Chapter 110
Celeste, I think you’re genuinely ill.
His eye twitched, he’d told her this already, a human conceiving with an Ancestor Realm expert was a long shot.
Blending different bloodlines was complicated to begin with, and he’d already broken into the Ancestor Realm.
For an Ancestor, mating with any race or clan produced offspring rarely, natural law and cosmic destiny both worked against it.
Leave aside whether Celeste’s little methods were reliable, she was at the Human Venerable realm, obscure tricks weren’t going to rewrite natural law.
Soren had seen this coming from the start, he shrugged and offered a bit more comfort.
Once she was less devastated, he turned to the Kun-Heaven Box.
He was surprised, honestly, she’d unravelled a seal left by an Ancestor Realm powerhouse, not by force either, she’d used reverse formation dismantling, the harder road by a wide margin.
Had the Strategy Encyclopedia got it wrong?
The thought was enough, the panel surfaced and answered.
[Celeste succeeded in reverse formation dismantling by utilizing a risky, aggressive approach.]
[This method was previously unrecorded in the Strategy Encyclopedia.]
[She poured her soul power directly into the Kun-Heaven Box, navigating the interlocking, overlapping layers of formations like walking a maze to find a path through.]
[Advantage: Immersion.]
[She could place her own markers, this allowed her to bypass the formation’s bewildering and misleading effects.]
[Disadvantage: Extreme risk.]
[Had her attempt failed at any layer or any individual formation, her soul would have been permanently trapped within the formation.]
Bold to a fault, hadn’t it occurred to her she might never get out?
The panel kept going.
[This aggressive dismantling approach was an original method Celeste improvised after conventional techniques failed. She blended various formation experiences from memory and synthesized them on the spot, creating a new solution.]
[The Strategy Encyclopedia has successfully cataloged this method, expanding its existing database.]
[When encountering similar formations in future, Master can utilize the cataloged information to replicate this approach.]
That was the Strategy Encyclopedia learning on its own, once learned, it stayed his.
Put another Kun-Heaven Box in front of him and he could open it with the panel walking him through her method step by step.
Which explained why it hadn’t suggested her earlier.
She’d invented the thing on the spot, after failing repeatedly, part outrageous luck, part nerve, part careful hands.
She’d gambled her life on it, she won.
He glanced sideways at her, she’d come through a life-and-death gamble and hadn’t mentioned the danger once.
Her sole concern was not being pregnant, he had no idea what went on in there.
Maybe to Celeste, nothing he could say about her work would ever measure up against giving him a child.
That dismantling method was rare enough that if word got out across the Exalted Continent, or the Azure Spirit World, it would cause an uproar.
Learn that style of reverse dismantling and nearly every sealing method in existence goes obsolete overnight, Celeste didn’t care about the fame and didn’t care what it would do to the world.
A genuinely good woman.
Soren smiled and flicked a finger, stripped of its seal, the Kun-Heaven Box burst with a dull boom, splinters scattering across the floor.
Lysara and Celeste both leaned in.
Inside sat a palm-sized sphere with a deep luster, not unlike the dragon pearl in Orathis’s body, up close, purple and black currents twisted through it, specks of starlight drifting in them like a galaxy.
What bothered Soren was that for all its weight on the eye, the thing put out no energy fluctuation at all.
His instincts said otherwise, the thick liquid turning inside it was compressed out of something terrifying.
The orb didn’t lack fluctuation, it kept every trace of its aura sealed inside, leaking nothing.
That alone said enough.
In anyone else’s hands it would stay a mystery, in his it opened up on contact.
The moment he closed his fingers around it, the panel filled.
[Kun-Heaven Nether Pearl. The key to unlocking the Kun-Heaven Nether Sea.]
[The Kun-Heaven Nether Sea contains a vast reservoir of special energy, alongside pure cosmic destiny.]
[Master can utilize the Heavenly Dao Demonic Form to absorb the energy within the Kun-Heaven Nether Sea, accelerating cultivation breakthroughs.]
[The Kun-Heaven Nether Sea is a legendary ocean belonging to the Kunpeng Beast Clan. Their Sea of Origin.]
[Detailed data will be unlocked once Master makes physical contact with the sea.]
The Kunpeng Beast Clan’s Sea of Origin, interesting.
Soren smiled and dug through the panel for where the Kunpeng were and how to find the Kun-Heaven Nether Sea.
Find that sea and his strength could reach Middle-Tier, maybe Upper-Tier Demon Ancestor in short order, he might push Victoria, Bruce and the rest up a rung too.
[There are no Kunpeng Beast Clan populations in the Exalted Continent, the Kunpeng here vanished as early as the Immemorial Era.]
[Today, pure-blooded Kunpeng exist only in Beast Continent, with a remaining population of roughly tens of millions.]
[For one of the former Ten Great Immemorial Beast Clans, tens of millions is lower than a ninth-rate beast clan.]
[A starved camel is still bigger than a horse. Every pure-blooded Kunpeng possesses formidable combat strength, and many large beast clans will not provoke them.]
[The Kunpeng Beast Clan is a fallen lineage.]
Soren frowned, no Kunpeng on this continent made finding the Kun-Heaven Nether Sea considerably harder.
The next stretch gave him something.
[Since immemorial times the Kunpeng Beast Clan has kept a unique tradition.]
[Upon the birth of clansmen, they conduct a bloodline screening.]
[Members with qualified bloodline intensity are raised within the main lineage under the highest standards of cultivation.]
[Members who fail are stripped of a portion of their bloodline and demoted to a branch lineage, serving the Kunpeng Beast Clan as vassals.]
[With most of their bloodline extracted, the branch lineage gradually loses the Kunpeng beast form and the Kunpeng destiny.]
[Their cultivation becomes far harder and slower, and they suffer bottlenecks in realm.]
[They are reduced to sacrificial pawns serving the main lineage.]
[Once demoted, they may no longer bear the name of the Kunpeng Beast Clan.]
[The main lineage considers two physical forms within one clan a severe taboo.]
[Therefore the branch lineage is known as the Sky Sparrow Beast Clan.]