Chapter 86: Meeting Xiao Yu Again
"Miss, are you alright?" Ling Ying frowned. This was the first time he had ever seen Xun Er cry. Even when the Gold Emperor Incinerating Heavenly Flame erupted, Xun Er had never shed tears.
"It's nothing, I just accidentally broke the cup," Xun Er shook her head absentmindedly.
"Miss, it seems like you were crying," Ling Ying hesitated to remind her.
"Crying?" Xun Er wiped her eyes, seeing the tears on her fingers. She lowered her head and fell silent. When she heard Xiao Se's name, she realized she had indeed shed tears.
Taking a deep breath, Xun Er spoke with a choked voice, "It's nothing, just the wind blowing into my eyes."
"Miss, Young Master Xiao Se seems to be heading to meet Xiao Yu soon, and he'll be passing by outside. Would you... like to see him?"
Noticing that Xun Er shed tears after hearing Xiao Se's name, for the first time, Ling Ying didn't refer to Xiao Se as "that boy" or "Xiao Se," but instead called him "Young Master Xiao Se."
Clearly, Xun Er's reaction was one of longing after hearing of Xiao Se's return. Though Ling Ying didn't quite understand why Xun Er would miss Xiao Se.
Hearing this, Xun Er froze for a moment and was about to walk outside, but she soon sat back down.
What was the point of going?
Xiao Se didn't care for her. She had noticed this the last time they met at the clan gathering.
But why did hearing Xiao Se's name make her cry? Was it just because of a silly childhood song?
Was it just because hearing his name triggered tears?
"Miss, you..." Ling Ying couldn't help but speak as he saw Xun Er looking pale, her mind heavy with thoughts.
"It's nothing, Ling Ying, you may leave. I need some time to think," Xun Er walked to the edge of the pavilion, her back facing Ling Ying, and spoke softly.
Ling Ying nodded slightly, bowed, and with a wave of his hand, collected the broken pieces of the jade cup from the ground. His figure slowly dissipated into the shadows.
Once Ling Ying had left, Xun Er gazed into the distant sky and murmured, "What exactly happened between the ages of four and six? Why are my memories from that time so blurry..."
(PS: Just to clarify, there won't be any plotline where the protagonist travels through time to stop Xiao Yan's misdeeds, only to deliberately erase Xun Er's memories to avoid changing history and ending up helping Xiao Yan.)
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Elsewhere, as Xiao Se passed by Xun Er's courtyard, Long Kui warned him that she had sensed Ling Ying again. Xiao Se resisted the urge to have Medusa attack him and hurried toward Xiao Yu's residence.
He opened the courtyard door and, familiar with the place, walked to Xiao Yu's room and knocked lightly. The response was an angry shout from inside, "Xiao Ning, if you knock one more time, I'll castrate you!"
"Uh..." Xiao Se twitched his mouth, a few dark lines appearing on his face.
"Brother, is this the childhood sweetheart you told us about, Xiao Yu? She's quite the fiery girl!" Long Kui's amused voice echoed in Xiao Se's mind, clearly enjoying the situation.
Xiao Se's mouth twitched again. He replied, "Long Kui, you're getting cheeky. Be careful, or I'll spank you later."
"Uhh..." Long Kui's face flushed with embarrassment, and she fell silent.
"Xiao Yu, it's me," Xiao Se knocked again.
Counting down in his mind: five, four, three...
Just as he reached one, the door creaked open, and a gust of fragrant wind blew in. The next moment, a graceful figure threw herself into Xiao Se's arms.
"You little rascal, you pervert! How could you run off all by yourself? If you had died, what would I have done...?" Xiao Yu sobbed, tightly wrapping her arms around Xiao Se's neck and wrapping her long, shapely legs around his waist, pressing her body against him.
"Uh... this is some heavy affection."
Feeling the softness in his arms and the faint fragrance of the girl, Xiao Se blushed slightly and whispered, "Um, Xiao Yu, maybe we should talk inside? You're a grown woman, and if someone walks in and sees this, it might not look good."
"I don't care! If you disappear like that again without telling me, I won't let you off," Xiao Yu held on even tighter as she spoke.
"Alright then!" Xiao Se smiled, shook his head, and carried Xiao Yu into the room. Seeing the chairs and tables that Xiao Yu had knocked over in her frustration, he had no choice but to place her on the bed.
