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57.45% Learning To Live As A Cultivator / Chapter 185: Chapter One Hundred And Eighty Five - I don’t have morning after regrets

Chapter 185: Chapter One Hundred And Eighty Five - I don’t have morning after regrets

Leon awoke with aches in places that caused him to blush and with a languid gentleness emanating from every pore. There wasn't any pain of the chrysanthemum, which surprised him, as he was expecting there to be. It seemed that oil was more than just a lubricant to ease the passage of entry. However, it didn't prevent all problems that stemmed from the deflowering of a male by his top.

Jin Li's eyes gazed over the glowing, young alchemist lying beside him and felt somewhat smug. He lazily threw his arms around the other's waist and dragged him closer in order to place a kiss upon his forehead. The skin that the two thin lips pressed against was overly warm, causing the youth to frown.

"You dare to fall ill following my grace?" Jin Li said, crossly, but the hand that tested Leon's temperature was light and careful. Leon's eyes fluttered closed and he thought of what knowledge he held from his previous life. Wasn't it that a possible side effect of receiving yang blessings was a stomach ache or fever? It was his first time and it couldn't be said that Jin Li was gentle as he too had no experience and did not know better.

Leon shook his head, feeling a bit dizzy and the strangeness of hot and cold warring within his body. "On the sh-sh-shelf," Leon said, his stutter a little more pronounced due to the tiredness the fever brought with it. "There are s-soft ice p-p-pills." Jin Li understood and climbed out of bed, offering Leon a vivid display of his honed frame with all its compact muscles and the curved line of his back. He flushed feeling the heat within his face even more prominently than before.

The martial artist found the bottle, flicking the small wooden label, that decorated all of the pill bottles upon the shelf now, with a finger, before pouring one of the precious pills into his hand. Then he knelt before the bed to press the pill between his lover's lips. The pill melted in Leon's mouth and the contents oozed down his throat. He felt a cooling wave rush along his sarcophagus and into his stomach and shivered as the effect then swept outwards and along the rest of his body. The momentary chill lasted but a moment before his inner temperature normalised and the excess heat disappeared along with the bitter coldness.

Jin Li waited for a few minutes before placing a hand along Leon's brow once more and nodding satisfied. "You are not allowed to get sick," Jin Li informed him. "This Lord still requires you to serve by my side."

"En," Leon smiled, warmly as he watched Jin Li throw on his inner robes before filling the kettle and relighting the stove. Tea was brewed and served with a mutter that Leon ought be grateful to the gracious him; Jin Li's pillow talk left a lot to be desired, but Leon really didn't mind. This was just who Jin Li was. His actions spoke louder than his words anyway.

"Sit up," Jin Li demanded, "or are you waiting for this Lord to personally place the cup to your lips to drink?"

Leon shook his head and pulled himself upwards, hissing in discomfort as his hips protested. Jin Li placed the cups upon the table and demanded to know what was wrong. Leon replied honestly; "M-my b-body aches a b-bit from..." he blushed brightly and noticed that his lover's ears shared a similar colour to his cheeks. "B-but this is n-normal. I'll b-b-be fine in a b-bit."

Jin Li's lips twisted in a slight sneer as he bit out the words; "You seem as if you have knowledge regarding the workings of relations between two men. This Lord is interested to know both the reason for this?" He did not hide the thick scent of vinegar accompanying his words.

"When I realised I h-had n-no feelings of like towards g-girls," Leon replied, honestly, "I d-d-decided to learn ab-bout how things w-worked b-between m-men." His words were soft, his face red, but his eyes were clear and without deception, allowing Jin Li to let go of the doubt in his heart, but he still asked;

"Then why not share this with me. You are this Lord's man and as a man, I surely wish to partake in relations with you." Leon did not point out the fact that Jin Li had resisted giving in to the symbol which to him represented masculinity but also that he did not have perfect will over his body, for quite some time.

Instead, he shared his own former fears. "I thought you m-might b-be d-disgusted."

Jin Li looked coolly over the jade white body before him, that was keeping its dignity only by the draping blanket over the lap and replied; "Why would I be disgusted by something that belongs to me? Your words make no sense." Leon smiled and nodded as if he was totally in agreement. "However from now on," Jin Li added, "you are forbidden from keeping secrets from me."

Leon did not hesitate by offering his agreement, even though he knew he held a large secret still within his heart. However, he vowed to himself that he would surely share this with Jin Li in time. Just not right now, he cringed as a certain ambiguous liquid began to trickle down his leg as he stood up from the bed.

After he cleaned himself up, he returned with a question of his own. "J-Jin Li, what is D-dual C-Cultivation?"


Chapter 186: Chapter One Hundred And Eighty Six - This task is quite messy

It was not an hour after sunrise when Leon encountered an unexpected situation that caught him off guard and caused an inability to say 'no'. And thus he found himself whisked away to another location where he was currently covered in an oily potion, which glistened in the sunlight peeking through the dense canopy above. A deep grumble of satisfaction came from below him, the sound reverberating through his fingers as he worked the oil into each crevice and along the increasingly slippery surface.

