Heaven, Earth, Me
Chapter 1261. Disciples Arrive! Yasenia’s Energy Control.

Feixue and many other disciples received a letter that very morning with a map pointing at a location where there was nothing. They heard that on the third and sixth days of the week, a new teacher would be giving them classes on foundational control of energy and other similar subjects. However, most of them were still in the dark about who this person was. 

Still, the seal at the bottom of the letter could only come from an elder of the sect, so disobeying without a good reason could be grounds for expulsion from the sect. And so, the nearly 310 disciples Yasenia was in charge of set off on a small journey to the place they were told to go.  

While walking there, Feixue saw Shen Miao and Xing Luo walking together in the distance. Her face became strange for a moment, but remembering that day being pampered by Yasenia, her feelings were much calmer. After hesitating for a few moments, she walked forward and spoke up. “Shen Miao!” 

The woman looked to the side, and when she saw Feixue, she smiled widely. “Xuefei! Where have you been?” 

“Ah…” Feixue scratched her head and looked sideways. “I was cultivating. It took a while to accustom myself to some of the things Master said to me. So, until I got it right, I didn’t want to go out.” 

Xing Luo spoke with a smile. “Since Star Forge Lady told you, it is normal to focus on her teachings. How did it go? Since you are coming to this new teacher’s classes, I guess you’ve been successful?”

Feixue looked at the man and smiled faintly. “Yeah. I heard that this new teacher is a great beauty, so I was curious and came to look.”

Shen Miao frowned imperceptibly. “Is she? I hope she wears something modest then.” 

“Why?” Feixue chuckled. “Are you afraid that she will steal Brother Xing away?”

“Ha?” The rich girl’s face turned red. “How could that be? There is a seniority difference!” 

Feixue laughed, and the three of them continued the journey together. Seeing that Feixue was well, Shen Miao slowly recovered her usual, somewhat haughty but inwardly gentle personality. 

After an hour of walking, they finally arrived at the place, and their jaws dropped. Someone muttered.

“Was there such a location here in the past?”

“You must be joking.” Another answered. “I came here around two weeks ago to hunt a few beasts, and this was a grassland between mountains.”

“Are you sure?”

A profound voice reached them from above. “He is right.”

Everyone looked up and saw Star Forge floating above them with crossed arms. She was wearing a simple white dress, but the way she carried herself made her look like someone who governed all that fell under her gaze. Everyone quickly bowed deeply.

“We greet Elder Star Forge!”

“Rise.” Star Forge waved her hand, using her energy to pull everyone up. Then, she landed in front of them and observed the few buildings in front of her. “A tower with five floors, a building of similar height, training grounds, a large pillar of some kind, and a few arenas… What is this woman trying to teach?”

As she muttered, a mellow and seductive voice reached everyone. “Oh? You are here? That’s great~.” 

Then, Yasenia appeared in front of everyone, a few meters above the ground, with her arms slightly spread open. Her large dragon wings allowed her to glide down slowly, making the floor-length skirt flutter behind her figure. The wide sleeves of the blue dress with white dancing phoenixes fluttered, making it seem like the illustrations on the dress were alive. 

Until Yasenia’s foot, covered by beautiful brocade shoes, touched the ground, everyone was involuntarily holding their breath. After all, the dragoness had not put a veil on her face today. She was going to teach these children, so she wanted them to become a bit accustomed to her beauty. Appearing with a veil and then taking it off would have a much bigger impact than directly showing her face. 

“Welcome, children. I am Yasenia Dravory, a new Elder of the Star Immortal Sect.” Gathering her hands elegantly in front of her belly, Yasenia spoke with a faint smile. “I will be giving you classes about many things. My objective when teaching you is for you to be able to understand yourselves and develop your energy control.”

Star Forge raised her eyebrow and looked behind her. Seeing that almost everyone had stopped blinking, she had to admit that this woman’s beauty could only be described as calamitous. Wherever she showed off, she would become the center of attention. Star Forge spoke using a bit of energy in her voice to snap the poor disciples out of their daze. “You are not greeting your new teacher?”

Everyone was startled awake and quickly proceeded to bow. “We greet Master Dravory!”

“En.” Yasenia smiled and looked at Star Forge and asked with a huff. “Why are you here?”

‘Is she still mad that I didn’t help her?’ Star Forge smiled silently and spoke. “To make sure you don’t steal the souls of our disciples away.”

“Ha?” Yasenia frowned. “I am a Dragon, not a Soul Eater. Why would you worry about that?” 

As Yasenia and Star Forge bantered with each other, Shen Miao tightly grabbed Feixue’s arm and stuttered. “H-H-Hey, i-i-isn’t that your—”

“Shh…” Feixue put her finger in front of her lips. Then, she nodded silently. “Yes. I’ll explain later. Now listen.”

