Heaven, Earth, Me

Seeing the massive dragon flying back to the sky, the children felt a painful pang in their hearts, not wanting to let her go. Skye shouted, a bit anxious. "Mommy!"

Tatyana smiled and spoke to them while she stood on Yasenia's head. "Don't worry, you will be able to see her soon."

Without further delay, fearing for Heaven retaliating, Yasenia flew upward and charged through the Tribulation Clouds. The Tribulation Lightning rolling in the clouds assaulted her body, giving her painful burns. Soluna pouted. "Why are they attacking? Didn't Yasenia admit defeat?"

Tatyana smiled. "Petty, truly. Can't even let her pass through without attacking."

Yasenia ignored everything without a single twitch on her face and passed through, elevating above them and reaching space once more. Her gigantic body was marred with burn marks and bleeding in some areas, but she didn't bother. 

Soluna could see that with her spiritual sense. "You need a bit of healing, Yasenia. You are bleeding, right?"

The dragoness smiled faintly. "Don't worry, Soluna. These are just superficial wounds."

Tatyana smiled and caressed Yasenia's head. Even with their size difference, her hand was easily noticeable. "Don't be so sulky, okay? I built something because I was expecting something like this would happen."

Yasenia chuckled, her voice calmer than Tatyana expected. "I am not sulking, don't worry. Also, what thing did you prepare?"

"Ho?" Tatyana didn't feel that Yasenia was lying and was somewhat surprised. "You are not as upset as I thought you'd be. Don't you fear being separated from your children?"

Yasenia chuckled. "It's not my first defeat. I am not upset about it." Then, she added. "Also, I have not lost yet; as long as I don't give up, I have not lost. While I am frustrated that I could not win, I accept that today, I was not strong enough to follow through. But eventually, it will be my victory. And I will constantly try to make that true." 

Tatyana's lips arched, feeling glad that her daughter had such a way of looking at life. "If I were half as wise as you are at your age, my life would've been so much easier." 

Yasenia answered softly. "Everything I know is something you taught in the past. Who I am today is in a large part thanks to you." The dragoness's tone became sweet and happy. "Thank you, Mom."

Tatyana paused, feeling her heart bubble with happiness, and she continued caressing Yasenia's head. "No problem, Little Treasure." 

Yasenia stopped flying upward once she crossed the barrier of the world. Then, she turned around, looking at the massive world below her. Her vision was filled with the massive world's surface. It expanded wide enough that she needed to twist her head to look toward the edge she could see. "... It is really big." 

Soluna nodded, floating around Yasena's head. "Big! Very big!" 

Yasenia felt so small and insignificant at the sight of the world that stretched everywhere she looked. She couldn't help but be doubtful. "Do I really have enough strength to damage… this?"

Tatyana explained softly. "Life is both resilient and fragile, love. Erasing life completely off the surface of a planet is difficult. However, destabilizing the current environment and creating a large extinction event is comparatively much easier. You are in that category. If you go on a rampage and start unleashing attacks worldwide, the current balance will eventually collapse. Of course, you can't really heavily damage this world with a single attack. The limit of strength that the Heaven takes into account consists of cultivation level and destructive power."

Yasenia blinked and asked with a laugh. "Then, can't I act like an orbital dragon? I can rain attacks from here and target certain sects, no?"

Tatyana burst into laughter. "That's an option. But if you do that, don't expect Heaven to be okay by having you so close to Distanica World. Even when staying here you would be met with attacks."

Yasenia titled her head. "Here? Aren't we, like… what, 500,000 kilometers away from the world?" 

Tatyana commented. "The attack range of Heaven varies a lot with their realm. However, Distancia's Heaven should be able to attack things that are 100,000,000 kilometers around the world."

Yasenia almost spat blood. "One hundred million kilometers? Wow."

Soluna giggled. "That's so far! No wonder you lost, Yasenia!" 

Yasenia snorted and flicked Soluna with her claw. "I said I didn't lose! Losing only happens when you give up!"

Soluna flew away. "Wahhh! I am spinninnngg!"

Tatyana snorted a laugh. "Just don't be too stubborn to admit defeat from time to time, eh? You know that latching onto things is sometimes worse than losing them."

Yasenia nodded. "Don't worry. As I said, I have lost plenty of times before… I am not afraid of admitting defeat." The dragoness changed the subject. "So, what were you going to show me?"

Tatyana looked around and commented. "We will need to wait a little bit. Four hours? Somewhere around there." 

Yasenia blinked. "Four hours? Sure, sure. Do I need to do anything in the meantime?" 

Tatyana shook her head and floated down, stopping at Yasenia's eye level. "No need to. Let me teach you something in the meantime." 

Yasenia blinked her massive eye and her pupils shrank to focus on the small human-sized woman. "What are you going to teach me?"

"Defense against small people." 

Yasenia blinked twice, showing confusion. "What do you mean?"

Soluna returned and nodded twice. "Right, right! You can't bully people because of size!"

Yasenia giggled and gently flicked her away. 

"Wahhh! I am flying off againnnn!!" 

