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nWhile Aster made the blood pressure of Sean Fritz sky-rocket, there was another place far away from the Fritz Stellar System where there was a huge turmoil ongoing.

nEverything was the result of a situation that started a couple of hours ago, things were going smoothly for the people that lived in the Heavenly Blizzard planet, the center of the main territory that belonged to the Frost Valley, one of the two strongest factions that conformed the super force called Yin Azure Palace.

nThe planet had many tones of blue covering its surface, without any green or brown as it would have been the case for an average habitable planet such as the earth where Aster lived.

nBut that didn’t mean the natives suffered hunger or that life was harsh, in fact there were frozen fields that were filled with many different herbs and even trees that gave birth to cyan colored fruits.

nThe weather was relatively cold, but the air was rich in spirit energy, all in all it was a paradise for water, wind, ice and of course yin attribute-oriented cultivators.

nIn this ice attributed paradise, there was a clear hierarchy as there was a single city in the whole planet which was divided by three tall blue ice walls.

nThe more you advanced towards the center of the city, the stronger and purer spirit energy became, and at the most central part of the city, there were a few mountains of ice, each with a blue castle that was carved in dark blue jade, there was one exception though, one of the many castles was carved in yellow bright jade.

nBut the current chaos that reigned in the main territory of the Blizzard family, started in one of the dark blue jade castles, when a pained scream that echoed through the whole area, suddenly could be heard coming from it.

n“Mother, grandpa help… aghhhh!!!”, the scream was so loud that the guards stationed at the entrances of all the nearby ice mountains and castles, could heard and they were all alarmed, because that was the voice of the first young master of their Blizzard family.

nSo as one would expect, a huge commotion was created, the guards all rushed to the castle, but they were slower than two lines of blue light that came out of nowhere and entered the castle in less than a second.

nInside of the castle the lines of blue light condensed into two different figures, a slim old man with gray hair and blue robes and a middle-aged woman with black blue hair who was wearing a dress that seemed to be made with the finest silk.

nLeaving aside the otherworldly auras they were radiating, right now their faces were twisted as they saw the scene that unfolded in front of them.

nA handsome young man that seemed to be in his late twenties, laid naked on the ground with his eyes rolled backwards, and a bloody foam coming out of his mouth, while two young women that were wearing thin clothes were giving him emergency treatment such as pills and elixirs.

nThe middle-aged woman immediately let out a scream as she rushed towards the naked guy, and only after making sure he wasn’t dying she grabbed one of the two girls by her neck, as she shouted.

n“You, useless trash, I assigned you two to tend to all the needs of little Julius, but you left him be attacked by an assassin, give me a reason to not peel your skin and turn you into a medicinal pill to help my poor boy recover!”.

nThe girl which was scolded was the youngest looking out of the two, she couldn’t endure the pressure and bled through her nose, but the other rushed to answer in her stead.

n“Lady Paula, it wasn’t like that, we didn’t leave the young master’s side at any second as we were ordered to, the young master was… giving us his favor, when he suddenly yelled, “No, you are mine!” and then he spat blood before collapsing, he still managed to scream while we were administrating the life-saving medicines proportioned to us for emergencies”, respectfully said the other girl.

nThe old man frowned as he placed his hand on the shoulder of the woman, who was still choking the poor girl, before saying.

n“Calm down Paula, she isn’t lying, this might be related to “that”, so let’s go see the clan head and Lord Eiker, take little Julius with you, so Lord Eiker can inspect him”.

nThe middle-aged woman threw the girl at the ground, she carefully covered the naked guy with a blanket and then the three of them disappeared, leaving the two girls who were happy to have kept their lives, behind.

nThe three people directly went to one of the three biggest ice mountains, but the moment they entered they were welcomed by the scene of people guarding the private room of the on that lived there, in other words the room of the clan head.

n“Move aside, this is an urgent emergency!”, demanded Paula, but the guards could only answer with bitter smiles.

n“Reporting to the first Lady, the master suddenly isolated himself and said that no one could see him until he came out, we don’t have the authority to open the barrier surrounding his room”.

n“That damn idiot, just when our son needs him, he has to enter seclusion”, poisonously said Paula, but she couldn’t do anything, the only one with a higher authority than the clan head, was the ancestor of the Blizzard family, but he has been in seclusion for quite a few thousands of years due to a certain incident that wounded him in an unexpected way.

