Aantha pursed her lips. She didn't seem angry with Ryu either. Rather, she just seemed to realize that it had become more difficult to make a joke of this matter.
Mae knew from the beginning that Ryu had other women. After all, the impetus for their first time together wasn't just the damage to their souls, but rather also Elena. Mae hadn't known Ryu for long, but it had been long enough to know that there was simply no way he would carry around the naked images of a random woman he had no affiliation with. Such a man could easily find a woman to bed, why would he need such a thing?
In fact, even if Ryu wasn't so outstanding she wouldn't believe it. That was because men who could cultivate in general didn't have such worries. Even if they didn't bed women of their cultivation, there were always women of lower cultivation ranks looking for thick trees to hug. It simply wasn't an issue to find women for powerful men in this dog eat dog world.
In addition, beyond this, the Asura Race didn't have the same stigma against such things. Powerful human women might not want to share their husbands, and this only became more true the more powerful they were. However, powerful Asura Race women, so long as they were subdued a single time, didn't have the mind to care about such things, they even felt that it was the natural state of things.
The reason it was a problem though…
Aantha looked form Mae to Ryu back and forth once again. Soon, she realized that Mae didn't seem to have really told Ryu what this meant.
"Do you realize what this means?" Aantha asked.
"Does it matter?" Ryu said without a care, waving his hand and opening up a passage. With a step, the trio appeared in the depths of the forest once again and Ryu flipped over his palm to reveal the Matrix once more. Before this, he had already been thinking about moving to a new region as he had already found all the easy to spot Ruins, so he would just follow through on that now.
Aantha was stunned by the indifferent answer and suddenly understood something. It wasn't that Mae was hesitant to tell Ryu, it was more so that Ryu didn't seem to care in the slightest and Mae didn't know how to inform him through his indifference.
Aantha exhaled a breath.
"In our Dream Asura Race, despite our relative promiscuity, it is still rare for the men of our race to have more than one wife, do you know why?"
Ryu didn't answer, completely focused on the Matrix. He didn't know why, but as he had already said, he simply didn't care.
"There are two reasons. The first is related to our women themselves, and the second is related to our culture.
"The first is because of the uniqueness of our Primordial Yin. We descend from the Dream Wraiths and our status amongst Asuras is somewhat unique. Due to this, it's difficult for our Primordial Yins to coexist with that of other women's. You might not feel it now because you're at the very least at a decent standard of talent, but as time goes one, and especially as Mae grows more powerful, it will become more difficult to manage.
"Our Primordial Yins are stronger in Yin than almost any other Primordial Yin in existence, and that's especially so for Mae who has a Spirit Soul Nature on top of that.
"As Mae grows stronger, the first thing that will happen is that her Primordial Yin may swallow that of your other wives and concubines. The time it takes to do so will depend on how talented your wives are relatively speaking, but the truth is that even if they are far more talented than our little princess, the odds of them surviving is nill because eof the nature of the Dream Asura's Primordial Yin.
"If this happens, there will be a trigger and the Primordial Yin will grow many times stronger, wanting to devour more and even beginning to target your Primordial Yang and even further, your soul.
"If you are swallowed up directly, you'll die, of course. But worse than that, you'll be assimilated and become part of Mae's strength, all of your talent and power becoming hers as well.
"Due to this, it's in your best interest that you do everything you can to stop the first step from taking place, so usually even if our men choose a Dream Asura as a wife, he will only assimilate her Primordial Yin and ONLY hers. But even then, the danger isn't entirely gone.
"Our people know of these dangers, which is why there are certain strict rules. Men always like to overestimate themselves and always believe they're the exception to the rule, so because of this, we had to implement cultural changes as well.
"Upon taking a Dream Asura as a wife or concubine, one must past a test of our Asura Race. Even if you have just a single wife, the pass rate is just 10%. The difficult increases by an entire order of magnitude for every Primordial Yin you have within you. If what you say is correct and Mae truly is your sixth Primordial Yin assimilated, that would mean that you would have to pass a test with only a 0.001% chance of survival.
"This test must be taken within ten years, failure to do so will result in you being hunted down by a Sky God expert of equivalent power to the status of the Primordial Yin you've taken. And, considering the fact that big sis is part of the main lineage and is a princess of the main lineage placed in high regard, you will have to face off again a Transcended Sky God at the best and potentially even an Omniscient Sky God…"
Aantha fell into silence and Mae's grip subconsciously tightened again.
However, when Ryu spoke, they were stunned into an even deeper silence.
"Okay," he replied indifferently.
