After Yasenia read the summary of the information, she separated the related documents and read everything about Zephyrith's situation in depth.
A few moments later, she smiled wryly. "As expected, it is my fault. Our show of power has been too effective, and, scared by it, he now wants to consummate his marriage with Zephyrith sooner to gain strength. After all, no matter how confident he is in himself, he won't underestimate Alaia, who has reached the half-step Dantian Spiritualization realm."
She passed her hand through her long hair and sighed, feeling a bit troubled. "What should I do with this?"
She really didn't want to start a conflict with him before the summit.
After all, what she wanted to do at the summit was stabilize her position in the entire continent publicly so that she could deal with all the threats in a "legitimate" way.
If she attacked now, even with our alliance forming, many powers would consider her an "alien" power that suddenly tried to dip their hands in the large pie called Distancia Continent. Naturally, they won't be happy.
Yasenia leaned back, crossing her arms under her chest and getting thoughtful. There were many ways, like an assassination. But, again, doing so is like telling the rest of the powers. "Hey, I can kill the Patriarch of one of the strongest races covertly. Maybe you are next?"
In short, the nail that stuck out got hammered.
Moreover, although the dragoness knew the marriage was being brought forward, she didn't know when it would happen. 'Thankfully, I asked Doriel to warn Zephyrith right after the War. She is not a weak person, so she should be able to protect herself for a while. Speaking of which, Doriel is already back, right?'
After thinking for a moment, she called Doriel. A few seconds later, the woman appeared from a shadow, respectfully standing by her side.
With a bow as a greeting, she asked. "You called, Young Miss?"
Yasenia nodded. "How confident are you in entering the core of Fu Lang Zu's territory and delivering a message and communication device to Zephyrith?"
Doriel got thoughtful and answered. "Unless she is right by the place where their ancestors hide, I should have no problems."
The dragoness blinked. "Their ancestors?"
Doriel nodded. "I felt a few powerful auras in their territory that felt somewhat threatening. They should be peak-level Epoch Cores stuck at the realm's limit because of Distancia's Heaven's limitations. Compared to a fresh Half-step like Alaia, they are much stronger."
Yasenia frowned. "So, they can beat you?"
Doriel shook her head. "Unless we fight, it is yet to be seen. After all, raw power is not something that limits us. But, they are opponents that we need to take into account."
Yasenia nodded. "How many of them are there?"
Doriel shook her head. "The auras I felt were hidden, so my estimates are between 2 to 7."
After hearing her, the dragoness somewhat relaxed. She knew that the foundation of powers here in Distancia was not simple; that's why she was always careful.
Yasenia pondered for a second and showed her the information.
After Doriel read it, Yasenia asked. "How do you see it? Are you confident?"
Doriel nodded. "I can do that. However, Young Miss, didn't this woman reject your invitations twice already? The last time I went, she was still stubborn, saying that we didn't know what we were dealing with."
With a nod, Yasenia answered. "You are right. But she did so because she thought we were weak and couldn't protect ourselves if Fu Lang Zu decided to go all out. This time, I've shared quite a lot of information in the message I want you to deliver. If, even after reading all of what is written in the letter, she still insists on marrying Fu Lang Zu, then I have no more reason to stop it. After all, it would mean that she isn't really marrying out of obligation but because she wants to."
Doriel got thoughtful and eventually nodded. "What if she shares this information with Fu Lang Zu?"
Yasenia lifted an eyebrow and then sneered. "Even better. There are quite a few traps in the information I've shared. What I gave her is not a realistic list but a heavily modified one. I'll know straight away if she did something like that."
Doriel was curious and opened the letter to read the messages and saw the many traps in the information her Young Miss shared. Yasenia naturally didn't stop her. She didn't mind her checking out what she wrote. On the contrary, she patiently waited and waited for her feedback.
Doriel realized that It was good enough to tell someone about their ability to fight with the top powers, but there was information that, if shared in order to attack them, would lead to creating discord with other top powers.
In short, if Zephyrith did really share this message with the intention of harming them, Fu Lang Zu would be half a foot inside his deathbed without Yasenia doing anything.
'Brilliant.'
Doriel couldn't help but praise Yasenia in her mind. She couldn't really find any problems.
With everything sorted out, Doriel bowed and melded with the shadows again, leaving Yasenia alone in her office.
The dragoness looked out of the expansive window that took most of the wall, seeing how the Sun slowly rose to illuminate the World. 'I should try again to enter the first realm of my Body Cultivation technique.'
While Yasenia had been busy dealing with many things, she had never stopped cultivating or training herself. Her priority, from a while ago, had been strengthening herself.
After her constant cultivation, aided by her dual cultivation and boosted by the ritual of when she created the Body Cultivation Technique, her Spiritual cultivation was about to break through into the Half-step level, and her beast cultivation was already in the Tenth level, only needing her to accumulate energy to break through into the Legendary Core Beast realm.
This large jump in cultivation was, as previously said, because of the obscene amounts of energy she gathered through the ritual.
During the entire week, her body had been absorbing Tatyana's and Valeria's energies, pushing her energies toward the next level incredibly fast.
It was not something she could replicate, though, as it was a byproduct of the creation of the technique. However, that ritual had certainly benefited her in more ways than giving her the ability to start Body Cultivation.
Only, to Yasenia's surprise, her Body Cultivation was proving to be more complicated than expected.
Comprehending even the first level was complicated as an Immortal Ranked cultivation technique challenged the depths of a cultivator's ability to comprehend Heaven's path.
