It turns out, they were the main characters.

This is the most dangerous part of raising baby white sharks in a fishpond. As they grow into great white sharks, their strength improves and their spiritual awareness far surpasses that of ordinary people. In addition, one of them is a born spirit body with an extremely strong affinity for spiritual energy, while the other is able to see through the origin of all things.

When the two women scanned Mu Zhi'an's body with their spiritual senses, they both detected the awakened spiritual sense within him.

Mu Zhian forced himself to open his eyes slowly, a hint of confusion still in them. He turned his head slightly and looked at his senior sister, asking, "Senior sister, how long have I been unconscious?"

“You should know that better than I do,” Lan Mulian replied coldly.

A hint of anger flashed in her eyes, clearly indicating that she believed Mu Zhian had been pretending to be asleep to lure her in.

But... she actually fell for Mu Zhi'an's tricks.

Recalling what she had done while Mu Zhian was unconscious, Lan Mulian's slender hand, resting on her knee, instinctively gripped the fabric of her white dress. Her eyes were filled with coldness, and beneath that coldness lay shame.

Mu Zhian felt helpless. Then, he turned his head slightly and saw the elegant girl in the purple dress behind him. He pretended to be surprised and said, "Lingxuan, what are you doing here? Do you also have some cultivation questions you want to ask your senior sister?"

This statement indicates that he came to see his senior sister tonight to ask her about cultivation techniques, not simply for a late-night rendezvous.

Ye Lingxuan said with a smile, "Tonight, the path to immortality, which may only appear once every ten thousand years, has appeared in Liangyi Peak. I came here to take a look and chat with my senior sister, but I didn't expect Brother Mu to be here as well."

"...Won't this disturb you and Sister Lan? If it does, I can go back now." Ye Lingxuan had a reserved and sweet smile on her face.

But Mu Zhian sensed danger in the smile.

Ye Lingxuan tilted her head slightly: "What's wrong?"

Mu Zhian shook his head and smiled, "Sister Lingxuan, you don't need to worry about it."

"So, Brother Mu got the answer he wanted from Sister Lan?" Ye Lingxuan asked, staring straight at him.

Mu Zhian gave an affirmative answer.

Then, before she could speak, Mu Zhian activated the cauldron, and in an instant, a wisp of spiritual energy within the cauldron quietly began to circulate within his body.

As a naturally born spirit, Ye Lingxuan naturally noticed it immediately and subconsciously looked at him: "Brother Mu, why is your spiritual energy so special?"

Lan Mulian's eyes also flickered slightly, completely forgetting what had just happened, her attention also drawn to it.

At this moment, the spiritual energy within Mu Zhian's body is completely different from when he first arrived.

The concentration of spiritual energy within Mu Zhian's cauldron at this moment is more than three times greater than it is now!

"Senior Sister, do you still remember the Heavenly Court we visited tonight?" Mu Zhi'an asked.

Lan Mulian, an extremely intelligent and beautiful woman, immediately looked up and asked, "You absorbed the spiritual energy from the Heavenly Court?"

She quickly shook her head again and said, "There are rules binding us in the Heavenly Court, so it shouldn't be possible to absorb spiritual energy from there."

Mu Zhian immediately said, "Actually, I later saw the rules of the Heavenly Court and also passed the test of the Heavenly Court."

Upon hearing this, the aloof Senior Sister Lan subtly straightened her posture and asked demurely, "What are the rules of the Heavenly Court?"

Mu Zhian pondered for a moment and said, "According to the Heavenly Court rules I saw at the time, the restrictions on male cultivators were not too severe, and the restrictions on female cultivators... well, if I had to say, were not too severe either."

Lan Mulian raised an eyebrow slightly: "What do you mean by that?"

Seeing that Lan Mulian and Ye Lingxuan were both successfully drawn to the topic, Mu Zhian felt relieved and continued, "Women need to wear skirts and stockings to set foot here... This is a rule I saw in the Heavenly Court."

“Nirvana silk would be best,” Mu Zhian added.

Lan Mulian frowned slightly and said softly, "The master of this Heavenly Court really has a perverse sense of humor."

