Chapter 96: Chapter 94: What Do You Want to Say?_1
Chapter 96: Chapter 94: What Do You Want to Say?_1
"Ah?"
Liu Qianqian was stunned, "What do you mean, not a date?"
Fang Ren slapped his forehead, speaking with a look of difficulty, "Last night, I just casually said something, don't take it seriously, okay? Can't I just not want to know anymore? Why must you insist on trying it out?"
"..."
Liu Qianqian felt her brain was in a fog. Was this even human speech? Was that what she meant?
"Fang Ren!"
"Hey, hey! Liu Qianqian! I urge you to be kind!"
After a barrage of combo punches, Liu Qianqian turned around furiously and walked towards the distance, "Come here to me!"
"I'm not agreeing to a date!"
"Is that what I meant?"
Liu Qianqian dragged him behind a teaching building, her face flushed with anger as she said, "I have a few questions for you, and you must tell me the truth."
"As long as it's not a date, anything's fine," Fang Ren nodded and said.
"You!"
Liu Qianqian raised her hand but then let it fall and took a deep breath, then took out a notebook from her small waist bag and said, "Tell me the truth, did you give me this or not?"
This notebook was the Alchemy Experience he had recorded himself.
He had given it to Liu Qianqian secretly because he didn't want to reveal his identity. Since Mu Huanqing was just an ordinary person, he wished to live the life of an ordinary person with her and naturally couldn't be upfront when helping a friend out.
But now things were different; he wanted to be high-profile and cause some trouble.
Seeing Fang Ren suddenly fall silent, Liu Qianqian put down the notebook. Her face was a bit flushed, but she continued to speak seriously, "Yesterday night, you asked me if I was a virgin, and coincidentally, Master Qing'an made a statement about the Spiritual Embryo Constitution.
It mentioned that women with the Spiritual Embryo Constitution should not break their chastity before their cultivation has reached its peak. Explain all of this to me clearly."
Fang Ren nodded. After making those comments the night before, he had anticipated this would happen.
And ever since Mu Qing Mountain came to him and said, "You can't marry Qing'er," he hadn't thought about keeping a low profile anymore. He was Qing'an, and he wasn't afraid of anyone finding out. He was just too busy with cultivation to deal with various minor issues that came his way.
If it wasn't for this, he wouldn't have even used a signal jammer last night.
Fang Ren nodded again and said, "Alright, I won't pretend anymore. I gave you the notebook, and I also admit that I am..."
"I knew it!"
Before he could finish his sentence, Liu Qianqian suddenly interjected, determinedly saying, "You really know Master Qing'an! I always felt something was off about you; you really have been hiding something from me!"
"..."
Fang Ren was stunned. He was just about to admit he was Qing'an.
"What exactly is your relationship with the Master?" Liu Qianqian frowned and said, "You're not as ordinary as you seem, are you? Just dating the Xuan Nv alone is odd. Even if she lost her cultivation ability, how could her family possibly let her date an ordinary person?"
"You're just trying to pry into my identity?" Fang Ren said.
"If you're willing to tell me, then say it. If you don't want to, no amount of asking from me will force it out of you," Liu Qianqian said.
"What if I told you that I am Qing'an, would you believe me?"
"Nonsense!"
"..."
"Spill it! Which family from Tianjiang are you a scion of? Is it the Fang Family?"
"I have nothing to do with Tianjiang. Except for Uncle Han, I'm just an orphan," Fang Ren denied, not acknowledging any connection with the Fang Family.
Liu Qianqian nodded and said, "If you don't want to tell me, then forget it."
Fang Ren added, "I've already told you my identity."
"Believe you, my foot! If you don't want to say it, fine, but don't make up such an unreliable excuse to fob me off," Liu Qianqian said as she turned and walked away.
"..."
Fang Ren stood there blinking, helplessly shrugged, and continued munching on his pancake fruit wrap.
He had barely taken a couple of bites when Liu Qianqian suddenly turned back, ran over, and looked at him angrily, "Are you full yet?"
Fang Ren was taken aback, "Yeah, I guess..."
Smack—
Liu Qianqian snatched the pancake fruit wrap from his hand and said, "I haven't eaten yet."
She took a big bite of Fang Ren's pancake fruit wrap, turned, and walked away.
"Hey, can't you just buy your own?" Fang Ren was dumbfounded.
"I have no money!"
"If you have no money, just tell me, and I could buy a new one for you, couldn't I?"
"I can't eat a whole one myself!" Liu Qianqian said angrily while munching on the food.
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"Then don't nibble on mine either," Fang Ren said, utterly bewildered as he watched her.
"I want to! I'm happy to!"
"Look, I already have a girlfriend, okay? We can't be so casual about sharing food anymore, and also, next time you want to talk to me, don't pull on my arm like that; people might get the wrong idea," Fang Ren said.