"Done," a sudden voice muttered nearby.

"Yes," agreed a voice that sounded much the same.

"En," Leon said, with a soft sigh, before picking up the rag cloth beside him and cleaning the remnants of the potion from his hands.

The Giant Tortoise, which really was gigantic, not just a larger version of the small original, rumbled its thanks, nearing purring its relief, for the itchiness caused by its dry and cracking shell had eased immeasurably.

Rewinding time a few hours; Leon had risen with the sun, making tea for one and a solo breakfast before heading towards the Herb Hall to gather and allotment of herbs in order to practice making some pills he felt were still too unfamiliar to him. He had been concentrating so much on making pills to sell via Pharmacist Clawse and the pervert Ursam, he had become worried that it would effect his schooling. So with renewed interest, he'd made his way to the main thoroughfare of the outer alchemist school. Only, not half a heart beat of him reaching the doors of the Herb Hall, was he tapped upon the shoulder with a slightly heavy finger.

Turning around, he had found himself facing his senior brother; Hue. "Come and help?" Hue had asked him, without really explaining what he wanted. Leon was curious, not so much that he would willingly follow anybody to sate it, but Hue had never done him any harm and was, afterall, his senior brother.

"Where are we g-going?" Leon had asked him.

"Beast Taming school," Hue had replied and they had made their way there by Baku.

The journey had been made in silence, Hue did not mention his intent when they arrived earlier, but it was clear that he knew exactly where he was going when he reached the school, familiar with the location and surroundings. He went straight to one of the buildings housing students and knocked on the door. This had been opened by a man who was the mirror image of Hue. In fact, were it not for the fact that Hue wore robes and this man wore leather trousers and a wrapped jacket, Leon had doubted he'd be able to tell them apart.

"You arrived," the man had said. His tone was much like Leon's senior brother, deep and short of expression.

"En, I have the potion," Hue had agreed and then nodded.

The man had then glanced towards Leon, who had been standing in silence behind his twin. "No Stygar?"

Hue had shaken his head. "Stygar went with Master," Hue had mentioned and Leon hadn't helped but detect a small hint of unhappiness and loneliness. Teacher Sagi had left the school with his oldest apprentice just yesterday, seeking to renegotiate a few things with a sect that they often dealt with, which happened to be the Heavenly Arts Medicinal Sect. Leon did not happen to know the details, but if he had, he might have been quite surprised.

In the past, the Heavenly Arts Medicinal Sect sent several worthy disciples to the Ascending Mountain Institute to learn from the alchemists of the school. These disciples were neither useless peons nor top or succeeding disciples, keeping their best close to them, while not revealing their failures. The disciples sent to be students were both to learn, to identify worthy, unaffiliated talent and to spy on the disciples of other sects. This was all pretty normal in the institute. However, the Heavenly Arts Medicinal Sect felt their disciples should only be placed in the Inner school, not the Outer school. Ordinarily, the institute would never place self-interest before talent, however, the Alchemist school was not that popular and it was not as if they couldn't spare the spaces. However, the institute would also not do this just to give face to the influential sect.

Something as crass as money was not exchanged, so it could not be considered a bribe, however the Heavenly Arts Medicinal Sect often sent gifts to the school. Usually, these were rare herbs that the school could not grow themselves, but there were often shipments of cauldrons (ones that had been rejected by the sect as being too low quality or just ugly), jade bottles (for the same reasons) and revised editions of Herb books (or rather, last year's books that were a bit worn and no longer looked pristine).

However, the Institute, much like many other places, had heard about the new pills which had mysterious origins that had recently come onto the market. Although they, themselves, had attempted to reverse engineer the pills, the results were baffling. Despite tests declaring that the Burning Energy variant pills would perform exactly as the sellers claimed, the ingredients appeared to be no different that normal Burning Energy Pills! When it came to knowledge and understanding of pills, the Heavenly Arts Medicinal Sect were far above others and it was also believed that they had been the ones to purchase the new pills and their stronger variants at the Auction that they had first appeared in. The Institute was hoping to pry the secrets of the pills from the Sect's fingers, for surely they have become aware of them... right?

How was the school to know that the one who was truly holding the secrets of the variant pills to his chest actually was at that moment spreading a medicinal potion over the cracked and dry shell of a Giant Tortoise within the Beast Taming Outer school?!

Once the three young men had finished their task, (it had taken all three of them to cover the beast's central circus sized shell in oil using brooms and brushes), Drue (the older twin brother of Hue) patted the beast's huge nose fondly, before guiding his brother and his brother's junior to the wash up in his dorm room, passing through the stable as they did. Instantly, a white furred face appeared, pressed against the protective barrier of its nest. It mewled and purred as the group of three passed it. It was particularly attracted to the smiling face of the smallest person, the scent of the body similar to the scent of the little wooden fish that was its treasure. It called out to the person, but the person walked away, not aware that he was wanted.

The larger, black body behind it, scratched at the loosening fur along the length of its hide; another scale was beginning to poke through, before yawning and urging the cub to settle down. The forlorn cub, looked at it then buried itself into its nest in a sulk.


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