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"You've worked hard."
"Haa, haa, haa."
Seo Si pressed a hand to her forehead and panted raggedly. Though I had done most of the moving, she had been forced to take the brunt of a rough beast's lust in a short time, enduring it one-sidedly, and much of her strength had drained away.
Gulp. Between shallow breaths, sticky white fluid trickled inside her. I carefully wiped away my seed that was dripping inside her with a silk cloth.
"Leave it..."
Seo Si shook her head, eyes damp with tears. She even tilted her lower body up, blocking it from flowing out. In response, I wiped the traces from the silk with my fingers and pushed them back inside.
"So you're going to eat every last drop of that silky chicken, soup and all?"
"Isn't that the sort of thing the silky chicken that got eaten shouldn't be saying?"
"Huh, who got eaten?"
I traced my still-erect shaft along Seo Si's petals. She swallowed dryly, revealing anticipation, but raised both hands in surrender.
"My apologies. I can't outlast a young man's vigor."
"I was the one who violated you, Seo Si."
"Hng... being taken by a young Sex Demon isn't bad either. Still, I couldn't meet you often."
Seo Si licked her lips with regret. Under the gaze of an aged lioness eyeing her prey, a chill ran up my spine for no reason.
"If I were only ten years younger, I'd cage you at my side and enjoy you over and over."
"Heh, that's only if you could knock me out in bed. How dare you try to block a young man's path?"
"Isn't it a shame my pussy can't hold onto you?"
"Oh, how vulgar."
I smacked her petals with my cock. Startled by the fluid that leaked from inside at the impact, she hurriedly twisted her body.
"Too cruel. This body was once a woman called the Emei Peak. You should consider taking me an honor."
"Didn't you become the Emei Peak because you wanted to be violated?"
Seo Si looked away. As rising stars, the Six Phoenixes spread their names far and wide, but they also had to face head-on all manner of vile hands that coveted them.
"I didn't become the Emei Peak and then get violated. I sought a reason to be violated and became the Emei Peak."
"...Hehe, what would happen if I told anyone?"
"Oh dear, aren't we Saek-bung? Let's simply keep our mouths shut and enjoy ourselves."
I leaned down and covered Seo Si's mouth. True to a lady, her skill at exploring my tongue was a cut above, though a notch below Jin Sa-wol's.
Sluuurp.
Even after a messy mating, I wanted more, but time would permit our intimacy no longer. I wiped the transparent thread between Seo Si's lips and mine with my thumb and rubbed it onto her lips.
"Kuh, if I'd been born thirty years earlier, I could have taken your maidenhead."
"Hehe, if it had been me in my youth, you'd have lived your whole life looking only at me, you know?"
"Why, would you lock me up in some prison only you know about?"
"It's not impossible. Mount Emei is Emei Sect territory. ...Ng, if it were like the old days, I'd wrap my legs around you so you couldn't leave."
Seo Si vented fierce regret at her aging body. The realm she had reached was not yet high enough to bridge the gap of years between us.
"I heard there is a transcendent master in Wudang who has returned to youth... haa. I want to return to youth too."
"Oh? So you can wander the world pretending to be a new rising female master?"
"That wouldn't be bad. I could pretend to be a murim novice, get caught by some Green Forest bandit stronghold, and then... hehe."
In my case, I'd end up captured by Emei's female disciples and turned into a living carved phallus. I offered Seo Si, drunk on delusions, a half-hearted condolence and calmed her boiling lust.
"Show some restraint. If you actually went through that, your mind would shatter, you know?"
"Wouldn't you want to try it at least once?"
"...I see why the Sex Demons couldn't handle it and ran away."
"If the Sex Demons hadn't violated me, I'd have lived my whole life not knowing this fun. This is a catastrophe the Sex Demons brought upon themselves."
A sigh filled the air. I needn't have worried that later, as the Sky-Soaring Lust Demon roamed Sichuan, the Emei Sect might attack me without cause.
'She won't come looking for me to violate her later, will she?'
While actively throwing herself into the dragnet to catch a Sex Demon, she might be hoping to be ravished.
"So, Doctor, is my body still usable?"
"Of course. It's on par with your disciple, not lacking in the least. Or rather, it's only natural since the teacher's accomplishment is higher?"
"...A true Sex Demon."
Seo Si glared at me and slowly rose.
"She's still an Eminence. Unless you're going to marry her, don't toy with her heart."
