They were at the end of their second year since they arrived in Distancia.
The basin had transformed quite a lot.
With our girls' hard work, many different establishments, rooms, areas, and buildings had been built.
Yasenia used the building of the sect as training for her professions, and the same for the other girls.
To build a sect, one needed to have infrastructure, formations, formation cores, and even the flora and fauna of the surroundings required to be regulated.
Yasenia swept down, and her sword glowed powerfully as she decapitated a giant bear near the valley's entrance toward the inside of the mountain basin.
The bear was near the middle level of a Unification Realm cultivator, but Yasenia wasn't even panting slightly quicker after the fight. Her breathing was calm, and even her braids weren't undone. 'Hm… These beasts are a bit weak. Why are they trying to attack us?'
The beasts would very much like to tell her that they were imposing beasts who previously controlled a large area of this place, but they were all dead, so Yasenia was clueless that she was slaughtering the leaders of the previous beast groups gathering here.
She dug out the core of the bear; they sold at a very nice price. However, she frowned when looking at it. 'Why does it smell so… strange? Every core smells so… unappetizing?'
The melon-sized core glowed with beautiful lights and appeared very pure, but Yasenia felt that it was slightly disgusting. So, she threw it in her ring to give it to place it in the Astral Sky Shop later. 'Well, whatever… Hm?'
Yasenia felt the energy inside her revolve in a strange matter, and her abdomen felt hot. She used the Spiritual Sense to look inside herself and looked inside the Dantian.
The [Primordial Energy Core] was being fed [Celestial Energy] by the Celestial Star in the middle. It began spinning rapidly, and a shockwave burst from herself, moving the vegetation in the surroundings.
She felt a refreshing current moving across her limbs as her muscles, bones, and meridians strengthened.
After a few moments, the events stopped, making her confused. "What just happened?"
She looked at the [Primordial Energy Core] and felt it had had a breakthrough just now. 'It looks… purer?'
Yasenia pondered. 'After becoming a dragon, my heart was substituted by [Draconic Heart], the [Celestial Pearl] became my Soul Core, then, my beast core was substituted by the [Primordial Energy Core], and inside my Dantian, the [Celestial Energy Star] was born, together with the [Empyrean Galaxy Domain]. Now, my intents also orbit around the Celestial Energy Star. The balls of Yin energy from Mom and Valeria are completely absorbed, so this leaves five "planets" orbiting around a "star." Each "planet" is a core part of myself.'
Yasenia continued. 'Now, my "beast core" broke through some kind of barrier?'
Yasenia thought about what she knew about beasts. 'Beasts evolve by themselves and can't cultivate. So… does this mean my beast core broke through? What rank am I?'
She made a fist and punched forward swiftly and elegantly.
BOOM!
The air before Yasenia rippled, making Yasenia's eyebrow lift. 'My physical strength has at least doubled.'
Yasenia looked around the valley entrance and only saw the corpses of tens of beasts. 'Hm… I should clean up a little bit.'
She approached each of them and stored them in her spatial ring. Then, she transformed into her dragon form, becoming a massive one-hundred-and-fifty-meter-long beast, and flew toward the basin again. 'How are the animals I placed in my ring doing?'
She looked at them from time to time. After all, they were exotic animals that came from the Secret Realm. The rainbow caterpillars, red honey bees, and other little critters were all living quite happily in her ring.
Yasenia's forest area was filled with strong medical herbs collected during her entire cultivation journey. Moreover, there were five-hundred-year-old plants and even older together with many other exciting flora thanks to the accelerated growth.
'The little things are really good, especially the honey bees. Their pollination skills were top-notch.'
Yasenia summoned the [Red Honey Bee Queen]. The queen bee was five meters tall, like a small building. She had a beautiful natural crown on her head, and her body was aesthetic and slim, with red as the primary color and golden and black marks to complement her.
It looked around, confused. And then she saw the massive dragon staring at her, making her so stiff it stopped flapping and comically started falling from mid-air.
Yasenia laughed and swept down to catch her in one claw. "Don't worry, little one. I'm the owner of the ring you reside in, and I wanted to give you this."
Yasenia summoned a core of another bee-type monster she had slain and gave it to the Bee Queen.
The queen looked at it and buzzed happily, nuzzling with Yasenia before taking the core. Yasenia laughed again. "You are quick to change attitudes, hahaha."
