the evil spirit saw aster''s unwavering expression and he laughed, as a few memories flashed through his mind, probably for the last time, before he said.

"ironically the thing that was worth more than the lives of two heavenly quadrants, and a secondary family branch on par with a ruler level family, for those guys, was a piece of ice, the chains ended in a piece of ice which was inside that cage".

"at first i didn''t know why would a piece of ice was encaged, until i personally scanned the memories of the patriarch of that family branch after killing him prior to the final battle, that thing is a gift that the patriarch of the main family got for his son... a spirit ice in embryonic stage".

the evil spirit gritted his teeth as he continued speaking.

"can you believe it, those bastards wanted to use us to nurture a treasure for some spoiled brat, i was furious, but it was thanks to it that i was able to convince the others to retaliate".

though the evil spirit was saying some unnecessary things aster didn''t interrupt him, instead he was secretly surprised.

elemental beings like esmeralda who originated from a spirit wind, are incredibly rare even in the divine firmaments, otherwise, so many people wouldn''t have risked their lives to get her.

curiously, he heard the auctioneer back at the treasure planet casually mentioning that the drop of prison mercury could be nurtured to become a spirit water, which made him laugh.

to nurture such a being, who is basically the embodiment of a natural disaster that has become sentient due to some special unique circumstances, something like that galaxy-scale ying and yang formation mentioned by the evil spirit was needed.

still, he didn''t know it was possible to find one in embryonic stage, when a spirit elemental appears, it''s already complete, though it doesn''t possess wisdom, until much later, esmeralda had to live for quite some time as an eternal green whirlwind in an isolated planet, before she gained wisdom and started cultivating, or at least that''s what she remembers about those days.

''this guy isn''t necessarily lying, the energy gathered by such a large formation is enough to turn a planet into a paradise for mortal realms cultivators, if the embryo could be in a mortal plane, then it should be weak and in need of nutrients to grow'', thought aster.

this place isn''t like esmeralda''s secret realm, before she formed a contract with kana, esmeralda was on par with a heavenly conqueror and that is after she has weakened over the years due to some unknown reasons, that''s why the laws in her secret realm were laxer, since she descended from a divine firmament.

the evil spirit finished its rambling and then said.

"according to that guy inside that block of ice, there is a rare beast spirit ice called "glacial liger", which was found and sealed at the moment of its birth, but was then lost in the cold space for a few hundreds of thousands of years, before it was captured and sold in an auction".

"it was bought by those guy''s patriarch and then to accelerate its hatch, they used their legacy formation, and some idiot got the awesome idea of using some of the secondary branches to gather "resources" from the heavenly quadrants without backers, and that''s how my galaxy ended up being targeted by them".

the idea of some guys randomly deciding your life isn''t worth anything but becoming fuel for a formation out of nowhere is quite unpleasant, and it shouldn''t be something that the righteous forces openly allow, as far as aster understands.

and he is right, the evil spirit put on a hatred filled expression as he slowly spouted the name of the enemy that caused so much damage to his native galaxy.

"those bastards of the yin azure palace tried to eliminate all the evidences before any of us could ascend and tell others what they did, that''s why even someone from the main family who considered us ants, attacked us".

the evil spirit then pointed at the black crystal altar from which it appeared earlier, before saying.

"just use that dreading golden giant, whatever it is its corroding properties overwhelmed my evil spirits so it should be more than enough to break a connection that has weakened over the years".

aster raised an eyebrow, the evil spirit certainly saved him a lot of troubles, if he could take the treasure and not worry about any retaliation, wasn''t that a win-win situation, but that''s precisely why he was confused, why was the evil spirit helping him.

it was almost time to go, so this was the goodbye, he wasn''t going to spare the evil spirit, the fragment of soul was too corrupted, this was probably the last time it could see the memories of the blood despair sovereign.

in other words, after today, if left alive, it would fully become an evil spirit and probably a ghost king with some time, but it won''t be sentient anymore, and the soul fragment knew it.

"i''m not going to spare you, you know?", said aster as he prepared to finish the evil spirit, the latter simply smiled.

"that''s how it should be, otherwise i''ll be disappointed, this old man lived a killer and died a killer, it is only normal to die at the hands of others, i don''t even know how many years had passed since i died, or if my galaxy still exists, it has been too much for a single lifetime".

he then turned to see aster as he laughed.

"but that''s fine, at the end, they''ll receive what they deserve even if it isn''t by my hands, someone with such a murderous aura is going their way, what can they do besides wash their necks and wait for death, their downfall will still be related to me, so that i can laugh at them from hell hahaha!".

after that outburst the evil spirit noticed his reasoning was slowly fading away, so he laid down on the floor once again and just said.

"go ahead, if you ever visit my frost bone heavenly quadrant, my name used to be damian, surname galius, i made sure that one of my disciples survived the war, by keeping it trapped in a closed space until it reached the heavenly realms, if it is still around them hand it my biggest treasure, the continuation of my ghastly blood manual it''s next to the map below the yin accumulation crystal, of course you can choose to not do so, it''s up to you".

after saying that the evil spirit closed its eyes, its face had started to distort, since the corruption was already starting, the last memories that kept from the blood despair sovereign were used and started disappearing.

aster frowned, but ultimately, he snapped his fingers and the evil spirit as well as the skull of the giant undead exploded in blue flames.

''mm?''.

the evil spirit was surprised that the pain he expected didn''t came, instead of that, he felt strangely comfortable, which made him smirk.

''well, i guess death fits me better than life even at the end, to think i will go ahead and self-destroy myself because i was angered over the death of a little girl, i picked from the streets... i was definitely not sane''.

with those last thoughts, and without knowing he wasn''t killed but purified by aster''s rigel''s flames, the evil spirit returned to be a soul fragment and then passed away.

aster grabbed the yin accumulation crystal from the skull of the giant undead and then walked away towards the black altar.

"let''s wrap things up here and return to the surface, i need to talk with eris, since the plan has changed", said aster.

"mm", the girls nodded and then followed aster to see what was below the black altar.