Josie suffered all night soaking in a fire essence bath to build up her fire affinity and master suggested I take her to scout the nearby city before he joins us later to do some shopping. He in a mood to forge a weapon for Josie, so I drag her over to the city for some fun. Josie knows the city quite well having been their a few times already, and quickly shows me her favorite places.

I take notes on where cultivators hang out, especially the Tavern of Guilty Pleasures that specializes in cultivation wines and rare spiritual fruits. I also spotted a few high end clothing stores for men, but I know master likes to window shop to see what men's fashions are like as we travel. He makes his own clothes, since he rarely finds anything he likes at the stores.

As for me, I smile at the few stores I marked that want to drag master into give him a show. I just love watching his face brighten up whenever I display a new outfit for him, especially those of the more naughty kind. Since he reached mid stage eight, he has been spending more time with me and rarely bothers with cultivating. He just chews on his resources these days, which I don't mind, spending more time with master makes me happier.

I've also starting turning my stomach to help refine resources, but my body crafting techique is only at early stage four and chewing on tier seven resources is a bit tough. Master is working on getting the materials to help me get mid stage, but it's probably going to take a while since body crafting materials are so rare in this world.

While running around with Josie, we were stopped by a group of men, the elder speaks to me with "young lady, be honored and serve my son!" I sense the bystanders feel sorry for me and even go so far as whisper how unlucky I am for meeting these people. They must have done this before and must have some background to force girls to serve his son.

I glance at the beaming young brat next to him and respond "no thanks! I already have a master!" and secretly snap an I'm in danger jade when I sense the elder show his early stage eight cultivation in response to my refusal. Then I summoned a protection token into my hand and then decided to poke with "besides, your brat is too scrawny for my tastes and his trashy early stage six cultivation is an eyesore."

The growing crowd is a bit shock at my boldness, but I don't care, master will be here soon. I drag Josie close to me as I activate the protection token as soon as I sense the elder start powering up a battle skill. A golden formation fly out of the protection token to create barrier around me and Josie. It's a transparent golden armored fire serpent that coils around us protectively and it's head rears above us hissing out in anger as the elder smashes his fist against it armored coils.

As the user of the protection jade I had just snapped to activate, I can see some of the restrictions and also can see though it's outer appearance to see that insides nothing but living lava. As I peer at the core I see an fragment of the soul of a living lava, I see it draw tremendous power from the layers and twist and weave the qi into the proper forms to initial the final charge of an mid stage eight defense skill.

The elder is complete shocked as his fist bounces off harmlessly against the formation protecting the scales, but I can see his right fist is smoldering from the contact. On closer inspection I see his knuckles are charred black and the stench of burning flesh sudden fills the air. I see the elder gather more qi into his fist for another punch when I hear "die bastard!"

Turning towards master's voice I see him still stepping out of a portal unleashing his attack. It's the peak stage eight battle skill Infernal Dragon that I watch him practice over the past month that he purchased from the last major auction house. I watch the serpentine dragon of fire and qi roar out from point blank range and engulf the startled elder caught in mid punch.

The last thing I saw was his face had drained of color and his eyes grow wide in fright. I watch the Infernal Dragon soar into the sky and explode causing the temperature to sharply rise to nearly unbearable levels for several breaths of time. I watch people rush into buildings to avoid the heat wave, while stronger cultivators rush on over to see what the excitement was all about.

When I glance over to where the elder was standing I see a pair of legs still standing charred down to below the knees and the remains of the right arm burnt down to just the hand and wrist. The rest of the body is just gone, burned to ash in an instant.

I watch master's oppressive might force down the trashy son and his clansmen to the ground while he makes a grabbing motion. An instant later I see the elder's soul has been captured and placed into a soul cage as it screams for mercy. But master never shows mercy when they try to bully me, so I happily give master a flying hug and shout out "master! The old coot wanted me to serve his trashy son!"

I watch master's happy face from my hug go cold and I glance at the trash and his clansmen to see them crush into a pools of gore. Then his right hand begins to pet me possessively and then adds "don't worry your pretty head, I'll always come to your rescue." Then he pulls out a early tier eight sword and announces "fellow stage eight cultivators, I forged this weapon recently," and displays it for all to see. I'll give it to the one who swears to destroy this idiot's clan," and points the sword to the remains.

An instant later a man appears next to the remains with cup hands and a bow "young master! My clan has been feuding with this refuse" and gestures towards the remains, "for generations. Now that you killed their clan lord, please allow me and my clan to finish the job! I swear on my ancestors, not a single one will remain alive by the end of the day in this city!"

I watch master nods in approval and tosses the sword over "that's good enough for me, take this sword and test it's edge." I watch the expert catch the new sword and swing it experimentally and see the after images of the blade continue to shatter the space. The expert's expression went from open curiosity to out right joy and pronounces "what a great blade! Much better than what I am using. Thank you young master!" and bow deeply in gratitude.

