Shortly after leaving Kael’s room, Selene padded down the dimly lit hallway.
Her own door stood right next to his, and she reached it in only a few moments.
Just as her hand went to the door, a muffled thud carried through the wall, followed by a low, pained groan.
A faint smile played on her lips.
Expanding her Qi senses for a brief moment, she confirmed that the young man was merely testing the limits of his new power.
Her smile softened, warmth blooming in her green eyes.
Biological son or not, it made no difference. In her heart, she would always be his mother.
She was the one who had breastfed him since he was two months old. The one who had changed his diapers.
The one who had stayed up through countless feverish nights, watching him grow, little by little, into the man he was today.
Brushing a stray strand of black hair from her face, Selene slipped into her room and pushed the door shut behind her with a soft click.
Pale silver moonlight spilled through the open window, painting her figure in soft, ghostly strokes as she crossed the chamber. A faint night breeze followed it in, cool against her skin.
She sank onto the edge of the mattress with a quiet sigh. The bedding dipped beneath her weight, the plump flesh of her ass spreading softly against the cool silk, the smooth fabric pressing against the backs of her thighs.
Her fingertips drifted absently along the smooth, satin skin of her long, shapely legs, tracing slow lines from knee to thigh.
Honestly, the matter of Seraphine weighed heavily on her.
Her current power simply wasn’t enough to fulfill the promise she had made to Kael.
At best, she stood as an equal match against the Patriarch of the Purewind Family.
Without solid evidence in hand, moving against that woman would be pure madness.
If only she were just a little stronger...
Her right hand left her thigh and drifted across to her lower belly, coming to rest over her dantian.
Beneath the pale, smooth skin of her slender belly, she could feel her own Qi pulsing steadily, a warm, familiar current.
But tonight, there was a strange restlessness humming just beneath the surface.
Then her fingers glided upward, sliding over the flat plane of her stomach until they brushed the heavy underside of her breasts, where the plump flesh rested against her ribs.
A small, unbidden breath slipped past her lips.
She cupped the huge tits from below and lifted them slightly. Their warm, generous weight sank deep into her palms, the soft flesh swelling up between her fingers and overflowing the edges of her grip.
Her slender hands were nowhere near enough to contain them.
Her index fingers barely reached the stiff pink crests perched at their peaks.
She gave them a slow squeeze, and a small, helpless shiver crawled up her spine.
It was strange...
At the ninth layer of the Nascent Ascension Realm, she was a powerful woman, capable of living a thousand years.
And yet, the moment she had felt Kael’s hot cum sliding down her throat and flooding her stomach, something inside her had changed.
Why was it so rich in Qi? Why was the taste so strangely addictive?
Even now, her tongue pressed against the roof of her mouth, chasing a flavor that was no longer there.
No... it wasn’t that simple.
A sudden tremor rippled through her cultivation, and her eyes flew wide.
She had been stuck at this level for twenty long years.
Deep down, she had always believed this was the ceiling of her talent.
She had resigned herself to that truth long ago.
Unless she dedicated the next several centuries of her life to nothing but cultivation, the next stage would forever remain out of reach.
But now, in her dantian, her cultivation was already shifting.
Decades of accumulated Qi crashed into her all at once, surging through her meridians in a single, overwhelming wave.
Heat flooded her limbs. A fine sheen of sweat broke out across her pale skin, and her breath came short and ragged.
That was...
Was she breaking through?
"Aghnn~~ damn... I’m not ready to advance yet!"
Her whole body shuddered violently.
She doubled over for an instant, her big breasts swinging forward to hang pendulous beneath her.
Then she arched her back hard, her spine bowing toward the ceiling in a deep, helpless curve.
Her huge tits heaved with the motion, the heavy mounds wrenched skyward by the violent flex of her body.
The two pale, perfect orbs lifted, hung suspended for a single trembling heartbeat at the peak of her arch, then crashed back together.
*clap*
Slick with fresh sweat, they met with a lewd, wet slap that rang through the silent room. The impact sent a deep shudder rolling through the soft flesh, and her stiff nipples were still quivering when the sound died away.
Gritting her teeth with grim determination, she forced her scattered thoughts back into order, shot to her feet, and rushed toward her cultivation room.
Each hurried step set her huge tits lurching, the pair leaping up and dropping heavily with every stride, their sheer weight dragging at her chest.
Once inside, she dropped to the polished floor and folded her legs into the lotus position.
The floor was cool beneath her, a small mercy against the heat raging through her body.
Sweat dripped from her chin as she began guiding the rampaging Qi through her meridians with careful control.
Ready or not, she couldn’t afford to let this opportunity slip away!
For the sake of her beloved Kael, she had to become stronger!
***
While Selene prepared for her breakthrough, Kael sat cross-legged on the floor of his own room, still nursing a dull ache from testing his new power, and watched the mysterious box crack open before him.
[Opening mysterious box...
Luck bonus applied!
Congratulations, you have received: Spear Art of the Seven Flaming Claws (Rank B)
Congratulations, you have received: Burning Sky Body Cultivation Art (Rank B)
Congratulations, you have received: Golden Spear of the Southern Dragon Emperor (Rank B)
Congratulations, you have received: Movement Art of the Fire Emperor’s Steps (Rank B)
Congratulations, you have received: Verdant Spirit Herb Body Purification Pill (Rank D)]
[Spatial ring detected! Items have been automatically stored!]
Kael’s breath caught in his throat. His eyes locked immediately onto the first four items, the direct results of his luck bonus.
Next, his gaze drifted to the sword hanging on the wall, another gift from his stepmother.
A high-quality blade, coveted even by the Elders of the sect, and yet still only Rank D.
The newly acquired spear, by contrast, was Rank B. Just like the other three rewards.
Didn’t that mean they boasted an absurd quality advantage even over the sect’s finest gear? Even over the so-called legendary artifacts whispered about in the back halls?
A wide, deranged grin slowly split his lips.
"Ah... System... my friend... together, no married woman will know peace, not a single one, hahahaha!"
"Celestial gods, Lords of War, demons, hand over your wives to me, HAHAHAHAHA!"
Kael threw his head back, and his maniacal laughter bounced off the walls of his room as he pictured himself setting out on his glorious and noble journey to spread green hats across all Seven Skies.
[Uh... the Host is clearly out of his mind. He hasn’t contracted the two-and-a-half-neuron syndrome that afflicts most arrogant young masters and turns them into functional retards, has he?]
The System generated an internal prompt that Kael, of course, couldn’t see.