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24 hours later;

Vienna City, Genesis Federation;

In one of the rooms of the royal mansion, Xie Tianyu, with his limbs intact and looking as good as ever, was seen lying on the bed.

He slowly opened his eyes to see a white ceiling and felt a comfy bed below the bottom.

"Ugh…"

Letting out a groan, as he got up and turned his head to the side, his eyes fell upon Mark, who seemed to be asleep while sitting but just opened his eyes at the same time because of the groan.

Xie Tianyu felt that his powers were suppressed by some kind of seal, feeling as mortal as ever. He was resigned to fate, but just then, Mark rushed at him and grabbed his face, "Allen, you alright, bro?"

Xie Tianyu's eyes widened, and confusion fell over all over his face. As Mark realized it and backed off a bit, the immortal realm warrior spoke, "I just remembered that before I fainted, you called my name. Do we know each other?"

Mark was calmer now than the day earlier. He answered, "Markeiren Spencer, son of Denver Spencer and Katerina Novak-Spencer. If you want me to prove myself that I'm your elder brother, you may ask any question you want."

"Uhh… Did you say you are my elder brother?" Xie Tianyu asked in confusion. "I'm sorry, but I don't remember anything about my life before I was rescued by the Xie Family two years ago. I only remember that my real name is Allen Spencer and nothing else." Perhaps it is because he doesn't have the powers to escape. Or perhaps he truly wants to find out his past. Or maybe, he wants to take advantage of Mark's weakness to take his sister and escape. Whatever reason it might be, Xie Tianyu decided to stick around.

Meanwhile, Mark didn't know what to do now.

He was prepared to leave but new problems arrived at once. His factory's defenses were decimated along with his prized robots and he couldn't take his revenge because the one who did it happened to be his brother from a past life who didn't have the memories.

Currently, the biggest issue Mark was having is whether this guy is truly Allen or something else. if he had memories, at the very least, Mark could remove that a bit of suspicion in his heart but this fellow is telling that he doesn't remember who he truly was.

As a cautious person, Mark wouldn't just outrightly take a leap of faith without any solid proof.

What he could only do is to help Xie Tianyu retrieve his memories as Allen.

On the other hand, Shang Jiao was also deeply injured. She recovered with divine healing from his Divine throne, but she deeply hates Allen to the point that she wants to kill him, and Mark cannot reveal his entire truth; not even a vague lie that Allen was his brother from his previous life as he still has yet to confirm.
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Hence, Mark could only put Xie Tianyu into isolation, i.e. house arrest for now, using an excuse to protect him from others who are quite enraged by his action.

After having a talk with him, Mark learned that Xie Tianyu was saved by the Xie Clan's ancestor in the immortal plane. How he got there, Xie Tianyu doesn't remember, as previous memories from that incident were all in fragments in his head.

Xie Clan is the descendant of Yao Tianhu, the divine beast Jade Sky Tiger, and the Jade Emperor. As a celestial race, they reside in the celestial plane of existence too.

After the Jade Sky Tiger took him there, his body went through a metamorphosis, if one could say so, and eventually became a member of the Xie Clan.

He was later adopted by the Xie Clan's leader and trained there, growing from a 7-circle realm Spirit warrior to an immortal in just a span of two years.

Once he made the breakthrough, he was then given the mission by the Clan leader to bring his little sister to the clan. It so happened that this daughter of the Clan leader was a child he had with a mortal during one of his travels.

She's none other than Xie Mei, the half-celestial Mark picked up a while ago but continues to ignore her so far as she stubbornly believes that they should get married; she's currently working hard to improve her status in the military.

Mark's first intention is to add her to his subordinates as she has potential, just like Chang Bo. However, as he grew stronger at a rapid pace and attained stronger subordinates and allies, just like Chang Bo, in his eyes, she no longer served any purpose.

At the very least, Chang Bo was being useful, working as a manager in the store at Western Moon's Lunaris City. But, he could see Xie Mei as someone who drags him down. Hence, Mark promised that if she wanted to follow him back to her ancestral home, he would gladly let him take her away.

This promise also softened Xie Tianyu's opinion of Mark, thinking that all that violence and planning were super waste when he had met him much earlier with his face exposed.