Then, she threw her back into the ring. "That core should help her evolve and become stronger. I should also find a caterpillar, bat, and earthworm core. I've seen some alpha creatures between the four main clans."
Her ring had four main beasts, the ones coming from the Secret Realm, and a few other normal creatures to keep the ecosystem going. Those four beasts were, for those who don't remember, [Red Honey Bees], [Multicolored caterpillar], [Soil Enhancement Earthworm], and [Morning Sun Bat].
Naturally, she had kept the delicate flowers in safe areas, and if any little one approached them, the [Five Realm Spatial Ring] would kill them. Unless, naturally, it was someone like the Queen Bee. In that case, the ring would teleport her away.
Yasenia saw a bright light in the sky as a massive formation that covered the entire basin unfolded. She hastily flew up, using [Heavenly Constellation Steps] to examine the unfolding events.
The complex symbols, runes, and lines covered the sky like an ethereal gold, red, and green mantle. Then, it slowly fell and sank into the mountains surrounding the enormous basin.
Yasenia could see the rock around being engraved with the powerful formation, and the dragoness felt the change in the surroundings.
After the mountains were marked, the formation went from the outside to the inside.
Like rivers of energy converging toward one center, majestic lines, runes, and symbols of different shapes covered the entirety of the basin.
With her not-bad knowledge of formations, Yasenia could distinguish the different areas of the sect.
Since this was a sect that would not be part of a city, they didn't use Living materials to build it, but methods from the Sky Continent.
Hence, as the formation passed a few places, nature bent to the will of the formation master and transformed into beautiful living areas.
Yasenia divided the sect into the entrance test area, a practice area, an open market for disciples, living quarters separated via rank, a leading shopping center with shops, a place with formations aiding cultivation toward different elements, an arena, and many more interesting things.
Looking at it from a distance, it was imposing and beautiful and still looked like it was integrated with nature, avoiding damage to the Feng Shui and natural resources.
It needed to be said that the west side mainly remained untouched. Beasts with strengths between mortal to high-level Body Modification remained, becoming a natural hunting area for low-level disciples. To hunt higher-level beasts, the surroundings would become the place to do so.
Yasenia smiled as she looked over everything. "The only step left is to carry the Transcendence Ranked Formation Core from home in Koran City, and everything will come to life. I already told Ghana to buy a few Heaven-ranked formation cores for all our bases. Andrea and Angel are also experimenting with how to create them."
Yasenia saw the massive formation made mostly by her baby with Tatyana's and Mirrory's help and felt proud. "My baby is so talented~. Speaking of which, Drasha and Meiren will be delighted when she comes here, hahaha."
Tatyana appeared by her side. Her arm was bandaged and slowly recovering. Besides that, she looked fine. "How does it look, little treasure."
Yasenia transformed back into a human and hugged her closely, burying her face in Tatyana's raven-black hair. "Not as good as you."
Tatyana scolded, but she felt warm inside. "So silly."
Yasenia lifted the arm carefully, resting it on her hand. "How is the arm? Do you think it will recover soon?"
The Death Empress didn't lie. "Half recovered. I can do normal chores with it. Even formation-making is not hindered, so I can finally start working on that formation again. However, fighting is still difficult."
Yasenia nodded and flew on [Draconic Heart] while carrying Tatyana between her arms. "By the way, Mom. You said something about our Dravory Family growing in two or three years. What's that all about? Next week, three years will have gone by."
The elegant woman swung her legs while hugging Yasenia's neck. "Hmm… Should I tell you?"
Yasenia sighed with a smile. "Are you really going to keep being mysterious? I have a few theories, but they are quite absurd."
Tatyana smirked and asked. "I want to hear my little treasure's deep reflections."
Yasenia kissed her lips and smiled mischievously. "I won't tell you~."
Tatyana was stumped, and Yasenia laughed.
Tatyana bit Yasenia's cheek playfully.
"Oh no! I'm going to be eaten by a monster!"
Tatyana whispered beside her ear. "You will~, but it will happen at night."
Yasenia gulped. When Tatyana whispered like this, the night usually ended with her fainting.
Tatyana changed the subject. "When are you going to break through into the seventh level of the Unification Realm, little treasure? You are on the verge of the sixth realm, right?"
