Qian Renxue was utterly adorable as her warmth-filled face came closer to put her forehead up to mine. "Close your eye's... I can't look into yours like this." She whispered with that slight flush darkening as her face approached mine.
And for a moment I considered teasing her but I decided to live another day, and I just closed my eye's mostly.
Through my eyelashes, I saw her approach closer, and I stilled as I felt her hold my shoulders with her deceptively soft hands. Before she got on her tiptoes to put her head up to mine as I leaned down toward her as well.
Her forehead carefully met mine softly with her ample chest gently pushing into me as she leaned into me and I heard Tian Meng hum as he built a mental connection between us.
Then I felt Qian Renxue's mind touch my own as Tian Meng dragged our consciousnesses together and I wanted to curse the damned Skydream Ice Worm as he connected us more then I thought he would.
As, I could literally feel Qian Renxue's needy mind, which was much more honest than her outward appearance as her mind all but grabbed mine in a dire hug. With her pouring a heavy cocktail of emotions into our connection.
Even Tian Meng spoke to me mentally out of the 'hearing' of Qian Renxue. "I just made the connection partner. She is the one forcing it to be so strong... Good luck! She will give you strong children haha!" He fucking laughed before retreating from my mental swat at him.
Meanwhile, I felt Qian Renxue's mental tendrils that had tinges of holy and unholy elements due to her Martial Soul pushed into my own mind before my mind filled with images.
Images of the highly... Highly ornate Spirit Hall building filled my mind, along with flashes that Qian Renxue couldn't control. Images and feelings of her grandfather who she couldn't help now an ember of pure hatred due to how he was so clearly using her since birth despite loving her to an extent.
And then there was the messy cocktail of... Utter hate, love, need, and despair at the images of her mother Bibbi Dong, the Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall.
But in between all that chaotic mess of her emotions, her memories, and mental images she was purposefully sending me. There was one defining feature I was picking up on. On how she 'Felt' about me in particular.
When her mind inevitably thought about me due to our close connection, I could feel the overwhelming crush that was teetering between smothering love and mind/heart-warping obsession as she saw me as some sort of rock of stability in being truthful to her.
The connection broke as I felt her mind starting to get a bit more chaotic as I had already gotten all the information I needed about the vault for the main Spirit Hall building.
As the mental connection broke. I felt her sag against me with her heels going down as she got off her tippy toes to rest her forehead on my chest slightly.
There was a pause as she just rested against me... But knowing the iron was hot, I struck.
I gently cupped her jawline and I tied the needy, damaged, psycho angel to me as her eyes widened as I dipped down and my lips met hers with her blue eyes dulling before I let go of her face to cup her soft ass as I pulled her tight against me to deepen the kiss.
And I could feel Bi Ji shift within my soul as she was part of the Key of Solomon Martial Soul. As a chain from the Martial Soul shot from my body in an ethereal light that shot from my soul into her own as I formed the connection I had with all the rest of my waifus.
'The contract is stronger with the Key of Solomon being a Martial Soul sharing the Ring's I have in the Key of Solomon being shared with my girls?' I mused with interest.
Sure it was a bit sad I wasn't going to be able to easily download some abilities from my girls from the Key helping me figure things out anymore. But I could figure out bloodline abilities before I even had the Key of Solomon anyway.
The fact I could share literally divine tier abilities with my girls for them to use at will was far more valuable than that learning ability. Besides I was still getting strength and magical/spiritual energy from my girls as well.
The kiss broke apart with a soft popping noise as Qian Renxue wrapped her arms around my neck and pushed her chest into my mine with her head moving to my right ear as she whispered. "No more... We can't do any more here Jake."
I gave her ass a squeeze with her exhaling hotly into my ear and then she gave me a squeeze with her hands around my neck in warning... What warning it was? I had no idea, but I knew it was a warning all the same.
A flash of light swallowed us and we were teleported from the Heaven Dou Empire's Royal Treasury... To the far richer Spirit Hall's main treasury with Qian Renxue refusing to meet my eyes as we looted the massive treasury, yet also utterly refusing to let go of the hand she took into her own.
-
The long hall of Shrek Academy's meeting room was in a rather awkward tense silence. As Tang San sat next to his Xiao Wu who were both sitting there rather awkwardly as painful secret's had come to light.
