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The morning sun rose. I quietly welcomed the dawn bathed in the sunlight streaming through the window.
"......."
My lower half didn't ache. My internal energy had decreased so much it was hard to comprehend how much I'd drained the night before. It must have dropped by nearly ten percent.
Had I used up internal energy manipulating four swords with the Sword Control Art to guard our room? No. The woman who had taken my yang energy as fast as I gave it was sleeping with her head resting on my arm, a look of utter peace on her face.
"......"
Lee Si-a. I could feel my internal energy inside her womb. Every drop of the spirit medicine I'd shot inside her had become her internal energy.
"Mmm...."
Lee Si-a murmured and clung tightly to me. She didn't have the voluptuous feel of Sagong Hee, but the way she cuddled up, showing her charms even in her sleep, left me feeling hollow.
'Losing fifteen years of martial power isn't exactly a fair trade.'
I traced the marks my lips had left on Lee Si-a's collarbone. The sets of canine teeth marks I'd etched in for every time I finished inside her had long since exceeded double digits.
'Finishing inside fifteen times—that's commitment.'
If each time with the Little Princess cost me a year of internal energy, I could handle it. My yang energy was just stolen internal energy from other women anyway.
"Aren't you surprised to open your eyes and find yourself at the Peak Realm?"
"......."
Lee Si-a half-opened her eyes and remained silent. I grew worried I'd upset her for no reason.
"What's wrong?"
"......I don't know how to speak to you."
"Speak?"
"W-well, we can't go back to how things were after doing that deed, can we?"
Lee Si-a was deeply embarrassed about the previous night. Even though we were both naked and pressed together under a thin sheet—something she didn't seem to mind at all—she was fixating on a strange detail.
"...Then how about we do this?"
I suggested a way Lee Si-a could be most comfortable around me.
"How about we drop the formal speech with each other?"
"...But you are Bi-cheon and I am the Little Princess."
"All that careful effort to speak formally already crumbled while we were drinking. Your pretense is over. Wouldn't it be better if you just spoke comfortably too?"
"......Hmph."
Lee Si-a snorted and sat up. We'd fallen asleep drenched in sweat, snoring away without even washing, so our state was frankly a mess.
"Pretense, you say... How dare you call it that to the Little Princess."
Even so, the refreshed feeling—as if we'd only taken a light nap—was likely because we were both martial artists. Slightly disheveled but still beautiful, Lee Si-a smiled at me and pressed her lips to mine.
"Then that's what we'll do when it's just the two of us."
"A good decision, Lee Si-a."
"...How cheeky."
Finally, the girlish, youthful air befitting her age began to radiate from her. She'd become a woman just last night, but seeing her in the morning, she had a completely different aura. Lee Si-a narrowed her eyes and grabbed my cock with both hands.
"This impudent thing that dares to be cheeky to the Little Princess—I'll break it."
"And who do you think would lose out then?"
"...Tch. A guy who can't even take a joke."
Lee Si-a toyed with my cock in both hands. Even though all the blood had drained from it and it wouldn't get hard, she kept stimulating it; her morning service didn't stop.
"What? Want me to use my mouth? Or do you want to get pounded first thing in the morning?"
"No. It's just... amazing that this thing was inside me."
Lee Si-a straddled my abs as if mounting a horse. Then she pulled my cock taut and covered the tip with her palm.
"Ugh, this is insane. How did this thing ever fit all the way in?"
"The power of love."
"Crazy bastard."
I told her to speak comfortably, and now she was throwing out curses freely. That wasn't so bad.
"I didn't take this in through the power of love. Isn't it because a woman's body is designed that way? Otherwise, every woman raped by the Sex Demon would die from internal ruptures."
"Usually, men are logical and women are emotional."
"None of that's needed. Spouting weird stuff like the power of love."
The fact that she—who usually kept others at a distance by speaking formally—was now cursing so freely with me without a care for modesty was proof that the distance between us had shrunk.
"Then is this the power of love, too?"
Lee Si-a lightly flicked my rising crystal of love with her finger.
"Of course. This is precisely—"
"So if this is the power of love, that means you love me?"
"......."
