Hundred Herbs Peak, hot spring by the cliff.
Mist drifted thickly, peach petals fluttered through the air, and the bad women bathed while continuing their wicked business.
Yu Hu calmly drank tea, her long, slender left arm propping up her left cheek, her shimmering eyes slightly languid.
Mu Yun stretched out her foot and poked Xiao Bai's toes. After confirming he was fully asleep, she slowly removed the bathrobe that looked like a raincoat, revealing...
An exceedingly thin black gauze robe.
Xiao Bai, whose heart had been racing from that poke, instantly plunged into the abyss.
She wore gauze beneath her bathrobe? Was this some kind of nesting-doll outfit?
Still, these black stockings had something to them...
Half-transparent, half-opaque, with some strange patterns on them.
Just as Xiao Bai was about to use Remote Sensing for a closer look, a dark aura seeped out from Mu Yun's body, making him feel as though he had fallen into an abyss!
The fright made his whole body shudder, sending ripples spreading across the water.
Fortunately, this dark aura could affect the dantian, so Xiao Bai's reaction had been entirely unconscious.
At last, he saw it—compared to Yu Hu's bosom that seemed capable of embracing all things, and the flashes of seductive charm within her cool, detached beauty, Mu Yun, the proud and adorable pastoral female cultivator, finally revealed the dark aura of a Demoness.
Mu Yun kept undressing...
Her delicate little feet lifted from the water as she slowly peeled the tightly wrapped black stockings from her calves.
However!
The tender scene Xiao Bai had anticipated did not appear.
Instead, dark-red veins like poisonous vines covered her slender calves, densely woven into bizarre patterns, as though some dark living thing were wriggling within those veins.
The Demoness closed her eyes, took a pill, and began meditating quietly.
Xiao Bai finally understood why such rare stockings had appeared in the Cultivation World... they were meant to conceal the Demonic Markings on her legs.
Looking closely, even the aura around the girl's face had turned dark and unfamiliar. There was none of a young girl's presence left in her. Even through the mist, she gave off an inward coldness and killing intent, as though she were a creature from another dimension.
Yet in Xiao Bai's eyes, that originally proud, infuriating princess-like girl had gained another kind of charm because of it.
Her petite figure was clad in black gauze, as though she had merged with the abyss itself—dark, mysterious, and brimming with killing intent.
Indescribable, beyond explanation.
The beautiful legs he had been looking forward to were gone, but if he treated those dark-veined blood vessels as patterns on stockings, he could barely accept it.
A person could not be bound by their kinks.
He still had to reach Foundation Establishment.
Xiao Bai had no other choice.
At that moment, Yu Hu tossed a red pill to Mu Yun.
Only after Mu Yun swallowed it did the darkness around her recede considerably.
Yu Hu extended her warm, soft right foot through the pool and gently rubbed the top of Xiao Bai's foot.
Xiao Bai was teased until he itched all over, yet he had to control the flow of blood through his entire body and did not dare let it travel downward.
One had barely finished singing before the other took the stage; the two were determined to fight it out over Xiao Bai's feet.
Her red lips, like peach petals beaded with dew, lightly blew across the rim of her cup as Yu Hu lazily asked:
"You've been watching me for ten years. What conclusion have you reached?"
Watching the Nine-Tailed Jade Fox was merely one of Mu Yun's many Devil Race assignments.
She had also taken the opportunity to study the medicinal principles behind suppressing devilish qi.
After watching for ten years, Mu Yun had discovered that this Demoness hardly ever took a single step outside Hundred Herbs Peak.
Moreover, layers upon layers of formations had been laid across Hundred Herbs Peak, with even traces of illusion arts among them, so she had learned nothing despite watching for ten years.
But now, things had taken a turn.
Staring at Xiao Bai's body, Mu Yun guessed:
"Perhaps only through Xiao Bai can I glimpse your true purpose."
Yu Hu suddenly became interested.
"How will you glimpse it?"
Mu Yun said:
"I want to know why he can advance through Qi Refining so quickly, and also rapidly become proficient in the sword path and body arts."
Yu Hu took a sip of tea.
"I want to know too."
Mu Yun did not quite believe the Demoness.
"You've been in Dual Rest with him for more than ten days. How could you not know his physique? Could he have advanced through Qi Refining so quickly without you using Demonic Power?"
Yu Hu shook her head and smiled.
It was true that she had used Demonic Power, but things were not that simple.
"You should try it too. Any random pill could knock him unconscious."
Mu Yun and Xiao Bai both froze.
"Try what?"
