Chapter 87: Bitten by a Cat

  "Come along, then." The master took a step forward, his right hand brushing against her waist.

  This move didn't feel abrupt to Su Mo at all, but rather a long-forgotten intimacy.

  The dark night sky above, shrouded in a layer of ink color, the night sky is deep and vast.

  The moonlight fell quietly on the man's body, making his face look gentle and calm.

  Su Mo knew that the gentle and elegant man in front of her had always given people a comfortable feeling like a spring breeze. In his previous life, he was like a warm ray of sunshine, illuminating the depths of her heart, driving away all the darkness and coldness within her.

  At this moment, there is an inexplicable feeling in the warm atmosphere around me.

  The two of them entered the third floor's study room. The room was dark, as he never lit candles in his house according to habit.

  The armory is different from the smelting house and cannot have any open flames inside.

  At first, Su Mo was unfamiliar with the rules and accidentally burned a book.

  Only then did Shi Yin take out another butterfly mask and hand it over to Su Mo, "Miss Yao can wear this one."

  "Thank you." Su Mo took the mask and gently put it on his face. At this moment, everything in the room seemed to have emitted a soft glow, all because the butterfly mask was made of special materials that allowed people to see many details clearly.

  "Are you used to wearing it, miss?" The teacher asked gently with a soft smile.

  "It's fine." Su Mo raised his eyes and smiled lightly, the two of them exchanging a smile as they gazed at each other.

  She was accustomed to it, in her past life she and he often wore masks together locked in the study room learning, once again entering this place, a long-forgotten feeling arose in her heart.

  "By the way, Miss Yaoji, do you need my help at this moment?" asked Shifu Ling standing beside her calmly.

  Although he sought it in his heart, when Su Mo raised her narrow and long phoenix eyes, she lightly shook her head.

  In this life, she and he no longer have such a close relationship, so it's too abrupt for the other party to help with things.

  At this time, Shi Yin smiled slightly, "What is Miss Yaoji preparing to refine?"

  "Puppet of the organization." Su Mo replied calmly.

  "The things here can be used by Miss Yao at will, but the materials for making puppets are limited."

  "It doesn't matter, I have also prepared some materials here."

  Her eyebrows slightly raised, with a hint of charm in her eyes, she stretched out her slender white hand and took out some materials for refining instruments from the Heavenly Book that she had obtained from the Xia family's boat. She didn't take much from the Heavenly Book this time, estimating that the materials in front of her could probably make five or six human-shaped puppets.

  Nowadays, alchemists with extremely high status all have Qiankun bags, which can hold many items on their person.

  The master also has a ring, which can hold Dharma instruments and other things with him at all times.

  His three giant mechanical beasts were usually stored inside.

  However, the Qian Kun bag belongs to a hidden door and is a spiritual instrument that surpasses a law instrument. The materials are rare and priceless.

  It's just like Su Mo, such a young girl, actually has something similar, it's only natural to feel surprised and unbelievable.

  It is said that a common man should not possess jade, for it will bring him trouble. Owning such a powerful object requires great care and caution, as ordinary people usually do not dare to take it out.

  However, Shi Yin's gaze slowly swept over these iron and copper woods, his eyes calm and his expression light.

  Then Su Mo took off the pale pink outer robe, pulled out a very durable and wear-resistant shirt, put it on, and then tied his waist and shoulders with a rope, wearing loose and comfortable sleeves.

  Then she turned around and selected several tools, arranged them neatly according to their frequency of use.

  At this moment, the teacher's expression changed slightly, and he seemed to be thinking of something.

  His gaze swept over the woman's every move in front of him, and a gentle and clear expression gradually flowed out from his eyes.

  The man's eyes were clear and distinct, with a gentle smile, and he couldn't help but mutter: "It seems that the little witch likes to do things in an orderly manner, and all her habits are almost identical to mine. What a coincidence."

  Upon hearing this, Su Mo was taken aback for a moment, and her heart sank with a "thud". Until now, she had just been doing these things naturally.

  After all, habits become natural, but some flaws were inadvertently revealed.

  She merely raised her eyes and said with an unchanged expression: "What a coincidence indeed."

  Shi Yin continued in a gentle tone, "Since I've seen that the young lady is so skilled in mechanical techniques, there's no need for me to intervene. Moreover, crafting mechanisms requires solitude, so I won't disturb you. You can proceed on your own."

