Chapter 606: Chapter 606

Under the vast, snowy sky, the entire sect seemed to be painted in a silvery white, the Garden of Heavenly Harmony also covered in snow.

Looking at Wei Mengrou’s suspicious gaze, Mu Zhian didn’t speak directly, but said casually, “It’s getting cold recently, Sister Mengrou should also keep warm.”

“I’d be heartbroken if you caught a cold.”

Wei Mengrou glanced at the young master, rubbing her arms with a look of disgust, and said coldly, “Just say what you want… Such cheesy words, it’s giving me goosebumps.”

Mu Zhian: “I was just being kind. Saying that is quite hurtful, isn’t it?”

As he spoke, he rummaged through his storage ring, then took out an exquisitely crafted jade box and handed it to Wei Mengrou.

The maid glanced at the young master, then opened the jade box. Inside was a pair of translucent, smooth white silk stockings, seemingly emitting a faint glow.

“This is Nirvana Silk, I had someone make it for you before. I thought you could use it in the winter,” Mu Zhian said with a smile.

Mu Zhian sighed softly and looked at her tentatively, “Sister Mengrou, you should know what I mean, right…?”

Wei Mengrou tilted her head slightly, a disdainful look in her eyes, feigning confusion, “Didn’t you give this to me because you were worried I would catch a cold?”

Her tone was teasing.

How could she not know what the young master was thinking? He just wanted her to wear these sheer stockings for his viewing pleasure, just like before…

Oh, no, perhaps not just for his viewing pleasure, but also to have her serve him tea and perform other maidly duties.

Actually, Wei Mengrou was more like a personal bodyguard than a maid. She never did chores like serving tea and water, only responsible for the young master’s daily safety.

But occasionally, Mu Zhian also wanted to play master-servant games with her.

Seeing Wei Mengrou’s refusal, Mu Zhian silently put away the jade box.

“In that case, forget it,” he sighed.

Something’s not right.

In the past, if she refused, the young master would at least beg a little… but today he just gave up?

The maid was puzzled and couldn’t help but look at Mu Zhian a few more times.

“Since Sister Mengrou won’t agree, then I’ll have to ask Miss Heavenly Dao after I go back.”

However, hearing Mu Zhian’s added words, Wei Mengrou’s body froze on the spot, and she stared at his back, speechless.

I feel like I’m dancing on the edge of the little black room… Mu Zhian sensed the chilling aura behind him, composed himself slightly, and said with a smile, “Just kidding. Even if the Heavenly Dao’s will was willing, I couldn’t do that… because this is a gift for you.”

Wei Mengrou pouted, “I’ve heard you say these sweet nothings countless times, and every time, it’s to a different girl.”

Mu Zhian stepped forward, held her soft, small hand, and said seriously, “I’m not trying to coax you, I’m being sincere… If I really wanted to give this to someone else, how could it still be in my storage ring?”

“Among the girls I know, only you are the most suitable for this gift.”

Mu Zhian wasn’t lying. In his fishpond, Wei Mengrou’s legs were the most voluptuous and shapely. A girl like her was more suitable for such a gift.

Of course, being able to say such elegant words just to see the maid in more eye-catching attire was no easy feat.

Wei Mengrou sneered, “Most suitable for me…? You’ve said that to countless girls before.”

“Don’t forget, I was always watching when you were with other women outside.”

After this disdainful reply, she pursed her alluring red lips, suppressing her amusement and the smile that threatened to spread across her face.

Most suitable for this gift…

Although she knew it was flattery, why did just a simple compliment make her so happy…?

Wei Mengrou forced herself to calm down, trying her best not to let the young master see her unusual state, and extended her hand.

“You’ll accept it?” Mu Zhian asked, both surprised and delighted.

Wei Mengrou hummed demurely in agreement.

“Then can you wear them today?” Mu Zhian asked again.

This guy is pushing his luck… Wei Mengrou glanced at him sideways, “…If you beg me, I might consider it.”

After a brief moment of silence, Wei Mengrou couldn’t help but roll her eyes, once again expressing her disdain for the young master’s shamelessness. After a moment of hesitation, she finally nodded slightly.

Anyway, Lin Ling was still in seclusion, and besides her and Mu Zhian, there was no one else in the Garden of Heavenly Harmony. Even if she wore them, no one would see… It wouldn’t be too embarrassing.

Just as she thought of this, she heard someone’s even more presumptuous request: “And after changing, can you look at me with disdain while, at my request…”

He whispered something in the maid’s ear.

