Chapter 594: The Tayu and the Wisteria Maiden

"Purple Sister, are you sure you want to treat us to a meal in a place like this? Isn't this inappropriate?"

Dorothy looked at the Flower Street they had left not long ago. Although she was still very curious about this street, the Home Witch had not expected to return so soon.

"What is inappropriate about it? Aren't you all adults already?"

Yae Zi looked teasingly at the niece she admired so much. At this moment, this tall, elegantly-tempered blonde aunt looked just like a creepy uncle preparing to lure a little loli to go see goldfish, her beautiful fox eyes filled with delight.

Home Witch: "..."

Dorothy fell silent. Aunt Zi was indeed making a very reasonable point. Everyone present was an adult; going to stroll around the Flower Street didn't seem to be a big problem. It was quite logical.

It was just that people usually went to drink flower wine with their peers. Who would follow their elders? This was really weird.

But since they were already here, and neither Aunt Zi nor Teacher Spider minded, she, as the junior, naturally had nothing to mind either.

The Home Witch shrugged, not caring anymore. She even felt a sense of relief; after all, with these two big shots leading the way, this Flower Street, which had scared her a little during the day, suddenly became much safer.

Hmm, the Oiran lady she saw earlier was only a Peak Rank, but now, she had two Peak Ranks by her side. The advantage was with her; she was very steady.

"Hahaha, the little one is still a bit shy. Come, tonight Sister will take you to see something good. Speaking of which, you are lucky this time; you happened to catch the welcoming banquet of Tayu Ibuki. I also spent a lot of money to reserve a few seats. You can broaden your horizons today. This is a grand event that even local witches of the Yingzhou Island rarely get to see."

Seeing that her little niece was suddenly silent but still carried a hint of anticipation, Yae Zi explained with a smile.

After speaking, she looked at her old classmate on the side.

"Rose, don't say Sister doesn't take care of you. This is a great opportunity for you to get out of being single. That Oiran Ibuki is a rare beauty, known as the number one beauty of my Yingzhou Island. Moreover, she lacks nothing in strength, talent, or wealth. If you can catch her eye, then you won't have to worry for the rest of your life."

Noe Rose: "..."

Teacher Spider, who looked like a gentle wife, fell slightly silent.

If it were a few months ago, if anyone had teased her like this, given her temper, she might have already been preparing to beat them up. But now, she was slightly interested.

After all, she used to think she was quite young and could still roam for a few hundred years, and being single wasn't bad. But now, looking at Senior Yufilia, the woman's child was already so big and so excellent, which couldn't help but give her an urge to try raising a 'small account' to play with.

It was just that a 'small account' wasn't something one could open alone. She had to find a partner first, but how to find a partner touched upon her blind spot of knowledge.

After all, you couldn't expect a homebody who stayed in her lair every day playing with puppets to know how to fall in love.

But now, this unreliable old classmate had provided her with a new line of thought.

Oh right, although I don't know how to fall in love, I can still spend money.

It's just...

"Forget it. I really can't accept things like Yujo. I don't like things that others have used."

After some thought, Teacher Spider shook her head and refused.

Homebodies mostly have some mental cleanliness issues. She was the same.

Even if she had to spend money to find a partner, she didn't want to find one on this kind of Flower Street. It would be better to find a clean little witch who was short on money and sponsor her later.

Besides, her main goal was to open a 'small account', so for the sake of the 'small account's' aptitude, the partner couldn't be chosen casually. She had to find at least someone with better talent.

"Rose, you don't understand this."

Hearing her old classmate's words, Yae Zi shook her head with an expression of "you don't understand at all," and then continued to explain.

"The Flower Street of this Yingzhou Island is different from those in the outside world. If it were just an exchange of flesh, it would be too vulgar and boring. Compared to physical pleasure, we here pay more attention to the compatibility of souls."

"There is a good saying in the East: 'Those who serve others with beauty will find that when beauty fades, love wanes.'"

"Therefore, in this Yoshiwara, only the lowest-level Yujo rely solely on their looks to entertain people, while those high-level Yujo are mostly talented and beautiful, the most outstanding of whom are the Oiran of each shop."

"Oiran are mostly the signature brands carefully cultivated by each brothel at great cost. Besides being peerless in beauty and astonishing in talent, they must also be proficient in zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, and various matters. It can be said that each one is the best partner people dream of."

"Moreover, Oiran have always sold their art, not their bodies."

