Mo Wudu quickly finished changing. Surprisingly, the outfit fit him quite well. Although he already had long hair, anyone who looked carefully at his face could still tell that he was a man.
Lin Wanqiu said, “Young Master, let me help you with your makeup.”
Mo Wudu asked, “I need makeup too?”
Deep down, Mo Wudu was rather unwilling. With his naturally flawless, godlike looks, he actually needed makeup? Still, there was nothing he could do. He had already put on women’s clothing, so he could hardly give up halfway through now.
Lin Wanqiu led Mo Wudu over to the dressing table and had him sit down. Looking at the reflection in the mirror, she saw a face even more delicate than that of most women. She couldn’t help thinking that with just a little makeup, he would surely become the kind of breathtaking beauty capable of bringing an entire nation to its knees.
This was Lin Wanqiu’s first time applying makeup to a man. Fortunately, with her many years of experience, she successfully transformed Mo Wudu until he genuinely looked like a woman.
Afterward, Lin Wanqiu changed the way his hair was tied. Now the result was simply perfect. Unless someone actually pulled down Mo Wudu’s pants, there was absolutely no way they would realize he was a man.
Lin Wanqiu said, “Young Master, it’s done.”
She was starting to feel a little jealous of Mo Wudu’s appearance. He looked so stunning in women’s clothing that he practically left no room for the women of the world to compete.
Mo Wudu examined himself in the mirror. No, he couldn’t keep looking. If he stared any longer, he might actually fall in love with himself.
He stood up and turned around a couple of times. The feeling… wasn’t bad.
Mo Wudu asked, “They shouldn’t be able to recognize me now, right?”
Lin Wanqiu replied, “Young Master, they can still tell from your voice. Unless you don’t speak.”
Mo Wudu was a Golden Core Realm cultivator, so changing his voice was hardly difficult. He cleared his throat and switched to a soft, sweet, adorable feminine voice, “Ahem, how about this?”
Lin Wanqiu’s eyes widened.
Was he trying to leave women with no chance to survive at all? Even his feminine voice was ridiculously sweet and charming.
Lin Wanqiu sighed, “Young Master, if I were a man, you would definitely charm me to death.”
Hearing that the disguise was this convincing, Mo Wudu was finally satisfied. He asked, “Miss Lin, when are you performing at the royal palace?”
Lin Wanqiu replied, “Next Monday.”
Today was Wednesday, which meant there were still five days left. There was plenty of time.
Mo Wudu said, “Then I’ll come back next Monday.”
It was already dark outside. Mo Wudu planned to return directly to Jade Radiance Peak, but just as he was about to leave, Lin Wanqiu stopped him.
Lin Wanqiu said, “Young Master, anyone entering the royal palace has to be reported in advance. If you wait until then, it’ll already be too late.”
Mo Wudu paused. “Hmm? You have to report it beforehand?”
Lin Wanqiu explained, “Yes. Someone from the royal palace will come to inspect our rehearsal progress. At that time, they’ll register everyone who will be entering the palace.”
What a hassle. It was incredibly troublesome. If he already had the strength of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, he could simply force his way inside.
Lin Wanqiu continued, “Young Master, since you’re replacing Xiaocui, you’ll have to come to the rehearsal tomorrow as well.”
Mo Wudu was stunned. “What? Wearing women’s clothes isn’t enough? You want me to dance too? Damn it! I’m a 1.85-meter-tall man! How could I possibly do something so humiliating? Dancing is absolutely impossible, especially while dressed like this. Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”
Lin Wanqiu replied, “Young Master, but if you don’t come to rehearsal, wouldn’t all the effort you put into dressing like this be wasted?”
Mo Wudu froze.
Well…
He had already gone as far as dressing like a woman. If all of this ended up being for nothing, wouldn’t that be a massive loss?
As for dancing… forget it. Lin Wanqiu was the only person here who knew he was actually a man. As long as nobody else found out, then technically, it was no different from him never having worn women’s clothes or danced in them at all.
Right.
He hadn’t done anything.
He was merely trying to find a way to retrieve the jade pendant. That was all.
After another round of shamelessly deceiving himself, Mo Wudu finally agreed. “What time tomorrow?”
