Duosheng Danyuan

"Hey, it's been almost another hour, hasn't it? Can you say something?" Sitting in the chair, Zeng Yixi hugged her legs and finally couldn't help but speak first.

"...What do you want me to say?" I covered my face with my right hand and answered after a moment of silence.

"What else could it be but the choice of the second target?" Zeng Yixi said through gritted teeth.

"Hmm..." I nodded in response to Zeng Yixi.

"..." Silence lasted for about fifteen minutes.

"Say something!"

"What are you saying?"

"Which one should I choose?!"

"oh..."

"..." Then there was silence for about five minutes.

"You're not choosing, huh? Fine, I'll choose! I choose the Immortal Technique, hurry up and press your hand seal!"

"Wait!" Seeing Zeng Yixi becoming increasingly agitated and already holding a pen, I quickly stopped her with my hand. "Wait a minute."

"What are you waiting for?"

"Let me think about it."

"I've been waiting for an hour and a half!"

"Wait a little longer!" I couldn't help but raise my voice a little as Zeng Yixi's voice grew louder.

"...Fine, think about it." Seeing my resolute attitude, Zeng Yixi simply threw the pen on the ground, rolled her eyes, and said disdainfully to me.

Of course I knew what she was disdainful of. She disdained my lack of courage to propose dual cultivation, not that I had rejected her suggestion. As a girl, she was ashamed to speak up; as an unfortunate soul who had transmigrated to this world, she rejected all risks.

What is risk? Cultivating immortal techniques and seizing elixir are risks.

Let's start with cultivating immortal techniques. I don't know how this world judges cultivation techniques; when Elder Qingyue explained so much about cultivation to us, she didn't touch on the topic of techniques at all. However, I can see the difference between cultivation techniques and immortal techniques simply from the order of their goals.

In the first round of goal selection, the three goals, from easiest to hardest, were: breathing in spiritual energy, cultivating techniques, and dual cultivation. Leaving aside the already selected goal "breathing in spiritual energy" and the reappeared "dual cultivation," the second goal in the first round, "cultivating techniques," was changed to "cultivating immortal arts" in the second round.

This incident indirectly confirms a statement made by Elder Qingyue: "Goals are easy to achieve at the beginning, but become more difficult as you go on."

In other words, although both "cultivation techniques" and "cultivation immortal arts" are ranked as medium difficulty among the three goals, the level of difficulty they represent is not the same. This can be seen from the fact that the difficult goal in the first round of goal selection has become an easy goal in the second round.

Let's talk about seizing the elixir. This is a completely new term to which we have absolutely no information; it's entirely unknown to us. The second rule of the Refining Heart Hall states that fear stems from insufficient firepower. This makes sense, but it's not entirely accurate. True fear comes from absolute unknown. The so-called fear stemming from insufficient firepower has a prerequisite: you know when your vitality is sufficient and when it is insufficient. But the unknown is different; you don't even know if everything you possess can be called "firepower."

Therefore, the goal of seizing the elixir is the most terrifying thing for Zeng Yixi and me right now. And isn't that danger that loves to hide its dagger always lurking in the subtle fears we all have? Seizing the elixir is a goal we absolutely cannot choose, let alone one that appears in such a difficult position.

"Actually, I could have thought about it less." After thinking for a long time, I finally spoke.

"What do you mean?" Zeng Yixi asked, frowning in confusion.

"You might think that I'm struggling with the practice of dual cultivation itself, but that's not actually the case. What I'm struggling with is the meaning behind the two instances of dual cultivation."

"...I understand. To ask us to choose a target based solely on a vague summary, without providing a detailed description of the target, is itself a bullying game of extreme information asymmetry."

"You must have thought about this for a long time, right?" I asked with a wry smile after hearing Zeng Yixi say this.

"Of course..." Zeng Yixi shook her head and gave me the same wry smile. Then, she repeated her analysis, which was almost identical to what I had thought.

