world."
"Uhh… you are talking about this cat, right?" Mark raised the tiny little cute kitten.
"The golden fur, ocean blue eyes, a gem on the forehead, and an emperor grade aura. There's no doubt that it is the offspring of the Golden Demon Cat." The manticore was firm in its response.
"It can be a coincidence." Mark blurted out while he fell into thoughts.
*Meow*
The cat then meowed in response while tilting its head in confusion. In its view, its parent is the one that is holding it. What is this golden demon cat nonsense?
Mark was also thinking the same as the kitten. The fact that it came out an egg is already shocking enough.
And now, its parent is some super powerful beast that can command several beast kings? If that's the case, what is the egg doing in a mere rank-6 dungeon?
Either Heaven is playing a joke on him or the manticore was mistaken.
He contacted the system but received a disappointing response.
Since the system couldn't verify its claims and is refusing to divulge the details of undying lands, Mark can only question it further to extract more information, "Baltrow, tell me about the undying lands."
"Well, the realm of undying lands is too vast and I never wandered too far from my habitat. So, I can't give you the information as much as you expected but I will tell you what I know.
Do you know about the nine planes of existence?"
Mark shook his head as he doesn't have such knowledge. However, he had an inkling that it might be related to the summoning beast and wild beasts in a dungeon as they were from these planes of existences, according to their attribute.
Baltrow started explaining, "Basically, our universe is divided into nine planes, which were stacked upon each other.
They are named as…
Plane of fire and ice;
Plane of water;
Plane of wind;
Plane of lightning and thunder;
Plane of earth and metal;
Plane of light and dark;
Plane of Celestials;
Plane of immortals;
And Plane of Mortals.
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"Your mortal plane of existence is at the bottom-most and is where all the humans and other intelligent races were living in different mortal worlds.
The topmost plane, the Plane of Celestials is where the deities live. In simpler terms, you humans would address it as Heaven.
The plane of Immortals is at the second most top, where the demigods, immortals, and their families live.
In between the mortal plane and the immortal plane, the remaining six planes exist.
As you go to the above realms, the richness in spiritual energy/natural energy will increase by folds, making cultivation a lot easier.
Now, the undying lands are basically the worlds located in the immortal plane of existence that was completely occupied by the beasts.
Because of extremely rich spiritual energy, it was too easy for the beasts living there to grow stronger. Just look at me. Before I was captured a decade ago, I'm only nine years old. For blessed humans to reach my stage, it will take several decades.
Over there, each world is ruled by a demon lord, which is an emperor-grade beast. The weakest of them will be at the Demi-god realm (10-circle) and the strongest is rumored to be at the True God realm (14-circle).
And Golden Demon Cat is a demon lord that ruled the realm (world) of Grima. It is also my homeland, although my place was far away from its habitat.
In its army, there are space attribute creatures that can transport several of the beasts to any world they want. Normally, they won't even look a glance at the mortal plane but now that its kitten is abducted by you, it won't stay quiet."
Mark fell into deep thoughts as he absorbed all the information. Unlike these beasts or the people around, he was a science person. He knew that the universe is made up of countless galaxies.
While it is debatable whether the multiverse exists or not, so far, Mark concluded that his soul was probably transported to a different planetary system or another galaxy. As for the Heavens, he had a different image of them from the rest of the world.
Instead of deities, he believed that they were just stronger Spirit Warriors that are probably influencing the lives of the humans from far away.
Even now, his thoughts didn't change.
But, these planes of existence confused him a little bit. If the manticore didn't say that these planes stack on each other, he would have thought they were just galaxies.
Adding on top of these, there's the secret of the system.
Feeling headache while thinking about all these mysteries, Mark decided to put the unnecessary thoughts away and went on ahead and say, "Well, I received the egg as a reward for clearing a dungeon. And Tishanan is already bound to my soul just like you."
Pointing his finger to the ceiling, he continued, "Above the floor lies my home. I have enough rooms. You will be accommodated. Meanwhile, you just need to look after it upstairs while I was busy running the store down here. Whatever the threat that comes from this Golden Demon Cat, I will take care of it, later. But, I would like to stress that this is Tishanan's home."
How would Mark lose a demon emperor pet over the fear of some unknown immortal realm beast that is very far away?
*meow*
The cat immediately responded by raising one of its paws as if it was agreeing with its owner.
After summoning a butler robot, he ordered Alina to teach the necessary things, one of them being pet care.
Even though Baltrow is a mixed-race with a dragon, scorpion, sabertooth tiger, and lion, it majorly looked like a lion with wings, teeth, spikes, and tail. So, Mark told Alina to treat it like a pet lion and teach the butler robot the skills of a zookeeper.
He decided to just feed it daily until its loyalty will increase to the point where he would be able to use it in battle.
As for Tishanan, it is a kitten and is quite weak. So, he stressed that it needed extra care.
Alina then grabbed the cat and escorted the butler robot and the manticore to the upstairs.
Mark then summoned a sales-assistant robot and ordered it to stand beside the counter.
"Okay, now that everything is set. Let's open the store." Mark turned his head to look at the robot and gave an order to pull up the shutter.
"Command can't be fulfilled." A reply came from the assistant in its robotic voice.
It was only then Mark understood that its job is only to do the sales. This kind of work belongs to the butler robot.
Mark let out a sigh, "I guess I can't expect too much from rank-1 robots. Now I wonder about the Battle robots."
He personally pulled up the shutter to let the sunlight illuminate the store, making the lights at the reception area automatically switch off by themselves.
Here at Hanga District, While Mark is excited to sell the weapons once again, several kilometers away at the Imperial Palace; servants were rushing here and there.
The soldiers were also searching all over the place for something or someone.
"Did you find her?" The Emperor roared at the Imperial guards. His Queen Consort - Lan Jingyi looked worried at the moment.
They looked down at the ground, not daring to meet eyes with the Emperor.
"Find her, search everywhere in the city, now." He roared once again.
"Xiao Wei, did you find anything about your sister?" Lan Jingyi asked in worry.
Shang Wei took out a scroll from his sleeves and handed it to his father, "Your Majesty, this was found under her bed. It probably rolled down because of opened windows and heavy wind."
The Emperor opened the scroll and identified that it is his daughter's writing. As he was reading it, Shang Wei said, "Mother, Xiao Jiao left for Western Yan because of Ji Guanli's disappearance."
"What…"