  With that, Shī Yuè smiled faintly at Sū Mò, slowly turning around, her snow-white long robe elegant and serene, the wide sleeves fluttering like clouds, lightly swaying with her movements, just like a beautiful mountain moonlight accompanied by valley breeze, or like a quiet and elegant mountain stream, winding and lingering, slowly approaching.

  "Master Jian walks slowly." Su Mo made a elegant bow towards him, took a slow step back and watched as Master Jian left.

  Her eyes sparkled like water, and she lightly pressed her enchanting lips together, her face radiant and captivating.

  Su Mo naturally knew that at this time, Shi Ying should be going to the bedroom to rest or reading in the study.

  Every single habit of his from past life has been deeply engraved in her heart.

  After watching his figure completely disappear from view, Su Mo furrowed her brow, took a deep breath, withdrew her thoughts, and quickly adjusted her mood to be the same as usual.

  She slowly stretched out her fingertips and suddenly struck the Heavenly Book placed in front of her chest.

  "Are you in or out? If you don't come out, I won't care about anything related to you from now on." Su Mo said with a bad tone.

  No matter what, this young man's closed-door training period has gone on for a bit too long, hasn't it?

  From the moment he appeared until now, he has gradually become a cultivation madman.

  Ever since she started talking about marriage, the young man would often go into seclusion for a long time, and when she needed him at critical moments, he was nowhere to be found.

  She even had a strange feeling, wondering if the other person was playing hard to get with her.

  After a while, the arrogant voice of the young man finally came from inside, "Woman, stop knocking, I've already come out, it's just that my body is a bit tired, so I took a nap for a while."

  "So you also like sleeping?" Su Mo asked with a cold gaze.

  "Anyone can sleep, it's just that I, young master, sleep a little less. What are you looking for me for, woman?"

  As the words fell, a beautiful young man's figure emerged from the heavenly book. He slowly and elegantly stretched his waist, then crossed his arms and leaned against the wall. His beautiful eyes glanced at Su Mo sideways, and his pair of black eyes were like a pair of black pearls. He looked around proudly and said, "It seems that the environment here is still quite good, woman. After being sent out from the imperial palace, you actually ended up in such a place, your luck is not bad."

  "Not bad luck?" Su Mo said coldly, "My magic tools and mechanisms are almost all destroyed."

  "That's really terrible, those things are more than enough to deal with many people, even the ones in the condensation period are probably not their opponents." The young man said expressionlessly, as if he was unmoved, as if all those things had nothing to do with him. He then asked casually: "Woman, what kind of enemy have you offended?"

  "Actually, I don't know what kind of person he is?" Su Mo's eyes narrowed slightly.

  Since the puppet was destroyed, Sumo's heart has been very depressed.

  I feel like the enemy's tricks are endless and increasingly shameless.

  "So you need to re-refine some magic tools here?" The young man glanced at her sideways again.

  "Not bad, I need to refine it again." At this time, Su Mo glanced at the young man, and after a glance, she vaguely felt that the young man seemed to be different from before. She asked, "By the way, what have you been cultivating these days? Why do I feel that it's different from before?"

  The young man's eyes sparkled, but he didn't say a word.

  "Your Excellency seems to have matured a bit." Su Mo's fingertips touched his forehead, his expression thoughtful.

  "This young master is actually very mature at heart despite his appearance," the youth said disdainfully, "it's just that some women are really shallow."

  Su Mo blinked and said elegantly: "Don't people always judge others by their appearance?"

  At this time, Su Mo reached out to touch him and found that the boy's skin was as white as jade, but it had actually turned a healthy red color. He then poked his chest with his fingertips and found that his body had indeed undergone substantial changes, thinking to himself that there was indeed a big difference.

  "Women should not be too physically close with men. It's impolite for men and women to touch each other." The young man somewhat displeased, shook off her hand.

  "Since we can't get close, why don't you turn into a cat instead." Su Mo curled up the corner of his mouth, looking at the young man with some amusement.

  The young man flipped a noble white eye and immediately turned into a lazy appearance, lazily lying on the table.

  Su Mo said in a low voice: "I called you out, but it's not for you to sleep."

  The young man said lazily: "Woman, what's the matter that you called me out?"

  "In the Su ink eyes, the water color is soft and gentle, and the dense eyelashes are raised: 'The place you assigned to me in the Heavenly Book is really too small. I need to create a puppet army now, and you must give me four times more space.'"

