Eris doubted for a second before she explained what she knew about souls to Aster, this knowledge was still within the limits of the soul sovereign realm, so laws of the mortal plane didn’t punish her for speaking about it.

Seeing that Aster seemed to be rather interested in the subject, Eris smiled before saying.

“I can’t consider myself an outstanding soul cultivator from where I come, but if you want… I can teach you what I know about souls later in one of our lessons”.

Aster nodded, although he had a certain sword girl in the mind space which probably knew all this, she refused to put things so easy for him, the current rule was that Rya will only teach him something after he realized a bit of it by himself.

She did it like that to not affect his cultivation path in a negative way, or so she said, but sometimes Aster thought she just liked to be all mysterious, just like those old ancestors from the novels he read to entertain himself back at earth.

Rya could read what Aster was thinking and she giggled.

Aster then answered to Eri’s previous question.

“Annihilation erases everything… at least mine does, so there is no origin soul left after I use it to kill someone”.

“Of course, I can’t do that immediately due to my low cultivation, so far I have only killed energy or body cultivators with it, so probably if a soul cultivator is fast enough it should be able to leave its body before I exterminate his soul”.

“But that’s why I’m now learning soul attacks which use annihilation”, he mentally added.

According to Rya, he was the first one to be able to use annihilation for soul attacks, something which was deemed impossible.

Sarina’s eyes glowed as she listened Aster’s words, she still remembers that Robert was killed by that golden light.

“Serves him right, even tigers don’t eat their children, and that scum actually tried to deliver Kana for a life worse than death”, she thought as she looked at the smiling “sleeping” expression of her daughter.

Needless to say, but Eris was in shock after getting Aster’s confirmation, she couldn’t even imagine the waves that this knowledge would cause in their native land, if someone where to know about it of course.

She remained silent for a moment before looking at Eris just to see her be in a similar state as her, so far Aster has already surprised them a lot before, but this was by far the most shocking thing they got to know about him.

A youth from a mortal realm which was able to ignore the heavenly law, this had no precedents, they also were now really thankful to not have gone against him too much.

In spirit form without the protection of a physical body, even the slightest contact with that golden light would have made them lose something important if not causing their souls to collapse.

“Now that we are talking about that particular subject, I know you all probably understand it, but as a friendly reminder let me tell you, that it’s forbidden to speak about my darling’s attribute with anyone outside the family, okay?”.

Lilia didn’t bother to warn her son about it, Aster never used annihilation to show off, if he used it then someone was bound to die, or something was about to be destroyed, if not most of the time he used either the golden armor or Rigel’s flames.

Which were still amazing, but could be taken as some kind of special physique characteristic.

Aster then smiled, he let his body fell on the bed and tickled Kana on her belly, her little body trembled a bit before she couldn’t hold back her laugh.

“Big brother wait… hahaha”.

Kana’s pretty laugh filled the room, it was like the ringing of little silver bells, Aster only stopped after she gave him puppy eyes.

Of course, he noticed she was simply feigning to be asleep for some time, which was good because now he didn’t need to explain things again.

He patted her head and saw her cute reactions.

“Remember to not tell anyone about your big brother’s abilities, okay?”.

“Mm”, Kana continuously nodded as she enjoyed being caressed by Aster, it was like some kind of adorable little animal.

Kana was his next focus, they will be going to a sect as it will be a good experience for them, although Aster wasn’t going to let her be separated from him, as much as he didn’t like, there will be moments where he would not be there for here for her.

The other girls were fine in that aspect, Alice and Aria were used to fight… not only between each other but against enemies, Lilia was in a league of her own, as a gate transcending cultivator she was the strongest of the group.

Eris and Mylene didn’t need to be mentioned in this aspect too, even if they were stuck at the sea of knowledge in terms of energy cultivation, their battle prowess was higher than that, and they were dual path cultivators too.

Sarina was trained by her father and she fought alongside him many times, even Camila had her fair share of life and death situations back when she was younger.

The only one which haven’t gone through something like that was Kana, and although Aster could probably protect her forever if needed, that wasn’t the idea, his girls weren’t decorations nor trophies, they had their own goals and thoughts, although their goals were probably related to him.

Aster stopped patting Kana which made her look at him unwillingly, making him smile at her adorable needy expression.

“Don’t look at me like that, we’ll have time for this later, besides my daily training, lessons and night time, both me and Sarina will be teaching you how to fight until we arrive at our next destination, how about that?”.

Kana’s eyes lit up like two lamps as soon as she heard that, she approached Aster and kissed him on the cheeks.

“Big brother is the best!”, she said with a melodious voice.

p Aster already could feel Alice’s gaze piercing his back which made him inwardly sigh.

“Sis, you had me as your sparring partner when you were at the earth origin realm too… but let’s do it like this, I will spend a week with each one of you”.

Alice threw herself at him and hugged him tight, she knew that her brother wanted to increase the strength of the family as a whole, although she broke through not too long ago, she got a new piece of the golden armor so she wanted some attention from Aster too.

As if Aster suddenly remembered something he gazed at Camila before adding.

“That includes you… we need to define how much time you can be away from my side without being affected, also you are a rune master if I remember correctly right?”.

“Yes I’m”.

Aster nodded, he then looked at Eris before saying.

“Can she join in for the lessons?”.

Eris didn’t refuse, she is part of the group too so this can be counted as her contribution for Aster’s family, of course she didn’t miss the chance to ask him to help her with a little experiment.

“That spirit furnace thing, do you think you can create a stronger version of it… when we were inside of it, for a moment I felt as if I was on the borders of my native land, the spirit energy was almost usable for my cultivation”.

“Oh?”, Aster felt immediately interested in Eris’s words, he always wondered why they couldn’t cultivate, although his blood helped them replenish their spirit energy, he couldn’t just be giving them more of it every time they used their powers, especially because with each break through his blood got stronger.

For the time being there was no problem since there was a big gap in their cultivation, but if they kept being stuck at the sea of knowledge realm and he kept advancing then… they might start being affected by it, like Nadia.

So, he already started thinking about what might be preventing them from absorbing spirit energy.

They fought at places which probably rivaled with the highest ranked star clusters, considering the place where Aurelian met them.

So, it was obvious that even if they went with him to the dragon legacy star cluster where the Drage family resides, the result will be the same.

Previously they had hopes that the spirit gathering formations in Lilia’s spaceship which were supposedly engraved by a heavenly conqueror rune master, would allow them to cultivate, but it didn’t work which practically destroyed their hopes of advancing without the help of Aster’s blood.

But now after seeing the result of using both Orionis to gather spirit energy and Rigel’s flames to refine it, there might be another chance for them.

Aster had a contemplative expression as he looked at Aria, maybe increasing the amount of Rigel’s flames will make the spirit energy even more refined.

He patted Kana’s head one last time before getting up the bed, with Alice still clinging to him.

“You two take the rest of the day to rest”, he said as he looked at Sarina and Kana.

“Aria, you come with me to the training room”.

“Mm”, the three girls nodded.