Urban Seduction: Housewives Club

After another round of dual cultivation with six beautiful women, his cultivation level not only reached the eighth layer of the Tianyuan realm, close to its peak, but the purity of his vital energy also increased significantly, reaching thirty-four times that of an ordinary martial artist.

He noticed that thirty times seemed to be a critical threshold—before this level, progress was relatively easy, but after it, progress became much slower.

Moreover, cultivating with Yan's mother, aunt, and both sisters no longer had much impact on improving the purity of his vital energy; only when cultivating with his cousin and sister did he see substantial improvements.

However, although progress became extremely difficult after reaching thirty times, each small increase brought even more powerful results.

With thirty-four times the purity of his vital energy, Wang Yue's control over it was nearly 10% better than when it was thirty-two times, and he even began to consider integrating the characteristics of the eighth-level "Great Wild Wind" into ordinary martial techniques.

Wang Yue believed that as long as he persisted, he would one day succeed—and even eliminate the need to gather energy before using these techniques.

By then, any ordinary martial technique in his hands would be capable of exerting a power comparable to, or even greater than, that of a top-tier martial art. What kind of realm would that be?

As for the eighth-level "Great Wild Wind," Wang Yue thought carefully about it. No matter how powerful it was, it was still just a single technique.

Even if it could be executed instantly, it couldn't be used regularly. Otherwise, if too many people learned about it, it would no longer be a secret weapon. Moreover, martial techniques were still very useful.

Although there was always the saying "one strong skill can overcome ten mediocre ones," and Wang Yue agreed with this, when the "strength" was the same, "skill" became extremely important.

The Wang family's "Breaking Jade Palm" wasn't particularly powerful, but its complexity made it a perfect complement to the eighth-level "Great Wild Wind."

After practicing all day, Wang Yue had almost mastered the simplest move of the "Breaking Jade Palm"—directing his vital energy to rotate once within his meridians when executing the move.

In fact, even if he mastered this move, it wouldn't be very useful, as it was just as simple as the eighth-level "Great Wild Wind" but far less powerful. However, this breakthrough from zero to one was of great significance, indicating whether Wang Yue's vision could come true.

"I'll keep at it tomorrow and definitely master this move!"

Upon returning to his residence, Wang Yue set this small goal for himself, but then he felt bored. Although he now had seven partners for dual cultivation, six of them could only accompany him for three days each before entering a "truce period."

As for the seventh one… Since that day, Li Menglan had never come again.

Wang Yue had even gone to look for her, but it turned out she had chosen not to come on purpose.

The reason was somewhat amusing yet touching—she said that as just a maid, spending every day with the young master could lead to him failing to distinguish between primary and secondary matters, and might even pose risks to his future marriage.

Therefore, she had set a rule for herself: she would only spend time with the young master again after at least seven days had passed.

Although Wang Yue thought that Li Menglan's way of thinking was rather old-fashioned, he had to admit that she was right.

Looking back at the many power struggles within the imperial courts throughout history, many of them were caused by a favored concubine constantly clinging to the emperor, preventing him from treating all his concubines equally.

While such a situation was unlikely to happen with Wang Yue—after all, if he had any unmet desires, it would be impossible for him not to treat everyone fairly—he respected Li Menglan's intentions and, seeing her persistence, agreed to her request. So, tonight was once again destined to be a night spent setting up a tent alone.

After dinner, which was brought to him by another female servant, Wang Yue was about to head back to his bedroom to rest when he suddenly saw two petite figures sneak in while the servant had left to clean up the dishes.

"Qianqian, Shanshan, what brings you here?" Wang Yue asked in surprise.

"Dad, we came to drink with you!" Wang Qianqian said, showing him several large, simply designed white porcelain wine bottles and some snacks to accompany the drinks.

Moreover, to make sure Wang Yue would agree to their plan, she even used the term "dad" that Wang Yue had taught them that day.

"Drink alcohol?" Wang Yue was taken aback. When on earth had these little girls developed such a habit?

