Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 438 - 34: Debating with the Enchantress

Chapter 438: Chapter 34: Debating with the Enchantress

Among the many women Yan Yu knew, if asked who his favorite conversation partner was, Li Minghu would definitely top the list.

Ye Jun could also put up a fight, but when Ye Jun spoke, he sounded more like a buddy, intermittently playing along with jokes, lacking the gentle comfort of Li Minghu’s lingering drizzles and soft spring breezes.

Looking at the others, Lin Ning was haughty, Yun Jin somber, Chen Lingyun up to no good, Xie Ruoxi lacking ambition, and Zhao Yuanzhen both bad and stupid… Although they were all very beautiful, each had their own flaws when it came to their personalities.

Thinking about it, the fact that I could tolerate their flaws probably made me a paragon of broad-mindedness, right?

Yan Yu chatted with Li Minghu for a moment and told her to rest well. Right then, Zhao Yuanzhen pushed the door open and entered.

She had changed into a thin nightgown, and it seemed like she had just taken a hot bath in the bathroom outside. The skin above her neck was reddish and smooth, exceptionally pretty—the description of everything below the neck was better left unsaid, except for one word, “amazing.”

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Sometimes, Yan Yu couldn’t help but suspect that the Enchantress had probably transferred all the contents of her brain elsewhere.

“Time is almost up.” Zhao Yuanzhen kicked off her slippers, leapt onto the bed like a fearless warrior, and, with a big wave of her hand, exclaimed, “Dual Cultivation!”

“Hold on.” Yan Yu asked, puzzled, “What’s that delightful smell?”

“Humph,” Zhao Yuanzhen said proudly. “I used Ling Yun’s body wash.”

“She allowed you to use it?” Yan Yu was immediately shocked.

Even in my past life, she would only let me use her body wash during a shared bath!

“Don’t know.” Zhao Yuanzhen replied. “I asked to borrow it, and she did not object, so she probably agreed by default.”

“How did you ask?” Yan Yu inquired.

“Ling Yun, I ran out of shower gel. Let me use yours,” Zhao Yuanzhen answered.

“And how did she respond?” Yan Yu asked again.

“She wasn’t in the room,” Zhao Yuanzhen said.

Yan Yu was immediately stupefied, so you were asking the air for body wash?

“Come, smell this, isn’t it fragrant?” Zhao Yuanzhen thrust her arm towards his face, “This body wash must be expensive, the scent is lasting yet not overpowering, truly delightful.”

“That’s enough,” Yan Yu pushed her arm away, “Can you focus less on these trivial matters of everyday life and pay more attention to cultivation?”

“Sure,” Zhao Yuanzhen lifted her chin, “So when will you practice bedroom techniques with me?”

Yan Yu raised his hands in surrender. It wasn’t that he was uninterested in the Enchantress’s body—quite the contrary, he was very interested. But the union of their energies could break through bottlenecks, and such a valuable opportunity was to be reserved for overcoming the bottleneck at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

After achieving perfection in the Foundation Establishment Realm, came Crossing Celestial Tribulation and Core Formation. Golden Cores were graded as upper, middle, and lower levels, specifically related to the purity of one’s Purple Mansion Foundation and the balance of spiritual energies: the more abundant the positive energies and the fewer the negative residues, the easier it was to form a high-quality golden core.

So how could one purify the Purple Mansion Foundation and refine the negative residues, retaining the positive energies?

The orthodox method was to diligently polish the Purple Mansion Foundation, also known as painstaking manual labor. It was said that to confidently form a high-quality golden core, one would need to stay in the Hua Mansion Phase for two hundred years, slowly purifying the residues within the Purple Mansion… obviously unrealistic, as it took far too long.

Of course, where there were conventional methods, there were also shortcuts. For example, when breaking through a bottleneck at the peak of the Hua Mansion, one’s cultivation realm could surge suddenly. If all the increased True Yuan could be channeled into the Purple Mansion and fully refined at that moment, it might also enhance the final grade of the core formation.

Using a metaphor, it’s like needing to climb a steep hill. The orthodox method is to pedal a bicycle slowly up the hill, but what if someone lacks the energy to pedal up an incline? They could ride to the top of a smaller mound first, then as they ride down, pedal hard, gathering as much momentum as possible, enabling them to reach further up the high slope in one go.

As for how to reach this levering mound, there are many ways. For instance, the dual cultivation method in Silken Bond Technique, if practiced between a male and a female, could lead to a considerable increase in True Yuan after breaking through a bottleneck. Another way mentioned in past lives secretly dealt with rare Elixir Medicines; prolonged use before breaking through a bottleneck could also yield great effects.

