For the next stretch of time, Huo Hai finally saw just how outrageous these so-called great lineages could be. Never mind the Qu Family head, whom he had never seen—even Qu Linyi spent nearly every night drowned in music and pleasure.
To the descendants of these great lineages, scattering their seed across the world seemed to be a glorious and magnificent undertaking. Aside from maidservants specially trained for possible other uses, the rest were assigned to family members on a fixed basis. Those women were somewhat better off; after all, the overall atmosphere of the Heavenly Spirit Continent was not quite so debauched. Comparatively speaking, women remained fairly faithful.
Fortunately, once everything had been made clear, that so-called bedwarming maid stopped slipping into Huo Hai's bedroom from the very next day onward. Yet according to Qu Linyi, since she had already been assigned to Huo Hai, she belonged to him.
Thus, with nowhere else to go, the bedwarming maid became a servant in Huo Hai's room. The two Huo Hai had selected that day to guide him received much the same treatment. It also seemed that certain unwritten rules existed among these attendants.
Unable to bear the maids' daily teasing, Huo Hai had no choice but to spend most of his time either studying maps or refining his own spirit energy. After several days, the fusion of his spirit energy had advanced another great step. The final Spirit Vein was already more than halfway complete, and it would not take much longer to finish refining the remaining spirit energy.
Meanwhile, after several days of travel, Yang Xiao finally returned to the Lineage. The reason he had returned so late was not because he wished to evade punishment—such punishment could not be avoided—but because he had another matter to attend to.