"whats the point of cultivation? Day in day out we cultivate and let life pass by, when a treasure appears we fight like rabid animals, when someone offends us we fight, when we don't like someone we fight, when we travel the heavens we are confronted by others beyond our race, at every point in cultivation we face hazards that could end our existence and even destroy our soul baring us from reincarnation. How many truly achieve immortality? less then 1 in a trillion? quadrillion? Do numbers even matter or is it up to fate..."
- Leopal the lost ~ Void realm great one
Upon entering the rift the millions of Arks being dragged by the tremendous force shook, quickly getting the attention of its crews and passengers.
Tens of millions of cultivators rushed to their posts and steered the various flying ships in the correct direction for those who had been slightly turned around, and for others they simply used the pulling force of the rift to their advantage.
Many of the Arks had unfortunately rammed other Arks causing minor damage to each but it was damage that could not be afforded in this current time.
Settling that matter, all Arks that had been submerged in light sent inspection squads across their respective fleet of Arks to confirm all the changes that had occured to their new homes and while not everyone could travel in the rift in the void it would be enough to address the changes or damages done sending a message to each respective flag ship.
Not every Ark had the fortune of became a new world, most had improved spirit veins and better living environments with slight increases to the cultivators power or even only gained an increase to ones cultivation.
Some Arks had become notably larger in size and the spiritual energy they released had lowered, it seemed the light had improved the energy retainment method of the Arks but no space path formations were created to hide the newly acquired gains.
Other types of transportation such as moons and planets each had thier own version of gains, for moons it could be as simple as increased spiritual energy, or as complicated as changing the entire make up of the moon internally or externally.
For planets an increase in spiritual energy could already be considered the best outcome as this would allow the established environments to flourish once more, as for other changes they would have to experience them over time.
Living transports on the other hand were much more complicated, few changes could be seen from the various creatures that carried their owners homes at first glance.
One could feel a slight increase to their cultivation but not much else, one would have to personally ask the creatures for only they knew what could be different about themselves.
As the various Arks emerged from the light, some noticable changes could be seen from some of them but the people on board all felt it would be safer to not talk about this to much, especially to outsiders.
Orders were passed down various Arks to keep their mouth shut and not mention the benefits gained by the light, who knew if others had received the same treatment after all? Plus those larger forces that had crossed the rift first did not receive the same gift so it was not wise to talk about it and the vast majority of people all silently agreed about this.
Messages were sent to allies that were under the light trying to get information on each others circumstances while not revealing the bounty they had just earned but few would be willing to reveal such matters.
For those that were more vocal or had thoughts of becoming subservient to larger powers this change had become a double edge sword.
Those few lucky small powers that had gained Arks by chance now had to be very concerned, if they had yet to contact larger powers then they could keep to themselves but if they had already made plans and contracts then reneging on their promise's could draw attention to themselves.
A few others were even thinking of joining under a larger power now that they had received a boost to their strength, with increased confidence some might even seek powers that were slightly stronger then them befor to form an alliance.
In the Five family unions Nordaine family secret ark, Madam Nordaine had the most shocked look in her face she had experienced many things in life and heard of many spectacular occurrences but never did she think one of them might happen today.
She was sitting in puddle of her own blood and broken flesh, looking down she was holding a pair of newborns, she had not been pregnant befor this and she had not seen her husband for over 100 years after he went missing in the calamity war and while she was no virgin she had not copulated with anyone besides her husband in the past 100 years she was fully devoted to ascetic cultivation since.
She looked at the newborn girls for a while only the sound of very small breaths being taken could be heard, but then cries coming from behind drew her attention.
She looked towards the direction of the crying and noticed it seemed to come from the very center of the newly formed spiritual heaven she wanted to check it but the spiritual energy was so dense it was pushing her back from her original sitting position, granting her original wish of wanting to get out alive.
She was slowly leaving a trail of blood while protecting the newborn girls from the spiritual pressure as best as she could but her body was in terrible shape and even moving took a toll.
This location resides inside of a mountain being dusty as a mountain should be with only a small path leading in and out of the cave, but at this moment the floor inside the cavern was crystal clear the walls white and the ceiling pitch black seeming boundless in all directions. The room was brightly illuminated with not a candle in sight and not a speck of dust to be seen it looked as if the most pure and clean of existence resided here.
The mound that made up the Spiritual heaven seemed to have formed a vortex with seemingly endless energy.
As she composed herself after nearly reaching the exit she noticed the crying behind her had stopped but as she listened closely small rumbling and bursting sounds spread across the room, soon noticing the small spiderweb cracks that started to appear on the floor.
She was quite taken aback by this, the room inside the mountain held the newly formed spiritual heaven its toughness and durability could only be broken by those in the final 2 layers of the middle heavens.
