If the one with "Emotion Control" wasn't her own brother, Li Qianxia would never have interacted with such a person—this was still considered kind. Facing the kind that would rather oppose the entire world, they would directly eliminate the skill holder.

Most feelings are generated through emotions: friendship, love, kinship...silently and invisibly, they could be controlled by the skill holder.

Li Changzhou took the "Agreement."

"Even if you didn't say it, I've constrained myself," he wasn't offended that Turquoise Pool wanted him to sign the agreement, interpreting it as her not trusting him, "But the agreement needs to be revised."

"Revised?"

"Yes." Li Changzhou nodded, "Change it to a guarantee—'Emotion Control' to be used only for missions, only against enemies, not to be used outside of missions or against non-enemies unless someone is in danger or makes a request, including myself."

He continued:

"Just like how Qing Lan doesn't curse, I also don't want to degrade into someone who arbitrarily manipulates others' emotions, even needing to use skills to control my own."

"I now only use 'Favored Concubine' in battle too, and normally it's only for you," Turquoise Pool pouted her red lips, acting coquettishly.

"Am I an enemy then? Why use it on me?"

"Ew~"

"...Turquoise Pool sis, I hadn't expected you to have this side."

"Your brother has inflicted me with the 'seeing dear brother' emotion."

"Now we can do this, huh? Blaming everything on me."

"Yes." Turquoise Pool and Li Qianxia nodded simultaneously.

"Don't bully my Changzhou." Yang Qinglan spoke.

Turquoise Pool looked at Li Qianxia: "She said your brother belongs to her house."

Yang Qinglan continued: "She belongs to my house, too."

"Hehe." Li Qianxia laughed, winked at Turquoise Pool, and gave her a helpless expression.

"..." Turquoise Pool silently took back the agreement from Li Changzhou and passed out a guarantee.

As Li Changzhou was signing the guarantee, she stared coldly at Li Qianxia, tearing up the agreement piece by piece, as if she was tearing up a marriage certificate.

Li Qianxia quickly pulled Turquoise Pool to sit down.

Li Changzhou and Yang Qinglan simply sat down as well.

Since coming back from the train, they had been standing on the grass.

The sky gradually darkened, and fireflies decorated the grassland; they seemed like they were whispering secrets in a vast wilderness, generating a special sense of intimacy.

Turquoise Pool was tempted to ask if it was Li Changzhou manipulating emotions again, otherwise how could she feel such strange emotions.

In her life, only when she was with the three of them, lying on a float in the Maldives, did she feel this emotion—the gentle caress of the waves, the dazzling starry sky, the four people so close they could feel each other's body heat.

Such emotions were very heart-stirring.

Upon reflection, Turquoise Pool figured it could be a way to win over Yang Qinglan and conquer Li Changzhou, just in time with her promotion to Immortal. She could find an excuse to ask them out to play; if the four of them were often together, what couldn't be discussed?

While Turquoise Pool was thinking about these matters, Li Changzhou had already conjured a bonfire, a barbeque grill, pork, beef, a whole sheep, rabbits, lettuce, cucumbers, jackfruit, grapes, and other foods into existence at Li Qianxia's instruction.

The whole sheep was set to roast; they would eat the rest first.

Using her teeth to tear off a piece of jackfruit, Li Qianxia urged, "Bro, where's the black fog?"

Li Changzhou, sitting cross-legged on the ground, seemed to move backward, or rather, it looked like he did visually, but in reality, a shroud of black fog enveloped him.

A slowly flowing human-shaped black fog sat in Li Changzhou's place.

All three felt a deep fear.

The black fog was nothing; they had seen stranger things than its eerie appearance, but upon seeing the black fog, even they, now Immortals, couldn't help but be terrified.

The ones who were eating stopped simultaneously, their pounding hearts clear and distinct.

The whole world of the honey jar fell silent.

The fireflies went out, the pigs, cows, sheep, and rabbits curled up in the corner, and even the silverfish in the lake 500 meters below stayed on the surface, motionless as duckweed.

Realizing something was wrong, Li Changzhou reined in the aura of the black fog.

The sound of heartbeats gradually faded, and one firefly after another started to light up again.

"It reminds me of the first time I saw the black fog," Yang Qinglan exhaled softly.

"The first time I saw the black fog, it was even more terrifying than this; I almost died on the spot," Li Qianxia quickly recovered and even reached out to touch the black fog.

Turquoise Pool had seen the black fog once before, but it had been much more contained at that time, and she trusted Li Changzhou enough, so it hadn't been that shocking.

This time, she admitted she was startled.

That kind of fear was not because of the appearance or any created atmosphere. It was an innate fear, just like no gazelle would stand still as a lion approached, unless it was already frozen with terror.

In the desert, the little radish's impression of Li Changzhou had been fear of being eaten by him.

Li Qianxia touched nothing, as if the black fog didn't exist.

"Bro, what's the use of this?" she asked curiously.

"Copy skills after being attacked," Li Changzhou's voice, after the black fog dissipated, sounded like it had aged twenty years, steady, dignified, and calm.

"Damn!" Li Qianxia cursed again.

But this time, Yang Qinglan didn't scold her; she had been as shocked by the train's smell as she was now by the black fog's ability.

Before, an Identity Card was needed, but now just being attacked would...

"I love this voice!" Li Qianxia exclaimed eagerly, "It just hits my....."

The two looked at her and the fog.

"Cough!" Li Qianxia tossed aside the jackfruit seed, "What a powerful skill, I'm so envious."

Yang Qinglan shifted her gaze back to the black fog: "Is there more?"

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