An Unexpected Turn!

Three days later!

Warm sunlight bathed the earth, and all things sprang back to life! The Star Dou Great Forest had once again returned to its usual bustle!

Splash, splash, splash! The rushing river pounded downstream, and fish surfaced from time to time to breathe the fresh air!

A ray of sunlight slipped gently into the cave and woke Yang Que from his deep sleep!

As Yang Que emerged from unconsciousness, he dimly felt a warm, smooth arm wrapped around his waist. His head seemed to be resting against something, too. Most importantly, two soft mounds were pressed tightly against his back...

Yang Que slowly opened his eyes. A cool, delicate face touched with exhaustion came into view!

A smile tugged at the corners of Yang Que's mouth. He reached out and stroked that small face. It was cool and smooth!

His movement seemed to disturb the sleeping girl. Zhu Zhuqing's eyelids fluttered, and she slowly opened her eyes, only to find Yang Que touching her face. Their gazes suddenly locked!

They were in a rather strange position! The boy lay shirtless in the girl's arms, his hand on her cheek. Her arms were wrapped around him! They stared at each other like a pair of lovers flirting!

"Ah!" Zhu Zhuqing broke the silence first! She flung her hands apart and dumped Yang Que onto the ground! Covering her cheeks, she turned away, but her ears were already as red as heated branding irons. There was no imagining how red her face must have been—like a monkey's backside!

"Ow! That nearly killed me! Murder! I'm badly hurt, and you threw me on the ground!"

"Come on, lady, I'm injured, and you still treat me like this!" Yang Que cried out from the floor!

"Hmph. Serves you right!" Zhu Zhuqing turned her head away with a haughty look!

Yang Que groaned...

After the commotion died down, Yang Que sat back on the stone bed. He looked around. "Huh! Isn't this my Cave Abode? How did you know it was here? And didn't I tell you to leave?"

"This is your Cave Abode? I found it by following the river upstream. You told me to leave, so I was supposed to leave? Why?" Zhu Zhuqing asked, puzzled!

"Uh!" Yang Que was suddenly at a loss for words!

Oh, forget it. She found it, so she found it. If she'd left, I might have ended up as Soul Beast food.

"By the way, I asked your name last time, but you never told me. Can you tell me now?" Zhu Zhuqing asked!

"When you ask someone else's name, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?" Yang Que said!

"I'm Zhu Zhuqing!" she said openly!

"Yang Que!" he replied!

"Yang Que? You really are a rotten piece of work," Zhu Zhuqing said with a straight face!

"..." Yang Que was speechless! Come on, you asked for my name. I told you, and now you're taking a shot at me!

Ah, life is hard!

A while later, Yang Que looked down at his bare torso. His wounds had all been bandaged with strips of green cloth. The fabric was quite good, too—probably fine enough not to harbor germs. It looked a little familiar, though!

"Nice fabric! Is it yours?" Yang Que couldn't help asking.

"Pfft! Did you get knocked stupid? It's your clothing. Honestly, the fabric's even better than mine!" Zhu Zhuqing pointed to a heap of rags nearby. The Ice Sword stood quietly planted beside it!

Clearly, Zhu Zhuqing had used the Ice Sword to cut up his robe!

"M-my... mine?! You're saying that's mine?" Yang Que's eyes widened!

"Ah! You spendthrift! Do you know how much I paid for that? Waaaah!" Yang Que hurried over, clutched the few remaining scraps of his robe, and wailed!

"It's just one outfit! I only did it to save you!" Zhu Zhuqing said, sounding aggrieved!

"Ah, forget it! Let's just say you owe me a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins!" Yang Que waved a hand!

At the system's exchange rate, a thousand Gold Coins equaled a hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. That checked out! Yes, Yang Que had bought that green swordsman's robe from the system for a thousand Gold Coins!

"..." Zhu Zhuqing froze for a moment. "Get lost!"

After another bout of bickering, Yang Que lay on the stone bed with his hands behind his head. Watching Zhu Zhuqing busy herself with cooking, he couldn't help sighing. "This little life of mine is pretty good!"

Zhu Zhuqing heard him and rolled her eyes. Just now, that shameless fellow had used his injuries as an excuse to make her cook for him! How shameless!

