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He gently caressed her exquisitely sculpted shoulders.

You vaguely saw tear stains at Dream Hongshang's eyes, and your heart was filled with shame.

"Hongshang, are you alright?"

Hearing your words of concern, Dream Hongshang buried her face in the pillow, unwilling to look at you.

Seeing this, you were helpless.

Then, you got up and went to the kitchen to cook.

Because Dream Hongshang's Realm had reached the point where she could sustain herself on wind and dew, there weren't many ingredients in the kitchen, only some things she had specifically bought for you from outside.

You made a pot of millet porridge, adding yam, wild ginseng, red dates, goji berries, lotus seeds, and brown sugar. Porridge cooked this way was very nourishing for the body.

No matter what, you still had to take good care of her.

When you opened the door, Dream Hongshang, who had buried her head in the pillow, had already pulled the covers tightly around herself, her eyes complex as she stared at the bed curtains of the canopy bed.

"Hongshang, I made you some millet porridge. It's very nourishing."

"Come, have some."

With that, you sat down beside Dream Hongshang, scooped a spoonful of porridge with a porcelain spoon, and brought it to her lips.

However, her lips were tightly sealed, and she refused to open her mouth.

Seeing this, you could only plead.

"Hongshang, please, eat something."

"I carefully cooked this for you."

"I cooked it for a full hour, and because I was worried it would burn, I didn't leave even once during the process."

After hearing your words, Dream Hongshang closed her eyes, not saying a word.

Seeing this, you had no choice but to leave temporarily.

The next day, you routinely wiped her body and changed all the bedding.

During this time, Dream Hongshang was very cooperative, but she still refused to speak a single word.

In the following days, you continued this routine daily, wiping her delicate body and making her various delicious dishes with different preparations.

This situation continued for over a month.

Finally, one day, as you made some brown sugar steamed buns, Dream Hongshang gently opened her mouth and ate a piece of the bun you had made.

Her vermilion lips parted slightly, and she gave her evaluation.

"Delicious."

This was the first time she had spoken in over a month.

Upon hearing this, you were ecstatic, but on the surface, you remained calm, feeding the entire brown sugar steamed bun into Dream Hongshang's mouth.

"Ho... Hongshang, if it's delicious, I'll continue to make it in the future."

"No need."

Dream Hongshang's tone remained cold, showing no warmth towards you.

Then, she pulled the covers tightly around herself, turned over, and refused to let you see even a glimpse of her beauty.

Seeing this, you immediately knelt on the ground.

"Hongshang, you can punish me however you want. I know it was my fault before."

"I just beg you to talk to me."

"Please!"

Your plea made Dream Hongshang somewhat moved. For the past month, she had been overthinking many things.

All the words you had said to her before, she had kept in her heart and carefully considered.

Because everything you said made sense.

Her heart gradually leaned towards what you said.

Gradually, Dream Hongshang began to believe that perhaps her feelings for her Senior Brother were truly just a maiden's curiosity about the opposite sex.

Coupled with the engagement, there was a sense of destined fate.

But it was fundamentally not the love she had always believed it to be.

Your meticulous care over the past month made Dream Hongshang, who had left home at the age of six to join a sect, feel a warmth she hadn't experienced in hundreds of years.

Coupled with the goodwill you had accumulated in the previous days.

Unconsciously, she had already accepted you in her heart.

It was just that she was too shy to express it on the surface, still maintaining a cold demeanor.

Looking at her cold expression.

You subconsciously thought she hadn't forgiven you yet, so you slowly got up, preparing to wait until tomorrow.

Seeing that you were about to leave, Dream Hongshang couldn't help but speak.

"Don't go!"

Hearing Dream Hongshang finally respond to you, your heart was instantly filled with wild joy. You turned your head and saw her deep, star-like beautiful eyes looking at you.

Although still cold, you noticed that she no longer had that indifferent demeanor that pushed people away.

"Come here."

Dream Hongshang beckoned, signaling you to sit on her bedside.

Seeing this, you also sat down, your mind wandering as you looked at the exquisite curves covered by the brocade quilt.

Unconsciously, your feelings for Nangong Liuli had faded considerably.

If it were before, no matter how beautiful Dream Hongshang was, you wouldn't have noticed her beauty.

But now, you not only had feelings for her but had even impulsively pierced her.

However, in your heart, you still believed that you loved Nangong Liuli the most.

Just then, Dream Hongshang slowly sat up on the bed, and the thin quilt slipped, revealing her slender and well-endowed beautiful body.

