So, They Were the Protagonists All Along

That night.

Bai Ruoxi, escorted by Wei Mengrou, came safely to the cabin where Bai's father was recuperating.

The girl's eyes fell directly on the man lying on the bed recuperating. She took a small step forward, her eyes full of concern, and placed the jade bottle in Bai's hand.

"Dad, this is Huiyuan Dan, take it quickly to heal your injuries."

Bai's father slowly opened his eyes. After hearing his daughter's words, he was stunned at first, then looked down at the jade bottle in his hand and said: "Huiyuan Dan...? Did you find the Beast King Vine?!"

Bai Ruoxi nodded gently: "Master Mu went to Liangyi Sect overnight yesterday. I don't know what method he used to obtain the Beast King Vine. Today, Mr. Ren refined the Huiyuan Dan."

A trace of surprise flashed across Bai's father's eyes. Even though he knew that his daughter would not make such a joke, he still couldn't believe it.

He opened the jade bottle, and a strong smell of medicine came to his face.

"Is it really Huiyuan Dan?!" Bai's father's eyes were filled with surprise.

With this Yuan Dan, he can recover from his injuries in just one night, and no longer have to lie on this bed like a useless person!

In addition to the surprise, Father Bai was more confused.

This beast king vine grows in Liangyi Sect. Not to mention people from the outside world, even the disciples inside basically don’t have such precious medicinal materials.

How did the eldest young master of the Mu family get the beast king vine?

In any case, this time he really owed a great favor to the Mu family, or Mu Zhian.

And the reason why the other party helped was probably because of Ruoxi... ?

When Father Bai thought of this, he couldn't help but sighed with emotion and said, "Ruoxi, you have suffered a lot during this period."

Bai Ruoxi shook her head gently: "Master Mu helped my daughter a lot, and I didn't do anything."

When she said this, her eyes softened a little.

Father Bai saw his daughter's reaction, and saw that her eyes seemed to soften a little when she mentioned Mu Zhian, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

He had always believed that Ye Yu would achieve greater success in the future, and his daughter might regret it in the future.

However, Mu Zhian's performance in the past two days has made him waver.

He could even get the Beast King Vine in less than one night... The eldest son of the Mu family might not be as useless as the outside world said.

Bai Ruoxi continued to ask worriedly: "By the way, Dad, how are you going to deal with Mom?"

Father Bai fell silent after hearing this.

After a long time, he sighed softly: "It can be regarded as my apology to your mother. Let's talk to her later."

Bai Ruoxi's mood was also very complicated after hearing this.

After all, Bai Yuanfeng is her biological mother, let alone she did bad things. Even if she did all the bad things, she would still be reluctant to let go.

This is not a mentality like a saint, but a feeling that has accumulated over time. Family affection is not so easy to give up.

Perhaps because the atmosphere was a little silent, Bai Ruoxi broke the silence softly and asked, "Dad, how did you and mom meet?"

Father Bai's eyes were slightly enlightened when he heard this.

"Your mom..."

He raised his head slightly, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes.

"Your mom was picked up from outside and brought back to the Bai family. That name was also given by the elders of the clan."

"According to the description of the elders of the clan, when your mother was still a child, a strange purple light fell from the sky, and the surrounding demonic energy was filled. Your grandfather was worried that your mother would be corroded by the demonic energy, so he used the sealing method to seal the demonic energy. These years have been peaceful."

"I just didn't expect..." Father Bai couldn't help but sigh when he said this.

He thought that after so many years of husband and wife relationship, Bai Yuanfeng should have some feelings for him, but he never thought that Bai Yuanfeng would eventually plot against the Bai family and want to annex the three major families.

This was the first time Bai Ruoxi heard about his parents' past. When he heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Then, as if she realized something, she suddenly looked up at Father Bai and said, "So, mother is a child bride..."

"It's still different." Father Bai shook his head, "There were many people pursuing your mother at the beginning, and I was one of them. But later, because I became the patriarch..."

Father Bai did not continue to speak.

After all, in front of his daughter, the vulgar old man also has to save face.

He was embarrassed to say that he used some of the privileges of the patriarch to pursue Bai Yuanfeng in the end.

"You should go back to the Mu family with Miss Wei first. Dad will feel more at ease if you are there."

Father Bai continued, "But remember, if the boy from the Mu family runs into your room at night and says he wants to chat with you, don't believe him."

The cold and weak beauty's face flushed instantly, her eyes flickered, and she lowered her eyelids slightly, and said shyly: "Dad, what are you talking about?! Young Master Mu is not that kind of person. If he wanted to do it, he could have done it a long time ago!"

If Mu Zhian was that kind of person, he could have done it on the first day in the carriage, and he didn't have to wait until now.

Being protected by his daughter in front of other men, Father Bai felt both annoyed and helpless. He could only look at his daughter deeply, and then shook his head secretly.

If Mu Zhian had done it before, he would have only gotten Bai Ruoxi's body.

But now... Mu Zhian can get the body and mind of the most beautiful woman in Tianxuan City.

This can be known just by looking at Bai Ruoxi's reaction.

...

