Page 1177 of Heaven, Earth, Me

Yasenia didn’t know why she couldn’t stop it. Even as she poured all the energy that she could into her Dantian from the shower of pure tribulation forces, Soluna’s core kept fizzling away while inside the Celestial Energy Star. “Why aren’t you recovering?”

Her heart started pounding, her body breaking out with cold sweat. She had been sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the abyss so long that it was about to be the fifth year since she entered the Secret Realm. From the energy ripples that reached her from time to time, Yasenia knew that several Sixth Realm Cultivators had started exchanging blows all around the place.

However, she didn’t care. The bottom of this place was covered with a concealing formation, and with the Tribulation Cloud above her pouring down energy, nobody dared approach the area. After all, if you messed with Heavenly processes, the chance for a backlash was too strong.

“Come on, love. You need to survive, okay?” Yasenia tried to calm her anxious heart, speaking to Soluna’s core. “If you survive, I promise to take you more seriously in all matters. Okay? You were going to travel the Heavens with me for eternity, right? You wanted to always be by my side, and that’s why you became my contracted spirit. If you die, how can you fulfill that dream?”

She had been repeating herself with similar sentences during the entire process. However, the result seemed to be unchanging. By this point, Soluna’s consciousness was almost unnoticeable, and the core was less than a tenth of what it was previously.

As Yasenia opened all her pores and used her best breathing techniques to swallow the Heavenly Energy into her body, she noticed a change. However, the change was not a positive one.

“Wait…”

Yasenia’s arms and legs trembled.

“Soluna, please.”

The core’s disintegration was accelerating.

“Nonono, my pretty girl. Please don’t.”

Less than five percent remained.

“Soluna, fight more, please!”

Three percent.

“Soluna…”

Yasenia’s sight started blurring as her stomach flipped. She didn’t want this to be the final result. However, she was powerless.

“Ah...”

Yasenia’s body froze as she saw the last traces of Soluna disappear. “No…” For the first time in a very long time, tears gently rolled down her beautiful face.

“Please…”

But no one answered her prayers. As she absorbed the last traces of Heavenly Energy that descended from the Heavenly Tribulation, the clouds dispersed and rays of sunlight pierced through, falling on Yasenia’s body.

However, the sunlight failed to reach Yasenia. As she looked ahead with an empty gaze, her limbs and heart felt as if they were freezing over. “Soluna?”

Her voice choked with sobs was so fragile that it didn’t feel like hers anymore.

“Soluna love, answer me.”

“Please, please let me hear your voice.”

Receiving no answer, Yasenia placed her hands on her face and bent down, her mouth opening and releasing a heartbreaking scream.

***

Above the crater, a group of three people looked at each other, and they nodded. “Let’s go.” Their strengths were exceptional, with one of them being a Sixth Realm cultivator, while the other two were powerful Fifth Realm ones.

They descended for a little while, and their expressions were strange when they reached the bottom. The leader asked, confused. “There is someone here?”

A girl looked over, and her face gained a touch of surprise. She could see a woman kneeling on the ground, her arms limp to the sides and her hair covering her face. Even then, the aura around her made the girl’s heart skip a beat. “Who is that woman… So beautiful.”

The Sixth Realm cultivator approached with caution and asked, his tone probing. “Junior, were there any treasures here? The commotion here was truly exceptional.”

The woman sitting on her knees slowly raised her head, showing an empty face covered in dried-up tears. The other three were stunned for a second. Then, the girl asked cautiously. “Sister… Did you lose someone important?”

Yasenia looked around and then at the sky. Her eyes squinted slightly because of the bright sky, but her sight got accustomed quickly. Not answering her question, Yasenia slowly stood up. Once up on her feet, she turned around and walked toward the edge, wanting to leave the crater.

The Sixth Realm cultivator’s face turned slightly ugly. ‘Why is this mortal ignoring me?’

After breaking through recently, his ego and strength had been fueled to the peak. Therefore, he took two steps forward and placed a hand on Yasenia’s shoulder. “Mortal, we’ve asked a few questions. How about answering?”

Yasenia glanced at the hand on her shoulder and then looked up. Her face was devoid of any emotion.

Before the two mortal companions could even realize what was happening, their senior disappeared, followed by a powerful shockwave.

BANG!

A loud, explosive sound reached them from the side. When they looked over, they noticed their senior embedded in the wall, almost fifty kilometers away from where they were.

The senior climbed out of the rubble with a ferocious expression. “You dare hit me with your tail!?”

Yasenia glanced at the man and laughed hollowly once. “Someone like you can overcome the Sixth Realm Tribulation? Then, why couldn’t she?”

Yasenia disappeared from her standing position and arrived in front of the man, clutching his throat with her semi-transformed arm. “WHY COULDN’T SHE!?”

BOOM!

Yasenia slammed him against the ground, making the other two people feel their legs weakening. “I-Isn’t she a mortal cultivator?”

“What kind of strength does she have?”

Yasenia used her entire body and threw the man across the crater. The air exploded from the sheer pressure of the throw, and almost instantly, the man slammed against the opposite side of the crater.

