"Seventh Sister, do we really have to do that?"
Jian Tongyao still vividly remembered Qian Wanyu sending spiritual power into her body earlier. The moment she heard Qian Wanyu say she wanted to examine her again, her hackles rose, and she couldn't help taking a step back.
Qian Wanyu nodded solemnly. "You originally had the water element, yet now you can absorb the Elf Clan's wood element spiritual power and convert it into water element power. I'm worried something might go wrong. Only after examining you can I rest easy."
Qing Mo was scornful. Dual cultivation is dual cultivation. To think she'd brazenly come up with such a perfectly respectable excuse.
Jian Tongyao looked troubled. It wasn't that she was unwilling, but once the other woman's spiritual power slipped into her body, the sensation was simply... mind-blowingly pleasurable.
She had always kept unfamiliar things at arm's length, probing cautiously. She hadn't even had a day to recover, and now she had to experience that intoxicating, dreamlike bliss again. Could she catch a break?
"What, Ninth Sister? Do you find me distasteful?"
"Of course not."
"Then once you've cultivated in the sacred pool for a while, we'll begin."
Jian Tongyao: "..."
When did I agree to that???
The Elf Clan's sacred pool had dwindled along with the Tree of Life's power. A year ago, when the Tree of Life's spiritual power returned, the water in the sacred pool had suddenly come "alive" again. An ice coffin inside the stone cave had caused its temperature to plummet, yet the pool's water remained unchanged, which was deeply puzzling.
Originally, guards had watched the entrance to the sacred pool. After the Sacred Tree appeared, they had been forced to retreat beyond the designated boundary and could only watch from afar.
When the elves saw