Side Story: Summer's Dance and Winter's Sun

Chen Wentian returned from his shopping trip around the subcontinent. He not only visited the Eternal Auction but several other cities. He came back satisfied, having bought everything he wanted as well as successfully selling the space-attribute spiritual crystal and the camouflaging sasquatch hair. It was now up to Chen Mo to accomplish the next phase of the plan, obtaining a method to craft spatial bags.

It might take a long time or it might not succeed at all on the first try. It didn't matter because he was patient and he had plenty of bait. He was willing to wait until the big fish landed.

The first ones he visited upon his return on this occasion was the ice sisters. He had been gone for a while so it was right on time for another training session. One man and five beautiful women gathered together atop Snow White Plum Peak, on the cultivation platform and practiced their familiar exercises under the moon and a cloudless night.

Their stamina for absorbing netherworld yin energy was getting better. Song Wushuang, especially, had a certain knack for it with her determination and strong will to succeed. She was pretty much on par with Li Yuechan now even though she had started out much weaker. Xu Lanyi was a bit worse and was comparable to the twins who, despite their petite size, had big hearts and willingness to stand the pain.

In the last year, everyone had spent most of the time fighting the monster invasion. The ice sister's cultivation progress suffered as a result. It was not as fast as initially hoped but it was still blindingly fast by normal comparison. Li Yuechan and Song Wushuang were both now at the 8th Level of the Spirit Initiate Realm. The other three were at the 7th Level of the Spirit Initiate Realm with Xu Lanyi slightly ahead of Su Xue and Su Yue.

All six of them were together on the same bed the next morning in Plum Blossom Villa, all still naked. Chen Wentian made sure to bathe them all while they were still unconscious and let them sleep off their aches and pain from the previous night.

The bed was huge. It took up the entire side of the master bedroom and was so wide that seven or eight people could sleep on it side by side. It was adorned with lush pillows and silk blankets. There was a wide window on the other side that opened to the snowy mountain scenery outside. It made for the perfect love nest for his icy disciples.

"Mmm… what time is it?" Xu Lanyi was the first to awake as the eastern sun peeked over the horizon.

"Be quiet…" Su Xue mumbled, her limbs tangled together with Su Yue.

Chen Wentian was on the other end, hugging Song Wushuang around the waist. He was pretending to sleep while having his face buried in her ample bosom. He received a kick on the leg which came from Xu Lanyi.

"Hey!" He cried out.

"Hehe." She giggled and shook the others awake.

After a round of morning greetings, they sat around him and chatted about random things. They no longer needed to care about modesty around each other and proudly bared their assets for him to examine.

"Alright, girls… girls!" He finally grabbed their attention.

They looked at him expectantly.

"This last trip has been quite successful for me." He said, "I accomplished almost everything I set out to do. And as a result, I have a couple of gifts for you all."

Indeed, he was rather proud of finding such a perfect set of gifts. It had taken a lot of searching and shopping, more than he had ever hoped for but he finally found them.

He withdrew two items from his spatial bags. Instantly, the air was filled with blazing heat and abyssal cold at the same time. Two familiar immortal auras emerged and combined as one. Two howls sounded, echoing around the villa and the whole mountain.

They were two elegant swords, one orange-red and one icy blue. Besides the color, they were the same design. The blade was one meter long and as wide as two fingers. The hilt was golden with flowery patterns. The pommel was where it was the most interesting. On the orange-red sword, there was a circular-cut yin crystal. On the icy blue sword was a similar yang crystal.

It seemed unnatural to mix yin and yang, ice and fire like this. The attributes would mix and cancel out a portion of the weapon's primary strength. However, this was how Chen Wentian wanted it. When he bought the two swords, they did not have this feature. They were modified to add the yin and yang crystals afterward by a skilled craftsman.

The purpose… was that it made it perfect weapons of his disciples with dual-attribute spiritual seas!

"So, what do you think?" He asked, proud that he was able to make them all speechless.

"…"

"Amazing!"

"Can I hold it?" Su Xue asked.

"Sure," He replied and dropped the flame sword in her hand.

He also gave the ice sword to Li Yuechan and let her try it out. They waved the swords around experimentally while channeling their secret arts. The swords responded naturally and smoothly to their commands, greatly improving the effect of ice and fire.

"By now, you all should have recognized them." Chen Wentian said, "They are the pair of fire and ice wolf siblings we defeated. As I have mentioned before, my secret art deals with souls. I am able to capture souls after death and place them into items."

He retrieved both swords and held them in his hands, "These two swords were originally made as a pair, a pair of good Spirit Initiate Realm weapons at the peak level. They are made of flame steel and ice steel, two valuable metals. With the yin and yang crystals in the pommel, each sword is able to wield both fire and ice. Though, of course, one is better than the other and vice versa."

Twin phantasms emerged from the swords, one white blue, one bright red. They formed into the images of the two wolves and snapped their jaws playfully as they dashed between the ice sisters. After a few moments, they returned to sword.

"Both of them have started cultivating Summer and Winter's Eternal Sutra so they should perfectly compatible weapons for you. Therefore, they are called Summer's Dance and Winter's Sun!"

He passed the two weapons around and each of the sisters had a go. True to his word, the swords were perfect for them. Since they and the sword souls were all cultivating the full sutra, they were perfect companions for each other.

The only problem was… he could make only two weapons.

They also realized this issue and Xu Lanyi was expectedly the first to complain.

"Master, there's five of us and only two swords. Our other elder and junior sisters all have their own. Isn't this unfair?"

At this, Su Xue and Su Yue both looked at him with watery eyes, like they had been wronged.

"Cough… I mean…" He grumbled, wishing he could slap Xu Lanyi's rebellious ass.

Li Yuechan was next to him and touched him gently on the arm. She gave him a bright smile and then glared at her sisters.

"Master has already given us such priceless treasures, two weapons at the Spirit Lord Realm. With them, we will be able to rapidly advance and be under his guidance and protection at all times. There is nothing more we wish to ask for." She said.

Chen Wentian laughed and kissed her cheek. "The elder sister is indeed the elder sister. She is smart and attentive. Since they don't want the swords, I will just give them to you and Wushuang?"

"Master!" The twins cried out.

"I was just joking!" Xu Lanyi added.

"Hahaha, fine, fine. Come here."

He beckoned and they obeyed. All five of them gathered around him. He had Li Yuechan to his right and Song Wushuang to his left. Xu Lanyi sat between his legs with the twins on either side.

"Girls, I think who gets the swords is still up for debate." He grinned slyly, "But I think I have a way to settle that…"

Now that they were all nearby, his little dragon had awoken from slumber and was ready to battle.

"I recall that we still have the second portion of our dual cultivation exercises to perform, improving your dual-attribute spiritual seas!"

"Master!"

"Pervert!"

Blushing giggles were mixed in with beautiful smiles and eager faces.

"Therefore, let's have a competition. The two that can make me come inside them the greatest number of times will be the winners. It means they worked the hardest to improve their spiritual sea the most. So naturally, they shall also receive the swords. Any questions?"

They all shook their heads. There were no complaints.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

"Yes!"

"Yes, master!"

"Go!"

Instantly, he was swarmed by five naked bodies.

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