Namely those in the Heavenly rebirth stage and Void realm stage with certain difficulty, of course she could not speak of certain skills and treasures designed to collect such things but from her knowledge this Ark should not contain it, even the acquisition of the small piece of a top grade spirit vein piece had cost her a great sum of wealth, luck and effort let alone a complete one.
Soon the sound stopped and only silence spread, the cracks on the floor fixed themselves until she saw a small crawling figure in the distance.
The pace it crawled was neither to fast nor slow as if it was simply taking a stroll.
It was another baby... a baby brimming with spiritual energy to the point it looked like white fire was crawling all over this child.
The baby was crawling directly over were she had bled but the blood was not sticking to it, the blood evaporated even befor its small hands and feet could touch the floor and even the floor seemed to slightly bend as if attempting to not touch the child directly.
The air in the room had started to become even more suffocating and the light became bent and twisted being dragged toward the crawling baby unable to get away giving the surroundings a dark shade.
The baby continued crawling forward befor reaching the second obstacle in its path, it struggled to sit up and sit down but once it did it looked directly at her.
It seemed to look at her with a 'What is this thing? Why is it in my way?' kind of way.
The baby then yawned befor it started nodding off and falling asleep shortly after, still sitting down undefended as if no danger could befall it.
Madam Nordaine was at a loss for words, this was a baby boy in front of her with no flaws on his skin to be seen and a rather muscular build that should not be on any baby plus a third leg that stood erect far to early in life with a look on his face that seemed to say 'out of my way trash' but other then that this was a normal baby.
She looked at his face for a moment, he had fallen asleep as if the pressure in the cavern didn't exist.
She only hesitated momentarily befor making some space in her arms in an attempt to pick up the baby, the spiritual energy surrounding the boy quickly receded and he looked just like 'any other' baby now...
She did not have much experience with children especially such young ones so she looked rather awkward carrying them.
the baby now in her arms she took a look at his third leg facing her for a moment.
'Is this normal? Do all male newborns stand erect like this after birth? and... this size'
She then quickly exited the cavern headed to her manor intending to rest her mind from all the events that had just happened, plus she had given birth, broke through several minor realms reaching peak deity transformation and was almost crushed under the spiritual pressure surrounding her so rest was sorely needed.
As for what she would do with her newfound collection of little people she would think over it later.
Heading back to the the five family unions flag ship, thousands of newborns were taking their first breaths and releasing their first cry to announce their arrival causing a myriad of phenomenon to occur across the ark.
This phenomenon was not limited to woman either, several unfortunate man had the honor of a first hand experience in childbirth. While most gave birth through the unconventional method of cutting their stomachs open almost injuring their newfound problem, a few unlucky ones had their heads and chests burst open dying befor they even knew what was happening.
This birth of children was not limited to just the humans beings onboard, several hundred spiritual plants attained human form escaping their confinement to the ground and crawling away in excitement.
Many spiritual items gained intelligence increasing their overall power while some common items like a normal sword, a spoon, candle and many more gained human forms much to the shock of their various owners.
In the pill hall of the Five family union, several pill bottles and containers broke, the pills had grown arms, legs and a head and ran away.
Many demon beasts inhabited the five family union flag ship, these could be mounts or wild beasts captured and placed in the lower layer to be used as food for later or as training partners.
Many of these beasts were common and not very dangerous but a few carried particular bloodlines that if awakened could put many people in danger.
These beast had mostly all given birth to an offspring, an offspring with an extremely pure bloodline towards only one end of the spectrum.
These birth were not limited to only the five family union as it occurred across every Ark, planet, moon or otherwise that was under the light, but none in such numbers or diversity as in five family union.
Chaos spread across the ship as no one knew what was happening, although only a few thousand children were suddenly born or took form many of the people it happened to were well connected so news spread fast, for those woman who suddenly had to give birth in the street this was seen as an unlucky event for them, the masses thinking that it was just a woman who happened to be out at the time of labor so while some offered help most just walked on, but for the men it occurred to this quickly garnered attention since this was truly an uncommon occurrence.
As the news spread across the Ark many fantastical storys were being shared for those who witnessed one of these births.
"The child ripped its way out of the woman's stomach, and stood on its legs the moment it came out! The man who was besides the pregnant woman was the husband and had witnessed his wife die at the hands of her own son, so enraged by this the father was, he lashed out toward the child but as if sensing the blood lust of his own father the child jumped up and crushed the mans head!" An old man spoke with vigor.
The audience was dumbfounded, they could not believe what they were hearing but rumors kept spreading about these miracle children and various other unexplained phenomenon.
The vast majority of people were focused on the changes of the ship and to the increase in their own cultivation, children? Who cares!