Another year has passed inside the Tower, and several hours outside. This 1000 times speed enhancement is so unfair, allowing me to achieve a great deal of things while someone else simply took a night's sleep.

  I had three Artisan fields to focus on, Pill Refining, Blacksmithing and Formations, and each would take someone else a thousand years to master properly. At most, it would take me a year with a great teacher like Granpda Heavengaze to help.

  And while Bai lacks the Artisan perk and is mostly focused on sect stuff like fighting and gossip, I began to create a training plan for her, including bits of Body Transformation methods adapted from my Houtian techniques, and some better stuff suggested by the old ghost.

  Some things would be familiar to a modern man, like running, lifting weights and getting boiled in medicinal baths. Other stuff like getting beat up with an iron pole or jumping from great heights might seem outlandish, but they were also the norm in this cultivation world. Even punching rocks and plates of metal wasn't a big deal. Adding some healing pills and my special dick liquid to the diet completed the training schedule, and it worked wonders for Bai. In a single year, she climbed two levels in body cultivation, although even Grandpa was unsure if this was our efforts or her amazing bloodline helping from within.

  I followed mostly the same schedule, excluding drinking my own liquids. Instead I simply ate pills, herbs and spirit stones, beside the Spirit Feast meals, and gained the same result. Level three in body cultivation, which is not too shabby.

  However, proper cultivation meant accumulating qi inside your dantian, and raising the levels of Essence Gathering, or the Qi Path of cultivation. This was the most common path among humans, and the one with the flashiest results, from flying to elemental spells and many more tricks. Sword skills also mostly used the Qi Path, for the simple reason that Sword Qi was the result of the conversion of unaspected qi. Technically, one could use a sword with brute force only, and some primitive cultures did that, but they couldn't get the same results, not without sword qi.

  Lastly, the Soul Forging cultivation, or the Soul path, was way more difficult and esoteric than the straight forward methods above. One can cultivate the soul in numerous ways, from ethics and morality towards enlightenment, or via soul domination and soul slaves, or even beast taming. I tried a mild approach of a moral life and dual cultivation, but so far my soul cultivation did not increase much. Not even a level in three years. I'm quite certain my Grandpa ghost would know where I failed, but I don't want to ask. I wouldn't like his answer anyway.

  Thus, instead, I turned my attention to my Artisan origin, since it is well-known that alchemists and blacksmiths have strong souls.

  With a fresh batch of herbs from my treasure garden, I struggled to create more pills, and hopefully fail a bit less in my Pill Refinement.

  My background already covered Houtian level pills, so with the help of my Saint Realm soul the Houtian pills all emerged at top quality. Sometimes I even got the rare cloud pills, which got clouds shapes printed on their exterior.

  'Body strengthening pill, Houtian Realm. Top quality. Worth 500 spirit stones.' I read with my Discerning Eyes as I observed the pill in my hand.

  "You should stop wasting time with low level pills, Young Master. Your time is more valuable than a few spirit stones you would gain from selling that." Grandpa advised me with a bored voice.

  The old ghost was always right, with the benefit of his billions of years of failures becoming true wisdom.

  "Cloud pills are worth 1000 spirit stones though. Too bad they only appear when stars align." I muttered and stored the pill in my ring.

  Grandpa ghost smirked and looked up at the fake sky of the Tower. "I'm quite amazed you deduced that without having a real sky to look at. It took me 300 years to learn this." he noted in a surprised voice.

  I looked at him and blinked. I was being sarcastic, but if astrology somehow altered the results of my pill refining, it could be important. Or maybe it was not astrology...but some kind of cultivation world astronomy?

  "The Sun is Yang and the Moon is Yin, that kind of stuff?" I asked to make sure.

  "Correct, for low level pills the main celestial bodies nearby can influence the Yin-Yang balance and the quality of the pill. Higher realm pills do require some expertise in starfield topology and exotic fields." the old ghost explained patiently, and used his finger to draw a rhombic structure in midair, with a few thin tendrils continuing at the corners.

  I frowned, using my Perfect Memory to scan my first life knowledge. "Is that your Pearl Sea Starfield?" I wondered with a keen voice.

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  Grandpa nodded and expanded the drawing to focus on a certain corner and the emerging tendril made of galaxies. "This is the Pearly Gate zone, where I died long ago. It is not a single gate, of course. More like a war zone filled with star castles and war fleets. And armies so large they warp gravity with their presence." he said in a distant tone.

  My mind instantly connected to older memories of Master of Orion and Stellaris. "It's a choke-point at the entrance into the starfield!" I deduced with my brilliant mind.

  The drawing vanished and grandpa turned away. "Divine soldiers die by the trillions to defend the gates, and allow civilians and artisans to live and work in peace. Now start with Xiantian Realm pills and stop wasting the time I've bought for you."

  Cosmic horror aside, the drawing gave me a purpose in my new life. A single planet like the one I lived on was but a spec of dust in a single galaxy, and a cosmic starfield like I just saw would have a trillion galaxies inside. There would be innumerable jade beauties to collect for my future harem. The world size pocket dimension of my Tower might not be big enough.

