Heaven, Earth, Me-Chapter 1268. ...And the World Bent The Knee.

Yasenia felt refreshed the next day, giving her classes to the children with her usual calm attitude. The initial few hundred disciples had increased quite a lot after she made a public appearance. However, to keep things controlled, the sect placed Yasenia under a limit of 1,000 disciples.

Compared with other elders, it was quite a small number. Nevertheless, Yasenia accepted it because she understood that many of them had come to "learn" just to see her. Moreover, she wasn’t aiming to gain a following in the sect, for now. Only to make her position secure and stable enough so that whenever something strange happened due to her cultivation, the sect would close one eye to her shenanigans.

"... Therefore, you need to understand that energy flow is related to the place you are in. If it is a place intending to do harm to you, you will feel an uneasy sensation. That’s your energy receptors, capturing the resonance of the world around you and giving you subconscious warnings."

Yasenia saw that most disciples were listening, so she was satisfied. "Great. Those of you who were ogling at Master instead of listening will have to take a test in the next class. If you fail it, you’ll be expelled as a disciple and exchanged for those who are waiting in line." A bunch of disciples suddenly had awkward faces as they scrambled to ask for notes from their classmates.

Looking at the girl sitting near her, she smiled. "Xuefei, come with me."

The girl stood up and nodded, following behind the dragon woman. As she walked, she could feel hundreds of stares stabbing into her back like needles.

They walked to Yasenia’s teacher’s room, and then the dragoness picked up Luan Feixue with her tail and placed her onto her lap. The girl didn’t react, blinking twice before her wrist was grabbed. "Yasenia... Why do you always place me onto your lap when you are taking my pulse to see how my cultivation is doing?"

"Do you dislike it?" Yasenia asked, her eyes still closed as her energy pulsed through Feixue’s body.

"No..." The girl answered hesitantly.

"Then, don’t complain and let me take your pulse."

Feixue chuckled and looked at Yasenia’s otherworldly facial features. There was a sense of gentleness and peace when she had her eyes closed, which honestly relaxed her.

After a while, Yasenia slowly opened her eyes, revealing the two golden orbs behind her eyelids. "Perfect. I think you can start your breakthroughs again. Your Heart Demons are much more controlled, and your Soul and Body cultivation have caught up enough. I guess that the pills and massages have helped you."

Feixue nodded with a grateful smile. "Yes. That helped me a lot. The three bottles of milk were also extremely helpful. I wonder which beast they belong to."

"Who knows?" Yasenia shrugged. "I found them a while ago and kept them in my ring. After all, I was too advanced to drink them by the time I found them. It would’ve been a waste."

"Your loss." Feixue laughed. "They were delicious."

The dragoness’s lips imperceptibly arched with amusement. Still, she hid the true source as she changed the subject. "Feixue, I’ll be going into closed-door cultivation for a while. I am about to make a rather important breakthrough, and I can’t keep interrupting it with the classes. I’ve already informed the sect and left behind a few objectives."

"Closed-door cultivation?" Feixue’s eyes widened, and she frowned. Her face was full of reluctance as she looked at Yasenia. "Don’t immortals take decades per cultivation session? When will I see you again?"

Yasenia’s expression softened slightly, and she poked her nose with Feixue’s. "Silly child. It won’t take that long, I promise."

Feixue hugged Yasenia and buried her face in her neck with dependence. Over the past year, Feixue had gradually changed her perspective on Yasenia, now seeing her as someone important in her life. "Haha, silly girl. It’s not like I am leaving forever, right?"

"Mhm." Feixue rubbed her nose on Yasenia’s neck. "I know. I just... don’t want you to disappear for too long. Remember that you are in a contract with me."

Yasenia patted the girl’s back. "Okay. I will. Now, little girl, let go. I need to go."

Feixue nodded and separated, giving Yasenia a smile before she jumped from her lap and left the room. Yasenia had left some advice and a new batch of pills for Feixue in the girl’s spatial ring. With that, she should be able to grow into the peak of the Fourth Realm as long as she puts in the effort. After all, not to mess with her destiny too much, Yasenia had avoided giving her too much. Of course, once she met her, her destiny was already screwed up. Nevertheless, she would salvage whatever she could to avoid a disaster from happening.

After stretching her body, Yasenia stepped forward and entered her tower. She reached the cultivation room prepared for her quickly, and before entering, she saw Star Forge standing at the door. "Star Forge? What’s wrong?"

The serious woman smiled faintly. "What? Can’t I come pay you a visit if I want?"

The dragoness approached and laughed. "Of course you can. But you clearly have something to tell me. Go ahead, miss. I am all ears." Her teasing tone made Star Forge snort a laugh.

"When you develop your Intent Domain, you’ll probably be sent by the Sect to do some missions. I hope that you don’t deny the first ones if possible." Star Forge sighed. "Otherwise, the trust you’ve built might evaporate quicker than you can gather it."

