Muspelheim[14]

Outside the mansion, there lay two tombstones, one belonged to Jasmine while the other belonged to Muskan. Even though to the Dragon Race, dying was just a state of being. The moment of parting with a loved one would still greatly damage anyone.

Two figures stood before the tomb, the frail figure of Lily leaned on Khan's shoulders as she cried. Khan stayed silent, his thoughts converged within his mind.

'Just what did happen to the family that I established...'

'And also, what will Lily do if she learned the truth about my identity...'

Towards this uncertain future, Khan could only stand and hope that his future wouldn't be bleak. They continued standing there, for three days.

To a martial artist, standing for several days wouldn't impact their physical capabilities, but to the heavily injured Khan, what he felt was more than torture, his dried out meridians would periodically send him a huge amount of pain that was akin to a thousand needles piercing through his muscles.

However, he didn't even move nor groan, he just stood there, embracing the fragile figure of Lily.

Three days had passed and the two returned to the mansion. It was a morning in the latter stages of April where the breeze of rainy days could be felt. Khan woke up to find a normal Lily.

The Lily who had cried for several days now wore a cooking apron and hummed a tone as she stirred the contents of the sizzling pan before her.

Khan gave a small smile, he, of course, wanted Lily to recover, but he doesn't want her to force herself to smile. To help her recover, he had decided to shower her with his attention.

Khan's footsteps became as silent as an approaching predator, the unsuspecting Lily still joyfully bobbed her head up and down to the tune of her hum, which almost made Khan stumble on his footsteps.

When he reached behind her, he stretched his arms and embraced the beauty from behind, he moved his head to the side of her neck and murmured.

"What's for breakfast?"

Lily gave a small shriek of surprise, in the next instant, her cheeks became as red as a tomato as she tried to push Khan away, but mysteriously, her push didn't have any power behind it and she was unable to remove herself from Khan.

Seeing this cute sight of his little girl acting like a shy deer before him, Khan wore a smug smile and stared directly at her eyes.

"What's for breakfast...?" He once again murmured on her neck, prompting Lily to turn her head away and whisper in a small mosquito-like voice.

"I'm still cooking it, so you can wait at the living room..."

"Hoooh... I didn't quite get what you said..." Khan even moved her body closer to his, which made the girl even more embarrassed as she pushed him away with considerable force.

Khan stumbled backward, his figure flew towards the reinforced wall, when he fell down he exaggeratedly moaned in pain, his face as pale as paper.

"Khan!" Lily worriedly shouted, she immediately ran towards Khan and when she saw his pale countenance, her heart felt like it was broken.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to do that... It's just..."

"It's just?" Khan cheekily said, his face lifted up and looked at Lily with a smile.

"It's just that..."

"It's just that?"

"I'm still not ready for tha-"

"Ah! The food is burning!" The "injured" Khan abruptly shouted, prompting Lily to look at the kitchen and there, she found a black smoke rising from the pan.

"No!" She shouted and swiftly moved towards the stove and turned it off. Her gaze then turned towards Khan in anger but found that the "injured" Khan had already disappeared from her sight leaving her stamping down on the ground in indignation.

Before the huge television, two figures could be seen seating down on the couch, the aquamarine-haired figure wore a grumpy look on her face while the other had a helpless look.

The breakfast that Lily painstakingly cooked became charcoal thanks to Khan's stupid joke. Even him couldn't find an excuse for his actions and could seat there with a small silly smile on his face.

"Hmm, it's delicious... " Khan nodded his head in approval as he chewed on the blackened piece of meat.

"How so?" Lily asked with a frown.

"It has quite the unique taste."

"Unique taste?"

"Yeah, it tastes like charcoal."

Khan then clutched his aching head as his gaze wandered towards Lily, her grumpy look increased even more. 'It seems like I need to stop with the jokes for now.' Khan gave a small smile and asked.

"Lily, can you tell me about the book that grandpa left?" Khan asked in a curious tone.

"Who's your grandpa!" Lily retorted with crimson cheeks.

"Okay, okay... What's with the book that Elder left?" Khan resigned and asked once more.

"Ah, that book, it's.... yeah, it's just a normal diary..." Lily spoke in a hurried tone, prompting Khan to question once more.

"Normal diary? That looked like a cultivation method to me." Khan frowned, his gaze pierced through Lily, eventually, thanks to Khan's questioning gaze, Lily surrendered, and told him the truth.

"That book, it's actually a cultivation method, but..." Lily avoided his gaze as her eyes wandered everywhere.

"But?"

"It's inconvenient for me to say it... as a girl..." Lily's tone became barely audible in the end, prompting Khan to move his head closer to her. But this gesture of his became something else to Lily as she leaned backward like a cat stepped on its tail.

"What... are you... It...It's still morning..." Although she subconsciously leaned backward, her thoughts wandered and it seemed like she resolved herself about something.

'It seems like this girl's misunderstanding something...' Khan gave a mischevious smile and spoke

"I'm not going to do anything, though. I just wanted to ask about the book. But judging from how you look, could it be that... you were expecting something?" Khan even winked towards Lily which made her hide her face from Khan's sight.

