Spirit Realm Chapter 573-574

Chapter 573: Playing with Fire

Qin Lie left the training area on the second level of the ship and returned to his rooms, immediately shutting himself within the cultivation room to thoroughly refine the nine drops of liquid essence of the metal, earth, and water spirits that flowed within him.

He would occasionally use his soul consciousness to peer into the Soul Suppressing Orb. Each time he did, he only saw the three tiny beings sleeping peacefully, their bodies surrounded by the gentle glow of energies.

Having eaten, the three tiny beings seemed to have become content as their pocket-sized bodies underwent constant change, shifting between tangible and intangible states in an extremely strange manner while they slept.

“Are they entities with both tangible and intangible states of being? Or can they just freely transition between the two?”

Qin Lie observed them many times, but he still couldn’t understand their mysteries. All he could do was silently give up.

By the time night fell, Xing Shengnan had finished her session of gathering spirit energy. She awakened from her cultivation and went straight to Qin Lie’s room.

Due to how bulky she was, she noisily moved through the hallway and startled many Xing Family clansmen in the middle of cultivating.

These people opened their doors and peeked into the hallway, complicated expressions emerging on their faces as they saw her walk to Qin Lie’s room.

Most of the Xing Family were more or less aware of the knot in Xing Shengnan’s heart and how she couldn’t let go of her little brother who had tragically died in her arms.

It was clear to to them that this trauma had once again taken over her, causing her to treat Qin Lie like her actual brother.

All of them silently sighed with worry, but they didn’t know how they could persuade her otherwise.

Xing Yao stood right behind the door to her own room, watching her aunt move toward Qin Lie’s room through a small gap in the doorway. She wore a bitter, pained expression as Xing Shengnan passed by her.

She could still remember how lifeless Xing Shengnan had been after Enforcer Guo executed the spy from the Pan Family.

That lifeless state had lasted half a year. For half a year, Xing Shengnan became a recluse and didn’t talk to a single person, her cultivation grinding to a halt.

Xing Yao worried that her aunt would make the same mistake.

“I must use more insidious methods!” Xing Yao thought to herself, silently making a decision.

At the same time, Qin Lie opened the door to his room and welcomed Xing Shengnan into his room saying, “Big sister!”

After entering Qin Lie’s room, Xing Shengnan took several bound scrolls of varying sizes and thickness out of her spatial ring. All of them were related to cultivating, and some of them seemed to contain decent spirit arts.

“I’ve gathered several cultivation scriptures for you. Take a look. Do any of them suit you?” Xing Shengnan asked. “Do you have a vague idea of what direction your cultivation will go? Do you have a particular affinity for any energy?”

“Thunder and lightning energy,” Qin Lie answered, meeting her gaze with a serious expression.

“Ah! Then take a look at these.” Xing Shengnan picked out several scriptures and handed them to Qin Lie. “All of these are scriptures that detail techniques based on thunder and lightning.”

Qin Lie thanked her and put them away without even looking at them.

Xing Shengnan suddenly smiled.

“I heard you have three wives! Why don’t you call them over and let me meet them?” she asked, patting Qin Lie on the shoulder. “Little brother is truly fortunate.”

An embarrassed look surfaced on Qin Lie’s face as he coughed softly and called for Song Tingyu, Xie Jingxuan, and Xue Moyan.

Knowing they couldn’t avoid it, the three of them disguised their faces with special masks and walked out from the bedrooms. Following Qin Lie’s directions, they turned toward Xing Shengnan.

“We greet big sister,” they said in unison.

“Good, good! Very good.” Joy filled Xing Shengnan’s face.

Her small eyes shined as her gaze moved back and forth across the three women, sweeping over their waists, thighs, behinds, and their general pelvic areas.

Afterward, she emphatically declared, “All of them are good! They’re suited for rearing children. I can finally feel at ease.”

Her words were so straightforward that Song Tingyu’s ears became red as she blushed behind her mask. Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan reacted even more strongly, silently bowing their heads as their necks took on a crimson hue.

