Just as she was about to answer my question, our last guest arrived with a loud shout at the gate of the garden.
"Sis!!!"
When Emilia arrived, she didn't expect to see her elder sister whom she hasn't seen for the last two years to be her, since her mother hadn't contacted her about her elder sister coming here. So, she naturally was surprised, but then a happy smile graced her young face.
She ran and hugged her sister in a tight hug while she was sitting on the chair.
She then turned to my mother and sister and greeted them with a hug too.
"Aunt Rebekah, Sister Alina," she said with a smile.
She then looked at me but then ignored me as if I don't exist.
I didn't know what to say about this special treatment, which made the ladies sitting on the table stifle a laugh.
After sitting on a chair brought by Lyra, Lucia that was following Emilia went to stand beside Lyra and the other two maids standing there.
After all, settled in, I looked at my sister to hear her answer to my previous question.
Understanding what my gaze meant, Alina waited for a few minutes to collect her thoughts.
While Alina was collecting her thoughts to tell us about her adventure in the secret realm for the past two years, Emilia noticed that I ignored her tantrum and puffed her checks, showing how much she is dissatisfied with me for not greeting her properly and for ignoring her for the last year.
"In Spiral Galaxy in the Lower World, there was a sudden disturbance in the void near the Spiral Galaxy, and all the energy in the vicinity were sucked dry by the disturbance after that a huge Golden Gate appeared in the Void."
"Of course, the appearance of something like that would attract people from all over the Galaxy and other nearby Galaxies but since this is a Galaxy under the control of Crown Star Academy, they were the first to know and sent people to investigate and found that this is a secret realm that appeared naturally and not man-made and it only allowed people with cultivation above Soul Purification Realm but below Divine Realm."
"After concluding that it was safe they decided to send us and see if we can be fortunate enough to find rare resources that usually take a long time to appear in the outside, to me and Stella we decided to join in the fun to gain more experience instead of staying in the academy," She added with a sigh.
"What are you sighing about?" I asked curiously since I don't see any reason to sigh.
"I didn't expect it would take us two years to explore the secret realm, the elders outside thought it was a small realm but when we entered, it appeared it had the size of a small world"
"Didn't that mean you made a good harvest in the secret realm?" I asked with a smile.
"Well, we did get a good harvest, there were some useful resources for me and Stella that will strengthen our foundation while we are still in the mortal realm."
"Kevin, Do you know what is the most important resource in the secret realm?" my mother asked from the side with a smile.
"What? Rare resources? Inheritance of a powerhouse?" I asked with confusion.
"No, the most important thing to find in a secret realm is its core," Stella said from the side as she decided to join in the conversation.
"The core?" I said while raising my eyebrow in puzzlement.
"Yes, the core of the secret realm, the one who finds it and refines the core will be allowed to take control of the entire realm, it has many other benefits other than controlling the realm" added my sister.
"Which?"
"First for mortal cultivators like you, the secret realm can be used as a foundation for the cultivator to build your World seed, this is for short-sighted people"
"As for people with a good head on their shoulder, They can use the realm as a breading ground, to grow resources for alchemy and formations in the realm since you can control the time difference between inside the realm and outside, but to reach this level of control you have to have a high cultivation and high synchronize with the core."
"Why using the secret realm as a foundation for the World seed is short-sighted, Does not having a strong foundation for the seed allow a divine cultivator to have a strong world in the future?" I asked about the words that my mother just added.
"I will tell in the future when you can refine one, as knowing now won't do you any good," she replied with a smile.
"So, Did any of your friends manage to refine the secret realm?" Kevin decided to change his question since he knew his mother wouldn't tell him since she decided not to.
"Why not one of us?" asked Stella with a raised eyebrow, curious as to why Kevin didn't suspect it was them that managed to refine them.
"I don't know, I just eliminated my sister because she is frustrated as for you, it was just a hunch," said Kevin with a smile.
"You are not wrong, the one who refined it is someone who just managed to join the academy recently at the same age as us as he joined through some connections high in the ladder of the academy," said my sister from the side.
"Hmm? What is his race? If he doesn't have a strong backing, he would get robbed of the secret realm even if he is a student of the academy, there are many crazy people out there," my mother asked my sister and Stella.
While my mother and the others were talking about the identity of the student from the academy, Emilia brought her chair beside mine and pinched my thighs angrily using her cultivation which is at Peak Body Strengthening Realm.
"Ouch, What are you doing?" I asked while looking at this little girl, although it didn't even tickle me, I still feigned a painful expression.
"Don't play victim, you haven't come to see me during this whole year and you didn't even send me a sound transmission, you just disappeared without notice," said Emilia beside me angrily.
"I just was preoccupied at the time and was a little motivated so I just locked myself in my room to cultivate," I said while averting my gaze from her angry gaze.
"Then you will have to spend more time with me and tell me before disappearing like that again," added Emilia.
"Huh, don't worry I will notify you next time before I enter a long time to cultivate and I have no problem spending some time with you."
"Good, then you will spend the next two months with me touring your race's main Galaxy," She said with a small smile on her face.