Mu Zhian was naturally unaware of the conversation between father and daughter at this time. He took out a lot of spiritual stones from the Najie and placed them on the bedside, and then sat cross-legged on the bed.

While the cauldron in the body was running, those spiritual stones quietly turned into purified spiritual energy, which was absorbed into Mu Zhian's body.

This is the benefit of spiritual stones. Under normal circumstances, during cultivation, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth needs to be purified before it can be absorbed into the body.

But the spirit stone itself is purified spiritual energy. Without this purification step, it can save at least four to five times the training time.

Although winning or losing the competition is not important, Mu Zhian had wasted too much time on women before, so he naturally hopes to make up for it as soon as possible.

After nearly two hours, the spiritual stones on the bedside disappeared bit by bit, and Mu Zhian felt that the spiritual energy in the cauldron had been filled by nearly one-third.

He slowly opened his eyes, raised his hand, and pushed out a palm from the air.

There was only a "bang" sound, the door opened, and a "crunching" sound was clearly heard.

Mu Zhian took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

The spiritual energy around him surrounded him as he breathed in and out. Every breath he took was accompanied by the spiritual energy being absorbed into his body, giving him a feeling of comfort all over.

Being able to learn from the old and incorporate the new, and turn spiritual energy into substantial power to exert, is the third level of Qi training.

If you reach the peak of Qi training, you can even retrieve objects from the air and instantly take back weapons from far away.

When you reach the God Refining Realm, you can fly with a sword like Wei Mengrou.

This feeling is really refreshing. The gap between the second-level Qi training and the third-level Qi training is quite big... Mu Zhian looked down at his palms and felt quite satisfied.

He calmed down a little, closed his eyes again, and entered a meditative state.

The next morning.

Mu Zhian was at the training ground early in the morning, practicing martial arts with the maid.

Although he was idle for a period of time due to his addiction to Naizi, Mu Zhian's foundation was still good. Coupled with Wei Mengrou's reservations, when the two of them just competed in martial arts at the beginning, they were evenly matched.

However, Wei Mengrou was obviously not a proficient in melee combat. She switched from physical attacks to magic attacks as she hit. The dazzling light pollution made Mu Zhian's eyes a bit dazzled. She was really exhausted.

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing that Wei Mengrou was about to slap her from the air, Mu Zhian immediately raised his hand and successfully controlled Wei Mengrou with his voice.

The maid's palm stayed in front of Mu Zhian's face, tilting her head slightly to look at him with doubt in her eyes, waiting for him to speak.

Don't you know that hitting someone is not a slap in the face... Mu Zhian glanced at Wei Mengrou's palm that was about to slap her face, put on a serious look, and said: "No more fighting, let's rest first, I'll return I have something to ask you."

Wei Mengrou glanced at her palms in confusion, and then looked at Mu Zhian.

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After thinking for a moment, he finally nodded and did not slap that slap down.

Mu Zhian found a step in the training ground and sat down, then turned to look at the maid and asked, "When you sent Bai Ruoxi home last night, did you feel like you were being followed?"

"If someone is following me, I will notice it immediately." Wei Mengrou paused and continued: "Unless the other person is a level above me."

Wei Mengrou is in the God Refining Realm, and the next higher realm is the Void Returning Realm.

In the world of mortals, those who return to the void realm are also known as land gods. There are so few of them that they are rare animals.

When Mu Zhian heard this, he nodded slightly.

In terms of investigation and counter-reconnaissance, Wei Mengrou is a top-notch existence. In the final analysis, she can be classified as an assassin. Since she said so, she can rest assured.

He still believed in Wei Mengrou. After all, in terms of investigation ability alone, Wei Mengrou was the best among the monks in the God Refining Realm.

In modern times, a maid would probably be a female investigator wearing tight clothes and with a sexy figure.

"Do you suspect that I am being followed?" Wei Mengrou asked.

"Doubtful, but I believe what you said, but I still feel strange." Mu Zhian smiled and said: "If this man in black robe doesn't come out to see me today, I should wonder if he has any back-ups, or maybe he I don’t value Ye Yu at all.”

Wei Mengrou's eyes flashed slightly, with a thoughtful look on her face.

"The one hundred thousand spirit stones should have been given to the Gongsun family as well, right?" Wei Mengrou suddenly asked coldly.

Wei Mengrou, who had been following Mu Zhian, naturally knew about the one hundred thousand spirit stones.

Even in Wei Mengrou's view, the number of one hundred thousand spirit stones is already quite astonishing... Now that Mr. Huang has sent all one hundred thousand spirit stones to the Mu family, she can't understand the other party's thoughts.

"One hundred thousand spiritual stones are only given to our Mu family and have nothing to do with the Gongsun family." Mu Zhian said.

"You mean... Chenxi Chamber of Commerce will send spirit stones to the Gongsun family again in the future?"

"I don't know about that. If Mr. Huang is smart, he shouldn't do that." Mu Zhian smiled and continued, "Businessmen are thrifty, but big businessmen have a strategic vision, can look to the future, and are willing to spend small money to make big money."

"He only gave this money to our Mu family, which shows that he thinks highly of us. In Mr. Huang's eyes, the Gongsun family is at most a force on the same level as himself, so there is no need to give money."

