Their exploration of the ship’s stores had to be put to an end once more, as Bianca did not feel comfortable walking around with the boxes they had received until someone could confirm their safety.

  Thus, they returned to their room, where Huang Su and Han Rushu appeared to have finished up with their project, judging by how they had moved away from one another and were sitting in opposite corners of the bedroom. They only happened to look at the doorway together when Bianca neared, clearly unsure why she was back quite so quickly.

  “Did something happen, Mistress?” Huang Su asked, rising from her seat, “And… those boxes…”

  “We ran into someone really strange who practically gifted this stuff to me. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t carrying around a bomb or something,” Bianca answered, dropping everything onto a pile on the floor after firmly passing the barrier surrounding their room.

  Song Ming stepped in alongside her, stepping around the boxes, and stood by while looking on with curiosity gleaming in her eyes.

  “That is a sound approach… Let me check – although I cannot promise to be able to perceive something created by a person of a higher realm than me,” Huang Su said, coming over and kneeling down besides the boxes, shutting her eyes for a moment, “This… ah, I see what store you visited. Mistress, but I can also say that there is nothing suspicious about these items to me.”

  “Really?”

  “Nothing at all. That is not to say that there are no issues with these items, but whatever those may be, I am unable to find them,” the Sect Master expined, rising again, “I will not open these myself, as I believe you would prefer to do so instead, but if you observe any oddities or dangers, anything even remotely strange, it would be best to inform me as soon as you are able.”

  “Would you be able to do anything about it if we were suddenly cursed, or… whatever this stuff could do to us?”

  “I cannot promise anything, Mistress, but it is safe to say that I would have the best chance of accomplishing anything at all,” Huang Su said, “Aside from that, would you be willing to try on the outfit we had modified for you?”

  “Ah, sure, could you help me take these into that room? Might as well clear out the doorway,” Bianca suggested, and as the Sect Master nodded and helped her out – lifting everything with pnar energy and simply bringing it alongside her as though all of that stuff was insignificant – she turned to her pet, cupping her cheek and enjoying Song Ming’s warmth.

  Her pet nuzzled into her hand and seemed to purr oh so adorably, making Bianca hope all the more that at least one of those boxes contained a colr or something of the sort. Having such a wonderful and cute thing be allowed to walk without making it obvious who she belonged to would be a tragedy.

  “Sweetie, I’ll test out the changes those two made, and then see what exactly we got from the strange store owner. Be a good girl for me and wait a while, alright?”

  “Yes, Mistress…” Song Ming practically melted into her, making it awfully painful to withdraw her hand and step away.

  Still, she did so, and left her pet to wait as she retreated into the dining room, briefly pausing at the doorway to consider if she should shut the door. After a moment, she decided that it would be best not to give people too much food for their imagination, and so she kept it open while pcing a barrier in the doorway instead.

  That way, she could still talk freely and not need to worry about anyone overhearing Huang Su not being entirely subservient to her, which…

  “Ah shit… Right, there’s still the other observer, so, uh, keep that in mind… if you weren’t already, I guess,” Bianca sighed, “Whatever. Yeah, Song Ming and I confirmed that at least some of the shop keepers are also memory entities, and then we stepped into the sex toy store, and suddenly there was this woman speaking some strange nguage only I understood, and handed us the free stuff. You know the rest.”

  “Indeed. It was wise not to travel around with items you could not be sure are safe,” Huang Su nodded, “Will you be trying our modified items on?”

  “Yeah, of course… remind me, what did you end up doing?” Bianca asked as she grabbed one of the small shoulder pads, examining it from every side.

  “The material was not of a particurly high quality, but we managed to achieve what we had intended. You should be able to channel your energy through these items and shield them from harm, allowing them to better endure combat encounters, and to offer another yer of protection before a weapon has the chance to harm your body.”

  “Right, makes sense… assuming that I’m able to make that work, which is debatable. Could you help me with putting all this on?”

  “That is fascinating… we’ll need to check that store and see if the woman is still there. Perhaps one of us will be better able to understand her nature…” Xue Yaling replied to Song Ming’s recount of events, all while pondering it on a yer that the girl wouldn’t understand, ‘Considering that Bianca was able to understand her, it might be another otherworldly demon… but without the ability to perceive her with spiritual perception, it was a little strange.’

