Chapter 140 - Wentian Makes his Move

"While the two of you were asleep, I have taken the liberty of ensuring that you will have a roof over your heads while you're staying in this place." Said Mesa pointing at a house standing behind them. And he went on to explain that he has set up a Profound Formation, but in reverse. Ensuring that a 1-hectare sized area will be devoid of Profound Energy. And within this 1½ -hectare sized area, he built for them a house that had all of the necessary amenities like heating, plumbing and electricity. He made them a kitchen provided with the newest appliances and an enormous larder filled to the brim with food, ensuring that they can go on for at least 6 months, provided that they don't gorge themselves every meal and a cook book with dozens of recipes to try out. As a bonus, he built them a swimming pool, a tennis court, a dojo for martial arts training. And lastly, he made a Japanese garden with a koi pond filled with Japanese koi. This garden alone has taken up half of the area.

"And that was our tour of your home for the foreseeable future. The edges of the reversed Profound Formation are surrounded by a fence. And before I go, I must stress this once again that you read all of the manuals first before you use any one of the appliances. I don't want to you burn down the house because you forgot to turn of the stove or the over, alright?" Said Mesa lastly.

"Yes, of course we promise. After everything you have done for us, it would be incredibly shameful if we accidently burned down the house because we didn't read any of the manuals." Said Yun Canghai.

And with that, Mesa warped himself away, leaving Yun Chu and Yun Canghai alone in the Kamui dimension to cultivate for the next few years until Mesa reaches the Illusory Demon Realm.

Once he got out, he warped back into the Frozen End Divine Hall from where he warped into the Kamui Dimension. And waiting for him there was Xia Qingyue, with a not so emotionless face.

"Mesa, where were you? We have been looking all over for you?"

"Oh, I am sorry. I kinda forgot about leaving some food for Yun Chu and his grandfather, so I rushed over to give them some food. And after that I helped them build a house. And because of all that, I kinda lost track of time. I wasn't gone for too long, was I?" Asked Mesa, while nervously scratching the back of his head and laughing awkwardly.

"You were gone for a week! But that is not important right now! Something has happened in the Blue Wind Imperial City yesterday! They say that Emperor Cang Wanhe has died and Prince Cang Shuo has ascended to the throne. And they say that the Burning Heaven Clan have come to the Imperial Palace and taken Princess Cang Yue to the Burning Heaven Valley to get married to Fen Juecheng." Said Xia Qingyue.

Any and all nonchalance and chill Mesa he had left, immediately evaporated like a snowball in an active volcano. His eyes shot wide open, completely bloodshot with rage and his anger had shot to such a high level that the floor around him was starting to crack from the sheer pressure that he was unconsciously exerting with his Conqueror's Haki.

And just as he was about to snap and go werewolf, Ddraig and Albion appeared. "Partner! Keep your anger under control! You know what will happen once you let your anger get a hold of you!"

Taking a few deep breaths, Mesa finally calms himself down. "Yes, you're right. I am sorry for almost losing my temper. I have calmed now, but I am still seething inside and I will not let the Burning Heaven Clan get away with this."

"Of course not! Those miserable reprobates will pay for this transgression! As long as we are together, that princess is just as much ours as she is yours and nobody, especially not those maggots, will take her from us." Said Ddraig, with Albion agreeing to it as well.

"Yes Ddraig, Albion, you're both right. And we will not stand for this. Let us go and take care of this."

And with that, Mesa teleported out of there, leaving behind a very distraught Xia Qingyue, though he didn't know it. Because of his anger, he didn't pay any attention to Xia Qingyue after she told him the news. But if he did, he would have seen a glint in her eyes and her freaking out. Because unbeknownst to her and Mesa, her Heart of Snow Glazed Glass flared to life, though for but a brief moment, caused by Mesa's anger that gave of an aura of hate and anger and the sudden emergence of the Ddraig in the Boosted Gear and Albion in the Divine Dividing speaking to Mesa. At that moment, her vision turned into a black void, with Mesa standing there in the void with the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing visible. But just moments later, inside that black void two gargantuan dragons appears next to Mesa, one red and the other white. Standing in the presence of these dragons, made her feel incredibly small and insignificant. What came next was his eyes changing shape and color till they were purple with rings in it and six different colored lights floating around him. But what happened next was what made her so distraught. Looking up and into the black void, for some reason she couldn't fathom, she was certain she saw something resembling a figure. And it is this figure that made her feel so distraught, that she was incapable of breathing, incapable of averting her eyes, incapable of thinking. The only thing she could do was look at it in trance and feel like a shoddy wooden hut in front of a 300 m high tsunami. Thoroughly insignificant and incapable of doing anything about it.