"And, regardless of whether Mr. Huang's 100,000 spirit stones have a share for the Gongsun family, we will treat it as if there is no share, that is, there is no share." Mu Zhian continued.

Wei Mengrou glanced at him and whispered, "Are you going to embezzle it?"

"How can this be called embezzlement, Sister Mengrou," Mu Zhian turned his head to look at Wei Mengrou, and happened to meet the eyes of the maid.

He showed a gentle smile and said, "This is what we earned with our efforts."

How can the cost of suppressing bandits be called embezzlement?

This should be called confiscation.

…

At this moment, Mr. Huang was sitting in the hall with his legs crossed and drinking tea leisurely.

Beside him, the beautiful woman looked unhappy, drinking tea and sighing from time to time.

She looked sad.

"Why are you sighing beside me?" Mr. Huang had to speak, looking at his wife.

"Master, you said that we gave these 100,000 spirit stones to the Mu family, and we didn't get any benefits... How long will it take to earn it back?" Madam Huang sighed, her eyes full of pain.

"Why can't we get any benefits?" Mr. Huang changed his leg and looked at Madam Huang strangely, saying: "Now someone is hindering our business, we have to solve the obstacles to continue to make money."

"If we don't give these 100,000 spirit stones, we may have to give more in the future." Mr. Huang continued.

The beautiful woman's eyes flickered slightly, and she couldn't help but look at her master twice more.

However, Master Huang did not intend to explain, but changed the subject and said, "Have you asked the servants to notify Mr. Tian?"

The beautiful woman nodded gently and said, "Mr. Tian agreed to go to Longshou Forest together tomorrow, but Master, why do we have to work hard after paying the money?"

Master Huang glanced at his wife, shook his head, and sighed, "We gave away this money, and we lost it."

"But in the next one or two months, they will still spit it out little by little and return to our pockets, so in the end we still make money."

Seeing that the beautiful woman seemed to understand, Master Huang did not explain again, but just tapped the edge of the chair with his knuckles, looked forward, and fell into thought.

Time passed unknowingly for most of the day, and as Mu Zhian expected, the black-robed man finally came to the Mu family that night.

No... Now he can't be called the black-robed man, because since the last time the Gongsun family offered a reward for the capture of the black-robed man, he has not worn a black robe again.

Changed to a plain robe and a hat.

"Master Mu, are you sure tomorrow?" The black-robed man stared at Mu Zhian with a pair of cold eyes under his hat.

Obviously, he already knew how Mu Zhian tricked Ye Yu into the Dragon Head Forest.

Mu Zhian smiled and said, "Does winning or losing matter?"

If Mu Zhian had not awakened his memory and it was just a simple competition, then it would probably be Mu Zhian provoking Ye Yu, and then being slapped in the face by the 'protagonist'.

However, now... this game has nothing to do with Ye Yu from beginning to end.

No matter how strong and unpredictable the chosen son is, no matter how lucky he is, being able to cross levels and fight against the Qi training cultivators is already the limit.

As for the next level of the Refining Spirit Realm... the distance between Refining Essence and Refining Spirit is like that between an elephant and an ant, with no room for maneuver at all.

Even the 'protagonist' can't do it.

The black-robed man sneered and said, "That's true."

"Then look forward to tomorrow's performance, Master Mu."

After the black-robed man finished speaking, he turned into black mist and disappeared in the room.

After Mu Zhian watched the black-robed man disappear from his sight, he turned his head to look at the shadow in the corner.

In the shadow, he could vaguely see a graceful figure and a huge human heart.

"Are you sure?" Wei Mengrou asked.

Mu Zhian shook his head: "I just said that winning or losing is not important."

"In the end, you are not sure?" Wei Mengrou heard Mu Zhian's voice-over.

"Then Ye Yu should have a trump card." She reminded.

"I know, but I also have a trump card." Mu Zhian looked serious.

"What?" Wei Mengrou's eyes were confused.

She thought she knew the young master very well... but she had never heard of any trump cards he had...

Mu Zhian waved at her, mysteriously: "This is a secret."

The girl in the yellow skirt fluttered her skirt and walked over slowly. She looked at the boy sitting at the head of the bed and asked: "What trump card?"

Mu Zhian whispered something, but the voice was so small that people could not hear it at all.

Wei Mengrou frowned slightly and leaned close to his ear.

At this time, Mu Zhian leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Don't you still have me?"

His warm breath gently sprayed on the maid's crystal earlobe, and in the dim light, it was clear that her earlobe was slightly hot.

The maid finally realized that this frivolous guy was teasing her. She glanced at Mu Zhian with a cold look and said, "Relying on others is not a trump card, it's just eating gigolo."

Although the tone was still cold, there was a faint blush on her face.

"What's wrong with eating gigolo? It's good." Mu Zhian smiled.

Not only did he want to eat Wei Mengrou's soft rice, if possible, he also wanted to hug Senior Sister Lan's thigh tomorrow.

No words were spoken that night.

The next morning, the people of Tianxuan City were still living their own lives, but they had no idea that at this moment, the Dragon Head Forest was already full of murderous intentions.