บท 20: Qi Hong (1)
Chapter 20 – Qi Hong (1)
Out of 700 outer disciples, 500 of them belonged to the Joyous Yin School. Not many women in Silver Phoenix Sect were virgins, who could cultivate the Virgin Yin techniques.
Qi Hong gathered 500 disciples in front of a square stage, which was normally used for sparring matches between disciples. The girls picked the closest spot to sit and listen to the lecture.
The newbies, Jiang Lan and Miaomiao were slower than the rest. Both of them sat the far back of all disciples since everyone had already taken available spots.
The elder, Qi Hong, began her lecture.
"Last week, we talked about the ice-related skill tips. This week, we will review about digestion techniques, so we can cleanse and filter impure Qi and turn them into Yin Qi more efficiently."
Qi Hong didn't wait for any disciple to question her about their problems. She talked on her own without caring if anyone could understand her or not.
After noticing Qi Hong's teaching style, Miaomiao believed that he wouldn't be able to understand anything. He asked the system if it had a record feature.
'System, can you record that elder's lecture from the beginning?'
<<No. You need to defeat them at 200% difficulty at least once to unlock the coaching feature. Then, you can request any clone in the Isolation Training Space to explain their techniques.>>
Miaomiao rubbed his chin, happy that the system might be a bit more useful in the future.
As Miaomiao got sidetracked, the lecture continued.
"5 Milligrams of an ordinary man's semen usually contains about one to two strands of unfiltered Qi. However, a first stage cultivator's semen only contains five to ten strands, and the second stage has double that amount. But we can't predict the Qi volume for 3rd stage cultivators or higher ranks since their Qi's quality and quantity differs, depending on their upbringing, foundation, and their cultivation techniques."
When the lecture came to this point, a few girls that were sitting in front of Miaomiao turned around and glanced at his crotch.
Miaomiao didn't have to guess what they were thinking. These naughty girls were guessing how many strands of yang qi that he could produce.
"However, there are exceptions! Occasionally, talented cultivators can form their dantians when they are still at the first stage, so their semen contains more Qi than usual. These people always progress through their ranks slower than the others, but their combat potential and their strength are far stronger than cultivators at the same ranks. Thus, whenever these male geniuses ejaculate, their semen contain double or triple the amount that I have said."
Qi Hong grinned and pointed her finger at Miaomiao.
"For example, our young master Xu Miao has that kind of constitution. A few days ago, our mistress has gauged his strength, and she found at least 300 strands of Yang Qi in his dantian."
At this point, everyone turned around to look at Miaomiao. They were astonished that the seemingly weak young master had a rare constitution.
"Young master Xu Miao. Could I ask you to come over on this stage?"
Miaomiao's face twitched, "Can I say no?"
"If you cooperate, I'll allow you to pick a cultivation technique in the core library. You haven't visited the library yet, right?"
Hearing that Miaomiao would get to pick a technique from the core library, the girls murmured.
"Core library? I want to enter, too! That's so nice!"
"Uwaaa, I'm envious of young master Xu. That library is for the core disciples!"
"Heaven is unfair! We get stuck with the shitty old techniques, but he gets to pick a technique from the core library!"
"Say, if young master Xu has a girlfriend, will he share his cultivation manual with her?"
"…"
Miaomiao could hear the conversations. When the girls started gossiping if they could learn a core technique by being his wife, he was concerned about his future.
'I already have Jiang Lan and that thot, Zheng Liqin. I don't think my balls and my kidneys can handle more girls.'
Miaomiao ignored the gold diggers and walked onto the stage.
Qi Hong peered at Miaomiao with the corner of her narrow eyes. She grinned and continued her lecture.
"Listen closely, there is a way to check your customer's Qi in his dantian. All of you should have practiced one of the basic techniques, Succubi Sense, so you should know how to manipulate your sixth sense. Has anyone not learned the technique yet?"
Qi Hong surveyed if there was anyone that hadn't learned this technique yet. As Succubi Sense was a common technique that its manual could be found in the outer library, any outer disciple could visit them and learn them. Therefore, Qi Hong rechecked how many newcomers hadn't picked the skill.
Five disciples raised their hands. Jiang Lan was one of them.
"Okay. Five of you should come with me to the library and learn that skill after class. For now, listen to the lecture."
Qi Hong turned to Miaomiao. She placed her hand on his abdomen and explained the skill.