"Generally speaking, it is often only when an Oiran decides to retire that she will hold a welcoming banquet. The Oiran will choose one guest from the banquet to be her guest of honor, which is actually her future partner." (This paragraph is a setting, not popular science, don't take it too seriously.)

Hearing such an explanation, Noe Rose finally understood slightly. As a veteran homebody, this was actually her first time coming to a place like the Flower Street in her life, and she had no idea there was such a setting.

But if the Oiran only sold art and not their bodies, she was indeed a bit interested.

"Then I can go and try."

Teacher Spider nodded, feeling very confident.

Hmm, mere Yujo, with her strength and talent, she could take them down in minutes. This wave of her Peak Rank riding on their faces was very steady.

Although she had never been in love, Noe Rose had a mysterious confidence and composure at this moment.

Seeing her old classmate like this, the smile behind Yae Zi's folding fan became even more delightful, and she immediately added fuel to the fire.

"That's not all. You must know that there are gaps even among Oiran. Those who can obtain the title of Tayu are the Oiran among Oiran, the head of all the flowers on this Flower Street, the one who outshines all flowers."

"It's just that the standard for evaluating a Tayu is extremely strict. This Yoshiwara Flower Street has existed since the island of Yingzhou was built, but now, tens of thousands of years later, there are fewer than ten Oiran who have obtained the title of Tayu. Speaking of which, the title of Tayu had been extinct for ten thousand years until this Miss Ibuki appeared out of nowhere a hundred years ago."

"Speaking of which, the background of this Tayu Ibuki is also special. She was originally a Wisteria Maiden specifically cultivated by this Yoshiwara Flower Street."

Speaking of this, the blonde witch paused slightly, and Noe Rose also subconsciously asked.

"What is a Wisteria Maiden?"

The Home Witch, who was silently acting as an audience on the side, was also very curious at this moment.

She felt that the Tayu Ibuki mentioned by Aunt Zi should be the Oiran lady she saw parading in the street at noon. No wonder the pomp of that Oiran procession was so big and scary. It turned out she was the King of this Flower Street. That was very logical.

Dorothy silently breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that it wasn't the Flower Street that was abnormal, but that Oiran Ibuki herself was relatively special. The three of them had just happened to run into the once-in-ten-thousand-years Tayu parade at noon, which had caused some unnecessary misunderstandings about this Yoshiwara Flower Street.

And now, looking at Teacher Spider, she seemed a little tempted. Wouldn't that Oiran Ibuki possibly become her own teacher's wife? She immediately pricked up her ears, preparing to listen to Aunt Zi introduce more.

"The so-called Wisteria Maiden is actually a very inhumane bad habit on this Flower Street. Although it has been abolished on the surface for many years, there are always brothels that secretly cultivate them."

Speaking of this, Yae Zi also showed some disgust on her face.

"You know the laws of our witch talent inheritance, right?"

She asked the crowd like this.

Dorothy and the others all nodded.

What other laws could there be? It was nothing more than a lottery, randomly drawing cards from the talent pools of the six people: parents, grandparents, and maternal grandparents, with the strength of the talent determining how many draws one could get.

Occasionally, a very small number of witches could trigger an Easter egg pool, with a probability of ancestral bloodline reversion, being able to join the pool of some powerful ancestor, etc.

"Why talk about this? Talent inheritance is entirely up to fate."

Noe Rose looked at her old classmate with some confusion, not understanding why the other party wanted to mention this.

"No, actually it's not entirely up to fate. Although you can't control what talent a child can draw, there are ways to increase the probability of drawing excellent talents."

The blonde witch shook her head.

"That's impossible. If there really were such a method, all the witches in the world would go crazy. The randomness of talent inheritance has long been studied by people, and it is completely uncontrollable... Uh, wait..."

Teacher Spider subconsciously denied her old classmate's words, but speaking of this, she suddenly remembered something, and then she also frowned, and even her squinty eyes opened halfway, revealing those pitch-black, eerie eyes.

But before she could speak, Yae Zi nodded.

"Hmm, it's just as you thought."

"Then you are really crazy. If this were known by the Tribunal, that would be a serious crime violating the human rights of witches."

Noe Rose was a little surprised. Her expression was also somewhat disgusted. The terrifying fierce light that erupted from her already fierce spider eyes for a moment made the killing intent scatter.

Dorothy, who was on the side, was scratching her ears and cheeks in anxiety.

