In a beautiful garden that was behind a house built on a mountain, a purple and golden eastern dragon was sitting alone, plucking flowers and looking a bit dazed.

Her usually lively appearance was nowhere to be seen, as nervousness was clearly noticeable in her impatient gestures. Her tail smacked the ground, her hands plucked the flowers quite quickly, and her beautiful golden eyes looked around constantly.

She had heard good news from the maids who had cared for her for the last months, but she also felt nervous even when she was happy. 

When the more than two-meter-long eastern dragon heard the sound of soft steps, she turned around, and her pupils expanded.

The woman that appeared was, in her opinion, the most beautiful in the World. 

The woman's golden eyes also resembled her own, and the connection between them felt clear in the mind of the young dragon.

With eyes dripping with love that made the dragon tear up, the woman opened her arms and called her. "Kaleina, my baby, I'm home."

"Mommy!"

Kaleina threw the flowers and rushed forward, quickly arriving in front of her mother and hugging her while also coiling around her. The beautiful woman's floral scent filled her nostrils, and the warmth of her soft body relaxed Kaleina's body to the point of soul-level comfort.

Then, knowing what she liked, Kaleina felt her Mommy's tail curling around her, giving her a pleasant sensation of her scales rubbing with her mother's beautiful blue and golden scales. 

The hug was tangling, showing the deep nostalgia both felt. Kaleina felt her mother's soft hands tenderly caressing her scales, heard that familiar powerful heartbeat, and relished in the caresses she missed for months. 

As they embraced in the beautiful garden, Kaleina's nervousness began to dissipate, replaced by a profound sense of security and love. As if sensing her nervousness, her mother whispered words of reassurance into Kaleina's ear with a gentle smile, soothing any lingering anxieties.

"Don't worry, love. Now that I've returned, I won't be leaving for a long time. I promise."

Kaleina took her head from the crook of her neck and looked upward with unshed tears in her eyes. "Really?"

Yasenia looked at her daughter's face and felt her heart twist with guilt. However, she didn't regret it. After all, she needed to become stronger if she wanted to protect the beautiful creature between her arms. 

She answered, kissing her face slowly and tenderly as if she were afraid that her kisses would damage her. "Of course, my baby. Mommy will stay by your side for many years."

The vibrant colors of the flowers surrounding them seemed to come alive as the two beings, one a beautiful dragon and the other a graceful woman shared a moment of reunion. 

Yasenia moved under the shade of a tree, changing to a comfortable red kimono with a wide-open front, and placed Kaleina's head on her lap.

Then, while looking at the young dragon and smiling softly, she continued caressing and pampering her.

The mountain breeze would usually be chilly, but with the formations around the house, it felt warm and pleasant. The rustling grass and the occasional sound of the critters living in the garden felt peaceful and relaxing.

After months of constant fighting, Yasenia couldn't help but feel all the tension in her body leaving her. While it was the truth that she relished in battle, she treasures these moments of peace much more.

From the very start, although knowing how impossible it sounded, her wish had been to create a family in a remote place and live in peace with her lovers. 

Still, that dream felt further and further away as her fate entangled with other people, as her opponents increased in might, and as her own strength allowed her to see how vast the Universe really is. 

The dragoness felt her little daughter's soft scales and smooth hair and looked into the distance. From the small hill where Yasenia planted this tree, it was easy to see the entirety of the sect. 

The sight was majestic, to say the least. The abundance of residences was able to house hundreds of thousands, towering pagodas built for training, the distant elemental areas where people trained, the arenas, the commercial area, the forest bordering the sect where low-level beasts lived, and the many more infrastructures were magnificent to look at.

'I'm the owner of all of this, huh.'

The dragoness looked at everything, entranced. This time, with Sarah, she almost died once more. Not to mention the many times Fu Lang Zu would've annihilated her if it were not for her maids. Yasenia didn't know how many times she had been on the edge between life and death.

