Your man

Before, hearing those words might well have made Mu Yunxi open her eyes at once.

But today, Mu Yunxi seemed determined to wear Jun Ling down. In a fit of temper, she could not even be bothered to flutter an eyelid.

Yet this very Mu Yunxi brought the faintest hint of a smile to Jun Ling's noble, unsullied face, luminous as the bright moon.

He simply found the little thing especially captivating like this.

"Sigh-"

He let out a soft, faint sigh of helplessness, his cool eyes holding a trace of indulgent affection that even he had not noticed.

"I have ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng!"

The cool, bewitching voice sounded beside Mu Yunxi's ear. At the words "ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng," she immediately opened her eyes and looked at Jun Ling with a burning gaze.

In the shadows, Mo Yan and Mo Li both paled upon hearing Jun Ling's words.

Had their master gone mad? That ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng was something that could save his life. They had spent so much effort and so many resources finding it.

Their master no longer had the Heavenly Demon Pearl. If he lost this ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng as well, once the time came, he would...

"You really have ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng?"

Ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng-one of the three hardest ingredients to find for the Origin-Reforming Pill.

She had been worrying about where to find it, never expecting this damned pervert to have some.

"Mm!"

Jun Ling gazed deeply into Mu Yunxi's suddenly bright, burning eyes, finding them utterly beautiful.

He suddenly felt a little jealous of the ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng!

"Wait, how did you know I needed ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng?" Mu Yunxi's gaze sharpened as she looked at Jun Ling and asked coldly.

"Have you been secretly watching me all along?"

"A martial cultivator whose dantian is seventy percent destroyed needs an Origin-Reforming Pill to recover, and three of its ingredients are difficult to find!"

For the first time, Jun Ling offered an explanation to an outsider, and a woman at that.

Mu Yunxi narrowed her eyes at his words. She had only learned about the Origin-Reforming Pill in the pill records, so how did this man know? Could he also be an apothecary or an alchemist?

"Just who are you?"

Powerful, mysterious, noble, unsullied!

Every movement was graceful and poised, yet carried the air of a ruler who looked down upon all living beings and made all creation bow.

A man like this certainly had no ordinary identity.

"Your man!"

At Jun Ling's answer, Mu Yunxi's mouth twitched sharply, and three black lines dropped straight down her forehead!

This damned pervert truly was shameless to the extreme!

"Name your price!" Mu Yunxi said, looking at Jun Ling seriously.

"Hmm?"

Jun Ling's low, cool voice paused slightly, seemingly puzzled.

"The ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng. Name your price. I'll buy it!"

"Not for sale!"

At Mu Yunxi's words, Jun Ling coldly uttered his refusal. His thin crimson lips pressed tightly together, and his deep eyes stared at her like freezing pools.

Hearing their master say it was not for sale, Mo Yan and Mo Li finally breathed a sigh of relief in the shadows.

Argh, their master was putting them through such torment! He had scared them to death. Thank goodness he had said it was not for sale!

"Then what would make you sell it?"

Mu Yunxi frowned at Jun Ling's cold, unhesitating refusal and asked, unwilling to give up.

"You in exchange!"

Jun Ling's clear eyes rested on Mu Yunxi as his devilishly alluring voice rang out.

At his words, Mu Yunxi's expression darkened, and intense cold gathered in the depths of her eyes.

In the shadows, Mo Yan and Mo Li's little hearts, which had only just settled, leaped into their throats again.

Damn it, Master! Your integrity, your integrity! Were you truly throwing away your life for a woman?

"No deal!"

Trading her for ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng-did he take her for a fool?

Mu Yunxi snapped coldly, her face dark!

Jun Ling seemed to have anticipated exactly what expression Gu Xiran would wear.

Had she truly agreed, this little thing would never have weighed so heavily on his heart, making him want to see just what was so special about her and leaving him unwilling to depart.

"Then forget it!"

Jun Ling spoke lightly, not pressing her.

Mu Yunxi had not expected the man to drop it so easily this time, and she narrowed her eyes.

She pressed her pink lips tightly together and stared at Jun Ling for a long while before saying awkwardly,

"Give me the ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng, and we'll wipe the slate clean between us. How about it?"

"All right!"

Mu Yunxi had still been preparing her arguments inwardly, never expecting Jun Ling to agree so readily this time.

Even Mo Yan and Mo Li in the shadows glared at their master, exasperated that iron would not turn to steel.

What a loss, what a terrible loss! Chasing a wife had cost him his very life!

"It's a deal!"

Afraid Jun Ling would change his mind, Mu Yunxi hurriedly spoke.

"Mm, it's a deal!"

Looking into Mu Yunxi's sparkling eyes, Jun Ling's gaze deepened, a meaningful glint flashing through it like a scheming thousand-year-old fox.

Step by step, he was plotting to make Mu Yunxi jump into his trap.

"I'll have someone deliver the herb later!"

Leaving those words behind, Jun Ling swiftly departed.

As soon as Jun Ling left the little courtyard, he instructed Mo Yan in the shadows.

"Deliver the ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng to her shortly!"

Jun Ling looked into the shadows and spoke calmly.

"Master, that ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng is meant to save your life. If you give it to Ninth Miss Mu, what will you use?" Mo Li asked, his face grave with worry.

"Find more!"

Jun Ling coldly tossed out those words and left without another expression.

Only his two subordinates remained, sighing with heartache written all over their faces!

Was this really their coldhearted, unfeeling master who treated women as though they did not exist?

No matter how they looked at him, he seemed like an impostor!

Mu Yunxi had still harbored some doubts, but Jun Ling truly sent someone to deliver the ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng, and she could not help breathing a sigh of relief.

After tossing the ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Ginseng straight into the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Realm, Mu Yunxi packed up and set off through the night.

The Mystic Heaven Demon Forest stretched across the Mysterious Heaven Continent in all four directions and was one of its most extensive regions.

Through the Mystic Heaven Demon Forest's various exits, large and small, one could reach any country on the Mysterious Heaven Continent.

With its numerous magical beasts, treacherous terrain, and dangers at every turn, the Mystic Heaven Demon Forest had become the ideal training ground for disciples of the great clans, unaffiliated adventurers, and mercenaries.

When Mu Yunxi reached the entrance to the Mystic Heaven Demon Forest, she immediately spotted the silver-robed man ahead, standing apart from the world, noble and untouched by mortal dust. Her eyes narrowed.

"Why are you here?"

"It's on my way!"

Jun Ling raised his eyes to glance at Mu Yunxi. A faint ripple passed through his deep, cool eyes as he answered without a change in expression.

Mu Yunxi's mouth twitched. On his way? That excuse really was laughable!

"Then carry on your way!"

Mu Yunxi could not be bothered with Jun Ling. Though they had wiped the slate clean, that did not mean she had to show him a pleasant face.

Leaving those words behind, she headed straight for the entrance to the Mystic Heaven Demon Forest.

Jun Ling followed closely behind, unperturbed. Watching the young woman's straight-backed, wild, aloof figure ahead, his eyes flickered, and his mood was rather good.