Heaven, Earth, Me

The process of assimilation started shortly after their discussion.

"Approach the stele on the right and place your hand against it. That way, you will inherit the individual functions of the treasure."

When she heard his orders, Yasenia nodded firmly and floated over until she stood in front of it. In terms of size, the stone structure was around 20 meters in height. High enough to force her neck to look up.

'Alright, let's accept it.'

Closing her eyes, Yasenia stretched and placed both her palms against the smooth surface of the stele. When that happened, a prickly sensation appeared on her palms, making her flinch for a second.

"Great. Maintain that position and do not resist. To create your perfect copy, the treasure needs to dig deeply into your body and soul and understand you."

Yasenia nodded and accepted it. If it were an unknown treasure, she would've been on alert. But with this one, there was a feeling of comfort. Therefore, Yasenia followed the senior's words without resisting. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by novel~fire~net

'Let's trust my gut but never lower my guard.'

A red light spread from her palms and covered the smooth surface of the beautiful stone stele. As the lines spread, Yasenia could feel a sensation pierce through her palms into her body.

Sui Xing spoke slowly. "The level of this treasure is high. Therefore, do not panic if it takes control of your Dantian's atmosphere. At most, it will act like a new ruler of the place and dominate over your other blood-linked treasures."

The dragoness's eyebrows gently raised for a second before calming down. 'Taking over…?' A smile crept up her lips. 'I am more worried that it might not get accepted by the others.'

Sui Xing saw Yasenia's relaxed appearance as a sign of her acceptance. This surprised him quite a bit. 'Does she think that it isn't a problem? Or does she trust the treasure that much?'

Sui Xing, who was indistinguishable from the treasure, flew forward and merged his soul with the stele as well. 'Let's go in, then. I am curious as to how our new owner's Dantian looks.'

When he touched the stone stele, Sui Xing merged his senses with the treasure. At that moment, he was finally able to detect Yasenia's drop of Blood Essence.

THUMP!

His chest pulsed, as if his heart had been startled. '...Such a level of purity. I have not met anyone with a Blood Essence containing such dense energy since I left the Divine Realm.'

In front of Sui Xing, a jewel-like drop of blood floated calmly. The feelings that the drop forced upon his soul were ones of boundless potential and strength. 'Wait… This aura…'

Sui Xing reached out and finally touched it with his index finger. "Show me your talent. Show your true nature. Will you become as large as a city? Perhaps a mountain? How do you compare with my previous owners?"

When he touched it, the Blood Drop didn't move and just trembled. 'Hm? What's wrong?'

As his eyebrows came together, the drop began to grow in size—at first, as large as a balloon, then a person, and then a house. The drop of blood expanded, increasing in size multiplicatively with each passing second.

As it became larger, Sui Xing's expression changed from curiosity to seriousness to surprise. His dark eyes widened, reflecting the blood-red sphere within them. 'What is this? Who… is she?'

As his Soul Body was pressured, the gargantuan drop of blood engulfed the space around him, becoming so large that Sui Xing felt as if he were someone insignificant in front of it. "H-How large…?" As he looked at the wall of red in front of him, he came to a conclusion. "This… is as large as a star."

To accept the new master, he needed to accept the entirety of this star-sized blood essence drop. The sheer pressure it emitted was so intimidating that Sui Xing almost felt unworthy.

Of course, he quickly shook off those feelings and showed an incomparably serious expression. "I must accept it at any cost."

So, steeling his resolve, his hand pushed against the surface of the star-sized drop of blood, and he dove into it. The instant he did so, the entire world became his enemy. As if the drop was trying to test him, boundless pressure squeezed his remnant soul, trying to destroy it.

"Ugh…"

His soul thread, accepting the boundless energy, felt as if it was about to explode. His outward figure didn't change, but inside, it felt as if he was being filled with endless energy. "D-Digest it! If I can't even accept a drop of Blood Essence, am I worthy of becoming her treasure?"

