The two traveled at a moderate pace, arriving in Suotuo City just as the day came to an end.
Suotuo City, Rose Hotel.
"Bibi Dong, are we really staying here?"
Ling Feng felt that Bibi Dong was being a little too forward. If this kept up, how was he supposed to hold out?
"What's wrong? Is there a problem with this hotel?" Bibi Dong asked.
"If we don't stay here, then the only other option is the Spirit Hall's branch temple."
"Staying somewhere run by the Spirit Hall while we're out exploring would be so boring."
"Let's hurry and check in. It's still early, so we can get in some more cultivation," Bibi Dong said.
Ling Feng felt a little helpless. One look at the hotel's layout told him it was a couples-themed hotel.
She must have had another motive for choosing this place.
Bibi Dong wasn't short on money, so she booked a suite with two bedrooms and a living room.
"Ling Feng, what's this for?" Bibi Dong asked curiously.
Sure enough, as soon as Ling Feng entered the room, he realized this hotel wasn't quite proper.
He followed Bibi Dong's gaze and saw several straps woven from gauzy fabric hanging above the bed.
Candlelight filtered through the pink lampshade, casting a delicate veil over the entire room.
There were handholds everywhere, too. Having lived two lives, Ling Feng knew at first glance what they were for.
Seeing that Bibi Dong really didn't seem to know what they were for, Ling Feng explained, "They're probably for swinging."
"Swinging? Why would anyone swing on a bed?" Bibi Dong asked, puzzled.
It was her first time staying at a hotel like this. In the past, she had always stayed in places arranged by the Spirit Hall.
Ling Feng didn't know how to explain it to her. Bibi Dong stepped forward, then suddenly noticed an illustrated booklet on the bedside table.
Curious, she opened it—and instantly understood what that "swing" was for.
Bibi Dong's face turned red, and she immediately shut the booklet.
"Bibi Dong, what's wrong?" Ling Feng walked over, wanting to see what she had found.
"You're not allowed to look!" Bibi Dong hurriedly put the booklet into her Storage Soul Tool.
"All right!" Seeing Bibi Dong's flushed face, Ling Feng guessed what the booklet contained.
Some themed hotels put out themed creative works to add to the atmosphere for their guests.
This was a couples' hotel, so the booklet was probably full of erotic illustrations or a dirty storybook.
Bibi Dong glanced at the swing, then at Ling Feng. The images she'd just seen in the booklet suddenly sprang to mind.
Only, she replaced the people in the pictures with herself and Ling Feng.
"I had no idea there were so many ways to do it." Bibi Dong felt as though her mind had been corrupted.
"Should we find somewhere else to stay?" Ling Feng asked.
"Huh? Why would we?" Bibi Dong didn't really want to leave.
Ling Feng said, "This room has probably been used by a lot of people..."
Before he could finish, Bibi Dong immediately understood what he meant. The rooms in this hotel were probably all dens where people met for secret trysts.
Thinking of all the traces those couples had left behind, Bibi Dong felt sick.
"All right, let's find somewhere else," she conceded.
She wasn't a clean freak, but she didn't want to stay somewhere like that. Still, she didn't want to stay at a place run by the Spirit Hall, either.
After discussing it, the two decided to pitch their tents in the wilderness, as Soul Masters commonly did when traveling for experience.
After nightfall, Ling Feng and Bibi Dong cultivated inside their tents.
Bibi Dong suddenly noticed that Ling Feng's Soul Power aura seemed to have changed.
"What's going on? Why is my Martial Soul being affected by Ling Feng's aura?"
Before, it had always been Ling Feng's Martial Soul that was affected by her aura. Today, the opposite had happened.
She could actually feel a sense of suppression, as though she wanted to submit.
Her Martial Soul was the Death Spider Emperor, while she had seen Ling Feng's Martial Soul before: it was a Demon Spider Martial Soul.
By rights, she should have been the one suppressing Ling Feng.
But Bibi Dong didn't dwell on it. She was happy that Ling Feng had grown stronger.
The aura around him fascinated her.
Moreover, cultivating by Ling Feng's side, she found that her cultivation speed was no slower than it had been in the Spirit City's simulated Cultivation Room.
Late that night, the two finished cultivating.
Ling Feng sighed, feeling a little disappointed. He realized that Bibi Dong's boost to his cultivation had become negligible.
"Is it because my Martial Soul evolved?"
This was the first time they had cultivated together since his Martial Soul had evolved into the Rakshasa Spider Emperor.
"So be it. If it's gone, it's gone."
After his Martial Soul evolved, his cultivation speed had become worlds apart from what it had been before.
Even without the boost from Bibi Dong's Spider Emperor aura, he cultivated far faster than he used to.
"Bibi Dong, we have to travel again tomorrow. Let's get some rest," Ling Feng reminded her.
"All right!"
Bibi Dong stopped cultivating, but instead of leaving Ling Feng's tent, she lay down right beside him.
"Bibi Dong, this is my tent. Yours is next door," Ling Feng reminded her.
Bibi Dong didn't answer or get up.
The atmosphere suddenly turned strange, and Ling Feng realized what Bibi Dong meant. She wants to devour me.
The Soul Power auras the two occasionally gave off while cultivating had kept even the nearby insects from chirping.
The tent was quiet. They could both hear each other's breathing growing heavier and heavier.
At last, Bibi Dong couldn't hold back. She rose and hooked her arms around Ling Feng's neck.
Before long, because the two had stopped cultivating, the chirring of insects and croaking of frogs sounded outside again. They were calling for mates.
Inside the tent, Ling Feng suddenly felt a cold, stabbing pain in the middle of his brow.
The pain immediately snapped him out of his daze. Rakshasa Bibi Dong had made her move.
Ling Feng could only force himself to push Bibi Dong away and help her straighten her clothes.
"Ling Feng, don't you like me?" Bibi Dong was unhappy when he pushed her away.
Ling Feng shook his head. "I'm afraid someone outside is watching us!"
Bibi Dong understood what he meant and thought of her protectors. They were probably watching her from the shadows.
At the thought, her passion quickly cooled.
"I'll make them leave right now! It's not as if I'm in any danger," Bibi Dong said angrily.
"Don't!" Ling Feng stopped her.
If he made them leave, wouldn't that be the same as telling Qian Xunji outright that he and Bibi Dong were together?
Ling Feng said, "If our love lasts through the ages, why should we care about being together day after day?"
"Once we've both grown stronger, no one will dare spy on us."
At Ling Feng's words, Bibi Dong's heart seemed to skip a beat. She murmured, "If our love lasts through the ages..."
"I knew you liked me too!" Bibi Dong said happily.
"Keep your voice down. It'd be so embarrassing if someone heard," Ling Feng whispered.