After Erick and his family left, the girls went to explore the palace, besides the dinning room, there was a main hall which functioned as a common room, about ten bedrooms a couple of large bathrooms and a roofless huge space meant for training on the backyard.
Just by the design of the place, it was easy to discern that the even the elders of the sect, weren’t the type to spend their days lazing around, but training, but again it made sense, unlike back at Rodia where people got stuck at the Stellar Axys realm, even if there were records of people reaching the Star Tribulation realm.
Here they had living examples of those who surpassed that wall, in the form of Ritz, Adrian and Tanner, so everyone aspired to one day get to that level, it was human nature at its best.
Lilia nodded in recognition at the prioritized training space.
“The people of place are naturally born warriors darling; it is a good acquisition for your banner”.
Aster raised an eyebrow at his mother’s choice of words, it’s not like he was raising an army as he didn’t plan to stay in this plane for a long term, but leaving a strong back up for the families of his girls wasn’t a bad idea.
‘I guess I’ll have to rethink the future of the Terranova sect’, he thought.
Still right now he had something more important to deal with, he didn’t just offer to purify the fang for Erick just for nothing, it was also a little experiment, to test out if Rigel’s flames could improve the quality of a material if applied directly on it.
With Mylene’s help he already had a good idea of how much time materials needed to get refined, but that was while using a cauldron as the intermediary, he tried to use Rigel’s flames directly but the things he used practically disappeared.
Any material below the Mortal Transcending realm couldn’t get purified directly or it would simply disappear, probably because it wasn’t strong enough to change into a better version of it.
Looking back, it made sense that the corruption which affected Sarina ate away her spirit energy and vitality, and even when Aster cured her, she couldn’t re absorb what she lost and instead replenished it with some drops of Aster’s blood.
So now he more or less knew the conditions a material had to fulfill to be changed into a better version of itself, Mortal Transcending grade or more and had a decent amount of it as the resulting quantity will be reduced after being purified.
Aria and Alice didn’t lose a second as they started sparring on a platform which occupied about one third of the whole backyard.
“Mm?”, Aster felt someone tugging on the right sleeve of his jacket and he turned out, just to see Kana’s big eyes gazing at him.
“Big brother, can you dispel the golden light around my body… I feel I’m close to the reach the high stage of the Earth Origin realm and I want to meditate under the increased gravity of this mountain”.
Aster smiled seeing the motivation burning in Kana’s eyes, she has been using almost all her free time to cultivate since she wanted to reach the star formation realm.
‘Say, if I were to give her my yin crystal will she be able to instantly advance to the star formation realm?’, asked Alice making sure that only her brother could hear her, she didn’t even stopped sparring with Aria so others didn’t notice it.
‘Originally no, the yin accumulation crystal we found, if used for ignition, it should only boost you one minor realm ahead, since they are quite small, but if use Rigel’s flames to refine the two pieces of it left, then the resulting material should be enough to jump a whole realm, but are you sure you don’t want to use it yourself, you’ll immediately catch up with Aria if you did?’.
Alice stayed silent for a couple of seconds before saying.
‘I just broke through and with my current strength I’m pretty sure I can wipe the floor with anyone below the Mortal Transcending realm, that little girl needs it… and she’ll be one of my “sisters” in the future, so I guess I as the first one to had ever become your lover need to take care of her, besides her cooking is really good’.
… ‘I’m doing it for the family, so you better give me lots of love later though~’, said Alice before she focused on her fight again.
Aster chuckled, last time it took about three years for Alice to get somewhat along with Aria, even if she was already part of the family, probably because their relationship is that of rivals as there wasn’t such a big gap between the time, they became his lovers.
But now under the excuse of seeing Kana as a younger sister who she needed to take care off, she was willingly giving away a chance to advance faster to her, it was quite praise worthy, considering how she silently resilient she is for new girls to enter the family.
Of course, Aster had no way to know, that Lilia had a talk with her daughter, which has been making her change her point of view, in Lilia’s words, more girls in Aster’s life didn’t mean less love for them but more for their beloved.