What exactly is going on? Can't you two riddle-makers just speak clearly?

It's hard, it's hard, my fists are really hard.

The Home Witch was trembling with anger.

She now wished she could directly take out her Grand Inquisitor order and throw it in the faces of these two unreliable elders, and then use her authority to force them to explain what exactly this was that could not be known by the Tribunal.

Fortunately, just as she really reached into her pocket, preparing to use power to force an answer, the blonde aunt spoke again.

"The randomness of talent inheritance is indeed unshakable, but the strength of the inheritance pool can indeed be changed. As long as you find a way to improve the quality of the pool, you can naturally raise the talent strength of the offspring."

"The so-called Wisteria Maiden is the product under this rule. They are carefully cultivated mothers, chosen from children who are already geniuses with excellent talents, and then they are made to evolve only high-level specializations, and not evolve those low-level specializations. In this way, generation after generation of the best are selected, and finally, the best mother with a body of premium talent specializations can always be created."

"The whole life of these mothers is only for one thing: to give birth to more excellent offspring. They are like the vines that nurture melons and fruits, sacrificing themselves to nourish the fruit. When the day comes for the melons to ripen and fall, they have no value. This is the so-called Wisteria Maiden."

Yae Zi explained in detail. Her aura, which had always been smiling and delightful, became somewhat terrifying when she talked about this.

And after hearing all this, Dorothy was speechless for a while.

Tsk, it can only be said that she is worthy of being a Yingzhou witch who lives a good life. This is really twisted, really good at playing.

Of course, this kind of Wisteria Maiden is not a specialty of Yingzhou. The witch world outside actually has them too, and they are even repeatedly banned, and some people even voluntarily become this kind of Wisteria Maiden.

After all, if you look at it purely from the perspective of interests, this is indeed a good thing of selecting the best from the best, just like animal breeding; the more you breed, the more you can produce high-quality breeds.

It's just that if you look at it from the perspective of human rights, this is a very sad thing. After all, a person's life cannot be lived just for reproduction.

The top talents of the Wisteria Maidens look very beautiful, but in fact, it is not so. Talent specializations are not necessarily better the higher they are. SSR and SR level talent specializations are indeed rare and powerful, but R and N level low-level talent specializations are sometimes even more important.

After all, even a game character cannot have only ultimate moves and no basic attacks or small skills.

Moreover, a mature and perfect talent specialization template often only needs one or two high-level talent specializations as the core. The strength of those perfectly matched talent specialization templates is much stronger than a dream template that is all SSR but each fighting on its own.

Because a person's energy is limited. Each of those SSR-level talent specializations represents a path sufficient to step on the peak, enough for a witch to spend her whole life exploring. In this case, blindly pursuing more without pursuing proficiency is actually going astray.

Although everyone knows that 'I want it all' must be good, most people do not have the capital to 'want it all'. The result of 'wanting it all' is often losing it all, and finally achieving nothing.

A snake's heart is not enough to swallow an elephant; the end will only be being stuffed to death.

Therefore, those Wisteria Maidens who specifically evolved for high-level talent specializations are actually just vase dolls with good panel attributes. They were originally talented and should have had their own wonderful lives and been able to better contribute to the witch world, but now they have wasted their talents to become a suitable mother. This is a very sad thing.

Not to mention that the evolution of high-level talent specializations requires a huge reserve of magic power. If those Wisteria Maidens use all their magic power to evolve talent specializations, then their personal strength will inevitably lag behind, and a witch who does not become a Great Witch only has a lifespan of about a thousand years.

Undoubtedly, forcing others to become Wisteria Maidens is a violation of human rights, and the witch world under the rule of the Three Kings is at least a society where all witches are equal on the surface, so this kind of human rights violation is naturally illegal.

Anyway, according to the rules of the Tribunal, when catching people who maliciously cultivate this kind of Wisteria Maiden, they can often be killed without mercy.

It's just that rules are rules, but implementation is very difficult. After all, some Wisteria Maidens are not forced, but voluntary.

Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men. Those witch families can spare no cost for an excellent successor. They need Wisteria Maidens as mothers, and similarly, there are always geniuses who don't want to work hard and voluntarily give up their talents in exchange for a life of glory and wealth.

But having said that...

Dorothy looked at her talent specialization list, and then silently lowered her head.

Damn, the Wisteria Maiden is actually me.

... Home Witch is feeling guilty... ===== CHAPTER 595 =====