“Little brother,” Xing Shengnan addressed him solemnly. “I’m afraid… you are seventh grandfather’s sole heir. Since his bloodline cannot be lost, you need to work hard and shoulder the heavy responsibility of producing an heir as soon as possible.”

Qin Lie could only respond with an awkward chuckle.

The moment Song Tingyu, Xie Jingxuan, and Xue Moyan realized why Xing Shengnan had chosen to show up at night and speak to them, their faces grew even redder. She wasn’t here to bring them scrolls about cultivation and spirits arts.

—She was here to discuss the continuation of her seventh grandfather’s bloodline.

Aside from Song Tingyu, who found this entire situation hilarious, Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan helplessly hung their heads, silently cursing Qin Lie for wickedly calling them his wives for no good reason.

“It seems to me that you aren’t sleeping together,” Xing Shengnan said with a sigh. Then she began to sternly lecture Qin Lie. “You can’t just cultivate, little brother. You’re seventh grandfather’s sole heir, so you must give him a great-grandson as soon as possible. Yes, you heard me. You mustn’t shut yourself in the cultivation room all day. You’ve just entered the late stage of the Netherpassage Realm after all. You don’t need to work so hard. You can afford to relax a bit, indulging in some intimacy won’t do any harm. And you, my three little sisters, must genuinely encourage him. Some things ultimately don’t require a man to take the lead.”

Qin Lie coughed loudly.

Although she was normally bold and eager to take the initiative, Song Tingyu had calmed down by this point, but she still felt that the current situation was extremely interesting. In fact, she even dared to tease Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan.

“Big sister’s teachings are absolutely right,” she said. “I believe that you two, my sisters… may have to show more enthusiasm.”

Qin Lie’s coughing became even worse.

Hearing her words, Xue Moyan and Xie Jingxuan glared at Song Tingyu with embarrassed fury.

Since she possessed a shy demeanor, Xie Jingxuan couldn’t oppose Song Tingyu’s sudden stream of words and could only glare at her.

Xue Moyan, on the other hand, had grown up in Illusory Demon Sect. She wasn’t as passive as Xie Jingxuan and quickly responded.

“You’re right. Big sister’s words do make sense. Let me think…” She paused then said, “It just so happens to be Sister Tingyu’s turn to sleep with husband. Jingxuan, let us leave them to their business.”

With that, Xue Moyan turned around and drifted back into one of the bedrooms.

Xie Jingxuan snapped out of her daze and wordlessly followed Xue Moyan to the bedroom they had been staying in.

“Sister Tingyu, we’ve left a room for the two of you to use,” she said, counter-attacking from a distance. Then she promptly entered the room and shut the door behind her.

Xie Jingxuan wasn’t as good at acting as Xue Moyan. Although she was just pretending, she still couldn’t say the word “husband.”

A sinking feeling spread through Song Tingyu as she realized she had fallen into her own trap. The realization left her stunned, and she secretly cursed that fact that Xue Moyan wasn’t as benevolent, kind, or easy to mock as she expected.

“I see that you’ve still got it, little brother…” Xing Shengnan said happily, her praise for him written all over her face. “The relationship between the four of you is so friendly that everyone can see the big picture.”

Qin Lie couldn’t find the words to reply.

“Well?” Xing Shengnan exclaimed. “What are you just standing there for?”

“I’ll be waiting for you in our room, dear husband.” Song Tingyu took everything in stride, smiling sweetly and glancing at him seductively as she returned to the other bedroom. Once she reached it, she bewitchingly said, “You can chat with big sister a while longer. I’ll get in bed first and warm it up…”

Qin Lie’s mouth suddenly became as dry as a desert.

Xing Shengnan’s eyes lit up. “I really like this sister-in-law’s attitude!”

Inside one of the bedrooms, an awkward expression appeared on Xue Moyan’s face as surprise shone from her eyes.

