"As long as you're okay..."
"Mhm, mhm!"
Ryn patted Sirin and Kiana on the head. Although he didn't know why the two of them had separated from their one-mind-one-body state, it was fine if he didn't know.
The entity he met in the Sea of Quanta said he saved Kiana, so perhaps the separation of Kiana and Sirin was also his doing.
For a being like that, perhaps separating a person's soul was just a trivial matter?
Anyway, Ryn himself was blessed. His wife had split from one personality into a pair of sisters~
"Hehe, Ryn, do you want something to eat? I don't know why, but ever since I came back from the Sea of Quanta, I've been feeling so hungry..." Kiana said, holding a large pot of white rice, eating while handing a bowl to Ryn.
"Yeah, I don't know why but I just can't get full, I just really want to eat..." Sirin also chimed in while eating, nodding her head.
Now that she had her own body, she ate even more than Kiana, just a tiny bit more "elegantly" than Kiana.
No, her elegance and slowness were just because Sirin hadn't eaten in a long time and was a bit clumsy with a spoon or chopsticks...
"Let me see. It might be because you've just been revived and your bodies are lacking energy and need replenishment, so you need to eat a lot. It should be nothing serious..."
Ryn placed his hands on Kiana and Sirin's shoulders, and the power of Creation flowed into their bodies to give them a full-body check-up.
After a while, Ryn withdrew his hand, a little surprised.
"Amazing..."
"What's wrong, are there any side effects? Could it be like in novels, where we don't actually have a physical body, so we need a lot of energy to maintain our form?"
Kiana and Sirin leaned shoulder to shoulder, feeding each other large spoonfuls of rice.
They didn't even chew; the food seemed to be digested as soon as it entered their mouths...
"It's nothing, your physical condition is very good... ridiculously good."
Ryn pulled over a small blackboard and began to illustrate Kiana and Sirin's current physical condition.
"It's like in those cultivation novels stupid Kiana often stays up late to read, as if you've cultivated some kind of automatic body-refining technique...
Your bodies are constantly transforming and evolving, and your level of existence is making a qualitative leap to a higher level.
But the energy stored in your bodies right now can't support this sublimation of life evolution, so you urgently need to supplement a large amount of energy from the outside world."
Kiana and Sirin, like two truant students forced by their parents to attend an Olympiad Mathematics class, had big, uncomprehending eyes, but their movements of eating didn't stop for a moment...
"I don't understand... anyway, I'm just hungry..."
Sirin's eyes were drooping with fatigue. She wasn't just hungry anymore; her body was also getting tired, so tired she wanted to sleep.
*Zzzzzz—*
Kiana had already closed her eyes and fallen asleep, her body still mechanically stuffing rice into her mouth.
For Kiana, what Ryn was talking about was like a teacher's lecture in class. She didn't understand it, didn't want to understand it, and it was better to just give up and sleep.
"Alright... if you don't understand, you don't understand. At least this shows you're not too constrained by the thinking of modern physics. In the future, if you let your imagination run wild, you might become a conceptual god like God Mei?"
Ryn facepalmed in resignation. He didn't think he was saying anything difficult to understand, so why were they getting sleepy?
Alas, as expected of a being that shared one mind and body with Kiana. The idiotic Sirin was a lost cause too.
Just then, Ryn felt someone tap him on the back.
Ryn turned around and found that Tianqi had appeared behind him at some point, looking past him at Kiana and Sirin, who were now slumped over the table.
"What's wrong, Tianqi? Is something the matter?"
"They're not getting sleepy because of what you're saying, but because there's a problem with their bodies. White rice alone isn't enough to provide a large amount of energy. The energy in their bodies has already begun to divert the energy that maintains their daily functions."
Ryn instantly understood what Tianqi meant and placed his hands on Kiana and Sirin, transferring his Honkai energy to them.
The dense, purple Honkai energy was transmitted through the skin contact between Ryn, Kiana, and Sirin, pouring into their bodies.
But like a stream flowing into the ocean, Ryn's Honkai energy entered Kiana and Sirin's bodies without causing a single ripple.
This was because the energy Kiana and Sirin used was not entirely Honkai energy, but unconverted Imaginary internal energy.
The energy they usually used was converted from Imaginary internal energy to Honkai energy before being used, which was far more efficient than using Honkai energy directly.
But converting Honkai energy into Imaginary internal energy was so inefficient as to be almost nonexistent...
"Looks like I'll have to get my father-in-law to drop some gold."
Ryn waved his hand, summoning Kukulkan, Cortana, and the others.
A black hole could distort space and compress the distance of spacetime, so in a way, Ryn also had a portal.
After Kukulkan arrived with Maheśvara, along with Cortana and the Purple Flame Mystic Phoenix, Ryn kicked away the Purple Flame Mystic Phoenix, which was so fat it couldn't even squeeze through the door and could only crawl around outside.
Then he opened a passage to the Sea of Quanta and walked in with Kiana and Sirin, followed by Cortana and the humanoid Kukulkan and Maheśvara.
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The energy on the Imaginary Tree was too dispersed, and drawing energy from the Imaginary Tree was equivalent to cutting off and stealing the nutrients of the branches and leaves. The price of doing so was the withering of the branches and leaves... the destruction of the real world.
Ryn didn't know how much energy Kiana and Sirin needed, but the energy of a normal world was definitely not enough...
The sin of destroying a world was not something one could bear lightly...
But the Sea of Quanta, on the same level as the Imaginary Tree, was a world where energy was so abundant it condensed into a tangible sea...
No matter how much energy Kiana and Sirin needed, the Sea of Quanta could support it.
Because the Sea of Quanta is the source of all things!
The Tree is the logical form of all existence, while the Sea is the essential nature of all existence.
But to draw energy freely from the Sea of Quanta, one must prove their worth.
And who was more worthy than Ryn, who held the blessing of the great will of the Sea of Quanta?
Ryn was the link between the Sea of Quanta and the Imaginary Tree. However much energy he needed, the Sea of Quanta and the Imaginary Tree would provide it for him.
Unfortunately, this power only worked on himself...
Ryn stood side-by-side with Kukulkan and Cortana, guarding Cortana and Sirin who were about to emerge from the black hole.
And... waiting for the quantum creatures that were preparing to "defend their homeland" and launch an attack.