41: Chapter 41 Gu Qinghuan, you're my woman now, won't you admit it?

Gu Qinghuan walked over and sat down on the couch, her legs pressed together and her hands resting on her knees.

She lowered her head to look at her toes, but found she couldn't see them at all...

"Junior Brother Lin, have you ever blamed me?"

Lin Mo: ???

He was dumbfounded. He had thought that Gu Qinghuan might kill him with a single sword stroke, or that she would think that night was the biggest stain in her life, and so on.

But he simply never expected Gu Qinghuan to ask it like this.

"Blame Senior Sister? Why should I blame Senior Sister?"

Gu Qinghuan turned her graceful head away: "After all, strictly speaking, it was I who forced you."

Ah? Ah?

"It was the outburst of the Charm Bones inside my body that wronged Junior Brother Lin."

Wronged?!

How was he wronged!

"Senior Sister, how could a third-class Disciple like me who just entered the inner gate be with Senior Sister..."

Gu Qinghuan bit her red lips and turned her head back: "I said, Junior Brother Lin doesn't need to belittle himself. In my eyes, Junior Brother Lin is very outstanding."

"...That's not what I wanted to ask. I just want to know, does Junior Brother Lin blame me?"

Lin Mo sat down beside her: "How could I possibly blame Senior Sister? On the contrary, Senior Sister, don't you feel unwilling in your heart after giving your Origin Yin to me?"

Gu Qinghuan turned her head to look at him without the slightest concealment: "I know your personality, which is why I left a letter telling you not to blame yourself. The fault lies with me, not Junior Brother."

"Besides, from the very beginning, I didn't repel Junior Brother Lin. Perhaps it's truly what they call fate."

"Junior Brother Lin, what's done is done. In any case, you and I already have intimate relations, and I will be responsible for you."

Lin Mo: ...Doesn't a scumbag usually say words like this afterwards?

But the current situation was also something Lin Mo had never expected.

"Jun-, Junior Brother Lin... I am not familiar with matters between men and women. Sometimes my temper can be quite stubborn, but I feel that I shouldn't bury what I'm thinking and feeling right now deep in my heart."

"Today, you and I can speak our minds freely, alright?"

Lin Mo took Gu Qinghuan's hand: "Let's put it that way, and by the way, I'll help you repair your injuries."

Gu Qinghuan wore a faint smile at the corners of her mouth: "After that night, even my Golden Core was repaired by you."

"Ah? Really?"

Gu Qinghuan nodded with a smile: "Naturally it's true."

Lin Mo gave an "oh" and prepared to let go of her hand, but was suddenly grabbed back by a pale, slightly cool hand.

Facing this sudden move, Lin Mo looked in surprise at Senior Sister Qingleng, only to see her complexion flushed red, as if carrying endless charm.

Lin Mo's gaze was too scorching, causing Gu Qinghuan to subconsciously tuck a strand of hair from her temple behind her ear, and she said somewhat stammeringly: "G-got used to it. Not holding hands feels uncomfortable instead."

Hearing this, Lin Mo smiled slightly.

Goodness me, has the ten-thousand-year iceberg melted?

"Junior Brother Lin, listen to me. Although I have many things I want to tell you now, there's not enough time."

"Although my Golden Core has been reshaped, it seems to have undergone a qualitative change because of your influence, seemingly about to condense the tenth golden vein that has never been seen before or since. Therefore, Sect Master ordered me to enter secluded cultivation with her."

Lin Mo frowned slightly, as Sect Master Yue Lengchan's formidable reputation was well known to him.

"Did the Sect Master never think of killing me?"

Gu Qinghuan gave a light cough: "At first, the Sect Master was worried that you would disturb my Dao Heart and prepared to execute you."

Lin Mo: ( Ω Д Ω )?

"It's fine. I have already made an agreement with the Sect Master, and she won't do anything detrimental to you."

Lin Mo found it hard to imagine how Senior Sister had persuaded Sect Master Yue Lengchan to change her mind.

After all, according to rumors, Sect Master Yue Lengchan was decisive in killing and never soft-hearted; all Cultivators in the Cultivation World would tremble straight away just hearing her name.

Although she belonged to the Righteous Path, she was also known as the Female Demon Lord among Female Demon Lords. One could imagine what kind of person she was.

"Junior Brother Lin, listen to me." Gu Qinghuan turned sideways and said seriously, "You don't understand the importance of the golden veins of the Golden Core Stage to a Cultivator's future realization of the Dao yet. You just need to know that because of you, I have obtained a tremendous Opportunity."

"Sect Master said that this tenth golden vein is actually your power of Origin. The reason why you only reached the mere first rank of the Foundation Establishment Stage after obtaining my Origin Yin is because of this reason."

Mere Foundation Establishment Stage...

Gu Qinghuan stroked Lin Mo's head: "Junior Brother Lin, now just as you said, the two of us are truly bound together. As my Realm improves, you will also advance by leaps and bounds together."

"Originally, obtaining my Origin Yin only had a one-time effect, but now it has become permanent forever."

"And I have also shared your light because of this, getting one step closer to realizing the Dao."

Lin Mo smiled and said: "Senior Sister, the way you look when you smile is really pretty. You should smile more in the future."

