Two Hours. Two freaking hours I slept and I wake up with one of my mum's missing. I felt like my dreams just shattered and I’m extremely depressed. Damn, I didn't think it would be this serious. When you cultivate, the higher realm of cultivation you achieve, the better control of emotions you attain. It's not like they disappear or anything, it's just a passive benefit. It makes the extremes of emotions that could influence you seem slightly distant. With the strength of the soul though, that distance is enough to suppress you're emotions temporarily and make smart decisions. If you act impulsively in the cultivation world, you die. With so many emotions that I’ve been ignoring for so long, and without my cultivation, I’m hit pretty hard by this. Although even to me it doesn’t seem like much of a reason I made plans to bask in familiar love and have a true life again. So when I wake up and one of my mothers was gone... i just felt like it all shattered.  

If I could move my under-developed body I would have noticed that she was just getting up to change clothes but of course, I can only move my head and she's behind me. After I realised what happened, I felt really embarrassed and refused to explain what happened. 

After a few more hours I fell asleep again. I didn't talk, I didn't try to find out about political situations in the capital or any family situations in order to secure my safety like I planned before I was reborn and I didn’t try and tell them anything about me. I just wanted to be there. I wanted the warmth that I was missing for so long. Speaking honestly I didn't have much of a reason to live. My goals for strength where the result of the countless tragedies in my life that eventually turned into an obsession. When I passed out, it was the result of using all my pitifully small amount of power to use mana projection and write words as i was unable to talk. I can't give up this obsession, I already know that. It's become my base reason to live after so long. But, I do still want to have a family now so this 'warmth' I feel from them affects me a lot as well. Overall, I feel like I’ll just become powerful but stay in this world. Technically it's a better option anyway as any items that increase cultivation will attract small amounts of impurities which are a pain to get rid of so cultivating based purely on mana isn't a bad idea. It will also stop me from running into any troublesome enemies dead set on making me a 'concubine' or 'wife'. There are a lot of men who simply use their power to force woman into submission in the cultivation world. I won't let them do that to me. 

As such, I turned my focus inward. While I’d like to talk with my parents, I simply don't have the mana levels to have long conversations with them yet so instead I will be focusing temporarily on cultivation. The inside of my body is filled with channels to help my cultivation speed. Technically, I still have 'meridians' but at the same time, I don't. It's more like I made my own set of meridians, improving it. In reality, it is more like they are 'doorways'. Meridians can be used to damage you just as much as they help you if used by someone experienced. My doorways however are more like literal doors that suck in mana like crazy once they are opened, they don’t link to nerve clusters that can disable me. For each realm, I have one doorway with ten 'windows' in it. It was kind of a requirement that I couldn't work a way past to have physical barriers that I need to unlock for cultivation but I still made sure that they aren’t something hard to unlock. There's a lot of ways to explain it but instead, think of it like the difference between a rock wall and a clay one should I be comparing myself to an ordinary person. Life's not fair, get over it.

Anyway, right now I was absorbing mana. I was purposefully doing it slowly so I could observe the reaction it has with my body just in case there where side-effects but there was nothing that stood out. Making a body is one thing in theory but no matter how much research I had done, there was still a possibility of something going wrong in my new body so I was glad when nothing did. So, I sped up my absorbing speed to its max and mana started to gather around me in a visible vortex. Usually someone stocks up on mana before sending it towards the wall. What I’m trying to do though is something different. I am using the mana to weaken the wall to the next realm (already finished unlocking all ten windows) until it's on the edge of breaking before stocking up as much mana as I can.

Once that was finished and I was at my capacity limit, I broke the wall with a small push of mana. My reason? If I fill myself to the limit before expanding my limit, of course the newly gained size will be bigger as compared with doing a normal breakthrough. My control, speed and natural superiority means I have a mana pool probably around three times the size as any other second realm cultivators. The more I do this, the larger the gap will widen. Still I wasn't ready to stop yet so I began to repeat the process. By the end of the day, I was a fifth realm cultivator which was my target, a mid-levelled strength in this world, well atleast not counting the ones who left and then came back. My mana pool is probably around a ninth realm cultivator though.

The reasons the realms are seen as such big gaps is because for every 'door' you unblock it becomes easier to use your mana, meaning it is faster, stronger and more versatile. So even if my mana is the size of a ninth realm cultivator, I still don't meet their standards yet. Honestly I will have to do a lot of training to get used to my reduced control in this body, as seen when I passed out earlier. I couldn't even feel my mana pool emptying since it was so small, it was ridiculous. 

Still, today was good progress. I have a few theories I wanted to test and that is why I focused solely on cultivation all day but for now, this realm will prove wether they are worth pursuing or not but I need to give my body time to catch up with my strength. My mana levels still need to strengthen my physical body before I can do too much. Right now, using my mana pool would probably damage my body so for now, I will be sleeping instead. That should make my body easier to influence as when someone is aware, mana's strengthening, manipulation and destruction influence is drastically lower on the body. A sleeping victim who isn't unconsciously protecting themselves are much better targets. It works the same way for sudden strength increases as well. The more you sleep, the better you're body can handle the strengthening. I left a quick message saying that I can't talk anymore until my physical body can before I drifted off to sleep.

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[POV Change]

Six months ago, I gave birth to my third child. Before I even knew I was pregnant with her, I received message from our god saying that this new child would be special. Honestly, I was disappointed when I heard that. For a child of mine to stand out even more than they already do as a princess... it sounds like a lonely life. While Kara, my wife, grew up in a noble household and as such, doesn’t know as much about the burden of standing out like I did, the only heir to the throne, she did still understand my worry to a certain extent. I know how lonely it is. Everyone see's you as a tool, true 'friendship' isn't even possible and they all either have ulterior motives or the feeling like they are below you, making it impossible to make friends. If everyone you meet is trying to use you or tiptoeing around as if they are walking on glass, relationships become rather fragile and loneliness is guaranteed. But even with that, there was always a chance for me to talk to some nobles without them shrinking away from me. Scarlet though, from the moment I found out I was pregnant with her, was already destined to stand out even more than me.