'Now, after I've provoked him so much, he will retaliate ruthlessly. I don't even know if he will wait until the summit or not.'

The dragoness didn't expect him to swallow so much insult; that was completely out of her plans for that situation. Thankfully, it wasn't her only plan to deal with him righteously.

'My objective is not to slaughter all the powers that anger me but to create a sect with a solid foundation in Distancia that can last for many millennia. Brute force might solve the problems now, but if I don't take root in the continent, the Astral Sky Sect will be treated like a pariah regardless of their strength when I'm gone, and they probably will crumble from the inside.' 

Yasenia understood that the "respect" she had gained until now was nothing but the minimum qualifications to have a conversation with the various superpowers.

'Now that I've gotten the body cultivation techniques, I honestly have no reason to continue developing this power. The objective of the Astral Sky Clan was to secure powerful body cultivation methods for all of us. But, thanks to this secret realm, I've already done so.'

If she was completely ruthless, the dragoness could swallow all the resources that the sect would gather during the following years and then leave without any care in the world. After all, she knew that her stay in Distancia was slowly coming to an end, and her returning here after she left was probably something that never would happen.

Distancia was nothing but a step in her long cultivation journey. 

With her cultivation speed, what will she become one thousand years from now? Yasenia didn't know, but she understood that probably even Distancia's Heavens would not be out of reach.

'A thousand years…'

Yasenia chewed the number. It was a number thrown around very often by the seniors, but when trying to imagine how many things could happen in such a long time frame, Yasenia couldn't realistically fathom it.

The dragoness looked at the softly breathing dragon on her lap. 'How big will Kaleina become in one thousand years? By then, the difference in age between us will be considered negligible.'

Yasenia laughed. 'We are basically from the same generation, no? 1050 years is no different compared to 1005 years.' 

Looking at it like this, she felt no wonder why Tatyana and the other seniors thought that it was too soon to have children. 'They told me that even a 500-year-old is considered a young adult in the high-level heavens. Well, even in Distancia, junior competitions go up to 80 or even 100 years. It doesn't feel that surprising when you put it in comparison.' 

The dragoness laughed at the ridiculousness of the cultivation world. 'An 18-year-old is considered an adult, and yet there is so much age difference after that. Isn't this strange?' 

Yasenia heard steps, and she looked over to see Cecile and Tatyana walking over. With silent steps, they sat on her sides, not bothering the sleeping Kaleina.

Cecile asked. "What are you thinking about, my love?"

Yasenia commented softly. "The future." 

Cecile leaned on her shoulder and asked. "The future?"

Yasenia nodded. "What will I be doing 1000 years from now? Won't Kaleina and I be the same generation by then? Things like that."

Both of them laughed softly.

Tatyana commented. "Honestly, Yasenia. I'm of the opinion that you should reserve having children until you reach at least the Transcendence Realm. However, an opportunity like Distancia is hard to come by after we leave."

Yasenia looked at the expansive sect and commented. "Safety, right?"

Tatyana nodded. "While it is true that powers in Distancia are not weak because of the advantages body cultivation gives, they are very manageable. Moreover, since we are in the lower heavens, people that can travel from World to World are as rare as a dragon's horn and phoenix's feather." 

The dragon and phoenix women by her side blinked, looking at Tatyana curiously. 

Tatyana chuckled at their reaction. "It's a proverb, a proverb. Don't take it that literally." 

Yasenia and Cecile laughed softly. 

Tatyana asked. "What are your plans now, little treasure?"

Yasenia pondered. "Breakthrough into the Fifth realm."

Cecile blinked, feeling something from that way of speaking. "Fifth realm? Not Dantian Spiritualization Realm?"

Yasenia nodded and commented. "I'll increase my Spiritual, Body, and Beast cultivations to the limits of the fourth realm before I break through. Knowing what's to come, if I don't become the strongest I can, I'll probably perish." 

Tatyana snorted. "As if I'll let that happen."

