Wuhen: "..."

After standing there dumbfounded for a while, looking at my master's humiliated and helpless expression, I suddenly felt like laughing.

But, well, I can't laugh; after all, he's my master.

After Shang Xiye left, Ji Fengyao tossed and turned, unable to sleep soundly, so she got up and meditated and cultivated all night.

Due to her special physique, two hours of meditation each day is equivalent to three days of seclusion for an ordinary cultivator.

That night, she actually reached the threshold of the third-order Spirit Gathering stage.

Listening to the birds chirping outside the window, Ji Fengyao finished her all-night cultivation and muttered with some distress, "Sigh, having too much talent is also a problem. I have to be on guard against being captured and used as a furnace cauldron at all times."

I washed up and finished eating early.

Ji Fengyao hurriedly left with her three maids. She knew that Shang Xiye had secretly sent people to protect her, so she didn't bother to report to Shang Xiye.

She had barely stepped out of the palace gates when someone rushed to Ningxi Hall to inform Consort Xiao.

Empress Dowager Xiao put down her half-eaten bowl of porridge and slowly rinsed her mouth and washed her hands: "No rush. We need to give them some time alone. After this, we'll know if they'll meet again in the next life."

"The Dowager Consort is kind-hearted," said Granny Wang as she carefully served her, while simultaneously offering a flattering compliment.

Everyone loves to hear nice words, even if it's just a habitual compliment.

Empress Dowager Xiao smiled gracefully, and after the servants had finished preparing, she slowly made her way to the palace.

In the deep abyss, Ji Fengming slowly awoke once more.

As his eyes adjusted to the dim light, and he saw the Black Owl's face so close, he thought with grief and indignation:

I really am a menace; I'm still alive after all this. He'll definitely be impatient and leave first on his way to the underworld!

Before the thought even finished forming...

Suddenly, I heard a very slow and powerful heartbeat, "thump!"

Ji Fengming was so shocked that his eyes widened suddenly. He looked up at Hei Xiao's face again and met a pair of beautiful, bewitching peach blossom eyes: "Xiao... Xiao Chen, you... you're alive!"

"So you thought I was dead, so you made use of me as a human cushion?" Black Owl's lips curled into a meaningful smile as he deliberately teased.

Ji Fengming then noticed their current posture, and his old face immediately turned red with embarrassment: "Misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding. I came to check on your condition, but I suddenly fainted due to exhaustion... Hmm, it's strange, I checked your breathing, felt your pulse and listened to your heartbeat, and you were clearly no longer breathing."

Black Owl: "...Can't you say anything nice?"

I really want to sew that kid's mouth shut!

He didn't die from the fall, but he'll be cursed to death by this kid's sharp tongue.

Ji Fengming paused for a moment, then said in a serious tone, "Xiao Chen, you are really good-looking, and you have a unique cold fragrance about you. Did you choose the wrong path when you were reincarnated? You were supposed to be a girl, but you ended up being born a boy next door?"

A thick, black curtain slid down Black Owl's forehead: "Get down!"

Ji Fengming endured the excruciating pain, as if being stabbed with knives and needles, and crawled off the black owl with a grimacing expression. He then slid down onto the ground, leaning against the gleaming white boulder, panting heavily.

This simple action almost exhausted all his strength, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead.

Seeing Ji Fengming's reaction, Hei Xiao regretted yelling at him.

He also got up and was surprised to find that the pain in his lower abdomen (Dantian) was not as bad as before.