A week later, after his wives had their way with him for long and arduous hours of cultivation, Pef met with Lady Yuan again,

and this time in the sauna.

He was just meditating and recharging, enjoying the bliss of quiet and peace, when the breathtaking beauty entered the sauna and sat calmly in front of him, seemingly not bothered by their naked state.

'She had to have sensed me. Right?' he asked his glove a bit worried something might go wrong.

'And yet she's here and naked as well. You're a bit too lucky, Aspirant.' the glove said in a snicker.

Pef enjoyed the view for a long time, burning the holy images in his brain. He had seen it all before, but caring for a sickly wife whimpering in pain wasn't the same.

An hour later, the Ignited wife opened her wise brown eyes, and swirled some fire qi around.

"I never thought I'd marry, as the available Sovereigns are quite distasteful men, when not ugly and deformed by age or their cultivation. They are also wiser and hard to understand, scheming and plotting ahead for a million years. But then I look at you, and you're none of it. Perhaps my god is wiser than me, eh?" she said in a gentle tone, which fit perfectly with her glorious body, which had become even more generous and healthy if that was possible.

Just not with her previous attitude and personality. "Thanks for the kind words, beloved fairy. But you want something, and it's not my meager Tyrant body, is it?" he said in a flash of inspiration.

The woman rose and then sat in his lap, then touched her forehead to his. "There's a war going on, husband. You're not ready and I'm not a warrior. You have possibly fought more beasts and killed more men than me, in your last 10 years.

It was Saren who kept us safe on Red Dew, and repelled thousands of waves, with his sword qi and his pills. But now..."

"I see. This is about the old man. When he dies..." Pef mused wisely, hugging his wife and staring into the stove's fire.

"We have to visit the Volcanis Temple, husband. Meet the other leaders, and strike back together, before millions of beasts rise and snuff out humanity again. And the most numerous and delicious target..."

Pef patted her hair, wondering how silky it felt, still dry despite the humid air. Only her skin was sweaty and warm, although too difficult to grab and mold. "Yeah, okay. Of course, we will help. That why I'm here, isn't it? To make everything better. So, want to kiss a little?" he asked testing his luck.

And she did kiss him, a bit forceful and unskilled, but Pef didn't mind. He just enjoyed it and hoped one day he could return it, but more skilled, and more passionate.

"Well, if you're up for it, the inverted phoenix would work even with a virgin..." he muttered gasping for air a minute later.

"I want 100 White pills, to distribute to our more important disciples and allies." Yuan stated in a more stern voice.

Pef blinked, as this had been an expensive kiss after all. Perhaps too expensive, although paired with the full body hug... "So there's 99 more kisses to go. Well, let's try nine more kisses today, and keep the rest for other days, okay?" he asked with a wide grin.

His wife blinked surprised, although she should have expected this. Hugs and kisses were pretty much all the currency Pef wanted, from his wives.

She hugged him elated and a bit too hard, making his bones creak dangerously. "Didn't kill you by accident, have I?" Yuan asked cautiously. Pef gasped in a bit of pain, since this felt like being hugged by a Sovereign mama bear, but a hot one.

"You have much to learn, my big breasted apprentice. Perhaps the inverted phoenix is not a great idea either. You may crush my skull with your enthusiasm..." the young hero muttered with a groan, and leaned back to straighten his vertebrae in place.

Yuan gently popped his shoulder back into its socket, then gingerly pressed the broken rib into place. "Ooops?"she said in a naive apology.

"Hands behind your back, tilt your head a bit, and don't bite." Pef ordered as he ignored the pain, for more delicious kisses.

Half an hour later, the husbandry lessons were over, and the virgin wife a bit more experienced. But now, she kinda hoped her young husband would rank up sooner, so he wouldn't be so fragile anymore.

Pef along with Xie and Aria started experimenting with concrete, while Erin and Si were tasked with figuring out how to make butter and cheese.

The reincarnated man wanted to use bamboo for pouring and reinforcing the mixture, and it sort of worked, after boiling the bamboo and evaporating the plant juices, and then Aria infused the wood with qi to bend it in shape.

Adding airblown glass filaments worked even better, but it was dangerous and time-consuming, so that would only be used in load bearing arches, like bridges and crane pylons in the dockyards.

It took another year, for the technology to be perfected using local materials, but between Pef and Xia's scattered memories, aided by a hundred cultivators with elemental powers and super strength to crush rocks into fine gravel, they built the first neolithic concrete skyscraper, at 200 meters tall and 200 meters wide, like a giant cube with 2 meters thick walls.

It had glass windows 10 centimeters thick, and they wouldn't open, instead using an inner courtyard for air and heat exchange, as well as stairwells and balconies. The last 3 floors were reserved as apartments for the Emperors in the Pef Empire, while other of the 50 floors were sold to traders or nobles in the capital.

The rest of the land around was reserved for similar buildings, to create a metropolis and a financial center in the future.

But perhaps half the size of this monster blockhouse, which had taken the resources and strength of an continent wide Empire to build in such a short time.

Pef lounged on his newly made leather couch, and peered through the glass of the apartment's window at the horizon, where the sea met the heavens far in the distance. The glass still wasn't perfect, and thus the outcome was blurry and uncertain.

'Is this enough Practice, my orange glove?' he asked himself, a bit uncertain.

'Of course not, a billion years of practice might be enough, if you're lucky. But for your next rank, probably. And your wimpy soul defenses will double again.' the glove answered in an unsatisfied voice.

Pef took out his knife, and kissed the blade for luck. 'You and me buddy. Let's go hunt something bad, shall we?'

The puppy hesitated a second, then sliced his lip gently. It was a bit uncertain, but this user wasn't so bad. Kinda weak and wimpy, like the dog house said, but anyway, there wasn't anyone better.

Damn these tier 1 universes, even their best were fragile and getting crushed by a mere hug.

Pef felt his fiery wives land on the penthouse ceiling, so he slapped his face and put his game face on.

The neo knife vanished just before the idiot user severed his soul by accident, and sobbed a little inside.

Raising another sword master would take thousands of years again. Moron humans!

Pef flew up and met his wives on the skypad, where a Guardsman was taking names on his visitor pad.

"Not staying, this time. Take care of my flower pots, Guardsman Pirel. I'm not sure how long we'll be out" the ruler of the continent said politely, and passed him a copper bar as a tip.

"No problem, Leader. Have fun, and bring home another beauty!" the man said with a knowing glance towards the fiery wives.

Pef opened his arms wide, and jumped off the building, passing some 30 floors before engaging his gravity drive and speeding away towards another continent.

A minute later he stopped, to wait for the Emperor ranked women to catch up.

"You're so fast, hubby! Can't wait till I get my Tyrant rank as well..." Qin said in a wide grin, then pumped her fist in anticipation.

"You know it, my love. First beast we find, and bam! Blood and intestines everywhere!" Pef yelled in agreement.

Jian and Yuan stayed silent, not that extrovert as these younglings in the family.