Zhi Rui would wake up in the early morning study formations and read about ethereal energy-based abilities. Most of them was not made for direct battle. But they were always astonishing in their own ways.

She would read until noon, then ate, and trained with the siblings.

Each time they fought her body grew adept to martial arts.

She'd train until late night, sleep and start the day over again.

It was the sixth day since the talk with the tribe leaders.

It was Saturday, rarely for Zhi Rui, she was in a good mood.

And decided to give in to procrastination and take the day off to rest.

She put every issue to the back of her head.

Since the beginning, after taking over the young girl's body, Zhi Rui swore to herself to not to live her life in pain anymore.

She wanted to live and enjoy life, but if it required too much suffering, Zhi Rui wouldn't mind dying.

Today she ignored everything and turned herself off from any stress.

She entered her own manor after some time in the pond. She ate roasted lizard meat made by a neighbor. After avoiding the luxury of the barbarian land for five days straight. Zhi Rui indulged herself wantonly and walked with a smile.

She was even gladder feeling the hate of the people slowly increasing.

soon they'll unleash their big revolt. It was already brewing and reaching tall heights.

Smiling with glee Zhi Rui walked inside her own manor, on her bed, sandworm and Blue-amethyst were naked and giggling.

"What's the excuse for getting naked on my bed?" Zhi Rui said with a chuckle.

Sandworm sighed "Blue-amethyst felt that you were under the weather lately and wanted to give you us as a stress relief present."

Smiling Zhi Rui looked at Blue-amethyst's eyes. The woman wasn't shy or nervous, she was calm looking back at Zhi Ru with gentle warmth.

Zhi Rui walked up to them, to the side, there were grapes wet with cold water. just looking it brought the desire to eat.

Right below, bottles of liquor ranging from sweet to sour, lined up for Zhi Rui to choose from.

Nothing she hadn't seen before, but five consecutive days of continuous strain, made it look like a cup of cold water in the desert.

Zhi Rui ate a weet type of grape, munched it slowly savoring it. She walked by the bed and took Sandworm's cup of wine, and slightly wetted her lips.

He was just as unflustered as Blue-amethyst.

"No sign of nervousness or overthinking. You really improved yourself." Zhi Rui said,

Sandworm embraced her waist and pulled her to the middle of the bed.

Surprised by his sudden initiative, Zhi Rui let herself be thrown between him and blue-amethyst.

A shock shot through her pine. Zhi Rui felt the pleasure of letting go of control.

Sandworm turned Zhi Rui to be face to face with Blue-amethyst. His hand slid from her shoulder all the way down to her tighs.

While Blue-amethyst leaned in for a kiss. "Today, we'll spoil you."blue-amethyst said, making Zhi Rui smile.

feeling the hot hard rod dangling and touching her rear. Zhi Rui grabbed it by the hand and stroke it slowly.

As amethyst's light hand caressed her chest, Zhi Rui was entering in bliss and letting go of herself. But she suddenly saw a shadow from the corner of her eyes.

Her aura changed and the couple stopped moving.

"Leave," she said.

Blue-amethyst looked at Hilda and imply left with sandworm.

"Today's a day off for me, you could've waited until tomorrow or at least until they finished e off." Zhi Rui complained.

Hilda stood on her toes looking at Zhi Rui with squinting eyes.

"There's something very wrong with you," Hilda said.

Zhi Rui laughed "You'll have to be more specific."

Looking at the playful eyes Hilda, for the first time turned calm and stern in front of Zhi Rui.

"You're ignoring the seriousness of my tone, you ignored your efforts and took a day off, you accept recently made subordinates treating your home as if it was theirs. and the incident from a few days ago... there's something wrong with you.." Hilda said after gathering some courage.

Zhi Rui froze. She pictured the person Hilda described. It dawned on her.

'... I'm running away. using pleasure to numb my mind and ignore everything else.'

Zhi Rui frowned, she knew it was a possible negative from the blessing of lust. But she was never afraid of it. She had confidence in her mind to not go that way.

She looked at Hilda's face and sighed. 'Another issue' stress climbed up Zhi Rui's shoulder. She couldn't accept that she grew so weak as to ignore problems. She was never like this, not even when she was locked up on the tower.

Zhi Rui bit on her nails

'Regardless of the future, I have to solve the problems of my health first' Zhi Rui thought.

he opened her mouth, but again, another shadow caught her eyes.

Zhi Rui stopped

Han Lee was standing right next to her. He extended a formal looking letter.

Zhi Rui read the address "From the three Great tribes"

Han Lee and Hilda stood still as Zhi Rui lied on at on the bed and read the letter from top to bottom.

Finished Zhi Rui burned it.

"They want to use the sibling's two days rights. For them to be evaluated in the sand stele" Zhi Rui said aloud.

Hilda frowned deeply.

Han Lee looked at her calmly. "I told you how it works, but don't expect me to help you get inside."

Zhi Rui ignored him and looked at Hilda

"Do you really need o see that thing?" Hilda asked.

"If at least a third of what the siblings said is true, I can solve half of my problems cultivation-wise." Zhi Rui answered

Hilda kept her usual nonchalant expression as he spoke.

"Even if you go together with the siblings, they won't let you enter with them, that library only allows pure natives regardless of rank." Han Lee said.

"They'll take that even more seriously as the ones going in are the royal bloodline, they expect some kind of miracle or wonder to happen. If you shove your nose in and spoil that moment, whatever you did to gain their respect won't matter. They'll all turn against you." Han Lee said.

"There's also the risk of an assassination attempt. Although expensive and rare, there are some methods to avoid the death of a slave when killing their owner." Hilda' ominously spoke.

Zhi rui heard all their word, and suddenly it struck her. NOt only she was listening to their words, although minimal she had a small expectation for their approval.

that feeling iguted her, Zhi Rui roughly scratched her hair. shutting them both up.

Seeking approval from others!? Listening with the expectation of meeting their points instead of asserting myself!?

'It's messing up my head, and fast...' Zhi Rui thought her state of mind wan't normal. it tresed her and the stressed made her worse.

Zhi Rui's napped her bloodshot eyes wide open.

"Not only will I go, I'll bring our tribe with us. It's the royal's coming of age, it''s not right for us to miss it." Zhi Rui said looking at Han Lee with a smirk.

She then turned to Hilda.

"If they try and make something, I"ll have our whole side of the barbarian lands starting a rebellion. I doubt they can afford that at this time."

They both looked ready to counter-attack her word. hzi Rui waved her hand roughly.

"Enough!" She said. "We leave in the morning."

Hilda and Han Lee looked worried, mainly Han Lee he looked at Zhi Rui' state and sighed anxiously.

"Don't overdo it." He said an left.

Alone, Zhi Rui crossed her legs and closed her eyes. She knew the chances were slim, but just in case she thought of possible dangers, After an hour Zhi Rui opened her eyes.

Her conclusion was simple. The only personal hate is with Silver and whatever organization is controlling them, they won't care for such small feud. The rest is all about politics. She had control over the people from her side, and her reputation was still being spread around. They would lose too much compared to what they'd gain by killing her.'

Nodding to herself Zhi Rui lay back down and drifted to sleep.