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"Well, you probably don't know but this whole situation happened because someone tried to assassinate me today. If not for my healing abilities, I would already be dead." Xuefeng explained with a sigh. He was still shocked from everything that occurred earlier.

"Who would want to kill you?" Yiren asked worriedly sitting next to him on the sofa.

"It is someone who is actually courting Tianshi, my girlfriend which I had even before I met you guys. He must have learned that she has a boyfriend and tried to get rid of me." Xuefeng smiled wryly. He was already fed up with those spoiled Young Masters.

"Mother, is that girl nice? You must have seen her right?" Yiren asked her mother with a hint of jealousy in her voice as Xuefeng didn't call her his girlfriend yet.

"Hmm, she is passable… I think we will have no problems talking with her. She also cares about Xuefeng a lot. What, you wanted to keep Xuefeng here, right?" The Queen thought for a second and gave her honest opinion before asking with a smile.

"Mhmm…" Yiren nodded as she placed her head on Xuefeng's shoulder.

"That's not the solution at all. I want to get stronger to protect all of you. And I would have to leave you from time to time to do that, but I can promise you that I will be always coming back. You are my precious girlfriend after all." Xuefeng shook his head rejecting their thoughts before he kissed Yiren on the forehead and told her what she wanted to hear.

"What about me?" The Queen asked from the other side, feeling left out.

"Well, what about you? I don't know, you tell me. I don't think good girlfriends are trying to dig holes in front of their boyfriends. You really had to make your ex-lover angry? You know that Xiao Feng will vent his anger on me when I come back, right?" Xuefeng rolled his eyes hearing the Queen and asked with frustration. He still did not get payback for what she did in his clan.

"Oh come on, I was just a little bit jealous, alright? You did not need to kiss with that Tianshi right in front of me, okay?" The Queen tried to defend herself immediately but facing Xuefeng's stern gaze, she ended up losing her mighty temper and apologized, "I'm sorry… Don't be mad at me…", while snuggling herself into his embrace.

"Eh, you should be helping me next time instead of acting like that. You are not alone anymore." Xuefeng sighed and caressed Queen's delicate cheek.

"Mhmm…" The Queen nodded, slowly changing her single mother mindset. She didn't have anyone who cared for her like this in a long time.

"Alright, now let's think of a solution to another issue. What are we going to do with Yiren's and mine connection? I'm guaranteed to get hurt multiple times in the future. Is she going to suffer each time I am taking a fight or can we somehow fix it?" Xuefeng pushed them away to the side and turned serious for a moment. He could not focus at all when their ample chests rubbed against his arms.

"I don't even know how it works. Yiren, do you feel when I touch him?" The Queen touched Xuefeng lightly on the hand and asked her daughter.

"I do not. To be honest I only felt strong emotions and the moment when Xuefeng was actually hurt. If the emotion is not strong enough, it is not sent over to me, I think." Yiren shook her head, denying.

"I recall now that I felt a strong feeling of longing. Was it you who missed me so much?" Xuefeng asked with a smile.

"Yes… I also felt some emotions of yours like a lot of pleasure. You must have had a great time with Tianshi. Every night… I almost couldn't sleep." Yiren nodded shyly before her cheeks blushed as she exposed Xuefeng's night games.

"Cough, cough… I am sorry." Xuefeng apologized knowing that his intimate activities with Tianshi did not belong to short ones. It was either him that reached his limits or Tianshi who begged for mercy.

"How about we test what level of the pain is transferred?" Before Yiren could respond, the Queen pulled out a small but sharp knife and asked while stabbing it towards Xuefeng's leg.

"What are you doing!?" Xuefeng, fortunately, noticed it and managed to grab her hand in time.

"Hehe, I just wanted to test something." The Queen giggled and tucked the knife away.

"Can you stop with your jealousy already? You really need some spanking recently. But I guess the best punishment for you, would be the lack of it." Xuefeng asked speechlessly realising why she acted like that.

"..." The Queen took a deep breath and pouted while puffing out her cheeks. It was obvious that Xuefeng hit the nail on the coffin.

"Acting cute won't help you," Xuefeng smirked before he called out to Ling in his mind,

'Did you figure out how to solve this problem? I don't want her to suffer in the future.'

'I did. It seems like your spirits were connected by Wisdom Tree with her Fate Qi, but with my current strength, I cannot fix it. I think she is the only one who can do something with it but if Wisdom Tree didn't mention it since we came here, then I guess even she can not do it. Maybe she will tell you why when you meet up with her.' Ling told her thoughts to Xuefeng.

'Eh, I guess I will have to figure it out. Time to start my training.' Xuefeng sighed in his mind and asked out loud, "Yiren, would you mind teaching me Elemental Arts for fire, earth and water? Later when I enter Wisdom Tree Space for training, I will ask her if she can undo our connection, so don't worry, you will not have to suffer anymore.

"Of course I can help you…" Yiren agreed immediately but she didn't have much enthusiasm when she said it as if something was bothering her.

"What happened? Do you feel unwell?" Xuefeng asked seeing her conflicted face.

"I actually do not want to lose the link I have with you… I kind of like the idea of being connected to my lover." Yiren expressed her thoughts which conflicted with everything they were worried about.

"Why didn't you tell us from the start?" Xuefeng asked confused. He was almost stabbed by the Queen to test the functioning of this connection, even if it was out of her jealousy.

"You didn't ask me for my opinion…" Yiren said, feeling wronged.

"I will still try to make it easier for you and I will attempt to lessen the pain you can receive if I get hurt. I do not like it when someone is getting hurt because of me, okay?" Xuefeng offered a compromise which Yiren gladly took.

"Yeah, leave me alone while you train. I will just sit here and take care of my stuff." Seeing them ready to leave, the Queen called out to them sarcastically while she pouted cutely, folding her arms under her ample bosom.

Xuefeng laughed inwardly before he proceeded to leave while holding onto Yiren's hand, teasing her with words, "Okay, as you wish. I was just about to offer you to train with us but if you wish to stay then we are leaving."