So, when I heard about it I felt sad. In the past there are all sorts of cases where nobles or kings end up with warped personalities due to their loneliness. It's not something I would have wished upon a newborn child, to stand out above all her piers and have status above everyone else. I was wrong though. It seems that 'awareness' was a lot more knowledgeable than I could have expected. I mean, just her knowing the language was amazing, let alone when she projected mana into writing when she was only half way through the first realm. To know a heap of random details on top of that? Yeah, I underestimated what our god classified as aware. I don't even know a fraction of the random things she knows. 

But that was reassuring to me. I knew she would be lonely as even with awareness she would still be growing emotionally but with this amount of knowledge, it's closer to reincarnation than being granted awareness. The only thing convincing me that it wasn't so would have to be how immature she seemed to be emotionally and socially. So, with what she knows, I have hope that she won't be warped by her isolation. If nothing else, she has two older siblings as compared to me who was an only child. 

I think what surprised me most though was when she broke through to the tenth realm after only three months. From what I can tell as well, she only cultivated for about two days of that time. Personally, I am in the ninth stage of the twenty seventh realm as I was born with massive talent before adventuring the stars and coming back with Kara to start a family but honestly, for someone to break through the tenth realm in a max of three days worth of cultivating, no cultivation resources or even an enchanted training space is monstrous. Passed that, she hasn't even tried cultivating for the last three months and she broke through to the eleventh realm. Sleeping, eating and occasionally talking is all she has done but yet she advanced past a stage that some people can never pass. 

I'll admit, I was jealous. But more than that, I was proud. Proud that my daughter was such an accomplished cultivator. Still, she really slept a lot. Like, twenty hours a day, sometimes more. But no matter how much it would seem like she doesn’t care to spend time with us, I’m not that naive. I can tell from her actions and the daily conversations we all have that she genuinely cares but she doesn’t know how to express it. I think that's the main reason I’m content with it. Instead of simply being the birth mother for a future god like I half expected, just waiting to be cast aside as if my daughter didn't care about me, instead I was given a kind and caring daughter who tries her utmost to make us happy. Even if she sleeps a lot, she still manages to make me feel happy. 

I can tell how awkward she is with words though. I know for a fact that she can talk now but instead, she still sends the little written messages for us to read. Occasionally she will try to hold a conversation with words but it's as if she has to have a while to build up her confidence to talk first. Honestly, it's as if she's both extremely shy and not shy at all with her two communication methods. It's weird though. To me, it doesn’t seem like she is unsure of herself or that she has any embarrasement for a situation, it's more just an awkward nature with talking. The feeling i get from it is as if she could talk perfectly naturally normally but instead, she over analyses her words too much and as a result, avoids them. 

That's not really important though. Recently, she's been slowly staying awake for longer and longer and now we are up to six hours a day. Of course, her siblings are ecstatic about this as they felt ignored when she was sleeping instead of playing with them but she seems to be the happiest. It's not weird for babies of the royal family to be able to walk at six months due to their natural superiority from birth but she's been walking since four months old and I’m fairly certain she could have from a few days old, it was just too much of a hassle for her. To be fair, I think I’d like to let my muscles and nerves develop for a while first before stumbling around like an idiot as well so I can't exactly blame her for it. Being mentally mature in a baby’s body would be massively stifling.

Occasionally though she does weird things that I can't explain. A few days ago, it was Amber's six birthday, meaning she is allowed to cultivate starting from now based on our laws. But surprisingly, Scarlet spoke up with her real voice and told her not to. She said that if she waited a few more days instead she could make her mana more powerful. How she will do that, I had no idea until this morning. It scared the hell out of me when I saw it and it still does but that’s of little consequence. I saw her forcefully starting Amber’s cultivation for her by using her own mana. Due to how mana interacts with other people’s bodies, this should be impossible and usually results in permanently crippling the target but yet she somehow managed to do it perfectly. 

When I tested Amber just to make sure, I was surprised to find that her mana had absolutely zero impurities. I know due to my strength how important mana purity is and I also know that no matter how much concentration a child puts in they have a limit for how pure they can make it due to their mental immaturity but yet, Scarlet was able to forcefully make her mana perfectly pure, something believed to be utterly impossible to every common sense I have ever known. Because of this I checked Scarlets mana and found that not only is hers perfectly pure as well, she even has a monstrous amount of it as compared with what an eleventh stage cultivator should have. Once I got over my shock I asked her to do it for Emerald as well and she was happy to comply. I'm not sure what she needed time for to be able to do it for Amber but for Emerald, she could do it immediately. Amber was quite upset though since she had to wait so long to cultivate while both her younger siblings where able to do it at a younger age, one from the moment of her birth. Still, if she understood how amazing this was she'd probably be crying tears of joy and pledging eternal service. From what I know, as long as her talent is decent she can carry herself to the god realm now just based on purity alone. 

The knowledge that all three of my daughters can become gods with enough time and a little luck was a bit overwhelming. At the same time though, I was thankful. This will give them a massive advantage. Still, when she told them to come to her before any breakthroughs and that she would help them it felt like I was overloaded from hearing so many impossible things in a short time. There are only so many miracles someone can take a day.

But for as amazing as she was, I never saw her as a tool like a lot of other mothers in my situation would. I know that with that talent she can forcefully bring our empire up to a high level power just from the amount of wealth she can get for it alone but why would I sacrifice her happiness and mine for such a crude goal? If she wants to, she can. But if not, I’d prefer to live the one life I have to it's fullest. For me, strength was always a secondary objective and family, friendships, adventuring and love where my goals. From the moment we are born, the knowledge that unless we become a god and live as a hermit for eternity we are bound to die meant that living the life I had to the fullest was always more important. Sure, I can screw a friend over and become more powerful but what about my own happiness? Power never brought me happiness before so pursuing it now at the cost of my own happiness would be foolish. Death doesn’t scare me but dying after living a pointless life does. Dying with regret is much worse than dying without regret in my opinion.

As such, the gods’ threat that if we treated her like a tool our world would be destroyed was unnecessary. My third daughter may be a gift from the gods, but all my daughters are gifts from the heavens to me. What does a little extra talent do to change that? I still love her and I wouldn't sacrifice her for the sake or advancement even if I didn't have the threat from the gods. 