It was only when Mesa had left to go rescue Cang Yue, that Xia Qingyue awoke from her stupor. Looking around, she saw that Mesa had left and figured that he was going after Cang Yue. The only thing on her mind was. 'Mesa, what are you? And who or what was that I saw?'

Having teleported into the skies outside of the Frozen Cloud Asgard, Mesa was about to make a madman's rush towards the Burning Heaven Clan and go on a rampage, he comes to a sudden stop and thinks. "Wait a damn minute, something's wrong here."

"What is it partner?" Asked Ddraig.

"Normally the Burning Heaven Clan wouldn't dare to do something like this, lest they'd want to have the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa coming down on them. And yet, they did, but Qingyue didn't tell me anything about the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa helping out the Imperial Family. So either they didn't hold up to their end of the agreement, or something else must be going on."

Calming down and thinking things through, Mesa came to the realization that more and more things didn't add up. For instance, he knew that the Third Prince had wanted to usurp Emperor's Cang Wanhe's power. But he was always gathering allies, notably the Burning Heaven Clan, and amassing political power with himself so that when the day came that the Emperor had died, he could lay claim to the throne. This was similar to what the Crown Prince was doing, only he allied with the Xiao Clan.

But back to the point. After thinking through it all, the only way for Emperor Cang Wanhe to die is if he were assassinated, since Mesa had used the Burning Soul Flower to kill off the Soul Devouring Life Binding Parasite. But that couldn't have happened since Dongfang Xiu was always protecting the Emperor. And worst of all, Cang Yue would never willingly go with the Burning Heaven Clan to marry Fen Juecheng, especially not after they had so thoroughly humiliated him during the bridal procession.

So, after coming to a full stop, he decided to gather up any and all kind of information about this whole affair, before he would crush the Burning Heaven Clan once and for all. Setting down in the forests of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range on a branch in some random tree, Mesa sits down and starts using the Mind Stone to start reading people's minds. And the first one he began with was Cang Yue's.

"You touch me with one f.u.c.k.i.n.g finger and I will have Mesa break every single bone in your body before I kill you myself!" Screamed Cang Yue, totally enraged.

Immediately, Mesa's eyes shot open in rage, but remembering what Ddraig and Albion just told him, managed to keep his temper in check. He didn't need to take an educated guess to know who Cang Yue just screamed against, so he also started to include Fen Juecheng in the mind reading.

*SLAP*

"As your future husband, my dear wife, you shall show me the respect that I rightfully deserve!" Bellowed out Fen Juecheng enraged after slapping Cang Yue in the face. But after taking a deep breath, he calmed down and continued. "But seeing as how I am very magnanimous, I will forgive and forget what you just said and that whole affair of you humiliating me two weeks ago. And in return, you will be a proper wife and never, ever, ever, mentions that filthy maggot's name."

'Oh Shinji. You had better hope that you're dead by the time I get to you, because I will rip you limb from limb when I get my hands on you.' This was the only thought on Mesa's mind after he heard this.

Moving on. Mesa increased the scope of the investigation, reading the minds of not only Cang Yue and Fen Juecheng, but also the minds of the Fen Duanhun, Cang Shuo, Ling Yuefeng and lastly, because he was very, very suspicious of him, Xuanyuan Wentian.

After the twenty Elders that were sent after didn't return, Fen Duanhun had feared the worst and in an attempt to further prevent more damage to their clan. But Fen Juecheng wasn't about to let it slide, he wanted to launch another attack against Mesa, But Fen Duanhun had forbidden anything of the sort, reasoning that they had already lost twenty-three elders and four disciples, including his brother Fen Juebi, to Mesa, anything more would be detrimental to the Burning Heaven Clan to the point of no return.

And this was where Xuanyuan Wentian himself came into the picture. When Fen Duanhun and Fen Juecheng were arguing about going forward, Xuanyuan Wentian showed up at the doors of the Burning Heaven Clan, though in disguise and wearing a profound artifact that suppressed his Profound Strength to level 3 Tyrant Profound Realm. When he showed up, he called himself Fen Che and claimed to be the descendant of a Burning Heaven Clan member that was expelled for having too poor an aptitude many, many years ago called Fen Zhicheng. He told them that after Fen Zhicheng was expelled, he had tried everything to have one of his descendants return to the Burning Heaven Clan and restore his honor. Therefore, he created the Fen Clan in the Divine Incense Nation and after many, many generations, they been blessed by the heavens when he, Xuanyuan Wentian a.k.a. Fen Che, had turned out to be the best disciple the Fen Clan ever had. When a rumor was spreading of an unknown guy, Mesa Uchiha, humiliating the Burning Heaven Clan, he saw it as his duty as a distant descendant to help them out in their hour of need. First thing he did was give Fen Duanhun a pitch-black key which was shrouded in black mist, claiming that his ancestor took it with him when he was expelled and that it rightfully belonged to the Burning Heaven Clan.

