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

October 19th, the 30th year of Chengtai.

Lingzhou, Yongning County.

"Cough! Cough! Cough..."

"Your Highness, your body..."

"Don't stop, I'm feeling very uncomfortable right now. Keep circulating your energy."

In the bedroom on the thirty-third floor of Lingxiao Pavilion, Mu An's heart sank as he looked at Jun Yunxin, who was coughing up a lot of blood.

Seven days have passed, and Jun Yunxin's condition still shows no signs of improvement.

He sat behind Jun Yunxin and continued to circulate his cultivation technique according to her wishes, continuously sending the five elements of spiritual energy into her body to regulate her meridians.

After a while, Jun Yunxin's pale face recovered slightly, regaining a little color.

At this moment, the little princess was half inside the blanket and half outside. A lot of her beautiful hair had fallen out, and some of it had turned white, making her no longer as cute as before.

The rest of her hair was soaked with sweat and clung tightly to her body, making her look somewhat disheveled.

Starting seven days ago, Jun Yunxin's health suddenly deteriorated rapidly. Now, she is only able to move around normally thanks to Mu An's unique Five Elements spiritual power to maintain the balance within her body.

It took a full half hour for Jun Yunxin, whose consciousness was still hazy, to recover a little. She closed her eyes and murmured softly.

"water"

"Drink slowly, don't be afraid... I'm here..."

Looking at Lin Li, who was pressed against Jun Yunxin, Mu An sighed softly.

He wanted to help Jun Yunxin and make her feel better, but there really wasn't much else he could do.

These past few days, even someone as special as him has found it hard to cope.

Even with a continuous supply of spiritual energy for twelve hours, and even though his body could slowly recover the spiritual energy he consumed, he couldn't withstand such a drain.

In order to maintain the balance of spiritual power, he even swallowed two five-hundred-year-old spiritual ginseng roots whole, abandoning all the true meaning of the Great Dao contained in the spiritual objects of heaven and earth, and only absorbing the original spiritual power within them, but even that could not keep up with the rate of consumption.

He asked the painting master if there were any other ways.

The Sage of Painting said that ordinary spiritual power had no effect on Jun Yunxin's body because his spiritual power was special enough to carry the five elements of heaven and earth, which was enough to slightly alleviate Jun Yunxin's condition.

As he said this, the painting master stared at him for a long time, and finally gave him two more paintings, saying that he wanted to make friends and that they could drink together sometime in the future.

Mu An saw this and began to have some thoughts in her mind.

Even a powerful figure like the Painting Saint couldn't affect Jun Yunxin's body, yet this Celestial Martial Saint could make Jun Yunxin feel much more comfortable. There must be a deeper reason behind this.

With a special figure like Jun Yunxin and an exceptionally powerful figure like the Old Celestial Master, this world naturally has many secrets. The Painting Sage probably regarded him as someone similar to Jun Yunxin.

As for who Jun Yunxin really was, Mu An had some vague guesses in his mind, but he wouldn't say it out loud, nor did he dare to.

If it truly exists at that level, the best choice is to pretend you know nothing.

Just like the painting master, let's form a good relationship and each get what we need.

Lin Li spent a full half hour coaxing the little princess on the sickbed before she felt much better. She looked up at Mu An and asked softly.

"My brother sent people to poach you again?"

Mu An, who was leaning against the wall, straightened up and nodded slightly.

"His Majesty has sent five groups of people to find me, but I have not agreed to any of them, and I have returned all the rewards that His Majesty gave me."

Hearing that her boyfriend had been poached, Jun Yunxin wasn't angry. She leaned back on her pillow and sighed softly.

"It wasn't easy for him either. He became emperor, but he didn't have many capable people under his command; his subordinates were mostly mediocre."

Jun Yunxin's sentiments went in one ear and out the other. He had no interest in getting involved in another royal power struggle. What he wanted to do was to make the little princess as comfortable as possible in her final days.

Seeing Jun Yunxin looking troubled, Lin Li took the initiative to hug her from behind, holding her in her arms like a child, and gently comforted her.

"His Majesty naturally has his own ideas. These days, His Majesty has promoted many ministers in the court and is gradually building up his own power. Princess, you don't need to worry about him."

Jun Yunxin did not respond immediately, but instead reached out and grabbed Lin Lihuan's hand around her waist. Her hand was clenched tightly, like a sick child clinging to the person she trusted most.

"I understand perfectly well. We've already secured the throne for him. If he still can't do it, it's his own incompetence. Even if he's completely sidelined, he can't blame anyone else. It just means he was never meant to be the emperor of the Great Qi."

Neither of them spoke; they simply stared blankly at the head of the bed.

After a while, Lin Li suddenly spoke up.

"I remember you said before that you wanted to see how high the highest mountain in Daqi was, whether the sea to the east was really boundless, and whether the leader of the Martial Alliance had eight whiskers as rumored..."

Jun Yunxin, lying on the hospital bed, was slightly taken aback. She looked up to look at Lin Li, but could only see Lin Li's profile.

The person holding her from behind also tilted their head back, so that only the chin of the little person in their arms could be seen.

An older sister shouldn't let her younger sister see her vulnerable side.

Moreover, Lin Li felt that as both an older sister and a mother, she couldn't let Jun Yunxin see such an unpleasant scene.

Seeing that Lin Li was deliberately avoiding her, Jun Yunxin simply lowered her head and used her free left hand to fiddle with the bedding on the bed.

"You still remember?"

Lin Li didn't give Jun Yunxin a chance to refuse. She leaned down slightly, letting Jun Yunxin's head rest on her shoulder, and asked in an unquestionable tone.

"Shall we set off now and see all of these together?"

Hearing the obvious change in tone, Jun Yunxin smiled and her eyebrows curved.

"OK"

……

This trip was very rushed. The decision was made in the morning, and the carriage had already left Yongning County by the afternoon.

The painting master wasn't with them. This strongest member of their side only said that he knew where they were and would naturally appear when needed.

No one asked where the journey would end, nor how long it would last. They packed up their supplies and all the wonders of nature and set off in their carriage.

Just like when we returned from Qi'an City, the same carriage, the same people, and similar smiles.

The only difference was that Lin Li had somehow managed to ask the Painting Sage to expand the space inside the carriage considerably.

So much so that when Mu An looked at the large manor with its mountains and water, she felt completely distraught.

Three ten-meter-high houses, an eighty-meter-high hill, and a small lake with an island in the middle.

A secret realm spanning hundreds of thousands of square meters was somehow crammed into a single painting.

Are all terrestrial deities like this?

Is something wrong?

Mu An had always known that the Painting Saint was incredibly powerful; after all, the azure light that covered the entire Lingzhou a few years ago was enough to prove it.

But creating open spaces, secret realms, and worlds in a single painting—isn't that a bit too much?

So you're cheating too, huh?

If this is the fourth best in the world, then what kind of monsters are the top three?