Martial Peak: Transmigration With A System

Liu Zheng went back to Su Yan and handed her a pill to which would help her recover her True Qi.

"Thank You for stepping in at the right time. You are nothing like the Liu Zheng I used to know, its only been over half a year when I first met you when you were only a initial element and a few months you were in Qi transformation realm when you saved my brother and got involved in the fight between the elders. You have grown a lot, Liu Zheng." Su Yan said after taking the pill.

"And you too have grown a lot as well. The Senior Sister I know said more than a few words while talking to me and it makes me happy that you remember when we first met."

Su Yan blushed and replied "That's just because my cold yin type cultivation art affects my behaviour too."

"Haha, I see. But you should not be so self sacrificing in such situation, just like others you too have people who care about you. 

Also tell everyone to retreat 10 miles because there is dangerous storm coming." Liu Zheng said and left the place.

Su Yang took a few moments to realise what he meant and blushed hard, unfortunately for Liu Zheng he wasn't there to see it.

She ordered the high heaven disciples to retreat as he said and they went back 10 miles.

Liu Zheng released the monster cores and they floated away to the sky creating a tiny bit of sparks to directly forming a giant tornado which sought to destroy everything in its way.

The golden staircase appeared and he was first one to step on it this time.

The moment he step on it, pure yang energy started to effect him thought it was very weak which kept getting stronger the more he climbed but he simply absorbed it and went forward. 

After around 500 steps it changed to cold yin qi which he absorbed as well and took full advantage of the staircase. It kept changing as well as getting stronger and he kept absorbing because of how pure they were.

He completed the 10,000th step and reached near the palace entrance where he was attacked by violent True Qi but successfully resisted it and entered the palace, his cultivation had also increased by two minor realms after absorbing all the yin and yang qi from the staircase.

This time he stepped on the jade steps where he was attacked by strand of violent yang True Qi but he collected all of them and after 99 steps reached an ice wall. He used the collected yang qi and melted it easily and was the first one to enter the palace.

Meanwhile right when Liu Zheng entered the palace, strong winds blew across the stairs and threw all of the male disciples out of the staircase but surprisingly no one got injured.

Liu Zheng saw the Golden Dragon Emperor's and Ice Phoenix Empress's half divine spirit source for the first time and he got a very powerful feeling from them. Even with his mangekyou sharingan which sees through almost everything and gives him insight about it, could not perceive much about those two sources.

"Liu Zheng, this owner of this source, the golden dragon emperor was actually good friends with Yhwach. They always used to discuss about the dao of time whenever they came across each other and Yhwach's attainments were always above that of him even." Old man said to him from his knowledge sea.

"Yhwach's attainments were even higher than naturally geniuses of the dao of time? even more than a dragon emperor's?" Liu Zheng was suprised to know about the achievements of the quincy progenitor.

"Yes, the golden dragon emperor came across him during the time he was hunted down and helped him a lot which resulted in a life long friendship between them. If you can, you should definitely find the other half of this source as well." Old man advised him as he sensed someone entering the palace and decided to leave for now.

"Liu Zheng?" Su Yan called to him.

"Took you long enough, Senior Sister." Liu Zheng replied even though he just arrived an hour ago.

"I was still way ahead of everyone and what are these two orbs? Are they part of the inheritance?" Su Yan asked him

"Do you want the short understandable version or the real mind blowing one which you might not believe in but is true?" 

"Both." She said as she sat beside him

"Haha, I expected as much. This isn't the part of the inheritance but the main inheritance and they require two inheritors so i have been here waiting for you." Liu Zheng replied and continued.

"The long answer is that they are part of the divine spirit sources of the golden dragon emperor and ice phoenix empress and Yes I am talking about real divine spirits.

Among the Divine spirits, these two were one of the most powerful ones in the history but died together fighting an enemy which was a threat to each and every form of life there is but their love was so pure and strong that even after their death a part of their existence continue to stay together even after over a million years strengthening two lovers in every generation though none have been able to achieve their former might."

Su Yan looked at Liu Zheng as if he was talking about a fairy tail and not the inheritance because a) nobody has ever seen a divine spirit or anything related to them and they only appear in fables and b) how does he know something that happened over a million years ago?

"Your face tells me that you don't believe me but it is true though I can't explain how i know about these things." Liu Zheng said.

