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"You said you were injured...."

A laugh escaped me as I looked at Dokgo Yeon proudly showing off a cut smaller than a single chi on her finger.

"But it's a wound from a sword. You never know what might happen if it isn't treated."

"That's true."

Dokgo Yeon was right. Sword wounds fester quickly if not treated in time. Even small cuts are no exception. Once steel has drawn blood, proper treatment is non-negotiable.

"Come over here."

I pulled my chair up beside Dokgo Yeon's. Close enough that our knees nearly touched. I lightly dabbed Golden Spear Medicine onto her finger.

"Oh...?"

A faintly disappointed voice. Keeping my expression perfectly composed, I wrapped a bandage around her finger.

"All done. You can unwrap it sometime this evening and throw it away."

"Th-this is it?"

"What else were you expecting?"

Fwoosh. I could have sworn I saw heat rising from the top of Dokgo Yeon's head. She dropped her gaze. I tilted my head slightly, trying to catch her eyes.

"Were you perhaps expecting this?"

"Eep."

I boldly placed her hand on my inner thigh. Her fingertips rested just barely touching—close enough to feel, far enough to hesitate. Dokgo Yeon's lips parted and closed wordlessly as she kept searching my expression.

"I saw your tender heart clearly. You didn't wish to wound your opponent. But must you be the one who suffers injury in return?"

"Ah...."

"As it happens, the Taiji Flower and the Little Princess went out today at the invitation of the Six Phoenixes. Yoo Seol-ra decided to spend the day with Emei Sect."

"Th-then...."

I had deliberately sent them away. Fortunately, all three had followed my request without complaint. I'd promised each of them a deep and passionate session once everything here was settled, but for now, I had to focus entirely on Dokgo Yeon.

"That's right. You and I. Just the two of us."

Late hour of the night. A man and a woman alone inside a spacious house. Nothing to interrupt us.

"You used all your martial power to finish your opponent in a single stroke. Your qi must be depleted. Shall we begin by treating your internal energy first? Or would you prefer to start by treating the Eighteen Yin Torment Severed Meridian?"

"Wh-what's the difference between the two?"

"The difference between a spar and the real thing."

"Th-the real thing...!!"

Dokgo Yeon's pupils darted left and right without finding a place to settle. I clasped her hand firmly.

"I promise. I will do my utmost for you."

"B-but I'm still not mentally prepared...."

Stay calm, Baby Sex Demon. It's not yet your time to rampage. If I pounce on her without a thought right now, the swallow will startle and fly away.

Tap tap.

Swallowing tears of blood, I patted the back of Dokgo Yeon's hand.

"Mental preparation is only natural. Speak to me whenever you are ready."

"...Oh."

Dokgo Yeon's voice turned flustered—somehow deflated, as if she realized she'd made a mistake. I calmly withdrew my hand from hers—

"Physician."

Snatch. I barely managed to suppress the corners of my mouth from curling upward.

"What is it?"

"I-I'm still a little scared to go straight to the real thing. So what I mean is...."

What she meant. I wanted to hear the words that followed. I perked my ears while silently calming the Baby Sex Demon within and waited only for her soft lips—pale as the White Path—to open.

"Would it be all right if you gave me some time to...get accustomed?"

"Miss Yeon, what exactly do you mean?"

I answered her question with a question on purpose. What words would Dokgo Yeon choose to soothe me—me, ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠standing at the very edge where an outraged Baby Sex Demon was about to make me pounce on her as a Lust Demon?

"W-well, it's going to enter inside me, isn't it."

"Indeed."

"So...would it be all right if I practiced with something else first? The Thousand-Hand Guanyin Rod, for example."

"!!"

No. Absolutely not. At this rate, I'd honestly be better off hurling Dokgo Yeon onto the bed this instant and forcing my member into her.

'Damn it! What was that Go Ja-yeong doing instead of giving his daughter proper chastity education?!'