Wei Mengrou lowered her head, her soft bangs hiding her slightly flushed face.

She gently held the hem of her dress and asked in a low voice, “Is this the role-playing you mentioned before?”

Mu Zhian had told her a little story before, about a maid who initially disliked her master, but eventually had to obey him because he was her master, doing many embarrassing things at his command… a story like that.

“No, this isn’t role-playing,” Mu Zhian said seriously, his right hand casually wrapping around Wei Mengrou’s slender waist. “This should be called practical training!”

Deep within the Forbidden Land of Life, a pale-skinned girl suddenly opened her eyes.

Almost at that instant, the entire palace seemed to tremble violently, revealing its master’s boundless wrath.

Mu Zhi enunciated the name, her usually calm eyes now filled with anger.

Her clone had been trapped by those three women around Mu Zhian for three days, and during those three days, she could only watch helplessly as her fiancé was forced to do things he didn’t want to do.

Well… at least from Mu Zhi’s perspective, Mu Zhian was being forced.

This was the greatest humiliation Mu Zhi had ever suffered since inheriting the Forbidden Land of Life, a dark history she intended to seal away forever.

“Master… are you alright?”

Deep within the gloomy palace, an old man leaning on a walking stick, looking thin and frail, asked respectfully.

“What happened in the Great Qian Dynasty those few days?” he asked again.

Nearly a week had passed since the Forbidden Zone Lords went to the Great Qian Dynasty. About four days ago, the clones of the Forbidden Zone Lords shattered one after another, and the Forbidden Lands seemed to be investigating something. Only the master of the Forbidden Land of Life had yet to return, so the old man guessed that the matter the Forbidden Lands were investigating might be related to his master.

“It’s nothing serious, just that those fools’ clones all died in the Great Qian Dynasty,” Mu Zhi gradually calmed down, a thoughtful glint in her clear eyes as she narrowed them. “But the Forbidden Lands won’t let this go. At least Isis, after being thwarted twice by the Demon Realm, is probably about to lose her patience.”

The Immortal Forbidden Land, in terms of overall strength, might not be as strong as the Demon Realm, but their top-tier cultivators were roughly equal.

If the Immortal Forbidden Land truly took action, the other Forbidden Lands would probably also make a move.

By then… the real chaos would begin.

And that would also be the best time for her to act.

The best time to take Big Brother away.

Although Mu Zhi initially intended to let him be free… after seeing everything these past few days, the master of the Forbidden Land of Life had completely dismissed that idea.

“Keep a close eye on the Immortal Forbidden Land during this time. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be some movement from them soon,” Mu Zhi instructed softly.

“Yes, Master,” the old man bowed elegantly.

Just then, a Forbidden Land attendant said with admiration, “As expected of Master, all the Forbidden Zone Lords who went to the Great Qian Dynasty this time died there, only Master returned safely.”

This sounded like praise, but to Mu Zhi, it was incredibly grating.

Recalling the scenes of the Demon Empress and the others with Mu Zhian these past few days, Mu Zhi lowered her eyelids slightly, her fingertips gently tapping the skull-adorned throne.

Then, she glanced at the attendant coldly.

“Starting tomorrow, you don’t need to attend to me anymore. Go to the center of the Forbidden Land and guard the Tree of Life for three years.”

The attendant was stunned and subconsciously asked, “Master, what did I do wrong…?”

“The formations in this palace are complex. A single misstep can affect the entire structure. You entered the palace with your left foot first today, you’ve already disrupted the order of the Forbidden Land of Life’s rules,” Mu Zhi said faintly.

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Anyone could tell this was just an excuse to fire him, but no one in the Forbidden Land of Life dared to speak up at this moment.

“What’s wrong, you think three years isn’t enough, you want to train for a while longer?” Mu Zhi looked down at him, a yandere-like smile on her pale little face, her eyes seemingly dark.

The attendant was miserable, but could only cup his hands and say respectfully, “This subordinate accepts his punishment…”

Mu Zhian stretched lazily, glanced at the clothes hanging on the rack, then pushed open the window to look at the snowy scenery, enjoying this rare moment of peace.

“It feels like I’m back in Tianxuan City again.”

With a sigh, Mu Zhian turned to look at Wei Mengrou, who was still curled up in bed.

Her hair was slightly disheveled, framing her exquisite face. She glanced at the young master and said faintly, “You didn’t even dare touch my hand back then.”