And so, a whole month passed away in the blink of an eye.

Xie Tianyu was still house-arrested but didn't have any complaints as he gets to have an audience with Xie Mei every day to converse with her, for now.

For others, he was the brother of Xie Mei and not Mark's younger brother from past life. Only Song Yue was aware of this truth, and she kept it to herself. She never conversed with him either because, in her eyes, it is not only quite inappropriate for a married woman like her to go to his room and talk with him. Not to mention, her husband has yet to confirm his suspicions about Xie Tianyu.

In the meantime, Mark transported the entire island of Fujian that is housing his factory to Genesis Federation; used gravity and spatial spells on it to make the five sq. km area of land float in the sky above Sector-4 region.

With Shang Jiao's help, the Orb of Time reversed the condition of the factory back to its prime state, everything except for the guardian system, as not even the Orb of Time couldn't restore its core. The robots were also repaired to the state before their destruction, considering the fact that they don't have any souls. Song-II Missile prototype was also successfully completed, a missile that can hit targets from even ten thousand kilometers away. But, due to the high costs and time to make it at the moment, Mark didn't start their production and instead focused more on building the advanced centrifuges and nuclear reactors on the floating island, where time goes faster by two hundred times compared to the outside world.

To cover up the costs required for the materials, with Orb of time's help, the production rate of weapons multiplied by two hundred times than before, atleast in the eyes of the outside world.

The advanced weaponry, especially the ether assault rifles, were sold everywhere in the southern kingdoms and allies like hotcakes, increasing his profit, but it was used back into buying materials for weapon production or building the nuclear reactor.

Meanwhile, a few more demonic invasions happened at Leon Empire's imperial city. After the death of Mephisto, the demon king Alloces personally took charge and caused even greater destruction in revenge.

This time, there was no Xie Tianyu to save them. Leon Empire lost more than half of its forces trying to defend its Emperor and the imperial palace, but eventually, a rebellion occurred from his general and some ministers under the lead of the Crown Prince. The sixth prince went into hiding along with some trusted nobles and officials, and the emperor, as well as several members of the royal family, were beheaded and offered to Alloces.

Under Mark's orders, Demon King Alloces never attacked again, and let the civil war commence in the Empire which was broken into eight factions. The imperial faction was still the biggest, controlling atleast forty percent of the Empire but the vassal states were forming their alliances and announcing independence one after another.

King Qi started his conquest against the Empire, marching to the north, defeating the lords one after another, and annexing their territories into his kingdom.

As a vassal state of the Genesis Federation, King Qi was naturally given protection and support from Mark, but only in the form of protection of his territory. Eol's elite troops were deployed, but only to keep King Qi and his city safe from any unexpected attacks. They didn't participate in their conquest. After all, what he wants is not a closure but a long war.

Apart from that, he supplied ether assault rifles to King Qi's army, which procured them to turn talentless civilians into soldiers too. As for the training, Meng Tao was appointed for it and he was sent to King Qi's palace to train them.

In the meantime, another piece of good news emerged from the royal palace. The future Empress Regnant, Princess Shen Ling, became pregnant. According to Mark's announcement, her child will be the future heir to Genesis Federation, not Little Lu Shan, the eldest prince. This confused everyone, but none questioned, neither the citizens nor even the close friends, as it is something they have known for many months now.

While this is indeed happy news, it has once again postponed Mark's plans, this time for one whole year. Jingwei was assigned as her guard until then.

Back to the present;

At the floating island above Vienna City, where the four guardians are resting (not the Fujian island), Little Lu Shan was seen sitting cross-legged in the center with a glowing thing layer of ether energy over his skin. The four beasts were observing the six-month-old baby in amusement. Mark, meanwhile, was lying on a chaise lounge and enjoying the sunlight in relaxation with a glass of mojito in his hand.

Suddenly, a dark-colored energy erupted from the boy, earning his attention and making him sit up, "Hmm…"

After a while, Little Lu Shan opened his eyes and let out a giggle as he ran toward him, "Bah-bah… I did it."

"6 months old and already at 4-circle realm, huh…" Mark mumbled in a daze, although he couldn't stop his smile of excitement, "This brat of mine might surpass me before turning into an adult."