Chapter 231:
Mo Ziyuan actually didn’t quite understand the fresh terms she mentioned like supernatural ability, upgrade, and crystal core, which he had never heard of or seen before, but he also understood the issue Lin Xin was entangled with.
“Why do you have to upgrade all your······supernatural abilities to the same level?” Mo Ziyuan didn’t directly answer her question, but instead asked about what he didn’t understand.
Actually, in his view, there was no one in this world who could achieve extreme in all things, so he couldn’t understand what Lin Xin was thinking now.
“Of course it’s for······” After saying these few words, Lin Xin got stuck.
Yeah, why did she have to upgrade them all?
Her soul not perishing after death and traveling to this historically unknown time and space, along with the supernatural ability that came with her, was already lucky enough. The previous wood element ability upgrade was completely an accidental surprise. Why was she being greedy for more, planning to upgrade all supernatural abilities to the extreme?
Lin Xin, who had figured it out, suddenly felt that all her previous entanglement was simply a joke. She slightly raised her head to look at Mo Ziyuan, and from her angle, she could just see her clear reflection in his pitch-black pupils.
“I was too attached. Improving supernatural abilities is not something that can be easily achieved. I shouldn’t demand too much.”
“Xin’er, you’re already excellent. You don’t need to do better, otherwise it would make me seem even more useless.” Mo Ziyuan pulled her into his arms, rested his chin in the hollow of her shoulder, and said in a lowered voice.
After solving the problem that had been troubling her, Lin Xin quickly noticed Mo Ziyuan’s low mood and the inferiority he had never voiced. She turned her head to look at the person who was like a dejected big dog lying on her shoulder, gently patted his lean waist, “Zi Yuan, Mo Ziyuan.”
“Let me hold you for a while, just a while.” Mo Ziyuan stubbornly refused to lift his head and refused to let go of the arms tightly holding her.
“Okay, let you hold.” Lin Xin obediently adjusted to a slightly more comfortable position in Mo Ziyuan’s arms, her small hand pressed against his chest could feel his heart beating like a drum, and she suddenly felt both heartwarming and a bit amused.
After holding for a good while, Mo Ziyuan himself took the initiative to release his arms, somewhat embarrassedly avoiding Lin Xin’s gaze as he said: “Since you’ve figured it out, that’s good. Rest well, I’ll go out first.”
Lin Xin grabbed his wrist at once, and when he turned his head to look, she squinted her eyes and asked him: “Are you planning to keep avoiding me like this from now on? After the battle, when we return to the capital city, will our engagement not count either?”
Mo Ziyuan was greatly shocked and quickly turned around, “I’m not avoiding you, I just, I just······”
“Just” for a long time without saying anything, he finally deflated and sat down on the stool, saying in a low tone: “I just feel like I’m too useless, a bit unworthy of you.”
“Silly!” Lin Xin poked his head with a finger, “Let me ask you, is there any rule in this world that only men in a home can have ability, and women can only be dodder flowers dependent on men? Or do you actually look down on me from the bottom of your heart, thinking I shouldn’t have ability comparable to yours, and want to suppress me? Hmm?”
Seeing one big black pot after another being dumped on his head, Mo Ziyuan panicked, stood up to defend himself: “How could that be? I’ve never thought you should depend on me to live, nor have I ever thought of suppressing you. I just feel unworthy of you. Don’t wrongly accuse me!” By the end, his eyes were red with anxiety.
“It had better be this way! If I find out you’re lying, you know my abilities, killing you silently would be very easy!” Lin Xin clenched her small fist and threatened.
Looking at her like this, Mo Ziyuan only felt a warm current slowly flowing in his heart. Yes, when he first met Xin’er, he knew she had ability. After spending so much time together, he also understood what kind of person she was. Why would he think he would be overshadowed by Lin Xin?
Thinking of the soldiers’ discussion he had inadvertently overheard in lowered voices, Mo Ziyuan’s gaze darkened. It seemed this camp wasn’t clean enough!
“I know I was wrong. Xin’er, forgive me, okay?” Before dealing with external threats, he must first stabilize the internal. Mo Ziyuan temporarily put those soldiers aside, pulled Lin Xin into his arms, and began to admit his mistake.
“Hmph! Next time, see how I deal with you!” Lin Xin proudly raised her chin to look at him.
“Yes, my Xin’er is the most magnanimous woman and certainly won’t stoop to my level, right?” Since it was coaxing his own daughter-in-law, Mo Ziyuan didn’t consider his image at all.
“Pfft!” Amused by his unprecedented clowning, Lin Xin couldn’t hold back her laughter. She no longer deliberately kept a straight face, but held his face with both hands, seriously looking into his eyes and said: “Mo Ziyuan, I don’t like you like this.”
“······I know, it won’t happen again.” Mo Ziyuan promised just as seriously.
“Then I’ll believe you this time.”
After throwing away the bundle of upgrading supernatural abilities, Lin Xin’s state was much more relaxed than before. She learned from the previous lesson and began discussing with Mo Ziyuan positive ways to find methods to defeat the enemy.
The Western Rong is located in grassland, a good place for raising horses, so their cavalry is very fierce with explosive combat power. Lin Xin thought to start from this aspect. After all, without war horses, cavalry is like a tiger without teeth—looking fierce but actually as fragile as paper.
“How do you plan to do it? Directly wither all the grass on the grassland?” Mo Ziyuan was a bit curious about how she would operate. After resolving his entanglement, he had begun to spare no effort to explore various uses of Lin Xin’s supernatural ability and enjoyed it tirelessly, annoying Lin Xin to no end. She even started regretting why she had spoken up then; it would have been better to let him be inferior for a while longer!
“Of course not. If all the grass on the grassland withered overnight, that would be too miraculous. I still want to live happily to old age!” Lin Xin gave him a white look. Such a thing was too big and would definitely spread far and wide. When public opinion couldn’t be controlled, who knew what would happen? She was determined to be a salted fish and absolutely couldn’t leave such a hidden danger.
If Mo Ziyuan knew her thoughts, he would definitely scoff. Her wanting to be a salted fish? Look at what she had done—not a single one helped achieve the salted fish goal. She just didn’t have the fate of a salted fish!
Unaware that Mo Ziyuan was secretly cursing her in his heart, Lin Xin thought carefully and said to him: “I think it’s better to mix some poisonous grass into the grasslands they often use to raise horses. That way, even if the war horses are poisoned to death, it won’t cause too much of a stir.”
Mo Ziyuan: “······”
He looked at Lin Xin with an expression of “you’re too wasteful,” feeling somewhat speechless.
Those were Western Rong war horses; even if they wanted to buy them with silver, they had to do it secretly. And she actually wanted to poison them!
“What’s wrong? Is this method not feasible?” Lin Xin asked curiously. She thought her method was great!
