Ahem, actually, I'm pure, and this is a pure chapter.
*********** Three more days of tedious, monotonous training dragged on.
Yang Kai had actually finished his tempering two days ago. Half of the heavenly and earthly power had been used to temper his flesh, tendons, and bones, making his body strong enough to withstand the yuan qi impact of his current realm. The other half had been absorbed by his Proud Bone Golden Body, much the same as last time.
But Su Yan was still refining the Nine Yin Essence Condensation Dew, and Yang Kai didn't dare move. He could only endure the desire burning inside him and maintain this uncomfortable position.
Three days later, with a slight flutter of her lashes, Su Yan opened her eyes. Joy and elation sparkled in them.
Yang Kai's spirits surged, and his breathing grew a little heavier.
He had been starved for days, waiting for this moment until his heart was worn ragged.
Their eyes met. Su Yan said, "Thank you!"
The moment she opened her eyes, she knew her body had undergone an earth-shaking transformation. Refining the Nine Yin Essence Condensation Dew had not only compensated for what she'd lost helping Yang Kai but had also significantly purified the true yuan within her. Combined with the fruits of their dual cultivation, though her realm hadn't changed, her real strength had increased by at least thirty percent. True yuan circulated ceaselessly through every limb and bone without any deliberate effort. Every cell in her body was bathed in that true yuan, brimming with vitality it had never known before.
A holy radiance shrouded her face, making her look like a fairy descended from the ninth heaven.
This dual cultivation and the refinement of the Nine Yin Essence Condensation Dew had completely erased the subtle marks that twenty years had left on her. Every inch of her skin had become like that of a newborn—snow-white, crystalline, and delicate as jade.
"Between you and me, do we still need to say thank you?" Yang Kai was a little dazed. The Su Yan of before had given him a feeling of cold nobility, but the Su Yan now made him instinctively feel a pang of self-consciousness, a feeling that wouldn't fade just because they were close.
Su Yan smiled knowingly. This kind of wordless understanding felt wonderfully warm. Between them, it seemed that no words were needed to know what the other was thinking.
"By the way, you just broke through to the Qi Movement Realm. This realm is quite special…" Su Yan straightened her expression.
Before she could finish, Yang Kai cut in with an odd look on his face. "Do you think it's a bit… inappropriate for us to discuss the Qi Movement Realm while we're like this?"
Su Yan blinked. Then her face flushed crimson.
Yang Kai smiled at her gently, and his waist, stiff for days, moved almost on instinct. Su Yan immediately let out an intoxicating, muffled moan.
In that instant, she felt as though she'd been flung to the clouds, and before she could steady herself, she plummeted into a bottomless abyss. This never-before-experienced rollercoaster of sensation—a pleasure so intense it made her soul dissolve—was beyond her ability to control.
A young man and woman who had never known such intimacy. Their bodies were already exquisitely sensitive; even the slightest movement sent overwhelming waves of stimulation through them both.
Her cries of anguish ignited his feral side, and Yang Kai's movements grew bolder. His large hands roamed and kneaded the fullness of her chest as he buried his face deeper between her heaving peaks. Heavy breathing filled the air as he kissed Su Yan's skin with equal parts tenderness and ferocity.
Su Yan's long hair cascaded free, falling past her perky backside. She clutched Yang Kai's head with both hands, pressing it against her chest. Her long, shapely legs wrapped around his waist, twisting and rocking in a clumsy, unconscious rhythm that matched the unbearable pleasure flooding through her.
A long while passed before Su Yan suddenly grabbed a fistful of Yang Kai's hair in panic, her voice strained. "W-Wait… wait…"
"What's wrong?" Yang Kai looked up at her, his fierce movements gradually slowing.
Su Yan could barely speak. She panted for a long time before her breathing steadied. Her entire body was flushed red, her eyes shimmering with desire. She bit her lip softly and asked with a hint of curiosity, "Was I… just screaming?"
"No!" Yang Kai shook his head immediately, his expression dead serious.
"Really?" Su Yan pressed, unconvinced. In her earlier state, her mind had been too muddled to know whether she'd made any noise.
"Really!" Yang Kai looked at her with absolute sincerity.
"You're lying!" Su Yan caught the glint of mischief and satisfaction in his eyes and was about to pout when another movement from Yang Kai sent her thoughts scattering again.
Yang Kai wrapped his arms around Su Su and lifted her, then turned her so her back was facing him.
He'd meant to spare her from that uncomfortable position, but when he saw her back, his expression turned wild with excitement and his eyes blazed red.
The night in Su Yan's little pavilion—though he'd glimpsed her back through the haze—she'd been wearing her underclothes and the light had been too dim to see clearly.
But this time, with her so close, not a single inch of Su Yan's skin could escape his gaze.
It was a back so exquisite it seemed crafted by heaven itself!
Soft, flowing curves traced from her slender shoulders downward, dipping dramatically inward at the waist and then swelling into a heart-stopping fullness at her hips. The transition between the two was so natural it could drive any man who beheld it to madness.
But that wasn't all. At this very moment, across the pale, flawless skin of Su Yan's back—shivering and flushing with color—a lifelike ice phoenix glided ceaselessly. It paused now on her shoulder, now on the round swell of her backside, as though it were alive.
It was the ice phoenix that had disappeared before!
With a faint sense, Yang Kai felt his own back grow warm.
They were still there! They had simply transformed into these peculiar tattoos.
After only a brief pause, Yang Kai began to move again.
The landscape below had become a sodden, glistening mess. The damp, humid scent of passion filled the hall as the sounds of bodies joining merged with Su Yan's soft, breathless moans into a symphony that stirred the deepest fantasies.
They gave freely and took freely, like fish in water, two bodies becoming one…
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