Wang Shanshan explained helplessly, "We've been idle these past few days. We watched a martial arts movie from hundreds of years ago and really admired the heroes in it who ate meat and drank alcohol in large amounts. We thought it would be fun to do the same, but drinking with just women seemed boring to us, so we came to find you, little… dad."

Wang Yue couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. But upon reflection, he understood—it was just Wang Qianqian's nature. She was fearless and always full of enthusiasm, eager to try everything new.

If they had been children from an ordinary family, Wang Yue would never have allowed her to do such things, and he himself would never have drunk alcohol either.

After all, alcohol can cause great harm to minors and affect their brain development.

But for martial artists, it's completely different. A mere trace of alcohol has no effect on them at all; it's even hard for them to feel tipsy. Although Wang Yue isn't much older than those little ones in the Body Tempering realm, he has always cherished them since they were young, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Given Wang Qianqian's personality, after trying it herself, she found it boring and quickly gave up on the idea.

On the contrary, if her curiosity wasn't satisfied, she would keep thinking about it, and who knows, she might even become an alcoholic teenager—which would be troublesome indeed.

He laughed heartily and said, "Alright, since Qianqian wants to drink, then uncle… dad will drink with you."

"Great!" Wang Qianqian imitated the manner of those heroic figures in movies and shouted loudly. Despite her youthful appearance, she tried so hard to act like an adult—how adorable she was!

Wang Qianqian placed the small dishes on the table, while Wang Shanshan found three small porcelain bowls in Wang Yue's kitchen.

She opened the bottle of alcohol but didn't sit down; instead, she kicked a chair back and, in a rough voice, said, "Dad, Shanshan, come on, let me fill your bowls. After drinking this, we'll be brothers!"

With that, she poured a glass for Wang Yue, Wang Shanshan, and herself. But after pouring Wang Yue's glass, she secretly twisted the bottle a bit.

Wang Yue's cultivation level was worlds apart from those two little girls, so it was extremely easy for him to notice her little trick. But how could he have thought that his nieces would try to trick him? He didn't pay any attention to it at all.

Moreover, Wang Qianqian's words "we'll be brothers" made him laugh heartily—this little girl was so adorable.

After pouring the alcohol, Wang Qianqian put down the bottle and immediately picked up her bowl, gesturing at Wang Yue and Wang Shanshan and saying, "Cheers!"

Without waiting for them to respond, she tilted her head back and drank the whole bowl in one gulp, then wiped her mouth with her sleeve.

"Great!"

This little girl was truly obsessed with imitating those heroic figures.

Wang Yue shook his head helplessly and drank the alcohol in his bowl along with Wang Shanshan.

As soon as the alcohol entered his stomach, Wang Yue immediately felt something was wrong. For a martial artist, especially someone at his level in the Tianyuan realm, drinking alcohol was almost the same as drinking water.

Since his body had already undergone the first stage of refinement during the Body Tempering realm, not only would he not get drunk, but he wouldn't even feel uncomfortable while drinking.

However, after drinking this bowl of alcohol, he felt as if a fire was burning inside him from his throat to his stomach.

The feeling was indeed intense, but for someone who was drinking alcohol for the first time, it was by no means pleasant. If his constitution hadn't been strong enough, he might have even started coughing.

"Qianqian, what kind of alcohol is this?" Wang Yue asked, his face turning red from the alcohol and his speech a bit slurred.

Wang Qianqian giggled and said, "It's 'Immortal Drunk.' How could dad enjoy ordinary alcohol?"

Wang Yue immediately understood why he was feeling this way. Since martial artists aren't affected by alcohol, those who enjoy drinking usually lose the source of their pleasure.

And "Immortal Drunk" was a strong liquor specifically developed by some skilled martial artists after their spiritual energy had been restored, so that they could also experience the feeling of being drunk.

It was said that the most potent version of "Immortal Drunk" might not actually make even gods drunk, but even powerful beings at the beginning of the Defying Mortal realm couldn't withstand its effects.