Chapter 153: Schedule Upgrade: The "Physical Suppression" of Three Women Sharing a Bed

Late night in the Imperial Capital, the breeze carried a hint of dryness.

At Cloud Top Villa No. 1, the originally expensive defensive Formation was emitting a subtle hum. This didn't come from an external attack, but rather from the Mental Energy pressure inside the villa that was almost distorting space.

"Inhale... Exhale..."

Heavy breathing echoed in the master bedroom.

Jiang Chen was currently in an extremely bizarre state. He was floating three inches above the [phoenix perching wutong divine bed]. His spongebob pajamas were bulging like they were inflated due to the surging aura around him.

Even more startlingly, deep within his Sea of Consciousness, purple mental tentacles, condensed as if solid, were uncontrollably extending in all directions. Some wrapped around the pure gold lamp stand, while others coiled around the mahogany wardrobe, making it creak under the pressure.

"Damn, I went a bit too far this time."

Jiang Chen complained at the edge of his blurred consciousness.

Forcing Augustus, the "son of light" at the Peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm from the Holy See, to hang on a flagpole as a 24-hour mobile streetlight was indeed satisfying. However, that continuous, overclocked Mental Energy output had directly pushed Jiang Chen's mental sea into the "extremely thirsty" red zone.

He now felt like his brain had been stuffed into a crazily spinning centrifuge. Every nerve was screaming: I want to sleep! I want high-energy replenishment!

Just then, the door was gently pushed open.

Three peerless figures entered one after another—Mu Qingxue, Su Qingyue, and Iliya.

"Jiang Chen!"

Seeing Jiang Chen emitting purple smoke with his skin showing an abnormal flush, Su Qingyue's eyes instantly turned red, and she was about to rush forward.

"Don't move!" Mu Qingxue suddenly reached out to stop her, her ice-blue eyes full of solemnity. "His Mental Energy is on the verge of going berserk. That's the Holy Light Origin forcibly extracted from the 'son of light' conflicting with the Nightmare Divine Power in his body. If you go over now, you'll be torn to shreds by his mental tentacles in an instant!"

Sure enough, as Mu Qingxue's voice fell, a thick purple tentacle seemed to sense the presence of a stranger and, like a bolt of purple lightning, suddenly lashed toward Su Qingyue's throat.

"Clang!"

An ice sword instantly condensed in Mu Qingxue's hand, forcefully blocking the strike. However, she was also knocked back three steps, her arm feeling numb.

"What a terrifying precursor to Waking Up Anger." Iliya shrunk her neck, her nine fox tails swaying uneasily behind her. "Master's subconscious is frantically searching for a 'stabilizer'. If this energy isn't calmed, his Sea of Consciousness will explode."

"Then what should we do? Just watch him suffer?" Su Qingyue stamped her feet in anxiety, the phoenix fire around her body faintly threatening to burst out.

Mu Qingxue took a deep breath, her gaze sweeping over Su Qingyue and Iliya. Her tone became extremely decisive:

"There's only one way. Since his energy is a conflict between light and dark, ice and fire, we must act as his 'artificial cooling system' and 'energy neutralizer'."

She looked at Su Qingyue: "Qingyue, your Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline is 30% awakened, being extremely yang and firm. You'll be responsible for diverting the violent Holy Light remnants in his body."

Then she looked at Iliya: "Iliya, your Sky Fox clan's Bloodline is the most feminine and soft. You'll be responsible for soothing his nightmare Evil Qi."

Finally, Mu Qingxue pointed to herself: "My Profound Yin Ice Qi will handle the core cooling to prevent his Divine Sense from burning out. We need to perform... Three-Phase Balanced Sleep Accompaniment."

"Three-Phase Balanced Sleep Accompaniment?" Su Qingyue was stunned, her face then flushing red. "You mean... the three of us... together..."

"This is to save his life!" Mu Qingxue's voice was cold, but the tips of her ears were red as blood. "Right now, his Physique can no longer be suppressed by just one person. We need to establish a strict 'schedule'—no, a 'sleep accompaniment order'!"

In this life-and-death crisis, the three women set aside their usual grievances.

Under Mu Qingxue's direction, they slowly approached the floating Jiang Chen according to specific positions.

"Rise!"

Mu Qingxue shouted lightly, ice light flickering at her fingertips. Coordinating with Jiang Chen's stray telekinetic force, she fully opened the Restriction of the [phoenix perching wutong divine bed].

Su Qingyue acted first. Gritting her teeth, she crawled into the left side of the covers. In that instant, she felt as if she were holding a piece of red-hot iron—that was Jiang Chen's berserk blood and qi.

"Ugh... so hot." Su Qingyue let out a muffled groan, wrapping her arms tightly around Jiang Chen's waist and fully circulating the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Sutra to draw that scorching heat into her own Meridians for circulation.

Next was Mu Qingxue, who entered from the right. The moment her Ice Phoenix Dao Body touched Jiang Chen's skin, a thick layer of frost actually formed on the bedroom walls.

"Jiang Chen, calm down." she murmured softly, pressing herself against Jiang Chen's scalding back like a piece of top-grade profound ice.

Finally, Iliya pitifully transformed into a half-beast form. Her nine fluffy fox tails, carrying a strange fragrance, acted like a giant down quilt, heavily wrapping the three of them inside.

The moment the three women were in position, the noisy "electromagnetic noise" in Jiang Chen's mind instantly vanished.

[Ding! Extremely high-quality sleep environment detected! "Three-Phase Balanced Sleep Accompaniment Mode" activated!]

