55: Chapter 55 Host, you gigolo! Why don't you become stronger yourself?

The next day, early morning.

Sunlight filtered through the window lattice, playfully dancing within the messy red silk curtains.

The air was still thick with the lingering passion of last night, mixed with a certain special musky scent, creating an atmosphere that was both charming and decadent.

Wang Yang opened his eyes, feeling refreshed and his mind exceptionally clear.

He glanced down.

Ye Qingcheng was like a lazy Persian cat, her red dress half-slid off to reveal a large expanse of snow-white skin, curled up in his arms and sleeping soundly with a satisfied smile on her lips.

After last night's "Heavenly Demon Dance" and their all-night conversation, although she was tired, the allure between her brows had grown even stronger.

Her cultivation remained stable at the Golden Core Middle Stage (fourth level), without any further Breakthrough.

After all, once one reaches the Golden Core Stage, every level of improvement is as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

Su Qingge was sleeping groggily; she had originally come to play the zither last night.

In the end, the zither wasn't played, but she certainly was.

Her ink-black hair was scattered across the pillow, and her long eyelashes still seemed to hold teardrops from when she begged for mercy last night, her sleeping Face peaceful and endearing.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

"This is the empire I have conquered."

At that moment, Wang Yang was stunned.

He saw Su Qingge surrounded by a faint golden light, and her aura, which had been somewhat scattered from exhaustion, was now frantically condensing and compressing!

Buzz—!

A clear and melodious Phoenix cry echoed within the sleeping hall.

The spiritual power within Su Qingge underwent a qualitative change, and a round, flawless Golden Core completely formed within her Dantian!

Her eyelashes fluttered slightly as she slowly opened her eyes, her beautiful gaze filled with unbelievable surprise:

"Husband... I... I really seem to have achieved Core Formation?!"

Before last night, although she had reached the threshold thanks to the enlightenment tea, there was still a thin line between her and the true Golden Core Dao.

She hadn't expected that after a night of special cultivation, she would directly break through that final barrier!

Su Qingge had officially broken through to the Golden Core Early Stage (first level)!

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host! Your Dao Companion Su Qingge has broken through to a major Realm (Golden Core Stage)!]

[Triggering Domain Expansion Mechanism!]

[Domain radius increased by: 1 kilometer!]

[Current Domain radius: 59.05 + 1 = 60.05 kilometers!]

Wang Yang smiled and pulled Su Qingge into his arms, kissing her on the forehead:

"Not bad, not bad. My Qingge is now a Golden Core powerhouse as well. It seems your husband's hard work last night wasn't in vain."

Su Qingge's Face flushed red as she hid in his embrace.

However, just as Wang Yang was feeling smug.

The System in his mind, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly let out an extremely human-like scoff.

[Heh.]

Wang Yang frowned: "System, what the hell are you laughing at?"

[This System is laughing at how complacent the Host is.]

[Look at who is in your arms: a Golden Core Middle Stage on the left and a Golden Core Early Stage on the right.]

[Then look at yourself. You have zero spiritual power fluctuations. You have to rely on Puppets to kill enemies, and you need your wives to protect you if you actually go out.]

[You have two Golden Core wives, yet you're still effectively a Mortal. Don't you want any Face? Is living off your wives like a soft-rice man something to be proud of?]

Wang Yang's Face turned red from the retort, but he immediately argued back righteously:

"You think I don't want to Cultivate?"

"I was a Mortal when I underwent Transmigration, with no Spiritual Root and no Physique! I've practiced that 'Supreme Yin-Yang Creation Scripture' until I know it by heart and have studied it eight hundred times, but every time I try to move my power, it's like I'm constipated—I can't feel any Qi at all!"

"And your crappy System won't give me a direct infusion of cultivation, so how is it my fault?"

[...]

The System fell silent for a moment, seemingly shocked by the Host's shamelessness and stupidity.

[Host, are your eyes just for show?]

[Can't you take a careful look through the System Mall?]