As the 'infamous' booty bandit Jake Bariss had led the Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Hall, and Star Lou empire's strongest fighters and Title Doulou on a mind shatteringly frustrating chase. Which on several occassions ended up with the Title Doulou's being stripped down to their underclothes and dropped off randomly on the beach somewhere in the world.
But Jake Bariss's habit of stripping man and woman alike who attempted to kill him for the secrets he held was not the source of the awkward atmosphere currently.
"Didn't you two used to sleep together and grew up together basically at the early school you went to?" Oscar asked quietly and the room went silent as everyone looked at Tang San awkwardly.
As it was one thing for boys and girls to sleep together from like age five to eight. That was a bit weird but they were all they had in a new situation without any family. It was understandable that they latched onto one another.
But Tang San had reincarnated, he didn't deny the truth to his trusted friends after it became clear knowledge. And with Tang San explaining that secret.
Xiao Wu, the other person in the equation also shared her own secret. That in reality she herself was a Soft Boned Rabbit Spirit Beast who had reincarnated as human after reaching 100,000 years of cultivation after living for more than fifty thousand years.
So to say the least, the situation was awkward... As Xiao Wu back then didn't have her full memories of her past life and had only a natural child's mind while Tang San still had his previous life's experiences.
But in reality... Xiao Wu was obviously the most egregious of cradle robbers as she had staked her claim on Tang San with a whopping tens of thousands of years of soul age difference.
"Sooooo... What was your past life like? Did you learn your special spiritual techniques there and is Jake from the same world as you?" Zhu Zhuqiu asked the more important question.
Tang San took a deep breath as he considered how to answer the question before he spoke quietly. "My world... Did have it's own form of cultivation like this one does. But it was more based on building up inner force and chi with it not having as much of a truly supernatural ability like the Soul Ring and Martial Soul System of this world."
"Perhaps the legendary martial-based Sect's would have the secrets on more blatant special abilities like the one's Jake has been noted in using... Maybe he has an ability that touches upon the laws of Time itself and that's how he has those Spirit Rings."
Tang San shrugged and said honestly. "But I belonged to the Tang Sect in my previous life. We were focused on the production of weapons, and improving our ability to handle the extremely powerful weapons."
There was a pause before Dai Mubai who had his arms over his chest said quietly. "What does this change besides knowing you are basically mentally almost two decades older mentally then us."
The younger brother of Dai Weisi who Jake killed in front of the world shook his head and said bluntly. "It changes nothing. You both are still sworn blood siblings to me at least, as Tang San never bothered to hide his maturity or bring harm to us."
Then the normally perverted and as unserious as possible Ma Hongjun spoke with a weak smile. "Well, we are all fine and dandy with this. But uhhh, Tang San we should probably keep this quiet from your father after all. That would be a very painful conversation I think."
The room went quiet at that as no one had an answer for that difficult conversation that could come up in the future.
-
Grabbing everything out of the Spirit Hall treasury went a bit slower than grabbing everything out of the Heaven Dou Empire's personal stores. Not because the large amount of loot was too much larger than the Empire's own stores.
No, it purely took a good twenty minutes longer than it should have, because I had to do everything one-handed due to how happily content Qian Renxue was in holding my hand and leaning her head on my shoulder.
'She is falling in love with me harder than a boulder falls down a cliff.' I thought with a wry smile.
"Alright, I got everything. Are you ready to leave now?" I asked curiously with Qian Renxue nodding with her still holding my hand as she stepped in front of me and looked into my eyes to say.
"Jake, I want you with me as we go see my mother now. She is likely in her private training grounds I already sent the memory of which to you." Qian Renxue spoke softly while maintaining eye contact with me.
I gave her a long look before I took a deep breath and spoke. "Qian... Meeting your mother like this is going to end up bloody. I don't want to fight your mother, nor see you get hurt physically or emotionally when that fight comes."
The beautiful blond smiled but it was filled with a firmness that was painted in sad acceptance. "And yet, it's a conversation I need to have with her. Especially when you take me from this world back to your own and my life will change so much."
There was a quiet silence as I looked into Qian's eyes before sighing inwardly as I knew this was going to be fucking painful to say the least.
"Alright Qian, let's do this." I said with a teleportation glyph forming beneath us to teleport us past the wards and runes surrounding the Spirit Hall treasury.
With a flicker of light, we were then surrounded by the sounds of nature with bright afternoon sunlight filling the surroundings with it's glare.