n“Let’s go see Lord Eiker then”, said the slim old man and they then disappeared, unfortunately, thought their next destination was over a close ice mountain, they couldn’t directly appear inside of it, because it was occupied by a guest elder who isn’t part of the Blizzard family, so they had to appear outside and ask for the barrier to be opened for them.

nThey actually had to wait around twenty minutes before a tall man who was only wearing a towel to cover his lower body, came to receive them.

n“Miss Paula, old Elmer what strange wind brings you to my castle, do you perhaps require me “services” kekeke”, unlike normal, the tall guy had a gaze that clearly indicated desire for Paula, but apparently this was a common occurrence, at least when these three were alone.

n“Stop with your bull**, has something happened to the lost legacy training land? my son suddenly collapsed and his words made allusion to that stupid spirit ice thing!”, said the woman with a cold voice.

nThe half-naked guy raised an eyebrow but ultimately, he shrugged.

n“I have no idea, there haven’t been changes on my side, besides the leftover projection that was hidden on the two main yang stars, I won’t be informed of anything else after all, but if your son received backslash, it should be the Liger’s doing, otherwise your husband would have also… blegh!”.

nThe relaxed expression of the man suddenly changed, his face paled and then he spat blood as he kneeled down feeling a horrible pain from deep within him, the man took out a lot of bottles from his ring and swallowed them all at the same time, only then he stopped trembling and his face recovered some color.

n“Someone destroyed my projection that was left there… damn it, whoever did it was strong enough to even prevent any information from returning to me, the pain in my soul was **ing horrible”, said the man as he wiped the clod sweat from his forehead.

nPaula gritted her teeth, the horny dog of a man in front of her had no useful information, which angered her.

n“Whatever, inspect little Julius and give him the medicine he needs, the price doesn’t matter, okay!”.

nThe man softly snorted, but he then licked his lips, as he was about to make his offer, another scream echoed through the area, but this time it was accompanied by a shockwave and the darkening of the skies.

n“Arrrghhhhhh!!!”.

n“That was… Sebastian’s voice”, said the woman, the now group of four immediately rushed back to the previous castle, just to see the guards surrounding the collapsed body of a man who was laying on top of a puddle of blood.

nThe half-naked Eiker saw the clan head laying on a puddle of his blood and he was in shock for a moment, the backslash he felt due to his projection being destroyed was also harsh, but besides the horrible pain he was practically fine, since s projection is a separate “entity”, like a pre-filmed message with just a bit of the conscience of the original body.

nBut the state of the clan head was too serious for that, but after a quick inspection he understood what happened.

n“He was cultivating and the backslash of his projection being destroyed, made him suffer deviation”, mumbled Eiker, which made Paula and the old Elmer grit their teeth.

n“W-Wait, what happened to the ying-yang training battlefield?”, suddenly asked the old Elmer, he is the one in charge of finances so he knows how much resources have been invested to keep the connection, so that when the ancestor comes out of seclusion, they can recover what is theirs.

nEiker had an uncomfortable expression as he answered.𝑂𝐯𝑙xt.𝐂𝗈𝓶

n“My connection is gone and Sebastian’s should be gone as well so… the stars should have been destroyed along with the secret realm, it could be that the spirit ice found a way to escape and naturally took revenge for being kept prisoner, or maybe some guys pulled a fast one on us, like back then, in other words we can no longer access that place ever again”.

nThe guards had long been sent away, but in exchange elders with high positions had arrived since the clan head was injured, they all shared a single reaction, which is that their faces paled, before they were overwhelmed by anger.

nRight now, they wished to rip whoever did this apart, unfortunately if Eiker didn’t manage to receive any information from his projection, the other party shouldn’t be a random nobody, they were at least dealing with someone with a backing that didn’t lose to their Blizzard family.

