The night went on without any problems, while Aster was resting, Eris and Mylene finished bathing and went to their own rooms, they both threw themselves at their beds and just closed their eyes, it has been some time since they had a good night of rest.
Although they haven’t recovered their cultivations, after drinking Aster’s blood at least they didn’t have that horrible feeling of hunger, so at the very least they could finally have a proper sleep.
Morning came and this time Aster woke up early, first he opened his eyes inside of the mind space, he kissed Rya’s forehead and clothed her with the blanket, before he left the mind space.
Once he opened his eyes the very first thing, he saw was Lilia’s face a few centimeters away from him, she seemed to have a nice dream because even asleep she was smiling as she mumbled “darling” a couple of times.
Aster covered his eyes with his hand, for a moment his vision blurred and he felt the room was too bright which made no sense since he remembers having turned off the lights before he entered the mind space yesterday.
Lilia felt her son’s hear beat accelerating a bit and she immediately woke up, she frowned her brows feeling something different on him, she used her spirit sense to scan Aster and her heart skipped a beat.
“He reached the spirit opening realm!!!”, she thought, but the celebration could be postponed, apparently Aster was suffering some kind of extra sensibility, the sudden increase on his senses made his brain was process more information than before.
Lilia gently massaged Aster’s chest to help him calm down.
“It’s okay darling, silence everything else and just focus in my voice”.
Aster smiled, he took a deep breath and his vision cleared, it just took him a moment to get used to his new way to see the world, his senses were already incredibly sharp that was how he discovered the hidden rooms below the golden cloud merchant house, and now that he was also a soul cultivator his spirit sense at the very least tripled its original capacity.
“That was quite an intense way to wake up”, he thought, as he stretched his body waking the other girls in the process.
Lilia sat on the bed and she leaned his head on her lap while she caressed his hair, the legendary lap pillow so to speak.
Alice and Sarina rubbed their eyes and then noticed Lilia was taking care of Aster which made them think there was something wrong, but Aria noticed his current condition and hurried up to explain the situation.
“Aster is fine… he reached the spirit opening realm, when I broke through, I needed a couple of minutes to adjust my senses, but in that time, I felt the world spinning around me, it was quite frustrating”.
“Yawwwn ♥”, Kana et out a cute sound as she opened her eyes and approached Aster who was just relaxing on Lilia’s lap.
“Does big brother feel sick?”, she asked in a worried tone.
Sarina smiled, she patted her daughter’s head and explained what happened, although Kana didn’t know anything regarding the other cultivation paths, it was easy for her to understand that Aster became stronger which made her eyes sparkle in admiration.
Aster opened his eyes and saw the slightly worried expressions in all the girls faces and he felt his heart warm, Lilia on the other hand was smiling at him.
“Ahem, that was scary you know mom?”.
Lilia stuck her tongue at him, “Do you think I didn’t notice you recovered before you woke up the others, you are still too young to trick me darling ♥”.
Aster shook his head, he stood up and covered his lower body with a towel.
“Ladies, let’s go take a bath, we have some things to do and places to visit before we return to the azure sky planet”.
All the girls stood up and covered themselves with towels with the exception of Kana which was wearing underwear and they went to the bathroom, unlike yesterday where they took their time to enjoy in the bathtub, they just showered and helped wash each other bodies.
Even Kana helped wash Aster’s hair, in Lilia’s words they were lessons of “how to be a good wife”, for the future of course, once they finished bathing, they put on clothes and went to the dining room were Eris and Mylene were already waiting for them.
Since they didn’t participate in the night activities, they didn’t need a bath in the morning, so once they woke up, they went straight to the dining room, Eris was now a friend of the family and Mylene was a servant so they waited for them to come to take breakfast together.
Since the battle against the corrupted beasts, the soldiers admired Aster since they saw him using the paragon body so it wasn’t hard to order some takeaway food.
Mylene was the servant so she went to receive the food at the entrance of the mansion, Aster saw plate after plate being placed on the table in front of him and he laughed at Eris’s shy expression.
“Ahem, enjoying a meal is only possible with a physical body, so both me and Mylene need big amounts of food to help our bodies recover faster”.
