Although at first Kana’s wind seemed to be erratic and disordered, after a couple of minutes Aster saw she was using it to drag more spirit energy towards her body.
Aster nodded in recognition.
“Smart girl”, he thought.
Each attribute had its pros and cons, for example his annihilation and destruction from Lilia and Alice, even the ice element which Aria used weren’t suitable for what Kana was doing.
Sarina was of course surprised to see her daughter not only manipulating her attribute but even using it for such a thing, which even she managed to do before.
But it wasn’t her fault, spirit energy floats invisible and untouchable in the atmosphere, only being attracted by the dantian when she cultivated, Kana was only able to do it thanks to Aster condensing and purifying the energy to the point that it was easy for anyone inside the furnace to absorb it.
Aster found rather cute the surprised expression in Sarina’s face, he caressed her lower back before saying.
“Alice and I were also able to do that, according to mom, it’s a sign that her affinity with her attribute is really high, she isn’t Aurelian’s descendant just to show after all”.
Sarina smiled and although she suppressed it, Aster still noticed the slight tinge of worriedness that she was hiding behind that smile, although she knew Aster didn’t care about such things it was difficult for her to not feel inferior.
Unlike her daughter her inner universe was already built, although she could modify it to make it stronger now that she had the peak grade immortal manual inherited by Aurelian, the quality was already set.
Camila was lucky enough to get some kind of benefit from the tattoo which helped her totally change her inner universe, something even Eris or Mylene haven’t seen before.
But that slight spec of inferiority disappeared as soon as it appeared, she had a talented daughter a caring lover and a whole life ahead of her to enjoy their company, she would also get an ability as a star maiden.
“So, what if I’m not as “special” as others, I just have to train twice times harder, if that is not enough I will thrice it and if that is still not enough, I will quadruple it”, she thought.
Aster smiled looking at the fire of determination burning in Sarina’s eyes, treasures, talent, wealth, everything of that was easily altered, but a strong will is not something that can be obtained by external means.
He gently grabbed her chin and made her look directly to his eyes.
“When we met, let alone cultivating, you weren’t even able to move your body and yet you never complained, instead of that you made sure to show your daughter a smile even when you were suffering”.
Something which was still fresh in Aster’s memory was that time when he opened the door of her room after the maid tried to kill him, just to see her standing up in front of her Kana who was sleeping.
She only collapsed after confirming it was Aster then one entering the room, she even asked for forgiveness while ignoring the horrible burns in her hands caused by the corrosive talisman.
Sarina was beautiful even when she was sick, but in the three years Aster adventured on the many cities of the Azure sky planet, he had the chance to bring other girls as beautiful as her in that state to the family and yet none of them made his heart wave.
What truly made him feel attracted to Sarina was that she is a good and strong woman, of course after recovering she surpassed the beauty of any other girl besides the other members of the family… and friends like Eris, Mylene and more recently Camilla.
Aster then caressed her pretty face before saying.
“I told you when we changed our relationship to lovers, what I want isn’t as superficial as your body, or your power… your heart, your soul itself, everything of you is mine now”.
Sarina giggled before kissing him.
“Rya is right, you are a sweet talker, but I like that part of you too”.
Aster smirked, his hands moved downwards until they reached her ass, of course he couldn’t help but get a cope of that soft bouncy feeling.
“Besides I promised to give my girls only the best”, he said before taking out one of the crystals created due to the accumulation of yin he found in Prasil.
Originally this crystal was for Kana since it was a must for her to reach the star formation realm, but now that he could create a perfect space for his girls to cultivate, it would be a waste to use it for that.
Aster was sure Kana will reach the star formation realm by the time they pay a visit to the barbarian heart sect, so instead of using it for her, he decided to use it as fuel to help Sarina push through her star tribulation.
Sarina knew that what Aster was holding was a rare resource, to the point that he only had two pieces of it, so she was about to refuse it with the excuse of using it for her daughter instead.
But Aster placed his finger in her lips to stop her from speaking.
“Be a good girl and accept my gift, even now that I’m at the stellar constellation realm, I can feel that this furnace will help be advance in no time, let alone Kana who is only at the earth origin realm”.
“Of course, you will get a huge surprise once you break through”, he mentally added after feeling a familiar sensation coming from the mind space.
“Mm”, Sarina knew Aster always had a reason for his actions, so she stopped being stubborn and happily accepted the crystal, but she still had to wait until her daughter finished her advance.
After another thirty minutes, the gusts of wind which were surrounding Kana converged forming a twister with her as the center, before all the wind was absorbed by her body.
“She did it”, mumbled Sarina with a happy smiling expression.
Kana opened her eyes, her irises which previously had a clear light blue color, now had a slight green tone added to them, her small figure which was covered in a white sundress combined with the fact that she wasn’t wearing shoes made her look like a fairy.
Aster let go of Sarina, he stood up and approached Kana to pat her head like usual, but she instead couldn’t suppress her happiness and threw her little body at him.
If Aster wanted to of course he could have resisted Kana’s tackle, but the little girl was so happy that he didn’t want to spoil the moment, both of them fell to the ground but there wasn’t any pain since the grass was really soft after being nurtured by the spirit energy which Aster purified earlier.
Kana rubbed her face on Aster’s chest while she laughed.
“I did it big brother ♥”.
“I reached the middle stage of the earth origin realm!”.
Aster smiled, he caressed Kana’s silky blond hair, finding the little girl which was clinging to him like some kind of koala quite cute.
After a couple of minutes of that, Kana’s little eyes slowly closed as she fell asleep, integrating spirit energy into an earth core was tiring, whether she needed to purify it or not.
She noticed how every time Aster had to replenish the furnace the amount of flames used increased, it was obvious he was doing his best to help her, so she resolved her little heart and tried to absorb the spirit energy as fast as she could.
She wished with all her heart to not be a weight for him, she wanted to demonstrate that she wasn’t useless, it was then when she felt as if the wind responded to her wishes, at first it was a soft breeze which she felt increased the rate at which she gathered spirit energy.
She had never used her attribute before so she didn’t know how to do it but after that accidental discovery, it was clear for her that the wind “listened” to her wishes, so following that theory she just kept repeating one thing in her mind.
“I want to become stronger!”.
So, after thirty minutes of forcing herself to control wind like that, it was only natural for her to be tired.
Aster spoke with Lilia and the other girls trough their mental connection and they came from the castle to the forest.
Mylene, Eris and even Camila tagged along
Aster carried Kana her like a princess and let Mylene asked Mylene to take her to the room so she could rest.
Once Mylene returned Aster smiled, everyone here was a part of his family or a trust worthy person, which was going to be travelling with him, so it was better to show them how they were going to be cultivating now.
Especially Aria since she could help him double the size of the furnace and share the burden of keeping it working.
“Let’s take it to another level”, he thought before adjusting the image of the furnace in his mind.
His body glowed in dazzling golden light which diminished after the golden armor clad his arms, legs and upper body.
“Darling?”, Lilia saw her son adopting his battle state and she was confused, she used her spirit sense and didn’t see anyone besides them.
Without saying anything Aster produced a big quantity of blue flames, which then seemed to follow his command to form something.
The concept and design were the same but the dimensions were totally different, last time the furnace was about three meters tall, but this time he made about ten meters tall and five meters wide.
Of course, the usage of Rigel’s flames was higher but none of that mattered right now, since he and Sarina were about to make story… because it has been hundreds of thousands of years since someone has broken through the star tribulation realm.