"I'm not talking with you anymore!" She finally got tired of his antics and left the living room as if she was on fire.

But she didn't notice that she left something crucial on the couch. Khan gave a small smile and picked up the notebook-sized book, it looked like a normal book, aside from the golden glow that it emanated.

Khan opened and the contents gave him the fright of his life. On the first page, written in an enticing font were the words.

'Yin-yang Assimilation Method'

It was a dual cultivation method suited for Extreme Yin and Yang physiques, the second page even had several 'positions' that assured a greater Yin-yang assimilation.

"You..." Khan was about to close the book when he found a furiously blushing Lily pointing towards him with widened eyes.

"Yo!" Khan waved his hand towards Lily and placed the book on the table. He gave a small smile and walked past her as he snickered.

Khan immediately ran toward the outside in a hurry as Lily's embarrassed scream echoed from the living room.

When he noticed that he already arrived near the gates. He turned towards the guard named Dobart and asked.

"Excuse me..."

"Oh, Sir, what business do you have with me?" Khan smiled upon noticing the polite tone that Dobart used.

"You need not act so polite with me, I just wanted to ask you if I can borrow a device that I could use to contact someone." Khan continued.

"Ah, you mean, a smartphone? Yeah, I can lend you mine." Dobart took a slim device on his pocket and tapped on it, he then looked towards Khan and found that the latter also stared at him with a confused look.

"Ermmm... What is the phone number of the person you want to contact?" Dobart asked.

"Phone number?" Khan vaguely remembered that Lily entered some digits to talk with Barhan, but he, unfortunately, didn't think too much about those numbers thinking that they weren't important.

"Sir?" Dobart's voice interrupted Khan's soliloquy.

"Now that I think about it, it's okay. I'll just go to his place." Khan immediately ran towards the other street leaving the dumbfounded and confused Dobart on his wake.

Khan facepalmed as he walked under the searing sun. 'My knowledge about modern technology is too lacking... I wonder where I can find a library here...'

He walked for about thirty minutes before arriving near the casino. Thankfully, the old man dealer was there and he was escorted immediately towards Barhan's place.

"Hmm, what did you come here for, Khan?" Barhan's tone didn't contain the condescending tone that he once had, towards this youth whom he didn't understand, he felt a weird sense of respect towards him.

"I wanted to ask for some healing pills that you have, and that bath," Khan asked, not minding how rude he would sound to other people.

"Well, a Tier 4 healing pill would cost you a million and for the bath, it would cost you half a million, still down?" Barhan spoke with a smile on his face and a gaze that could see profits from afar.

"Yeah, it's fine, prepare it for me, I'll just wait here," Khan spoke in an exhausted tone.

Although Barhan felt confused about the situation, he didn't pry for more details and ordered some of his men to prepare what Khan needed.

"Also, Barhan, could you help me get a Rune Scanner?" Khan requested, towards this, Barhan frowned and said.

"Rune Scanner? Do you really think that that device could be brought like cabbages on the street? Rune Scanners are rarely sold and if they were, they would cost up to a hundred million Crons!" Barhan exasperatedly spoke.

"I see, then forget about that, I'll just borrow your Scanner here." Towards this, Barhan gave a small smile and asked.

"About that Khan, it seems like my friends are interested in that knockback talisman of yours, they wanted me to ask you for a partnership."

"Tell them this, I was only able to make that rune in a fit of inspiration, even I don't understand how I made that rune," Khan replied. Khan believed in the truth that the rarer an object was the more treasured it would be.

Khan wanted to create a network where he would provide a small number of rare runes periodically in exchange for a certain amount of money, but of course, he doesn't want himself to be monopolized by an organization.

"I understand, but can we reverse engineer that rune?" Towards this unknown tone, Khan unknowingly nodded and didn't bother with him anymore.

After an hour of waiting, the items he had ordered had arrived, Barhan deducted the payment from the card that he gave to Khan.

Before Khan returned to the mansion, he ordered two virtual capsules and two copies of the virtual game that he played on the arcade. 'VRMMORPG: SpectatorUnknown's Battlegrounds.'

Barhan told him that his order would come in the next two days and deducted five million from his card, leaving Khan with about four million Crons.

It was noon when Khan arrived back at the mansion. There he found Lily playing a game called Light Souls. Although the mansion's air conditioning was working perfectly, Khan could still see beaded sweats forming on Lily's forehead.

Apparently, the game was that intense. Seeing that the figure that Lily controlled had a sword, Khan's interest piqued, he moved without making any noises and arrived behind Lily.

On the screen, Lily could be seen fighting a huge humanoid creature. Her figure would tumble down in each time the boss swung its huge sword, in the end, Lily screamed as the boss chopped her character's head off, sending her to a game over.

Lily sighed and was about to fetch something to drink when she noticed Khan who sat beside her, she almost screamed in surprise. However, she seemed to have realized something and swiftly left the living room.

