Chapter 95
Chapter 95: Where’s My Little Peach?
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“This can’t just end like this!”
Su Wanqing seemed to be provoked, suddenly grabbing Lin Muyu’s hand.
The force was so great it almost crushed her bones.
A trace of near-mad obsession gradually surfaced in her eyes.
“Yes, that’s right! Since she wants to break free from you, then let her be deeply marked by you again, so she can never escape for the rest of her life! Only this way will she belong to you forever!”
The voice in Su Wanqing’s mind seemed to enjoy stirring up trouble, its tone full of inflammatory meaning.
It continuously whispered seductively in Su Wanqing’s ear, amplifying the obsession in her heart.
When Lin Muyu saw this scene, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
A strong sense of fear instantly surged up from deep within her body, making her entire body feel cold.
This scene was all too familiar.
So familiar that it reminded her of those unbearable past memories, making her heart ache.
At this critical moment.
“Whoosh” — a white fluffy figure jumped into Lin Muyu’s embrace at extremely high speed.
The little creature’s six fluffy tails were now restlessly dancing happily in the air.
Its snow-white fur gleamed with a soft luster under the light, instantly drawing both their attention.
Su Wanqing instinctively looked toward the white furball in Lin Muyu’s arms, meeting a pair of cold, sharp fox eyes.
Those eyes were full of vigilance and warning, instantly piercing through her bewitched mind.
She suddenly snapped awake, as if burned, hurriedly releasing her tight grip on Lin Muyu’s hands.
Then she urgently began reciting the Heartless Curse, trying to forcibly suppress the uncontrollable impulse in her heart.
“Xiao Bai, how did you get here!”
Seeing Xiao Bai’s arrival, Lin Muyu was immediately delighted, her tense nerves instantly relaxing as if she had found her anchor.
She affectionately nuzzled her cheek against Xiao Bai’s fluffy tail twice, feeling that softness and warmth.
With Xiao Bai by her side, her heart immediately settled, no longer fearing that Su Wanqing would do something inappropriate as she had moments before.
“Sorry, today’s matter seems inconvenient to continue discussing. Let’s talk again next time.”
Under these circumstances, Su Wanqing felt too embarrassed to stay any longer, almost fleeing as she turned to leave.
“Don’t go, take the jade pendant with you!”
Lin Muyu waved the jade pendant in her hand, shouting toward Su Wanqing’s retreating figure.
But Su Wanqing acted as if she hadn’t heard, not looking back as she quickened her pace, soon disappearing from sight.
She knew clearly that if she really let Lin Muyu return this jade pendant.
Then in the future, she would probably never have any reason to seek out Lin Muyu again.
This was something she absolutely could not accept.
Watching Su Wanqing’s resolute departing figure, Lin Muyu looked down at the jade pendant in her hand.
She only felt it was like a hot potato, not knowing how to deal with it.
Keeping it wasn’t right, throwing it away wasn’t proper either.
Xiao Bai seemed to see Lin Muyu’s hesitation and difficulty. One fluffy tail gently covered the jade pendant, its movement gentle.
Instantly, a subtle fluctuation of spiritual power flashed by.
The jade pendant in Lin Muyu’s hand vanished into thin air, as if it had never existed.
“Xiao Bai, where’s the jade pendant? Did you return it to Su Wanqing?”
Lin Muyu looked at her now empty palm, her face full of surprise, unable to help asking the little creature in her arms.
Xiao Bai proudly nodded, its fox eyes seeming to flash with a hint of cunning.
Then, like performing magic, it pulled out something the size of a chicken egg and completely emerald green from its fluffy tail, presenting it to Lin Muyu.
The moment that object appeared, the entire room was surrounded by spiritual energy so rich it couldn’t be dissolved.
That abundant, mellow spiritual energy, like substance itself, seeped thread by thread into Lin Muyu’s limbs and bones, gently nourishing her meridians that hadn’t been properly circulated for a long time.
The spiritual energy that had been dormant in her body for so long seemed to be awakened, once again slowly beginning to circulate, even more active than before.
“Mmm… my cultivation… how did I suddenly reach the late stage of Qi Refining?!”
This sudden change brought Lin Muyu no joy at all, but rather complete shock.
She could clearly feel the explosive growth of spiritual power within her body.
Recalling the faint Golden Core stage aura she had sensed from Su Wanqing earlier.
An absurd yet seemingly perfectly reasonable thought suddenly burst into her mind.
Could it be… that doing those things would allow both parties to improve their cultivation?
No way!
She screamed frantically in her heart. Having experienced it so many times, she never wanted to do those things again!
“No, how could the original have this kind of physique? No wonder she was sold to the Hehuan…”
Lin Muyu unconsciously muttered to herself. The moment the words left her mouth, she suddenly came to her senses.
She noticed Xiao Bai was staring at her with fox eyes full of confusion, its gaze full of inquiry.
She immediately realized she had let something slip and quickly closed her mouth, panic flashing across her face.
‘What is this little girl talking about? Who is the original? Sold to where? Hehuan Sect…’
Xiao Bai looked suspicious, tilting its head and bringing its fluffy head close to Lin Muyu, as if trying to see some clues from her face.
“Thank you, Xiao Bai. I really like the gift you gave me!”
Lin Muyu hurriedly changed the subject, forcing herself to appear calm as she thanked Xiao Bai.
While speaking, she reached out to gently stroke Xiao Bai’s soft fur, trying to divert its attention.
No matter what, this green stone that could continuously emit spiritual energy would indeed bring her great help.
After all, she had a space that could store living things but had no spiritual energy whatsoever.
She just needed to have Xiaotao appropriately compress the space, then place this green stone inside.
Perhaps she could create a cultivation environment with spiritual energy density several times richer than the Ancient Cultivation Towers.
This way, wouldn’t the speed of improving cultivation be much faster than doing those things?
And much safer too?
Wait, according to the previous time efficiency calculations, it seemed like three days could improve one small realm…
No, no, how did her thoughts go there again!
Lin Muyu shook her head vigorously, as if trying to shake those messy thoughts out of her mind.
“Xiaotao, quickly put this away…”
Lin Muyu was about to call out Xiaotao to have her store this magical stone safely in her space.
But suddenly discovered that Xiaotao was not on her body at this moment.
“Wait, where’s Xiaotao? Where did Xiaotao go?”
Her heart skipped a beat, an uneasy feeling quietly spreading.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Su Wanqing, who had hurriedly left, was walking quickly on the road back to her residence, her mind in complete chaos.
Just then, a familiar jade pendant appeared before her without warning.
It floated in the air, it was the one she had given to Lin Muyu.
Sensing the weak but familiar spatial fluctuation from the jade pendant, Su Wanqing instantly realized who the perpetrator of this incident was.
It must be that meddlesome fox!
“That damned fox!”
Su Wanqing couldn’t help but curse under her breath, anger flashing in her eyes.
She could feel that the already weak connection between herself and Lin Muyu had weakened further, almost to the breaking point.
However, she wasn’t really panicked.
Because Lin Muyu would definitely come looking for her…