Only when they actually left did Queen's stubborn face fell and she called out, "Wait for me!"

"She really did it… I thought she will struggle for a bit but she killed it swiftly and cleanly. I really like her. Should I give her the Ranged Manipulation Blood Art? Or maybe Shackles of Doom…" the middle-aged man watched as Wuying pulled out her daggers from the Lizard's skull and could not help but get excited.

"Aren't you going too far? These are not meant to appear under Heaven's Realm! How about giving her something less dangerous than that?" The old man slapped his forehead and scolded his partner. He was worried that the father will punish both of them for his companion's recklessness.

"Hehe, too late. She will get both. Buhahaha!" The middle-aged man giggled as his hands turned golden and he started forming an orb before sending it towards Wuying. When she caught it, he started to laugh maniacally causing the old man to sigh deeply.

"Not only will she receive the Blood Essence Liquid which will increase her affinity to Blood Element but also her pool of arts gained a significant extension. If she does not reach great heights in her life then I will eat my shoes. You definitely created a monster." The old man said as he watched Wuying absorb the golden orb before entering the cave with the reward for clearing the Blood Inheritance.

"Why are you complaining so much. It was you who first started to bend the rules when you allowed that Tianshi chick to keep her memories and now you are scolding me." The middle-aged man rolled his eyes and asked fed up.

"Bah, you can't compare them both. It is like comparing something like stealing a bun to robbing the whole caravan. But okay, let's say we are even now." The old man gave up trying to convince his partner.

"Heh, anyway what are we doing now? Are we switching back to observing Xuefeng? It is much more exciting to watch the girls though…" The middle-aged man smirked thinking he won and asked about their next plans.

"We should as it was our main task after all. It would be bad if something happened to…" The old man decided quickly, but before he could finish talking, he felt as if something entered into his head and he heard a familiar voice inside his head calling out to him in a stern voice, 'What are you two doing? I thought I made myself clear? Meet me at my place right now.'

The old man instantly stiffened and replied in his mind, 'Yes father, we are going back right away.'

Only after his response did he feel that the presence inside of his head disappeared at once. The old man looked at his partner to check if he got the same information and saw him shaking, with his smile frozen on his face.

"Damn, we are screwed! What are we going to do?!" The middle-aged man panicked, thinking that he was busted for his actions from a moment ago.

"It was all your fault! Now we will face punishment because of you. Let's go, father is waiting…" The old man blamed his companion and opened a portal for them, not wasting any time.

The middle-aged man looked at the old man who already walked into the portal and reluctantly followed after him.

The moment they disappeared, was at the same time when Wuying was done absorbing both the Golden Orb and Blood Essence Liquid. Wuying was still in shock when she read the descriptions of Blood Arts she got as a reward. She was sure that in Xiao Wen's explanation, the reward for clearing the Blood Inheritance was only the Blood Essence Liquid and she never mentioned such high-quality Blood Arts.

"Xuefeng will definitely be in shock when I show him my new skills," Wuying said with a smile, beaming with confidence and entered the portal leading to the outside of the Inheritance Grounds.

The first thing she heard after leaving was Xiao Wen's voice but not in the way she expected. Instead of waiting patiently for her and congratulating for finally passing the trials, Xiao Wen was yelling at one guy as she pummeled his face with her fist.

Xiao Wen punched the guy who was talking pervertedly about her in secret before she lifted him up by the shirt and questioned, "What did you say about my butt?! Can you repeat, please? I do not think everyone heard you."

"I-I'm sorry, please leave me alone!" The unlucky guy begged for mercy, regretting everything he said. He looked for help towards his friends but every single one of them avoided his gaze, causing him to fall into despair even deeper.

"Your friends will not help you right now! What did you say that you are going to do to me?! Tell everyone!" Xiao Wen's free hand burned with fire and she once again yelled at the youngster who dared to talk bad things about her.

"I… I said that I want to…" The youngster stuttered for a bit as he began to say and in the end, he couldn't finish the sentence.

"Louder and clearer! Make everyone hear you or else I will burn something precious from your body. Hehe." Xiao Wen lifted him up higher and the fire on her left hand burned even stronger than before as she glanced at the man's crotch.

"Please don't! I will say it! I said I want to ravage your sexy butt with my long meat!" Under Xiao Wen's pressure, the man finally told everyone what he said and everyone shook their head, knowing what was going to happen next.

"Miss Xiao! Please have mercy on our young master. He is still young and is our clan's hope. I hope you can spare him today, please." An elder of the youngster finally came to the scene and begged for mercy on behalf of his Young Master.

"I guess you are lucky today..." Xiao Wen said to the young man, starting to lower him down to the ground contrary to everyone expectations. They were anticipating some nice action and got disappointed seeing that the mighty Xiao Wen actually gave up.

"Thank you, Miss Xiao. Our clan will definitely send an apology to…" "Aaaaargh" The elder bowed to Xiao Wen, praising her decision but he didn't expect that in the next moment he would hear a sound of a punch and the wild cry of his Young Master.

"... That I decided to leave you alone after only one punch. If there is a next time, it will be your head that will break." Xiao Wen finished her sentence before she threw the youngster towards his elder, leaving a warning.

"Damn…" Everyone in the crown called out under their breaths, cancelling their previous statements. In the end, Xiao Wen did not change at all.

The Elder extinguished the flames on his young master's crotch before he dragged him away from Xiao Wen as he cried from the pain. Looking at his young master's precious area, burned and crushed completely, the elder could only sigh. His clan certainly would not try to ask for a reimbursement from the Xiao Family.

"Wen, I'm back." Seeing that Xiao Wen was done, Wuying approached her with a sweet smile. She didn't look like a girl who had been killing beasts for the last week without any long breaks.

"Oh, welcome back! I just came not long ago and look at those bastards. All men are perverts! I see you finally succeeded. Let's go, we will talk on the way." Xiao Wen hugged Wuying lovingly and pulled her away from the crowd.

As they walked away, many wondered who the beauty that appeared to be Xiao Wen's friend was and as they understood from their conversation, had actually passed the Blood Inheritance Trials. Some even asked their servants to investigate and regretted that they didn't observe the new girl for a little longer.