[All you do all day is stare at those 'supplements.' Why don't you at least look at the [Special Items] page in the Mall?]

[Can't you see for yourself what's in there?]

"Special Items?"

Wang Yang was taken aback.

Ever since the Mall was unlocked, he had been too busy showing off and picking up girls to actually look through the categories carefully.

"Could there really be something good?"

Wang Yang opened the System Mall with half-doubt and found the [Special Items/Functions] tab he had ignored.

Upon looking, his eyes instantly widened.

"Holy crap?!"

He saw the first few rows of items glowing with an enticing light:

[LV1 Pseudo Spiritual Root (Five Elements Spiritual Root)]

Status: Unlocked.

Price: 50,000 points.

Description: Allows a Mortal to possess the most basic cultivation Aptitude. Although progress is very slow, at least you can Cultivate.

[LV2 Miscellaneous Spiritual Root (Four Elements Spiritual Root)]

Status: Unlocked.

Price: 500,000 points.

Description: Medium Aptitude, sufficient to Cultivate to the Golden Core Stage.

[LV3 True Spiritual Root (Three Elements Spiritual Root)]

Status: Unlocked.

Price: 5,000,000 points.

Description: Genius Aptitude, Nascent Soul is within reach!

[LV4 Dual Spiritual Root...]

"I knew it! I knew you sneaky System bastard definitely had a solution!"

Wang Yang was so excited he almost jumped up.

Possessing a Spiritual Root for only fifty thousand points? Becoming a four-element root for only five hundred thousand?

To him, who was currently sitting on a fortune, this was practically pocket change!

"Buy! I absolutely have to buy this later!"

However.

As his gaze continued to slide down and saw the special functional building at the bottom of the page—which took up half the screen and radiated a Supreme pink-gold light—he instantly froze.

It was an incredibly exquisite miniature model that looked like an immortal pool, surrounded by the stars of the heavens.

[Special Functional Building — myriad realms dao companion summoning pool (LV4 Locked)]

Price: 100,000,000 points (One Hundred Million points)!

Description: The Host can consume points to randomly summon stunning women possessing great Luck and great Aptitude from the myriad Realms (including but not limited to cultivation worlds, high martial planes, Xuanhuan planes, magic planes, urban superpower planes, etc.).

Summoning Mechanism:

1,000,000 points / summon.

Probability Disclosure:

90% chance to obtain [Dao Companion Fragment] (Collect 100 identical fragments to redeem that Dao Companion).

9% chance to obtain [Myriad Realms Special Item] (e.g., a Succubus's stockings, an Empress's undergarments, etc.).

1% chance to directly summon a complete [Stunning Dao Companion] (The summoned person will automatically have a reasonable background identity generated and implanted into this world).

Note: Take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle! Here you can find cold ice-mountain Empresses, passionate Succubi from the Demon Realm, gentle Elf princesses... as long as you have points, the entire myriad Realms is your harem!

"One... One hundred million?!"

Wang Yang counted the string of zeros, feeling like his breath was about to stop.

"It costs a hundred million just to buy the pool?"

"And a million for a single pull?"

"And there's a fragment mechanism?! A hundred fragments for one person?"

"Isn't this the exact same routine as those cash-grab gacha games from my past life?!"

Wang Yang couldn't help but complain frantically in his mind:

"System, are you a penguin spirit? This is way too greedy!"

"If I'm unlucky, wouldn't I have to spend a hundred million points just to scrape together one wife?"

Despite his grumbling, Wang Yang's gaze couldn't pull itself away from the icon for the [myriad realms dao companion summoning pool].

Myriad Realms...

Empresses... Succubi... Elves...

These words seemed to possess a magical power, tightly gripping his heart.

Although he couldn't afford it now, a man has to have dreams, right?

"Just you wait!"

"Once I've razed the Tianshui Holy Land and occupied the entire Southern Wasteland Region!"

"When that time comes, I'll definitely buy this pool and pull until the world turns upside down!"