Chapter 415: Entering the Southern Rivers
The month of travel to the Southern Rivers was honestly a relief, not solely from the warfare but from being entangled with other people and organizations. They had to stop occasionally, but otherwise it was just the three of them, almost like their honeymoon on Darkmist Island again. That suggested sex, but the biggest factor for Kai was just their presence, the ability to talk and train together with the women he loved, without interruption.
Not that there wasn't sex. Before their marriage, he had been worried that dual cultivation was going to involve a lot of weird rituals, but mostly it just meant sharing their energy while being intimate. They'd maximized the value during their honeymoon, but now that they had all grown further, they could benefit again. For example, Zae Zin Nim could take qi from Omilaena for her own cultivation and the act didn't require anything specific... as much as Omilaena might claim otherwise.
That was only a small benefit, however, and they all had their own tasks to focus on. None of them had imminent breakthroughs except for Physique, which continued to loom over them in stalled form. For his part, Kai wanted to keep increasing his monstrous strength to match his human advancements. There weren't any convenient monsters, but he could train his essence and try to strengthen it.
He sat cross-legged by the front, sorting through all the monstrous essence in his soul. His new Manticore's Quill ability was useful, but he hadn't used it enough to raise it beyond beta rank. Just shooting at nothing hadn't accomplished much aside from improving his aim, so maybe he needed live targets.
While he navigated himself, the women were cultivating at the side of the ship. It seemed to be going fine until Omilaena groaned and flopped back onto the deck.
"This is interminable. Cultivation is the worst."
"I thought you said Physique training was the worst," Zae Zin Nim pointed out.
"That is also the worst." Omilaena rolled over onto her side to address them both. "Your chosen methods are all so repetitive. Physical training insists that you have to lift a thousand rocks, cultivation is just sitting in a thousand caves."
"Then... then chakra training is just engaging in a thousand acts of sex."