She didn't mind showing her beauty to you at all.

"Su Mo, I want to ask you something, and you must answer me truthfully!"

Listening to Dream Hongshang's serious and cold tone, you immediately spoke.

"Tell me, I will answer truthfully."

After much hesitation, Dream Hongshang slowly spoke.

"You said you liked me, is that true?"

Hearing Dream Hongshang's probing tone, you nodded sharply.

"I like you!"

"Hongshang, I like you!"

If the heart had percentage areas, then Nangong Liuli occupied ninety percent of your heart, while Dream Hongshang already occupied ten percent.

How could this not be called liking?

Therefore, your words came from the bottom of your heart, and Dream Hongshang also detected through your Divine Soul fluctuations that you were not lying, and she immediately felt relieved.

What she feared most now was that you were also a faithless man.

Now that she had confirmation, her mental defenses disappeared, and she directly pulled you into her embrace. You only felt a fragrant scent assailing your nose.

Just as you wanted to enjoy the moment, Dream Hongshang's charming and magnetic voice reached your ears.

"I want you to swear that if you betray me in the future, your Divine Soul will be struck down by Nine Heavens Thunder Fire and utterly annihilated!"

"Do you dare!"

At this moment, your head was muffled and dazed, with no room for thought. You immediately swore as Dream Hongshang had instructed.

"If I, Su Mo, betray Dream Hongshang in the future, my Divine Soul will be struck down by Nine Heavens Thunder Fire and utterly annihilated!"

But after you finished swearing, a muffled thunderclap faintly echoed outside the house.

Hearing the thunder, you vaguely felt something was amiss. Why did this happen right after you spoke?

Seeing you swear without hesitation, Dream Hongshang no longer had any mental defenses against you.

She directly pulled you onto the soft couch, nuzzling intimately and murmuring.

"Su Mo, my husband, from now on, this humble Taoist will be yours."

How could you still hold back?

...

In the scene, Dream Hongshang couldn't think, her eyes rolled back, and her maiden heart was shattered into pieces...

...

Because you possessed the strength of Nine Bulls and Two Tigers, you felt no fatigue at all.

And Dream Hongshang was a Loose Immortal, with an endless supply of Origin Qi.

The two of you could be said to be evenly matched, meeting worthy opponents.

Completely equal in strength.

Completely compatible in every way.

Completely immersed in it.

...

...

In the remaining days, traces of you both were left in the peach forest, by the pond, in the pavilion, in the Medicinal Pill chamber, and in front of that seductive woman's grave.

You felt that Dream Hongshang was truly a Treasure Trove; you could always find surprises on her.

In a trance, you felt as if you were in a celestial Realm, and Dream Hongshang's presence in your heart began to encroach upon Nangong Liuli's position.

It had already reached twenty percent.

Dream Hongshang, who had completely given her body and mind to you, began to consider everything for you.

And she told you the reason why she had said "what a pity" when she first saw you that day.

The Yin Soul Art you Cultivated was incomplete; it originated from a fragmented technique called the "Taiyin Ghost Records."

There's a poem that says, "It's hard for myriad tribulation Yin spirits to become a saint."

It also said, "Cultivating nature but not fate is the first illness of cultivation."

This Yin Soul Art was precisely like that.

If it weren't for your naturally strong body, capable of resisting Yin Qi damage, and the powerful Medicinal Pill you had consumed.

Perhaps your body would have already rotted when you formed the Yin Soul Seed.

Once the Yin Soul Art advanced another level, even your strong body wouldn't be able to resist the trend of decay.

By then, you would become a powerful lone ghost in this world.

You were very surprised to hear this and asked Dream Hongshang why she hadn't told you earlier.

Dream Hongshang told you that in her eyes, you were just a male servant before, and after you Cultivated into a true ghost, she could even take you as a ghost slave, so she was naturally happy to see it happen.

But now, you were her husband, Dream Hongshang's husband, so of course, she wouldn't let you go astray.

She would now dispel all the Yin Qi from you.

Furthermore, the Yin Qi Seed you had Cultivated would not be wasted; it could all be used to nourish the Yin Soul Lamp.

At that time, the Yin Soul Lamp's power would greatly increase, becoming a decent auxiliary Magical Artifact.

And after expelling all the Yin Qi, she would teach you her own Cultivation method.

The orthodox method of her Qinghua Sect was called the "Qinghua Treasure Records," divided into three volumes: upper, middle, and lower.