  The young man's eyes, which were raised in disdain, were filled with contempt, "Puppet troops?"

  "Not bad."

  "You're really something, always causing me trouble. Fine, I'll give you twice as much this time."

  "Too little, not enough, and how much space does that book have?" Su Mo asked in a low voice.

  "This young master likes to monopolize and doesn't like to share." The youth looked down at her with a condescending gaze.

  "Don't forget, we've made a life-and-death contract." Su Mo said with a faint smile.

  "What about our life-and-death contract? Even if it's a big place, I don't want to share it with you." The young man snorted.

  Su Mo sat elegantly to the side, reaching out to pat the youth's now-feral head, his tone gentle yet somewhat chilly as he said: "You should know that it's because you gave me too little space, so there's nothing inside for me to use. Every time I want to use the Heavenly Book Space, I have to deliberate for a long time, thinking about what to put in and what not to, even water and food are things I'm reluctant to place within. Just now, I almost died."

  The young man was slightly stunned by the words, and his slightly raised eyes scanned Su Mo up and down.

  He looked very carefully and seriously until he saw that she was not hurt before putting his mind at ease.

  Su Mo smiled and said: "The contract of fate, one prosperity together, one loss together, you don't need to look at it anymore."

  Only the tone of the young man's voice was somewhat careless, "If you really died, I'd admit to being unlucky."

  He snorted twice, then put on a condescending air and lectured Su Mo: "You're really not skilled enough as a woman, you've only reached the Tempering Body stage now. At this point, your strength should have at least reached the Condensing Pulse stage."

  "And there are seven contracts in your dantian, now you're married to a man and it's already so pathetic. What will happen after you make contracts with other men? I even doubt if you have the spirit of diligent self-improvement in your heart. How will your cultivation progress in the future?" His tone was as if he couldn't be bothered to even sneer at her.

  Su Mo smiled and said: "Actually, monogamy shouldn't have any impact on cultivation."

  "It's different when you have a contract, stupid woman."

  "Oh?"

  "A woman without a contract can certainly be monogamous, but you're completely different. You have seven marriage contracts, I've said this many times already." The young man's gaze was filled with disdain and cold intent.

  "I've indeed heard it many times before, but I don't believe it." Su Mo said calmly.

  The young man's eyes revealed a hint of ridicule, and he coldly snorted: "Woman, saying you're stupid is really stupid."

  Su Mo narrowed his eyes and softly said "oh".

  The young man looked at her deeply and said, "Every place has its own traditions, so it's very important to follow local customs. You're also a cultivator, after all. In the places you'll go to in the future, who knows if they really are equal between men and women? Maybe men can have three wives and four concubines, and women can have three husbands and four attendants. As long as they have power, they can enjoy this treatment. Ordinary men and women definitely can't do that. This world has always been restrictive to ordinary people, persecuting the common folk. In short, if a man rules over a region, then it's up to the man to decide; if a woman rules over a region, then it's up to the woman to decide."

  "So this contract is extraordinary?" Su Mo asked.

  "Not bad, this contract should be a place where women are in power."

  "Really?" Su Mo asked with a smile, "How interesting."

  "It's true," said the arrogant raccoon dog with a proud smile.

  Su Mo's eyes widened slightly as she stared at him, "So?"

  The young man's eyes turned cold as he said, "So, you and I will eventually have to dissolve the contract of fate. Let the object return to its original owner."

  Su Mo smiled lightly and said in a cold tone, "I suppose your mind is preoccupied with thoughts of dissolving our contract, isn't it?"

  "Women, I'm just telling the truth." The young man stretched out his claws and gently placed them under her neck.

  "I don't care how you exaggerate or talk nonsense, just expand the space a bit first."

  "What if I say no?" The young man spoke up in refusal.

  Suddenly, Su Mo raised his hand and gave it a stir-fry chestnut. Now that he had recovered some of his flesh and blood, the fight felt more substantial.

  Unexpectedly, this woman actually made a move, and the young man was instantly stunned by such a blow.

  Then the young man suddenly got angry, "Enough! Woman, hitting someone doesn't mean hitting their head, hit again and I'll bite you."

  "Alright, come and bite me then!" Su Mo stretched out his red, tender hand to grab onto his body, lifting him up and gently shaking him back and forth, "Let's see how you're going to bite?"

  At this point, the wolf was thoroughly enraged and turned around to pounce on him.

