Zero Succubus in the Territory: Starting with Apprenticeship to the Yi Xuan Sisters

“I didn’t mention it.”

“You kept saying that last time you said ‘I don’t know when he’ll be able to hear us,’ the time before that you said ‘Why don’t we just bring him in?’ And the time before that, you knew he couldn’t hear you right now, yet you still babbled on and on in your dream…”

"Shut up."

Yi Xue stood between the two dragons, looking up left and right. He had prepared a whole host of questions: What exactly are you? Why are you inside me? Why are you only showing yourselves now...?

But seeing the two of them staring at each other and bickering, it was quite different from the majestic and solemn image of a dragon he had imagined, and he was at a loss for words for a moment.

The comics he had read in his previous life flashed through his mind. When the protagonist was about to meet the ancient divine beast sealed inside his body, he would usually kneel on one knee and recite a long string of incantations, or his master would help him break the seal. Why did it seem like he was arguing with the neighbor next door?

"You guys... have a pretty good relationship," he finally managed to say.

Upon hearing this, Erlong immediately stopped arguing, looked down at him, and a complex emotion flashed in her vertical pupils.

"You...you must have a lot of questions for us, right?"

"Ah."

Yi Xue nodded, and after careful consideration, she gave Erlong a polite self-introduction.

"Hello, my name is Yi Xue, what are your names?"

The two dragons exchanged a glance, their eyes revealing a hint of relief.

“My name is Xilong,” said the golden dragon.

“My name is Huilong,” said the silver dragon.

"We are...your strength."

Chapter Seventy: Two Dragons Live Inside My Body

"My power?"

Huilong nodded slightly and continued.

“We were once abandoned and fought among ourselves, but now… we are your strength.”

As it spoke, a human-like expression appeared on the dragon's face—gentleness.

Yi Xue was stunned for a moment. The other party's answer left him completely confused. After thinking it over, he decided to ask the most crucial question first.

"What exactly are you?"

“We are forces that were somehow stripped from the source.” This time it was Xilong’s turn to speak. “Initially, we were just two simple energies. Our creator did not intend for us to have consciousness. We were just tools, containers for Him to hold and control power. No… rather than containers, we are more like ‘parts.’ Parts do not need thoughts.”

“However, our creator is powerless.” As Huilong spoke, he raised his head slightly, the blade on the side of his neck unfolded slightly, and his cold voice echoed in the mist. “He forcibly made two contradictory forces coexist in one, trying to make the two forces complement each other. As a result, the two forces fought too fiercely and almost destroyed [the container] (you).

"He doesn't need the broken tools to discard us, along with you."

"Then...you came, an outsider soul."

"!?"

Yi Xue's body trembled. The other party knew that he was an outsider soul, which meant that they knew his identity as a transmigrator. However, he quickly forced himself to calm down. These two dragons did not seem to be hostile at the moment, so he might as well continue to listen to what they had to say.

“No need to be afraid... Yixue, we are now just your strength, and we will not harm you.”

Seemingly sensing his doubts, Huilong gently reassured him, but Xilong, standing to the side, paid no attention to this and continued speaking to himself.

"An outsider soul has entered an abandoned container. Logically speaking, when your soul enters, we should be crushed by your consciousness."

"But you didn't. You... protected us, quelled the conflict between us, and so..."

Huilong continued, picking up where Xilong left off.

"And so we awoke, gained a sense of self, and transformed from mere parts into..."

It paused for a moment, as if considering its words.

"It has become us."

Yi Xue remained silent for a long time. It wasn't that he hadn't considered that the power within him had a significant origin, but the weight of the phrase "power extracted from the source" still somewhat exceeded his expectations.

And almost exactly as he had predicted, according to Xi Long and Hui Long, he was an experimental subject created by some being, a vessel responsible for bearing power, and then... the vessel, having lost its usefulness, was discarded along with the power within it.

Although he was just a transmigrator, and the past of this body should have nothing to do with him, he still felt a trace of anger because of it, as if he was affected by the emotions remaining in this body.

Then... it seems that after transmigrating, I used some method to reconcile the conflicting forces within my body, and even gave Xi Long and Hui Long self-awareness. Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the details, otherwise they should be of some help in the current situation.

Yi Xue gently shook her head, then looked back at Xi Long and Hui Long in front of her.

"Why did you choose to show up now?"

“Because you were too fragile before, you couldn’t hear us,” Huilong replied, his voice carrying a hint of barely perceptible approval. “But you’ve done a lot these past few days, you’ve become much stronger, strong enough to hear us, and we’ve seen it all.”

