Infiltrating the righteous path? Just another place to be a sycophant.

"I've drawn up a few design sketches, take a look."

"Didn't you say you had your own plans? Why is there an instruction manual?"

"Hey, let me show you!"

Lu An then took a jade tablet, which projected a magnificent and resplendent palace that looked just like the residence of the emperor.

Are you planning to build the Forbidden City?

"What is that place?"

"No, this is nice, but isn't it a bit too luxurious?"

"It depends on how you want to build it. If you want it to be well-built, you might have to be an elder here for thousands of years."

"Never mind then, that's too good for me."

So Lu An began to look at the next version of the design drawings.

It resembled a wealthy merchant's residence, quite grand, with a typical Suzhou-style garden, but it appeared somewhat gloomy.

Will there be many mosquitoes in the summer?

"There won't be many mosquitoes here, will there? It's hard to say, but junior brother, there's no need to worry about mosquitoes in this realm. Once you reach the Void Refinement stage, even if you're not a body cultivator, no mosquito can penetrate your body."

"What about the Nascent Soul stage?"

"The mosquitoes here also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate, so it is easy for a Nascent Soul cultivator to be pierced through."

"next."

Without any hesitation, Lu An chose the next option.

"Then this is my favorite."

"Oh? How do you like it?"

"Dang Dang Dang!"

Zhao Mengyuan switched the scene, and then a row of festive, brightly decorated courtyards in red and purple suddenly appeared before Lu An's eyes.

Lu An's vision went completely black for a moment. He took a deep breath and asked, "What is this?"

Zhao Mengyuan said proudly, "This is the house for the wedding! Master said that once we get married, the house can be decorated like this. How festive!"

Why are you dressed like this? Are you getting married to someone?

Lu An didn't know what to say. Why was her master teaching her all this? There was nothing wrong with dressing up like this for a wedding, but why was he teaching her these things?

And didn't her master teach her that this kind of decoration can only be used at that time and cannot be used continuously?

And why did she choose this decorating style and decorate it like this? Is she going to marry someone?

"It's not a wedding, it's just that this decorating style looks festive, like we're getting married every day. Living in a house like this is like being a bride every day, isn't it?"

Lu An's head was buzzing. He thought, "You still want to be a bride every night? That's a bit too much of an appetite."

Even the bigwigs of the Hehuan Sect wouldn't dare say they could be brides every night.

So Lu An spent a long time explaining to Zhao Mengyuan, and she finally understood the significance of this decorating style.

"So this is only something you do during your wedding, and not normally?"

"Yes, if you dressed like that every day, it would scare people to death."

Lu An thought of a family that hung big red lanterns and decorated with colorful lights for ten thousand years, with the character "囍" pasted on their walls day and night. Wouldn't that scare people to death?

"By the way, senior sister, why did you want to pretend like this?"

"Well, junior brother, this is a long story."

"Then let's make a long story short."

"Alright, junior brother, how old are you this year?"

"Not even a hundred years old."

Do you know how old I am?

"I wonder, is he also not yet a hundred years old?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mengyuan smiled, her smile as radiant as a blooming flower.

"It's probably less than five hundred years old."

Lu An didn't speak. If this were in the mortal world, he would be too old for his grandmother.

Even though they've all cultivated immortality, they're still incredibly young, standing right in front of him.

In fact, for a spiritual practitioner, if they spend ten years doing the same thing every day, occasionally gaining enlightenment or going into seclusion, a hundred years will pass in the blink of an eye.

However, it is rare for someone to reach the Tribulation Transcending stage in five hundred years. Most people take thousands of years to reach this stage, and most perish at the Nascent Soul stage or the Void Refining stage.

It can't be said that all of them perished; some simply died of old age.

"Actually, Master has always had something on his mind, which is about my Daoist partner and my marriage being settled."

"Ah... I wonder who Senior Sister has taken a fancy to? Is it a true disciple of another demonic sect? Or their sect leader? Or is someone from our sect so lucky to be chosen?"

Lu An immediately became gossipy and curious.

Speaking of which senior brother, during the time he was away, did he have the audacity to win over the eldest senior sister? That's truly a lucky man.

Yes, the kind of blessing it is to have a sword at your neck every day, pressed against your throat.

"Why do you always think that I, your senior sister, would choose someone else? Can't I, your senior sister, choose you?"

Lu An fell silent, but at that moment, his mind exploded.

I got confessed to in reverse? What the heck?

"Senior sister, this is no joke. Master will grind me to dust and feed me to the pigs."

The image that Lu An is currently conjuring up in his mind is: Li Podao taking a handful of ashes from the urn with his name on it, patting them on his hand, and then scattering them into the pigsty's feed trough.

Just think about it.

"Hey, what's so scary about Master? As long as you're willing and I'm willing, and Lixia has sworn an oath to become Daoist partners, what can she do?"

Zhao Mengyuan placed her hands on Lu An's shoulders and breathed softly into his ear, sending a chill down Lu An's spine.

Don't get so close, you bastard! I'm a gentleman, I can't control myself like this.

"No, senior sister, don't get so close. Let's have a proper conversation, there's no need for this."

"Oh? So you want your senior sister to stand that close to you? Or are you saying you're disgusted by your senior sister?"

"I did not mean that……"

Chapter 229 I can't have any contact with any woman.

At this moment, Zhao Mengyuan was pressed close to Lu An, like a snake, and the faint breath she exhaled was like a snake's tongue, constantly wandering around Lu An's ear.

Lu An's heart pounded with anxiety. He felt as if a snake was crawling all over him, and if he wasn't careful, the venomous snake would open its blood-red mouth and bite him.

