Young Is Good

Xiao Bai was lifted high by a woman.

How should he put this feeling...

Thrilling.

He had finally seen Fairy Tail in the Cultivation World!

A real fox tail: warm, supple, silky.

No man who loved pets could refuse it!

His grand scheme of "Demoness, I want you to help me cultivate" had been seen through by his demoness wife, but Xiao Bai did not care.

"If Elder really is a fox demon, I think this method is feasible. It's much better than popping pills."

The snowy-white tip of the fox tail teased Xiao Bai's handsome face.

Yu Hu merely said:

"If I inject Demonic Power into you, even if you survive by sheer luck, you won't be able to conceal it with your cultivation. You'll be mistaken for a demon."

Xiao Bai toyed with the tip of the fox tail in return and shrugged.

"What's so bad about being mistaken for a demon?"

Yu Hu's gaze was icy, her face stern and humorless.

"Demons were the chief culprits behind the Era of Dharma Decline. If you're mistaken for one, the lucky ones are killed, the moderately lucky ones are trained into mounts, and the unlucky ones... are enslaved forever."

Humanity's forced contracts, enslavement, abuse, and violation of the Demon Race were nothing new in the Tian Yuan Era.

Xiao Bai had heard of it as well.

There was nothing strange about that. Humans even enslaved their own kind!

"Humans and demons are merely locked in a struggle between races. Whoever is stronger is justice. This is a Cultivation World that worships individual strength. As long as you are strong enough, who can do anything to you?"

That was what Xiao Bai said.

Yu Hu took a sip of tea, and a cold smile touched her face.

"Such treasonous words... How strong do you think you can become in the future?"

Xiao Bai answered:

"What if I command Tian Yuan?"

Yu Hu lightly shook her jade-like head, sipped her tea, and sighed.

"Young is good."

Of course. Their peaks were overlapping, after all.

With that thought, Xiao Bai grabbed the soft, silky fox tail with both hands and slowly climbed toward its root...

In the end, he actually crawled into the pill furnace!

The fiery-red pill furnace had long become a tender haven paved with nine tails.

Without sealing off his sight and hearing, Xiao Bai saw the snow fox's body with his own eyes...

This life had been worth it.

Ding—Congratulations, Host. You have obtained Dual Rest Demonic Power from the Female Lead. Your cultivation has advanced to Early Qi Refining!

The Early Qi Refining Realm had been achieved!

In the ancient Cultivation World, the Qi Refining Realm, like the Fetal Breath Realm, was divided into seven, eight, or nine levels.

After the ravages of the Era of Dharma Decline, the Spiritual Qi Concentration of the Tian Yuan Era became rather low, making even the Qi Refining Realm difficult to reach. The lower Fetal Breath Realm was divided into nine levels instead, taking the Qi Refining Realm's place.

The Qi Refining Realm, meanwhile, was honorably divided into Early Qi Refining, middle stage, late stage, and peak.

After successfully reaching Qi Refining, Xiao Bai lost consciousness.

When he woke, it was already midnight.

Yu Hu had returned to human form and sat cross-legged inside the furnace. Her cool, beautiful face was incomparably pale, and she looked extremely weak.

"Still alive?"

Xiao Bai froze, then flipped himself upright. He had not expected the Elder to be drained dry while he himself was brimming with vitality.

So which one of us was the monster, you or me?

"Nine deaths and one life."

Xiao Bai pretended to be depleted as he spoke wearily.

Yu Hu closed her eyes beneath her long lashes. Her pale, thin lips fluttered open and shut like butterflies flying through the rain.

Xiao Bai did not catch what she said...

But he could clearly sense that the Elder had suffered internal injury because her Demonic Power had gone out of control.

She had long suppressed the Demonic Power within her. She neither wanted to expose her demonic aura nor let her Charm Arts run wild... That was an enormous burden on her body.

Xiao Bai hurriedly draped a cloak over her.

He carried her out of the furnace in his arms and left the Pill Room.

He carried her all the way to the Bamboo Forest Hot Spring to recuperate.

Yu Hu soon fell asleep against the edge of the pool.

