Kind Cultivation - Chapter 206

*Author Note*

Mega chapter. 

*End Author Note*

The Alchemist representative turns straight towards me, her voice coy and flirtatious.  Being a short, pale, black-haired woman, the conversational style fits her well.

However, the way she’s doing it gives off the feeling that she’s not used to doing such things.

“… Well, that was quite the display you’ve shown. Though, it only adds to the mystery of how you were able to walk away from our last meeting.”

I stay silent to her inquiry. Neither acknowledging her statement or the implications of what she’s saying.

She tries in a different way. More direct.

“Some people in our organization think it could have been an illusion where I was tricked. Of course, I know differently.  There’s no way my eyes would have been fooled with the result.”

Her eyes are flashing at me that she wants to know.

She’s pressing on, despite the fact that I’m clearly not going to say anything to this.

If she’s trying to get me to work with their organization, she’s doing a poor job.

What is she getting at?

She keeps talking and getting close to me. Not only that, but she’s making clearly seductive efforts towards me.

It is at this point, then I start changing a little bit of my combat scan over to a conversation scan. This whole time, I’ve been ready for a fight and focused everything on that.

I didn’t want to take anything for chance especially after what I’ve just gone through. But now, I’m missing out on cues that I’m clearly not Grasping.

And that’s when I begin to see it. The light scars barely showing as she moves her hands.  The shadows and bruises under her eyes, despite the fact that she’s a middle stage qi condensation cultivator.

And finally, the limp that she had as she was walking around, that my combat scan had identified, but only as a potential weakness.

She has been getting punished for messing up.

Looking into her eyes as she speaking, I see something else that I didn’t notice earlier because of my wariness.

Desperation.

This is probably a last chance effort to redeem herself.

To recover a relationship that she’s probably been scapegoated for. Likely being called incompetent, for skills and abilities that she knows were correct in their estimation.

Of course, all of these signs are subtle and barely perceivable. My scan is able to pick up these up from Its detailed oriented style and visual context clues.

All of this means she’s fishing for information and something to bring back as a benefit to save herself.

Now the only question I have to ask myself… do and should I I care?

This is a woman who callously killed the woman that was initially trying to kill me. Someone whose death, despite my healing of the trauma, I’m still trying to get over.

This is a person who would have killed me in the same fashion, had I not had the abilities I do to survive.

My initial, logical thought is no. While my standard and personal thought is yes.

Despite the fact that she’s an enemy, no one should have to go through something like what she did. And currently, she’s not my enemy

As is sometimes said,’ Yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend.’ This may be an opportunity.

This is a person who needs an excuse to stay relevant in their organization, or they’ll die. Likely in a terrible fashion.

And I want some consistency in the relationship with the alchemy Guild. Not only that, but if I can somewhat normalize relations between me and the alchemy Guild, it will let me move around a bit easier.

Obviously, I’m not going to join them. The research society fits my goals more than they do and I don’t like the way the alchemy Guild operates.

In fact, I can only see this relationship heading on a long negative course…

But in the short term, and potentially as a counterweight, I can give them just enough benefits to not take any serious actions towards me as I continue to grow in strength. I need them to think that long term, it will be positive.

Also, if I join another group, they likely will have a heavy distaste for the baggage of a negative relationship with the alchemy Guild. Despite the benefits that I bring. So, I will need to make up with them in some way anyway.

With my game plan set, I changed my attention back to the woman in front of me.

As I clearly not been responding to her earlier, she's been saying stranger and more desperate things. She begins to move to perform certain actions. Her earlier proud face has started to crumble, both in the metaphorical and social side.

What The guards and I had seen from her earlier, in terms of her demeanor, was simply a façade. Hiding away a person willing to do anything to survive. A person living on the knife's edge, while trying not to make her situation worse by portraying the organization she’s part of as desperate.

The guards have already Left, as she had quickly notified them after I stopped responding, that this is a personal situation involving the two of us. Without much fuss, they took the family out of the house and left us in there alone together.

