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Chapter 190: Chapter One Hundred And Ninety - I cultivate with Jin Li

Panting to catch his breath, Leon's eyes followed the movement of his man as Jin Li lay beside him with a sated expression. Their naked skin glistened in the soft light of the mage globe and the dying light creeping in the hut's lone window. Ambiguous substances marked them here and there and there were an array of purple splotches dotted over Leon's neck and collar bone.

Leon's body hummed softly in satisfaction. The pain was a lot less this time and he had even felt some pleasure whilst being penetrated, though it was an elusive feeling in the end. A finger fell upon his collarbone and traced those purple marks lightly, circling them a little in admiration of self-artistry. Jin Li's hand ran up along Leon's neck and face before he leaned over his glowing alchemist and stole a lingering kiss. Leon complied willingly, opening his mouth to allow the other entry.

"I wish to practice the Dual Cultivation technique with you," Jin Li claimed suddenly, making Leon pause as his mind raced to catch up with the other's thoughts. Automatically, he blushed. To Dual Cultivate was to... well cultivate while conjoined sexually with your partner. The number of times that they'd made love could be counted with just the fingers of one hand. To Leon, from his understanding, to Dual Cultivate was practically a level up from their current bedroom performances.

Unknown to him, to Jin Li, Dual Cultivating was a lot more.

This had to do with the difference in their upbringing, after all, Jin Li was off this universe, whilst Leon came from a place that was wholly different with different values, morales and filled with fast food of various shapes and descriptions. More people took sexual relations as a casual thing, divorce was prolific and if one made it through ten years of marriage, they were both ridiculed and exalted all at once. Of course, in that world, men were expected to maintain some level of fidelity; one wife, no harems. Of course the jealousy of both sexes remained the same in either world.

However, although in this land, men were not looked down upon for having more than one wife (indeed in some middle realms, it was not even uncommon for a woman to have more than one husband), a Cultivator would likely have ever only one Dao Companion. To clarify, Maimai's father had a harem of several beauties, but not one was his Dao Companion. Should he follow that path, he would likely have to give up his harem and even his main wife, for a Dao Companion was much more than a marital partner. A mortal life was but a flap of a butterfly's wings compared to a the potential life of a Cultivator.

And with the exception of a few (being demons and females of a certain promiscuous Sect), one would only Dual Cultivate with their Dao Companion.

Jin Li tugged the boneless Leon up into his arms as he sat up in their bed, making himself comfortable in a lotus position. His jade branch was already saluting and ready to perform its duties. Jin Li licked his lips as he positioned the languid alchemist above him, arranging Leon's arms about his shoulders and his legs about his back. And after glancing at the blushing man in his hold once to ensure there was no resistance, he guided his lover back onto his body. Leon shivered about him as the warmth of his moist body enveloped that part of him, joining them together.

He whispered words of instruction into Leon's ears, the latter forcing himself to listen, though his mind was somewhat distracted by the itchy feeling of fullness below. "Do you understand?" Jin Li asked him. Although this Cultivation technique was not complicated, did not mean it would not cause problems if performed incorrectly. With all techniques, there was the risk of backlash, thus a Dual Cultivation technique also required the participants to have complete faith with the other.

Leon repeated back what he had heard, slowly, trying to not move his lower body as he felt the urge to. He was not alone, but Jin Li always did have reasonably good willpower and simply held Leon close, their forehead's touching and their eyes closing as they turned their minds to the task.

In this state, Leon managed to turn his focus inward and see his twinkling inner sea; the specks of light were not sluggish, but moving at a reasonable pace as if in anticipation of what was about to happen. He circled his energies once about his meridians, taking in one breath. And as he exhaled, he sent those same energies along a new conduit, one that would have them exit his body. However, rather than lose this energy, it was replaced by a different sort.

This spiritual energy sparked and teased his nerves and meridians, not painfully, but enough to make him tremble. Like little bolts of lightning, the energy crackled through his pathways and into his innersea, mixing with the twinkling lights and warming his centre. He felt as if a surge of power was electrifying him from the inside out, causing him to gasp. Inhaling an unsteady breath, he circled the combined energy about himself as Jin Li had instructed, while drawing in the spiritual energy from the air to increase the volume a minute amount.

Jin Li's innersea was experiencing a similar strangeness. His sea was violent with chain lightning thundering through the space, ready to rip his body to sheds given the opportunity. This volatile inner sea was not an unknown phenomenon in Cultivators, however few Cultivators could control it beyond a certain stage of cultivation, hence would have to give up their immortal dreams or be annihilated in a most terrible way. Such was the bloodline of Jin Li. Great power and wicked speed of surging through the early stages of cultivation, but with a deadly potential cost. However, his ancestors had developed a cultivation technique that while did not completely tame the unforgiving lightning, would at least give the Cultivator some ability to control it. They had not yet produced an immortal, but could at least reach the higher stages of cultivation without destroying themselves.

Yet, at this moment, a soft and gentle array of tiny lights were pouring into his innersea, quietening the thunder as it merged with the jagged strikes. The added energy made the lightning whiter, sharper, yet the numerous thorny extraneous chains reduced in size at first and later in number. A sense of burden within Jin Li quietly eased and he poured more of his yang energy into his small lover.

