Wang Xiao looked at Shangguan Xiyue lying in his bed, her bare shoulders exposed as she shivered slightly. He was a bit speechless.
He wasn’t truly seven years old, after all. He had traversed the Three Realms, his power unmatched.
The ways of n and won were, naturally, no secret to him.
Nor would his heart be stirred just because a woman threw herself at him.
"This doesn’t look like you’re trying to warm my bed," Wang Xiao said calmly.
"Ah?"
Hearing Wang Xiao’s voice, Shangguan Xiyue’s cheeks turned as red as ripe apples. She gulped.
"Master, I... it’s my first ti. I-I don’t really know what to do."
Wang Xiao shook his head slightly.
"Xiyue, you don’t have to do this. We’ve lived together for seven years. I will take you with when I leave the Imperial Harem. I won’t abandon you."
His thoughts churned, and he quickly understood why Shangguan Xiyue was doing this.
The Imperial Court Order had originally arranged for maids under the age of thirteen to look after his daily needs.
This was, of course, with the intention that once he was a bit older, the maid could help satisfy his... physical needs.
However,
in the seven years they had lived and eaten together, Wang Xiao had never once thought of her in that way.
Now, with Wang Xiao’s departure from the Imperial Harem imminent,
Shangguan Xiyue had grown worried that Wang Xiao wouldn’t take her with him, which was why she had thrown herself at him.
After all,
in her innocent mind, once she ward his bed, she would be one of his own.
Her master wouldn’t abandon her then.
Hearing Wang Xiao’s words,
for so reason,
a pang of sorrow struck Shangguan Xiyue’s heart, and tears began to stream from her eyes, impossible to stop.
Before eting Wang Xiao, she had struggled to survive in the Imperial Harem. She was bullied, kicked while she was down, and constantly targeted, but she never uttered a single word of complaint.
All she cared about was surviving and one day escaping this cage.
Now that the opportunity was here, she had beco consud with anxiety,
afraid Wang Xiao would see her as a burden and leave her behind.
Now, with his personal promise, her anxious heart could finally rest.
She didn’t want to cry, but she couldn’t stop herself.
Just then,
a warm hand rested on her cheek, wiping her tears away.
"I won’t just take you out of here. I’ll make you even stronger than those high and mighty Immortals."
Wang Xiao looked at Shangguan Xiyue in the bed.
"Xiyue, do you want to cultivate?"
Shangguan Xiyue froze for a mont, then her heart leaped. She nodded vigorously.
"I do!"
She had grown up hearing the legends of Immortals.
She envied the Cultivators who had a Spirit Root and could fly about, free and unrestrained.
It would be a lie to say she didn’t want that for herself.
But...
she knew her own situation.
Without a Spirit Root, how could she possibly cultivate?
Her master had once told her that she simply had a Hidden Spirit Root, but she had always assud he was just saying that to comfort her.
Over the years, she had never brought up the subject of Cultivation Immortality again.
Now that her master had brought it up himself, she was naturally ecstatic.
"I will help you," Wang Xiao said calmly. "Get up."
He had already opened his Inner World, and his Yin Spirit was brimming with power. Combined with his ticulous control over his Spirit, he was now capable of investigating what was really going on with Shangguan Xiyue’s Hidden Spirit Root.
"Oh, okay."
Shangguan Xiyue was used to obeying Wang Xiao’s every command. At his word, she climbed out of the bed and sat up straight.
In that instant,
her fair, supple form was once again clearly displayed before his eyes.
The pale curve of her chest, partially visible, rose and fell with a slight tremor.
Shangguan Xiyue seed to realize sothing was amiss. Her face flushed red as she spoke.
"Master, please wait."
She scrambled out of bed, snatched her simple clothes from the floor, and hastily threw them on before walking timidly back to him.
Wang Xiao shook his head.
Now that he had ford his Divine Thought, he could see through her clothes more clearly than with his naked eye if he truly wanted to.
Of course,
he had no such inclination at the mont. He circulated his Gang Qi, raised his hand, and sent a stream of it into Shangguan Xiyue’s body.
Instantly,
the Gang Qi coursed through every inch of her flesh, silently stimulating it.
At the sa ti,
Wang Xiao’s Divine Thought surged forth, observing the changes within her body.
A mont later,
he furrowed his brow. He hadn’t found anything out of the ordinary.
’If it’s not in her flesh and blood, then it must be in her Forehead Mud Ball Palace.’
Wang Xiao’s Divine Thought surged once more, probing into Shangguan Xiyue’s Forehead Mud Ball Palace.
The area was filled with a thick fog.
However,
Wang Xiao had long since learned to see through such fog. He could move through another’s Mud Ball Palace unimpeded.
Soon,
he found Shangguan Xiyue’s Yin Spirit, hidden within the Mud Ball Palace.
In Wang Xiao’s eyes, this Yin Spirit was composed of countless individual thoughts.
If a Spirit Root truly existed, it had to be hidden among these individual thoughts.
Wang Xiao’s Divine Thought began to flow through Shangguan Xiyue’s thoughts, one by one.
These thoughts contained her past mories, the minute details of her life, and all sorts of daydreams.
Fortunately, Shangguan Xiyue’s Cultivation was still shallow, her Yin Spirit wasn’t strong, and she hadn’t experienced much in her life.
As a result, her thoughts were relatively pure, making them easy to investigate.
If he were dealing with an old monster who had lived for millennia, Wang Xiao had no idea how long the search would take.
「Fifteen minutes later」
Wang Xiao furrowed his brow. He still hadn’t found anything unusual about Shangguan Xiyue’s Yin Spirit.
’This doesn’t make sense. Does the Hidden Spirit Root only manifest at a certain age? Is it impossible to detect beforehand?’
Wang Xiao’s eyes glinted. ’Or... was my stimulation not enough?!’
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