"Hmm, I can do this. Are you certain that will be enough? How will you bring them with you later? Oh! That's right you have that interesting artifact that that lady master left for a junior to inherit. Does it have enough space for this many?" Yang Kai asked, half chuckling at the sight of me being completely smothered by this tailed fox monster race.
"My Thunder Temple is big enough for much more than this. Only thing is… I left it by the tree for the monster beasts I tamed. I hadn't realized there were this many I would have to mov…" I spoke getting cut off as the girl started giving me a full tongue kiss.
"Ahahaha, alright I'll take everyone back." Yang Kai said, snapping his fingers and everyone appeared in the periphery of a gigantic tree.
"Sir, this one is Huo Dai, my daughter's name is Huo Lei. She is the one currently kissing the young sir so vigorously. May I know who sir is?" The nine tailed woman said, her tails wagging with excitement.
"I'm this brat's father, Yang Kai." He said, then turned to me. "You were even willing to drop your monster cultivation to save these people. So I will allow them to follow you from here on. Even when you eventually leave this world's shackles you may bring them with you." Yang Kai said.
I found a weak moment and was able to pull Huo Lei off of me for a moment. "This son thanks father for his generosity. Father does not need to worry about the loss in my cultivation. I will recover it in short order. After I recover fully this son will continue to advance." I said, to not let him worry.
"Good! Once you're ready tell me. I will bring you to introduce this fiance of yours to the two mothers. I'm positive they will both want to see your improvement as well. You have impressed me with your speed. Though you should learn to focus and stabilize your strengths perfectly. Understand?" Yang Kai said.
"This son understands!" I said, cupping my hands.
"This daughter-in-law understands and thanks father-in-law for helping her!" Huo Lei said, extremely excited and thankful.
"Good! Then I will be waiting for the time when you are ready to see them again." Yang Kai said, vanishing into thin air.
"Father-in-law is so strong and mysterious. I wonder what his cultivation realm is?" Huo Lei said, before looking deep into my eyes.
"My father is in the realm above Emperors. It is called the Open Heaven Realm. It also just so happens that this world we live in. is actually his small universe." I said, transforming into a dragon and wrapping myself around the world tree. "I need to recover so please do what you need to and find yourself a room. There are plenty inside the Thunder Temple." I said, closing my eyes and falling asleep.
Every single one of the monster race felt my strength slowly returning with each passing second. Their eyes raised and looked at each other.
"Your fiance has a hell of a recovery speed. No wonder he dared to risk sacrificing his own source energy to heal us strangers." A monster race said, looking at Huo Lei.
"I'm going to go lay down right there and take a nap. The look on his face after he realizes we took a nap together will be nothing short of handsome." Huo Lei said boldly before running over and laying down on my Dragon body.
"I guess we should all go and do what the young master told us to do." Huo Dai said, leading the people away and looking for rooms to stay in.
~~6 months later~~
"That was a good nap! Nice and long. I should be able to control this dragon body more easily in the future. Hmmm… seems like I had more than just my fiance come to sleep on my scales. Eh they are all baby monster beasts. Oh! Nevermind, it seems there is a young monster race male here as well." I said, scanning the area with my divine sense.
"The young master is awake! Good morning young master, I trust you sleep well." The woman who held their boy said.
"Ahahaha, I did. My strength has returned to the 8th Order! And even my human race cultivation has increased a bit. This nap was good. I'm afraid though I'll have to ask everyone to get off first. I'd like to stretch my legs again." I said.
"Oh then we will all get off at once young master." The woman said, jumping off.
The rest of the people who were either cultivating or napping on my dragon body got off. Aside from one person. She was still napping quite hard. Though for this person I decided to just transform back to human form. The moment I did I wrapped her up in Qi and then caught her in my arms.
"Huo Lei, did you sleep well?" I said to the young woman as she started opening her eyes.
"You're awake! Yay! Now we can play, wrestle and cultivate. Oh but first nuzzle!" Huo Lei said energetically. All five of her tails wagged vigorously as she nuzzled my face.
"We can't just play around all day. I have to grow stronger. And once I do, I'm going to raid one of those underground places. Save who I can and kill the enemy." I said, calmly.
Huo Lei stopped nuzzling and looked into my eyes with her bright lightning blue eyes. It was quite obvious why she had been given the name 'Lei'. She was quite energetic and had the visage of thunder. Truly a perfect match for me.
"Then we can still cultivate together right? Leiji?" Huo Lei asked with sparkling eyes. Resembling those of a puppy dog begging for something.
"I need to go and collect… some things first. Once I am done then we can do some more together." I said, putting her down and kissing her forehead.
"If the young master is looking for those. Your father dropped them in this thing for you. The master said you would know what to do with it." Huo Dai said, handing me a rather sizable space ring.