Chapter 08: You Don’t Want to Call Me Aunt?
“Aunt” – wife of father’s younger brother.
Several minutes later, Chen Luonian, who had already put on his jacket, opened the door a bit awkwardly, inviting the people that were enjoying the breeze outside to come in.
As for Huai Zhen, currently she was wearing the sports trousers and jacket that Chen Luonian had prepared quite contently and standing to the side silently. Even though inside the clothes there was nothing else, it was not a problem.
At this time Chen Shangshan had also finished preparing his heart and looked towards Huai Zhen, then looked at Chen Luonian, speaking calmly: “Your girlfriend? Why don’t you introduce us.”
Since he had just let uncle see that scene just now, to say she’s not his girlfriend now would only cause even more trouble. Chen Luonian ambiguously replied: “Her name is Huai Zhen. Huai Zhen, this is my uncle.”
“Hello Uncle.” Huai Zhen lovably gave a call then also smiled towards the other people: “Nice to meet you all.”
Just now Huai Zhen was completely naked, only having a bath towel wrapped around her. Though it’s not like everyone hadn’t seen this type of scene before, but for politeness it wasn’t good to keep looking. Right now they didn’t have to have qualms so they carefully sized her up. The two young men’s eyes immediately were transfixed, unable to shift away. The other two girls were a bit better, but their gaze with which they looked at Huai Zhen contained a hint of envy.
Chen Shangshan squinted and looked Huai Zhen up and down. After a few moment he said: “Pity.”
What’s a pity? Chen Luonian was baffled.
“Phoenix eyes and oval faces aren’t fashionable these recent years, but if we can film and show your personality……” Chen Shangshan said: “Miss, are you interested in acting?”
“Acting?” Huai Zhen’s clever eyes turned and she pointed towards the TV: “It’s…… the things inside there?”
“No, I’m a film director.” Chen Shangshan gave Chen Luonian a look then said: “Luonian didn’t mention it at all?”
“No.” Huai Zhen shot Chen Luonian a glance and also gave him a look.
“She doesn’t have interest.” Chen Luonian tried to smooth things over and asked: “Why did Uncle come back today?”
“Today’s the Mid-Autumn Festival. I saw that the pace wasn’t that rushed so I let the crew and cast take a break.” Chen Shangshan turned his head and looked at Chen Luonian: “These guys’s homes are in the south. They don’t have any relatives in Taibei so I invited them to the house to sit for a while…… eh, why are you all standing around dazed out. Get the food out ah, help yourselves.”
At this call those people finally returned to their senses and started setting out the food on the table in front of the sofa. They ate and drank while stealing glances at Huai Zhen from time to time.
Chen Shangshan held a beer and aimed his gaze at Chen Luonian: “Based on principle, minors shouldn’t drink but you in any case…… do you want to drink?”
“No thanks.” Chen Luonian shook his head: “Uncle and you guys drink, we’ll go into the room.”
“Go then.” Chen Shangshan didn’t stop them either and waved his hand letting the two go.
Chen Luonian hurriedly pulled the sweetly smiling Huai Zhen into the room, as for the disappointed looks on those young people’s faces, naturally he ignored.
“So unlucky, for you to just happen to encounter my uncle.” Chen Luonian yielded the chair in front of the desk to Huai Zhen and sat on the bed while speaking, vexed.
“I intend to live in your house.” Seeing Chen Luonian distressed, Huai Zhen seemed slightly delighted and said with a grin: “Don’t you need to tell your uncle?”
“Stop joking.” Chen Luonian glared: “How could it be proper for you to live here?”
“Or you can go with me to the mountains.” Huai Zhen said: “This type of foul stinky city, I can’t stand it.”
“That’s even worse, I still need to go to school……” Chen Luonian paused, and spoke, a bit embarrassed: “And you’re female after all…… for us…… to stay in the same room isn’t good.”
“Then I’ll go charm your uncle.” Huai Zhen got up and said: “I only need to let him do it once and he’ll definitely become hell-bent on it and beg me to live in his room. But if afterwards he wants to do it everyday and his health degrade and lifespan shortens, that’s not my problem.”
