Heat flared in his cheeks. He’d underestimated her. “It’s worth a try.”
“At the very least, we can enjoy ourselves during the end of the world.”
Ryu pulled Siena to him, and she let out a squeal of surprise. He nuzzled her smooth neck as he worked her lacy dress off. Maybe the bottom of a well wasn’t the most romantic place to save two worlds, but it would have to do.
She pulled back, not the least abashed by her nakedness. “Does my logic make sense? Do you think this will work?”
His manhood saluted her perfect body. He grinned. “As you said: if not, we will still enjoy it.”
With a wave of her hand and the uttering of a syllable, a thick carpet of plush vegetation sprouted and spread along the bottom of the well.
She chuckled. “I kind of hope it does fail, so that I can continue to experience this sensation of channeling with my inner reserves instead of istrium.” She pushed him to the soft ground.
He pulled her down onto him as he fell back, and she slid up and straddled him.
“What did Teppin call this?” she asked. “Turtle Suns on Log?”
“I don’t remember. But in Cultivation, we call it the Swan.” In the several times they’d joined, they’d never used this position. His erection stretched so hard it ached.
“Such a graceful name.” Taking him in a hand, she guided him into her.
Her hot slipperiness lit up his every nerve. Trying to concentrate, he slipped one of the green pills into her mouth, and then popped the last into his. “If this works and you Advance, swallow it.”
Whether she heard or not, he couldn’t tell. Her eyes remained closed as she rocked back and forth on him. The small motions heated the base of his shaft.
With one hand, he cupped her perfect breast; the other grasped her round bottom. Once she settled into a rhythm, she leaned down onto him. Her chest pressed into his, her pert nipples rubbing against him.
Her pants came slow at first, then increased in depth. Unlike the previous times, she inhaled as she took him deeper, and exhaled as she drew him out to the tip, leaving his entire length sweltering and slick.
He coordinated his breath, exhaling with each thrust, inhaling with each withdrawal. Unlike before, she connected to his Core. Their Governing and Conception vessels linked, their Qi swirling between them, building up speed as the rhythm increased. Her Core, already vast and dense in their previous lovemaking, had expanded tenfold since the last time, so that even though she was only First Rank, her Essence now far surpassed his own.
Ignoring the pleasurable sensations, he drew her Essence out through the Microcosmic Orbit, guiding it up his spine and down into his Core. It expanded after several dozen exchanges, Advancing him to Fifth Rank. The sudden enlargement of his Core brought him to climax.
He spilled his seed inside of her. Seven hundred years of concentrated Yang energy filled her, and she bucked, drawing the vitality up her spine then down her front and into her Core. Its expansion felt like waves flooding back into him, Advancing him to Sixth Rank. He swallowed the green pill, and the throb of her throat indicated she had done the same.
His senses expanded, his consciousness intertwined with hers as they stretched through the veins of energy coursing through the Earth. All the portals between the worlds closed with the torrent of Qi and Essence. In that moment, he knew everything that had transpired and would transpire in every plane.
It’s beautiful, she said, though not with a voice that he could hear, but rather one that he could feel and know.
Let’s explore it together, he responded.
Though he’d always keep an eye on Kentaro and Aya.
Epilogue
A ya saw the flash of light and felt the pulse emanating out from the well of Honnoji. Deep in every fiber of her being, she knew that if she looked down into the well, Ryusuke and Siena wouldn’t be there…at least not in the forms she would recognize.
She turned to Kentaro to find tears glittering in his eyes.
“Will you be all right?” she asked.
“Eventually.”
“Where will you go now?”
“Shirahige Shrine, where I will Cultivate and Advance. Will you come with me?” His eyes searched hers.
That pleasant sensation fluttered in her belly. She could get used to that.
She jacked in to her EtherSpace.
“Ai.”
The nine-tailed fox appeared and bowed.
“I just wanted to say goodbye.”
Before she could change her mind, she jacked out, popped the purple pill into her mouth, and swallowed.
The End
