Dual Cultivation God Returns

Chapter 691  Ideals of Romance

Song Lingfei's consciousness softly floated up from the deep slumber. Her still closed eyes slightly trembled and a gentle smile touched her lips.

A contradictory feeling of pleasant tiredness started slowly becoming more pronounced as she paused to explore this new and incredible feeling. At the same time, she felt incredibly comfortable, so much so that she was tempted to go back into the sweet embrace of sleep.

Slowly, the events of the previous day all the way to the night when her consciousness drowned in the waves of sweet fatigue, started coming back to her, and a healthy bright red appeared on her already rosy from the sleep cheeks.

The former Imperial Princess slowly opened her eyes, and tilting her head to the side, caught sight of the one responsible for her comfort and tiredness.

The profile of his face in the rays of morning sunlight gave her a feeling of butterflies fluttering in her stomach.

Wu Long turned to look at the awakened beauty, who now started giving off the allure and grace of a woman, replacing the more innocent and somewhat even childish beauty of the maiden she was before. It seemed nothing changed in her expression from usual, and yet there was some imperceptible difference that was hard to describe in precise terms, which nonetheless made her all the more charming for it.

She did not turn away her gaze this time, even though her cheeks still held that rosiness, her eyes looking straight into his, and relishing the look that she saw deep within them.

After a long period of this cozy silence Wu Long was the first to break it, noticing a very minute but expensive movement of her shoulder and a look in her eyes that flashed for just a moment, "You should know how dangerous it is to tempt me, Lingfei"

A light chuckle escaped her lips, "I do, but I also learned how incredible it is"

Wu Long moved forward with her in his arms, turning over so that he was hovering over her, something in his expression causing her to momentarily lose her breath, as that playful smile she made earlier froze on her face, neither disappearing, nor persisting, like a footprint in the snow.

In the meantime he was taking in the scene he saw, her gorgeous upper body, glossy almost glowing supple skin, flowing azure hair tousled all over the bedsheets.

A moment, and then his lips took hers with a powerful, passionate, and yet gentle momentum, and she replied with no less fervor, relishing the feeling.

A sigh escaped his lips as their lips parted, restraining himself.

'Insatiable indeed, but then again, who can blame me?', he inwardly chuckled.

'But if I rush, what was the purpose of being more prudent earlier', he then cooled his momentum, as the night before, despite giving her immense pleasure, he still held back quite a bit.

The reason was in his earlier conundrum, when he contemplated being too impulsive and rushed in indulging his time with his ladies, which resulted in periods of not being able to enjoy that luxury. But time and time again when he was around his beauties, and now too, he was reminded why he always could not hold back.

Right now, Song Lingfei was simply irresistible, her every gesture, look and word made him feel a rising desire raging within him.

Seeing through his thoughts, "Isn't improving your Yang Root increasing your capacity for dual cultivation, and even to an extent desire as well?", Song Lingfei asked with curiosity, pointing out the contradiction that he always was improving his Yang Root far beyond what his ladies could handle, and yet was at the same time troubled by that same situation.

He laughed with amusement, nodding, "Yes indeed. But that's just one of those inescapable things in life"

"The infinite pursuit of perfection amid trade-offs?"

"Mm, something along those lines"

"I guess that's what makes it life", a gentle smile curled up her lips, and he gave her another kiss, this time a softer, more tame one.

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Song Lingfei was touched by the discovery of the bond that now existed between them, experiencing a profound sense of connection and belonging.

If before she could feel that on an instinctual and emotional level, she could now feel it more tangibly and much more vividly. This development in their relationship, of course, did not go unnoticed by the Dao Family members, as they immediately caught on and immediately spirited away the former Imperial Princess as soon as the breakfast was over. Wu Long, meanwhile, went to the terrace of the mansion that he was meditating on previously after shaking his head with a chuckle.

"You really got incredibly lucky. No, the word lucky can't even capture it", Fen Baihu materialized next to him, her eight fluffy tails swaying with curiosity.

"True", Wu Long answered in a light tone, agreeing with her assessment, and then noticing a look of surprise and curiosity in her pink eyes, asked "What?"

"No it's just… I thought you humans wouldn't admit something like that…"

"I'm not into denying reality", Wu Long's eyes filled with amusement.

"But still, isn't that against your… laws or something" Fen Baihu visibly struggled to express what she meant, while Wu Long laughed heartily at the choice of words.

"No, there are no laws like that", he clarified after calming down from laughing, "you might mean moral norms, or more concretely rules of social conduct, as well as ideals of romance" "Yes! … ehm, yes that"

"Hmm, how should I explain?", Wu Long pondered a bit tracing his chin, not sure if she would grasp the concept, seeing that even the 'laws' that she talked about were not something she really understood, only vaguely could infer from what little knowledge of the human society she had. He then nodded, finally deciding on a viable way of explaining it, "If I said I wasn't happy or didn't care about receiving the bloodline of Grand Void Eagle from Lingfei, I would be simply lying"

"Mm", Fen Baihu nodded, her expression making it clear that it was what she sincerely expected him to do, and what prompted this conversation.

For her, the pretense of humans to not care about obvious advantages of their mating partner was a ridiculous farce, but at the same time something she learned to anticipate from them.

"But for some people, acknowledging it, recognizing that truth, that alone somehow diminishes or tarnishes my relationship with Lingfei, which is not how I see it" Wu Long explained, the look in his eyes of someone who gave a satisfactory and exhaustive reply on the subject. But…

"Right? Why would it be a bad thing?" Her eyes shone with a light of strong agreement, as her fox ears slightly twitched from the excitement of being in agreement on this sentiment. Faced with a further question, Wu Long was a bit stuck on how to explain it, eventually adding "Well, it has to do with sincerity, as well as feelings. Or rather, being confident in your own feelings toward someone"

"I still don't understand"

Wu Long sighed with a bit of defeat, "Ask Mingyu then. She'll be able to explain it better I think. That's the most elaborate I can get"

After all, in most cases, his ability to explain something, especially in relation to such topics, relied very heavily on the one he was talking to to draw from common knowledge, which Fen Baihu lacked, as well as to an extent adding to his words on their own by reading between the lines, which she also was not used to doing. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

At this time they arrived at the terrace where Wu Long was going to meditate.

"Fine, I'll go ask your women", she said with a sigh, melting into thin air like a dream while Wu Long sat down in a lotus pose.