Then in the distance came a loud explosion that made me inwardly cringe as I could feel the roiling energy in the distance. As it was no weaker then Serafall, Yasaka, or even Xue Nue's power when the Snow Woman was still alive.
"Partner... This is a stupid as hell idea. She is a Limit Doulou of Rank 99 Who has already touched the limits of power in this world." Tian Meng warned me.
And I even as I went to respond, Bi Ji, Xue Nu, and Bing'er all chimed in on how this was a stupid as hell idea.
"I am aware of the danger in this. I still want to allow her, to say her peice though... I already fled her before, and I can do it again." I added with the spirit beasts giving me feelings of 'deadpanning' at me for my so-called confidence.
Qian Renxue gave me a gentle pull outwards and so we walked deeper into the forest, and all too soon we found a very large pit. A very, very large pit spanning a dozen miles that was filled with caustic toxic water that glowed purple with bubbles bubbling up from within the water.
And I also noticed how all the tree's around the pit were either dead... Or thriving as they were ingesting the poison energy that filled the small lake that Bibbi Dong obviously practiced throwing her abilities into.
"You have... Captured him I see." Bibbi Dong spoke quietly as she opened her eyes and looked at us from the side from where she was sitting crossed-legged on a padded platform.
'Be careful Jake! She has... At least half a dozen Red Spirit Rings!' Tian Meng warned me mentally and I sent him a feeling of affirmation though I already knew that.
I knew that Bibbi Dong herself was the strongest human alive currently on the planet, even if there were some much stronger Spirit Beasts hidden away. She was the peak of humanity, and at this range... I could tell she was stronger then Yasaka at the very least, probably stronger then Serafall herself.
She was especially at least more dangerous then Serafall due to her twin Martial Spirits both being spider Martial Spirits giving her many dangerous highly toxic abilities along with control abilities to restrict my movement.
"I- I wanted to speak with you one last time." Qian Renxue spoke after faltering a bit.
There was a pause before Bibbi Dong scowled slightly. "I have no intention of talking with you. Leave, this is my private training center and your grandfather cannot protect you should I punish you as the Supreme Pontiff."
I felt Qian Renxue's hand tighten within my own before she took a deep breath and said firmly. "Do know what we both share... Mother, we both share the terrible trait in falling in love too easily and then breaking when our world is proven wrong."
The world went silent.
Then Bibbi Dong quietly and elegantly stood up with her hollow eye's looking to me and then to Qian Renxue. "Love... Love is only a poison that kills the heart, kills the person that holds it, and is the-"
She paused before she summoned a large staff that made me tense as I could feel it alongside Tian Meng... The Spirit Beast who that outer Spirit Bone Staff belonged to, was also a Million-Year-Old spirit beast.
"Jake Bariss... You managed to seduce her in but a single day? I wonder how firm your love is for that-" Bibbi Dong spoke before visibly pausing at she mention of her daughter.
I took a deep breath and I let go of Qian Renxue's hand knowing it was my turn to 'prove myself' to my new fucking mother-in-law. "Honestly... I think rather than you both just loving too easily. You both just have terrible taste in men haha." I joked as I felt Qian Renxue's eye's boring into my back as I stepped forward.
There was a dark pause with spiritual energy flaring from Bibbi Dong, and although I heard Qian behind me kneeling to the ground under the weight of that spiritual weight. I had dealt with Gu Yuena's spiritual might whose was far greater.
I stepped forward and in response, Bibbi Dong's spiritual power became a weighted blanket of malice that was aimed at me. "No... Seriously, you both have terrible taste in men, and worse. When the first hurdle comes... You just give up on them! You are the reason, you aren't with Yu Xiaogang!"
There was a heavy silence and then in an instant, she stepped forward and with only raw anger she slapped at me with all the might of a Title Doulou's enhanced strength.
But physical strength was something I could handle. And even if I could... Could kill her right now with my new Death Perception Scythe with one stroke.
I took the blindingly fast blow to my shoulder and I felt it crack before I was smashed through the ground five meters into the soil with myself laughing through the pain as I used Bi Ji's pheonix healing flames to glow with green fire as my shoulder audibly snapped back into place.
"Hahaha! You... You missed the damn point! He would have happily accepted you even after that happened to you, he already has no problem adopting several kids haha!" I laughed at the absurdity as Bibbi Dong's face paled and turned purple with utter fury.
