Chapter 548: To Cultivate Divine Skill
After a tumultuous uproar, Hu Lai finally managed to react. The beautiful girl lying disheveled on the same bed as him was, astonishingly, his friend Yu Queyue, transformed.
The atmosphere instantly became awkward.
They had been friends for many years, after all, but now that things had turned out this way, he didn't know whether to look or not to look.
If he didn't look, the person opposite him was still his friend, and they were usually very casual with each other; suddenly acting distant would be quite strange.
But if he did look, it would be even more awkward, and of course, even more tempting.
His branch of Martial Path cultivation advocated for the liberation of one's nature, and was quite powerful in strengthening desires. So, even though he clearly knew the girl before him had been a man yesterday, desires still involuntarily surged within him.
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After a long silence, Hu Lai was the one who finally broke the frozen air.
"What in the world happened? I wake up, and I've been sex-changed?!"
Although Reincarnators from the Ark could choose a host body when they arrived, aside from a few perverts, generally no one would engage in gender-swapping transmigration.
Because if they accidentally went too far and ended up turning themselves gay, it would probably provide fodder for countless years of jokes on the Ark.
Of course, if one was strong enough, there would be no teasing remarks, but Yu Queyue clearly wasn't.
"Quick, put on some clothes first." Hu Lai casually tossed her an outer garment, trying his best not to look at her.
"Could it be... you've taken an interest in me?" From Hu Lai's eyes, Yu Queyue read a variety of complex emotions: lust, and also surprise.
She rolled her eyes at him with a look that would turn a cockroach to ice, sending shivers down Hu Lai's spine.
This kind of thing – your bro turning into a girl – no matter who it happened to, it would be hard to truly remain calm.
Dressed in the outer garment that hung like a floor-length gown, Yu Queyue lightly jumped off the bed and walked towards the wooden box on the table, the one she had painstakingly schemed to acquire.
"Fortunately, this thing is still here..." He hugged the wooden box tightly, though perhaps at this point, "she" would be a more appropriate pronoun.
"Who exactly could have done this to such an extent, without a sound? And what about the promised absolute neutrality of the tavern?!! Why did it turn out like this!" Yu Queyue, holding the wooden box, looked so pitiful she was almost in tears.
"Let's go find the owner and make her give us an explanation!"
"Exactly, if guests' safety isn't protected at all, what kind of inn is this?"
"Also, let's find that female bartender who kept urging us to drink yesterday; she must be involved too."
They had originally thought that as two grown men, even if they drank themselves senseless and passed out, there was no possibility of being "picked up" (meaning taken advantage of while unconscious); at most, they'd just sleep on the street for a night.
With their physiques, sleeping anywhere wouldn't be an issue.
They never expected that after drinking, something even more tragic than being "picked up" would happen: everything went to hell.
"Wait." Just as they were about to leave, Yu Queyue seemed to notice something amiss.
"This box is fifteen grams heavier; it seems like there's something extra inside."
......
"An extra letter?" She casually opened the wooden box. Inside, besides a Thought Crystal inscribed with "Di Lian Bao Jian," there was an extra letter written with a brush.
"To Yu Queyue:
To cultivate divine skill, one must first castrate oneself. Discard the hindrance of gender, experience the partings of life and death, the joys and sorrows of countless individuals – this is an indispensable step on the path of the Earth Immortal."
The main text was just one sentence.
"Is this a case of 'a single true teaching versus ten thousand volumes of falsehood'?" After reading the contents of the letter, Yu Queyue slumped to the ground, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. She roughly understood the whole story.
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As for Hu Lai, he had completely extinguished any previous thoughts of trying to trick Bai Mo.
He wanted to go comfort his friend, but every time he got close, looking at her enchanting silhouette, his mind inexplicably drifted to certain places that couldn't be described in detail.
Furthermore, the faint, lingering fragrance emanating from the girl continuously stirred his thoughts. The alcohol had not yet completely worn off, and Hu Lai was somewhat worried he might genuinely "Hu Lai" (act recklessly), so he could only maintain a safe distance.
"She's a man, she's a man, she's a man..." Hu Lai repeated this to himself again and again, trying to dispel the impure thoughts.
Once the door to a new world was opened, it would be incredibly difficult to go back to how things were.
"Yu Queyue, even my name has been changed already! Could it be that my calculations were wrong, and yesterday I encountered not the 'good' personality, but the 'evil' personality I had imagined?!" Yu Queyue suddenly thought of this.
"If that's truly the case, then this death wouldn't be unfair; I'd have walked right into the muzzle of a gun. Only that person would have the ability to completely disregard the neutrality treaty set within the tavern and act as they pleased."
Among ordinary people, they might be high and mighty, even capable of becoming minor city lords on Earth, holding sway over the lives and deaths of tens of thousands. But on the Ark, teeming with monsters, a Four-Tier cultivator was nothing more than the most numerous type of bottom-tier cannon fodder.
Not to mention the shadow cast over the entirety of the Xierdesi Ark, which made even thoughts of resistance difficult to form.
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"Are you... alright?" Hu Lai held his breath and gently patted Yu Queyue's shoulder.
"I'm fine. From now on, call me Yu Queyue. Que as in the'palace' (palace palace), and Yue as in'joy' (pleasure). " After she thought it through, she finally decided to accept reality and begin experiencing life as a girl.
"From now on, I'll be the one proactively transforming into other roles." She comforted herself with this thought.
In reality, Bai Mo hadn't greatly influenced Yu Queyue's chosen direction; he had merely helped her take the most difficult step—the one that required courage to act upon oneself.
As long as one wished to advance towards the path of the Earth Immortal, embodying civilization and shedding the shackles of gender perception was indispensable, unless one intended to establish an organization like the Thebes Sacred Group in the future.
Or, to go a step further, one could choose to embody other asexual beings.
But for someone whose aesthetic was entirely human, embodying an alien race... that would probably be even harder to accept than a civilization composed solely of one gender.
"Are you really fine? You're not planning to change back?!" Hu Lai's tone was excited, yet tinged with a peculiar emotion—an emotion typically referred to as perversion.
"You bastard, asking for death!" Yu Queyue kicked Hu Lai squarely in the face. Judging by the flames swirling around her calf, this time she was serious.
"Boom!" The room's furniture was scattered everywhere. The burly man, built like a giant bear, was enjoying being stomped on the head by the young girl.
"White..." Hu Lai, whose skin was thicker than a city wall, still had the nerve to tease her.
Ultimately, he had suffered no loss; on the contrary, his bro had transformed into a beautiful, adorable girl, a sight for sore eyes.
"Go to hell!" Yu Queyue retracted her foot as if she had stepped in dog poop.
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