In the last six months, her body has slowly started to grow into something amazing. Originally, her hair wasn't visible due to the fact that she hadn't grown enough of it to show the colours. Sometimes, a baby’s hair colour will be clear from the moment they are born. But scarlet? She wasn't like that. Due to the cultivation, her hair is actually about two metres long right now and as I was watching it grow longer and longer, the depth to it just got more and more amazing. Almost every colour imaginable in a tone of almost-black but still identifiable. Every two inches, it would change into a new one. The longer her hair got, the more colour’s there where. Once her body catches up to her hair... well, it will be an amazing sight to behold. So far, even the brighter colours by nature maintain that almost-black feature so it all melds into each other naturally while being noticeably beautiful and glossy as well. I've never seen hair like it in my 900 year life.

And her eyes? They where also unique. Where someone would usually have a single colour with varying shades, she instead has an icy dark purple colour. Throughout the entirety of the colour, it was like there where miniature cracks in her eyes, like it's ice or glass. Of course, they aren't really cracks but different shades of that purple in varying degrees of darkness suddenly over each over but it was amazing to look at, like a sculpture made out of thousands of glass shards, perfectly fitted together. I've never seen eyes like it before and they are, quite honestly, the most amazing eyes I have ever seen. If not for the god’s assurance, I’d really wonder if this perfect being was actually my child. I'm still not sure. She grew in me so she technically is but can it still be said when a god created her and she looks ridiculously perfect, at a stage of perfection I’ve only seen on a single cultivator of stage thirty being a match for? Even then no one else’s eye's and hair match up with hers. Once she reaches stage thirty... I think a normal mortal would die of shock. And right now, she's still a baby. Once her body completes it's natural growth period as well as the beauty she gets from cultivating, it will be absolutely universe shaking. If not for her reassurance that we had two hundred gods watching over us I’d go into hiding with her until she is at the top of the god realm. Can you imagine the amount of marriage propositions there will be? I'd be surprised if she didn't get a hundred a day at least. I always heard guys joking in my travels about how much a beautiful woman could topple nations but it was only when I saw my daughter and that stage thirty cultivator that comes close that I really saw the reality of that statement. From what I’ve seen in statues, only the gods can match up to her in beauty and that's because they literally get a massive boost from becoming immortal and being at stage forty. It is scary to think how beautiful she will become. I am considered a once in a generation beauty. Scarlet? I think it'd be closer to a once in existence beauty. There's not even a comparison once she grows up and becomes a god (something I have no doubt she can do easily).

Overall, she is probably better than the god who gave her to us. Our god killed fifty five thousand other gods, so what does that mean for this little ball of perfection when she becomes a god? Will it easily turn into 550,000 instead? I just feel like she is something greater than anything or anyone else. It's an aura she's had from the moment she was born and an instinct that screams that she is naturally superior to any other. But yet, this amazing being is my daughter and I only feel love for her instead of devotion and fear like I would for anyone others with the aura. I know that she will change this world forever simply by existing. Who wouldn't feel proud of a daughter like this? But the real answer that makes me a mother is that I do but I still care for all my children equally, just as they care for me. Family means everything to me, and I am sure it will to my daughters as well. 

Maybe one day I’ll even attend their weddings. Like, a very distant day. At least a thousand years away, hopefully. Maybe two thousand…. Or ten.

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[Normal POV]

I felt guilty about it but I had to try. On my sister’s birthday, I told her not to cultivate for a few days. At first, the few days was just to make sure they would believe in me which they did easily. Because they trusted me, I gave Amber perfect mana cultivation. In truth, I’m probably one of the only god's who's bothered about researching how to do this for a mortal. Because of that, although I know it's difficult I can still do it fairly easily with my current eleventh realm cultivation. But the reason I feel guilty was that I didn't believe in them. I wanted to, oh I definitely did. I wanted them to trust me and to treat me the same even after I showed them something which nations would kill each other to acquire but as much as I wanted to believe in them, in the end I still doubted them. So, I used the chance to give my sister a perfect core and reassure myself that my family won't treat me like a tool. I may feel guilty about it but the doubt I had... it was there. I knew there was a possibility that I read my family wrong and that they would try to manipulate me into using my power for their gain while not angering the god's threat. There are always boundaries to a threat or promise. Most people in this situation would push them and I had to reassure myself that they wouldn't.

Of course, the result I got was even better than I expected. After being at first freaked out, thinking I would cripple amber, it just went to being stunned and then being happy. There was nothing to indicate that any of them even considered using my talents for their own gain. That was the last string making me hold back with my family. With that last doubt gone, it got much easier to talk and interact with them and my worries disappeared. I might feel guilty for doubting them but the result... even if I feel guilt, the love I felt from it far outweighed it and my life got a lot happier rapidly. 

In the past eight months, I’ve been withdrawing into my soul-scape most of the time. This is one of the powers I picked up and added to my soul. As far as I can tell it is extremely rare but since it is a soul-based power, the possibility that anyone can be born with it exists. It is basically a small world inside your soul that you can enter at will or when you go to sleep, you enter it as well. If you truly want to sleep, you can sleep inside of the soul-scape but otherwise, you're body will still be asleep meaning mana can still influence it but your mind will not be. One of the major benefits of it is that you can see yourself on a screen while your sleeping. Because of that, it's basically impossible for anyone to mess with your body while you are defenceless. The best thing though? Your mind can't be manipulated or controlled. Since your mind itself is always 'conscious' instead of the unconscious state that is necessary to mess with memories, thoughts, desires and instincts it means you are always safe from tampering. 

They are all the side benefits of this place though. In here you can run any simulation you want, create any situation you want and build anything you want. Obviously it can't transfer out of the space but so what? This is a way to make overwhelmingly dangerous combat situations seem perfectly realistic and safe. It's obvious that combat helps to improve skills, instincts and reflexes. With a space where you can create any simulation with complete realism and no threat of death? It's a heaven for cultivators. In here I can even bring my power up above the god realm and slow down time. I could sleep for a day and have a week in here. While I can't physically increase my power I can definitely increase everything else. I have an impossibly hard potion to make with extremely rare items? Fine, make it in here a few thousand times first and I’m set to go. The potential of this room is crazy. And if I train in any mind and soul arts, I have the perfect conditions to actually grow those powers. 

