Chapter 29: Chapter 29

Lu Wei and Ye Feng felt their hearts nearly jump out of their chests when they saw Theresa faint. They immediately rushed to her.

Ye Feng raised Theresa's upper body and knelt behind her. Lu Wei knelt in at Theresa's right and helped hold her shoulders.

Seeing that all was set, Ye Feng placed her palms on Theresa's back and faint yellow rays emitted from them making Lu Wei gasp. It meant that Ye Feng had three elements- fire, healing, and vegetation.

Such a person was very hard to find. Lu Wei recovered from her shock and continued holding Theresa by the shoulders.

5 minutes later.

Ye Feng had carried Theresa at her back and was taking her to her room. Lu Wei had reached the room a minute ago and got the bed ready for Theresa to lie on.

When Theresa was gently laid on the bed, her face began to emit yellow rays of light and slowly the rays spread down to her waist and finally her whole being.

Ye Feng and Lu Wei backed away due to the intense brightness. When the rays finally died down what greeted them was a shocker.

The former girl whom they carried to the room could be considered a beauty but this one here was the one all goddesses of beauty would bow to. Theresa's face had become refined than when she was in the luxurious public bathhouse.

Even if her mother saw her, she wouldn't recognize her. Theresa's face had become whiter and her skin could be described as flawless. Looking at those sexy, plump red lips, even Lu Wei felt tempted to kiss them. She had to slap herself to come to reality.

"Wow! My daughter is so ... I'm speechless," Ye Feng facepalmed. She was also worried for Theresa.

The current goddess of beauty is Han Chunhua, the emperor's favored imperial concubine. If the emperor were to find Theresa with this face, it is possible that he might even drive away all his concubines and make her empress.

Yes, beauty is good, but it is also bad. No wonder, she had to disguise her beauty.

Theresa's hips had reduced to 68 inches which is considered a good improvement. Ye Feng shook her head and decided to give Theresa a massage with her special oil.

"Mother, this queen must be protected," Lu Wei said with determination.

"Of course as my daughter, I'm gonna protect her. Even if it means fighting with the emperor," Ye Feng chipped in.

"Err... mother, are you and the emperor a match? Even if the emperor is rarely seen, but, from the tales I heard from my Papa, the emperor is very powerful. No one except the Fu brothers can defeat him." Lu Wei said worriedly.

"I can kick his dirty butt if he dares lay a hand on my child," said Ye Feng with bloodshot eyes.

Lu Wei was scared when she saw them and excused herself.

"Mother can sometimes be scary." Lu Wei thought as she closed the door.

When Ye Feng saw that her other daughter had left, she sighed and began to undress Theresa for the massage.

Theresa woke up once during the massage but then went back to sleep with a sigh of contentment. It feels really good to have someone care about you. Theresa had gone into a beautiful wonderland where she dreamed about Dorothy reviving and carrying out her wish.

Author note: "Note that Dorothy is Theresa's future system that had shut down due to Theresa's inability to cultivate. The system will automatically revive when she reaches the Foundation builder stage."

4 hours later.

Theresa's room.

She is currently in La-la land, dreaming about her future system, Dorothy fulfilling many of her wishes and making life here in this dimension easier for her.

As she was about to receive another of her wish, which was a bowl of refined popcorn, she felt her body go cold suddenly. Her wonderful dream vanished quickly, stunning her.

Theresa opened her eyes to see Long Ren standing beside her bed, on the right with a small wooden bucket that is currently half filled. Even though Long Ren could see that she had opened her eyes, he still poured more chilly water that he'd fetched from the pool, on her head, drenching her from head to thigh.

Theresa clenched her hands into fists underneath the blanket and tried to hold herself back from punishing him with periods. However, it could be seen from her eyes that she was at the verge of tearing Ren to pieces.

"How.... dare... you?" she thundered finally.

"Mistress, you seem so forgetful. I thought I told you before my short departure that you will officially cultivate tonight. I've tried waking you up with a stick but you didn't budge so I used water," Ren explained.

Theresa sized him up and saw that he was now wearing scholar clothes. His current demeanor, however, doesn't match the clothes.

A scholar should be humble and virtuous but Long Ren has never been any of both. One could say that Long Ren would be the shame of the scholars. He would be like mud in clean water.

Theresa reluctantly got down from the bed and put on her shoes. Her clothes had been changed 4 hours ago by her mom, Ye Feng after the massage so the shoes, of course, were a new pair.

Theresa arranged the wet blanket and stared at Ren. He smiled and then pointed his index finger at her. Faint red light emitted from his index finger and Theresa felt her hair and clothes dry up.

After 2 minutes, Ren put down his finger and left the room. Theresa walked after him uncertain of what she'd face next.

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In the secluded room.

Theresa sat in Budha pose according to Ren's instructions.

"Clear your thoughts, mistress," Ren ordered.