"Yeah, most of them are but Xuefeng is an exception. He is a gentleman." Wuying nodded but defended her own man.

"True. I can't imagine him ever saying such stuff." Xiao Wen thought for a moment but couldn't imagine Xuefeng saying any perverted stuff like that. She giggled and asked playfully, "How about you give him to me then? I will take good care of him. Hehe."

"Nope, he is mine!" Wuying disagreed immediately and tickled Xiao Wen on her side as revenge.

"Haha, I'm joking! Are we going to eat something before we set off back to your clan?" Xiao Wen asked after she laughed.

"Sure." Wuying nodded, actually feeling a bit of hunger from all of her recent fighting.

"Okay follow me. I will show you the best restaurant in the capital." Xiao Wen said with a smile as she pulled Wuying by the hand but in her mind, she was asking herself a question, 'Was I really joking…?'

...….

"What are your worries, Little Ming? You only come here when something is bothering you." The man everyone calls a Father asked, seeing a cute little bunny appear inside his space once again.

"I asked you to observe Xuefeng but where were your lackeys when he got hurt?" Little Ming pouted as she looked angrily at the man.

"He got hurt? Why don't I know anything? What are you two doing? I thought I made myself clear? Meet me at my place right now." The Father frowned and called out loudly into the air.

"Don't ask me, ask them…" Little Ming zipped up her hoodie and folded her hands across her chest while moving with her hoodie rabbit ears left and right.

It took a moment for them to arrive and the first thing what the middle-aged man did was pointing at the old man and crying out, "It wasn't me! It was him!"

"What do you mean it was not you?! Liar! It was your idea, to begin with!" The old man followed up immediately with defence, afraid that the Father would actually believe his partner's fake statement.

"Silence!" The Father stopped their argument with one word and asked sternly, "I do not know what you are talking about, but why was the attack on Xuefeng not reported to me?"

"Wait, what? Xuefeng got injured?" Both of them stopped arguing and asked simultaneously, looking surprised.

The Father raised his eyebrow not even shocked at this point and asked them with a sigh,

"Oh, great. You don't even know anything about it. What is the use of having you two here then? How about I send you two back to the Middle Heaven instead?"

"Nooo, we love it here! Father, you told us to observe Xuefeng and his friends and that's what we were doing. Xuefeng was safe in his clan, training with his lover Xiao Tianshi every day, so we started observing Wuying for a moment instead. We were just about to go back to check on Xuefeng when we received your call." The middle-aged man was the first to react and explained truthfully. He also secretly sighed in relief when he learned that father did not call them in for another matter.

"Why do you bother to look at other women. Xuefeng is the most important!" Little Ming called out puffing her cheeks as she glared at the middle-aged man. She did not care about other women and only Xuefeng was her objective.

She didn't know that her act of trying to look angry made her even cuter than she was before, but they didn't want to die, so they refrained from commenting.

"But even if something happens, we can't interfere within the world under Heaven's Realm, right? Father, you asked us to watch him, but can we actually help him if he needs it?" The middle-aged man said innocently, providing a point to their discussion. When the old man heard him, he almost choked but quickly covered it with a cough. In his mind, there was only one word describing his partner, "Shameless."

"Hmm, true. What do you think Little Ming? Should the Heavens favour one human over another? We made a promise to stay neutral. Even if he is the Fate Law Holder, we can't meddle into their matters. If Ascended Fate Law Holders learns about this, they would definitely call us unfair. What do you want us to do?" The Father agreed with them, explaining the importance of Heaven's fairness and asked Little Ming for her opinion.

Little Ming changed the look on her face and finally turned serious. The demeanour of an ancient being showed up and she called out with the power emanating from her voice, "As a mother to all Fate Laws, I'm the one who calls the shots. I don't care what others think. I want Xuefeng as my next holder and I will wait until he is ready. Don't ask me what to do. Just make sure he is safe until he is strong enough to hold the weight of my power. All of my preparations will be for nothing if he suddenly dies."

Her voice created an invisible force that anchored on the men's spirits, where only the Father was alright under its siege. The duo of the old and middle-aged men couldn't withstand the pressure and paled a bit trying to defend against it. Only when she was done talking did they breathe in relief.

"Little Ming, you are so cute when you are getting serious. There, there. Are you better now?" The Father who was completely unaffected, walked up to the rabbit hooded teen and patted her gently on the head, before proposing a deal, "How about this, we will warn him when he is in danger, but it will be his job to survive it, okay?"

"Fine…" Little Ming nodded while accepting the pats on the head. The Father knew that those were her favourite.

"You two, go back and continue your job. You heard Little Ming?" The Father turned towards the duo and commanded.

"Yes." They both nodded, feeling relieved that they can stay outside the Middle Heaven for much longer.

"Xuefeng is in my space at the moment, so I will take care of him for now. You can find something to do for yourselves in the meantime. I'm going. Xuefeng might come to meet with me soon." Little Ming said sweetly before she opened a portal for herself and disappeared without saying goodbye.

When the duo also left, arriving back inside the Blood Inheritance they looked at each other and wiped the imaginary sweat from their foreheads.

"Uff, that was close. I thought we're done for. Let's wait in the Liu Clan until Xuefeng comes back." The middle-aged man said and the old man responded with a nod, not commenting on their close call situation.

When Father was left alone, he chuckled as he sat back down to his game, saying, "Oh this Xuefeng, what a lucky guy."

...….

"Okay so with this one art we are done with the Fire Element, right? What will you teach me next?" Xuefeng asked after he shot three fireballs consecutively into the air from the balcony. The Fire Qi looked very different from his Black Slayer Flames but it was easier to handle and he could do whatever he wanted with it.

Only now did Xuefeng realise the benefits of becoming a Royal Half-Elf. He did not need to waste his fate stones and instead just absorbed the Fire Essence directly from the air. It was much harder to absorb earlier, but when he tried to absorb it with a Royal Half-Elf body, the essence started flowing into him without any problems.