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nWhile the people from the Frost Valley sect was making their own conclusions over what happened in the Silicon Forest, Aster and the others were welcomed by Valentina, the purple halo that was surrounding her dispelled revealing her pretty face, that looked around 70% similar to Agnes, but slightly older, besides the fact that her eyes were purple instead of sky blue unlike Agnes’s.

nWilliam also approached them, while the jade palanquin disappeared the moment the conflict was over.

n“So, what’s the plan now, kid?”, carelessly asked William, as if he didn’t have a lot of serious matters to tend to as a law enforcer, which made Valentina sigh.

n“We’ll pay a visit to the clan head of the Fritz family, but before I have a personal matter to tend to”, said Aster as he gazed at Alexandra.

nValentina and William nodded, they were surprised when they heard Aster saying that the gatekeeper elder of the Steel Tower sect accepted to join the Twin Sword Valley as a guest elder, if only they knew that Alexandra was the same, because Aster didn’t tell her about that beforehand.

nBut she didn’t refuse, because now that Renard died while she survived she knew there won’t be space for her in the Steel Tower sect, not to mention that she only became the gatekeeper elder to find a chance to obtain the Diamond Bone Orchid or other treasure from the Silicon Forest that could cure her mother.

nNow that the Silicon Forest no longer existed, she had no reason to stay in the Steel Tower sect, and she saw with her own eyes how Aster obtained a lot of things from the Silicon Forest, so she no longer doubted that he was able to cure her mother, due to all the impossibilities he pulled off during the short period of time in which she stayed with Aster’s group.

nThe only question she had right now, was if he was telling the truth regarding his father and, what will her fate be after all this, her impression of Aster did change a lot, but ultimately one can never know what’s hidden in the heart of others.

nHer parents had a tragical result for something similar after all.

nValentina and William tagged along and they all followed Aster to the port of the city, where they saw a black spaceship already waiting for them, Valentina was surprised because she didn’t saw that spaceship when she arrived here, William also didn’t saw it but he kind of expected it, because he had already realized who is the scary black haired woman that was welcoming the kid that kept making things interesting for him lately.

n‘I still can’t believe it, this aura belongs to a Gate Transcending realm cultivator like me, but from those violent “beautiful” monsters, sis was the one that focused on the body path and no one has been able to reach the peak of the Transcending realm in two paths ever, so… what’s going on here?’, wondered William.

nBesides the fact that Lilia looks younger and more beautiful than before, another thing that contributed to Agnes, Valentina and those who know the Drage personally, is the fact that she is now a Gate Transcending realm cultivator, while the princess of the Drage family was known to have chosen the energy path as her main.

nAnd since the current Lilia was hiding her true energy path cultivation, feigning to be a Genesis Manifestation, while purposedly letting those who are skilled enough, know that she is a Gate Transcending realm cultivator, her identity didn’t match with the Lilia of back then.

nAs for the black hair and red eyes, so far Lilia is the only one in the history of the Drage family that was born with both traits, but there are some that had dyed their hair or use a treasure to change the color of her eyes to imitate her, among the Drage.

nAnd there are also some that later start to change to get both traits, but we are talking about those who are talented enough to reach the Heavenly Realms at a young age.

nIt could also be that she just has black hair and red eyes but it’s not a part of the Drage family at all, it would be strange but not impossible as there are so many people living in a Heavenly Quadrant, who knows how many hidden gems exist, or how many families raise or fall on a daily basis after all.

nLeaving William who was lost in his thoughts, Lilia welcomed her beloved son with a bright smile on her beautiful face, and a hug, unfortunately she couldn’t hog Aster for herself this time, because the others also tagged along, so Alice, Sarina, Kana, Mylene and even Vivian came out of the spaceship to welcome Aster and the others back.

nNaturally Kana’s eyes sparkled the moment she saw Aster, she turned into a current of air and the next Aster knew was that Kana tackled him, of course Lilia wasn’t going to fight with the little girl, so she left her hug Aster.

n“Big brother!”, the others laughed at the scene of Kana tackling Aster, her energetic self was adorable.

nAster smiled as he patted Kana’s head, he wasn’t gone for too long this time and since he communicated with the others through Lilia on a regular basis, they weren’t worried about him, but they still missed him, besides Lilia who basically stayed in the mind space through all the mission of course.

nAlexandra and the Ligress girl Mira, had strange expressions on their face, they got to see the murderous Aster and the perverted one since he was always holding Aria on his arms, or laying down with her, it’s not like the others weren’t in friendly terms with him, and the same applied to him.

nBut only know they go to see the “soft” Aster that was surrounded by his whole family, which gave him a different kind of aura, it was shock for Alexandra who all the time thought of Aster as a dual cultivator, who was just a bit more reserved than the ones she has heard of.

nWith Kana stuck to him like a koala, Aster stood up and they then entered Lilia’s spaceship, since the other “welcomes” that were waiting for him, weren’t for other people’s eyes.

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