It Turns Out, They Are the Protagonists
Chapter 512: The Spirit Dragon and the Princess’s First Meeting

Exhale…

Mu Zhian slowly exhaled a turbid breath, his eyes opening as dawn approached.

The temperature in the bedchamber was just right. Two soft and fragrant bodies lay on either side of him. He glanced at the beautiful face of the Yu State Empress beside him, then at the mature and gentle Princess on the other side, and couldn’t help but close his eyes again.

He was savoring the feeling of having just reached the peak of Nascent Soul Realm.

Although the Spiritual Energy in his cauldron was almost depleted, Mu Zhian’s spiritual sense was stronger than ever before. He could clearly hear the servants bustling outside, their hushed conversations, and even their footsteps.

He could even hear the content of others’ voice transmissions.

Even his own Essence Blood was more vigorous than ever!

These were the benefits of reaching the peak of Nascent Soul Realm.

Being able to raise one’s realm by a whole level in one go, only Luo Tan’s Innate Celestial Furnace could achieve this.

Only now did he truly understand how Yao Meng and Ruoxi felt before.

After this boost, if he wanted to, he could continue to grow stronger through his complementary relationship with Luo Tan.

“Why are you awake so early? Could it be that after such a long night, you’re not tired at all?”

Just then, Luo Tan gently placed a hand on Mu Zhian’s face, her soft voice carrying a hint of laziness, her body nestled against his, looking at him with a smile.

“I am a bit tired, but being able to satisfy Your Majesty and Her Highness, I feel it was worth it,” Mu Zhian said with a smile.

Luo Tan’s calm smile faltered slightly, as if recalling the events of last night. Her gaze at the young man held a hint of awkwardness.

Mu Zhian looked at the ‘sleeping’ Princess and said softly, “Your Highness, you should be awake already, right?”

The Princess’s long, curled eyelashes trembled slightly, then she slowly opened her eyes. Noticing her best friend’s gaze, her face flushed slightly, and she lowered her head.

She didn’t expect to share a bed with Luo Tan one day… and more importantly, to share the same man.

Thinking of this, the Princess’s heart was filled with complex emotions.

Mu Zhian looked at this scene and couldn’t help but grin, reaching out and holding the Princess’s soft, small hand.

Thinking about how he had to hide under the table to avoid being discovered by the Princess when she came to see Luo Tan a while ago, and now…

“Although you’ve reached the peak of Nascent Soul Realm, don’t get too excited just yet. According to historical records, many cultivators have perished during the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation. Only after truly comprehending the Dao can you truly relax.”

Just then, Luo Tan suddenly spoke, a gentle reminder in her voice.

“The Nine Cauldrons Nascent Soul Pill I refined can give you at least a seventy percent chance of successfully reaching Soul Transformation, but you possess the Innate Celestial Furnace constitution after all… On the path to immortality, the stronger one’s constitution, the more difficult it is to comprehend the Dao. Don’t get careless at the last moment.”

Mu Zhian became somewhat interested. Holding the Princess’s delicate hand with one hand, he placed his other arm around Luo Tan’s waist, “The stronger the constitution, the more difficult it is to comprehend the Dao? Is this also a rule of heaven and earth?”

Luo Tan’s heart fluttered, smelling the young man’s warm scent. She subconsciously leaned against him, enjoying his warmth, but with her best friend present, she forced herself to remain composed and hummed in agreement:

“You should know that a cultivator’s Heavenly Tribulation is related to their talent. The stronger the talent, the stronger the tribulation.”

Mu Zhian nodded.

He had heard of this. He had witnessed Bai Ruoxi, Lan Mulian, and others experiencing the nine levels of lightning tribulation in the past. This tribulation was extremely difficult, also signifying that their talent was top-notch.

Mu Zhian thought for a moment, then asked with some satisfaction, “So my talent is also among the top tier?”

Luo Tan glanced at him and said, “Your talent might not be the best, but the Innate Celestial Furnace is definitely a top-tier constitution.”

“The Heavenly Tribulation is determined by the cultivator’s constitution. In other words, the stronger your constitution, the more difficult the tribulation.”

“Wait… You mean my Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation’s difficulty will be adjusted based on the strength of my Innate Celestial Furnace…?” Mu Zhian suddenly understood Luo Tan’s words.

“But my Innate Celestial Furnace doesn’t help me in battle…”

Luo Tan covered her ample bosom with one hand, got out of bed, and changed into her magnificent dress before the bronze mirror. Her usual noble and elegant aura seemed to have gained a touch of mature charm today.

She turned her back to Mu Zhian, only showing him a graceful figure: “The rules of heaven and earth don’t care about that. There was once a Support Physique in the Nine Provinces who could temporarily boost other people’s realms and strengthen their spiritual power during battle. She was highly sought after and was eventually recruited by the Northern Frontier’s Underworld. But she ultimately perished in the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation.”

