Mu Chenxi spoke with complete frankness, without a hint of shyness.
Bai Yue opened her mouth, feeling a bit embarrassed and inexplicably confused.
Wasn’t it just a kiss on the cheek? Was there really so much to fuss over?
But she barely understood Mu Chenxi’s strange cultivation method to begin with, so she couldn’t argue much and could only nod with a red face.
“Alright, then let’s do it like last time.”
Saying this, Bai Yue raised her hand, gently cupping Mu Chenxi’s face as before, her palm pressed to the warm skin, and leaned in to place a kiss on her cheek.
Mu Chenxi immediately picked up her sword to resume practice, but this time, the effect still didn’t compare to the first.
She sheathed her sword, her brows furrowing even deeper.
“Why is it that although everything is the same as before, the effect is so much weaker? Could it be because it was the first time?”
She analyzed aloud to herself.
“Is it like taking Dan Medicine, where the first dose is most effective, but afterwards Antibody develops…”
Every word drifted into Bai Yue’s ears without missing a syllable, leaving her frozen in place, mouth agape.
What on earth was stuffed inside her disciple’s little head?
What kind of nonsense was Antibody?
A kiss being equated to Dan Medicine!?
Could a kiss even develop Antibody?
What kind of absurd logic was this…
“Stop, stop, stop! What sort of chaotic reasoning is this…”
Bai Yue hurriedly interrupted Mu Chenxi’s “magical analysis,” feeling her temples throb with headache.
Having her train of thought cut off, Mu Chenxi wasn’t annoyed, only looking at Bai Yue with a questioning gaze.
“Does Master have any insights?”
Bai Yue was instantly stumped.
How could a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator guide a disciple at the Core Formation Stage? That was overestimating her.
Moreover, she knew nothing of Sword Dao, so what insights could she offer?
“I… I really have no particular insights. This is something you’ll have to ponder yourself.”
Bai Yue forced a dry laugh, feeling only more awkward, and simply stopped interjecting.
Antibody is Antibody, anyway.
A few more kisses on the cheek wouldn’t do much harm, as long as Mu Chenxi didn’t lose herself in sword practice.
But just as Bai Yue was thinking this, Mu Chenxi’s gaze fell upon her red lips, a sudden light igniting in her eyes, as if a new idea had struck.
“Master, why don’t we try another method?”
Though Mu Chenxi’s voice was soft, her eyes were firmly locked onto Bai Yue’s lips.
“Another method? What kind of method?”
Bai Yue looked puzzled, not yet catching on.
“That is… Master doesn’t have to kiss my cheek. Just kiss me directly.”
Mu Chenxi stated her wild idea with utmost seriousness.
At her words, Bai Yue’s face flushed instantly as she saw Mu Chenxi’s unwavering stare fixed on her lips.
“No! Absolutely not!”
She shook her head like a rattle drum.
“Why not?”
Mu Chenxi, never one to give up easily, pressed on.
“Because… that would be my first kiss, and I must save it for my future Dao Companion.”
Bai Yue explained helplessly.
She really suspected her disciple was deliberately taking advantage, but seeing Mu Chenxi’s utterly solemn expression, as if discussing the great Dao of cultivation, she found not a hint of jest.
Headache, what a headache.
This precious disciple really knew how to make things difficult.
“Then let this disciple be Master’s future Dao Companion.”
Mu Chenxi blurted it out without hesitation, her tone as natural as stating, “I want to cultivate.”
“Don’t speak nonsense! Are you making fun of your Master?”
Bai Yue’s face turned crimson, her beautiful eyes glaring at Mu Chenxi.
How did Mu Chenxi manage to tease her with such a serious face?
But looking at her earnest expression, it didn’t seem like a joke.
Clearly, she had cast aside matters of love between men and women, as well as the propriety between Master and disciple, all for the sake of Sword Dao cultivation.
