Yanyo Hanying strolled ahead of me as we headed towards the Herb Graveyard, with her hips swinging in her tight silk robes that denoted her status as an Inner Sect Disciple.
And with that beast flame in hand, well, with the kinda shitty cauldron I also got from that Golden Core Demon I helped Zhu Yuan kill. My resources for getting to Foundation Establishment was completely covered.
Especially with my farming cheat that allowed me to amass all of the herbs and natural treasures, I wouldn't have any issues for lower-ranked elixers once I got into alchemy itself.
We soon made it to the Herb Graveyard, but all the while. I could definitely tell that Yanyo Hanying was rather upset. Though I figured it was clearly how her master fucked her over about not telling her about the 'secret' levels for geniuses.
Still, once we got to the hidden cave leading into the Mountain Milk pool, she paused at the sight of it before sighing softly. "My master found me in the library... Apparently, he was checking on me after hearing that you and I had that meeting."
She visibly shuddered with a hand clenching in a fist as she said, raging quietly but harshly. "He wanted my potential wasted... I am slated to but peak at Nascent Soul if that at all, and he wants me to just be a breeding tool to enhance the next generation of his lineage!"
There was a moment of silence as she stared at the softly steaming pool of milky liquid that made up the Yin/Yang mountain milk before she visibly exhaled and said. "A part of me... Wants to just flee the sect as I can't avoid my own master in the sect, obviously."
Finally, I broke my silence as I said softly. "I- You are in a difficult situation, but any reasonable elder will see you cutting ties with him due to his purposefully ruining your Path just to act as wife for his grandson as more than legitimate."
Yanyo Hanying looked back at me and gave a weak smile before she said thoughtfully. "He attempted to suppress me with his cultivation in the library. And in doing so, he attacked another elder's disciple who suppressed him in turn. Maybe it's possible he will let me go out of shame... But I doubt it."
I exhaled and then said bluntly. "All these what ifs mean nothing in the face of true power... And to the sect's leadership, your potential. This, this cleansing of your lost meridians, and forming the two extra Foundation Pillars will set you as a top-tier genius when you enter the Golden Core stage with a Perfect or even higher tier Golden Core."
There was a moment of silence before Yanyo Hanying took a deep breath before she fully faced me and said. "I understand... Now, tell me what I need to do for you to open and cleanse my secret meridians!" She finished firmly and with an iron will.
I met her gaze, and I said with a slight flush. "You are going to need to strip down to your underwear. I need to be able to map out your acupoints to find your meridians, as I don't have the divine sense of Foundation Establishment to look into your body."
Yanyo Hanying likewise flushed with her hand rising up unconsciously to cover her large breast before she let out a shaky exhale. "I see... Then you-"
She shook her head before turning around and was quiet for a moment before she said softly. "Jake. Please block the cave entrance further and take a minute... I don't want you here while I remove my robe."
"I understand." I said simply, as I knew that despite this world being earth and largely still having the modern world outside of the 'cultivation world' in the side of the Sects and such. Most women were still very traditional, especially if they grew up in the cultivation/sect side of the world.
So I left her be for a while. Meanwhile, I took out some stone from my storage ring to block off the entrance as one of the tricks shared in the books about super-sized dungeons that can take weeks to clear. It's always good to have some simple building materials to hide the caves you are staying in.
Finally, she called me back with a tiny voice. "Jake... Please come back."
I came back, and I couldn't help but pause as the smooth and soft flesh of Yanyo Hanying's back and the crest of her ass were pointed in my direction as she sat with her back turned towards me on a mat she took out of her storage ring.
And matching her vibrant green hair, she was wearing green jade-like underwear that covered up her ass along with being a band around her ample chest.
Still I didn't stare... For long, before I said quietly as I rubbed my hands together silently to make sure they were warm. "Excuse me, senior sister." I said quietly as I sat behind her.
And she didn't respond before exhaling sharply as my warm hand gently lay on her middle back, just below the strap of her bra.
I prodded her back as I found her nerve endings, and likewise, where her acupoints were based on those nerve endings. All the while, my hands softly ghosted over her beautiful form.
"Here is one," I said quietly as I found the acupoint I needed to break open for her eleventh Meridian, which was on her lower right side, with the twelfth being a complete mystery until I realized it was going to be on her front side.
"Senior... Your other acupoint is on your front side." I said with a helpless tone.