“What?” Damn, what kind of fairy does this count as? As expected she really is a monster! Chen Luonian hurriedly pulled Huai Zhen and said: “I’ll give you my room to stay in, don’t cause trouble.”
“You don’t want to call me aunt?” Huai Zhen giggled: “I won’t be able to satisfy you, but other men are simpler.”
“What…… what does that mean?” Chen Luonian didn’t understand and asked, a bit embarrassed.
“For men in general, I only need to cast a bit of charm technique and let them have a spring dream and that’ll be enough to satisfy them.” Huai Zhen glanced at Chen Luonian: “Charm techniques are useless against you so I have no way to make you dream.”
“Dream?” Luo Shen said in surprise: “Early when you said you’ll let my uncle do it….. you meant dreaming?”
“Of course.” Huai Zhen stiffened, then said with a serious face: “Otherwise what did you think it was? I’m not like you humans, in heat every single day and being able to do it at anytime!”
“The way you say it makes it sound so horrible.” Chen Luonian awkwardly said: “You can just stay here.”
“There’s nothing to mind in the first place.” Huai Zhen humphed: “You value the outer appearance too much. You clearly know that I’m not a woman, yet you still treat me as a woman?”
“Who told you to transform into this?” Chen Luonian helplessly said: “You might as well transform back into a fox. I’ll just tell Uncle I’m raising a…… animal. That’s easier to explain.”
“The oral cavity and vocal cords of foxes and humans are different, like that I can’t speak……” Huai Zhen humphed: “And I like wearing pretty clothes.”
“Just earlier you were complaining that humans having to wear clothes was too much of a pain.” Chen Luonian shot Huai Zhen a look.
“Liking to wear doesn’t mean I want to wear all the time; not to mention even if I’m in my originally form, my charming aura is still effective.” Huai Zhen leaned back on the chair and lifted up her leg: “At that time, without the qualms, everyone will come over to hug and rub me so much that they’ll want to kidnap me. Won’t that be even more troublesome? In the human world being in human form is more convenient.”
That’s true. Chen Luonian sighed: “Whatever you like.”
“Don’t worry la. I’ll pretend to be your sister outside, it won’t interfere with your courtship.” Huai Zhen laughed.
“Let’s not talk about this.” Chen Luonian could not continue listening and waved his hand: “I need to talk to you about other thing.”
“What things?” Huai Zhen blinked.
“Didn’t you want to know how Yixin and Weishan cultivated?” Chen Luonian said.
“Yeah!” Huai Zhen opened her eyes wide and said: “Hurry and tell me.”
“Starting from the history…… tsk, I almost forgot, they said those were secrets…… Then should I still tell?” Though Chen Luonian wasn’t the type to attach enormous weight to words, but the other side attached such importance to this secret so he couldn’t help but feel a bit apologetic for causally telling others. Thinking to this point, he couldn’t help but be a bit hesitant.
“It’s that simple.” Huai Zhen smiled: “Jiejie will also enter. Guess whether that Yixin didi will tell me everything?”
Jiejie = older sister. Didi = younger brother
“Eh ……” Chen Luonian found it funny: “Just means that you must know, right?”
“Right, so if you tell me first it’s fine.” Huai Zhen said: “I really can join ah, otherwise how can I keep an eye on you?”
Anyways, if he didn’t tell, he wouldn’t be able to ask the things he wanted to ask so Chen Luonian immediately started explaining everything he knew.
“Refining monsters, Bian Ti, absorbing qi ah……” After Huai Zhen finished listening, she slightly knitted her brows: “I got pretty much everything. So this type of dao technique had spreaded…… There were very few people that knew in the past.”
“When I came into contact with the monster essence my reaction was different from that of most people.” Chen Luonian said: “Do you know why? Can I still go through Bian Ti?”
“What do you still want to transform into?” Huai Zhen shot a glare at Chen Luonian as she said: “In the three methods to cultivate to become an immortal, this is the most primitive method, changing spirits is the all-around highest class method. How could low class beat high class?”
“Eh?” It sounds pretty amazing. Chen Luonian spoke, astonished: “Then can I use Yuan Xi to attack monsters? Like the way Weishan does.”
