The morning starlight over the Pillars of the Alchemist was completely blotted out by a massive, high-frequency alarm ringing from the roof of the residential pavilion. The gold coins left behind by the vaporized Fire Clan assassins were still warm against the floorboards when the heavy cedar sliding doors of the inner bedroom suite were violently thrown open.

"I knew it! I knew the moment the roof shook, something sneaky was happening in here!" Yoo Ji-a roared loudly.

Her long midnight-black ponytail swayed violently as her violet eyes flashed with an intense, unhinged territorial jealousy. Her flowing traditional gown of radiant light violet silk billowed around her narrow waist as she marched straight up to the large wooden bed. Her face was flushed a deep, frustrated crimson. She aggressively grabbed Min-jae’s right arm, pulling him back against her athletic curves. "Min-jae! You spent the entire three-month carriage trip locking down the frost-law channels with her, and now she’s sitting on your mattress in a loose lounging gown?! I don’t care if the Fire Clan tried to poison us—you’re cuddling with the vanguard line for the rest of the day!"

"The shadow spear should lower her tone inside a sovereign’s chamber," Medusa countered smoothly, her large, piercing icy-blue eyes narrowing into a sharp field of pure, desperate envy.

The exceptionally sexy demon princess did not stay a polite distance away. She glided gracefully over the rug, her radiant lavender silk robe draping flawlessly over her exceptionally voluptuous hourglass physique as she aggressively squeezed her heavy chest and soft curves straight against Min-jae’s left side. Her porcelain cheeks were flushed a deep, sultry pink. "Bylai is our primary asset for the finals. If our husband wants to anchor her core before the bronze furnaces ignite, his wife privileges allow him to hold her as long as he pleases. Get in line behind the royal ledger, Ji-a."

Min-jae sat perfectly paralyzed in the absolute center of the large bed, completely pinned under the tight, warm, and frantic embrace of his wives. A massive, unstoppable crimson flush covered his entire face, his hands awkwardly shifting inside his pockets as his ears burned a bright, flustered pink.

"The... the poison gas didn’t leave a single scratch on the meridians," Min-jae muttered flatly, his voice dropping into a low, thoroughly flustered baritone as his neck burned deep red beneath his collar. "Everyone needs to settle down. The final round initializes in less than twenty minutes."

Gu Bylai slowly sat up from the sheets, her white silk lounging gown draping beautifully over her soft hips as her face flushed an absolute, adoring pink. She shared a quiet, confident smile with Liu Xiao and Han Seo-yoon, who were standing near the doorway watching the chaos with genuine amusement. "Thank you for the protection, sisters. My frost channels are fully stabilized. Let’s head down to the main pavilion."

The family smoothly departed from the residential suites, boarding the wide wooden deck of the Sun-Crested Sky-Clipper to make their grand descent onto the central tournament plaza.

To ensure their massive vessel was fully optimized for any immediate post-battle retreats, Han Chae-won sprinted straight to the core anvil room, her cheeks puffed up with high-energy financial excitement as she dropped the massive pile of gold coins strip-mined from the roof assassins straight into the ship’s engine slot.

[Sovereign Cultivation Interface Active!]

[Consuming 500,000 High-Tier Gold Coins... 100% Success!]

[The Sun-Crested Sky-Clipper’s Internal Speed Metrics have permanently multiplied by 150%!]

[Your vessel can now execute an absolute spatial drift, completely bypassing the tracking arrays of any high-stage sovereign clans!]

"The engines are screaming, boss! We can out-run a true god’s tracking radar now!" Chae-won yelled happily down the communication link as the giant ship peacefully locked its anchors above the central arena.

The grand arena below was a terrifying, industrial vista of high-stakes cultivation power. Over fifty thousand ancient clan masters and legendary Alchemists were packed into the stadium tiers, their loud shouting sounding like deep, rhythmic thunder. Sitting in the center of the stadium floor was a single, colossal golden pedestal holding The Ultimate Divine Cauldron—a pristine, ancient bronze furnace pulsing with an intense fire-law heat that actively distorted the local gravity lines.

Standing directly across from Gu Bylai’s designated lane was the supreme leader of the sector himself: The Fire Clan Patriarch (Level 70 High Stage of the Divine Soul Realm). His twelve-foot frame was draped in interlocking ruby-plated chest plates, his burning crimson eyes bleeding an intense, aristocratic coldness as he stared sharp needles straight at Min-jae’s viewing box. Sitting beside him was his ultimate genius disciple, a smug young man holding an ancient flame scroll.

