I slowly entered the pavilion and got ready to begin the process.
It was quiet and no-one walked about in the now closed pavilion.
I groaned as I felt my coin purse. Empty again and I was back to being poor.
Four hundred thousand, in truth the cost for entering the pavilion was nowhere near as much as that. It was just that my condition had two clauses.
Actually being female and having no master to isolate a section of the pool meant that as a woman id have to be naked in a pool where others gathered to cultivate daily. So naturally I had to be there alone.
-Renting the entire pavilion for a day…. -
I sighed.
Yeah, the only other people there were the two guards outside the pavilion's closed doors.
I looked at the pill I had in the palm of my hand. This was the second most expensive thing that I had to use today. The copper looking pill was one that most would warn against using since even though the medicinal efficacy was incredible, boosting the body's resistance to erosion by 10% the backlash alone could cripple a mid ranked, second-order, true ancestral body cultivator. But this pill was specially made by me after many trial and many failures. I managed to make it. with over 200,000 wasted in materials alone. but with the modifications it should be able to provide a 2% boost with minimal backlash. According to the old book I used to refine the ugly pill.
Quickly I swallowed it and began undressing eager to get the whole process over with.
The other girls in the sect mostly had big breasts even the ones with small breasts far outdid mine in comparison.
"Why are you guys so small?~" I poked them before sighing.
"I'll drink lots of milk ok? Just please grow a little."
-And I'm talking to my boobs.-
I really didn't have to worry about anything since I have the entire place to myself for the day. So something like this won't be cause for concern.
I slowly walked past the many decorative columns and pillars in the large open room until I got to the edge of the large pool.
It's blood red color churned slowly from the heat below.
It wasn't hot.
The viscous liquid was instead mostly warm and sticky.
I found that out as I dipped my toes in, testing the proverbial waters. Slowly I let the thick liquid envelope my slender legs and as I stepped in wading further out into the center of the pool and sat. The warm liquid made me feel things I hadn't let my self feel in many years. It stuck to my skin giving me the feel of a warm moving 'thing' between my legs. It took all i had to resist the urge to pull away.
I could feel my face getting hot.
Crossing my legs I push the thoughts from my mind. The thick liquid enveloping my body resting directly below my small breasts.
-The fuck is this shit, couldn't you be just a little higher?-
The red liquid bled through the spaces between my fingers as I move my hand in it.
I sighed internally, letting my mind rest while agitating my true blood essence with the unlimited blood refinement art.
The first sign of change came from my lower abdomen. It was a slight tingling sensation that seemed to grow in intensity with the amount of force added in. And with each wave of the unlimited blood refining art's cultivation method, the feeling pulsed from within my core.
After 108 rounds I had no choice but to pause for a moment.
The tingling sensation had spread all over my body and was now as intense as cascading electricity.
My muscles all tensed and released with the intense pulsing from the art when I suddenly lost control. I could feel as it elevated in intensity and my veins expand, my blood flowing backwards towards my true blood's source.
-No no no! I did everything like I was supposed to! How can I have failed?-
I was silently dreading this moment. Since failure would mean that I would probably irreparably damage my heart aperture and as this first step slowly refines the internal organs tempering them with great care, it can be seen as to why this was the most dangerous part.
I could only guess that this was as a result of one or two conditions not being met.
My physical body was already tempered to be greatly resistant to the elemental laws and thus my foundation wasn't actually purely based on the unlimited blood refining art.
That and I didn't have a master to help me with the refining process which made it progress at a rate much slower than the body can accommodate.
But even with all that said I had taken precautions for the second.
So that only meant that my resistance was interfering with the unlimited blood refining art's progression.
An incredible pain filled my chest racking my entire body with convulsions.
My mind waded in the darkness that followed.
The warm liquid entered my body threatening to suffocate me.
The only reprieve was that I couldn't feel anything except the pulsing of my cultivation art and the increasing pain it caused my body.
The darkness though, threatened to consume me and i could no longer refuse or fight its giant maw.
"Damn it child, must you cause this old master trouble with your every action?" I opened my eyes to see the sect master as he tossed a robe over my nakedness.
My back against the cold concrete beside the steps to the pool and I could feel as my lungs forced up that vile red liquid that had entered mouth when I fell in due to the convulsions.
I tried to recall what had happened while I had been under but it was all a blur. The only thing that I could really recall was the image of a girl with long auburn colored hair that glowed orange in the afternoon sun. She, like me had no horns. But her internal energy felt immensely strong and more violent than any half-human I had met before.
It scared me.
But the energy that radiated from her was definitely not that of a dragon born, was she a monarch?
But Why was I seeing her?
And why did I find her attractive? I don't even like women? I'm straight!
And why was she fighting that other monarch?
Why did she kill her, the other monarch?
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I came to, the sect master's hand over my forehead. Instinctively I swat his hand away, a low growl escaping my lips.
This had never happened before, growling was only an instinctual trait among female dragonborn who find their territory encroach on but I had never once growled at anything in my life, until now.
"You dare refuse this old master's kindness?" Grandpa shi-fen stated furiously.
"No! Master, I would never!" I was quickly got on my knees, naked and shamelessly holding unto his leg. " Im sorry master it will never happen again."
"I told you not to pursue the path of a cultivator and that I'd take care of you. Yet you went and did such a thing behind my back. And now that the rune is broken i'll have to get that old crone to redo it and she'll want a favor." He stated sternly.
"I'll do it!" I replied without hesitation.
We both knew what the favor was.
I could feel his eyes look me over before, "Good! I'll make sure she pays you a visit tomorrow. For now go back to your home and stabilize your cultivation."
I listened as his footsteps left the pavilion and the doors close behind him.
It would've been embarrassing if this wasn't the norm. See, as long as I achieved some results he would publicly acknowledge me as his disciple. But in private, he only regards me with scorn.
It took me awhile before I noticed one of the girls from my class standing off to the side, eyeing me with curiosity trying not to meet my gaze. It was probably her who alerted Gramps and saved my life but after seeing how I acted just now... she probably thinks of me as trash. I grabbed the coat to cover myself before she noticed that something was off.
But my hair brushed against my fingers. It was long even passing my waist as if i hadn't even cut it before coming here, but before even that.
My breasts were now substantially bigger. They were now out of the realm of A-cups to an ample F. This shocks me so much that I just sit there staring at them before i noticed the girl had approached. "You must be new here." she offered with kindness I had never been offered before.
Quickly I try to hide my face but she just plops down beside me taking the coat from my hands and putting it over my shoulders. "Its ok you don't have to be shy." she cooed.
-The fuck? Doesn't she recognize me?-
She gazes into my eyes for a while before, "Woah big sis you're really pretty!~ if you just do this you'll be soo much prettier!" she moved the hair from my face placing it behind my ear.. finally, fully meeting my gaze.
she smiled softly, "if you ask me I'd say that the sect master is wrong to treat you like that." She got up brushing the creases from her skirt before extending her hand in a greeting and assistance.
"I'm Īone by the way!"