Yu Yi pulled his tentacle over, lifting her skirt hem and vigorously rubbing it, until the soft tip turned red and hot.
Xue Chenjing winced in pain, hiding the rest of his pseudopodia behind him, innocently saying, "Yi, it's too late to wipe it now. The tip of the pseudopodium has many sensory organs, connected to my five senses. I already know what your scent is like. The bed is full of your scent."
Yu Yi glanced at the damp spot on the bedding, her face flushing as she covered her head, feeling like jumping into the sea.
She had never lost control like this before. Xue Chenjing, with his human-like appearance, was full of animal instincts. In their intimate moments, he was clumsy, sometimes needing her guidance to know what to do.
But he learned quickly, able to apply and expand on what he learned. When they embraced, Xue Chenjing's pseudopodia crawled all over her body, more agile than his fingers.
Yu Yi was initially lucid, but later lost her senses, not knowing how she was carried from the rattan chair to the room. All she could feel were the wriggling tentacles wrapped around her.
She didn't tell him what to do next, so Xue Chenjing just rubbed against her, kissing her lips endlessly, making both her upper and lower lips numb.
Just recalling that brain-numbing period made Yu Yi tremble, feeling like she had walked through the gates of hell. She couldn't bear such intense stimulation and angrily said, "In the future, no more pseudopodia touching me!"
The tentacles in the air immediately drooped, swimming to her side, using their soft and flexible tips to entwine her toes and skirt hem, shamelessly throwing tantrums like their owner.
Yu Yi mercilessly shook them off, still feeling a lingering fear.
Seeing this, Xue Chenjing approached to hug her, nuzzling her neck, pleading with a nasal voice, "Yi, but they like you, just like I do. If they can't touch you, they'll be very sad."
Yu Yi kicked him away equally, dragging her weak limbs to the ground, casting several purification spells on herself, still feeling uncomfortable, and asked, "Do you have a bathing place here?"
Xue Chenjing rubbed his chest where she kicked, his eyes red, his open shirt revealing a vigorous state, feeling rewarded by the kick.
Yu Yi glanced back and saw, stepping back with twelve-fold caution, accidentally stepping on the surrounding tentacles, falling into the wriggling nest.
The tentacles joyfully embraced her. Yu Yi grabbed one wrapping around her shoulder, angrily saying, "Xue Chenjing!"
Xue Chenjing closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, suppressing his body's restlessness, and after a long while, looked up obediently, "There's a spirit spring on another island, Master, I'll take you there."
He gathered his clothes, walked over to tidy her dress.
As long as Xue Chenjing behaved and didn't push his luck, Yu Yi didn't mind him serving her. She really didn't want to move much now.
The surrounding tentacles calmed down. Yu Yi sat in the nest made of tentacles, watching him kneel at her feet, tidying her clothes, putting on her shoes, then standing up to carry her out.
Outside, the stars and moon had faded, the golden light of dawn appeared on the horizon, slowly dispelling the night over the sea.
On the terrace, the Vermillion Crane Sword Spirit returned to the Green Bamboo Sword, and Crane Senior Brother finally dared to wrap his wings around the sword, holding it to sleep. Passing by the terrace, Xue Chenjing deliberately slowed his steps, not disturbing the rather superfluous red-crowned crane.
He carried Yu Yi onto a thick branch, walking to the tip of the treetop, pulling off an oval leaf from the branch and tossing it in front of him.
The leaf floated down, stopping in mid-air, suddenly expanding in circles, turning into a flat boat hovering on the branch.
Ripples of light flowed out from under the leaf boat, like a rainbow bridge born out of thin air, spanning the vast sea, extending to the spirit island on the other side.
Xue Chenjing sat her on the leaf boat, which instantly tilted, rushing down the suspended rainbow bridge towards the other island. The wind blew on their faces, their clothes flapping loudly, long hair flying in the air, smooth hair intertwining with curly ends.
Yu Yi let out a joyful cry, laughing, "You have quite a few fun tricks here. If you develop a few more, it could almost be considered a sea amusement park."
"I fiddled with these when I had nothing to do hiding here," Xue Chenjing proudly raised his eyebrows. He had originally not cared about the miscellaneous arrangements on the island, but now seeing her happy, he began to ponder over what other tricks he had come up with in his previous lives.
He treated this place as his refuge, setting up many arrays here, mostly defensive and offensive arrays on the outer islands, and killing arrays inside the spirit island. After all, if someone could break in here, he probably wouldn't survive.
The rest, like this rainbow bridge spanning two islands, was for convenience.
Unfortunately, in his previous lives, he only focused on defense and killing, with few arrangements for convenience. Until the leaf boat slid into the crescent bay of the other island, he couldn't think of any other fun tricks.
Xue Chenjing's raised eyebrows lowered again, quite disdainful of his previous selves.
The leaf boat carried them into the depths of the island. Xue Chenjing had sealed the spirit energy of the spirit eye within this island, making the spirit energy here exceptionally abundant, condensing into mist, floating among the vegetation, even more so than what she felt in Zhaohua Palace.
Yu Yi took a deep breath, her fatigue dissipating with the spirit energy seeping into her pores.
