After showering together and dressing up, Yasenia walked outside and placed the sluggish Evelyn on a hammock. It was still a few hours from Noon, so it was too early to even think of going to bed. Not that Yasenia slept often lately.
After placing her there and giving her a kiss on the forehead, Yasenia left to visit her other dears. She tested that what she had been practicing worked, so she wanted to see its effectiveness with the other girls.
Without a hint of failure, her seemingly multipurpose Dual Cultivation technique seamlessly showed effects. Moreover, when she visited Andrea, her Darling was the one to nourish her instead. After all, she was three realms above herself.
While she couldn't benefit completely from Andrea's delicious-cough, powerful Yin energy because the quality of their Body Path energies was too different. She could at least filter what would be harmful to absorb the maximum she could at the moment.
This accelerated her realm consolidation by at least a week.
By the time she finished with all of them, it was one o'clock in the afternoon, and Yasenia cooked a delicious and nourishing meal for all of the girls laying lazily on hammocks and reclinable chairs placed in the garden.
Their always-busy dragoness had decided to take this day off, and they would not be foolish enough to miss it. Andrea asked. "How was it?"
Evelyn laughed. "I had to be carried here. My legs feel like putty."
The tall and heroic woman rolled her eyes. "Not that. I meant how effective it was."
Evelyn coughed. "Oh. Pretty good."
Cecile spoke up. "As with everything else, ridiculously effective, borderline miraculous. I thought I would need a day more to break through into the high-level, but not only did I smoothly enter with a solid foundation, but I'm more than halfway into the small realm."
Andrea lifted an eyebrow. "That much?"
Kali agreed. "I think we all broke through our current Body Realm levels."
Andrea nodded thoughtfully. "That's honestly impressive. An entire small realm with a single session means that in a week, at most, you all will break through."
Cecile commented. "I will probably take my time. I want to create as solid of a foundation as I can. I couldn't do so with my Spiritual Path from the beginning because of my lack of knowledge, but this time, I don't want to miss the chance."
Andrea smiled. "I've been doing that. That's why my cultivation is still in the early levels of the Ethereal Soul Body realm. I really recommend it, as the Heavenly Tribulations for this path are quite ruthless compared to the Spiritual Path."
Ebirah was sitting on Andrea's lap and asked while looking up at her. "Are they really that powerful?"
Andrea looked down at the pink-haired cutie and smiled, patting her head. "Yes. I will have to be careful for the next tribulation, as it can become dangerous."
Ebirah smiled sweetly and spoke. "You can do it, Andrea!"
The pink-crystal-like wagging lobster tail made Andrea and the others laugh.
Suddenly, their noses twitched as a delightful scent tickled their nose. They all turned their heads and saw a casually dressed Yasenia carrying a bunch of plates with her energy.
Each of them was different, showing the favorite foods of her dears. There were even deserts of various kinds, like ice-creams, puddings, small cakes, and more.
A collective gulp was heard. They've been eating Yasenia's food for years already, but it just kept getting increasingly delicious. Sometimes, they feared that anything that their lover didn't personally cook would eventually become insipid and hard to swallow.
Yasenia saw their eager looks, making her delighted, and placed their dishes on their laps. She was confident that they wouldn't spill anything while controlling them with energy, so a table was unnecessary.
Kaleina and Tatyana came with her, with an extra little girl accompanying Kaleina. She was Flame.
Yasenia sat on a chair prepared for her, passing her tail through the hole on the backrest especially done for it, and Flame and Kaleina sat on her lap.
While she was a bit shy at first, by now, Flame had even become a bit dependent on Yasenia, looking up to her as a parental figure. Her parents didn't really mistreat her, but they also weren't too enthusiastic. So, Flame found the familiar love from the sect seniors like Gireila and Yasenia.
Yasenia had no problems pampering an extra little one, especially one who took care of Kaleina so much.
After all these years, though, the little one had grown quite a bit. Although she was just three years older than Kaleina, remember that she was a beast-human, not a beast, so her physical growth was human-like. She was still not ten years old, but she was close.
Flame saw her favorite meat dish being placed in front of her, looked at Yasenia with a happy smile, and spoke. "Thank you, Aunty Yasenia."
While she was young, she understood many things. In her heart, Yasenia was extremely important, a person who saved her and also gave her a warm and cozy place to live.
Yasenia laughed softly and pinched her cheek. "I hope you like it."
Then, our dragoness secured the two children with her tail and used her hands to eat slowly. While her tail was going through a hole in the back, it was long enough to circle around the armchair.
Kali asked. "Yasenia, now that everything is sorted out, what are our plans moving forward?"
Yasenia explained. "Well, the most important thing is increasing our strength. During the four years before the summit, that's where our focus should be. As for secondary purposes, we need to swallow and digest Maple Holy City, keep expanding the populations of the Astral Sky Sect and Astral Sky City, stabilize our position in the continent, and finally slowly prepare to deal with our enemies."