Her Spiritual Cultivation Technique was also of the same quality, but there was a difference.
Yasenia was guided since she was little by Tatyana for her Spiritual technique, most of her education revolving around understanding [Convergence Of The Celestial Bodies].
For Yasenia, while [Convergence Of The Celestial Body] was an extremely complicated technique to comprehend, advancing on it was not difficult and only limited by her cultivation level.
That's why Yasenia managed to break through the first three realms of the technique even before she reached the Unification Realm.
In truth, the first three realms, [Presence of the Celestial Bodies], [Absorption of Celestial Light], and [Connection with Celestial Bodies], were supposed to be understood across the entire Mortal Realm, with the last two realms, [Celestial Bodies and Spirit As One] and [Celestial Bodies Within My Hand], needing the cultivator to cross the Mortal Realm.
However, she didn't have that advantage with [Celestial Cosmos Immortal Body Technique].
In short, our dragoness was having problems with entering the first realm. After entering, she might advance quickly, but the door was closed shut, making it difficult for her to know even how to take the first step.
Much to her vexation, she was the last of the girls who had yet to step into the Body Cultivation path. All the other girls had already understood theirs, even reaching the middle stages of the first realm, while Andrea was already in the Ethereal Soul Realm, the Unification Realm equivalent.
Of course, besides feeling a bit frustrated, those feelings paled compared to the pride and delight she felt for their achievements. The more outstanding her dears were, the happier Yasenia was.
Just thinking about it made her tail gently wag in contentment.
While it was proving to be complicated, she knew she was close. Her experience and knowledge with the spiritual, immortal-ranked cultivation technique were not there as decoration, as she could apply many principles from the spiritual technique to the body technique.
Yasenia had sorted out everything while these thoughts crossed her mind, and she decided to continue her efforts in opening this closed door. 'Let's cultivate. I've dealt with the most important things, and Ghana and the maids should be able to deal with the rest.'
She stood up, stretching her alluring and curvaceous body, and left after leaving behind a message of what needed to be taken care of.
Walking toward her cultivation room, she didn't meet with anyone. All girls at this hour were either cultivating or practicing their professions.
Even Kaleina was busy with her everyday education. Knowing that, she decided to take a small detour toward the sect's center.
A few minutes later, Yasenia descended the mountain and landed at a place specially prepared for flying cultivators to land.
While it was not wholly necessary, having people flying above their heads and landing in the middle of the streets could be a bother. Moreover, since cultivators that could fly were extremely quick, the small inconvenience of not being able to land wherever they wanted was not a problem.
Before she arrived, Yasenia had changed her hairstyle to an updo with half her raven black hair cascading down like a glossy waterfall and donning a formal hanfu that hid her skin and had long and wide sleeves. On her face, she wore a semi-transparent black veil, highlighting her enchanting and imposing golden slit eyes.
While her alluringness couldn't be hidden, her elegance and otherworldliness were enhanced, giving a more formal air than usual.
When the people around saw her, there was silence for a few seconds until one of them reacted. "Good morning, Sect Master!"
The rest woke up from their daze and repeated. "Good morning, Sect Master!"
Yasenia looked around and nodded. "Good morning. You can go on; I'm here to take a walk."
Then, she sashayed her hips away, leisurely walking into the streets.
The people looked at her retreating form and whispered to each other.
"Oh my heavens, I knew Sect Master was beautiful, but I thought the rumors were a bit exaggerated. I was silly; they weren't exaggerated, they were downplayed!"
"Right, right? This is the first time I've seen Sect Master from such a close distance. Did you know that she is less than 100 years old?"
"How could I not know? She is an unparalleled genius who has even faced off against the top powerhouses! I don't think there will ever be a second person like Sect Master."
Conversations flowed in similar ways. After her face-off with the 30 million army and decisive victory, her popularity across the entire continent had reached new heights.
Naturally, those juniors who were part of the Sect felt proud to have such a strong and talented sect master.
Yasenia walked through the streets filled with buildings with the same architecture as those back in Sky Continent with nostalgia.
'It has been a while since I took a walk alone.'
The dragoness calmly walked, and people parted, saluting her along the way. The dragoness didn't stop them; a show of respect for the Sect Master was not going overboard. It was necessary to create unity in the group, and a leader figure helped a lot with that.
Yasenia entered a shop at the side, looked at the items, and realized that things sold here were magic-ranked. 'the shop might not be luxurious, but it looks clean and orderly.'
The dragoness was satisfied. Even if someone sold low-level goods, they could earn enough profits to maintain a place at this level, which meant that even the "lowest-ranked" people could live comfortably while gaining profits.
As she looked around curiously, she heard a stuttering voice. "W-W-What can I do for you, Sect Master?"
Yasenia looked to the side and saw a small boy, drenched in sweat and so nervous that the dragoness was worried he would pass out. "Don't worry, child. I was just looking around. Here, a reward for keeping your shop clean and tidy."
She took out two coins that represented 10 Astral Sky Points each and gave them to him. Excessive rewards could taint a person, but appropriate rewards would motivate someone.
The boy took the two coins as if they were rare treasures and saw the tall and beautiful sect master leaving, her charming and long tail gently closing the door behind her. 'My friends won't believe me when I tell them about it.'
Yasenia strolled around the sect for three hours, calmly visiting all the places, and with a cleared-up mind, she went to her cultivation room.
With renewed determination, the dragoness was prepared to challenge the Immortal Technique one more time.
'Today, I'll break through!'