All of Chen Wentian’s disciples were on their second challenge except for one. Su Yue was still struggling on her first one although today was expected to be the last day. It had been a long and difficult time and she wasn’t sure if she would be able to succeed. Although Lin Qingcheng was with her, she could not help much not that she didn’t want to.
Su Yue’s challenge in the river district involved helping a famous but struggling fancy restaurant that catered to the rich and powerful of the metropolis. It was called The King’s Laundry. Its reputation within the city was as immovable as a Spirit King for over a hundred years. But in recent years, it had fallen into steady decline for various reasons that were unclear.
The task for the rankers was to help the restaurant recover a bit of its reputation as well as business. This sounded simple enough but the problem was that the scoring was completely subjective and up to the whims of the immortal chef-owner of the restaurant. It was the final day for Su Yue but she had no idea if she had done enough.
“Welcome, illustrious immortal!” Su Yue bowed to a guest that had just been seated in a private room, “Welcome to The King’s Laundry! Here is this season’s menu.”
She carefully laid down a jade plaque in front of the immortal whose name she did not know. If it was the regular waitstaff, they would have but she had only been working here for six days. She was responsible for waiting on guests today although she dearly wished she could have had kitchen duty instead. She enjoyed cooking much more than putting on a fake smile for others.
She stepped back, trying to not look awkward, and fiddled with the strange and intricate uniform that was required of her and other female staff. It made her look like a peacock and her chest was uncomfortable from the outfit pushing her breasts together for maximum cleavage.
The nondescript male Spirit Lord glanced at the menu only once before staring at Su Yue and her assets that were on display.
“Beauty, I haven’t seen you around here before. Are you new?” He asked with a warm smile but a cold and penetrating gaze.
Su Yue immediately knew what was up. She had experienced many bad customers like this in the past few days. She avoided his uncomfortable gaze and began to recite the menu.
“Sir Immortal, for this season’s menu, we have Hong River Salmon with Flame Beets, Pearl Rice, and Royal Horseradish in a Cream Sauce… Sweet Butter-Poached West Sea Lobster with Globe Artichoke, Mokum Carrots, Ice Pearl Onions, Maiden Parsley, and a Red Reaper Reduction… Herb-Roasted Elysian Lamb Rib-Eye with Infusion of Spiritual Wine, Jade Bean Purée, Jingle Bell Peppers, Arugula and Lamb Sauce…”
The immortal burst out laughing, “You’re cute. Don’t be shy. You may not know me but I am Immortal Flare Osprey Chu Fengwei. Perhaps you have heard of me?”
Su Yue’s feet didn’t move but she found herself being pulled closer to the table by the man’s spiritual force. His eyes continue to rove over her body, making goosebumps rise on her skin.
“Don’t be scared.” The man said, “I don’t bite, not unless you ask me to.”
He winked at her and she shuddered. She didn’t know what to say or what to do. This was a customer as well as an immortal. She shut her eyes and wished her master could come and save her.
“Come now…” He frowned and read her name tag, “Su Yue… What a beautiful name for a beautiful woman. Come here, come closer.”
He reached out and grabbed her hand, rubbing his thumb and enjoying the feeling, “Beauty, I like you. If you serve me well, I will reward you with everything you desire and more.”
Su Yue was now completely creeped out. Previous bad customers that had tried this were all at the Spirit Initiate realm and she managed to block their advances. Why did her luck have to be so bad to get a pervert immortal on her last day?
She didn’t know what to do. She tried to pull her hand back but it was locked firmly in the man’s grasp. She wanted to scream and call for help but that would cause even more problems. His eyes were becoming more and more obscene. Her senses were screaming at her, this was an incredibly dangerous situation.
Interpreting her inaction as something completely different, Chu Fengwei tugged her hand, bringing her even closer. She was now right next to his seat and he could smell her sweet fragrance.
“Beauty, don’t be shy.” He repeated, “I’m a gentleman…”
She turned her head, refusing to look at him. She hoped that he would suddenly lose interest in her but that was impossible. An immortal like him was not used to women saying no to him. He wouldn’t be denied once he set his sights upon someone. He was the lord and people beneath him were simple mortals.
He finally had enough of acting nice and moved in. His hand left hers and aimed to wrap around her narrow hips. A discrete push of spiritual force on the back of her knees made her unbalanced and fall forward towards him.
Chu Fengwei smiled wide in perverted satisfaction, eagerly awaiting the beautiful woman who was about to fall into his arms.
Ssssiinng!
A power surge of icy spiritual energy shot out from nowhere.
It came directly in between the Spirit Lord and the helpless Su Yue. The man’s dirty hands were knocked away and she was pushed back onto her feet and backward several meters until she was by the doorway.
Su Yue gave one hateful look towards him before rushing out and disappearing down the hallway.
Chu Fengwei was left empty-handed and spooked. He opened and closed his left hand in confusion. The foreign spiritual energy had come and gone so quickly he couldn’t quite believe it. There was no immortal nearby, he was sure of it, so he could not figure out how Su Yue had managed to escape. There was no chance of getting her back now so he could only call for another waiter.