Yan Yu, having come from his previous life, although he himself was not a cultivator, watched Chen Lingyun during her period close to reaching Great Perfection at the Hua Fu Stage as she brewed various medicines and swallowed Elixir Medicines daily. He understood how important the Purple Mansion grade was for cultivators to form their Core.

“You don’t want to conserve your True Yuan to break through the bottleneck of Great Perfection at the Hua Fu Stage?” Yan Yu asked her.

“I do. Of course, I do,” Zhao Yuanzhen immediately struggled, “but with you flirting around all day, I can’t be at ease. If I can get your heart back sooner, it wouldn’t matter if I don’t break through the bottleneck.”

Yan Yu was immediately amused:

“Do you think your legs are some kind of anti-theft lock that can just snap shut and keep me locked up? To truly achieve mutual understanding and companionship, relying on bedroom techniques is useless; it’s all about feelings, understand!”

Zhao Yuanzhen pondered:

“So, if you cheat on me in the team, that means you don’t love me enough, right?”

“Why do you always interpret things in a way that benefits you?” Yan Yu was speechless and after a long pause said, “What I mean is, since you’re worried about this and that, you should work hard to foster feelings with me, instead of thinking ‘as long as I give him my True Yuan, everything will be fine’… How many times do I have to mention this? Dual Cultivation itself is a supportive, mutually beneficial act, completely different from secular arranged marriages.”

“Don’t try to CPU me,” Zhao Yuanzhen retorted, unconvinced. “I’ve read online that if a guy sleeps with a girl, he should take responsibility for her.”

“That’s incorrect,” Yan Yu said. “You should read more articles about feminism. A woman’s body is her own to control. The feudal days when a man had to be utterly devoted to a woman he slept with are long gone.”

Zhao Yuanzhen found it odd and furrowed her brows:

“Then aren’t men able to sleep with women freely without taking responsibility? Getting slept with by you guys without any compensation… What kind of feminism is that?”

Yan Yu thought she was catching on and continued to explain:

“A woman can sleep with whoever she wants; her body is not some object to be talked about in terms of getting slept with or not. You’re espousing a decaying materialism, truly lowly.”

“I understand,” Zhao Yuanzhen scoffed. “When it’s time to sleep with someone, you talk about ‘a woman’s body being her own’ to dodge responsibility; then when it comes to marriage, you turn around and look for women who haven’t slept with anyone, kicking to the curb those you’ve already slept with. What feminism, it looks more like jerk-ism to me; it’s all about how you can feel good. I’m not falling for your tricks; I’m not some enlightened feminist, I want to maintain womanly virtues, and you have to fulfill your duties as a husband.”

“Haha,” Yan Yu couldn’t help laughing, disdainfully said, “Don’t forget, I can choose not to sleep with you.”

“Then I can use force!” Zhao Yuanzhen immediately flared up, revealing the nature of a Demonic Sect Enchantress, and scoffed, “If you don’t devour me, I will devour you! Leave you clean down to the bones, not a drop left!”

“Heh,” Yan Yu scoffed, “I just have to not wave the flag, how would you use force then?”

“You think you can resist waving the flag?” Zhao Yuanzhen puffed out her chest, proudly said.

…Well, that might actually be a bit difficult.

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“Anyway, we’ll talk about this next time,” Yan Yu got fed up with the argument as well, impatiently waved his hand, “It’s not yet time to break through the bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment Realm; it’s too early to talk about this. Release the puppet now; we still have to follow the Four Directions Qi Guiding Formation tonight.”

Zhao Yuanzhen was sullen as she summoned the puppet Ami, and thought to herself:

“I’m really shocked. The cheeky guy dared to say right in front of me that he doesn’t want me. Is it because he finds my body not attractive enough, or is he deliberately trying to scare me with his words, thinking of controlling me?”

“It must be the latter, but what if it’s the former, what then?”

“No, I must find an infallible method. Otherwise, what if when I reach the Great Perfection in the Foundation Establishment Realm, he suddenly refuses to fulfill his husbandly duties? I certainly can’t really use force… would I have to abandon my dignity, my reputation, my womanly virtues?”

“Despicable scoundrel, daring to scare me with this kind of thing! Hateful, so hateful, excessively hateful!”

“Fostering feelings is it? Fine, I’ll properly cultivate feelings with you! Let’s see if you can keep them up!”