Chapter 1153
Crossed Antennae found the responses of humans to various events fascinating. The Chaotic Conglomeration was more than a little bit surprised when the Scarlet Alliance managed to raise two Domination cultivators simultaneously. Crossed Antennae herself thought it was a fairly natural progression- when pressured, humans always grew quickly. Void ants were slower to adapt, which was why attaching themselves to humanity had been quite useful.
Everyone was somehow more surprised about the other thing that had happened recently. Having met Anton on her trip through the lower realms around the Exalted Quadrant, she had felt it. Crossed Antennae knew that humans could feel each other’s energies too, so why would they be surprised?
Well, she supposed that most of them hadn’t met Anton. Or the other Enrichment cultivators. They probably still thought that the lower realms were as stagnant as they had been for millennia past- as if that made any sense now that they weren’t being oppressed.
In Crossed Antennae’s opinion, this was merely the natural result of things, an explosion of power. Sure, it had taken almost a thousand years on its own to reach this point, but there had been so much buildup in the lower realms it simply had to happen.
But almost nobody ever asked Crossed Antennae for her opinion. Most people didn’t know she existed, and the rest just… didn’t.
The twins were an exception, though. They asked everyone about everything. It seemed to Crossed Antennae that they should have run out of questions for the whole of the Chaotic Conglomeration, but they were still going.
“Nobody’s really able to determine with certainty who will make it to higher stages of cultivation,” Misi commented. “Are you sure you knew?”
“Even if I didn’t trust my mother’s judgment,” Crossed Antennae signed, “I would have known. But of course, it is not that people are strictly destined. Anton could have failed, and it would not have been surprising as one of those leading the charge.”
“I still think being the first to reach a particular stage is always going to be surprising,” Juli added. The twins were paying careful attention to not miss anything she said, even as they recorded their own thoughts.