Gu Qinghuan gave him a roasted chestnut to the head: "You, you're good in every way, except that sometimes you're frivolous with sweet words."

Looking at her increasingly rosy face, Lin Mo thought to himself that Senior Sister still had a bit of tsundere in her.

"Junior Brother Lin, there is only one doubt in my heart. I ask Junior Brother not to lie to me and answer truthfully."

Lin Mo: "Senior Sister, please ask."

Gu Qinghuan's peach-blossom Phoenix eyes shifted as she stared straight at Lin Mo: "Since Junior Brother Lin possesses the Undying Blazing Sun Sacred Body, I'm afraid you won't lack female confidantes by your side in the future, right?"

This was the truth. To Cultivate the Undying Blazing Sun Sacred Body to Major Achievement truly required many...

But Lin Mo distinctly felt an extreme Killing Intent. Despite Senior Sister Qingleng currently wearing a smile on her face, he could clearly feel it.

Lin Mo scratched his cheek, not knowing how to answer this fatal question.

At this moment.

Gu Qinghuan's fingers twirled around her hair: "Junior Brother Lin, I don't wish for you to have too much entanglement with other women. As for the matters between you and me in the future, after I come out of seclusion, let's talk the whole night through, alright?"

Lin Mo smiled and said: "I'll listen to Senior Sister in everything, except that..."

Gu Qinghuan's delicate brows slightly frowned: "Except what?"

"Except that I cannot accept these things."

"Why?!"

Lin Mo said with a solemn expression: "I don't want to be constantly protected under Senior Sister's wings. On the path of cultivation, where is there an evergreen tree, and where is there constant smooth sailing at all times?"

"If I have clothes handed to me and food brought to my mouth, how can I stand side by side with Senior Sister in the future?"

"Even though Senior Sister says there is no unwillingness in her heart, I don't believe this point."

Gu Qinghuan's red lips parted slightly: "I..."

Lin Mo raised his hand to interrupt: "Senior Sister need not say more. I, Lin Mo, don't want to live as a parasite on a woman for the rest of my life, and even less so when it's my woman!"

"You, what are you talking about? What, what your woman?"

Gu Qinghuan was flustered like never before. She pounded her chest: "Although you and I have had intimate relations, we haven't become Dao Companions with Heaven and Earth as our witness yet."

"Ahem... Junior Brother Lin, please mind your words!"

This was Lin Mo's first time seeing Senior Sister Qingleng's cute appearance caused by panic, so he leaned over and blew hot air into her ear:

"Senior Sister, just as you said, what's done is done. Could it be that Senior Sister still wants to find another man?"

"If Senior Sister has such thoughts, I will definitely execute that man in the future and snatch Senior Sister back!"

Lin Mo's words gave Gu Qinghuan goosebumps all over, and a puff of white smoke abruptly rose from her head.

She abruptly stood up, gently flicking her cloud sleeves: "Junior Brother Lin, please don't say such cheesy things in the future."

"Junior Brother, this is a Spirit Treasure that protects you safely. You are not allowed to refuse this; I certainly don't want anything to happen to you."

Lin Mo took the jade pendant and put it on: "Yeah, otherwise Senior Sister would become a widow."

"You!" Gu Qinghuan suddenly stamped her feet in shame and anger, "N-no, I'm not talking with you anymore. Everything will wait until I come out of secluded cultivation!"

Lin Mo hurriedly grabbed her hand: "Senior Sister, I haven't asked you yet, until when will you be in secluded cultivation?"

Gu Qinghuan shook her head: "There is no fixed time. At most a year or half, or even three to four years; at least a month or two."

"Ah? So long? Won't I be unable to see Senior Sister for a very long time then?"

Lin Mo intentionally put on a wronged, pitiful expression for Gu Qinghuan to see.

Gu Qinghuan indeed took the bait: "Junior Brother Lin, on the path of cultivation, three to five years is merely the blink of an eye."

Lin Mo suddenly gave a forceful pull, wrapping his arm around Gu Qinghuan's slender waist and pulling her into his embrace.

Gu Qinghuan's beautiful eyes widened slightly, looking at Lin Mo with trembling pupils.

Only to see Lin Mo blow a breath of hot air towards her cold and gorgeous face: "Senior Sister, before you enter secluded cultivation, I still want to consolidate my Realm a bit more."

"Alright, you... Mhm?"

Gu Qinghuan suddenly snapped back to her senses, stomped her jade foot, and twisted his waist with her hand: "S-Sect Master is calling me very urgently, I'm leaving. Remember my instructions."

"On the day I come out of seclusion, I will test your Realm. Also, I will take Lvhua away; she is not suitable to stay by your side right now."

With that said, Gu Qinghuan's face flushed crimson. She summoned the jiuxiao tree over, without giving Lin Mo any chance to speak, and flew away as if escaping.

"Junior Brother Lin, I will come out of seclusion as soon as possible!"

Lin Mo laughed despite himself and shouted loudly: "Senior Sister, when you come out of seclusion, you and I will sit until dawn!"

Hearing this, Gu Qinghuan flew crookedly: "Junior Brother Lin!"

A coquettish cry echoed, while Lin Mo sniffed the lingering fragrance on his hands, smiling from ear to ear.