So, for most of the time I was sleeping, I was in here. Obviously death did affect some of my skills. In reality, even with my memories being attached to my soul my brain was still something I spent a long time training, wether it be reflexes or processing skills. With a new brain, while I haven't lost my massive amount of skill I have it has certainly regressed by a fair amount. In here I can train them back up easily. I have the perfect condition to do so, after all. Still, there are obviously limits. I can't just create something out of nothing. It's not like I can ask for a book about how to destroy the universe and get it. If I haven't seen it, I don't have it, it’s as simple as that. But I can write new books and stuff like that in here. I can use the realism in order to manually create things I haven't seen. To some people, this place would only be decently useful since they haven't seen enough but to me, it is amazingly useful. I even have a theory that I can bring other people in here with the right mind-arts. I could teach someone about everything I’ve learned while we're sleeping and no one would even be able to tell.

It's things like this that I did so much research for. Something that normally you wouldn't even be able to see revealed from research and memory reading. If not for the fact that I found a god that I couldn't mind read even after they where asleep, I never would have found this power. At the time, I was stumped how they managed to block it so I tried and examined everything. In the end though, I made it look like I’d given up. That's the thing though. I didn't. I had come to the theory that something resembling this room existed and I waited a few tens of thousands of years before trying again, hoping it had either worn off or they got bored and turned it off. And, with that, I was able to access their memories as they went to sleep and find out how I could replicate it. While time can go faster inside, it couldn't go slower. I knew boredom would win out eventually so I staked them out for a damn long time. The results from my patience where amazing. Never let it be said that patience is pointless. While it's difficult, it is also very rewarding, as seen by the fact that my patience got me a heap of knowledge, power and potential. I'm actually tempted to become a god again and hunt a few hundred thousand more gods to repeat this process.

Make a minor change to my body to change the race, ask mum to give birth to me again and then store a heap more power into my soul. It's already strengthened to the level where no one in this universe can shatter it and i will likely keep my memories after death. The power doesn’t get wiped from souls from death (I did tests) so even if I never leave this universe I’m destined to become a god easily from now and into eternity. But in the end, I’m not completely sure about the memories part yet. So if I channel a few hundred thousand gods into purely my soul strength, my power will be massive. There's also the fact that to pass to the next realm, most don't even strengthen themselves like I did. If I strengthen my soul to such a massive extent, my chances for survival increase drastically. I know I won't be able to hunt people in the next realm due to my power being lower but even if I could, I can't trust anyone to give birth to me there. For all I know there are techniques reverse mind wiping and control so it would be like having a time-bomb, assuming it's even possible there anymore. Seriously, there are so many unknowns that it's better to improve before ascending. Whether I will have the patience to or not though, I have no idea. I know I’m still massively above most of the people who went up (if they succeeded) but how much of a difference will that make in the long run? I'm not sure.

Anyway, back on the outside I’ve slowed down my cultivation. I want to spend more time with my family and once I got to the tenth stage, my body started to hurt. After a few days pause, it was fine but I know that if I improve too rapidly it will break. Sure, I can heal but who knows what side effects that'd have on my body. I might just heal directly into a weakened body that breaks again. I have to leave time for my body to be strengthened. Right now, it's like the overwhelming mana pressure my body is taking is crushing it like there's too much gravity. If I don't get used to the gravity, I can't turn it higher. Well, that's a bit of an over-reaction since it only takes a week at most but still, it's better not to directly increase my realm too fast. But, from today I’m going to try and keep it on the edge. With the mana pressure, my body will be strengthened from it but also I will get a certain amount of strengthening simply from my breakthroughs and mana levels. If I add this to the base, it might be like the mana pool trick I found. Stretch it to its limits to add more body strength onto what I’d get passively.

I have a few actual body strengthening techniques I’ve been using as well but I want to test this out to see if it's more efficient. I'm hoping the pressure will strengthen my meridians and mana channels instead of just my body as a whole. The stronger they are, the faster the mana can flow without damaging my body. There are a few methods to strengthen them but the price is mana impurities so instead I’m trying to find an alternative, atleast until I’m back in the god realm and I have enough mana that it's not so hard to clear the impurities. So, for the next four months I will be experimenting with this. There's a good chance I can get to the thirties with four months of dedicated cultivating. Still that’s under the assumption that once I get to the edge keeping it there will slow my progress, like when you have a sore muscle and your training slows for a while to let it heal. If I keep it sore but don't extend the injury, I might need to only do light cultivating to keep it as it is. I'm not sure though since I’ve never dealt with it before. I guess I’ll find out in the future.

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"So? What did you want to tell us?"

I had gathered everyone together to tell them that I’d be actively cultivating now.

"I-I'm planning on cultivating for the next few months..." Damn, my voice. I still can't talk my mind properly.

"Won't it be dangerous? You told us already about what you're mana-level increases can do to your body."

Yeah, i did tell them that. Mummy is asking right now. I decided to call my birth mother Mummy and my second mother just that, Mother. I brought it up and they had a massive public battle in a coliseum over who gets which name. It raised money, publicity and reputation while they duked it out for the mommy name so it was a win-win to them. Well, win-lose for Mother but that's not the point.

"I... I want to test something... it's not dangerous" I denied. 

Unless there's an unexpected side effect but even breathing might have an unexpected side-effect, it's perfectly safe.

"Uh-huh. I've heard that one before." Mother levelled a doubtful look at me.

"Hey! That was an accident!" I shouted in reply, blushing.

"Guh! Idiot, you made her pout." Mummy said as she covered her eyes. She really has no resistance to me pouting so when she's trying to be serious she just refuses to look at me instead. Mother though...

"Aww, but it's so cute~" She sung to herself. She's really a masochist. There's no doubt that I’d pout and she has no resistance to it either but yet, she looks every time. I can understand why cause it is cute but... really? She tries to make me pout just so she can be tortured by it. 

