The two of them ran out of topics again.
There wasn’t much to say about running away from marriage; it was everyone’s first time, and they were both still on the road.
So, the space fell silent once more.
Until Shu Yue glanced at the deepening night outside the cave entrance.
She tilted her head slightly to look at Emily, who was sitting upright on a rock.
“You take the first watch, I’ll take the second.”
“Huh? Oh!”
Emily agreed, but her gaze remained fixed on Shu Yue.
Shu Yue continued.
“You’re using too many Illumination Spells. One is enough; it doesn’t need to be this bright.”
“Okay.”
Emily quickly nodded.
She had never been out alone before and wasn’t clear about many things.
But judging from Shu Yue’s actions, Emily felt Shu Yue must have been out for a while, possessing rich experience in surviving in such desolate wilderness.
Following Shu Yue’s command, she extinguished four of the light orbs, leaving only the one between them still glowing.
With the loss of the multi-angle lighting, the space inside the cave darkened.
This was a trumpet-shaped cave, narrower the further in you went, only about six or seven meters deep in total.
It was also triangular, wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, giving a faint sense of oppression.
The light orb cast a soft glow on the two of them.
Emily’s chestnut-colored single ponytail looked somewhat dull.
In contrast, Shu Yue’s bright silver-white hair, with the reduced light, now clearly revealed the shimmering halo it gave off, enveloping Shu Yue’s entire body in a layer of luminescence.
Her exquisite, flawless face was now defined by light and shadow, her features becoming more three-dimensional and gaining a touch of haziness.
If not for that somewhat tattered black-gray robe, Emily would have thought the person before her belonged on a canvas, in a different world from her own.
Shu Yue’s physical exhaustion had also recovered somewhat.
She met Emily’s somewhat dazed eyes.
“Look outside.”
“Mmm…”
Emily smiled awkwardly, turning to look outside, but her thoughts were still on Shu Yue.
Seeing her turn around, Shu Yue also took out the Magic Potion bottle containing the Dragon Blood Essence from her small satchel.
Her brilliant golden eyes examined the cluster of golden blood.
The Dragon Blood within her stirred with desire, urging her to quickly absorb the portion before her.
“This size… probably about two drops of Dragon Blood, right?”
She looked up at Emily’s back.
The Knight Princess didn’t turn around.
Shu Yue’s gaze returned to the potion bottle.
These two drops included the Dragon Blood from the Rock Dragon Lizard and the Darkgold Dragonbeast.
The former provided less than half a drop, the latter about one and a half drops or a bit more.
‘I wonder how much stronger the Silver Dragon Bloodline will become after these two drops, and if it can handle a late-stage Tier 2…’
Shu Yue wasn’t entirely confident.
She herself knew very little about the Silver Dragon Bloodline.
Even if she wasn’t sure, she had to drink it.
Only by drinking it would she have the capital to survive.
Turning to look at Emily again, she said softly.
“I’m going to cultivate for a bit next. No matter what happens, don’t turn around, understand?”
“Understood!”
Emily nodded emphatically, straightening her back a little.
Shu Yue let out a soft sigh, withdrew her gaze, and with great effort suppressed the urge to devour it, setting down the potion bottle.
She took off the long robe she was wearing and tossed it aside, then began to take off her clothes.
But before removing them, she glanced at Emily again.
Making sure Emily had no intention of peeking, she then gently removed her inner garment, revealing snow-white, soft, and tender skin.
Without the fabric covering her, Shu Yue didn’t feel uncomfortable; on the contrary, wearing clothes was a bit bothersome.
Perhaps because her skin was relatively delicate, she had heard that noble ladies raised from childhood to be proper ladies could have their skin chafed and torn with just a little force, unable to wear the rough clothes of commoners, requiring fine silk instead.
Emily was clearly not that kind of specially cultivated noble lady meant for political marriages.
“Sigh…”
She sighed softly.
This was also one of the reasons Shu Yue disliked the Nobles of this world.
Beneath the so-called honor lay the extreme pursuit of power and profit by any means necessary.
Anyone caught within it would become fuel, with only a very few able to become the exploiters.
But conversely, it provided those girls with an extremely comfortable living environment: good food, good drink, fine clothes, countless servants attending to them from childhood to adulthood, and even after marriage, they could still live in luxury.
What right did Shu Yue, an orphan with no parents and no one to love her, have to pity others?
Heh…
She couldn’t understand Emily.
‘Forget it, why think about her matters? Better take care of your own.’
Shu Yue cast aside the thoughts in her mind and focused her attention on the Dragon Blood in the potion bottle.
She wasn’t wearing pants because they were difficult to put on; her tail was a bit chubby and would block the waistband, hanging halfway off her buttocks in a particularly uncomfortable way.
Shu Yue simply wore a skirt instead.
She aligned the opening with her tail, then used a ribbon to tie the button and hole together, so it wouldn’t fall down.
Now there was still a blue knot she had tied at the base of her tail.
Against the snow-white skin and silver-white dragon tail, this touch of a different color added a strange sense of…
Allure.
Like a gift tied with a ribbon, waiting to be unwrapped…
The dragon tail twitched, shifting to a more comfortable position on the ground.
She had been sitting too close to the wall, so she crawled forward a couple of steps.
The white cloth binding her chest had loosened a bit, but thankfully it hadn’t fallen off completely.
Shu Yue looked down, thinking she really needed to buy some proper undergarments in the future.
