My Own Rules (46)
"Urggh" Ruvan finally separated his hand, letting the poor man fall to the ground. The poor guy's appearance was completely terrifying; after all he had gone from a healthy, muscular man to a completely skeletal one.
"How was it?" Xiong Mei asked when she saw Ruvan standing with his eyes closed.
"Incredible... I can feel how that guy's Yang energy directly feeds my Dantian," Ruvan said with some amazement. Although he had learned of the benefits of the technique in the small training he had with Azkabar, it was nothing compared to experiencing it in the real world.
"Who was this person?" Ruvan asked with some interest as he looked at the bag of bones lying on the floor. Although it seemed too late to ask, he still wanted to know.
"He was a local governor… Quite cruel if you ask me," Xiong Mei said briefly.
"Mmm I see…"
"What happens with the rest?"
"Most of them are criminals except for a few," said Xiong Mei as she watched with interest as Ruvan was going to act with the rest of the captives.
"Mmm that kid is too young…" Ruvan said while excluding a poor trembling teenager.
"Now the rest seem to be fine," Ruvan murmured as he continued to devour the energy of the captives.
After almost two hours, Ruvan had finally finished devouring the energy of all the men in the room, except for the one boy he had decided to forgive.
"Now it's the women's turn... You must hurry if you don't want the excess Yang energy in your body to cause you any injury," Xiong Mei warned seriously after Dual Cultivation was all about the balance between both energies.
In front of Ruvan there were women of all ages and appearances, however, most of them were quite experienced mature women, some of them had undoubtedly already exceeded three hundred years of age.
"Most of these women are criminals or murderers that I met along the way…" Xiong Mei said.
"There are very few…"
"I know… It's not easy to find competent women in a place as miserable as this" Xiong Mei answered with some frustration. Xiong Mei had even delegated the search to her bodyguard Natia to cover more territory.
After almost a month only this small group of women present had managed to meet the minimum standards that Ruvan required.
"Mmm, most of these women seem to have been cruel and ruthless people in their lives," Ruvan murmured as he noticed the murderous aura that surrounded many of the women present.
"Lord, please have mercy," said a woman with a trembling face. Although they were covering their eyes they could still hear the content of Ruvan's conversation with Xiong Mei after all none of them had bothered to hide it.
Among the women present only two small teenage girls seemed to be completely innocent among that flock of evil sheep.
"Hmm, What about these two girls?" Ruvan asked curiously as he saw two small teenagers among the crowd of women.
"They were captured by my subordinate… According to what she told me, they were both being held by a local Sect Master… it seems that he wanted to cultivate with them."
"As you can perceive, the Yin Qi is greater in them than in other women…"
"This is because they both have a special Yin physique…" Xiong Mei said with a half-smile…
"This is indeed a pleasant surprise" Ruvan murmured… At this moment they both decided to speak through a spiritual transmission to prevent the pair of girls from hearing the content of the conversation.
"Very well then I will start with these women…" Ruvan said as he placed his hand on the thin chest of an unattractive looking woman.
'I admit that I don't like applying this technique on women but unfortunately I have consumed too much Yang energy not to do it...'
'At least none of these women here seem to be innocent except for those two girls and there are none attractive enough to tempt me to forgive them either.'
'Sorry girls but life is cruel...' Ruvan muttered internally with a smile before starting to devour (literally) the Yin Qi of their bodies.
Although Ruvan always tended to show weakness for women, this did not mean that he was blind to them. Many women were captured and enslaved by Ruvan as long as he felt there was a reason to do so.
'Mmmm sometimes I feel like I have a double standard hahahaha'
Little by little the women were consumed in the room until finally two little sisters were left completely trembling.
Although they both had eyes their hearing was still available. They were both aware of what was happening around them.
"Tap" "Tap" "Tap" Ruvan little by little began to walk in the direction of both sisters while the latter pressed against the walls of the cave.
Finally when Ruvan stood in front of them a particular smell invaded his nostrils. To be more precise, it was a smell of ammonia, which began to emerge from the bottom of the two girls' dresses. Soon two small puddles were under the trembling girls' feet.
You didn't have to be a genius to know that the two poor girls had wet themselves out of fear...
"Damn… Calm down girls… I don't mean to hurt any of you" said Ruvan as he removed the bandages that covered their eyes.
Both girls blinked for a while until finally their vision stabilized, seeing an attractive young man with golden eyes who looked at them with a friendly smile.
"Well Ruvan? "You don't intend to consume them?" Xiong Mei asked with an annoyed tone.
"Not…"
"How not? You know that both are valuable cultivation resources" Xiong Mei replied.
"I know… But I also have my own rules" Ruvan said with a definitive tone.
"I see… I will respect your decision then as long as this does not cause us any harm" Xiong Mei said with an indifferent tone. What Ruvan didn't know was that a small smile had appeared under her veil.
'This guy is the one...'
'Despite temptation he remained firm in his principles'
Xiong Mei had prepared two baits for Ruvan. One was the little teenager and the other was this pair of sisters. The three of them were innocent young men who had special physiques… Xiong Mei's idea was to see if Ruvan had the willpower to resist the temptation of power or if he would simply end up succumbing to the temptation.
'If Ruvan had chosen to consume any of these youths I would have had no other option but to kill him...'
'I have already experienced firsthand what ambition can do to good men... I no longer have enough strength to go through that again.'
'Although my thirst for revenge is great, I will not let it cloud my judgment,' Xiong Mei muttered to herself, after all she was not an evil cultivator despite her apparent coldness.