"..." Hearing this, Ye Qingcheng instinctively pressed her lips together.
After thinking it over, she decided that if Chen Mu truly had that intention, she would be willing to marry into the Tianyuan Holy Land.
Even if Chen Mu only possessed Yellow-Rank Low-Grade talent, his lineage's background was unrivaled!
Ye Qingcheng had every reason to believe that, as long as Chen Mu wished, he could take his pick of the world's most beautiful women.
Joining the Tianyuan Holy Land was itself a dream come true, let alone marrying its future Holy Lord.
Judging by the attitude Chen Tianlin had shown earlier, Ye Qingcheng did not believe he would appoint another heir.
"Godfather, she's the Holy Maiden of the Sky Sword Sect." Chen Mu indicated her with a glance.
"She's Ye Qingcheng?" Li Xuanyuan turned to look.
Thinking back, she had indeed mentioned the name Qingcheng earlier.
"Looks like your father and I had the same idea." Li Xuanyuan stroked his beard, then burst into laughter as though something had occurred to him.
Though he wanted to stay a little longer, he did not want to disturb the young couple's time alone. Without any privacy, how could sparks of love fly?
Activating a Divine Talisman, he rode the clouds and mist, setting off back to the Carefree Bamboo Grove.
He was already far away when his voice reached Chen Mu's ears. "When you have time, bring her over to the Carefree Bamboo Grove."
Chen Mu raised a hand to his forehead and frowned. How could he possibly fail to see what Li Xuanyuan was thinking?
"Apparently, pressure to get married crosses not just national borders, but planes of existence too," Chen Mu grumbled.
"Planes of existence?" Ye Qingcheng's voice rang beside his ear, as sweet as silver bells.
"Nothing." Chen Mu shook his head, telling Ye Qingcheng not to worry about it.
He had no intention of telling anyone about either the system or his identity as someone reborn.
Then, looking at the handful of Divine Talismans Ye Qingcheng held out to him, Chen Mu asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"
"My duty is to protect you, Young Master. I can't accept these."
Ye Qingcheng knew perfectly well that, without Chen Mu, a great figure like Li Xuanyuan probably would not even spare her a second glance, much less give her Divine Talismans.
"Stop saying one thing when you mean another. They're for you, so take them. There's no need to overthink it."
"Besides, those Divine Talismans aren't gifts for you. They're for you to use to protect me." Chen Mu lifted his legs.
"I understand, Young Master." Hearing Chen Mu put it that way, Ye Qingcheng felt considerably more at ease.
She stored the Divine Talismans in her Spatial Ring, stepped forward again, and knelt on the ground to massage his calves from the front.
To keep anyone else from disturbing him, Chen Mu specifically had Ye Qingcheng post a notice outside the courtyard gate.
It read: Feeling unwell. No visitors today.
He wondered why it was so hard to get a proper afternoon nap.
He knew they were trying to console him.
But failing to awaken his talent had not dealt Chen Mu any blow whatsoever. What was there to console him about?
Right now, he only wanted to sleep.
Perhaps too much had happened today, and the sudden flood of memories into his mind had drained a great deal of his energy.
Since he still had a mortal body, that was probably why he felt so sleepy.
Under Ye Qingcheng's exquisite massage, his eyelids gradually grew heavy and slowly closed...
[The system has encountered a data error. Attempting an automatic upgrade...] [System upgrade attempt 1: failed!] [System upgrade attempt 8: failed!] [System upgrade attempt 24: failed!]
"..." Chen Mu fell silent.
Can I mute you?
System: [System version too low. Please try again later!!]
Chen Mu: I feel like you're becoming more and more like my ex-girlfriend.
System: [...]
[System upgrade attempt 48: data retrieved successfully! Upgrading...] [Upgrade successful! Breathing-to-Cultivation Module bound! New function unlocked: breathing-to-cultivation!]
Breathing-to-cultivation?
Although Chen Mu had little interest in cultivation, gaining cultivation and strengthening himself just by breathing seemed like a pretty good experience.
According to the system's explanation, each complete exhalation and inhalation would grant a random increase in cultivation.
The cultivation gained from a single full breath might seem insignificant.
But over a day, ten days, a year... it would become quite staggering.
Each breath felt like being bathed in a spring breeze.
Before long, Chen Mu finally got his wish and drifted into dreamland.
Air flowed through his nostrils as he breathed evenly...
Cultivation +1! Cultivation +3! Cultivation +8!
Seeing that Chen Mu was fast asleep, she moved.
Ye Qingcheng conjured a soft Tianshan silkworm silk quilt and covered him with it to keep him from catching a chill.
Someone in the Martial Master Realm like Ye Qingcheng naturally had no need to worry about falling ill. Her physical constitution was far beyond an ordinary person's.
But Chen Mu was different, so she had to be extra careful.
Boom!
Immediately afterward, a surge of spiritual energy erupted from within Chen Mu.
Ye Qingcheng's beautiful eyes widened in surprise, and she whispered, "Did he just... break through?"
How had he broken through?
Chen Mu had neither gathered energy to cultivate nor taken a pill and refined it. He was merely sleeping.
"Are there cultivation techniques in this world that involve sleeping?"
No sooner had she spoken than she shook her head, rejecting the idea. "How could something like that exist? If cultivation were really that easy, who would toil away at it day and night? They could just sleep every day."
She reasoned that the Young Master must already have been close to a breakthrough. With the medicinal effects of the earlier Healing Pill fully absorbed, he had successfully broken through.
It was only a coincidence.
Yes, that's right. It must be a coincidence!
Breaking through while sleeping was far too absurd.
Even someone with top-tier talent could not do that...
She knew because she possessed top-tier talent herself!
While Ye Qingcheng's thoughts ran wild, Chen Mu continued sleeping soundly and breathing smoothly.
Cultivation +10! Cultivation +5! Cultivation +20!
Boom!
Another surge of spiritual energy swept out.
"..." At that moment, Ye Qingcheng froze in place, her heart a tangled knot of emotions.
A thousand words crowded her mind, yet she had no idea how to express them.
The Young Master could actually break through and increase his cultivation just by sleeping?
You call this trash talent?
"Wait! Something similar seems to have happened in the Tianyuan Holy Land before. On the surface, someone awakened low-grade talent, but in reality, they had also awakened another, top-tier talent."
"Could it be! Does the Young Master possess dual talents, just like that person?"
Other than that, Ye Qingcheng could think of no more reasonable explanation.
Recalling when she had first awakened her top-tier talent, the Heaven-Rank Supreme Fire Spiritual Root, her cultivation speed had still fallen far short of Chen Mu's current pace.
"The Young Master's talent is above Heaven Rank?!"
In the end, Ye Qingcheng reached a terrifying conclusion.
Folding her arms, she sank into thought. "Indeed, his entire family is full of monstrous, top-tier geniuses. How could the Young Master possibly be ordinary? This makes much more sense!"
Ye Qingcheng convinced herself.
"Protect the Young Master? It seems he doesn't need my protection at all..."
Ye Qingcheng was more certain than anyone that, before long, Chen Mu would close the gap, easily surpass her, and leave her in the dust.
Slap, slap, slap!
She raised both hands and patted her cheeks to keep herself clearheaded. "Don't overthink it. At least during this brief window, I have to protect the Young Master!"
Just then, she heard a voice coming from beyond the wall.
"The Young Master is ill? Wh-what are we going to do?"
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