"Such a precious thing, how can you give it to me to eat? Won't you have some yourself?" I held the peach in both hands and earnestly offered it to Yu Longting.
Yu Longting couldn't help but chuckle, "Peaches can only replenish lost Spiritual Power and incidentally nourish a woman's womb, wasteful for me to consume."
A person's body is like a container; a larger container can hold more Spiritual Power.
Yu Longting, having been murdered by my father and sewn into the cheongsam, had his bodily container shrink from a boundless ocean to a small pond.
Thus, the need for me to maintain the cheongsam and expand the container.
Otherwise, no matter how much Spiritual Power was replenished, it would be of no help to him.
"Oh," I said, feeling somewhat guilty as I bowed my head and bit into the peach in my hand.
Just through the taste buds one could sense the subtle difference between this eight-hundred-year peach and one that was a thousand years old.
Still, it was infinitely stronger than a normal peach.
Feeling pained for the peach that had grown so many years, I carefully, bite by bite, slowly savored it, occasionally stealing glances at Yu Longting.
This time, by converting the little zombie demon, I resolved the crises of Bai Yinman and Han Dai.
I had accumulated quite a bit of Yin Virtue, and eating the peach to recharge some Spiritual Power was just perfect to send into the cheongsam for him.
This way, the two superior peaches wouldn't be wasted.
Yu Longting was toying with another peach, actually planning to feed me with Immortal Peach, "I have a six-hundred-year one here."
"Enough, enough, I can't eat anymore, I'm stuffed~" Seeing the big peach, I couldn't help but belch fiercely, Yu Longting really spoiled me to the extreme.
Yu Longting didn't insist and tucked the peach into his sleeve, "Well then, we'll have it next meal."
"Yu Longting, take me for a walk around," I said, having finished the peach and feeling fully revitalized, eager to explore, "I heard from Beichen that there's a great treasure trove in your cave dwelling."
"Sure, the treasure trove is behind the Pill Room, I'll take you to see it."
Yu Longting readily agreed.
His Snake Cave was exceptionally large, as if the entire belly of the mountain had been hollowed out.
The size of the Pill Room even surpassed that of the Lin Family compound.
There were numerous Pill Furnaces, yet only one was alight with flames. Having spent time at the Lin Family's Pill Furnaces and having looked over some of their alchemy texts, I observed closely.
After a moment I said, "This elixir should be ready by now, it feels like it can come out of the furnace, it couldn't be... for... Ye Jiqing, to separate his Love Soul, could it?"
"Right on the mark, but something's missing right now, so we can't finish it yet," Yu Longting said as he watched the flames wane. He picked up a fan and casually fanned it to restore the fire's vigor, "We need to gather more than a hundred pure love souls of the deceased, melt them into the elixir, and create a new soul. Otherwise, once Ye Jiqing consumes it and his Love Soul separates, he will die."
"Oh, oh, OH!~" I exclaimed, half-understanding.
The treasure trove of Yu Longting was even more substantial.
In a massive pit, a small mountain of various types of boxes was piled up.
Opening any one of them revealed treasures of inestimable value.
It nearly dazzled me blind.
Only today did I feel like I had glimpsed just the tip of the iceberg of the real Yu Longting; before, I knew only that he was the Snake Lord and that my father had wronged him.
About his past, everything else was completely unknown to me.
Now I could feel that he was opening up to me bit by bit, willing to share his past self with me.
Yu Longting asked me, "What else do you want to see? Visit my sect? Or shall we take a stroll near Snake Mountain?"
"I want to see the peach trees," I said, patting my stomach, the fullness from the Immortal Peach was too overpowering.
After eating it, it felt like I wouldn't need to eat anything for days.
My curiosity about the peach trees was mysteriously intense~
Yu Longting cheerfully agreed, "Sure, but it's too late now. Rest up, and I'll take you to see them tomorrow."
At night, the Snake Cave was very cold.
Yu Longting had been rough with me during the day, but at night he did nothing else.
He just held me as we slept, and as I drifted off into a fuzzy slumber, I heard Yu Longting's wicked voice, tinged with dissatisfaction, rise by my ear, "What's the matter? Who has come to disturb the peace of my Snake Cave?"
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