Seeing Qian Renxue again: You really know how to play

On the morning of the third day, bright sunlight streamed through the window.

It shone on Xiao Yao and on the beauty resting against his chest.

Xiao Wu was still snoring, her little mouth rising and falling with each breath, glistening drool trickling out.

When she opened her eyes blearily, she met Xiao Yao's gaze, a half-smile in his eyes.

Her little face flushed, and she wiped the thread of saliva from the corner of her mouth. "When did you wake up?"

Xiao Yao thought for a moment, deliberately teasing her. "Around when you started drooling, I guess."

"Ah, you're awful!"

"But that technique of yours really is impressive. I'm no match for you anymore."

Xiao Yao said, "If I get stronger, aren't you the one who gets to enjoy it?"

"And all the other sisters too, right?"

"Uh..."

"Don't bother denying it. Just tell me, you've been away so long-have you gotten anywhere with Sister Shui Bing'er?"

"Uh, not yet."

Xiao Yao thought back over this period. Although they had kissed and he had touched her, and he might even know the contours of her body better than Shui Bing'er herself did.

But as for the final step, they still hadn't taken it.

It was all Qiu Wanxi's fault!

Xiao Wu curled her lips. "Useless."

Furious, Xiao Yao flipped her over with her back to him and enforced the Xiao Clan's family discipline.

"Ah, don't move! I'm not ready yet!"

"I can't anymore, I really can't! I'll do yoga for you, okay? Spare me!"

The current Xiao Wu was no longer the smug Xiao Wu who had swept all before her yesterday. Only after surrendering her sovereignty and humiliating her nation, ceding territory to beg for mercy, and signing a series of unequal treaties was the matter finally settled.

For example, when they were alone, she could wear no more than three pieces of clothing, and she had to wear stockings-black, white, fishnet, or gartered-in a monthly rotation, with something different every day.

Xiao Yao finally let Xiao Wu off, and she said tearfully, "This is going too far."

"Hehe, just tell me whether you like it."

"I do."

Then Xiao Wu began discussing serious matters. "The crown prince sent someone to find us while you were away. But I said you'd gone out to train, and that we'd go see him together once you returned."

The crown prince? Qian Renxue?

Right, Xiao Wu and I entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy under his banner. It would be strange if he didn't come looking.

"Did they say what it was about?"

"No. After I said that, she only said you should go see her as soon as you returned. It probably isn't anything important."

"Then let's leave him aside for now. My cultivation is almost at rank thirty. Once I get there, I can obtain my third Soul Ring."

"If I meet her now, I'll still have to use the Incomplete Chapter of the Seventy-Two Transformations to disguise my Soul Rings. There's a risk of being discovered. It's not worth it."

"All right, let her wait, then. Hey, why are you climbing on top of me again?"

"To cultivate. Didn't you notice that I reached rank twenty-eight last night, and you went up a rank too?"

"Ah, no-"

Even Xiao Yao hadn't expected his cultivation to improve so quickly. Besides what the girls and the Fallen Heart Flame had brought him, there was also the Mirror Flower Water Moon Meditation Method.

It was Skywater Academy's secret art, a meditation method that improved Soul Power and spiritual power.

Unexpectedly, combining it with the Heavenly Fire God-Forging Technique and the Fallen Heart Flame had produced a marvelous chemical reaction, turning it into a dual cultivation technique.

Or had dual cultivation always been its true nature, merely concealed all along?

However, this dual cultivation technique seemed to have limits too. The improvement he gained from Xiao Wu was becoming smaller and smaller.

To break through the bottleneck between rank twenty-nine and rank thirty, he invited Shui Bing'er out shopping.

"Don't we see each other at the academy every day? Why did we have to come out here?"

Shui Bing'er's pretty face was slightly flushed, her eyes darting about as though she was very afraid of being discovered.

Xiao Yao smiled. "I can't meet you with my real face at the academy. Or do you want to fool around with someone who has a girl's face, like lesbians?"

"Of course not."

Shui Bing'er refuted him loudly, then quickly ducked her head, afraid of attracting too much attention.

"My family has very strict rules. I'm not allowed to date at my age. I can be carefree at the academy, but once I leave, I have to watch out for people discovering us."

"There's a rule like that?"

Xiao Yao was quite surprised. People on the Douluo Continent generally matured early, not just mentally, but physically too.

After turning twelve, Soul Masters could basically establish families and careers, marry, and have children.

Childhood betrothals were therefore very common on the Douluo Continent, especially between great clans.

Besides political marriages, they also hoped to pass down their Martial Souls as soon as possible.

"Our family's Martial Soul is rather special. Keeping our virginity helps our cultivation speed to some extent."

"I see..."

Xiao Yao hesitated. Originally, she had intended to cook the raw rice with Shui Bing'er and make it a done deal.

But if Shui Bing'er had such considerations, he wouldn't give her consideration either; after all, she was his woman, not a tool for cultivation.

Shui Bing'er seemed to see what he was thinking, and her face grew even redder.

"If you want it, I can give it to you. After meeting you, my cultivation speed has increased a lot for some reason. It doesn't matter if it slows down a little."

"Besides, my Martial Soul has already mutated into an Ice Phoenix. That restriction might not affect me."

With the girl having said that much, what did Xiao Yao have left to hesitate over?

"All right, let's head out of the city."

Xiao Yao and Shui Bing'er's first time took place in a lake outside the city.

Besides the usual activities, Xiao Yao also learned how the legendary mermaids reproduced.

Their organs were located at...

After his cultivation broke through rank thirty, Xiao Yao began looking for a candidate for his third Soul Ring.

But only then did he realize that he hadn't considered enough before.

He could share cultivation speed with his contracted partners, so naturally, the more talented his contracted partners were, the better.

At this point in time, the better-known genius girls from the original story were all like Shui Bing'er had been before: they had yet to break through rank thirty.

Huo Wu was rank twenty-eight, Ye Lingling was rank twenty-seven, and Dugu Yan was rank twenty-eight.

There was even less need to mention Xue Ke and Ning Rongrong. They were still working toward breaking through to the Soul Master realm.

Of course, he didn't absolutely have to contract a rank-thirty Soul Elder, but the moment he obtained a Soul Ring, he could receive its feedback.

Just as Xiao Yao's Soul Power had risen from rank twenty-two to rank twenty-five after he contracted Shui Bing'er, he should try to find contracted partners with stronger cultivation and better Soul Rings.

He couldn't find anyone suitable in Heaven Dou City for the time being, and he couldn't keep putting off Qian Renxue any longer either.

With no other choice, Xiao Yao could only disguise himself as having three Soul Rings and head to the crown prince's residence.

With the crown prince's token, Xiao Yao encountered none of the looking-down-on-him incidents common in fantasy novels at the gates of the crown prince's residence. He walked straight inside.

Unexpectedly, after entering the hall, he saw not only Qian Renxue, but also a man!

The old servant of the crown prince's residence addressed him as the crown prince!

Xiao Yao was shocked for ten thousand years!

Qian Renxue, you really know how to play!