It turns out, they were the main characters.

Lin Ling glanced at Mu Zhian silently for a moment, then wrote in her notebook: "Actually, when she told me to ask you for help, I hesitated the whole time."

“You have many girls around you, and you seem to be constantly busy with their affairs. Moreover, Qingdi has a very strong personality, and I don’t want to cause you any trouble.”

"It's not too late if you regret it now."

"It's not too late for you to regret it now, but it will be too late once we get back to the Mu family, Sister Lin Ling..." Mu Zhi'an smiled and said, "I never regret what I do."

"Besides, if you want to suppress the karmic fire, either you go back to your grotto-heaven to cultivate in seclusion and suppress the backlash of the karmic fire, or I will help you, right?"

Mu Zhian looked at Lin Ling with sincere eyes.

On the other hand, he's still not entirely sure what kind of feelings this spirit dragon lady has for him.

Is it simply a senior taking care of a junior?

The person feeding them?

Or perhaps it was out of consideration for Consort Shang that they extended their affection to her?

But so be it... No matter what, after dual cultivation, even if there were no feelings at first, those feelings will gradually turn into love.

After all, even if someone is as pure as a blank sheet of paper, once they've experienced it, their feelings will change.

"It's getting late, let's go back to the Mu residence first. I'll have the servants prepare some snacks for you."

Upon hearing this, Lin Ling's beautiful red eyes suddenly lit up, and she wrote in her notebook: "Are there any delicacies I haven't tried yet?"

Mu Zhian gave a soft "hmm": "It's even more delicious than your favorite crystal pork knuckle and meat buns."

"What is it?"

"I'll prepare it for you after we get back to the Mu residence," Mu Zhi'an said mysteriously.

……

Mufu.

After having dinner at the Mu residence, Lin Ling stood by the window, lazily stretching her limbs.

The spring night breeze tousled her silver hair and fluttered her white dress, which, combined with her star-like red eyes and stunning beauty, gave her an adorable and innocent look.

Not long ago, Mu Zhian was summoned for questioning by Elder Ren. It seemed that one of his ex-girlfriends had come to visit him after he left the Mu family. Elder Ren originally thought it was no big deal, but now that he saw Mu Zhian returning home with such a beautiful silver-haired woman, he decided to tell him the details after thinking it over, so that Mu Zhian would at least have some idea.

Lin Ling naturally didn't care about such trivial matters.

But she was concerned about Mu Zhian helping her suppress the karmic fire.

Waiting for him here now is incredibly agonizing.

Lin Ling may not understand matters between men and women, but that doesn't mean she's completely naive. She generally knows what Mu Zhi'an needs to do.

That's why she's so uneasy right now.

It should be understood that if the original path is followed, even if all three portions of Heavenly Dao Qi are transferred to Mu Zhian in the future, Lin Ling's karmic fire will not be completely eliminated. Every time a Word of Power technique involving 'cause and effect' is used, it will intensify the suffering caused by the karmic fire.

However, if one cultivates with Mu Zhian, who possesses a natural furnace, then the karmic fire can gradually subside.

Nearly half an hour passed, and she still hadn't seen Mu Zhian. So, following her impressions from visiting the Mu residence earlier that day, she strolled towards the hot spring behind the Mu residence courtyard.

Along the way, the maids nearby all secretly gazed at this stunningly beautiful silver-haired woman with amazement.

Many people were secretly astonished, wondering how the young master had managed to bring back such a beautiful woman after only one trip to the Liangyi Sect.

She was tall and slender, and her white dress accentuated her excellent body proportions, long legs, and a black belt around her waist that highlighted her delicate figure.

Lin Ling walked to the hot spring and said softly, "No one is allowed to enter this place."

She thought for a moment and added, "Except for Mu Zhian."

In the darkness, the rules of heaven and earth were quietly rewritten, and the inside and outside of the hot spring became two different worlds. The hot spring seemed to have become a world in the void, which could not be entered by anyone.

After doing all this, she bent down and untied her small deerskin boots embroidered with cloud patterns. Her small feet dangled out of the boots, revealing her fair and translucent feet. Her toes were covered with a layer of natural jelly-colored nail polish, pink and glossy, as she stepped onto the pebbles by the hot spring.

Her fingertips gently twisted the waistband at her slender waist, and she pulled it lightly.

Immediately afterwards, she bit a thin ribbon, gathered her silver hair at the back of her head into a bun, tied it slightly with the ribbon, and gracefully walked into the hot spring.

Steam rose slowly, shrouding the entire hot spring. Lin Ling slightly raised her elegant, snow-white chin, her red eyes gazing at the moonlit, starry night sky, her long, curled eyelashes trembling slightly.

It would be even more perfect if a plate of roasted crane legs could be placed by the hot spring at this time.

...The best one is the eight-treasure crane.

After an unknown amount of time, she seemed to realize something and turned her head slightly to look to the side.

At some point, a young man stood there, admiring the surrounding layout and exclaiming, "Word magic is truly astonishing. This is practically equivalent to erasing this entire hot spring from the Mu family, isn't it?"

This can no longer be explained by supernatural powers.

This spell of words has the power to turn the rotten into the miraculous.

Lin Ling blinked her jewel-like red eyes, then suddenly looked at Mu Zhi'an warily, writing in the water by the bathtub, "What mischief are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing bad, it's just that I prepared some snacks for Sister Lin Ling and brought them over."

Mu Zhian took out a plate of roasted chicken and a jar of osmanthus wine from his storage ring. These were the fine wines that he had his servants prepare not long ago.

