The First Time's Tenderness

"Mm!!"

"Boom..."

Gu Xia's mind went completely blank. This was his first time kissing a girl. The cool, soft sensation on his lips and the exquisitely beautiful face before him left even a Dou Emperor like him feeling helpless for the first time...

Suddenly, Gu Xia felt the nimble little tongue entwined with his slip something into his mouth. He instantly came to his senses. He immediately blasted away the stunning queen clinging to him, and in an instant, boundless majesty filled the space...

"How presumptuous! A mere snake-person dares scheme against me!!"

This time, Gu Xia was truly angry—though only angry. He had not reached the point of fury, so he could still control his strength and remember his identity... He merely blasted Medusa into serious injury instead of directly taking her life...

"Cough, cough, it's useless... Even if you are an elite-level expert... once you swallow... my Companion Snake-Scale Heart... for the rest of your life, you will only love me... Cough, cough... The only... antidote... I already threw it into the magma... So... no matter who you are... you can only be mine..."

Though severely injured, she still struggled to crawl back to her feet.

"..."

Gu Xia said nothing, but his gaze grew colder and colder. It was as if he were looking at a dead person. The aura around him was like a ferocious beast that could lash out at any moment...

"Hehe, if you... kill me... you'll be buried with me too..."

Medusa's tottering figure showed no fear whatsoever. Her beautiful, alluring eyes met Gu Xia's directly, filled with mockery...

"What? Don't dare to make a move? You humans have always been this hypocritical and disgusting!"

As Queen Medusa spoke with disgust, she undid the purple brocade robe around her body. Beneath it, her flawless jade-like body was protected only by a final layer of undergarments covering her full, perky breasts...

Her slender hands slowly moved to her delicate waist. They rested upon the tied sash; with a light tug, her exquisite and mature body would be completely exposed to the air...

"Hehe, come on, little one. Stop resisting. As long as you obediently accept the desire in your heart, I'll be yours. Don't you want me?..."

Seeing Gu Xia remain unmoved, Medusa assumed he was still desperately suppressing his primal urges. So she spoke, her voice soft and seductive. Any healthy man who heard such a soul-stirring, bewitching voice would surely become aroused on the spot!

Medusa had long known that Gu Xia could not possibly be some old monster, because an old monster's body could not be so fair and elastic. Gu Xia's several lapses had allowed this peerlessly beautiful queen to roughly guess that the age beneath his black robe was no more than twenty!

That was why she had resolved to act! She was gambling—gambling that this young Dou Venerate had no girlfriend! Clearly, she had won, because if he had a girlfriend, he would surely have realized what was happening and sent her flying the moment she hugged him! Instead of foolishly standing there like an innocent virgin and letting her feed him the Companion Snake-Scale Heart...

After hearing Medusa's words, Gu Xia knew there had been no point in wearing the black robe after all. There were only the two of them here, so he took it off. His handsome, jade-like yet somewhat youthful face was revealed before the stunning queen, who still seemed somewhat unwilling to accept it...

"If I truly only had the strength of a Dou Venerate, I might really have fallen for your trick..."

Gu Xia ignored Medusa, whose expression had clearly changed. An even more tyrannical aura spread through the space once again!

"S-Saint level?!"

Medusa's beautiful purple pupils abruptly contracted. She knew that this aura, several levels stronger than the one before, was not something a mere Dou Venerate could possess.

This handsome youth, not even twenty years old, actually possessed Saint-level strength! Her exquisite face was filled with disbelief... The moment this aura appeared, she knew she had lost this gamble. The youth was not a Dou Venerate, but an even more powerful Dou Saint! The Companion Snake-Scale Heart, which even Dou Venerates found difficult to resist, was nothing more than a laughable toy before a Dou Saint...

"So, woman, have you thought about how you'll atone for your offense?!"

Without showing anger, Gu Xia radiated majesty, causing even the magma behind him to boil! Saint-level pressure bore down on the disheveled Queen Medusa...

But the shattering of her body that she had imagined never came. Instead, she was met by a small embrace and another domineering kiss! Only this time, their positions had been reversed—it was Gu Xia forcefully kissing Medusa!

But after only a moment, the two separated. Gu Xia released the soft beauty in his arms without the slightest reluctance.

Not even a beauty like the queen could awaken this alloy-level straight man...

"Hmph, now we're even!"

Medusa: "???"

"Although I don't know how many people's expectations you carry, nor can I understand those so-called royal duties... I do know that you are first a woman, and only then their queen. A girl should cherish her first time more. You are you, and the queen is the queen. You need to learn how to cherish yourself too..."

"A beautiful woman like you also needs a shoulder to rest on sometimes. Don't be so impulsive next time..."

Gu Xia directly ignored Medusa and threw her into the magma—more precisely, into that lotus flower!

He did not intend to kill her. He was helping her evolve. The Green Lotus Core Flame alone was not enough for Medusa to evolve successfully, so she needed Gu Xia's assistance.

With a wave of Gu Xia's hand, the green lotus slowly opened its petals, wrapped the purple figure within, and then closed once more.

"Consider this my repayment for helping me find the Heavenly Flame. I hope you make good use of this drop of blood..."

After seeing Medusa enclosed within the green lotus, Gu Xia cut open his finger and forced out a drop of golden Dou Emperor blood.

Gu Xia controlled the golden blood droplet and let it merge into the body of the beautiful purple figure within the green lotus...

Afterward, Gu Xia began supplying the green lotus with the energy Medusa needed for her evolution. Ultra-pure Dou Qi at the Dou Emperor level was continuously absorbed by the green lotus. Although it frantically devoured Gu Xia's Dou Qi like a whale, Gu Xia felt no pressure at all. The amount he was supplying was only around one percent of the total within his body.

One had to know that Gu Xia was a peak Dou Emperor. Even one percent of the Dou Qi within him was far greater than the total Dou Qi possessed by those trashy Dou Venerates! Yet the green lotus continued absorbing, showing just how difficult Medusa's evolution was...

"I hope you learn to be a little selfish in the future..."

When Gu Xia saw that the green lotus was no longer absorbing his Dou Qi, he stopped supplying it. After setting up a protective barrier, he tore open a spatial rift. In the second before leaving, he thought it over and decided to leave the woman who had taken his first kiss with a little something as a memento...

After tossing a ball of purple light into the green lotus, he stepped into the rift without looking back. Once Gu Xia left, the rift closed again. The scorching space fell silent once more, with only the crackling of magma echoing through it...