It was, of course, much slower compared to the efficiency of the miniature Wisdom Trees, but he could at least save some Fate Stones, which were very precious.

Xuefeng could still be considered a Spirit King based on the quantity of his Qi, but after he filled another sector wthin his dantian with Fire Qi, he was already very close to the breaching the Spirit Lord stage barrier.

Xuefeng also decided that when he goes back, he needs to slowly increase his Spirit Qi level as well. Right now, he couldn't cast many high consumption spells as his dantian was lacking Qi.

From the Queen, Xuefeng learned that Elemental Qi is much more flexible than Spirit Qi because he could form it into any spell he wished. For example, if you want a bigger fireball, just add more Qi and it's done. There is no need for Elemental Qi manuals to be created unless you want to show others your ideas just as the academies do. You can always learn without manuals just by looking at someone performing the art and blatantly copying them.

With Spirit Arts, it's different as they are much more complex and most things that need to be done are hidden from the viewer's eyes. Xuefeng preferred this form of learning compared to the Spirit Arts' one. He could ask others like Xiao Wen to show him some of her cool arts.

"Yes, I already showed you every Fire Art that I know. Can you even remember all of them?" The Queen asked doubtfully seeing how confident Xuefeng was. He asked her to show him all of her arts which numbered about ten, and she displayed them all.

"Yeah, don't worry. I have a very good memory." Xuefeng smiled confidently but then he heard Ling comment inside his mind, 'No you don't. It's me who is doing all the work…'

'Shhh…' Xuefeng hushed her in his mind while keeping a smile and said to the ladies, "How about we move to the next element?"

The Queen looked at her daughter and they smiled at each other, folding their hands across their chest, before staring at Xuefeng with evil smiles.

"What are you doing?" Xuefeng asked, feeling that something was off.

"We want payment for our services. As for the form of payment, we can accept kisses. You agree with me Yiren?" The Queen demanded.

"Yes, we want kisses!" Yiren called out happily.

"When did you both plan this?" Xuefeng asked curiously as his mouth curved into a smirk. He had not heard them discuss it since he got to the Holy Land.

"We don't need a plan as we both know what we want," Yiren said as she walked forward and hugged Xuefeng's arm between her chest.

"Okay, but only one and we are going back to training." Xuefeng couldn't help but start bargaining the price.

'No, we want at least five." The Queen demanded as she hugged Xuefeng's chest, allowing him to embrace her.

"Let's close it within 3 then… Mhmm... That's one." Xuefeng gave her the last deal and gave her a quick three seconds kiss before he called out with a smile.

"Hey, that's cheating." The Queen accused Xuefeng but he didn't listen as he was already in the process of kissing Yiren.

When she saw the trick Xuefeng used on her mother, she acted smarter and used her tongue in her first kiss to increase the time and it worked, but not for long. Xuefeng danced around with her for a few rounds before he slipped away.

Turning back towards the Queen, he didn't need to wait before he was attacked by her. This time, she used her free hand to hold onto his head, to force him to kiss her for a little bit longer, but Xuefeng suddenly slapped her on her butt, squeezing it forcefully which caused her to loosen the hold on him.

"That's two," Xuefeng said with a smile before he switched back to Yiren. She didn't try to trick him anymore and just enjoyed the kiss. To her surprise, Xuefeng gave a deep and long kiss with many actions, causing the Queen to pout.

"You still want to use tricks? Look how nice Yiren is. Nice girlfriends get longer kisses." Xuefeng asked with a smirk, trying to fix her behaviour but he didn't expect the Queen would suddenly push him to the ground and sit down on him while pinning his arms before starting her third kiss.

This time he couldn't escape from her in any way and for the next ten minutes, the Queen was selfishly enjoying playing around with his warm tongue. Only after she was satisfied did she let go of his arms.

"If you want to tease me you first have to be stronger than me." The Queen whispered as she caressed his cheek before she stood up and said to Yiren who was sitting next to them waiting, "Sweety, I'm sorry I took so long. You can claim your third kiss now."

Yiren leaned over, giving Xuefeng a peck kiss on the lips and said with a sweet smile, "I like short kisses as well."

'Damn, Ling, can you remind me later, that when I finally get stronger than her, I need to slap her butt at least one hundred times?' Xuefeng cursed in his mind as he stood up and watched his unruly Queen stare at him with a victorious smirk.

'Heh, sure, but you are not going to beat her in the near future. I do not think that anyone in this world can beat her.' Ling chuckled, hearing Xuefeng's statement.

'What? She is that strong? What makes you say so?' Xuefeng was quite shocked hearing about this news from Ling. He never expected that one of his lovers would actually be this powerful.

'Yes, if we only count normal cultivators with Fate Fragments Holders excluded then Xiao Feng is supposed to be the strongest in the world, right? Well, I think that the Queen is much tougher than him. I wouldn't be surprised if she could defeat him with one move.' Ling speculated, shocking Xuefeng once again.

The mad look he used to give her not a long ago changed into the one of admiration. He could not say that he didn't like having the strongest women as his girlfriend.

'Can you guess what her current stage is at?' Xuefeng asked as he stood up. He wanted to scold the Queen for her bad behaviour but now those plans were put on hold after he heard Ling's hypothesis.

'If I were forced to guess, I would say she is comparable to a cultivator in a God Stage or even higher. From the earlier showcase of her skills, I can tell that she not only has a huge quantity of Qi but also her precision is top notch. Let's not forget about her special ability similar to telekinesis that Royal Elfs possesses.' Ling said after thinking about all the possibilities.

'Wait, I don't even know all stages of the cultivation. What are the stages above the Spirit Saint?' Xuefeng asked curiously. He didn't think he would need to know about those stages this fast, so he had not researched about it yet.

'After Spirit Saint stage you have Spirit Sage and a Spirit Monarch stage. Basically, the whole mortal Spirit Cultivation is split into three sections. From Spirit Master to Spirit King, then Spirit Lord to Spirit Emperor and lastly Spirit Saint to Spirit Monarch. After breaking through from one section to another, you will gain a significant boost to your strength.

