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Sorry for not updating the past 2 days, I was shortening and modifying the chapters so it not be bored like the last 4 one.
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Liuli behaved more like an overachieving class representative.
As a cult’s Holy Maiden, Liuli had always been willing to do anything for cultivation. Her moral boundaries were naturally looser than Jinyue’s, though her desire for immortality was just as strong.
It wasn’t that Liuli lacked skill – she was simply too enthusiastic.
Though she lacked the innate Charm Physique buff that Jinyue had, she made up for it with tools. Many of her extreme cultivation techniques made even Yino feel uneasy.
Cultivation was meant to be about enjoying life’s pleasures, but Liuli took things a bit too far.
Usually, Yino wouldn’t mind experimenting – perhaps Liuli’s bizarre cultivation tools could provide unexpected insights into ascension. Like Jinyue, Liuli was great, but unfortunately Yino was already at his limit today.
As their teacher, he had to be responsible for all his students. Still stuck at the basic Qi Refinement stage, he needed to wait and help the struggling student Yuebai advance together.
So Liuli’s intensity was too much for Yino to handle right now. Moreover…
What made it even more tempting was that Liuli didn’t care at all about safety measures during cultivation.
Or rather, it wasn’t just about cultivation.
She was simply completely open with Yino because he had truly saved her sister. As an older sister, Liuli naturally trusted this newly appointed teacher completely. Since this was the teacher’s preferred pleasure teaching method, Liuli, being a top student, saw no need to hold back as she would with outsiders.
Yino wasn’t an outsider to her!
He was her benefactor! Her teacher!
A teacher’s kindness could never be fully repaid!
So in just a few short practice sessions, while Jinyue was still hesitantly learning to open up to the pleasure of dual cultivation, Liuli had already thrown off all restraints and let Yino speed-run through the complete basic curriculum.
And beyond the basics, she’d tried plenty of supplementary materials too.
However, considering that while students had unlimited energy, teachers had limits, Liuli held back from requesting many advanced supplementary lessons. She planned to wait until the semester ended, then study more advanced materials at home. That way, next time Yino was free to practice, she could bring her notes and have an in-depth discussion about various races’ ascension techniques.
“Master, have you not recovered yet?”
Seeing Yino still breathing heavily, Liuli’s beautiful eyes showed concern. Being the teacher’s attentive class representative, she quickly crouched down to check his cultivation progress, carefully examining every inch of his skin, worried their perfect plan might have gone wrong.
“Jinyue’s body is quite special…”
“I can still feel the effects. Let me rest for two more minutes…”
With the naturally charming red foxgirl still in his arms, Yino wiped his sweat and carefully set Jinyue aside.
Jinyue was weak, and in her weakened state, she instinctively clung to him holding her. However, she understood her unique constitution – if she didn’t leave Yino’s side, her natural fragrance would keep him from calming down. So this time, Jinyue behaved, cuddling with Yino briefly before reluctantly sitting aside to watch.
After Jinyue left, Yino finally had a moment to himself. He took out a water pouch from his storage ring, took several drinks, then passed it to the red foxgirl beside him.
“You should hydrate too, after using so much energy.”
Yino said casually. Though his cheeks still bore visible kiss marks and bite marks, after resting a bit, he skillfully changed the subject.
Jinyue stared at the water pouch, lightly licking her lips before taking it.
“Hehe, teacher’s water pouch…”
She put her mouth on it like a greedy kitten. Though her licking motions were quick, her small tongue meant each sip was tiny. After drinking for a while, very little water actually reached her stomach.
Cultivation was an intense physical activity.
And the body shouldn’t drink large amounts of water right after intense exercise.
So for Jinyue, what mattered wasn’t how much water she drank, but the process of drinking and the lingering scent she could detect from the pouch’s mouth.
“Can’t you drink normally? Stop ruining my spirit spring water from Ranmo Peak. How am I supposed to drink it if it’s tainted with your charm energy?”
Watching the girl drink for so long, Yino’s carefully diverted attention was drawn back, making him frown.
He was bewildered.
How could Jinyue make even drinking water so sexy?
As expected of someone with an innate cultivation physique – just from this small drinking, Yino could tell this fox had extraordinary talent, needing only brief practice and guidance before mastering techniques.
Some skills seemed innate, requiring no deliberate study. Once the cultivation atmosphere was right, the fox demon’s genes naturally unlocked top-tier talents.
Liuli was different – lacking such natural talent, she could only rely on self-study.
In terms of cultivation experience, Jinyue’s natural approach was definitely more comfortable.
Sometimes Liuli only knew theoretical techniques but couldn’t control the intensity in practice, often going overboard during cultivation and shattering Yino’s concentration while he guided her.
Helping such an intense student cultivate was physically demanding work, lacking the sweet enjoyment of practicing with Jinyue.
“Mm, I’m feeling better now.”
Thinking this, Yino came back to his senses and rechecked his body’s condition.
Good – with Liuli’s technique helping circulate and relieve pressure, after just a few minutes of rest and distraction, his body had recovered enough to continue cultivation.
Yino sat up, his gaze falling on the nine-tailed white fox left hanging in the corner of the room, forced to practice alone while watching the teacher’s live demonstration as punishment.
Meanwhile, Yuebai noticed the teacher’s gaze.
She was like the worst student in class, punished for misbehaving by being made to study alone in the back corner.
Now, as the elevated teacher on the platform rarely noticed her, Yuebai’s long-lonely heart that had given up hope stirred with impulse.
