If not for the old man’s timely cough, which jolted him back from his fantasies, who knows what kind of inappropriate scenes would have played out next. Blushing and feeling quite embarrassed, Lin Feng’s body had already undergone some shameful changes. This bizarre scene shocked him, and he quickly tried to regain his composure, focusing his mind like a meditating monk, reciting the mantra of purity in his mind.
“Damn, Niu Niu is messing with me again!” Inside Lin Feng’s consciousness, a little demon was gleefully laughing. The demon’s tail was swinging triumphantly in the void, exceedingly arrogant.
As Lin Feng was restless, blushing, and feeling guilty, the old man’s loud voice continued. The old man’s expression was calm as he went on, “Body yang interaction, as the term suggests, naturally refers to the natural order of human relations, between men and women. There’s no need for you to blush!”
“Uh…” Lin Feng felt his thoughts had been read, internally exclaiming that the old man was sharp despite his age, not missing a single thought of his. However, this realization made him feel much more at ease.
The old man continued, “For ordinary people, the natural order is unimpeded as long as conditions allow, you can do as you please. But for practitioners, using external forces to harmonize yin and yang might be easy to achieve, but the effects are not very stable. If one’s cultivation of the mind is not strong enough, there’s a high risk of rebound, and both practitioners might fall into an endless sea of desire, unable to extricate themselves, or even sink into depravity.”
Lin Feng was shocked, thinking the old man was giving him a warning. But what was he getting at with this long speech? Despite his confusion, he had to patiently listen further.
The old man looked at Lin Feng with deep meaning and continued, “The best partners for dual cultivation are those with similar cultivation levels; this way, they can achieve a state of mutual support, perfectly balancing yin and yang. Given the intensity of your current masculine energy and the speed of your cultivation growth, finding a female counterpart to help balance your yin and yang isn’t going to be easy in the short term! A woman without decades of cultivation and mental fortitude would be in vain even if she were willing to cultivate with you!”
“Decades of cultivation and mental fortitude?”
“Unless you truly become a notorious womanizer, compensating for quality with quantity, searching the world for virgins!”
“Ah?” Lin Feng’s mouth formed a wide ‘O’, as he began to grasp what the old man was implying. Though the old man spoke in veiled terms, when he mentioned the dual cultivation partner, his expression was conflicted, as if there were things he couldn’t say outright. He emphasized the stringent requirements of dual cultivation on the practitioner’s mental state and mentioned that Lin Feng needed a woman with decades of cultivation and mental fortitude.
“Decades of cultivation and mental fortitude? Isn’t that implying I should find a female cultivator at least twenty to thirty years older than me to be my ‘partner’?” Lin Feng shivered at the thought. “Am I looking for a wife or a mother? Oh, heavens, I haven’t offended you, have I?”
Lin Feng suddenly felt a chill. Why was the old man so concerned about his partner all of a sudden? He realized the old man was worried about his granddaughter’s future happiness due to Lin Feng’s terrifying cultivation growth rate.
Lin Feng, understanding this, quickly protested, “Grandpa, I, I’m not that, that bad, am I? I could never be a womanizer! I only have Wang Xiaoyu in my heart, I, I can break through the cultivation stage on my own. I don’t need to practice dual cultivation or anything like that. Really, I can manage on my own!” Lin Feng was terrified that the old man might go back on his word, stripping him of his prospective son-in-law status. Anxious to affirm his resolve, he wished he could instantly master the divine arts and transcend to the realm of “Conceiving Qi and Rejuvenation.” The old man sighed in great satisfaction and said, “It’s good that you have this determination. However, the hardships involved are something you’ve never experienced. How would you know the unbearable torment? If you falter even slightly, evil thoughts could grow, leading to eternal damnation!”
“Grandpa, I swear, no matter what obstacles or torments I face, even if I must climb mountains of knives or dive into seas of fire, come rain or shine, as long as I have a breath left in me, I will slay gods and demons, fulfilling your expectations! Besides, didn’t you just say I’m a rare cultivation genius? With your personal guidance, reaching that realm of ‘Conceiving Qi and Rejuvenation’ would just be a matter of days, hehehe…” To secure his status as a prospective son-in-law, Lin Feng shamelessly boasted, his laughter becoming hollow as he felt embarrassed by his own words.
“Hmm, I noticed earlier you were momentarily bewitched by an illusion, your expression lewd, surely you saw many seductive women surrounding you? But you snapped out of it with just a slight cough from me, showing your extraordinary self-control!”
“Ah?!” Lin Feng exclaimed involuntarily before the old man had even finished speaking. He was genuinely shaken, his small eyes wide with horror, momentarily speechless.
“Oh my god! The women I saw in those scenes, Grandpa could actually perceive them…” Cold sweat poured down. Lin Feng buried his head in his arms, wishing for a crack in the ground to swallow him up. He was utterly mortified, feeling utterly disgraced. Almighty God, give me some guidance! It’s over, there’s no hope for this prospective son-in-law status now! My deepest secrets have all been laid bare. Niuniu, oh Niuniu, you’ve really done me in this time!
Lin Feng was left reeling, his mind spinning as if the sky itself was about to collapse. The embarrassment of having one’s most secret thoughts exposed was unbearable for anyone, let alone him, who was now facing his future wife’s grandfather. His already pitiful image, tarnished by the night he stole women’s underwear, was now even worse as he sat there, discussing cultivation techniques while harboring such indecent thoughts.
For a moment, Lin Feng felt like he had been steaming in a cage for three days and nights, sweat cascading like a waterfall. He was restless, unable to devise a way out. He wanted to stand and flee but couldn’t straighten up. Just as he was about to lose his mind, trying to clear the muddle in his head, the old man, Wang Dereng, spoke again in his leisurely tone: “…Though you are young, you have a sharp mind and exceptional self-control, which I must admit I underestimated. Perhaps this realm of ‘Conceiving Qi and Rejuvenation’ might indeed be easy for you.”
At this, the old man’s expression became somewhat wistful, as if touching upon a deep-seated emotion. He closed his eyes in contemplation for a moment before suddenly saying, “Good lad, you almost made me lose my composure!” After this rather cryptic statement, the old man burst into hearty laughter: “Haha, I was overly concerned. Your habit of stealing women’s underwear at night must be due to your exceptional self-control, refusing to indulge even in sleep, leading to an unconscious release when your subconscious takes over.”
Lin Feng, half-understanding, nodded, “Grandpa, are you saying that until I reach some level of enlightenment, I must remain celibate like a monk?”
“Haha, no! Everything has its advantages and disadvantages; it all depends on your perspective. Yin and Yang oppose yet complement each other. All things have their nature, and every person’s nature differs greatly. The nuances here are not something I can explain in detail; you must find your own path.”
