The next day-

Kate's parlor-

"You say you want to teach?" Kate warily asked, looking at the three beautiful monster clones.

"Yes. We can teach your slaves some skills and knowledge that would improve their value." Asher smiled and said.

"We can teach some practical things and knowledge, but we can help teach some special skills if you give us a few days," Sonia said after some thought.

"And we will do it free of charge," Nidawei added.

Nettie silently looked at the trio, and Kate's lips twitched.

"You want to upgrade the Teaching skill, don't you?" Kate guessed.

"Busted." Sonia shrugged.

"It was pretty obvious to begin with." Nidawei smiled without a care.

"Well? Do you want it or not?" Asher asked.

"I only stand to benefit, so I don't see why not. Just don't teach them combat skills and turn them into an armed force..." Kate sighed, feeling resigned.

The last thing she wanted was for slaves to get the bright idea of rebelling.

"Don't worry, we won't." Nidawei smiled.

"But we can train some of your guards in combat. That way, their odds of dying to bandits would be reduced." Sonia added.

"... Might I ask how high your skills are right now?" Kate testily asked.

"We currently have 4 lvl 10,000 True Limit skills, and we expect that we can obtain ten more within the month." Asher mused and said.

"How am I not even surprised anymore?" Kate facepalmed.

The dog-eared butler, on the other hand, had a dazed look, trying to calculate how strong the trio was.

"Actually, we wanted to take you as our student. That way, we can at least protect you and give you the tools to protect yourself." Asher added.

Once Asher mentioned that, Kate's expression turned serious.

"Protect me?" She warily asked.

"Yes. A newspaper said that the succession war is intensifying. We are worried that your siblings will make attempts on your life." Asher said.

The silver-haired half-elf fell silent. She didn't want to admit it, but some of her unscrupulous siblings might murder her in cold blood. Perhaps the only reason no one has done so far is that she was considered a weak waste. After all, she couldn't level up, and she wasn't a monster like the trio.

Besides, if they really had lvl 10,000 skills...

"Then they are the best teachers in the whole world!" Kate's eyes suddenly lit up.

For a long time, she barely muddled through, with only a handful of skills at over lvl 300 after 20-odd years of living. Even her Comprehension only rose to about 100, thanks to meditation and reading books. By the time she got old and weak, she truly wondered if she could even have a single lvl 10,000 skill!

Her long-lost hopes suddenly reignited. She saw the possibility of becoming a powerhouse!

"Then please take me as your student, teacher!"

"Good. We will start by working on your Meditation Skill and improving your Comprehension to something we can actually work with. Anything below 1,000 is unacceptable." Sonia tutted.

"I somehow feel like an idiot now?" Kate warily thought.

"But how are you going to teach me to meditate? That's not something you can forcefully teach..." Kate asked.

"We have our ways. But you need to trust us. Do you trust us?" Asher smiled and asked.

"I... I choose to trust you." Kate hesitantly nodded.

"Good enough. Nidawei." Asher turned to Nidawei and spoke.

"Miss Kate, I will teach you," Nidawei stood up and approached Kate.

"Here?!" Kate widened her eyes in shock.

"It is merely meditation. You can do it anywhere, really." Nidawei relaxedly said and sat next to Kate. "I will touch your forehead and help you enter a state of deep meditation, which should help you level up your skill faster."

"Okay..." Kate nervously nodded and allowed Nidawei to do so.

Kate felt the cool and smooth touch of Nidawei's hand.

"Focus on my voice. Let go of all unrelated thoughts. Let your mind and body relax and become blank slates..."

As Nidawei spoke, Kate felt an almost-hypnotic influence entering her mind. She couldn't help but follow Nidawei's guidance, entering the meditative state she was so familiar with.

Kate herself was a Grandmaster of Meditation, yet she never felt herself enter such deep meditation before. She then felt her connection to the world deepen, sensing the elements with unprecedented clarity.

"Good. Feel the Aether around you. Carress it like satin silk, touch it and see it flow, let it flow to your rhythm." The voice sounded more echoed and hypnotic.

Like a marionette, she moved as she was instructed, and silent prompts flashed in her mind, but she couldn't focus on them.

Time flashed in a blur, until finally-

"Now, slowly, wake up." A gentle but commanding voice sounded.

Kate slowly opened her eyes, only to see Asher and Sonia quietly sipping tea, while Nidawei retracted her hand. Nettie, her loyal butler, also breathed a sigh of relief.

