Heaven, Earth, Me-Chapter 1265. A Late Night Dinner With Qingzhe. Trying To Make Friends.

The hunt continued for the entirety of its duration without any additional interruptions. Yasenia looked around during that time, spotting a few interesting treasures. However, to keep the tradition of the sect and not interrupt, she didn’t take any of them.

Star Forge stayed with her during the entire month. If it was to keep an eye on her or to just keep her company, only Star Forge herself would know. Still, since Yasenia didn’t have intentions of doing anything, she didn’t mind either reason for her almost constant company.

This month, Yasenia and Star Forge’s relationship became closer, and while it might not be deep enough to call themselves friends, at least they were not completely dismissive of each other. Yasenia also made a discovery that Qingzhe kept coming in the name of making sure she didn’t do anything evil, but when she was with them, she was trying to get closer to her.

The cute contrast of Qingzhe feeling aversion toward her physically but mentally trying to get closer made such an adorable contrast that Yasenia couldn’t help but tease her from time to time with some skinship and other methods.

By the end of the month, Qingzhe’s attitude had become much calmer. Her jumpy nature when it came to her was slowly getting curated as well, making the dragoness ponder seriously about why someone like Qingzhe would even be at odds with her in the first place. ’She is not the type of person to be jealous of another woman’s beauty. She is not the type to hate beasts or dragons just because. She is also not the type of person who indiscriminately attacks new elders or is condescending. Overall, she is a righteous and gentle woman who has quite a lot of patience and is loved by her disciples.’

Thinking up to this point, Yasenia understood why Star Forge was so confused at first with Qingzhe’s outbursts. If you see a usually calm person flare up without any rhyme or reason, becoming suspicious of whoever caused it is the bare minimum one should do.

"Either way..." Yasenia muttered aloud and looked behind her. "Why are you following me?"

Tai Qingzhe blinked twice before speaking in a somewhat flustered manner. "Didn’t you say something about inviting me to try your cooking whenever I wanted?" She crossed her arms. "Or was that a lie!? If you lied, I’ll leave now!"

Yasenia saw her expression, and she knew that if she truly made this woman leave, she might spend a full night writing her name in a cursed jade scroll or something. So, with a chuckle, she grabbed Qingzhe’s hand and stepped into the distance. "Come with me then."

Both of them streaked across the sky and quickly arrived at Yasenia’s home above the tower. Qingzhe looked around with a frown. "This place is a bit subpar. Did you not go to the Formation Masters in the sect so that they could create some energy-gathering formations for you?"

Yasenia paused and tilted her head. "Huh? That’s a thing?"

With a helpless sigh, the blonde woman muttered. "What did Star Forge even tell you? How could you be so ignorant about basic Elder Privileges?"

Yasenia, feeling mischievous, approached and sat by Qingzhe’s side, opening her arms to gather her in a tight hug. This forced the poor, confused woman to feel Yasenia’s softness closely. "Qingzhe, will you tell me about my privileges as an Elder? I want to know about them!"

"W-Why are you hugging me!? Let me go!" A high-pitched voice left Qingzhe’s mouth, but even when her face showed a disgusted expression, her body remained obediently still in Yasenia’s embrace while wriggling embarrassedly.

The dragoness’ eyes were filled with laughter, but she kept up the act. She pouted cutely and blinked her seductive eyes. "Please, tell me~."

"Agh! That face is not allowed! Not allowed, I tell you!" Qingzhe turned to look away as if the radiance from her expression was too blinding. She was close to raising her hands and pushing Yasenia’s face away.

Soluna watched from Yasenia’s soul with a strange expression. ’Is this what Angel and the others warned me about? Because Yasenia doesn’t really have female friends, she forgets to keep some boundaries when teasing those she likes.’

If you looked at their position, Yasenia was intimately hugging her, their faces a few inches apart, and with intimate parts like their breasts touching together. So, Qingzhe’s reaction of total embarrassment was quite normal for a pure woman like her.

