"Hahaha! It seems you're the one more excited about that reward than your husband." Raisho laughed, clearly entertained.
"Of course!" Anda replied without hesitation. "If my husband marries a descendant of the Supre Ruler, our Leyan Family would instantly rise to the top of the galaxy. Why wouldn't I want such an easy shortcut?"
Raisho blinked, caught off guard by her bluntness. "And you're not afraid your position might get snatched?"
Anda smiled, completely unfazed. "Why would I be? No matter how many won join him, I'll always be the one he loves the most. There's nothing to worry about."
Raisho studied her for a mont, then suddenly burst into laughter again.
"Hahaha! I didn't expect to et soone like you here. You remind of soone I know."
Anda blinked, her thoughts imdiately going in a strange direction.
…Don't tell there's another woman out there collecting Fairy Maidens, Saintesses, and Goddesses for her husband too?
"Alright," Raisho said, waving a hand lightly. "Let's return to what I was about to say earlier… about your mysterious power."
The mont his attention shifted back to him, Leyvi's body stiffened again.
What the heck… is he really targeting my Talent Bead?
Raisho looked at him with interest, his gaze calm but piercing.
"I ntioned your core earlier. It did catch my attention, but only slightly, since it's sothing I've never seen before." He paused briefly. "What truly intrigued … is the Spiritual Vein in your residence."
Leyvi's heart skipped.
"Not the vein itself," Raisho continued, "but where it ca from. When I first scanned your surroundings, none of you had it. Yet sohow, it appeared later."
His eyes narrowed slightly, as if piecing together a puzzle.
"And your space ring…" he added, almost casually, "is rely a facade. There are only trivial items inside. Which ans… you must have another place where you store your true belongings."
His gaze settled fully on Leyvi now.
"Leyvi! You found a Spiritual Vein already? How is that even possible? It's only been a decade! And how did you even bring it back?" Alita's voice rang out, filled with shock and excitent.
But Leyvi didn't hear her at all.
His thoughts had already descended into chaos. Senior Raisho's spiritual sense didn't just scan like normal cultivators, it pierced through everything effortlessly, slipping past space rings as if they didn't exist, exposing whatever lay beneath without resistance. It wasn't just the scale of his power that was terrifying, it was the depth of it. The level of perception he possessed was sothing Leyvi couldn't even begin to comprehend.
And of course it would attract attention. A storage thod so heaven-defying that it could even hide things from a godlike existence like Raisho… who wouldn't be interested in that?
In that mont, Leyvi finally understood sothing clearly. In front of overwhelming power, secrets weren't truly secrets. All it took was a slight inconsistency, a tiny detail out of place, and everything would unravel. There was no need for effort, no need for investigation. Just a glance… and it was over.
He should have waited. He should have waited until Senior Raisho had already returned to the heart of the galaxy before taking out the Spiritual Vein from his internal storage. But how could he have possibly predicted sothing like this?
As his thoughts spiraled further, a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder.
"Sigh… calm down, kid."
Raisho's voice was calm, almost casual, yet it instantly cut through the storm in Leyvi's mind.
"Why are you panicking so much? I'm not going to harm you. But before we continue, you might want to calm your wife first. If I didn't hold back her power just now, your precious cosmic vessel would have already lted."
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"This girl's temper is sothing else," Raisho added with a sigh, though there was a hint of amusent in his tone. "Did you two really think I ca here to rob you or sothing?"
"What?"
Leyvi snapped back to reality and imdiately turned toward Anda.
What he saw made his heart jolt.
She stood at the center of a blazing inferno, but it wasn't spreading outward. The flas were confined within an invisible boundary, compressed into an oval-shaped domain around her, as if space itself had been sealed off.
Inside that contained world, raged an inferno so intense that the very light around it seed to bend and warp. Flas of white, gold, and deep crimson swirled together in violent currents, each one carrying enough heat to vaporize steel in an instant.
Suspended above Anda's head like a miniature sun was Little Fiery. The special fire pulsed with an intensity Leyvi had never seen before, its form blazing so brightly it hurt to look at. It was no longer just assisting Anda. It had rged its power with hers, amplifying her already terrifying flas to sothing beyond.
And at the center of it all, Anda stood still, her eyes blazing with killing intent.
She intended to kill him.
A Core Formation Realm alchemist, trying to kill a Divine Lord.
The absurdity of it would have been laughable under any other circumstance.