Su Yue rushed through the restaurant and up the stairs to where the dormitory was. She burst through the door without looking.
"Chengcheng, help..."
Lin Qingcheng had her back turned to her, sitting on a stool. Her skirt was hiked up to her waist and she was flushed and sweaty.
“Sister Yue’er!” Lin Qingcheng screamed in panic.
She jumped up, pulling down her skirt and hiding whatever she had been doing from view. It should have been a titillating situation and she was incredibly embarrassed. She tried for a few moments to come up with an excuse before she noticed that Su Yue was completely distracted with tears in her eyes.
“Sister Yue’er, what’s wrong.” Lin Qingcheng cried out and rushed forward. “What happened? Are you okay?”
“Chengcheng, wuuuuw…” Su Yue buried her head into her sister’s chest as the previous crisis overwhelmed her.
Lin Qingcheng was completely baffled but being a good senior sister, she pulled Su Yue to the bed and let her cry until she calmed down. Eventually, Su Yue gathered enough wits about her to describe what had just happened.
“That asshole!” Lin Qingcheng shouted, leaping up in fury, “I will call master right now to teach him a lesson!”
“No!” Su Yue cried and pulled her down, “Wait… can we talk about it? Do you think I should have known what was happening and tried to resist earlier? I’m incompetent… I’m a bad disciple!”
“What? No!” Lin Qingcheng said and hugged her, “It’s that immortal’s fault!”
“But… I’m scared… What if master blames me for being useless?”
“Absolutely not!” A voice said emphatically, but it did not belong to either woman.
“Eh!”
“Master!”
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the truth is there are too many main characters (which I especially like in a harem) and the personal growth of each one is too slow or not significant (or the attention is too divided to notice any significant change, although there are several characters like qianyu, ziyun, li yuechan and the pearl of the continent with that power of virginity whose personality and attitude towards cultivation is fine, all the others are too weak and tender in the mental state without feeling of crisis, without more ruthless thoughts and caution with all that are not trustworthy etc ... there are many more and although this story has almost 300 chapters I feel that the story is just opening and although I am satisfied with the story so far, I would like an increase in the speed of development, more battles bloody, not only with monsters but also with other sects and immortals, more emotion than the NSFW scenes (which are my favorites XD) increase in the cultivation speed, more collection of treasures as well as immortal techniques, as well as some shocking event like what I think will happen when chen wentian comes out of the womb and lacks a disciple, those exciting and dramatic things that give suspense to the history and make one anxious to know what the outcome of the situation is) to suddenly change all that naivety as rookie stupidity into a cruel and brutal world of cultivation and I look forward to the day they become beautiful Valkyries female warriors conquering any battlefield in the name of chen wentian.
I hope that my erratic thinking and the long comment do not bother anyone and I look forward to more chapters of this novel.
thanks to the author for his efforts and for allowing us to have a wonderful read
100% agree with your thinking, cz that what I'm thinking too!!
There's too much land that they didn't explore yet! And there's too much naivety there! What I want is cz MC take them as disciple then he must train them to challenge reality! Your a women so you must strong!!
I think that would be nice too, but if they become badass valkyries out of nowhere it would be too forced, mc picked them while they were are all pampered girls with little experience in anything, you can tell they are still naive and some have self esteem problems, and are scared of messing up and being abandoned, this aspect of the story is very realistic as most novels would just use some bs tragic past to justify them being badass. Also, he pampering them makes sense as he wants them to become immortals as early as possible while building trust and dependance on him, so i bet he would send them on missions to explore when they are strong enough to defend themselves, and this chapter shows how far they are from that, sending them now would be the same as leaving them to be abused, he cant be with them all the time, so building a strong foundation like he is doing now will be better in the long run, once they are immortals they will have hundreds of years to gather experience. Imo this realism if one the best aspects of the story, im really tired of novels where they rush and skip details like this and just to focus on making their characters badass wo a realistic emotional development
@AdrionLord Thanks!!
Don't rush or else it will become regular cultivation novel
@godriak I agree. Increasing the pace and reducing the naivete of the women would be awesome. Even the MC as a 26 immortal deals with problem in a immortal perspective way. If he can do it, the 30+ women should be able to do it too especially when they're close to being immortals. Increasing this level of naivete will take a lot of chapters if it's this low. Especially the ice sisters as they were raise since childhood, they should be more mature than this.
Nope, you can see at the first chapters t9hs is po*nnevel
@Godspeed Mc has simply been through a lot more than they have, i personally think developing them slowly is better, cause it simply wouldnt make sense for them to leave their naivety so quickly without struggling like mc has, and you have to remember that the mc is a freak on cultivator standarts so it doesnt make sense for you to compare him to others, much less a group of naive girls who have always been pampered till now. Its being shown how they change as they adquire experience and over time, if you skip that the story would feel rushed and would be just another harem collection story with an op mc and little to no character development