"Wait, does he plan to..." Xiao Yu's mind raced with embarrassing thoughts, her face turning even redder. The moment Xiao Se placed her on the bed, she quickly let go of him, curled up under the blanket, and shouted shyly, "You pervert! You said we'd wait a few more years!"
"Oh, come on," Xiao Se rolled his eyes. As much as he might have desired her, he wouldn't act on it with Long Kui and Medusa watching. He explained, "What are you thinking? You messed up the chairs and tables, so I couldn't just leave you on the floor."
"..."
Xiao Yu was mortified!
After this little episode, the frustration Xiao Yu had felt worrying about Xiao Se seemed to vanish, and for a moment, it was as if the two had returned to their carefree childhood, their feelings pure and simple.
"Little pervert, you've been gone for a year, and now you've grown taller than me! Come on, be honest, what have you been doing all this time?" Xiao Yu lay on the bed as casually as she would in Xiao Se's room, with no reservations, resting her hands behind her head.
Xiao Se chuckled and shook his head. "Nothing much, really. First, I went to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, then the Tager Desert, and then wandered around a bit before coming back."
Hearing this, Xiao Yu frowned, reached out to pinch his waist, and scolded, "Don't joke around... I want the truth!"
"Alright then, I actually met a master who saw that I had great potential for martial arts and alchemy, so he took me as his apprentice. I spent the year training with him," Xiao Se replied casually.
Xiao Yu's eyes lit up. "So, you're an alchemist now?"
"Uh, more or less." Xiao Se couldn't help but feel that sometimes lies were easier to believe than the truth. He took out a jade box and a scroll and said, "Here, I figured you were close to breaking through to the ninth stage of Dou Disciple, so I asked my master to prepare this Qi Gathering Powder for you. I also got you a technique. Once you break through, see if it suits your attributes. If not, let me know, and I'll find a replacement."
The Qi Gathering Powder was something Xiao Se had crafted during his return journey, experimenting with four-grade pills with the help of the Green Lotus Core Flame. Despite several failures, he had eventually succeeded.
The technique was one of the three featured items he had purchased at the Miter Auction House. Since it was a high-level black tier technique and matched Xiao Yu's Dou Qi attribute, he bought it for her as a temporary measure.
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Chapter 87: First Fight with a Dou Huang
After giving the cultivation method and Qi Gathering Powder to Xiao Yu, Xiao Se stayed at the Xiao family for two more days.
Xiao Yu spent a day adjusting her condition to its peak. With Xiao Se's help, she successfully broke through to become a Dou Zhe on the second day and switched to a new cultivation method.
Perhaps it was because Xiao Se easily defeated Xiao Ning upon his return that he went from being unknown to widely recognized in the Xiao family. Moreover, due to Xiao Se's handsome appearance, many young women from the Xiao family, led by Xiao Mei, frequently gave him flirtatious glances.
However, none of this had anything to do with Xiao Se.
On the third day, Xiao Se left some pills for Xiao Yu to use in her cultivation, promising to meet again at Jia Nan Academy. With Xiao Yu reluctantly seeing him off, Xiao Se departed from the Xiao family.
"Damn human, how dare you treat this queen like this!" As Xiao Se walked along the path toward the Miteer Auction House, the voice of Queen Medusa suddenly rang in his ear.
As soon as her words dropped, Xiao Se's waist bore two more tiny bite marks.
"I mean, does the queen really need to bite me every other day?" Xiao Se rolled his eyes, clearly getting used to Queen Medusa controlling the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to bite him regularly.
"Ask yourself what you've done," Medusa said angrily.
"Uh..." A trace of embarrassment appeared on Xiao Se's face. During his three days at the Xiao family, he certainly hadn't been idle. In addition to training, he remembered the Zihuo Pill (Purple Flame Pill) that Xiao Yan had made in the original story. So, he tried to recreate it, using some saliva from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, combined with some amethyst essence and a few fire-attributed medicinal herbs, to successfully refine the Zihuo Pill.
He had no choice—he didn't have many techniques for fighting opponents stronger than himself.
The only move he could rely on was the "Crimson Flame Sword: Breaking Limits," which, thanks to his Heavenly Flame, was improved to the level of a mid-tier Earth-class skill. It was simply not enough. Skills like Buddha Fury Lotus, which were overwhelmingly powerful, needed to be researched and developed.
