(Pov Houjin)
After letting out my stress, I returned to my room and slept for the night. Waking up the following day, I felt the best I have ever felt. It was like I was scratching an itch bugging me for years. Thinking for a moment, I decided to check my system to see if there were any changes. My primary system was mostly unchanged, but the secondary had a shocking amount of growth.
Bloodline:Vampire Baron level
Race:Kijin
Physique:Lust Devil's physique
Cultivation technique:none
Cultivation level:Spirit Master fifth level
Physical Strength: 184
Mental Strength: 417
Soul Strength: 1,360
Physical Defense: 160
Mental Defense: 1,271
Skills:
•Innate:Blood control/clone/Regeneration>
Feeling curious, I went to the training grounds to train and spar with a few knights. First, I fought them like normal, which ended with me dominating them. Next, I fought without using my soul power and instead the energy in my other dantian. The result was still my victory, but this time, I couldn't dominate them. From the looks of it, the second dantian was far weaker, but it had its powers. For example, I could use my bloodline powers like blood control. My brother came just in time to see the end of our spar.
Apporou:Yo, it looks like your trip to the dungeon went well.
Houjin:Yeah, it did, but now I am faced with an interesting problem.
Since I wasn't sure if I should reuse my current cultivation technique or get a new one, I asked my brother.
Apporou:Seriously, as time passes, you seem to get more broken. Still, if you want my opinion, you should get a new technique.
Thinking about it, he has a point: each cultivation technique has its own benefits and unique traits. Having two would offer me even more opportunities to get stronger. Besides, my gut told me to focus on my second dantian. Opening my system, I looked for a good technique that would work with my Taichi Subduing dragon exercise. After looking for a while, I found one that caught my attention. It was called the Heaven's Secret Art as for why that technique. Reading its description, it was a technique that was pretty neutral, meaning he could put others on top of it. Second, each layer offers different abilities that could be helpful, especially when combined with his martial soul. Buying it, the technique appears in my mind for me to use later now; however, I need to do something.
My brother, after talking to me, said that he wanted me to check on Sato and Sei. Since I didn't plan on doing anything other than cultivating, I agreed. Once again, I sent out, but this time alone so I could gun it. Racing across a mountain range, I maintained the bike at top speed. Occasionally, I would encounter some monster, but a single punch was all it took to send them to the grave. At this point my strength could be lethal if I am not careful. Finally I managed to find them just in time to see Sei and Sato collect their spoils of war.
The dead bodies on the ground were most likely a group of bandits they hunted down. According to my brother they often ran out of money so this was a common occurrence. Seeing my arrival both of them seemed happy.
Sato:Hey Hou been a while why are you here.
Houjin:My brother sent me saying you guys should start heading back. A wars about to brake out so he needs all hands on deck.
(Pov Sei)
Seeing Houjin after being separated for such a long time he seems different. Before he was felt like someone interesting now however he he was like a tempting drug. As I stared at him Seto my mind wondered to a conversation I had with.
Sato:Hey what do you think about Hou.
Sei:He is a competent enough leader.
Sato:No what i mean is do you think he would make a good partner.
I was shocked to hear Sato say that because she and I were the same. We have also males a pain and annoying so we avoiding. Perfer using each other to satisfy our lust. Of course we did develop feeling for each other however ever since meeting Houjin things have changed. No matter how much we try neither of us feel satisfied. We talked for a while longer before the sun began to set. Since it was going to be night we decided to set up camp.
Luckily for use the bandits we just wiped out had a cabin with enough rooms for us. Of course Sato and I shared one so we could talk.
Sato:I heard he became better looking after evolving I never imagined it would be this much.
I may not say it out loud but Sato definitely has a point. Not sure if it is because of his race or something else but I had to fight the urge to sit on his face. As I was thinking about Houjin my body started heating up. Sato must have been in a similar situation because she gave me the eyes. After we were done both of us felt tired and fell asleep.
[Congratulations to individual Sei on ranking up to a spell lord you have also received blessing of God of magic and demi God of staves. You have also received the true name Etoile and the title Red monarchs First Bride.]
That was the last thing I heard before drifting a sleep.