"Master, you're far too good to me. You actually found a place specifically for me to break through."
Inside the cave abode, after Jin Feng emerged from seclusion and learned of this, she immediately cheered excitedly, pride gleaming in her eyes.
Sure enough, she had not been wrong to choose to follow her master back then.
"Really? Why do I recall someone spending every day plotting to defect when it all began?"
Lin Chang'an wore a speechless expression. He had not forgotten that when he had still been a minor Foundation Establishment cultivator, this girl had spent every day thinking about betrayal.
Later, it was only because every major breakthrough of his required him to undergo the nine-deaths-and-one-life ordeal of Rebirth from Fire, and she discovered that his Mystic Heaven Mana could save her, that her thoughts finally settled down.
Only after nearly five hundred years together had they reached where they were today.
"Master, no! Absolutely not!"
Jin Feng stomped her feet, widened her eyes, and shook her head repeatedly with righteous indignation.
"How could it have been me? My loyalty to you, Master, can be witnessed by Heaven and Earth!"
Watching Jin Feng perform, Lin Chang'an merely sat down leisurely before the desk. Jin Feng's glittering golden eyes spun, and she instantly came forward to fawn over him.
Brewing tea and massaging his shoulders—the same old tricks, executed in one smooth motion. Yet after all these years, Lin Chang'an still fell for them every time.
As he sipped his spirit tea, a trace of reminiscence flickered through Lin Chang'an's eyes.
It had been nearly five hundred years. Along this road, many familiar figures were already gone.
Only when Jin Feng skillfully kneaded his shoulders and Green Ox's mooing echoed through the air could he recall the past.
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