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Mr. Mad, We all hope you will finish your story one day, although you are honoring the Snail part of your name. Well, it gives us an opportunity to think about an ending of our own… for free of course.

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Ziyun answered, "Because you will have to teach them the Massage techniques yourself, and the decision to include males was only made yesterday. We have to select them first. There are thirty of you, we will select eight males to begin with, and start next week."

Yeah, I am not going to rub a male, and sure as hell not let my girls give them a body rub. No, I am not selfish! My girls suggested boosting thirty girls up to Legend Rank themselves. Not me, so I am not rubbing any males, that is not my kind of Fun.

11 Cultivation frenzy

I interrupted the conversation, "It is getting late, I will Massage the arms of everyone present, to let you get an idea of what this Massage is capable of. Talk it over among yourself, if you are not 100 % behind this, then it is better to end it now. The ones that want to abort the mission can get a position in our Sacred Family."

One by one, I Massaged the arms of the women, everyone felt the improvement in their arms and the effects of the Yang energy infuse. A few girls went over the top with it and came down panting, totally embarrassed by being watched when they cummed hard.

Ning'er commented, "Don't be shy about it, it is a sign that you accepted the Yang energy, once you do, the effect of the Massage will increase, as you will find out when you cultivate. You will get used to it, as we did."

When the last one was done, we left to our quarters to talk it over and the other girls to their room to test it out, "How many will drop out, tonight?" I asked, "This was way out of their comfort zone."

Xiu shrugged, "The younger ones, I guess, once a commoner girl is unmarried at sixteen, their value and the quality of marriage candidates drops. Being Bronze Ranked gave them a future but also a reputation for being hard to handle. Male Bronze-ranked Demon Spiritualists can have their pick of the available women and mostly choose young pretty ones, not ones that can fight back, or worse, get stronger than them."

Xin handed a bag of Storage rings to Ziyun, "This is one for every girl, everyone has the same amount of pills, elixirs, and herbs for a bath. Once they reach Silver, they will get the next package."

Ziyun accepted the bag, "I will hand the out tomorrow after they decide to be in or out, my guess is that they will all stay. Legend Rank is too respected and glorified in this City, as Xiu once said: 'Losing her virginity is a small price to pay. What are your plans going to be once they all get their first Massage, Yang'er?"

"Getting them God Growth Demon Spirits," I answered, "we have a few already, now that we have their Soul Form and Attribute, we can make the rest tailor-made for them. We need to take a lot of them to the Draconian Realm to sell, I bet our currency is not accepted up there, and God Growth Demon Spirits are rare."

Xiu commented, "It is a good thing that the City Lord is organizing hunting trips to get more Demon Spirits, with the increase of Silver and Gold Ranked Demon spiritualists, not to mention the Defense array for the City, our stocks of Demon Spirits is depleting."

"Mother took care of that," I said, "she has been buying low-ranked Demon Spirits for months now. I had her do that the moment I read about the Ancient Nightmare Demon Pot. We have plenty of Bronze and Silver Ranked Demon Spirits in storage. It will only take some time to refine them into God Growth Demon Spirits."

If I remember it right, that village on the Heavenly Fate Plateau has a lot of them in stock, they have no Demon Spiritualists, and they use those Demon Spirits for decoration and I guess as a source of light. They glow a bit in the dark.

"I refined a first batch of Blood Crystals, Yang'er, and I tried a few on myself," reported Xin, "Those pills are perfect for Gold Ranks to reach Black Gold."

Xin turned serious when she started the next topic, "Your schematic of how to make the Draconic Bombs must kept a secret to a few, Yang'er. The Dragon's Soul Stone to make those bombs are rare in this realm, but you said there are plenty of them in the Abyss Prison Realm. These bombs can wound Legend Rankers, in the wrong hands they will be devastating."

"Refine them into pills, Xin'er," I said to that, "you can fuse the Soul energy with the Sacred Black Gold Soul Gathering pill. It will double its effect and duration. I need a batch of bombs though, all six of us need a batch. The Blood Burst Bombs of those Ghost Monkeys should be enough for Glory City's defense."

Ning'er stood up and spread her arms, "Enough talk! Get naked and I want to feel your dragon inside of me, Yang'er. That Massage got me all worked up and I need release. We can give the maids a good show."