“O-Okay…” While she still had doubts, Shen Miao nodded. Then, she looked at Xing Luo, and her eyebrow twitched. She could understand with her head why the man would be dazed as he looked at Yasenia, but her heart was not okay with it! She kicked him rather strongly. 

“Ouch!” The man almost went to his knees.

“Hmph. Stop ogling our teacher, lecher.”

Xing Luo laughed awkwardly, trying to hide the pain. ‘Was such a forceful kick necessary?’

At that moment, Star Forge commented. “Either way, will you show us around? I don’t think you are truly going to give classes on the first day, are you?” 

Yasenia harrumphed again. “You are here, so I won’t! I don’t want you to steal my knowledge for free! Or people to call me Star Forge’s Lap Dragon!”

‘She is definitely still angry about that.’ 

The dragoness stopped messing with Star Forge and looked at the over 300 disciples. With a small smile, she spoke. “Let’s go on a small tour. There is not much to see, but enough to at least need some explanation. Come.”

Waving her hand, everyone, including Star Forge, was transported to the location. Naturally, Star Forge allowed Yasenia to move her around; otherwise, such a thing wouldn’t be possible. Still, when Yasenia shifted everyone, Star Forge’s neutral expression tensed. ‘What is this? Such sublime energy control… She doesn’t lose to our elders in the slightest.’  

But this created a question in her mind. ‘With such advanced energy control, how is it possible for her not to have developed an Intent Domain?’

If Star Forge knew that Yasenia had just recently broken through, she would probably jump in shock. Even then, as she glanced at the formations that were set up around, her eyebrows raised with curiosity. ‘Didn’t she say that she was a Spirit Cook? How come her formation mastery is comparable to a Low-level Transcendence Realm master?’ 

“Let’s start from the tower. Everyone must be curious, right?” When the dragoness spoke, they all looked up at the tall tower. “This tower is an energy control tower. To pass from floor to floor, you need to have what I consider standard in energy control for each realm. For example, if you reach my standard of Mental Nourishing Realm energy control, then you’ll probably be able to unravel the energy entanglement that I set up from floor one to floor three.”

Someone spoke up. “Um… Master Dravory, what is an entanglement?”

Star Forge was also curious. She had not heard about such a thing in the past. Yasenia smiled. “It is something I’ve come up with. Energy is a flow; it follows patterns and natural laws to manifest in myriad shapes. Therefore, I thought, what if I take one of such manifestations and entangle the energy process? The result would be… this.”

Yasenia extended her hand, and a ball of tricolored light floated above her palm. The red, white, and yellow ball of light looked like an entangled yarn ball. 

“This is a simple technique called [Earth Shattering Light Fire Punch]. Once you unravel the energy threads that make it up~...”

They saw Yasenia directly handle the energy with her fingers, ordering the colors in certain patterns, and then…

Whoosh!

A phantom fist manifested and flew into the side of a nearby mountain. 

Boom!

A small explosion occurred, creating a tornado of fire that surged upward.

“...the technique manifests.”

Star Forge’s calm face froze as her eyes widened and she looked at Yasenia as if she had seen a ghost. “How did you do that?”

The dragoness blinked cutely twice, her golden slit eyes showing confusion. “Do what?”

“You…” Star Forge pointed at the side of the mountain. “You delayed a technique’s activation by entangling its energy! How is that even possible!?” 

Yasenia exclaimed. “Oh, that!”

Star Forge almost smacked her. She spoke through gritted teeth. “What else could I be referring to?”

Yasenia chuckled. “If you are trying to use this in combat or something, forget about it. The principle I used is based on Talisman Mastery. One of my children is very proficient at it, and after seeing her practice a few times, I came up with a way to do something similar. However, it can only be done with much lower-ranked techniques. For example, the one I used was a Spirit-Ranked technique, which is almost at my limit. The effort, energy, and many other factors that go into it are just not worth it.” The dragoness raised her finger and said proudly. “But! It is very good to teach energy control!” 

The powerful woman didn’t know what to say. She rubbed her forehead and sighed. “Why are all dragons so irrationally talented?”

The dragoness looked at the baffled disciples and smiled. “Either way, I created the formation of the tower to create these things for those who enter. The one at the top of the fifth level is the technique I just unraveled. Those below will be much easier.” She winked and smiled seductively. “Those who manage to unravel the spells will receive rewards from Teacher Yasenia~. So, work hard, yes?”

Motivation surged in the hearts of everyone. 

The rest of the location consisted of a building divided into floors to give lectures to different realm cultivators, training grounds where they’d practice what they learned in class, and finally, the arenas were where disciples could challenge each other in the event of disagreements.