Alice smirked, “My brother’s “elixir” isn’t enough for you two?”.
Eris sighed, she didn’t take Alice’s words, so far, she more or less understood how all the girls behaved, Lilia was clingy, Alice was in short words ruthless, Aria seemed more friendly but a bit shy, Sarina was relaxed and easy going and lastly Kana which was a curious little girl.
There were things to do so they quickly ate their breakfast and then moved to the living room, Eris took out some materials and started to work with them, the result was a map of Prasil with a compass over all its surface.
Looking at her creation Eris nodded at Mylene.
“This is a simplified version of a divination treasure, just let a drop of your blood on the compass, none of the leftover corrupted has surpassed the star tribulation realm, so this thing can easily track them”.
Mylene did as she was told and after her blood touched the compass, many little points started appearing on the map, to be honest they were less than what Mylene had expected, but it was understandable considering it was logic for Augustus to call as many as possible for the war.
While they were at it, Aster heard someone knocking at the door and he opened it, Eric accompanied by Sofia entered the mansion, it didn’t escape his eyes that they were holding hands, which made him smile.
Eric saw Aster’s amused expression and he scratched the back of his head.
“Don’t look at me like that brother, I already spoke about it with my uncles… but for time being Sofia will be my fiancee”.
Sofia snorted, “That is a one-sided decision though, but whatever I will go with you anyway”.
Eric didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry, the decision of marrying was also one-sided, although he lost the fight against her.
“Brother, the king requested us to ask, when will the barrier around the galaxy be lifted, apparently he wants to give a proper announcement to the civilians, so that there won’t be panic later”.
“Eris, is there a way to just change the conditions of the barrier instead on lifting it completely, I’m pretty sure that if a whole galaxy appears out of nowhere… they will be “colonized”, or more accurately deprived from all its resources by others”.
Sarina and Kana smiled, Aster had no responsibility towards the person of Prasil, so it was clear for them that this was done thinking on them and maybe Sylas which seemed to get along with him.
Eris contemplated things for a moment and then replied.
p “The barrier already exists and it self-sustain from the spirit energy that it’s produced in the outer space, I can change the conditions so that only those below the mortal transcending realm can enter, of course we will be excluded of those regulations”.
“I will take the master key of the barrier with me so no one will be able to affect the barrier once we leave”.
Aster nodded, “There you have it, you can tell Orson about this, Sarina you tell the old man about, that will be my last gift before we leave, for now let’s go take care of the remaining corrupted and then look for a place to have some fun”.
Kana hugged Aster, “Big brother can we go to the beach like you said yesterday?”.
Aster patted her head, “Of course, we will go to one of the many islands of this planet to swim and play at the beach”.
Eric nodded he wanted to go with them, but he still had to help Ritz and Adrian classify the spoils they got from the war, besides Sofia wanted to spend all the remaining time she had in Prasil with her family.
Now that everything was settled Eric and Sofia left, with Lilia here they didn’t need to use a spaceship, Eris handed the map to Lilia and they disappeared from the room.
Normally when Lilia bents space to transport them, Aster just sees a little flash of light before the scenery changes, but now that he has reached the spirit opening realm things were different.
In front of his eyes the scene was similar to the dimensional tunnel, a predominant gray color surrounded them, he turned to see Lilia and saw her smiling at him, besides his mother only Eris and Mylene seemed to be aware of what was happening.
“My darling finally reached this level ♥”.
Aster was a bit confused but Rya took over to explain things for him.
“Unlike a dimensional tunnel created by a spirit formation, the one used by a void manipulation cultivator makes the one using it move way faster, so those below a certain level can’t process capacity can’t think at a high enough speed to see what happens in the travel”.
Lilia nodded, “That’s right darling, even Aria hasn’t reached the point where her soul is strong enough for her be aware of the dimensional tunnel we are in right now, but you do”.
Eris was rather surprised by the fact that in just a day Aster changed from not having any cultivation in another path to have reached the spirit opening, as a rune master, she felt interested in someone with such a strong soul.
“I guess he can’t be average on any field”, she thought.