Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 722: Yasenia Reveals Most of the Truth. Mortal Cultivation Realms Recapitulation.

Cao Chenghua decided not to continue speaking. Although deep in his mind, he still believed that Yasenia was overestimating herself, he didn't dare look down on her.

Even if Yasenia could display a fifth of what she boasted about now, it would be a power worth recognizing.

The rest of the leaders also nodded because they didn't feel falsehood coming from her.

In the past, Yasenia has relied on boasting her true capabilities to make deals and create her power. However, those kinds of deflection tactics would not work with these people.

The main reason for that was the absolute chasm in power that separated them.

While sensing lies was not an expected quality nor skill cultivators had, that changed when we spoke about leaders of multiple powers. The people talking with Yasenia right now were old, the youngest being Tengliu at 1500 years of age.

Other than that, aura fluctuations were also an excellent way to discern people's intentions besides their words. And higher-level cultivators had an easy time understanding these aura fluctuations coming from weaker ones.

It was to the point that if the strength difference was massive, the cultivator could even tell what they were thinking. Something Tatyana had demonstrated a few times before, the most recent case being Sarah.

Dragons were so apt when spotting lies or half-truths because of their innate ability to feel the aura fluctuations a creature had. A person might be able to control their body and energy perfectly so as not to appear flustered, but controlling even the minute reactions was impossible, not even for a high-level cultivator.

In short, Yasenia would have a very hard time lying to these people; even when telling half-truths, she would need to be careful about it.

Li Xianghua, the Sect Master of the Nine Herb Fragrance Sect, smiled. "Well, now that we are done with the stuffy stuff, let's move on. The Nine Herb Fragrance Sect wants to create a cooperative alliance with the Astral Sky Sect. The raw materials, products, and tools I've seen are sublime to the point that I feel regretful for not being able to use them earlier."

Li Yanhong swiftly followed. "The Nine Grudge Poison Sect is also willing to form a cooperative alliance with the Astral Sky Sect."

Yasenia was not surprised. The techniques taught in her sect had knowledge coming from the Sky Continent integrated. She laughed and nodded. "Sure. We'll go over the details later."

Suddenly, a voice nobody expected was heard. "The Ocean Swallowing Mermaid Clan also wants a cooperative alliance."

Yasenia's eyebrows shot upward as she turned to look at her. She thought that this aloof and indifferent Queen would not be tempted. "This is unexpected, Mermaid Queen. May I ask why?"

The Mermaid Queen nodded, still elegant and indifferent. "The potential you've shown far exceeds my expectations. Not to mention, I've even sensed a few auras of danger in your territory, which is unthinkable for a recently formed first-rated power. The environment you have here is enviable to the point that I would've forcefully conquered it if you hadn't shown enough strength to protect it."

The Mermaid Queen continued. "Therefore, I would like a residence for my race in your sect, if possible. We can negotiate the price to keep it, and we can also sign a non-aggression agreement. While a heavenly oath won't protect it, you've shown enough of your personality for me to understand you finally."

Yasenia smirked. "Understand me?"

The Mermaid Queen smiled. "Yes. Unless provoked, you are a great ally. However, you will become a nightmarish enemy if someone touches your bottom line."

The dragoness sighed. "Haven't I been saying that since the beginning?"

The Mermaid Queen nodded. "However, prior to you, many had said that and then revealed their fangs while secretly preparing. Therefore, taking our time to observe you is normal. However, I've been convinced after seeing this basin of yours. You don't need resources, energy quality, or any other things. In the Distancia Continent, few places can compare to your sect. And I say few because there might be secret lands that are comparable. Within my knowledge, this basin is the best cultivation spot in the entire continent."

Yasenia couldn't help but look at her with admiration. Then, she smiled. "No wonder people praise you as the most outstanding talent in the last five thousand years. You are truly worthy of that title."

Tengliu pouted. "I'm the most outstanding talent of the last thousand years! Little Yasenia, praise me!"

The dragoness looked at her with a deadpan expression. "Great job."

Tengliu clutched her naked chest, dramatically flopping on the chair. "Ugh, little Yasenia doesn't love me anymore!"

Yasenia rolled her eyes, but her gaze and lips showed a hint of laughter. 'She reminds me of how Mom acts sometimes.'

