Aster looked at the bright yellow chain link which was trying to burn him with yang flames, and a he finally understood why the Diamond Bone Orchid, a spirit herb which by innate is an Immortal grade treasure, with the capacity to keep growing and surpass the Mortal realms, according to Rya, grew in a place linked to middle ranked Stellar System.
The evil spirit said that the cage in which the Glacial Liger was contained, had two types of chains attached to it, one was dark blue chains and the second were bright yellow chains, the yin chain was supposed to nurture the spirit ice, while the yang chain was supposed to seal it, so that it couldn't escape.
After the final battle the galaxy-scale formation was partially destroyed, leaving only three suns and two moons behind, meaning that the nutrition was less intense than the sealing.
But maybe the fate was favoring the spirit ice, the yang seemed to spread to form the crystal trees, while the yin concentrated in the center of the forest, in other words the trees grew to contain the center of the forest.
Probably there were chain links from the yin chain buried in the center, and that is also why the strongest spirit beasts gathered around it, using the yin to improve their cultivation, and now that they have reached the peak of the Transcending realms, they could no longer ignore the piece of juicy meat in the form of a weakened and restrained spirit ice, in front of them, so they were making their move.
"Spirit beasts don't bloom out of nowhere, the explosion caused by all those Heavenly realm masters should have made the space of this place too unstable for some time, and portals connecting to other places probably appeared due to that, sucking in weak spirit beasts, something similar happened back at Esmeralda's secret realm, according to what Kana understood, about Espi's backstory", mumbled Aster.
Aster then inspected the chain, the materials with which was made weren't normal, to have not only survived the explosion, but also all the years that had passed since that moment.
'As one would expect of a treasure from a Divine Firmament, I guess', thought Aster, he then sent the giant chain link to the mind space, since a spatial ring will only be destroyed if it had to store such a strong yang radiance for a slightly ling amount of time, unless it was a really high ranked ring, Luckily the mind space wouldn't even flinch by it, if it can contain the monstrous-like star Orionis, then a mere chain linked to a few suns is nothing.
Now that the chain was gone, the yang in the atmosphere diminished enough for the girls to approach Aster, Felicia had a curious expression on her face as she said.
"Even if it was broken, that chain link was still linked to the three suns, luckily the output was toned down, or this whole place would have been hell of yang fire, instead of a blessed place for yang cultivators".
Aster nodded, there were some runes leftover on the chain link, it had been drawing yang energy from the three suns all this time, that's what nurtured the immature Diamond Bone Orchid, that use to be growing in this place, before it was plucked by the Fritz.
"But why didn't those guys take away the chain link, if they already discovered this place?", asked Tiana.
To which Aster smiled before answering.
"It's not like they didn't want to, it's more like they couldn't, anyone without the capacity to use yang radiance at the Void Manipulation level would have melted if they tried to manipulate that thing even for a couple of seconds".
Tiana bitterly smiled; she forgot that Aster does absurdly amazing things on a daily basis, so much that the common sense of those who surround him, end up becoming twisted due to it.
"My bad, I forgot that you are a monster", she mumbled.
That wasn't all though, to contain that thing, a spatial treasure of the early Immortal grade is needed at least, and it will be ruined in less than an hour, even if they had a Sea of Knowledge cultivator talented enough to use yang radiance at the Void Manipulation level, to be able to retrieve the chain link from the ground, they will still need to spend a huge fortune to store it and take it back.
On the other hand, if they left it here, there was a chance of another treasure like the Diamond Bone Orchid to bloom, so there was no need for the Fritz to put that much thought into it.
Still, those armored guys probably did come prepared to retrieve it, unfortunately they were slower than Aster.
Speaking of that, Aster suddenly smiled as he got an interesting idea, first of all he spread his spirit sense in all the directions as far as he could, only after confirming there wasn't anyone near here, he took a deep breath and then his body exploded in golden light.
The girls were confused at what he was doing, but they didn't say anything, then a couple of seconds later, when they saw what was his idea, they couldn't help but laugh, finding it amusing.
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Around an hour later a large group of around three thousand people arrived at the vicinity of the area which Aster and the girls visited before; besides the group of the Castle Armored sect, the others were in bad shape.
Not physically since they just had to fight a couple of spirit beasts that couldn't resist the sight of such a large group of food moving together, but because they were treated as servants, and ordered to fetch the yin accumulation crystals from the gnawed corpses they armored guys found along the way.
Outside they were from respected forces and families on their respective star clusters, but here they were reduced to servants, naturally they weren't happy, still they swallowed their complains and dirtied their hands with the corroded blood of the yin spirit beasts, for the promise of rewards from a sect which rules over a high ranked Stellar System, but their attitude and overall mood wasn't the best.
Patrick, the inner disciple of the Castle Armored sect who was leading the mission, trembled as he called Renard, the son of the Steel Tower's sect patriarch, who was bossing around the group of followers.
Renard who was all smiles, after being able to pocket quite a few yin accumulation crystals from the others, happily approached Patrick after being called.