Khan's focus momentarily followed Lily before turning towards the game. Khan grabbed the controller and studied how it works, it was only about thirty minutes before he could contest the boss in a fair fight.

He sat there for the entire afternoon immersed in the game. It was only when Lily told him that it was about time for dinner that he stopped playing and went to eat with her.

Seating on the living room, Lily still refused to make eye contact with him, prompting him to ask.

"Are you perhaps, worried about something?" Khan asked in a worried tone.

"No, it's nothing like that... It's just..." Lily's eyes turned towards the ground as she covered her mouth and chewed on her food.

"Don't tell me... you're worried about getting pregnant?!" Lily choked on her food as she hurriedly swallowed down a glass of water before retorting.

"What are you saying! Besides... Even If I wanted to... I can't be pregnant..." Lily murmured in a soft voice, prompting Khan to frown before speaking.

"Well you're right about that, as the member of such a powerful race, it is only normal for you to have a low fertility rate... If not, dragons would've already reigned in the entire universe." Khan laughed as he spoke, however, he realized something as he gave a cheeky smile and spoke.

"Wait... Since your fertility rate is low... that means... we could do it eve-" Before he could continue speaking, Lily had already palmed him on his head, causing him to bite his tongue and choke on his food.

"Really, so violent..." Khan complained in a carefree tone. Lily retorted with a sinister gaze which made him shut his teasing mouth.

"Then why do you look so unsettled if you're not worried about something like that?" Khan continued his round of questionings.

Afraid that Khan would once again start his round of teasing, Lily finally gave up and showed him the golden book of the Yin-yang Assimilation Method.

"Ermmm... Grandpa left me this book... he says that... because you took me... I could only cultivate with you... and... he also said that... I should do i...t... at least... every week..." Lily's tone gradually became a whisper that only she could hear, especially at the end. But how could it bypass Khan's enhanced perception? Khan turned his head back for a while and gave a thumbs up in the air.

'Thanks, grandpa!' Khan sincerely thought.

He coughed and assumed a solemn face, his pious visage made Lily apprehensive about what to do.

"Oh, I see, then when will we do it?"

"Are you only seriously thinking about that, right now?" Lily exasperatedly spoke, however, her crimson red cheeks contrasted her words.

"Okay, okay, setting the jokes aside, I don't really have a problem with it, for as long as It can help you cultivate..." Khan nonchalantly spoke, prompting Lily's eyes to moisten.

Seeing the almost crying face of her, Khan spoke.

"Hey, hey, what's wrong?" Lily hid her current expression by looking towards the ground as she spoke.

"Grandpa also said that... if you keep absorbing the Extreme Yang in my body, you would really be destroyed..." Lily tried her best to hide it, but Khan could still see the crystalline tears falling towards the ground.

Khan gave a small gentle smile and embraced the young woman in his arms.

"Silly girl, didn't I just told you? That, I loved you?" Khan spoke in a consoling tone.

"But that's different to this..." Lily whispered as she sobbed in his embrace.

"It's fine, really. It's not like I can't really cultivate."

"Really?" Lily's head lifted and glanced at Khan.

"Yeah, did you forget that I can create my runes? I'll just cultivate in the Way of Modern Technology... Hehehe, the wife cultivates in an ancient way, while the husband uses the power of technology. We really are a good combo." Khan spoke in a confident tone causing Lily to once again dive her head towards his chest.

"Do you trust me?" Khan lifted Lily's head and stared at her eyes. The latter nodded in response. The crimson red hue on her cheeks scattering throughout her whole face.

Her expression prompted Khan to unconsciously lean towards her head and helped himself towards her luscious lips. Lily protested for a while before she lost her strength and succumbed to Khan's advances.

The two separated for a while as a string of crystalline liquid formed a bridge between their mouths, Lily glanced at it with an embarrassed expression as Khan snapped it with his fingers.

Khan wanted to advance but before he could, he was stopped by Lily.

"What's wrong?" Khan asked.

"Can we not do it today?" Lily asked in a small voice. Seeing the disappointed look on Khan's face, she continued.

"It's just... It still hurts down there... You were so rough..." Lily didn't dare to look at Khan as she placed her head on his shoulder. Khan rubbed her head in response.

"Did you really think that I can't hold myself back? I'm not so perverted to the point where I would force you..." Khan spoke and embraced Lily, causing her to cry in response.

"I just told you, today, I can't..."

"No, I just wanted to embrace you."

"Why?"

"Who doesn't want to embrace such a beautiful girl, like you?" Khan sunk his head towards Lily's neck, causing the latter's figure to tremble.

Before she realized it, Khan had already carried her towards his room and placed her on his bed. Thinking that Khan would touch her once more, she was relieved to find out that Khan only wanted to sleep with her on the same bed.

Looking at the sleeping Khan, Lily wore a small smile on her face, she leaned and kissed Khan on her own will as she thought.

'Grandpa, Grandma, thanks for the care that you gave me, now that I have Khan, I think that I can walk by my own feet If I have him beside me...' This was her resounding thoughts as her consciousness descended into sleep.