The rest of the leaders had their lips twitching. 'Who is she, and what have you done with the arrogant, cunning, and intelligent harpy!?'

She had already reached the apex of this Continent in everything but strength. The only things left for her to do in Distancia were slaughtering all her enemies and gaining enough power to leave this place safely with her own strength.

Moreover, Yasenia didn't withhold much information besides a few core secrets, telling them all of this calmly.

Looking at their solemn expressions, Yasenia commented. "In short, I don't care if you agree, disagree, or if you want to band together to try and kill me after you leave here."

After a few moments of silence, Cao Chenghua spoke deeply. "You are not from Distancia."

Yasenia looked at him quietly, neither confirming nor denying, but her silence spoke volumes.

The dragoness spoke. "So, what are you all going to do?"

Tengliu smiled and was the first to speak. "The Stormfeather Harpy Clan will continue being Astral Sky Sect's ally. Even if we have to fight the entire continent with her, we will."

Coraline followed; her voice sounded firm. "The Sun Engulfing Ore Lobster Race will continue"

Wuria, the glass scale lamia leader, and Gireila, the Ember Phoenix Race leader, followed after her.

While the other powers present didn't follow behind, the weight of the Astral Sky Clan had already increased several notches to the point that they couldn't think of her as anything else but equals.

The Holy Beast Emperor commented. "In the Power Summit, there will be duels between the middle-level Epoch Core people. Those duels are our way of resolving fights without having to involve the core people from each power. There, you might be able to resolve the enmity between the Continental Shadow and yourself. However, remember that top-tier combatants do not participate."

The dragoness muttered. "Middle-level?"

Tengliu commented. "Don't underestimate it because of that. While middle-level Epoch Cores are not despairingly strong, there are huge differences in combat strength between them. For example, even at the same tier with the same talent, someone who just entered the middle level would be helplessly beaten down by someone at the middle level's peak."

Yasenia thought. 'If I'm not wrong, levels 1-3 of Dantian Spiritualization might be low-level Epoch Core; levels 4-6 of Dantian Spiritualization might be middle-level Epoch Core; levels 7-9 of Dantian Spiritualization might be high-level Epoch Core; and the Half-step level of Dantian Spiritualization might be Peak Epoch Core.'

'If I take that into account, the people participating are probably similar in strength to a Sixth Level Dantian Spiritualization Realm cultivator on the verge of breaking through to the seventh level.'

The dragoness knew how vast the difference in strength between Dantian Spiritualization levels was. Until that realm, cultivators gained strength gradually.

The first big jump in strength was in the Body Modification realm, and the second most significant jump before Dantian Spiritualization was in the half-step Unification realm. However, during the first fourth Mortal Realms, most of the energy was used to acclimate the Cultivator for future strength power-ups.

Meridian and Dantian Creation Realm existed to create the base of what a cultivator would be.

Body Modification Realm was to enhance the body so that the cultivator didn't break with their own strength.

Mental Nourishing Realm was to enhance the mind so that the cultivator could keep up with their own body's speed and also with the enormous mental process needed to use their skills.

Finally, Unification Realms was to bring out the innate potential of the creatures and fuse their individual parts, Body, Mind, Soul, and Dantian, into one single whole.

After all of that came the Dantian Spiritualization Realm; in this realm, the cultivator would constantly increase their strength by repetitively condensing their energy until they couldn't compress it anymore, creating an energy core in their Dantians during the Half-step Dantian Spiritualization Realm.

The energy in the dantian would go from gas to liquid to solid to become a [Core], and the difference between each energy state was dreadful.

While normal Dantian Spiritualization could fight amongst each other if they were in the same small realm, once a Dantian Spiritualization with liquid energy fought one with gaseous energy, it would become a slaughter. The same goes for someone with solid energy fighting someone with liquid energy or someone with a core fighting someone with solid energy.

Therefore, someone at the top of the middle-level Epoch Core was someone who had similar strength to a cultivator with liquid energy that was about to compress into a solid.

That's why, the fact that our girls could fight so many levels above them was actually mind-boggling for many individuals. It was like asking a child to beat up an adult with their bare fists.

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Author Note: Since we are approaching the fifth realm, I thought of doing a small recompilation of the realms. I hope you don't mind~. Take it as today's Celestial Theater, hahaha.