After closing his eyes Aster entered a space devoid of light, but that only lasted a few seconds before the sky exploded into a vast variety of lights, from which, one big golden sun stood out.
The familiar aura which the sun and the other dim lights radiated made Aster realize where he was right now.
“This is my inner universe… not bad but it’s not enough, back then when I witnessed the vastness of the space my introspection wasn’t this shallow”.
To become stronger a cultivator creates an inner universe which is contained by the dantian, the bug sun which stood out among the countless other lights, was the star Core which Aster formed once he reached the star formation realm.
Compared to that the other light sources weren’t worth mentioning, with only two exceptions, one had the normal golden color and was about half of the size of his current star.
But at the other side of his star core there was another celestial body with the same size which instead of radiating light, seemed to attract it like a black hole.
“That form… isn’t that Orionis!”, Aster exclaimed, to reach the stellar constellation realm, once must form a second star and link it with the first one, he was at the peak of the star formation realm, so it’s not weird to see a second star nearly reaching the size of the first one.
But Orionis shouldn’t be here, unlike Lilia his attribute isn’t destruction after all.
“I guess, the stars are also part of my power whether I can use them or not, I wonder why the others aren’t here though?”, thought Aster, after a close inspection there wasn’t any trace of Pollux, Rigel or Aldebaran.
“Well, mom likes to be the first… it’s only logic that her star is the same I think”.
Aster shook his head, later he could ask Rya if there was any problem with what he has seen, but right now, he was virtually seeing the inside of his dantian, it was still a step above the layer of his soul which he needed to reach.
When he was about to close his eyes to dive deeper into his soul, he remembered the book in which the twins reside orbited his dantian, in these past years although he couldn’t directly speak with them, sometimes he had the feeling that they will be waking up.
But up to this day it hasn’t happened as if they were waiting for something.
“Alessia!”.
“Aylin!”.
Aster tried to call them to see of maybe at this level of his conscience, they would be able to hear him, but there was no response so ultimately, he had no choice but sigh and continue with his training.
This time when he closed his eyes, countless of thoughts assaulted his mind.
“Why am I here” “Am I doing the right thing” “Who am I really”.
Questions that Aster often ask to himself and other things which have been inside his mind, since he reincarnated, kept being repeated like whispers on his ears.
In the mind space, Rya noticed Aster frowned for a second before everything returned to normal, then the black pommel stopped moving and little black particles appeared and condensed on the handle continuing with its formation.
She then frowned her eyes, for a split of a second she saw the star which she personally locked letting out some kind of black light, before it returned to its slumber.
Rya chuckled at it.
“What a troublesome star… just like her maiden”.
Back at the that introspection space, Aster was floating cross legged meditating, those questions he heard have been haunting him for a long time, but that didn’t stop him from enjoying his second life.
So, he simply snapped his fingers and silence was made, then he tried once again to keep condensing the soul weapon and it worked, or at least that was supposed to be the case.
The black space changed and now what was in front of Aster was the mind space, but he was seeing his own body from the point of view of a spectator, more accurately he saw the mind space from the point of view of his soul avatar.
“This sure feels weird… I wonder what would happen if I return, will the soul crushing parade condensation will stop?”, he thought.
He wasn’t doing anything, after trying to keep condensing the soul weapon he stopped any kind of meditation but if what he saw was real, then the pommel kept absorbing his soul energy at a speed which still allowed him to recover.
Aster wished it and then opened his eyes back to the mind space, just in time to see the black pommel flying all the way towards his soul avatar.
But this time the condensing didn’t stop, it was as if the soul avatar somehow took his place in the training.
Rya saw the outrageous scene of a spirit opening cultivator using its soul avatar to do things that should only be possible at the soul sovereign realm and she didn’t know what to say.
“Aster… what happened when you were trying to reach the middle layer of your soul, what did you see, tell me in detail please”.
“Mm?”, Aster heard Rya’s serious voice and he told her everything, the fact that besides his second star which was near to be finished meaning he will reach the stellar constellation realm soon, there was also that black hole representing Orionis.
Aster’s story only made Rya frown even further, somehow Orionis avoided her seal and manifested some of its power to help Aster do what he wanted, which wasn’t necessarily bad, but it still made her take it as a challenge.
“What a capricious star… just wait until Cygni also manifests humph”, she thought before saying.
“I guess that explains why Lilia inspired you to create that soul weapon, all the stars will be a part of your inner universe… at its due time, but Orionis got ahead of all the others, pretty much like Lilia if you ask me”.
Aster chuckled at Rya’s jealous tone.
“Still, that doesn’t explain why the pommel is now condensing without me doing anything, I thought what I was doing only allowed me to practice the soul crushing parade while being inside the mind space?”.
Rya shrugged.
“As you know those who cultivate in the soul path have a better comprehension and processing capacity compared to other cultivators, and that gap gets bigger with each realm”.
“In exchange unlike body cultivators, their battle prowess is really low unless they practice a soul technique, so they need to double the training time to get the same result, but that is a temporal weakness”.
“Controlling a soul avatar to practice instead of doing it by himself it’s the privilege of a soul sovereign… that star somehow helped you achieve that”.
,m Aster was genuinely surprised; Orionis was still sealed and still it managed to help him so much.
Rya saw Aster excited expression and she pouted.
“It could have been dangerous for you if your soul wasn’t as tough as your body you know?”.
Ignoring Rya’s current competitive mood, Aster inspected the black pommel and after confirming everything was going well, he then focused on the beauty in his arms.
Rya which was lost in her thoughts, felt Aster’s hands moving all over her body and she came out of her daze.
“I thought you were going to train tonight?”, she shily asked.
Aster licked his lips before kissing her neck and whispering to her.
“Well, that was the idea but apparently I don’t need to do it anymore, I might as well show some love to my cute Rya, so she doesn’t get jealous of a star”.
As he spoke Aster put his right hand inside of Rya’s panties and started gently rubbing her flower.
“Ahhn ♥”, Rya let out a cute sound, the extra sensitivity caused by doing lewd things while in spirit form, still overwhelmed her.
With a smirk Aster took out his hand and licked the remaining nectar on his finger before taking off his clothes and doing the same for Rya, once they were both naked, he laid on top of her and started licking all the way from her neck to her lower body.
…
While inside the mind space Aster was busy making Rya loudly moan, in the real world more accurately at Camila’s room, there was another situation going on.
Camila was rolling on her bed having a hard time to sleep, every time she closed her eyes, there was this weird feeling of anxiety invading her, as if there was something she needed to do.
“What the hell is going on, I didn’t feel like this earlier, so why am I unable to sleep”, she said to herself.
She looked at her wrist on which she was wearing the suppressing bracelet.
“It’s working, so this isn’t due to my breakthrough… I will have to ask Lilia about it tomorrow”.