Because I am here

Wu Long sat on the throne, with a beauty sitting on his lap, leaning her head on his left shoulder and her hand raised to rest on the right one.

After a month of cultivating on the ship with his women, and now taking Nie Xiwang's Pure Yin Qi and all of her Yin Qi of a peak Mortal Transcendence Realm cultivator, all the while refining the rich Spiritual Qi of the Secret Realm instead of the one filling the Three Continents, his cultivation has crossed the watershed barrier and reached the 7th level of Core Formation Realm, as his core now more and more resembled one solid sphere.

His left hand was around the waist of the Blade Empress, his right hand caressing her thigh in the white stocking.

"So I am finally free..." 

She stated, her voice full of relief and joy, as well as the slight melancholy as she reminisced about the time she spent chained to this throne by the necessity, both protected and burdened by its authority.

"Mm"