"What can I do for you senior brother?", asked Renard with a flattering voice, following this group has paid off quite a bit so far, he didn't have to do anything and gained such precious resources as yin accumulation crystals, with those he could court some sisters from the Castle Armored sect and maybe start a relationship between the rulers of a Star Cluster from a high ranked Stellar System and his Fritz family, wouldn't that make him a pioneer that elevated the status of the Fritz.
Unfortunately, his dreams were crushed, when Patrick grabbed him from his neck and lifted him from the ground as he yelled at him.
"Didn't you say that no one could even approach the thing that gave birth to the Diamond Bone Orchid, wasn't this area unknown by anyone but your Fritz family's higher echelon, then what the hell is this!!!", Patrick's voice echoed through the whole area.
Renard came out of his happy daze on the spot, he looked at the place ahead which according to the elder from the sect which some years ago lost his life to retrieve the Bone Orchid, and also hide this place with an illusory formation, was a paradise for any male cultivator strong enough to withstand the strong yang being radiated in this place all the time, but now looked as if a disaster had gone through, and he paled.
All the bright amber land was gone from the root as if some ferocious beast had swallowed it, leaving behind just a huge crater of regular earth, there wasn't even a single stone radiated by yang energy left.
But that's not all, the thing which supposedly created this yang paradise land, was also taken away, meaning that they lost the chance to posses such a precious treasure, or in this case, he lost the chance to appeal to the higher ups of the Armored Castle sect.
"S-Senior brother, my Fritz family has nothing to do with this, my father hasn't revealed anything about this place to anyone, it could be that a strong beast destroyed the whole place, or something along the lines of it", he said in a hurry.
As angry as Patrick was, he knew that Renard who wanted to hold onto the leg of the young master of the Castle Armored sect, for which the Diamond Bone Orchid was destined, wouldn't dare to lie to him.
Also, it is true that the yin spirit beasts felt aversion towards yang, maybe before the strongest beasts weren't active enough to care about it, but since they used a yin treasure to stimulate them, in order to hunt them for their crystals, there is a possibility that a spirit beast went out of its way to destroy this place.
"Fuck, go and direct all those useless baggage that followed us, to inspect every centimeter of the nearby area, if there is a single trace of the beast that did this, I want to know it!", he shouted.
"Y-Yes", Renard immediately organized the guys who were following them, into teams to search for any traces.
'Damn how unlucky can we be, to think there are actually Void Manipulation spirit beasts in this place and not only that, but they are agitated enough to come all the way from the center of the forest to the middle area, just to mess with our mission', he thought.
The crater left behind was too large, only a huge spirit beast of around one hundred meters tall could do such a thing in a short amount of time overnight, while it also fended off against other spirit beasts and undead.
He thought so, because if this was done during the day, they would have saw the giant body of the spirit beast from a big distance through their spirit sense, he brought a soul cultivator elder for that reason after all.
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While Patrick and his group were having a headache trying to figure out what happened, a couple of kilometers away, Aster and the girls were deepening into the forest, Aria and the others still laughed from time to time, over the memory of Aster excavating the yang rich land from the root using the giant arms of the golden armor, and then sending them into the mind space.
Well, besides Aria and Camila who knew about the mind space, Tiana, Felicia and Nerissa thought he had some special space treasure, capable of containing such a thing.
"I can't believe you didn't leave a stone unturned back then… those guys must be fuming right now", mumbled Nerissa, she has never seen anyone uproot a land rich in any kind of energy before.
"Mm, you took not only the soup but even the bones, I bet they are cursing you right now~", added Felicia.
Aster softly laughed, there is a reason to it, even if sent to a spatial ring, a lot of the effect of the yang rich land will be lost since it is an isolated space, in fact it is considered a taboo as that will destroy a natural treasure, and there won't be any benefits out of it.
But the mind space is different, it is a world of its own in all the meaning of the word, it has a time flow of its own and there is spirit energy circulating in the atmosphere.
That's why Aster, Rya and now Lilia can even cultivate there, and enjoy the benefits of the 1:10 ratio, which Rya is using to accelerate the recovery of her soul.
In other words, he just transplanted that yang rich area to the mind space, for inanimate objected he didn't need Lilia's help, though this was her idea indeed.
'With this I can decorate our little love nest~', she playfully said, those yang materials were perfect to create a large volcanic zone, she already made a lava pool when she was in her dragon form anyway.
Aster chuckled, if he was going to build a castle for all his girls, then why not make an area that benefitted each one of them, he has had this idea ever since he visited that place where a tundra and a volcan met, during one of his dates with Aria and Alice.
Everything for the sake of his girls, not to mention the mind space is practically limitless, so if there is something he has is land to occupy.
"Let's stop there, ladies, Eris and Agnes should be joining us in a couple of minutes now", said Aster as he pointed at an open space ahead of them.
"Mm", the girls nodded and they stopped advancing, the period of time stated by Eris was about to end, so the Genesis Manifestation cultivators, them included will be entering now.
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