“You can’t.” Huai Zhen shook her head: “I’ve said it before, Hun Dun Yuan Xi is pure Primary Fundamental Life Force. Even though it has strong recovery powers, but it doesn’t have offensive strength at all.”
“Ah?” Chen Luonian paused: “Then why is it called high class?”
“It’s the phoenix’s nature. From the start she is the mother of life, the breath(qi) of the phoenix——Hun Dun Yuan Xi is not for offensive use. When it’s usually let out and dispersed, it’s like the air monsters and immortals need to live.” Huai Zhen said: “But in a highly condensed state it can absorb any monster qi or other qi. So if someone attacks you, remember to congregate Yuan Xi to protect your body. That way only the most fundamental physical powers can attack you.”
“Physical powers?” Chen Luonian didn’t understand.
“Concentrate the Yuan Xi on your palm.” Huai Zhen said.
“It’ll disperse.” Chen Luonian said with worry.
“Control it so that it congregates around the surface of your hand.” Huai Zhen said: “If it overflows a bit it’s still fine, concentrate it a bit more densely.”
Well, she’s next to me anyways. If a monster really appears he doesn’t have to be that worried. Chen Luonian attempted to control the Yuan Xi, diffusing it outside his palm while thinking, this is pretty similar to before Ye Weishan attacked, when she was gathering outer qi outside her body.
“Do you feel monster essence?” Huai Zhen extended her forefinger and said: “I only used a little bit.”
“I do.” Chen Luonian nodded: “A portion of qixi.”
“Over the past two months, your physical strength didn’t increase much but your sensitivity has already increased a bit.” Following that Huai Zhen shot her extended finger towards Chen Luonian’s palm. That portion of monster essence suddenly entered the Hun Dun Yuan Xi and disappeared, Huai Zhen’s finger with a ‘bang’ lightly hit Chen Luonian’s palm, causing Chen Luonian’s palm to move backwards a little.
“In the end it bumped into your power and all that was left was physical power.” Huai Zhen: “The physical power from the combined factors of my finger speed, weight, and contact surface.”
“In this case, weight should probably be called mass. Physical power is probably just energy…… A type of kinetic energy.” Chen Luonian said.
“Really? You guys have a lot of new nouns now, I get mixed up.” Huai Zhen didn’t really care about the difference between weight and mass and continued: “Next, take your Yuan Xi away.”
Chen Luonian acted according to her directions. Afterwards, Huai Zhen concentrated monster essence again and like before, lightly shot it at his palm, but suddenly that portion of monster essence exploded and flung Chen Luonian’s palm backwards, knocking with a ‘pa’ against his face.
“Shit!” This time wasn’t light. Chen Luonian covered his face and said: “What are you doing?”
“Hehe.” Huai Zhen made an akanbe face and said, pleased: “If you want to learn something of course you have to pay a price.”
扮個鬼臉 – “akanbe face” = “ghoul face” The face children make when they pull down on one or both of their eyes and stick out their tongue, a quick search turned up an accepted Japanese term for it so I’ll be using that instead of ghoul face which I was originally planning on using.
“Damn! This stinking fox…… ” Chen Luonian rubbed his face, not knowing if he should get revenge or not,
“But if the opponent uses monster essence to speed up his attack, because the velocity increases, even if the monster essence scatters, the physical power is still as great as before.” Huai Zhen said: “In other words, you only don’t have to worry about long distance outer qi attacks. If the weapon approaches then you’ll still get hurt.”
“Then……” Chen Luonian said: “Can it let my movement speed increase, or increase my strength?”
“With the process of changing spirits, your constitution will slowly change. The most fundamental stamina and reaction capacity will increase.” Huai Zhen said: “But Hun Dun Yuan Xi from the start doesn’t possess explosive force, destruction force, nor driving force. It can’t raise attack and defense strength like qi, whether it’s strength, speed, or power, it can’t do any of it.”
“Then isn’t it useless?” Chen Luonian scowled
“I’ve already said it before, for ordinary people like you it’s useless!” Huai Zhen’s gaze turned and her small mouth slightly pouted: “With me it’s different.”