His thinking changed here. He didn't desire to reign over other treasures in Yasenia's Dantian. Now, all he wanted was to become a worthy treasure. "Accept it!"

While Sui Xing struggled, Yasenia meditated in front of the stele for days, her mind calm and peaceful. 'Sui Xing is taking a while… Keeping up with time in this space is a bit difficult, but he said that it would take a day or two at most. Has something gone wrong? It's been around a month since we started this.'

Everything around her was working perfectly fine, so Yasenia was not worried. If there had been any problem, the space around her would've collapsed.

Meanwhile, Sui Xing finished his initial process. After more than a month since he started, the Blood Essence drop was finally absorbed into his soul. 'Done… Thankfully, my absorption rate is exponential, not linear. Otherwise, I would've been in trouble. We might've needed to stay here for years, not a month or two.'

During that time, his remnant soul got some benefits. Sui Xing looked at his body with surprise. "I feel… stronger. As expected of a good-quality owner, even the treasure benefits from the exchange. Is this why my real self thought that treasures from famous people were more valuable than rogue items?"

While he was a remnant soul, his memories were extremely limited in comparison. He only knew some superficial facts and everything he needed to understand about the Star Breaker Realm bead.

After he absorbed the Blood Essence drop, the empty space around him suddenly changed. "Finally, time to enter her… Dantian…"

Once he arrived, Sui Xing almost turned around to flee. Several horrifying auras with boundless energy surrounded his person, as if they were gods looking down on a mortal.

Hastily looking around, the sight before him almost left him breathless. "How is this… possible?"

Naturally, he had knowledge of what an average Dantian in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth realms looked like. Yet, what he was seeing in front of him was so out of the norm that he thought his eyes were deceiving him.

Boundless space stretched around him, surrounded by a starry background with silhouettes of different constellations. Among those constellations, six shone brightly, while three remained dull and unconnected. "Those are… the constellations Yasenia uses?"

But that was by far the most common sight in this space. What instantly caught his attention was not the largest celestial body, but the one right in the middle of everything.

A celestial blue star gently rotated in the middle of the Dantian. Its presence was so boundless and perfect that just a sight placed his soul under risk of collapse. The gorgeous blue star had a dark accretion disk glowing with starlight around it, and space around it bent and deformed just from its existence.

Surrounding that entity, other planets and stars gently floated in orbits. The closest ones were four orbs:

The first orb was a black sphere that seemed to absorb the light around it; all energy that came from the outside flooded towards it before it was expelled outward. Sui Xing, now part of Yasenia's dantian, knew what it was. "[Primordial Energy Core]? How did she even get something so precious…?"

His gaze then moved toward a pair of orbs dancing around each other. One of them was blood red and several times larger than the other one. Its draconic aura was boundless, pulsing each second like a beating heart.

Conversely, the other one was much smaller. Its jade-green surface was adorned by gorgeous imagery, golden and pink figures swirling inside it. Its artistic beauty was reminiscent of a dance of mythical creatures.

Yet, these twin orbs moved in harmony, the much larger red orb clearly taking care of the smaller one. Like a planet gently carrying its moon around itself. "[Draconic Heart] and [Dragon's Melody of the Three Sacred Beasts]. Yasenia's weapons."

Sui Xing looked at the third item, and his eyes shook for a second. The third orb swirled with three different colors: Silver, Gold, and White. The three colors interlocked perfectly, mixing different energies into one that was difficult to ignore. "[Celestial Pearl]... A Natural Treasure of the Celestial Attribute…"

Even as he said it, his lips trembled and his soul pulsed. Looking again at the star in the middle, Sui Xing gathered enough courage to analyze it for a second. "...Impossible. [Celestial Black Hole Star Energy Core]."

Sui Xing's soul almost scattered from fright. "How is something like that even allowed to exist?"