"Please, Mother. I know it's not dangerous, okay? I just really want to try it" 

Judging by her face, she was about to agree easily with the puppy-eyes and pout combination but Mummy put her in a headlock so nothing got out.

"Tell me why you want to do it first or no deal." ... ugh. 

"I want to see if the mana-pressure can strengthen my meridians and mana channels. As long as I keep it at a certain level, which will be easy, i should be able to test that and even if it doesn’t strengthen them, it's better to get my cultivation out of the way when I’m young so my natural growth can build off of it to strengthen my body a lot more than others. It's perfectly safe, I promise,” I explained. Mummy looked a little pained.

"Does that mean you want to leave this world?" She asked with a hurt voice.

To think that's what she was worried about... I feel horrible.

"No! It's the opposite, I swear! I want to do all my cultivating here and even after that, I’ll stay here for a long time! I don't need the cultivation resources from other worlds due to my talent and I already have a heap of information about everything outside of this world. I have no reason to leave at all and if I’m stronger, I can test a lot of things and protect you better." I said hurriedly.

"So you don't want to go adventuring at all?" She asked hopefully.

"No, not at all, I promise. At most I’d go collect materials and then come back but I doubt I’d even need to with my soul-scape" 

Her face lit up visibly and suddenly she was super happy. Actually, the turn around makes me think she played me...

"What's you're soul-scape?" Grandma asked suddenly, startling me. I forgot she was there...

"Sigh, grandma! I told you last month! Have you already forgotten? It's the 'space where you can go boom-boom without destoying stuff' as you put it." I whined.

"Ah, now I remember" She said with a clap. "I have one of those too! My wife used to always knock me out when I got angry and make me stay in there, such a barbarian. Why couldn't I kill the mean politicians?" She asked me with teary eyes.

"Wait wait wait. You have a soul-scape? Do you even realise how rare that is?" I asked in disbelief.

"Huh? But, I’ve always had it so I just thought everyone had one. Cindy used to come in with me as well. She had one, so did her sister..." She said hesitantly while I just gaped.

"Grandma, out of a trillion people only one would have a soul-scape. You're telling me that you, you're wife and you're wife's sister had one?" I asked with an awed voice.

"Y...Y-yeah?" She look panicked.

"Where you supposed to keep that a secret?" I asked blankly.

"M-maybe... just, ah, just in case don't tell Cindy, okay?" She pleaded while I was stunned with the revelation that Cindy was still alive.

"Cindy is alive? Why isn't she here then?" I voiced my question bluntly.

"Ah, a dragon is holding her captive since he likes her cooking" She said without a care in the world.

"Umm... what? Why don't you sound worried about that?"

It seems it was my parents first time hearing of it as well judging by their facial expressions.

"W-well, Cindy makes me follow all those annoying rules and stuff so I just, umm, y-yeah, so it's just a vacation" Grandma said with a awkward laugh.

"Mum!! You told me that she went into secluded meditation!" Mummy screeched at her.

"She did. Just at the dragons place." She said with a nod while I just face palmed.

"You left her there for three hundred years!!" She yelled again while glaring daggers.

"A-ah, really? Well, that's not that long so it should be fine, right? Why are you getting angry?" She was totally failing at hiding the guilty look she had.

"Full name, location and the dragons name, now" I said sternly to grandma.

"Cinder Primrose, used to be Cinder Treilin. At the, umm... i think it was the big lava world about twenty cultivation planets to the right? And the dragon, well he called himself "RAWRR! YOU WILL COOK ME GIANT CUPCAKES FROM NOW ON!" before he slapped me away." She said with a finger on her chin and tilting her head. The voice she said that in though... this time, my face palm left red mark and a really loud slapping sound.

Closing my eyes, I mentally commanded towards ten of the links in my mind. 'Temporary objective override: Find Cindy Primrose, also known as Cindy Treilin and free her from captivity. Keep her safe and ask what she wants done to her captor before following her command and once it is fulfilled, return her to my location and resume normal duty. She should be in a nearby world and her captor was last known to be a dragon. Most likely residence is in any cultivation world within 30 worlds with lava as it's domain.'

'Yes.' Ten voices echoed back with a dull, almost mechanical voice.

"Mummy, it's fine. I told the god, she'll find her." I interrupted as mummy was yelling at grandma and getting up to go fight the dragon.

I also decided to ignore the frantic shaking of grandma's head trying to tell me to take it back. Mummy knocked her out when she saw it.

"Sigh, why is my mother such an idiot? I really can't let her do anything alone, can i?"  Mummy said while rubbing her temples. Mother got up to comfort her while stroking her hair. I totally know that's an excuse though. She has some weird hair obsession and she uses any excuse she can to touch peoples hair. She was also patting the KO'd grandma's hair at the same time. I knew about the obsession because I can see it with my Soul-Scape. When we've all gone to sleep, she get's up and starts stroking our hair. I'm pretty sure that's why she always has small bags under her eyes and not because she's a dedicated queen. After sleeping like two hours a day every day even her cultivation can't keep up with it. Honestly, it's weird but it feels nice so I don't mind. I can still feel my body in the Soul-Scape thought so it's really distracting to feel the sensations on two bodies but I guess that's a form of training as well.

A few minutes after that, Grandma woke up looking really depressed and was forced to sit in the corner until my other grandma returned. I've already decided to call this one grandma airhead instead. Cindy gets to be grandma.

After another half hour, ten gods appeared with the grandma I’ve never met before and then disappeared. Grandma Airhead jumped onto her legs crying about how mean her daughters where before grandma just looked at her blankly and stepped on her back with high-heels. It was really disturbing when I realised they have a Sadist-Masochist relationship based off of the small signs of them both enjoying it. 

"Mummy! I'm sorry, we only just found out you weren't in cultivation!" Mummy said while rushing Grandma into a hug. I mean I didn't even know she was alive so they still have a one up on me. 

"She was sneaky, huh? I guess I’ll have to punish her later. Since I’m weaker, when Diago hit her away she pretended to be hurt and ran. What an idiot. I saw through her easily. Dumb dragon, he didn't even question it, the haughty son of a bitch. Now, care to explain to me what I’ve missed?" She asked as she casually took a massive dragon head out of her spatial ring and mounted it on the wall. Then she attached it's dick to it's head though and wrote 'Here lies Diago, a haughty son of a bitch who died and became a dickhead.' Pfft, what the hell. It's in the main dining room as well... 

