Chen Wentian looked sheepish and slightly embarrassed. He had been so eager to push Jasmine down that he had forgotten about her mother’s spiritual ghost completely. Jasmine, on the other hand, did not seem to mind as much.
“Go away, mother.” She said sleepily.
“Aiya, what a good daughter… You get yourself a man and you don’t want your mother anymore!”
Jasmine frowned, “What did you want me to do? You’re attached to the Tear of Changxi. I can’t simply throw you away. I didn’t think you were such a pervert. I didn’t think you’d be watching.”
“Hmph. At least he is was pretty good. I had to make sure your man was not useless in that regard…” Zhiyue Lingdan said.
Chen Wentian looked back and forth between the two could find anything to say. Divine beasts were certainly peculiar. Their behavior was different from humans. They lacked a certain sense of modesty, or perhaps it was only because he held a different status now.
In beast terms, a mate was the equivalent of marriage for humans. Jasmine readily called him hubby for this reason. He wondered how she would feel about a human marriage. Yet, he would still not be able to make it official with her in near future. If he married anyone in a formal ceremony, the Immortal Association would surely be able to find out. He could not let anyone find out about Jasmine, not yet.
Jasmine had another breakthrough during the night that had been ignored. Her Legacy of Moonlight had improved to the second stage out of nine. Her Lunar Blessing had improved and with that, there were other skills she would be able to learn.
The mother and daughter pair discussed among themselves about the upcoming year and how to train to reach the Spirit King Realm in such a short time. Since they were determined to go down this path, Chen Wentian would not slack off either. He would try his best to keep up. He didn’t want to be left behind. Since he was her mate, he had to match her in strength. He still wanted to be the one on top, at least most of the time…
The night of the full moon, a thrilling and unforgettable night, finally came to an end.
The sect stirred awake to the new day. Servants emerged to do their chores. The disciples also started to perform their morning exercises. Chen Wentian was there to guide them and so was Jasmine.
She tried to act casual and avoided his eyes, pretending as if nothing interesting happened between them last night. He played along and also ignored her. This made her pout and when he wasn’t paying attention, she would sneak more than a few glances in his direction.
The others probably noticed something was amiss. Women were dangerously perceptive creatures, especially involving their man and other women. However, since they were all disciples and one family, it wasn’t a big deal. Most of them thought that Chen Wentian and Jasmine had another one of their arguments. Only Zhou Ziyun had a suspicious smirk on her face that no one else noticed.
After exercises and breakfast, everyone was summoned to the great hall for a meeting.
“Alright! Disciples, I have some announcements.” He said, quieting them down. “The Immortal Association sent a notice. The finale of the Immortal Sect Competition for the Eastern Sanmu Subcontinent will take place one month from now. It will be held at the central region, where the association has their headquarters. It is called the Eastern Sanmu Metropolis, a city that is wholly administered by the association.”
“That sounds like an amazing place! What is it like?” Lin Qingcheng asked.
“Hmmm. It is the largest concentration of human cultivators on the subcontinent. It the center of trade, business, as well as everything related to cultivation. It is said that you can find fortunes beyond your wildest dreams there. At same time, you might just as easily lose everything in a single night. It is an interesting city but it is also filled with dangers. Human greed and wickedness are probably more dangerous than any demon or beast you can face. This is why, Jasmine, you’re not going.”
“Why!” She whined.
“I just told you why. I can’t protect you there…”
“Hmph! Fine… this princess expects a huge gift as compensation.”
Chen Wentian chuckled, understanding that he had been played by the rebellious little fox. After what he did to her last night, it would take much from her to get a rise out of him.
“Don’t worry. I will have many gifts for you, more than you can imagine.” He said.
“… Good, whatever. I expect nothing less!”
Several pairs of eyes followed this exchange in interest. There was definitely going be some gossip later.
“Ahem… anyways,” Chen Wentian continued, “Yingluo, you won’t be able to come either. It’s not a good place for those in the Body Refinement Realm. Even the Mind Focusing Realm is dangerous. To my knowledge, there are at least four Spirit Kings and dozens of Spirit Lords there. The minimum cultivation to not be bullied would be Spirit Initiate Realm.”
“Thus, the final roster shall be Lin Qingcheng, Zhou Ziyun, Wu Qianyu, Li Yuechan, Song Wushuang, Xu Lanyi, Su Xue, Su Yue, and Long Yifei. Understood?”
