The avalanche of information flooding Alm and Bruno’s minds was so intense that they both felt dizzy. After a few minutes, they managed to steady themselves. They took deep breaths and sent messages through the array to everyone.
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Now, the priority for everyone was to learn everything quickly. Anyone who already had a Dao or previous technique received the update. They also wrote on some Jade Slips and then called Zaimo, handing them over to be sent to Corin and Kisala. Zaimo and Nebai would take care of that.
Now, Bruno’s priority was to fully absorb the knowledge he called the law of faith. Alm, on the other hand, focused on studying the knowledge of the Earth Law. They both dove into their studies, dedicating themselves intensely for a week.
In the Yinblood sect, every day, someone new managed to pass the "test" to become an Empyrean. This forced Bruno to take brief breaks to transform them through his statue.
When Quirio entered seclusion to study the Beastly Blood Refinement Technique, Mistie threw herself completely into the Empyrean test. Finally, she became the first of the older generation to pass.
After completing the test, Bruno was surprised to feel her approach his statue and bow without any hesitation. He quickly made the transformation. In the next second, Mistie dashed to her room, not allowing anyone to see her.
Alone, her eyes reflected an intense and watery emotion. "It’s done... You promised, now I’ll have my chance. I will make it!" she murmured, filled with emotion. From that day on, Quirio would have to deal with her differently.
Mistie was already 40,000 years old. With her cultivation at the last divine realm, she would probably live a little more than ten thousand years. By this time, her natural fertility was becoming increasingly compromised.
However, since the Feys inhabited a Yin planet and also fused the blood of a Yin Dragon into their bodies, the effects on a woman were much more severe. All the Yang needed for creating life was practically wiped out in her body.
This Fey was in a race against time. While it was still possible, having a child would be an intense challenge. The whale had already allowed her to invest in it, if Quirio wanted to, of course. But what made her act a thousand times more excited was a warning Ruri had given her not long ago.
Ruri noticed the evident urgency in Mistie and gently commented, "Quirio has a special technique aimed at humans. Master hasn’t realized yet, but our race, known for its fertility, got a significant boost in this aspect."
Mistie was completely stunned. Ruri was referring to the Dao of the Human God, which enhanced all the few positive traits of their race. A half-human like Quirio could better assimilate their bloodlines through this Dao.
As for Ruri, even with that Dao, she saw a long way ahead. She discovered this because Kaiyka and Calirer had perished, indicating that the potential for life within them was much greater. Their partners likely received that boost too; they exchanged information to be careful, or an accident could occur.
All of them were focused on cultivation; if that happened, they would be forced to leave the group to care for the child. A cultivator could easily avoid that situation with the right precautions. Mistie wouldn’t have that problem, which is why Ruri innocently warned her to cheer her up.
But...
Even if Alm and Bruno knew this, they wouldn’t care about Mistie and Quirio. The reason was simple: both had lived a long time and had even risen above the heavenly laws by breaking into the immortal realm.
Although the queen’s universe was larger and a bit different, they understood the basic heavenly laws of the universes. A hybrid of two races was simple and common, while a hybrid of three races could only exist if two of those races had a connection.
Using Langrum as an example, in addition to the beastly bloodline, she had ogre and human blood, which were descendant races from the Chromaraic. So there wouldn’t be any problem if the hybrid had support and techniques to keep stable.
Still on the Pristine planet, one reason Quirio was incubated by the Demon and needed to be nurtured for a long time before birth was to completely suppress the human bloodline, to the point of erasing it.
The method used was a pretty simple demonic technique. Techniques like this were common; even Rivine, being a Harpy where all are women, had a method to reproduce and erase the partner’s bloodline, resulting in a pure harpy. Obviously, the more powerful the bloodline, the harder it became; that’s why humans were the favorites for this kind of thing.
Quirio was born with the help of Alm and Bruno, and for them, it was simple to solve this issue. They just used the primordial rune to influence the Behemoth’s bloodline and suppress its beastly side. After Quirio acquired the Beastly Blood Refinement Technique, they simply activated the bloodline again.
Without that intervention, the child would quickly die in one or two years. Now, imagine a child half Fey through Mistie, with the other three bloodlines from the father. He wouldn’t even reach the point of being born.
Divine cultivators don’t fully understand the heavenly laws; in fact, they can barely consider that they know the basics. A mixture as complex and nearly without connection between the races couldn’t exist. This was a rule of the world, and perhaps not even an interference from the queen.