Lin Wanqiu replied, “The rehearsal is in the afternoon, so arriving around noon will be fine. Young Master, come to my room first tomorrow. I’ll arrange everything else for you.”
Mo Wudu nodded. “All right. I’ll come find you tomorrow.”
In a flash, Mo Wudu disappeared from the room.
Only then did Lin Wanqiu realize that this mysterious man was also a cultivator. But that only made her even more curious.
What exactly was he planning to do inside the royal palace?
Meanwhile, Mo Wudu was still walking through the streets in women’s clothing. Since he had already gone through the trouble of dressing like this, he might as well experience what it felt like.
And with his current appearance, the number of heads he turned was astonishing. There was practically no one on the street who wasn’t drawn to him.
It wasn’t long before a man approached him, clearly intending to strike up a conversation. “Miss, I…”
Before he could finish, Mo Wudu coldly interrupted him, “Get lost.”
The man who had approached him was a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, yet those two words frightened him so badly that his knees nearly gave out. He hurriedly fled without daring to look back.
That terrifying pressure just now…
She was definitely a mighty expert!
Mo Wudu couldn’t help sighing inwardly. So this was what it felt like to be a beauty who brought disaster wherever she went?
Men really were disgusting creatures. The moment they saw a beautiful woman, they could barely move their legs.
Wait.
He had almost started thinking of himself as an actual woman…
Meanwhile, after Xi Menglan had chopped that demonic beast into minced flesh in the Cloudmist Mountain Range, she had asked her Senior Sister to accompany her to the Jade Flower Sect to find Mo Wudu.
By the time the two of them arrived in the Great Flame Empire, however, it was already late at night. It wouldn’t be appropriate to barge into someone else’s sect at such an hour.
So they decided to rest here for the night and head up the mountain tomorrow.
Although Xi Menglan was the young lady of the Heavenly Path Sect and could obtain practically any cultivation resource she wanted, her heart had never truly been focused on cultivation. Despite being raised with such abundant resources, she was still only in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Of course, it wasn’t because she lacked talent. Xi Menglan simply cared far more about having fun and thinking about Mo Wudu than cultivation. Whenever her father assigned her a mission, she would finish it carelessly and move on. Furthermore, with a Golden Core Realm Senior Sister constantly by her side to protect her, Xi Menglan had become even more relaxed and lazy.
Naturally, she had no intention of cultivating tonight either. Instead, she dragged her Senior Sister out to wander around the streets.
Xi Menglan had already seen most of the various goods being sold along the street. She wasn’t really interested in buying anything. What she enjoyed was simply the feeling of strolling through the bustling marketplace.
“Ouch!”
Xi Menglan had been staring at the longswords displayed inside a nearby blacksmith shop. She was wondering whether she should bring Mo Wudu a gift when she went to see him tomorrow.
Back when she and Mo Wudu were still together, Xi Menglan had wanted to give him a sword. Unfortunately, she had never managed to find a suitable one. That was why the sight of a blacksmith shop had caught her attention.
Of course, she didn’t actually expect to find a truly exceptional sword in an ordinary mortal shop like this.
However, while she was distracted, someone bumped straight into her.
With Xi Menglan’s spoiled young-lady temper, how could she possibly tolerate that? She immediately turned around to glare at the person who had bumped into her.
Yet to her surprise, the other person was a woman.
And she was extraordinarily beautiful.
In fact, Xi Menglan had to admit that this woman’s appearance was even more stunning than her own. Moreover, she couldn’t sense any spiritual power belonging to a cultivator from her.
Were even ordinary mortal women around here this beautiful?
An uneasy thought suddenly crept into Xi Menglan’s mind.
Could Mo Wudu really have found someone new?
However, she couldn’t tell whether it was merely her imagination, but the woman standing before her somehow looked slightly familiar.
The beautiful woman hurriedly apologized, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I was thinking about something else just now and accidentally bumped into you.”
Mo Wudu had been lost in thought, trying to figure out how he could slip away during the performance and sneak into the royal palace treasury. Because he hadn’t been paying attention, he had accidentally walked straight into a woman.
Then he took a closer look at her.
His heart immediately sank.
It was his ex-girlfriend, Xi Menglan.