Giving Yasenia’s lethally adorable face one more look, Qingzhe snorted and quickly spoke. "Okay, okay. Stop hugging me so tightly and I’ll tell you!"

Yasenia giggled and relaxed the hug, but she remained plastered all over Qingzhe like a leech. "Tell me then~."

"You..." She looked at Yasenia with a complex expression, sighing and muttering something to herself before answering Yasenia. "Why is she like this? Is it because she is a dragon?" Shaking her head, Qingzhe spoke while being hugged like a body pillow by Yasenia. "As an elder, you can go to any department and have things worth 500 Low-Level Spirit Stones done yearly for free."

"For free!?"

Startled by Yasenia’s elevated tone, Qingzhe looked at Yasenia, and her facial expression cracked. The greedy look in the dragoness’s golden eyes was so prominent that even a child would be able to tell.

"Y-Yes... For free. Also, you have a 1,500 Low-Level Spirit Stones yearly salary. You can go to the administration sector and take it whenever you want to."

"The sect is giving me money!?"

"...Yes."

Yasenia snorted and spoke with disdain. "That Sect Master, hiding such important things from me! If I knew, I would’ve agreed to becoming an elder earlier!"

Qingzhe opened her little mouth in disbelief. "You... Are you sure that you won’t be bribed easily to betray our sect?"

"Of course not..." Yasenia answered righteously. "The price to betray your sect is a bit high, so I don’t expect anyone to pay it!"

The blonde woman’s expression became so black that ink could be squeezed out of it. Yasenia burst into laughter and affectionately pinched Qingzhe’s face. "Don’t make that look. I am joking around. I do love treasures, but over treasures, I am a firm believer in loyalty."

Pa!

Qingzhe slapped the claws of the dragoness. "Don’t pinch me. I am over 4,000 years old!"

"Right." Yasenia made a face as if she had just realized it. "You are much older than I am!"

"Ha!?" Qingzhe almost exploded. "Who are you calling old!?"

The dragoness blinked twice. ’It seems that this is a shared trait among all cultivators. No one likes being called old.’

"Anyway." The dragoness commented. "Let’s continue with the benefits. What else can I do?"

Qingzhe sighed and just surrendered, explaining a few things while being hugged by Yasenia and touched here and there as teasing gestures. By the end, Qingzhe’s shame exploded as she grabbed the two mounds that had been making their presence known all this time. "Can you stop rubbing your tits on my body!? You are making me feel strange!"

"Ahn~." Yasenia released a small moan, which almost melted Qingzhe’s bones and soul. ’This dragon is a Lust Spirit!’

Seeing Qingzhe’s blood-red face, Yasenia covered her abundant chest with teary eyes, failing in the task as the massive bosom spilled around her arm. Then, she spoke with a wronged and embarrassed expression. "Pervert."

After leaving behind that word with a whiny tone, she ran to the kitchen to cook something, her lingering fragrance swirling around Qingzhe like a feather tickling her heart. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The blonde woman was frozen stiff, the teary and embarrassed face of the dragoness flashing in her mind repeatedly as if it had been burned in her very soul.

BANG!

The thick, peak-level Heaven-Ranked wooden table split in half after Qingzhe headbutted it. ’Heaven will punish that evil dragon for tempting me to this extent!’

She stayed in that position for a few moments, her sun-like eyes pondering as she sighed. ’The strange hatred I felt when I first saw her seems to have disappeared for the most part... I still have a faint feeling of rejection toward her, but it’s so faint that I can easily ignore it. This is so strange...’

She had lived a rather pure life for a cultivator. Naturally, to reach her current level, she has participated in wars and killings. However, other than those inevitable matters, Qingzhe has been quite pure in her practice. Never greedy, never covetous, never forceful, she always tried to be understanding. She never even attempted Dual Cultivation or anything similar, instead pursuing the Heavenly path with single-mindedness.

However, since she met Yasenia, her entire world had been turned upside down.

"Oh my~."

Hearing that annoyingly charming and mellow, teasing voice, Qingzhe twisted her neck to look at Yasenia resentfully. "What? I’ll pay for the table if that’s why you are looking at me with that face that’s barely holding a laugh."