  Su Mo chuckled and slowly took a step back, but unexpectedly, his foot landed on the skeleton of an alien beast.

  She paused for a moment, her figure flickered, and she turned into a cat and a person, but her lips accidentally touched a place.

  The young man suddenly stiffened and felt disheveled in the wind.

  ……

  The bright moon is in the sky, and the fragrance of hundreds of flowers in the garden is moving.

  A man with a bewitching beauty sat there, his expression serene and extremely enchanting.

  The man in white clothes opposite him slowly poured a cup of tea, with a subtle and elegant smile on his lips.

  "Shi Yin, you actually left that woman behind and even let her use your secret chamber." Hua Xirong stroked her chin.

  "Not bad." The master smiled faintly at this moment.

  "You're really generous." Hua Xirong's eyes flashed with a hint of seductiveness.

  "It's not always generous, but occasionally it will make an exception." The teacher's tone was soft and warm.

  "I didn't expect that woman to know internal martial arts? I'm looking at her in a new light now! It turns out she's not just relying on her looks, flirting and seducing people." Huashan lightly sipped a mouthful of tea.

  "The flower gentleman, in fact, women are not as unbearable as you imagine. There are still many good women in this world. In any industry, there are some excellent women and some noble women. Even some women are like great men, with a broad mind and a gentle heart." Master Sheng said slowly, his warm voice seemed to have lingered in the elegant forest for a long time, surrounded by the fragrance of trees and grasses and the refreshing air.

  Hua Xirong raised an eyebrow and smiled: "I didn't expect that you, who never used to talk about women before, would now start criticizing them too."

  Shi Yin looked at his opponent's completely humorless eyes, hooked up the corner of his mouth, but didn't say a word.

  Huaxian Rong asked: "I ask you, what about this demon girl?"

  "Very well, she was one of a kind in this world."

  "Since you say so, I'll be waiting to see what this little witch can do. Soon, a large number of ferocious beasts will appear around the island, let's see how she guards it. This fifth island is the most difficult place to defend in the entire Qi state, one careless move and it's possible to die without even a burial ground." Hua Xiangyong's lips seemed to smile yet not smile, her slender fingertips stroked her chin, and the tear mole at the corner of her eye shone with an even more enchanting beauty.

  "In fact, I will also help defend this place in the future. I will use my mechanical skills to build a castle." Shī Yuè took a sip of flower tea.

  "A city, what a big handwriting, are you kind? What does the life and death of the world have to do with you? It's just some ordinary people." Huashan couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, but there was a hint of disdain in her expression.

  "It's not that I'm kind-hearted, it's just that I feel a sense of sympathy for the rabbit and the fox, and the coldness of the lips when the teeth are gone." The master smiled faintly with an elegant smile, his smile carrying a hint of a banished immortal.

  Is it really that simple? Hua Xirong couldn't help but hum a light tune.

  He rubbed his chin and narrowed his eyes, but vaguely felt a familiar feeling on the witch's body.

  Suddenly, a beautiful young man's figure flashed before his eyes. His heart skipped a beat. Ah, what was the relationship between Su Family's Fourth Young Master and the Demon Girl?

  ……

  He couldn't help but let out a stifled sound, and immediately began coughing uncontrollably.

  Su Mo's eyes fluttered, and she lightly touched her lips, her gaze sinking.

  That so-called being bitten by a cat is probably this kind of feeling.

  At this moment, there was no burden in Sumo's heart, and it was just an accident.

  Moreover, she was not a woman who would feel uncomfortable with something happening beside her. Su Mo's gaze remained calm and clear, her demeanor elegant, relaxed, and nonchalant as she stood up, adjusted her mood slightly, began to check all the mechanisms in her hand, and slowly pondered her next plan.

  The young man twitched at the corner of his mouth and fell silent for a moment, his eyes darkening slightly.

  At last he could bear it no longer and asked: "Woman, shouldn't you say something?"

  "What did you say?" Su Mo slowly raised an eyebrow.

  "Just now, that was this young master's kiss, did you know or not?" The youth said with some difficulty.

  Su Mo's eyes showed some surprise, but he smiled in a low voice, and his eyes flashed with some charm, playfully glancing at the young man and saying: "So it was your first kiss?"

  The wolfhound let out a cold snort and turned its head away, refusing to speak.