[Ding, System reminder: The host has not used this month's exchange quota. There are ten days left before the reset. Please use the quota in time.]
Hearing the system prompt, Xiao Se paused for a moment, realizing that since absorbing the Heavenly Flame, he had been unconscious for quite some time—more than a month had passed unknowingly.
"System, exchange this fire-attribute herb in my hand," Xiao Se said in his mind, casually pulling out a fire-attribute medicinal herb left over from refining the Zihuo Pill.
Over the past year, Xiao Se had noticed a pattern: although exchanging similar items increased the chances of a successful exchange, the increase was minimal. On the contrary, exchanging random items often resulted in getting better rewards.
[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a Dragon Blood Herb from the dragon's lair in the desolate wilderness of the "Dominating Sword Immortal" world.]
"Dragon Blood Herb?" Xiao Se was delighted. As a loyal fan of the novel Sword Mastery in his previous life, he had read it several times. Dragon Blood Herb, formed from the blood of fallen dragons, contained a trace of dragon power.
If refined, it could transform that power into physical strength, turning the person into a body refinement expert for a short period, significantly enhancing their combat ability. In the original story, the protagonist Ye Chen had increased his strength by hundreds of thousands of pounds after refining only three or four of these herbs. Although this was partly due to his cultivation level in the Spirit Sea Realm (a high-level realm), it clearly demonstrated the powerful effect of the Dragon Blood Herb.
With a Dragon Blood Herb in hand, Xiao Se's mood lifted, and his pace quickened. This herb would significantly enhance his strength.
After walking for a while, Xiao Se gradually noticed something was wrong. The route from the Xiao family to the Miteer Auction House wasn't far. He should've reached the main road by now, but he had been walking in circles around this alley for quite some time without any sign of reaching the exit.
"Longkui, Queen, do you notice anything strange?" Xiao Se called out to them in his mind. "So, you've finally realized. But the other party doesn't seem to have any killing intent. Handle this little matter yourself," Medusa responded nonchalantly before going silent.
"Brother, should I..." Longkui began, but Xiao Se cut her off, "No need. I think I know who it is. Stay hidden for now. If I can't handle it, Hai Bodong will intervene, and if worse comes to worst, the Queen is here. If I die, there'll be no one to refine the Spirit Fusion Pill for her."
As they communicated, black mist gradually spread around the alley, shrouding the entire area.
At this moment, everything seemed to come to a standstill. The colorful ribbons hanging from the buildings stopped fluttering, and even the birds in the air froze. The entire space was tinted in shades of gray and white.
With his X-ray vision and soul sense activated, Xiao Se quickly located the source of the black mist on a nearby rooftop. Drawing his demon sword, he coldly said, "Come out, sneaky fellow."
As he spoke, his left hand moved to his waist, grabbing three tiny poisoned steel needles between his fingers.
Holding the demon sword tightly in his right hand, Xiao Se swiftly advanced forward, while his left hand quietly released the three poisoned needles, which shot toward the shadowy figure from different directions.
The figure hadn't expected Xiao Se to locate him so easily. Unable to dodge in time, he pulled out a black curved blade to block the needles.
Clang, clang, clang.
The crisp sound of metal clashing echoed as the needles were deflected. Realizing he had been discovered, the shadowy figure emerged from the mist, stretching lazily. "Kid, you have good senses to have detected my hiding spot."
Seeing the figure finally reveal himself, Xiao Se's expression grew serious. It was Ling Ying. Despite his intentions to test Xiao Se, a high-level Dou Huang (Dou Emperor) was no small threat.
"Who are you?" Xiao Se asked, narrowing his eyes, though he already knew the answer.
"I'm the one sent to take your life." With that, Ling Ying's form vanished into a cloud of black mist.
Xiao Se was shocked to find that his soul sense couldn't track Ling Ying's movements. Fortunately, his X-ray vision allowed him to see through the mist. Tightening his grip on his demon sword, Xiao Se rushed forward and slashed toward the spot where the mist was thinnest.
Clang!
The demon sword clashed with Ling Ying's curved blade, sending out a powerful gust of wind that dispersed the black mist, revealing Ling Ying in his black robe and mask.
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