Mu Zhian was speechless, “Was it that I didn’t want to? It’s because I was kicked out before I even had the chance.”

Which young master in Tianxuan City was so miserable that he couldn’t even command his own maid?

However, it was also because Wei Mengrou was too strong and rather aloof. If it were any other maid in the Mu residence, how could they refuse Mu Zhian’s orders?

“If I remember correctly, some maids would even be punished with a stick if they disobeyed their master’s orders. In that sense, I’m quite a gentle person,” Mu Zhian said with some emotion.

In this era, human life was as insignificant as grass. Moreover, most of those maids and attendants were slaves displaced by war, taken in by noble families.

Disobeying their master’s orders, no one would even know if they died.

“You didn’t want to punish me?” Wei Mengrou gave the young master a disdainful look, “It was clearly because you didn’t have the strength to punish me.”

Back then, Mu Zhian was still at Qi Condensation Realm, while Wei Mengrou had already reached Core Formation. Even a hundred Mu Zhians combined would be no match for the maid.

Mu Zhian scoffed, “Now, punishing you would be a piece of cake.”

Wei Mengrou rolled her eyes at the young master, then glanced at the letter that had just flown in from a distant direction and said thoughtfully, “Judging by the mark on this letter, it seems to be from the Great Qian Dynasty?”

Mu Zhian took the letter and glanced at it, then placed it on the table, “It should be an invitation from Yongning.”

Wei Mengrou: “Aren’t you going to open it?”

Clearly sensing Wei Mengrou’s previously cheerful mood had dissipated somewhat, Mu Zhian gently shook his head, “No rush, I can read it later.”

As he spoke, he looked at Wei Mengrou’s still moist eyes and said softly, “This is our time together.”

Suddenly being ‘confessed’ to by the young master, Wei Mengrou was momentarily stunned.

Then, under his gentle gaze, she pulled the blanket over her face.

After a while, she peeked out with one eye and shyly looked at him, “You… come here.”

Mu Zhian hesitated, but still walked to the bedside and sat down.

“You said just now that it’s easy for you to punish me now, right?”

Wei Mengrou’s words stunned Mu Zhian. He thought, I was just joking, why did Sister Mengrou take it seriously…

The current Wei Mengrou had two Primordial Witch spiritual senses. Not to mention Mu Zhian, even a Dao Integration Realm expert would have a hard time punishing this maid.

Despite his thoughts, Mu Zhian still nodded slightly and said jokingly, “What, does Sister Mengrou want to be punished by me again?”

The unexpected answer stunned Mu Zhian.

Just then, Wei Mengrou reached out from under the blanket, her small, delicate jade hands gently hooking the young man’s neck, and whispered, “Since you think you can do it, then let me see how, Master~”

As Mu Zhi predicted, almost that very night, a terrifyingly immense pressure emanated from the Immortal Forbidden Land. The Immortal Forbidden Land’s forbidden rules transformed into a gray mist and silently spread outwards.

Although the clone’s memories weren’t inherited by the main body, the master of the Immortal Forbidden Land, through her investigation, learned that her clone’s death in the Great Qian Dynasty was also related to the Demon Empress.

This was already a provocation, and a repeated one at that.

Because of this, Isis allowed the forbidden rules to invade the Demon Realm’s territory that very night.

That night, many demonic cultivators saw a strange gray mist spreading outwards from the direction of the Immortal Forbidden Land. Wherever the gray mist passed, all living beings’ flesh and blood instantly disintegrated, becoming the essence of the Immortal Forbidden Land.

However, that same night, a deafening dragon’s roar echoed from above the Immortal Forbidden Land, the sound shaking the heavens, as if wanting to tear apart the sky, forcibly pushing back the gray mist.

Cheers instantly erupted throughout the Demon Realm.

They could all recognize that the one who acted was the Ancient Dragon Emperor.

Although the conflict between the Immortal Forbidden Land and the Demon Realm had temporarily come to an end, it still sparked much discussion among cultivators, while the Eastern Continent remained peaceful.

Within the capital of the Great Qian Dynasty, the streets were brightly lit. Walking on the streets these past few days, one could smell a faint floral fragrance.

That was the celebration of the common people for the new emperor’s ascension.

The successor of the Great Qian Dynasty was naturally Princess Yongning, who was rumored to have the support of three major ancient factions.