I was breathless. Giggling, Lee Si-a gripped my cock with her hand and activated the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
"Heavenly Demon Manual Stimulation Technique."
"Wh-what?"
Tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak.
Her hand moved so fast it felt like multiple strokes in an instant, completely stealing my breath. It was so fast it stung, but Lee Si-a spread the lubricating fluid that leaked from my cock and didn't stop the manual stimulation.
"Th-the Heavenly Demon Divine Art wasn't made for that!! There's no such martial art as the Heavenly Demon Manual Stimulation Technique, hh-hyeok!"
"What's it matter? Once I become the Heavenly Demon, I'll just create my own martial art. Hmmph, seeing a handsome man in agony like this feels quite..."
Domineering!
The will to break free from established forms and forge her own martial art—what was that if not the Overbearing Blade? Lee Si-a clasped both hands together and stuck her tongue out at me.
"Heavenly Demon Manual Stimulation Technique, Dual Hands."
"Kkk-heok!"
Puk-puk-puk-puk-puk-puk!
She worked her hands up and down as if they were the inside of her body. I'd been so drained the night before that I couldn't even get hard when we woke up, yet Lee Si-a made my cock burn hot in an instant.
"Hey, Sex Demon. I'll take it now."
"Take... what—"
Munch. Lee Si-a opened her mouth and took my glans inside. Then, stroking the already slick shaft with her hand, she urged me on.
"......."
I grabbed the back of Lee Si-a's head with both hands, making sure she couldn't escape. Looking up at me, she quietly closed her eyes at my signal and let her hands fall.
Psssh. Gulp, gulp.
"......."
The shot I fired right after waking up, first thing in the morning, was a bit watery. Not as much as the year of martial power she'd drained last night, but probably worth at least a month of my internal energy.
"......Hmm."
Lee Si-a pulled her lips from my glans, lifted her head toward me, and ever so slightly opened her mouth. My lower body stiffened again instantly.
"This is crazy."
Serving a man's organ with her mouth was one thing, holding his essence inside her mouth was another—but then displaying it, pooled on her tongue?
It was an erotic act Orthodox Faction women couldn't even imagine; my mouth watered.
Gulp.
"......?"
I was genuinely shocked. That hadn't been the sound of me swallowing saliva. Lee Si-a tipped her head up slightly, licked her lips with her sticky tongue, and smiled brightly.
"Damn bitter. But the internal energy's no joke. Thanks. Bi-cheon, with you around, I feel like my internal energy will soar."
"......."
Was it the power of the Oryang Liquor, or was this her true nature all along? For Lee Si-a, who'd become a lust demoness overnight, I raised my hand and tidied her hair, stroking her head.
"As they say."
"Hm?"
"...Good medicine is bitter on the tongue."
"...Ahaha!!"
Clutching her stomach with laughter, Lee Si-a tapped my cock with her hand.
"Then it can't be helped. For now, I'll just have to rely on this doctor's care."
...And so, we greeted a new morning.
* * *
On the road to Qingcheng.
After freshening up neatly, we stepped out of the inn in new attire.
"Please explain. Why can't a woman ascend to Heavenly Demon, and why is the Absorbing Yang to Nourish Yin method the correct answer?"
"You're using formal speech even though it's just the two of us?"
"...There are lots of people passing by."
Lee Si-a poked my side with her elbow and narrowed her eyes. Considering we were on the main road to Qingcheng, I couldn't exactly claim there was no one about.
"Ahem. Alright. I'll explain."
Though I had my gripes, I decided to be satisfied just holding Lee Si-a's hand as we walked, since I could toy with the back of it, tickling her through our interlocked fingers.
"The hot rises, the cold sinks. This is a law of nature. The qi of heaven and earth and yin-yang is the same. The heavenly energy gathered by the Heavenly Demon Divine Art is yang energy, so the internal energy is destined to reach the Upper Dantian. You know the side effects well enough."
"I know them all too painfully. Hair loss."
"Indeed. Hair loss occurs even before reaching the state of Transcending Demon. As if all the hair around your lower mouth fell out."
"You bastard."
