Soon, all the women became immersed in the mystery of chess. His mother and aunt were the fastest learners; they adapted to the game's rules quite well, especially his mother, who seemed like a natural-born chess master.
Cultivators' mental power transcends that of mortals, and they have strong memories. Shi Tian experienced this himself; his memory was strong enough to memorize a thousand pages of a book word for word in one or two days.
After reaching the Spirit Master stage, one could open their sea of consciousness inside their mind, which was considered the place where the soul resided.
The benefit of the sea of consciousness was that it greatly enhanced a person's mental power and senses.
It was already evening when they stopped playing chess. His mother and his aunt made dinner for everyone.
After dinner, they played chess again for some time before going to their rooms.
Shi Tian once again slept in the warm and cozy embrace of his mother.
But the next day, he got a piece of disappointing news: he might not be able to enjoy his mother's embrace for long.
Starting the next week, his mother was going to start refining medicinal pills for selling. She was going to refine them in batches, which would be time-consuming. She couldn't spend so many hours sleeping.
As your cultivation increases, your body moves toward immortality. At that time, you can skip many mortal habits like eating and sleeping without affecting your health.
A Spirit Master could work continuously for days without eating, drinking, or sleeping. And a Spirit Grandmaster could do the same for an even longer time.
High-ranked cultivators like his mother essentially lived on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth while meditating rather than sleeping.
Practically, other than Shi Tian, who was still at the second level of the Body Forging Stage, the others didn't need to eat breakfast or dinner daily. But his mother had suggested that everyone should eat together and spend some time together. It was likely because of the past shock.
After eating breakfast, Shi Tian went to his room for cultivating. Today, he was going to absorb the Muscle Tempering Pills to temper his muscles. After seeing that his mother and the others were working, he also decided to put some extra effort into his cultivation.
Sitting on the bed, he first calmed his mind before taking the pill. As the pill dissolved inside his stomach, it released a great amount of warm energy. The warm energy soon spread throughout his entire body. Shi Tian clenched his teeth as he was ready to accept another wave of pain like the one he had experienced during bone tempering.
Argh!!!
As he expected, body tempering was a really painful process. Shi Tian was once again assaulted by agonizing pain when the warm energy attacked the muscles of his entire body.
He felt like every muscle in his body was being torn apart by the forces, then regenerated by the warm energy. This process repeated again and again until his muscles became firmer and stronger.
Shi Tian spent the next four hours tempering his muscles as he absorbed all ten Muscle Tempering Pills. Shi Tian's physical strength increased again after tempering his muscles.
After that, Shi Tian didn't stop cultivating but took out the Superior Grade Spirit Stones to raise his Qi cultivation.
He ran the Primordial Chaos Sutra and began absorbing the spiritual qi from the spirit stone. Three hours later, Shi Tian stopped cultivating. His cultivation had reached the third level of the Body Forging Stage.
He noticed that his progress was becoming slower than before as his cultivation climbed.
After placing the Superior Grade Spirit Stone back into his inventory, he stood from the bed and walked out of the room.
Just as he came out of the room, he met his mother in the hall. She was sitting at the table, where there was a bunch of spirit herbs. It looked like she was going to start the refining process.
"Hm, the third level of the Body Forging Stage! Good. At this rate, it won't be long before you return to your peak state again," Xiangyue immediately sensed Shi Tian's cultivation and said.
Shi Tian nodded, then he asked, "Mother, where are the others?"
"Well, Xiaoli is cultivating in her room, your aunt went to the Alchemist Guild to get spirit herbs, while the two little girls are playing chess in the garden," Xiangyue replied.
"Okay, Mother! I'm going to the garden then," Shi Tian said before walking towards the garden. Xiangyue nodded as she once again started inspecting the spirit herbs.
When Shi Tian came into the garden, Xiu Ying and Duan Mei were sitting on the ground under the tree, a chessboard placed between them. Xiu Ying had a serious expression as she looked at the chessboard, then she suddenly made a move, and a sweet smile flashed on her cute face.
"Checkmate! Haha, I won again!" Xiu Ying laughed lightly.
"Ahhh... No, I'm not willing to give up, one more time. This time, I'm going to beat you for sure," Duan Mei looked frustrated as she looked at Xiu Ying.
"Good afternoon, girls!" Shi Tian suddenly said as he came to them.
"Good afternoon, Young Master!" Both girls exclaimed lightly after seeing Shi Tian, then greeted him.
At this time, Duan Mei suddenly stood up and moved to Shi Tian.
"Young Master, you have to help me out," Duan Mei held his arm in her bosom and said while looking at Shi Tian with a depressed expression.
Before he could say anything, Shi Tian's mind was instantly occupied by the soft feeling on his arm. He was unable to hear her words clearly.
Although Duan Mei was only one year older than Xiu Ying, her figure was much more developed. Her breasts were far bigger than those of average girls her age. He could tell that in a few years, her breasts would be able to grow as big as his mother's.
Shi Tian snapped out of his daze as she shook his arm slightly and asked, "Hmm! What happened?" Shi Tian wanted to withdraw his arm, but she held it tight in her bosom.
"It's all because of Xiu Ying. Yesterday, she was a newbie, but today she suddenly became an expert at chess," Duan Mei complained. She didn't forget to hug his arm in her bosom more tightly, grinding it against her soft breasts.
'Ahh, this little succubus! What the hell is she trying to do? Is she doing this intentionally?' Shi Tian cursed in his mind as he felt her soft breasts on his arm.