On the day of her ascension, in the imperial palace of the Great Qian Dynasty, Yongning personally held a banquet to celebrate with her ministers, then privately invited a few people for a drink and chat the next day.

Among them were Bai Ruoxi, Yao Yue, and even Ye Lingxuan and the others.

However, seeing that they had all agreed, Yongning was still somewhat surprised. She had thought they would be difficult to invite, but she didn’t expect them to agree so easily.

At this moment, in the main hall of Yongning’s palace, maids were continuously bringing in fine wine.

Ye Lingxuan picked up her wine cup, took a small sip, and looked at the fairy in the green dress sitting not far to her left with an expressionless face, then smiled warmly, “What brings Jade Empress Sister here?”

“Sister…” Ye Qian, seemingly afraid that her sister would start a conflict with her Master here, gently tugged at her sleeve.

Yao Meng smiled, “The new emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty has ascended the throne. Since the Forbidden Zone was invited, it’s natural that the Jade Pool Holy Land wouldn’t be an exception. Is it so strange for me to be here?”

Bai Ruoxi said softly, “Sister Lingxuan, after inheriting the position of Forbidden Zone Lord, you must be very busy. Is it alright for you to leave the Forbidden Zone ?”

Hearing this, a hint of unease appeared on Ye Lingxuan’s face, but she said calmly, “With the Reincarnated Empress here, she’ll help handle things, so there’s no major problem.”

“What about you, Sister Ruoxi? I heard the Sword Palace has been reactivated, is it alright for you to be away?” Ye Lingxuan asked.

“There are a few elders I sealed within a formation in the past at the Sword Palace, so there’s not much for me to do.”

As Bai Ruoxi spoke, her gentle gaze swept over the people present. Each one was incredibly beautiful. Among them, she also saw Lin Keyu, and Mu Zhian’s Master, Yan Ruyu and the others.

Besides them, there was also Lan Mulian, sitting quietly in the corner.

Of the three beauties of Tianxuan City back then, two were now in this hall.

Ye Qian looked at this scene and couldn’t help but think inwardly.

Ye Lingxuan and Bai Ruoxi had always been extremely popular back in Tianxuan City. Besides them, there was also the temptress from the Morning Light Merchant Association, Huang Manting… She just didn’t know where that temptress had gone these days, she hadn’t seen her in the sect…

Just as she thought of this, Ye Qian suddenly sensed a gaze on her and looked up, “Is something the matter, Your Majesty?”

Yongning gently shook her head and said with a smile, “It’s nothing… I just think you all seem to get along so well.”

As expected of Young Master Mu. Any one of these women, in the Eastern Continent, would be a chosen one with countless admirers. Such women are naturally proud, yet he’s managed to make them live in harmony.

At least on the surface, this scene was indeed very harmonious. However, Yongning clearly didn’t expect that these people had already fought countless times in private.

“You said someone else hasn’t arrived yet, are they delayed?”

Just then, Ye Qingxin, dressed in a seductive black and red dress, suddenly asked with a smile, a gentle look in her eyes.

With a great power speaking, Yongning naturally wouldn’t be disrespectful, “In reply to Senior, the letter I sent has already reached the Two Polarities Sect not long ago. He should be here soon.”

A thoughtful look appeared on Ye Qingxin’s face.

The people Yongning invited this time were all from the major factions supporting her. These factions hadn’t openly supported her, even not showing up at all, but just this was enough for her to win the throne.

The reason Yongning was able to ascend the throne was partly because the various factions didn’t want the Great Qian Dynasty to fall and affect the Eastern Continent’s luck, thus needing a wise ruler, and partly because someone was orchestrating everything from behind the scenes.

The role that person played in this situation was crucial.

At least in the current Nine Provinces, no one could make these three factions reach a consensus.

“I didn’t expect Princess Yongning to successfully ascend the throne, congratulations.”

Just then, a gentle and clear laughter came from outside the hall. Mu Zhian, carrying a gift into the palace, was about to enjoy a candlelight dinner with the Empress when he was led into the hall by a maid, breaking the subtle atmosphere.

Before coming, Mu Zhian was quite looking forward to this banquet.

After all, his relationship with Yongning was already ambiguous, and these two days were the celebration of her ascension. Perhaps something nice would happen tonight… That’s what Mu Zhian originally thought.

However, the moment he stepped into the hall and saw the scene inside, Mu Zhian couldn’t help but stiffen slightly.

He suddenly realized that this meal probably wouldn’t be very peaceful…