33 The Heart of a Swordsman (1/2)

The panther transformed into a girl as it shrank. She was just a few inches smaller than Xiao Fang. She had long black hair, haunting black eyes, jade white skin, and the only thing she wore was a nearly transparent black gown. Her proportions were unimpressive, but due to the lack of volume in her twin mountains it made her seem even more fragile.

She blinked her relatively large eyes at him a few times, but he was too dumbstruck to react.

”You just... but- but you were”

”Clearly you know nothing about the spirit cultivation world”, she sighed. It was as if she were talking to a country bumpkin about technology.

”So is there any other reason why you can't take me as your spirit pet?”, she asked.

Xiao Fang's eye twitched in annoyance. She had a solution to every excuse he threw at her.

He took a few seconds to think of something, but the more he thought about it the more he felt it wouldn't be a bad idea to bring her along. The only problem he could think of was how Li Lian would react about this.

”Alright, I'll do it”, Xiao Fang replied hesitantly.

”Yay”, she said excitedly before requesting:

”Give me your hand”, she smiled mysteriously. Xiao Fang raised a hand and she accepted it with both her hands, guiding it to her boob.

Xiao Fang, the man that has ravaged countless beauties, was unaffected by the feeling of her unimpressive hill.

”What are you doing?”, he asked casually.

”I need you to fill me up with your spirit energy”, she replied casually back.

Xiao Fang didn't want to waste anymore time here so he did what she said and transferred some of his spirit energy into her.

His spirit energy engulfed her, but only after she started consuming it did it start to fade away. It looked as though it was entering her through her pores. It was an interesting sight to behold.

She gasped.

”A dual cultivator”, she thought in surprise.

She found it strange that he seemed unaffected when he touched her chest. From the stories she's heard, dual cultivators are all supposed to be sex hungry animals.

”Mmm~ You're spirit energy is inside of me, it's so hot”, she teased playfully.

Xiao Fang retracted his hand as soon as those words left her mouth, already regretting his decision to help her.

”You better control yourself”, he side eyed her before turning to leave.

She smirked at his words then turned back into a panther, but to Xiao Fang's surprise she was as small as a cat.

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A spirit animal can only be contracted to one person at a time. Once they do, they can learn any spirit cultivation technique that their owner has learned. They can also teach any spirit cultivation techniques that they have previously learned from their past owners.

The size of a spirit pet in its animal form directly correlates to the current spirit cultivation level of their owners. In the future, Xiao Fang will need to supplement her with spirit energy from time to time to keep her alive and healthy. Though they can last many months without it, they can't last forever. If Xiao Fang were to die, she can only stay next to his body till she rather starves to death or finds another cultivator to make a contract with.

Before her owner died he told her to scare away anyone that tried to find him using a technique called 'Fear', he never said what to do if someone were to pass through it so she put her self interests first and used this opportunity to survive.

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She explained all of it to Xiao Fang as she rested on his shoulder and exited the cave.

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Meanwhile, Li Lian, Xun Wei, and Gao Chen were in a bit of a sticky situation. The reason their path had the least number of rats in it was because there were the most number of iron golems buried in the walls.

The first golem was taken cared of by Gao Chen, but the second required all three of them to take down. They decided to take a break but was spotted by a 3rd iron golem. They escaped and were now in hiding.

”Dammit, that Xiao Fang is trying to get us killed”, Li Lian said.

”I'm sure he'll get here soon”, Xun Wei smiled bitterly before taking out 2 pills for Gao Chen to eat.

”We'd have a better chance getting out of this alive if he's at his strongest”, she thought.

Gao Chen was breathing heavily with his head rested back on the wall. When he saw the way Xun Wei offer him some spirit pills he felt warm. No one in the Black Paradise sect treated the boys kindly, especially the beautiful girls. It was in that moment that he decided to try to take Xun Wei as his wife.

”There's no way she'd settle for that blind coward”, he thought.

”I'm too tired, please feed it to me”, he said.

She cupped the spirit pill in her pretty jade-like hands and brought it to his mouth. He picked it up with his tongue, inevitably licking her palm in the process. Xun Wei's brows furrowed when she felt his wet tongue tickle her palm.