Xiao Bai had originally planned to go to the Disciple Quarters overnight to get clothes from Mu Yun, then bind her and learn a move or two to deal with tomorrow's Sect Tour Ceremony.

But after turning to glance at his wife, whose face was deathly pale yet whose beauty was equally peerless... he decided against it.

Even a scumbag had a bottom line.

In the latter half of the night.

Mu Yun, who had been watching Xiao Bai's breakthrough all along, silently appeared by the pool.

She sat on a blossoming peach branch, her petite body as light as a squirrel.

Her sharp, beautiful eyes stared at Xiao Bai's broad, solid back and shoulders for a long while...

This guy had actually reached Qi Refining!

Yet there was neither Demonic Power within him nor any residual breakthrough poison.

The stability of his Qi Refining foundation was something she had never heard of and never seen before.

After watching for so long, she could no longer suppress her curiosity and finally asked:

"How exactly did you do it?"

Xiao Bai jumped in fright. Only then did he realize that a woman had been peeping at him.

When he turned to look, the Demoness was sitting on a slender peach branch. Her slim little legs, tightly wrapped in white silk stockings, swung back and forth until his eyes went dizzy.

"Is bathing something a child like you should be secretly watching an elder do?"

Xiao Bai said angrily, without the slightest attempt to hide himself!

A child?

Mu Yun was so furious that she kicked through the air, sending Xiao Bai tumbling into the water.

With a splash, water sprayed everywhere.

Yu Hu by the pool still did not awaken.

"Master actually got injured for your sake..."

The girl on the peach branch glanced from afar at Yu Hu's dantian and could not help shaking her head with a sigh.

Suppressing Demonic Power for so long had already harmed her body. Now she had suddenly released it, while also controlling her strength to avoid hurting Xiao Bai. The difficulty was easy enough to imagine.

"I never thought Master would develop feelings for an experiment. How enviable!"

Xiao Bai curled his lip, sensing hidden meaning in her words.

"What, do you like women too?"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Mu Yun looked at Yu Hu, then at Xiao Bai. No matter how she thought about it, she could not understand how Xiao Bai had reached Qi Refining.

Her curiosity stirring again, she asked once more:

"How exactly did you do it?"

Xiao Bai did not want to tell her and merely said:

"What, do you want me to demonstrate it for you? You're so young, yet you have no shame!"

Mu Yun was so enraged that she took out two stacks of clothes and fiercely smashed them onto Xiao Bai's forehead.

"Take your clothes!"

With that, the girl leaped down from the peach branch. Her light figure turned and left the poolside, leaving behind only one sentence:

"Tomorrow, you'll be in for it."

Sorry, but tomorrow I'm going to show off!

Xiao Bai removed the clothes covering his face.

Just as he had expected, they were two newly tailored sets of Elder robes.

Their grand blue-green color scheme, soft and breathable bamboo-fiber material, flowing design, and exquisite workmanship were matched by a faint, ethereal current of spiritual power within the fabric.

It was obvious that this Demoness had truly put effort into them...

And they fit Xiao Bai's body perfectly!

Xiao Bai did not even know when she had measured him so precisely.

The binding prompt finally arrived.

Ding—Modifier has detected a Female Lead Candidate meeting the requirements. Bind the Second Female Lead, Xiahou Mu Yun, immediately?

Xiahou Mu Yun?

Xiao Bai had nearly forgotten that this Demoness was also a princess of the Xiahou Dynasty!

He had missed Princess Fei Yue but gained Princess Mu Yun.

Not much difference.

Bind.

Ding—Congratulations, Host. You have successfully bound the second Female Lead, Xiahou Mu Yun. May Host never forget your original aspiration: Eliminate Demons and Defend the Dao, and take all living beings under heaven as your own responsibility—

Enough already. Go do whatever you need to do.

After covering his first wife's body with a gauzy robe...

Although he had successfully reached Qi Refining, tomorrow's situation was still grim. After binding the Second Female Lead, perhaps he could learn some cultivation method that would rapidly increase his strength.

Xiao Bai flipped out of the bath, shook off the water droplets, put on his new clothes, and hurried into the bamboo forest.