The dragoness paused and tapped her chin, her tail swinging left and right as she thought. After a few moments, she decided to agree even though her face was reluctant. "Honestly, I really don’t like it when people force me with threats to do things."

"There are no—"

"Star Forge." Yasenia looked at the woman with a faint smile. "We are both intelligent people. The veiled threat in your words is clear for both of us."

Her words seemed to give her an option, but as long as Yasenia wanted a peaceful place to cultivate and to keep an eye on Feixue, she needed to remain in the sect and have a certain level of influence. Therefore, the optional missions were not optional at all. They were something she needed to do.

Star Forge smiled a bit awkwardly but then sighed. "It’s something you must do. You can’t join a group without proving yourself or making contributions. Sorry, Yasenia."

Yasenia chuckled and gave her a small hug. "I understand. Don’t think I’ll dislike you because of the orders of others."

Star Forge was a bit surprised, but she returned the small hug while sighing. "Good luck with your Intent Domains."

"Thanks."

Before she entered, Star Forge asked, confused. "By the way, weren’t you going to spar with Qingzhe today? Did you change your mind?"

Yasenia nodded. "I already sent her a message. Even if we spar, what I can use to fight her is the leftovers of my real strength. Therefore, I would rather at least have the Monarch’s Intent before I fight with her."

"Understood."

Yasenia then entered the room and closed the door with her tail. Once inside, her small smile disappeared as she became thoughtful. "They are paying me a bit too much attention. I wonder why."

Shaking her head, Yasenia walked to the middle of the room and activated the formations around her. Then, she reached for the energy reserves she harvested during her few days with Soluna. Finally, she connected with the surroundings and began meditating and peering deeply into the Monarch Intent.

"To be a monarch is something I’ve experienced and mastered. To know how to rule. To know how to be one above all and under no one."

Distancia’s events allowed Yasenia to experience this firsthand. Her bloodline also innately deepened her understanding in this regard. Therefore, she has managed to develop her understanding of the Monarch path to the peak of the Level 9 Intent.

She was not able to develop anything similar to Eira’s "Sword Heart" or Angel’s "Heart Glass." But that didn’t mean that she was lacking in any aspect.

"Now. I need to expand this Intent." Yasenia’s expression was indifferent as she looked around herself. "Everything and everyone needs to understand; they need to be compelled into knowing that I am a monarch..." Yasenia pondered deeply, and after almost an entire month maintaining her current state, she came to a conclusion. "No. That’s wrong."

As she enveloped her surroundings in the Monarch Intent, the only thing she was doing was forcing the energy to act as she pleased. "That’s not an Intent Domain. That’s trying to expand an Intent into an area of effect ability."

A true Intent Domain didn’t need forceful means. If someone had a Fire Intent Domain, their surroundings would always be hot, like fire, and if that person thought about burning something, it would ignite. It didn’t need to be expanded, as it existed around them passively.

"It’s not a forceful aura." Yasenia opened her eyes, strength shining within them. "It’s a natural state of being. I do not need to make anyone around me feel that I am a Monarch. I need to just... be one."

The dragoness floated up slowly, her voice surrounding her existence as a majestic echo. "I am a Dragon Queen. I am the Empress of the Cosmos. I am the Sovereign of the Celestial Energy. I am the Progenitor of my bloodline. I, who rule the World with my presence, am a Monarch."

Then, the bottleneck inside of her broke.

CRASH!

With the breakthrough, Yasenia’s golden dragon eyes radiated royal might as her voice echoed around her.

"[Monarch Intent Domain]."

With those three words, the world bent the knee.

BOOM!

Everyone within a massive radius stopped for a moment as their bodies felt the urge to kneel in one single direction. The image of two alluring yet imposing golden dragon eyes looking from the sky seemed to flash in their minds during that fleeting second, sending shivers all around their bodies.

Yet, after that happened, they all snapped out of it as if it had been a momentary illusion. Some looked around, others shivered, while others failed to resist the urge and knelt.

With her Monarch Intent Domain unfurled, Yasenia overlooked the world around her with an indifferent face as if everything was under her feet. During that instant, she felt such a deep and powerful urge to just rule over the cosmos that she almost roared to the skies in defiance of Heaven.

"No wonder..." Yasenia looked around her and then at her hand. She clenched it in a fist and muttered. "No wonder people with Intent Domains are so overbearing to those who don’t have them."

With her Intent Domain passively moving around her, Yasenia felt as if she could defeat people with just a single glance. Any Transcendence Realm cultivator who had not developed an Intent Domain was now like a peasant, while Yasenia was the ruler.

"The effects are so... complex." With the Monarch Domain, she was a ruler of the area she could expand and control. Therefore, she could inherently control everything within that and know their intentions.

The Monarch Intent was a powerful suppressive tool. However, the Monarch Intent Domain was so much more than that. Within it, Yasenia was basically undefeatable unless the other party could suppress or fight her Intent Domain.