But looking at the inferno she had conjured, Leyvi understood. She was not thinking about the gap in their power. She was not thinking about whether she could win. She was not thinking at all.
She had seen a threat to her husband, and her body had moved before her mind could catch up.
At the sa ti, seeing how calm Raisho remained, stopping Anda without hurting her, it finally clicked. Leyvi realized that Senior Raisho probably had no intention of harming them. After all, with his abilities, there was no need for him to act like this. If he wanted to take sothing from them, he could simply take it.
Without wasting another second, Leyvi stepped straight into the inferno.
The flas swallowed him instantly, roaring around his body, yet they couldn't harm him in the slightest. His Fire Immunity benefit let him walk through it as if it were nothing more than warm air, sothing that had, ironically, beco the very reason Anda defaulted to this level of force whenever she felt he was under great threat.
He reached her side and placed his hands on her shoulders, massaging gently. The familiar motion, the familiar touch.
At this point, this action had beco sothing like a magic switch-off button for Anda.
The raging inferno trembled, then collapsed inward, the blazing domain dispersing in an instant as if it had never existed. Little Fiery dimd and floated down quietly, its earlier intensity gone just as quickly.
"Calm down, Anda. Let's hear Senior Raisho out first," Leyvi said softly, his hands still resting on her shoulders.
The fire in her eyes receded, clarity returning, but her gaze remained locked onto Raisho, sharp and unyielding, the hostility still lingering just beneath the surface.
"Your wife truly is one of a kind," Raisho said, looking at Leyvi with a half-amused expression. "She even dared to try to kill ."
"Senior, please forgive her," Leyvi replied imdiately. He stepped forward and bowed, his tone sincere. "She only acted for my sake."
Raisho waved it off lightly, but his gaze shifted to Anda. "Young wife, you can stop glaring at like I'm your mortal enemy. I'm not here to harm your husband." He let out a long sigh, his tone turning into mild complaint. "Honestly, this is exactly why this kind of task only gets handed to soone overly nice like . If it were any other Divine Lord… this entire planetary system might already be gone."
Anda didn't relax.
Her eyes were still locked onto him, sharp and cold. "Then why are you probing my husband's secret?" she asked bluntly. "Do you want it for yourself?"
Raisho didn't answer imdiately. Instead, he looked at them both, his expression turning a little more serious.
"Listen carefully," he said at last. "Whatever powers you and your family possess… including your husband's ability to store things in a space that even I cannot locate… all of it cos from sothing beyond my comprehension."
He paused there, letting the weight of his words settle.
Leyvi and Anda exchanged a glance but remained silent, waiting.
After a few seconds, Raisho continued, his voice quieter now, but far heavier.
"It ans… it originates from an existence that far surpasses . I don't know about others, but I'm not foolish enough to take that kind of risk. If I offend sothing I cannot afford to offend, my peaceful life would be over."
"If one day you reach my level, you'll understand. The more you learn… the more you realize how much remains unknown." His gaze drifted slightly, as if looking far beyond them. "And that realization… is not comforting. It's terrifying."
"There are still existences that could scare you, Senior? I find that hard to believe," Leyvi said, unable to hide his doubt.
Raisho burst into laughter. "Hahaha! What, do you think we lose our emotions after reaching this level? Of course we can still feel fear. In fact…" his smile lingered, but his eyes carried a deeper aning, "…the unknown is what scares us the most. Just like the origin of your power. That's sothing I have no intention of ddling with."
His tone had turned light again, almost playful.
Anda, however, wasn't convinced. Her gaze remained sharp as she stared straight at him. "Then why bring it up at all? You could have stayed silent. I don't believe a figure like you would casually ntion it just to scare a pair of insignificant juniors for amusent."
Raisho chuckled, clearly entertained. "Kid, look at your wife. She's sharp. Very sharp. I don't think you can hide anything from her."
Leyvi shrugged lightly. "Well… I don't have any reason to hide anything from her."
Anda imdiately shot Raisho a triumphant look, chin lifting just slightly.
"Ah…" Raisho sighed, shaking his head with a faint smile. "How enviable. I wish my wife trusted the way you lovebirds trust each other…"
Leyvi and Anda exchanged another glance.
That didn't sound like a joke. It sounded like a complaint.
Raisho focused his gaze on Anda once more. "To answer your question, I did bring it up on purpose..."
He then turned his gaze to Leyvi. The two braced themselves to hear the reason.
"I need your help to hide sothing for ." Raisho requested.
"What?" Leyvi and Anda did not expect this at all.
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