  Su Mo's eyes didn't even blink, and suddenly he stretched out his slender hand, placed it on his lips and smiled lightly. "A certain someone who has lived for three thousand years and is still a virgin, can't you let go of such trivial matters? Your first kiss was indeed worth it?"

  "Who's a virgin? Don't spout nonsense! I'm not a virgin! Nor is this my first kiss." The young man was humiliated and belittled by her words, his anger causing him to grit his teeth, his vision blurring for a moment before he suddenly regained his composure, transforming back into the beautiful youth. However, it wasn't the usual proud and arrogant beauty, but rather an unnatural flush of pale red on his face, even his ears turning a shameful shade of crimson.

  Su Mo raised an eyebrow and said softly: "So... haven't you been avoiding something these days?"

  "What am I hiding from?"

  "So isn't it afraid of seeing something?"

  "What am I afraid of seeing?" The young man gritted his teeth.

  "Of course it's a matter of propriety, because I'm married, so you're embarrassed!"

  Su Mo couldn't help but give a sly smile, looking at him with a gaze that carried a hint of disdain and contempt.

  "Who says I'm shy? You're slandering me." The young man's gaze was as cold as a knife, his thin lips tightly pursed, and he suddenly reached out to grab Su Mo's waist, pulling her in front of him. His right hand, however, grasped her neck, saying fiercely: "Don't dare laugh, there is no woman in this world who dares to mock me, otherwise I'll strangle you."

  Su Mo smiled brightly and fearlessly, her thin lips approaching his ear, "Then go ahead and strangle me to death."

  Feeling her breath like fragrance of orchid on her lips, and those beautiful, enchanting lips in front of me.

  The young man's handsome face suddenly turned red again.

  In the next instant, he felt a wave of heat in front of his chest, and the young man couldn't help but feel anxious and confused. He hastily let go of her and quickly approached the Heavenly Book, completely disappearing into it.

  Watching the young man's figure disappear before his eyes, Su Mo deliberately let out a light laugh: "You really are fleeing in disarray! Remember to divide some space for me, otherwise every time I see you, I'll mock you once."

  Soon, a young voice came from inside, "You dare?"

  Then Su Mo inserted his divine consciousness into the Heavenly Book space and found that the entire space had expanded by more than five times, it was indeed a vast expanse. Immediately, a satisfied smile appeared on Su Mo's lips.

  She took a deep breath and came to the center of the instrument room, starting her refining work.

  Nowadays, her primary stage of making human puppets is to refine a batch of identical mechanical parts, and then assemble them together.

  Su Mo is now very familiar with the steps of refining mechanical puppets, and the method of refining human-shaped puppets is roughly the same, not complicated.

  As long as she is not picky about the facial features and expressions of the humanoid puppet, as well as the realistic details such as skin, eyes, and hair, it would be easier to refine. The distribution of the array patterns is actually not that difficult either. Compared to refining equipment and making mechanisms, Su Mo thinks that making a humanoid puppet is not much more difficult than refining a fifth-grade artifact, but it has more artistic plasticity.

  Creating a very beautiful puppet is no difficulty for Su Mo at all.

  The only thing she needs to pay attention to is that human puppets are also divided into levels, after all, the puppet she refined now is a congenital real power puppet.

  The puppet of the power of the day after tomorrow, Su Mo has completely lost his place in her eyes.

  Afterwards, a human-shaped puppet was assembled, and this process is also very simple.

  After being busy for two hours, she actually made more than a dozen innate power puppets of human shape, which were no different in size from real people. Not only did she not waste any materials, but the time spent was extremely short and the success rate was also extremely high. The lines of the carved characters were also very smooth.

  Su Mo gently patted the dust off his palm and gazed at the incredibly exquisite "art pieces" surrounding him.

  Everything is ready, but the east wind is missing.

  Su Mo took out his treasured twelve second-grade spirit stones from the Heavenly Book and placed them in the heart of the human-shaped puppet with some reluctance.

  Up until now, the twelve human-shaped puppets had been completely finished. Su Mo let out a gentle sigh of relief.

  It seems that it's better to do some other things later and stop at forty.

  ……

  The stars twinkle and shift in the sky, the night is deep and dark.

  Su Mo walked out of the office, covered in sweat, and hurried towards the lake shore.

  In her past life, every time she came out of the government office, she would jump into the lake and take a nice bath. However, nowadays it's a bit abrupt, so she simply wore thin clothes and stepped into the lake water, lowered her eyes, looked at the reflection of her face in the rippling night-colored lake water, and the bright moon in the sky swaying in the water. In her mind, however, she was trapped in memories of her past life.

