Chapter 1937 Starting
"Mm. There should be an excellent show to watch. I hear that the Dragon geniuses have flocked to the Nephilim Alliance."
"Oh? Is it starting again?"
"Should be. You know that Dragons have the highest number of Higher Existences. Strictly speaking, Dragons don't have any real territory of their own, their best simply make danger regions their homes. It's no surprise they always go to hone themselves in Nephilim territory."
"Right, right. The Nephilim seem quite crude, but they are an incredibly intelligence race despite their lust for battle. Coupling this with the fact their territories are the most ancient, they do indeed have the best training grounds… I hear there are many places there that even a Transcendent descended from the Immortal Plane wouldn't casually enter.
"That's definitely an exaggeration, but the show should be good. I wonder if the Sprite Battle Gods will last long enough to make it to the Nephilim Alliance Gathering?"
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Dyon, who had just entered the first floor of the martial grounds, suddenly sneered without apparent cause.
'Good choice.' He thought. 'I wouldn't have minded killing a few Sapientia, but oh well.'
The first floor of the tower was surprisingly a Mystical World. From Dyon's understanding, each floor was likely a new one. It was truly a grand display of the Sprite Alliance's wealth.
Dyon himself once had three Mystical Worlds. The Golden Flame Mystical World, the Demon Sage's Mystical World, and the Celestial Beasts' Mystical World. But now, he only had two after his father-in-law absorbed the core of the Demon Sage's Mystical World to bring his new body back up to his former peak.
He had been quite proud of that fact, but the Sprite Alliance actually had nine, one for each floor of their looming tower. It seemed that the outer powers truly shouldn't be underestimated.
This first Mystical World didn't seem to have anything special about it on the surface, just a beautiful forest teeming with wildlife. But, Dyon immediately saw through how this was quite a dangerous area to be in.
'The qi density is incredibly low. For the celestial and dao realms where much of our strength comes from manipulating atmospheric qi, this is as good as snatching over 90% of our strength. Even Luna would struggle here mightily…'
Luna had the strength to match any Higher Existence, but her power was highly dependent on the qi around her. After all, she didn't have cultivation for herself.
If she was in a qi dense area, she was likely the strongest individual on this Mortal Plane, undefeated by all no matter who her opponent was. But, if she was in a place lacking qi, it was possible for her to lose to a child who had only just begun cultivating.
Another weakness of hers was Faith. Faith seemed to be the only qi she couldn't forcibly snatch, so whenever she met an opponent with higher Faith than her own, she would once more become no different from a mortal, albeit a mortal who couldn't die.
Dyon was trying to find a way to fix this glaring weakness of the mother of his child, but it was difficult.
Maybe the crudest solution would be to have Luna carry around an Origin Crystal. In that case, no one would be able to defeat her. After all, even the lowest grade Origin Crystal carried Immortal Essence Qi, the lowest grade energy of the Immortal Plane.
However, there was a glaring problem with this solution, still.
When Dyon used his Origin Crystals to perform tasks, like say using it to power a teleportation array, its power seemed endless. But the truth was that it wasn't.
Why hadn't Dyon given his origin crystals to the puppets within the Sage Tower? If he had Immortal Puppets by his side, he could have already swept through the mortal plane even before the Ancient Battlefield descended.
The Higher Existences of the Sapientia and Nephilim could likely rely on Faith to match the strength of a Immortal Essence expert, but matching would be all.
Dyon had 10 Origin Crystals, one for each of the Master Key Arrays. So he should have enough fire power. So, why not?
The reason was simple. A single Origin Crystal would power an Immortal Puppet for a few minutes at most. The only reason the Master Key arrays were able to be powered by the Origin Crystals for so long was because their power output was dialed down significantly.
Remember this. Weren't the Master Key arrays just of the Planet Grade? Could it be that the 24th White Mother had no ability to draw Star Grade teleportation arrays? Impossible.
She purposely lowered the grade of her teleportation array and used what remained of her power and expertise to focus on lowering the conversion standard of the Origin Crystals.
Essentially, these teleportation arrays were only of the Planet Grade on the surface, but they held concepts even beyond the Star Grade in their depths.
So what was the problem in simple terms? The more power Luna needed to draw out from the Origin Crystal, the more difficult it became to control its output.
The more energy one had to draw from an Origin Crystal, the more difficult it was to control its flow of energy. If one wanted more power, you would need a sturdier leash. But, Dyon didn't have the ability to provide Luna this leash just yet.
At first he believed that Luna would be able to reel in the energy herself, but it seemed that when it came to controlling qi above the Mortal Plane, her abilities took a drastic spike downward.
Dyon could only speculate as to why this was. Maybe the Heavens never intended their Children to reach the Immortal Plane. But, more likely, it was just that Luna needed some more time to practice.
Heaven's Children didn't have access to all of their abilities immediately. The prime example was Eli who needed some time to slowly become accustomed to his limits and how to push by them. They all needed time to mature.