"Succubi Sense is normally used to appraise other cultivator's ranks and levels from a distance. However, if you touch your customer by his abdomen and gaze into his eyes, you will be able to sense the amount of Qi that he has. For example, young master Xu currently has…"
Qi Hong froze when she discovered Miaomiao's Yang Qi and Yang Essence. Her eyes shifted up and down twice in disbelief.
"Young master Xu. You haven't even reached the 3rd stage. How did you acquire so many drops of Yang Essence? Are you a…"
Again, Qi Hong fell into deep thought as she stared into Miaomiao's eyes even though her narrow eyes barely opened.
Miaomiao gulped. He was afraid that Qi Hong would find out about his dual cultivation abilities, and she might suspect that he had done something to both Jiang Lan and Zheng Liqin.
"Are you a yang cultivator, young master Xu?"
Miaomiao almost slipped and fell from the stage, but he regained his composure and coughed, hiding his embarrassment.
"Yes, senior."
Qi Hong grinned. Her smug expression and her closed eyes reminded Miaomiao about smart characters or villain sidekicks in anime.
"Alright. You can go back to your seat."
"T-Thanks, senior."
Miaomiao was surprised that Qi Hong didn't do anything or have him strip in front of these thirsty wolves. He rushed back to Jiang Lan's side and sat down, pretending that nothing had happened.
The lecture went on, but Qi Hong seemed to hide something from her disciples.
"In the case that you've encountered a customer with a high amount of Qi like young master Xu, be sure to contact your elders for precaution. These customers might be yang cultivators or demons in disguise. Having sex with a demon will make your yin qi go berserk, and your memory can be rewritten."
The girls gasped when they heard that demons could brainwash them.
"In summary, always inspect your customer's residual Qi by touching their abdomen and use your sense technique. Do not give service to suspicious customers with an abnormal amount of Qi. This applies to any stage 3 or stronger cultivators."
The girls took notes. After all, they were dual cultivators, and most of them also worked as prostitutes at night.
The lecture continued, but none of them entered Miaomiao's ears as he could not understand anything, and none of them related to his Yang Qi.
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At 5PM, Qi Hong stopped teaching. She glanced at Zheng Liqin, who stared at her in a daze. The elder's eyebrows frowned as she found this top prostitute odd.
Zheng Liqin's blank eyes reminded Qi Hong a condition that evil dual cultivators or demons usually used to corrupt their partner's mind, a Yin Cauldron.
Yin Cauldron referred to a Yin container, which was a victim of evil cultivators. They transformed their sex partners into a special tool to gather Yin energy from its surroundings, so the master of this cauldron could dual-cultivate with her, harvesting the collected Qi. However, the corrupted victims wouldn't gain any benefit from the dual cultivation.
In the past, evil sects that practiced dual cultivation arts always captured female civilians to transform them into Yin containers, but those sinful men had been eradicated long ago.
"E100, when was the last time that you've dual cultivated?"
Qi Hong suspected that Zheng Liqin's mind might be corrupted, judging from her blank state.
"Today, elder."
"Good. You can still talk. Then, when?"
"This morning, elder."
"With whom?"
"Young master Xu Miao, elder."
Qi Hong's closed eyes opened a bit as she gave Zheng Liqin a meaningful look. Knowing the latter's personality, Qi Hong could guess that this prostitute took advantage of Miaomiao.
"Aha, by chance, did young master…"
Again, Qi Hong stopped her speech mid-sentence. She almost questioned Zheng Liqin out loud, "Did Young master use dual cultivate techniques and turn you into a Yin Cauldron?"
Qi Hong's smile grew wider when she came up with this theory. Although it was a crime for practicing a brainwashing technique, she didn't mind seeing Zheng Liqin in this state.
Zhen Liqin was known as a delinquent tyrant among outer disciples who had killed too many customers on her bed. Because of her greed for Yang Qi, the brothel had to spend more resources cleaning up after her messes.
The elder laughed in her mind, 'Well, serve you right, E100. It's nice a see a troublemaker like you getting turned into a mindless tool.'
Qi Hong recalled the event yesterday when Xu Xiuying specifically ordered her son to stay in Zheng Liqin's room. At that time, Qi Hong thought that Xu Xiuying wanted to punish her trashy son by throwing him into the mouth of this nasty disciple. But by putting dual cultivation techniques into the picture, everything changed.
'Does Mistress Xu plan to sacrifice E100 to be her son's toy? Well, I don't mind. I'm sure everyone in my department and the service department will be overjoyed when they heard that E100 has been turned into a doll.'
Qi Hong decided to turn a blind eye on Miaomiao's deed. She closed her eyes and ended the lecture.
"Young master Xu and everybody that hasn't learned Succubi Sense, follow me. As for the rest of you, you're dismissed."
