Death... and me

Indeed, the Spirit Stream wasn't far away. All Rean and Kentucky had to do was continue heading west. Since they knew that a Spirit Stream would be close to the Azure Lilibel race's territory, it also meant they would find it sooner or later. That's exactly what happened a little over half a day into the journey.

"Oh! This thing is definitely huge!" Kentucky hadn't seen it before, so he was quite impressed.

"Alright, you can admire it another time," said Rean. "Follow the Stream until we find a Spirit City that has an entrance into the Stream. We need it to cross the continents on our way to the demon beast territories."

Kentucky nodded in response and followed the Stream closely. It's just that Spirit Cities were quite rare, so he didn't know how long they would need to fly. 'Well, there was supposed to be a Spirit City close to the Azure Lilibel race. It's just that we don't know if we're following the right direction of the Stream to get there,' Roan mentioned.

Yet, it seemed like they selected the wrong direction to fly as a whole week went by without seeing a single city. "Seems like we weren't lucky..." Rean couldn't help but complain.

Meanwhile, back in the Winged Provis race's territory...

"What do you mean they simply disappeared?" An expert from the Jakarta Sect suddenly asked. "Do you know how much we need them?"

Fran didn't quite like his behavior. "Dalanbi, right? First of all, it was your fault for letting them escape from your territory. Second, we only found one of them. We don't know where the rest is. We even checked that Light Element boy's Pocket Dimensional Realm, and there wasn't anyone else inside. Last but not least, it's not like he could spread your Starlight Body Cultivation Technique method since it's purely based on chance. I know it's important, but perhaps it'll serve as a great experience for them in the future."

"Wait!" Dalanbi was taken aback by the last part. "What do you mean by Starlight Body Cultivation Technique?"

Fran was the one confused now. "That's why you're looking so desperately for those twins, no? We found out your reason for wanting them back too badly. Both of them cultivated the real form of the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique. At the very least, the boy with Light Element has found his real star. I guess his brother did the same from what he told me."

"This..." Dalanbi was shocked by that revelation. Back in the Free Continent competition, Rean and Roan barely got involved in any fighting at all. Naturally, the Jakarta Sect members who were watching couldn't tell they were cultivating it. Finding Starlight Body Cultivation Technique users wasn't hard. The problem had always been to find anyone who had found their real star. Jakarta Sect was the only force other than the devils and angels to have achieved that. "Are you sure he was using the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique with his real star? Wasn't it just some random star like everyone else?"

Fran already understood the issue. "So you weren't looking for them because of the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique?" It was obvious that Rean had lied about it. No, to be more precise, it was them who reached that conclusion by themselves. Rean just went with the flow and agreed with it. "Anyways, I'm sure he had found his real star. I used my Spatial Powers to pressure him myself. I know very well how much pressure I have to put on a cultivator of his level to break them. His body cultivation technique surpassed any other body cultivation technique by far. His body's sturdiness only lost to the bodies of divine demon beasts in that regard. There's no mistake."

Fran also took the opportunity to ask. "If the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique wasn't the reason, then just what was it?"

Dalanbi shook his head, telling Fran, "It's his knowledge that we're after. Your spirit races aren't very interested in formations, but we humanoid races are. That boy and the others we're looking for have a type of knowledge that's too beneficial for us."

Dalanbi then took out a Thoughts Transmission Talisman and immediately sent a message back to the humanoid races. A moment later, he received an answer. "I see... so those twins were the responsible for that change in the stars..."

Back when Rean and Roan had found their real stars, the top experts with real Star Bodies had noticed their appearance. They had since then been investigating which power had awakened body cultivation experts to no avail. So far, they felt it happen four times without knowing the origin. Rean and Roan were obviously two of them. The third one was the guy whose Roan got the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique from. Lastly, it was Luan, who Roan explained how to find his real star.

What did that mean? That meant that it was probably the twins' group who awakened all those real Star Bodies by finding their real stars. It was, again, another reason to find them at any costs. That's because even the Jakarta Sect, the angels, and the devils didn't know a method to make that happen. They all relied on luck and countless Starlight Body Cultivation Technique cultivators to perhaps get a fluke after many years. In the Jakarta Sect, for example, there were only two users. They were the Jakarta Sect's oldest ancestor and its actual Sect Master, Prodal and Zeswer.

After processing these thoughts, Dalanbi went back to the main topic with Fran. "Do you know where they were heading?"

Fran nodded, saying, "When I captured this Light Element Affinity user, he was traveling together with one of our race members. They were both going to the Azure Lilibel Race to acquire Azure Stream Crystals. It seems like that guy was very good at forging."

Dalanbi was even more certain it was the right person. From what they found in Huring Continent, Rean had a revolutionary forging method that could gather elements on its own. Azure Stream Crystals were Divine level materials and very good ones at that, so it made sense he wanted some of those crystals. "Now that I think about it, did he really go through the trouble to come to the spirit races' territory just to get those crystals?" He couldn't help but find it hard to believe, though.