Chapter 28
Chapter 28: The Strange Ji Jiaying
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Thinking back to the scene just now, Su Wanqing didn’t have any other strange thoughts.
Based on her understanding of Xinlian, it was probably that drunkard Master who got drunk again and came looking for her, only to encounter Lin Muyu and casually used her as a body pillow.
After all, Lin Muyu’s body was indeed very comfortable to hold, she had personally tested this…
Su Wanqing suddenly remembered when she was little, she was often used as a body pillow by the drunk Xinlian, and once held, it would be for half a day.
Being unable to move for half a day made her extremely uncomfortable.
Later she got smart about it.
Whenever she saw Xinlian drunk, she would absolutely not go near her, letting her find somewhere random to sleep.
She wasn’t worried about Xinlian being in any danger either. After all, with Xinlian’s cultivation level, probably anyone who showed even a hint of malice would be flattened by a single gourd, right?
Xinlian’s cultivation was so profound that even she, as her disciple, didn’t clearly know its extent.
She only knew that not just the sect master, but the entire cultivation world held some fear toward her drunkard Master.
She only remembered Xinlian casually slapping the sect’s guardian divine beast at peak Nascent Soul stage, leaving it unable to move.
Thinking of this, Su Wanqing gradually came back to her senses and inadvertently heard Lin Muyu’s calling voice.
She couldn’t help but chuckle softly:
“Just stay put. I can’t rescue you anyway.”
There was no way she could extract Lin Muyu from the sleeping Xinlian’s arms, if she wasn’t careful, she might even become a body pillow herself.
She had been held like a body pillow by Xinlian before, and had truly been starved terribly at that time.
Just as she was about to enter Lin Muyu’s small house to continue cultivating, she suddenly remembered that Lin Muyu hadn’t yet reached the spiritual sustenance stage and still needed food.
Disciples only achieved complete independence from food after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.
Therefore, she casually formed a hand seal, summoned the Frost Sword, stepped onto the flying sword, and flew toward Qinglan Sect’s cafeteria.
Just as she was flying toward the Qinglan Cafeteria, which prepared food for the sect’s non-spiritually sustained disciples, a familiar figure on a flying sword blocked her path ahead.
“What a coincidence, Wanqing.” The familiar figure ahead spoke warmly and intimately.
Su Wanqing quietly looked at Ye Fan, who had “coincidentally encountered” her ahead, her expression cold and clear.
“Is there something you need? Junior Brother.” Su Wanqing deliberately emphasized the words “Junior Brother,” as if stressing their relationship.
Hearing this cold form of address, Ye Fan couldn’t help but freeze, then said with feigned grievance:
“Wanqing, you used to call me Fanfan so intimately before…”
“That was when I was young and didn’t understand. We should still address each other normally. You may call me Senior Sister or Su Wanqing.”
Su Wanqing spoke with an unchanged expression, her tone cold and decisive, her hand forming seals ready to bypass him at any moment.
“Fanfan” was just the nickname Ye Fan’s parents had given him when he was little. Su Wanqing had only called him that following their example back then, without any other meaning.
They had only met a few times as children and hadn’t really become close, they couldn’t be considered familiar.
Later, due to her exceptional talent, she was brought up to Qinglan Sect early to cultivate.
So they weren’t even childhood sweethearts, just slightly familiar strangers at most.
Ye Fan wasn’t annoyed by this and asked again with feigned grievance:
“Then what about our engagement? That was your parents’ dying wish.”
Hearing these words, Su Wanqing immediately frowned tightly.
This was something that had troubled her for many years. Due to their parents’ relationship, they had been engaged by both sets of parents since childhood.
In other words, she was Ye Fan’s fiancee.
But she had no feelings whatsoever for Ye Fan and didn’t acknowledge this engagement.
So when Su Wanqing had achieved success in her cultivation at Qinglan Sect, she had prepared to return home to cancel this engagement.
After all, now that she was a cultivator, her parents wouldn’t force her to fulfill this engagement.
Although Ye Fan was also quite excellent and good-looking, her sixth sense told her that Ye Fan wasn’t as simple as he appeared on the surface.
And she, Su Wanqing, could never marry someone she didn’t like.
With her naturally cold disposition, she only wanted to cultivate and didn’t want to be delayed by romantic feelings.
But when she returned home prepared to discuss canceling the engagement with her parents, terrible news suddenly came.