Twenty seconds later we were naked, and as Ning'er suggested, we gave the maids a good show for hours. Legend Rankers have plenty of stamina. I bet we scared some of the maids too.

Xxxxx

We spent the next day teaching the Massage to the girls, surprisingly nobody quit. A night cultivating with the meridians on their arms unblocked showed the difference already. During the Massage, I lectured on the techniques and showed where the Meridians are and how to open them.

At the end of the day, all of them got their Meridians and bloodstream unblocked, their acupuncture points opened, and experienced why it was a Dual Cultivation Technique. Even when I focused on the Meridians and Bloodstream, they got off more than four times. I can tell you, I had a boner all day long.

When they all got their turn, I explained why we gave them this opportunity, "In less than ten months, there is a portal that allows chosen ones to move to a higher Realm. Some Elders will pay a visit and select Disciples for their sect. If only the six of us go to that selection, we will be spread out among those sects. With all of you there, we can stick together in one sect."

I smiled at them, "What is in it for you? You ask? Well, you can get stronger in your Sect, a lot stronger, Legend Rank is only halfway in our journey. Do you see this Stone? I found out this is a Spiritual Stone, it is the currency of that Draconian Realm and is used to cultivate. We used it to reach Five Star Legend Rank with our Dual Cultivation Technique."

I stopped the questions and continued, "We found out that a group of six is optimal to cultivate, one male and five females, that maximizes the absorption of that Spiritual Stone. Less females is possible too, but there is a loss of Soul Power if you do so. Most of all, I believe those Spiritual Stones are hard to get."

Xin took over, "You will not only be cultivating, we will teach Alchemy and Inscription to the ones that are interested, we will provide weapons and armor, and as you can see on Xiao Ning'er and Ye Ziyun, you will get a top grade Spirit Demon suited for you."

Ziyun turned her Demon Spirit off and handed the Storage rings out, "Once you get to Silver Rank, come to me or Xiao Ning'er and we'll give the next batch to reach Gold Rank. Maybe you can start to look for four like-minded sisters to cultivate with. As Mu Yang told you, there is limited time, so give your best effort. Once you find your sisters, we will train your group separately."

Xxxxx

The next day I installed six Dual Cultivation Arrays and explained their purpose, "Take your place on the array, the Green spots are for four people, the Yellow are for five and the Red ones are for Six. Once you activate your Soul force, it will connect your minds with eachother. It will speed up cultivation and improve your mind and Spiritual Roots. This is a faster way for you to find your sisters. Remember, do not only search for the good side in people, accept the bad sides too, everyone has them."

I let Ziyun and Ning'er handle the rest, my focus was refining the Demon Spirits into God Growth ones, Lanruo helped me with that. Slowly I taught her to do it herself, while some of the maids sort the Demon Spirits by attribute and Type.

That way I can concentrate on translating the three books from Emperor Kong Ming's coffin. It was a slow-paced progress, my only clues were the herbs and inscription patterns that are pictured in the books. My first breakthrough came when I compared the Temporal Pages with the books, once I deciphered the key, it took a month to get the language to a level where I could begin translating the books.

It was what I expected, The herb book was all about the Draconian Realm and Alchemy, with recipes for pills up to Deity Rank. The inscription book was for the patterns that needed blood from above Legend Demon Beasts, and the third book was a gem, Specialized techniques that can be added to the ones we cultivate and create Soul weapons.

The best part? I found a way to have two, three, up to seven Demon Spirits instead of one, the number you can have is decided on your Spiritual Roots and Soul Purity. Nie Li cultivated the one for seven in the original story if I am not mistaken.

At the end of the first week, most of the girls were halfway up in Silver, their speed was still increasing as we spoke. Xiu took charge of selecting the males, I suggested Du Ze, the only one I deemed worthy to participate. He is a level-headed hardworking guy who is ideal for the job. That boy with his black wings, Duan Jian, you ask? I haven't got a clue how to activate his dragon bloodline, so he will stay weak, his drive for revenge is not there either, his parents are still alive and he wasn't tortured for months.

Nie Li is not a No, but a Hell No! He is a lazy slob that avoids hard work, so is Lu Piao, another lazy ass. Some of the girls suggested boys of their own, brothers or relatives they endorsed, well, they have to live with them.