  The woman occupied a shop in Li Wusu’s ship, so perhaps she was another construct from the ship captain’s archetype, but that seemed unlikely. The woman just seemed a little too strange, and by the looks of it, Bianca wasn’t pretending to be confused either, so…

  ‘If I assume that there are beings that transcend merely arriving in other worlds… would this be some kind of divine entity? Perhaps it was the source of those otherworldly powers that the likes of Bianca receive, or at least one of the same kind of entity…’ the kitsune pondered, looking over to Song Ming once more as she realised that she had insufficient information, “Which store was it?”

  “It… the sex toy shop,” Bianca’s little pet replied with a blush, unable to meet Xue Yaling’s gaze, “Bianca just wanted to get me a gift…”

  “Mhm, of course she did. I’d imagine that gift would eventually be filling your cute little butt, or perhaps going around your neck or into your sopping wet cunt…” Xue Yaling chuckled, “Ancients, I’m amazed nobody took you away before Bianca did. Still, remind me to check that pce out ter.”

  “S-Sure…”

  The kitsune leaned back against the wall and sank into thought.

  ‘I was able to keep myself safe from Li Wusu with Anathema, but it seems like typical people under the seventh realm aren’t able to properly perceive the captain’s energy, especially not in their sleep… Which means that if that strange woman is beyond the captain, she would need to have something akin to Bianca’s capabilities, or be in the seventh realm or above…’ Xue Yaling found herself stuck, causing her to sigh out loud, ‘I cannot know the truth of her nature unless I understand her capabilities, but if that woman expects something like this, she might not even be present the next time any of us go to look.’

  Although she hated having such an unknowable variable interfere with her surroundings, she had to drop her line of thought. Unless there was a major misunderstanding, such as the woman merely having the power to allude spiritual perception and nothing more, there was undoubtedly something interesting happening here.

  ‘Until I have a chance to review all this, I suppose I can just pass my time in other ways,’ the kitsune shut her eyes and used her spiritual perception to look over to the side, where their Sect Mistress’ pet decided to drink from the bottle she carried around with her.

  As she opened up the top, the scent wafted out from within, the nature of which was trivial to recognise. It was cum, and since Xue Yaling had no doubts about where it came from, she knew that it would be rather thick and… fvourful.

  The others must’ve noticed too, as she could see the others gncing over as Song Ming brought the bottle’s opening to her lips and tilted it, letting the contents flow into her waiting mouth.

  ‘I have to admit, Bianca had a wonderful idea when she came up with this…’ the kitsune couldn’t help but smirk as she watched Song Ming drink her owner’s cum as though it was some kind of divine ambrosia, which… well, perhaps it was, as least to the one gulping it down rather loudly and with obvious delight.

  The sticky load was naturally difficult to swallow, making the little pet work hard for every drop, a few drops of white, viscous fluid slipping past her lips and onto her skin, a fact that didn’t seem to bother her as she had her fill of the bottle’s contents.

  As she finally withdrew it from her mouth, the musky, earthy scent of seed emanated out into the room, making it feel as though the kitsune was at the scene of an orgy. It was rather hot, and she wished that she had the idea before Bianca did.

  ‘I’ll need to finish up my Yin Soul Yang Root technique as soon as possible so that I can get in on this kind of action… It will be difficult on this ship, though. Bianca has control over the barriers in the room, and Li Wusu will likely be watching as well, so I would be feeding her information if I was too explicit in my experiments… after that, though, I should be very close.’

  And once she was done, once her dual cultivation technique was usable, she was sure she’d find some opportunities to exploit it fully. Perhaps fuck Bianca’s ass for once, instead of having her own face used by the Demon Queen…

  Her fantasies were cut off by the barrier to the dining room dropping, and Bianca emerging in her Demon Queen outfit, some rather pretty robes that suited the role she was pying. More importantly, though, she held a colr in her hand, a bck leather item with a ring at the front and some text on either side of the ring.

  “… Bianca’s Pet? Song Ming?” the kitsune read out both bits of text, and raised an eyebrow, “Uh…”

  “Okay, that woman somehow knew our names. This is creepy,” Bianca said, presenting the colr to the room before focusing on Song Ming, “I would’ve presented this in a more fancy manner, sweetie, but I had to point this out.”

  “It’s okay, Mistress, it’s still… thank you!”

  While Song Ming looked to be close to tearing up from excitement, Han Rushu replied directly to Bianca, “You may have just mentioned it before.”

  “And you think she threw this together within a few minutes? Seems awfully… hand-crafted for something like that, at least in my opinion,” the faux-Demon Queen shrugged, “Unless you’d like to tell me that this is normal and everyone gets handmade personalised colrs when they visit the sex shop, of course.”

  “Fine, that is strange, I’ll agree,” the bcksmith shrugged, “Still, there have been stranger things around.”