"You're right. We could have avoided thinking so much. The difference in difficulty between the two rounds of goal selection doesn't need any further validation. It's inherently reasonable and acceptable. But..."

"However, this world is far more illogical than ours. That's why we subconsciously try to find an answer that benefits us through illogical reasoning, right?"

"...Yes, I knew it, you're really smart. Hmm...maybe we should use the word 'on the same wavelength' to describe it."

"Hehe..." With a twitch at the corner of my mouth, I asked the question that would make any girl blush, "So, you're saying you're ready?"

"..." Zeng Yixi remained silent, but picked up the pen in front of me, circled the first target on the parchment scroll, and then quickly bit her finger and pressed her handprint on it.

"Alright..." Understanding Zeng Yixi's determination, I swallowed hard, looked at my thumb in front of me, hesitated for a moment, then bit it and pressed my bloody handprint onto the parchment scroll.

Just like in the first round of selection, the parchment scroll disappeared the moment I pressed my bloody handprint, and in its place, the description of the target on the wall became clear again.

——Target Description——

Level B Target: Dual Cultivation

Target Description: Spiritual roots are classified in various ways based on their quality and attributes. However, the most fundamental classification is actually the gender of the spiritual root. Depending on the gender of the cultivator who possesses the spiritual root, the spiritual root will also correspond to that gender. Female cultivators have Yin spiritual roots, while male cultivators have Yang spiritual roots.

Spiritual roots that have not undergone dual cultivation are called pure spiritual roots. These spiritual roots provide a stronger boost to cultivators at the beginning of their cultivation, but the range of this boost gradually shrinks. Upon reaching the Golden Core stage, pure spiritual root cultivators cannot use the Golden Core to integrate other cultivation methods like cultivators with combined spiritual roots. They can only continue to cultivate their original methods, which lacks tolerance for mistakes and is extremely wasteful of their talent.

In today's cultivation world, most cultivation methods, even immortal techniques, begin at the Golden Core stage. However, these methods are almost incompatible with the cultivation methods that cultivators initially practice. Therefore, even the most highly skilled pure spiritual root cultivators will eventually become hybrid spiritual root cultivators through dual cultivation after reaching the Golden Core stage, thereby gaining stronger spiritual root compatibility through the Golden Core.

Cultivation is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you fall behind. If a cultivator with pure spiritual roots chooses to abandon their cultivation methods before achieving their Golden Core, they will, to some extent, diminish their luck and destiny. Therefore, dual cultivation offers a triple solution in terms of cultivation, physiology, and even emotions. Some enlightened cultivators will even engage in repeated and frequent dual cultivation to enhance the purity of their combined spiritual roots, thereby achieving their cultivation goals.

Target hint: Have sex.

——Divider——

"Such a detailed target description..." Zeng Yixi murmured, her mouth agape.

"Such a concise goal prompt..." My mouth dropped open as I looked at the goal prompt.

"Short but sharp, right? Your brother is like that too?" Zeng Yixi said, giving me a mischievous grin.

"Don't talk nonsense." I rolled my eyes at her because I could clearly see that beneath her wicked grin, she was trembling uncontrollably.

Ultimately, in situations where both parties are normal people, the woman is always the one who suffers.

Even though I'm a virgin...

In silence, our gazes simultaneously drifted to the double bed next to the double table.

"So that's why this bed was placed here," Zeng Yixi said, her lips twitching.

"So that's why Elder Qingyue said she wanted to choose a suitable room for us..." I said, my lips twitching.

"Really!?" Zeng Yixi said Σ(っ°Д°;)っ.

"I have a feeling. It's a man's intuition." I said firmly, shaking my head.

"Achoo!" Outside the secluded training room, Elder Qingyue suddenly sneezed. "Strange, who's cursing me?"