A maiden destined to devote a lifetime to her husband—opening her up with nothing more than an ice treat? The Thousand-Hand Guanyin Rod might be an ice confection modeled after my own shape, and it might be able to substitute for me, but I will never permit her first experience to be with that!

"Ha, haha. Miss Yeon, please calm yourself. Who in this world puts spirit medicine in through that place? You mustn't do such a thing with spirit medicine."

Admittedly, there was one such person at Emei Sect, but she didn't know about that, so it was fine. What I'd thrust into Seo Si was a toy for exchanging friendly intimacy between companions, not spirit medicine.

"Th-then, in that case...."

Gulp. Dokgo Yeon seized my wrist. Her grip was so strong that I had no choice but to follow her lead.

"May I...see the real thing directly?"

The Baby Sex Demon in heat nodded vigorously several times. But I closed my eyes briefly, then opened them again and gave a weighty nod. I hitched my hips forward until I was perched on the edge of the chair.

"As much as you like."

"Yes. ...Hoo, hoo."

Dokgo Yeon knelt demurely in front of me, between my spread legs. It was an act that Sagong Hee and Lee Si-a had each demonstrated to her once. Dokgo Yeon, who could be called a super-genius, had watched them just a single time and was now faithfully imitating both of their movements.

Slip.

Dokgo Yeon's hands pulled at the waistline of my trousers. Unable to look me properly in the eye, overwhelmed by the sense of transgression that came with tugging a man's pants downward, she kept her gaze averted.

"Haah, haah."

Erection. Her eyes were fixed on the bulging shape inside my trousers. I placed my hands behind the chair and left everything to Dokgo Yeon.

"How about it? This is what will be entering your body."

"Ngh.... E-even so. No matter how big it is—"

Lust Demonnnnn. The Baby Sex Demon burst free from my trousers and reared up high above Dokgo Yeon's head. The member, bisecting her face straight down the middle, cast a shadow over Dokgo Yeon's features.

"...It's big. Ugh, nghh...."

With a sound like she was sick, Dokgo Yeon grasped my member with her hand. The thought that the very hand she'd swung a ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠sword with until this morning was now clutching my manhood sent a thrill of transgression surging through me.

'This is the sword truly suited to the greatest swordmaster under heaven.'

The sword most fitting for Dokgo Yeon. The sword meant for a Celestial Maiden—it was this. Like a martial artist who has encountered the treasured blade destined to accompany them for life, Dokgo Yeon could not tear her eyes away from the sword she now held.

"This is what Hee and Si-a were so...haah. I think I understand why they like it so much. Sniff."

Sagong Hee. Lee Si-a. Yoo Seol-ra. And the sword that had crossed blades with countless women—Dokgo Yeon was utterly captivated by it. She began interlacing both hands as if cradling a precious treasure, and with slender fingers she meticulously began exploring my manhood.

"It's exactly...the same as the Thousand-Hand Guanyin Rod."

The sensation of ten ants crawling at once made the Baby Sex Demon shudder. Dokgo Yeon gauged the length with her hands, measured the girth, traced the shape of the veins with her fingertips, and began touching to her heart's content the manhood that would soon enter her.

'Endure it.'

I bit my lip hard and endured the torment. I wanted to seize her head and ram medicine energy straight down her oral cavity right this instant, but to face the Dugu Nine Swords, I needed patience.

"You're doing well."

"Heheh...."

I reached out one hand and stroked Dokgo Yeon's head. Dokgo Yeon grinned broadly at the praise, then hardened her expression again.

"Th-this isn't doing well, though. It's the big sisters who do it well...."

"It's the fruit of their effort. But what makes you think you know what doing well even means?"

"...Damn. I know that much at least, you know."

Dokgo Yeon pushed her lips out in a pout and straightened her back. Placing her lips right before the tip of the member she had lifted slightly with both hands, she began to whisper.

"The spirit medicine comes out from here, doesn't it. White and sticky, different from a person's urine. Did you think I didn't know even that much?"

