Chapter 2: Dual Cultivation Manual

Chapter 2: Dual Cultivation Manual

"Master, do you remember that ancient copper coin passed down by your ancestors?"

The pure-looking young girl, however, was not the least bit shy. Ignoring the fact that her charms were on full display, she walked gracefully up to the large wooden tub and asked Zhou Lang in a soft voice.

There was a very pleasant fragrance on her body, seemingly the unique scent of a young girl, which left Zhou Lang intoxicated. This scent was much more pleasant than the expensive foreign perfumes that Ye Qianqian wore.

Zhou Lang looked down, only to find that the copper coin tied around his neck with a red string had disappeared.

"Where is my copper coin?"

Zhou Lang was shocked. If he hadn't considered that he was naked, he would have stood straight up from the wooden bathing tub. Although the copper coin wasn't worth much, it was something his grandfather, Zhou Maolin, had passed down to him on his deathbed, repeatedly warning him that it was an ancestral heirloom that must not be lost. Therefore, he was very anxious.

"Master, stop looking. You and I are currently inside your ancestral copper coin," the pure-looking young girl quickly said.

"What? I'm inside the copper coin?" Zhou Lang was stunned; his brain couldn't quite process it.

He must be dreaming. Things like copper coins or jade stones being supreme treasures with internal spaces seemed to only exist in movies and novels; they didn't exist in reality.

"My name is Xiao Xi, and I am the artifact spirit of this copper coin. You are my Master, and I am always at your beck and call."

The pure-looking young girl introduced herself: "I have been asleep for hundreds of years and was only awakened by you a few hours ago. Seeing that you were injured, I brought you in to treat your wounds."

After speaking, Xiao Xi actually tore off her bath towel, grabbed a piece of cloth similar to a towel, draped it over the edge of the tub, then lifted her leg to step into the wooden tub and stood in front of Zhou Lang.

At this moment, Xiao Xi had nothing on, and her figure was incredibly hot and perfect. Because of her movement as she stepped into the tub, her magnificent chest was heaving up and down, a surging sea of waves.

Zhou Lang was completely dumbfounded, his mind going blank. Since this was his first time seeing a woman's body, he almost got a nosebleed.

"Beauty… who exactly are you? Don't mess with me. If I lose control and ruin your innocence, that would be bad. I… I am known as Brother Lang, and I am a genuine… lecherous wolf…"

When things are abnormal, there must be a demon. Zhou Lang tried to scare Xiao Xi, instinctively backing away until his back was pressed against the large wooden tub.

He didn't believe that Xiao Xi was an artifact spirit of a copper coin. He was a college student, after all; how could he believe in such a cliché thing?

"It is my honor to perform Dual Cultivation with Master," Xiao Xi said seriously, as if serving Zhou Lang was a matter of course.

"The copper coin is an ancestral heirloom; could it really be some kind of treasure?"

Looking at Xiao Xi's sincere face, she didn't seem to be playing a prank, and Zhou Lang began to have some doubts.

He had clearly been sleeping in his dormitory bed, so how did he end up here? And there was a peerless beauty naked, wanting to scrub his back; this was completely unexplainable!

"Master, let's start quickly. There are many medicinal ingredients in this water, and if the water gets cold, the effect won't be as good." Seeing Zhou Lang dazed, Xiao Xi couldn't help but urge him.

"Ahem, Xiao Xi… I'll scrub myself."

Zhou Lang was still a virgin. After regaining his senses, he didn't dare to look directly at Xiao Xi and said somewhat awkwardly. At his age, he usually longed to be intimate with a beautiful woman, but when such "happiness" came too suddenly, he was at a loss.

"Master, I have discovered that your physical fitness is too poor. While scrubbing you, I must also use True Qi to cleanse your marrow and wash your hair, otherwise, you will never be able to Cultivate the Dual Cultivation Manual left behind by your Old Ancestor, that is, your ancestor."

Xiao Xi said.

"Dual Cultivation Manual? What is that? It sounds closely related to relations between men and women; it wouldn't be some secret bedchamber technique, would it? Why didn't my Old Ancestor leave me anything good instead of this? There's plenty of this stuff around…"

Zhou Lang's mind started wandering, but men are naturally lustful, and it's only right. Since a beauty was offering to scrub him, it would be a waste not to accept. After a slight hesitation, he nodded.