  The moon, the person, the scenery and those scenes of past life are still lingering in my mind.

  At that time, she had just escaped from a cage, but inadvertently met her teacher while escaping, and it was he who took her away.

  At that time, I was actually on guard against anyone in my heart, and I didn't completely trust him either.

  I remember when I used to come to the lake at night for a walk, with a heavy heart and a face full of worries.

  She looked up at the starry sky at that time, just like this moment.

  At that time, Shi Yun appeared beside her, with a stunning beauty that seemed to burst forth like a spring of water.

  "May I sit down?"

  "Mm!" She nodded slowly.

  That handsome young man slowly sat down beside her, and softly asked: "Miss Mo, these days you've been avoiding something, I saw that your expression was very worried earlier, do you have any troubles?"

  She just shook her head slightly at the time, looking at the other's seemingly smiling but not quite smiling expression, those deep eyes, unfortunately, she couldn't accept anyone in her heart, nor could she let anyone in, and even more so, she couldn't open her heart to anyone.

  "By the way, does Mo'er like this night scene?" The man beside her was warm and elegant as jade, his voice was like spring breeze, he asked in a low voice.

  She murmured in response: "The night sky is infinitely gentle, the starlight is infinitely beautiful, but unfortunately, those things in the sky are out of reach. It's said that each star in the sky is like each person in the world, yet every time someone dies, there's an extra star, and eventually all our loved ones on this earth will be gone, leaving the stars still unreachable."

  "Mò ér gū niáng kàn lái yě shì yǒu jiā bù néng huí." Shī yuè yǎn jing dài zhe wēn hé de xiào, qīng shēng wèn dào.

  Translation:

  "It seems that Mo'er girl also has a home she can't return to." Shi Yue's eyes carried a warm smile as he softly asked.

  "Does the young master have a home?" Su Mo looked at him with a glance.

  "No, I am at home in all four seas." The master's eyebrows and eyes were filled with elegance and refinement.

  "It seems we are both people who have fallen to the ends of the earth." Su Mo's fingertips lightly brushed against his temples, merely a casual remark.

  "Why must we meet if we've never met before." The master's gaze turned to her, and those dark, sunken eyes seemed to suck her in like the starry sky, Su Mo hastily lowered her gaze, not daring to look at him.

  "Mohr girl, in fact, the stars and moon in this sky are not that far away." Shī Yuān smiled gently.

  "What do you mean?" Su Mo knew that these words had some deeper meaning, and slowly raised his head, lightly raising his eyes.

  Only then did Master Shi stretch out his slender hand, pointing to the front of the two, and under Su Mo's puzzled and uncomprehending gaze, saw the starry lights in the lake.

  "This is the star closest to us, you can go underwater to take a look!" Shī Yuān said lightly.

  Only to see the master's hem had lightly stepped into the lake, the water hadn't even reached his knees, but the lotus leaves in the lake were gently swaying, Master Hem's white clothes seemed like an immortal fairy who had just descended from the heavens.

  Su Mo couldn't help but walk down to the water's edge, his tense expression relaxing, the lake water cool but not cold.

  The clear water reflects the starry sky, and the reflections of the two people are also in it.

  "How do you feel?" asked Shifu.

  "It's very comfortable!" Su Mo smiled and nodded.

  "Not only are there stars, but also fish, you can catch a glimpse."

  "Fish or stardust?" Su Mo was taken aback.

  "Anything goes, let Mo'er girl try and catch a glimpse!" Shī Yuè Qīng Yǎ smiled.

  "Hmm!" Su Mo acted on her words and nodded, dipping her jade-like hand into the water.

  A mechanical fish swam in her palm, and Su Mo couldn't help but smile.

  Then a faint, shimmering light burst forth from the water.

  "What is this?" Su Mo asked curiously.

  "You can try catching it!" said Shi Ying.

  Su Mo's palm dipped into the water, and with a slight grasp, she unexpectedly found that she had grasped a star in her hand. Su Mo took it out to look at it and found that it was an extremely beautiful mechanical star. It turned out that every blade of grass and tree in this courtyard had its own unique world, and her mood gradually brightened up as well.

  "How interesting!" Su Mo smiled from the bottom of his heart.

  Seeing the girl's happy appearance, the man in white had already walked gently onto the shore.