Xiu made the last selection after a few tryouts in the Dual Cultivation Array. The girls made their groups, five teams with five girls, and two with three, we had to find an extra girl to make the last team complete. Seven males made the cut, Du Ze was included.

Not that I am curious or a peeping Tom, but I had to make sure the boys survived their first Massage session. Being rubbed by five girls for the first time is enough to blow a few fuses. It took a while to get the pressure off but in the end, they got served.

The next day I laid down the law, "Keep in mind you need to Cultivate, not to use the Massage technique to get off every day. If you focus on only that, your cultivation speed will slow down or even stop. The girls are not your whores, and the boys are not toys to play with. You formed a compatible group, try to intensify that relationship, connect on a deeper level, with your body and mind."

Xiu commented, "Remember we are investing a lot in you, millions of Demon Spirit coins, the Demon Spirit Yang'er provided for you is worth more than ten million or even more, the pills, elixirs, herbal baths, weapons, and armor, they are not cheap. We gladly pay for it if you keep your end of the deal, and that is to work hard."

Chen Fang, one of the girls from the Sacred Family, got on one knee and spoke up, "We know, Matriarch, we already discussed it among ourselves and we are grateful for this opportunity. We won't let you down."

One by one they pledged their loyalty and commitment to the cause. We got ourselves a group of devoted people. Bow to ME! Grovel! Don't kiss my feet, I just cleaned them, you can lick my boots though. Hmm? I am power tripping again? I must say it is addicting, I better play it cool and act as the Noble Benevolent Lord that I am. Too much? Nah, I have to get something out of it too, you know. After all, I am a Silkpants, it is expected of me.

Xxxxx

I am a big brother! Yesterday, Mum gave birth to a boy, Mu Guo, the new Prince, soon to be pampered by five sisters-in-law… I allow it until the kid is ten years old, after that he has to back off or I kick his ass. Jealous? Hmm, I guess you are right. Those little buggers are always taking the wives' side and rat us out when we slip up and fall asleep in her sister's bed… after capturing me doing Sister-in-law Doggy Style on their Cell phone. The little bastard got his ass kicked by me.

Where was I? Ah, little pest… brother. I am Nr2 now, it was bound to happen, I can not compete with a cute baby. Meh, I'll leave in less than a year, hmm, I better leave some presents for the brat. First a dictionary of the Snow Wind and Sacred Empire languages and books about grammar, sentence construction, syntax, and morphology. With these, he can translate every book from the library…? The brat is just delivered on this world and I am getting him a job already? Ah, I am in Crazy Brother Mode, it happens sometimes.

When I visited Mum the next day, she scolded me, "Mu Yang! Why are none of the handmaidens pregnant? You told me you are leaving for another Realm, so I want Grandchildren! I personally selected them out of all the concubine offers we got and you better get them all pregnant before you leave."

"Mum! Who do you think I am? Chen Fei?" I protested, "I can not drag them in bed and shove a baby in their belly! Mum, my relationship with my fiancees is still new and it will damage that relationship when I start shagging the handmaidens. Besides, that portal opens every five years, it is not that I am gone forever."

"You don't have to lie to me, Yang'er," said Mum, while she glared at me, "if that portal opens every five years, how come we never saw someone coming back? Why did we never see one with a higher Rank than Legend? Why do I see that you are preparing Glory City to survive without you?"

I sighed in defeat, and explained, "I have to go, Mum, I have to eliminate the ones sending Demon Beasts into this world. Even if I can kill them all in this world, they will send fresh ones. I hope I am done between five and ten years. To be honest, I don't want my children to grow up without their Father. It is a moral dilemma too, growing up knowing your father just had sex to get a baby, that will degrade their mother to a glorified surrogate mother."

"I will talk to the girls and ask their opinion," said Mum, then she got serious, "You must know that your children will be loved by us, even when you are not here, their mothers will be respected as your concubines. But Yang'er, what if you don't survive it? You would leave nothing behind, no legacy, nothing, just some urban Legends of a smart boy."

Mum hammered the last nail in, "I want to keep a part of you in this world, Yang'er. Those Handmaidens know what they are getting into, and are ok with it. Both mothers and children will be taken care of, you know we are rich enough to support them. Besides, that is a new rule from the City Lord, Any Legend Ranker has to take some Concubines to spread the gene pool."