His heart was already hurting, and yet, he had only looked at the inner treasures. Looking outward, Sui Xing noticed that the second layer had four new planets. Each of these planets gave a distinct energy aura. "[Convergence of the Celestial Bodies], [Celestial Cosmos Immortal Body Technique], [Celestial Firmament Tyrannical Soul Art], and [Celestial Maiden Ascends Through The Heavens]. Spirit, Body, Soul, and Dual Cultivation arts of the Immortal Rank."

Among all the things, these were the ones that surprised him the least. During his lifetime, he witnessed numerous Immortal-level Cultivation Arts. However, as he was about to move on, he noticed something strange. "...Did I feel a gaze from them?"

Looking over, he noticed that the four planets were truly gazing at him, not with eyes, but using their spiritual sense. "...Sentience? Doesn't that mean that they have the ability to grow and evolve further?" Sui Xing gulped. "Four sentient techniques? How many gods would kill to have even one of them…?"

Like Natural Treasures, sentient techniques merged with the cultivator to grow, evolve, and perfect themselves. As long as the cultivator didn't give up on them and has sufficient resources, pushing them far and beyond would not be a problem.

As he felt a surge of jealousy for a second, his eyes paused on the Dual Cultivation technique. "For a moment… That one…" As he frowned deeply, a barely hidden memory resurfaced in his mind. His eyes widened. "W-Why is 'Her' Dual Cultivation Technique in this young dragon's hands!?"

As he felt nervousness, the Celestial Star sent a very light pressure wave. However, what was light for the Celestial Star became as heavy as a mountain for Sui Xing. "A-Alright, sorry for that."

Taking a deep breath, he looked outward and noticed a rogue planet with similar colors to the Celestial Pearl roaming around. Sui Xing knew who the free-spirited planet was. "Soluna… Yasenia's contracted spirit. But… Why is the Celestial Star not saying anything? Isn't the [Nascent Celestial Spirit] being too rude?"

Yet, as he looked at the treasures, he noticed a sense of pamperedness when looking at Soluna. Even as Soluna circled closely around the Celestial Star, the star would carefully throw a few strands of Celestial Energy to feed the spirit, making her happy. Clearly, she was very loved by all of Yasenia's treasures.

Then, the third and outer ring was dominated by two gargantuan stars. Their size was not comparable to the Celestial Star, but their presence was not something easy to ignore. "... Yasenia's Intent Domains have manifested in the shape of Stars within her Dantian. [Celestial Intent Domain] at the first level and [Tyrant Warlord Intent Domain] at the peak of the second level… Incredible."

After checking on Yasenia's main treasures, Sui Xing carefully looked into Yasenia's soul. 'Let's see her Palace… Huh?' Sui Xing almost broke down. 'Why does she have a complete Soul Palace at the first level of the Transcendence Realm!? There are limits on how abnormal one creature can be! Is she the reincarnation of a powerhouse or something!?'

After checking everything, Sui Xing finally felt the Star's coercion, asking him if he was done looking around. Sui Xing coughed and nodded. "Yes."

When he said that, his soul was forcefully compressed and changed form into a rainbow-colored planet. Then, the gravitational pull of the Central Star moved him and placed him on the same level as the Immortal Level Techniques. Sui Xing didn't dare complain and followed the Big Boss's arrangements.

Once located, he felt the [Primordial Energy Core] locking onto him. 'Hm?'

The black sphere created a channel between itself and the Celestial Star, forcefully injecting pure Celestial Energy. Sui Xing barely held back from screaming.

'AGH!'

Pain electrocuted his soul as the Celestial Energy sank deeply into itself and cleansed impurities while transforming itself to be suitable for Yasenia's use. He lamented. 'Forget being a big boss… I am like a junior encountering all my senior brothers and sisters during the first day. Well, let's get used to it slowly.'

And in that manner, the [Star Breaker Realm Bead] became another of Yasenia's treasures.