Bypassing the defenses of the Blacksmith peak planet and killing Ramon didn’t take Lilia even five minutes, so before Aster noticed his mother’s soft comfortable body was again embracing him.
Aster saw Lilia’s bright smiling expression and it wasn’t hard to notice she was in a better mood than before.
He cupped Lilia’s pretty face and then pressed his lips against hers, while he softly caressed her lower back.
“Hmmm~”, Lilia accepted his caresses and answered the kiss by entangling her tongue with Aster’s.
A couple of minutes later, Aster stopped the kiss and looked at the beautiful woman in his embrace.
Lilia rubbed her face against her son’s chest and slowly closed her eyes while she enjoyed the warm that it brought to her heart, being wrapped by his arms.
“Darling~”.
Lilia’s pretty long eyelashes fluttered as she gazed upwards to her son.
Aster chuckled at his mother’s needy expression; it was still quite early but how could he refuse her.
Having gotten her son’s permission, Lilia licked her lips and quickly changed her position to be riding on top of him.
“Ahnnn~”, a second later the room was filled with Lilia’s sweet cries, which of course drew the attention of the other girls, who somehow appeared in the room not too long after they started and of course jumped into the action.
While Aster and the girls were indulging into each other’s embrace, at the cultivation floor Eris and Mylene who were calmly meditating a moment ago, suddenly blushed.
“They are for sure quite… energetic”, mumbled Mylene, while she tried to not accidentally spy them.
Now that they were cultivating again, their senses were sharpening, Eris once mentioned the range and capacity of detection of their spirit senses were quite better compared to the people of this plane, they also had a different name to call it.
Eris whose face was a bit flushed opened her eyes and made a few gestures with her pretty fingers, creating some runes purely with her spirit energy.
“Ahem, the formations in this room are probably scratching the peak of what’s possible using incomplete runes, but of course they can’t contain our divine senses from unconsciously roaming”.
By the time Eris finished speaking, she completed adding an undetectable layer to the walls of the cultivation room, successfully blocking their divine senses from leaving the room.
Mylene touched one of the heavy particles of light blue spirit energy and she couldn’t help but smile.
“I can’t believe a cultivator can actually change the properties of the spirit energy to turn it into divine energy… well if someone were to be able to do such an outrageous thing, I guess that would be Aster”.
Eris suddenly giggled before she sat back where she was, next to Mylene.
“Oh my, perhaps the young lady of the Ash Nether clan, has fallen in love with a mortal~”.
Mylene who was about to sit down nearly tripped, but she soon regained her calm and set next to her friend, not without getting back at her.
“Heh, how curious of you to mention it, considering the proud flower of the Heavenly Rose clan who turned down even the proposal of the Lariel family, actually used her only lifetime bond with a mortal”.
Old habits take hold it’s a good way to describe what happened, before those two noticed they were naming the many “failures” of the other.
Luckily, they could talk to each other about matters which involved things above the Heavenly Conqueror realm, without any problem as they both already knew about it, so they weren’t limited by the Heaven’s laws.
The rest of the day went on without any problem, at least for Aster and the girls, but the thins got quite heated up at the Blacksmith Peak planet, as the supreme elder in charge the Blacksmith Peak.
The gray cladded woman, was the first one to be noticed about the soul lamp of the law enforcer Ramon extinguishing, by the lamp guardian elder who lived in the fifth planet also known as the neutral peak planet.
As you can expect, the supreme elder immediately descended to inspect the last place where the elder Ramon was seen, and she nearly lost it after she realized that whoever killed him, didn’t bother to hide the crime scene, there was a burn mark with the form of a human on the floor as well as some blood splat nearby.
The problem was that she couldn’t track down whoever did it, and that wasn’t all, for someone to be able to sneak without her or the formations noticing it, then it had to be a Heavenly realm cultivator.
Of course, the first suspect she had was the last one which had a clash with Ramon, in other words Aster, but she soon discarded him, she already inspected him and the girls and while everyone of them was outstanding, there was no Heavenly realm cultivator among them.
