The Method to Break Through

Rao Yuexi looked at Pei Yuhan in the Nine Heavens Yang Spring, his expression tinged with pain, and a triumphant smile curled at the corners of her lips. Her eyes, clouded by desire, grew increasingly hazy as she sank into a state of frenzy...

Her little Xiao Han had really grown up, no longer the child who used to cling to his shishu...

But still... a rebellious child deserved some punishment...

Rao Yuexi stood up, leaving behind a puddle of water on the ground that reflected the light.

Glimmering and shimmering.

Watching Pei Yuhan's increasingly strained expression, Rao Yuexi grew bolder, as if she wanted to pour every last drop of her purest Core Fire into the Nine Heavens Yang Spring, letting it be absorbed by Xiao Han's Solar Dao Body.

Then, through the method she desired, have it sent back to her!

What a perfect cycle!

Rao Yuexi knew this was the cultivation method used by some wanton disciples of the Qingyou Dao Sect—generating more spiritual energy through the reaction of yin and yang qi.

The difference was that benevolent cultivators would split the generated spiritual energy between both parties, which was called dual cultivation.

Some demonic cultivators, however, would even drain the other's foundation and lifespan, a practice known as harvesting.

Rao Yuexi understood that the method she was using to break through her realm was actually the second kind. But her shizhi's Solar Dao Body was an ancient, heaven-defying physique that might only appear once in ten thousand years, producing yang qi that was virtually inexhaustible.

Male cultivators with such a heaven-defying physique generally faced only two fates: becoming a great master well-versed in dual cultivation, or being discovered by a female cultivator skilled in that art and turned into a tool to be drained day and night by countless vixens...

Rao Yuexi naturally wouldn't do anything so absurd. She didn't see Xiao Han as a mere cultivation tool—it was just that her love was so deep she wanted to keep Xiao Han by her side every moment...

Rao Yuexi looked at the water bed behind her—that was the wedding gift she had prepared for Xiao Han. He would surely love it!

When the time came, she would lock Xiao Han up here, to stay with her forever!

Drawing from the sect's ancient texts, Rao Yuexi had compiled a secret technique suited for the Solar Dao Body, paired with her own pure Core Fire. If they complemented each other, perhaps the two of them could truly explore the Nascent Soul realm and beyond!

Rao Yuexi even began to fantasize: a Nascent Soul great master with ten thousand years of lifespan, she and Xiao Han becoming the supreme dao couple of the Eastern Region, while Jiang Shiyuan remained stuck at Spirit Transmutation, spending her whole life watching her and her beloved Xiao Han fly off together as a pair...

The speed at which Rao Yuexi transmitted her Core Fire grew faster, and the capacity of the fire seemed to increase. The peach-shaped hearts in her fox-like, seductive eyes nearly solidified into reality.

All of that was Shishu's overflowing love...

Xiao Han, you must absorb it all, then give it back to Shishu!

Shishu will treasure it well!

And this pool of Nine Heavens Yang Spring that Xiao Han was soaking in!

She would also store it away carefully—maybe brew tea with it later?

She wanted to taste it right now...

It must carry Xiao Han's scent...

At this moment, Pei Yuhan, caught in Rao Yuexi's frenzied actions, had a faint flush spreading across his cold, handsome face. His brows were tightly knit, and his breathing grew heavier...

How could the yang qi in this Nine Heavens Yang Spring be so dense? Where had Shishu found spring water with such thick yang qi...

Had she dug up the spring eye of the Southern Region Flame Valley?

Pei Yuhan felt that the upper half of the gray pill radiating deathly qi had, under the intense refinement of the yang fire, turned into a pool of thick sludge. The process of dissolving the pill was half complete...

But the yang fire he could endure had reached its limit. He needed Shishu to withdraw the refinement immediately, or he might fall into qi deviation again!

Pei Yuhan quickly stood up from the bath, using the scorching yang qi to evaporate the spring water from his body, and took out a new set of white dao robes from his storage ring...

But he noticed something off below—an awkward, protruding bulge.

This was a normal reaction caused by the yang fire in his dantian reaching its limit. Even after casting the "Cold Heart Curse" from his cold-attribute techniques several times, it had no effect...

"Um... Shishu, are you still there?"

"Shizhi need not be restrained. Let Shishu help you break through with yang fire, and everything will naturally be resolved..."

Rao Yuexi naturally noticed Pei Yuhan's awkwardness. As his shishu, she should understand the embarrassment of her junior.

But this awkwardness would only last for the time it takes to burn a stick of incense. Once she knocked Xiao Han unconscious...

Rao Yuexi looked at the massive cauldron before her and added a large amount of special medicinal herbs.

One type could induce unconsciousness in cultivators below the Nascent Soul realm, and the other could make a cultivator "energetic"!

Pei Yuhan, hearing Rao Yuexi's indifferent tone, still felt uneasy. But his storage ring only contained one set of clothes, with no other fabric to cover himself...

He looked at the dao robes he had taken off earlier, only to find they had vanished, the ones stained with the smell of alcohol...

Where were his robes?

"Shizhi, are you ready? Don't worry—I've cultivated for a hundred years and seen everything. I've long since severed the six desires of the mortal world..."

"Besides, in my eyes, you're still just a child. I, your elder, don't mind, so why be so shy?"

Rao Yuexi's face still carried a hint of blush. She sat upright before the massive cauldron, but her legs kept shifting restlessly...

Pei Yuhan didn't know that his original dao robes were currently pinned beneath Rao Yuexi's red skirt, tightly clamped between her legs...

Hearing Rao Yuexi's teasing tone, Pei Yuhan assumed Shishu had taken his robes to wash them. He quickly stepped out from behind the door and slipped to the opposite side of the cauldron.

The two sat facing each other across the huge cauldron, blocking their view, but Rao Yuexi still caught a glimpse of the earlier scene.

Her little Xiao Han was indeed formidable—even his dao robes couldn't hide it...

"Nephew, this is your uncle's lifebound cauldron, a part of my Nascent Soul. Soon, your uncle will begin refining the realm-breaking pill, and you must strike Yang Fire into the cauldron, fusing it with the pill..."

"Yuhan will give his all!"

Pei Yuhan had heard of this realm-breaking method—tempering one's bound artifact to achieve a breakthrough...

Not only would it elevate his own cultivation realm, but his lifebound treasure would also rise in grade, greatly enhancing his combat power...

Rao Yuexi caught the earnest tone in Pei Yuhan's voice across from her, and a barely perceptible smirk of triumph curled at the corner of her lips as she placed the specially prepared medicinal herbs into the cauldron...

Rao Yuexi's tongue lightly moistened her red lips, and she unconsciously swallowed, her tone growing a bit excited.

"Xiao Han, let's start quickly!"

"I believe tonight, your uncle can finally eat... ah, obtain the opportunity to reach Nascent Soul Great Perfection!"

With that, Pei Yuhan channeled his spiritual energy, turning the scorching Yang Fire, barely restrained, into a flame that he struck into the base of the cauldron.

Rao Yuexi had been waiting for this day for a long time...

Xuanyuan Sword Sect

The night deepened, now fully into the late hours.

A pair of violet starry eyes snapped open, killing intent condensing into a tangible force around them.

"Rao Yuexi, you bitch!"

[ps: Two chapters short of forty, adding two more, noted in the little book to make up on release!]

[Already working hard on the manuscript, preparing for the release, sob sob...]