"Mummy, I told you to leave you're dickhead collection in the trophy hall! It's already bad enough without you putting it in the DINING hall!" She squealed at her while grandma just made a bored expression and looked the other way.

"Yeah yeah, i'll do it later. So, you're fucking my daughter, aye? Tell me, has she become good at it yet? She never talks to me. Sigh, kids these days" She said really casually with a bored voice and expression while Mother just went completely red and stuttered.

"Ah you're the innocent type. So, corruption sex then? Or humiliation?" She asked with a lopsided grin.

"Mummy... ugh, maybe I should have just asked for you to be left there. There's children here and you come to greet my wife with how our sex life is." Mummy lectured with a scowl. You could totally tell she was happy though.

"Idiot, you really thought I wouldn't come to my daughters wedding? You should have noticed as soon as this airhead told you I couldn't come." She scolded right back in return while Mother looked flustered.

"You're face totally gives it away. You were busy too busy fucking each other to realise, weren't you?" I asked with a dead expression and voice as I accused them both, Mothers blush confirming it for me.

"Bahaha what the hell? Seeing a practically newborn child with such long hair talk like that... pfft" That was the first time I saw her composure crack so far and even covering her mouth didn't stop it.

"Sigh, mummy this is Kara Primrose, my wife and this is Scarlet Primrose, born eight months and four days ago. There are two older children but they aren't here at the moment at they are socialising with the other nobles in the common room. Kara, Scarlet, this is Cinder Primrose, my mum." Mummy introduced for us.

"Wow, so it really was corruption, not even using protection in your sex. Nice to meet you and all that." She said with a wave as she started drinking some of Airhead Grandma's wine and pouring gravy on her. 

"It's nice to meet you as well" Mother said while fighting to hold her blush back.

"You're amusing." Was my comment.

"And you're way too perfect to come out of my daughters vagina. Who are you really?" She asked me sceptically.

"Mum, seriously, language! And for you're information, she did come out of me! Our god told me she'd be special, don't just assume she's not my daughter" Mum scolded before finishing with a cold voice at the end.

"Eh, you're so uptight. Relax, no one's gonna explode just because you talk loudly" She said with an overly-dramatic performance of covering her ears painfully.

"Anyway, you're special, aye? Yeah, you have a soul space. Call me Cindy or grandma, whichever's fine. I'm the chick that's fucking this stupid airhead masochistic useless pig bastard down here and the one that popped your mum out of my vagina. You can come to me for any kind of sex advice if you want. Anyway, I haven't done anything but masturbate for the last three hundred years so I’m going to make use of this useless slab of meat for a while. We'll be back in a week, k?" And then she was gone, with one disturbingly pleasure-filled scream that echoed out in the room and a crater appearing in the wall in the shape of a human. She could sense that I had a soul scape? The airhead didn’t notice it till I told her (wouldn’t surprise me if she did though and forgot what it was. Or if she completely forgot how to sense it.) so I wasn’t expecting her to notice immediately.

Mummy scolded me because I couldn't stop laughing and then she went to go get someone to fix the wall and move the dickhead wall mount into the trophy room. I suddenly had an interest in this never-before-seen part of the castle and I was determined to sneak away with Amber and Emerald to see it later. First, I abused my authority as a slave master with two hundred gods to get them to send me a mental image of a full 3-D map of the castle with notes marking each room. It was rather disturbing when I found there was a twenty-kilometre big sex dungeon in the castle that was split by a wall and door. On the other side was a torture chamber. I have a feeling I know exactly who had that built, especially as it was under grandmas' room. Overall though, the castle was absolutely massive, just like I knew it was but the space enchants made it even bigger than I realised. I did find a lot of interesting things as well. Originally I didn't care about the map because it had no importance to me and I could get it anytime but now that I have it, there are a lot of fun things to investigate.

For example, an 'abandoned secret lab' which was perfect for scaring the crap out of noble kids in the castle and my siblings. I'll have grandma check it out first since I’m not sure that it's safe and since she's cool enough to not ban me from going in. Noble kids... I’d prefer not to accidently get any of them killed or release a bio-weapon on accident. The next point of interest was the mausoleum. It was a secret room made by one of the creepier past queens that has a skeleton of everything they've ever killed inside covering the walls, hanging from the roof and set up in ways to look as if they are desperately trying to escape the chains holding them in the ground. Even I was a little creeped out by that, let alone those kids. 

There where a few things I didn't appreciate though. For example, in one noble’s house there was a secret rape/torture chamber where she had around a hundred current prisoners in varying degrees of health. By the looks of it, she literally breeds them down there. The next was a few different tunnels used for spying on their competitors and, if necessary, smuggling tunnels for kidnapping and assassination. I'd be sure to provide a full list of them to Mother, as well as a list of some of the more questionable ones as well to be put on observation. Of course I wouldn't tell everyone the majority of escape tunnels as if it get's leaked, we wouldn't have access to them and assassins could get in easily. Plus, I wanted to explore them. The others though? While having a private sex dungeon to use on your partner like grandma does isn't bad (maybe a little disturbing), having a slave dungeon where you rape and kill commoners is not tolerable at all. And since they've been bred down there like livestock for who knows how long, no one even had a clue as there weren't even rumours about disappearances liike there usually would be. It's disgusting and I will make sure she suffers for it. 

But while all that has varying degrees of interest to me, what would have to be the biggest point of interest would be a massive underground cave about twenty kilometres below the castle. There is a single tunnel doing down to it through the use of piano keys and down there was an underground stream. What was the most interesting though was that it was literally set up to be a copy-cat of the batman cave, it even had the same equipment down there. The only difference was that it took longer to get down to by elevator and that when you go through the underground waterfall, there is an underground tunnel stretching twenty thousand km's before coming out behind another waterfall. Seriously, who the fuck made that? Reincarnated batman, a batman fan or a really bored cultivator? Shit, I so wish I had friends who knew what batman was to show it to. Maybe I should make a program in schools so that reincarnated people can get special rights and then befriend someone from that version of Earth? Meh, whatever.

