With some gestures, Ixas opened one of the sides of the rock cube to reveal its insides, taking into account the fact that Espi's total length was about one hundred meters while its body had a circumference of about nine meters.
So, the "portable house" Ixas built, was spacious enough for all of them to comfortably spend their time during the travel.
Following Daimon's indications, Ixas build three floors, one for Aster's group, one for Natasha and Charlotte who immediately complained about having to be in the same space as the other, though they each had their own room.
"You already have so many girls sleeping with you, what difference would be if I jump in for the fun too~", Natasha fluttered her pretty long eyelashes trying to convince Aster to let her stay with him.
But her protector sighed and then dragged her away with her to their respective room.
"Don't forget you still need to give me the information about the Storm Roc family", said Aster getting a pout from Natasha, but then she giggled and threw a kiss at him.
"You know where to find me~".
"That sister is a bit weird…", mumbled Kana seeing Natasha's open flirting attitude.
Charlotte who was still there softly smiled after listening to Kana, she then turned to see Aster and handed him a piece of paper.
"Those are the hideouts of the people from the Storm Roc family which I know about, just as I promised… if you want some help to pinpoint those locations, I will be happy to help", a small almost unnoticeable smile flourished in Charlotte's face before she went to her room, followed by her protector who glared at Aster as she left.
Aster saw Mylene suddenly chuckling and he raised an eyebrow.
"What happenned?".
Only after a couple of seconds of softly laughs and giggles, Mylene calmed down and then explained to Aster what made her lost her composure a bit.
"Sorry… it's just that I was amused by the fact that you somehow managed to meet the one and sole flirtatious Sun Graceful Luan in the whole history of their race, and the sole serious and loyal Moon Stream Luan at the same time".
Mylene then proceeded to tell Aster what she knew about
Aster bitterly smiled, by the small interactions he had with those two and judging by the comments made by their protectors, he could more or less guess they were completely contrary to their peers and other race members, making them the black sheep of their respective families to a certain extent.
And Mylene just confirmed it, apparently the Sun Graceful Luan women were pretty demure and serious about romantic aspects of their life, according to Mylene, the mothers would choose a partner which will only be able to approach the daughter once she reached adulthood, they will marry and remain together for life, the partner will provide yang for the female as part of his duties.
As for the Moon Stream Luan, things were completely different, they were… open about relationships, specially because if they wanted to dual cultivate, maybe because they needed large amounts of yang to turn into a small portion of ying after decomposing it, but it was normal for them to have more than one male partner dedicated to them as they will be constantly exhausted, or even fool around with other girls, including other Moon Stream Luans.
Also, their offspring will always be a member of their respective race and a woman, that's right, there were no males in their races, so they married members of other races, but even then, their babies will always be of the race of the mother.
"Well, I guess that explains why their protectors don't seem to like me, even when those two don't mind how we met", mumbled Aster.
Despite their many differences the two Luan races in question had one thing in common, either for culture or race needs, their male partners were supposed to only have eyes for them.
A pretty different set up, if you take into account that normally male cultivators are the ones that almost always have more than one lover.
Ultimately Aster shrugged and he and the girls got on the portable house on Espi's back, followed by Ixas.
Although Espi was an infant of its race it was surprisingly rational, being able to understand slightly complex orders and indications, as long as it was Aster the one communicating with it.
So, after telling Espi which direction it should take, Aster closed the door of the portable house and Espi started moving through the earth, sand and rocks to reach the surface, its white scales were still incredibly useful to manipulate the ground making it so, Espi could "swim" through it.
"I still can't believe this little fellow is so happily listening to you", said Ixas as he activated the formations on the portable house, which made it invisible to others, while also changing the flashy white color of Espi's scales, to camouflage it with the sand.
"That's because Espi knows big brother isn't a bad person~", sad Kana and as if Espi could understand her, it hissed in response.
"Hisss".
Ixas had a defeated expression on his face, being unable to explain what was happening, so he excused himself and just left to his own room, not without saying.
"There are spaces on the walls that are double sides so that you can see the outside, feel free to enjoy the view, the sky at night here is pretty compared to the scorching bright sky during the day".
Kana's eyes sparkled as soon as she heard that, she went directly to what would be a window in a normal house at one of the lateral sides and she tapped on the indicator Ixas left.
Then the earth color of a large rectangle faded, as if a piece of the wall had disappeared, revealing the outside, of course the wall was still there, but they could now see from the inside of the house.
