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Talent comes in many different forms.

Skill

Learning speed

Degree of focus

Appearance

...

People were born with their respective talents, some were talented in losing, some, in winning.

The world is unfair, and Cao Qingwei acknowledged that.

Since young, he had already accepted the fact that he is too good looking. Throughout his life, he had seen too many people giving him infatuated smiles. He couldn't even count how many had fallen for him after just a glance at him. Even worse, he almost fell in love with himself every time he looked at himself in the mirror...

Despite having such a fate that many thought he would become a cunning demon, his soul is pure enough to stop himself from having dark thoughts. Although he had received many marriage proposals, his heart ached every time he rejected one. At that time, he felt that, deep in his heart, his true love hasn't arrived yet.

But now things were different. From the interaction with the mysterious young man, he clearly felt his soul shook. He had a wild instinct to devour him whole, or get eaten instead. He wanted to embrace him all day long, from day till night, cycle through the years, decades, millenniums, together.

He knew, that the person he is waiting for, has arrived.

In a small, wooden abode located at the border of the Luminescent Bamboo Sect's Mozhi Mountain

Two naked figures had their bodies entangled with each other. Their arms were tightly curled around the other's body. One of them was panting loudly, he seemed to be gasping for as much oxygen as he could.

Sweat droplets were formed and trickled down his body.

"You....Long Xuzi....Have I seen you before..?" Cao Qingwei asked, his tone continuously fluctuated as he gasped for breath.

"Hehe.....don't ask silly questions, you will know it when the time comes. Now, your body is really weak so don't speak. Sigh, back in the days, you were so much more energetic..." Long Xuzi spoke as he stood up and preparing some clothes.

"Come, let's go bath." He carried the tired Cao Qingwei outside.

Mozhi Mountain is a Grade One Danger Zone, that's an undeniable fact. But the place is actually very well-known for its surrounding scenery. It's beauty of nature is top-class, and it could even compare to the scenery of the major sects. As such, many experts have treated this spot as a place for them to relax.

Long Xuzi pushed the front door open, sunlight then shone warmly on their bodies...

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Xie Qiemei is a proud woman. She was born when the sun and moon coincide. Cultivation, intelligence, soul force, appearance...she is superior in all those aspects even when compared to her sect elites. What she wants is what she gets; things were always in her favor. She is a rare talent that appears once every hundred years, and also has a great fate installed.

Due to having too much talent, her expectations for somebody to become her friend is also very high. She ignored the weak and only interact with the strong. At first, she could accustom to this lifestyle, but very quickly, her peers were left far, far behind by her ridiculous cultivation speed.

Nowadays, she rarely appeared in her sect, and is always wandering about in the Changyang Continent. Every time she traveled, nobody else accompanied her. She felt lonely, but persisted.

'No matter what, but those who want to talk to me, need to have the qualifications to do so.' Xie Qiemei's expression was cold.

Since the beginning from when she started to travel around the continent, significant progress had been made in her cultivation and martial art techniques.

The volcanoes, the desert, the arctic.

From the coldest to the hottest, she had visited them all. So many different skills were honed, it was already not an exaggeration to say that she is a prodigy.

Her body cultivation method, the Seven Ice Body, had already been trained to the 9th level of the middle stage. Just one more step is required to breakthrough this point, and step into the advanced stage.

By cultivating to the advanced stage of the Seven Ice Body, she would have power comparable to the sect's elders!

As such, she felt a surge of excitement coursing through her body when she thought of this, despite being a peacock woman.

'The Seven Ice Body has seven different mastery. To show improvement in the technique, one needs to gain enlightenment regarding the act of cruelty. Now, she had mastered three way of thoughts, and had almost consolidated the fourth one.'

'For quicker progress, I need to be in a peaceful environment.' She gazed at the sky and thought.

'The Mozhi Mountain of Luminescent Bamboo Sect would fare well...' Right after saying that, she sped off into distance.

After a few hours

'I have finally arrived'

Xie Qiemei looked around her surroundings. There, she saw the shoulders of mighty trees covering the skies, and many tall bamboos being shrouded in warm light. A little wooden house sat by the riverside, a piece of its ceiling creaked every time the wind blew slightly.

The grasses there were not tall, but not short either. Her feet stepped on patches of them and she felt a fuzzy, comfortable sensation of soft blades rubbing against her legs.

'This spot would do.' She thought, and threw out several talisman into the surroundings.

*Bzzzt* A golden hemisphere is formed with her as the centre. Immediately after its formation, she could clearly hear that the quite atmosphere became even quieter.

*Plop* She sat down crossed leg. With her back upright, she shut her eyes and prepared to meditate.

Unfortunately, things didn't went so well.

A squeaking noise was heard coming from the little abode beside the river, and its door creaked open slowly.

Xie Qiemei's sharp eyes immediately turned to focus at the source of the noise, after which they were widened.

Two naked young men! She saw two naked men! One of the things she hated the most is seeing a man's body! She hated the males themselves, but now she even had to see their naked bodies?!

She was truly angered now, or at least she thought she would be.

For some reason, she didn't feel the disgust and hatred she always get after looking at a man.

'Are the bodies of men always this good?...' Xie Qiemei's mind was spinning, she stared fixedly at their bodies, her expression was grim.

Two streaks of dark red liquid abruptly flowed out of her nostrils. She rubbed her nose, and only then she found out her fingers were dyed red.

*Boom!* Her body launched off the ground, and floated in the air. A powerful wave of aura exploded out from her! The trees shook wildly and the grasses seemed to be about to be pulled out of the ground!

This was the might of a Guanyuan Stage 3! An existence that stood at the upper chains of the continent!

"Who is it! Reveal yourself!" Xie Qiemei shouted, her voice spreading to all directions.

'To think that I wouldn't notice a smoke-type attack...'

She gritted her teeth.

'My cultivation is really too poor...'