Yang Que rolled over on the stone bed and glanced toward the spot where he'd planted the Heavenly Soul White Lotus. One look nearly scared his soul out of his body! "Ah! Where's my precious Spirit Medicine? Ah!"

He jumped up and searched frantically!

Zhu Zhuqing looked at him in confusion. "Is it this?" Using two beast fangs as tongs, she lifted a Medicinal Herbs plant out of the stone pot!

Yang Que stared at the precious Spirit Medicine caught between the fangs. His head swam, and blood rushed to his face! "You... you..." He pointed at Zhu Zhuqing, but after repeating "you" for ages, he couldn't get another word out!

"What? You asked me to cook for you, and now you're blaming me!" Zhu Zhuqing looked utterly innocent!

Yang Que's eyes rolled back, and he fainted!

By the time Yang Que woke again, half an hour had passed. Evening was drawing near!

The Heavenly Soul White Lotus had been cooked through! The broth in the pot had turned white, and waves of medicinal fragrance drifted through the cave, rich with spiritual energy. A single day of cultivation in the cave now would equal thirty or forty days of cultivation outside!

Yang Que stared at the soup in the pot and felt like dying. That precious Spirit Medicine could have supported his cultivation all the way to Soul Emperor! It was outrageously expensive in the system shop, too—a full hundred thousand Gold Coins! His heart bled!

Zhu Zhuqing came over carrying two bowls of soup. "Here, drink it! While I was cooking it, I could tell it had healing properties!"

Healing properties? That barely began to cover it...

Yang Que took the bowl and drank through his tears. Forget it. It's already cooked. Drinking it will heal me and raise my level, so it isn't a total loss!

Zhu Zhuqing drained her bowl in one go, too! "Wow! That's delicious! I'm going to have another bowl!"

Come on, girl, do you think that's plain water? Forget it. She was hurt earlier, too. Let her have it!

Yang Que drank one more bowl, and Zhu Zhuqing finished the rest!

They both sat cross-legged, ready to absorb the medicine within them!

Just then, Yang Que felt a surge of heat in his lower abdomen! He immediately realized something was wrong!

What's going on? Why am I feeling this urge?

He looked up at Zhu Zhuqing and found her swaying where she sat, her face bright red, as if she were drunk!

"You... what did you put in the soup?"

"N-nothing!"

That makes no sense! How could a bowl of medicinal soup do this? Wait! The medicinal soup?!

Yang Que hurriedly opened the system and pulled up the Heavenly Soul White Lotus's description!

Heavenly Soul White Lotus — Blue (Rare). Description: Grows in places heavy with blood energy, yet is itself exceptionally pure... Note: It must be consumed together with someone of the opposite sex. It will greatly amplify the desires within the body! Friendly reminder: The effect is strongest when both consume it at the same time!

Fuck you! Now I'm in trouble!

"Mmm... Yang Que, I'm so hot!" Zhu Zhuqing's murmur reached his ears!

He turned to look, and his heart nearly stopped!

"I'm done for, I'm done for, I'm done for, I'm done for! System, you've really done me in!" Yang Que muttered! Yet his eyes never left Zhu Zhuqing's perfect figure!

Zhu Zhuqing walked toward Yang Que step by step, removing her clothes layer by layer and revealing her perfect body! By now, she no longer knew what she was doing...

Yang Que didn't know what to do. Should he go for it, or should he go for it?

If he did, he'd feel like a beast. If he didn't, he'd be worse than a beast!

Forget it. Better to be a beast than worse than one...

That night, thunder sparked Earth Flame. The flames raged on, and the battle showed no mercy...

The next day!

The sun hung high overhead. It was noon when Yang Que slowly opened his eyes!

He looked beside him, but the beautiful woman was long gone!

When Zhu Zhuqing woke that morning and saw the scene before her, she had wanted to kill Yang Que several times over, but in the end, she couldn't bring herself to do it! She only stood there watching him for a long while before murmuring, "You saved me, but you also took my virginity. From now on, we won't see each other again. If we do meet, we'll be strangers..."

Ah, women! My first time, saved for thirty years, is gone too! She pulled on her clothes and forgot all about me!

I shot from level 35 straight to level 38. That's terrifying! I wonder what level Zhu Zhuqing reached!

Yang Que looked in the direction Zhu Zhuqing had gone that morning and murmured, "You think you can hide from me? Now that you're my woman, you always will be..."