Xiao Xi really was like a maid, kneeling in front of Zhou Lang. Her soft, boneless hands wandered over Zhou Lang's body from time to time. Zhou Lang's whole body was trembling; it was both a kind of pleasure and a kind of torture…

Damn, so this is what it feels like to be touched by a beautiful woman; he was so happy he fainted!

…

The next morning, the sun was shining brightly. Zhou Lang woke up and found himself still sleeping in the dormitory.

"So it was just a wet dream."

He touched the ancient copper coin hanging around his neck and smiled self-deprecatingly.

But soon, the smile on his face froze. Because when he got up and looked in the mirror, he was surprised to find that all the bruises on his body were gone. He touched the injuries from yesterday, and they didn't hurt at all. On his bed lay an antique thread-bound book, with four seal script characters on the cover: Dual Cultivation Manual.

"Oh my god, last night wasn't a dream?"

Zhou Lang was stunned. If it were a dream, how could he explain that his injuries healed overnight, and there was this extra Dual Cultivation Manual that Xiao Xi had mentioned in his dream?

Zhou Lang couldn't wait to open the Dual Cultivation Manual. Although it was written in traditional characters, he could still understand it.

The more he read, the more excited he became. This Dual Cultivation Manual contained a wide variety of things. In addition to miraculous Medical Skills and powerful martial arts, there were all kinds of magical arts: clairvoyance, invisibility, wall-passing, talismans, divination, and techniques for Dual Cultivation between men and women… everything was there. The book even described that when one reached a high level of cultivation, one could fly, burrow into the earth, and do anything.

"Oh heaven, could my Old Ancestor be an immortal? To have actually left behind such a supreme treasure."

Zhou Lang was overjoyed. Last night, he had been humiliated by Ye Qianqian and beaten up by Nie Yuanxiong's people. He had felt that he would never have the capital to settle scores with this pair of scoundrels in this life, but if he learned the magical arts from the Dual Cultivation Manual, what would dealing with these two people be?

He started fantasizing in his heart. If he had known that the beautiful Xiao Xi from last night was his servant and wouldn't mind performing Dual Cultivation with him, he should have practiced it properly. After all, among the four people in his dormitory, he was the only virgin, often teased by the other three guys.

After hurriedly washing up, Zhou Lang didn't even use hot water to soak his instant noodles; he just ate a dry pack and then carefully studied the Dual Cultivation Manual.

But after reading the general summary, he became a little disappointed.

According to the book, to Cultivate the Dual Cultivation Manual, one must proceed step by step. First, one must practice martial arts, and only when the Realm is sufficient can one learn various magical arts.

However, the path of martial arts is divided into four levels: Martial Apprentice, Martial Artist, Master, and Grandmaster. People with average Aptitude, in their entire lives, would likely only reach the cultivation of a Martial Artist. Those with higher talent, after practicing for twenty or thirty years, might reach the Realm of a "Master," while those who can become a Grandmaster are Geniuses, one in ten thousand.

No matter how high one's martial arts skills are, they still fear a kitchen knife. Moreover, this is an era of firearms. Even if one Cultivates to the Grandmaster level, it is estimated that one still cannot defeat a bullet. Spending all his energy on this, Zhou Lang felt the risk was too great.

"Is there no shortcut in this lousy book?" Zhou Lang threw the Dual Cultivation Manual onto the bed and became annoyed.

"Master, you don't have to be discouraged."

Suddenly, the ancient copper coin hanging around his neck flashed with five-colored light, and a beautiful woman wrapped only in a bath towel appeared before him. Who else could it be but Xiao Xi, who claimed to be his maid?

The bath towel Xiao Xi was wrapped in was not modern. Strictly speaking, it was just a piece of white cloth, less than half the width of a normal bath towel, just barely covering the middle part of Xiao Xi's body. The mounds on her chest were only half-covered, and below, her snow-white legs, from the top of the thighs down, were completely exposed.

"Xiao Xi, why did you come out dressed like that?"

Zhou Lang glanced a few times at the "hemispheres" Xiao Xi had exposed and said quickly.

This is a male dormitory, after all. Although it was summer vacation, the dormitory manager auntie would occasionally come to check the rooms. If she saw a scantily-clad beauty in the dormitory, she would definitely think he had brought his girlfriend or someone to spend the night, and it would cause a huge scandal.