Chapter 124
Chapter 124: Senior Sister, I Like You~
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“Senior Sister, I like you~”
Lin Muyu quietly leaned close to Su Wanqing’s ear, her voice full of sweet, lingering affection that made the very air feel saccharine.
“R-really?”
Su Wanqing’s eyes flew open, her bright pupils staring intently at Lin Muyu.
Her usually cold-as-frost face was now tinged with a light blush, revealing a rare hint of adorable innocence.
“Just kidding!”
Lin Muyu instantly dropped the gentle act, placing her hands on her hips and looking at Su Wanqing with scrutinizing eyes.
“Huh?”
Su Wanqing was completely stunned, her beautiful eyes filled with confusion as her mind failed to catch up.
The sweet feeling that had warmed her heart just moments ago plummeted to rock bottom in an instant, like riding a roller coaster with its ups and downs, leaving her feeling completely caught off guard.
“So then, my dear Senior Sister Su, why were you pretending to be unconscious?”
Lin Muyu narrowed her eyes, her voice carrying a barely perceptible hint of danger.
“Well… I, I only just woke up not too long ago…”
Seeing her thoughts exposed, Su Wanqing’s voice immediately became weak, her cheeks grew even redder, her gaze wandering as embarrassment filled her expression.
Looking at Su Wanqing, who appeared completely different from her usual aloof demeanor, Lin Muyu helplessly raised her hand and patted her own head, unable to stop herself from mentally complaining.
Who turned the female lead into this state? Is this really Su Wanqing, the female lead?
Not wanting to dwell on the fake fainting incident any longer, Lin Muyu changed the subject and continued asking:
“What exactly happened here? Explain it to me…”
“Actually… I just wanted you to hold me…”
Su Wanqing’s voice was soft, her gaze drifting elsewhere, her cheeks still flushed as she quietly revealed her little scheme behind the pretend fainting.
“I’m not talking about that! I’m asking about that skeleton giant, where did it go?”
Lin Muyu’s voice rose considerably, tinged with helplessness.
She couldn’t help but feel that this Senior Sister of hers had somehow become a bit… simple-minded?
She suddenly remembered that Senior Sister Qingyao seemed to have given Su Wanqing quite a few books.
Could it be that Senior Sister, like Xiaotao, had read so many books that she’d made herself silly?
But she didn’t dare voice this thought. Setting aside whether Su Wanqing would hold a grudge, if Xiaotao found out, she’d definitely be nagged endlessly.
Don’t be fooled by Xiaotao’s usual gentle and soft demeanor, don’t forget her age. When she got going with her lectures, she really had stamina.
“Oh, you mean that skeleton giant?”
Su Wanqing took a deep breath, composed her emotions, her voice regaining some calm as she slowly explained:
“I was almost losing the fight when suddenly a man covered in crackling electricity appeared and quickly drove the skeleton giant away. Judging by his aura, he seemed to be from Xuanlei Sect.”
“This…”
Lin Muyu secretly gave Su Wanqing a thumbs up.
Of course, not for Su Wanqing herself, but for her heaven-defying luck.
Truly worthy of being the female lead, whenever she encountered danger, she could always “turn peril into safety.” Her luck was simply enviably good.
“Then quickly take me back to see if there are any good treasures.”
Lin Muyu’s eyes lit up, her voice full of anticipation.
She had been unsure whether they had truly escaped danger earlier, so she hadn’t explored carefully.
According to the usual script, after encountering difficulties and then resolving them, there would definitely be opportunities waiting.
She was all too familiar with this female lead pattern of “encountering difficulties, gaining opportunities” Su Wanqing had experienced similar situations before.
It’s just that those previous times, Su Wanqing’s “opportunity” had been Lin Muyu herself…
Talking about it just brought tears to her eyes…
“Oh, oh, let’s go now.”
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“Will there really be good stuff?”
Lin Muyu held a shovel, digging through a pile of white powder, muttering quietly as she dug.
As for why it was a pile of white powder, that was rather strange to explain.
Previously, that cave had clearly turned into a bone cavern filled with bones.
But somehow, when they returned, the entire cave had collapsed, and all the bones had turned into fine powder, scattered on the ground like a layer of white frost.
In search of opportunities, Lin Muyu had specifically gone back to the village to borrow a shovel from the villagers, and with determined effort, she dug three feet deep, finally finding something ring-shaped in the depths of the powder pile.
This ring was wrapped in a faint layer of dark energy that looked somewhat frightening, but Lin Muyu’s sixth sense told her this was definitely a good item.
“Don’t rush, let me take a look first.”
Su Wanqing, who had been helping dig nearby, saw that Lin Muyu had found something and her eyes immediately sharpened as she quickly spoke up.
She could clearly sense that the dark energy on the ring was identical to the aura from the skeleton giant earlier.
However, this aura was already very faint, as if it was about to dissipate.
“Oh, then you look at it first.”
Lin Muyu readily handed over the ring.
Although she had been the one to dig it up, Su Wanqing had been the one to face the skeleton giant head-on earlier, so giving the item to Su Wanqing was reasonable and proper.
Su Wanqing took the ring, examining it from all angles. A wisp of faint spiritual energy flowed from her fingertips, gently brushing over the ring’s surface, gradually wiping away those masterless dark energies.
Then, she concentrated and sent a thread of divine sense into the ring…
“This is… a storage ring?!”
Su Wanqing exclaimed in surprise, then with a flick of her finger, she took out everything from the storage ring all at once.
Instantly, a pile of glittering spirit stones and many cultivation technique manuals were neatly arranged before the two of them.
“This… don’t storage rings all have the original owner’s soul imprint? How were you able to open it directly?”
Lin Muyu’s eyes went wide, not just because of the pile of treasures that had suddenly appeared, but more because Su Wanqing had been able to directly erase the soul imprint.
You have to understand that low-level cultivators simply have no way to erase the imprints left by high-level cultivators on storage rings.
And that skeleton giant was obviously no ordinary character, its strength was definitely formidable.
“I didn’t detect any complete soul imprint on it, just a few traces of soul remnants that were about to dissipate. Perhaps that skeleton giant was already dead.”
Su Wanqing speculated, then added:
“That man from Xuanlei Sect earlier had at least Nascent Soul stage strength.”
She had been watching from the side at the time and could feel the tremendous pressure emanating from the man.
“Hmm, then I need to take a good look at whether there are any good items here!”
Lin Muyu’s gaze swept over the pile of spirit stones and landed directly on the cultivation technique manuals.
Although spirit stones were valuable, they were just sitting there and wouldn’t run away.
But cultivation techniques were different, there might be precious treasures hidden inside that could improve one’s strength.
“Puppet Technique?”
She picked up the topmost book, rubbed her chin, and curiously opened to the first page.
Just then, Su Wanqing quietly moved closer, gently resting her head against Lin Muyu’s neck as she joined her in reading.
“Refining cultivators into flesh puppets…”
Seeing the content on the page clearly, both their eyes widened simultaneously, and Lin Muyu fumbled to close the book in panic, muttering:
“Holy crap, this is actually an evil book!”
In the cultivation world they inhabited, any cultivation method involving the use of cultivators or civilians for practice would be classified as an evil book.
Righteous disciples were not allowed to read evil books.
Actually, Lin Muyu was quite curious about these kinds of forbidden books in her heart.
But curiosity was one thing, and whether she dared to practice them was another matter entirely.
Especially with Su Wanqing right beside her, if she were mistaken for an evil cultivator, that would be completely over.
Tossing this book aside, Lin Muyu continued flipping through the next one.
She believed there had to be at least one useful book!