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[POV Change]

Recently, the queen (one of them) ordered me to create a new program for reincarnated citizens. Should they come out about having memories of a past life and pass the lie test, they will be entered into a special program where they get some good benefits from it. Naturally, at first I was completely confused. Reincarnation? Does that really exist? But I implemented the program into the education systems with the benefits I was told to: Scholarship access to a private school which supplies cultivation resources and free lodging for direct family members and possible job offers after schooling has finished. Not surprisingly, there where many people who applied, hoping to cheat the lie test. So, after seeing a few thousand notes on people lying, I had given up hope for the project and assumed it was just a crazy rich persons idea of a joke.

But then the unthinkable happened. We began to get positive results! Out of every few thousand false applications, there would occasionally be a true one. Overall, it wasn't much but with a few days, it built up and we had two hundred reincarnated children attending the private school. Naturally, I was stunned and so too where many of the higher ups in the nation as well as the commoners. But I’m no idiot. Different worlds have different cultures and different training methods. If we can capitalise on these children’s knowledge, all sorts of possibilities open up to us! Due to the success of this operation, we began offering the same thing for adults as well. Of course, it was fairly different compared with the system for children. They can live freely in apartments but if they want free cultivation resources or money, they have to attend a one-hour session each time to give information of their past lives to government workers. Any valuable information will be rewarded with extra resources and if someone is talented enough, they can even be offered a job with well-paying benefits. 

Of course this also had a lot of false applications but in a world of cultivation, there were obviously a lot more adults still living who where reincarnated as compared with children. Girls of all ages flocked into these new programs and over time, the education system was updated and cities started developing. With another few years, we will have skyscrapers and flying vehicles, public transportation, sewer systems, new sports and even an entertainment industry. All of a sudden, our nation that has only been focused on cultivation had departments in science, biology, technology, enchanting, medicine and magic research. Information was released to the schools that the purer your mana is, the easier it is to cultivate. Everything changed within a few months, all due to whichever genius decided to use the knowledge of those with memories from other worlds. For the first time, we even have public holidays and celebrations. Best of all though? There where programs being implemented to help the poor and sick, to feed the hungry and teach every child. Instead of purely focusing on realm levels, we where now focusing on everyone, using weapons to be able to enter the military and separating them between long-distance bombardment squads and cultivators. 

So much changed in such a short time but our economy? Instead of taking a hit, it began to boom! Multi-levelled buildings like apartments meant we had more houses for everyone without going to war for land. The farming techniques advanced massively and now we have twenty story silo-farms with enchantments helping growth. Twenty kilometre large buildings where made with multiple levels filled with mana-gathering formations for public cultivation, increasing our military strength as a whole and getting large amounts of money for the twenty copper a day entry fee where spread throughout towns and cities. Sports fields, fighting arenas, orphanages, official general markets as well as multi-levelled shopping malls. Over a few months, massive amounts of jobs where created and money was added to the nation from both the influx of production, tourism (female only, unless political) and public events. So much happened practically over-night that people who went into seclusion for a few months came out thinking a thousand years passed. 

When it was leaked that it was the third princess who had asked for a division for reincarnated citizens, she was hailed as a hero from billions of people. How it got leaked? No body knows. But what we do know is that from now on, this princess will go down in the history of this nation as the founding mother of our culture and the reason why the world became a brighter place. Overnight, we became the biggest nation in the world with an almighty military strength, an amazing cultural development and two hundred gods to back us up. Religion was founded and it was made public knowledge that there was one 'leading' god and two hundred 'underling' gods. The biggest change though would be the massive formations the nation was layering down throughout every city to passively increase mana-density. With this and the public cultivation rooms, the nations strength would increase massively once again.

What had the other nations pissed though was there was nothing they could do. Even with spies to collect information, there was so much of it that nothing was being achieved. Due to the influence they let the nobles have, the kingdoms couldn't make major changes over-night and worse yet, they where losing mass amounts of woman to immigration. Opposite to what they expected about how the majority of woman wouldn't leave due to how 'disgusting' it was to be in an all-female nation and relationships, there where hundreds of thousands of deserters within a few months. Due to how horribly men treated their wives, how fearful a common woman was everyday with the risk of rape, kidnapping and torture and how they starved, bled and suffered endlessly, woman just up and left, and there was nothing they could do about it! The kings knew it was over. They could never go to war with a nation that has gods on its side and with how stubborn the councils are, they could never catch up to the all-female nation's progress. They are already destined to either die out or mass-migrate to another world. 

For the rest of the world, even men began envying the nation they once considered preposterous. There was no way the other five nations would be able to catch up to our level. Unless they hit a jackpot and found another world with our level of culture, they where doomed to continue living in poverty and inequality. Rubbing salt in the wound though was when word got out of the gods laying a massive formation array below the nation to increase health, beauty, strength and mana-levels. With all that and the arrays below cities and towns, as well as the public cultivation, the mana in the air was suddenly ten times richer just by being in a normal field. With health and beauty increased, peoples lives where more comfortable and disease was rare. 

Overall, due to this one decision the world changed forever and even the gods showed their support of the nations advancement. Scarlet Primrose had become a legend, one that would never be extinguished for as long as the gods protected the world. And… I almost died from exhaustion when the mana I was using to forcibly keep me going ran out without me realising and I collapsed into a two week coma. I was thankful for the changes but please... I want to sleep as well! Why, oh why, was overtime introduced! It's so addicting, getting more money like this! 

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[Normal POV]

Yeah, my random idea got totally out of hand. Who would have guessed that the nation I’ve been raising for so long had such a life-hack to it's development? I was even able to order an array down once I had an excuse like rewarding them for the progress. Somehow though, both my lives have gained the same level of importance in the citizen’s hearts. It's weird. I know that I am both people but yet no one else does. Even then, I have such a large amount of influence. I mean, there's literally a religion about me being the queen of the gods. It's true but it's kind of a weird feeling. Well, atleast this nation will have some fun stuff by the time I enrol in school. I was rather dreading that future event without any places to go and hang out at like the mall, movie cinemas, theme parks, photo-booths and all those other fun school activities. With the rate of development as well, it's definitely going to be ready by then. Even the public execution of the noble who was raping commoners was completely overlooked for the most part, to the relief of the family of said noble. There was a kid down there with really good natural talent who I broke through with pure mana as well. Right now, she is only four years old but she naturally feels indebted to me. I've been visiting her regularly to help with her mental recovery and cultivation. 

