Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 805: Chapter 88: Increased Gem Pool Resource Output and Snake Woman Hela’s Knightly Cultivation (Part 4)

Su Li held the section of tail coiled around his waist, the pads of his fingers stroking over the ring-patterns like annual rings. Hela suddenly arched with a shudder, her tail slapping the grass and flower-strewn ground, splashing up starry droplets of aromatic dew. Hidden there was a patch of reverse-grown scales; the warm-jade smoothness of his touch sent tingles shooting up from the base of her tail.

The night was bewitching, casting the shadows of snake tail and human beneath the Moon Crown Tree’s canopy of full bloom. Hela imitated a human woman and bit down on a lock of his black hair, only to discover that when her forked tongue skimmed across his collarbone, it stirred up even fiercer ripples. When the moonlight had shifted to shine straight in through the window lattice, she finally understood why Vidage always said a human’s body heat was more intoxicating than the hot spring in the Gem Pool.

But this life of cultivation had only just begun. When Su Li took out the [Ainir’s Magic Net] and bound the different-blooded creature, Hela’s whole body grew exquisitely sensitive and trembling. She knew she was utterly lost, that she could never go back to the distant Land of Spices!

This was her new home now; this man had completely become the husband she loved so much it tore her apart, the one she could never, ever escape!

Not until the second half of the night did the diligent cultivation beneath the Moon Crown Tree gradually subside. Su Li, fully satisfied, pillowed his head on the Snake Woman’s slender waist and drifted into a comfortable sleep.

But Hela’s breathing was still ragged. Panting, she looked past the profusion of blossoms toward the night sky. Her elder sister had once said that every star in the sky was a deceased loved one. Father, Mother, Elder Sister, if you can see from up there, you can rest easy now. I am thousands of li away from my homeland, perhaps even tens of thousands, yet I too have found a home, and a good man to whom I can entrust my whole life.

But soon her face flushed scarlet. If what Elder Sister said was true, and family in the heavens could see everything, then wouldn’t they have seen her performance just now?

That would be far too embarrassing, all his fault! She lowered her head to look at the man lying with his cheek pillowed on her soft belly, breathing evenly. There was a faint smile on his delicate face, and in his arms he still held Selanweir’s tender pink-and-white body. Even in sleep the two of them kept their cultivation posture, their bodies pressed tightly together. Who knew if in his dreams he was still thinking about the joys of cultivation—perhaps being even more outrageous?

She could hardly imagine that such an elegant, composed man would become so wild when cultivating. Hela felt as if she had returned to those days drifting on the Endless Sea, and he was the storm winds and torrential waves of that boundless ocean, while she was but a tiny boat in the night’s tempest. Yet it was completely different this time: what she felt in the storm was not unease or confusion, but an unparalleled sense of peace—especially when she sensed how utterly satisfied and delighted this man was whenever their bare skin met.

She couldn’t believe that someone as shy and reserved as herself had been led by him into sin among the flowers and grass, had agreed to so many shameful requests, had been forced to say so many unspeakable words.

If her family in the sky really had seen that, it would be mortifying beyond belief.

She didn’t dare think about it any further. She hurriedly picked up the Perfumer’s Incense Burner to divert her attention, then carefully placed the Moon Crown Tree Flower into it.

To her delight, this Moon Crown Tree Flower successfully activated the Incense Burner, which began to emit a soft glow.

But when the result appeared, Hela’s eyes went wide; this outcome was truly unexpected. Perhaps tomorrow she could give this little man a pleasant surprise.

With such tangled thoughts, she soon fell asleep as well. For the first time since her home had been destroyed and her family killed, her slumber was free of nightmares and sorrow, filled instead with calm and happiness.