Death... and me

Roan then left the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm with a different appearance while Rean stayed behind to work on the new armor.

"Now that I think about it, you all rejected the first name I gave to my armor. Do you have any good idea?" Rean asked Kentucky, who was just about to return to his nest on Celis.

"Eh? Me?" Kentucky was taken aback. "Errr... Didn't you call it Circuitry Formation Armor? You could simply keep it."

"That's boring," Rean answered. "That's not a name; it is just a type of forging method. How about Super Coolant Spreading Armor! It is not a glue, but it does attach directly to the body."

Kentucky's expression was one of disgust.

"Err...." Seeing that, Rean gave up that idea, too. "Forget what I said."

Kentucky then had an idea. "Well, we have thousands of cultivators living in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm. Why don't you give them a little explanation of how this new armor works and ask them to come up with a name. You can even offer a reward for the best idea."

"Oh!" Rean's eyes lit up. "Great! I'll do that straight away."

Sure enough, Rean used his Divine Sense and told all living beings in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm about his new equipment, including the intelligent Demon Beasts. Above all, he even had the experts from Earth, who had just recently started cultivating.

Seeing the people's progress, Rean couldn't help but smile.

Before Rean left the other side of the Universe with Kafan's help, he got from him those alternative methods of cultivation for races that had never been cultivated before. He then passed all the knowledge to those people and let them test it themselves. After all, there was no way he could tell which was good or bad. 

Some worked, others only partially, and some had no effect whatsoever. Nonetheless, Kafan seemed to have worked quite a lot on each of those methods... out of boredom. None of them proved to be harmful. There were even a few that cultivated the body, but they were not body cultivation techniques. Instead, they used the body to store the cultivation energies instead of Dantians. It was different from the body cultivation techniques Rean and Roan used since Kafan's techniques still allowed one to go through the cultivation realms normally. 

In the end, the people from Earth found seven techniques within those from Kafan's repertory that worked best for them. Four of them were normal ones, which relied on creating a fake core similar to a Dantian in the body. The other three were the alternative ones that used the body as if it were the Dantian instead. 

The only problem with those body-type cultivations was that they were quite painful. Still, although they didn't have a result as good as real body cultivation techniques, they still strengthened the body on top of allowing the user to cultivate realms. If one could cope with it, the gains would be a lot more substantial. Rean did not intervene with the people's decision and allowed them to use whichever they wanted.

In the end, as good as any of these seven techniques looked like, these people were not born to live in a cultivation world. The results they got from cultivating with them were far below what a normal person from the cultivation world could achieve with a run-of-the-mill technique. 

Fortunately for them, Divine Energy was not a problem in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm. The concentration inside was always several times higher than outside, as the system gathered the Divine Energy over large distances around Rean and Roan and compressed it all inside. Well, that ability only existed because of Celis's saplings, of course. 

Once these people got to a high enough level, Sister Orb would be able to lift the restriction that kept most of the Divine Energy away from their bodies. That would allow them to cultivate much faster than they would be able to outside the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm.

Anyway, everyone in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm successfully entered the first realm of cultivation, the Body Transformation Realm. As long as they got to the Energy Gathering Realm, Sister Orb could increase the concentration of Divine Energy reaching their bodies. At the Foundation Establishment, such restrictions would not be necessary anymore.

By now, none of the people thought they were inside any kind of trick back on Earth. Their gains and the things they are able to do here are simply impossible to explain with Earth's laws. Cultivation truly exists, and they were all excited to be able to increase their power. Above all, they were all researchers or people who worked in similar fields. If these cultivation techniques were not as good as real ones for real cultivators, they could simply work on new types to bridge the gap. 

Suddenly, Rean's voice echoed in everyone's mind. Rean explained his terrible sense for names and asked everyone to take his question as some fun entertainment. He even promised a reward for the best name for his armor. Of course, Rean knew that all of this didn't really have any importance. It wasn't like his new type of armor really needed a name or anything like that. He just liked to have some fun, too.

Following that, Rean used the system's time-manipulating formation and increased the time in the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm by ten times. With all the Divine origin Energy cores they obtained back in the Facility on Earth's underground, they could once again use a few of those cores for time acceleration. Besides, only ten times acceleration didn't spend that much energy, so it could be kept for quite a while.

Outside, Roan used his Divine Sense, which spread and mixed with the Divine Senses of the countless cultivators there. He ignored it and focused on the conversations the cultivators were having. Not long after, he found out the reason the army had been called back to the city. It wasn't only this army. Instead, all armies now seemed to be on standby.