"You know exactly what."
Yu Hu smiled radiantly, a hundred coquettish charms blossoming in her eyes.
Xiao Bai nearly failed to react...
Wife, you really were something. On the surface, you were a vinegar jar, but underneath, you were a closet cuckold enthusiast?
Even Mu Yun, the Demoness, blushed from Yu Hu's teasing. With a grim expression, she said:
"The Demoness is truly disgusting..."
"I'm serious."
Her smooth jade arm propped up her chin, making a rare bit of baby fat rise on her left cheek.
"I want to see whether his Balanced Five Elements Physique can be invaded by devilish obstruction. After all, my Demonic Power has left absolutely no trace inside him. Perhaps you are the one heaven chose for him."
Xiao Bai: Oh, so it was for science. Very good, very noble...
In the spirit of supreme science, Black-Stocking Demoness, come at me!
Unexpectedly, the Demoness's face darkened, and rolling killing intent instantly filled Hundred Herbs Peak.
"Find someone else."
With that, she swiftly put on her Bean Yellow Smoked Shirt and slipped away without looking back.
Though Xiao Bai felt somewhat disappointed, he still liked the Demoness's fiery temper.
A Demoness ought to have the bearing of a Demoness. The kind who came whenever called was a Charm Demon.
After Mu Yun left, Yu Hu turned her head and gave Xiao Bai a faint, lingering glance.
It frightened Xiao Bai so badly that the blood in his lower body shot back at light speed...
Her warm, smooth toes rubbed over the top of his foot, then slowly slid upward until they reached the summit of the sword.
Xiao Bai nearly exploded on the spot.
Luckily, his blood had flowed back quickly!
Yu Hu looked a little surprised. As she drank tea, she smiled meaningfully.
"You don't like Demonesses?"
Heh, test all you want. I'll keep sleeping. If I answer you even once, I lose.
Xiao Bai calmed his heart and steadied his breath, continuing to pretend to sleep. His body remained as unmoving as a mountain, and he did not answer the Demoness at all.
The result was that he wilted too thoroughly; even when his wife climbed onto him, he had no reaction whatsoever.
"Ever since you entered Qi Refining, it seems your thoughts haven't been with me anymore..."
A voice as fine and soft as snowy sand teased his ear.
Xiao Bai was so frightened that his sword rose to prop up the heavens.
Tonight, the moon was dark and the wind was high; peach blossoms bloomed wildly and whirled wildly through the air.
The next day.
The sun was already high in the sky, yet no snow had fallen.
Xiao Bai woke in the pool, feeling that his body was heavy and his head slightly dizzy.
His wife was nowhere to be seen. Only a Purple Spirit Ginseng as thick as an arm lay on a porcelain plate by the pool...
There had been quite a commotion last night, but since the Demoness had not used Demonic Power again, Xiao Bai had not leveled up because of it.
His progress toward Mid Qi Refining had only increased by one percent.
If she used Demonic Power, Yu Hu seemed to be injured when it triggered her hidden ailment.
Troublesome.
Gurgle...
At that moment, Xiao Bai's stomach growled.
For some reason, though he had already entered Qi Refining, he had not yet achieved Grain Abstinence and still felt hungry.
Picking up the remaining plate of grilled squid from last night, Xiao Bai devoured it like a whirlwind sweeping away fallen clouds, quickly finishing every last bite.
Only then did he stretch lazily and emerge from the bath full of energy.
Today was unusually a slightly sunny day.
Insects and butterflies danced across Hundred Herbs Peak, painting a vibrant spring scene overflowing with life.
Yu Hu was concocting a new medicine in the Pill Room.
As usual, Mu Yun wore her Water-Green Mist Robe and Bamboo Membrane White Silk, tending the Medicine Patches atop the mountain as though nothing had happened.
Xiao Bai did not dare seek out Yu Hu again.
Because when he went to find Yu Hu in the Pill Room, there were generally only two possible endings: either he got dissected, or he was subjected to Cultivation Harvesting...
Good steel had to be used on the blade's edge. For now, it was better to conserve his strength.
Unfortunately, not every bad woman was as uninhibited as a Charm Demon.
Cultivating feelings with the Demoness, helping her set aside her worries over devilish obstruction, and having her show off and fly him to greatness became Xiao Bai's next main focus.
With that in mind, he casually plucked a Foxtail Grass and held it between his lips. He walked into the Medicine Garden, crouched before Mu Yun, lowered himself, and put on a friendly, eager-to-learn expression.
"Senior Sister, can you teach me how to farm?"
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