After deciding on his next course of action, Xu Tianyi stepped out of the small wooden house.
The morning mist drifted lazily through the air, carrying the fragrance of spiritual flowers and the soft murmur of flowing water.
Two lifetimes had taught him a simple truth — that while palaces of gold and silver were dazzling, they could never match the quiet warmth of a small home built with one's own hands.
Grand halls inspire awe, he thought, but it is the humble house that grants peace.
In this vast cultivation world where ambition devoured countless hearts, such understanding often came too late.
This simple comfort was what most people in this vast cultivation world sought—but only realized it too late.
As he walked toward the spiritual spring, gentle ripples shimmered across the water's surface.
There, a young girl who looked about 17 or 18 years old appeared to be resting within the crystal-clear pool, her long midnight-black hair fanning across the water like silk. she was lying naked in the spring, with a peaceful and relaxed expression on her face.
Her delicate face, serene and calm, looked almost sculpted by the heavens. Two small black horns curved elegantly from her forehead, marking her demonic lineage.
As if realizing someone was watching her, the girl opened her eyes — which were a beautiful ocean blue, bright and full of emotion.
The moment she saw him, they brightened with happiness.
Seeing it was Xu Tianyi, her blue eyes lit up with joy, Her face formed an unrestrained smile, the joy of reunion written plainly on her face, the purity of her expression contrasting with her mature figure.
she jumped up from the spring with a joyful shout of.
"Master!"
She ran towards him without a piece of clothing covering her curvy body. Her breasts jiggled as she ran, with droplets of water sliding down her tits, thighs, and neck.
Xu Tianyi's eyes were fixed on her jade-like body, which looked like that of a fairy. His eyes trailed across her breasts, moving down from her abdomen and cute navel to her delicate pink vagina, before he finally snapped out of his trance.
When she leapt into his arms, wrapping around him with the carefree affection of a child, still naked, and latching onto him like a koala with her legs wrapped around his waist and her breasts pressing on his face.
she spoke with childish innocence in her voice that didn't quite match her curvy body.
Xu Tianyi's expression softened. "Ling Ling, you're full of energy as always," he said with a faint chuckle.
The girl beamed, holding onto his neck like a child afraid of being left behind.
"Master, are you going out again? Take me with you this time!"
she pleaded, her voice carrying that same innocent lilt that never failed to amuse him.
His hands cupped her perky ass and gave them a firm squeeze as he pulled his head back from the heavenly breasts while, He gently placed a hand on her head, ruffling her damp hair.
"Not this time," he said softly. "I'll only be away for a short while. Be good and cultivate here, understood?"
Xu Tianyi sighed softly, steadying her as he spoke in a warm tone, his hand pats her buttocks lightly and than gave her headpats.
The girl was his pet beast, she was a transformed great demon king of fourth tier, she was a sky swallowing dragon whale.
She has passed her heavenly tribulations and reached the fourth rank that equals to the nascent soul realm for human cultivators.
Her bloodline is also of the low-true spirit grade that is the highest according to the bloodline grade of demon Beast.
She puffed her cheeks but nodded. Her loyalty and affection for him were beyond words, a few moments of pleading and laughter later, she reluctantly released him.
He pulled her towards him and gave her breasts a squeeze, pinching both her nipples while giving her a little peck on her lips. She moaned in a lovely voice.
"Ahh~ Master~"
"Be good, and when I come back, I will take you out, okay?" He said with a loving and doting smile.
"Alright, Master," she murmured with reluctant obedience, "but you must come back soon."
"I will," Xu Tianyi replied with a gentle smile. "You have my word."
After a few more words and laughter between them, Ling Ling returned to her spring, the tranquil water reflecting her graceful figure as she watched her master leave.
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Outside the house, the air shimmered faintly.
A gentle, feminine voice echoed softly from the golden-trunked tree in the center of the garden.
"Take care while you're away, Master," the voice said.
Xu Tianyi turned his gaze toward the tree and smiled faintly. "I will, Xumi."
This was Xumi, the sentient spirit of the Fourth-Rank Spiritual Plant that contained his Cave Heaven.
She was of Mid-True Spirit Grade, a being of immense vitality and wisdom whom Xu Tianyi had discovered in an ancient ruin centuries ago.
Though capable of assuming human form, she preferred remaining as a tree, saying the world's energy felt "purer through her roots."
She only came out in her transformed form when asked to by Xu Tianyi, as a spiritual plant, she liked her plant body more, just like demon beasts.
Receiving her acknowledgment, Xu Tianyi took a single step forward — and vanished.
Space rippled, folding like water under his mastery of the Void Realm. With his current strength — the sixth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm — few in the Southern Wilderness could match his spatial comprehension.
After traveling nearly a thousand kilometers through the void, he stepped back into open sky. Clouds parted before him, sunlight bathing his form in golden light. With a thought, he tapped his spiritual beast pouch.
A burst of fiery-red light surged out, coalescing into the shape of a magnificent Sky Phoenix. She was a low-true spirit grade demon Beast of late third rank in cultivation.
Its feathers glowed like burning jade, and its eyes radiated affection as it lowered its head toward him.
The crimson bird trilled affectionately and pressed her head against him, to which he chuckled softly.
Xu Tianyi smiled and stroked her neck feathers, feeling the warmth beneath his fingers.
"Let's go, Fengfeng. Head toward Qingluan Immortal City."
The phoenix gave a clear, melodious cry that shook the clouds.
"Understood, Master."
With a single flap of her wings, she soared into the heavens, trailing a brilliant stream of crimson light across the sky.
The wind roared, mountains blurred beneath them, and Xu Tianyi sat calmly on her back — his long black hair fluttering in the wind, golden eyes gazing into the horizon where fate awaited.
A faint smile touched his lips.
"Two hundred years before she becomes the city lord of Qinglaun Immortal city," he murmured.
"Let's see if we can change her destiny of death or not."
The phoenix's cry echoed far across the clouds, carrying the voice of a man about to step once again into the flow of destiny.