“Because the Heavenly Tribulation at the time judged her physique as one of the strongest in the Nine Provinces, she was given the most difficult tribulation. Its power was no less than the Body Tribulation of the Dao Integration Realm.”

Mu Zhian was momentarily speechless.

There’s something wrong with these rules of heaven and earth!

It was like a priest in a game having several god-level skills, able to easily clear any dungeon by supporting their teammates, but one day, someone told the priest that they had to solo the dungeon with these god-level support skills…

But the problem was these support skills couldn’t be used on themselves.

How could this work? Hit the boss with a stick?

Luo Tan paused, then smiled brightly, “But don’t worry, you, like me, have a dual constitution, right? Although each constitution will double the difficulty of the Heavenly Tribulation, at least you don’t have to face it with a support physique.”

“The Nine-Tailed Fox body is one of the strongest constitutions in the Demon Realm. Withstanding the Heavenly Tribulation shouldn’t be difficult.”

After a long while, Mu Zhian snapped out of his daze and stared blankly at Luo Tan, “You mean, for every powerful constitution I have, the difficulty of the Heavenly Tribulation doubles…?”

“The difficulty of the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation stacks based on my constitutions?”

Luo Tan nodded slightly and said, “Don’t worry, although a dual constitution will double the difficulty of the Heavenly Tribulation, with the Nine Cauldrons Nascent Soul Pill I refined, passing the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation shouldn’t be difficult.”

“Then what if it’s not just a dual constitution?” Mu Zhian asked.

Luo Tan raised a delicate eyebrow, “I also have a dual constitution, but I still successfully passed the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation.”

Seeing Mu Zhian’s silence, the Princess, thinking he was still worried, comforted him gently, “Although the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation is difficult, there have been many cases of cultivators with multiple constitutions passing through it. You don’t need to worry about a dual constitution.”

“I don’t have a dual constitution,” Mu Zhian sighed softly.

Luo Tan’s delicate brows furrowed slightly, “Do you have three constitutions?”

Mu Zhian slowly shook his head.

At this moment, even the Princess felt something was wrong: “If it’s not three, then what are you worried about?”

Mu Zhian silently glanced at her, “More than three…”

“Four constitutions?” The Princess’s expression changed.

The Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation would adjust its difficulty based on the cultivator’s ‘talent’, and a cultivator’s constitution was often the simplest and crudest way to judge talent.

Seeing Mu Zhian’s increasingly worried expression, Luo Tan murmured doubtfully, “You possess the Chaos Body with more than four constitutions? Why haven’t I heard you mention this before?”

As she spoke, she sat down on the edge of the bed, her legs, encased in snow-white boots beneath her magnificent white dress, resting beside Mu Zhian. The blue veins on her feet formed a unique beauty against her fair skin.

“I didn’t think the Chaos Body was particularly rare, so I didn’t mention it,” Mu Zhian shook his head.

“The Chaos Body indeed isn’t particularly rare…but a Chaos Body with more than three constitutions is very rare.”

Luo Tan paused, then comforted him, “But you don’t need to worry too much. The difficulty of the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation is determined by the strength of the constitutions. The strongest among your constitutions are the Innate Celestial Furnace and the Nine-Tailed Fox body. The other constitutions combined might not even double the difficulty of the Heavenly Tribulation.”

“What are your other constitutions?” the Princess suddenly asked.

“If I remember correctly, the Sword Immortal Protection was the second constitution I obtained,” Mu Zhian said.

“Gong Lianyue…?”

Luo Tan’s expression changed; she vaguely sensed something was wrong.

Gong Lianyue was famous for her swordsmanship. The term ‘Immortal’ held the most sacred position in cultivators’ hearts, and the words ‘Sword Immortal’ were enough to show the significance of this constitution.

This was the first time she had heard of someone other than Gong Lianyue possessing the Sword Immortal Protection.

“Besides that? Anything else?” the Princess asked. She knew if it were just one constitution, Mu Zhian’s expression wouldn’t be so grim.

“The Innate Spiritual Body.”

Luo Tan’s eyes flickered, and she said softly, “The Forbidden Zone imperial daughter’s constitution? Besides that, there should also be the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox body?”

Any one of these four constitutions alone would be enough to cause a sensation among the cultivators of the Nine Provinces, yet all four appeared in a single person.

No wonder his expression was so grim.

“The Heaven Devouring Demon Body, the Sacred Heavenly Body, the Innate Dao Body…”

However, before Luo Tan could recover from her thoughts, hearing Mu Zhian list the constitutions one by one, her expression finally changed.

The Princess’s red lips parted slightly, looking at Mu Zhian with astonishment.

Mu Zhian silently glanced at his personal interface: “And the Pill Immortal Physique that was just added.”

