Staring at the changes before him, Sage realized that he suddenly knew what was going on. Having reached a new rank, awakening his Nascent Soul, the Life Nebula had transford. As the source of the cultivation technique, the world created by the Seed of Life had been the center of this universe. Each of the other Heavenly Materials he had collected beca supports for that extrely unique seed. Now, the Tree of Life had grown to new heights. It was no longer being supported by this space. It wasnt protected in the center of the Inner World any longer, now it encompassed this whole inner universe.
With that change made, this internal space beca more similar to that of other universes. The stars, much larger than the planets, had now beco the pivot about which the planets spun. A second star had joined the first. Sage moved closer and he was glad to see his guess had been correct. At the center of that star was a disc shape, one with lines of a slightly darker shade, creating a sort of spoked wheel shape.
Samsara Fla.
Sage had finally felt the connection when he was finishing off Beast Kira. Later, when he entered the dead mans Spiritual Sea, his suspicion had been confird. The orange flas that the man used were actually a Heavenly Fla. The Samsara Fla ignites the soul, causing the victim to experience life and death. Over and over again until their will is completely consud, at which point they would die for real and send their soul back into the true cycle of reincarnation. A return to samsara.
It was no wonder that Beast Kira had beco the leader of this Flares group. He had a Heavenly Fla. Sage guessed he was a powerful pyrokinetic, otherwise there was little chance he could have subdued a Heavenly Fla. When Sage finally defeated the man, the Samsara Fla was fearful of being subdued again, so it tried to fight back, but it wasnt a match for the Seed of Life. The Seed of Life could harmonize with any of the other Heavenly Materials. Where others would struggle to subdue even a single Heavenly Material, Sage could even command those with opposing elents at the sa ti.
The two stars were, of course, his two Heavenly Flas. Each of the other seven Heavenly Materials he had now were represented by a planet in the strange system inside his Nascent Soul. Everything seed quite harmonic and after examining them for a while he zood in towards one of them, descending to the Inner World and bracing himself for the damage.
Surprisingly, things werent as terrible as he imagined they would be. In fact, they were flourishing. When his breakthrough began, he had whisked away all the inhabitants, protecting them from the catastrophic damage that followed. When the breakthrough was complete the inhabitants were forced to work together. At that mont Sage realized his mistake: the increased ti scale of the Inner World. For Sage it had been only a week since the battle, but for those on the planet it had been a year and a half! Sage found a new settlent forming on the surface. Hed pushed them all onto a smaller island, hastily moving all of their supplies and essentials, but there was no way he could grab everything they could need. Over these many months, the people had worked together to fish the seas and fashion necessary supplies. The Dragoons and Hoplites werent the most intelligent, but they had been taught many rudintary crafting skills and could create many things with Steel Silk. Yet, they werent the only ones in the Inner World. Sage had also deposited all of the living Flares. There were also all the Human officers of the Jade Horde left over from Sage defeating the traitors. Last, but not least, three of Kings wives.
At this mont he flew rapidly to the three won and apologized for what had happened. He told them that his life was in danger and there wasnt any ti for him to properly handle things. Surprisingly, they werent upset. The won had been lazing around, feeling sowhat bored and depressed. The sudden crisis had given them a reason to act and they were feeling reinvigorated. Sage quickly got the story from them on what happened during this ti.
The Dragoons were the most rigid. Sage had created them to follow only his own orders. They had only been ordered to maintain their state of readiness, construct equipnt and continue their training. As such, in the beginning they had been quite obstinate and only supplied their own food and necessities. They ignored the others on the island and only cared for their own military preparation.
The Hoplites were without direction and the Human officers had tried to order them around like they used to do. Only their forr subordinates obeyed their orders while the native Hoplites ignored them. The Humans gave their Hoplites tasks and soon they were fishing and constructing structures by draping Steel Silk cloth over wooden fras. Thankfully, the island they were on had plenty of trees and vegetation which helped them survive long enough to start creating fishing boats and nets.
The Flares were worse off. So many of them were poisoned and without Sage curing them, they all died within a few months. They were initially hostile, trapped in a foreign place with their friends slowly dying. Unfortunately, they realized how outnumbered they were. Even with tens of thousands, they were outnumbered more than ten to one. The combined number of Hoplites and Dragoons reached a count in the millions. After realizing the futility of their position, they were forced to work with the other groups and used their unique abilities to fill in the gaps with the Human Officers plans.
Seeing the effectiveness of the humans and their subordinate Hoplites, Kings Wives stepped in and started ordering around the much larger group of native Hoplites. They worked together with the humans and after so ti even convinced the Dragoons to help out. So of the Dragoons had beco far more impressive than in the past and it made Sage eager to et them. They had taken the initiative to declare that as long as it did not violate their orders, they had the discretion to take extra actions. They could maintain readiness and keep training while also assisting the others. Over the year a new settlent had ford and Kings Wives were in command.
Sage was pleased with their performance and declared them governors of this world. He moved their country sized island settlent close to the main continent, turning it into a peninsula with a narrow land bridge to connect them. With access to the vast amount of terrain and nurous Natural Treasures growing there, they no longer had to fish in the seas. After the struggle theyd been through, Sage considered it to be a pardon for the human officers and Flares. They would be treated as inhabitants now. He wasnt going to let them go free, but it ant they would operate as the Hoplites had. With a whole world worth of crops, it was very difficult to manage. The inhabitants of the Inner World needed to act as Sages workers. They were his tenant farrs. In return for managing the plants, they would get a share of the crops as their inco.
He thought about just letting them carry on without any oversight, but this world was just too large and managing all the planting and harvesting on his own would take far too much ti. He left it up to Kings Wives to figure out and impressed upon the other groups that the three of them were in charge. One of the Flares threw flas at him and that man instantly turned into a puddle of blood. Sage collected a pair of Psionic Crystals from the body and the Flares realized that they were helpless in this place. He made sure the Arborist Ranch was restarted and back in operation and then moved on to one last task.
The Hoplites were on the main continent with Flares and Humans, but Sage had other plans for the Dragoons. There was still another continent, the place he raised all his Insects. He moved the Dragoons to this second largest continent, and built them a new and secure headquarters surrounded by a mountain range. They were to train and their training partners were the many billions and billions of insects on this continent. With the two groups competing with each other, both sides would grow stronger. Many were sure to die, but progress could only be made through struggle. Even with the many natural treasures for both groups to consu, an individual only had a certain amount of potential. Without the proper stimulation they would reach a limit. That limit could only be exceeded at the fear of death, the ultimate stimuli.
With just the natural resources of the Inner World Sage could raise millions up to the third or fourth rank, but if he wished for them to go further they would have to push themselves. After the apocalypse that was his reaching rank 6, the planet had grown many tis larger than before, but he still didnt wish to support many millions of weaklings. For one, if he wished to change them once again, that would be many millions who were now useless, and most importantly it would be wasteful. Quantity could make up for quality, but only to a point. Having hundreds of thousands of troops was already more than sufficient, what mattered more was having greater peak power. The higher the rank of a cultivator the greater the gap in power between those in the prior rank. A rank 5 cultivator could fly through the sky and turn an acre of land into ash. A rank 4 cultivator could throw a ball of flas hundreds of yards, while a rank 3 cultivator could extend a flaming sword from their hand.
Sage aid to use the Insects to temper the Dragoons and get so of them to raise to a new level. If it could also inspire the Insects to mutate and evolve to resist them that would be even better.
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