A few hours passed. During this time, Alm and Bruno tried to deeply reflect on their plans. However, they had to force themselves to meditate and calm their minds while feeling Ruri’s tight presence and breathing close to them as she clung to them.
Despite everything, they both felt drawn to her. If they let themselves go, things between them would escalate quickly; they would easily be influenced by her, and the couple would become immersed in each other indefinitely. Having children at that moment was not what they desired. It was better for both of them to take it slow.
At a certain moment, Ruri woke up. She was smiling and seemed to emanate a radiant aura around her. After so long, Alm and Bruno already felt like separate individuals again. Soon, they turned their attention to her and tried to change the mood, explaining the plans.
"We managed to harmonize. Now we can resolve everything, but it will still be very dangerous."
She nodded and affectionately cuddled their arm. "Together, we can do anything. Who are those bastard humans near master?" Ruri spoke calmly.
Alm and Bruno just sighed and continued. "This kind of sinister thing is common even in other universes. But there are also many low-level divine sects that live by seeking such things throughout the universe. Stealing others’ gains is also normal, and there are certainly security mechanisms to protect everything here."
Ruri nodded, deep in thought. She thought she knew the world’s wickedness and considered herself experienced. But the world was often worse than she imagined; she understood the importance of having someone reliable by her side, and why the weaker sought to unite. Even women didn’t mind sharing the same man, and men could do the same by sharing the same woman. As long as their pillar was powerful and protected them, it was more important to have the security of a new tomorrow.
The life of a cultivator was wild, and even though they could live for thousands of years, rarely did anyone die of old age; usually, death was brutal and painful. That is when they didn’t die completely, body and soul, with no possibility of reincarnation. Living for a century as a mortal and dying peacefully had become something desirable and pure in her mind.
"In addition to all this, even though the rulers of the two planets are being controlled, this war has been going on for a long time. Generations have passed in the midst of this conflict, and extreme hatred has been sown among them. Simply removing the seal and destroying the formation will not solve it. Soon, a resentful cultivator will unite the people, and they will resume the war against each other."
The whale explained calmly, and Ruri listened, understanding. In their own city, after nearly a hundred years of war, people’s hatred for the families that allowed it to happen was extreme.
"Hatred is a very easy fuel to use to unite people. It roots itself in culture and is passed down to children. The enemy becomes something external, an evil that must be excluded; understanding that the other side is also composed of people just like oneself is not simple. That’s why the easiest way to resolve it is to transfer the diabolical figure to another distant target. Let’s expose the divine humans."
The whale spoke seriously, then reflected on the consequences. "This is not the cleanest method, but we are dealing with cultivators. With evil coming from a distant divine world, those who cultivate to divine realms will see with their own eyes a much crueler truth. As for the people of the planet, they will simply hate everything that comes from outside, but they will hardly have contact with them. This will even help a little; if any divine cultivator emerges, their hatred will be a natural defense."
At that moment, Ruri thought of something and spoke excitedly: "Or we can implant in everyone’s heart the figure of a divine savior and protector. The certainty that they are not alone will make them live without fearing evil so deeply."
"Hmm... not an impossible idea. But we’ll have to make an impact on them greater than the evil coming from the divine cultivators; a visual show isn’t enough," Bruno pondered.
Ruri asked calmly, "Could they have left a spatial mechanism as defense, though?"
"It’s possible, but if a spatial channel opens, it will be our end," came the dry response.
Ruri smiled and locked eyes with them. "My internal spatial rune, given by master, is of divine level. I would never disappoint master; I studied it diligently. Although I can’t control it completely, the spatial power they will use will be a link between the fragile ascending laws and the divine laws. I can interfere with that and cause havoc."
Alm and Bruno immediately understood and quickly envisioned an interesting scenario. "Great, the karma of those bastards must be very high; we can put on a good show. Good job," they concluded, gently stroking her head. Ruri smiled happily, but her eyes indicated that she wanted something more intense.
Alm and Bruno ignored that look and soon gave her a task. Using her mental power, Ruri was supposed to go to the other planet and investigate things calmly. Then she should create inexplicable phenomena and leave them in a panic. Alone, she was much more efficient at hiding, thanks to her mental power. Among those mortal cultivators, if she wanted, it would be impossible to find her.