[Sleep Accompaniment Components: Heavenly Phoenix Saintess (Heat Source/Filter), Ice Phoenix Instructor (Cold Source/Stabilizer), Sky Fox Saintess (Suppleness/Soothing).]

[Environment Rating: SSS-grade (No drawbacks except for a sore back).]

[AFK Rewards Issued:]

Mental Energy purification speed increased by 500%!

Obtained passive trait: [Three-Qi Origin Return] (Permanently increases resistance to light, dark, and fire elements by 20%).

Main quest progress: Great Grandmaster Bottleneck Breakthrough in progress (3%... 7%...).

"Whew..."

Jiang Chen let out a satisfied long sigh, his furrowed brows completely relaxing.

In his dream, he was sitting on a purple-gold throne. The lightning that had been raging around the throne was smoothed out by three gentle forces. His left hand stroked the feathers of a fire phoenix, his right hand rested on the wing of an ice phoenix, and his feet stepped on a ball of soft white fox fur.

Comfortable! Simply too comfortable!

"This sleep... if only I could sleep until the end of time."

Jiang Chen's subconscious muttered, and his body instinctively began "expansion."

In the real world, as Jiang Chen entered a deep sleep, his originally violent Mental Energy began to circulate within his body in an extremely docile manner.

Su Qingyue only felt the Bloodline in her body resonating. Her Bottleneck, which had been stuck at the first level of the Organ Refining Realm, was actually faintly shaking due to Jiang Chen's feedback.

Mu Qingxue was even more surprised to find that the core of her Cold Poison, which had been difficult to eradicate for years, was actually becoming docile under the pull of Jiang Chen's nightmare power and starting to transform into pure True Qi.

Iliya's small face was buried by the pillow, breathing in the scent of Emperors Might mixed with laziness from Jiang Chen. Her tails curled up unconsciously, and her originally forced posture gradually turned into an active snuggle.

Time passed minute by minute.

Jiang Chen's Mental Energy was frantically rubbing against the threshold of the Great Grandmaster Realm. The originally materialized purple tentacles began to retract, gradually transforming into an illusory Nether Dragon perched above the headboard, swallowing the thin moonlight shining in from the window.

At this moment, if any external Great Grandmaster were here, they would be horrified to find that this villa had become the center of a giant Spiritual Qi vortex.

However, for the three women on the bed, the pressure at this moment came not only from energy but also from... physical strength.

Since Jiang Chen's "Dream Dao Attainment" had reached a critical moment, his body was instinctively seeking a more comfortable contact area.

"Hmm... the pillow on the left is a bit high."

Jiang Chen grumbled in his dream.

In reality, Su Qingyue, who was outputting phoenix fire on the left, suddenly felt her waist being lifted by an irresistible telekinetic force.

"Eh? Jiang Chen, you..."

Before Su Qingyue could react, she was grabbed by an invisible giant hand and shifted directly above Jiang Chen.

Immediately after, Mu Qingxue on the right was also pulled by this telekinetic force, her whole body pressed against Jiang Chen's chest.

Iliya was the most pitiful. Her nine tails were treated by Jiang Chen like a burrito wrap, directly coiling around the three of them.

"Too... too crowded... Jiang Chen, let go..." Su Qingyue's pretty face was pressed tight against Mu Qingxue's side profile. The two looked at each other, less than a centimeter apart, and could even see the shock and shame in each other's eyes.

Mu Qingxue's originally cold face was now so red it was almost dripping: "This bastard... his sleepwalking has upgraded again! He's using telekinesis to forcibly adjust the 'uniformity of heat distribution'!"

Although the two women were dying of shame and indignation, neither dared to actually push the other away, sensing Jiang Chen's increasingly stable aura.

"Don't move..." Jiang Chen turned over again in his dream.

With this turn, the already tight structure shifted once more.

Jiang Chen's large hand slid upward naturally. His left hand clasped Mu Qingxue's slender waist, while his right hand conveniently hugged the back of Su Qingyue's neck, pressing both of their heads into the crook of his own neck.

"Hmm... now... it's balanced."

Jiang Chen's satisfied snoring sounded.

Moonlight passed through the gaps in the curtains, shining on the charming scene on the bed.

Su Qingyue closed her eyes, feeling the scent of Jiang Chen from the tip of her nose and Mu Qingxue's cold yet reassuring aura. She cursed inwardly:

"Bastard Jiang Chen, when you wake up, see if I don't charge you ten thousand times the interest!"

And Mu Qingxue also closed her eyes as if resigned to her fate. In this extreme energy balance, she actually felt an unprecedented wave of sleepiness.

"Forget it... let's just say it's... for the future of Great Xia."

Outside the window, Augustus, the "son of light" who had been hung on the flagpole by Jiang Chen, now had Holy Light so dim it was almost extinguished, like a light bulb that had been drained dry.

He looked despairingly at the faint light on the horizon, with only one thought in his mind:

Can someone please go wake that guy named Jiang up! I'm about to run out of power!

In a corner of the villa, the Biochemical Beast No. 002 that Jiang Chen had brought back was dutifully lying at the door, staring with its red cyclopean eye, alertly watching the surroundings.

It knew that as long as the master inside hadn't slept enough, even the Heavenly King himself would have to wait outside.

Meanwhile, in the distant Western Holy City, the Prophecy Crystal Ball inside the Pope's Palace suddenly trembled violently, and a crack quietly appeared.

Mental Energy at the Great Grandmaster Realm had already quietly converged on a large bed in the Imperial Capital.