“But that’s not enough. It’s not enough to deal with what He left behind. You need to become stronger.”

A sharp glint, not belonging to a wild beast, suddenly flashed in Xi Long's vertical pupils, and his tone carried a hint of warning.

"He left behind many things you can't even imagine. He, and his henchmen, will find a way back, and if your existence is discovered, they will do everything in their power to find you."

Upon hearing this, Yi Xue's breath caught in her throat. "What—"

Before he finished speaking, the water beneath his feet suddenly began to tremble violently, and not only that, the entire dream space was changing.

The surrounding fog began to thicken and become heavier rapidly, transforming from a light, wispy veil into a leaden-gray curtain that could crush a person. The figures of the Dark Dragon and the Dawn Dragon also appeared...

It was initially swallowed by the fog, and its figure gradually became blurred.

“It seems this is the limit…” Huilong’s voice remained calm, but his speech seemed much faster than before. “Your body still can’t withstand prolonged communication with us. It’s time to wake up.”

"Wait a moment!"

Yi Xue reached out as if trying to grab something. He still had so many questions to ask: Who exactly was "He"? What did He leave behind? How should he protect himself? And... and... since Xi Long and Hui Long were his own power, how should he use this power?

But he couldn't grasp anything; the mist slowly slipped through his fingers, and the figures of the two dragons had become blurred, leaving only two semi-transparent orbs of light.

“We will meet again.” Xi Long’s voice came from afar, with his usual impatience. “As our Rong… no, Yi Xue, you must become stronger. Next time, try to fight with our power.”

"Wait... at least leave some evidence! How do I know you're not just hallucinations caused by overwork?"

The two lights were silent for a moment, then the voice of the Hidden Dragon drifted out from the mist, sounding like a smile.

"You'll find out when you wake up."

Yi Xue suddenly opened her eyes.

Before him was the familiar ceiling. He was in his room, the back of his shirt soaked with sweat, his heart pounding as if he had just done some strenuous exercise.

He lay on the bed panting for a while, then slowly raised his right hand.

A fine silver thread had somehow appeared wrapped around his right wrist, forming an intricate pattern. It didn't look like it was painted on, nor did it look like a tattoo. Rather, it looked more like someone had twisted a small piece of moonlight into a thread and tied it to his wrist.

He could sense a faint ethereal fluctuation emanating from it, exactly the same as the calm and aloof aura emanating from Huilong.

He stared at the circle of silver thread for several seconds, then slowly raised his left hand as well. There was also a circle of silk thread wrapped around his left wrist, but it was a very pale gold, almost invisible, but you could feel a subtle warmth when you got close.

Without a doubt, this was Xi Long's doing.

"...What is this, a token of love?"

He muttered a few words, then covered his eyes with his wrist, so that he could be sure that what had happened before was not a hallucination caused by being driven mad, but that two dragons lived inside him.

Chapter Seventy-One: The Jealous Cat

"There are two dragons living inside my body. I doubt anyone would believe it if I told them."

Yi Xue looked at the thin thread on her wrist and muttered to herself. Then she casually rummaged through the bedside table and pulled out two wristbands to cover the thread. After all, it was winter, so wearing a wristband wasn't unusual.

Just then, he noticed his fingers were trembling slightly, not from fear, but from excitement.

The Xilong and Huilong are real. That dream was not a hallucination caused by his excessive anxiety, and those two dragons were not figments of his imagination to convince himself that he was not alone. They have always been there.

However... he was not alone from the beginning.

Yi Xue rolled out of bed and opened the window. Sunlight rushed in, making him squint. He saw that the sun was already high in the sky, several hours later than usual.

He rubbed his eyes and was about to go wash up when he suddenly caught a glimpse of something shiny on the bedside table.

Yi Xue walked over and picked it up, finding it to be a silver-white ether crystal, about the size of a quail egg. Its surface was covered with frost patterns identical to those on the Huilong. It was slightly cool to the touch, yet also felt a little warm. When placed in her palm, she could feel it slowly and steadily releasing a very faint ether fluctuation, perfectly matching the aura of the two dragons.

"Isn't this what they call proof?"

He held the crystal up to his eyes and examined it closely. Apart from the inexplicable comfort it gave him, it didn't seem to have any other special features. He decided to put it away for now. Although he didn't know if it had any other use besides being a souvenir, since the two dragons said they could use it as evidence, there might indeed be a time when he could use it in the future.

However, at that moment, the Sun and Moon Abyss on the wrist suddenly reacted. The dark silver shell slowly unfolded, revealing a vortex inside that resembled a nebula, and then directly sucked the ether crystal into it.

