Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

"Two glasses of plum juice, with ice."

The owner of the dessert shop was a little surprised by the request to add ice in the winter. After glancing at Mu An, he asked her a question.

"Sir, it's winter now. Girls are more vulnerable, and it's freezing cold. Do you really want ice?"

"Adding ice cream won't make it?" Mu An suddenly asked, seemingly lost in thought.

The owner of the dessert shop smiled and shook his head, explaining as he prepared the plum juice.

"Of course I can do it, but it's freezing cold, and I'm worried that you guests might get sick from drinking iced drinks, so I asked one more question."

Hearing this, Mu An nodded slightly and spoke again.

"No problem, just add some ice."

The boss nodded, and while making the plum juice, he curiously glanced at Mu An. He quickly shifted his gaze to Mu Ling'er not far away. After staring at the two of them for a while, the boss smiled and said.

"Guest, you truly possess profound spiritual cultivation. Your daughter is already so grown up, yet you still look so young."

"Hmm? You can tell?" Mu An was slightly surprised, and looked at the dessert shop owner with more curiosity.

In the past, when he and Mu Ling'er stood together, most people would have assumed they were siblings. This is the first time anyone has directly said they are father and daughter.

The owner of the dessert shop didn't think much of it and naturally explained his reasoning.

"To be honest, I also have a daughter, who is younger than your daughter. She looks at me the same way your daughter does now."

After a moment of stunned silence, Mu An burst out laughing.

He took the two cups of plum juice handed to him by the dessert shop owner and slammed a jade pendant on the table.

"Guest, what brings you here...?"

By the time the owner of the dessert shop chased after Mu An out of the shop, Mu An had already disappeared into the crowd.

Only a gentle female voice lingered in his ears.

"Take it. If the jade pendant works someday, you can go to the temple in the city to offer your prayers."

A temple in the city? A temple in the city!

From bewilderment to shock, from shock to ecstatic joy.

In just a few breaths, the owner of the dessert shop experienced several dramatic mood swings.

After recalling various stories related to Zhenjun and Xuannv, the shopkeeper gently wrapped the jade pendant in cloth and carefully tucked it into his pocket.

While doing these things, he looked left and right, as if afraid that someone would notice his unusual behavior.

After confirming that no one had noticed his strange behavior, he leaned back in his chair with a cheerful grin and kept chuckling to himself.

There are many temples in Qing'an Prefecture, but all of them only enshrine two fixed deities.

That was their greatest True Lord, the supreme Heavenly Venerable, the sun of the Great Spirit Empire, and the creator of a glorious era.

In folk tales, Zhenjun and Xuannv would occasionally disguise themselves as mortals and walk the streets of Qing'an Prefecture.

What an incredible opportunity! What incredible luck!

Chen Lao Jiu had no answer, but he knew that he would place the jade pendant in the ancestral hall for the Chen family to worship for generations.

……

That night, Mu An and Mu Ling'er arrived at the largest temple in the city.

Like ordinary pilgrims, they stepped through the temple gates, traversed the long mountain path, and finally arrived at the magnificent temple.

This time, Mu Ling'er didn't make Mu An wait outside, but instead pulled him into the magnificent palace together.

Standing before the majestic and solemn statue of the Five Elements True Lord, Mu Ling'er smiled and asked Mu An.

"Shall we pray?"

"What's so special about me that I have to worship?" Mu An refused decisively.

"Then let's have a proper meeting."

"Why care about things you see every day?"

Inside the solemn temple, Mu Ling'er smiled brightly. She stood on tiptoe, hugged Mu An's head, and turned his gaze so that he could take in the entire statue in front of him.

Seeing Mu An's helpless expression, she finally smiled.

"You should see things you can see every day too. Just think of it as helping me out and taking a good look at myself."

After saying that, Mu Ling'er turned around, took three incense sticks from the temple keeper who had noticed something was wrong, and symbolically bowed to the statue of the deity.

After doing all this, she gestured for the somewhat familiar temple keeper to be quiet, and then pulled Mu An out of the main hall where the Five Elements Great Heavenly Venerable was enshrined.

……

December 20th, 96th year of the Five Kingdoms calendar.

Inside Mu Ling'er's study, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu stood respectfully before the table, his heart filled with trepidation.

Early this morning, a maid knocked on his door, saying that Her Majesty the Mystic Maiden wanted to see him and asked him to wait in Her Majesty the Mystic Maiden's study.

Even though he knew that Mu Ling'er was actually a person who didn't care much about etiquette, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu still came to Mu Ling'er's study immediately.

As a result, they waited for a whole day.

It was already dark outside, and Xuan Yuan Wu Mu still couldn't see Mu Ling'er.

The excessively long time made Xuan Yuan Wu Mu uneasy, and he began to doubt himself, wondering if he had done something wrong that angered Mu Ling'er and was now being left here.

It's over, it's over!

I'm not going to get kicked out, am I?!

No, absolutely not! He hasn't learned the great senior's supernatural abilities yet, and he hasn't found a way to save the Spirit Blossom Realm. He absolutely cannot be driven out of the Mu Manor at this time!

His imagination ran wilder and wilder, and as night approached, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's mood worsened. In the end, he even fantasized about how he would survive in the Nine Domains after being kicked out of the Mu Manor.

It was at this moment that, with a creaking sound, the door was slowly pushed open.

Upon seeing Xuan Yuan Wu Mu standing in front of the table, the person who entered the room was stunned for a while.

About seven or eight seconds later, a somewhat awkward and embarrassed voice rang in Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's ears.

"Little Wumu, you haven't been standing in this room all day, have you?"

Accompanied by the howling of the cold wind, snowflakes fluttered through the door and fell into the room, turning into glistening water droplets.

The orange array then lit up, evaporating the snowmelt and maintaining a stable temperature in the house.

The rising heat also dried Mu Ling'er's clothes.

Looking at Mu Ling'er, who was covered in a layer of snow, and hearing her slightly embarrassed voice, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu had already guessed a certain possibility.

Sure enough, a seemingly calm voice came from the doorway a second later.

"I'm really sorry, the time in the Yin Yin Domain is a little different from here. My unreliable little apprentice kept bothering me for a while and got the time wrong."

Who's really being irresponsible?!

Calm down! Calm down! Calm down again!

Xuan Yuan Wu Mu silently repeated the words ten times in his mind before forcing a smile at Mu Ling'er.

"Sister Ling, you're joking. I'm just here too."

Mu Ling'er didn't believe such words, but she didn't pay much attention to them and went straight to the table to sit down.

After sitting down, Mu Ling'er looked up at Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's eyes and said something surprising.

"The Spirit Realm will perish in twenty years. If you, Wu Mu, still intend to go back and save it, you should make a decision now."