Ye Guixu had come to the border region to find the Cold Spring that would belong to the Earth Dragon Sect ten thousand years later. Beneath it lay the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave.
But now his plans had changed.
"Yes."
Yan Lingji and Tide Siren stayed pressed close to Ye Guixu's sides.
Seeing the two women refusing to leave his side again, Ye Guixu let them be.
Still, he would strengthen them a little too.
Ye Guixu immediately had the two women step back.
Martial Soul Possession.
With a ringing clash of metal, Ye Guixu's figure abruptly vanished before the two women, replaced by a suit of pitch-black armor over two meters tall, covered in gold-green patterns.
As the two women gazed at that familiar form, a burning light lit up their eyes at the same time.
This was the form-their master's lofty, majestic appearance, mysterious and inviolable.
The armor raised its clawed hand, condensed a piece of Void Profound Ice in its palm, and pressed it into the purple gem on its chest.
At the same time, his second soul ring and third soul ring lit up together. His aura surged sevenfold in an instant, and waves of soul power poured wildly into his surroundings, slightly warping even the air.
Ye Guixu began condensing Void Profound Ice with all his strength.
Void Profound Ice could be condensed in advance and used as a reserve energy supply. This was a tactic he had already tested.
Back in the Star Dou Great Forest, he had condensed quite a bit at level 30, but the Void Profound Ice he had condensed then could not remotely compare with what he was making now.
Ultimate martial souls were extremely overbearing, and cultivation between levels 30 and 70 crawled along like a tortoise.
Moreover, Ye Guixu's martial soul possessed the Five Ultimate Attributes, making its degree of compression even more terrifying.
If an ordinary level-30 Soul Master absorbed a fifty-thousand-year Shadow Earth Dragon soul ring, disregarding all conditions, it would be enough to forcibly raise their level by more than twenty.
Yet even with the power of the Ice and Fire Immortal Herb and the spring water, he had only gained eight levels.
But this constant compression had its benefits too.
As soul power was continually compressed and refined to the utmost purity, its density grew high enough to begin shaking space itself.
The essence of a black hole was the compression of an enormous amount of mass or energy into an extremely small space, thereby distorting spacetime.
And his martial soul, Void Star God Sauron, was a Cosmic Star God whom Creation God Aotian had created using a black hole as his model.
Since they shared the same origin, they should naturally reach the same destination.
The path he should take was not to inherit some divine seat, nor to attain godhood within someone else's framework.
It was to become a black hole itself.
Starting with his martial soul, he would refine himself into that endpoint from which not even light could escape-a [black hole]!
The two women stood quietly to one side, watching that translucent crystal with burning, focused gazes.
Without consulting each other, they licked their red lips.
This was their master's supreme treasure.
Once he finished condensing it.
Ye Guixu divided the entire piece of Void Profound Ice in two and handed it to the women.
The women accepted it and deftly broke off a small piece to place in their mouths. In an instant, the soul power within them surged wildly, and all their attributes rose threefold.
"Thank you for your gift, Master."
Both women bowed, their eyes filled with joy and satisfaction.
Then they carefully put the remaining Void Profound Ice into their Storage Soul Tools, as though treasuring some priceless rarity.
Seeing this, Ye Guixu hurriedly stopped them:
"I gave it to you to use right away, not to save."
A trace of regret flashed through the women's eyes, but they obediently pressed the remaining portions against their chests, merging them into their bodies and storing them in their dantians.
Ye Guixu used [Dark Energy Fission] on the spot, frantically drawing in the surrounding spiritual energy to restore himself. After just two consecutive uses, he was back to full strength and immediately continued condensing.
He repeated this for an entire day, condensing dozens of pieces of Void Profound Ice. He gave each woman ten pieces and stored all the rest in his Storage Soul Tool as reserve energy.
After dismissing the armor and revealing his original appearance, he felt somewhat exhausted.
Constantly consuming soul power to condense the ice and then recovering, repeating the process dozens of times in one day-even he grew tired.
He was just about to leave with the women when they each hugged one of his arms and leaned close.
