Chapter 7

If one were to ask Yasenia whether she loves her mother or not, she would have answered yes, without a doubt. The problem is that her love right now is familiar and not romantic.

She knows that she has a lot of time for their relationship to evolve, but Yasenia feels that it will be completely different if she accepts now or later.

If she agrees later, it will be like accepting her because of pity. Although she knows that she won’t be like that, the first rejection will always be on their minds, and it can be detrimental in the future.

If she accepts now that she has nobody as a partner, Yasenia thinks that she will be able to be loyal (In a faraway place, four girls sneezed at the same time). The description of being part of a harem felt as if they were accessories for the leading party.

She truly dislikes that kind of relationship. A lover should be loyal and sincere, and if they have problems, they should be able to speak about them to their partners and think together about solutions.

If Tatyana knew what she was thinking, she would have looked at her daughter with pity. She would have said that it is practically impossible for her to be in a one-on-one relationship. The reason is that until she is stronger, her constitution will affect her as it does to everyone.

Moreover, with the dual cultivation technique that she has found for her… If she only takes her lust out on one girl, that girl will be first driven to insanity and then drained of her energy, making her a cripple. Of course, she can control herself, but that will create trouble in the relationship.

(Author: For those who don’t know, “dual cultivating techniques” are used with a partner. It doesn’t have to be sexual, but sexually doing these is normally the most effective.)

Although Tatyana herself would be able to take all of Yasenia’s lust without problems, her Yin energy is so concentrated and pure that it will kill Yasenia if she tries to absorb even a drop. So, they can only have intercourse without dual cultivating.

For Yasenia to have a faster cultivation speed and a better foundation, she needs dual cultivation partners. Her constitution will strengthen with dual cultivation, and her mind will also become clear, and she will be able to have an enlightening easier.

Meanwhile, Yasenia thought for a while more, looking at the sunset. She moved her tail, wrapped it around Tatyana, and carried her onto her lap.

Tatyana was surprised and looked at Yasenia with expectations. “Mom…” Tatyana flinched at her address “…What I am going to say is the best I could think of… Even if it is a little immoral.”

Tatyana’s expectations soared again. “I want to give you both the love of a daughter and the love of a lover. I will continue to call you Mom and act normally for the most part, but I will also not shy away from intimacy.”

Yasenia looked into Tatyana’s eyes, and a seductive smile appeared on her slightly pouty lips, inviting the audience to close the distance and taste them. She slowly lowered her face while her tail was tightening around Tatyana. Her arms went around her waist a little stiffly, showing that she was actually quite nervous.

Knowing her daughter’s state, she looked at her with red eyes filled with tenderness and slowly said, “Sure, I haven’t pampered you enough yet.”

She hooked her arms around Yasenia’s neck and kissed her lightly, slowly tasting her sweet lips and guiding her in a slow and tender movement. They stayed like that, giving little kisses to each other and pressing their bodies together to feel each other warmth.

Tatyana opened her lips a little and lightly licked Yasenia’s lips. She did other little plays but without doing anything more intense. Tatyana wanted their first kiss to be tender and not rushed, light and not passionate. A first kiss so that when Yasenia looks back, a smile would appear on her face naturally.

After a few more minutes, the sun started to hide as if embarrassed by their loving act, while the Moon appeared in the sky, surrounding them with her soft light.

When they stopped, Yasenia had completely entangled Tatyana with her arms, legs, and tail, showing one of the traits that will start appearing soon: dragon traits!

Yasenia looked down, a little dazed, trying to understand what her feelings were right now. Happiness, excitement, warmth, coziness, and slight laziness because she didn’t want to move. A possessive emotion appeared like a tide that shouted that the woman inside her arms was hers! If someone tries to do anything to what is HERS, she must destroy them until nothing is left!

Tatyana looked up from her daughter’s embrace and couldn’t help but sigh in comfort. ‘Did I have a kiss like this one before? A kiss while bathing in the sunset glow until the Moon appears in the sky. Slow, warm, and full of feelings.’ She could feel her old frozen heart beating slightly quicker, something that hadn’t happened for who knows how much time.

Even when she was in a relationship in the latter half of her life, it never made waves in her heart. It always was a beneficial relationship. That is why she didn’t try to find somebody after her last relationship, and she also did what she did.

Tatyana looked at the dazed face of her daughter, and she felt full. “I love you, Yasenia. So much I think you can’t understand.”

Then she lowered herself into her full breast and closed her eyes while surrounded by the sweet floral scent.

When Yasenia heard what Tatyana said, her heart gave a *Thump* and started beating faster. She looked at the elegant face between her breast and lowered her head to kiss the top of her head. Then, while caressing her back, she answered, whispering the last part softly, “I love you too… Tatyana.” After that, she closed her eyes and slept, failing to notice the smile on the other person’s lips.

When Yasenia opened her eyes the next day, she was on her bed. She sat up with a start and looked around. Seeing two scrolls on her bed, she reached for them. After confirming that they were her standard and dual cultivation techniques, she fell back into her bed. ‘So, it wasn’t a dream….’