The two men remained in the state of Dual Cultivation until the moon set and the sun began to take its place within the heavens, ushering in a bright new day.


Chapter 191: Chapter One Hundred And Ninety One - Teachers approach mine about me

In a courtyard, surrounded by pots and raised beds, with the sound of water lapping against a pond's edge, sat a man, a Teacher. At a stone table, on which he had scrolled documents scattered here and there, the Teacher was reading, occasionally scribbling notes and at other times sipping from a tea cup. After reading a scroll, he tossed it into a small wooden container upon the bench. The container did not appear to be able to fit the scrolled document, at yet it vanished inside regardless. This container was a spatial device, much like an interspatial bag, just with a different external look. It also could fit much more inside than most interspatial bags could.

Feeling that the tea in his cup had grown tepid, he poured it onto the floor and not into one of the nearby pots or flower beds. This was because each pot and raised bed contained precious herbs, he could not risk ruining the conditions of the soil, which he maintained with precision and painstaking work. Many of his herbs had their own wants and needs and to ensure they grew into their greatest potential, he had near perfected his care towards them over the centuries. His greatest joy was to sit amongst them, able to enjoy the fruits of his labours before they were harvested for use in pills and potions.

Tossing another report into the box, which happened to be an invoice for new cauldrons, he heard a voice calling out to him in a jovial manner and naturally, he glanced up to greet his visitor. "Volun," he said as the silver haired man approached. "What brings you to the outer alchemist school?"

"Actually, I have something to discuss with you," the man replied, taking the offered seat upon the stone bench opposite the other. A tea cup was summoned from the wooden box and placed upon the table, before it was filled with a light scented green tea and placed before Volun. "Thank you," he said, gratefully, before continuing from earlier; "Actually, it is about one of your students."

"One of my students?" The other Teacher questioned, however before Volun could clarify, a third voice was heard in the garden;

"Teacher Sagi!" The words were followed by a man in white robes favoured by the Healers of the Institute. "Excuse me for intruding, but I wanted to know where I could find a student of yours!"

"I think I should prepare a fresh pot of tea," Sagi sighed and gathering the cast iron tea pot, he entered his home in order to do so.

Sometime later, when fresh tea had been poured and the three men had exchanged light pleasantries, the visitors began to finally discuss the reasons for approaching Teacher Sagi during this four day break period. As Volun had arrived first, it was only fair that he broach the subject first as well.

"As I previously mentioned," he began, "I came to talk to you about one of your students."

"There hasn't been any trouble, has there?" Teacher Sagi asked him. It was not unheard of for students of any schools to have differences after all, say if requested pills were not to the standard the requester insisted upon despite rewards being low or if tamed beasts had escaped and wandered into the small herb gardens in amongst the dormitories of the students.

"No trouble," Volun's eyes were twinkling with excitement. "I wanted to speak to your student about somethings. Especially about his carvings!"

Teacher Sagi's bushy brows furrowed and his hand fell to his waist, where happened to be a carved wooden charm in the shape of a flowering bladed thistle. "That student... I only know of one in the outer school that has a hobby of carving things. What do you want from him?"

Volun's eyes happened to catch Sagi's movement and he smiled as he said; "Have you yet to notice the unique trait of the charm upon your belt? Try using your inner eye to look at it more closely." Sagi's frown deepened, but he did as was suggested.

A moment later, his eyes widened and his brows rose high upon his forehead as he exclaimed; "How is that possible? Leo really did this?"

"I don't quite understand what's going on," The Healer interrupted the flow of their conversation, slightly impatient, "But you say this... Leo is the only student who can carve things? Then is this his bottle...?" The Healer took out a small jade bottle with a cute carved label attached. Inside the bottle was a single pill. The Healer had fought profusely with Teacher Corvus over this bottle and lone pill, the other insisting he needed those pills for what if his cute student was hurt again in the future? In the end, Corvus took the three other pills and placed them in a high quality jade bottle that the Healer had given him in exchange. His heart had bled slightly for that bottle cost more than ten times the price of the cheap bottle he was left with.

Sagi looked down at the bottle and slowly nodded, recalling the numerous labelled jade bottles upon his three students' stall. Leo had decorated the bottles in order to make his pills stand out from the rest of the common pills and potions available, not yet able to make rare things nor high or peak quality ones. Sagi had been impressed by his ingenuity. "What of it?"

The Healer poured the lone pill into his palm and handed it to the alchemist. "Take a good look."

"It's just a One Heart Pill..." he paused and looked more in depth, drawn in by the scent of the Pill which was just so pure and the glossy sheen of it. This... this couldn't be one of Leo's pills... right?

"A One Heart Pill identical to this healed severe outer injuries of a martial arts student not too long ago," The Healer informed him. "The wound healed rapidly and cleanly. There won't even be a scar. Not only that, it is clear it has less impurities than most One Heart Pills."

"But my Leo?" Sagi couldn't help but be dubious. After all, who more than his Teacher should understand his talents and capability? Leo's talent lie in his patience and amazing consistency and control. His pill quality was improving, but generally his pills could be said to be average or just good. This pill which was not quite a normal One Heart Pill, he couldn't claim to know its quality having nothing to compare it against.

Volun's eyes were sparkling even more intensely as if having unearthed a rare treasure. "Then why don't we go and speak with him and find out?"


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