Gaia had said before that the demonic metal was already completed and taken. Since he mentioned that the demonic rune was 50% complete and knew about the speed at which it was being improved, probably this rune was being made on the planet they were on. The other one, commanded by the orcs, was where the metal was completed. The two planets were interconnected by the formation to increase efficiency, but each one created something different.
They wanted to take the rune and destroy the formation. The initial plans were to do this sneakily, removing the slave seal in front of everyone from both planets’ inhabitants and showing them the formation.
Afterward, it was just a matter of using the family crystals and fleeing quickly. The divine humans were to blame, and they even used the families to complete everything, harming them. How would they demand an explanation for this? Not to mention they were humans causing trouble; the elves, dwarves, and Yangta would be extremely irritated for being used and could trigger the divine sects they had contacts with.
Races like elves and dwarves were united and would retaliate against the humans for trying to harm theirs. Certainly, these humans weren’t much in the divine world; they kept quiet about the whale’s deeds.
But now things had changed. Ruri had never disappointed and would do something they alone could never achieve currently. Working together, they wouldn’t flee from the humans but would create a legitimate divine punishment for the heinous evil plaguing those people.
Ruri bid farewell and flew off the planet. As the distance between the two planets was short, even though she wasn’t a cultivator in the divine realms, she could traverse it without issues. Her physique reconstructed several times perfectly, combined with the power of the hero’s rune, gave her a capability well above average.
After she departed, the whale moved using its domain over the laws of the earth. It dug deeply toward the planet’s core, to the farthest point it could withstand the temperature. When it stopped, it activated the rune of the earth and its primordial power.
For any cultivator, it would be impossible to perceive the formation at the planet’s core or directly interfere with it. But for them, using the behemoth bloodline that dominated the laws of the earth, there was nothing hidden and out of their hands below the surface.
Common cultivators often looked at the laws only from the angle of combat and brute power. The laws of the earth indeed had clear limitations in battle; but there were countless capabilities beyond defense. As the whale elevated its realm, it felt these capabilities more clearly.
**Thump, THUMP!**
The entire planet and its cultivators felt a disturbance in the laws and a heartbeat coming from the planet. A commotion ensued among the harpies, who imagined it to be an orc attack; then, the entire army was activated in preparation for the confrontation.
In the depths of the earth, the whale was completely covered by primordial power, no longer looking like a human, but rather a divine earth golem... and round.
At first, when they discovered how to use the bloodline they possessed, they could feel the earth from a long distance, but the energy cost was high. Now, using the divine soul and the primordial power of the behemoth, cultivation was no longer a limitation; all its consciousness and senses were one with the earth and one with the entire planet.
They could sense everything that existed there and manipulate some of it. Of course, this would only be impossible if Gaia didn’t allow it; after all, this was his body. That’s why the two understood why the system guided them in this direction. Having the favor and blessing of these life forms was essential to using this ability.
Gaia didn’t have the strength to do much, but allowing a soul to invade his body and do as it pleased was something he could do. He simply accepted their manipulation and didn’t need to expend energy or do anything.
Alm and Bruno focused and observed the intertwined formation at the core. Then, they saw the demonic rune pulsating like a devilish heart. The two souls smirked villainously; without delay, they manipulated the earth and primordial power. A pillar of obsidian was created like a celestial thorn. They moved the obsidian very close to the core of the formation, then left a part of their souls inside it.
Everything was ready; they could destroy everything, using the obsidian as physical intervention, and the new power of the tattoos as intervention in the laws. This formation was something very dark and hidden, few could destroy it using the laws of the earth, so there were no solid defenses in the formation itself.
Indeed, there was a spatial mechanism; as soon as something went wrong, it would be triggered, and a connection with another place would happen in response. But that was exactly what they wanted.
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It took a week for the whale to complete the preparations there. During this period, Ruri returned and waited for them. When they met, there weren’t many updates on her side. Then the two went together to the planet of the orcs, and the whale contacted the Gaia of that place. And they did the same process in their formation. Unfortunately, this Gaia didn’t have any treasures or additional information to give them; their luck wasn’t that great; they only promised to quickly resolve everything.
Everything was prepared, and tensions between the planets were high. With the strange phenomena intentionally created by the whale and Ruri, both sides would face each other again in the coming days. The timing was perfect.