Lin Ling's eyes lit up instantly, but she quickly became wary again: "My senses tell me that you have bad intentions."

Mu Zhian stepped forward to her side, half-squatted down, held her small hand, and generously admitted, "That wasn't a bad intention; it was just to prevent Sister Lin Ling from being consumed by the karmic fire."

Lin Ling submerged, the water quickly rising above her shoulders, leaving only a pair of clear, bright red eyes peeking out from the surface. She puffed out her cheeks and made a "stare" sound as she gazed at him intently.

Mu Zhian met her gaze calmly. He knew he couldn't run away at this moment because Lin Ling was unlike any girl he had ever met before. She rarely interacted with others, and even less so with someone.

The closer it gets to this point, the less she can afford to run away. Right now, her behavior is just due to her shyness, but if he runs away now, it will make her feel uneasy, as if he is just forcing himself.

Despite possessing immense and violent power, her heart was as fragile as a little girl's.

So Mu Zhian stared intently and gently back at her.

Lin Ling is indeed able to sense other people's evil and good intentions, and naturally she can also perceive Mu Zhian's thoughts at this moment.

But Mu Zhian made no attempt to hide his thoughts at that moment.

So what if she notices? If Lin Ling doesn't notice these feelings, how can we proceed with the next steps?

Anyway, he was fickle, wanting to give every girl a warm home... Lin Ling knew perfectly well how many girls were around him, so why did he need to hide it?

Therefore, he did not intend to hide it from her.

Lin Ling raised her head, peering at Mu Zhi'an's expression.

After an unknown amount of time, she reached out a hand from the water, grabbed Mu Zhian's wrist, and gently pulled him into the water with a 'plop'.

Before Mu Zhian could speak, she had already tilted her head back slightly and closed her eyes in the soft moonlight.

Her alabaster-red lips were slightly pursed, her long, curled eyelashes trembled gently, and a strand of silver hair slipped down from her ear and lazily draped over her shoulder.

Mu Zhian looked at her and quickly revealed a gentle smile.

He knew that the girl's feelings for him were no longer simply those of a feeder and a receiver; there was also affection involved... the affection between a man and a woman.

Mu Zhian took her hand and intertwined their fingers. Gazing at her exquisitely fair face, he whispered, "Sister Lin Ling is so beautiful."

Lin Ling suddenly opened her eyes, a hint of shyness flashing in her beautiful eyes. She held the booklet up in front of her face to cover herself: "Don't say those cheesy, flattering things."

Although I said that, for some reason, I felt a kind of inexplicable joy like a little girl, as if it were more delicious than any food I had ever tasted before.

At this moment, Mu Zhian reached out and gently took the booklet from her hand, tossing it aside.

Then, in the instant she looked up in a daze, he lowered his head slightly and kissed Lin Ling's alluring red lips.

The girl in his arms was soft and lovely, but her delicate body trembled slightly.

After an unknown amount of time, her body gradually relaxed, and slowly, she opened her hazy, red, starry eyes.

“Aaa?” A blush rose on her cheeks as she asked softly.

Mu Zhian was taken aback, then, considering the current context, he understood and nodded slightly.

“Aaa,” he answered firmly.

Chapter 439 Mu Zhian: Aaa! 5.5K

One hour later.

Lin Ling lay drowsily on the shore, her legs bent in the hot spring. Her jade-like skin was moistened by the hot spring, and her back was smooth and white.

Her once-piled hair had somehow fallen onto the hot spring, water overflowing over her shoulders, her silver hair cascading across the surface, her face flushed, her eyes alluring.

Mu Zhian picked up the thin ribbon that had floated into the hot spring, walked to her side, gently ruffled her silver hair from behind, and said softly, "Look at you, you've been soaking in the hot spring for so long, your face is all red. You should go back to your room and rest early."

“Aaa.” Lin Ling shook her head, her face full of distrust, wary of Mu Zhian, the culprit.

The bodies of powerful beings at the Dao Integration Realm have been tempered by lightning tribulations, and Lin Ling, in a sense, also belongs to the category of demon cultivators.

Demon cultivators have a physique far superior to humans, so how could they blush after soaking in a hot spring for a while?

You have to understand them all.

Mu Zhian is essentially crying wolf.

"What's wrong? Why are you suddenly being so cold to me?" Mu Zhian couldn't help but chuckle.

Lin Ling glanced at Mu Zhian, raised her fingertips, and grabbed the booklet that was lying to the side: "You want to do something bad."

The problem is, I've already done almost everything I wanted to do... Mu Zhian said helplessly, "I already said, I'm just trying to help you."

"The karmic fire of today has been mostly quelled. I can suppress the rest by meditating when I get back. Let's wait until tomorrow." Lin Ling blushed, raised her small notebook to cover her face, and peeked out from behind the notebook, shyly looking at him.

Mu Zhian gave a helpless, bitter smile: "Does Sister Lin Ling really distrust me that much?"

Lin Ling paused for a moment, then gently shook her head.

“You are my true friend, just like her, so I trust you, but I need a little more time.”

Mu Zhian gathered her loose silver hair back into a bun, put his arm around her shoulder, and whispered, "We are Daoist partners, not just friends."

Lin Ling gently shook her head, holding up her little notebook: "We're good friends, but you already have a Daoist partner."

“They all like you very much, so you can no longer be my Daoist partner.”

"Being with me will put you in a difficult position and make them unhappy."

"I just want everyone to be happy."