"... How long was I meditating?" Kate warily asked.

"Exactly 3,600 seconds, or 1 hour." Nidawei lightly said.

"Hah..." Kate uttered before subconsciously checking her status.

And then it hit her.

"I... unbelievable... My Meditation Skill went up by 25 levels, and Magic Manipulation by 20..." Kate muttered in shock.

In just one hour, she accomplished what would normally take her months to achieve on her own.

"Tsk... Too bad my skill is low. If it were at the limit, you could reach over lvl 1,000..." Nidawei clicked her tongue in disappointment.

"But hey, you still reached lvl 30 in that attempt. That's something." Sonia comforted.

"We just need to repeat this a few hundred times. We can finish grinding it within a few days if we simultaneously teach many people." Asher mused.

Kate and Nettie went silent, their minds buzzing. If anyone else said this, they would think it was a child speaking nonsense or some delusional madman. But when the trio said this, they knew they were serious!

This was akin to saying they had the confidence of mass-producing powerhouses! What insanity was this?!

"The Steam God must be going crazy..." Kate thought.

Just as she was thinking this, the trio suddenly turned their heads, looking at her sharply like three predators who found their prey.

"W-What is it?" Kate warily asked.

"Miss Kate, please organize all your slaves, servants, and guards. We will teach them all, starting now." Asher meaningfully smiled.

"Anyone who participates gets 1 pound. This is charity! Charity~!" Sonia playfully smiled.

"So be a good little student and do this for your teachers, okay?" Nidawei narrowed her eyes into slits, like a cunning fox.

"This is madness, madness I say!" Kate felt that all the common sense she had was as worthless as flushed toilet paper.

However, she still complied.

She took all 100-odd slaves she had, along with all available staff and servants, including even Nettie, and had them sit cross-legged while over a hundred clones placed their hands on them and taught them how to meditate and manipulate magic.

Three hours later-

"By the Steam God, I have two extra level 100 skills?!"

"What is this sorcery?!"

"I am hallucinating, right?!"

Many such exclamations sounded in disbelief.

Meanwhile, the real trio counted their gains in their room.

"I now have lvl 4,000 Teaching." Asher grinned while petting a purring black fox.

If one looked closely, one would also see that she grew two additional tails, but her size remained the same.

"That's because you are teaching Honami. Nidawei and I are around 3,000." Sonia pursed her lips.

"Speaking of which, this lewd pup is still comatose, and some of her skills are already at lvl 1,000. She is even more of a cheat than we are." Nidawei said with an amused look.

"That's only because we are overpowered," Asher said, poking Honami for amusement.

"So, continue the grind?" Sonia asked with a grin.

"Of course!" Asher and Nidawei said with wide eyes.

What happened next was that the trio switched to gym exercises. They made people run laps wearing weights while acting as drill sergeants, and even upgraded their leadership skills, grinding the three fitness skills to lvl 100.

But then the trio encountered a problem- the people were tired! They lacked the discipline that they had and couldn't be taught anymore for the day.

Just when they were wondering who to teach next, Kate approached them with a wary look.

"The townsfolk learned that you are offering to teach and even give out 1 pound, and want you to teach them."

As a result, many children, the elderly, and people without work for the day arrived and were also taught by the clone army. By the end of the day, many people in town suddenly had 5 extra skills worth 11 levels and even 10 precious Comprehension stats!

This even alerted Mayor Irl, who made a formal request.

"Can you please also teach everyone some fighting skills? It would greatly improve our town's defenses... Oh, and no need to pay. I really can't thank you enough for this."

As a result, they also gave basic self-defense lessons and even shooting lessons to some. (Except the slaves, of course).

By evening, the trio already maxed their Teaching skill.

"Well, this was a bountiful day. 2,000 extra Comprehension from teaching alone." Asher relaxedly said.

"And we even helped the community while we were at it. We are such good people." Sonia warmly smiled.

"With the extra Comprehension, we can maintain 20 extra clones and study faster." Nidawei mused.

"Hm. Let's quickly grind the skills we know, and then proceed to the Clone Settlement plan." Asher narrowed his eyes.

The other two women grinned.

"Finally. We can start building our own sandbox." Sonia said.

"We can freely fish, farm, build, cut wood, grow trees, use magic freely... Oh, our lewd pet is waking up." Nidawei suddenly exclaimed.

The trio looked at Asher's lap, where a now-five-tailed black fox twitched before languidly opening its eyes.