  "Can this be given to me?" Su Mo asked.

  "Alright, I can give it to you."

  "So, can I learn the art of machinery from you?"

  The teacher hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'm afraid it won't work."

  "Why?" Su Mo's eyes sank slightly, and he asked with a hint of disappointment.

  "Mò ér gū niáng, yīn wèi jī guān shù hěn kū zào, xǔ duō rén dōu bàn tú ér fèi." Shī yuàn mù guāng rèn zhēn de huí dá.

  Translation:

  "Mo Er girl, because the mechanism is very dull, many people give up halfway." Master Yuans eyes seriously answered.

  Su Mo raised an eyebrow and smiled faintly: "Although the process is dull, but the result will make people happy, isn't it?"

  The master's eyes did not leave his, and Su Mo continued: "Mechanical techniques can bring benefits to people. Since the young master chose mechanical techniques instead of refining equipment techniques, it can be seen that the young master does not like killing. If I can learn this technique from a person like the young master, I feel that this life should have no regrets."

  Upon hearing this, Master Shiying smiled slightly and nodded after a moment: "Alright, but I am very strict."

  Su Mo smiled and said: "Isn't it true that a good teacher produces outstanding students?"

  At this moment, Su Mo slowly regained his scattered gaze and withdrew those thoughts.

  She then raised her eyes to the sky and murmured: "When the bright moon was there, it once shone on the colorful clouds returning home. Tomorrow will be hard to get drunk again, and the colorful clouds will not return."

  She let out a soft sigh, and Su Mo jumped into the lake like a fish, swimming gently inside, feeling the cool lake water slowly enveloping herself, and with one leap, she sprang up from the water.

  ……

  In the distance, Shī Yuàn and another handsome demon sat in a pavilion, with Shī Yuàn lowering his head to brew tea.

  Suddenly, Hua Xiangyue's low voice came over, "Tsk tsk, this demoness is really a very bold woman."

  Shi Yin immediately turned her head and looked down at Su Mo in the lake water.

  At this moment, however, she was completely different from the enchanting girl he had seen at the hunting grounds that day, seeming like a carefree and worry-free young maiden.

  Gradually, in Shī Yuè's mind, the enchanting and captivating face of that peerless beauty appeared, a face that was born to be so beautiful, yet so bewitching. Moreover, she was an extremely rare pure yin body. This woman should have had a tumultuous fate, even accompanying the king by her side was inevitable. However, she seemed to be fundamentally different from those women who served with their beauty.

  On the other hand, Hua Xirong's dark and stern eyes swept lightly over the enchantress, and her smile deepened as she said with great interest: "I didn't expect it to be so late... This woman actually ran into the lake for a swim, doesn't she feel cold?"

  At this time, Su Mo stood up from the water, his whole body was wet and dripping, his black hair was extremely beautiful.

  That dress clung tightly to the girl's body, completely outlining her slender and beautiful figure, with a swan-like curved neck, white and beautiful collarbone, full breasts, waist as slim as a willow in the wind, plump buttocks, and even her long legs like jade were faintly visible through the wet dress.

  "Hmm, it's really quite beautiful!" said Hua Xirong languidly.

  Suddenly, a white heat haze wafted across his field of vision.

  "Shi Yin, my eyes." Huā Xī Róng covered her eyes.

  "Sorry, the tea I just brewed is a bit hot."

  "Your bowl is too close, isn't it?"

  "Sorry."

  "Master Huan, I said you wear that butterfly mask, isn't your sight clearer?"

  ……

  The next day, Su Mo had packed up his things and bid farewell to Shi Ou.

  "I've troubled you for a long time, I'm ready to leave today, thank you, Mr. Ying."

  "Miss, you can come here as a guest when you're free." The master's lips carried a warm smile.

  "This is just a temporary residence for you, sir. Who knows when I'll come and you'll be gone."

  "It doesn't matter, it's not a messenger bird." Shī Yuān said slowly.

  Su Mo thought of the messenger bird, her mouth twitched slightly, and she said in a low voice: "Alright, one day I will come to visit with my husband."

  She had already left the place with big strides.

  Along the way, the scenery fell into her eyes again. She was no longer nostalgic until she walked out of this formation.

  However, outside stood two beautiful female attendants. Seeing Su Mo walk out, the two of them hastily stepped forward and said: "Yao Ji young lady, our mistress Yin has been waiting for a long time."