'When you reach the Spirit Lord stage, your spirit will increase in size and your Spirit Awareness will also gain a boost. After you reach Spirit Saint, you basically gain the ability to fly. You already have both of those with the help of Elemental Cultivation and me, but it's still an increase in strength.' Ling explained as Xuefeng slowly approached the Queen.

'What about this God stage? It is after the Spirit Monarch one, right?' Xuefeng asked as he stopped in front of the Queen looking at her curiously. She was still waiting for his reaction with a smile.

'Yes. After Spirit Monarch stage which Xiao Feng is in, there is a God stage. If you reach that one, you will be forced to ascend into Heaven Realm. From that point onward, you are not a mortal anymore. Your lifespan will be increased and the cultivation will change diametrically, but It's useless to explain it to you now. You have to first reach that stage and I will tell you at that time.' Ling confirmed and described a little bit further before ending her lecture.

'Okay, I get it now. Thanks for your teachings.' Xuefeng got a headache when he realised how long the cultivation road is ahead of him.

"Is something wrong? You are so quiet..." The Queen asked seeing Xuefeng was blankly staring at her. The pressure was raising for her as she thought that he expected her to apologise, which she didn't want to do. She would never admit a mistake if she thought that she was right.

"Nothing, you girls are just really pretty. Can't I gaze at you for a moment?" Xuefeng smiled as he reached out to caress their cheeks with each hand. Yiren was beaming with happiness and only the Queen was confused.

"Wait, there must be something wrong with you… Is this my Xuefeng?" The Queen touched Xuefeng's face before she circled around him, checking if she didn't mistake him for someone else.

"You are not going to scold me?" The Queen asked hesitantly.

"Did you do something wrong for me to scold you?" Xuefeng replied with a question.

"You will not threaten to slap me on my butt?" The Queen asked once again.

"Do I need to threaten you to touch your butt?" Xuefeng asked as he grabbed her by the waist before sliding down towards her buttcheek, giving it a light slap and a solid squeeze. He maintained eye contact with her the whole time while smiling warmly, causing her brain to almost overheat.

"No… I want you to touch it…" The Queen said slowly, following the direction he was leading her.

"Listen to me, both of you. It's not like I don't want to kiss you. It is the opposite. I crave to kiss and hug you whenever I am near you. That's why I need to hold myself back or I will slack with my training once again. How can I resist such beauty…" Xuefeng hugged them both into his embrace and explained his struggles, reaching straight into their hearts.

"You know that I want to get stronger to protect everyone I care about, and you two are also my women which I want to guard. I already got attacked once, causing Yiren to get hurt. I definitely don't want to repeat that." Xuefeng continued hugging them even closer, showing his love.

"How about I go out with you when you travel and no one will be able to touch you? Maybe you don't know this but I'm strong enough to beat anyone in this world. You won't need to worry about… Auu, what was that for?" the Queen proposed after hearing his story, but Xuefeng did not allow her to end and slapped her firm butt, this time using some strength.

"Tell me, who is your man?" Xuefeng asked sternly.

"You." The Queen answered without hesitation.

"Then you should know that it's a man's responsibility to protect what he holds dear to his heart. Would you love a man who just hides behind you like a coward and makes use of your strength to live an easy life under your protection...? Exactly, you wouldn't. I will one day become more powerful than you and it will be my job to shield you. If you think of me as your man then never say something like that ever again." Xuefeng reprimanded the Queen in the calm tone making her realise her mistake.

In the end, he managed to hear from the Queen the words that are rarely spoken out of her mouth, "I'm sorry…"

"It's okay. Are we going to continue our training without any disturbance? I want to be the pillar of support for you guys. To do that I need to train seriously. The faster we end my training, the quicker we can switch to something more pleasant." Xuefeng kissed them both lightly before finally continuing with their training.

This time the ladies didn't have any problems and were even much more enthusiastic for the work. Sometimes all you need to do to solve your issue is a simple conversation.

For the next few hours, Xuefeng was listening to the ladies as they explained the other two elements that he was lacking, earth and water. Yiren was a much better teacher if they were talking about calm elements like water or air and the Queen was definitely an expert in the other elements like fire and lightning.

Listening to her explaining various cool spells and arts you can create was not only enlightening for him, but also for Ling who thought her previous master was already the master of the lightning element.

Both ladies were adding stuff to each other's teachings making it more complete. Xuefeng noticed it earlier but now confirmed it, that the Queen was actually the clumsy one, forgetting the important details and often had to be reminded of them by her collected daughter.

Their routine was always beginning with first teaching Xuefeng how to absorb the elemental essence of the current element, but that wasn't a problem for him as he had the help of Ling. The second move was filling his dantian to the brim with Qi, before starting to slowly test it out with multiple spells.

Xuefeng didn't have problems with the first and the second step, as for those moments, if he wasn't clear on everything, he could always ask again or count on Ling's help. What was troubling him was the third step, when he had to be the one to fully control the spells all the time.

Xuefeng was much better with straightforward elements like fire, lightning or air, which didn't require much mastery and allowed the user to unleash its powers pretty easily. He struggled with others that required a lot of control and the ladies had to repeatedly display them for him to get it right.

Fortunately, they were very patient with him and did not complain much. They understood how much Xuefeng wanted to be useful to them, instead of just acting like support.

The most difficulties Xuefeng had, was with the earth element, as he had to control his Earth Qi outside of his body. It worked very differently compared to other elements as he had to use already existing earth or other natural sources as materials in his spells. Inside the palace, there was not much typical earth he could use, but there was another material like wood which also worked just fine.

"Gosh, it takes so much time to control my Qi inside objects. It is much more difficult than in the air. If I was fighting right now I would already be killed ten times over… Why is this Qi moving so slow..." Xuefeng commented frustrated as he tried to move his Qi around inside the floor. He wasn't even on the step of manipulating the wood into different shapes like a spike or a wall, and he was already having troubles.

"Just take it easy. You are starting from the highest difficulty,so it's obvious that you will have troubles. The same technique you use while channelling your Qi within air doesn't apply here. This wood has a much higher density than a normal one, which means it's much harder and has less space to transport your QI inside of it." Yiren explained as she was the one teaching Xuefeng about Earth Element.

