Chu Feng never expected that one day, the food he made would be like something out of a gourmet anime. So delicious it could make someone burst into tears on the spot.
However, the usual “clothes-exploding” scene from such shows didn’t happen. Instead, it felt like he was the one about to explode.
He had to admit, the Demon Empress’s lung capacity was far too good. His own consciousness was already starting to blur.
After a long while, their lips finally parted.
Chu Feng gulped down fresh air, gasping heavily. Damn, that was practically a suffocating kiss. He had nearly passed out.
But the one in front of him was the Demon Empress, so he didn’t dare complain. For one, her strength far surpassed his; for another… he wasn’t exactly losing out in this situation.
Noticing her own loss of composure, Su Tiantian quickly wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes.
The human and the demon fell into silence. Su Tiantian felt embarrassed by her earlier display, while Chu Feng, seeing the Demon Empress in low spirits, naturally kept quiet as well.
After finishing the meal, Chu Feng took out a large pile of fluff from his storage bag.
Originally, it had been a fur blanket, but thanks to the sword qi from the golden longsword, it had been shredded back to its “raw material” state. Nothing but loose fur remained.
After spreading it out on the ground, it covered an area large enough for two people to lie down.
Chu Feng slowly opened his eyes. “Right in front of him lay a fox-eared girl. Their eyes met, and it startled him so much he jolted.”
Taking a closer look and realizing it was the Demon Empress, he let out a sigh of relief.
Seeing how frightened Chu Feng looked, Su Tiantian gently hooked a finger under his chin and sneered, “What? Am I that scary?”
After a night had passed, the tearful Demon Empress from yesterday seemed like nothing more than an illusion. The enchanting yet aloof fox girl before him now…that was the true Demon Empress.
“Not at all. It’s just that waking up and finding such a beautiful woman like Your Majesty lying beside me… it feels too unreal to be possible.”
It was said women liked to be sweet-talked, so Chu Feng shamelessly played the part of a flatterer.
A trace of dissatisfaction appeared on Su Tiantian’s face at how he addressed her.
“Little rascal, from now on, don’t call me ‘Your Majesty’. Just call me… big sister Tiantian.”
Big sister Tiantian?!
Chu Feng suddenly recalled the incantation he had once said to the paper crane. It had included the name “big sister Tiantian”.
He had wondered who this “big sister Tiantian” was back then. Turns out, it was the Demon Empress!
“Little rascal, hurry, call me that!”
Su Tiantian said with a hint of anticipation in her eyes.
“Big sister Tiantian,”
Chu Feng called out softly.
Hearing this, Su Tiantian revealed a satisfied smile. It was clear that she was in a very good mood.
She withdrew her smile before propping her cheek up with one hand. “Little rascal, I’m in a good mood right now. Go on, tell me…what reward do you want? I can grant you anything, even…”
As she spoke, her slender jade finger slowly slid down from her neck, passing over her ample chest, gliding across her slim waist, over her full hips, and finally stopping at her long, graceful thigh.
Gulp—
Chu Feng’s throat bobbed as he suppressed the surge of emotions within him. After a brief pause, he said, “Hmm, I don’t want any reward. Your Maj… big sister Tiantian, as long as you can recover, that’s enough.”
After receiving a cold glance from the Demon Empress, he quickly corrected himself.
Su Tiantian lay on her side, twirling a strand of her hair around her finger. “Hmm… then I’ll leave it with you for now. In the future, you can make any one request of me.”
At the same time, she silently added in her heart. Final interpretation rights belong to her.
Chu Feng had no objections. He felt that he probably wouldn’t even have a use for that request in the future.
“Little rascal, if I’m not mistaken, your spirit root… is a Yin-Yang spirit root.”
Su Tiantian said as she played with her hair.
“Big sister Tiantian is right.”
“From this Empress’s observation, you’re only one step away from the third rank. Although you have a sufficient amount of yin energy within your body, you’ve still been unable to break through, right?”
“!!!”
Chu Feng hadn’t expected the Demon Empress to see through his situation so clearly!
That was right. This had been his greatest frustration since entering the demon clan. Previously, he couldn’t break through because his yin energy was insufficient. But now, even though his yin energy was more than enough, he still couldn’t advance.
“Big sister Tiantian, then what should I do?”
Su Tiantian blinked, then leaned in a little closer, giving a charming smile. “Well, of course… this Empress will help you cultivate~”
Good grief, has this really turned into that kind of trope where you help me cultivate?
Chu Feng was stunned. Even though the offer was extremely tempting… he refused!
“In that case, there’s no need to trouble you, big sister Tiantian. I’ll handle it myself.”
“Is that so? From what this Empress can see, although your yin energy is abundant, sometimes having too much yin energy will instead suppress your yang energy. That’s precisely why you’ve been unable to break through. As for solutions, there are two.
First, find a man with strong yang energy, and then… well, little rascal, you understand. It’ll hurt a bit, but it’ll be over quickly.
Second, properly guide the yin energy within your body, allowing it to harmonize with your yang energy in the right proportion, and then you can successfully break through.”
A man… with strong yang energy!?
No way! Absolutely not!
He could stab himself with a blade if needed, but that other thing? Absolutely not!!
“So? Have you made your decision?” Su Tiantian’s lips slowly curled upward as she spoke.
“I choose… the second option.”
Chu Feng murmured. At this point, the second method was his only choice.
“Relax, just leave everything to this Empress.” Su Tiantian’s golden eyes narrowed slightly as her fingertip traced across Chu Feng’s chest. With a half-smile, she said, “I’ll be as gentle as possible. It won’t hurt too much.”
“???”
Are those lines… really right?
Chu Feng felt as though he had walked straight into a trap set by a cunning fox, like a helpless little lamb.
In the next moment, Su Tiantian straddled him.
With such an awkward position, Chu Feng couldn’t help but ask, “Big sister Tiantian, is this really the method you were talking about?”
“Of course. This Empress isn’t some bad fox.” Su Tiantian replied lazily.
Then, he watched as the Demon Empress slowly leaned down. A few strands of her hair fell across his face, and soon, a soft warm moist sensation touched his neck. Before he could think further, a sharp pain suddenly shot through it.
“Hiss!”
He couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air. Could it be that the Demon Empress was some kind of vampire?
Chu Feng could clearly feel it. She was sucking his blood. At the same time, the true energy within his body began to boil.
***
The yin energy within his body seemed to be guided by some kind of force, gradually beginning to merge with his yang energy.
Crack—
The bottleneck that had held him back for so long finally began to loosen.
At this moment, Chu Feng couldn’t spare any attention for the fact that the Demon Empress was still slowly drinking his blood. She probably wouldn’t harm him.
With his mind settling, he focused completely on breaking through the bottleneck.
However, as Chu Feng concentrated solely on his breakthrough, he failed to notice that Su Tiantian, while sucking his blood, was also slowly injecting a bit of her own blood into him.
It was true that she was guiding the fusion of yin and yang within his body. But at the same time, she was doing something else as well.
The mingling of blood was a ritual used by the fox clan to mark the one they loved. Each would infuse a portion of their blood into the other, so that both would carry each other’s aura.
This wasn’t something particularly noticeable to humans, but for the demon clan, it could be sensed immediately.
In doing so, Su Tiantian was essentially making a public declaration within the demon clan. This human was her partner!
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