“Yes, master!”
“We should prepare a few things before we go. It is a good opportunity to buy some things that will help the sect develop in the future. Ziyun, I will need every bit of money for the trip. I will also be preparing some things to sell. I will talk to you in detail after the meeting.”
“Understood.”
He nodded, “Qianyu and Yifei, you both should concentrate on your cultivation for the next month. Your reward in the dream array will be quite useful. You should be in peak condition in order to take advantage of the opportunity.
“Yes, master.”
“Mmm. Yuechan, you and your sisters can practice as normal. Depending on what the rewards end up being for the lower rankings, they may or may not be useful to us. Since we have our own methods to cultivate at a good pace, we may trade them for more useful things or simply for spiritual crystals.”
“We will do as master instructs.”
“Good, the past year has been non-stop battling and filled with action. You all experienced a lot of chaos first hand. This following year, it should be quiet and calm. This year, everyone will focus on cultivation, using the experience of the past year as a foundation for faster growth. Jasmine and I are also included in this. We both will be making concerted efforts to cultivate and will be aiming for Spirit King Realm!”
“Wow!”
“Really?”
He smiled at their surprised and eager faces, “Well, there’s no guarantee but we will certainly try. That is my one-year plan. I will be working hard so I expect all of you to work hard too.”
“Yes, master!”
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Some quick thoughts as we reach the end of the sixth volume: I want to start by saying I actually like the plot I think you wrote it well, and Ofcourse finally seeing jasmine accept him was great. I think however it is a huge problem that it went 40 chapters without a smut scene, (it’s not just me look at the view count) plot is important and I think this novel has a great plot, but what’s enjoyable is the action/slice of life/relationship building+ smut. Volume 6 was just action, and most people aren’t here for 40 chapters of action. You even mention at the end of volume 5 you want to do some side stories because the smut has been lacking, the side story has 2 scene of 5 chapters than we get a 40 chapter gap, it wasn’t enjoyable, looking at viewer numbers it seems quite a few people agreed. Volume 1 and 2 are fantastic because we get that combo above, frequent scenes, relationship building, all while progressing the plot, volume 3 (where we start to see a dip in viewership) moved away from the frequent smut with 25 ish chapters with barely 2 scenes. I also almost dropped at that point on my first time through, however you come back volume 4 and 5 awesomely! You bring back the fun slice of life and relationship building+ smut scenes. Even thought they decreased from early on it felt like a good balance, than we get chapter 6; it was basically just a action cultivation novel for 40 chapters and that isn’t what this novel was before, it’s off putting and I can understand why viewership dropped. I don’t know if you read older comments, but as this story is still going I hope you can move back toward less big action and more master disciple fun. This is where I took a break last time, since I was in the mood for a smut novel and considering volume 6 I was worried after the good jasmine scene it would be 40 chapters until we got another. Anyway this time I’m going to keep reading, hopefully it was just an off volume for me like the third volume and we get more focus on the slice of life relationship smut instead of just action action action.
I understand your sentiment and I share it. I do enjoy writing sexy scenes but I can't write them all the time. I feel that it has to feel natural within the story. I don't want to insert a s*x scene just for the sake of a s*x scene (even though sometimes it may end up feeling like that).
On the other hand, I have read many smut stories. To me, after the initial excitement of the sexy scenario or sexy fantasy wears off, I tend to drop these purely smut novels, usually after 20-30 chapters. What can keep me reading is not more s*x scenes but the characters and the story. I hope that my story can have satisfying plot and likable characters. I hope you can understand.
Appreciate the feedback though. Glad you are enjoying the novel.
@Kirbyisgreen I agree with your sentiment, it is boring if it’s only snu snu scenes. In my opinion I think you’ve done a goodjob of creating an interesting story. I enjoy the mix of snu snu, adventure, Slice of life, charcter growth and action. I guess I saying that I liked the balance you had in the other volumes, you created a good mix of everything mentioned above. The least enjoyable chapters to me were the ones where it’s all action/plot. It’s enjoyable reading the disciples interactions with Chen and each other and seeing there personality grow. It’s not just the actual snu snu part but the interactions and relationship building that comes with it I enjoy, just felt like volume 6 didn’t have as much of that.
Thanks for the chapter!