"Then how should I do it?" Xuefeng asked as he recalled all Earth Qi inside his body once again. The maximum speed he achieved was about one meter per second which was way too slow for him to accept. In most battles, this one second is what decides the winner.

"First you need to change your mindset and think outside of the box. If you can't transfer your Qi through the tiny gaps in the wood, what else can you use? Try to not complicate things too much and use the simplest method as a solution." Yiren smiled and asked, hoping he would be the one to answer his own question.

"Hmm, let me think… What else is inside the wood I can use... I'm dumb." Xuefeng thought for a moment, sending his Earth Qi inside the floor and slapped his head right after when he finally realised how stupid he was.

"Who would have thought it would take you so long…?" The Queen commented from the side with a playful smile but that didn't demotivate Xuefeng. He was not a person who can't accept critique.

Of course, it doesn't mean that he will allow the Queen to tease him without consequences. He can always get revenge on her later. Instead of replying her, Xuefeng released his Earth Qi and spread it all around in the room without any problems.

In his defence, when he first channelled his Qi into the floor, he was met with resistance when he tried to enter the wood, and his Qi was pushed into the empty pores inside the wood. He thought that it was the right way and continued doing it that way. After all, everyone learns after their mistakes, and Xuefeng wasn't perfect.

Following the notice of his error, Xuefeng tried pushing his Qi into the wood with enough strength and succeeded.

"Great Xuefeng! Now try to merge your Earth Qi with the Wood, and you will be able to form and shape it as you wish. Don't just transfer the Qi around, control the wood." Yiren called out happily feeling Xuefeng's Qi flowing around the floor, and continued her teachings.

"Look, I will show you." Yiren gained his attention before she demonstrated how it should look like. After her Earth Qi entered the floor, it instantly started its wonders. The floor behind her shifted and small block of wood grew upwards, acting as a chair for her.

"Hmm, interesting. Let me try." Xuefeng called out as he focused on one point in the floor, gathering all of his Qi at one place and started merging with the wood. It quickly started to shake and something began to rise. The floors in the palace were quite thick as it was carved with Earth Qi inside the Parent Tree so there was no need to worry about destroying anything.

Suddenly instead of repeating what Yiren did, a small ball began to rise and something underneath it exploded, sending a ball of wood straight towards the Queen. It was almost as big as a cannonball and swiftly cut the air reaching the target immediately.

"Bam!" The ball was stopped in the air with a loud bang by the Queen's reached out hand. The ball was still spinning for a while before it stopped, staying still in the air as if it was glued to Queen's hand.

"Hah, interesting. You added Air Qi blast to create a bullet even before you mastered the elements completely." The Queen gave him an impressed glance as she laughed.

"Do you still think your man is that bad?" Xuefeng asked with a cheeky smile.

"Well, maybe he isn't that half bad, but he needs to remember that he can only tease me back only if he is stronger than me. Catch!" The Queen answered and shot the ball back towards Xuefeng without even moving her hand. Unfortunately for him, the ball was going much faster than he would have ever expected and he was hit in the stomach, throwing him to the ground.

"Ugh… Cough, cough." Xuefeng coughed a few times before he sat up as he massaged his stomach and asked in pain, "You could be a little bit gentler, okay? Do you want to kill me?"

"Hehe, you asked for it. Let's continue with our training. Our Holy Land doesn't have the best spots for training Earth Element so we can move to the last one, Water Element. You are going to train in the Wisdom Tree space later on anyway, right? You can train it there." The Queen giggled before she helped him up. Yiren knew that Xuefeng was alright as her mother wouldn't hurt him and because she didn't feel any impact with her link to Xuefeng,

"Yes, that was my plan from the beginning. I need to practice fighting with those elements as well. Will we be going outside the palace? Water is everywhere." Xuefeng nodded, without hiding the truth and asked as he started fixing up the hole in the floor.

"No. I have a better place for us." The Queen shook her head and smiled mysteriously.

When the Queen led them both out of the top room which belonged to Yiren, down towards the main lobby before heading even deeper into the palace, Yiren already had an idea of where her mother was taking them.

The Royal Elf Family palace was much bigger than Xuefeng originally thought. To his surprise, nearly the whole Parent Tree was transformed into one big home, down to the very bottom, almost reaching the Wisdom Tree cavern.

Almost all staff of the palace lived here, in the lower parts of the Parent Tree and unless they had a partner from outside of the circle, their family lived with them too. Most staff were actually elves with a high bloodline purity and they preferred to tie themselves into a relationship with someone from the palace too.

Unfortunately for them, there were much more female elves in the palace, compared to the male elves, causing many women to be single. The Queen publicly was against the polygamy, so there was no situation where the male elf had multiple wives in the palace. Some searched for a partner outside, but the majority still prefered to be single instead of marrying someone with poor bloodline.

As they walked down towards their destination, Xuefeng noticed many females were making flirtatious glances at Xuefeng in secret. First, they would greet their Queen and the Princess before their eyes were glued at him, with a look of hunger as if they wanted to eat him alive.

When Xuefeng imagined himself having hundred or more women within his own palace like this, he couldn't help but shudder. He could not even handle the ones he had right now, let alone a hundred more.

They walked for a few minutes inside the narrow corridors until they finally stopped in front of the two big doors with the steam coming out of the cracks and a lot of female chatter escaping from the inside. The Queen turned around to Xuefeng and said, "We are here. You should probably know what place it might be, right?"

"Is this some kind of a public bath?" Xuefeng asked hearing the giggles of the women inside and it was the only thing he could think of. Just as he asked, the door opened and he saw a naked beauty he already knew, Tangwei. She was hugging the towel in between her chest peaks, walking out completely exposed when she spotted them and froze.

"Good evening, my Queen. Hi, Yiren, Xuefeng." Tangwei didn't feel shocked but just surprised and quickly recovered as she greeted them accordingly. She smiled to the Queen, hugged Yiren and kissed Xuefeng on his cheek as a greeting, not bothered by the fact that her naked body was just seen by Xuefeng.