"Varied……? ! "

He didn't even have time to react; he could only stare blankly as the sound engine, which had originally looked like a stone, emitted a faint two-colored glow.

"System, what's going on?"

[In deep thinking mode...]

"?"

[The Deep Thinking Mode is a mode specifically developed by this system to improve the Xuanmo Technique. In this mode, the computing power allocated to the technique derivation ability (temporarily added by the system) will be greatly increased, while other functions will receive relatively less computing power.]

"I didn't ask you to explain that!"

[Understood. You have exited deep thinking mode and switched back to normal mode.]

[That ether crystal is the key to unlocking power. The sonic engine can help you better utilize this power, so there's no need to worry; the crystal hasn't disappeared.]

Is that so?

[That's right, just like those two dragons said, the host should try using their power; it will benefit you in your current state.]

"Beneficial to me?"

[Indeed, the dragon blood within the host has seeped deep into their veins, and the form in which their power manifests is also influenced to some extent by the dragon blood. It can be said that the host is no longer simply human, but rather more like a humanoid dragon-like creature. Utilizing the abilities of the Dawn Dragon and the Dark Dragon more frequently will help the host better understand the power they currently possess.]

"Yes..."

After hearing this, Yi Xue muttered something uncertainly, and then the system fell silent again.

Yi Xue shook the sound device on her wrist, and it seemed that she could indeed sense something in the dark. However, she did not plan to try it now, in case she made a mess of the room.

Stepping into the bathroom, with a warm, damp towel applied to her face, Yi Xue regained some clarity. Looking at herself in the mirror, her once youthful and slender face now showed a hint of determination.

After doing all this, he let out a long breath, patted his cheeks, and was now a new Qingming Sword Master in reserve, the inheritor of Xuanmo magic, a little dragonman with two dragons living inside him, and... an unlucky disciple who lost training time because he slept in.

He straightened his Taoist robe, casually tied his hair into a ponytail, and walked towards the door. Just as his hand touched the door latch, he heard a very soft "meow" from behind him.

He subconsciously turned around and saw that Little White had squatted on the pillow at some point, its tail wrapped around its front paws, and its sky-blue eyes staring straight at him.

Yi Xue was stunned. The originally simple meow sound now had a completely different meaning when it entered her ears.

"Hmph~ Master's definitely going out to party all day again today, meow. No doubt, he's going to have a tryst with those females, meow." The kitten's mouth opened and closed, its whiskers trembling slightly. "I've been coming back smelling like other cats these past few days. Is there something wrong with me, meow~"

Yi Xue blinked. He looked at Xiao Bai, then at the window. It was definitely daylight, wasn't it?

As he spoke, he raised his hand and touched his forehead again. He didn't have a fever, and he had just woken up from a dream, so he shouldn't be having hallucinations anymore.

He walked over and squatted down by the bed, looking Xiaobai in the eye, his expression showing a hint of uncertainty.

Say it again.

When Xiaobai was asked that question, the cat froze on the spot, then turned its face away, its ears drooping slightly in disappointment.

"Fine, I didn't hear you, meow. Anyway, my master only cares about those females, he's too lazy to even listen to what the cat is saying."

It wasn't a hallucination... I could actually understand what the cat was saying.

He stretched his hand out to Xiaobai, and Xiaobai instinctively touched his fingertips with the tip of her nose.

"...When did you start talking?"

Xiao Bai tilted its head. In its mind, it was just meowing, expressing its dissatisfaction with its owner not coming home all night in its usual way. It was completely unaware that Yi Xue had "understood" its words and was asking it a question.

"I don't know, anyway, Master wouldn't understand." Little White buried its head in its front paws as if in a huff, and slapped the bed sheet with its tail. "I was here first, and they don't even smell like cats, so why do they get to monopolize Master's space every day, meow."

Uh... Is he jealous? But it's true that I haven't been close to Xiaobai for a while. I usually let it roam freely. Anyway, I've gotten to know everyone in Yunkui Mountain. Even if it falls asleep while playing outside, someone will help take it back to the courtyard.

He reached out and gently scratched the base of Little White's ear, where there was a small tuft of white fur, softer than the rest of the fur. Little White squinted its eyes and made a gurgling sound in its throat, but quickly turned its face away, its tail swishing somewhat reluctantly.

This is a bit of a problem. Usually, no matter how long I'm outside, Xiaobai will happily come and rub against my pants leg. But it seems that trick didn't work today.

It seems... sometimes knowing more isn't necessarily better...

Chapter Seventy-Two: Care from Yi Xuan