"Cough cough..."

Li Zhu coughed a few times, enduring the pain to create some distance between himself and Mu Ling. Then, panting heavily, he spoke with difficulty.

"Senior Mu Ling, please stop torturing me. If you keep doing this, you're going to kill me..."

"Senior Mu Ling? I'm Little Dragon Girl!"

Mu Ling asked in confusion, then seemed to realize something and quickly looked at the bronze mirror beside her, only to find that she was no longer Little Dragon Girl, but had become Mu Ling...

While she was still in a daze, Mu Ling's eyes turned cold again, and then she looked at Li Zhu and asked...

"Did I just turn into Little Dragon Girl?"

Li Zhu nodded blankly, not knowing what she meant, but he didn't dare to speak easily, afraid that she would hit him again, and he would be half dead if he didn't die!

"It seems he succeeded, but not completely. That's why Little Dragon Girl never grew up..."

Mu Ling murmured, and Li Zhu beside her seemed to understand something. It must be that the Dragon King did something but did not succeed completely, which caused the Little Dragon Girl to lose some of her memories, and it was also the reason why the Little Dragon Girl could not grow up!

"Senior Mu Ling, where is Little Dragon Girl? How did she disappear?"

Because he was quite worried about Xiaolongnu's safety, Li Zhu finally couldn't help but ask!

Mu Ling sighed, glanced at Li Zhu, hesitated for a moment, and then explained.

"Little Dragon Girl didn't disappear; she just temporarily entered my body. Because we are mother and daughter, our souls don't reject each other..."

"You mean to say that Little Dragon Girl was a soul before?"

Li Zhu asked in shock. Although he had transmigrated, such a fantastical thing was still hard to accept!

"It's not so much a soul as it is a spirit, more accurately, the spirit of the Dragon Ring..."

Upon hearing Mu Ling's words, Li Zhu suddenly realized why Xiaolongnu had fainted after being away from him for a long time. It must be because she had lost the Dragon Ring and was no longer able to support her power!

"Does...do these artifact spirits really exist?"

Li Zhu asked in shock!

“I didn’t believe it before either. Although divine artifacts are believed to have spirits, I’ve never seen a weapon that truly possesses a spirit. The Dragon King was just making a bold attempt. After all, our daughter was on the verge of death at that time. If it succeeded, she could live on in another form; if it failed, I would simply accept her death…”

Mu Ling spoke calmly, recounting the events to Li Zhu in detail, which helped Li Zhu connect the dots...

"How long has it been since you two last saw each other?"

Li Zhu wanted to know how long Xiaolongnu had maintained this state…

"It's been about ten years..."

Upon hearing this answer, Li Zhu's face darkened. He recalled how he had been tricked by Xiaolongnu before, and at that time he felt that Xiaolongnu's behavior was not like that of a child. He never expected that she really wasn't a child, which made him find it hard to accept...

"Then...how can you and Little Dragon Girl separate?"

Li Zhu didn't want to lose Xiaolongnu, so he couldn't help but ask...

"Brother Zhu, what did you say? Do you want to break up with Little Dragon Girl?"

Little Dragon Girl asked sadly!

"No, how could that be..."

Li Zhu wanted to say that he liked Xiaolongnu the most, but when he thought about her real age, he just couldn't bring himself to say it...

"I knew Brother Zhu wouldn't want to part with me..."

Little Dragon Girl threw herself into Li Zhu's arms, a move that terrified him out of his wits. This was a recipe for disaster!

This would be fine for Little Dragon Girl, but this body belongs to Mu Ling...

"Little Dragon Girl, don't get agitated. Look at yourself in the mirror..."

Hearing Li Zhu's words, Xiaolongnu reluctantly looked in the mirror. When she saw that her face had turned into Mu Ling's, she was stunned for a moment, and her subsequent reaction was completely different from what Li Zhu had expected...

Li Zhu thought she wouldn't be able to accept it and would scream in fright, but Xiaolongnu's reaction was completely different; she actually jumped up excitedly...

She threw herself into Li Zhu's arms again and said...

"I've grown up, finally grown up, and I can be with Brother Zhu now..."

As she spoke, Little Dragon Girl twisted her body, expressing her excitement…

Li Zhu clicked his tongue, thinking to himself, "Am I really that charming? To think a little kid has been thinking about me for so long..."

However, upon closer reflection, Xiaolongnu can't really be considered a child, since she is actually an adult. It's just that due to special circumstances, she can only maintain the appearance of someone around ten years old!

But Li Zhu felt something was off. He remembered being wrongly accused of liking children before, and how he had the confidence to refute it then. But now, with the special existence of Xiaolongnu, he no longer felt confident enough to refute such accusations if anyone wrongly accused him of liking children again…

"Little Dragon Girl, please stand still. I'm not used to you standing like this..."

Li Zhu said awkwardly that for the sake of his own life, he felt he had to keep his distance from Xiaolongnu, otherwise who knew when their souls would be swapped back!

"Brother Zhu, I've finally grown up, I don't want to be separated from you..."

Little Dragon Girl said coquettishly!

"Little Dragon Girl, you should know this body isn't yours..."

Li Zhu spoke earnestly, hoping that Xiaolongnu could understand his good intentions!

"Huh? What did you say? Hold me tighter?"

As expected, Xiaolongnu hugged him tighter, which made Li Zhu's heart pound. Didn't this little girl know that this body belonged to his mother?

Is he carrying Little Dragon Girl or Mu Ling?

"Little Dragon Girl, sob sob..."

Just as Li Zhu was about to say something, Xiaolongnu didn't give him a chance to speak and kissed him directly!

At first, Li Zhu was quite resistant, after all, it was Mu Ling's body, and he still couldn't overcome the hurdle in his heart...

But he soon succumbed to the allure; that kiss allowed him to taste the most exquisite flavor in the world…

Without realizing it, their heartbeats slowly drew closer, their breathing becoming clearly audible in the quiet room…

A poem says: A flash of cold light arrives first, then the spear strikes out like a dragon!

Another poem reads: "With a long spear across my body, flowers flutter down; the pine breeze chases the moon as I walk!"

Another poem says: "Only shallow grass can hide a horse's hooves!"

The dark power within Li Zhu became unusually active at this moment, causing the dragon tattoo on his wrist to begin to flicker…

In his dantian, he was experiencing unimaginable pain, as alternating forces of hot and cold washed over his body…

If a master were to witness this scene, they might immediately recognize that it was the effect of the Yin and Yang energies. Mu Ling represents Yin, and Li Zhu represents Yang. The best state for cultivation is the balance of Yin and Yang, and the two of them had unintentionally entered this special state of cultivation...