  “Like?”

  “… Fuck you.”

  “Right,” Bianca sighed and went over to her pet, “Sweetheart, come here and show me that pretty neck of yours.”

  “Y-Yes, Mistress!” her pet eagerly presented herself, allowing Bianca to put the colr around her neck and tighten in, ensuring that it would be felt at all times without being too restricting.

  From the side, it almost looked like Song Ming came when the leather was bound around her, quivering as though Bianca was touching her far more intimately. It was adorable, to say the least, and it was even more charming to see the pet blush as Bianca leaned in closer, clearly sniffing the air.

  “I see you’ve been keeping yourself hydrated, too, sweetie. You’re a good girl, aren’t you?” Bianca whispered, scratching under Song Ming’s chin like she was a little kitten.

  Song Ming’s purring made her look even more like a cat, to the point that she was only missing a tail that could swish around and animal ears to amplify that impression, though Xue Yaling couldn’t help but feel amused that humans were more animal-like than kitsune in moments like this… and conveniently ignored how her own tail swished to and fro in amusement.

  Eventually, Bianca stopped pampering her sweetheart and turned to the rest of the room, “Lovely. Now… going outside has clearly resulted in just more and more oddity, so what else can we be doing?”

  “We could do what we were pnning to do initially, which is to cultivate and advance at least by one stage during our journey,” the kitsune replied, forcing her tail to come to a stop before the others noticed, ‘I need a while to cultivate anyway, so I might as well get the rest of them to help out and gather more energy to my vicinity.’

  “I mean… yeah, that is one option. The stronger we are, the better we’ll be able to handle the incoming fight… sweetie, would you like to cultivate together?” Bianca seemed to accept the decision and returned her attention to her pet.

  “Of course, Mistress! C-could I kneel at your feet?”

  “Uhm… as we’re cultivating?”

  “Yes, I think… it would suit me as your pet, and it should help me focus…” she asked, pleading with her eyes to such an extent that even Xue Yaling found herself unable to refuse… not that she would.

  If she could get a pet to herself, she would love to. It wouldn’t even be hard, she was very familiar with a certain sver that was excellent at training sluts into performing whatever roles were wanted or needed by their owners, so she’d just need to get in touch… the difficulty would be in preventing the others from bothering her with compints of ‘morality’ and the like.

  She was working on chipping away at Bianca’s morals, and if she was lucky, Huang Su would turn out to be affected by Bianca’s corrupting energy and would slowly bend to whatever whims the future Sect Mistress would have.

  The rest were even easier to deal with. Han Rushu probably wouldn’t care if it meant she got a personal ball polisher, Song Ming would be all too happy to oblige anything her Mistress asked for, Yu Juan was likely affected by Bianca’s corruption enough that she would be the same and Jia Bo Xun would hardly object after being part of a hired bandit squad.

  ‘Still, I’ll need to be patient until I can have my way… Once everything is the way I want it, I’ll have a comfortable pce as an important figure in a powerful sect and will be able to do as I wish…’ Xue Yaling thought, rexing on her own spot while trying to tune out the lovebirds to her side.

  As fun as it would be to watch them all day, there would be zero chance of her making any progress with her cultivation if she did that.

  ‘Song Ming is adorable…’ Bianca thought as her pet knelt down between her legs and rested her head on Bianca’s right leg, nuzzling up to it and… even sniffing a little, ‘Well trained, too… I guess she really likes my scent.’

  She liked her pet’s scent too, though at the moment it was completely muted out by the musk of cum lingering around her. It was extremely hot, and she wished that she could spend the whole day just covering Song Ming in more of it, letting it permanently taint her and mark her as Bianca’s property… but that wouldn’t be particurly productive, nor would it be good for allowing her pet to walk around in public.

  Things like that were best reserved for when they had a sect and didn’t need to worry about what the public thought of them – then anything and everything that she wished to do, could be done without issue.

  For now, she just shut her eyes and focused, establishing a connection to Song Ming as both of them began to absorb energy from around them. She had the Demonic Tyrant to do most of the work for her, and Song Ming seemed to be much better at concentrating in such a situation and with cum in her belly, so they didn’t take long to start accumuting energy, slowly progressing their cultivation on and on.

  Of course, they were starting to reach the higher realms, so she couldn’t expect too much progress in a short amount of time. That mystical space within her, the dantian, seemed endless and bottomless no matter how much she absorbed, and it felt like Song Ming was in a simir position.

  ‘If only we had some more pnar stones, or something else to help us progress…’