Crossing the line he held firm in his heart seemed to take only a single sentence. As long as he spoke, he could find satisfaction in his soul.
This required immense self-restraint.
Precisely because it was so easy to do, yet could not be done, such restraint was all the more precious.
Chi Yu writhed in the cave abode, lovely, catlike cries spilling from his throat.
Just as in the scene the Demonic Heart had watched, Xie Xiyi said the same words to Chi Yu. "Just say the word, and I'll satisfy you."
Chi Yu's answer remained, "No."
He panted, his entire body drenched in sweat. Even as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he still could not withstand the temptation of Spiritual Communion with his Dao Companion. He even had the leisure to think-
Actually, this setup makes quite a bit of sense. Cultivators are naturally indifferent to sexual desire, but if everyone were like that, where would the Immortal Second Generation and second-generation cultivators come from? To consolidate social classes and power, it's only natural that Spiritual Communion would be addictive.
It's also meant to boost the Cultivation World's birth rate, so reproduction and cultivation can be linked together.
Wow, this setup is actually internally consistent.
Amid the wild, fierce tides of desire, he could not help intermittently wondering again: did it really make sense to call this world the world of the novel Divine Path?
A single novel could never possibly make this world so complete and internally consistent. He felt the reasonable explanation should be that this world had always existed, and the novel Divine Path merely presented a stretch of its history.
It was like the miscellaneous books he had read in the Present World. Why had so many Gods' sacred proclamations and scriptures been passed down