Bastard! Shameless Scoundrel!
Crystal-clear droplets slid down her fair, jade-like chin and over her delicate collarbones.
"M-my astrolabe exploded... My astrolabe..."
At first, Mona was still reeling from the shock and heartache of her astrological instrument exploding. But after just two seconds, she realized that what she was sitting on was not a soft sofa cushion at all, but a man's hard, scorching thighs.
"C-Chu Yuan?! Wh-what are you doing?! Put me down..."
Mona blushed scarlet all the way to her earlobes and neck, and tried to push herself up from Chu Yuan's lap and escape.
Chu Yuan looked down at the drenched kitten in his arms and said with a gentle smile:
"Don't move around. If I don't reconstruct your Hydro Vision immediately, the Hydro elemental power in your body will be completely exhausted tonight."
"Bear with it. Open your Hydro element completely to me."
Chu Yuan murmured the instruction beside her ear. The next moment, the spectral image of the [Crown of Heavenly Principles], shimmering with seven colors, appeared once more above his right palm and branded itself directly onto Mona's Hydro Vision!
Her once-parched meridians were instantly filled, as though with scalding hot spring water.
Mona lost all her strength and collapsed limply into Chu Yuan's arms.
From beneath her soaked, dark-purple bodysuit wafted the rich fragrance unique to a young woman.
Feeling the beauty's delicate body in his arms, Chu Yuan guided Primordial Divine Power with his fingertips, completing its final circulation through her body.
Under Chu Yuan's divine power at such close quarters, the Hydro Vision at the small of Mona's back began to undergo a transformation visible to the naked eye.
A ring of dazzling golden star patterns of Heavenly Principles gradually appeared across the once-dim blue crystal. The Hydro elemental power flowing within not only became completely immune to the suppression of Soul Power on the Douluo Continent, but also gained a trace of stellar origin capable of divining the fates of the heavens!
"Hum-!"
With a clear hum like the Milky Way hanging upside down, the reconstruction of Mona's Hydro Vision was completed, and it shone with an unprecedented azure starlight!
Almost at the same time, the pure Hydro elemental origin and the laws of stellar fate returning from Mona's body resonated violently with Chu Yuan's [Crown of Heavenly Principles], wildly drawing upon the power of the laws of both worlds between heaven and earth!
Rumble!
Under the vast feedback of the laws, the Soul Power barrier within Chu Yuan, which had long since reached the peak of level thirty, shattered with a crash. As naturally as water flowing into a channel, he officially stepped into the Soul Elder realm at level thirty-one!
Immediately afterward, under Keqing's astonished and delighted gaze, a Divine Authority Soul Ring formed out of thin air beneath Chu Yuan's feet. It was as deep as the starry sky, with azure ripples and brilliant golden light flowing within it. It slowly pulsed, its light complementing that of the purple-gold First Soul Ring and the emerald-green Second Soul Ring!
The Third Divine Authority Soul Ring had finished forming!
As the ten-thousand-year-level Divine Authority Soul Ring, condensed from Mona's Hydro element and stellar fate, settled into place, a brand-new Heavenly Principles authority Soul Skill instantly appeared in Chu Yuan's mind-[Star-Fate Hydromancy: Illusory Bubble]!
This Soul Skill not only allowed Chu Yuan and Mona to instantly transform into streams of water and starlight, shifting between the real and the illusory as they folded space and blinked across vast distances. It could also cast a "Star-Fate Bubble" over the entire battlefield, imprisoning enemies within false bubbles of fate and multiplying the damage they suffered. Moreover, no concealment, illusion, or divination technique could remain hidden from star-fate vision!
As the Soul Ring's power withdrew completely, the seven-colored divine radiance in the private room gradually faded.
Yet Mona, limp on Chu Yuan's lap, remained immersed in the afterglow of that mingling of divine power, as though she had just ascended to the peak of bliss. For a long time, she could not come back to her senses.
"Hah... haaah..."
Mona lay weakly against Chu Yuan's broad shoulder, her long, wet, violet-black hair clinging in disarray to either side of her flushed cheeks.
She could clearly feel that the Hydro elemental power in her body was many times stronger than it had been in Teyvat. Even the hydromancy that had once required a water divination plate could now summon starlight with a mere thought.
But... the divine power had wandered through every sensitive corner of her body, while Chu Yuan's large hand had freely stroked and kneaded her through her soaked clothes and the tears in her black stockings. The shameful sensation had been far too intense!
It had been so intense that, when this innocent scholar, who usually knew only how to devote herself to studying astrology, had opened her body and mind completely to Chu Yuan, even her soul had been deeply branded with the man's presence.
Chu Yuan looked down at the young woman in his arms, her eyes hazy and her red lips slightly parted as she panted softly. His large hand, cupping her plump buttocks, gave them a gentle squeeze, and he said with a warm smile:
"How do you feel, great astrologist? Now that your Vision has been reconstructed, I'm afraid even our fates are completely bound together."
"Mm... y-you, stop saying that..."
Mona's delicate body trembled again. Feeling Chu Yuan's fingers still resting on the soft flesh of her thigh through a tear in her starry black stockings, she was so embarrassed that even her toes curled.
But when she raised her watery mint-green eyes and met Chu Yuan's deep, doting black gaze, she could no longer muster the slightest resistance. Instead, an unprecedented attachment and dependence welled up in her heart.
Since even the source of the starry sky and fate itself were held in this man's hands, perhaps losing to him and even giving him her body and mind were inevitable results ordained by fate?
At the thought, Mona blushed and took the initiative to wrap her slender, fair arms tightly around Chu Yuan's neck, letting him lower his head and kiss her pink cherry lips, cool and moist and faintly fragrant with fruit wine.
"Mm...!"
The instant their lips met, Mona obediently closed her long-lashed eyes. Her soaked body melted completely into Chu Yuan's arms as she let the man savor her youthful sweetness to his heart's content.