Chapter 187: Bonus Chapter: A Massage [R-18]

The woman with a sultry voice soon introduced herself as Su Min, and was very eager to present anything and everything that the massage parlour offered.

She might have been very effective in her explanations, for all Zhi Qiu Ya knew, but she found it difficult to listen to. On one hand, she had her bestial side, or perhaps just her amplified personal desires, causing her to focus on every smell and sound that her sensitive nose was able to pick up, with there being plenty to perceive within the structure. On the other, there was the fact that this woman was quite attractive, and her boosted instincts made her want to leap onto her and do… something.

Frankly, she wasn’t sure what, since those feelings were rather vague. Even when her other side had been given charge, prior to Wei Yi’s arrival at the Brotherhood of Power, it never quite committed to any particular course of action. Seeing as it was apparently born from her own mind, it made some sense, seeing as she knew little about the topic as well.

Her exhaustion wasn’t helping much either, as both physical and mental fatigue made it all the more difficult to force herself to focus upon certain things.

“… and here we are. As promised, I could give you the full, one hundred percent discount on a luxurious, delightful massage that even Patriarchs would die for,” Su Min said, finally reaching the wolven woman, pausing before muttering, “Was it actually Patriarchs? What do they have out there…”

“Yes, Patriarchs, mostly. Some of the districts may have Matriarchs, but… I don’t know…”

“Oh no, that’s fine. Luckily, here, everything is very simple. Our ruler is Wei Yi, the Moon Splitter, and whatever she says goes.”

“Oh? I mean, ehm, I hadn’t known about that. I haven’t been here long.”

“You don’t need to say the same thing twice, you know,” Su Min smiled, guiding her gaze to the side with a wave of her hand, “Let’s begin with the massage, and we can converse during it, if you please. There’s the changing room, so take off everything on you and put on the underwear provided.”

“Everything? Underwear?”

“Yes, our business has underwear provided by the best tailor and designed in the Kong Prison Realm, Fu Zan. He is an absolute genius, in my personal and professional opinion,” the woman explained eagerly, her hands falling to her skirt for a moment before she seemed to reconsider whatever she had intended, “As for the massage, how would I be able to do it correctly through stuffy layers of clothing? Also, would you want them to get messed up by the oil I’ll be using?”

‘Oil? What is… Oh, forget it. This place listens to Wei Yi, and I have decided to trust her, so I should be able to get out of anything they try to do if I so choose,’ Zhi Qiu Ya decided, stepping towards the changing room, “Please don’t look at me with spiritual perception while I change.”

“Spiritual perception? What’s… ah, that. Don’t worry about it.”

 Zhi Qiu Ya tilted her head in confusion, but then remembered hearing something about the different forms of cultivation practised within the Kong Prison Realm. From that, it quickly became clear that the sultry woman might not be capable of, or particularly knowledgeable about the aspects of spiritual perception that were more commonly known among the people of the Planar Continents.

Hence, she proceeded into the changing room. After shutting the curtains behind herself, and taking a longer time than she’d like to admit attempting to look through it to confirm it was fully opaque, she removed her clothing and underwear, then looked to what would serve as the temporary replacement.

‘She wasn’t lying when she said the creator was unique,’ Zhi Qiu Ya noted as she lifted up the panties by the sides, stretching them apart and finding their coverage to be rather minimal.

Due to the limitations of common tailors in the Planar Continents, most underwear was simple and loose, as to permit as many people to purchase and wear it. Only specific orders with precise measurements could allow for more precision, and that tended not to be worthwhile unless the customer was at least moderately wealthy, especially if they were a cultivator. In that case, they would either require a valuable and powerful material, or enough spare bras and panties to swap to after fights.

Elastic materials weren’t common, and making inscriptions or artefacts that would adjust to the wearer’s size was usually limited to armour or outer clothing, so that wasn’t an option available to most, either.

However, the tailor of the prison realm appeared to lack those limitations, for the panties were made from a soft, stretchy fabric that managed to retain a semblance of opacity even at their limit. There was a certain similarity with the bras she found, though they only offered a flexible strap, instead opting for multiple sizes to suit the customers of the massage parlour.

