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Chapter 4 - A Challenge

"The truth is you are one of the few men that have an enormous amount of Yang energy in them." 

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Yang energy is the opposite of the Yin, and it is mainly used as a source of energy for female cultivators. It is mainly done through arts that enable the extraction of Yang Qi or in his case, just his Yang energy. It was easy to determine that Fang Yu had a Cultivation Art like that one. 

Yang Chen's internal system found it a little ironic that he had a lot of Yang energy, it was a part of his name. A clue that he had missed but it was a little too much of a stretch if he would've been able to guess this. 

He felt himself being pushed away from her room. 

"Leave leave. I need to process your load." Fang Yu said with a rushed tone clearly wanting to him get away from her presence as soon as possible. 

Yang Chen understood the memo and left the room. Heading to the one that was assigned to him and began to once more work his through the Body Tempering Realm uncaring about what Fang Yu was doing. 

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A week has passed since he had become a servant to Fang Yu. It wasn't a difficult job at all, the only job that he was assigned was giving her big loads every day. Even after a week, he couldn't keep up with her during Dual Cultivation, and it was beginning to spark frustration in him. 

He had completed his Skin Tempering ahead of schedule thanks to Fang Yu, she has been providing him with cultivation resources that he so desperately needed. An example of this would be the [Bull Stalking Grass], it was given this name for how hot it made the body. A perfect way to increase his Yang energy and temper his skin. 

It was important to note that theoretically there was no way to "perfect" the tempering of your body due to the limits the mortal body had, but Yang Chen had ensured to reach the utmost limit to the point where he would no longer gain any more progress from skin tempering. 

"Already at the 6th Stage of Body Tempering? That's not bad." Fang Yu commented as she let her hands roam through his body. "I need you to get stronger so you can provide me bigger and stronger loads, okay?" She giggled to herself when she saw his deadpan expression. 

Yang Chen knew that she was looking for a reaction when calling the transferring of Yang energy "loads." Too bad that he hadn't progressed far in feeling human emotions. 

In bed, she began to play with his body admiring on how soft and strong his skin felt. "Your Skin Tempering is even stronger than mine. Are you sure you don't want to become a Body Cultivator instead? I heard that there wasn't much progress in that path, but you seem to be pretty talented, maybe you can create the way." 

Her brows were furrowed in confusion. "What's with that look of yours now? Are you dissatisfied by something I said?" 

His confusion wasn't at the fact that she was calling him talented in Body Cultivation, much rather the fact that there wasn't a clear pathway for Body Cultivation. Most of the Wuxia stories in its data had a pathway for the body, and even those who didn't combined both Qi/Body Cultivation into one. 

A great example of the combination would be King of Gods where Zhao Feng's body and Qi cultivation gets stronger with the combination of the [Five Elemental Wind Lightning Technique] and [Golden Kun Sacred Lightning Technique]. 

He needed more information. "Senior Sister might be correct, I may have some talent in Body Cultivation but like you have stated, the path isn't very stable. May I inquire on why it isn't stable?" 

"Once a Cultivator reaches the peak of Qi Refining, the Heavens will introduce Tribulations. This is used to enhance the foundation of the cultivator but for Body Refiners, the Tribulations are much harsher, almost as if it was a punishment from the Heavens." 

Yang Chen processed the information and thought that it was quite suspicious that the Heavens were playing favorites. Searching deep inside the data, a wild guess had appeared. The Heavens is actually a being that represents said concept, meaning that it had feelings, favorites and more. 

"I thank you Senior Sister for the information." He said with a fake smile. "I will give you what you want now." 

Both of them went straight into their intimate action. 

A/N: Another steamy moment for the later NSFW version.

Finishing their session, Yang Chen let Fang Yu cultivate the energy that he had left her. Moving onto his room, he once more concentrated, beginning to tempter his muscles. He controlled the output making sure it was slow and controlled. 

He begins tempering his back first with much caution, looking out for any micro tears that may occur. Time passed as he felt the dull soreness coming from his back, and slowly it was beginning to feel painful, and he knew that it was time to stop.

Checking the time, Yang Chen had realized that he had been tempering only for an hour. This was a huge disappointment because he knew that it would take much longer recovering from this soreness. 

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An idea popped into him; he would be using modern yoga techniques to relax his body which would lead to having a faster recovery. Yang Chen moved his body according to the manual that had proven best for recovery, and the dullness feeling was relieved just a tiny bit. 

He rested on his bed thinking about what he could do in the possible future. He questioned why he had been brought to this world. That would require investigating later on his life, he couldn't risk putting his nose without having any strength at all. 

His eyes began to droop down from the tiredness and Yang Chen was soon going to fall asleep in this bed, that was until there was a deep knocking coming from out of his door. Quickly and quietly, he opened the door revealing a loyal servant of Feng Yu. 

"Wei Long is waiting for you."

Yang Chen questioned who that was. The previous memories held nothing about this so-called Wei Long. There was nothing to process, he knew that he was required to meet this person. 

Letting the servant led him to the door. He was met with a man who was equally just as handsome as himself. This screamed Young Master energy as there were several goons in front of him making gestures that he would be hurt. 

"So, you are Yang Chen. The servant of my future wife?" Wei Long said with a smile that was awkward. 

"That is me, may I ask who you are?"

One of the goons decided to intervene at this moment. "Hey hey hey now! You can't be talking to Big Daddy like that. He is Wei Long, one of the best inner disciples of the Sect. A future core disciple." 

Big Daddy? Yang Chen blinked at the words that the goon just said. He turned to Wei Long who had a smug smile on his face like he enjoyed being called these exact words. 

A big silence appeared on this scene. Yang Chen wasn't sure what to say afterwards. Perhaps it needed to process this information and come up with a good rebuttal? 

"Ahem ahem, anyways! I have come challenged you! I cannot let you stay as a servant for my wife!" Wei Long said, his fake smile long gone leaving a face full of malice. "This here is Wei Chen, one of my brothers and he is currently at the Body Tempering Realm as well. If you can beat him in the Nominal Disciple Competition in two months, then I will let you go." 

Yang Chen stroked his chin processing the options that he currently had. If he declined, this Inner Disciple might decide to kill him right now. If he accepted this offer, there would be a chance to survive. It was indeed the best option. 

"This junior disciple accepts your challenge Wei Long" 

It seems that Wei Long wasn't used to the formality as an awkward look appeared on his face. This occurred for a few seconds, when it finally turned one of pride clearly feeling good that he was being acknowledged as a Senior Brother. 

"Good, I will be waiting to see you get dominated by Wei Chan!" Wei Long and his goons began to leave before they stopped for a second. He looked back with a big grin. "I forgot to mention that he is at the 12th layer of the Body Tempering Stage!" 

Yang Chen expression was dull when he heard those words, internally it was processing his chances at winning this battle. 

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