“Judging from her actions, it seems like this has been on someone’s mind for a while now,” she said. “Your Sister Tingyu’s really is quite something…”

“She’s a real she-wolf!” Xie Jingxuan whispered.

“What a great description!” Xue Moyan gently nodded in agreement.

Back in the living room, Xing Shengnan admonished Qin Lie, asking, “Why are you still standing here, little brother?”

“Th-this… big sister, you haven’t left yet!” Qin Lie scratched his head uncomfortably. “This is embarrassing! This…”

“Alright, fine. I’ll leave first and take a stroll outside.” Xing Shengnan walked over to Qin Lie and put a hand on his shoulder.

“Put your heart into it.”

“Y-yes…” Qin Lie quickly nodded.

Satisfied with his answer, Xing Shengnan left the room.

She didn’t go far, however, and instead strolled back and forth within the hallway.

“It’s about time we added someone new to the Xing Family tree,” she whispered to herself.

Qin Lie felt helpless. He knew that Xing Shengnan was still paying attention to what went on within the room, so he had to bite the bullet and go into the bedroom that Song Tingyu had entered.

The moment he did, Qin Lie immediately went still with amazement, blood threatening to gush from his nose.

Song Tingyu was actually laying on the bed!

It seemed as if she had even taken off all of her clothes, only using the bedsheet to cover specific parts of her body.

Song Tingyu curled up at the far corner of the bed, exposing her lustrous jade shoulder and extending her long silky legs. Seduction bloomed on her face as she laughed at Qin Lie, a hint of her charm concept shining from her eyes.

Qin Lie just stood at the doorway in a daze, staring at her provocative movements and the allure in her eyes.

Qin Lie trembled as he turned around and closed the door.

“You really want to play with fire, eh?” he exclaimed, grunting fiercely as he bent over to hide the lower half of his body.

Then he turned back to Song Tingyu, his eyes burning with ferocious flames of lust.

“You brought this upon yourself!”

As soon as she saw the expression in Qin Lie’s eyes, Song Tingyu became nervous.

“D-don’t! I was just teasing you!” she shouted hurriedly. “Don’t actually do any…”

“I can’t stop myself anymore!” Qin Lie pounced onto the bed with a guttural howl and ripped the thin bedsheet from Song Tingyu, revealing all of her.

Song Tingyu wore thin silk clothing that clung to her shapely body, clearly showing off her figure but not revealing anything else.

Her usage of the bedsheet to present an erotic facade had really just been teasing. She had just wanted to see if her beauty could actually make Qin Lie go crazy with desire.

When Qin Lie turned back to face her, his answer made her rejoice, but also made her panic a little bit.

It wasn’t that Song Tingyu didn’t want to give herself to Qin Lie.

In all honestly, when Qin Lie carried her throughout all of the Forbidden Land of Wood to cure her of the voodoo toxin, dealing with their pursuers from Black Voodoo Sect and refusing to give up on her, she had already decided to devote her mind and body to Qin Lie.

He had fought Ye Yihao to obtain the blood of the voodoo insects.

He had put his life on the line for hers.

Song Tingyu’s heart was a mess because she was aware of what was happening outside the walls of their bedroom.

She knew that Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan were listening to what was happening in their bedroom.

She knew that Xing Shengnan was pacing in the hallway and paying close attention to their activity.

She knew that Xing Yao stood in her own room, eavesdropping.

Between herself, Xie Jingxuan, and Xue Moyan, Song Tingyu was definitely the most promiscuous and straightforward of the three. However, indulging in pleasure with so many people listening in… to make love in a situation that was no different from completely exposing herself…

—Of course she would feel uncomfortable.

“Wait! Calm down! Don’t do this now…” Song Tingyu whispered, pushing against Qin Lie’s chest with both hands, her lithe body writhing like a slender water snake. “As long as you let me go this time, I’ll do it whenever you want to in the future. Don’t—please calm down… ah!”