"Insolent boy!" the Patriarch’s voice boomed across the empty silver rifts, shaking the stone blocks. "You dared to turn my elite stealth units into ash last night! You think your cold-element trick can survive the absolute core-heat of the Divine Cauldron?! My disciple has spent three centuries refining the Primal Magma Core! Your cultivation sequence terminates inside this furnace line! Prepare to submit your lineage!"

Min-jae stood firmly at the forward gantry of the viewing deck, his forearms leaning calmly against the polished wooden deck railing of the sky-clipper. His black eyes tracked the roaring golden flames below, an entirely unbothered, mocking clarity settling into his gaze as his Vajra World-Breaker Core calculated the impact lines.

"They’ve been sitting inside their higher plane palaces for so long they think a numerical head start can alter the rules of my ledger," Min-jae murmured flatly, his flustered shyness completely vanishing as his voice carried a quiet, absolute authority that instantly put the girls at ease. He looked down at Gu Bylai. "Bylai. Ignite the frost loops. Don’t leave a single variable behind."

"Yes, husband!" Gu Bylai whispered breathlessly, her heart racing violently with absolute, fanatical adoration as she stepped directly up to the golden pedestal.

The final round initialized with an earsplitting bronze gong. The Fire Clan disciple immediately opened his internal channels, dumping a massive, miles-wide column of white-hot magma fire straight into the furnace, the raw heat trying to choke Gu Bylai’s baseline breathing.

But the Ice Goddess didn’t flinch. She took a graceful stance, her pale blue silk dress billowing wildly as she slammed both her palms flat against the golden bronze core, unleashing her newly refined absolute-zero cosmic frost at maximum capacity.

The collision of elements was absolute demolition. Her silver-cold energy didn’t just fight the magma; it completely short-circuited the Patriarch’s fire-stone circuit from the inside out. While the Fire Clan disciple was still sweating and struggling to compile his basic arrays, Gu Bylai’s frost forcefully froze the impurities of the core herbs, cracking them into pieces while keeping the pure medicinal juice flawlessly intact.

Within less than three seconds, a blinding geyser of pure silver starlight violently erupted from the center of the Divine Cauldron, completely erasing the Fire Clan’s orange flames into a cloud of dead gray pixels. Floating gracefully out from the golden lid was a flawless, diamond-like pill pulsing with deep gold law-light—The Ultimate Divine Breakthrough Pill.

The entire fifty-thousand-man stadium went entirely, breathlessly silent, a heavy wave of pure, unadulterated shock filling the airspace as the head judge fell onto his knees in total terror.

"A World-First Absolute Refinement...!" the old judge screamed, his voice trembling violently. "The cold element has completely conquered the highest throne! The winner of the Divine Reward is Gu Bylai!"

[Global Mainframe Notification Triggered!]

[Your Faction has achieved the World-First Victory at the Pillars of the Alchemist!]

[Gained 6,000,000 EXP! Faction Income permanently multiplied by 300%!]

[You have leveled up! You are now Level 65 — High Stage of the Divine Soul Realm!]

The vast golden void fell into a dead silence as the massive shared Exp dump duplicated across the entire harem, the long lavender and sapphire silk trains of his ten wives flaring with a soft, happy gold aura as their level needles clicked forward together.

The Fire Clan Patriarch didn’t even have time to compile an escape array; seeing his ultimate genius disciple utterly crushed and his clan’s lineage permanently out-smarted by a lower-plane heretic, his pride completely collapsed. He spat out a fountain of dark blood, his twelve-foot frame violently trembling as he collapsed flat onto his face against his ruby throne in total, breathless humiliation.

Min-jae casually spun his heavy gold greatsword onto his right shoulder, a cold, predatory grin returning to his handsome face as he looked toward the newly unsealed cosmic maps flashing on Ye-rin’s command glass.

"The tournament is officially retired," Min-jae murmured smoothly, his low baritone cutting through the quiet vacuum as his ten flawless queens lined up perfectly behind his flank, their eyes wide with absolute, fanatical pride and love. "Ye-rin, set the transit trajectory straight onto the central gate of the Empyrean High Courts. The other ancient clans realize an un-killable human shadow is systematically strip-mining their entire universe, and our vanguard line is ready to take the rest of their thrones."

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