"......."

Blink blink. Dokgo Yeon's words upended my common sense, leaving me utterly speechless. My mind blank, I swept my eyes over the bookshelves filling the study inside the room.

'No health-education books, I see.'

Did she truly not know? Or did she know and was simply playing along for my sake? Either way, I praised the sight of Dokgo Yeon smiling up at me with her lips and nose pressed right against my flesh.

"You are a clever one. Indeed. That..."

Oddly, mischief began bubbling up inside me. How far did Dokgo Yeon's ignorance truly extend? I grew curious how much this prospective Celestial Maiden actually understood of earthly matters.

"They say good medicine is bitter in the mouth, don't they? Try it once, the way you practiced with the Thousand-Hand Guanyin Rod."

"Th-then pardon my intrusion."

Dokgo Yeon swept the white hair that had fallen forward behind her ears and, closing her eyes, took my member directly into her mouth.

"...Huh."

Nibble nibble. Dokgo Yeon, who had placed only her lips onto the crown of the glans, kept sweeping her tongue upward from below, stimulating me.

She'd taken barely a tenth of my full manhood into her mouth, but the motion of her tongue sweeping across the urethral opening—was it deliberate?—nearly made me clamp my hands onto Dokgo Yeon's head and apply force without realizing it.

"Mm...Shia unnie definitely...."

Dokgo Yeon wrapped her hand gently around the middle of my manhood. Using both hands like a support stand, she coated her tongue thickly with saliva and then, gazing up at me, began lowering her head downward.

'Heavenly Demon's Nine Acupoints!'

A simple seduction art: in until her lips touched the ring of her fingers, then out again, over and over.

"Haaum, slurp. Haah, it's really big.... To receive the spirit medicine from here, I'll have to work much harder, won't I?"

But in between, she added variation—twisting her head left and right or moving her tongue differently to stimulate me. I stroked Dokgo Yeon's head, whose tongue-coiling technique rivaled Lee Si-a's, and calmed her for a moment.

"Receive the spirit medicine?"

"Yes. The big sisters told me. If you keep stimulating the Physician's bee needle...the spirit medicine will flow out from inside. Like this."

Lick.

Dokgo Yeon lightly swept the tip of her tongue across the droplet of clear fluid that had seeped from the tip of my manhood.

"Haaah...slurp, haah."

Dokgo Yeon swallowed the clear fluid like honey and, smacking her lips, savored the heat of my manhood.

"I'll begin. Physician, if it hurts in the middle, please tell me."

'It hurts enough to burst right now.'

And here she's copying the Heavenly Demon's Nine Acupoints?

'I'm screwed.'

Lee Si-a's specialty is speed. Dokgo Yeon, who'd learned Lee Si-a's Heavenly Demon's Nine Acupoints by sight, possessed the talent to move just as fast as Lee Si-a.

Schlp schlp schlp schlp!!

"Hrngh...!!"

White hair rippled as it moved back and forth. Dokgo Yeon moving her own head front to back was faster than if I'd deliberately thrust my own hips.

Smack smack.

Mouth

And then, Dokgo Yeon's hands coiled around my manhood up and down, as if tracing the Taiji itself. The sensation of her tongue spreading wide sent chills down my spine. Her already-warm mouth enveloped me snugly like a cradle.

'This is Sagong Hee's—'

Shhhhwoooooooorp.

"Huurk!!"

Half my manhood blazed hot as if on fire. Her cheeks hollowed, Dokgo Yeon closed her eyes, steadied her breathing through her nose several times, and then, keeping her head perfectly still, slowly pushed and pulled only her tongue, intensively coiling around the underside of my manhood.

On top of the Heavenly Demon's Nine Acupoints, she was perfectly mimicking even Sagong Hee's courtesan-style oral sex technique. Dokgo Yeon was terrifying. The unexpected combination assault left me unable to endure any longer.