"Yawn... what a good dream..." Honami yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes with her tiny paws.

And then, she froze, realizing something.

She warily lowered her paws and saw two immortal beauties looking at her, and the handsome immortal with supremely delicious Yang smiling above her.

"Ah... he is so dreamy... I feel like a young and naive girl again... Not good, the dual cultivation affected my mind..." She felt herself blushing like a little girl.

"Good morning, Honami. Or should I say, good evening? You were out for the whole day, after all." Asher said.

"The whole day? I cultivated on the Spirit Transformation Immortal's lap for an entire day?!"

Startled, Honami checked her status and was shocked beyond words. All her Basic Stats were now over 1,000! Her Comprehension also reached over 3,000! It was insanity!

"Oh my goodness, what is this?! Did I return to the Gold Core Realm in a single sitting?! As expected from a Spirit Transformation Immortal! Even chickens and dogs can ascend with him to immortality!"

Honami felt her respect for the trio reach the clouds. Who was ever this nice to her?

But then, Honami got depressed.

"How am I supposed to thank them now? If I don't, it would be a karmic debt and a knot in my dao heart, forming a heart devil..."

In her world, Karma was a real and powerful thing, and karmic debt had negative consequences on breakthroughs. In this case, the trio saved her from a fate worse than death and restored her cultivation(Even if limited due to the lack of Qi). This sort of debt was incalculable. In her world, very few ways existed to repay such a heavy debt. The most orthodox method for both righteous and demonic sects was to accept them as masters who are like their second parents. However, the trio refused to take her as a disciple!

"I can't save their life, and I doubt they are interested in material goods I could offer... Then there is only that way left..."

When she thought about it, Honami blushed and even felt a hint of excitement. She never thought she, a proud Golden Core cultivator with countless suitors, would lower herself to that, but a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator who did such a favor for her was more than worthy.

Without hesitation, Honami lightly jumped from Asher's lap and transformed with a puff of pink smoke into a curvaceous, young, and scantily dressed beauty with black hair, golden eyes with vertical pupils, fox ears, and five fluffy fox tails.

With her delicate bare feet, the seductive woman reverently kowtowed.

"Please, immortal. Show mercy on Honami and take her as a Demon Cocubine."

The trio couldn't help but raise an eyebrow and strangely look at one another.

"Boss, did she just propose to you?" Sonia strangely asked.

"She said concubine, so she probably meant an unofficial wife?" Nidawei frowned in thought.

"Could you explain what that means?" Asher asked the kowtowing woman.

"Reporting to the immortal. A Demon Concubine is an exclusive servant, sex slave, and a cultivation cauldron used by a stronger demonic cultivator, and is beneath the orthodox Dao companions, in exchange for cultivation resources, techniques, and protection. You may freely use me, order me to sleep with others, or fight for you." As she said that, Honami's seductive voice shook with shame, but her five tails almost wagged at the thought of who she would serve.

To her, this arrangement seemed even better than being a disciple!

Asher remained silent for a moment and then looked at the other two. "What do you think?"

Asher wouldn't casually accept a concubine like this, especially now that they would be all trapped in this game world for years to come.

"Hm... Eh, why not? Her skill is useful for increasing Skill Learning Speed, and she can share gains." Sonia thought in a utilitarian perspective.

"We are not losing anything, and having sex with a lewd fox girl sounds hot." Nidawei smiled, winking at Asher.

"Okay, majority vote passed. We accept you." Asher smiled.

"Thank you, master!" Honami raised her head, beaming with joy.

And then she spoke in a somewhat sultry voice.

"How many Honami serve you, master~?"

"Go fetch us some tea." Nidawei suddenly said.

Honami's five tails froze, twitching slightly, but her expression didn't change.

"Of course, mistress. Please excuse Honami."

The fox woman left the room with deliberately swaying hips, and only after the door closed, Sonia snickered.

"You sadist." Sonia amusedly said.

"She said it herself, she is a sex slave. She needs to learn the pecking order of who are the top bitches, and who are the bottom bitches." Nidawei calmly said. And then, she narrowed her eyes. "And I smell a humiliation masochist on her. It would be fun to degrade her."

"Do as you see fit, just don't push her too far." Asher shook his head.

"Naturally. I know JUST the right amount before they break." Nidawei said with a playful smile.

"Hoh boy... she went into S mode..." Sonia facepalmed.