Chapter 10

[Li Yue]

Just moments before.

The door burst open with a sudden force, jolting me sideways. Rika, stunned, swallowed hard at the sight of me. A faint smile touched my face, yet beneath that facade, anger burned within me.

I detested others disturbing my personal space. The current vulnerability I felt compelled me to launch a soul attack at her.

Although I pulled back that vicious attack at the last moment, it still created a crater in the ground, and Rika tripped herself walking through it.

The next moment, I found my body being dragged back to the soft bed by hers.

Cold.

Too fucking cold.

I glared at her, but she appeared to be in a daze as her eyes locked into mine. The room almost seemed to be trembling, almost as if it were going to run away.

Suddenly, something poked my abdomen—bitingly cold and iron-hard. I stared down, dumbfounded.

Her penis looked as if it wanted to pierce my stomach.

And just like that, my constitution activated.

A stream of yin energy rushed out of my body, forcing my core to attract yang into me. Her yang, abundant with extremely high life energy, surged into my veins.

My face warmed as the excess energy began to work wonders inside my body. Unlike before with elder Mo, the harmony formed by me and Rika expanded and strengthened my veins.

Within minutes, this harmony cleared almost all the imperfections in my veins before flowing toward my dantian and strengthening it in the process.

With the harmony active, the Void Qi in the air also rushed into my Qi pathways.

Harmony and Spiritual Energy are directly proportional to each other. Whenever the harmony increased, so did the spiritual energy absorption.

However, both of these energies have different purposes.

While harmony fixed outer existence, spiritual energy affected inner existence.

Outer existence included three human parts: the body, the dantian, and the universe.

Inner existence consisted of the spirit.

Without equilibrium in the growth of these two existences, a cultivator couldn't progress further; if they tried to do so without the equilibrium, they would explode and die.

Here, my spirit was almost at a breakthrough from Qi Awakening to Foundation Building. I just had to build a foundation to progress to another stage.

Rika moved slightly, placing her penis between my thighs and breathing in. I rolled my eyes.

"I... you... eat?" Her words became incoherent as the effect of my constitution blurred her consciousness. I also learned about the first layered skill of my constitution.

[Seduction

Quality: Divine

About: Seduction allowed me to pull the consciousness of affected people into my spirit, controlling their minds to reveal their secrets.

Drawback: People with higher spirit power can escape from the control if they sensed they were being controlled.

]

I read the details of the skill while narrowing my eyes at Rika. Skills were classified into eight qualities: Ordinary, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Immortal, and Divine.

A cultivator starts unlocking their layered skills after they reach the Qi Awakening stage. Every major stage unlocks a new layered skill; however, their quality increases in each stage.

In my previous life, I had obtained an Epic layered skill at the Qi Awakening stage. That was a huge accomplishment, even in the God's realm.

However, now I had awakened a Divine skill as my first layered skill.

Then what would be my second? My third?

Astonishment couldn't be hidden from my face. If not for Rika moving slightly and putting her penis almost into my vagina, I should have been submerged in awe.

"So, you want to eat me?" I smiled at her, a purely teasing curve of my lips.

My Seduction skill flared to life with the question, embracing her consciousness, pulling it into submission.

"No... me... eat," she mumbled, her pupils turning purple without her even noticing.

"Oh? So you want me to eat you?" I blinked, biting my lips, further muddling her senses.

That's when I noticed tears streaming down her eyes. My eyes widened when the viscous, glowing liquid fell onto my face.

"Life Gel... no... your tears. Life Gel is your tears?" It wasn't a question, but a statement of conviction.

Disbelief warred with a sudden, jarring understanding that fractured my carefully constructed composure.

Where I found the strength, I didn't know.

Perhaps it was the residual Life Gel already saturating my body, or the sheer, potent shock of the revelation.

But I sat up with a suddenness that pushed Rika back, my arms instinctively curling around her waist to keep her from tumbling off me.

Her body felt cold, soft against mine, a strange mix of human curves and something fundamentally different.

My breasts pressed against hers, soft and jelly.

Even in my shock, the sensitive parts of my body hardened with the touch.

The subtle friction, the brush of skin against skin, the faint, earthy scent of her mixed with the potent aroma of her 'tears'... it sent a confusing hum through my newly tempered nerves.

But no, this wasn't the time for such mundane distractions. Not when the universe was once again proving its absurdity before my very eyes.

As I watched, another absurd thing happened to her. A white flower suddenly bloomed atop her head, ripening with impossible speed into shimmering, crystal-like fruit.

It detached, falling directly into my outstretched palm.

My eyes snapped from her bewildered face to the fruit in my hand. Ysil.

The warmth of it, the specific silver-gold glow from its core, the faint, alluring scent—there was no mistaking it. Ysil.

The very fruit I had sought for centuries, the one that could restore life force and awaken dormant bloodlines, an item so rare it was spoken of only in whispers and legends.

And this creature, this Rika, grew it. Grew it on her head.

My expression, previously a mask of cool analysis and feigned innocence, finally cracked. The smile, the teasing glint in my eyes, vanished.

A frown, deep and dark, shadowed my face as my arms tightened around her. Not in malice, not precisely, but in a surge of overwhelming, furious comprehension.

Nothing had sparked my curiosity like this for a millennia I had lived as a true god.

"You grow Ysil on your head?"

Before I could stop myself, my voice escaped my lips, carrying the same intent I showed when something truly interesting caught my eyes.

And I regretted it, watching fear appear in Rika.

I hadn't intended to scare her. Watching tears flow from her eyes, I suddenly felt guilt.

'Guilt?'

What a strange, mundane feeling...

"Rika..." I tried to sound as friendly as possible, "what are you?"

"I-I am..."

The poor girl lost her capacity to decipher the meaning of my question. I intensified the power output of my skill, emptying the spirit energy in my dantian.

I moved my face closer to her, watching her pupils completely change into purple, and asked, "What are you, Rika?"

However, it was not she who answered, but a voice ancient and old, more so than that of the heavens. It washed into my body, into my soul, and cleansed my spirit.

"I am Yggdrasill. Mother of all creations..."

If not for my mental capacity, I should have kneeled on the ground just by hearing that voice. Still, my knuckles almost lost their function.

"Rika..."

"She is me... more like, she is the past me," the voice continued. "Before I died."