With a soft laugh, Yasenia commented. "While I trust that you won't allow it, being overly prepared is never wrong when facing something as difficult as the Heavenly Tribulation. It almost killed me in the first three realms, and it actually killed me once while crossing into the Unification realm, so I must be careful."

Tatyana and Cecile became silent.

The image of Yasenia turning into dust from the Heavenly Lightning strike was deeply etched in their minds. 

Even if it was for a few moments, the feeling of despair at that time was heart-gripping.

Tatyana promised. "I'll make preparations."

Our dragoness didn't reject it, saying silly things like she needed to overcome them by herself. Instead, she turned her head and gave Tatyana a soft and tender kiss. "Okay."

Cecile commented. "Right. What about combining the cultivation techniques to create one suitable for you, Yasenia?"

This was something that had the dragoness stumped. She had no idea how to create, much less combine, cultivation techniques.

Of course, it would've been a problem if she hadn't had the cheat code leaning on her other shoulder. "Well, Mom. What do you think?"

Tatyana laughed and extended her hand. "Give them to me. I'll see what we do."

Yasenia took out three jade scrolls; one was red with beautiful golden markings representing the Sun, another was white with blue markings characterizing the Moon, and the last was blue with constellations and many other images depicting the stars. Then, she gave them to her. 

Cecile asked, confused. "Tatyana, the Sun here is not the same Sun as in Sky Continent, right? Same for the Moon. Why are they all called Sun and Moon?" 

Tatyana smiled. "The heavens gave those names to represent the closest star and closest moon to the world. For example, isn't it strange that the days last the exact same here as they do in Sky Continent? Heavenly laws affect the movement of everything in the cosmos, and if a World blooms with life, the heavens forcefully change the trajectory and many other things." 

Cecile and Yasenia nodded, and Yasenia smiled wryly. "Challenging the heavens who control all of this sounds like an idiotic thing now." 

Tatyana shook her head. "It's not. While Heavens are, in practice, omnipotent, they are also chained by the laws naturally created that prevent them from controlling all creation. They are nothing more than a spectator and a judge. Shouting, 'I'll destroy the heavens,' will always be met with some retaliation, as that's blasphemy toward the thing controlling everything. However, the retaliation won't go beyond certain limits."

Tatyana suddenly waved her hand upward, sending a Death energy wave that crashed against a silent lightning bolt. "See?" 

Yasenia smirked. "Complicated, but I get the gist of it. By the way, how strong was that lightning bolt?"

The Death Empress shook her head. "For you? Weak. Even if you did nothing, it would only make you feel a small tingling. I blocked it because I didn't want it to wake up Kaleina." 

Cecile asked. "Can't I use that as a training method? If I shout that constantly, I will receive those attacks all the time, no?"

Tatyana's and Yasenia's lips twitched. Tatyana advised. "You better not. While they can't interfere normally, during the tribulation, they will increase the difficulty if you have been too blasphemous."

Cecile nodded with a dejected expression. "I thought I had created the perfect training method. It would be available everywhere, after all."

Mother and daughter didn't know how to answer to her outrageous way of thinking.

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Andrea: Such a cozy scene.

Yasenia: Yes.

Author: Well, let's move on. I summon you!

Randomplant: Hello!

Angel: Alo.

Randomplant: All cultivation styles have a dantian creation stage, but if you already have one created, what happens when you cultivate a second or third style? Is another dantian created, is the energy production and containing capacity of the dantian you already have increased, or does something different happen?

Tatyana: Well, that is something that you'll see in detail when Yasenia cultivates, but it is something similar to Dantian alteration. Said in terms you would understand... The software gets an update so that it can run another program.

Randomplant: That's a strangely fitting comparison.

Author: And that's all for today. Bye-bye!

Yasenia: Quite straightforward.

Tatyana: I mean, there is nothing else to say.

Yasenia: Well, you are not wrong...