The island was rich in spirit energy, and the vegetation flourished, with lush leaves and clusters of flowers pressing down on the greenery, both flowers and leaves covered in a thin layer of spirit frost.
As they walked, they too were soaked, their clothes covered with wet spirit frost, like the surrounding flora.
In the midst of the flower garden, a stone-built pond appeared. The spirit pond at the center of the island was formed by the condensation of spirit mist into water, dripping down and gathering.
Before the leaf boat approached the pond, Yu Yi already heard the sound of fine rain, dripping on the water. She reached out to catch the falling spirit rain, feeling her pores opening in comfort.
As a chaos being, Xue Chenjing's body did not reject the spirit energy, feeling very comfortable in the rain and mist.
The leaf boat slid directly into the water, the leaf suddenly shrinking, returning to its original state, and the two of them fell into the pond.
The spirit spring reached their waists, Yu Yi half-submerged in the water, closing her eyes to welcome the fine rain above, wet hair sticking to her forehead, her face more radiant and beautiful in the misty water, like a tempting sea demon.
Xue Chenjing's fingertips touched her chin, unable to resist lowering his head to kiss her.
Yu Yi suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes bright and clear, seriously saying, "This place is very suitable for me to open a sword realm."
Xue Chenjing abruptly met her dark eyes, hesitating, his gaze lingering on her soft lips, he stepped back slightly, absent-mindedly agreeing, "Okay."
Yu Yi wanted to open a sword realm, summoning the Green Bamboo Sword back. Crane Senior Brother, sleeping on the terrace with the sword in his wings, suddenly felt the sword slip away, falling to the ground, opening his blurry bird eyes.
Seeing the sword turn into a stream of light leaving him, Crane Senior Brother immediately woke up, let out a long cry, spreading his wings to chase after the light.
When the red-crowned crane flew to the bay island, Xue Chenjing was also just driven out of the island's dense forest. He casually hooked Crane Senior Brother's neck to stop it, preventing it from disturbing Yu Yi.
A man and a bird sat on the crescent bay shore, both looking at each other with mutual dislike, stepping on the coarse sand of the beach.
Xue Chenjing grabbed a handful of sand, squeezing it hard, watching it flow through his fingers, regretfully thinking, he should have kissed her then. He had thought he could stay with her in the spirit spring, with ample time to relive last night's tenderness, but didn't expect...
How long would it take her to open the sword realm?
The melodious hum of the spirit sword came from the dense forest behind them. Crane Senior Brother jumped up, circling the woods a few times, wisely not intruding, returning to the beach.
One person and one bird waited from sunrise to sunset. Crane Senior Brother was hungry, but today he had no mood to catch fish himself. He stretched his neck and pecked at Xue Chenjing's arm, then gestured towards the sea, "Caw caw."
Xue Chenjing turned to look at him, "I don't understand bird language."
There was no tacit understanding at all. Crane Senior Brother disdainfully stomped his foot, spread a wing to pat his belly, and then gestured towards the sea again.
Xue Chenjing understood his meaning. His eyes cooled as he was about to grab Crane Senior Brother's neck and throw him into the sea to fend for himself. But then he suddenly thought of something.
The coldness at the corner of his eyes instantly melted like spring wind. He smiled and lifted a feather from Crane Senior Brother's wing, asking, "Crane Senior Brother, tell me, do you like the current me, or the other me?"
Crane Senior Brother glared with his bird eyes. Of course, he liked the other person! That person was gentle, meticulous, and very observant. Without him needing to say much, he would understand how to take care of him.
Taking advantage of Xue Chenjing's inability to understand his bird language, he opened his beak and called out twice, choosing the other person without hesitation. But to trick him into going into the sea to catch fish for him, he extended a wing and pointed at him.
"Is that so? You like me?" Xue Chenjing doubted as he looked him up and down, then spread his palm. A black mist of demonic energy emerged from his hand, condensing into a small bird the size of a palm. He continued, "It doesn't matter, say it again, who do you like? It will tell me what you said."
Crane Senior Brother glanced at the bird, then at Xue Chenjing, and decided to catch fish on his own.
Xue Chenjing: "..." His smile faded as he watched the red-crowned crane waddle towards the sea, puzzled, "I have steamed so many fish for you and even rescued you from the Zhaohua Palace cultivators. What has he done for you that you like him so much?"
Even the system between them had chosen him. After all, it was him who first made contact with them.
The system, just awakened from hibernation, detected this thought of the host and quickly clarified, "Master, I chose you!"
Only after speaking did the system realize that now, the host's heart was devoid of the previous anger and resentment. He was just a little puzzled, wondering why Xue Mingyuan was so likable.
Xue Chenjing would no longer be angry or resentful because others preferred Xue Mingyuan. The preferences of others were insignificant to him, whether it was the system, Crane Senior Brother, or the parents and relatives of every past life, all were insignificant.
Having one person's love was enough for him.
Xue Chenjing dispersed the small bird in his hand, stood up, and walked over to the red-crowned crane who was standing still, tilting his head in thought. He patted its head and said, "I won't tease you anymore. You want to eat fish, right? I'll catch some for you."
He lifted his hem and tied it around his waist, took off his shoes and threw them aside, and walked into the sea.