With some hesitation, the white-haired woman bent down and slipped into the elastic panties, finding them to sit snuggly on her body and around her hips, though they only barely concealed her lower regions. If they had been just a little smaller, wearing them would have made it entirely obvious where her lower lips were, though it was still easy to see their shape thanks to the elastic nature of the fabric, much to her embarrassment.

Still, at least her nipples weren’t blatantly visible through the firm bra. Zhi Qiu Ya couldn’t decide whether that was actually worth much, but she wasn’t able to think about it for longer than a second before getting exhausted.

After a moment, she stepped out of the changing room, taking one final look at her things just in case.

“Oh, you’re done? Good, as I’m ready as well. Please, lay down here, face up please,” Su Min requested, though the formerly wolven woman didn’t follow her instruction right away.

Instead, after staring at her own body for a while, and still feeling a little embarrassed about her current appearance, she found herself staring at the woman in front of her. When she had been brought inside, she barely had the time to take a look, and it only felt right to do so now, before she was about to be massaged by her.

Su Min was wearing a simple one piece dress, exposing some cleavage but little else. The dress was sleeveless, with nothing at all covering the woman’s dainty arms, and reached down to her knees, with the only other item of clothing visible on her body being a pair of simple white slip-on shoes.

In fact, most things in this place had a shade of white. The underwear she put on was white, the clothes on Su Min were white, the surface she was invited to lay upon was white, as were a number of towels on the side, and even the bottles of oil previously mentioned were made of a milky white glass, partially obscuring their contents. It hardly made for the biggest difficult in identifying the oils, given that Zhi Qiu Ya had no clue what kinds of things were present in the prison realm nor what kinds of substances they might concoct.

Instead, her interest was on the woman’s body, which had a below-average chest in comparison to someone like Chao Ru, and a below-average ass in comparison to someone like Wei Yi. For some reason, she had presumed that she would have had a more endowed body than either one, and seeing this not be the case proved a slight disappointment.

‘Wait, what am I thinking… Her body doesn’t even matter, so I should stop staring,’ Zhi Qiu Ya looked back to the waist-high massage table and walked up to it, “Face up, right?”

“Yep. By the way, it isn’t a problem if you stare, since I expect that there is a lot you wouldn’t have seen before. If you have any questions, I don’t mind answering them, since we might be here for a while.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’ll be providing you with an exclusive, four course massage, and it can last for as long as three hours, depending on the state of your body,” Su Min said, “I have a lot of practise with it, and so I can easily focus on other things while I work. So, just settle in and do whatever feels comfortable – so long as you don’t try to wriggle out of my grasp. You will get rather slippery when all that oil is applied, and it wouldn’t do for me to be unable to massage you properly.”

The wolven woman might have offered up some kind of protest, but when she lay back on the table, she felt unable to rise back up, nor to shift any more than necessary.

After a moment of panic, she realised that she had already been moving on a supply of energy she barely understood the origin of, and the instant she lay down somewhere comfortable, it ran out, leaving her in the state she should have been while wandering the streets of Beast’s Rest.

Su Min didn’t seem to mind any of her actions and instead focused on the table placed at the lower end of the massage bed, where the oils in milky white containers stood in a neat line. She picked up the first one on the left, popped out the cork, and poured the slightest bit of the transparent fluid inside onto her palm. Quickly sealing it again, she spread the fluid over her hands, covering every inch with practised ease. It made her skin look even softer than before, a faint shine clearly separating her hands from her arms.

“Now, heating this up will take just a moment, so if there’s anything you’d like to ask…”

“Actually, yes. Is there a reason for the colour scheme in this place?” Zhi Qiu Ya asked quietly, keeping her voice quiet as to not waste what little energy she still had, “Everything is so… white.”

“Right, for someone from outside, I guess it would be strange. You see, for the longest time, this world was split in two, with one crimson side and one silver side. Just as it sounds like, everything was red here, and white there,” Su Min picked up a second, spherical bottle as she spoke, holding it in her hands as if to warm it with just her own heat, “When we were able to make something that wasn’t grey or red, everyone just leapt on the opportunity.”

“Oh. What about the bottles?”

