Chapter 123 - I know...

Caelum had been spending time with Diane almost a few decades now and sometimes visit the street kids in the city who had grown old by surpassing time. He was surprised to see the street children had grown into amazing people despite only meeting them briefly. These people had the opportunity since he had taken their soul and placing it inside his samsara wheel inside his inner world.

They would have better life now once they had passed away. He had gain insight due as well that life and death can give birth to such profound meaning. Caelum wondered a place to experience other life to better understand Dao. He recalled in manhua called apotheosis where the main character experience his hundred reincarnation giving better understand in heavenly Dao.

He can't exactly place a clone to reincarnated as he only had one soul. Caelum can create avatar that share the same soul but not vice verse unless he found soul source in the surrounding which is impossible. Even with his sky divine devil fist nothing was converting into a soul source.

Caelum understood that normal source correlate in internal energy while soul source is entirely different as well as mental energy. He wonder visiting Wu dong qian Jun briefly or even battle through the heaven considering they share the same universe.

Back to Diane who had been sadden by her friends resting but she was still happy that Caelum wasn't the same and won't leave her…right?

"Caelum-nii what are you doing?"

Diane was sitting in the house deck as Caelum had build a home for them. He had been training his source around his body further strengthening the bones, internal organ, blood, muscles, and skin. It was already in the peaked but he had decided to have precise control over it. His fleshly body can easily take one step to reach the other side of Britannia without using flash step and only physical strengthen.

"It's nothing I'm just training to grow stronger."

"Why do you want to grow stronger?"

"To fight and protect everyone that important to me."

"Oh does that include me?"

"Of course Diane."

Caelum smiled finishing his training while getting inside their home. He had clean himself then prepared food for Diane who was excited for the next meal. They are their food while Diane who was giving quick glances till Caelem asked her.

"What's wrong, little Diane?"

"C-Can caelum-nii train to get stronger?"

"I thought your don't like fighting?"

Caelum didn't train Diane since she wasn't the type who likes fighting. He only came to help her loneliness. She changed her mind due hearing his brother words about protecting important to her.

"But now I want to grow stronger so I can protect, Caelum-nii."

"Hehehe well I think that won't be needed but I can still train you to help me in the future."

It would be impossible for anything to be a threat to him considering his current power level. Only a food would think of fight caelum equally. Caelum deciding to train the little giant took the privilege on helping her controlling her size.

For the next years or so, he had trained Diane in controlling her size with magic which took longer as Caelum thought her size alteration without the decrease of her mass meaning even art smaller body could still give a devastating blow. She wasn't talented in other magic like Merlin and Nesta but she was amazing in earth magic.

"Since you've gotten better at size alteration magic I have a give for you."

Caelum took out Yeoui Diane who's eyes sparkle excitedly but surprised when her brother place on the ground confusing her.

"Hold on before you can have this you ned to take that staff out of the grass since it's really heavy."

Diane nodded then tried to grabbed it only to find that it wasn't even budging from where it was. Caelum chuckled how frustrated Diane had become then pouted towards him while he just patted her head .

"Once you lift that staff and stronger then I'll give you a better gift."

"Promise?"

"Promise!"

As the time she training in wielding the staff, caelum had gone to the mountain to train deciding it wouldn't give him be if it's in staying any longer in purgatory. He decided to do another form of training relying in the natural source in the surrounding. Taking deep breath in and small breath out slowly went in zen state once again. He could feel the surrounding more clearly like surroundings.

The sensation was a refreshing feeling but knew it would be dangerous to rushed everything. He was using Senjutsu to gain sage mode without the aid of his Otsutsuki form. It didn't take long for his face to gain black markings indicating his sage mode. He opened his eyes surprised to discern everything to smallest detail. His doujutsu gave the him not near the precise perception as it does.

He smirked tried to revise the training to places the natural sources into his fleshly body. Caelum nearly vomited blood from trying as natural rather than converted like using sky divine devil fist was too much for his fleshly body. He decided to slow down the process as impurities were removed even his mind became clearer.

Caelum stopped his training his fleshly body then saw it was night time decided to return and continues the next day. When morning rose he went to purgatory and focuses on growing his golden core since his fleshly body is already in the bottleneck and only being further refined by his revised sage mode training.

He doing himself looking at the multi-colored core as he circulated his stored energy to nourished it. Caelum hadn't been able to face the process of shattering it to gain his nascent soul but was surprised as he saw something formed inside his Diantian. It was another golden core.

'What the heck is going on?'

The other golden core looked like burning flame that continuously radiates vigor and vitality. Caelum guesses it was Yang golden core but wonder what his first core he could feel his nirvana flame was reacting to it but nothing special happened.

He stopped once his own internal source was dried up and returned back to the real world. Caelum continued his training with Diane who had after many years was able to lift the staff which meant her strength surpasses that of the original. At that time he wondered what happened to king and was answered by his system.

[Even though host can't directly interfere with fate doesn't mean it isn't being affect. The fact that host is growing stronger in more rapid pace show you are in verge on severing yourself from fate.]

Caelum simple action that had compensate was actually a blessing as it mean that fate is slowly favoring him. He still couldn't defy the orders of the system but a glitch is happening.

Back to Diane who had matured much quicker than normal due to the fact that her fate is slowly changing. Though it wouldn't change her fate in meeting and joining the seven deadly sins. Caelum hasn't comprehend or even sense fate as of yet but knew it wouldn't be long when he gain full control of his fate.

She gotten where her puberty was obvious but Caelum who still saw her as a daughter hadn't made moved till they meet again in the future. Caelum wondered if he had met Merlin would his fate have been different?

He realize that without the system interference then his Enlightenment would never happened and the golden scripture 'Evolution' would never appear that had continuously helped him grow even stronger surpassing the past restriction.

Caelum was currently sparring with Diane who excellently used Yeoui destroying mountains in the process. Thankfully it was an illusionary realm that he had created or else human settlement will dwindle.

"HIYAAH!!"

Diane swing her staff with immense force that decimated that turn the grassy plains into a barren wasteland. She clicked her tongue once the smoked cleared revealing Caelum remained unharmed. The worse part was it was stopped by one finger. Caelum was purely used his fleshly body that circulates natural Ki sources.

He had precise control over his body and ki but still lack the sheer essence of his martial art and hadn't broken through the bottleneck.

"You've done amazing job, Diane. Now for that I shall gift you something I promised in the past."

Diane shrunk her staff back to normal then place it into a pocket dimension that caelum taught her. Caelum approached her telling her to close her eyes then created hair clip for her pig tails.

"Now open your eyes."

She gradually opened her eyes and with a mirror that caelum brought out saw the gift that caelum gave that resulted in her giving a tight hug to caelum. He smiled patting her head enjoying his time spending almost a hundred years with her.

[Warning! Diane will soon lose memory of host.]

'I know…'