"AHHH My face!!"
Abruptly woken up by a woman's scream, Vasari jolted up from his bed and ran to the bathroom even forgetting that he was still naked.
"What's wrong?" He asked but the woman standing in front of the mirror was lost in her own world as she viewed her reflection.
Her previous golden blonde hair was now a shade lighter and it looked much healthier, fuller and shinier than before. Her skin was now smooth as butter even before she applied any moisturizer and her lips were now a lighter shade of pink. She also noticed that her previous modest-sized breasts were now a bit bigger and perkier and her slim thighs were now a bit thicker. Though all those changes were amazing, there was one change that she paid special attention to. Around the edges of her pupils was a faint golden outlining that was only noticeable if one paid close enough attention to it.
"Vasari..." Witney finally noticed Vasari and started informing him about all the changes that happened to her body.
"Your appearance changed slightly due to my primal yang expelling all if not most of the impurities in your body. Your physical strength and body in general should have improved by a significant amount and that golden outline between your iris and pupil signifies that you have Imperial Dragon blood in your system." Vasari explained what he knew about the advantages of receiving his primal yang. He knew all this information because it's what his Nana explained to him in the past.
After hearing about what caused these changes, Witney stared at Vasari with obsession and desire oozing from her body.
"Vasari, my dear, from now on we are going to do it every night." She licked her lips as she eyed her new favourite toy. Vasari felt the edges of his lips quiver slightly and a cold sweat ran down his back.
'I've created a monster."
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Walking to school, Witney noticed that she was getting a lot more glances than she got before and even when she walked next to Vasari there would be some people who would pay attention to her now. She found it refreshing even though she did not mind at all if Vasari took all the spotlight.
In class, a few surprised gasps could be heard when they saw the new and improved appearance of Witney. Although it might not seem like much changed, the aura she naturally emitted was different than before, it was more mature and confident, thereby accentuating her beauty.
Talia looked at her friend sitting next to Vasari with scrutinizing eyes. She could feel a type of energy inside her friend's body that felt awfully similar to Vasari's. Her eyes widened when an outrageous thought crossed her mind. She tried to ignore the thought because it was just too unbelievable but the more she thought about it the more sense it made.
"Witney! What were you thinking!" Talia exclaimed in a whisper while glaring at Witney sitting on the other side of Vasari.
"What are you talking about?" Witney whispered back.
"You did it with Vasari!"
"Yeah...so?"
"Your father is going to kill Vasari if he finds out you did it before marriage."
"Relax, my father will understand when he knows how I feel about Vasari and how amazing he is."
Talia felt exasperated after talking to Witney. Did she not understand the consequences of her actions? She could be endangering Vasari!
Witney on the other hand thought that Talia was just jealous that her relationship with Vasari had reached the next level. It was not difficult to see how much Talia liked Vasari and it was only natural to be jealous in such a situation.
At lunch, Witney received many compliments with many asking her about her new morning routine. She would answer that nothing changed and that it must be her cultivation changing her appearance but Jiang Xia and Gia didn't buy it for a second.
They knew that she moved in with Vasari and her improved appearance could mean one thing and one thing only.
Vasari was the cause.
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Another week came and went.
During this week Vasari and boys managed to earn 2300 cloud points from their lucrative business. They earned 200 more than they planned because some of the girls gave them extra as a tip.
This meant each of the 7 boys earned 328 cloud points with Vasari earning 332 cloud points, 4 more than the others.
Vasari now had 352 cloud points and could finally begin his breakthrough into the Elemental Manipulation stage. He already planned what elements he want to learn first.
Walking in the ever-busy streets of Outer Haven, Vasari was walking casually with the ever-present Talia and Witney by his side.
Witney was practically glowing after receiving and absorbing so much of Vasari's yang during the past week. Every night and sometimes even in the morning they would go at like rabbits in heat. Witney's endurance in bed constantly improved after every session and her physical strength was also improving slightly every day.
Before, Talia would be considered slightly superior in terms of beauty compared to Witney but now they could be considered equal. There were already talks about them potentially being featured on the Knights&Fairies Manasite in the near future.
Vasari was currently wearing a cap and a mask covering half his face so that he wouldn't be noticed and have his photograph taken by random disciples. He was forced to do so by Elder Equus because there were just way too many images of him on the Mananet and they were getting worried about the Church of Prasufis finding out about him. The sect also had a team of specialists who were doing their best to delete any images they found of Vasari on the Mananet.
This was a good thing for Vasari and the boys because they will be able to raise the price of their images due to the lack of supply and increase in demand.
Right now the trio was walking towards one of the many resource markets in the Outer Haven. A resource market was an area designated to whoever wants to set up stalls and trade any items or resources that they have for cloud points.
After a few minutes of walking around the trio arrived at a resource market. The market occupied an entire street and from just a glance one could see at least a hundred stalls set up on either side of the road.
The market was crowded with people of all ages from young children barely old enough to start cultivating to old men with long white beards and funny-looking hats.
Vasari found it to be noisy but not too much to cause discomfort.
"So what are you looking for again?" Witney asked while dragging Vasari to the nearest stall. This was her first time at the resource market so she was excited to see what it was all about. Talia felt the same but she was able to keep her composure better than her friend.
