The National Preceptor's Residence.
Jiang Ning walked through the courtyards and corridors, but his thoughts remained on what had happened last night and just now.
Last night had seemed like a dream, yet it had truly happened.
Even now, looking back, he still found it hard to believe.
That had been the Inner Landscape Grounds, yet his physical body had vanished from the National Preceptor's Residence and gone there. He had taken Lin Qingyi's virginity and plucked the fruit meant for that old prince.
The more he thought about it, the more incredible it seemed.
After opening his Inner Landscape Grounds, he had believed he understood them well.
They were a spiritual world.
Now he realized that was not the whole truth.
The Inner Landscape Grounds were not as simple as he had imagined, not merely a world of the mind.
They were a world where spirit and matter coexisted.
His physical body, after all, could enter the Inner Landscape Grounds belonging to that woman who resembled a fairy of the Moon Palace.
And Lin Qingyi, too, had existed there in physical form.
"And that old prince!" Thinking of the prince who stood shoulder to shoulder with the sovereign, Jiang Ning frowned, troubled.
He had plucked the prince's fruit. If the prince found out, he would surely make an enemy of him.
The thought of the prince's strength weighed on him.
Then he thought of Ji Mingyue, who had just left, and the agreement between them.
"It still comes down to strength!!" Reaching his courtyard, he clenched his fist. The taut muscles of his arm stood out at once.
"First, let's see what I gained!!" He recalled what the woman from last night had said, though her face had already grown hazy in his memory.
He found a clean spot