"Master, you've been busy all day. It's time you had a proper rest."
Yan Lingji leaned beside his ear, her warm breath brushing its rim, her voice soft and seductive.
"Working so hard will make this servant's heart ache, Master."
Tide Siren pressed close from the other side, her soft twin peaks snug against his arm as she rubbed them lightly against it.
Sandwiched between them like meat in a bun once again, Ye Guixu raised his hands and pinched both women's cheeks. "Don't blow in my ears."
"Mmph..."
With their cheeks pinched, the two could only let out muffled whimpers, but excitement sparkled in their eyes.
So Master's sensitive spot was around his ears?
Seeing their eagerness to try, Ye Guixu narrowed his eyes. "What crooked ideas are you two cooking up now?"
"Nothing, Master, nothing."
Both women shook their heads, yet still reached out to hold his arms, their eyes watery as though they had suffered some tremendous injustice.
"This servant only wants to serve Master properly."
Ye Guixu fell silent for a moment. Although absorbing three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings beyond his limits had now made him grow to a height of 1.6 meters,
he still looked rather short before the two women.
Shouldn't these two be tied to a rack and given a good electric shock?
But Ye Guixu kept feeling that rather than a punishment, that might be a reward.
Perhaps as the shocks continued, they would feel so good that their eyes rolled back and they fainted, twitching all over.
"Master, you're tired too. Have something to fill your stomach first."
Yan Lingji faced him, gazing at him with burning eyes.
"Yes, Master. You've been busy all day. It's time to eat something."
Tide Siren chimed in, her voice gentle.
At some point, the table beside them had been covered with exquisite dishes.
Clearly, the two women had prepared them in advance while he was condensing Void Profound Ice.
Ye Guixu glanced at the tableful of dishes and released their cheeks.
"Let's go. We'll fill our stomachs first, then go get a soul ring."
The two women stayed pressed against Ye Guixu on either side, not letting him lift a finger.
Yan Lingji even picked up a slice of meat between her lips and brought it to his mouth.
The two took turns feeding him mouth-to-mouth, giving Ye Guixu a taste of what it meant to receive the treatment of an ancient king.
After he had eaten and drunk his fill, the women attended to his changing clothes, bathing, and massage, right there by the sea.
Except this massage was once again on the level of a face wash between breasts.
After this brief time, Ye Guixu had come to accept it calmly.
He was the one enjoying it, after all, wasn't he?
Before transmigrating, he had occasionally read online about the experiences of female slaves in the households of ancient nobles and dignitaries.
Things like beauty spittoons, beauty toilet paper, and foot-warming maids.
Compared with the way Yan Lingji and Grass Demoness behaved, their lot was simply far more miserable.
After thoroughly enjoying the treatment of an ancient king, Ye Guixu climbed up from between the two voluptuous bodies once more.
After dressing him while pressed naked against him, the women gave him another fashion show, changing into fresh dresses.
The group immediately prepared to set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his fourth soul ring.
But as he looked at the empty Inner Space of the Serenitea Pot.
Ye Guixu recalled his miserable toil condensing Void Profound Ice the day before and thought it over repeatedly.
He activated Martial Soul Possession once again, three soul rings pulsing up and down around his body.
At the same time, he condensed a piece of Void Profound Ice in his hand and pressed it into his body again. Together with the flashing of two soul rings, all his attributes surged sevenfold once more.
He took out the Void Profound Ice he had previously condensed with all his soul power from his Storage Soul Tool.
With a flash of dazzling blue light, the three vanished from where they stood and reappeared in a deep-blue space.
Void Profound Ice floated all around them.
It was none other than the Mystic Ice Illusion Realm.
Ye Guixu raised his palm and pressed against the void. A pitch-black figure slowly condensed into being and landed heavily on the ground.
The moment Puppet Sauron appeared, he dropped to one knee and called respectfully to Ye Guixu.
"Greetings, Master."
[Puppet Sauron is merely a mechanical puppet. There won't be any clones or copies of the protagonist or anything like that.]
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