The aftereffects suddenly flared up because I only recently broke through in body refining and haven't fully stabilized my cultivation.
Distant water cannot quench an immediate thirst. With my concubines away, I'll just have to make do.
Though the bodies of Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators now seem rather impure, they're still better than those of Qi Refining cultivators.
The thought flashed through Liu Yu's mind as he walked.
This impurity was not impurity in the usual sense. Even without any actual contaminants, the bodies of low-level cultivators remained full of flaws in the eyes of high-level cultivators.
Simply put, flesh and blood with too low an essence of life were themselves a kind of impurity.
The greater the gap in cultivation realms, the greater the difference in the essence of life.
Thus, even when high-level cultivators took concubines or male favorites, they never chose anyone too far below them. At most, they accommodated someone one major realm lower.
Stories of fairies falling in love with mortals were just that-stories.
The reality was that a "fairy's" spirit pressure, blood, and even saliva could cause a mortal to drop dead without warning.
Although there was a gap of two major realms, the aftereffects of his cultivation technique had flared up, so Liu Yu could only make do for now.
After all, apart from Gu Yueying, the other maids were at most at Foundation Establishment, and not all of them were virgins. They would hardly be any better.
Golden Core Cultivators, meanwhile, were at least part of the upper ranks in Southern Heaven's Cultivation World and would not ordinarily become servants or slaves.
"Your maid obeys!"
Gu Yueying froze briefly at his words. Though she did not understand her master's intentions, she immediately acknowledged his command.
Then she followed closely behind him.
*This