The bedroom was plush, and the master bed stood at the center of the large suite. There were three smaller rooms in this suite, one was a tea room, another was a study with books, and the third smaller connected room was just a room with a carpet clearly meant for cultivation. There was also a large washroom at the back, with it's own soaking pool and tub.
Clearly whoever designed this room had intended for it to be used by a future young master, perhaps if City Lord Eshtar had a son of the appropriate age, this would have been his room. Alas, the youngest son is still too small, and so still lived with his caretakers.
It had signs of a rushed cleaning, even if it was regularly cleaned.
Sana walked in awkwardly, she- she had not expected things to escalate so quickly. A part of her stewed, angry at her father. Yes. She accepted this was needed. She accepted this was a sensible decision. But the heart still rebelled.
"Take off your clothes." Zahar commanded.
"-what." Sana glared at the man.
"You're my concubine. You heard your father."
Sana wanted to oppose, but then she realized, what was the point. Instead, her eyes gazed at her new partner. Zahar wasn't a handsome man. He was as plain as they came, he looked skinny, like a malnourished street rat, and still did.
"Do I have to come over and rip the clothes off myself? You should consume the Bloodfire Pill as soon as it is made, it's potency is strongest today."
Sana then realized she may have misunderstood. "What- What are you planning on doing?"
"A type of dual cultivation. Come." Zahar stripped to reveal his body. He had scars all over his body, the mark of someone who lived on the streets. Those scars will vanish should he ascended to even higher realms, as the body polished itself over and over. "Let us not waste time. Time that is still valuable to you."
Sana gulped, and reluctantly took off her clothes, revealing a slender, well shaped and well endowed figure. She was the great beauty of the Koolan City, it has been said there is no beauty greater than her in this small, relatively backwater city. In the Roaring Dragon Sect though, her beauty would only be average. The standards in the great sects are just so high.
Underneath her silk robes was a cloth that wrapped her breast, a kind of breast band. "I- I need to take it all off?"
"Oh wait. This is your first time fully undressing before a man?" Zahar took a while to realize something quite so obvious.
She nodded shyly.
"Ah. What we will do doesn't require us to be face to face. I just need to touch your exposed back, belly, your forehead and the area above your heart. Just strip and face that way if you're feeling nervous." The Emperor said.
Sana nodded and turned away, everything soon came off, except for a small loincloth that covered her crotch.
"Sit in your normal cultivation position." Sana's face blushed. She had never cultivated in a near naked form before, with a man so close to her.
Still, she obeyed and sat. The loincloth barely covered her nether regions, but her top was revealed for him to see.
"Good. Now consume it."
"Don't- don't they normally eat this at the fourth realm? Isn't it too powerful for me now?"
"Yes, but it is also beneficial to you now. Come. Be a good girl and listen to your mate." She flushed at the word, but then, looked at the pill. She gulped it in.
Zahar was naked, and sat behind her. He placed his left palm on her back, and his right palm at her waist.
The pill exploded once it reached her stomach, the energies was so intense that it threatened to scour her alive from within. But just at that moment, she felt the violent energies from the Bloodfire pill circulate within her, as if guided by an outside force.
"Just close your eyes, and relax. Don't try to manipulate the energy, or do anything. You don't even have to draw the energy into you. Not until I tell you to. Just do nothing." Zahar commanded, as his own energies easily pierced through her body and began wrestling with the powers of the Bloodfire pill.
She felt her body sweat, as the Bloodfire Pill's energies burned through her body. Yet, she felt a bit of it merge with her bones, her skin.
She wanted to say something, but Zahar stopped her. "Shush. Let me concentrate. Close your eyes. Some parts will hurt. Just don't fight it."
Zahar controlled the energies in her body and directed it to her head. It was as if she stuck her head into an oven and was baked. The sensation was uncomfortable, and she sweated heavily.
The energies merged with her bones, and she felt a fire-element energy throughout her skull. It suddenly felt like she had a very high fever.
"Hold it." Zahar commanded, as the swirling energies began to weaken. "Good, now the fire elemental energies have been absorbed into your bones. Next, let's help you break through to the 3rd realm. I will now direct the energies to your heart. Hold it there, and pull it into your soul."
She couldn't react, and the energies suddenly concentrated at her heart. It was so intense it felt like she was getting burnt alive.
Then, Zahar placed one of his hands on her chest, above her exposed breasts. He pressed his palm in firmly, and she had a strange, orgasmic sensation as if the fire throughout her entire body was simultaneously extinguished.
She moaned as she felt the energy gather in her heart. "Oooooooooooh."
"Focus, woman. Pleasure comes later." Sana snapped back to reality, and tried to pull the fire in her heart. She could feel Zahar's energies forming a wall, preventing the collected energies from escaping.
Each time she pulled in a bit of that energy into her soul, and grew her soul a little bit more, it felt like there was a minor explosion in her heart. It sent shockwaves that could be felt throughout her entire body.
"Focus." Zahar repeated, as the sphere of energy preventing the Bloodfire Pill's energies from escaping her heart shrunk. "I'm forcing the rest of the energy into your heart. You'll have to take all of it at once."
Sana didn't know how. Just taking a bit made her feel like she was exploding.
"Do as I say, you won't die from this. Suck it in all at once."
Sana gulped, and at this point, she could only trust in the man. She pulled the swirling flame-like energies into her heart all at once, and Zahar's sphere of energy somehow shrunk simultaneously.
The flame-energy couldn't escape even if it wanted. She just had to concentrate on merging the energy with her soul.
It happened all at once. Everything suddenly fused, and she broke through. Her soul and heart formed the 3rd layer, the sign of a 3rd realm!
The energy was gone, but now that her focus was drawn back to reality, she collapsed backward, exhausted. She didn't realize how much energy it took to break through to the 3rd realm!
"Good job. No concubine of mine will stay weak."
Sana was so tired she couldn't even move, her head was on his chest. Zahar wrapped his hand around her waist. He placed her head back down on the pillow, and then, he rested his head next to her, and hugged her like she was his bolster.
"Sleep." Zahar kissed her on the forehead, and somehow, her body listened.