"Senior sister, please don't do this. There are people watching."

"If they want to see, then let them see."

Goodness, they don't care at all.

"Senior sister, I've been living alone for so many years, and in all these years, there has never been anyone who has been persistent in pursuing me. Junior brother, you are the first one."

"Senior sister, don't lie to me... I'm not a three-year-old anymore."

"Would your senior sister lie to you? She's only a few hundred years older than you, how could she lie to you?"

If Lu An hadn't heard about Zhao Mengyuan's dark past, he almost would have believed what she said.

Lu An had long heard that before Zhao Mengyuan was selected as the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Demon Sect, many of her senior and junior brothers pursued her. These senior and junior brothers were all exceptionally talented or had great fortune and extraordinary behavior.

However, no matter what they did, they could not catch up with Zhao Mengyuan. Even though they were extremely strong, possessed many rare and precious treasures, and were handsome and dashing, Zhao Mengyuan still rejected them.

Therefore, everyone says that Zhao Mengyuan is like a ten-thousand-year-old iceberg, and no one can melt this iceberg or get close to her heart.

That's why Lu An chose to lick her boots.

Do you really want to lick someone's boots? Then you should lick someone difficult, just a token gesture will suffice.

Considering that he had been at the Yuan Tian Holy Sect for so long, Zhao Mengyuan should naturally have no interest in him anymore, but what was the situation now?

Something's not right.

"No one's poems can be written so romantically and artistically. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes that day, I wouldn't have known that such a beautiful poem was actually written for me."

"What do you mean? You didn't see it with your own eyes that day?"

Lu An vaguely sensed something was amiss.

"I'm sorry, I've been too busy with work, so I've only been able to watch a little bit of it for a while. I'm not saying I didn't watch any before, I just haven't really appreciated it!" Zhao Mengyuan stuck out her tongue and said very apologetically.

This sentence means very simply that I hadn't read your love letters before, and only found them when I was rummaging through the trash and thinking of throwing them away.

I almost believed it.

Well, Lu An didn't care anymore; after all, this situation was normal.

Zhao Mengyuan added, "I've been observing at the Yuan Tian Sheng Sect these past few days, and I've noticed quite a few couples like you."

Lu An thought about it and realized that he hadn't noticed these things.

These guys who are always showing off their love, it seems I need to find a way to create an excuse to disrupt them, so as not to lead my senior sister astray.

"Senior sister, I'm currently an undercover agent in the Yuan Tian Holy Sect and also an elder in the Enforcement Hall. Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to tell me these things?"

"What's wrong with the timing? Isn't the timing perfect now?" Zhao Mengyuan said dismissively, "What do you think of me, your senior sister? How do you feel about me? Don't tell me you have no feelings for me. I still have all the love letters and poems you wrote to me!"

Lu An immediately adopted a stubborn and unyielding attitude: "I didn't say I have no feelings for you, Senior Sister, but the timing is wrong. The righteous path has not yet been extinguished, and the time is not ripe. Is this the time to talk about romantic feelings?"

At this point, Lu An began to deny everything.

Seeing that Lu An was completely unmoved, Zhao Mengyuan sighed and said, "Hey, you blockhead, don't you understand? What good are the righteous and evil paths? They're just looking for something to do."

Lu An didn't understand: "Just finding something to do? What do you mean, Senior Sister?"

Seeing that Lu An didn't understand, Zhao Mengyuan continued to explain: "The struggle between the righteous and the demonic has a long history, and neither side can ever truly defeat the other. As the saying goes, the way of heaven is cyclical, and all things have their balance. How can our demonic path truly destroy the righteous path? Similarly, how can the righteous path truly destroy our demonic path?"

"Everyone is just maintaining a balance as one side weakens and the other side strengthens. In the past tens of thousands of years, no one has ever truly wiped out anyone else."

Upon hearing these words, Lu An suddenly felt enlightened.

Yeah, who can eliminate whom? If we pin all our hopes on this undercover agent, what's the point? Can't we get anything done without him?

Isn't this nonsense?

Lu An suddenly understood everything; so that's how it is.

"So the righteous path and the demonic path are nothing more than a group of people with different interests fighting each other. After they get tired of fighting, many people choose to retire from the martial world and leave their sects. Even people from the righteous and demonic paths can become partners and get together, which is normal."

"So, junior brother, you don't need to worry about these things. Work is never-ending, and your career is still long, but choosing a partner is another matter entirely."

Zhao Mengyuan whispered in Lu An's ear, causing Lu An's hair to stand on end and his body to go numb.

No, what did I do to make you take a liking to me? Weren't you looking down on me before?

Lu An felt a chill run down his spine upon closer examination and didn't know how to respond.

"Speaking of which, senior sister, what do you see in me?" After thinking for a long time, Lu An decided to ask.

"I like everything about you, especially your courage." Zhao Mengyuan said with an expression that said, "I really admire you."

This world has gone mad. It's absolutely mad.

"It's not appropriate to talk about love in a place like this right now. Besides, as you know, even though the battle between the righteous and the demonic forces is ongoing, it doesn't mean we can let our guard down!"

Lu An said with a serious expression.

But Zhao Mengyuan just looked at him like that, her eyes filled with a different kind of emotion.

Confusion, bewilderment, grievance—in short, what nonsense are you spouting to me?

"Junior brother, something's not right."

"What's wrong with that? I was just thinking of the Heavenly Demon Sect."

"You are right to think of the Heavenly Demon Sect, but the whole sect knew that you were pursuing me before. Now that things have suddenly changed like this, there must be something wrong."