"I'm looking for a water essence stone and a wind essence stone," Vasari answered, the reason for choosing these two elements ahead of fire and earth is mainly because water and wind were yin-based elements and in theory should be harder for a male to comprehend. He wanted to start with the most difficult elements first before moving to the easier elements last.
Vasari also wanted Talia and Witney to benefit from the essence stones since theoretically, it should be the easier 2 of the 4 elements for them to learn.
"Oh Elemental essence stones huh? I think I have a few that my father gave me." Vasari turned to 'look' at Talia with raised eyebrows.
"Yeah, my father also gave me some Elemental essence stones to use when I break through to the Elemental Manipulation stage." The almost ever-present confident smile of Vasari was on the verge of collapse.
'The perks of being rich. I bet they don't even know how expensive those elemental essence stones are.'
"What kind of elemental essence stones do you girls have?" Calmed down and asked the girls who were looking at the jewellery on display.
"I got earth."
"I got fire."
"Oh, how convenient." Vasari felt Lady Luck smiling down at him.
All he had to do now was find a store that sells essence stones at a decent price and his journey to the Elemental Manipulation stage would be basically complete.
Vasari allowed the girls to drag him from store to store. Girls will be girls and if there's one thing that all girls knew how to do, was to SHOP.
2 hours after arriving at the resource market, the trio finally left and head home.
Vasari looked down at his hand and found 2 objects no bigger than a walnut on his palm. The objects were hard, rough on the edges but with a smooth surface and one object was blue and the other light green colour.
These objects were the water and wind element essence stones. He got the stones for 110 cloud points each after Witney haggled the price down from 140.
The girls were surprised when they saw how the amount of cloud points he had. When they questioned him about it he said that Elder Equus gave him cloud points after helping him with an important chore. Luckily they bought it and although they were still a bit sceptical they decided to not bother him about it.
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Inside Vasari's room, Vasari, Witney and Talia sat in a circle with the water elemental essence stone in the centre of their encirclement.
"So how do we use this stone?" Vasari asked the girls, he figured that since their fathers gave them essence stones they might've told them how to use them too.
"All you have to do is smash them and the water essence will fill the surroundings. My father said these essence stones help comprehend elements because it is made from pure elemental energy which makes it easier for a cultivator to learn about its properties."
"Wow so smart, so smart." Vasari praised and rewarded Witney with a head pat much to Talia's annoyance.
"Ok then let's begin."
Vasari took out the sword that Miss Covington gave him before the Mammoth Grove practical lesson. He used the hilt of the sword to smash the blue stone into pieces causing copious amounts of water essence to fill the room. It was nearly impossible to see any type of essence but it was fairly easy to feel it with your body and senses.
The trio wasted no time, they closed their eyes and concentrated to their utmost. They only had one water elemental essence stone which they did not want to waste just because they were not trying their best.
Vasari was the first one to slip into a meditative trance as he focused on the sensation that the water essence had on his body as well as the surroundings.
He noticed the density of the water essence to be surprisingly high, he also noticed the amazing flexibility of the water essence which reminded him of the flexibility properties of inner yin energies. Because water is so flexible it is also able to adapt quickly which is a property that cultivators have to perfect to be fearsome in battle.
Dense, flexible and adaptable. These 3 properties are what Vasari comprehended about the water element based on the water essence around him. He then remembered back when he was younger, Nana would take him to a river to play and fish. He would always get upset when Nana told him not to play too deep in the river because of the strong river currents which was extremely dangerous to a young boy like Vasari.
From what Nana told him, water was not only dense, flexible and adaptable but also forceful and dangerous.
He took the five properties of water he could comprehend and combined them in his mind to form one. Suddenly the water essence around him seemed a little submissive to him, he opened his eyes and held out his hand in front of him. He imagined a ball of water floating above his palm and soon some of the water essences around him gathered above his palm, a small drop of water not even the size of his pinkie nail formed above his palm.
*Clap**Clap**Clap**Clap*
*Clap**Clap**Clap**Clap*
"Yay, you did it!" Witney exclaimed from his left
"Huh, you're already finished?" Vasari was genuinely surprised, he didn't expect not only Witney but also Talia to finish comprehending a basic will for the water element before him. Was he just slow or were these girls just monsters?
"We finished about an hour ago," Talia answered this time from his right.
"So you were just staring at me for an hour." Vasari teased the beauty, from spending so much time around her, he found that she struggled to lie to him so he enjoyed asking questions that put her on the spot.
"Yes, but only because we didn't want to disturb you. Anyway, now that Vasari is done why don't we move on to the next element."
"Oooh let's do fire next."
"Are you sure you girls want to move on to the next element so quickly? Why don't we practice control over Water Will for a little bit first? Wouldn't it be better to practice and perfect one element at a time instead of alternating and splitting your practice time between 4 elements?"
The girls found no reason to refuse and found his logic to be logical, so for the rest of the night, the trio would splash each other with water over and over again, drenching the entire room in the process. If anybody saw the usually cold and distant Talia playing around like a little kid they wouldn't believe their eyes even for a second. Vasari was the only person who could make this outwardly emotionless girl show her her true emotions and thoughts.
After fooli-...practising their control of water Will for the entire night, the trio collapsed onto the bed with Vasari falling asleep with two nation-toppling beauties using his arms as pillows and his body as a heater.