Yasenia looked at them and commented. "After the summit, a bloody battle awaits us. We can't delay much more."
Evelyn asked. "What level do you think we should get before the summit?"
The dragoness pondered. "If you can create a perfect foundation for both paths and reach the peak of the fourth realm on both, it would be ideal. If you think that you can break through into the fifth realm, that would also be perfect."
Tatyana smiled and sighed. "How time passes. My little treasure is already approaching the last one of the mortal realms."
Yasenia looked at Tatyana and nodded, commenting with a nostalgic tone. "It has felt long and short. We are very close to finally creating our first safe Haven…"
The girls nodded and then paused, looking at their lover. Yasenia was looking at them, and then her golden eyes lowered, locking on a certain place below the navel.
Their girls felt their bodies instinctually react, feeling a squeeze in their womb.
Kali coughed, stuttering. "I-I'm looking forward to it."
Angel blushed, looking a bit dazed as her mind went on a journey, who knows where, while the other three just became a bit fidgety.
However, it wasn't just them who suddenly felt fidgety, as our dragoness bore at point blank the hungry gaze of a many-year-old cultivator with quite a strong desire.
Yasenia coughed, not feeling brave enough to look at Tatyana with Flame and Kaleina on her lap. The gaze retracted, and the dragoness sighed in relief.
Andrea asked. "Other than that, is there anything left to do?"
Yasenia became thoughtful, and she shook her head. "There is nothing in my mind. The sect is already set up with people taking care of administrative matters, and the same goes for our city. The laws are in place, the economy is flourishing, and we've trained a few sect members to take care of the entry exams. Then… The internal structure of the sect is also developing, and we've planted the flowers we got in the Library Trial. The internal corruption level for our sect to fall is staggering, as it can almost run without a Sect Master. The formation can take care of many of those small things before they pile up to become a real problem."
Evelyn chuckled. "We've done so many things."
The dragoness smiled and nodded. "Speaking of which, how are your disciples doing?"
Andrea shook her head with a helpless smile. "Too enthusiastic."
Cecile asked. "How so?"
Andrea coughed. "Each time I'm forging, a few of them stop to look at me and learn, even when I ask them to do their thing."
Yasenia's eyes flashed dangerously, but she held back. 'Darling is too charming! But, it's inevitable, so I won't punish them… harshly."
Evelyn commented with a prideful smile. "My tailoring has come a long way! I've reached the low-level Heaven rank tailor level." Then, she commented. "Regarding my disciples, other than Luna, who has very little talent for tailoring, the others are doing quite well."
Yasenia laughed and asked curiously. "Speaking of which… How is Luna doing?"
Evelyn smiled. "Don't worry, she hasn't done anything silly since then. Although she had a gloomy phase, I can see that she is recovering."
Kali asked. "What happened?"
Yasenia blinked. "Oh? I didn't tell you?"
The fox woman gently shook her head, so Yasenia explained how Luna was falling in love in a possessive manner for Evelyn.
The girls smiled at Evelyn, and Andrea even lifted an eyebrow.
Evelyn asked, flustered. "W-What's wrong?"
Andrea laughed. "I bet you were happy for a second. After all, doesn't Luna have quite a curvy figure?"
Evelyn snorted. "You underestimate me too much! How can there be anything more perfect than Yasenia's peerless tit-."
BANG!
Evelyn flew in a beautiful parabola, spinning beautifully as if she was dancing in the air, and finally fell on her face with another bang.
Cecile laughed a bit. "You two are still doing that?"
Yasenia's eyebrow twitched. "My tail does it all on itself."
Mirrory appeared with wonder in her eyes, looking at Yasenia's tail. "A tail-slapping Dao? And one so advanced? Impressive."
The girls almost fell even though they were sitting.
Cecile asked, incredulous. "Don't tell me that she can develop it into something powerful?"
Mirrory shrugged and disappeared again, leaving behind a few words. "Who knows? For now, it can't."
'For now?' The girls felt their lips twitch.
Evelyn returned and sat on her hammock as if nothing happened. "What's up with your faces?"
They all shook their heads.
Then, the girls spent the rest of the day speaking about their daily routines in the sect. Things like Cecile's frequent expeditions into the depths of the Forest, finding a few strong beasts to fight, Kali's interesting new medicines, Angel's formation advancements, Andrea's newest works, and Evelyn's failed attempts to create clothes for the harpies.
Speaking of which, the reason Evelyn, or any other tailor, couldn't create such clothes was their strange constitution that needed their skin to be in touch with the energy in the air to function properly. Wearing clothes would, quite literally, weaken a harpy by about 5%.
It didn't sound like much, but for a cultivator where a single instant could decide a moment of life and death, it was a big deal.
While taking care of all these things and more, three years went by.