My scan showed their eyes looking at me with a mixture of fear and respect.

I will need to make sure to communicate to them not to share anything unnecessary, so that she doesn’t bring down the ‘face’ of the organization.

I quickly speak up and grab her hands, to make sure she doesn’t go any further, as her desperation is leading her into areas I don’t this want her to go.

“Stop. You don’t need to do this.”

She freezes at the word stop, but I don’t think she heard the rest of my words. So I Try a different approach, to speed things along.

“I can give you a few refined alchemical recipes than the ones commonly known. I can also give some rare ingredients that I know your leaders will appreciate.”

She looks up at me in confusion, before her face lights up in excitement.

“Really?!”

She starts breathing heavily, sinking to the floor, as if a great weight has been lifted from her shoulders.

My mind moves to What I should actually be giving them that could compensate for me not being part of their group but still showing respect.

To be specific, I have a plethora of items that could serve this purpose, but I don’t want to give all of them to them or even more than a few. Not only do I have to have gifts for the groups I’m going into, there’s plenty of uses for these that would be wasted in their hands, as I won’t be giving them the recipes Anyway.

As I’ve been thinking through this, the woman’s been leaning further and further forward, making me feel a bit suspicious. I Slowly start raising my combat scan and as she begins moving, I’m glad I did.

At least until she does something unexpected.

She pulled down my pants. My mind and body freezes in place.

My scan shows no hostile intention from her.

And just when I’m about to Call out and move to stop her… I can feel her hot breath on my lower member.

Like a warm breeze on a cold day, I can’t help but to subconsciously lean towards it.

Even though I know I should move away, I can’t look away from her eyes, fixated and hungry on one singular thing. The feeling of labored and moist breath on its tip, mesmerizes me.

Then she moves. Sending a long, wet lick from the base of a now stiffening section to the precipice of it’s peak.

“Ahhhh, oomph.”

She swallows the mountain.

Vibrations run straight down my spine as a three-part symphony of warm, wet and tight sends my mind and body into euphoria.

Me, a virgin of 27 years, who hasn’t had an experience like this, loses myself in this newfound feeling.

A sudden intake of breath and oxygen to my brain, rockets me back into the situation.

I-I shouldn’t. I n-need to stop this…

I briefly regain hold of my sanity and attempt to move back, but she resists and gobbles it even deeper, wrapping her arms around my waist, preventing me from getting away. Her tongue wagging and dancing upon its base.

My member goes into sensory overload, as once again, I can’t help but to lean in. Deeper into this cave of obscene pleasures.

But then it as at that moment I remember.

Gong.

Shi Ji.

Ai and Lin.

And even some of the other women I’ve met.

Guilt surges through me and despite the amazing feeling coming from below, This gives me the willpower to make a desperate move away. with the little sanity I have left.

Grasping her hands from behind my waist, I use my strength to move her off me before I get caught in a web of pleasure, yet again

My pants still on the Ground and her still on her knees, she’s looking at me in a daze.

“Y-you don’t need to do this. I’ll help you without t-things like this.”

Despite my recent confidence in other things, I’m subconsciously stuttering as I try to regain hold of the situation.

Her eyes gain a little clarity again, but still appears befuddled, as it was clear I was enjoying the experience.

I try to explain more.

“… you’ve already gone through enough, s-so there’s no need to do this.”

Her face scrunches up in a mixture of confusion and slight irritation.

“What the hell does that have to do with this?”

…

Her answer freezes me in place, even as she gets to her feet, readjusting her clothes.

She might have a point. Despite what she’s gone through, she’s doing this with her own violation.

Despite her harsh words, her eyes remain locked on my crotch. Watching for the smallest sign of reengagement. I see her nose constantly twitching, like a hamster in front of a meal.

… the pheromones.

Fuck.

She must have gotten a full dose of it, being so… close to me.

