‘Is he really making me go into seclusion?’ Zhu Yuexi was stunned. ‘If I go into seclusion, Xu Sheng would be with Li Qingqing every night, wouldn’t he?’
She had thought Xu Sheng came to find her for some reason, but he suddenly appeared before her just to tell her she could go into seclusion.
Wasn’t he going to say anything about not seeing her for this time?
Although going into seclusion was common in the cultivation world, and high-level cultivators often went into seclusion for years without it being unusual, at this moment Zhu Yuexi looked at Xu Sheng’s indifferent expression and felt inexplicably annoyed.
Xu Sheng saw her gritted-teeth expression and raised an eyebrow.
“What, do you want me to stay here with you?”
As he spoke, his hand reached out and touched her thigh.
Even through the fabric, he could still feel the excellent texture, and even through the fabric, Zhu Yuexi could still feel the heat of his palm.
She wanted to retreat, but Xu Sheng moved forward again. “Do you think last night wasn’t satisfying enough?”
Xu Sheng never spoke to Zhu Yuexi as restrained as he did to Mo Ruxue.
Not pointing at her and calling her the primary wife was already quite polite.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuexi felt humiliated. She wanted to retort but couldn’t utter a word.
Her first reaction had indeed been that Xu Sheng wanted to… just like last night.
Wait, last night. She suddenly remembered she had forgotten something extremely important.
Yesterday, Xu Sheng had forced her to answer some questions.
Of course, Zhu Yuexi felt those were not her true intentions.
It could only be said that she was saying nonsense when she was in high spirits… But Xu Sheng had indeed promised her that if she said it, he would drink hers… Zhu Yuexi knew how to reclaim the upper hand.
This morning when she woke up, because she had slept so soundly last night, she had actually forgotten to use such an important thing to respond to Li Qingqing. But now she remembered…
Zhu Yuexi reached out and grabbed Xu Sheng’s collar. Her action was bold.
At this moment, her demeanor seemed to change.
Standing before Xu Sheng now was a 170 cm tall mature woman—although their heights weren’t much different, her aura had always been like this.
Xu Sheng was taken aback, and Zhu Yuexi pulled his collar downward.
“Yes, this Saintess remembers that someone was parched last night. Come on, have some water…”
Verbally, Zhu Yuexi had temporarily won. But she hadn’t thought it through.
If she really let Xu Sheng have some water, in the end, it would be herself who couldn’t bear it.
Xu Sheng was like that. When he occasionally lost ground in verbal sparring, he would reclaim it through physical sparring.
And when he lost ground in physical sparring, he would reclaim it through verbal sparring.
However, Xu Sheng being at a disadvantage was a rare occurrence. It wasn’t humiliating for him.
As mentioned before, in any intimate act, who was the dominant one didn’t depend on such simple postures as who was on top or bottom—rather, it was the one who guided the emotions at the time.
Obviously, Xu Sheng was that guide, and given Zhu Yuexi’s physical attributes, no matter what he did, he wasn’t losing out.
During this period, Zhu Yuexi lived a very… nourishing life. Nourished by Xu Sheng.
Almost every night, he would come to the room to “treat” her.
And it seemed to have become a tacit understanding between them: after the treatment, Xu Sheng would stay and sleep with her.
Zhu Yuexi was someone who completely didn’t learn from experience.
Almost every night, before treating her, Xu Sheng needed to thoroughly suppress her arrogance.
If not for being detailed enough to feel some extremely subtle details in how she treated him, he would have thought he was in some kind of episodic drama where everything that happened in the previous episode would be completely discarded in the next.
Zhu Yuexi’s tenacity could be considered her only virtue: repeatedly fought and lost, repeatedly lost and fought.
Either she would suffer setbacks at Xu Sheng’s hands at night, or she would suffer setbacks at Li Qingqing’s hands during the day.
In any case, not a single day passed peacefully.
Five days passed in a flash. Last night, Xu Sheng actually used some kind of tail or something… Zhu Yuexi still felt extremely weak.
However, the expansion of her Qi Sea was visibly noticeable.
In just five days, her cultivation had improved so much, even without her seriously cultivating.
All this was due to Xu Sheng. As for Zhu Yuexi, she hadn’t expected that while doing these things with her, Xu Sheng was still operating the Dual Cultivation Technique.
No matter how much she looked down on him, he was a genuine Ninth Realm expert.
So him dual cultivating with her—from a cultivation perspective, Zhu Yuexi was the absolute beneficiary.
Opening her eyes, she saw Xu Sheng’s chest. His skin was finer than that of ordinary women.
Although not as white as hers, his body was the type that had muscle when undressed.
His external qualities were passable, but unfortunately, he was a scumbag… Zhu Yuexi suddenly startled, coming to her senses.
‘What am I regretting?’ Throwing away the thoughts in her mind, she looked up and met his eyes.
They were still clear, as if he hadn’t been the protagonist of these days’ romance.
His eyes… calling him a Demon Lord was actually more like a Buddha’s Disciple.
Xu Sheng, meeting her gaze, didn’t say anything but placed his hand on her back.
Just as she was a little puzzled, he took something out. “Ah…” A numb feeling spread through her body, and she couldn’t help but exclaim.
“You’re so used to cosplaying as a little animal that if I didn’t remind you, you wouldn’t even know you still had a tail, would you?”
Xu Sheng casually threw the tail on the ground. Zhu Yuexi was already spotless all over, and he didn’t mind either.
“You…” Zhu Yuexi was angry inside. However, after a few days of interaction, she had learned to be a bit smarter.
She knew that Li Qingqing was probably waiting outside, and if she argued with Xu Sheng now, only she would suffer.
‘It seems people need to experience hardship to grow… Now she’s even learned to swallow her anger.’
Xu Sheng silently praised her in his heart and reminded her, “There’s no breakfast today. Your master will probably come out of seclusion soon. I had Li Qingqing arrange a banquet.”
‘What? Li Qingqing isn’t outside? Why didn’t you say so earlier?’
Zhu Yuexi was about to retort his previous words, but then she registered the second half of his sentence.
“Master… is coming out of seclusion?”
Xu Sheng nodded. “I observed her spiritual energy. She’s probably about to enter the Half-step Tenth Realm. Hmm… though it’s not particularly high, I suggest you carefully observe the movement of spiritual energy in the world around us. It will benefit your cultivation.”