"I know that you don't have a reason to lie to me but it is still very hard to believe. As you said that they died fighting an enemy who was a threat to all life so does that mean those who inherit it must fight that being as well?" Su Yan asked an interesting question to Liu Zheng

"If something is a threat to all living beings there is then everyone who wish to survive have to fight it one day regardless of this inheritance but that is something for the truly powerful people, not us, not for next thousand years i hope. And you don't need to worry, if the sky ever falls I will be one of the first ones to hold it" 

"Aren't you being too confident after defeating a 6th grade monster?" Su Yan smiled and said as she thought even though Liu Zheng is very powerful and talented, he still has a long way to go.

"Yeah, you are right but even if I can't do that I will at least protect the people that I care about no matter the cost and I will protect you too." Liu Zheng who hasn't flirted with anyone in both his lives decided to just being honest and say everything that came to his mind.

Su Yan didn't say anything and just turned her face the other way but it was obvious that she was blushing.

They talked with each other for while about their experiences in the past months as well as climbing up the ladders but it was now getting time to make a decision.

"Senior Sister as you might have guessed, the predecessors of these two sources have always been a couple so receiving their inheritance will bind the inheritors in marriage also that it is a inheritance that involves dual cultivation. So you have to make your decision to accept this inheritance or reject it." Liu Zheng asked with a serious expression.

"Would you be disappointed if I said I would rather give up the inheritance than to be bound together with someone I am not familiar with?" Su Yan replied with an equally serious face.

"Yes, I would be very disappointed but I also don't think it is right to make one of the most important decisions of your life because of an inheritance no matter how powerful it is. There is no point in spending most of our lives cultivating if it can't even give us the freedom to choose our life partner especially for a woman." Liu Zheng got up from his position to leave and he was disappointed on the prospect of losing such a great opportunity but it isn't worth forcing someone so he decided that he will just find another way later on.

"Would you not resent me for making you lose such a precious opportunity which has the power to make you soar to the sky?" Su Yan asked him.

He didn't turn back and answered "I will reach the peak of the Martial Dao with or without it because it requires more than just an inheritance to reach it and I also respect your choice to reject it. So, no I don't resent you for it." as he continued to walk away.

"Who says I am rejecting it? I simply asked if you would be disappointed and tried to test you to see if you would resent me?" Liu Zheng heard Su Yan from behind and he turned around to see her looking at him with a tint of redness on her face.

"I said I didn't want to inherit it together with someone I am not familiar with but you saved me before anything could have happened once so in a way I owe you my life and its thanks to you that I am even here, you know."

"What do you mean, Senior Sister?" Liu Zheng asked

"All this time I have been thinking that if it was anyone else then would I accept this inheritance? My answer was no because I haven't met anyone in my life yet that I would like to spend the rest of my life with but If I would have to choose then I would choose someone with a good character and a decent cultivation talent.

I have known you for some time and have also heard about you from Sister Xia and my Grandfather who only have a good impression of you. My brother was saved by you and now me as well and I also know that you cured a trial disciple without asking for anything in return by Su Mu. You also respected my choice enough to give away the inheritance and choose not to resent me for it while other than you would have tried his best to convince and might even force me So I think you have a very good Character.

And decent talent because I want to spend the rest of my life with my partner would have hate it if he died early due to lack of cultivation and live rest of my life alone because I want to give my all to only one person in this life and no more.

So if I had to choose anyone in this world right now to be with for the rest of my life then it would be you" Su Yan said to Liu Zheng with sincerity in her eyes.

Listening to Su Yan, Liu Zheng was already on cloud nine. He tried to hide it but it was pretty apparent on his face.

"Are you sure you want to go through this? This will surely make a significant impact on your future." Liu Zheng for confirmation for the last time.

"I know and I am sure about it." Su Yan replied with confidence.

He went back, sat next to her and said "I can't guarantee that you won't regret this but I will do everything there is in this world and more to protect you and make you happy so that whenever you look back at it, you will see it is as the best decision in your life."

"I know you will and since we have decided , Let's begin" Su Yan said smiling as she turned towards Liu Zheng and extended her hands.

Liu Zheng joined his hands with her and both started to circulate their respective cultivation art. The Yang and Yin energy from the dragon and phoenix source rushed towards Liu Zheng and Su Yan respectively and filled their bodies with excess energy.

They knew it wasn't a strength which could be refined and used for cultivation also not something they could bear so they started sharing their energy with each other creating circulation of Yin-Yang amongst each other.

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 Next chapter is R-18.

And I will soon stop referring to body cultivation in terms of cultivation and do it in terms of grade also I will also mention which grade corresponds to which cultivation level in the auxiliary chapters