Now that Alice and Aria stopped fighting, they carefully inspected Aster’s expression, before reaching the same conclusion.
“Runaway”
Unfortunately for them, Aster wrapped his arms around their waists keeping them in place.
“Pah!”.
“Pah!”
“Hyaa”.
“Ahhh”.
Two clapping sounds followed by two high pitched sounds filled the room as Aster spanked those big asses.
“You know the rules, besides the matches if you fight with each other, then there will be a little punishment”, said Aster while enjoying the soft elastic feeling of Aria and Alice’s asses which he was now fondling.
“Ouch… the shape is going to change if you keep doing that, you pervert of a brother”, said Alice with an aggrieved voice.
Aria on the other hand just made puppy eyes and tightly hugged Aster’s arm like saying, “I’m a good girl”.
Aster chuckled, these little interactions he had with the girls always kept him entertained, after kissing each of them once, he excused himself.
The last time he helped Aria breakthrough, Alice recently did it and Lilia couldn’t cultivate in the Rodia star cluster since she surpassed the genesis manifestation realm, unless she wanted to accidentally destroy the Azure sky planet.
That being said of course Lilia didn’t let him go until he promised to take her to a date just the two of them, since it would be the last time they will be in this planet for a long time.
So now it was time to give some attention to the other pair of mother and daughter of the family, in other words Sarina and Kana.
After looking at the clock he noticed there were still a couple of hours before their cooking lessons started.
“It should be enough, now I just need to find those two”, he thought as he walked towards the backyard of the castle.
Just as he expected, he found them playing in the small forest near the back area of the castle.
Both mother and daughter were sitting at the verge of a little river under a tree, their bare feet were moving inside of the fresh water as they both meditated.
Surprisingly Aster could see the small blue particles of spirit energy floating towards their bodies even without the need to use his spirit sense, a secondary effect of whatever Orionis did to help him.
Aster smiled, he sneakily approached them and hugged them both from behind.
Both mother and daughter opened their eyes, although they were surprised due to being embraced so suddenly, they immediately recognized who was.
Kana’s eyes seemed to glow as a bright smile flourished in her face.
“Big brother you came to play with mom and me!”.
Aster patted Kana’s head finding her adorable, as for Sarina he gently kissed her cheek which made her blush a bit, but then she noticed the difference in his cultivation.
“You broke through!”.
Aster nodded while still hugging them both.
“That’s right”.
Aster saw Kana pouting and he chuckled, before letting go of them, after a couple of seconds of concentration the spirit energy of the atmosphere started rushing towards him.
Under the surprised gaze of Sarina and the curious eyes of Kana, the blue dim currents appeared around five meters of Aster.
The plants seemed to brim with life and a gentle breeze caressed their bodies, making mother and daughter feel comfortable.
Kana’s little nose twitched a bit as she caught a whiff of a flower like scent.
“It smells fresh like the dew in spring”.
Sarina on the other hand was more surprised by the fact that Aster was the center of this weird phenomenon, although she hasn’t completed the requirements to fully become a star maiden, she was already accepted.
So unlike Eris or Mylene, she could see how his dantian was pulling all the spirit energy of the surrounding area.
“Aster… are you really commanding the spirit energy?”, she asked with a doubtful expression.
She thought that at this point nothing Aster did could surprise her, but now that idea was shattered like a glass which clashes against the ground.
Aster proudly nodded, of course he was happy to see their cute surprised expressions, Kana especially, she already admired him and with every new feat he achieved that admiration kept growing.
“I learned a new trick after breaking through and since I promised Kana, I would help her to cultivate, I thought about giving it a go”.
Kana’s little eyes sparkled, she stood up and hugged Aster with a happy smile.
“Big brother is the best!”.
Aster smiled; he gently patted her back before saying.
“I will cancel your lesson of today, with this amount of spirit energy condensed you should reach the middle stage of earth origin realm today”.
“Let’s add this to the mix”, he thought before snapping his fingers.
Blue flames were expelled from Aster’s body and after a couple of seconds they covered the about ten meters around him, before changing their form into something similar to a huge furnace.
Aster nodded content with his creation, he even thought of a name for this “application” of Rigel’s flames.
“Spirit purifying furnace”, he mumbled.
Although the name sounded cool and all that, he didn’t know whether it would work as intended or not.
He looked at the borders of the giant blue-transparent furnace and saw the dim blue spirit energy passing through its walls, and entering as a light blue mist.
Aster touched the light blue mist and the thing was directly absorbed into his meridians, making him feel a fresh wave running through his body.
“Well, it worked but… God damn it, if could have done this before, it would have saved me a lot of headaches”.
Rigel’s flames were perfect to purify things, contrary to what one would expect, gathering spirit energy wasn’t hard, at least for Aster, specially now that Orionis is bringing it into his dantian all the time.
What truly made him waste a lot of time was the need to purify it, of course he previously tried to accelerate the process using Rigel’s flames before, but it didn’t work as intended because he had to manually adjust the intensity of the flame and keep it like that to not burn the spirit energy along with the impurities.
But now it was different, after creating the furnace with a certain intensity and frequency, he didn’t have to do anything else, the spirit energy was being drawn by Orionis and it was purified after passing through the furnace leaving behind the purest energy to be absorbed.
“Mm?”, Even then Aster noticed the walls of the furnace were getting thinner with every second, which was understandable, it was just a temporal creation after all, with a wave of his hand more blue flames appeared to replenish the existence of the furnace.
He then smiled at Kana
“Now give it a try, I will stay right here to witness your advance, okay?”.
Kana nodded she sat down cross legged and closed her eyes, for a split of a second she was surprised to see how easily the spirit energy floating in the air entered her dantian, but she assumed it was Aster’s doing and just focused on absorbing it.
What she didn’t know was that Aster was not only gathering the spirit energy, he even purified it for her beforehand, so she just had to nurture her earth core with it.
The furnace didn’t affect anything besides spirit energy because Aster built it for that purpose, heck due to the natural low temperature of Rigel’s flames it was even comfortable to be inside of it.
Aster sat down and patted his leg inviting Sarina to get herself comfortable, an offer she happily accepted.
Sarina sat on his lap and simply enjoyed being in the embrace of her lover while watching her daughter increasing her cultivation with every seconds.
Of course, it didn’t escape her eyes that every ten minutes more or less, Aster added more flames to extend the existence of the furnace.
“Aster… are you okay?”, she asked with a slightly worried voice like a good diligent wife.
Aster smiled, other people would have been excited by discovering such a cheat to cultivate, he was sure even those old monsters from the Drage family wouldn’t be able to contain their greed.
He literally created a blessed space for cultivators!!!
And here she was, worrying about him instead, even Rya who remained silent although she was in awe at Aster’s idea couldn’t help but compliment her.
“Although I don’t like you being a skirt chaser, I have to admit it… you have a good eye for women”, she mumbled, with a slightly jealous voice.
Aster tightened his embrace making Sarina get closer to him before pressing his lips against hers, while inwardly answering Rya.
“I chose to believe in you too after all”.
“You sweet talker”, said Rya with a blushed expression.
After some time observing Kana, it was obvious Aster underestimated the potential of this new “ability” he learned.
If someone were to tell him that without the help of a precious elixir or pill, an early-stage earth realm cultivator who just started focusing in advancing a couple of seeks ago, would reach her breaking point in about two hours, he would have considered the other part crazy… but that’s what was happening in front of him right now.
Sarina’s mouth widened a bit as she saw gusts of wind appearing around her daughter.
“Attribute manipulation while still being in the earth origin realm!”, she exclaimed.