"Naturally."
Did that mean if I married her and had her bear children, it would be fine to toy with her heart? I smiled.
"But you are quite bold. With a man still erect in front of you, do you think it's fine to move about naked, swaying your hips like that?"
"What does it matter between friends who share a taste for lust?"
Seo Si dressed straight into her underclothes. I flinched, startled by her putting on underwear without even pulling out properly.
"It's dripping."
"I must store it carefully and sparingly. This is a tonic you've given me, Doctor—would it do to lose even a single drop?"
"You speak so smoothly, but you aren't planning to keep going like this, are you?"
"Of course not. I've received this much Yang Energy from a young friend—how could I drain it out? At my age, I don't need separate tonics. This is the spirit medicine, the spirit medicine."
Seo Si, stroking her lower belly with her hand, finished dressing. The woman who had been dying of pleasure in bed only moments ago transformed in an instant into the Sect Leader of Emei, leaving me both flabbergasted and choked up.
"Look how glossy her skin is."
"I told you. Spirit medicine. This is exactly yang-harvesting body nourishment. Fufu."
Seo Si spoke without thinking, but I felt a guilty jolt. Of course, I hadn't practiced absorption of yin to nourish yang with Seo Si.
'After all, I'm just some ordinary doctor right now.'
If I used yin absorption and got caught, I'd truly be captured by the Emei Sect. If a man who must wander the world ended up trapped among long-haired nuns, unable to escape, it would be an inconvenience and discourtesy to the many flowers waiting for me.
'I've had my fun, time to leave.'
I also straightened my attire and rose. As when we had first entered the room, we put our clothes neatly in order and headed to the reception room as if nothing had happened.
"You have returned."
The guard warrior and the Little Princess bowed courteously to us. I likewise bowed in greeting to Ryu Seo-si, the Sect Leader of Emei.
"If the opportunity arises again, I will pay you a visit."
"Of course, Doctor. At the next Dragon-Phoenix Gathering... no, will you be 'coming' to the Two Phoenixes Decisive Battle? My disciples, Jeongjo and Jeongja, are scheduled to participate."
"The Two Phoenixes Decisive Battle, you say..."
The Sect Leader offered an invitation. As I took her outstretched hand, I gently bent my little finger and tickled the inside of her palm.
"Wherever there are injured, that is where Mubung goes."
"...Hoot."
We left Mount Emei with the Emei Sect Leader's send-off.
* * *
Chengdu.
By the time we returned to the inn, the sun was already slanting low, and the Little Princess and I settled down to solve a late dinner with drinks.
"Now I understand why you said there was no Flame Demon at Emei Sect."
The Little Princess filled my cup so full it nearly overflowed. I needn't have worried about it spilling; she filled it just short of brimming over.
"Because I met her in person. And because I felt no trace of a Flame Demon's energy from any of them. Correct?"
"That's right. I even mixed flesh with her, so there's no way I wouldn't know."
"Excuse my intrusion."
The only person in the inn who could intrude, the waiter, placed food and drink on our table. In a large earthen pot, a silky chicken that boasted a commanding presence had been thoroughly stewed with all kinds of ginseng.
"Thank you."
"The chef said: 'I was very rude to the guests in the past, and I wish to make up for that mistake.'"
"That's fine, there's no need—"
As the Little Princess tried to stop the waiter, he brought out a red flask from behind, and the Little Princess gulped, closing her mouth. The sharp, fragrant scent was already exciting me.
"Is that Oryang Liquor?"
"Yes. It is called the Superior Oryang Liquor, which the chef himself brewed among Oryang Liquors. There is no extra charge. Please enjoy it deliciously."
The waiter disappeared with quiet steps. I uncorked the Superior Oryang Liquor and poured a little into the fresh cups set beside it.
"This is why I like expensive places."
"Good heavens... a liquor that expensive, for free."
"Isn't it hard to get something like this even at Heavenly Mountain? More precisely, the Heavenly Demon would drink it all up. Hehe."
A Heavenly Demon must, by nature, also be well-versed in drink and pleasure. Even if she was not yet proficient in pleasure, it was no exaggeration to say the Little Princess far surpassed her own martial realm when it came to liquor.
"Let's drink. We came all the way to Sichuan; it would be a regret not to drink this."
"Waa..."
The Little Princess accepted the cup with childlike delight. Seeing her so purely happy for the first time since we met made me even happier for no reason.
