I opened my eyes to a familiar ceiling.
I…
I slept.
For an immortal cultivator, the notion of sleeping is farthest from the truth. Seelping only occurs when one suffers from severe exhaustion.
Something I went through now.
I looked to my left. Kiana slept soundly, a smile drawn to her face.
I looked to my right. Sirin also slept soundly, a tranquil expression appearing on her face.
The memories of the past six months flashed inside my mind.
It was Kiana at first. Her Void Refinement Realm cultivation made her body's resilience far stronger than before. She withstood the heat and pleasure brought by my body. She sucked me dry for an entire month. I barely withstood her initiative.
Things were already going "bad" for me when Sirin popped out of nowhere.
Following the notion of 1+1>2 in cultivation terms, I was sucked dry. Their yin qi overwhelmed me. The rate at which I recovered my yang qi diminished. Their tacit cooperation made me shudder after a thousand years of not doing dual cultivation. Everything felt brand new, as if they were preparing for this very day.
If I hadn't "cheated" and popped some of the 'dubious' pills from the gacha draws, I wouldn't have lasted six months.
Void Refinement Realm…
I gritted my teeth and made my decision.
I know what is waiting for me once they wake up.
Another round of unequal dual cultivation.
A faint sense of crisis also emerged from somewhere. This made me think of Seele, Veliona, Sin, and Bronya.
Kiana and Sirin already sucked me dry. What would happen if all six took turns "playing" with me?
The thought sent shivers down my spine.
Momentarily, I thought of escaping right now and then.
Many scumbags leave girls behind while they are still asleep. It showed how they did not truly care about them—that the night of passion was all they cared about.
Not once did I do that on them.
I could not bear to think how worried or dejected they would be once they found the space beside them empty. I am the one who accepted the harem path; I ought to see through it until the end.
Compared to being drained dry, I hated that notion more.
In the end, I chose to stay. I will just treat this as a new experience. It has always been me who dominated in bed. It is a breath of fresh air to be put in a passive position.
Most importantly, the two exerted efforts I haven't seen before.
Staring at their sleeping faces, I thought about what to expect in the future…
*****
"Why wasn't it me..?"
A table is neatly placed inside a courtyard. The typical tea was replaced with strong spiritual wine.
Anna looked at Wendy who kept bumping her forehead on the table's surface. The redness on her cheeks and the scent of alcohol escaping her lips told everything.
'Four hundred years of grudge…'
She knew Wendy harbored doubts since four hundred years ago. It led to her failing in the Void Refinement Realm for her first attempt. It wasn't until she "dealt" with it was she able to break through to Void Refinement Realm.
Anna thought it was already over by then. Little did she expect, it remained deeply hidden, to the point Wendy herself did not know about it.
Only with the help of alcohol did it resurface.
"I wanted to go too… Mu…"
Seeing her kiss the table with her lips, Anna rubbed her forehead.
"How hopeless can you be?"
"Mn, you don't understand. Shi Tian's decision to pick others lay on his preferences… hm, that's right. I am not even in the top ten…"
Anna shook her head as she pointed out one important thing:
"Have you made yourself known to him? Everything that you know… your familiarity stemmed from your experiences, not his."
She pointed out Wendy's flaws. Her familiarity, for once, stemmed from her stalking tendencies. She used her expertise in divination, expertly crafting bubble worlds to recreate past events to know Shi Tian more. Wendy is the equivalent of a stalker who gained god-like powers.
Aside from the deepest secrets he hasn't shared to others, it could be considered that Wendy knows Shi Tian's life trajectory from his appearance up to now.
Part of the credit lay on the Sea of Quanta's capabilities. The sandbox-like function of the artificially induced bubble worlds came from immortal cultivation research.
Another part is to Wendy herself. Without her dedication to stalk, she wouldn't have been able to achieve the equivalent of [Perfection] mastery on it.
Then came the problem any other parasocials would have encountered:
Never meeting the other person.
To Shi Tian, Wendy is someone who gave him a somewhat goofy first impression. That was all there was up to now. He went to seclusion four hundred years ago, followed by a three-hundred-year long recuperation.
Wendy lifted her face up as she stared at Anna. The drunkenness she was feeling did not hinder her ability to think.
"I need to…"
"Meet up more with him. Spend more time. Do idle chats. Isn't that how others conquered their crushes' hearts?"
Anna was painfully aware of the cheesiness of her advice, but she could not help it. That was the only advice she knew.
Fortunately, it worked.
She flicked a transparent virtual window to Wendy. When she saw Shi Tian's name on the Status Indicator App, she was stunned.
"You added him?! When?"
"Uh, after our first meeting?" Anna looked confusedly at Wendy. "You haven't added him yet?"
"...No."
Her pumped-up mood instantly deflated.
Wendy realized how big of a dummy she was.
In terms of theory, she could be called unmatched.
In terms of practical application, even her iceberg best friend did better than her…
"Anna. I need your help!"
"Ah..?"
"Please teach me!"
Emboldened by alcohol, Wendy teleported and desperately kneeled at Anna's legs.
"Tell me how I can win him over! Please…"
"Uh…"
The next minute entailed Wendy begging like nothing before. It took a while before Anna managed to get her up.
"...Alright, alright. We'll tackle this together…"
"Yay!"
Seeing her childishly celebrating with a drunk expression, Anna felt helpless.
'Will this really work..?'