Chương 152: Sleeping beauty

"Rose, you will transport me to a Secret Realm that's about to open near Black Leech Mountain. Willow, get a wooden puppet leg for now." I decided after a minute of consideration. Still naked, I climbed on Blue Rose's face and plugged her mouth with my dick, and transmitted the coordinates using qi pulses from my dick. I was almost able to create Yang flames with my dick, but not yet. I could do it with my hands and feet, even from my knees and elbows, but the dick remained a bit too sensitive for open flames.

Rose mumbled something around my dick, and we flew off, covered by a concealment fog. I resisted the temptation to release my milk mid-flight, and only busted my milk when we stopped. Rose slurped my dick hungry for milk, but it was dry for today. That had been the last drop.

"Here, make a pit going downwards at an angle, and breach the Dao Barrier for a second." I demanded after stepping down from my milk-sucking mount. In hindsight, this was possibly the best ride I ever had, in any of my lives. Blue Rose licked her red lips, then glanced at my finger pointing towards an emerald-colored lake.

"Beneath the lake, huh?" she noted as her hand glowed with qi and a tunnel formed at her behest. Dao Kings were powerful, and Blue Rose had recently gained her 4th level, making her a mid-level Dao King, just like Petunia. I flew into the tunnel, and passed through the Secret Realm barrier in a second. So far, so good. Now the dangerous phase begins. Secret Realms were not dungeons, but they had some similarities to the game dungeons from Pef's world.

Firstly, cultivators were separated by cultivation realm, giving everyone a chance when searching for treasures or a good fight. A Great Sage was not going to steal my loot. Not inside, at least. Secondly, the Secret Realm was layered inside, thus monsters, puppets, beasts and ghosts were also segregated by their realms, at least initially. Nothing stopped a beast from cultivating and becoming a Great Sage, while remaining on the Sage layer.

Then again, cultivation was slow and hard, and beasts cultivated at least ten times slower than humans. They also lived 20 times longer, so it compensated for that slow cultivation. The Dao was always fair, even if you thought otherwise. Plants had it the worst, cultivating 1000 times slower while living 2000 times longer. Then again, the only Immortal I ever met was a plant, so perhaps having more time to think was an advantage too. Yes, Pef.

A Dao King cultivator may live to be millions of years old, but a Dao King plant may reach billions of years of age. Older than many stars or galaxies in your universe. My first step in the Secret realm took me on a barren, rocky tundra. Only frozen mud, and old rocks. No plants or animals, which was both good and bad. A jungle would have many plants, and perhaps useful ones, but also beasts. And remember, a beast was always stronger than a man, at the same realm. Sometimes a dozen times stronger.

I scanned carefully around me, then looked up. There was a Sun above, but blue and cold. Not the sun of this world, not that I expected to still be on the same world. Secret Realms were a mystery, but Tian had visited a dozen and none of them seemed to be part of the world, not even broken fragments or such. Most likely, they were the remains of dead universes or something of that kind. Or maybe not. Nobody knows.

What I did know, was that there were strange treasures and herbs in the secret realms, some of them familiar to cultivators, others not at all. As for monsters, beasts and ghosts, the cultivation world had plenty of those, with entire sect libraries full of descriptions of current or extinct species. Stolen story; please report. A gentle glow of the blue lotus tugged at my mind, guiding me West. A journey to the West it is then.

I flew low to the ground, since Tian had learned with his own skin that the skies of the secret realms had powerful predators hidden in clouds, or just invisible. And so I flew, and flew for hours. A Sage speed is quite good, but this place was possibly even larger than the Central Continent. I only stopped once, since something yellow drew my eye. It was a yellow rock, standing out in the barren waste. Tian would have ignored it. A rock is a rock, after all. But I was not Tian.

I picked up the rock, and scanned it for a long minute, then sighed and threw it inside my Dao Grotto. The blue lotus shifted its aim, and now we were flying South. Another long flight, then a red stone the size of my fist showed up. See, Tian? We are following a yellow brick road! Was I being pulled by the nose by a mysterious force? You bet your ass I was. The booklet I found in the library of the Guan clan mentioned an orange pyramid and a lion statue, but I wasn't in that place now.