Liu Qianqian suddenly turned around, her mouth full of pancake and fennel seed, frowning angrily and said, "You've changed, Doggie!"
"Huh?"
"Before, you'd drink the beverages I couldn't finish! I'd eat the food you couldn't finish! Now that you have a girlfriend, you prioritize her over your friends!"
"How is this about prioritizing love over friendship!" Fang Ren said with a helpless face: "I've told you, all that was because I liked you. I thought you did those things because you liked me too, so I had no reservations. But it turned out to be just one-sided."
The angry expression on Liu Qianqian's face suddenly vanished, and she turned her gaze away, no longer looking at him, and said, "Then just keep liking me."
"Huh?" Fang Ren frowned and said, "Are you out of your mind? I already have a girlfriend, and you don't like me, yet you're asking me to like you again... What's the point?"
"I'm just being unreasonable," Liu Qianqian said, "You blockhead, why don't you think about why I don't go and be unreasonable with someone else?"
"Why... because we have a great brotherly bond?"
"Pig!"
Liu Qianqian stamped her foot and turned away, walking off into the distance. But after a few steps, she stopped, lowered her head without turning around and said, "Do you... care a lot about whether I'm a virgin?"
Fang Ren said, "I just casually asked last night."
"You can even ask that kind of question, casually or not, you... care a lot, don't you?" Liu Qianqian said.
"Not really."
"Saying one thing and meaning another..." Liu Qianqian mumbled to herself with a flush on her face.
"Speaking of which, are you really out of money?" Fang Ren changed the subject and asked directly.
"I have some."
"And you still snatch my food."
"I'm happy to."
"Alright, alright, I'm going back too," said Fang Ren as he began walking towards the academic building.
Liu Qianqian pinched the pancake roll in her hand, hesitated for a few seconds, then suddenly turned her head and shouted at Fang Ren, "Hey! Pig!"
"Huh?" Fang Ren frowned and turned back.
Liu Qianqian's voice was much lower as she said, "I... I'll say it again, I'm a virgin."
Having said that, Liu Qianqian took off towards the distance with her pancake roll, her over-the-knee pleated skirt swinging, and her long black hair fluttering behind her.
"Damn... Why do I feel like she's hinting at something?" Fang Ren mumbled to himself, baffled.
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These past few days, Fang Ren went to class as usual, but he spent most of his time during class with his eyes closed, diving into the Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat. He had just entered the first level of the technique.
The first level mainly focuses on the explosiveness of True Qi and the agility and strength of the body, lacking any sophisticated offensive moves, which limited him to relying solely on his fists and feet in combat.
He had to quickly find a way to master the first level and then advance to the second level, where he would be able to achieve what is described in the second level of the cultivation technique, "forging weapons with blood," meaning he would be able to possess his own weapon.
The weapon, as described in the technique, is a lifebound weapon condensed from the essence blood of Asuras, one that can be wielded only once and is highly compatible with the Way of Killing outlined in the Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat. It can evolve by absorbing malicious energy in the process of slaughter.
When Fang Ren first discovered that the lifebound weapon of the second level could evolve through killing, he couldn't contain his excitement, but after calming down, he quickly encountered a dilemma.
That is, once he entered the second level of the Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat, he would have to kill, or else the Sick Weapon would decay to the point of being unusable. This second level exactly matched the first level of the Asura's Way, shaping the will to kill for those on the first level of the Asura's Way.
But where would he go to kill now, running out into the streets to kill common people? What even is that? The Way of Asura or the Way of a Mad Dog?
And who were his enemies now? Kill everyone opposed to his relationship with Mu Huanqing?
So, should he grab anyone off the street and ask if they oppose him being with the Xuan Nv? If they oppose, just slaughter them? Wouldn't that make him a mad dog?
Asuras follow their true hearts. He didn't want to be a mad dog; that wasn't his path.
The Asura's Way is one of the Three Good Paths, and it is also recorded on Earth, but most people consider it evil due to the killing aura of Asuras. However, the moral standards for good and evil in Asura's doctrine have always been vague.
Killing evil people is good. Killing good people is evil.
In the hearts of Asuras, the notion of good and evil isn't as firmly fixed as most people believe. Those whom Asuras feel like killing are evil, while those they don't feel like killing are good.
People define good and evil based on actions and temperament, while Asuras define it according to their hearts.
Fang Ren inherently believes that killing the innocent is wrong, making such people good. The day he inherently wishes to kill the innocent, they will be evil.
Over these past few days, when he wasn't immersed in the Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat in class, he was practicing alchemy in an empty classroom after class, concocting the necessary elixirs for his own cultivation.
Jian Qi'er, that silly girl, still hasn't come to school, and Liu Qianqian has been unusually strange these past few days, always saying some inexplicable things that made him inadvertently think too much.
But Liu Qianqian used to be like this too, doing many things, saying many words, all leading him to misunderstand; he has gotten used to it.
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