"Woah look at those lights big brother", Kana's enthusiastic voice, made Aster smile, he approached Kana and was surprised to see some multicolored lights illuminating the sky, they were similar to the northern lights he has only seen on tv back at earth.
The combination of the lights, the white dim glow of the moon and the desert landscape was a pretty sight to behold, which immediately caught the interest of Kana.
Since they will be travelling for the whole night and then rest during the day, Aster patted Kana's head and told her to go to sleep in a couple of hours once she has seen enough of the night landscape of the secret realm.
He then laid down on his bed, while the other girls did the same on theirs, this room was smaller so their beds were practically next to each other, but each dedicated to their own things.
Vivian was pretty tired after having endured that episode of poison fighting in her body, and after having a light dinner, she went straight to sleep.
Mylene and Camila on the other hand sat down cross legged and meditated, Mylene still had some of the spirit energy Aster refined for her, so she simply started circulating it through the meridians in her body that needed to reactivate after years of being dry.
Camila on the other hand, took out the broken pieces of the sword Aster used against the woman from the Storm Roc family, Aster used his soul energy to retrieve till the last piece of it, since it was a metal created using his blood, so he didn't want to just leave it on the wild, who knows what could happen if others found it, besides he already decided to gift it to Camila as it was helpful for her cultivation.
Seeing that everyone was now doing their own things, Aster first sent the book Charlotte lent him to the mind space before he also entered.
A couple of seconds later, Aster opened his eyes and was welcomed by the permanent starry sky of the mind space, as well as Hyperion and his soul avatar, after confirming everything was as usual, he flew towards the highest point of Hyperion, just to see that his and Rya's bed was empty.
But as soon as laid down on the bed, Rya appeared above him and bounced on the bed falling right in his embrace.
"You are always the one surprising me, so I thought it would be a good change to do it this time~", said Rya with a smile in her beautiful face.
Aster smiled back at her, he caressed her face before he kissed those pretty lips of hers, also it didn't escape his eyes that more strands of her hair had became silver, which meant everything was going well with her process to repair her damaged soul.
Aster gently stroked her hair while Rya cuddled with him, before he took out the scaled book Charlotte lent him.
On the cover it said "Dragon subspecies by Linette N. Lumirelle".
"Are you getting interested in your dragon ascendence?", asked Rya while she snuggled on Aster's chest face up so that she could read the book with him.
"Not exactly the dragon subspecies, I'm pretty sure not mom, sis or me are even close to what used to be the bloodline of a Darkness Desolation Dragon anymore, what caught my attention is that Divine Firmament mentioned by Natasha, as that's probably where we will appear once we leave the Dragon Legacy Heavenly Quadrant".
"Mm~", Rya let out a cute moan, as Aster rubbed her belly before he opened the book, he leafed through the first pages which were a dedicatory to the Lumirelle family, and skipped until he reached the part that was of his interest, the descriptions of the six major subspecies classifications.
Draconant: The closest in appearance to the rumored true dragons, in their dragon form they have four limbs, a pair of wings, a tail and scales all over their bodies with the exception of their stomachs, in human form they don't present dragon characteristics, but their eyes and hair tend to indicate in which cultivation path they excel.
PS: They enjoy being rode on top and their yang is decently strong to be taken as first partners.
Lindwyrm: In dragon form they have a large pair of wings, two frontal limbs and a long tail, with no hind legs, they sometimes start as Wyrms without limbs or wings, in human form they don't have legs but a snake like lower half, also their scales are incredibly good conductors of their respective attributes.
PS: They are annoyingly clingy when it comes to bed and will wrap their lower bodies around you, but they pretty much the easiest to deal with among dragonkin.
Wyvern: Their dragon form seems to be a mix between a draconant and a Lindwyrm, they have to hind legs and a pair of foldable wings attached to two short frontal limbs which end in three large claws, their tails also have a spiked end from which they can inject poison into their enemies, in human form they retain a small version of their wings on their forearms which they can use to protect themselves.
PS: They get turned off if you mention their wings are small, which is true since their wingspan is the smaller among the winged dragon subspecies.
After reading to this point, Aster couldn't help but laugh, he now understood why this book was in Charlotte's family library, despite not being about their own race, dragons are known for being lewd and violent, but they also are pretty outstanding in yang energy terms… so this book was compiled as a guide for the young Moon Stream Luans, so that they would know the perks and kinks of each dragon subspecies.
"What a weird race", mumbled Rya, she was also interested in the dragon subspecies, as this was new knowledge for her.
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