It looks so soft and rosy, it looks incredibly delicious, I really want to take a bite...
However, at that moment, Lu Fuyue noticed something was wrong, so she quickly and discreetly tidied his clothes and withdrew from his side.
Jiang Xun subconsciously reached out to grab her, but he was too slow. He quickly withdrew his hand, which had been frozen in mid-air, and placed it behind his back.
After a moment, Lu Fuyue broke the awkward atmosphere, lowered her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, I will tie your hair up."
Tying up his hair was also part of her daily service to him.
Previously, Jiang Xun had other maids who tied up his hair, but Lu Fuyue had never tied up a man's hair before, so she was arranged to follow that maid and learn how to tie up his hair.
A dark glint flickered in Jiang Xun's eyes before he regained his composure. "Then you can do it."
He strode to the bronze mirror and sat down. Only Jiang Xun knew that his body tensed up almost imperceptibly, and he dared not look at the bronze mirror, for fear that she would discover his dark thoughts.
So, gradually, Jiang Xun's gaze fell on the back of his hand on the table.
Even so, Jiang Xun could still feel a faint fragrance coming from behind the person behind him, lingering around his nose and even wafting through his heart.
Lu Fuyue stood behind Jiang Xun with a white jade comb in her hand, gently smoothing his hair with one hand, and then using the white jade comb to gently comb it from top to bottom.
The warm fingertips inevitably touched Jiang Xun's scalp, instantly making his whole body tense up. His hands, which were hanging on the table, clenched into fists, and even a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
However, at this moment, a broken hair stopped on the comb. Lu Fuyue quietly picked up the broken hair and hid it, then tied up his hair, and finally picked up the white crown inlaid with black jade from the table next to him and put it on his head.
After everything was over, Lu Fuyue stepped aside, looked at her face in the bronze mirror, and said calmly, "Your Majesty, is there anything else you need?"
Jiang Xun was abruptly pulled back to reality by the sudden voice. He followed Lu Fuyue's gaze to the bronze mirror, where he saw that the black jade and white crown made his face appear even more devilishly handsome.
He suppressed the slight upturn of his lips and asked, "What do you think of me today?"
Lu Fuyue remained silent. How come she hadn't realized before that Jiang Xun cared so much about his appearance? But to be honest, his face was indeed one of the most handsome in the world.
"...Few in the world can match the king's beauty."
Jiang Xun's lips could no longer be contained and he couldn't help but smile even more. He suddenly raised his hand to his mouth and coughed lightly, "Is that really what you think?"
Lu Fuyue nodded expressionlessly.
Jiang Xun: "..."
Don't think he didn't see it.
...
Next, it was time to serve Jiang Xun the food. Although it was just breakfast, everything was provided. The table was filled with various kinds of porridge, side dishes, and snacks, such as spirit rice white jade porridge and spirit crystal buns...
Since she began practicing abstinence from grains, Lu Fuyue had never eaten these things. Of course, this was also because she did not pay much attention to cravings. So, after instructing her maid to arrange these things, she stood aside and waited for Jiang Xun to come out of his bedchamber to eat.
Jiang Xun's face darkened immediately, as if he had offended him somehow. Normally, he would have come out to eat by now, but for some reason, he hadn't.
Seeing that it was almost time for her to rest, Lu Fuyue decided to leave and return to her room.
Anyway, Jiang Xun is a ghost cultivator who has lived for countless years. He will definitely come out to eat when he is hungry. Besides, cultivators don't get hungry.
Inside the sleeping quarters,
Jiang Xun waited and waited, but no one came in. His face grew darker and darker, and his fingers clenched tightly together. Several hours had passed since his usual mealtime. After waiting a while longer, Jiang Xun smirked, got up, and walked out.
Sure enough, after looking around, the person had already left.
Jiang Xun flicked his sleeve, a hint of gloom and disappointment flashing in his eyes. He strode down, picked up a piece of pastry that had long since gone cold, and took a big bite.
What a heartless woman! I should have just let her die there; it would have been better than torturing him like this today.
The maids around him knelt on the ground, trembling. One of them mustered up her courage and raised her head, saying, "Your Majesty, these things have gone cold. Why don't we take them away and replace them with a fresh batch?"
Jiang Xun waved his hand and said coldly, "If I find out that any of you have let something slip today, don't blame me for being cold-blooded and ruthless."
Upon hearing this, the maids immediately kowtowed heavily to the ground, kowtowing several times, saying, "This servant would never dare."
...
As soon as Lu Fuyue came out of Jiang Xun's place, she entered the space and began to prepare to use the hair she got from Jiang Xun to disguise her aura as a ghost cultivator and enter the Underworld City.
The Phoenix Clan's inheritance contained many secret techniques, the only one that could change one's aura and appearance without being noticed by anyone, the Phoenix Breath of Myriad Changes.
This technique can only be practiced by phoenixes whose bloodline purity reaches the tenth level. In addition, she has excellent comprehension, so she mastered the secrets in less than a quarter of an hour and skillfully used it to transform into a ghost cultivator.
...
After completely mastering the myriad breaths of the phoenix, Lu Fuyue stopped circulating her cultivation technique and opened her eyes.
Based on the spatial flow rate, less than half an hour has passed since she entered the space.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Fuyue got up from the palm-leaf fan and walked into the medicinal field that had been recently cleared.
This medicinal field is the one that appeared out of thin air after the black mystic stone merged with the space, a field full of various rare spiritual herbs from the underworld.
Lu Fuyue looked up and saw that this place was the only place in the space that was extremely similar to the environment of the underworld: a gray sky, dark and damp air, gray-brown soil, and a dense yin energy in the air.
Various kinds of spiritual herbs, exuding a chilling aura, grew on the soil. Among them, the one that sent a chill down one's spine was the one in the very center, whose petals resembled the face of a beautiful woman filled with sorrow.
...
"Your Majesty, the Black Mystic Stone is something you obtained after risking your life. You just gave it to Fairy Lu without letting her know. Isn't that..."
The manager of the Treasure Pavilion knelt in the main hall, head bowed in confusion.
It should be noted that the Black Profound Stone is a treasure that even the other Ghost Kings have been scheming and fighting for for many years, because once they have it, they will have the initiative to unify and control the entire Underworld, as well as the opportunity for ghost cultivators to ascend.
If those people knew that the Black Profound Stone was in the possession of a mere Nascent Soul cultivator from the human race, they would be in deep trouble.
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