For that reason, Alm and Bruno didn’t see any problems with Mistie and Quirio coming together. Her brother would never face lasting issues. And if, in the future, Mistie didn’t stay by his side, they would separate without difficulties. It would be a painful loving experience for her brother, but pain also brings learning.
Alm and Bruno weren’t naive. Although Bruno wanted to believe it, they both knew the sect only supported them because he was helping a lot. However, the suspicion regarding the fact that he was a Heaven-Defier was only growing, and they couldn’t do much about it. They were both alert; at the first sign of danger from Mistie, they would leave and take everything with them.
When they finally assimilated all the celestial knowledge, they turned their attention to the Dao of the God of the Forge—or at least, they tried. That’s when Ruri showed up, letting them know she had mastered the Dao of the Human God in record time.
Alm and Bruno then took her for a walk around the sect. The two no longer had much time to enjoy moments like this together. But they prioritized dedicating their attention to Ruri. They had lived for a long time, and it was ingrained in them how to live alone; if they weren’t careful, they would close off and distance themselves from her.
Ruri definitely wouldn’t mind, and she would stand by them as faithfully as always. But they couldn’t bear the thought of seeing her suffer because of it.
That morning, Ruri moved through the sect beside them with a wide smile on her face. She talked about how Lieson was growing fast and how strange it was when he first met an unconscious Lyra. He seemed to be standing before a deity, trembling from head to toe for no apparent reason.
Alm and Bruno realized they had forgotten to mention something important. So they explained that the Fire Phoenix was sealed inside a pill, quietly living within Lyra’s body.
According to stories told by the Dark Phoenix clan from the underworld, in the past, the Fire Phoenix had a relationship with a dark elf, giving rise to the clan. Lieson was a direct descendant of this Phoenix. His bloodline resonated with hers, and the Phoenix’s soul probably reacted the same way.
Ruri got excited; now Lieson would have a close relative to help him use his power more effectively.
The couple moved calmly while Ruri introduced all the soldiers recruited by the group. Excluding Ruri, Kisala, and Corin, each member already had an army of a few thousand soldiers recruited from the sect. The young ones from the four space-time beast races made up a third of the numbers, and the rest were all Feys.
These numbers were growing every day, but control and requirements were extremely strict. Ruri had built a statue of the whale out of ice inside a small building. This was the main requirement for recruitment: to fully accept who led them, along with their rules, body and soul.
As for the statue, Venjio helped, but it was Nixis and Rivine who skillfully created the sculpture.
"Those two are really obsessed with master. Everyone in the group sees him as a leader and admires him; they’d die for Master without hesitation. But those two see him as a true God, completely irrationally," Ruri lightly commented.
Alm and Bruno noticed that too. Exactly for that reason, Ruri didn’t mind those two getting close to the whale, if necessary. It happened during the infiltration mission in the four nations. Ruri didn’t think much of it, she just gave them an intimidating and maybe deadly look... but there was nothing beyond pure adoration in them.
After spending the day together, Ruri, as expected, didn’t miss the opportunity and stayed with him overnight. But at dawn, she left on her own. She knew her master was doing something he shouldn’t, wasting time and giving her attention.
Everyone had a lot of work to do. Alm and Bruno finally focused on the Dao of the God of the Forge and excitedly discovered the foundation of the new level.
’Creation of Rune Seals!’ Bruno exclaimed, excited.
Within this new level was the complete method the God of the Forge used to create his rune seals. However, the process was so complex that Alm and Bruno felt overwhelmed.
The laws used in the seals were the highest-level laws of the queen’s universe. Something they weren’t used to, and they needed to work hard to learn them properly.
In the middle of the process, they realized it would take a long time just to understand the theory. Learning by doing would be more efficient, but to create even the most rudimentary rune seal, they needed some materials they didn’t have.
Previously, they always created rune seals with the system’s support. It was simple: they just selected the seal, used the basic knowledge they had while engraving, and the system did the heavy lifting, fixing the laws into the seal.
Now, to create them manually would take a long time on their own.
So, they focused on the Prana Hammer and studying its laws; this became the priority now. They spent another week focused on this strange law until both of them suddenly stopped everything.
They felt an instinctive and dangerous premonition.
Quickly, a message arrived from Mistie. "We’re surrounded! It’s... it’s the companions of the heroes! And also hundreds of cultivators!"