Her mind froze as she realized that Qin Lie had already torn her thin layer of clothing away.

Her stunning chest was completely bare, her supple mounds swaying gently. They quivered with every breath she took, moving in a way that would make any man go insane with lust.

In the next instant, Qin Lie’s impressive body descended upon hers, his strong scent assailing her senses.

In that moment, Song Tingyu surrendered completely.

Chapter 574: Actually Doing It

Exhilaration rushed through Qin Lie as if he were traveling through an endless wilderness on horseback.

Waves of ecstasy washed over his senses over and over, sheer pleasure seeping into his flesh and soul, into every power and every cell in his body. He had never experienced such a wonderful feeling until now.

He felt like a man that had starved for countless years and was now devouring a table full of delicious delicacies.

He also felt like a man on the verge of freezing to death that had been lowered into a hot spring.

He felt indescribably good.

Song Tingyu lay beneath him, her firm, bountiful breasts pressing into different shapes. She unconsciously spread her long, intoxicatingly beautiful legs so that he could ease his way into her.

Upon looking down, Qin Lie discovered that the dazed, yet impossibly beautiful woman below him wore a shockingly seductive expression on her face, one capable of crushing the mental defenses of any man.

It made him go crazy for her.

“Creak… mmn… creak… aah…. creak… mmph…”

The wooden bed creaked under the pressure of their intimacy, the noise mixing with Song Tingyu’s soft, erotic moans. The sounds reduced him to a wild animal that had lost every shred of rationality.

Qin Lie let out a low, bestial growl as he desperately sought to sate the needs of his mind and body, forcefully ravishing Song Tingyu as if he were never going to stop.

In the bedroom next door, Xue Moyan and Xie Jingxuan looked at each other. They had removed their masks, revealing exquisite, flushed faces.

The two women stared blankly at the wall separating the two rooms, helpless looks in their eyes. Considerable shock had overwhelmed their delicate hearts.

It took a long time for Xue Moyan to get a hold of herself.

“Th-th… th-they… they can’t actually be doing it, can they?” she exclaimed softly, covering her mouth in shock.

By this point, Xie Jingxuan’s blushing had spread from her face to her neck. In fact, it was gradually making its way throughout her entire body.

“I… I can’t… I can’t believe…” she whispered under her breath, unable to actually find the words to describe how she felt.

On opposite end of that bedroom, ear pressed against the other side of the wall, Xing Yao was listening closely.

It didn’t take long for an astonishing wave of redness to take over her cheeks. Embarrassment shone from her eyes as she gritted her teeth and muttered, “How utterly shameless!”

When Xing Yao realized that Qin Lie and Song Tingyu were engaging in a certain unspeakable act, she felt the urge to go into her own cultivation room and block out all the sounds. However, she couldn’t stop herself from listening in a little longer.

She didn’t move from where she was, nor did she pull her ear from the wall, struggling with indecision.

As she continued to eavesdrop while hesitating, her face completely red, she didn’t forget to curse every so often. Exasperation and confusion tinged her voice.

“How shameless. And lewd. What a vulgar couple…”

In the hallway of the ship’s third level, Xing Shengnan’s footsteps came to a halt. She was in the Fragmentation Realm, and Qin Lie and Song Tingyu’s bedroom wasn’t a cultivation room. It hadn’t been soundproofed.

As a result, she heard every bit of Qin Lie and Song Tingyu’s intimate sounds and the creaking of the wooden bed.

A satisfied smile leaped to Xing Shengnan’s plump face. She nodded and said, “That girl is pretty bold. She’s a good kid… little brother sure is lucky to have married her.”

Song Tingyu impressed her more and more..

Under the secret scrutiny of at least three parties, Qin Lie had cracked under Song Tingyu’s constant teasing, throwing all caution to the wind and taking her on the spot.

Inside the relatively small room, two bodies pressed tightly against one another atop a wooden bed, wrestling each other as if lives were on the line.