Ah, I’m two now. My birthday was yesterday. The results of my experiment where good, as i was hoping. My mana channels and meridians (doors) where strengthened by it and now I’m at the thirty seventh realm, officially making me the strongest in the nation. Gods don't count. But on that note, it also gave me an idea for a new formation I’ve been working on. Since Mummy and Mother, as well as the S & M pair has been rather busy since I made the cultural boom accidently, I’ve had a lot of time to work on it. Basically, I want to make it an easily accessible formation that can be installed in places that paid enough money. But i also want to make it so that no one below a god can decipher it and the installers/ pre-builders of it are bound to secrecy oaths. Why? Because I’m 90% certain no one else has it in the universe so far. The concept is simple. Increase the mana density to extreme levels. But the why is different. It's not for cultivation, it's just for straining you're mana channels and meridians. If it works out right, this nation can become a super power just based on this alones influence. Pretty neat right? My guess is that since they are usually used for cultivation it was just never discovered or those who did horded it. It is a little more complicated since you need to make it target your meridians as if it's your own mana but it's still doable. Of course though, there are side-effects. Not many, but still some. If you want to alter your body in the future, it's harder. If someone damages their meridians from crossing the limit, it's harder to fix and if someone with damaged meridians uses it, they are harder to repair. It's not something major but it is still a disadvantage so it needs to be used carefully. 

What I’m stuck on though is how to generalise this formation. I don't have to go to school until I am six but I’m hoping to generalise it by the time I’m four so that I have a chance to use it at school. Honestly, schools a bit of a waste of time for me but I’ve never experienced it before so I want to give it a try. I have nothing to lose from it and I want a normal life to a certain extent even if I am strong. Right now I’ve managed to make most of the formation design but I am stuck on the cost of it. You see, unlike a lot of formations it can't be made simply by inscribing it onto a surface and keying it in to collect the natural mana in the air. To target the users channels and meridians, it has to be keyed into their mana. What this means is I need to have a way to set multiple owners onto a formation as temporary ownerships. It's hard but doable, as everything is. But the problem is with the materials needed to do it. So far, every combination I try uses very rare materials for that process. For the rest, it is s simply as engraving it in but for a 'keystone' sort of effect, I need an Unorthodox Blood Stone. Out of all the bloodstones which are rare by themselves, about one in a million is an unorthodox one, basically a mutated one that only has temporary blood-binding. Obviously, this isn't good enough for me as I want both time limits to the binding and 'owners'. Basically i want to have a computer control it with a system admin and temporary uses, the higher the time and concentration the higher the cost. The stone is simply too inefficient and costly for what I want done.

Because of that, I’m working on combining computers and enchanting together. Mana-imprinting as opposed to a blood imprinting is temporary with varying lengths of time based on the mana's strength. So, I’m trying to make an automatic enchanting process where the user pays and then puts their mana into the machine for the time they are booking it. It will write a temporary 'ownership' over it and they can use the formation inside. It's a lot harder than I expected though. Yes, I can make it pretty easily. No, I cannot make it so easily as to give access to the public yet. I naturally want the temporary ownership computer style thing to be widespread. Private cultivation formations for the different things you are cultivating are a must. Fire mana, water mana, normal mana and even spiritual energy formations... if they are easily customizable, wide-spread and cheap, the nation will boom.

So overall I am still having trouble with my project, but that's because of the nature of it lead me to my computer problem. Still, I have high hopes for the future for now. Maybe eventually this world will even become a hub for cultural, technological and strength improvement. Most cultivators don't bother researching these things which is stupid since arrays and formations improve cultivation speed, recovery and strength. To not research it simply because you want to gain strength instead is something idiotic. It is literally a fast track to strength. I mean, just by the gods laying a formation over the nation, general strength, health and happiness increased massively. Sometimes I really don't understand the idiots who don't strive for perfection when perfection is what leads to true strength. Cultivators are idiots. Don't they know that concentrating for so long on cultivating can actually be bad for their cultivation? Relaxing in a hot-tub, getting a massage, watching movies and playing games are something basic but effective. Over time, we wear down our mental strength and it causes actual physical problems for us but yet, they think taking a stupid pill will fix it. No, you idiot! The pill is making your cultivation harder and you're injury more frequent! 

Ugh, whatever. They can do what they want. I'll atleast be improving my nation instead. The good thing about a technologically advanced society of cultivators is that everyone can atleast reach a certain base strength through casual cultivation. Go to work, cultivate in the evening, sleep and relax with friends and after a hundred years, you're a stage ten even if you have terrible talent. With that if they dislike the society they can just go off-world and kill minor beasts, go on adventures and make money through trading items. Ah, I just realised I forget to mention something. Yes, the slave gods are all female. Wouldn't it be insulting to a female-only nation if the gods where male? But I am thinking of creating a tourist city once the world is ours that allows males in. For political and economical reasons, having a major city sectioned off from the rest of the world where males can visit for trading, cultivation and tourism would be useful. Eventually, it will change into a world as we get stronger but for now, this is fine. Big ideas, small world... well no, the world is actually like ten times the size of earth. Not the point.

Overall, I’m satisfied. Due to my accidental life-hack for the nation it has improved drastically and became something worthwhile. Before I only cared about my family on this world but I guess that this is the first time I’ve really felt the world was my home as well. After everything I’ve discovered and explored in my last life, technology and cultivation are both important to me. So a world that is one or the other like most of the ones I’ve visited so far isn't really something I like. But now that my nation is merging into a mix between it, I’m rather satisfied. 

My family is still what is most important to me though. But now... now the world and the people in it have some worth to me as well. I wonder where that will take me in the future and how i will change because of it. After all, having a family has already changed me majorly so what will having a home do?