Embarrassment came like a hurricane making her cheeks dye in an alluring red. It was a shame that there was nobody to see it. Then she encircled herself with her tail and started rolling on her big bed ‘Whaa! So embarrassing! How can you say something like, “I will give you the love of a daughter and a lover” Aaaahhh!!! Are you a degenerate!? Can’t you say it differently!? But who told mom to do that sad face when I started speaking!’

“Yasenia, get a hold of yourself! How about we read the cultivation techniques to calm down?”

Bad choice because when she went and read the title of the first scroll, she read [Celestial maiden ascending to the heavens], and a bunch of not so safe for children images appeared on the scroll.

She couldn’t help but imagine herself and her mother… ‘KYAAAA!! What are you thinking, degenerate!’

She slapped herself with her tail, then, as a matter of course, she opened the technique stealthily again with red cheeks and continued reading.

At that moment, Eve opened the door, and Yasenia jumped out of fright, loosening the grip on the scroll. It flew through the room and landed in front of Eve, fully opened.

“…”

“…”

Yasenia opened her mouth to speak. “It isn’t wh-”

Eve interrupted, “En, I understand. Miss is already in her years, and getting curious is completely normal.”

Yasenia’s face burned, and she shouted, “IT IS NOTHING LIKE THAT STUPID EVE!!!!”

After a round of explaining things, Yasenia had already calmed down. Then she looked at the other scroll and opened it carefully as if it would bite her the moment she opened it. Eve looking from the side, almost couldn’t control her laughter.

The letters [Convergence of celestial bodies] appeared in the normal cultivation scroll, with pictures of the Moon, Sun, and stars. Texts explaining how to become one with them and a lot more. She looked on curiously until Eve reminded her, “Miss, the breakfast is ready. Would you like to go down, or should I send it here?”

She looked at herself, still tangled in her tail, and talked to Eve while untangling herself, “let’s go down. I want to receive the heavenly lightning today and start cultivation as fast as possible. Although haste makes waste, one can’t laze around either.”

Eve nodded and spoke to the communication jade to prepare for her. Then after the maids helped her dress while saying words like “Miss, you have to be careful” or “Miss, although you are stronger than even early-stage cultivators, Heaven is one of the fairest things in this world. If you are stronger, then it will be harder to advance. Of course, the rewards will also be better.”

Yasenia looked at them and patted them with her tail and hands, saying, “En, thanks for taking care of me.” They half-closed their eyes, acting like satisfied cats.

After that, they changed their talk to the typical gossip of the empire. One of the maids said something interesting. “Miss, do you know how the next enrollment of the Rising Talent Academy is approaching? Many people from everywhere are going to the Rita state to try their luck. They say that enrollment will be harder this year than the last since too many people are attending.”

Yasenia thought, ‘The Rising Talent academy, an absurd existence that is respected by almost all the other powers, although they are the newest power, they aren’t, by far, the weakest. They have many resources, and the students can cultivate most of their mortal realms within the academy. They say that you will be considered a monstrous genius if you manage to graduate, and all the powers will fight for having you.’

They reached the table, and the maids went to prepare everything for the mother and daughter. When Yasenia saw her mother, her cheeks couldn’t help having a tinge of red, and her lips also curved slightly. “Good morning, mom.”

Tatyana acted like usual “Good morning, Yasenia, did you see the scrolls on the side of the bed?”

Yasenia remembered her attitude this morning and couldn’t help the redness of her cheeks from surfacing “*Cough* Y-Yes, I’ve read them.”

Tatyana raised an eyebrow and looked at Eve’s twitching lips, trying to hold her laughter. Tatyana, of course, did what every mother that loved their daughter would do. She asked, looking at Eve, “Did something interesting happen? Trying to hold your laughter isn’t good, Eve, and not sharing it with me isn’t good either~.”

Yasenia glared at her, but Eve answered, chuckling, “Yes, when this servant opened the- ”

“Stop! I-I forbid you from saying anything!” Yasenia interrupted, slapping her tail on the floor.

Tatyana laughed and motioned to continue. Yasenia was surprised and looked at her mother with a face that screamed betrayal.

After Eve explained the morning’s happenings, all the maids were having a real hard time trying not to burst into laughter. Yasenia had a resigned face and was just eating her food robotically. In contrast, Tatyana didn’t care and was laughing out loud.

Tatyana looked at Yasenia and said, “Well, how about changing the theme to cultivation.”

Yasenia perked her ears and looked eagerly. “Since I know you want to start your cultivation path today, let’s remember the cultivation realms first” Yasenia nodded.

“The cultivation realms are said to be divided into nine realms and have nine levels inside them. The state before breakthrough from one major realm to another is called half-step and is also a very important level, or as others call it, the tenth level.”

“The first realm is the Opening realm or the Meridian and Dantian creation realm. In this realm, you will have to create your meridian net and dantian, absorbing the world’s energy and transforming it into actual organs inside your body. Normally this realm is very intuitive, and the best way to create them has already been discovered even before I started cultivating.”