"You... Wretch! What do you know!" She snarled as she finally unveiled her spirit rings. All sixteen of them. 1 Yellow 2 Purple 5 Black, and then the rest was Red with a single Gold Spirit Ring.
In response I flared my own Spirit Rings, in all Red with only a single Gold Spirit Ring as I snapped back.
"I know he waited for you! Just as you waited in the rain for him to come but he didn't because you had already been gone for days!"
I saw one of her spirit rings glow in warning and her large breasts heaved as she furiously spat not even seeing me. Almost seemingly seeing Yu Xiaogang, who was Tang San's master instead.
"I was raped! Tainted! How could I have stood before him knowing I carried that... Spawn within my womb!" She shrieked with her finally giving in to violence as a massive set of spider legs grew from her back and like a god of war's spear stabbed towards me.
And then I knew she was gone as an explosive release of tainted spiritual energy bloomed from her as the ground shuddered as she summoned a massive... Ten-story giant man with corrupted flesh and darkened wings that made my face darken at the sight.
'Qian Xunji's corpse... She truly is fucking nuts.' I thought as I saw the necromancy-controlled corpse that she was using with one of her Spirit Ring's and I was worried about what Qian was going to think. But she thankfully didn't recognize him despite the corrupted angel wings on his back.
And even more annoying was how the construct still had its own Soul Ring's it had in life and had its existence conceptually tied to Bibbi Dong meaning even if I cut it down with my Mystic Eye's of Death Perception. She could just reform him with some effort.
I wasn't yet at the point where I wanted or needed to kill Bibbi Dong after all.
But then a massive building-sized spider leg construct smashed at me and even as I dodged it. I cursed as even as I dodged it. Countless thousands of razor-sharp toxic hairs from the spider leg exploded from the leg and shot towards me like heat-seeking missiles.
I pulled power from the Heavenly Evil Sea Martial Soul from myself and then I activated Bing'er's Spirit Ring to cover my already exoskeleton-covered body with Ultimate Ice that protected me from the countless needle-like hairs that slammed into my form.
As I didn't have a spell that could block or otherwise deal with all those countless hairs that came for me.
But in the moment I spent guarding myself Bibbi Dong all but teleported in front of me with her great flying speed and she slammed a large glowing bloody crimson sword into my Ultimate Ice and exoskeleton-covered form.
'The Asura Sword!' I thought with some fear as I turned my self to get hit as little as possible by the divine sword that shattered the Ultimate Ice and Bing'er's own exoskeleton she gave me in the Spirit Bone I integrated.
I hissed as the sword parted through part of my stomach and gut's but then Bibbi Dong shouted in surprise as my Spirit Ring, aptly named Ultimate Ice Explosion. Violently exploded directly in her face as all the Ultimate Ice covering my form exploded like a powerful freezing bomb.
'Tian Meng, I need some help.' I said mentally as I used the Heavenly Evil Sea Martial Soul to summon up Holy Water's that washed over a shield that Bibbi Dong conjured up with the holy water burning like acid against her conjured up shield that she was pushing towards me.
Tian Meng knowing what I wanted, melded his mental and soul energy with mine. And as Bibbi Dong got close to us and brought that deadly divine sword down at us that I managed to barely divert from my neck with my scythe. My eye's flashed with power as I used Tian Meng's spirit ring.
The Soul Freezing Shock was a direct attack to Bibbi Dong's very soul and she vomited blood at the equivalent of a million years of cultivation spiking her directly in the soul as she obviously didn't expect a soul attack.
Then distracted at the mental/soul attack... I pulled a note out of Kazuma's book and used all my strength to throw myself forward and as she swung her sword at me quickly gaining her strength and mind back under control she coughed as I dropped kicked her in the stomach sending her flying down and smashing into the ground.
'Behind you!' Bing'er called out mentally and I looked behind to see the corpse puppet of Xue Yunji had caught up and I flew down to avoid a massive pillar of corrupted light that was in the shape of a twisted sword of some kind.
"I got the construct! You subdue my mother!" Qian Renxue called with herself conjuring up a large sword of holy light that smashed aside the utterly massive twisted blade that had lost its edge.
Even as I turned and refocused on Bibbi Dong... I couldn't help a thought. 'Why does this feel so turned around? It feels like I am trying to fight her father to get the right to marry her. But it's instead her insane mother who just wants to destroy the continent basically.'
