Qi Tong reminded: [Wan Tong has already left. Do you think we should help him suck out the drug now?]

Mu Tiantian: [Didn't he notice there was something wrong with the water? He drank it way too fast.]

Qi Tong: [Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case... I don't know what he's thinking.]

Mu Tiantian stepped forward to help Juechen up, "Master..."

Juechen pulled her arms and trapped her.

He lowered his head and whispered in her fair ear, "Mu Tiantian... do you really think I wouldn't recognize you...?"

He gazed at the snow-white skin of her neck, feeling the warmth of her skin in his palm, and his body seemed to grow even hotter.

The faint milky scent emanating from her was constantly enticing to him.

"Leaping away..."

Mu Tiantian's sweet voice made him feel weak in the knees.

He tightened his grip on her hand.

He knew there was medicine in the water, and he also knew that the shopkeeper was possessed by a cat demon.

When he saw her emerge from the room of the two demon hunters dressed so provocatively, an uncontrollable surge of anger welled up inside him.

He felt his mind was foggy and, somewhat defiantly, drank the tea.

He thought that she might be in cahoots with that cat demon.

He questioned, "You sealed your immortal energy and transformed into a fox to approach me, just to lure me to this county town, to this restaurant, and then you wanted to drain all my vital energy and Buddhist aura, didn't you?"

He had almost forgotten that it was he who carried her here to stay at the restaurant, and that it was he who chose to stay here.

So he always recognized her, but he still kept her by his side.

Mu Tiantian felt that he was completely different now from his gentle and soft-spoken self during the day, except that his tone seemed a little... aggrieved?

"I'm not..."

"You're trying to seduce me, aren't you?" Juechen interrupted her, releasing her hand and standing in front of her, a smile playing on his lips. "How, benefactor, do you intend to seduce this humble monk?"

Mu Tiantian's heart sank when she saw that his expression and attitude were becoming less and less like him.

She tiptoed, hooked her arms around his neck, leaned close to him, and slowly inhaled, trying to draw out the medicine he had swallowed.

Juechen seemed to understand her intention.

I don't know if I was driven by my inner demons, or by the effects of the medicine, or simply following my heart.

He lowered his head and kissed her.

They lingered and caressed each other through a thin veil.

He held her waist with one hand and gripped the back of her head with the other to prevent her from moving.

Juechen found the veil in the way.

Throw away the veil.

Their lips touched.

Mu Tiantian couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

There's a faint jasmine fragrance on my lips and teeth, the taste of jasmine tea.

The liquid that slid down her throat seemed to be jasmine tea.

He fed her the drugged tea!

She suddenly opened her eyes and met his dark gaze.

It was like a black hole or abyss that made her fall into it.

Mu Tiantian felt dizzy and her mind was becoming increasingly blurred. Her body was burning hot.

Suddenly the scenery before my eyes changed.

She was originally in a guest room at the restaurant, but now she is in a monk's cell?

She touched herself, looked down, and saw that she was wearing a white long dress with a white veil over it, looking ethereal and not at all revealing or improper.

However, the tingling sensation in the body was extremely intense.

What's going on?

Wasn't she and Juechen...doing...you know?

How did I suddenly... end up back at Jingling Temple?

And his body was still burning hot.

Mu Tiantian glanced around.

This seems to be Juechen's room.

Mu Tiantian: [Seven Unifications?]

Seven: [Are you calling me?]

Mu Tiantian: [Nonsense.]

Seven: [Your voice is too soft. How can you speak so softly even when you're using your brain... Wait, you're doing your 'business' right now, why are you calling me? Do you want me to be a spectator?]

Mu Tiantian: [Get lost! I'm asking you where I am right now!]

Qi Tong: [Where could you be? You're in bed with Jue Chen... doing some kind of exercise... Do I really need to tell you? Wait... what exactly do you mean?]

Qi Tong also realized at this moment that something was wrong with what Mu Tiantian said.

Mu Tiantian: [I feel like I'm at Jingling Temple right now. Am I dreaming? This feels so real.]

As she spoke to Qitong, she walked to the door and opened it.

Mu Tiantian: [The texture feels very realistic.]

Qi Tong: [Perhaps... it's Juechen's dream? Let me see if I can help you check.]

Mu Tiantian looked at the scene outside the door. Dark clouds covered the bright moon, and heavy rain poured down, wetting the ground. Before long, the ground was covered with water.

In the dim light, she saw a figure staggering toward her in the rain.

By this time, Qitong had already finished testing her.

Qi Tong: [I detected that Juechen's consciousness is very blurred. You may have really entered his dream, perhaps influenced by inner demons. Since you've entered his dream, why not have a good talk with him there? Maybe you can reduce his hatred level a bit.]

The seven principles have been explained.

Mu Tiantian recognized the person walking towards her.

Juechen, dressed in a simple monk's robe, was soaked to the bone, looking like a drowned rat, and walked absentmindedly in the courtyard.

Mu Tiantian hurriedly ran over and pulled him back into the room, rainwater flowing down his monk's robe onto the ground.

His wet clothes clung to his skin, revealing glimpses of his abdominal muscles.

Upon seeing this, the tingling sensation in Mu Tiantian's body, which she had previously ignored, became even stronger.

She shook her head.

Juechen coughed weakly twice, "Cough cough..."

"Why are you walking so slowly in this heavy rain?" Mu Tiantian couldn't help but say, her tone both anxious and worried.

The words that came out didn't seem to be what they wanted to say.

Mu Tiantian: [Seventh Master, why do I feel like I can't control myself?]

She had intended to ask him how he was feeling in a gentle voice, but what came out of her mouth were other words.

Qi Tong: [This...maybe it's because...because this is his dream? So you can't control yourself.]

It's not entirely certain either.

Mu Tiantian: 【...If that's the case, how do I explain it...?】

Juechen smiled when he saw her worried and anxious look, closed the door, and said softly, "I will definitely make Master agree to let me return to secular life. You rest first, I'll go change my clothes."

Upon hearing this, Mu Tiantian remembered that Juechen had once begged Master Zhenhui to disrobe in order to be with her, kneeling in the rain for a whole day and eventually catching a cold.

His dreams now must be of that time back then.