20: Chapter 20 Let's Get Married

"Mating... breaking the body... what does that mean?"

"It means choosing a mate and breaking the body. In Mortal terms, it means getting married... consummating the marriage..."

"Ah? This..."

Su Fan didn't know what to say.

She could speak of such things so naturally, her stunning face expressionless.

Admittedly, for a Cultivator, whether forming a bond as Dao Companions for Dual Cultivation or acting as temporary spouses for the sake of immortal destiny, the ultimate goal was always to promote exchange, achieve mastery, and ultimately, to cultivate the Dao and seek longevity.

The art of intimacy between men and women was truly the most trivial of trivial paths; few Cultivators would delve into it. If one cultivated alone, it was more conducive to improving one's cultivation base, so most Cultivators preferred solitary cultivation.

However, Su Fan did not have the mindset of a typical Cultivator; he retained a portion of a Mortal's spirit and consciousness, so hearing her say this left him quite astonished.

...

A broken peak.

"Old Ancestor Bing, The Demoness should be within a hundred miles of here. I can sense a wisp of her aura!"

"When will that big shot arrive? Should we wait for him?"

Venerable Bu, holding a banner, asked Old Ancestor Bing for instructions.

Old Ancestor Bing looked at his own palm and smiled slightly: "Last time, my Frost Bone-Melting Palm was enough to severely injure her. This time, her strength hasn't improved, so we don't need to wait for him."

"Old Ancestor Bing, I heard that after the Nine-Winged Phoenix Clan Chief grows her ninth wing, her cultivation becomes like that of an immortal, and her strength skyrockets. The Demoness currently has eight wings; if she grows her ninth wing, I'm afraid we won't be her match."

The Soul Transformation Venerable named Yang Kui said.

Old Ancestor Bing chuckled: "How could she grow her ninth wing so quickly? As far as I know, the Phoenix Clan in the outer realms is divided into the Four-Winged, Six-Winged, Eight-Winged, and the royal Nine-Winged clans. The Nine-Winged clan monopolizes the Bloodline. The royal family mates and marries within the family. Before marriage, they can grow at most eight wings. Only after mating and breaking the body can they grow that ninth wing..."

"Old Ancestor Bing means... even if The Demoness is from the Phoenix Clan royal family, since she has fallen here and there are no royal members for her to marry, it's impossible for her to grow that ninth wing?"

"But... that brat..."

"No need to worry. Not to mention that The Demoness has a Mahayana Middle Stage cultivation base and wouldn't possibly take a fancy to a human Cultivator with low cultivation. Even if she did, their union might not necessarily allow her to grow the ninth wing..."

"Then it's settled. Let's make our move!"

...

Inside the cave.

Su Fan looked at the cave entrance and was shocked to see that the outside world was already covered in white snow.

"Senior!"

"It's snowing!"

Outside, goose-feather-like snow was falling, swirling and scattering across the entire space.

"Senior, can you help me up?"

Su Fan wanted to see the snow, but his body was still weak, so he had to be supported by Ji Yao as he walked to the cave entrance.

Gazing at this space filled with wind and snow, his eyes subconsciously looked down into the bottomless abyss, watching snowflakes fly into the abyss and eventually vanish...

At this moment, a poem came to his mind, and he recited it.

"Mist swirling, snow swirling. Snow piles up on the plum blossom branches; where does spring return from!

"Drunken eyes open, sleepy eyes open; where do the sparse shadows lie? Let the frontier pipes urge it on."

Ji Yao, who was supporting Su Fan, fixed her beautiful eyes on the depths, wondering what she was thinking, or perhaps she was listening carefully to the poem Su Fan recited.

"Mist swirling, snow swirling... What a beautiful scene. I didn't expect you to be able to compose poetry."

A gentle whisper from the stunning woman reached his ears.

It was truly rare; the overbearing Demoness could actually have a moment of gentleness.

Su Fan looked toward the abyss and suddenly asked: "Senior Ji, tell me... what is actually down there?"

The bottomless abyss beneath his feet was filled with gray mist and fluttering snowflakes. As for what lay beneath the gray mist and snowflakes, he had no way of knowing.

"It's a Dragon, a True Dragon. A giant dragon is sleeping down there."

Ji Yao helped Su Fan turn around and said softly: "It seems a bit cold. Let's go back."

Upon hearing this, Su Fan was extremely astonished.

He was still ruminating on what Ji Yao had just said. After a few seconds, he asked: "You just said there's a Dragon below? There's a giant dragon down there?"

Ji Yao helped Su Fan sit down, then lit a bonfire and explained: "That's right. With your Mental Energy perception, you can't detect it yet, but I discovered it last time, which is why I hid here to heal. If there were ever a life-threatening danger, I could try to use some of my clan's secret techniques to awaken the True Dragon."

"This True Dragon... is it very powerful?"

"Very powerful."

"How powerful?"

"More powerful than an Earthly Immortal..."

Su Fan was stunned upon hearing this. He hadn't expected that on this Tianxuan Continent, there would actually be such a thing as a True Dragon, and one even more powerful than an Earthly Immortal...

The "Earthly Immortal" she spoke of must be the same one Old Ancestor Bing mentioned as a Loose Immortal, right?

[As for what that dragon looked like, how long it had been sleeping, and why it was sleeping here...]

[You asked Ji Yao. Ji Yao shook her head and said: "I don't know either. You should focus on healing your injuries first. When you've recovered, I'll take you out..."]

["I probably can't get out. Senior, don't worry about me. You should go. Even if I die here, it doesn't matter." You said with a bitter smile.]

[Hearing this, Ji Yao's beautiful eyes swept over you.]

[At this moment, she didn't understand why you wanted to die so much. You had previously died for her, and now you wanted to die for her again? Was it just to avoid being a burden to her?]

[In reality, how could she know that you just wanted to end the simulation quickly and return to the real world? In your eyes, she was just a very beautiful NPC.]

["Su Fan..."]

[Hearing the soft call, you looked up.]

[Ji Yao's next sentence truly shocked you immensely!]

"Let's get married...!"

Let's get married. This sentence, spoken from her mouth, carried three parts pleading, three parts certainty, three parts commanding, and one part faint sweetness.

Confusion.

Surprise.

Disbelief.

[You couldn't imagine that Senior Ji, who was as beautiful as a Fairy, would actually take the initiative to say such things to you, and in such a setting.]

[You opened your mouth in astonishment, wanting to say something, but found you couldn't make a sound.]

[Perhaps it was because you were too excited, too nervous.]

"I know, you might find it unbelievable when you hear it, but I, Ji Yao, swear to the Nine Heavens that I truly want to marry you. I mean... marry you with a Mortal ceremony, not our Phoenix Clan wedding."

Ji Yao's beautiful eyes fell on Su Fan's face as she held his hands: "You might think I am overbearing, unreasonable, and murderous, but you were willing to die for me, do you know that? Since I was born, apart from my birth mother, no one of my own clan has ever loved me..."

"You are the only person I have ever met who could love me without regard for their own life. The mate I seek should be someone like you. I am very serious, and very certain..."

"Su Fan, I want to marry you with a Mortal ceremony. Are... are you willing?"