“Husband, please come back soon. I will always be waiting for you…”

Qin Lie heard Song Tingyu’s devoted pleading and felt as if he had stepped into memories of the past—

—as if he had loved her for two lifetimes.

During his first lifetime, he was a warrior heading off to battle and Song Tingyu was his bride. Before he departed, she lovingly urged him to take care of himself and come home safely.

During his second lifetime, he was a scholar who placed at the top rank of the imperial exam. Song Tingyu was the wife who awaited his return every single day.

Qin Lie was well aware of the fact that these were memories that Song Tingyu’s charm concept had given him when he first met her.

Back then, both he and Song Tingyu had been struck those memories and overwhelmed with how real they seemed.

He had resisted the dream in the end, and Song Tingyu had almost succumbed to it instead.

Today, he and Song Tingyu had become one. They pleasured each other, enjoying wondrous sensations like never before.

As they did, the memories of those two lifetimes resurfaced and replayed in his mind once again.

A long, long time later, the physical back-and-forth between the Qin Lie and Song Tingyu, the twisting of their bodies against one another atop the bed, gradually subsided.

Now Qin Lie lay on the bed facing upward, and Song Tingyu lay on top of him, her body spread out in a lazy manner. The pleasures of the flesh had yet to fade from her face, making her exude an astonishing amount of sex appeal.

Qin Lie’s hands caressed Song Tingyu’s supple body, sliding down it as if it were silk. They moved from her back, down to her slender waist, her plump, shapely rear, then finally her between her legs and into her depths…

Soon enough, Qin Lie withdrew one of his hands from between her legs and glanced at the blood on his fingertips. Before he knew it, a cheerful smile spread across his face.

“Are you satisfied now?” Song Tingyu asked tenderly, rolling her eyes at him. Her jade-white finger softly brushed across his chest, tracing circles around his nipples. She also wore a bright smile on her face.

“This is such a wonderful feeling! I’ve never felt anything like it. I can’t believe how… how heavenly and…” Qin Lie narrowed his eyes for a moment, thinking to himself, then said, “It’s literally indescribable.”

Seeing Qin Lie’s astonishment, Song Tingyu’s face blossomed with bliss. Her hands made their way down Qin Lie’s body until they reached his most sensitive part, gripping it gently.

“Would you leave me in the future?” she whispered into his ear.

“Not even when I’m dead,” Qin Lie exclaimed softly, pleasure tinging his voice.

“At least you know how to give the right answer.” Song Tingyu cast a satisfied glance at Qin Lie, then proudly declared, “No matter what happens in the future, I’m the one that got to you before anyone else!”

Qin Lie’s inexperienced movements and the general awkwardness of his postures made it clear that this was also his first time.

When she thought about this, understanding that she had beaten Ling Yushi, she felt a sense of triumph..

This made her unbelievably happy.

“What are you thinking? Wh… why aren’t you moving your hands?” Qin Lie grew dissatisfied.

Song Tingyu rolled her eyes at him once more and began moving her fingers skillfully. “You bastard…”

Qin Lie immediately closed his eyes, pleasure overtaking his face. He sighed on the inside, thinking one thing—

—My life has been a complete waste until today.

From that night onward, Qin Lie and Song Tingyu no longer spent their time just cultivating like usual.

The two of them emerged from their bedroom and secretly slipped into the cultivation room. Since that room was soundproof, they let go of all their inhibitions and immersed themselves in each other. Their first taste of sex had left them drunk with pleasure, so they could hardly control themselves as they grappled with one another over and over again.

Since Xue Moyan and Xie Jingxuan stayed in the same set of rooms as Qin Lie and Song Tingyu, neither could calm down nor cultivate properly for the entire night..

Although the cultivation room preventing sound from traveling in or out, both knew exactly what Qin Lie and Song Tingyu were doing inside of it. They couldn’t help but subconsciously think about them. Whenever they thought about a certain couple doing shameless things inside the cultivation room, they became irritated and frustrated no matter how hard they tried to push it from their minds.