Tatyana laughed and said. "I am referring to people my size. Look, love, what if I do this?"

Yasenia saw Tatyana use her movement technique, quickly moving through space and entering her nose. "H-Hey! What are you doing there?" 

Tatyana asked, standing on the walls of Yasenia's nose. "What would you do if I went deeper inside of you and tried to damage you from the inside?" 

Yasenia commented, her voice strained. "I feel itchy when you walk, so don't stimulate too much if you don't want to be covered in boogers because of my sneeze, okay? Ugh… That's a sentence I never thought I would say" 

Tatyana laughed. "Okay, okay."

Soluna shouted. "I am baaaack! Hm? Where is Tatyana?"

Yasenia sighed through her mouth. "She is inside my nose."

Soluna burst into laughter. "That sounds so fun! I also want to go in!"

She quickly flew, and Yasenia just sighed again. Of course, through her mouth to avoid blowing Tatyana out. 

Soluna quickly found Tatyana and smiled. "Oh! Hello, Tatyana! What are you doing here?"

Tatyana smiled back and explained. "I am going to teach Yasenia how to protect against attacks from the inside. After all, imagine all the damage you could do if you start digging here and there or going further inside."

Soluna's eyes widened. "Ohhh! That's actually so dangerous! Yasenia, you need to listen well." 

Yasenia smiled. "Okay, okay. Now, tell me how it goes." 

Tatyana nodded and spoke to Yasenia. "Little Treasure, when you have people trying to enter your body through your nose, you have a few options. The first option is to release a dragon breath through your nose. If the people you were fighting were around your level in strength, eating a concentrated dragon breath would certainly kill them or at least shoot them out of your nose or mouth."

Yasenia agreed. "I see. So, there is no trick or technique for expelling people?"

Tatyana smiled. "The second way to blast people inside of you is using your soul. Any attack like a [Sun Dragon Roar] or something that increases the energy production inside of you will heavily damage them. After all, when your energy goes through the meridians and such, concentrated and isolated, you can control it. Similar to the stomach acid. However, once that goes outside its intended container, it becomes lethal."

Yasenia blinked. "So, when someone tries to go inside my body, I just increase my aura as much as I can and use my wide area skills like [Cosmic Sun Nova], [Sun Dragon Roar], or even my Assimilation skills to flood my insides with energies."

Tatyana nodded. "Yeah. You are vulnerable if someone manages to get inside of you. However, they are more vulnerable than you are."

Yasenia hummed. "I see."

Tatyana smiled. "To be honest, there are some techniques to defend against that. However, they are somewhat useless. I will teach you two, though. The first one is a defensive skill called [Dragon Veil]. It creates an invisible veil around your body, orifices, and such that blocks those trying to enter inside you. This skill was created after a few dragons got killed because cultivators sneaked around and entered through their orifices, killing them from the inside." 

Tatyana flew out of the nose and landed on Yasenia's forehead. "Here, learn it."

Tapping her forehead, she used the mind-teaching skill, passing down the skill directly into Yasenia's brain. Soluna landed by Tatyana's side and asked. "What's the second skill?" 

Tatyana waved her hand, invoking a scroll. Soluna blinked. "Huh? A Cultivation Skill Scroll? Where did you get it from?"

"I wrote it myself. Any other person attempting to use this would be nothing but suicide. However, for you, this skill is actually quite valuable. It is called [Spiritual Yin and Yang Flow]." 

Yasenia used her spiritual sense to see the summary of the description, but she was baffled. "A skill that allows my body to change my Yang and Yin energies with each other? No wonder you said it was suicide for other people. Destabilizing the Yin and Yang balance inside a person is very dangerous."

After being with her for so many years, Soluna knew quite a lot about Yasenia. Therefore, she exclaimed. "Oh! But with Yasenia's [Celestial Yin and Yang Body] being able to balance them, even if you destabilize them for a second, your body will turn everything back to normal without breaking a sweat!"

Tatyana smiled. "Using this skill can change your body into a temporary extreme Yang constitution or extreme Yin constitution. Those inside of you will either burn or freeze to death. However, be careful with it. This skill has great potential, but it all depends on how you use it."

Yasenia nodded, understanding where Tatyana was going with her warning. She smiled and nudged her with her head. "Thanks."

Tatyana smiled and looked toward the distance. "Now, let's wait for a bit. It is almost here."

Yasenia didn't move much, reading the skill in the meantime to start studying it. After around three hours, Tatyana patted Yasenia twice, garnering her attention. "It is here, Little Treasure."

Yasenia looked over and saw a massive gray and white palace floating toward her. "Huh? What's that?"

Tatyana laughed, looking at it. "Well, that is the [Spatial Astral Sky Sect]. It is where we will live from now on. I still need a few more touches in the teleportation formation to make it safe. But other than that, it is perfectly functional. The problem is that, well, we will have to defend it manually form space hazards, as Distanica's Heaven will probably just stand by even if a massive Star Beast comes to nom us."

Yasenia laughed. "I see. Well, there are pros and cons to everything. At least I can see my babies there."

Tatyana smiled. "Let's go."