“They’re made from a special glass that the Silver Side had, and inside them are a number of oils and substances guaranteed to make you feel better, your skin feel smoother, and your whole body feel lighter. One of our alchemists learnt from Wei Yi herself.”

‘There’s Wei Yi again… At some point, someone will be able to say that she made the whole of the Planar Continents and I’d probably not bat an eye,’ the wolven woman found a smile creeping into her expression despite her best attempt to stop, “Will you walk me through each one as you use them, or will I just have to guess?”

Su Min gave her a suspiciously wide smile, “Oh, I’ll be sure to go through the important parts. It’s best when a customer knows what they’re getting.”

Their brief exchange appeared to be sufficient for the bottle to be warmed, as she stepped over to the side of the massage bed, to Zhi Qiu Ya’s left, and popped it open, slowly turning her hand so that it would spill out onto the wolven woman’s stomach.

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It dripped down and instantly spread a pleasant warmth throughout her abdominal muscles, and that quickly increased as the volume of oil increased, spreading across her belly and covering most of it by the time Su Min stopped. The bottle was sealed, same as the first, and the sultry woman’s hands finally touched Zhi Qiu Ya’s mostly nude body.

“We don’t have any fancy names for these, but this will do wonders in loosening your muscles and removing tension – when combined with my delicate touch, of course,” Su Min said, placing her hands upon her stomach.

She began slowly, sliding her hands up Zhi Qiu Ya’s stomach, up to her chest, stopping before the breasts and rubbing it in with slow, careful movements. Perhaps it was just the warmth of the oil itself talking, but the wolven woman quickly found her body losing the agitation and tiredness that had built up in the years of dealing with the wolven characteristics. It wasn’t a complete recovery by any means, if such a thing was even possible, but it made her want to fall asleep right there and then, letting Su Min take care of her, then awaken fully rested and restored.

“I can feel the muscle in your abdomen. It’s firm and hard, like you’ve been a warrior for most of your life. Could you tell me a bit about yourself, and how you built up a body like this?”

Su Min’s hands remained in the same region for now, gently sliding across her front and getting that oil into every part of her skin, rubbing it in a little more each time she looped back and repeated the process. She didn’t seem to be in a great hurry to move onto other parts of Zhi Qiu Ya’s body, which was somewhat disappointing for the wolven woman.

“It’s really not that interesting… I lived in a village for a while, then I caught this living plague and suddenly grew wolf-like ears and tail and everything…” she paused when Su Min rubbed her stomach again, almost letting air pour into her body on its own, “I had to leave, and I ended up in a mercenary group… From there, I just had to do some amount of fighting, and the plague… well, it stimulated a certain degree of activity as well.”

“I did think there was something interesting about you,” Su Min suddenly brought her hands to Zhi Qiu Ya’s waist, brushing up against the edge of her panties, “Some of your hair is very unusual, but it feels nice.”

Although she found herself tensing up again, Zhi Qiu Ya replied, “Um… thank you?”

“You are welcome. By the way, don’t worry about me. If I had intended to go past certain boundaries, I wouldn’t have asked you to put anything on,” she smiled, “Unless you ask me for it, your underwear is staying on, and I’m not doing anything… inappropriate. Though, this is quite an extensive massage, so I will end up pretty much everywhere on your body.”

“I… Uhm, if you know what you’re doing, then, I guess… it might be fine?”

“No, it will be fine. Come on, you can trust me. You could always get up and leave if you feel like you absolutely must, though I’d encourage you to accept the invitation to the bath before you do so. Wouldn’t want to be walking around all oiled up.”

“I suppose,” Zhi Qiu Ya tried to relax, but the brief brush against her pubic region put her on edge and she simply couldn’t get it to go away. So, after considering it for a moment, she asked, “You wouldn’t do anything bad to a friend of Wei Yi, would you? I mean, we’re not the closest of friends, since we’ve only known one another for a short while, but-”

“Don’t worry, I don’t need you to explain a thing,” Su Min paused for a moment, “I knew you were from outside, after all, and anyone that comes in nowadays is sent by Wei Yi.”