I’m not going to take advantage of either of these situations.

I shouldn’t and I can’t.

Even as I think that, my eyes never left her soft lips and ravenous eyes. And how easy it would be to have them retur…

I quickly put on my pants, to keep my body moving and push these thoughts away.

All while a mixture of disappointment and frustration crosses her face.

After I’m done, I turn back to her.

“… what’s your name?”

She takes a bit to respond.

“… Meili”

It doesn’t seem she has a family name. That’s the norm, but it seems a little sad that she’s just being used by this organization like this.

… it’s happening again, isn’t it?

I have a soft spot for her, because she did that to me. Because she’s looking at me in such a way.

She killed me. It’s clear that she’s killed many others as well.

… But I can’t deny that I feel conflicted right now.

I need to just deal with this situation, separate from her and figure out how I feel about this later.

As I turned my mind back to her, I can see that she still looks irritated. She definitely noticed my glances earlier, even as I rejected her.

Ignoring that, I moved straight to business.

“Okay, here is what I will give you to take back to your leaders.”

I give her a short list, using a pen and notepad nearby, consisting of 20 different alchemical ingredients, all of high value. 3 of the items are absurdly valuable and hard to find, because of their specific properties, which hide them from spiritual and normal senses. Obviously, I only was able to find them because of my scan.

A much longer list, (turning into a book) is where I included 5 different recipes, most of which are improvements on the current popular concoctions, for buffs and cultivation treatments. Better effects, with cheaper and easier sourced ingredients.

I do include two recipes that are currently not known by any group in this area (at least that my scan had identified). They are healing recipes, one of which is to more cheaply treat conditions like the one the cultivator guard’s daughter had.

It should be noted, that trade secrets and ingredients like these are worth more than their weight in gold.

Everything I’ve given them, basically for free, should increase their profit margins by large amounts because of the cost savings. In fact, because of the popular effects of potions like these, they are massively profitable and overpriced.

It should wipe out and somewhat exceed what I’ve cost them in the prostitute and women’s market. Over time, at least.

I also write on these sheets, that I hope that this will normalize our relations and that I would like to keep Meiji as my contact.

After I hand over all the information to her, it has already been a bit of time to where she’s calmed down and can see that I’m giving some huge items. Once she reads over them, it’s clear she doesn’t understand everything on them, but some of the names catch her eye.

Her eyes constantly flash up at me as she reads, in disbelief, mostly.

All until she reads the last line, where I request her as the main contact.

It’s clear she wants to say something, but I leave the house quickly and begin calling the other creatures to me. Of course, I let the cultivation guards know they are mine beforehand.

The creatures are carrying bags and bags of items on them as they approach.

Meiji keeps pace with me and clearly wants to interject, but I keep speak orders out loud and speaking with the guards. Checking with them on how many creatures I can bring through and at what cost.

Just myself and a few creatures is one thing. But a whole platoon’s worth is different.

As I suspected, it appears they would need to charge for this many creatures to come through.

And to be frank, it’s expensive for a non-noble.

But luckily all the market shenanigans I had done earlier, as well as the ingredients the creatures are bringing over can cover it.

As quickly as I can, I have them send me and the creatures through. Leaving Meiji to deal with everything else. And pushing past my thoughts from this experience.

Once back into the soaring hallways of the teleportation sub-space, I wait for the other creatures to arrive. One by one, they appear until all of them are here.

From here, I move with my plan.

I can’t go back the way I came from. There’ll most definitely be people watching there.

Not only that, but I have to drop these creatures off somewhere.

My eyes drift around looking for an area close to the sect, but in a place that I could drop off creatures at.

The scan quickly provides an answer.

The Myriad Monsters group has several teleporter areas near the outer city. They have this, so that people can bring the creatures they’ve tamed and made contracts with straight to a housing facility.

This will be perfect. And since there are multiples, it will buy me some time to get away from there, before the Alchemist group finds out.

The portal appears before me and I move towards it.