"You already have a senior sister, yet you’re still out here looking for other women, truly the life of a chaotic young master from a prominent family,"
Xu Lianyu looked at Lin Chen and Mu Qingxuan with a cold gaze and spoke through clenched teeth, clearly extremely dissatisfied with Lin Chen.
Just at this moment, Zhao Yijing happened to pass by, and Xu Lianyu quickly went up to tell on them.
"Senior sister, look at little junior brother, he’s already your lover, yet he brought another woman back."
This time Xu Lianyu wasn’t just making trouble for the sake of it; she genuinely felt annoyed about Lin Chen bringing back Mu Qingxuan.
Hearing this, Zhao Yijing’s gaze fell on Lin Chen and Mu Qingxuan, and she let out a cold snort. Her look towards Lin Chen turned somewhat colder before she turned and left without another word. But from her eyes, it was evident that she was extremely disappointed in Lin Chen.
She had originally thought that Lin Chen was different from other men, but now, it seemed he was just the same.
Seeing the disappointed appearance Zhao Yijing gave him, Lin Chen shook his head helplessly with a wry smile, and then explained the whole story to Xu Lianyu.
After hearing Lin Chen’s explanation, Xu Lianyu realized that she had misunderstood him.
However, seeing Mu Qingxuan by Lin Chen’s side, she still felt somewhat uncomfortable.
While she was about to say something more, Lin Chen had already left with Mu Qingxuan, heading back to his own courtyard.
"You can live next to me, that way it’s easy to call me if you need anything,"
Lin Chen led Mu Qingxuan into the next-door room, speaking indifferently.
Mu Qingxuan’s cheeks flushed with immense shyness upon hearing this. She nodded her head with lowered gaze, her hands tightly clasped together. Clearly, she was very nervous at this moment.
Mu Qingxuan had also reached the age of sixteen last month, and she was already considered an adult. She had some understanding of matters between men and women.
Now, alone with Lin Chen in a solitary room, her mind was filled with what might happen next.
"I’ll head back to my room first. You tidy up a bit here. I’m just next door, and if you need anything, you can send me a message with this jade slip,"
Lin Chen said, handing over a jade slip to Mu Qingxuan before leaving the room.
Watching Lin Chen leave, a look of disappointment appeared in Mu Qingxuan’s eyes. She had been prepared for what might come, but she hadn’t expected this kind of outcome.
However, thinking that she now lived with Lin Chen, and there would be plenty of opportunities in the future, and even if nothing truly happened between them, just being able to stay close to him and attend to his daily needs made her quite content.
After Lin Chen returned to his room, he first set up several defensive talisman inscriptions around the doors and windows, then took out the materials he had bought this time.
As the courtyard was large, Lin Chen had moved the Pill Spirit Array to reside here some time ago.
Lin Chen first activated the Pill Spirit Array to refine elixirs on its own. With the experience he had from Crimson Dawn Peak, he used the Pill Spirit Array to refine Melding Earth Pills with a one-hundred percent success rate. Although the quality could only reach mid-level at present, Lin Chen was already very satisfied.
Then Lin Chen took out the artifact refinement materials he had just purchased from the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion, planning to try to refine some high-level magic treasures.
While Lin Chen was refining his magic treasure, Xu Lianyu silently slipped over to Lin Chen’s courtyard.
Although Lin Chen’s courtyard was protected by a simple defensive formation, it was only meant to prevent the intrusion of strangers and was essentially useless against Lin Chen’s fellow disciples and master.
However, as soon as Xu Lianyu entered the courtyard, Lin Chen became aware of her presence.
Lin Chen wondered why Xu Lianyu had come to his place but guessed she was probably bored from being grounded and had come to seek out his company for amusement.
Lin Chen was somewhat speechless about this, as his elder sister disciple cultivated in an unusual way, practicing for less time than others yet advancing rapidly in her cultivation.
Since returning from the secret realm just two months earlier, she had broken through from the First Layer of the Melding Earth Realm to the Second Layer.
Lin Chen had no time to indulge her whims, so he decided to ignore Xu Lianyu’s visit and continued refining the magic treasure.
At this moment, Xu Lianyu arrived outside the door of Lin Chen’s room. She leaned her ear against the door, carefully eavesdropping on the noises inside.
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It was at this time that Mu Qingxuan walked out from the room next door. Upon opening her door, she immediately saw Xu Lianyu leaning against the window, eavesdropping.
As a woman, Mu Qingxuan instantly guessed Xu Lianyu’s intentions and thought to herself that it seemed her own wishes regarding Elder Brother Lin Chen were going to be shattered.
With Xu Lianyu, the granddaughter of the Sect Leader and a favored daughter of heaven, around, how could she ever get an opportunity? However, being able to serve as Elder Brother Lin Chen’s maid satisfied her as well; at least this allowed her to be near Elder Brother Lin Chen day and night.
"Elder Sister, Elder Brother Lin Chen is in seclusion. Do you need him for something?"
Mu Qingxuan moistened her throat and spoke softly.
Hearing the voice behind her, Xu Lianyu stiffened, thinking to herself that they weren’t actually staying in the same room.
Turning to look at Mu Qingxuan, Xu Lianyu let out a silent sigh of relief. She couldn’t explain why, but seeing that they weren’t living in the same room, she felt much better.
Just moments ago, she had been fretting over whether Lin Chen would bring Mu Qingxuan back to his room for some intimate male and female encounters. But now, it seemed that hadn’t happened.
"It’s nothing important. I was just bored and wandering around. Since junior brother is in seclusion, I won’t disturb him."
Having said that, Xu Lianyu left.
As Mu Qingxuan watched Xu Lianyu depart, she was well aware of the purpose of her visit—it was to see if anything had happened between her and Elder Brother Lin Chen.
Meanwhile, within the room, Lin Chen continued to refine several magical artifacts.
One was soft armor made from snake scales, considered a Profound Low-Grade Magical Instrument, capable of withstanding attacks from any Martial Artist in the Spirit Gathering Realm. Wearing it felt as lightweight and smooth as gauze, and Lin Chen was very satisfied with it.
Moreover, Lin Chen had also crafted several jade bracelets, which were space artifacts with no offensive power but contained a hundred square meters of storage space.
For Martial Artists in the Spirit Gathering Realm, such a space storage device was precious, with the lowest grade ones costing at least nearly half a million low-grade spirit stones.