Mu Zhian pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps there are reasons why we have to do this."

Lan Mulian pondered for a long time, but still seemed unable to figure out what the Lord of Heaven wanted to do. She shook her head slightly and resumed her aloof demeanor.

She looked up at Mu Zhian: "So, the spiritual energy in your cauldron has now been completely transformed into the spiritual energy of the Heavenly Court?"

Mu Zhian nodded slightly: "If one can cultivate in the Heavenly Court for another month, one should be able to reach the fifth rank of Refining Spirit."

One grade per month—that's an incredibly powerful concept. If he were to take advantage of the medicinal herbs gifted by the previous leaders, Mu Zhi'an might be able to advance to the sixth grade of the Refining Spirit Realm within the next month or two.

Ye Lingxuan gave Mu Zhian a meaningful look and said, "Brother Mu, now that you've already asked your senior sister for guidance, are you going back to meditate and cultivate, or do you plan to stay here tonight?"

Mu Zhian remained calm and said with a faint smile, "It is currently the Ascension Ceremony. If I stay here, it would be inappropriate to disturb Senior Sister's cultivation. Besides, I also need to digest the amount of information I have today."

As he spoke, he looked at Lan Mulian and said, "Senior Sister, thank you so much for your help tonight."

Ye Lingxuan looked at Mu Zhian as he stood up, tilted her head slightly, and looked past Mu Zhian onto the aloof beauty. She raised her proud, snow-white chin slightly and smiled, "Senior sister, let's go."

Lan Mulian glanced at Ye Lingxuan indifferently, a faint smile curving her lips.

She took a box of perfume from her sleeve and placed it lightly on the table, saying casually, "Brother Pastor, there's no need to thank me. After all, I received a box of perfume from you, so it's only natural for me to help out."

Ye Lingxuan's gaze suddenly froze on the box of perfume on the table, and Mu Zhian, seeing that things were not going well, twitched his eyelids, coughed twice, and said, "...Let's go."

He suddenly regretted giving away the perfume.

Although it was a last resort at the time, and giving her the perfume was the only way to please her, if Lan Mulian brings up the perfume again in the future...

When Mengrou finds out about this, she'll probably turn my head into a stool...

"I should take some time to go down the mountain and visit Tianxuan City during this period..." Mu Zhian thought to himself.

When Mu Zhian left the villa, Ye Lingxuan had already left without a word, leaving Mu Zhian with only a beautiful silhouette.

Mu Zhian did not catch up with Ye Lingxuan, but deliberately kept a distance.

Only after confirming that they had left Liangyi Peak did they chase after her like wild dogs: "Lingxuan, why are you walking so fast? Wait for me..."

Ye Lingxuan paid no attention to Mu Zhian and increased her flying speed.

The more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt. She had clearly said that her favorite person was Lingxuan, but then she turned around and gave Lan Shijie perfume instead... What was this all about?

Mu Zhian quickened his pace and blocked Ye Lingxuan's path, grabbing her wrist and saying, "Lingxuan, wait a moment!"

"I came here tonight for the matter of the cultivation technique. As you just saw, I absorbed the spiritual energy of the Heavenly Court. It will also benefit you, won't it?" Mu Zhi'an said with a helpless tone.

However, Ye Lingxuan immediately turned her face away and said coldly, "Young Master Mu has so many confidantes around him, who knows who you are absorbing the Heavenly Court's spiritual energy for?"

"And they even gave my senior sister some perfume..."

When Mu Zhian saw her stop, he was overjoyed. He knew that Ye Lingxuan was just being proud and reluctant. He immediately said solemnly, "The spiritual energy in the Heavenly Court is extremely special. Only Sister Lingxuan can make it work best. What I did tonight was naturally for you."

"What about the perfume?" Ye Lingxuan glanced at him coldly.

Mu Zhian was taken aback, then shook his head and smiled, "My senior sister used to take good care of me, so..."

"So you gave her perfume?" Her tone was cold.

Mu Zhian was silent for a moment, then sighed softly, "Actually, I didn't want to tell you so soon."

Mu Zhian looked down at the girl in front of him and said softly, "From the very beginning, I planned to give you a unique perfume... but I originally intended it to be a surprise."

