105: Chapter 105 This is the first time he's ever eaten such a wild little leopard.

Just as the crowd was raising the price by ten thousand at a time—

"Five hundred thousand!"

A familiar voice rang out again, and the price jump was a full one hundred and fifty thousand. It was Xiao Ye again.

"Holy crap, it's him again!"

"It seems Xiao Ye is determined to get this nascent soul fruit!"

The crowd buzzed with discussion, marveling at Xiao Ye's wealth. While others were grinding away by ten or twenty thousand, he added one hundred and fifty thousand at once, as if Spirit Stones weren't even money to him.

Xiao Ye didn't care what others thought; he just wanted to finish this quickly—anyway, five hundred thousand definitely wouldn't be enough to win it.

"Five hundred and fifty thousand!" Someone soon raised the price, increasing it by fifty thousand this time.

Xiao Ye was even more direct: "Six hundred and fifty thousand!"

"Six hundred and sixty thousand..." This time, the bid was clearly weak and lacked energy.

"Seven hundred thousand." Xiao Ye was as extravagant as ever. He now sat upon the entire Great Qian Imperial Treasury; as for comparing Spirit Stones? He wasn't afraid at all.

After several more rounds of back-and-forth, Xiao Ye finally secured the nascent soul fruit for the astronomical price of one million Spirit Stones.

His inhumanly extravagant bidding style directly forced his competitors to give up on the spot, leaving them without even the energy to curse.

The auction ended, and Xiao Ye returned to the Imperial Palace in high spirits, bringing the Leopard Girl and the nascent soul fruit with him.

Back at his residence, Xiao Ye leaned back in his chair and looked at the Leopard Girl curled up in the iron cage, getting straight to the point: "Why did you hide your cultivation?"

As soon as he spoke, the Leopard Girl, who had been huddled in the corner, snapped her head up. Her golden vertical pupils were filled with shock: "How did you know I was hiding my cultivation?" Her voice was lazy and seductive, carrying a soul-stirring charm.

Xiao Ye casually opened the iron cage and said indifferently, "I have my ways; you don't need to worry about it."

He paused, staring into the Leopard Girl's eyes with a half-smile. "Did you get captured on purpose?"

The Leopard Girl froze for a moment, then her figure lunged out like a phantom, pouncing straight at Xiao Ye. Her sharp claws swiped toward his neck as she shouted, "Stupid human, you're only at Core Formation Perfection, yet you dare open the cage? You truly don't know how to write the word 'death'!"

"Oh? You're quite confident." Xiao Ye didn't even move. He struck like lightning, grabbing the Leopard Girl's neck and lifting her into the air. He looked at her with a smile, "Then let me show you what a real gap in power looks like."

"What?" The Leopard Girl's pupils shrank, and she immediately felt a surge of majestic power invade her body, instantly sealing her entire cultivation. She struggled a few times but remained completely immobile, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"You... you are a Golden Core Master?" she spoke with difficulty, using almost all her strength.

"Of course. Otherwise, why do you think those people are so respectful to me?" Xiao Ye set her down and patted her head, his tone nonchalant. "Never mind that you're only at the Core Formation Stage - Ninth Level; even if you were a Nascent Soul, you'd have to obediently crawl under my boxers."

He reached out and stroked her furry leopard ears, adding with a grin, "Such a wild little Leopard Girl, it's my first time tasting one. I wonder what the flavor is like, and how wild you'll be."

"You..." The Leopard Girl gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with shame and indignation.

At that moment, Xiao Ye felt her body tremble slightly, as if some strange switch had been flipped.

Xiao Ye was stunned; where did this moisture come from...? Then, the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

Could she be...?

That sensitive?

Well, that's just perfect!

That night, Xiao Ye had his first taste of "wild game."

Well, how should he put it—the flavor was indeed wild, but it had its own unique charm.

After all, playing the alpha while living off a woman was something he was doing for the first time.

The next morning, Hua Duoduo was woken up by being fed a cup of warm milk.

Hua Duoduo's eyes were unfocused, and she lay on the ground completely dazed, as if she were drunk.

"Brute..." she cursed weakly, her voice hoarse.

Last night, this old man had sealed her cultivation tight and then proceeded to "play the alpha while living off her."

She, a grand Core Formation Stage - Ninth Level Flower Shadow Leopard, had actually been tormented into a docile little kitten.

The worst part was—he kept making her drink milk, saying it was good for her health.

She kept shaking her head saying she couldn't drink anymore, but he kept forcing it on her. What a brute!

The more Hua Duoduo thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. Her eyes reddened, and only one thought remained in her mind: "I must escape his demonic clutches!"

Ten days later, a loud shout came from inside the Alchemy Pavilion: "Open the furnace!"

The lid was lifted, and a round, full Medicinal Pill shimmering with spiritual light lay quietly inside—the nascent soul pill was complete.

Xiao Ye grabbed the pill, unable to hide his excitement; his eyes even turned a bit red.

After over a decade of cultivation, it was all thanks to his hard work and... stamina—no, I mean persistence—that he had reached today's Realm.

It wasn't easy, it truly wasn't easy.

The System suddenly piped up: "Host, have you forgotten something?"

Xiao Ye froze, looked down at the pill in his hand, and pretended not to hear.

—

The next day, with everything ready for the Breakthrough, Xiao Ye went to a wilderness area outside the Imperial City.

Breaking through to the Nascent Soul would trigger a Lightning Tribulation, and its power was no joke; it could easily level the palace. It was much safer to undergo the tribulation in the wild.

He cautiously laid down a defensive Formation to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos or launching a sneak attack.

In the distance, the pregnant Su Wei sat upright with her large belly, acting as his Protector.

She herself was at the Core Formation Perfection Realm; although she was pregnant, her combat strength remained.

"I wonder how large a Lightning Tribulation my husband's Golden Core will attract..." Su Wei murmured to herself, her tone carrying a hint of curiosity.

"In my view, with Master's Top-grade Golden Core, the Lightning Tribulation range is likely to exceed a hundred miles," the maid beside her whispered.

Su Wei nodded and said no more.

In the center of the wilderness, Xiao Ye sat cross-legged, adjusted his breathing, and swallowed the nascent soul pill in one gulp.

The pill entered his stomach and transformed into a majestic medicinal force, like a surging river, continuously impacting the Golden Core within his body.

The nascent soul pill acted like a catalyst, accelerating the shattering of the Golden Core to give birth to the Nascent Soul.

A moment later, the surface of the Golden Core began to melt, and a miniature figure slowly emerged—palm-sized, with facial features identical to Xiao Ye's. It sat within his Dantian with its eyes closed, enveloped in a dense spiritual light.

The Nascent Soul was halfway complete.

However, at that moment, the sky above Xiao Ye's head suddenly darkened.

Rolling thunderclouds surged from all directions, like spilled ink, blotting out the sun.

The cloud layer began to spread outward at a visible speed—ten miles, twenty miles, thirty miles... all the way to three hundred miles, and it continued to spread with no sign of stopping.

Su Wei looked up at the thunderclouds that almost covered the entire horizon, her mouth hanging open wide enough to fit a fist; she was completely stunned.

"...This Lightning Tribulation is way too big, isn't it?"

She swallowed hard and silently offered a prayer for Xiao Ye.

With such a massive Lightning Tribulation, if it were her turn to cross it, she probably wouldn't even try—she'd just kick the bucket right then and there.

In the distance, Xiao Ye looked up at the sky, his mouth twitching slightly.

Three hundred miles? And still expanding? The Heavens are trying to strike me dead.

He took a deep breath and silently added another bag of Spirit Stones to the defensive Formation.

You've got to hold on!