Hah! As if the City Lord knows what a Gene Pool is, he stole that line from me. The problem is, what do I have to do about it? Most likely Mum wants Grandchildren, to have something from me after I go away. Meh, I am postponing this for a few months, I have more urgent issues to deal with, preparing for the selection is one.

Xxxxx

The selection of the Disciples is a traditional tower climb, you know, the first level is easy and every level gets harder. There were some troublesome obstacles, every floor had black flames, a ghost that was looking for a new body, and a trapped Demon Beast. There might be some other stuff, but this is all I can remember. I must scout it out, there is a region with a lot of treasures I might pay a visit to.

My focus is on battle arrays, especially group battles. Like my gravity bracelets I used to train, I can engrave bracers with Runes so that when the group is in position they can be connected when Soul Power is added. The problem is to keep them from getting lost or stolen. In the Draconian Realm, at a certain level, you can create a Fate Soul. With that, when you die, you can get a new body with a penalty of losing one rank, and everything on your body.

That last book presented me with the solution, Soul Weapons. Like I made my Nightmare Demon Pot a soul weapon, I can create Soul Weapons that other people can refine in their Soul Realm. That way they can keep their Soul Weapon, even when the body dies. I know, it is a Wuxia thing, don't break your head over it.

I took my inspiration from the Ten Thousand Demonic Beast Array that Glory City is installing at the moment in the City Defense and tuned it down. I made it into bracers, each bracer has three Demon Spirits embedded, a Fire, an ice, and an Earth demon Spirit. Also a storage space. Once I got the blueprint, I ordered them to be made. Making them Soul Weapons was the last step, and had to be made by me.

When the first six pairs were done, I demonstrated the battle array to my girls and the others, "The bracers have three functions, they are storage, battle, and Soul. Each pair of bracers is a set and can be refined into your Soul Realm, stealing them is impossible that way. You can store all your treasures in it without the risk of being robbed."

I let my fiancees equip their bracers and explained, "We need to train battle formations, that way we can link the Demon spirits on our bracers together and amplify their attack and defense power up to six times. Like this."

We activated the Demon Spirits and let them join together. I explained, "With this formation, we merged the Demon spirits into three, a Fire and Ice for attack and an Earth for defense, each can be controlled by one person. That leaves three others the freedom to fight differently."

I pointed them to another feature, "Last, but not least, I engraved a Shield and a gravity Array in your bracers. Not only will it benefit your training, it is a powerful tool in a fight. Six of them combined create a dome of gravity field in a radius of eighteen feet. We have not tested the limit, it goes up with the cultivation Levels, now it is at fifty times the normal gravity. It can be reversed too, into minus Gravity. You can launch enemies up in the air and slam them back down. The Shield Array can withstand attacks for a half hour from an enemy of the same level as yours."

Xiu commented, "Our best artisans are creating these bracers right now. Train with this set for an hour each day and pass it to the next team until all sets are finished. Then you can refine yours into your Soul Realm. As I mentioned before, these bracers are worth hundreds of Millions, we can not even set a price on it. Mu Yang is the only one that can turn them into Soul Weapons."

Xxxxx

With these I secured our survival chances, the preparations took three months, by then everyone was in a Cultivation frenzy and reached Black Gold Ranked. They merged with a God Growth Demon Spirit and Refined a set of bracers into their Soul Realm. I sent them on a training mission outside Glory City, some to the Heavenly Fate Plateau, to train their battle formations and teamwork in the wild.

For us, we enjoyed a week of vacation, we flew to the Heavenly Fate Plateau to buy new Demon Spirits and to get away from a nagging Mother. After landing on the outskirts of the plateau, we took a stroll to the village. This is a strange region indeed, it was as if the top of a mountain was sliced off, there was only one or two ways to get up here so it was quite safe to live, only the food was scarce. The land is infertile and the hunters had to go down the mountain for prey or hunt the Flying Demon Beasts that terrorize the Plateau.

In the first timeline of the story Ziyun and her group of refugees arrived here, but the lack of food forced them to move on. The plateau was thirty miles across but could hardly sustain a few thousand people, every year several of the weakest would die of lack of food. They had no other choice than to move on.

We entered the village, there was not much to look at, most of the houses had a stall in front to sell their wares, from clothing to furniture or weapons, all of it could be bartered or paid for with copper coins. The local diner.. if it deserved that name, it had only one dish on the menu, served us a bowl of Congee.