“Oh, right…”

“Now, just don’t worry about it. I’ve heard she can see the entire prison realm at any time and any place, so if she thinks I’m doing something wrong, I bet you wouldn’t even be able to lift a finger before she shows up and tells me off,” the sultry woman smiled, though her expression at that moment lacked the same seductive property as when she had pounced on Zhi Qiu Ya in the street, “Let yourself relax, and then everything will be a thousand times better for you.”

The wolven woman exhaled and shut her eyes, letting Su Min spread the oil to her legs.

She continued moving gently and without applying much pressure. Still, Su Min made sure to rub the warm fluid into every portion of her skin that she was able to reach, gently caressing every single inch of her legs, from the thighs to the feet, taking particular care to get the oil in between every toe.

Her work was so focused that Zhi Qiu Ya had to wonder whether that woman had a thing for feet, as she had spent as much time on them as on the rest of her legs.

“All of us walk around so much, so our feet get rough and tired… Don’t worry, after today, you’ll feel like you’ve never walked a day in your life – not in a bad way, of course,” Su Min said, seemingly noticing her curiosity, “We’ll be coming back there, of course, but for now, I’ll just touch you gently right… here…”

True to her word, the woman was so gentle that Zhi Qiu Ya nearly missed the fingers landing upon her labia, rubbing it through the surface of her thin panties.

Her eyes snapped open, “What are you-”

“That’s an important part of you, so it deserves to be massaged as well, don’t you think? Remember, I’m not going to do anything sexual, anything that you wouldn’t want, but this is just a massage. It’s completely fine.”

“That sounds extremely illogical, you know?”

“Is anything involving that part of you automatically sexual, inappropriate, lewd? What, do you bathing is sexual?”

“Bathing?”

“You do keep yourself clean, right? You wouldn’t miss out on this particular point just because it’s lewd, right?” while she spoke, she didn’t stop rubbing up and down, some of the oil soaking through the white fabric of the panties, “I sure hope not. Even as a cultivator, you should have some care for your own hygiene. Wei Yi certainly encourages it, and she’s… she is like a god compared to us.”

Zhi Qiu Ya certainly couldn’t debate that, and she was starting to feel a pleasant warmth down there, but she simply couldn’t relent that easily, “Still, you shouldn’t-”

“I shouldn’t do… what, exactly? I’m just providing you with a massage and letting all those muscles relax… Trust me, one day, you will really appreciate this, and depending on what you end up doing, you might appreciate it a whole lot.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Nothing in particular,” the woman smiled, blowing away a lock of hair that went in front of her right eye, “It never hurts to have your body in perfect condition, feeling relaxed and loose, ready to accept new experiences… You need to stretch out, adjust to everything that had happened so far, and then you’ll manage to deal with whatever comes later.”

Somehow, Zhi Qiu Ya noticed a certain hint of something in her voice, but she was almost certain that it was due to the fingers digging progressively deeper in between her labia, reaching the sensitive flesh within.

Too tired of arguing, the wolven woman was almost ready to accept this – whatever she would have called it with a clearer head – but then the fingers left her groin.

“Huh?”

“Is something wrong? I’m just moving on to your arms,” the woman said, her voice sounding so natural and calm that Zhi Qiu Ya almost believed that she had imagined the past few minutes, “They’re very fit, very pleasant to touch. I bet any woman would love to be held in these, or to hold you in theirs, if that’s more your thing. Actually, I forgot to ask, you are interested in women, right? I would hate to be presumptuous.”

“I… haven’t thought too much about it. So far, things have just happened around me. However, I do think that women are… um…”

“Attractive? Cute? Hot? Sexy? You can tell me, I won’t say anything bad.”

“Well, I… I’m not really sure…”

For a little while, Su Min didn’t push the topic, but when she finished rubbing oil into the wolven woman’s arms, they landed right on her chest and gripped it firmly, in a manner that didn’t seem to be purely meant for massage.

“And this?”

“There is plenty in your boobs that needs to be massaged. Come on, just let me…”

At this point, Zhi Qiu Ya knew she wouldn’t be able to win whatever argument would ensue, so she just let her eyes close and tried to ignore the woman’s ministrations. It was challenging – very much so.

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