Her parents at the foot of the mountain had met with an accident. While going out, they accidentally encountered a demonic beast, were severely injured, and passed away shortly after.
Ye Fan then took the opportunity to come up the mountain, timing it perfectly knowing that Su Wanqing was a filial person, saying that this engagement was her parents’ dying wish and hoping Su Wanqing would marry him.
This put Su Wanqing in a very difficult position. She was already deeply saddened that her parents had passed away before she could properly fulfill her filial duties, and she didn’t want to refuse her parents’ dying wish.
But she really didn’t want to marry anyone, especially this “fiance” before her whose intentions weren’t pure.
The image of that adorable girl in the small house suddenly appeared in her mind, and her heart suddenly became very chaotic…
Just as she fell silent, Elder Feng’s smug voice echoed in Ye Fan’s mind.
“Boy, you should really thank this old man. If this old man hadn’t informed you in advance to deal with her parents, you probably would have been publicly rejected and become a disgrace.”
Ye Fan didn’t thank him, but instead asked strangely:
“How did Elder Feng know she wanted to break off the engagement?”
Elder Feng snorted coldly: “How could a heaven’s proud daughter possibly be willing to marry a waste like you?”
Ye Fan was immediately angered by Elder Feng’s blunt words, his face turning dark as he retorted:
“I’m not exactly a waste, you know…”
Elder Feng said disdainfully:
“What difference was there between your previous five mixed spirit roots and having no spirit root at all? If this old man hadn’t strategized for you, could you have obtained dual spirit roots?”
“It was still my good looks.” Ye Fan touched his own face, responding narcissistically.
Just as Elder Feng was about to open his mouth to mock Ye Fan’s narcissism.
“Vixen, you’re here seducing Brother Ye Fan again!” A young girl with heavy makeup suddenly appeared, spreading her arms to block Su Wanqing’s path.
Seeing who it was, Ye Fan immediately frowned and couldn’t help but take several steps back.
Su Wanqing, seeing who it was, actually breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile to the girl before her:
“Your Brother Ye Fan wants me to marry him~”
Leaving behind these words, without caring how the two would react, she stepped onto her flying sword and left without looking back.
Ye Fan wanted to chase after her, but the heavily made-up girl hurriedly blocked him, questioning aggressively:
“Brother Ye Fan, didn’t you say you’d marry me in the future?!”
“Ji Jiaying, get out of the way! Or I won’t be polite to you!” Ye Fan glared with both eyes, drawing his sword and pointing it at the girl, shouting.
Ji Jiaying was the person whose dual spirit roots his body had copied.
Su Wanqing had been trying every means to avoid him because of this matter, and he couldn’t speak about it in public places either, since he couldn’t afford to offend Su Wanqing’s Master Xinlian.
Now he had finally found an opportunity to pressure Su Wanqing, and he didn’t want to miss this chance.
Although his current dual spirit roots also came from the girl before him.
But in his eyes, Ji Jiaying was nothing more than a tool, not worth even a bit compared to Su Wanqing.
Ji Jiaying displayed agile movement techniques, skillfully circling around the sword, and tearfully embraced Ye Fan, crying:
“Brother Ye Fan, is that vixen seducing you again?”
At this moment, she was still willing to believe it was Su Wanqing’s fault, her Brother Ye Fan could never be wrong!
Ye Fan was so angry he laughed. Just as he was about to throw off the girl in front of him.
Elder Feng’s voice timely stopped him in his mind:
“Wait, you haven’t completely copied her spirit root yet. Endure it a bit more. After all, you still can’t copy Su Wanqing’s spirit root right now. It’s not too late to throw her away after completely copying her spirit root.”
“…”
Looking at the girl before him with her vulgar rouge-covered face, Ye Fan could only suppress his disgust and comfort her:
“Yes, it’s all that vixen’s fault… Brother will take you to play something fun.”
To improve his strength and talent, Ye Fan could only suppress his disgust and reluctantly put on a smile when dealing with Ji Jiaying.
If his previous plan had been realized, how could he have endured this vulgar rouge-covered person? He would have kicked her away long ago.
He swore that once he completely copied everything, he would kick her away with one foot!
Just as he was about to take Ji Jiaying to do “proper business,” Ji Jiaying in his arms showed a strange smile at the corner of her mouth.
“Brother Ye Fan, I really want to be with you forever~”