Ye Lingxuan clearly didn't believe it and said unhappily, "Brother Mu is the best at lying."

As she said this, she raised her eyes, her peach blossom eyes filled with resentment and displeasure.

However, this melancholy only made her peach blossom eyes even more lovely and charming.

"Brother Mu has probably said this to more than one person already, hasn't he?"

This Mu brother is really awful, so fickle... yet he's also so hard to let go of.

Ye Lingxuan both loved and hated Mu Zhi'an, secretly grinding her teeth, while the Desolate Time Lock in her sleeve stirred restlessly, as if ready to tie Mu Zhi'an back to the forbidden zone at any moment.

Mu Zhian raised his hand and swore, "I can swear that I have only ever promised to give Lingxuan a surprise."

The Great Dao resonates with us, and Heaven and Earth bear witness!

Seeing this, Ye Lingxuan quickly raised her hand to cover Mu Zhian's mouth, looked up at him, and said, "Brother Mu, don't do this. What if you really get punished by the lightning tribulation..."

Mu Zhian gently took her soft little hand in his, looked down at her, and said softly, "Anything is worth it as long as it makes you happy."

Under Mu Zhian's intense gaze, Ye Lingxuan pursed her red lips, softened her tone slightly, and whispered, "I believe you..."

Feeling Mu Zhi'an take another step forward and put his arm around her slender waist, Ye Lingxuan felt both shy and a little expectant. She raised her peach blossom eyes and gazed at him: "Brother Mu, are you going back tonight?"

Mu Zhian understood immediately and leaned down to kiss Ye Lingxuan's fair face: "I'll go back with you tonight."

Ye Lingxuan gently pushed him away with a reserved air: "Don't do this, we're still outside... what if someone sees us..."

"Does that mean I can just go back?" Mu Zhian teased deliberately.

He gazed at Ye Lingxuan standing with her head bowed, her beautiful face flushed with a faint blush. He couldn't help but reach out and gently lift the girl's chin, intending to taste her pink lips before returning home.

However, at that moment, Ye Lingxuan suddenly seemed to realize something and subconsciously turned her head to look at the path to immortality.

On this soon-to-disappear path to immortality, a beautiful figure seems to be slowly walking down from it.

The figure vanished in an instant, as if it had never existed.

However, a hint of doubt flickered in Ye Lingxuan's eyes.

She felt that the woman looked somewhat familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere before...

At the same time, Mu Zhian also noticed the abnormality and looked up in the same direction.

Like Ye Lingxuan, his eyes also showed doubt.

Although I knew there were powerful beings in the Heavenly Court who had ascended to immortality, it was still rather strange that they would choose to descend before the path to immortality disappeared...

……

That night, the cold winter arrived.

Deep within the Glazed Palace on the north bank, a young man dressed in black robes slowly opened his eyes, waking up from his meditation.

The room was quiet, without a sound.

That's understandable; with the path to immortality now open, all the cultivators in the Glazed Palace have gone to join in the fun.

In the past, Ye Yu probably would have already gone there to try and seek this opportunity.

However, Ye Yu remained incredibly calm at this moment, and did not even leave the room.

It wasn't that he gave up the chance to become an immortal, but rather that he knew this path to immortality wouldn't lead him to the Heavenly Court.

His chance to become an immortal has not yet arrived.

"You're much calmer and more composed than before, that's good," the old man inside the body said with considerable satisfaction.

"After all, my teacher said before that now is not the best time to set foot in the Heavenly Court. Since that's the case, there's no need to get involved in this matter. Focusing on cultivation is the most important thing," Ye Yu said calmly.

The old man smiled and said, "You're right. Focus on your cultivation, and your future will be limitless. As for Mu Zhian... it's fine to leave him alone for now. After all, you'll run into him sooner or later at this Ascension Tournament, unless he's defeated or forfeits."

"However, based on my understanding of him, although Mu Zhian is cunning in his dealings with others, he is essentially an arrogant person. This time, he is representing the inner disciples of the Library Pavilion, so it is impossible for him to give up halfway."

"And this is your opportunity."