Yasenia pondered. "I think I will reach it in another month or so. The energy to advance each realm is becoming quite absurd really fast. From the first level to the second, I took three months, then four for the third level, six for the fourth, seven months for the fifth level, then eight months for the sixth level, and now ten months to reach the seventh level."
Tatyana hummed. "To be honest, that's a speed someone would find ridiculous. Some people take all that time to advance one realm and are considered geniuses."
Yasenia shrugged. "I bet there are others with similar speed to mine. All my dears are following my speed, after all."
Tatyana rolled her eyes. "You have the ultimate dual cultivation technique, so their speed being similar to yours is not that rare."
Yasenia was still unconvinced. She had been beaten so many times that her perception of herself had become a talented but not too out of the norm cultivator.
If other people knew that, they would decide to drink themselves to sleep while weeping about how unfair the world is.
Tatyana laughed, knowing what were the main sources for Yasenia's misunderstanding of her true strength compared to others her age. 'In the trial, even the lowest soldier had her talent, so after living twenty-two years in an environment where her strength is looked at as common, then facing the seniors of Distancia, making her quite powerless for a while against powerhouses, and finally, the beating she received from the Abyssal Horror while seeing our, seniors, combat strength, my little treasure thinks she is really not too out of the norm. Not to mention, she is pushing Evelyn's and the others' talent to the extreme with her dual cultivation technique, allowing them to follow her pace. However, she has forgotten that she is just forty-eight years old, and people at this age are still in the Mental Nourishing realm.'
Back in the Sky Continent, Tatyana's filter to admit Core Disciples in the Rising Talent Academy was for them to become Unification Realm cultivators before the age of forty. To become teachers, they needed to enter the Dantian Spiritualization Realm before the age of 200.
Moreover, Tatyana's requirements were among the harshest between all sects and empires in the Sky Continent.
Now, imagine Distancia's continent talent measuring. If Yasenia were not facing the seniors and instead faced people her age, it would be like allowing an adult to mix with children.
Meiren, for example, is one of the strongest juniors of the continent, and she was in the middle level of the Spiritual King Realm three years ago, the equivalent to Mental Nourishing Realm, at eighty years of age.
Nowadays, with all the resources from the Astral Sky Shop, she had advanced to the peak of that realm, but it would take a few years to enter the Ethereal Soul Realm.
Tatyana commented on another important point. "I'm quite interested in what changes all your innate skills will have."
Yasenia remembered. "Right, innate skills evolve when entering the seventh level... I'm also curious."
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Author: Three years! The time skip is five years, so we are slowly approaching the end of the time skip.
Tatyana: There are a few things to speak about…
Author: Yep. But… It feels really lovely to resolve a few of the entanglements.
Author: Either way, let's get with today's dear. I summon you!
Dante: Hello~.
Yasenia: Hello, Dante. What are you going to ask us today?
Dante: Well, I was curious about this.
Dante: In your experienced opinion, what is your opinion on the strongest or most fearsome combination of attributes?
Evelyn: And you are asking?
Dante: Tatyana, Mirrory, and Valeria.
Tatyana: Well, it depends on how many attributes we are speaking about.
Mirrory: Yep. Which one do you want to know?
Dante: How about… three, four, and five?
Valeria: Haha, you are taking quite an advantage of the situation.
Dante: Hehe~.
Tatyana: Should I say which one is strongest in my opinion, and then you two interfere?
Valeria: Sure.
Mirrory: Go ahead.
Tatyana: I will not explain too much, but I think they are like this.
Tatyana: For triple attribute: Fate, Star, Space.
Tatyana: For quadruple attributes: Death, Life, Fate, Space.
Tatyana: Then, for quintuple attributes: Life, Death, Fate, Sun, Moon.
Tatyana: Naturally, cultivating is as difficult as going against the sky. Moreover, a proper bloodline and constitution must be had even to start having those attributes in a single body. Only miracles can create something like that. Little treasure is already extraordinary, so…
Valeria: Hm… I disagree with the triple attribute. I think that instead of space, life would be more robust.
Mirrory: I actually agree with Tatyana. Fate and Space become very strong later. But reaching high cultivation levels with either of those is usually very complicated.
Dante: I see.
Author: Well, that's all for today. Have a nice day~.