Xing Yao was also someone who lost sleep that night.

The thought of Qin Lie and Song Tingyu left only one other person satisfied and happy: Xing Shengnan.

The next day, Song Tingyu snuck out of the cultivation room to the washroom so she could wash up.

When she finished bathing and changing into a new set of clothes, just as she was about to exit the washroom, she ran into Xue Moyan and Xie Jingxuan who were just about to enter.

When their gazes met, the atmosphere suddenly became unfathomably awkward.

Xue Moyan and Xie Jingxuan were the first to lose the battle of nerves, their faces suddenly flushing bright red. Both of them thought the same confused thoughts.

“They did that for a whole night, so why is she bursting with energy? Not only does she not look tired at all, her beauty seems to have climbed to an entirely new level!”

What they didn’t was, the knot that had been holding back Song Tingyu’s charm concept had finally unwound after her night of passion with Qin Lie.

In the past, her attempt to seduce Qin Lie with her charm concept had backfired. She consequently removed its influence, and although she thought she had completely dispelled its effect, she hadn’t actually gotten rid of all of it.

When the two of them faced each other in naked honesty, wrestling in the bed with all their might, they entered the illusion from that time once more.

Since both of them truly loved each other this time, Song Tingyu freed herself from the previous influence of her charm concept, allowing it to break through its limits and grow stronger. Only she knew about this. Not even Qin Lie was aware of her breakthrough.

Thanks to her breakthrough with her charm concept, she was on the verge of entering the Fulfillment Realm and reaching a whole new level as well. This was why she looked to be in high spirits, her visage incredibly radiant.

Neither Xue Moyan nor Xie Jingxuan knew about this.

Song Tingyu felt happy as she smiled at the two women.

Then she suddenly feigned surprise, exclaiming, “Hm, both of you don’t look too energetic today. Why do you have dark circles around your eyes? Could it be that you couldn’t sleep last night, sisters?”

After of a moment of shock, Xue Moyan and Xie Jingxuan subconsciously looked at each other. They quickly discovered that Song Tingyu wasn’t just messing with them.

On one hand, Song Tingyu looked absolutely radiant and energetic after an entire night of passionate love-making. On the other hand, both of them looked exhausted and had dark circles around their eyes. In fact, they looked like the ones whose minds and bodies had been completely ravished.

Both of them cursed inwardly, shooting fierce glares at Song Tingyu, thinking, “Aren’t you the cause of this?”

“Sister Tingyu,” Xie Jingxuan said. “From now on, I will share a room with Sister Xue and vacate the other one so you and Qin Lie can… use it…”

Xie Jingxuan’s elegant face blushed intensely. She couldn’t force out the last few words not matter how much she tried.

“So you can work on your baby-making.” Xue Moyan gritted her teeth, finishing Xie Jingxuan’s sentence.

Even Song Tingyu, as natural and unrestrained as she was, couldn’t help but blush at Xue Moyan’s bluntness. She coughed softly, then exited the washroom without replying.

She inwardly recognized that Xue Moyan wasn’t a pushover.

At that same time, Qin Lie took stock of the time and figured that Song Tingyu would more or less be done washing up. Wanting to take a bath himself, he walked out of the cultivation room only wearing a pair of short pants.

Three pairs of eyes met once more.

Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan could clearly see the extremely obvious bite marks on Qin Lie’s robust body and imagine exactly how fierce last night’s “battle” had been.

Both of their faces had barely recovered from their encounter with Song Tingyu, and now they became painted in red once more. They cursed out loud before quickly jumping into the washroom.

This meeting also left Qin Lie slightly embarrassed.

He let out an awkward laugh and said, “I see that everyone woke up quite early today.”

Unbeknownst to him, Xie Jingxuan and Xue Moyan hadn’t woken up early.

The simply couldn’t sleep for the entire night.

So he naturally had no idea that both women were inwardly cursing up a storm.