Tying herself up like this was very awkward, but if she didn’t, the little bunnies would bounce around when she moved.
After sitting back down on the ground, Shu Yue pulled the stopper from the potion bottle.
The Dragon Blood floated out from within, flying out of the glass bottle mouth straight towards Shu Yue.
Shu Yue opened her pink, moist, thin lips to receive this small cluster of golden Dragon Blood.
With one swallow, her body instantly tensed up.
Shu Yue only felt a surge of immense energy go straight from her throat into her body.
Before it could even reach her stomach, it had already begun to diffuse, carrying a stimulating sensation that soaked into her flesh and blood.
The Dragon Blood Essence spread to every single cell in Shu Yue’s entire body in almost just three breaths, reaching from the farthest tip of her dragon tail to the very ends of her hair strands.
Along with the energy came heat.
Shu Yue’s body was rapidly heating up!
“Mmm~ ah~”
The sudden impact forced a seductive, low moan from Shu Yue’s throat.
Emily had been paying attention all along.
She had heard the sounds of Shu Yue undressing earlier, but Shu Yue had told her not to turn around. If she turned around now, she’d be disliked.
Shu Yue panted lightly while enduring the pain brought by absorbing the Dragon Blood.
It felt somewhat like a renovation.
Actually, it normally wouldn’t be like this; only absorbing too much at once caused this sensation.
Fortunately, it was still within a bearable range.
At this moment, the snow-white skin all over her body was dyed a crimson hue, while fine beads of sweat formed, steaming and evaporating into the air, spreading an ambiguous scent.
That stunningly beautiful face also transformed from its originally aloof and cool demeanor, becoming soft and charming.
Shu Yue bit her lower lip and glanced at Emily, who seemed a bit unable to hold back.
“Don’t turn around. I’ll kill you.”
Her threat was weak and breathless, instead giving off a feeling of coquettishness, but Emily didn’t dare turn around.
Emily sniffed the floral-like scent in the air.
She understood that perhaps from the moment she was born, she was destined to be like this—even reacting to pheromones from the same sex.
There was no doubt she was…
She got up from the ground.
Standing up now forced Shu Yue to look up to see her entire form.
Shu Yue became alert.
She didn’t want others to see her like this, and of course, she wouldn’t really kill Emily; it was just a threat.
But when Emily stood up, she felt a bit afraid.
While absorbing Dragon Blood, her body was in a special state, unable to muster much strength.
Forcing the use of power could easily lead to backlash.
In other words, the current Shu Yue had placed her most vulnerable and defenseless side behind Emily.
If Emily just turned around, if she was just a bit bolder, she could do whatever she wanted.
However, Shu Yue had calculated that Emily was a coward.
Watching the Knight Princess run out of the cave in a fluster, a faint curve appeared at the corner of her mouth, but it quickly fell away.
The expression in her eyes as she looked towards the cave entrance was unclear—was it smugness, disappointment, or perhaps melancholy?
Emily ran out.
She knew if she stayed inside any longer, her mind would definitely get muddled and she’d do something stupid.
Like taking advantage of the situation, using coercion or temptation to do something dirty but…
Pleasurable.
After running out and feeling the cold wind, she felt a bit of regret, thinking she really was a huge coward.
Running away from such a good opportunity?
You clearly know that once you part, you’ll never meet again—a chance encounter.
She doesn’t have any special feelings for you; in half a year, she’ll forget you.
But you will find it hard to forget her.
Even making her hate you, dislike you, would be better.
At least she would still remember you…
“No, no, I can’t! How can I have such thoughts!”
Slap!
Emily slapped her own face with both hands, scattering the strange thoughts in her mind.
“It’s Vanessa! She’s always telling me those weird stories, almost leading me astray!”
She was walking the Knight’s Path.
If she did something like that, she could only reach the peak of Tier 2 in this lifetime.
Emily didn’t dare go back in, but she also didn’t dare go far.
She could only squat in a position where she could directly see the cave entrance, rubbing her cheeks which now bore two bright red handprints from her own slapping.
After Emily ran out, Shu Yue also focused on absorbing the energy of the Dragon Blood.
She thought it was just absorbing energy to enhance the physique of her Dragon Maiden form after Bloodline Manifestation.
But this time seemed different.
After the Silver Dragon Bloodline within her absorbed the two drops of Dragon Blood, it was as if reaching a certain quantity triggered a qualitative change.
“Huh?”
Before she could even be surprised, she felt something on her soul being forcibly extracted.
“Ah!”
Shu Yue cried out in pain, her arms bracing against the ground, assuming a kneeling, prostrate position.
Her silver-white dragon tail stiffened straight, and her small chest began to heave violently.
It hurt! It hurt so much!
This was a pain she had never experienced before.
If before it felt like renovating an old house, now it felt like first blowing it up and then rebuilding it.
Large beads of sweat covered her forehead and face.
Her entire body was flushed crimson, and scorching hot air radiated from her all around.
This temperature would burn an ordinary person on contact.
Her clothes began to show signs of scorching, all the threads burning away.
Shu Yue hurriedly threw the useful items to a distant spot.
Immediately after, the pain made it impossible for her to keep the sounds trapped in her throat.
“Ugh—ah—”
Outside, Emily, who was squatting, immediately sprang up and rushed towards the cave entrance upon hearing this cry of pain.
However, just as she reached the entrance, she heard a command.
“Don’t come in!”
The voice carried a slight tremble, betraying its owner’s weakness.
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