"Are you that pleased?"
"The drink is good, the food we share is good, and the person drinking with me is good. With all three in such harmony, how could I not be happy?"
"...Ahem."
Was it the pleasure of drinking Oryang Liquor? The Little Princess didn't hesitate to lavish compliments on me.
'We stopped mid-talk of the Flame Demon, but it seems the moment to continue that conversation is lost.'
When drinking in good spirits, it's not good to bring up topics that might spoil the mood. I clinked glasses with the Little Princess once and downed my drink.
"...Kh—."
The burn from my throat to my gut stung as if poison were truly searing my body. The Little Princess, too, wrinkled her brow, savoring the dizzying taste of the strong liquor.
"Hey, hey. Bi-cheon. Who is the Flame Demon?"
"Huh?"
"If she's not in Emei Sect, is she in Qingcheng? Byeok Bak-ja? Or perhaps the Azure Heaven New Dragon? Then one of the Qingcheng elders? Let's see, if we list people of a similar generation besides Byeok Bak-ja—"
"S-stop."
I grabbed the Little Princess's wrist and shook my head.
"There's no need for that. You don't need to check Qingcheng Sect with a headache. Don't try to stuff your head with men you don't even want to know about."
"Huh? But we have to know. That way we can uncover the Flame Demon who follows that trash scum, can't we? Hmm... Qingcheng has nearly twelve elders; the First Elder is—"
"There's no need to know. Forget them all. Those fellows aren't the Flame Demon."
"Ueh."
The Little Princess made a strange noise and glared at me.
"Shut up, Bi-cheon. I'm in the middle of finding the right answer with this clever head of mine, you know?"
"No, wait. Are you drunk right now?"
"Huh? Drunk? Ahaha! There's no way I could be drunk on liquor, right?"
She was definitely drunk. The way she was speaking so casually and comfortably, shedding her usual rigid speech, proved it.
"Haang, well, Qingcheng was my first priority. But seeing your reaction, it seems it's not Qingcheng. ...If it's not Qingcheng, then there is only one answer."
"Where do you think it is?"
"Hao Sect?"
The Little Princess held her cup in both hands and tilted her head. Instead of answering, I filled her cup again.
"Since it's come to this, I'll tell you the answer. You already seem fairly certain anyway. Yes. There is no Flame Demon in Qingcheng."
"Right? I thought so. If the Flame Demon were in Qingcheng, we wouldn't have needed to go all the way to Emei—we'd have gone to Qingcheng first."
"...Are you really drunk?"
She was logical and rational, yet oddly lighter than usual. No matter how drunk and giddy your body feels, I'd never seen a woman ramble so coherently while intoxicated.
'No, in the first place, I haven't really drunk with women that often.'
When I drank with courtesans, they usually fawned over me, and Sagong Hee merely attended me and listened to my talk one-sidedly. In comparison, the Little Princess...
"A place where information converges into one! A place where you can hear the stories of three different clans in one spot. At the same time, a place far easier to infiltrate than the orthodox sects. All things considered, it's Hao Sect. Wow, the Flame Demon is in Hao Sect—"
The Little Princess stretched her arms with a long yawn. She had been answering her own questions and laughing, then wiped her expression clean and asked me:
"Hao Sect. Should we go smash it to pieces right now?"
"......Calm down."
This woman, I thought she was just a drinker, but her drunken antics were something else. I found myself strangely affected, seeing a new side of the Little Princess. The Little Princess I knew was the leader of a group commanding a hundred thousand demonic practitioners, but this human side of her felt fresh.
"As you also know, Little Princess, Hao Sect is a cell-type organization. Even if you raid their pleasure houses, they'll just hide among the ronin, flee and flee again, and conceal themselves."
"Anyway, the twin sword commotion can just be treated as a minor incident while we conduct operations, right? Tsk, they should just come out."
The Little Princess pouted and emptied her cup. I worried whether it was okay to keep refilling her cup, yet my hand was already filling it and placing the silk cover over the bottle.
"Alright, Bi-cheon. Once the liquor wears off, let's go tear the Flame Demon to death. Okay? Okaaay?"
"...Urg."
Let's give her more. I emptied my glass and refilled hers.
"Later, when you're sober, don't you think you'll want to kill yourself?"
"Ahaha! There's no way. I'm aware of everything I say. With a clear head."
The Little Princess fixed her flushed face on me.
"Right now, do I... look drunk to you?"