Chapter 14: Black Jade Princess (3)
I can see in her eyes that a future develops in which she stands over the lifeless bodies of those that inconvenienced her or perhaps I should say wronged her. Even if I try to force myself to think like a transient biological organism with emotions, I still cannot see why she would wish to die instead of live.L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on Ñøv€l--B1n.
She is young and attractive, and compared to my meager lifespan of only eight years, she has a long future ahead of her. Even when I was a heartless machine yes, I acknowledge that my sentient core has a heart in this incarnation I am sure I faced failures and challenges many times.
But my entire strategy for getting her to accept this arrangement is based on the knowledge that this creature has a fickle nature. If she truly desired for termination, she wouldve carried it out herself.
But that moment passes, and her eyes become clouded with tears. Now, she pushes me away from herself and then lays me on her lap perhaps because she realizes I am not just an ornamental pretty thing, but rather an intelligent conversationalist.
It is not possible, she says. My cultivation is in the Qi Condensation realm. Yu Shun is already in the Golden Core realm.
It takes an extreme amount of effort for me to continue using [Telepathy], so I wish to spare myself from overusing it on defeating her pointless rhetoric.
I touch the Dimensional Storage array with my sentience, and I deposit most of the contents of my internal storage right in front of her. The Qi cultivation manual, pills and herbs all appear before her. I keep the sword, Auspicious Farming Method manual and the remains of the cultivator in my storage, however.
Her eyes light up when she sees the herbs and pills.
Yin-Yang Grass she mutters. These pills
She reaches for the manual and touches it with her slender finger. I dont notice any difference, but her eyes widen. This manual incredible. It is a Heaven-grade cultivation manual for the Qi Condensation, Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment realm. Even the manual I practiced was only of the Sky grade.
Will this help you recover your cultivation?
Her breath escapes from her lungs, and she almost laughs at the question. With these items yes, I think so.
They are now your property.
Will this hurt? she asks.
I dont know. Yes, I tell her. Better safe than sorry.
She tries her best to conceal her smile and slight blush, but nothing can escape my perception. I cannot comprehend this reaction. Is she a deviant of some kind? Or maybe she thinks she is entering an intimate relationship with me an object? Well, perhaps I can somewhat see the latter.
She nods, finally, and then swallows my Essence.
Immediately, she screams, and then sinks to the side, and vomits blood.
Over the course of the next dozen minutes, I can feel my Essence inside her complete a full revolution around her body, before being completely absorbed. I had to endure that ten times, and a lot more than a single drop.
But this Essence I gave is from my completed breakthrough. It carried with it the depth of my Grand Dao and the full force of my cultivation. I share with her not only my body, but my soul and mind as well.
Through the blood on the tip of my blade, I feel her Qi also finding natural pathways through me, connecting to my sentience and soul core.
We are one.
She gains access to all my functions, and I gain intuition into her state. It feels like she is something like an extension of myself, but not quite.
It is enough, however, for me to discern that her Physique is changing. After absorbing the Essence filled with my Dao, I can understand why that would be the case. This is not merely a verbal contract, but also a commitment to go down the path of demonic cultivation.
I can feel her body changing, breaking and reforging itself stronger than before. I did not feel like she had a powerful physique before, but now I can tell with ease.
[ Physique: Black Jade Princess ]