Kiss My Feet

That force was brutal and domineering, like magma pouring into your veins.

His body suddenly stiffened, his back arched, and he gripped the handrail tightly, trying his best to keep quiet.

A few minutes later, the power gradually subsided, transforming into a warm current that sank into the dantian, making all the meridians in the body feel as if they had been cleansed and refreshed.

He looked down at his hands, feeling the new power flowing through his body.

Levels 74, 75, and 76.

He jumped three levels from level 73 to level 76.

The progress he had taken three or four years to achieve was leaped over in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Xue Ye looked up and Xiao Wu in disbelief.

Do you believe it now?

"I... I believe it."

"Now that you believe me, what should you do?"

Xue Ye took a deep breath, then slowly stood up from the dragon throne, took two steps back, and gestured to the empty throne.

Xiao Wu didn't stand on ceremony; she twirled her skirt and sat down.

The dragon throne was wide, and her slender body occupied less than half of it. She crossed her legs, rested her elbows on the armrests, and propped her chin up with her hand.

Kneel down.

Call me Master.

Xue Ye froze. In his entire life, he had only ever knelt before the memorial tablet of the late emperor and the ancestors in the ancestral temple; even the empress had never made him kneel.

Now, asking him to kneel before a girl who looks only fifteen or sixteen years old feels like his knees are filled with lead.

Seeing Xue Ye struggling, Xiao Wu said, "Since you're unwilling, then give the pills back."

As she finished speaking, she reached out and pulled the medicine bottle back from Xue Ye's hand.

On Xue Ye, as he looked at the medicine bottle, a hint of greed crept into his eyes.

"Okay, I'll kneel."

His knees slowly bent down.

With a dull thud, his knees struck the ground, and he bowed his head, saying, "Master... Master."

Xiao Wu looked down at the Heaven Dou Emperor kneeling before her and smiled with satisfaction.

She lowered her right leg off her left knee and stretched it out in front of the Xue Ye.

"Kiss my feet, let me see your sincerity."

Xue Ye suddenly looked up; he had never been asked to do such a thing in his entire life.

But it was for the pills, for fighting the Spirit Hall, and for the child.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the last trace of struggle in them had shattered completely; he was going all in.

He reached out with trembling hands, cupped the cold, bare foot in his hands, lowered his head, and gently kissed it.

Xiao Wu looked down at him, a wicked smile on her face.

"Good boy/girl."

She withdrew her foot and placed the porcelain bottle on the table. "Take these pills. Don't let anyone know I exist except for you."

"Also, I have more of these pills."

"In order to have enough strength to fight against the Spirit Hall, you also need to distribute the pills to your trusted confidants so that they can also become stronger."

"You alone can't stop the Spirit Hall."

Xue Ye took the porcelain bottle and nodded. "Okay."

The next second, Xiao Wu's smile suddenly turned cold.

She raised her leg and kicked Xue Ye in the chest.

He was sent flying backward in the Xue Ye, and he almost couldn't catch his breath.

He struggled to sit up, but a bare foot landed on his chest. The force wasn't great, but the foot landed precisely on the spot where he had been kicked earlier, causing him excruciating pain that made his vision blur.

"Just one 'okay'?"

"Yes... Master."

"Remember, don't give me a hard time, or I'll make you wish you were never born."

Lying on the ground in the Xue Ye, panting heavily, he stopped struggling, remained silent for a moment, closed his eyes, and swallowed back the surging humiliation.

He had already knelt down, kissed her feet, and gone this far.

"I've got it."

Xiao Wu withdrew her foot, turned around, walked back to the dragon throne, and sat down. "Arrange a secluded place for me to live."

"I'm going to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in three days. You take care of things at court and come with me."

Two weeks later--

Less than one-tenth of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's corpse remained; bones, tendons, and remnants of flesh were still floating on the surface, but the flesh had long since been devoured.

Hundreds and thousands of Sea Soul Beast had a delicious feast over the past two days. Some of them with lower cultivation levels were so full that they floated on the surface of the sea, unable to move.

The Demon Soul Great White Shark swarm benefited the most, devouring the heart and liver of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King under Xiao Bai's leadership.

Xiao Bai ate the most and is now resting on the surface of the water.

Qian Xunji opened her eyes from her meditation, stood up, and stretched her limbs.

His gaze swept over the remains of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King floating on the surface of the sea, and suddenly he was drawn to something.

It was a bead the size of a fist, pale gold in color, and it was stuck right in the center of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's skull.

It was wrapped in several layers of thick bone plates and fascia, and because the pile of broken bones collapsed into an inconspicuous depression after the demon whale died, it was not discovered by the Sea Soul Beast that were gnawing on it.

Several small, oblivious Ghost Tooth Shark were circling the bead. One of them opened its Ghost Tooth Shark, which was full of sharp teeth, and bit down on the bead.

Suddenly, Qian Xunji kicked the Ghost Tooth Shark away.

The Ghost Tooth Shark somersaulted seven or eight times in the air before crashing into the sea some distance away.

Qian Xunji bent down and pried the bead out of the skull's groove.

The beads feel warm and smooth to the touch, and are much heavier than they appear.

He closed his eyes and probed with his Spiritual Power to sense it.

The bead contains a ball of extremely pure primordial energy, the essence that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King condensed over 990,000 years of arduous cultivation.

"System, is this bead useful to me?" Qian Xunji asked in his mind.

[Host, this bead is currently of great use to Qian Renxue, but her body cannot withstand this power. Forcibly absorbing it would at best sever her meridians, and at worst cause her body to explode and die.]

"Then I'll keep it for now."

Qian Xunji flipped her hand and put the Whale Pearl into the Angel Ring.

If my daughter can't use it, I'll save it for now and wait until her cultivation level is high enough.

After a while, Qian Renxue opened her eyes.

She looked down at her hands, then looked up at Qian Xunji standing not far away.

"Dad, I'm all set! I'm at level 54 now."

Qian Xunji turned around and looked at her daughter's face, which was trying hard to appear calm but couldn't hide her smugness. She couldn't help but chuckle.

"Level 54, not bad."

"How much longer, Mom?"

"Soon."

"She's absorbing Million-Year Soul Ring, it won't happen that quickly. Are you worried?"

Qian Renxue nodded without saying anything.

Although she knew her mother was strong, her heart nearly jumped out of her throat when she saw her mother being swallowed by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

She never wants to see that scene again in her life.

Qian Xunji looked at his daughter, then suddenly took out a box from the Angel Ring: "Are you hungry?"

"A little."

"Wait." Qian Xunji opened the box, inside was a piece of Whale Brain.