บท 21: Qi Hong (2)
Chapter 21 – Qi Hong (2)
"Young master Xu, have Zheng Liqin taught you about how this brothel operates yet?"
"Yes. I know about the two schools and how they work, but she hasn't told me anything about the sect facilities or what I should do as a disciple yet. I don't even know where I can train or learn this sect's techniques."
"Oh, no problem. Do you know about the underground or the working floors, yet?"
"No."
"Okay. I'll explain…"
As Qin Hong was guiding Miaomiao, Jiang Lan, and four other disciples to the sect library, she taught Miaomiao how the sect and the brothel worked.
Aside from the outer disciple's quarters on the sixth floor to the fourteenth floor, the business areas that customers could enter were the fifth floor and below.
The fifth floor was for VIP customers. Over a hundred suite rooms were there to receive these distinguished guests. Not including service fees from the top workers, the brothel charged 100 refined spirit stones per night. Moreover, inner disciples from Joyous Yin School sometimes accepted guests, so they could dual-cultivate and steal yang qi from their customers.
The fourth floor was a bit less luxurious, but these 50x50 square meter rooms were large and fully furnished, which was comparable to high-class condominium rooms in this city. This area was still a high-classed zone, where rich guests bought their favorite service girls to attend them. It cost 50 refined spirit stones to stay, not including other service charges. Outer disciples from dual-cultivation school worked there part-time.
The third floor, where Miaomiao and Jiang Lan had slept, was the medium class area. All non-sect members and common prostitutes volunteered to sell their bodies in this settlement. Rooms on this floor were a bit smaller, 30x30 square meters. A night cost only 10 raw spirit stones, of course, not including service charges.
Low-class citizens of Mountain Goose City could only patronize the slaves and unpopular workers on the second floor. With the lowest price tag of 1 raw spirit stone per one sexual session, any customer could choose any slave from the brothel list and enjoy their service without any other service charge. However, the room quality was no different than a small storehouse as these bedrooms served as temporary places for intercourses. Also, the real lobby located at the center of this floor.
The first floor was a filter zone, where customers would be filtered by their purposes of coming to this building. Guests and customers would be led to the second floor or higher while thugs, robbers, and criminals would be sent to the underground area.
Hiding from the sight of civilians and other cultivators was the underground slaughterhouse and torture chambers. All caught criminals and troublemakers were tortured and killed there. Their corpses would be incinerated, and their remains would be used as fertilizer.
"Y-You killed your customers?"
After hearing the truth, Miaomiao's face lost color even though his complexion was already pale. Although he was fine that cultivators killed each other for resources, the brothel's secret activities still shocked him.
Now, it came to Miaomiao that he had just joined a major crime organization, an all-female mobster gang. With one wrong move, Miaomiao might be killed by either Xu Xiuying or this closed eye instructor.
Qi Hong found Miaomiao's reaction funny. She snickered, "If we don't resort brutality, those troublemakers will return with more men and cause more problems. We're weeding them out by the roots, so we can make this city a better place for the civilians and other cultivators."
"Err," Miaomiao gulped, "That's fair enough."
"Of course. Every sect is aware that some of us practice yin arts and the double dantian technique. Many of those fuckers thought that they could steal our cultivation strength by having sex with us, so they always came here, trying to cause a scene. Too bad, we spent a lot of resources nurturing many dual-cultivators, so those foolish men got their yang sucked dry. Oh, excuse me, young master Xu. Please do not mind my language."
"No, I don't mind. I'm a junior, so I should be the one worrying about my language."
"You're quite humble for a nobleman. Say-," Qi Hong got close to Miaomiao and whispered, so the other disciples couldn't hear her, "Did you turn Zheng Liqin into a Yin Cauldron?"
Miaomiao's entire body froze. Yet, his face's temperature rose as if he had a fever.
The secret was discovered!
Qi Hong grinned as she patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, young master Xu. I'm on your side. That stupid idiot has already killed countless of our VIP customers, so it's good that you taught her a lesson. If it's possible, can you break her to the point that she can no longer remember who she was?"
Betraying Miaomiao's expectation, Qi Hong wanted Zheng Liqin broken, and she didn't punish Miaomiao for the deed.
"Why? Is there something wrong about her?"
"You see, even though she has contributed a lot to our sect, Zheng Liqin has been causing trouble left and right. It gets to the point that your mother is planning to kill her."
Zheng Liqin's past achievements and her deeds were infamous among outer disciples. This dual cultivator mastered the sect's Ethereal Physique technique and transformed herself into a teenager. Because of her child-like appearance, nasty pedophiles and perverts in the city specifically requested her services.