Aster then called all the girls and once everyone had arrived, he nodded at Lilia who then isolated the palace with an invisible barrier talisman, he snapped his fingers and a large quantity of blue flames leaked out of his body before they condensed into a large spirit furnace.
Originally Aster didn’t mind if Kana advanced while they were travelling to the sect, but now that he knew the trial to enter was so bloody, he wanted her reach the star formation realm so that she could use her element more skillfully, as for Camila after absorbing all those treasures and with all the time she has been stuck at the Stellar Axys realm, she just needed a little push to go through her star tribulation, similar to Sarina.
Kana curiously looked at Aster as she played with the little red particles of purified spirit energy that started appearing in their surroundings, until she saw Aster pointing at her, the same applied to Camila.
“You two will be advancing today”.
Aster didn’t like to beat around the bush, but judging by the confused expressions of the girls he realized that maybe he was too direct this time.
With a wave of his hand, he took out some things from his spatial ring, about seven large golden swords, similar to the one he used to break the barrier of the Riga’s royal capital and one little crystal which the girls immediately recognized as the yin accumulation crystal.
Both of his hands were covered with Rigel’s flames which encapsuled the crystal and the swords to refine them, while Kana’s eyes were literally sparkling at the thought of finally advancing, Camila had a troubled expression.
She knew that besides Eris and Mylene, the others were already or would become his lovers, so it was normal for them to receive such help from him, but she wasn’t like that, in fact she felt as if she was just leeching from them without contributing anything and she didn’t like it.
“Aster, I…”, as she was about to refuse, Aster stopped her from saying anything else.
“Don’t think too much about it, you are also learning rune mastering with Eris, so you know I will be making new equipment, now that I have soul energy my spirit blacksmithing is in a whole new level so all these swords are useless for me”.
“If you still feel indebted you can stay with my darling for the rest of your life, if I remember correctly, the rumors said that women with the Wolfstein lineage bring prosperity and good luck”, said Lilia with a playful voice making the other girls giggle.
After that, Camila remained silent while she engraved this kindness in her heart, while for Aster and the others it might not be too much, helping someone reach its breaking point for the star tribulation is actually a life changing favor.
“Ah, I didn’t forget about you two, once we leave this stellar system, you’ll be able to cultivate again”, said Aster as he looked at Eris and Mylene, taking them by surprise.
“Thanks”, they both said as they inwardly sighed, if only their families could be a fraction of united as Aster’s, then, things would have been different, but now they had a chance to change everything and for that, they were thankful to Aster.
Even Rya from the mind space stopped her meditation as she looked at Aster and all the girls that surrounded him, with a nostalgic glint flashing through her eyes.
“Family huh…”, she mumbled as she returned to her meditation.
Unlike the fang, Aster now knew how to refine the materials directly with Rigel’s flames, so he could pour in more flames to accelerate the process and a couple of minutes later everything was ready, the swords melted and compressed into a hand sized ball of golden metal, which basically contained the best properties of the metals he used and his blood, the two crystals on the other hand had fused and became small marble like dark purple gem.
By now the whole place was filled with red particles which resulted from the spirit energy of this planet being refined, so all the conditions were met.
Kana sat cross legged at the right side of the backyard, while Camila took the left one, they closed their eyes and slowly but surely started absorbing their respective resources as well as the red particles.
Aster and the other girls supervised them while waiting for them to advance, oblivious to them, Tiana and Felicia who were chatting at the living area of their palace suddenly turned to see their neighbors with curious filled eyes.
“Mom, is that…”, mumbled Tiana as she looked at the sky which looked a bit brighter than normal.
Felicia tapped her finger on the table a couple of times before she nodded.
“A Mortal Transcended is about to be born, and not a mediocre one, but someone with a potential at the same level as you”.
Tiana stretched her arms as she giggled.
“You mean “us”, don’t forget you have the same constitution as me, anyway the only woman in that group which was at the Star Tribulation realm was still far from her breaking point… I wonder how did he helped a high ranked constitution owner advance, I can’t help but start believing Erick’s crazy affirmations”.
Felicia smiled at her, she stood up and then whispered a few things at her daughter, which made Tiana slightly blush as she pushed her mother away.