Time passed relatively quickly for Mira, Maria, Elenei, and Celaine. Well, maybe not so much for Celaine. Unlike Maria and Mira who are just meditating on either an element or their Dao and Elenei who is either just sleeping or collecting loot from other worlds in this Secret Realm, Celaine was having a bit of a rough time.

Actually, that would be an understatement. Celaine was having an absolutely terrible time! The place she’s in is like a living nightmare! She was already playing on ‘Hard Mode’ by entering the Secret Realm, but Elenei brought her to a place that skipped ‘Nightmare Mode’ and went straight to ‘Impossible Mode’!

During the time that she’s been in this world, she’s barely gotten an ounce of rest. No, an ounce of rest would be nice! She hasn’t gotten any rest!

What sucks about this world with no ground is that there is no place to hide. Sure, there are little islands floating in the sky, but they are pretty small and wide open! There is hardly any cover on them at all!

That would be all well and good, but all the beasts there are avian beasts that are constantly fighting over the islands to wither lay their eggs, mate, or rest. If a beast isn’t on an island then they are in the sky searching for food.

So Celaine can’t even get a good rest when she conquers an island because she’ll just have to deal with some territorial dispute right after with hardly any time to rest.

That’s not even the worst of it though! The worst part of this world is the world itself. It’s way too unpredictable and the air currents are constantly changing. Natural disasters will appear randomly and sometimes an island will get sucked through a wind tunnel and all of its inhabitants get torn to shreds.

So not only does Celaine have to watch out for territorial disputes when she claims an island, she has to watch out for the natural disasters of the world so she doesn’t die without even knowing how.

The fights are also 98% of the time in the sky with very few land battles. For a human who has hardly any experience fighting aerial battles, this is a huge pain in the ass. Normally, she would barely be able to fight these beasts while airborne, but since she has an affinity for air, she doesn’t really have to worry about her normally limited flight time.

The only good thing is that these islands are literal treasure troves! They might be small, but for whatever reason, they are packed with natural treasures, ores, herbs, and even Wind Spirit Stones. These Spirit Stones are basically normal Spirit Stones but can hasten one’s cultivation as long as one has a wind affinity.

So Celaine has been able to gather a substantial fortune just by looting a few of these islands. Not only that but her cultivation has also broken through to the Late-Xiantian Stage of the Foundation Realm because of all the resources she’s pumping into her.

Normally, breaking through this fast would destabilize one’s foundation and they’d need to take some time to consolidate it, but Celaine doesn’t have any of these troubles. She’s basically fighting for her life every day which is speeding up this process and the Natural Treasures and Wind Spirit Stones she’s been consuming have been incredibly easy for her body to digest and absorb. Using these treasures has also caused her Wind Dao comprehension to skyrocket as almost everything here has some sort of Wind Affinity.

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows though as she literally needs to breakthrough just to survive in this incredibly harsh environment. Celaine’s goal is to just try to make it to the Peak of the Foundation Realm. Breaking through to the Core Formation Realm is not possible. Not only is there not enough time, but even if there was, it’s basically suicide if she were to go through such a Major Breakthrough in a place that’s always at war.

Still, at the pace she’s progressing, Mira’s in for a surprise when they meet each other in around half a year.

***

Meanwhile, Mira just opened her eyes with an annoyed look on her face.

“I’m bored. Take me somewhere interesting. I need to let loose a little.”

Mira ordered Elenei who just woke up. She looked at Mira with a bewildered expression and was left speechless. Did Mira suddenly turn into Maria? Why can’t she hang on just a bit longer and finish comprehending her Yin Fire?

“Don’t give me that look. As I said, I need to let loose a little. All this meditating is making my head throb and is incredibly frustrating. Comprehending something as obscure as Yin Fire isn’t exactly easy and I’m constantly going in and out of meditation due to the difficulty. As soon as I get a few good fights in me, I’ll be ready to come back and finish the task. So just take me somewhere I can let loose.”

Mira explained and now Elenei was able to understand.

She has no doubt that Mira is probably incredibly frustrated with not even being able to gain any semblance of comprehension in Yin Fire even with her Frost-Fire flames and all the resources at hand.

Mira’s a person of action and not being able to do anything but sit down and meditate on something as abstract and obscure has probably left her with some pent-up emotions.

‘Fufu~ If only she had a partner to relieve her of her stress~ Maybe she wouldn’t be so grumpy.’ Elenei thought in her mind but didn’t dare say it out loud.

“Very well. Hop on and we’ll go somewhere for you to ‘relieve’ your pent-up stress~” Elenei emphasized ‘relieve’ with a teasing expression.

Mira felt a vein pop in her head, but said nothing and just hopped on her back. She didn’t want to argue with someone who was about to turn into an egg in a few months.

The two of them traveled around from place to place as Mira went through several Life-or-Death battles.

By the end of the week, Mira asked Elenei to bring her somewhere where there are a lot of weaker beasts.

Elenei didn’t quite understand but did as she was told. She was quite surprised to see Mira slaughtering them all, but still kept a cold expression on her face.

She wanted to understand why Mira wanted to kill a bunch of weaker but never got the chance to ask as Mira just hopped on her back when she was done and told her to go back to where they were.

Mira didn’t say anything as she knew this was a weird quirk she gained over time. After shedding so much blood and going through so many reincarnations, killing has almost become something therapeutic to her. Especially when it comes to killing mindless beasts because she can just shut her mind off and slaughter.

The two of them went back to the Light World in silence while Mira’s head was much more clear than it was before.

Everything went back to normal for the two of them and it wasn’t until a few months later that something interesting happened!