Chapter 125 There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Mu Jianjian wasn't the type to let her values dictate her appearance, but even she couldn't resist having such a beautiful woman so close to her. As she subconsciously bit her lip, she finally realized something was wrong with her.
Because when she was learning medicine at the Xuan Shuang Traditional Chinese Medicine School, she consciously trained her sense of smell with Linghu Zhuoyu, and she smelled a faint, odorless fragrance.
If you don't pay attention to smelling it, you won't notice it at all; it's like being immersed in a gentle breeze.
Mu Jianjian's eyes cleared instantly, the pressure on her body lessened, and she quickly retreated.
"ah."
A surprised female voice rang out, and the surrounding scenery suddenly changed. The backyard, which was originally bathed in warm sunlight, became an exquisite inner room with incense burners emitting smoke.
The sounds of wind, birdsong, and distant voices faded into nothingness; it seemed that only the solid feeling of one's feet touching the ground brought true peace of mind.
Mu Jianjian looked up and saw a woman in a long, slit dress leaning lazily against the bed. The brightly colored skirt and the bright curtains complemented each other, and the woman with fair and translucent skin seemed like a butterfly surrounded by flowers, bright and charming.
Was everything that just happened... just an illusion?
When did she enter the illusion created by the other party?
“Very good,” Cai Hua got up from the bed, propped himself up on the rosewood table, picked up his pipe and began to exhale. “Those old guys couldn’t have reacted and come out of the illusion so quickly.”
"Master is too kind." Mu Jianjian lowered her head and eyes, concealing her expression.
fragrance.
Cai Chu's body reeked of decay, but his sister was different. She seemed to be immersed in perfume, exuding a captivating aura that made people fall into her illusory web of silk and become intoxicated without even realizing it.
Mu Jianjian's eyes darted around.
Cai Hua probably doesn't want to test her abilities; she genuinely wants to take her on as a disciple, right?
If Cai Hua knew that she had killed her brother Cai Chu, she would probably twist her own head off with one hand.
“Yuanyuan, do you know why your master took you as his disciple?” Cai Hua walked up to the girl step by step, and without waiting for her answer, she began to speak, “It’s because of your keenness. Whether it’s predicting the time of the Dark Pool’s eruption or defeating Chong Honglian despite being of a higher level, these skills can be well integrated with my secret techniques.”
Mu Jianjian felt a little guilty.
In fact, the "sharpness" mentioned in the other person's words was more due to her right pupil technique combined with her own speed.
However, I really didn't expect the other party to be genuinely willing to take me on as a disciple.
With the spirit of "you can't wait until tomorrow to get something for nothing," she straightened her posture, looked up, and seemed to be trying hard to suppress her inner excitement, "Really? Master, your disciple will definitely study hard and will not let you down!"
Cai Hua smiled and gently stroked Mu Jianjian's head. They could even feel each other's warm breaths as they touched.
"Go and find this fragrance in my soul; that will be your first lesson."
Mu Jianjian calmed herself down and memorized the sweet, candy-like scent emanating from the other person. In a daze, she entered a black and white, colorless place.
"system?"
[Host, I'm here!]
Hearing the system's soft and cute voice, Mu Jianjian felt much more at ease.
It seems Cai Hua wasn't lying to her. The black-and-white scene in front of her wasn't some kind of illusion created by inner demons, but rather a fragment of the other person's soul that had been modified by themselves.
Similar to how we captured cultivators in the Zhu Pavilion and extracted their souls, we could use their souls to experience a completely different identity and life, making it easier to comprehend the Dao and use it to advance our cultivation.
It's unknown whose spirit Cai Hua let her enter.
As Mu Jianjian thought this, looking at the black and white world in front of her, she had the illusion that she was completely colorblind.
This is a world of only black, white, and gray. Walls, streams, and houses—it's clear that she is in a peaceful and tranquil village. Mu Jianjian can easily hear the sounds of roosters crowing and dogs barking in the distance, the chirping of crickets in the grass, and the sounds of cultivators and women calling their children home for dinner.
A glimpse into the lives of ordinary, very ordinary people.
However, because Mu Jianjian had stayed in the place of cultivation for too long, she found the scenery in front of her to be especially precious.
She watched as the two children, who had been called from the yard to run home by the woman, followed them.
Because Mu Jianjian entered someone else's soul memories, the person in those memories could not see her.
She followed them into the small but clean wooden house, watching the woman bring a meat dish and two vegetable dishes to the table while jokingly scolding the brother and sister for getting their clothes dirty due to their playfulness. Suddenly, she felt uneasy.
Why... can't she smell the aroma of the food?
She can see images in a black and white world, and even hear sounds, but she can't smell anything.
"Another new apprentice?"
Behind Mu Jianjian, who stood motionless as if in meditation, the door filled with the fragrance of purple was opened, and a teasing male voice and his tall figure appeared simultaneously in front of Cai Hua's bed.
“Ah, my little maple leaf has finally remembered me today,” Cai Hua gently pulled back the bed curtains, dangling barefoot by the bedside, her voice filled with sorrow, “New apprentice? You’d rather look at her than me.”
"I came to see you as soon as I finished my business there." Feng Laiyun leaned down gently, her eyes burning with undisguised desire as she gazed at the woman's perfect figure. "You're really ruthless. Those other apprentices were probably still dreaming about you, but now you've gotten tired of them and taken on a new one."
"My secret technique isn't so easy to obtain." Cai Hua lay on the bed, her tone seemingly coquettish, but when she saw the man gripping her wrist tightly, a hint of disgust flashed deep in her eyes.
Meanwhile, Mu Jianjian, still in her spiritual form, squatted in the wooden house, watching her family's dinner and listening to the system's and her own live commentary.
A man has arrived; he seems to be your master's male concubine, and he's quite handsome.
Mu Jianjian got goosebumps listening to the system mimicking her tone. "Can't you say something useful?"
[Yes, host.] The system is obedient. [Cai Hua calls him Little Maple Leaf. She says your master has taken in dozens of disciples, but none of them have awakened from their spiritual bodies. Some have even gone mad...]
As the system spoke, its voice grew softer and softer.
Mu Jianjian: ...
She knew it! There's no such thing as a free lunch!
Moreover, the person opposite him is Cai Hua, one of the "Five Eccentrics" of Yingzhou!
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