What is Congee, you ask? Well as an ignorant Westerner, I found out it was Rice soup, all kinds are possible, from very liquid to solid, with a lot of variation of ingredients, it could be served as a full meal or an appetizer, it was like the Ramen shop in Naruto, Dattebayo!

The six of us… the five girls drew a lot of attention, even dressed in traveling clothes, the quality of it was a multitude better than what was available here. The serving wench, a sixteenish pretty girl was firing a thousand questions at us about the clothes and where to get them.

Ziyun laughed, "We are from Glory City, a few mountain Ranges from here. I admit that these outfits are of the best quality we have, but our normal clothes are pretty decent. The fabric we use is very durable and in various colors."

That got a lot of people interested, they let the girl, Yun Ling is her name, ask all the questions and pay attention to our answers. The diner was loaded with customers and curious people all eager to find out about the strangers.

Yun Ling asked, "I never heard of Glory City, is it bigger than our village? We have about five thousand people living here."

Ziyun, smiled, "We have about Six Million people in Glory City, it is divided into one City and several villages. Our lands are fertile, we don't have a lack of food or meat. It is our cooperation that lets us survive."

Xiu added, "Mind you, we have no famines, but we have poor people too. Orphans and widows are being cared for if the male dies hunting Demon Beasts or protecting our City. I am the Matriarch of one of the ruling Families in Glory City, housing five thousand people is no problem, if you would be interested in moving away from here."

"How do we get there? The woods are too dangerous to travel in," protested Yun Ling, "Only our strongest hunters dare to go down the mountain to hunt. We would not survive for a day."

That comment made the listeners murmur in agreement, moving away was certain dead for most of them. The death toll among the hunters was high already, commoners wouldn't live long down there.

"I can transport everyone there at once, let's say in five days," I offered, "I will set a temporary transport Array up, that can transport a hundred people at once to the City. I can not make it a permanent Array because it is a security risk. So everyone that wants to move there get ready in five days."

One of the public asked, "What if this is a trick to get our lands? To get rid of us?"

Ning'er raised her hand and asked, "What if we let the servant girl here see it for herself? Can you trust her words? It won't take long."

An old man said, "Yun Ling can be trusted. Show the proof to her and we will believe it."

When we finished our Congee, we moved outside I cleared a space, made my transport Array, and charged it with Demon Crystals from Black Gold Demon Beasts, witnessed by a big public. Rumors of strangers and their offer went through the village like wildfire.

Ziyun and Ning'er went along to show the City to Yun Ling and to take her back. The transport of the girls was witnessed by hundreds of people, the Mayor of the village included. Watching three girls disappear in a flash is disturbing, to say the least.

He asked, "If we move there, what is expected of us? Are we going to be slaves? Or servants? We live a hard life here, but we are free."

Xiu answered, "You will granted a region to settle in, my Sacred family has some available. You are to pay a percentage of your income as taxes, we use those taxes to pay for the City Defenses. The other thing we expect from you is to be loyal to the Family of the land you are living on. If you can not do that, you are free to move to another region. Nobody is forcing you to stay."

Lanruo clapped her hands together, "What is valuable to take along, are any precious metal and gems Demon Spirits can be sold to, as a matter of fact, we are willing to buy every one you are willing to sell."

The Mayor asked, "What do you use it for? We keep them to give some light in our homes and as memorabilia."

Lanruo merged with her Demon Spirit and answered, "We have methods to cultivate Soul Power, and above a certain level we can merge with a Demon Spirit. It makes us more powerful to fight against Demon Beasts. We have other uses for Demon spirits too, that is why we are buying them."

Lanruo changed back and continued, "We give a good price, for the ones that stay here we will pay with food, for the ones that want to travel with us to Glory City we will pay with settling you into houses and getting you equipment to start a new life."

When the people found out we were willing to buy Demon Spirits in exchange for food, they got excited until the Mayor told them to wait for Yun Ling's return to make a decision. We got a room in the Mayor's house for the night, Yun Ling must have the chance to scout the City after all.

Xxxxx

The next day, after lunch, Ziyun and Ning'er with Yun Ling on her back, landed in the middle of the Village square. Once Yun Ling was out of her safety gear she shouted, "They can FLY!"