Chapter 47: Sudden breakthrough?
The pleasure of ending up inside of a woman was… something else.
It was an experience that simply couldn't compare to anything I've ever managed to get out with my hand or the tools I bought back when I was young and desperate.
Claire's body simply clamped down on me, her legs locking my hips in place we continued to convulse together, my dick twitching as it tried to splurt out all the leftover cum inside my system and feed it all to Claire…
While on the other hand, Claire's insides continued to coil down and squeeze my dick, as if to guide the cum still inside of it and suck it all out.
Claire herself hid her face in the upper part of my chest, now just gasping for air as the pleasure she clearly never felt before made her body continuously tighten up only to then relax down over and over and over again.
For a few more moments we simply continued to twitch together like that, each too immersed in the sensation to form a single thought, not to bring up talking or reacting to what we just did.
A moment later, however, Claire twisted her head and pressed her ear roughly against where my heart was as if suddenly wanting to listen to its beat.
Her expression, however… was too serious for it to be just a new way for us to snuggle up as we relieved the last aftershocks of our orgasms.
And what an orgasm it was!
Not only was the level of caressing my dick had to endure just incomparable to a hand or a sleeve from my memories, but there was also a whole added layer of Claire's body squeezing down all over me, her hands holding me tightly and refusing to let me go, her stomach trembling when her gasps failed to provide all the air she needed, making her breathing all broken and erratic…
"That's…"
Claire's voice was just what I needed to get my head out of the clouds. Although, if she were to start praising my performance all out of nowhere now, there would be no telling…
"Didn't you claim that you've hardly cultivated before?" Claire suddenly asked, keeping her ear by my chest for a little longer before raising her face and giving me quite a weird look.
"Well…" I hesitated a little. "I don't know if meditation counts for cultivating, but even if it does, I only did meditate like… four times total?" I answered with all the honesty I could muster.
Not only was this girl likely determined to live out her role as my partner while hoping this companionship could turn into a proper relationship with time, but she was also the daughter of my sponsor! And even if we weren't at the stage yet when I would willingly confide all my secrets with her, she certainly deserved to know the truth behind my cultivation.
"Are you…" Claire gulped her saliva down, "absolutely sure?"
"Yeah, why?" I replied, sparks of agitation growing in my soul as I realized that, most likely, something had to not be right for Claire to suddenly act in such a weird way.
"Then how did you just break through to the fifth stage all in one go?"
I stared at Claire's face… hardly troubled by her statement. Not because I didn't care…. But because I had no idea what this fifth stage was all about!
"You mean to say… I jumped over stages one through fourth?" I asked, just to make sure I got the concept right.
With my dick still firmly locked inside of her pussy, Claire suddenly leaned back, as if to get a better look on my face. And only after staring at me for a short while did her eyes open up with genuine surprise.
"You don't even know that much…? Then how…"
All of a sudden, Claire's face darkened as she hurriedly moved back to my chest, hiding her face away from my eyes while still somehow managing to exude such an exasperated aura I just couldn't help but reach out and drag my hand up and down her spine in a silly bid to humor her now that there was something unpleasant on the mind of this adorable creature.
"AAAAH!" Claire suddenly screamed out, raising her face up and pointing at the ceiling as if she wanted to throw her cries straight at the heavens. "I knew you would be breaking all common sense, but for it to happen so soon…!"
'So, reaching the fifth stage in one go is a big thing, got it,' I thought while taking a mental note.
And now that I thought about it…
Surely, I had nowhere close to as much information and knowledge about those stages as a proper cultivator would… But I still knew something.
Chihiro, Claire's father, was one of the very few ninth-stage cultivators. And while that perception could be different in a spiritual world, in the physical reality, it was enough to make him a superstar of sorts.
'I don't think those stages are linear… but even if they were, the fifth stage would be a halfway point, wouldn't it?' I thought, only for my face to then turn still when I realized the consequences behind this finding.
'If, at the impossibly best scenario, I've got as far as halfway to the top, then…'
In a more realistic scenario, just how insane would this unexpected feat of mine be?
"Care to elaborate what got you so annoyed?" I tried to ask, fully aware it would either lead me to an answer… or an even greater outburst of Claire's anger.
Hearing my words, Claire looked at my face before sighing out and dropping back on top of my lap, taking a moment to calm herself down. Then, as she pushed her pouty face off to the side, she muttered, "I knew you would grow fast, but never expected you to be… so fast!"
What Claire said… directed my thoughts to an entirely different topic, just loosely connected to her most recent words.
Still, following this line of nothing more but my instinct, I suddenly realized one thing.
"Wait, if this was all the trick to speed up my recovery…" I muttered, only now realizing that I actually had no idea how dual cultivation was supposed to work in the first place, "then, did it work?"
Claire gave me a pouty look for just a little longer before swallowing her anger and nodding her head.
"Yeah, I hoped to bring you up to the second, maybe third stage, where you would be able to just sleep the drug off, but…"
'Great, noted. Now, for the next.'
The trick worked. Meaning, I was likely now able to move around without the help of the girl or her father's artifact.
And, in fact, just by inspecting my inner state, the tiny slivers of spiritual energy Claire was making my body produce by agitating my spiritual sense with her own cultivation…
Those were nothing when compared to the sea of dense energy now filling every fiber and whisker of my body and soul alike!
'That drug was dangerous because it was aimed to topple cultivators. So, now that I'm of a rank high enough, I should be safe, right?' I thought, only to instantly direct my eyes back to the girl.
'Why is she so upset I've reached the fifth rank, though?' I thought.
At first, it didn't seem like a question worthy of pursuing the answer to, but more like a small curiosity, I might learn about much later down the line of my relationship with her. But at the same time, whenever I thought how Claire was just a normal girl with a different set of circumstances than me… the answer couldn't be any more obvious.
"Could it be, you are fifth rank too?" I asked, only for Claire to freeze.
For a moment, her eyes jumped all over the place, as if she wasn't sure where to hide her glare… Only to then lower her head and silently nod it a bit.
"I've told you, didn't I?" she then whispered, her face too blushed for Claire to even consider showing it to me. "You are a genius," she stated, only to suddenly raise her face and coughed to clear her throat. "So, rather than letting it get to me, here…"
Claire suddenly opened up her arms, as if to reveal the full potential of her breasts right into my face… all the while adding the topping of a lovely, inviting smile.
"You can do as you wish with me."