And her insanity was proved again as Bibbi Dong shouted with tears in her eyes. "He wouldn't have accepted me! I was broken, the old me died when that man did that to me!"
Though even as she was shouting at me for supposedly knowing Yu Xiaogang, she was still rushing at me with hundreds of spinning flying purple scythe's shooting through the air toward me.
And this time, I knew I wasn't going to be able to get a good sucker punch in. As her eye's despite being filled with tears of anger, despair, and hate both for the world and herself.
Were fully locked into the situation and she was ready to kill me if she could get to me properly.
'Tian Meng... It's time for my ultimate technique.' I thought to him with him groaning as during my period of running away from all the Title Doulou chasing me. I had come up with a plan for putting Bibbi Dong off balance if not breaking her completely.
I felt Tian Meng's mental energy fill my form with a silver hue and he said in resigned exasperation. "This is going to go off like a bomb... Either it works, or she takes your head off you fool."
'What are you two doing? Why are you forming such a mental energy well?' Xue Nue the Snow Queen demanded as Tian Meng couldn't attack Bibbi Dong's mind from within my body.
I dodged several flying scythe's and I grinned through the pain as another one sliced me slightly across the back as I dodged it. And then as my scythe and Bibbi Dong's met I stared into the mad eye's of Bibbi Dong before I said mentally. 'Making friends of course!'
And I could feel Tian Meng's mental exhaustion as he ram roaded a mental bond between Bibbi Dong and myself. Then I did the cruelest thing I could do the woman.
I showed her what overwhelming love was.
The love, the feelings, the devotion, the friendship, the memories, the pleasure, the joy, and all the other constant welling emotions of a dozen women that had accumulated for months within my Seal of Solomon slammed into Bibbi Dong's mind.
With her next Spirit Ring ability faltering with her spitting out more blood at the backlash but as her conjured up scythe broke apart I grabbed Bibbi Dong by the arm and brought her to the ground as she was getting mentally fried.
By a 'real' loving relationship, loving impregnation, loving in general but times by a dozen plus in intensity.
And as soon as our feet graced the torn-apart earth. Bibbi Dong did one of three things I expected her to do.
I was torn on her either, attempting to kill me harder, trying to kiss me as the love overwhelmed her mind, or her just breaking down mentally.
Well, it was more of a combination of two options as she burst in ugly sobs with her large chest racking with each choking inhale as she screamed hysterically. "Don't take it away! Don't leave me filled with hate anymore!"
The large construct of Qian Xunji broke apart with the rather haggard-looking Qian Renxue coming down for a rough landing, as even if she herself was ranked eighty. Her 'father' was still a Title Doulou well into rank 90 of this universe's unique cultivation level system.
"What did you do to her Jake? A mental attack?" Renxue asked with an odd expression as her mother who was in her fifties had her face buried into my chest and was loudly bawling her eye's out and having the ugliest cry possible.
And with a wry expression, I explained awkwardly. "I showed her what actual love felt like through my Key of Solomon. Something you can only feel a bit of with how our connection was only made via kiss."
I saw a flash of jealousy and anger in Qian Renxue's eyes before she visibly took a deep breath and said quietly. "I see... I know you have a harem, but did you seriously just smack my mother's mind with true love when both of us have faced nothing but scorn and betrayal in our lives."
My mouth opened as though to refute her... Before a loud hiccuping sob broke out from Bibbi Dong like a congested chainsaw trying to roar to life.
My face just turned even more awkward as she looked at me with a dull expression and said flatly. "Fix this Jake Bariss, you broke her. Now fix her, and don't think for a moment I will be happy if you seduce her as well!"
And I realized I was even more fucked as Xue Nue and the others piped up. 'To play with the heart of a maiden so callously. I do hope you don't plan to abandon her after you hurt her so deeply.'
'What big sister said! Jake need to take responsibility for your actions!" Bing'er shouted at me mentally with some of her bratty energy.
'Love indeed is a cruel weapon Jake. You should help her, and I know you can heal her mind and heart.' Bi Ji said more comfortingly.
And then my partner, my 'brother' in arms Tian Meng whispered to me out of the ears of the spirit beasts. "Bro... Look at Qian Renxue, Bibbi Dong is prime mating material, so you need to lock this woman down for the sake of your own bloodline!'
Getting advice from Spirit Beasts, probably wasn't the best idea.