Her hair was still wet and fresh from her bath a moment ago so she made Xuefeng's shoulders wet and allowed him to breathe a great aroma.

"Tangwei would you mind clearing the bathroom for us? We want to practice here for a while." the Queen asked Tangwei while looking at Xuefeng with a sharp gaze. Seeing the Queen acting like that, he made sure to keep his eyesight up on the eye level to avoid looking at Tangwei's body.

"No problem. Most girls are already done, they are just playing around." Tangwei replied and went back to the bathroom, moving with her rear from left to right with each step. At that time, Xuefeng finally couldn't resist and looked downwards, just in the time to see the last few steps of Tangwei before the door closed.

He could almost see her buttcheeks spread just enough to glance at her special place when the Queen appeared next to him and elbowed him in his side.

"Cough, what? I'm a man. If I see a naked girl before me I won't look away. It doesn't mean that I will touch her, right?" Xuefeng coughed before defending himself from her silent accusations.

The Queen looked at him in confusion, saying in wonder, "I do not know what are you talking about. I didn't ask you to explain yourself to me or anything. There was a bug on you, so I tried to kill it, but it ran away," before a smile finally appeared on her lips.

"Tsk, then I won't say anything." Xuefeng snickered before he thought, 'We will see who is the last person to laugh soon…'

After an about a minute, the doors opened once more and they could see multiple palace servant elf girls walking out completely naked with only a small towel which they hugged on their chests. Xuefeng realised it wasn't just Tangwei who was this bold, but every female elf was like this.

"Good evening, my Queen, Princess." They bowed to the Queen and Yiren as they walked out and after checking Xuefeng out, they bypassed them, entering into other corridor leading to their quarters.

"Good, mhmm… evening ladies." The Queen wanted to greet them back but suddenly, she felt Xuefeng clutch his hand onto her butt causing her to let off a quiet moan, breaking her speech.

The Queen maintained the smile on the face, acting as if nothing happened and thinking that Xuefeng was done playing with her, she continued her greeting, "Have a great, Ahh… night."

She didn't think that Xuefeng will continue his teasing, causing her to moan once again.

He was right behind her so the servant ladies didn't see what Xuefeng was doing with his hand and thought that the Queen was acting weird. Of course, they didn't dare to point it out and accepted the greeting. They wouldn't expect that Xuefeng was doing such things to their Queen, so they didn't even bother looking down at Queen's bottom.

While the girls were leaving public bath, Xuefeng began to tease her crevice with the finger after his hand sneaked inside of her dress. The Queen was anxious about exposing their relationship so she couldn't stop him while everyone was looking and he gladly took that chance to continue taking advantage of her.

His fingers even entered inside of her, creating a wet mess and only after everyone was out and Tangwei departed with everyone did the Queen grab his hand.

"Crack!" Xuefeng's wrist bones broke under the Queen's pressure but he was still able to keep a smile on his face, satisfied from his silly revenge.

"We will have problems if others learn about our relationship… Don't you know that?" The Queen asked pretending to be angry while still holding onto his hand.

"Why can't they learn about us? Just tell everyone that I turned into an elf and that we are all together. You are the Queen. Who can stop you?" Xuefeng smiled, getting rid of Queen's grasp which she loosened and moved past her, entering into the bathroom.

"Right… I'm the Queen..." The Queen repeated the sentence out loud and felt her daughter's warmth on top of her hand.

Yiren gave her a loving smile and she returned it before they both entered inside the bathroom after Xuefeng.

'You were supposed to take your training seriously but you are playing around once again.' Ling complained.

'I know… It just happens. Can't do anything about it. I will learn the water element now and tomorrow morning I will start my training inside the Wisdom Tree space okay?' Xuefeng sighed, shrugging his shoulders and proposed a deal.

'Fine. But I expect you to find and eliminate at least one fate fragment holder in the next week. If you promise me that, you can play all you want today.' Ling agreed but gave conditions which Xuefeng accepted. They were supposed to hunt for other abilities anyway and Xuefeng knew he couldn't run away from killing in this life.

He finally entered the main hall of the bathroom and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. He certainly didn't expect them to have such a big pool right in the middle of their Parent Tree. It was almost thirty meters in diameter with a fountain in the middle which was spurting hot, steamy water into the pool.

From the edge, he could see that the pool wasn't deep but it was enough for a nice and comfortable bath. The moment he saw this place Xuefeng knew where he will have his baths from now on.

Just as he squatted to touch the water and test the temperature, he was pushed by the Queen with a slight push of her foot. When he dropped to the water he had to admit It was definitely beyond hotter than what he expected. Fortunately, thanks to his endurance he could still manage it.

Xuefeng took off his clothes immediately and asked without getting mad at her while swimming around on his back, "Are you going to join me? The water is so nice here."

"I want to!" Yiren was much faster than her mother in making up her decision, and she was first to take off her outfit. They were both wearing their standard elfish clothes as there was no special occasion today, so all Yiren need to do was to pull off the crystal which was connecting her dress pieces and it would fall off, straight to the ground.

The female elves didn't have the habit of wearing anything beneath their dresses other than their panties, so when the dress dropped off her body, Xuefeng was greeted by her round bust, right away. Yiren was already quite comfortable with Xuefeng and she didn't hesitate as she began to drop her panties while sticking out her butt at him.

Swimming closer to the edge, Xuefeng watched the scene from the best angle. Yiren slowly lowered her panties while shaking her bum left and right, before glancing playfully at Xuefeng as she allowed them to drop on the ground.

The Queen looked at her daughter acting all sexily to Xuefeng and didn't know what to say. One part of her wanted to join her, but another wanted to put Xuefeng in his place. She was a supporter of having full control, but Xuefeng was depriving her of it, time and time again.

Instead of going towards the stairs that lead into the pool, Yiren used Xuefeng's help to jump inside lightly and hugged him right after. The water in the pool wasn't deep as it only up to one's waist, but they could still sit down to enjoy themselves.

