even if the evil spirit seemed to have genuinely surrendered and accepted his death, aster didn''t drop his guard, camila didn''t remove the spears that were restraining it, and he didn''t let go of the skull of the giant undead, at the slightest sign of the evil spirit trying to play any trick, he will kill it on the spot.

the girls on the other hand started picking the loot of the previous battle, all those undead had yin accumulation crystals working as their cores, instead of dantians, so after they were destroyed, their cores became resources for others.

the evil spirit saw it and he chuckled, he had already used all his cards in the previous battle, the formations he controlled collapsed when aster broke some of their parts using annihilation, the swarm of undead he controlled were destroyed, his other half was defeated and the evil spirits he was using to fill the missing parts of its spirit form were destroyed, not to mention his movements were sealed, it was a complete defeat.

aster sat on the ground as he waited for the evil spirit to continue its explanation, he didn''t urge it to answer faster, because he could see the soul fluctuations on the head of the evil spirit, meaning it was going through its memories.

for those whose sous had damaged, memory loss is quite common, take rya for example, her soul is so full of cracks that it is amazing she can keep herself together, though she is doing a bit better nowadays.

it took around ten minutes for the evil spirit to finish what it was doing, his expression changed quite a few times during that period of time, but ultimately it remained clam as he said.

"sorry for the wait, it''s been a while since i was "myself", well to be more accurate, since i remembered who i was... anyway, this place which you call "silicon forest", is an ancient battlefield contained in a pocket dimension that suddenly appeared my native galaxy".

aster raised an eyebrow, the term pocket dimension is an archaic way to refer to secret realms, it''s been really a long time since anyone called them like that, also no one knows when the entrance to the silicon forest was created.

when the ancestor of the fritz of a few dozens of generations ago was assigned to rule this stellar system by the drage ruler of that time, the area where the entrance appeared was barely starting to show signs of spatial fluctuations, and it only appeared later.

in other words, since the times didn''t match... that meant there was another entrance somewhere.

aster kept his conclusions for himself and listened to the evil spirit which continued with its story.

"at first when this place opened it was considered by everyone as a treasured land filled with yang attribute resources, which helped many cultivators advance, however the prosperity soon turned into calamity, because this place was a huge trap, my galaxy was invaded by people from another galaxy which used this place to lure cultivators here".

"naturally we weren''t weak and those who were trapped at the peak of heavenly realms saw it as an opportunity, and thus a war started between the two cultures, nothing out of the ordinary since the weak will always become stairs for the strong to ascend".

"in fact, after many battles, we both became acquittances and the killing stopped, instead of that a bridge between two civilizations was built and we explored deeper into this place, originally the size of the land was around one thousand times what it is right now, based on the range which my senses could reach, but a lot of the forest was destroyed during the last fight".

aster nodded, that explained why the outer area of the silicon forest was a lifeless desert, while the middle area was had some green besides the crystal trees, also those crystal formations could probably be the primitive form of the trees, that are now growing once again to recover the forest which was lost.

still the current silicon forest is huge as of current, even if you were able to survive the scorching heat of the three suns to fly over the dome-like treetop of the forest, to fly and do some air recognition, you''ll only see a limitless dome-like tree top all the way to horizon, since deep area of the forest also had the crystal trees, and you can only see where it starts due to the ominous sensation of being near its entrance.

and the evil spirit said that it used to be one thousand times bigger, that is insane, it means this place was quite a few times larger than the treasure planet of the myriad occupation sect, which is massive, the number of resources one could find in such a large secret realm is hard to imagine.

but then the evil spirit regained a hatred filled expression, it''s just that this time it wasn''t antinatural like before, nor it was directed to aster.

"it was then when some members of the young generation accidentally discovered the true nature of this place, it wasn''t a promised land but a trap set up by a third party... every time someone died in this pocket dimension, it was drained of all their yin or yang depending on the situation, and all of that was absorbed by the ground".

"originally we didn''t pay any attention to it, since we weren''t actively attacked by the crystal trees, only by spirit beasts, so we just took it as part of the nature of the ecosystem".