Thump. I glanced at Lee Si-a's groin and got attacked in the ribs again. Passersby murmured about us as they went by.
"Old man, look at that. Tsk tsk, young folks having a lovers' quarrel on the main road..."
"Hmph, saucy brats. In my day, we did it secretly in the wheat field over there. Isn't that right, dear?"
"What? I never did that! Who is that bitch!"
"......."
Having unintentionally caused collateral damage to an elderly couple, I decided to stop with the mischief.
"...But getting back to the side effects of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art. Amassing extreme yang energy is important, but you were born a woman, so your body is naturally better suited to storing yin energy than yang energy."
"I know that all too well, too. So I tried my hardest to build up yang energy. Consuming all sorts of spirit medicines daily, waking at dawn to circulate my breathing toward the sun—it was truly bone-grinding effort."
"Indeed. As if your—"
"Don't talk nonsense."
"......."
If the result of all that effort was the yang energy stagnating in the Middle Dantian, blocking yin energy from reaching her chest and preventing her growth as a woman... how would Lee Si-a take it?
'Better not mention it.'
If she learned that the reason her Middle Dantian's capacity was so vastly inferior to Sagong Hee's—the vessel's size—was because of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art she'd cultivated, she'd be deeply wounded.
"But yin energy naturally accumulates as you live. That's why you need me. A man who can help you gain yang energy to ascend to heaven, while simultaneously draining unnecessary yin energy and filling you with the yang energy you require."
"So you and I are fated by the heavens?"
"Exactly. It's a proven method, so you can rest easy."
This was the method the Heavenly Demon Lee Si-a—the future Heavenly Demon—had used to reach the state of Transcending Demon.
"There's also the method of stealing yang energy from numerous men, or the method of dragging along a young boy who knows Energy Absorption Techniques to absorb the unnecessary yin energy."
"And there's one man who can do all of that by himself."
"Precisely. So am I not the Sky-Soaring Lust Demon, the right man for you?"
A relationship where we could mutually benefit one another. This kind of constructive, positive relationship was the foundation for the Great Wall we would build together going forward. If our relationship developed into one of mutual trust, I could finally say I'd truly made Lee Si-a mine.
"But isn't this a bit one-sided and unfair to me? You'll be holding countless other women, while I'm supposed to only look at you. Isn't this unequal?"
"......."
She'd hit the nail on the head.
"Th-think about it carefully. If I steal internal energy from Orthodox Faction women and offer it to you, isn't that exactly the prosperity of the Demonic Cult?"
"Like how I had to stand there all pitiful and alone while you were banging the Emei Sect Leader?"
"...Then you could just help out beside me, or something."
"Ha. This Sex Demon."
Lee Si-a tapped my shin and pouted. Even though she'd hit me, it didn't hurt—more of a light tap—so I didn't feel too bad about it.
"Fine. In exchange, if the target isn't someone of enough value for the Demonic Cult Little Princess to cooperate in a pincer attack with the Sex Demon, then I won't help."
"Does such a person exist?"
"Taiji Flower?"
"......."
My cock twitched. Seeing Lee Si-a deep in thought, toying with her lip, I wanted to immediately run off to Hubei with her.
"And while we're at it, besides the Taiji Flower... no, never mind. That person, we'll likely meet soon anyway."
Twitch, twitch. I was already picturing it, my mouth watering. Whether Lee Si-a knew my thoughts or not, she let go of my hand and ran ahead, pointing toward the entrance of Qingcheng Sect, our destination.
"We've arrived! Shall we get ready?"
"Yes. Lee Si-a, I'm sorry for making an unreasonable request."
"No. If this becomes the strength to find the Flame Demon, then gladly."
Inside her flashy outfit, Lee Si-a subtly revealed the martial uniform of a Qingcheng Sect disciple and smiled at me.
"In exchange, show the Qingcheng members who the true master of the Heavenly Dragon Emperor Sword is. And..."
Lee Si-a's red eyes flashed.
"Please, rampage. Make sure the news that the Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenix are gathered in one person reaches the Flame Demon."
"I obey the Little Princess's command."
To claim the Phoenix Chick Sword in Qingcheng Sect's possession, we would boldly storm the main gate.