She turned around to face the masked man and said, "Fine, I'll believe you're the sect leader of the Xuan Yuan Sect for now. I've looked through your library here, why didn't you stop me? Did you think I couldn't leave here?"

The masked man chuckled, "Not at all. You can read any of the books here, whenever you want."

Chu Nian felt a sense of familiarity with him again and asked, "May I ask your honorable name, Sect Master?"

“You can call me…” the masked man thought for a moment, “Mu Bai.”

"Mu Bai?!" Chu Nian's eyelids twitched upon hearing this. "Oh, so it's Sect Master Mu." The fact that she had to think about her own name meant this name was definitely fake.

Mu Bai smiled and said, "I've already told you my name. So, what's your name?"

Chu Nian: "Bai Yi."

Mu Bai: "I'm asking for your real name."

Chu Nian asked with a smile, "Is Mu Bai your real name?"

Mu Bai coughed lightly, then asked, "You really don't want me to teach you how to set up a token?"

Chu Nian said, "I can take a look at it." She then took out the token that Bai Ze had given her earlier.

Mu Bai looked at the token and said, "You've set it so that everyone is invisible to each other. That is to say, you can neither see others nor be seen by others."

Chu Nian rolled her eyes and said, "Really? Then why doesn't this setting work for you?!" She paused, then added, "Also, with this setting, won't the Xuan Yuan disciples bump into each other while walking?"

Mu Bai: "How could that be? Only your token has this feature."

Chu Nian nearly choked on her own words, raising the token almost to smash it in his face—was he deliberately letting Bai Ze give her something like this? But then she saw the mask on his face and gave up the idea; smashing it would only hit the mask, it wouldn't do any good.

"Take off your mask," Chu Nian said coldly.

Mu Bai: "I won't pick it."

Chu Nian: "I already know who you are, hurry up and pick it!" Suddenly remembering something, she said angrily, "Could that little donkey's fart have been deliberately made too?"

Mu Bai coughed lightly.

Chu Nian questioned, "Where's the little donkey?"

Mu Bai: "It probably used a token to make it invisible to others, so you suddenly can't see it. It's already slipped out to play."

Chu Nian chuckled: No wonder this little beast was so carefree from beginning to end, it turns out... ha!

Mu Bai then said, "Never mind that, what book are you looking for here?"

Chu Nian thought for a moment and then confessed, "I'm looking for a book on the transformation of Xuan Qi energy." She had suspected from the start that this guy wasn't from this world either, so she decided to tell the truth.

Mu Bai suddenly realized: So that's what you're looking for!

He explained, "Mysterious energy is a kind of energy between internal force and spiritual energy. Taking a step back is internal force, and taking a step forward is spiritual energy. Similarly, spiritual energy will turn into mysterious energy if it takes a step back."

Chu Nian asked, "It sounds like you know I have internal energy and spiritual power?" How did you know? Even though he transmigrated from Chen Zhao, it seems that Chu Nian never showed his internal energy and spiritual power in front of Chen Zhao.

At that time, she did use magical energy to create a bunch of bean soldiers, but she used brainwaves, which Yi Nian was good at, the most.

Mu Bai paused for a moment, then said, "Let me show you around the entire Xuan Yuan Sect!"

Chu Nian suddenly asked, "What if Zhang Lie suddenly raises an army after you leave the capital?"

Mu Bai coughed lightly and finally took off his mask.

Chu Nian has made herself so clear, there's really no need for him to keep pretending.

Behind the mask was indeed a face with sharp, chiseled features, so handsome it was almost breathtaking. It was none other than Grand Tutor Jiang Bai, who should be in the capital of Xuanwei Kingdom.

He didn't know if it was because he felt Chu Nian was looking at him too intently, but his face turned red again.

He coughed lightly and said, "You recognized me so quickly?!" His ears turned red as he said this.

Chu Nian gave a curt "Hmm," and said, "That smile of yours is too familiar." She'd smiled like that a lot when she was with Chen Zhao, mostly sneakily. "You're a grown man, do you really need to be so shy?"

Upon hearing her words, Jiang Bai's face turned even redder, and he then buried his head and chuckled secretly.

Chu Nian continued, "Besides, your name, Mu Bai, when put together, is just Bai!"

Jiang Bai said awkwardly, "Oh."

Chu Nian: "You haven't answered my question yet!" The little emperor is still so weak, I hope nothing goes wrong.

Jiang Bai said, "Zhang Lie now believes that the Emperor is his biological son, so he won't cause trouble for the Emperor for the time being. It's just that..."

"What's wrong?" Chu Nian asked quickly. Seeing his hesitant expression, she knew something must have happened in the capital.

Jiang Bai: "Seeing that you had been staying indoors for several days, not seeing anyone, and even eating less, the Emperor went to Cining Palace to see you. Although Wen Wan tried her best to stop him, he still managed to find an opportunity to secretly meet with the Empress Dowager. Seeing the Empress Dowager lying in bed looking sickly, he cried for a while and even personally served her tea and water..."

Chu Nian exclaimed in horror, "He fed the Empress Dowager water? That was made of paper."

"Hmm." Jiang Bai responded sullenly, "Luckily I found out in time, otherwise he would have made a scene. Don't worry, I've put another paper doll of the Empress Dowager on your bed, that should fool you for a while."

Chu Nian said with some concern, "Then I should go back as soon as possible!" Suddenly she asked, "As the sect leader of the Ancient Profound Origin Sect, you must have a very high status in the Profound Sect. Why do you want to go to the Profound Wei Kingdom to be a tutor?"

This Xuan Yuan Sect is the Xuan Yuan Sect of the entire Xuanwei Continent, not just the Xuan Yuan Sect of the Ziwei Kingdom. Chu Nian guessed that the power of this Xuan Yuan Sect might even far exceed that of the Ziwei Kingdom!

Jiang Bai chuckled and replied, "The Grand Tutor is the Emperor's teacher. Although the Xuan Yuan Sect has many disciples, unfortunately none of them are the Emperor!"

Chu Nian: "Heh." He always felt that he and Lou Qianzong had an inextricable and complicated connection (or perhaps a karmic entanglement). His becoming the Grand Tutor certainly had nothing to do with Lou Qianzong being the young emperor.

Jiang Bai said, "You can rest assured about His Majesty. I have made all the necessary arrangements. Everything... will proceed according to your wishes." As he spoke, his eyes fell on Chu Nian's face, revealing a hint of emotion that made Chu Nian feel inexplicably uneasy.

"You..." Chu Nian decided to ask tentatively, "Do you know Chen Zhao?"

"Chen Zhao? Who is that?" Jiang Bai asked, puzzled.

"If you don't know him, that's fine," Chu Nian said with a smile. It seems that even if Jiang Bai shares the same soul as Chen Zhao, it was before he transmigrated into Chen Zhao's body, so he didn't know of Chen Zhao's existence.

But apart from Chen Zhao, it seems that the two of them have no other contact!

Chu Nian was puzzled by Jiang Bai. How could a handsome young man in his twenties, with talent, good looks, money, and power, fall for a weak and incompetent widow in her thirties?