Yasenia couldn’t hold it anymore and laughed aloud, her facial features brightening up like a sun-bathed flower. "Hahaha~. Don’t worry, don’t worry. I know I teased you a bit too much. Sorry for that, Qingzhe. It’s just that your reactions were too cute~."

Waving her hand, Yasenia changed the table Qingzhe split in half with her forehead for a new one and placed a delicious meat dish and a soup bowl in front of her. "Here you go~, fried [Mountain Deep Tiger Back] with a side dish of [Fragrant Multicolored Sea Algae Soup]. I hope you like it~."

Qingzhe smelled the dishes and gulped. Seeing Yasenia sit in front of her with the same dishes and start eating, she copied her gestures and started eating as well. When the tender and flavorful meat entered her mouth, a juicy explosion of flavors triggered all her taste buds.

"Delicioush~!"

Yasenia smiled gently and nodded. "Thank you. Eat calmly. That meat’s nutrients are quite high, so one plate should be enough to make you feel a sense of fullness. Of course, if you want more, you can tell me."

Tai Qingzhe nodded and smiled faintly. "I will."

With that exchange, both had a pleasant dinner. As they finished eating, the sky outside was orange in color, signaling the imminent night. Looking out of the window at the beautiful sunset, Qingzhe asked. "Yasenia... Can I ask, why have you yet to consolidate your Intent Domain? I can see that your energy control and strength are well beyond ordinary first-level Transcendence Realm cultivators." She reasoned, turning back to look at Yasenia. "At first, I thought it was because you are a beast, but your attitude is clearly different from other beasts. You feel more human-like in attitude compared to wild beasts that gained intelligence during the Sixth Realm transformation."

Yasenia looked at the woman with a faintly raised eyebrow, making Qingzhe remember that such questions were a bit too private. The delicious food and good ambiance had made her speak her mind, and now she was feeling awkward.

However, Yasenia didn’t have any plan to embarrass the woman. Instead, she answered her softly. "I am... much younger than many of you might think. Therefore, I have yet to consolidate my foundation. Even then, I have already started practicing toward developing my first Intent Domain."

"First?" Qingzhe frowned and warned. "Yasenia, I don’t know from whom you learned cultivation from, but nevertheless, developing more than one Intent Domain is not recommended. Like, at all. Each Intent Domain requires countless years to understand and develop. Later, it will also be your basis for understanding your first [Law]. Therefore, I really urge you to focus on only one Intent Domain."

The dragoness nodded with an appreciative expression. "I know. The ones who taught me also warned me about the same thing. However, to do that, first, I need to understand their individual Intent Domains. I have practiced several Intents during my life, and I want to take the first step in all three of them." She explained further. "After I understand their first level and manage to manifest them, I’ll combine them."

Qingzhe’s face was full of surprise. She commented. "Are they low-level Intents? Is that why you are not satisfied choosing one of them?"

"Low-level?" Yasenia laughed. "If you consider War and Monarch Intents low-level, then yes."

"War?! Monarch!?" Qingzhe’s eyes widened as she placed her hands on the table out of sheer surprise. "You’ve actually comprehended such complicated concepts to the ninth level of the Intent!?"

Yasenia chuckled. "Yes."

Qingzhe blurted. "If you manage to create an Intent Domain of any of those two, you’ll be incredibly powerful at the same level! Yet, you want to combine them!? You are trying to reach for the Heavens, Yasenia!" She spoke somewhat solemnly. "Don’t chew more than you can swallow, Yasenia. The more complex an Intent Domain, the harder it will be to develop it."

"Thank you. But I want to give it a try. If I slam my face against a bottleneck, I’ll see what to do then."

Yasenia didn’t reveal the Celestial Intent for now. This was a higher-level Heaven, and the knowledge about Celestial Energy might be much more profound. Throwing it around easily was not something she wanted to do. Of course, the day that she needed to fight, she would reveal it without any reservations.