As the blue-black radiance burst out from Lu Chen’s body, he instantly felt his body brimming with power. The sensation was extremely comfortable; he now felt he could "work" all night long.

Lu Chen then continued circulating the "Spirit Evil Body Refining Skill," letting the Spirit Evil Qi flow through every part of his body, constantly tempering his Physical Body.

As Lu Chen sped up the circulation of the "Spirit Evil Body Refining Skill," he also discovered that a tearing pain once again surged from every part of his body. In order to divert his attention and forget the pain on his body, Lu Chen could only speed up his "work."

Right now, one could say Lu Chen was in pain yet in pleasure.

Although Lu Chen shifted his attention and used pleasure to offset the pain brought by drawing Spirit Evil to refine his body, Bai Qingqing ended up suffering for it.

Although she was a Mid-stage Human Realm Spirit Martial Artist, she was still a woman, and moreover a woman experiencing this kind of thing for the first time.

However, Bai Qingqing soon realized that what Lu Chen was doing didn’t seem entirely bad for her. A lot of Spirit Evil that had already been refined by Lu Chen entered her body; when she then refined this Spirit Evil, it became extremely easy, and absorbing this Spirit Evil came with no pain at all.

At the same time, her cultivation state was also slowly improving. A phrase involuntarily popped into Bai Qingqing’s mind—could this be the so-called "Dual Cultivation" from the rumors?

That said, she remembered Dual Cultivation generally required a so-called Dual Cultivation Technique. Lu Chen was just an ordinary man who had never practiced martial arts; where would he have gotten any Dual Cultivation Technique from?

Of course, the very fact that Lu Chen could draw Spirit Evil into his body was already very strange. Bai Qingqing planned to properly investigate this matter first thing tomorrow morning to see what was really going on.

Ever since Lu Chen lost his memory, he’d become this strange. It wasn’t surprising that amnesia could cause a personality shift, but it shouldn’t cause a change in the body as well. Ordinary people simply could not resist the erosion of Spirit Evil; there was no way around that unless they took certain drugs. But even drugs couldn’t make someone absorb Spirit Evil so crazily; at most, they could ensure that Spirit Evil wouldn’t cause too much damage to the body for a short time.

Lu Chen’s condition clearly had a huge problem.

Bai Qingqing even started to suspect whether the Lu Chen in front of her was truly Lu Chen.

At this moment, Bai Qingqing swept a glance with the corner of her eye at Lu Chen’s side abdomen and found a mole there. From that mole, it seemed the man on top of her really was Lu Chen.

After confirming Lu Chen’s identity, Bai Qingqing began to let her imagination run wild again. However, at this moment Lu Chen suddenly became even more ferocious, leaving her no way to think.

...

The long night finally passed. In the early morning, a ray of sunlight shone in through the crack of the window, falling onto the beauty’s disheveled black hair.

Lu Chen opened his eyes slightly and saw Bai Qingqing’s cold, jade-like face turned toward him. Her clear eyes were fixed on his face, and there seemed to be a trace of curiosity in her gaze.

At this moment Bai Qingqing really wanted to ask why Lu Chen could draw Spirit Evil into his body and remain fine. More importantly, not only was he fine, he had actually succeeded in breaking through to become an Early Mortal Realm Spirit Martial Artist.

However, even though she was extremely curious about these matters, Bai Qingqing did not ask. In her view, Lu Chen definitely wouldn’t tell her these things, or rather, the person who had helped Lu Chen become a Spirit Martial Artist and given him a Cultivation Technique would never allow their matters to be spoken of. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Lu Chen said with a smile on his face, "Why doesn’t my dear wife sleep a bit more? Waking up this early?"

Seeing that shameless grin on Lu Chen’s face, Bai Qingqing felt a turmoil of emotions. She really couldn’t bring herself to connect the current Lu Chen with the old Lu Chen who would hide the moment he saw her.

Back then Lu Chen had been terrified of her to death, yet now he was actually this fierce with her. Just thinking of last night’s madness made a faint blush bloom on Bai Qingqing’s jade-like cheeks.

Bai Qingqing immediately said, "We should go see the Great Prince."

Lu Chen said, "You still haven’t gotten into character. Right now you should be calling him Father Prince."

As he said this, Lu Chen wrapped his arm around Bai Qingqing and rolled over, once again looking down at her pair of clear, icy eyes from above. "My dear wife, I didn’t let you down last night, did I?"

Facing this question, Bai Qingqing didn’t know how to answer. Her gaze drifted to the side, not daring to look directly at Lu Chen.

Last night she could clearly feel that Lu Chen seemed to be more familiar with her body than she was with her own, as if they had already been husband and wife for a very long time.

Seeing that Bai Qingqing didn’t speak, Lu Chen lowered his head again and directly captured Bai Qingqing’s red lips. This time Bai Qingqing didn’t even put up a token resistance. After being tormented by Lu Chen for so long last night, she had completely gotten used to it.

However, just as Bai Qingqing thought Lu Chen intended to do bad things in broad daylight, Lu Chen instead got up directly.

They still had more important things to do today. In any case, he had already obtained the system’s preliminary reward. As for getting Bai Qingqing pregnant, that could be taken slowly; there was no rush.

As far as he knew, it wasn’t easy for Spirit Martial Artists in this world to get pregnant. This was easy enough to understand: the higher the genetic level of life, the harder it was to conceive life, especially those beings with extremely long lifespans, who found it even more difficult to bear offspring.

It was the same for Spirit Martial Artists. The lifespans of Spirit Martial Artists were relatively long, so it wasn’t easy for them to produce descendants. If Spirit Martial Artists could easily have children, this world would have been too crowded to hold so many people long ago.

This rule was universal in any world.

After getting up, Lu Chen said to the Maid at the door, "You can come in now!"

Hearing this, two female Hidden Guards entered the room. The Maids in Lu Chen’s courtyard had all been taken away for investigation last night and wouldn’t be back for a while, so they could only have female Hidden Guards temporarily serve Lu Chen and Bai Qingqing in washing up.

Lu Chen spread his arms at this time, letting the Hidden Guard dress him, while he asked, "How’s the investigation going?"

One of the Maids spoke while helping Lu Chen dress, "Reporting to the Princely Heir, we’ve already found the Maid’s body buried in the courtyard. Our preliminary guess is that the Assassin killed the Maid in your courtyard, then used Disguise Skills to impersonate her."

Lu Chen continued to ask, "Did anyone else have any issues?"

Lu Chen didn’t believe that Blood Ten could have slipped into the Zhen Nan Prince Manor so easily. Although the Zhen Nan Prince Manor had fallen on hard times, its Hidden Guard forces were still very strong; there was no way they would let a Mid-stage Human Realm Assassin sneak in.

What’s more, that Assassin had actually killed his Maid inside the Zhen Nan Prince Manor and buried the Maid’s body. Doing all this took a lot of time, especially the matter of burying someone.

In fact, if that Assassin had simply dumped the Maid’s body into a well, it would have saved even more time. But Lu Chen guessed the other party probably thought the Zhen Nan Prince Manor would be drawing water from the well and the body would be easily discovered, so they chose to bury it instead.

Lu Chen felt there had to be someone on the inside working with someone on the outside to give Blood Ten this Assassin enough time to replace the Maid of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor.