Evolution - Chapter 163
Chapter 163
After Yu Zhiyao’s physique problem was resolved, they didn’t immediately set off for Blue Star. Instead, they stayed for two months to let her cultivate, consolidate her cultivation base, and adapt to a world that was now quite different for her.
Perhaps because Gu Jiawen and Shen Guiqing had previously worked together to feed her countless treasures, her foundation was exceptionally solid, and her cultivation speed was astonishingly fast.
Ji Changqing and He Yi were as quiet as mice, silently trying to reduce their presence, lest their Big Sister notice them being shown up as slackers.
Unfortunately, there were only a few of them now. No matter how much they tried to fade into the background, they couldn’t hide the aura of slackers emanating from them. Big Sister still locked onto them with ease!
Bathed in the glorious light of the academic god, their lives were miserable beyond description. Ji Changqing didn’t even have the energy for any nightlife anymore!
The person who used to come back and cling to her affectionately was now acting completely out of character, being evasive the moment she returned. She acted like a perfect gentleman, putting on an air of asceticism, which almost made Yu Zhiyao burst out laughing.
So she went over to deliberately tease her.
Ji Changqing sat upright at her desk, feigning a serious and busy demeanor, pretending to be engrossed in her studies. Yu Zhiyao emerged from her shower, still carrying a hint of steam. Her warm, soft, and full body pressed against Ji Changqing from behind. She wrapped her arms around her neck, leaned close to her ear, her lips brushing almost imperceptibly against its shell, and whispered, “It’s getting late. Aren’t you going to sleep?”
Aren’t you going to sleep?
Sleep?
To sleep, or not to sleep?
Ji Changqing was torn. Her beloved was incredibly alluring and actively teasing her—how could she not want to pounce and devour her completely? But she was also worried about having every last drop of her energy drained.
Yu Zhiyao gently nipped her ear, her tongue tracing a path from behind it down to the side of her neck.
Ji Changqing drew in a sharp breath, involuntarily squeezing her legs together and straightening her back, futilely trying to conceal the deadly, reflexive physiological response!
After all, things were different now. Yu Zhiyao’s stamina had increased dramatically. She was no longer the person who would be tormented in bed until she had no choice but to cry and beg for mercy.
The tables had turned. Now, Yu Zhiyao could even make her cry, surrender, and beg for mercy.
Yu Zhiyao watched her subtle physical changes, the corners of her lips curling up. Heh, you think I can’t handle you?
Just as Yu Zhiyao could rarely refuse Ji Changqing, always ending up half-resisting, half-complying before sinking in deep, Ji Changqing was even less capable of refusing Yu Zhiyao. She surrendered even faster.
Yu Zhiyao stood up. The soft sensation against her back vanished, leaving Ji Changqing with a sense of loss, as if she’d missed out on a billion dollars.
Yu Zhiyao walked around to the front of the desk, placed her hands on Ji Changqing’s shoulders for support, and straddled her lap. With downcast eyes, she delivered the final blow.
“Changqing,” Yu Zhiyao’s soft, breathy voice was exceptionally seductive in the quiet night. “I like it when you press down on me, leaving me breathless.”
Ji Changqing sucked in a cold breath. She’s really going all out, isn’t she?! Even knowing this woman had ill intentions and wanted to completely drain her energy, she willingly swallowed the sugar-coated knife.
Faced with such a provocation, anyone who could resist wouldn’t be human!
And so, she was taught a lesson.
While Yu Zhiyao still seemed unsated, Ji Changqing was like a salted fish, sprawled on the bed, unable to move a muscle.
She held back the urge to get on her knees and beg for mercy, coaxing Yu Zhiyao weakly, “Be good, let’s just sleep, okay? Huh?”
Sleep, just sleep, and it’ll all be over!
Yu Zhiyao’s fingertips traced over Ji Changqing’s beautiful, firm, and well-defined abs, making her shiver slightly. She gave her a meaningful smile. “Aren’t we ‘sleeping’ right now?!”
She had wanted revenge for a long time!
Every time Ji Changqing was on leave, the energetic Alpha would want to go all night without rest. Every time Yu Zhiyao tried to refuse, it would end with them both sinking into indulgence, nearly making her late for her morning meetings on several occasions.
This time, if she didn’t make Ji Changqing cry and beg for mercy, she might as well change her surname to hers!
Already like a salted fish, Ji Changqing was tossed and turned, whimpering as she admitted her fault and surrendered to Yu Zhiyao. She swore an oath that she would never again take advantage of her superior stamina to be so unrestrained, promising to be exceptionally considerate and completely respect the other party’s needs…
Yu Zhiyao counted the number of times Ji Changqing cried out her creative apologies. When she felt she herself was about to turn into a salted fish from exhaustion, she finally let her go.
Although, she didn’t believe a single word of those promises!
But she believed that after this painful lesson, Ji Changqing would learn to see things from her perspective. She didn’t need to change much—just restrain herself a little.
After all, sometimes when she said no, deep down, she didn’t really want to refuse.
The long torment finally ended. The salted fish Ji Changqing whimpered, stubbornly pulling Yu Zhiyao into her arms and murmuring with a thread of a voice, “I’m so screwed tomorrow.”
She could already foresee how miserable the consequences of being unable to lift her spear tomorrow would be!
Yu Zhiyao patted her, fully sated, and said perfunctorily, “I’m sure you’ll be fine!”
That tone, that expression, that gesture… why did it seem so familiar? Ji Changqing’s mouth twitched. This vengeful woman!
The next day, the drained Ji Changqing received a look of severe condemnation from her Big Sister. She probably felt that the daily morning and evening lessons were no longer enough for her and that it was time to unleash an ultimate move, leaving her with no escape. So, with a wave of her hand, she punished her by sending her to the Astral Wind Cave, forbidding her from coming out until it was time to depart.
It would be a good opportunity to practice her evasion techniques, temper her body, and stabilize her realm. It would also stop her from thinking about bedroom matters all day and dragging down Yu Zhiyao’s cultivation. Unacceptable!
Ji Changqing felt she had been more wronged than Dou E. This really wasn’t her fault today!
The problem was, she didn’t have the guts to appeal to her Big Sister. Was she supposed to explain the intimate games between her and Yu Zhiyao? Tell her she’d been hooked by Yu Zhiyao and couldn’t escape? Would Big Sister be understanding? No, she would only punish her more severely!!
Time flies in cultivation. Ji Changqing spent about a month in the Astral Wind Cave and emerged with her realm stabilized at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. Meanwhile, in just two months, Yu Zhiyao had gone from inducing qi into her body to firmly consolidating her cultivation at the sixth level of Qi Refinement.
Everyone prepared to depart for Blue Star. With everything packed and all arrangements made, Shen Guiqing and Gu Jiawen were both quite excited.
Their sense of belonging to the Tianyi Sect wasn’t as strong as their connection to Lingyun Peak. The Xuan Tian Sect was fine, but it wasn’t their home. The past few years had been… just so-so. Now they were going to Blue Star to rebuild Lingyun Peak—how could they not be excited? Besides, it was where their three junior sisters came from. By extension, it was practically their hometown too.
Chu Ci didn’t have a strong sense of belonging to the Xuan Tian Sect either. Back then, she had simply taken a master, thinking he was a carefree rogue cultivator who roamed the world. It was only decades later that she discovered her master was an outcast from the Xuan Tian Sect.
That didn’t matter much—what sect didn’t have its share of dirty laundry? Just as she herself had been the Big Sister unilaterally disowned by the Tianyi Sect!
That was why she had been traveling alone. By a stroke of luck, in an abandoned ancient mystic realm, she had accidentally activated an ancient teleportation array and was sent to the 【Pay-to-Win Realm】.
Cultivation world cross-domain teleportation consumed a massive amount of spiritual energy. Not only did it devour everything with spiritual energy in her storage pouch, turning it all to dregs, but it also drained her Soul Formation stage cultivation and spiritual energy completely.
When her master, who was already at the Dao Integration stage, found her, she was engrossed in re-cultivating and had just barely recovered to the fourth level of Qi Refinement.
Later, under her master’s guidance, she refined her cultivation technique. Within a hundred years, she not only successfully returned to the Soul Formation stage but also touched the threshold of the Void Refinement stage.
It was at this time that trouble befell the Xuan Tian Sect, related to her master’s expulsion back then. Her master, who had just advanced to the Mahayana stage, crossed realms to return and provide aid. He intimidated those from other sects who had been pulling strings from behind the scenes and also dealt with the troublemakers within his own sect. After the matter was resolved, the Xuan Tian Sect put on a look of deep remorse, perfectly timing their declaration that everything before had been a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding was cleared up, they expressed their desire to welcome her master back into the sect.
According to Chu Ci’s style, she would have preferred to remain independent—return to the sect, my ass! But her master had complex feelings for the sect and insisted on going back.
Later, when her Dao heart collapsed, she saw the true colors of everyone in the Xuan Tian Sect, from top to bottom. It was truly difficult for her to feel any lingering attachment to the place. The fact that they were given a piece of the pie in the grand affair of the Seven Realms Cultivation Alliance was purely out of respect for her already-ascended master. After all, that master had indeed treated her well.
The first echelon had been gone for so long, yet they were only now preparing to leave. This was also to support the new peak master she had chosen for Ten Thousand Swords Peak, helping him stabilize the situation and establish himself. This, she considered, was her doing her utmost for her master, ensuring that the legacy of Ten Thousand Swords Peak would continue.
Once she left, unless a major event concerning the very survival of the Xuan Tian Sect occurred, she would basically not interfere again, and naturally, she would not return.
A party of twelve, plus a divine Yazi dragon, soared into the sky on a specially divined auspicious day. From then on, with boundless prospects before them, they vanished from their old world.
Roaming the vast, starry sky was indeed a unique experience.
On the first day, the six researchers from the Academy of Sciences were incredibly excited. They were personally experiencing space travel without a starship, standing on the back of a giant dragon! Everything they saw was new and fascinating; they wanted to scream at the sight of everything!
On the second day, their enthusiasm remained. The sight of a distant star twinkling with cold light was enough to make them shout and laugh with unrestrained joy.
By the third day, their enthusiasm had gradually cooled. They huddled listlessly to one side, their eyes filled with a lost and bewildered look. They sniffled and asked Yu Zhiyao and He Yi plaintively, “Are we just going to sit here like idiots, eating and sleeping, all the way to Blue Star?”
This wasn’t what they had imagined!
In their imagination, riding a dragon to soar freely for thousands of miles would be a completely different kind of interstellar travel experience. But this fantasy hadn’t included having no signal, no way to connect to the network with their optical computers, and no quiet room to study documents, review credentials, or formulate research concepts!
Why did gaining the fantastical mean losing science?!
Yu Zhiyao seized the opportunity to rally them with some persuasive talk. Her gaze was distant and profound, her voice low and powerful. “This is the very reason our project was established! We can absolutely open up a new research direction on this very topic and make a breakthrough!”
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