'But if I leave it like this—'

Pah.

Had she reached her limit? Dokgo Yeon exhaled a heavy breath with my manhood still in her mouth. The breath of a Celestial Maiden wrapping around my entire length—I could endure no more.

"Yeon...!"

"......."

At my words, Dokgo Yeon pushed her head forward. She pressed the ring of her fingers tightly against her lips, sealing the outside. I pressed her head lightly with my hand.

"Nnngh!!"

Pshuuuut. The ejaculation came far faster than it ever had before, a sharp, electric pleasure jolting through me. I felt the sense of accomplishment—that I had finally left my mark on Dokgo Yeon's body. Yet at the same time, a cold shiver of defeat ran through me: I had climaxed first, before I could send Dokgo Yeon to her own peak.

"...Haha."

Truly the greatest under heaven. I was sincerely in awe of her skill.

'Is this talent?'

She was far better than Sagong Hee, better even than Lee Si-a. Skill that displayed a talent truly worthy of the greatest under heaven when it came to handling a sword.

'I can't help having lost to a Celestial Maiden.'

The Dugu Nine Swords wielded by a Celestial Maiden is, after all, a cheat.

"Ah...hic, h-hic. Sniffle...!"

"......?"

Suddenly Dokgo Yeon began to weep, tears streaming down her face in sorrow. No matter how bitter the medicine, it wasn't enough to make someone cry.

"Wh-why are you doing this?"

"I...I think my body is already healed. Hic."

Even speaking with her mouth full of the spirit medicine pooled inside, her words didn't break. But the wet splashing sound whenever she spoke drove me mad.

"...Heh."

I rested my member atop Dokgo Yeon's lips, silencing them as she wept copiously, and stroked her head, wearing a benevolent smile.

"Did I not tell you? That I would most certainly heal you."

"Physician, I...."

Gulp. Dokgo Yeon, her mouth full of the spirit medicine she'd held, smiled brightly through her tears.

"After I fight the semifinal match...I will receive the ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠treatment."

The Two Phoenixes Decisive Battle.

After the semifinals, only two participants remain.

In other words, once the semifinals are finished, the tournament's purpose is essentially complete.

"Very well."

I slipped my hands under Dokgo Yeon's arms and lifted her to her feet. Light as if she might fly away—like the Celestial Maiden she was, far smaller than me.

"I promise, Yeon."

"Ah...."

I sat her on top of me. My thighs and manhood supported her lower body, and I wrapped my arms around her waist, setting the mood. Dokgo Yeon's two eyes slowly fixed onto my lips—

"W-wait a moment!"

She hastily pulled her head back and covered her mouth with her hands. Her mood-shattering action brought the Baby Sex Demon right to the verge of anger.

"Th-the big sisters told me. After doing it with your mouth, if you end up receiving the medicine by mouth afterward...you must always rinse your mouth out first. They said it's proper etiquette toward the Physician...."

"...Heh heh."

'Now that's what I call a good wife.'

I'd done well to secure their cooperation in advance. I handed her one of the Thousand-Hand Guanyin Rods I'd placed nearby.

"Then this should settle the matter."

"Ah...I could just wash up quickly over there and come back, you know...."

"Medicine is meant to be taken, is it not?"

"Th-then, in that case, Physician."

Shf. Dokgo Yeon placed her hands on my shoulders and laughed softly.

"Please feed it to me yourself, Physician."

"......."

Right before my eyes, with my own two eyes, I plainly witnessed Dokgo Yeon sucking and mouthing at it.

Licks. Licks.

"I...somehow I think I'm going to like this."

...Dokgo Yeon, grinning dazedly with her eyes curved into crescent moons, did not take her gaze off me for a single instant. After rinsing her mouth ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠completely with the Thousand-Hand Guanyin Rod, she cupped my cheeks and laughed bashfully.

"Physician. Do you truly have to heal me?"

As expected, the Dugu Nine Swords were strong.