The secluded cultivation room is, after all, a disciple's absolute privacy. With his limited access, being able to see what's inside using the Spirit Jade is already the limit; he can't hear anything at all, since the formations surrounding the Mingling Residence were set up by the current sect leader. Moreover, after confirming that we had chosen dual cultivation, Elder Qingyue had already turned off the Spirit Jade as a matter of courtesy.

After all, even if he really was the hypocrite Elder Huaizhen described, he wouldn't stoop so low as to watch two newly initiated disciples' live stream. As a managing elder, he had countless ways to satisfy his desires.

—In the seclusion room—

"There's not even a place to shower here, really..." Zeng Yixi muttered, lingering for a long time before finally taking off her top, revealing a white tank top-style bra.

"Wow..." I kept glancing at the barely visible cleavage on Zeng Yixi's bra, and unconsciously let out a murmur of admiration.

"What the hell are you yelling about! Take it off now!" Enraged, Zeng Yixi sat on the bed and slammed a pillow into my head.

"I took it off," I said innocently, dodging the pillow Zeng Yixi threw at me, showing my naked upper body. "You took it off after me."

"I meant down there, okay? Do you expect me to take my clothes off first?" Zeng Yixi said, turning her head away with her cheeks flushed.

"Um..." After thinking for a moment, I felt that Zeng Yixi's words made sense, so I took off my pants, revealing my gray underwear. "Your turn."

"Wait a minute, let me mentally prepare myself." Zeng Yixi glanced at me and unconsciously moved closer to the bed, further away from me.

"oh."

Feeling helpless, I started looking around, pretending to be very busy.

My physique isn't particularly outstanding; my muscle definition is barely visible, and my six-pack abs are actually mostly flabby if you pinch them hard. However, even so, I don't believe Zeng Yixi would refuse to cultivate with me because she dislikes my body. Right now, she's probably just mentally preparing herself... right?

"Honestly, this is making me start overthinking again." I rubbed my forehead, feeling a bit dizzy and lightheaded again.

Time passed slowly amidst our disordered breathing.

Without realizing it, I started glancing at Zeng Yixi, who hadn't made a move yet, out of the corner of my eye. It was only natural; a woman sitting next to me wearing only underwear on her upper body, and this woman was about to have sex with me—this feeling... at least as a man, my instinctive lust began to burn uncontrollably.

How to put it? Although Zeng Yixi wasn't considered beautiful, she was certainly clean-cut, with regular features, and her single eyelids and round chin made her quite pleasing to the eye. Add to that her still-youthful, innocent white tank top and the glimpse of cleavage behind it, along with the youthful shyness of her flushed cheeks, and it's hard not to feel a sense of tenderness towards such a woman.

"Thump! Thump thump thump!" Thinking this, my heart raced even faster.

"Hey... Although we made the choice of dual cultivation together, I have something to ask you before we begin."

"you say."

"Is this really the only thing we can do?"

"..." After about ten minutes of silence, I sighed, closed my eyes, and said, "Let me make it clear beforehand that I have no intention of taking advantage of you. When I was reading the target description, I still had some fantasies about dual cultivation, such as classic martial arts postures like sitting face-to-face with hands touching. But after reading the target prompt, and after thinking about it seriously for a long time just now, I have to admit one thing—no matter how you look at it, dual cultivation here is about us doing something, and nothing else."

"...I think about the same thing as you."

"To add something, I'm actually a virgin... um!" Before she could finish speaking, Zeng Yixi pushed me down, pressing her left hand firmly against my mouth while her right hand began to pull down her pants.

"What do you mean? You think I'm not?! Let me make this clear beforehand: if you're going to do it, you're going to do it. No touching, no kissing! Understand?"

"..."

Although Zeng Yixi was questioning me, she was holding my left hand down tightly, showing she had no intention of listening to my explanation. Besides, how could she be so strong? So strong that even if I tried hard to break free, I might not be able to.

"I'm on top, you... on the bottom, that's right, you're on the bottom."

After taking off his own pants, Zeng Yixi hesitated for a moment before pulling down my underwear.