After only a few hours of travel, we finally managed to get back to the gate leading to the insides of the sect. Despite bringing a third person with us, just by flashing our core sect tokens to the guard we managed to enter the premises without any trouble.
"Can you lead her to the mansion for now? I need to report the whole situation to the Sect Master."
If I want to get Leila to stay as a powerhouse of this sect, I can't let her disregard its strength. If she were to get to know that the overlord of this place is at the same level of cultivation as she, this could give birth to some unnecessary ideas in her head!
"Sure, should I come there as soon as I show her the place?"
While our prisoner was already at the top of the local power scale, we already showed her that defeating her isn't any trouble either for me or Eve at all. While she looks to be smart enough to understand what would happen if she dared to stir any troubles while left alone, I don't think there is any reason to risk it.
"Nah, I will go first, and you will go when I come back. I have some stuff I need to discuss with her alone."
While this might sound suspicious, I didn't find any other reason to refuse her in time. After all, if I outright said that someone needs to keep an eye on Leila, wouldn't she understand that she actually could create some problems?
"Okay then, we will wait in the mansion then."
Going separate ways, I hurried to the inner sect, and after running through the mostly empty streets, I finally stood in front of Stella's grand mansion. Asking the butler that came to greet me to announce my arrival, I didn't need to wait for more than two minutes before my master came running.
"Where have you been for so long? Is Eve okay?"
Oh! It seems that she didn't get the news about our arrival in advance this time! I guess that's only fair since I went to visit her right after going back, and to be honest, spirit attainment level cultivators were too valuable and rare in this sect to force a lookout duty on them!
"We are all okay, we even brought a slave with us. But the problem is, that as we ventured for the higher levelled training areas, we not only encountered people from other sects that dared to attack us, they even brought the reinforcements later on!"
As I continued to explain the events that transpired on our journey, Stella's face continued to fade into new shades of whiteness. When I started speaking about the pair from the sword sect, I started to worry if she won't collapse right in front of me!
"How in the heavens were you able to defend against such experts? Even I would have great trouble to face against a developing core master, not to speak about enriching essence cultivators, yet you killed so many of them? What is your current cultivation level?"
It's no wonder she reacted like that. In this word, while levels aren't absolute and individual skill can make up for even a huge gap in power, in the end, the stronger one is, the details like fine technique, skill or knowledge are turning more and more minute.
"Currently, I'm on the verge of breaking through from the spirit attainment realm. Since I don't really know anything about the next steps, I'm forcing my cultivation down to prevent myself from venturing into uncharted territory. I hope that I will be able to get access to some books tackling this theme during the tournament. Also, I managed to help Eve raise her cultivation to match my level, and we are currently bound by dual spirituality."
While the first part of what I said isn't exactly true, I feel that Stella really wants to find a successor to advance herself and join up with her master in the sword sect. Only by forcing her to realise that my growth is simply too swift to be contained in her sect for a whole year more, I can covertly force her to allow me and Eve to graduate.
"Oh, before I forget, we brought a slave from flying crane sect. While I will be using her to cultivate using her yin energy, I intend to leave her here as an expert when we will be gone. Give me a few days to establish a positive relationship with her, and she might be your potential successor for the next year tournament!"
This time I point at Stella's worries right away. While there are three other spirit attainment cultivators in the sect, two of them serve as an elder of the sect and are too old for the higher sects to consider them as potential disciples, and the remaining one reached his level basing on expensive elixirs and rituals instead of the real cultivation. Right now, If I manage to cultivate Leila properly and teach her some useful techniques, she might be the best bet for the next sect master!
"Ah, so you do realise my real aim. You damn kid, you really know how to play your cards! Get out of my sight, for now, I need to think about how to deal with the flying crane sect. Did I tell you that they are one of the culprits behind the downfall of this once a great sect? Don't forget to inform me when you will judge your new toy to be suitable to meet me!"
With sect Master dismissing me, I don't stand on ceremony and leave right away. There is no need to stay there any longer since I still have a shitton of things to do!
Dashing my way back to the mansion, I enter it only to catch both of the girls naked and pouring bubbly water onto each other! While the sight is insane, I need to rein myself for now. There are only about two weeks before the tournament, and we will need approximately three days to even reach the place where it will be happening. If I spend my days just fucking around, I might even lose my way to get inside a higher sect!
"Eve, I think it should be decided already. Are you okay with being the one to participate?"
Watching as Leila is diligently rubbing the dirt and sweat off Eve's breast, I can't help but look somewhere else as to not sabotage my own sense of sanity.
"Yeah, I think that will work the best for us. Don't you want to join us?"
Noticing how hard I was trying to avoid this lovely sight, she smiled, grabbed Leila's hair and moved her head in between her own legs.
"I can guarantee that you won't regret it, ah!"
With our new toy being understanding enough to react to any of our commands even if we didn't spell it out loud, Eve grabbed her own breast and started massaging it while her secret place was teased by Leila's tongue.
I guess pushing away the matter of checking the messages from the fight or figuring out if I should breakthrough on the spot might wait a bit.