Luo Tan was stunned for a moment, then finally realized something, “You can absorb other people’s constitutions for your own use?”

Thinking carefully, weren’t all the constitutions Mu Zhian mentioned related to the women around him?

Even her Pill Immortal Physique had become one of Mu Zhian’s constitutions…

A Chaos Body that could absorb other people’s constitutions… Normally, Luo Tan would be shocked and then pleased by Mu Zhian’s talent.

But Mu Zhian was about to ‘comprehend the Dao’ after consuming the Nine Cauldrons Nascent Soul Pill.

If the rules of heaven and earth sensed Mu Zhian’s Chaos Body, what kind of Heavenly Tribulation would descend?

“But you don’t seem to have absorbed my constitution…” the Princess asked doubtfully.

Mu Zhian shrugged: “Perhaps it’s because the Great Dao transcends the universe.”

Not only the Princess’s, but also Lin Ling’s Words Manifest Reality constitution couldn’t be absorbed by him.

The two women had one thing in common: they were both related to the Great Dao.

“Since the Jade Empress sent you to Yu State, she must have thought of a way to deal with it… Perhaps you should find her before the tribulation.”

Luo Tan pondered for a moment and said, “In short, I’ll refine the Nine Cauldrons Nascent Soul Pill for you in the next few days, but you must let me know before the tribulation.”

Towards the end of her words, her tone held a hint of seriousness and warning.

Once the Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation descended, the shielding technique the Spirit Dragon cast on Mu Zhian’s Innate Celestial Furnace would no longer be effective. Once the secret of the Innate Celestial Furnace was exposed, Mu Zhian would attract two groups of people.

One group would try every possible way to win him over… After all, the temptation of the Innate Celestial Furnace was too great.

And the other group would try to kill him at all costs, even offending the Jade Empress.

After all, Mu Zhian’s Innate Celestial Furnace was equivalent to being able to continuously help Dao Integration Realm Empresses transcend. What Dao Integration Realm expert wouldn’t be envious?

If this continued, Mu Zhian’s backing would become increasingly powerful, and this growing power would eventually threaten their position in the Nine Provinces.

Even if Mu Zhian didn’t have such intentions, it would still make people wary.

Mu Zhian nodded politely: “I understand.”

He looked at the Princess and said, “Your Highness, could I ask you for a favor?”

The Princess raised a delicate eyebrow, her gentle eyes gazing at Mu Zhian, “Just tell me what you need, there’s no need to be so polite.”

Luo Tan was also curious about what Mu Zhian wanted to do and looked at him questioningly.

“This matter is related to Senior Spirit Dragon,” Mu Zhian said softly.

“If it works, my Soul Transformation Heavenly Tribulation will be much smoother.”

…

Two Polarities Sect.

A spatial rift silently opened outside Two Polarities Peak. Mu Zhian, dressed discreetly, held the Princess’s hand and stepped out.

The Princess, looking mature and charming, walked gracefully towards Two Polarities Peak, sized it up, and a hint of surprise flickered in her beautiful eyes, “I’ve heard that the Two Polarities Sect’s formations are incredibly ingenious, but I’ve never had the chance to witness them. Today, I finally have.”

Mu Zhian discreetly released her hand, looked up, and said, “I’ll write a letter to Senior Sister and ask her to deactivate the Two Polarities Peak formations so we can enter.”

The Princess hummed softly in agreement, then looked at Mu Zhian tenderly, “What’s your relationship with this Spirit Dragon? And who is this Senior Sister? Why do I feel like you’ve been deliberately keeping your distance from me since just now?”

“Are you afraid of them finding out about our relationship?”

Mu Zhian: “…”

As it turned out, women’s intelligence was maxed out when it came to catching someone cheating.

Mu Zhian shook his head and said softly, “The Spirit Dragon is my senior… and Senior Sister is naturally my Senior Sister.”

“Don’t you also want to keep our affair a secret?”

The Princess nodded thoughtfully, then quickly regained her usual gentle smile, “Mmm, you’re right.”

While they were talking, the paper crane had already flown into Two Polarities Peak.

After a while, a clear and pleasant “Aaaa” sound came from within the peak, a melodious song like heavenly music, seemingly filled with longing for someone.

Arriving outside the peak, the pure and innocent Miss Spirit Dragon immediately saw Mu Zhian. Her red eyes sparkling with joy, before Mu Zhian could even transmit his voice to remind her to ‘restrain’ herself, Lin Ling opened her arms and pounced into his embrace.

Her soft body leaned completely against Mu Zhian, her face rubbing against his as she sang a joyful “Aaa” song, completely ignoring the woman beside them, as if she hadn’t even noticed her presence.

The Princess finally realized the problem and looked at Mu Zhian with a smile.

You call this your senior?