"Ugh…"
Xiao Mo groaned in pain as he regained consciousness. He held his forehead and blinked a few times.
It took a while for his eyes to adjust to his surroundings, but when it did, a wave of confusion hit him.
"Huh? Where am I?"
Xiao Mo also felt that his head was resting on something. When he reached behind him to feel what it was, he realized it was a person's leg.
This made him quickly sit up from shock. However, when his eyes scanned over the veiled figure in blue robes, memories from before he fell unconscious came rushing back to him.
"Damn it, that's right. I was poisoned by this Demoness!"
Finally recalling the situation, Xiao Mo's anger was reignited. He glanced out through the window, which was slightly open, and saw that the moon was still high in the sky. Judging by its current position, he concluded only a few hours had passed while he was unconscious.
"It's a good thing she doesn't know my true cultivation; she gave me the wrong dosage of the Night Demon Poison thinking I was only a Second-rate Martial Artist."
Xiao Mo snorted, but he quickly spotted the Severing Dual Cultivation Technique Manual on the bed next to him. Upon seeing it, he couldn't help but let out an angry laugh.
But there was also a bit of amusement in his heart because it happened to be this particular Technique.
"To think there would come a day when a girl would try to use the Dual Cultivation Technique Second Brother created on me."
Xiao Mo picked up the manual and despite his anger, a slight smile couldn't help but form at the corner of his lips.
With nostalgia, he opened the manual to check its contents.
"Hm, indeed, this is one of the techniques Second Brother secretly created and showed me back then."
Xiao Mo's Second Older Brother, Yoon-min, was a rare cultivation genius. When he was only fifteen years old, he had reached the peak of the Innate Master Realm.
That was the current realm Xiao Mo himself was in at the age of eighteen. But if one didn't compare him to his brother in terms of cultivation speed, he could be considered top five in any generation, past and present.
The reason for his Second Brother's abnormal cultivation speed was that he had inherited a strong portion of their Ancestral Bloodline. This was the bloodline they shared with the Royal Family and it originated from the Second Son of Han Mo, the mysterious cultivator who killed the first Heavenly Demon several hundred years ago.
However, while his Second Brother was well known in the outside world for having a terrifyingly fast cultivation speed, not many people knew that his comprehension of Techniques was almost of a similar level.
With this talent, he was able to create several Techniques with only a bit of effort.
When he was little, Xiao Mo would visit Yoon-min's courtyard to observe his brother as he dazed out for hours on end dissecting and combining numerous Techniques in his mind to create his own. And they were by no means weak.
This Severing Dual Cultivation Technique was one of those Cultivation Techniques his brother had created on a whim.
As for why it had appeared here in the Demonic Cult. Well…
Xiao Mo's expression became strange as he recalled his Second Brother's weird personality.
In the outside world, he was known as a monster-level genius and was given the moniker 'Gentle Little Monk' due to his peaceful and amicable attitude he had towards everyone he interacted with.
He was a genius with a strong background, but he was neither arrogant nor overbearing. And because of this, he was admired by thousands.
Like a monk, he always wore an unchanging smiling expression on his face as if he wanted to save the masses from suffering.
But perhaps only Xiao Mo himself knew that his Second Brother was as far removed from the definition of a 'gentle monk' just as fire could not be called water.
He was playful by nature and extremely opinionated. Once he made up his mind on something only their mother could make him change it.
Xiao Mo had been made to cry numerous times by him because of his excessive teasing. And because he was so little back then, a simple apology and a piece of candy from his Second Brother would make him go running back to him with tear-stained cheeks.
But even though his Second Brother had only ever shown this playful nature to him, it extended far beyond that and to the Techniques he created.
This Severing Dual Cultivation Technique in Xiao Mo's hand was one such Technique. It was created by his Second Brother after he overheard rumors that the Young Master of the Peng Clan was someone who loved sleeping around with his maids.
As the name suggests, the Technique was a Dual Cultivation method that can be cultivated by a man and a woman during intercourse to increase their cultivation speed by severalfold than if they were to cultivate alone.
However, the 'Severing' in this Technique's name was very important as his Second Brother had added a feature to the Technique.
Xiao Mo still couldn't grasp how his brother did it since his comprehension talent only encompassed the sword, but his brother had somehow made it so that if a couple used this Dual Cultivation Technique during intercourse, then the man's libido would forever be tied to the woman's Spiritual Qi and lifeforce.
One's Spiritual Qi and lifeforce were unique to a person, so this technique could essentially make it impossible for a man to bed a second woman. His manhood would lose all function if he tried.
But what was even worse was that his brother also made it so that the man didn't have to cultivate the Severing Dual Cultivation Technique for this effect to kick in, just the woman cultivating it was necessary.
So, needless to say, after his Second Brother created this Technique and slipped it to the maids in the Peng Clan, the entire Peng Clan was in an uproar when it was revealed that the future Head of the Clan's libido was now tied to a maid while being impotent for any other women.
It was only after an investigation that it was revealed that it was due to the Dual Cultivation Technique cultivated by the maid. As to whom gave her this Technique, the maid did not know. And as for whether she knew the effects of this Technique, the maid vehemently denied she knew.
"She knew because I told her!"
Xiao Mo recalled his brother once saying right before he burst into hysterical laughter.
But he laughed even harder when his Dual Cultivation Technique started to spread throughout Jianghu, with several playboys from the Clans and Sects in the Heavenly Murim Alliance, as well as numerous lustful adults becoming victims.
It especially devastated the brothel industry, wiping out at least ninety-five percent of them, leaving only the big ones remaining. And even then, those big ones had to start heavily screening their courtesans every few days; screening that hasn't lessened even to this very day eight years later.