"Ok." Theresa replied along with a nod. She exhaled deeply and freed her thoughts.

"Now, I leave you to your uncertain fate. See you tomorrow. Even if you have a broken leg or ruined spinal cord, for sure, I promise to still call you mistress," Long Ren said finally before disappearing.

Theresa did not mind his words and closed her eyes. That pet is really of no use in helping one learn cultivation. It's a good thing she's read lots of cultivation novels or else she'd be mopping at the ceiling completely at a loss on the next step to take.

Theresa raised her hands a little high above her knees, making her look like an earnest beggar. She tried to sense everything around her even the ants.

What Theresa didn't know was that it took a week or two for an average cultivator to sense qi and a genius cultivator took 3 or 4 days. But as for trash, two months was already a blessing if they did sense qi.

Also, there could be a backlash if one doesn't control the sensed qi properly, resulting in either broken legs, broken spinal cord, blindness, loss of memory, crippled dantian or the inability to hear and speak.

This is why it is very necessary to have a teacher by one's side in this critical stage. Long Ren did not think that Theresa would even sense qi even if she's a genius, soon-to-be cultivator.

He just wanted her to stay awake all night in vain.

Theresa tried sensing everything in the room, every little thing.

Everyone who has opened his meridians is bestowed with divine sense according to their roots. A trash grade cultivator would find it really hard to sense qi due to his roots.

This wouldn't be so for our Theresa. Earlier, she had opened 18 meridians, breaking Long Ren's record and her roots mutated to Phoenix roots defeating Long Ren's ancestor.

Theresa kept trying to sense anything foreign for two hours but there was nothing. She wanted to give up. She silently cursed at Long Ren for putting her in this state. He is supposed to be her guide but where is he?

If she could see him now she'd kick his ass numb or make him cry pearls.

No! She can't get distracted.

She cleared her thoughts again and steadied her buddha position again. She took a deep breath and exhaled. She then tried using her divine sense to find qi leaving no stone unturned in the room.

3 hours later.

Theresa had found something foreign yet it felt calming.

Yes, this must be it.

She immediately put her palms together and all the hidden qi in the room gathered in front of her. She felt it's thickness and a small smile formed at the end of her lips. She kept her palms together for an hour until her hands felt sore.

Then she placed one of her palms on her abdomen and the gathered qi slowly but orderly, began entering into her abdomen. This continued for two more hours.

If Theresa had opened just 4 or 6 meridians, she wouldn't be able to sense qi at all tonight but of course, she had 18 empty yet ready meridians to fill and the highest graded roots to top it.

When her 18 meridians were filled, the remaining qi dispersed and Theresa placed the other palm on her abdomen for 5 minutes to steady her body.

Then she slowly brought her palms up towards her chest and down to the abdomen repeatedly in a slow yet steady manner. Theresa kept at this for 30 minutes before finally, a red light enveloped her erupting in flames.

All her clothes were immediately burnt to ashes and disappeared without a trace. Now Theresa was completely bare but she is unaware. She had entered a dreamland where she is to choose her first element and that is fire.

In Luo Ye, all the citizen that are cultivators, have the fire element and that's why Luo Ye is also called fire country.

The fire around her kept growing bigger and brighter. Long Ren who was having his beauty sleep, had to wake up.

He put on his clothes since he like sleeping naked sometimes and ran to the secluded room but he did not open the door. He simply vanished and reappeared inside the room to met a shocker.

"Is that mistress? Why is her breakthrough like this? So troublesome! I'd have to strengthen the seals in the house later." Ren thought with shock plastered all over his face

He pointed his right thumb at Theresa and tried to control her fire from increasing but it backfired against him and he was thrown to the wall.He got up and spat out blood.

"It seems I underestimated the Phoenix roots and mistress. I'd have to consult with Grandpa," he muttered before he disappeared.

30 minutes later.

He returned to see that not only fire surrounded her body, above her head were lightning, ice, plants, dark stone, and a very small dagger. Long Ren's eyes nearly fell out.

"Mistress, do you want me dead?" he exclaimed in fright. The book he held had fallen to the floor.

Theresa has all the elements and so it would bring another trouble if she was found. She's not just a furnace but a very powerful one at that- the dream of many male cultivators. Ren massaged his temples and sank down to his knees.

"I think I'm the one unworthy of mistress," Ren muttered before he began to kowtow repeatedly.

At dawn, everything around Theresa finally subsided but her skin was still glowing slightly. She had slumped to the ground beside Long Ren, who had long fainted from a backfire two hours ago.

Theresa opened her eyes and coughed.

Strange!

Why does everywhere in the room permeate of the smell of fire?

Theresa sat up slowly and saw that she was naked. Looking at her right, she saw a completely naked Long Ren lying beside her. It was his long blue hair that covered his lower regions shielding his shaft from her view.

