While internally sighing, Zar kept his head lowered in the presence of the Valley Master. However, sometime during her combing of the Rank 3 Ruby Grass, she noticed this and frowned.
"You're always looking down when you're near me," grumbled the Valley Master, pouting slightly. "If I didn't know any better, I'd think you saw me as ugly."
Zar fidgeted. His lips moved, but no words came out.
He really wasn't proficient in dealing with women...
Snorting, Valley Master Yu said, "Here, this is your Low-Grade Spirit Stone for the month. Now shoo, shoo, I have alchemy to attend to."
Graciously accepting the small, glowing blue stone thrown at him, Zar bowed in thanks. Then, he turned around and left back through the winding path.
However, before completely disappearing from view, he could have sworn he heard Valley Master Yu cursing under her breath.
'Women... are scarier than any beast...'
Zar hurriedly vacated the area, leaving even faster than he came. In half the time it took to get to the Valley Master's residence, he made it back to the beginning of the winding path.
Suddenly, he remembered something.
"Senior Sister Hua," Zar said with great difficulty. "She wants something from me; hopefully, it's nothing too excessive..."
There were thousands of Medicine Valleys in the Outer Sect of the Blazing Sun Sect. Usually, a Medicine Valley would have a stronger-than-average Outer Disciple leading it. On rare occasions, an Inner Disciple or Outer Deacon would oversee a Medicine Valley.
Azure Medicine Valley was one of those rare few, as Valley Master Yu was an Outer Deacon.
However, not many Medicine Valleys had more than one such figure. This was where Azure Medicine Valley became even more of an enigma, for there were two other Inner Disciples staying in the Valley. One of them was an indifferent individual—a man—who kept to himself like Zar, immersing himself constantly in the pursuit of the Sword Dao.
Then there was the other...
"Senior Sister Hua, I'm here as requested," Zar called out from the other side of a door to a large, exquisitely designed house. "Do you require my services in somethin—"
*Wham!*
The door to the lavish house was slammed open. Appearing before Zar was a barely dressed woman with sensually exposed breasts that were at least D-cup. There was also a parting where her dress met her legs, revealing smooth, thick thighs that nearly short-circuited Zar's rational thinking.
However, after spending so many years fending for himself in the wilderness of the Great Forest of Jargon, he was not so easily broken by temptations. And with a placid expression, he met the emotionless gaze of the abnormally beautiful woman before him.
She stood a head and a half shorter than him, but her unwaveringly formidable aura of ice made her feel far taller than she was.
[Hua Ling (Core Formation 5th Layer): 22/410/2800]
Prodigy!
Compared to Zar and Meng, Senior Sister Hua was the genuine article genius. Based on her lifespan numbers alone, one could determine her potential to extend beyond the Deity Transformation Realm. Those were basic predictions as well, meaning that if she had certain fortuitous encounters in the future that increased her maximum lifespan, she could very well go beyond even the Void Crossing Realm!
"You've come?" Hua Ling asked, her voice devoid of emotion, making it hard to determine what exactly she was thinking.
"Yes..." 'I'm here, aren't I? What kind of question is that...??'
Senior Sister Hua nodded before abruptly pulling Zar into her home. The door was quickly slammed shut, confusing him even more than when he was first pulled in.
"You," she pointed at Zar. "Come with me," she finished while walking through a doorway, entering another room.
Zar very much wanted to refuse and return to his cultivation, but seeing how that would likely end up going nowhere good for him, he sucked it up and followed her. Upon entering, he found himself in a dark room lit by scattered candles.
In the center of the room was a cushioned table covered with a sheet and a blanket. Beside this table, there were various containers filled with unknown milky liquid substances.
*Fwish…*
Suddenly attracted by the sound of fabric sliding off skin, Zar was rendered speechless when he saw the smooth, perfectly curved back of Hua Ling. His eyes unconsciously traveled further down her body, past her waterfalling black hair and fluffy wolf's tail.
But before his gaze got ahead of him, Zar regained control.
With a twitching smile, he asked, "Senior Sister Hua... What might you be doing right now? Is this not inappropriate for two disciples of the same master to be—"
"Come pour lotion over me," Hua Ling interrupted, seemingly not hearing a single word he was saying.
Refocusing on her, Zar realized that she was now lying belly-first on the table-bed. Her round, plump butt still had ripples spreading through its jiggly surface, urging even more creases to form on Zar's forehead.
'Void... Must void thy mind,' he chanted inside his head while walking over to the table-bed where Hua Ling was quietly lying.
"Senior Sister Hua," he began while in the process of squirting lotion onto his muscular hands. "Are you sure you want this? I'm sure we can arrange for a female masseuse to do this with a snap of a finger—"
Once again interrupting him, Hua Ling said, "No, I want this. And only you're allowed to do it."
"...."