Masters return was "if your really feeling grateful, then begin your hunt, how dare they bully my disciple!" I bury me head into my master chest while hugging him even tighter, because I never want to let him go when he acts like this.

The expert shouts "at once young master!" and bolts away while yelling at his men "someone go gather the clan for war, the rest of you follow me!"

Master continues to pet me until I calm down before asking "shall we go shopping? Or do you want to head back to Josie's sect?"

I don't care either way, but the thought of putting on a fashion show for his smiles wins in the end and I ask "can we go shopping?"

Master nods in approval and continues with "sure we can, it's what we planned to do today. I just wasn't sure you were up to it after this" and waves absently at the remains.

So I go with "as long as your with me master, I feel better already!" and snuggle his left arm between my breasts as I drag him to a near by mens clothing store where I saw an outfit that would look good on him. He smiles at the outfit, but I can see he has memorize the cut and style, which is all I wanted him to do.

He give me his hopeless smile as he allows me to drag him to the stores I wanted to visit today. I feel sorry for Josie, but she keeps up a good poker face and tries to have a good time too. I can see that she is jelly of me, as she can see how my master takes such good care of me.

In public with master I always show him the perfect adoring lover and he seems to enjoy it and even willing to play the fawning master role with growing expertise. But in private, when I roleplay for him in other personas, it really gets him excited. Just thinking of how I can excite him makes me ponder what to roleplay next, I just wish he would do the same for me.

I enjoy putting on shows for him in a few stores, he always tells me which outfits that he likes on me. Personally I don't care if he buys them for me, I just wanted to see him smile as I play dress up and hear him praise me for looking adorable.

Josie also tries to dress up along with me, but I can tell she not used to displaying herself in front of a man. I can see master plays along and tries not to embarrass her too much, I can tell from the spiritual link that he is just humoring her because of me. I can tell he doesn't think too much of her, but hides it well as he gives praise to outfits that do look good on her. In the end he buys all the outfits he likes for me and Josie, he tosses low level cultivation resources by the hand fulls for payment. The shopkeepers simple gawk at master in disbelief because he overpays by a huge margin and thinks nothing of it.

I can tell master is in a good mood, because I can feel him enjoying the day rathering than thinking of crafting something or on cultivation. So I ask master though telepathy why he is in a good mood and his reply was taking a break on cultivation and relaxing his mind. He is still chewing on resources like candy, but I can tell it's more out of habit since his daily intake has drop to about half.

Eventually we ended up at the Tavern of Guilty Pleasures and I can tell master is excited to be at our last stop for the day. Master leaks out stage eight cultivation as we enter and the hostess began with "it is an honor to serve you today young master!" and we were led back to a garden where experts sat enjoying their wine and fruits.

Master is looking above the garden, so I focus my eyes as well and slowly I see tell tale signs for formations surrounding the entire garden. I think I see a privacy barrier as well as the normal protective barrier. But it's very powerful, well beyond my means to fully see and understand.

However master is studying the formations as we wait for first jug of cultivation wine to arrive. So I don't bother master and chat with Josie until master finish studying the formations. It didn't take long, so I ask "master, do you learn anything from the formations?"

He smiles and provides "yes, I was able to decipher most of it and memorized the rest for later," then I see him levitate a spiritual fruit from the bowl on the table and slice it up with tiny qi blades and feeds me a slice. Which I happily ate and thus began a new game of feeding each other until the wine arrives.

Then the owner of the tavern arrives very best jug of cultivation wine they could offer. The owner is stage eight cultivator and has an alchemist badge indicating he has mastered tier six alchemy and offers up "greeting fellow cultivators, my name is Laughing Drunk" and grins at us and continues "this is my best jug of wine, I hope the young master appreciates it."

Master grins back and takes a chug from the jug, then closes he eyes and after a bit shows a smile and answers "good wine! I see you use Athea Berries as a base and Kolathian Snow Apples to smooth the bitterness. I would recommend Kylarik Fireberry or two to give it some added kick, but that's my preference," and gives Laughing Drunk a grin back.

Of course Laughing Drunk rubs his chin with his right hand in thought and soon replies "that a good idea! I take it you make your own cultivation wines?"

Master laughs and provides "I learned a thing or two from my master," and pulls out a jug from his ring and continues with "this is from my last batch and is ready for a taste test" and fills four glasses. Of course I grab two and hand one to Josie and tell her "master's cultivation wines are the best!"

As I drink the semi sweet wine with sleight fiery kick to it, I feel my cultivation raise a little and my spiritual force strengthen a bit as well. I keep my eyes on the owner to see his reaction, and he didn't disappoint as he utters "what a great wine! It even strengthen spiritual force!" Then he gives a deep respectful bow to master.