At the end, she could only order the punishment hall members to investigate without alerting the disciples, but she let the matter at the back of her mind thinking that Ramon might have offended someone outside of the sect, probably one of their competitors contracted an assassin to get rid of him.
She could now bring someone from her family anyway, so ultimately it was a good deal for her, as she only saved Ramon earlier to not lose face.
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The first morning in this planet was perfect, Aster slowly opened his eyes just to be welcomed by Kana’s adorable sleeping face at his left, Lilia happily smiling in her sleep on his chest, and Alice clinging to his right arm like an animal defending its prey.
Aster softly laughed as she closed his arms, trapping those three in his embrace at the same time, of course it was a bit cramped but none of them complained and instead greeted Aster.
“Good morning~”, they said at the same time before asking for a kiss, after enjoying the sweetness of Lilia and Alice’s lips, Aster pecked Kana’s forehead and stroked her pretty blond hair a couple of times before he went after the las two sleeping beauties.
Aria and Sarina soon received their morning kissed and then everyone got up the bed, the welcome tour for the new disciples started way earlier and it was given by some deacons of the neutral faction, but Aster didn’t want to wake up early so Agnes offered herself to show them the sect.
Without caring about covering his naked body, Aster entered the bathroom followed by the girls, after some giggles and the sound of water splashing, Sarina and Kana went ahead to prepare the breakfast.
Not too long after, Aster and the girls left the bathroom and dressed before going to the dining room where Eris, Mylene and Camila were already waiting for them.
The three girls greeted him as they sat down at the table.
“Good morning, were you able to recover some of your cultivation?”, asked Aster to Eris and Mylene, that being said, judging by their bright smiling expressions they didn’t have to answer.
“Yes, it worked almost as good as the elixirs you gave us, it was smoother to absorb if you ask me”, answered Mylene, remembering the slightly scorching sensation she felt when she drank Aster’s blood for the first time.
They both then let out a small wisp of their spirit pressures, showing that they recovered to the early-stage Genesis Manifestation realm for the good this time, previously they were far stronger, their cultivations seemed to be at the Sea of Knowledge realm for others, but now that wasn’t the case anymore.
Aster nodded.
“That’s good, I will prepare another pagoda for you today, you don’t have to come with us if you don’t want to”.
To Aster’s surprise both of them shook their heads, Eris then explained something she discovered yesterday.
“No thanks, while we would love to recover fast, after so many years of not absorbing any spirit energy, we still have to circulate what we got yesterday through every meridian”.
“Besides this is also a new experience for us, so we want to go too”, added Mylene.
“As you wish”, said Aster as he started to dig in, as always Sarina’s food was delicious and once, they all had their fill, they left the castle, outside Erick, Tiana and Felicia and even Agnes joined them, apparently, they woke up earlier and that’s why they didn’t take their breakfast together, but with Agnes.
Noticing Agnes gaze on him Aster greeted her, which made her laugh.
“Did you hear the good news, the law enforcer Ramon vanished into thin air yesterday, there is a turmoil among the higher echelon of the sect, of course it was declared a secret to prevent the disciples from finding out that someone somehow entered the sect and turned a peak Void Manifestation cultivator into dust”.
‘I don’t think you should be telling this to me then’, thought Aster, but then he remembered those five minutes where Lilia was missing and he didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry.
Still Aster was sure she did it for a good reason, so he didn’t ask her about it and instead focused in the tour Agnes offered them.
“I guess you already noticed it, but as the Lord of a valley you have some privileges, which include the use of the transportation formations which are normally exclusive to the law enforcers or core disciples of the factions, of course in your case they are limited to public areas, but still, they are free of charge for you”.
“That being said, there are a few… “exceptions” who had similar but they are all void within the valleys, only those who you appoint as guests can transport here”, said Agnes as she took out her own token of identity.
Aster raised an eyebrow at her expectant expression, but he didn’t put things hard for Agnes and gave her the right to enter, in any case she was related to one of his godmothers, so she was practically extended family, the same for that weird of a law enforcer called William.
A formation appeared on the ground around Aster and the others and they disappeared from where they were standing.