At first, Zheng Liqin did what the sect had aimed to do, eradicating evildoers and killing all thugs. However, her charm attracted several innocent cultivators, which was tempted by the legal loli. Without differentiating who she should kill, Zheng Liqin murdered them all on her bed, stealing their Qi to the last drop.
Her action provoked many families of her victims. Although most of them were poor and powerless against Xu Xiuying and her sect, it affected the brothel's image and their businesses in general. As a result, Xu Xiuying had several meetings with the sect elders and informed them that she wanted her dead.
Still, many elders were against punishing Zheng Liqin as the latter's talent was indisputable. She was a genius among all dual-cultivators that many inner disciples couldn't hope to match with her. Thus, no one but Xu Xiuying wanted this troublemaker dead.
"So that's the case?"
Listening to Qi Hong's request and the backstory of Zheng Liqin, Miaomiao got goosebumps. Thinking back when Zheng Liqin was forcing herself on him, Miaomiao realized that his fate would have been different had he failed to contain this loli.
Qi Hong got to the point, "But from my point of view, it's a waste of manpower. I was thinking if it's possible to ask young master Xu to tame that troublemaker and overwrite her personality with your dual-cultivation skill. I'll add some contribution points to your account as a compensation."
Miaomiao didn't mind the request, but he was curious about the contribution points.
In novels, many sects utilized contribution point systems, aka free labor system, so their disciples could do the odd job for their sect. Still, there were many goodies for contributors to exchange their points, such as pills, spirit stones, techniques, or weaponry.
"How much will you give me? Also, can I see a catalog or a reward list that I can exchange with my contribution points?"
"Ahaha! I see that you are flexible. Since it's a direct request from me, I can rig you ten thousand points. As for the reward list, I'll show you where you can redeem your rewards later. For now, let's say that I've assigned you a task. Please complete it as soon as possible."
"…Okay."
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The group took an employee elevator to the 11th floor. They could have taken stairs since they only needed to walk up one floor, but this place was inaccessible by normal means. After all, this was their sect's library, which stored many secret techniques.
When the elevator opened, a dozen women in armor were standing guard in front of a steel wall. On the wall surface, a glowing red barrier with unreadable scripts formed a magical array, protecting the secret room.
The ceiling was also unusually high. Measuring it from eyesight alone, Miaomiao estimated that it was at least 10-meter high, which was unnecessary from his point of view.
Just like the fifteenth floor, there was no entrance. Only authorized people could pass through this magic formation.
As soon as the guard saw Qi Hong, they saluted and activated the magic array, and a red warp hole appeared. A path toward the library opened.
"This way, young master."
Everyone followed Qi Hong into the gate.
Beyond the protective wall, it was a sealed 100 square meter room without any furniture. Only a 5-meter tall marble statue of an elderly woman stood at the center.
The elder woman sculpture had a peculiar pose. She stood tall, but she raised an ancient measurement scale up high with her left hand. Her right hand carried a silver sword, which emitted cold aura similar to the fifteenth floor's pool. Also, the statue's eyes were covered with black clothes.
Miaomiao was astonished. This marble sculpture was similar to Lady Justice Statues in the modern world.
Qi Hong introduced this statue to everyone, "That isn't just a statue, but she is a guardian spirit of our sect. We can request access to our libraries by standing before the statue and say that you want to access one of them. As long as you're a disciple of our sect and you don't have any ulterior motive, you will be teleported to the library. Otherwise…"
Qi Hong didn't continue explaining as she gave enough clues. Everybody understood it as well since this was a security protocol to weed out spies or intruders from accessing sensitive information.
"You girls, when you're inside, ask the librarian for the Succubi technique, and she will give you a copy of the manual. Take the manual and go practice on your own. As for you, young master Xu, you can enter first. Stand in front of the statue and say that you request to enter the core library. If the statue asks where you get the permission, tell her that you have mine."
"Alright."
Miaomiao braced himself and walked toward the tall statue.
As soon as Miaomiao got close, he could hear an old woman's voice in his mind.
[What is the purpose of your visit, young disguiser?]
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DamnPlotArmor
This chapter comes with author's sad story.
When I was editing this chapter before posting, I accidentally pasted a copy of this chapter onto chapter 27 that I was reviewing and saved over.
I have to rewrite chapter27 again from scratch because I can't recover the overwritten file. My stupid MS Word can't recover the previous version because I SAVED before I closed the goddamn program.
T_T
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