The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

Chen Dong took a light-blue Flowing Skirt Magic Robe from his ring and tossed it over. These clothes all belonged to Mu Qingzhu.

He also took out a light-colored bodice and asked, ”Do you need this?”

The girl’s face flushed red as she snatched it away, huffing, ”Pervert!”

Chen Dong was baffled. ’What’s so perverted about that? Does she think she’s too small to wear something this big? That can’t be right. These things of Mu Qingzhu’s are all high-grade items. She just needs to refine them a bit to adjust the size, and they’re guaranteed to be a perfect fit.’

It had never occurred to Chen Dong that a male cultivator who could produce a Female Cultivator’s clothing—including her undergarments—at a moment’s notice would be called anything but a pervert.

From within the Jade Embryo, Mu Qingzhu couldn’t help but snicker.

”Pervert... Haha... She nailed it!”

Chen Dong snorted. ”What’s so funny? By the way, I had a new insight into the Yuqing Immortal Technique today. I haven’t grasped the Great Divination Art, but I did figure out the Circulatory Divine Calculation!”

Mu Qingzhu replied smugly, ”The Circulatory Divine Calculation? You’ve still got a long way to go! To use an analogy from your Kyushu, the Circulatory Divine Calculation is simple addition and subtraction, whereas the Great Divination Art is like a world-class mathematical conundrum. Take your time figuring it out... pervert!”

The girl didn’t resume her meditation. Instead, she couldn’t resist entering the hot spring bath. She used all of her freshly recovered Spiritual Power to place several wards that would block Divine Sense. With them in place, not even a Nascent Soul Peak expert could spy on the room without her knowing. Only then, satisfied, did the girl strip off her filthy clothes.

The hot spring in the bath was fed by underground Spiritual Water, heated by Earth Fire, and constantly flowing. The temperature could be adjusted to one’s liking using the Earth Fire. The girl felt it was a slight step down from her own immortal cave, but still exceptionally nice.

Soaking comfortably in the spring, she cranked up the Earth Fire until the water was steaming. The girl savored the moment. After two years of hiding and running, forget a hot spring—she hadn’t even had a proper bath, only ever using her Spiritual Power for a quick cleansing. This moment of pure bliss allowed her mind and body to relax, and she unexpectedly drifted off to sleep.

「By the next afternoon.」

Chen Dong was in the courtyard, playing a game of chess by himself. He appeared to be alone, but he was actually playing against Mu Qingzhu.

The girl hadn’t even stepped outside before she heard Chen Dong’s irritated voice.

”You’re cheating! You can’t use the Great Divination Art!”

The girl reached the doorway and saw Chen Dong, his fingers held in a delicate orchid pose, as he said with a demure smile, ”How could you call it cheating? It’s part of my skill, you know!”

Then, his demeanor shifted in an instant. In a stern voice, he flung his sleeves and declared, ”I’m not playing anymore! Who could possibly beat you when you’re using the Great Divination Art?!”

The girl was startled. ’He really is a pervert! I bet he doesn’t just collect those clothes for show—he probably wears them himself! Good thing I washed them again, otherwise it would feel disgusting to wear them.’

Chen Dong sensed the girl had come out and grumbled, ”You’re finally out! You were in there washing for a whole day and night. If you hadn’t come out soon, I was about to go in. I was genuinely afraid you’d passed on to the immortal realm in there!”

He casually glanced over, but the sight made his heart jump. The eight-or-nine-year-old girl had transformed into a beautiful young woman, her figure exquisite and her features radiating a captivating, youthful grace that seemed to outshine even the moon.

’Did she grow up just by taking a bath? Impossible!’ According to the Great Divination Art, both the little girl and this young woman were her true forms, not some Illusion Technique. In the Dao, appearance is born from the mind; one’s looks are not something you can just mold at will. You at least have to have the underlying potential for a certain appearance. It was like Wang Xian’Er: even if she cultivated to the stages of Golden Core and Nascent Soul, if she couldn’t slim down on her own, her final Dao Body would still be plump.