  With new energy and clarity of purpose, I took out new herbs and began refining a set of Xiantian pills. My future girls will need those pills to cultivate faster!

  ....

  ...

  Bai emerged from her Combat Array with a glowing face, having just killed the seventh Saint ghost, before she 'died'. Finally some progress.

  "Grandpa! I killed seven!" she exclaimed while looking around for Pef, to get some praise and pampering.

  "Pef is making pills now. And I told you before, 50 of these simulated enemies are the minimum you need, to survive outside. But the array can expand to real size gate battles with billions of Divine soldiers. How long can you last in such a battle?" the old ghost asked in a mild voice, and shook his head.

  Bai hesitated, then glanced down. "I thought I was betting better..." she muttered in dismay.

  Grandpa ghost just stared at her with a raised eyebrow. His silence was worse than getting a bad mark.

  "I will get better, Grandpa! Just need to advance my sword technique." Bai promised with a serious voice.

  The Combat Array reset and Bai drew her sword once more. She wasn't tired yet, she could fight a dozen more rounds.

  ....

  ...

  Much later, I stared at the burned pill in my alchemist cauldron, going over the reasons I could have failed.

  "Leave and go feed Miss Bai. You haven't failed enough to deduce the reason." the old ghost spoke from behind.

  I threw the failed pill into the full trashcan, then jumped out the window while circulating my qi. Three seconds later, I landed painfully on the hard stones of the plaza and found Bai waiting at the rustic table I crafted from wood logs.

  "You killed seven today! Good job!" I exclaimed and hugged my girl in a praising voice.

  "You can kill 15 already. I'm too slow." Bai muttered, a bit upset.

  I just kissed her forehead and began setting the table with the Spirit meals from my chest. "We'll get there, sweet Bai. We have time to train." I answered in a careless tone, and begun wolfing down the energy-filled dishes.

  Bai ate even faster, then took out a waterskin and drank it all, in one long gulp. My eyes locked on her neck, and the enticing swallowing motions.

  "Bai, I want to do things with you..." I whispered in a horny voice.

  She blushed and nodded shyly. "Hm. I don't mind." she spoke in a soft voice and looking down.

  I took her in my arms and flew on my sword to my room, then laid in bed beside her. "You know I love you, right?" I asked in a teasing voice, and kissed her neck.

  "The Combat Array can expand to a billion enemies. Divine soldiers." she said in a sad voice, while my hands opened her robe to liberate her soft white puppies.

  "Yeah. We'll get there one day. Maybe fight in front of the Pearly Gate against cosmic horrors. But not yet. Tonight it is just you and me, love." I answered in a kind tone, then sought her warm lips with mine.

  "Just don't leave me behind..." she pleaded in a warmer voice.

  My mouth descended lower on her neck, then her breasts, making Bai gasp in pleasure. "You think I would ever leave you? Silly girl." I admonished her and smacked her ass as punishment.

  "There will be many pretty girls outside. Maybe more talented than me." she argued a bit wary.

  I stopped for a second, and simply played with her breasts while staring in her eyes. "My heart is big enough, love. And there's room in my Tower for plenty girls, I won't need to leave anyone behind." I argued with a pure heart.

  Bai laughed and poked my forehead. "You big idiot! That's not how you woo a girl" she admonished me with a big grin.

  I drew my pants down to let my little brother get some air. "Oh? You don't want my thing anymore?" I asked rhetorical as her face grew hot and horny at the sight.

  "I'll just drain you dry and you won't need another girl." she spoke in a convinced tone, and dove down to gulp me whole.

  I smiled and teased her hard nipples, while she pumped her head up and down my shaft. Drain me dry? A Saint could go for days without problems. A Divine cultivator might go for years. And higher realms, who knows?

  "Turn over!" I demanded and helped her roll around with her face and breasts up. Then I plunged my dick deep into her throat, and grabbed her breasts like handles.

  Bai worried for nothing. Why would I leave a pretty babe with the body of saintess? And things would get even better once she ascended to Divinity.

  Hearing Bai gasping and sloberring over my dick made me even more excited, and my glands burst with qi enhanced liquid into her mouth.

  She obediently drank it all, then climbed into my arms to get hugged and pampered.

  "You liked that?" I asked with a tiny smirk.

  "Drained you dry, like promised. We'll have proper sex once we ascend, right?" she asked in a hopeful voice.

  "Of course. And a dozen kids at least. This Tower is quite empty." I promised and got kissed fiercely for it. Seems she wants kids too, one day.

  My dick sprang back to action, and Bai giggled. "Just lay down and relax. I'll help you drain those big balls." she urged me and lowered herself to pleasure me once more.

  I held her long white hair in my hands, and let her have fun with my wet dick, while my mind drifted towards the starfields above.

  One day I might roam the universe and see the Pearly Gates with my own eyes.