Yunyang had no idea about any of that.
But the scent really was pleasant—she felt her entire body relaxing.
Yet being too relaxed wasn't necessarily a good thing. Yunyang was so lazy she didn't even want to move a finger, leaving all the washing to Xuan Yu.
Xuan Yu was unusually restrained today. While bathing her, he didn't take the chance to do anything extra.
Instead, after placing her on the bed, he went back into the bathroom himself and shut the door.
Had the wolf cub turned over a new leaf?
Yunyang's curiosity itched. She half-wanted to barge in and see what Xuan Yu was doing.
But she held herself back.
By then, her smart bracelet had finished upgrading, and it even came with a summary of the new features. Yunyang used that to distract herself.
Xuan Yu didn't keep her waiting long.
The bathroom door opened, and the male stepped out, carrying a mist of steam with him.
Yunyang's gaze landed on him, and her eyes flew wide in shock.
Xuan Yu had a towel wrapped loosely around his lower half, so slackly that it seemed liable to slip off with every other step.
His upper body was bare, but draped with a fine silver chain he must have bought from somewhere. With each movement, the chain tightened, leaving faint imprints across the broad muscles of his chest.
Higher up—what truly seized all of Yunyang's attention—was a pitch-black muzzle and a pair of fluffy frost-white wolf ears.
Yunyang swallowed hard.
Where in the world did this wolf cub get these things?
Xuan Yu stopped at the bedside, then leaned down close.
The decorative muzzle didn't hinder his speech.
He parted his lips, his voice already hoarse with desire: "Mistress..."
"Do you like it?"
"Yes." Yunyang reached out, grabbed one link of the silver chain, and yanked him toward herself with force.
Xuan Yu was pulled even closer, helpless to resist.
Their breaths tangled, then gradually heated.
The muzzle was tossed to the floor.
The silver chain twisted and coiled into a knot.
The instant every last gap was sealed, the sensation was utterly different from last time.
Yunyang trembled all over because of it.
"Xuan Yu... when did you...?"
This wolf cub—just how many improper things had he managed to stock up on!
Xuan Yu kissed her messily and asked between breaths, "Don't you like it this way, Mistress?"
Yunyang: "..."
She would never admit she enjoyed it!
Because of Xuan Yu's little scheming, the bedsheets were beyond saving.
He had no choice but to lower the half-conscious Yunyang into the bathtub, then swap in fresh sheets.
·
The night before had only been three rounds, and Yunyang had assumed Xuan Yu was being considerate—that he wasn't pushing too hard each time.
But early in the morning, the wolf cub dragged her into a workout session.
The morning exercise dragged on until noon.
When they finally cleaned up and headed downstairs for lunch, Qin Mo and Rong Jin looked deeply sulky, and Fu Shiyi's gaze seemed darker than usual.
Yunyang ignored all of them, ate her fill, and ordered Xuan Yu to carry her back to the room for a rest.
At 4 PM came the usual purification session.
Yunyang had arranged with Lao Wei the day before that today's two slots would remain open as usual, but no males from the purification tower should be scheduled.
Lao Wei didn't understand why, but he followed the instructions anyway.
By the time Yunyang reached the office area, only the two lucky winners from the star network were waiting.
After the smart bracelet upgrade, it could now monitor her mental value in real time.
She spent 40% of her mental strength bring down the mental pollution levels of the two males by about 15 points each.
Once the two males had paid their fees and left via Lao Wei's arrangements from the purification tower, Yunyang had used even less time than the previous two days. Still, Lao Wei asked, "Lady Yunyang, you must be tired—would you like to rest for a while?"
Yunyang shook her head. "Mr. Lao Wei, could you trouble yourself to gather all the supervisors currently in the purification tower?"
Those words made Lao Wei freeze for a moment.
Calling together every supervisor at once was generally forbidden, because it could give the high-contamination males under supervision a window to escape.
But this was a request from Lady Yunyang...
"Of course, but my office area won't be able to hold that many people."
Yunyang replied, "Then gather them at the entrance of the purification tower."
Lao Wei immediately set it up on his own smart bracelet.
[Activate the purification tower's highest-level defense protocol.]
[All supervisors, assemble at the open area outside the entrance in ten minutes.]
With those two orders, the entire X92 star purification tower burst into motion.
Lao Wei told Yunyang to rest for a bit, and when the time was nearly up, he led her downstairs.
Outside the tower entrance, all the supervisors stood in perfectly aligned rows, backs ramrod straight.
There were even more supervisors than Yunyang had predicted, and most of them were A-rank ability users, with a smaller number at S-rank.
Yunyang felt a little nervous. She looked down to check her remaining mental strength.
She still had 58% of her mental value left.
She steadied herself and turned around.
"Mr. Lao Wei, please stand over there with the others too."
Lao Wei walked over to join the supervisors, looking confused. "Lady Yunyang, what do you intend to...?"
"I'd like to purify your pollution. Please open your mindscapes."
She sounded fairly composed, but Lao Wei was absolutely stunned—and so were all the supervisors.
What?
Lady Yunyang was about to purify all of them at the same time?
The supervisors were both excited and worried.
None of them had ever received purification from an S-rank noble like her.
But their ability ranks weren't low. Would purifying so many people at once be too much for her?
They all knew that Lady Yunyang had just purified two A-rank ability users a little while ago.
"Lady Yunyang, my contamination is under 80—I can skip purification."
"Me too, me too! Mine's only 75."
"Lady Yunyang, we're truly grateful, but if we caused you even the slightest harm, we'd rather stay unpurified."
"Lady Yunyang, you're a treasure of the Federation. Nothing matters more than your wellbeing."
The supervisors all chimed in, full of concern for Yunyang.
Her expression was firm. "Please trust me."
Those three words silenced them.
They exchanged glances, and then, in perfect coordination, opened their mindscapes.
Yunyang released her own mental energy.
Before that, she experimented with casting her blessing ability on herself.
Traceless mental threads entered the supervisors' mindscapes, seizing the black mist within and eliminating it.
As the black mist was destroyed, the supervisors visibly grew lighter and more at ease.
Because there were so many of them, the process lasted a full half hour.
The upgraded bracelet monitored Yunyang's mental power in real time.
The four wolf mates stood guard behind her, ready to reach out the instant anything went wrong.
50%...
40%...
30%...
[Warning...]
Yunyang only withdrew her mental energy after the second alarm.
The supervisors were a little reluctant to let her go, but quickly suppressed that feeling.
Lao Wei asked first: "Lady Yunyang, are you all right?"
Purifying this many A-rank-and-above ability users at the same time had clearly pushed the limits.
"I don't feel any discomfort," Yunyang said with a small shake of her head. "Mr. Lao Wei, how much did your contamination drop?"
Lao Wei pulled a detection device from his storage ring and ran it on himself.
Nearly every supervisor in the tower carried a pollution-level detector, so they all began checking their own readings too.
Very soon, joyful shouts rang out from the crowd.
"My contamination dropped by two points!"
"I dropped by 3 points!"
"I dropped by 5 points!"