However, though her heart raced, Yuebai maintained her last thread of rationality and hesitated. Like Yino, she had been stuck at the basic stage for a long time without advancing.
All this time, Yuebai had been watching from the sidelines, seeing the enjoyment on Jinyue and Liuli’s faces. She was actually desperate for some stern guidance from the teacher.
But… She was also afraid.
Experience tales with empire
She wasn’t originally part of this class, and now that she’d been brought in for remedial lessons, Yuebai was deeply afraid of becoming the teacher’s burden.
Yuebai feared that once she spoke up and asked for personal instruction, once she got a taste of it, she would immediately break through her bottleneck like Jinyue and Liuli…
If that happened, Yuebai might never be able to go back.
Yuebai couldn’t imagine herself becoming like Jinyue, wagging her tail as the teacher’s good student.
And yet… Though Yuebai’s heart resisted, from Yino’s perspective, her nine fluffy fox tails were already wagging high in the air.
“Come, Liuli, let’s continue.”
Seeing Yuebai wagging her tails without speaking, Yino’s patience ran out. He gestured for Liuli to continue their remedial lesson.
As the class representative, Liuli was always eager. She was fully prepared, and unlike the reserved Jinyue, she had already speed-run through the material. As soon as Yino spoke, she immediately pressed against the wall, lowered her waist, and assumed the proper position for her teacher’s instruction.
But just before the lesson could begin–
“Wait!!!”
“This lady can’t wait another second!”
The white fox girl shamefully interrupted the lesson.
The long self-study had nearly driven her mad. With a new lesson about to begin, if Yuebai didn’t properly participate now, she might never break through the basic stage!
This wasn’t just impulse – it was a carefully considered decision after maintaining rationality for so long.
The scales of desire had tipped.
In this moment, Yuebai felt that her dignity as the former White Fox Holy Maiden, maintained through 400 years of lonely endurance, was worthless in the face of true cultivation and ascension!
This wasn’t degrading…
This wasn’t breaking taboo…
After all, since the new Holy Maiden’s birth, Yuebai had already resigned her position.
Now, Yuebai wasn’t holy – she was just an ordinary female fox with the right to pursue her own happiness.
Moreover, it was just one brief chance at advancement – what precious thing could she really lose!
Besides, she still had the thousand-year Soul Source Pill of the White Fox clan stabilizing her core. No matter how much impurity entered, the Soul Source Pill could easily purify it.
And once she was satisfied and left this Azure Forest, she could simply kill Yino – who would ever know about tonight’s taboo?
“Master–!!!”
“Good, open your mouth.”
“Mmph–!”
Yuebai had cultivated in secret for 400 years.
This was her first time learning that true cultivation could be such an extremely blissful affair!
When Yino’s righteous energy fully entered her spirit pool and finally broke through her bottleneck, successfully ascending…
In that moment, Yuebai felt dawn had finally come.
Her body fell from the void above, plunging into an ocean of happiness. She could swim freely in the sea, become one with it, feeling each shocking wave wash over her.
In this moment, Yuebai’s psychological burden vanished.
This was an ocean that could purify everything – she could freely release all the impurities long compressed within her.
It was fine.
Beneath this ocean lay a thousand-year Soul Source Pearl.
No matter how fierce the waves, the Soul Source Pearl would guard its domain and forgive Yuebai’s irreverence and loss of composure.
So Yuebai could finally release her pressure briefly.
As wave after shocking wave swept over her, the already weakened Yuebai gradually sank deeper into the seabed.
She closed her eyes, immersively feeling the chaos of the ocean floor.
But at some point, another terrifying wave heavily struck her body.
Yuebai felt she had blissfully passed out for a long time, her consciousness gradually returning from happy fantasy to reality.
Opening her eyes, she found herself deep in the sea, looking up at the violently surging waves above, and a massive waterspout in the distance, connecting sea and sky like a pillar.
Yuebai blinked, trying to see that towering waterspout clearly, but before she could focus, another massive undersea wave struck her.
With her petite body, Yuebai was like a tiny fish drifting in the currents.
During the chaotic flow, Yuebai tightly held the Soul Source Pill, only maintaining her footing through its sacred power.
Looking carefully, she saw the distant towering waterspout approaching the seabed.
In this moment, Yuebai blinked gently, seeming to finally understand the situation.
“No…”
“This is wrong…”
“This won’t work, this waterspout is too powerful… if it sweeps through… it will destroy the entire undersea palace… even the stabilizing Soul Source Pill in its deepest chambers!”
Yuebai stood beside the Soul Source Pill, softly murmuring.
As the exhilarating feeling of freely soaring through the ocean faded, Yuebai gradually regained her rationality, realizing anew the heaven-shattering force this waterspout would bring to the undersea palace.
But…
Before this terrifying thousand-yard-high pillar piercing the heavens, what could Yuebai’s tiny form do?
“No… this isn’t like I imagined…”
Yuebai softly murmured, like a tiny fish in the Journey to the West’s Dragon Palace, looking up at the thousand-yard-high, hundred-meter-thick Heaven Stabilizing Pillar.
Her face became pale, she fearfully stepped backward.
“I… I need to hide the Soul Source Pill quickly…”
“No, otherwise… if this Heaven Stabilizing Pillar pierces through the undersea palace in one stroke… with such terrifying size and power, even the Soul Source Pill guarding the Dragon Palace couldn’t possibly withstand it!”