"but that wasn''t the case, it was a formation which was doing it, a formation so large and well-created that even the soul sovereigns that initially visited this place, couldn''t notice it, because it was placed in a "forbidden" area of the pocket dimension", said the evil spirit as he looked upwards.

but then to his surprise aster shook his head.

"i''m from a heavenly quadrant, probably in a similar level to yours, i think there are some people related to higher ranked places, but they are too weak and were destroyed by the rulers of the respective heavenly quadrants", he said.

back then, when mylene''s existence was revealed, lilia recognized her last name, but the description she had fitted with the members of the distant branches of mylene''s family, which were eliminated by the drage a long time ago.

the evil spirit gazed at aster and only after it confirmed he wasn''t being lied to, he continued.

"while some were willing to become lapdogs for those guys, there were people with some backbone who weren''t willing to become slaves, serving the strong is one thing, but becoming someone''s bitch is another thing", said the evil spirt with a wild smile on his face.

"so, all the heavenly realm cultivators that had some balls joined and attacked this place in a try to destroy it, whatever that hand was, it was only able to attack us with the support of the galaxy-formation, which was linked to this pocket dimension, so we just needed to destroy it and then purge what was left from the invaders".

"unfortunately, even with the powers of five hundred peak heavenly realm cultivators combined, we could only destroy two of the suns and three of the moons before those guys noticed us, and then the slaughter started".

"the giant hand didn''t attack us for some reason, but giant pillars of light descended and killed some of us, also their army of pawns surrounded us, it was then when we decided that if we couldn''t win, we might as well drag those bastards to hell with us, so we all detonated our dantians", said the evil spirit with a crazed expression.

aster raised an eyebrow, a genesis manifestation can already destroy a small sized planet with some time, and a peak transcending realm, like lilia can do so with just a move of her hand, sure she is way stronger than others, but that''s a recognized scale.

a heavenly conqueror is strong enough to single handedly suppress a star cluster, according to lilia, that''s why the minimal expression of territory in which a heavenly quadrant is divided is a star cluster.

so, imagine more than four hundred of those self-destroying themselves at the same time, the result is a catastrophe of incredible proportions, and still the silicon forest survived and there were still three suns in the sky, as for the moons he could see two the last night, and there was a reason to it, which the evil spirit confirmed a moment later.

"we couldn''t obliterate this damned place, and some of the nodes of the galaxy-formations survived, the core of it to be more accurate, luckily we did manage to expulse those bastards out of out galaxies and closed destroyed their entrances, a piece of my soul and my flesh survived and i landed in what was left of the ancient battlefield".

"the armies which accompanied us became lifeless bones and were assimilated by this place, then the cycle of the three suns and moons continued, i was asleep for countless years being kept alive by the overflowing yin of this place, until people started entering once again, or more accurately until people started dying here again".

"some evil spirits were born out of them and my resentment allowed me to attract and consume them to somewhat return to life, with m flesh i created that giant undead and after some time i realized that the objective of those guys survived too, so i wanted to revive, snatch that thing and then become strong enough to bring horror and carnage to their galaxy just like they did to mine!", poisonously spouted the evil spirit, before it calmed down again.

"who would have thought the day when a rogue cultivator like me, would seek revenge for the death of some unrelated guys... no i just can''t forgive that they dared to look down upon me, that''s what kept me alive up to this day".

th evil spirit then gazed at aster before it sinisterly smiled.

"so, do you want the treasure at the center of this place, kid, it''s something which was worth the death of hundreds of peak heavenly realm cultivators, and the extermination of the branch of a family from those high places kekeke".

aster softly snorted, whatever the case was, there is a big chance that the diamond bone orchid is growing near the center of this place, since it''s a spirit herb which can keep growing without any limit according to rya.

just like diamonds, they compact and become more precious with more years, rya only needed one that was within the mortal realms, but the flower which will be the base for her new skeleton will keep growing with her, just like any living being, that''s the property she needed from it.

but it seems that there was another treasure here on par with it, or maybe even better, depending on the situation, he doesn''t mind taking it if it''s useful for the girls, there is no need to encage a bone orchid after all.

"speak", he said, making the evil spirit, or more accurately the soul fragment of the blood despair sovereign smile.