“However, you have a really special body, and that tail of yours may or may not give you a lot of problems. In my opinion, this will be one of the hardest realms for you. After completing this major realm, there will be no going back, so now it’s time to apply all the knowledge we have been integrating into you about your body.”

“Because of the importance of this realm, until your breakthrough to the next one, you will have to stay at home, as much as I want you to go out and have your adventure… If something goes wrong in this realm, I will regret it dearly, and we can’t afford to make mistakes, especially if it is related to you. This is something I decided after much consideration with Dr. Ava, Anna, and Eve.”

“The next realm is the body modification realm. From the first to the third level, the cultivator will modify their bones, and this is where the meridians go.”

“From the fourth to the sixth level, you will modify the marrow and awaken your bloodline abilities. Normally, the bloodline gives passive abilities that improve your general traits with some rare ones that give more benefits than the others.”

“The last three levels are for the cultivator to modify their muscles. Their defense, agility, and strength will explode at this level. Finally, when you break through to the half-step, your organs and skin will transform, ending the body modification realm. The easiest way to kill these cultivators is with internal damage because the cultivator won’t strengthen their organs until they are in the half-step level.”

“The next realm is the Mental nourishing realm or the mind strengthening realm. If you have transformed your physical abilities in the previous realm, you will strengthen your mind in this one. The first three levels will quicken your thinking speed, the next three the comprehension speed, and the last three the memory of the cultivator.”

“When the cultivator reaches the half-step, they will awaken the spiritual sense—cultivators with spiritual sense and those who don’t have it have very different combat strengths. Although your destructive power won’t grow much in this realm compared to the ones before, your combat capability will explode. Even if someone in the second realm is a genius, and someone mediocre from the third realm has the same power, the one in the third realm will play with the other as if it was an adult fighting with a child.”

Yasenia absorbed the information she had listened to almost ten times and nodded, encouraging Tatyana to continue. Tatyana didn’t speak of the rest realms before, so she was excited to hear a little more.

Tatyana smiled and said, “Normally, knowing these three realms would have been enough, but the strength level of these five continents, although not the strongest, is higher than average. So, I will tell you about the next two realms, the last ones for mortals. Together, they complete the five mortal realms.” Yasenia prepared herself with shining eyes and a wagging tail, almost breaking Tatyana’s serious expression.

“*Cough* The next realm is the Unification realm; in this realm, the cultivator unlocks their soul’s potential. An innate skill normally appears in the first three levels; some people have two, others three… The more innate skills don’t mean that they are better. In my opinion, awakening one or two innate skills is best. You can polish them better if you don’t have to split your efforts through all of them.” Tatyana paused and remembered one particular girl.

“I met once a girl that awakened 33 innate skills. The poor girl died when she tried to break through to the next realm because the heavenly tribulation was too strong, and she couldn’t master all her skills enough to help her survive *sigh*” Yasenia couldn’t help but have a sad look. A heaven-defying existence was gone just like that.

“The next three levels help with the coordination and transmission speed of the body and mind. Sometimes, the battles at this level are so fast-paced that you fight more on instinct than relying on strategies. This realm with the soul as a bridge, mind and body becomes one, and your coordination improves dramatically. Your body will move exactly as you want and respond extremely fast to any dangers.”

“The last three levels are for unlocking the true potential of the innate skills, At first, they are just in an awakened state, and they are slightly stronger than normal skills; sometimes, they are worse than them. This realm makes a qualitative change to the skill and lets you see the true potential of these skills. The innate skill will normally accompany the cultivator through the rest of their journey.”

“The half-step of this realm prepares you for the next realm. It makes you spiritualize your dantian, making it pass from a physical organ to a part of your inner realm inside your soul. This will make the capacity of your energy give a quantitative jump, and the energy will flow into your body faster, upgrading the energy regeneration by a lot.”

“Yasenia, this is the last realm I will tell you about because it doesn’t make sense knowing about the next ones. As you have probably guessed, this last realm is related to the cultivator’s recently spiritualized dantian. In the first two levels, you will start to condense the gas-like energy inside of you, making an energy capacity upgrade. You will transform that energy into a liquid state in the third level, making a quality jump. Thanks to this, you will make half the effort with double returns when using skills.”

“The fourth and fifth levels will compress the liquid, upgrading your energy capacity again, and the sixth level is to transform the liquid energy into a solid state. When the energy transforms into the solid-state, it doesn’t have a sphere-like form, but the cultivator will feel like they can flatten towns with one punch, and their skills will become monstrous.”

“This solid-state, however, isn’t the final form. The cultivator will perfect this solid-state form into a sphere in the seventh, eighth, and ninth levels, and the density will become higher and higher. The rounder and the smoother the surface of this energy core, the better.”

“The half-step is to compress this solid matter as much as possible. Remember to find me when you reach this level because I have to tell you something important about this half-step level. I don’t trust anyone else, so remember, wait for me when you reach this level, even if it slows your cultivation. The future rewards will outweigh the inconvenience easily” Yasenia nodded seriously.