121 Intuition (1/2)

Lara clearly saw her shudder, but still, she insisted. This only made her more curious as to why she was so fixated on it.

”Why?”, she asked while her expression got serious.

Keira hesitated. ”I'm not sure. I just feel that I have to do it.”

”Is it because of your weird intuition?”, Lara asked. One of the reasons why Keira was such a good vice president was her intuition. During all the time they had worked together, no one time had her intuition lead her astray. Instead, following it, it had always worked well for her.

”It should be. It is just that the feeling is much clearer than ever before. It is like I can feel that this is the only way to finally break through my bottleneck.”

”Your bottleneck?”, Lara hadn't heard her talk about it before. Although they were friends, it was more focused on their work and general companionship and not their cultivation. She only knew that Kiera had been in the upper realm, which made her a lot stronger than herself.

”Mm. I never told you about it, since it is convention not to talk about cultivation above the first stage in this realm, except when necessary. I don't know how familiar you are with it but to condense one's core you require a seed.

This seed is something everyone who can collect Qi from the environment is born with. It is also the reason why we can collect Qi and store it in our dantian.

But sometimes there are people who have a so-called false seed. This seed is similar to a normal seed in that it allows the owner to collect Qi. But it is too unstable to be used as the seed for a core.”, having come this far in her explanation, she showed a sad look. It seemed like finding out that she had a fake core did have a huge impact on her.

The others patiently waited for her to continue with her explanation, ”This is why I came back. Although there had been rumors that it is possible to stabilize the fake seed, the cost is unbelievable. As such, I had no choice but to give up on cultivating. Instead, I went back to my family, to enjoy a normal life. Of course, I could have stayed and worked as a 'Foundation Strengthening' cultivator, but up there this isn't enough to make a living in the cultivation world while staying in the mortal world is just a waste. Besides it is much more primitive there than here.”

”So you feel that serving my husband can help you stabilize your seed? Why would that be?”, Lara asked in bewilderment. Although she understood Kiera's problem, she didn't understand how it was related to her husband.

”Yes.”, Keira nodded firmly. ”I don't know either. But I can feel that it would work. And I can feel that it has something to do with serving him, with being used by him to release his lust.”

”Huh? The focus lies on you being submissive?”, Ivan asked in surprise. For his question, he earned an angry glare by his wife.

”Hoho, so you like the idea?”, she asked in a dangerous voice. It seemed that she really wasn't happy about him seeming to show any interested.

Ivan hurriedly tried to justify his question. ”That's not it. I just have an idea what this is about.” He then hurriedly shared a skill description.

<< Skill Dark Dual Cultivation (Artifact)

Type: Passive

Alignment: Evil

During forced sexual intercourse you can gain benefits depending on the strength of your partner, the bloodline of your partner and the physical and mental pain of your partner.

Remark: Can be combined with the Evil Dark Master skill for better effects.

Comment: Is this fitting or what? Now you can be even eviler than before.

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The others read through the description before looking at him in surprise, ”How the hell do you have such a skill?”

”Got it in a lottery.”, Ivan shortly answered with the truth, but the others looked at him with weird eyes. ”It's not like I wanted this. And it's not like I have ever used it.”

”Then why do you think that this skill could have something to do with it? Besides that, the subject is similar to what she feels.”, Lara asked curiously.

”After I got this skill I did some research and found out that nothing is ever only one way. If the skill user gets a benefit, then there are only two reasons for this.

Either it is something taken from the victim or it is something gained from the outside. But if it is something taken from the victim, then there is no reason for this skill to be Artifact grade. There are similar skills described, which are only D grade, so why would this one be Artifact grade?”

”So you believe that since it is Artifact grade, it should do something different from those other skills? What if it only robs even more than the others?”