There are a few ways to find Seele.
The countless strings extending towards the horizon is one such example. The Dao of Causality can peer through fate and time itself, much less a person's location.
It's just that I am too weak to use it. Appraisal and location-finding are but superficial ways of the Dao of Causality. Its horrifying aspects include killing someone's past self, resulting in the death of their present. There's also the prediction of the future and inheriting a person's karma, thereby possessing their identity and power.
The quadruple enhancement I received earlier consumes far less than using the Dao of Causality alone. The same applies to all the other "complex" Daos I have.
Hum-!
[True Form]'s active state is opened up immediately. My mental cultivation began to rise out of nowhere. The surrounding space's rejection grew stronger.
The increase did not stop until I reached the so-called half-step Golden Core Realm. [True Form]'s enhancement depended on one's current realm; a percentage increase, per se.
It is why I could not break through to the next level. It no longer depended on the cultivation realm like the prior realms, but something else.
My current mental cultivation allowed my eyes to see more strings. All of them connected me to Seele.
With it as a guide, my travels to the Sea of Quanta began.
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Seele's mental state did not notice her changes. It was as if her inner demons came back, but this time, it truly happened. It took three days for her to snap out.
"Where… Where am I?"
Nobody answered her question. She had no choice but to explore her current surroundings.
It is a ruined city. Piles of rubble lay silent. No traces of humans could be seen anywhere, as if they had been turned into dust. The moonlight from the night sky illuminated the way around.
"Other me?"
{"..."}
Once again, Seele received no response. She was forced to take in everything that happened to her.
"After I…"
Recalling that painful realization now, Seele felt like she overreacted. Kiana's aura sticking closely to Shi Tian could mean a lot of things. It does not automatically equate to them being lovers.
Still, that notion alone sends a knife deeply into Seele's heart.
When it truly comes to it, can she do everything to fight for Shi Tian's affection?
'…'
Her thoughts were interrupted by the whirring of helicopter blades. Several aircrafts littered the airspace of the broken city.
Tap.
Rustle-!
A dozen men came down from it. They stepped onto the broken main road five hundred meters away from Seele.
She was ready to talk with them when her ears caught something.
Swoosh-!
Sou-!
BANG-!
The supersonic missiles only took a second to travel to Seele's location.
Three seconds later, smoke cleared up. Her spiritual consciousness barrier can physically interact with objects. It is easy to prevent a missile's explosion.
"Ah..?!"
That was when she noticed something. Her mind became increasingly strong. Wisps of colored lights appeared in her eyes. Whenever she looked at one of them, she understood them as fire, space, and water.
The dao rhymes presented themselves in her eyes, a feat reserved for Purple Mansion Realm cultivators.
Without realizing it, her mental cultivation jumped straight to the early Purple Mansion Realm!
Sou-!
BANG-!
Another round of salvos disrupted Seele's shock. She does not know why everyone is hostile around her.
With each explosion came the consumption of her mind. Her recovery caught up to it.
The combat ability she honed after three days of fighting showed itself.
A quick scan around her showed humans operating the choppers and fighter jets. She also found out that the group that landed before all had varying strengths, all of which are within the early Qi Refining Realm.
Out of them all, she found someone possessing the power of the Qi Refining Realm. The others are far behind the early Qi Refining Realm whose body is tempered by the Jian.
No traces of the honkai appeared on others. The strongest one, a white-haired man, skillfully held a rifle in his hands.
The moment she scanned him, his gaze swiftly went towards her direction.
"..!"
Chills went down her spine.
The first thing she did was to 'disable' the aircrafts' weapon systems. No matter how the pilots clicked, they could no longer launch attacks towards Seele.
Then, she knocked down the special team using her spiritual consciousness. Her [Scythe Heart] acted as a weapon that disabled everyone's minds.
A wave of hectic communication attempts came from somewhere. They tried to contact the unconscious warriors, but to no avail.
Seele escaped after that. She concealed herself and flew towards the other cities. Two days passed swiftly.
There, she learned that this place is Earth… but without anything she was familiar with.
The geographic locations remained identical. What changed is the language and letters they used. The slavic of this Earth, for instance, has several foreign accents and words.
"Where did I go..?"
As if her love crisis wasn't enough, this unfamiliar world was also added into the mix. Seele's ability to hold herself together leveled up due to this ordeal alone.
{"This is not a new world."}
"Ah?!?!"
{"Quit your stupid look. It hurts my eyes. After seeing your pathetic side, nobody can go lower than you."}
"..."
{"You have a lot of options. Didn't some princesses use seduction to steal away a prince?!"}
Seele's other self saw everything she had read. That includes the corny romantic stories up to those questionable ones. Seele stopped reading the first chapter of the latter when she saw what it truly was.
{"At worst, we can find a way to steal him from Sister Kiana. Friendship or love. You can't have both."}
Hearing her other self speak, Seele was relieved. But then, her words sparked something from her.
"...I will do it." She suddenly said. "I will confess my love to him once I return."
{"Congratulations."}
Seele's other self could only sigh. Seele's head is filled up with nothing but Shi Tian now. Her unexpected breakdown showed how attached she was to him—to be on the borderline of obsession.
After all, who asked for Shi Tian to be an outstanding person?
If that wasn't the case, then why would she also…
{"You set up a death flag for yourself."}
"..?!"
A blush appeared on Seele's face. She had read dozens of cliched romance stories that ended in tragedy, yet she unknowingly planted a flag of her own!
{"Love blinds your eyes. You still need me."}
"...What do you think of him?"
One question silenced Veliona.
Upon not receiving any responses for a minute, an outrageous thought emerged from her mind.
'Does she like him too..?'