“In any case, it’s impossible. Master does not wish for you to become a Dao Companion.”
“Moreover… do you know, in my Previous Life, I was a man?”
Bai Yue, desperate to protect her first kiss, revealed this enormous secret.
“I have long since known, Master.”
Mu Chenxi replied without the slightest hint of surprise.
Bai Yue stared at her in shock.
“How did you know this!?”
“It was calculated by Divine Diviner Senior.”
Mu Chenxi answered truthfully.
Upon hearing this, Bai Yue’s heart trembled.
This Divine Diviner really was extraordinary, even unearthing all her secrets.
However, thinking of Divine Diviner, Bai Yue grew curious, and to change the topic, she asked:
“Then, did Divine Diviner Senior know how I came to be here?”
“Master was struck by a bolt of lightning and arrived in this place, but the Divine Diviner Senior was unable to calculate the exact circumstances.”
Mu Chenxi replied.
“What exactly was that lightning?”
Bai Yue couldn’t help but pursue further.
“I do not know. Divine Diviner Senior said it was impossible to determine.”
“And what else did Divine Diviner Senior deduce?”
“Divine Diviner Senior also determined that the place Master previously resided in was called Blue Star. There were no cultivators or spiritual energy there, and the world was filled with ordinary people. In your Previous Life, Master was one of them, and lived in poverty.”
“That’s not important…”
Bai Yue’s lips twitched.
She was still penniless now.
“And then?”
Mu Chenxi continued.
“After that, Divine Diviner Senior began to lose lucidity, continuing to calculate while murmuring about automobiles, trains, ships, airplanes, as well as Industry, Agriculture, Heavy Industry, Biology, Cells, Bacteria, Fungi, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics…”
Bai Yue’s jaw dropped as she listened, realizing she had underestimated Divine Diviner.
He wasn’t just deducing her secrets—he’d practically revealed all of Blue Star’s secrets!
“And then?”
Bai Yue urged.
“Afterward, Divine Diviner Senior suddenly began bleeding from all seven orifices, yet appeared frenzied, ignoring all persuasion, and kept calculating wildly, shouting ‘Marvelous! Marvelous!’…”
At this point, Mu Chenxi paused, regret flickering in her eyes.
“Divine Diviner Senior became increasingly deranged, his murmurs growing ever more chaotic—sometimes Human Technology, Trisolaris Civilization, Dark Forest Law, sometimes Mathematical Olympiad, Cosmic Origin, Big Bang, and at the end, he kept repeating ‘Atom’, ‘Quantum’, ‘Quantum’, ‘Quantum’…”
“‘When in doubt, Quantum Mechanics! Quantum Mechanics!’ ‘I’ve attained enlightenment! I’ve attained enlightenment! I’ve attained enlightenment!’”
“The frenzied Divine Diviner even achieved Dao breakthrough on the spot, drawing a terrifying Thunder Tribulation.”
“But before the Thunder Tribulation could fall, Divine Diviner Senior’s Divine Sense began to disintegrate, and his physical body exploded into Blood Mist…”
Mu Chenxi finished, letting out a soft sigh.
Bai Yue’s mind was reeling, her mouth agape, unable to utter a word—as if she could fit an egg inside.
It was a long while before Bai Yue recovered.
“Master, let’s stop talking about Divine Diviner Senior and return to the matter of kissing me.”
As expected, Mu Chenxi hadn’t given up, circling the topic right back.
Bai Yue had intended to use the topic of Divine Diviner as a distraction, but unexpectedly, after all the back and forth, Mu Chenxi still clung to the original matter, leaving her with a splitting headache.
Her disciple’s persistence truly left her helpless.
But to kiss a disciple she’d only just met, and for her first kiss at that, Bai Yue simply couldn’t bring herself to do it.
“Give your Master some time, let me mentally prepare.”
In the end, Bai Yue couldn’t bring herself to refuse outright, choosing instead the art of delay.