Xuefeng moved behind Yiren and while hugging her from behind, he looked at the Queen and asked seductively, "So? Do you want to join us? We are only left with Water Element and I won't be leaving to train in the Wisdom Tree space until tomorrow, so we might as well relax for a short moment."

"...Of course, I'm joining. You made me horny with your touches and now you dare to ask if I want to join you?" The Queen rolled her eyes at Xuefeng's question and replied while taking off her clothes. With one small pinch on the crystal, her whole dress fell to the ground in a similar way as her daughter's dress.

She glided with her hands up from her legs to the tips of her chest to showcase her great curves. Xuefeng felt blessed having such beauties and couldn't help but praise them both,

"Very pretty. You both are one of a kind," while kissing the one he had in his arms.

Yiren happily accepted his kiss as she leaned on his chest with her head laying on his shoulder and caressed him by the hair to hold his head in place.

After the kiss, Xuefeng looked back at the Queen and to his surprise, he saw her on all fours, crawling near the edge of the pool with her butt stuck out towards him. Turning her head to Xuefeng, she asked with a cheeky smile, "How about you help me take them off?"

If anyone saw how their strict Queen acted right now, they would be greatly shocked. For them, the Queen and the Princess were the pride of their race. They were pure and innocent with only one time when they needed to bear the child to prolong the royal line.

"I would never reject such proposition…" Xuefeng nodded as he watched her perky bottom covered in sexy lace panties and his desires started waking up, one by one. He couldn't give up such temptation so he glanced apologetically at Yiren as he let go of her and approached the edge.

Yiren looked at her mother with slight jealousy as she swam next to Xuefeng being regretful that she didn't think of such an idea herself. The Queen was moving her bottom around, increasing the temptation to the limit but when Xuefeng was finally near to give it a solid grip, she suddenly moved it away from his hand, teasing him.

"Haha, I thought you want it?" The Queen laughed and asked with an evil grin while wiggling her butt in front of his face once again. When she saw the betrayed expression on Xuefeng's face, she felt satisfied with her revenge.

Xuefeng only answered with a smirk and accepted her challenge. The next time he tried, he reached out a lot faster, but she still dodged his hands skillfully. Unfortunately for her, she couldn't dodge infinitely. The Queen was only moving forward and backwards with her lower body, without changing her knees position, so when Xuefeng got out of the pool with one leg, she was caught lying on her belly.

"You can't run away from me…" Xuefeng commented as he slapped her ass before grasping it firmly. Of course, the Queen only wanted to tease him a bit, so when he finally got her, she only laughed and allowed him to do as he pleased.

"You might be my Queen... but I am your King!" Xuefeng called out with a grin as he flipped her on the back and pulled down Queen's panties with a swift movement. Connecting her legs together, Xuefeng pulled them upwards and finally dived down for a snack.

"Aaah, yes… I waited a week for that…" The Queen looked serious on the outside, but when Xuefeng plunged his tongue inside of her, the true desires she usually hides, escaped from their hiding place as she moaned loudly with her eyes open.

As Xuefeng let go of her legs to focus on licking and sucking on her cherry bean, the Queen wrapped them around his neck, holding him in place. Even if he wanted to run away, she would not let that happen until she was satisfied.

Yiren, who was left alone pouted on the side and watched her selfish mother steal her boyfriend until she spotted something interesting, that gained her attention. She saw Xuefeng's staff already standing high and ready and couldn't help but grin, thinking, 'You are getting his lips… but I will get something even better.'

Xuefeng was slowly sliding back while dragging the Queen with him, so he can stay in the water while eating her out by the edge. He could not see Yiren who quietly dived into the water and nimbly sneaked in between Xuefeng and her mother.

She didn't have problems staying underwater for a few minutes times as with an Elemental Qi, she could gather the oxygen that was in the water and use it to breathe instead.

"Mhmm…" Xuefeng exclaimed, finally feeling that something was attacking his precious friend and tried to pull away on reflex but the Queen, having the time of her life, didn't let go of him.

Only after something soft touched the erected head, did he realise what was going on. He was quite familiar with such sensation and relaxed allowing Yiren to pleasure him as well. Yiren first played with it for a bit before she sucked on it just like Xuefeng taught her.

Teasing the tip of its head, she sucked while moving in and out until she started pushing it further inside with her tongue licking the base. She also didn't have any contact with Xuefeng for a while and she craved for his attention and love. When Xuefeng started enjoying himself, she also felt good inside but she expected it already. Due to their connection, she already knew this is going to happen.

Leaning to the wall of the pool with her back, Yiren started accepting Xuefeng as a whole as he pushed with his hips in a rhythmic manner. Pleasuring Xuefeng underwater was pretty hard for her in the first minutes as she had to make a good seal with her lips around his staff so she doesn't swallow any water but after some time she got pretty used to it and skillfully operated around it.

From time to time she would resurface to breathe fresh air before she continued her playful act. After all, the air contained in the water was not enough for her in the long run. Doing a great job, Yiren made Xuefeng reach his limits very fast for his standard but it could be blamed on the hot water which was adding to his pleasure.

Instead of swallowing everything inside her throat, she wanted to taste her favourite liquid, so she once again broke the surface. The water was only reaching up to his waist, so when she pulled it out of her mouth, it cropped up just in time to spray her whole face with his seeds. She moved it up and down trying to get as many as possible before she sucked on the tip to get the last bits.

With the transfer of emotions from Xuefeng, Yiren felt as if she was the one who came and it made her enjoy this moment even more.

The Queen was sometimes looking around and was surprised of not seeing Yiren around but with Xuefeng doing amazing work, she didn't think anything about it until she finally saw her all covered in a shiny liquid. She immediately realised what she was doing and why Xuefeng was moving around a lot.

"Hehe, first," Yiren giggled as she gathered Xuefeng's liquid from her face onto her finger before licking it in delight. She had to admit that she missed this taste and feeling.

Seeing her mother's look, she laughed even more and gathered some of the liquid before reaching out with her hand close to her mother lips, saying, "It is okay. I can share. Do you want some?"