Dantai Quan did not answer. Instead, she quietly got dressed.
Once she had finished tidying herself up, she had barely set foot on the floor when she felt a dull ache throughout her body.
She had clearly reached such a high level, yet she had never expected even a minor injury like this to still affect her nerves.
Nevertheless, she walked over to Xu Mu and said softly, “I’m going back. If I need you to refine any pills in the future, I’ll come find you again.”
With that, she turned and walked outside.
“Regretting it?”
Xu Mu suddenly turned around.
Dantai Quan stopped at the door. After thinking for a moment, she said, “No. I already told you before that I only had those two things to offer. Now that I’ve tried them and found that they didn’t work, what reason do I have to stay here?”
“Heh. That answer was beyond my expectations. I thought you would kneel down and beg me again.”
Xu Mu looked at Dantai Quan. “Go back. Let me think about it some more.”
“It’s already too late.”
After saying that, Dantai Quan quickly left the house and walked out of the villa.
When she reached the gate, she got into her car and glanced back at the villa, only to find that Xu Mu had not followed her.
With a bitter smile, she started the car and drove away.
She also felt that she had been far too confident, trying to force Xu Mu into giving in through such a method.
Perhaps he only thought of her as a woman who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals.
Regret?
Of course she regretted it a little. But who had never experienced regret?
“How I wish I’d known sooner” and “If only I had done things differently” were things people said countless times every day.
What she regretted was using this method to pressure Xu Mu.
“Damn it! I once dreamed of a perfect love, but I never expected my first time to end like this!”
Dantai Quan slammed her hands against the steering wheel, tears streaming down her cheeks.
“Bastard Xu Mu! From now on, I’ll only come to you to refine pills. I won’t say another word to you! If I do, I’ll call you Dad!”
She wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and spoke viciously.
Just after leaving the villa district, Dantai Quan suddenly noticed a black shadow entering her car.
She immediately turned around. Before her mind could even react, the black shadow had transformed into Xu Mu’s appearance.
Dantai Quan froze for a moment before asking, “What are you doing here?”
“I heard someone cursing me, so I came to take a look.”
Xu Mu sat in the back seat and shrugged.
He continued observing the filial piety value Dantai Quan had toward him and found that it was still at Level Five.
It had not dropped even after he rejected her. Since that was the case, he had no choice but to help her.
“I wasn’t cursing you. You’ve got the wrong person.”
Dantai Quan spoke expressionlessly.
“Turn left and head out of the city.”
Xu Mu leaned back in his seat.
“I have something urgent to deal with. I don’t have time to waste on you.”
“Didn’t you already waste three hours just now? What’s the harm in wasting a little more?”
Xu Mu smiled faintly.
“You…”
Through the rearview mirror, Dantai Quan glared fiercely at Xu Mu.
Yet, for some reason, after hearing his words, she still felt a strange warmth spreading through her body.
“Go outside the city and pick up Chen Xuan. We’ll accompany you to the Inner Realm.”
Xu Mu looked out the window.
“You agreed?”
Dantai Quan turned around and asked excitedly.
“Yeah. For your grandmother’s sake.”
Xu Mu nodded slightly.
[Affection +30]
Dantai Quan immediately floored the accelerator, and the car shot forward.
“Hmph! You made me lose confidence just now, but I knew it. I gave myself to you, so how could I possibly fail to win you over?”
A smile appeared on Dantai Quan’s face once more.
Xu Mu looked at her expression, which had changed from gloomy to radiant, and merely shook his head.
“Xu Mu, don’t worry. I definitely won’t interfere with your family.”
Dantai Quan kept her eyes on the road ahead.
“But what if I want to marry you and bring you home?”
Xu Mu asked.
“What else could I say? I’d have to marry you. But I can’t give up my current job for the time being.”
Dantai Quan’s expression turned serious. “Once I fulfill my father’s dying wish, I’m willing to retire from the front lines and stay home to take care of you and our children.”
Xu Mu looked somewhat surprised. He had assumed that Dantai Quan was an extremely ambitious and utilitarian person.
He had thought that once she became the King of the Jiao Clan, she would never want to step down. He had not expected that she was doing all of this merely to fulfill her father’s dying wish.
After hearing that, he thought even more highly of Dantai Quan.
“Wait! Shouldn’t we go back for a moment?”
After reaching the outskirts of the city, Dantai Quan suddenly hit the brakes.
“What’s wrong?”
Xu Mu asked curiously.
“We’ll be gone for at least a few days. The blood left behind from our… battle just now—is it still there?”
Dantai Quan turned around and asked, “If your wife finds it, she’ll definitely…”
Xu Mu took a bedsheet out of his spatial ring, then immediately placed it back inside.
“You… Xu Mu! You’re so experienced at this! I regret it now. I feel like you tricked me!”
Dantai Quan spoke coldly.
“Then consider yourself tricked. At least let me finish using you first and resolve the crisis you’re facing.”
Xu Mu said with a smile.
[Affection +20]
Dantai Quan gave a soft snort and continued driving.
Xu Mu noticed that after the two of them had established this relationship, the affection value appearing above her head had become much more frequent.
His earlier words had indeed been proven right: What was yours was mine, and what was mine was yours.
He took out his phone and sent Chen Xuan a message.
Just after Dantai Quan had left, Chen Xuan had taken the initiative to message him, asking when they would return to the Inner Realm.
He had now fully merged with the divine artifact and wanted to go there to test his strength.
Xu Mu told him that the opportunity had come, which was why he had decided to pick him up.
When the car stopped in front of Chen Xuan’s house, Chen Xuan immediately got in.
“Brother Mu.”
Chen Xuan called out to him.
“Old Chen, you really are something. You managed to merge with it in just a few days!”
Xu Mu gave him a thumbs-up.
“Maybe I was just lucky.”
Chen Xuan chuckled. “Where are we going now?”
“Ask her.”
Xu Mu looked toward Dantai Quan, who was sitting in the driver’s seat.
“We need to go to Jiangnan. It’ll take about three hours. I know of a passage connecting the outside world and the Inner Realm, but we still need to return to Mangshan first. The Boundary Fire isn’t with me.”
Dantai Quan explained.
“There’s no need to go through all that trouble. I have Boundary Fire with me. We can fly there directly by helicopter and save a great deal of time.”
As Xu Mu spoke, he motioned for the others to get out of the car.
Then, in the courtyard of Chen Xuan’s house, he took out a helicopter.
Dantai Quan was utterly shocked. Just how large was Xu Mu’s spatial ring? It could actually hold an entire helicopter.
Xu Mu then put Dantai Quan’s Range Rover into his storage space as well.
Now that his storage space had evolved into a true spatial dimension, every additional space he drew no longer increased its capacity by merely the size of a refrigerator. Instead, it expanded by a substantial amount—at least dozens of square meters.
After getting into the helicopter, the group headed toward their destination.
…
Under Dantai Quan’s guidance, Xu Mu and the others arrived at a set of ruins in less than two hours.
According to Dantai Quan, the passage was located inside a cave in the Inner Realm, and almost no one knew about it.
Using the Boundary Fire on Xu Mu, they traveled to the Inner Realm.
They then made their way out of the underground cavern. It took them a full half hour before they finally emerged.
They were not far from the ruins where the rebels were stationed. After traveling for twenty minutes, the group finally reached their destination.
“It’s over! That’s the Third Leader of the Jiao Clan. He came here personally!”
Seeing the middle-aged man in the distance, Dantai Quan’s face filled with despair.
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