It was at this moment that Long Ren also woke up. What greeted him was an extraordinarily beautiful lady sitting beside him. He smiled foolishly but then he recalled something and both of them screamed loudly and retreated far away from each other.

"You pervert. How dare you...You," Theresa shouted as tears rolled down her face.

"Mistress, it's not what you think. I...I don't know how..." Ren tried to explain but Theresa silenced him.

"Why did you decide to violate me?" Theresa cried.

"Mistress, I'm still a virgin. I'm sure of it. If I'm not the bell-shaped tattoo on my butt would have disappeared." Ren defended desperately but Theresa did not believe him.

Long Ren brought out some clothes from the storage ring and threw them at Theresa. Without a word, he disappeared from the room leaving a grief-stricken Theresa. She crawled to where the clothes were and picked them up.

She checked her body but did not find anything wrong nor did she feel pain or strange at her lower region. She quickly wore the clothes and ran out o the secluded room. On the way to Ren's room, she met Lu Wei carrying some dirty clothes that Long Ren had given her to wash.

"Good morn..." Lu Wei did not get to finish as the person she wanted to greet had sped off.Lu Wei shook her head and continued her walk.

Theresa reached Long Ren's room and forcefully kicked the door open to see his side profile sitting on the bed completely nude and lost in thought.

She immediately turned away and Long Ren who seemed to have noticed her presence clumsily but quickly covered himself with the gray blanket.

"You can come in now mistress. I'm covered now." Ren spoke in a low voice.

Theresa turned around and saw Long Ren covered from neck to toe in a gray blanket that had pink flower patterns. Theresa sighed and turned around again.

"Meet me in the sitting room. You are still indecent. You are no different from being naked." Theresa said before leaving.

Long Ren sighed and got down from the bed. He threw off the blanket and blue light covered him from head to toe for 3 minutes. When the light faded, what came into view, was a fully clothed Long Ren now dressed in black robes and red trousers.

He is wearing black boots and his hair color had changed to pink making him look feminine.

He exhaled deeply and vanished from his room.

***

In the living room.

Long Ren sat opposite his mistress, his head bowed in shame and fear. His knees and hands which he placed in between his knees, were trembling uncontrollably.

Theresa stared at Ren not knowing what to think. It seemed so funny to her. The novels she had read; none of them had a scene like the one that happened earlier between her and her pet.

What then should she do?

"M... mistress... I... I really am innocent. I didn't do anything," Ren defended through telepathy.

It seems he had lost the courage to speak with his mouth. Theresa glared at Long Ren when she heard what he said.

"How can you be so sure?" she barked.

"I..." Ren went down on his knees, uncertain of what to say or do.

"Since you're already on your knees, put your hands up and stare at the roof. When I'm done thinking, I'll tell you to stop." she ordered him through telepathy.

"But m... mistress..." Ren tried to say something but he was compelled by a force to do as his mistress had said.

He shrank to the size of a six-year-old, the clothes he wore earlier looked ridiculous on him. They wear so big that they covered his hands and fell off his shoulders.His hair changed color to black. Six-year-old Long Ren looked really cute.

When Theresa saw him, not only did she have to hold back her mirth, her heart was also melting.

Gosh! Why did little Ren have to be so cute? How the heck will she be able to let him continue his punishment? She wasn't that heartless so it did not take long for her to stop his punishment.

"Long Ren, please get up," she ordered telepathically.

Long Ren nodded and obeyed his mistress.

He sat back on his chair and slowly transformed back to his normal self but this time his hair had changed to blue.

Theresa sighed deeply.

"Long Ren, tell me, what really happened?" Theresa asked.

"Mistress... I... I... I... last night... I was wrong... it wasn't intentional. I left you alone in the secluded room because here in Luo Ye, cultivators do not sense qi until after 3 or 4 days if they are geniuses. You, however, shocked me. When I came to the room due to the heat I felt, I saw that you were on fire so I went back to my room to consult my Grandpa and he told me what to do. But when I returned.., what I saw made me drop what I had brought. Mistress, you are a furnace. One that is seen once in ten thousand years." Ren was interrupted by Theresa who raised her hand signaling him to stop.

"Wait.., did you say furnace?" she asked in disbelief.

"Yes mistress, you are a legendary queen furnace and also in big trouble. If any powerful cultivator like the emperor of any nation finds you, I can't guarantee that I'll be able to save you every time from their hands. The deceased Han Fei Fei is also a furnace but her scent had been sealed off by her mother since 5." Ren explained.

Theresa kept opening and closing her mouth unsure of what to say.

"What kind of situation is this?" Theresa asked. The urge to pull her hair in frustration was getting higher.

"Mistress, don't worry, I'll protect you in any way I can," Ren reassured but it did nothing to help Theresa.

All that was resounding in her head were the words: 'furnace, furnace, furnace'.