Yanyo Hanying knowing all well that I had zero control over this, sighed and she fidgeted before she said blankly. "Do what you must, Jake. I am just going to pretend you are my doctor who is checking me for poison or something."
The twelve core Meridians weren't in 'random' spots across the body. They had alot of places they could be in alot of places for different people for sure. But everyone had the same acupoints which coincided to where the meridians were.
As in order for the meridians to be able to absorb qi from the world. It needed access, obviously, to the acupoints at the surface level of the body in order to absorb the qi.
This also played a part in why talented cultivators had 'jade' smooth skin and were just generally beautiful. Their talent at least in the early part of Meridian Cleansing and the Foundation Establishment, had a strong basis in the purity of the person's body and skin.
Hence why children of powerful clans who hadn't even hit their teens had an even easier time getting through the Meridian Cleansing realm... They didn't have the hormones and oils that would literally clog up their acupoints!
Still... As I sat in front of Yanyo Hanying, and her ample cleavage was exposed to me as I tested for the last heavenly meridian. It didn't take me long to find it, though it was in a slightly off place, so to speak.
"You have a fire and wood-based cultivation style like myself. So it makes sense that while your eleventh meridian was at your liver, which cleanses the poisons and such from your body. Your heart is the site of your twelfth meridian due to the fire that makes up the other half of your elemental affinity."
My hand, which had ghosted over the top of her breast paused before I got out the particularly larger acupoint needle which needed the bigger hole so that the clogged meridian could be cleaned.
"Please look away." I said with a knowing chuckle as Yanyo looked at the needle with a slightly fearful look.
Then she took a breath and closed her eyes. And in that moment, with my other hand I steadied her breast so it woudn't move before I carefully pushed the needle into her body with my qi on the needle gently poking a hole into the meridian to unclog it.
Already, she was leaking a foul and brackish fluid from her side, and now she was leaking the foul impurities from her chest as well in weeping black fluid. "I will turn around so you can get into the milk pool. You need only to allow the pool to cleanse your body and have your bones remolded now!"
And as I stepped away, I could see the fortune halo above her head glowing as she fully took the 'opportunity' before I stepped and looked away for her to quietly step into the pool.
Finally, a couple of moments later as the sound of the mountain milk settled down as she sank down to her neck within it. She said softly. "Thank you, Jake."
And I nodded quietly as I sat down cross-legged and began cultivating in the energy-rich room, either way before Yanyo Hanyging sunk down into the mountain milk to get it's fully effect to give her body a proper rebirth.
'Hmm, at most a couple more weeks will be needed for me to fill out all twelve of my meridians with qi to hit Foundation Establishment. And once I reach that realm, alchemy will be my bread and butter to get the resources and qi to forge a perfect Golden Core.' I mused to myself.
Though, to be honest. I had little idea of how long it would take me to get through Foundation Establishment.
'Hmm, though with how quickly I shot up through Meridian Cleansing. And into Foundation Establishment. It's going to draw eye's. And although I imagine most elder's wouldn't fuck me over. I am going to be a prize for a disciple that will draw attention.' I also thought with a slight frown.
With a sigh as there was nothing I could do right now anyway. I just closed my mind down and focused on my cultivation.
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After a good bit, Yanyo Hanying broke the surface of the mountain milk pool and I couldn't help the instinctive glance over and first I noticed clinically that the Yin/Yang Mountain Milk was greatly faded at this point.
Having given myself and Yanyo, especially who was near the golden core realm, a cleansed of all impurities body. It would taken centuries at the very least, to refill itself.
But that glance turned into a long look as Yanyo's silk underwear was all but see through as she climbed out of the uneven pool. And at seeing my appreciative look, she sniffed and said coolly. "That enough of a look for you?"
And although I looked away I still said shamelessly. "Sadly I will never get enough of such a wonderful sight."
Which made Yanyo snort and said with amused disdain. "Men!" Then she took a breath before saying quietly. "I should be fine now, Jake. I am going to cultivate with all those spirit stone stalagmites filling the ceiling. So I have to ask you to leave as I try to break through the tenth stage to the eleventh."
I nodded, knowing all to well that Yanyo needed time for herself at this point to not only clear her head. But to digest her gains. So I smiled and said easily. "Alright, I wish you the fortune of a perfect grade Golden Core, Yanyo Hanying. Excuse me then."
Then, with a skip in my step, I made my way back home to my dorm without any other events, all the while I planned to just become a shut-in to reach Foundation Establishment.