However, the dragoness didn’t follow up on her attack. She stood in place, her hands clenched and her eyes showing grief. The recently advanced Transcendence Realm cultivator lunged at Yasenia with a cold face. “Die!”

He extended his palm and threw it forward.

“[Grand Cosmos Martial Art Seventh Step: Astral Convergence].”

Yasenia took a step forward, the back of her hand accurately hitting his wrist and deviating the strike enough to miss. Then, her body rotated, and her punch shot toward his stomach like a shooting star.

BOOM!

The man’s eyes bulged with pain as his body bent like a bow before shooting skyward and disappearing from the perception of both mortal cultivators. Yasenia looked skyward. “I don’t want you to disappear…”

Thump-Thump!

A pulsing rhythm suddenly came from her Dantian, and Yasenia’s eyes widened.

“You insolent mortal!”

The man returned at this moment, and Yasenia’s face changed from indifferent to furious for the first time. She glared skyward, and her aura burst with all her might. “[Celestial Cosmos Palm], [Blooming Celestial Palm].”

Body and Soul path skills combined as one, and then Yasenia disappeared and reappeared in front of the man. Her hand shot forward, carrying a swirling galaxy of energies. With all her paths having been perfected, her current strength was far above that of a recently advanced Transcendence Realm cultivator.

When her palm landed, the sky bloomed with the colors of the cosmos.

BOOOM!

Blood burst everywhere as the Transcendence Realm cultivator’s body and soul were shredded due to the violent Celestial Energy. This time around, he shot through the sky far away, disappearing even from Yasenia’s perception range.

Yasenia landed on the ground with an indifferent expression. “Scram.”

The two mortal cultivators almost soiled their undergarments in fear and hurriedly scurried away. A mortal that could fight immortals? They would rather fight a Transcendence Realm cultivator than a monster like that!

Once they left, Yasenia focused on her Dantian. Her heart was beating erratically, and her indifferent face quickly crumbled into an anxious mess. “Where are you, love? Come on, Soluna. Give me a signal. Something.”

Yasenia closed her eyes and remembered all the information about spirits that she had learned. After contracting Soluna as a companion, Yasenia studied spirits and asked Valeria many questions.

‘The Sixth Realm for spirits is called [Primordial Unity Realm]. The Spirit needs to become one with the world and manifest anew in a form connected with the world around them. They would go from extreme elemental entities to entities that can develop into personified laws. A Spirit’s cultivation path is not about controlling laws, but about becoming one with them.’

Yasenia’s face twisted slightly in pain while analyzing things as objectively as she could. ‘However, Soluna was too damaged by the Tribulation to do anything. The [World Destroying Heavenly Lightning]’s energies were too violent and corroded her until her core disappeared…’ Suddenly, her mind flashed with something, and her eyes shone. She muttered, pacing back and forth. “Wait. She didn’t disappear, she disintegrated… Moreover, that happened inside my Celestial Energy Star...” Her mind concentrated on the Celestial Energy Star with everything. As she analyzed the surface of the blue star with the cosmic black ring around it, Yasenia found traces of something that wasn’t part of it.

Her heart jumped with hope, and she quickly spoke with the star. “You have parts of Soluna all around you! Help her reform! Instead of creating a core out of herself, mix part of your Celestial Energy with her and use it as glue like you did with the Star Energy!”

However, the Celestial Energy Star seemed slightly reluctant. This confused and angered Yasenia. She was about to berate it, but she didn’t. ‘Don’t get emotional.’ Yasenia took a deep breath and thought deeply. ‘Why is the Celestial Energy Star reluctant? Do you need something more than Celestial Energy?’

Her mind swirled with all the information she had absorbed over a century of life. ‘Don’t leave out any detail, Yasenia. Soluna is a contracted spirit that was reformed inside the Celestial Energy Star. Therefore, the Star is not reluctant to aid her. Is Celestial Energy too powerful for Soluna? Celestial Energy is a primordial element… Does she need something like the Celestial Energy Star as a medium?’

The Celestial Energy Star pulsed, as if saying that Yasenia was correct. “Medium… A medium… Aren’t I the perfect medium?” Yasenia checked all her skills, and eventually, her eyes landed on her Dual Cultivation Manual. “However… How can I even use this?”

The Dual Cultivation Technique she had was, by far, the best technique she had when balancing energies and creating deep connections. Thanks to it, Yasenia could create two immortal-ranked techniques for the Soul and Body paths. Not to mention, it allowed her to digest the Yin Energy released by Tatyana and Valeria, who were several ranks above hers. Any other person in the mortal realms dual-cultivating with those two would literally explode and die.

Hence, Yasenia knew that this was her best option. But first, Soluna needed a body. ‘I need to give my little Soluna something to anchor her for a small time. Then, use my Celestial Energy and Dual Cultivation technique to push her toward the [Primordial Unity Realm].’

Yasenia’s eyes became determined. “Since it has come to this, I’ll go all out. No one can steal away my Soluna. Not even Death! Celestial Energy Star, is my Blood Essence and Soul Essence enough to help initialize everything?”

The Celestial Energy Star pulsed and started spinning faster, preparing to help the lost spirit complete her transformation.