109: Do you have any special hobbies?

Chapter 109: Do you have some special fetish?

After only the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, just as Pei Xuanji was about to ask Li Yunshu if he felt better, a faint snore emanated from between her legs.

She opened her mouth, wanting to wake this fellow up, but ultimately gave up.

Only at this moment did she belatedly realize a question.

Could this guy be faking it?

This was Li Yunshu's first experience with a lap pillow, and it was on the Empress's legs.

How to describe this feeling? First, the touch was excellent, much more comfortable than a pillow.

Although it wasn't as flat and wide as a pillow, precisely because of that, it had a special feeling, like a massage.

Plump thighs, zero contact with the absolute Domain, soft and fuzzy... in an instant, he felt healed.

A lap pillow was like a Holy Land, Li Yunshu gave it the highest praise in his heart.

Besides the body level, the mind aspect was also very important.

Pillowed on the Empress's thighs, he felt a sense of satisfaction, making him feel one step closer to becoming a Dragon Rider.

Lying on the lap of someone who makes you feel safe, and that person remains still while you sleep, doing nothing else.

Even though Li Yunshu couldn't see the Empress's face, he knew that she must be carefully observing him.

His body had a sensation, a silent communication from the Empress.

At this moment, Li Yunshu looked up at mountains, down at valleys, and smelled a lingering fragrance.

Lying on the fleshy lap, he truly wished that time could forever freeze at this moment.

Hearing that faint sigh by his ear, he finally fell asleep with ease.

The appropriate softness and warmth of the thighs truly helped with sleep, serious face.

The next morning.

As a ray of sunlight shone on Li Yunshu's face, he slowly opened his eyes.

Before him was a book, titled "Travels in Peach Blossom Spring."

Splat!

As the book closed, Pei Xuanji leaned over and stared at Li Yunshu.

"What, do you still want to lie in bed?"

"I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare." Li Yunshu immediately sat up shrewdly, stretched, "This was the most comfortable night I've ever slept."

"Heh—"

Pei Xuanji moved her slightly numb legs, becoming even more certain that this guy was faking it.

She didn't expose him, merely continuing to read the book in her hand to pass the time.

This was found in the Cosmos Sack of those two unlucky individuals yesterday, barely enough to pass the time.

"Don't hunt Yao Beasts today. First, refine the Yao Cores you've collected these past few days."

"Mhm mhm."

Although his Divine Sense had largely recovered after a night's rest, Li Yunshu knew very well that he hadn't returned to his optimal state.

His gaze swept over, and a bundle was still on the Empress's lap. Inside the bundle was a stack of storybooks, along with the four treasures of the study.

"Does Your Majesty enjoy reading storybooks?"

"Hmm?" Pei Xuanji looked up slightly. She didn't understand why this fellow was so keen on calling her Your Majesty. "Barely, to pass the time."

Over the years, she had read too many storybooks.

Although storybooks about Yao, ghosts, and Essence Spirits had always been popular, and their content often changed.

But they always came back to the same theme, never straying from the four words: subduing demons and eliminating evil.

She had long grown tired of this.

However, out of sheer boredom, these things were better than nothing.

Li Yunshu didn't say anything more. After taking out the Yao Cores on him, he sat cross-legged and began to circulate the "Demon Refining Art"... After noon.

As the last Yao Core was refined, Li Yunshu's spiritual Qi surged within his body.

He let out a long breath, feeling the power within him.

He had reached the sixth stage of Golden Core, one step closer to Breakthrough to Nascent Soul.

Seeing his successful Breakthrough, Pei Xuanji tossed him a jade talisman.

"You stay here. I'll go explore this forest to see if there's a Three-legged Toad.

If you encounter danger, just crush the jade talisman."

Li Yunshu took the jade talisman and nodded.

"Alright."

After the Empress left, Li Yunshu picked up the storybook she had just finished reading. It was a strange tale about Yao and demons.

This world was inherently mysterious and bizarre. Yao, ghosts, and Essence Spirits were fantasies in the modern world he lived in, but here, they were reality.

With a sense of immersion, such books were probably quite popular.

Placing the storybook in his hand aside, he then roughly flipped through all the storybooks in the bundle.

Most were strange tales involving Yao, ghosts, and monsters, with descriptions of bizarre and absurd stories, interspersed with some unconventional elements as a gimmick to attract readers.

Li Yunshu held a storybook, and with a thought, as his Divine Sense was released, the text on the storybook gradually disappeared.

Soon, an entire storybook became blank.

After grinding the ink, he picked up the brush and wrote "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio," which was in his memory, onto the blank storybook.

When he wrote to the Nie Xiaoqian chapter, he hesitated for a moment.

Ultimately, he didn't write about the Nie Xiaoqian from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio," but instead wrote the movie story of A Chinese Ghost Story in text form.

However, when he wrote about the scene of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian's first meeting in the pavilion, he stopped writing.

That scene was too clear and too classic in his mind, so he couldn't help but pick up his brush and draw on the paper.

After about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, the scene of Nie Xiaoqian pulling the fallen Ning Caichen onto the pier with her jade feet leaped onto the paper.

Fortunately, his original body had some painting skills, allowing him to perfectly present the scene from his mind onto the paper.

This story wasn't finished when the Empress returned.

He stopped writing and asked.

"Did you find it?"

"No, I didn't. Let's find other methods after we leave this forest. Anyway, there must be more ways to break the Restriction in my body here than in Great Chu."

Pei Xuanji shook her head, apparently having anticipated this result.

After all, she had never heard of a Three-legged Toad during her many years in the Demon Realm.

Who would have thought that she would encounter one in Great Chu?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Li Yunshu strangely.

"You said, is it possible that the Restriction Breaking Pill entry in 'Sun's Notes' was also added later?"

With the precedent of the Azure Illusion Pill, Pei Xuanji had many more conjectures in her mind.

Especially knowing that the old Daoist priest had likely Cultivated illusion techniques, she became even more certain of her guess.

Li Yunshu did not deny this conjecture.

"Perhaps, there is that possibility."

All these mysteries might only be solved after he sees his Master again.

Looking at the brush in his hand, Pei Xuanji asked curiously.

"What are you writing?"

"I was afraid Your Majesty would be bored, so I wrote a picture book."

"You can also write storybooks?"

Pei Xuanji couldn't help but become interested and took the book from Li Yunshu's hand.

Soon, she was engrossed in it.

Although most of the stories were somewhat short, each story had illustrations, as if imbuing them with Soul.

When she was bored in Great Chu, she had read many storybooks.

In those storybooks, Yao, ghosts, and monsters were evil beings, sucking pure Yang, seizing people's essence, and wreaking havoc in the human world.

And the cultivators in the stories were often portrayed as glorious figures who subdued demons and eliminated evil.

Especially the protagonists, who took it upon themselves to eliminate demons and uphold the Dao.

She understood that prejudice in people's hearts was a great mountain, and no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't move it.

They believed that Yao and demons existed to harm people, so they should all be killed.

However, this picture book was different from the books she had read before. In the stories, there were many emotional and righteous Yao and demons, as well as evil villains.

Each character was portrayed vividly and realistically, rather than superficially classifying all non-human beings as evil.

She felt empathy for the kind Yao in the stories and unknowingly became engrossed, wanting to keep reading.

As the writing is, so is the person. Through a book, one can often see the author's heart.

From this, it was clear that Li Yunshu did not have the same prejudices against Yao and demons as the common people.

Dusk.

Pei Xuanji turned to the Nie Xiaoqian chapter and slowly spoke.

"The people in your book always enjoy being intimate with Yin spirits and various female Yao... Do you have some special hobby?"