Fen Juecheng jumped at this opportunity and welcomed "Fen Che" back to the Burning Heaven Clan. Fen Duanhun and the other elders were not so convinced and thought his story had so many plot holes in it that it resembled Swiss cheese, but they ignored all of it when they saw just how strong "Fen Che" was and that he had promised them that he would help them out with everything they needed. And just like Fen Juecheng, they jumped at the opportunity to have "Fen Che" as an ally. Any kind of skepticism had soon turned into delusions of power. With "Fen Che", they saw their chance to finally achieve what the Burning Heaven Clan had been seeking. To take over the Blue Wind Empire, to be the undisputed number one and have everyone bow down to them.

And because Xuanyuan Wentian didn't want to take any kind of risk with the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa interfering with his plans, he instructed one of his elders, Xuanyuan Jue who is the father of Xuanyuan Yufeng, to announce a visit when he himself went to the Burning Heaven Clan to put his plan into motion. Because he knew that the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa were desperate to get into the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region's good graces, he knew that they would spare no expense to accommodate even their lowest ranked disciple, let alone one of their elders. And so with Xuanyuan Jue paying the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa a sudden visit, he knew that all of their attention would be focused on him and not to the outside world.

And so, with "Fen Che" by their side, they were convinced that they were mandated by the heavens themselves to take over the Blue Wind Empire. And since they had left a sound transmission stone with Cang Shuo, they had contacted him and explained their plans to him. All it took was one meeting with Cang Shuo to convince him of the plan. So, after he had rallied his supporters, they pressed forth with the coup, which happened yesterday. On the day of the coup, Cang Shuo, supported by the Burning Heaven Clan, who were in turn supported by "Fen Che", had stormed the palace and taken the Emperor hostage and imprisoned Dongfang Xiu. And afterwards, after forcing Emperor Cang Wanhe to sign a doc.u.ment designating Cang Shuo as his heir. Cang Shuo declared that the Emperor had died and that he was designated as the heir to the throne of the Blue Wind Empire.

Next up, Fen Juecheng had personally sought out Cang Yue and told her that he had come here to bring her to the Burning Heaven Clan to get married. In order to subdue her, he told her that her father was now their hostage and if she didn't listen to him, they would kill him. As much as Cang Yue wanted to fight back, she was unwilling to endanger her father. And so, with great reluctance and anger, she went with Fen Juecheng. Not willing to take a risk with Cang Yue's mysterious sudden strength, Fen Juecheng used an artifact on Cang Yue given to him by "Fen Che" that suppresses all Profound Energy, nullifying all of her physical strength.

And so, 24 hours later, Cang Shuo had taken the oath of coronation and ascended to the throne of the Blue Wind Empire. His first decree was declaring Mesa Uchiha an outlaw and sentencing him to death. He had placed a bounty on his head and promised anyone who could kill Mesa Uchiha great riches and a position in his royal court. Cang Yue and Fen Juecheng were scheduled to go through the marriage ceremony this evening. Xuanyuan Jue had told Xuanyuan Yufeng that he and his entourage would be staying with them for a week, thus enabling that the Mighty Heavenly Sword Villa would not interfere. And the one person who had enabled all of this, looked on with a malicious grin on his face.

After this whole investigation was finished, Mesa was left feeling more enraged than he had ever been. To him it was now clear, he would annihilate the Burning Heaven Clan. And most of all…

'Very well Xuanyuan Wentian, I accept your challenge. Guess I will be taking the second route on that quest and show you what happens when you mess with those who are dear to me.' Was what Mesa thought after all of this.

But one thing still bothered him, Ddraig and Albion.

"I can understand that he wants to have that Juechen brat willingly accept his devil heritage in order to break the seal on that devil sword. But he always struck me as someone who would manipulate events from the shadows and watch as things went his way. But this seems very desperate." Said Albion.

"I agree. This is way too desperate for that power hungry bastard. Something else must be going on."

And with that, Mesa once more focused on Xuanyuan Wentian and what he found would genuinely shock him.

"Yes, yes. With this, all of the pieces will falling into place. Now all I need is for Mesa Uchiha to annihilate the Burning Heaven Clan and leave Fen Juechen as the sole survivor. When Fen Juechen accepts his devil blood, we can finally break the seal on your sword, oh great Devil Lord." (Xuanyuan Wentian)

"Yes. And I have my devil blood back, then I will have the strength can take over that sword." (Heavenly Sin Divine Sword)

"Yes. And who would have thought we would be so fortunate to find that sword." (Xuanyuan Wentian)

With eyes wide open in shock, Mesa screams out.

FROSTMOURNE!!!

(A.N.: BAMMM!!! Plot twist! Frostmourne is still around and in the hands of Xuanyuan Wentian. Next chapter will be about him finding it and how he plans on obtaining the power of the Lich King)