And the lotus tugged at me to fly East. We better not make a circle, little guy! Luckily, the next flight was shorter, and we found a green stone. I collected the puzzle clue and flew South again. A blue stone. Then a white one. Five elements, right? Little lotus? The strange companion sent a circle into my mind. Luckily for both of us, I got the gist of it, and used the five stones to make a circle. An orange portal appeared and I stepped through.

In front of me, a giant lion statue made of orange rock, and a pyramid in the distance. I guess the book didn't lie. I looked up, and the mountain-sized stone lion looked down at me.

"Sage. Human." it spoke with a thundering voice.

"Pef Tian, the famous Fairy Doctor. That's me. I have an injured friend in Dao King realm, missing a leg. I need a herb for pills." I explained curtly. The stone lion frowned, possibly confused at my logical introduction.

"Fairy Doctor. You can enter and heal the lady then. You will get a herb." it decided with suprising wisdom, then opened a cave-like mouth. It was not a whale, so it should be safe. I flew inside, and entered a Dao Grotto, about same size as my own. The big stone lion was also a Sage, thus its Dao Grotto had to be small too. A bronze coffin was all the grotto held, covered in numerous and strange Formations using a script I never met before.

Pef was smart, and we copied the surface of the coffin onto papers, trying to steal as much precious knowledge as possible. A cute lion Avatar the size of my hand observed me in silence.

"You're also a Formation Master, Pef Tian? I can smell Tier 6 Alchemy on you, but not any recent Formations." the lion asked with a sniff, once I stored the papers in my ring.

"I have a wide base of knowledge, Sage Lion. Medicine, puppets, alchemy, formations, talismans, and many more crafts. But sadly I'm only 20 years old, so I barely had time to learn everything. I'll be a Formation Master too, but it may take a decade or two. Formations are hard." I explained politely. The lion avatar frowned.

"The young lady is only 18, and also a Sage. I thought she was one of a kind, but it seems humans do cultivate faster." it answered as I pushed the coffin lid off.

"Some humans, not all." I said and frowned looking inside the coffin. A purple-haired jade beauty, wearing only shorts and a bra. Basically naked for this world. On a whim, I placed my finger inside her mouth, and entered another Dao Grotto. A hand-sized avatar of the Sage opened its eyes, and measured me for a long minute.

"You're a Sage!" the avatar spoke after that.

"As are you, young lady. With a Purple Qi Sacred Body, I suspect." I answered with a careless voice.

"That silly lion! How long has it been since I was buried here?" she asked me as if I knew.

"Since before the last cataclysm I suspect, so millions of years ago. Did you have a sister with the same Sacred Body?" I asked to make sure. The avatar frowned, and looked up.

"Not a sister, but a similar flower. The Purple Empress." she confirmed my worst fear. I sighed and took out a bottle of Indigo Plum Wine. Milkboy, that's enough karmic luck! A lotus is fine, an Empress is not. Especially not the walking storm. I drank my sorrow away, then walked outside and poked the stupid lion avatar.

"You should start with the Purple Empress name, not just my lady. And why is she here?" I asked the avatar, who blinked in confusion.

"Lady Luoli is not a Quasi-Empress, only a Sage! And of course, she is here waiting for a cure. You said you're a famous fairy doctor, right?" the lion asked rhetorically. I sighed inward. So the lion didn't know. This was good, at least. Less risk of a cogito-hazard and the spread of information. I held the hand of the Empress's new body and just examined her. Young Sage, check. Purple Qi, check. Bone age still 18. Somehow. That didn't make sense, but I already knew that time wasn't linear in this world.

Plus, the bronze coffin might be able to stop time completely. Almost certainly, in fact. The coffin only lacked nine dragons to become a spaceship. The young woman was virgin too, which was a fact, but didn't tell me much. Well, except that this wasn't a hostile force which imprisoned the new Empress body. Cultivators rarely abstained from deflowering an incapacitated beauty. Almost never, in fact. The little lotus glowed again. Really? Pluck the sleeping flower? That's your wise and immoral advice?

I sighed inward, and took out another bottle of wine. Fuck! L