“Huai Zhi, are you sure about this? Aren’t we a bit too close…?”
“It’s fine, really, this way works better. Ah, it’s really fine, Yun Mu-ge, you don’t have to be so stiff. You can get even closer, it’s okay. Didn’t we hug before too?”
“But back then you were in your little Fox Demon form, wasn’t that different…?”
“It’s all the same.”
Bathed in the morning light, Yun Mu sat on the ground, his legs naturally bent forward, head slightly tilted upward, and his arms stretched out to both sides, fingers slightly splayed.
Tu Shan Huaizhi was sitting between his legs, her back to him as she scooted backward bit by bit, her small head rubbing here and there under his chin.
“Mm… Hold on… Let me scoot a bit more, this spot is kind of uncomfortable, not really flat.”
She was probably already pressed up against him, but the girl was still unsatisfied with her position.
She gently propped herself up with her hands, shifting left and right a couple of times, then slowly moved upward.
Just as she was about to sit down, she stopped midair, her small face puzzled.
“Strange, there’s something poking me again…”
As she spoke, her hand reached back to explore, but in the next instant, she was suddenly lifted up.
“Ah! Yun Mu-ge, what are you doing?”
Behind her, the young man was holding her by the waist with both hands, easily lifting the petite girl.
Then, not minding her confusion, he set her down beside him on a pile of grass outside his legs.
After doing all this, he turned his body slightly in the opposite direction, his face filled with embarrassment.
“Huai Zhi, let’s have you change back into your Fox Demon form before we cultivate again. That pose just now was too… too…”
He couldn’t quite explain it, and instinctively pulled his legs in, feeling nothing but awkwardness.
In fact, Yun Mu actually understood a little about these things between men and women.
He knew that his reaction just now was entirely normal.
After all, he’d experienced similar feelings when kissing or getting close with others before, but things were always so chaotic at those times that he never paid much attention to it.
But now, the surroundings were simply too peaceful, and they hadn’t even started cultivating yet, so he was acutely aware of his physical condition just now.
Besides, he wondered if it had something to do with the recent Medicine Bath; even though his emotions weren’t particularly stirred, the heat in his body was all too clear.
Still, he also knew that Tu Shan Huaizhi, this little girl, understood nothing about such matters.
If he was like White Paper with a black dot, then in his eyes, she was pure White Paper—immaculate and unblemished.
‘In any case, I can’t let us have that kind of physical contact in that position again, that’s just basic decency.’
Sitting where he was, Yun Mu couldn’t help but twitch at the corners of his mouth.
‘Originally, I thought that after my emotions were taken away, my worldly desires would be dulled as well. Never expected my body would still react so strongly—how strange.’
He didn’t know how to describe this.
If he had to say, it was probably like—his mouth said no, but his body was honest?
He didn’t know what else to call it.
“Huai Zhi… mm…?”
Taking a few deep breaths, Yun Mu had just managed to calm himself and was about to speak when the girl suddenly pounced on him from the front.
He instantly toppled backwards, landing in a soft, furry heap—this little Fox Demon had caught him again with her tail, as always.
“Yun Mu-ge, why did you push me away just now? And why do you want me to turn back into a Fox Demon?”
The girl’s tone was slightly aggrieved.
Leaning forward a bit, one hand braced on his chest, the other pinching his cheek, “You just gave Huai Zhi a hairpin and a comb, and now what? You’re already tired of me?”
“It’s not that, Huai Zhi, it’s just that your pose just now was really…”
“My pose? You mean when I leaned against you just now? What, do you not like me being close to you?”
“No, it’s not that… it’s… uh…”
Faced with her tricky question, Yun Mu was at a loss.
He couldn’t just tell this innocent girl that his body had a mind of its own, could he?
He could feel her breath drawing closer to his face.
He turned his head slightly, arms pressed against the ground, fingers tense and digging into the dirt.
“Huai—”
“Alright, I know, I’ve already changed back to how I was before, so don’t be so nervous.”
“Who?”
“Eh? What? Should I change back again?”
“Forget it.”
“That’s what I thought, see, it’s fine now.”
Now in her little Fox Demon form, Tu Shan Huaizhi stood on Yun Mu’s chest, raising a small paw to poke his face.
Her fluffy tail drooped a little, and the wagging slowed.
Even though she obediently changed back, honestly, she only did it for his sake.
Her mood wasn’t so great.
After all, from her point of view, his whole series of actions just now were like sweet dates followed by a slap, tossing her emotions up and down.
Plus, he still refused to explain why, making her feel even more uneasy.
“But, you have to tell me why next time, or I’ll be really sad.”
Of course, though she was sensible, she was still a straightforward child, preferring to speak her mind rather than keep things bottled up.
“If there’s a chance, I’ll tell you.”
“Good, hehe.”
Unconsciously, her tail started wagging rapidly again, and her mood brightened considerably.
For a moment, the human and Fox Demon fell into silence.
Yun Mu lay on the ground, watching the girl wag her tail, and subconsciously tried to prop himself up, wanting to return to how they were when they first met.
But before he could get into position, he felt a strange heat in his chest.
Then, in his field of vision, the peach-pink little fox who had been only palm-sized suddenly swelled to many times her original size in an instant, in an irregular way.
He could no longer make out the outline of the girl’s original form, but he could sense her presence gradually wrapping around him.
His body slowly relaxed, his consciousness began to sink, and then—he felt his Soul suddenly jolt, and in the next moment after that ‘slumber,’ he woke up instantly.
He sat up with ease, but all he could see around him were wildflowers stretching across the hills, with the girl sitting among them, just like when they first met.
“So, I’ve come back to this place again?”
Yun Mu waved his arm in front of his eyes a few times, sensing no cultivation power, no energy released from his Dan Tian, only the most basic act of ‘seeing.’
Within this illusion, he had temporarily regained his sight.
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