Ling Kuang took the hand of the girl before him.
She seemed a little nervous, her palms were cold and sweating profusely. Ling Kuang glanced at the girl in front of him, then released his mental energy.
Though his appearance was indifferent, even somewhat gloomy, and his face was handsome, he was unapproachable, someone to be admired from afar but not to be trifled with. Yet, as his mental energy radiated outwards, it wasn't the biting cold of winter ice.
Instead, it was a refreshing, warm sensation.
"Can you feel it?"
He asked the girl in front of him.
The girl could hear the steady drip, drip, drip of water, perceive the subtlest sounds around her, even the fluctuations in the air. She even had the sensation that with a mere thought, she could alter the surrounding space, causing it to refract, overlap, and distort!
She certainly knew.
This was not a skill she possessed on her own; it originated from Ling Kuang.
He was a top-tier talent holder and an awakened SSS-level powerhouse. The world he saw was naturally different from that of ordinary people.
Lin Muxi carefully nodded, and the rabbit in her arms suddenly perked up.
Then, Ling Kuang led her forward. After traversing a narrow corridor, they emerged into a sea of pink ore. Lin Muxi curiously asked,
"Is this the magnesium peptide crystal you mentioned? It looks pink and quite pretty."
Hearing Lin Muxi's words, Ling Kuang shook his head.
"No. This isn't the magnesium peptide crystal I spoke of."
"These are the companion minerals of magnesium peptide crystals, the ones that cause hallucinations..."
"Never use your mental energy to touch these pink ores!"
But Ling Kuang's warning came too late. The next second, pink roses bloomed atop the pink ore, vast fields of them, so beautiful it made one dizzy.
Ling Kuang gritted his teeth. His mental energy directly touched the seductive ore, and even he struggled to resist. Yet, the girl beside him was a female beast and unaffected by the hallucinatory ore.
He turned his head. The girl looked at him, bewildered, not understanding why he was like this.
"What's wrong?"
Ling Kuang shook his head, but fragmented, intimate scenes inexplicably flashed through his mind: him kissing the girl before him, her eyes closed, her eyelashes fluttering, her lips responding involuntarily. The scent of her drove him mad; he had never imagined that kissing could be so enticing.
It made his breathing difficult.
It made him go mad.
Then, the girl embraced him tightly. He felt as though he had transformed into someone else, someone utterly unfamiliar to himself, unable to control his actions. His heart beat faster, his love for the girl before him seemed to overflow.
She was the only one in the entire universe.
In the whole universe, only the girl before him remained.
She was his sole salvation in this universe.
Just by holding her, just by looking at her, he could defy the entire world.
He never knew he could love someone so fiercely, so patiently, so restrainedly, fearing he might hurt her and make her afraid, yet desperately longing to possess her, craving her every single moment.
He clenched his fingertips tightly.
He could no longer control himself.
He had completely lost control.
...
Lin Muxi saw Ling Qianhe suddenly freeze and was startled.
"Is he alright?"
The little system furrowed its brow and said,
"He should be alright... right?"
"I'm not entirely sure."
"But judging by his reaction, it seems he's been affected by that ore."
"For your safety, host, you should keep some distance from him. He's very powerful, so he'll probably regain his senses soon."
Lin Muxi felt that the little system Yue Xiao made sense. She took several steps back, but after a moment, she frowned and asked in a low voice,
"Wait a minute."
"He's so strong, so how did he suddenly lose his spatial manipulation ability when he was being surrounded before? If his ability hadn't recovered at the last moment, allowing him to escape into a spatial rift, he would have nearly perished on that battlefield!"
"Is there something wrong with his body?"
Hearing Lin Muxi's words, the little system Yue Xiao was also puzzled.
"I don't know..."
"However, there's one explanation, I think, perhaps..."
The little system Yue Xiao narrowed its eyes, then cautiously offered its thoughts.
"I think, perhaps, his abilities can also go out of control. This is a common problem for the strong, but he's so young, it shouldn't be happening."
"The more powerful a top-tier talent holder is, the more prone they are to losing control."
"But this loss of control wouldn't last long."
"Once control is lost on the battlefield, it's fatal!"
"They need appeasement—they need mental energy guidance... they need..."
The little rabbit hesitated at this point, its voice becoming stammering. After a long pause, the rabbit quietly mumbled,
"They need a female beast all their own."
Lin Muxi gasped. She raised her hand and pointed to herself.
"Female beast?"
"You mean—you mean a female beast like me?"
The little system was still somewhat clueless.
"Yes, exactly, a female beast like you, host. You can appease the restless power within his body, and you can help him return to his best state. Host, your significance to him is immense; without you, he might have exploded and died due to uncontrollable, chaotic power."
Lin Muxi blinked a couple of times.
"How do I appease him?"
The little rabbit coughed, its gaze darting around nervously again.
"Of course, it's the method you're familiar with..."
"What other method do you think would be more effective?"
The more vaguely the little rabbit spoke, the more Lin Muxi's heart immediately understood. She blinked and asked the little rabbit,
"You mean—you want me to sleep with him?"
The little rabbit coughed furiously.
"That's of course the best! Of course, I know you feel awkward about changing your identity. In that case, I have an alternative method: you can touch each other with your mental energy... this way, you can also appease him!"
"Mental energy?"
"What is mutual mental energy contact?"
"I feel like you're driving, talking about a new... new method, opening a new world for me?"
The little system grew anxious. The rabbit hopped vigorously on its short legs.
"Host, just say whether you want to try it!"
"It can really work! Anyway, he's also been bewitched by the hallucinatory ore. Even if you do it, he'll just think it was a dream and won't suspect anything untoward happened between you!"
"Host, aren't you trying to conquer him? Hurry up!"
"Capture this man and make him unable to resist you, just like countless times before!"
"You can do it!"
The little rabbit cheered her on desperately. Lin Muxi suddenly felt—if it were put that way, it wasn't impossible—perhaps she could really try?