This fox spirit seems to be hiding something? Chen Luonian aimed a glance at Huai Zhen but didn’t pursue and changed topics: “Since it’s like this, I don’t need to enter the Martial Dao School anymore. This week or so swinging the dagger every single day was wasted suffering. Even if my strikes are accurate it’s useless. Tomorrow I’ll go quit.”
“You can’t.” Huai Zhen shook her head: “In the future monsters will become stronger. I can’t always be transforming to help you. You’ll still need to rely on them, I’ll be the last resort.”
“Then when the time comes and they tell me to go through Bian Ti what should I do?” Chen Luonian said: “I’ll waste the monster essence that they spent half a month collecting, then wait to get kicked out of the sect?”
“This……” Huai Zhen also didn’t know what to do so she could only knit her brows and say: “Just keep it up until that time comes and we’ll discuss it then?”
“That’s too much.” Chen Luonian said: “They seem to have to work really hard to collect the monster essence.”
“That’s a small matter.” Huai Zhen said: “A couple small monsters is enough for a human to go through the initial process of Bian Ti. Right now the monsters are still pretty easy to catch. At worst, you can disperse some of your Hun Dun Yuan Xi and catch a couple to make up for it.”
That’s also true. He didn’t have any other abilities but he could attract all kinds of monsters, this way is still acceptable.
“That right.” Huai Zhen suddenly said: “Last time I had you try to figure out the power of the phoenix, what’s the result?”
“Nothing at all.” Recalling that, Chen Luonian got a bit angry and unhappily said: “I don’t even know what kind of power it has, how am I supposed to experience and sense it?”
“I don’t know the details either ah……” Huai Zhen thought about it, then said: “It might be because you don’t understand the Immortal World, that’s why you can’t sense it…… then want to first try the experience of seeing the Immortal World?”
“How?” Chen Luonian was surprised.
“Scatter the Yuan Xi around the outside of your entire body and maintain it.” Huai Zhen said.
“Huh?” Chen Luonian was dumbfounded for a moment before saying: “Is that ok? If it disperses it won’t end up causing another violent tooth monster to appear, will it?”
“It’s fine. I just absorbed a large chunk of it away. Right now there’s not much left, at most it’ll be a small monster which I can take care of.” Huai Zhen continued: “And the Chisel Tooth was able to come only because of four people’s cooperative strength, in addition to the special terrain ley lines, generated a big enough channel.”
“Oh ……” Chen Luonian nodded then attempted it according to Huai Zhen’s instructions, covering the surface of his body with Hun Dun Yuan Xi.
Hun Dun Yuan Xi really was a qixi with dispersing tendencies. After he covered the entire surface of his body, Chen Luonian immediately started feeling an outwards expanding force that was very difficult to suppress. As expected, in the next moment, Yuan Xi started dispersing outwards.
“No, no.” Huai Zhen said: “From the throat, send it down to the junction between your chest and your abdomen, then send it outwards from within your body. After it passes through your body then start condensing it on the surface of your body. Don’t directly concentrate it on the surface of your body.”
“Huh?” Chen Luonian said: “Weishan concentrated it outside of her body.”
“Because she wanted to use this outwards rushing force, at the moment of compression, to transform into the attack’s power.” Huai Zhen said: “This is the most basic of dao techniques. They borrow silent chants to control the outer qi on the surface of their body. Just like compressing a spring, it can increase the instantaneous explosive power. But you can’t use Yuan Xi to attack anyways, so you don’t need to waste time on this sort of effort.”
“Oh?” Chen Luonian followed Huai Zhen’s instructions and sent the Yuan Xi inside his body before sending it outwards, only then did he understand why this method was simpler. This time, it was concentrated, starting from within the body all the way to outside the body, there was a layer of buffer space. Compared to concentrating it into a thin layer outside the body, of course this was much easier.
“That’s it.” Huai Zhen said: “Like this your body will be saturated within the Yuan Xi, so your body’s transformations will occur faster and it should also be easier to sense the Immortal World.”
“Then why did you tell me to put it below my throat back then?” Chen Luonian asked.
“This ……” Huai Zhen said: “Those are stages, step by step. I taught you that step first before teaching you this one.”
Chen Luonian stared at Huai Zhen and said: “I think I’m slowly starting to understand you.”
“What?” Huai Zhen’s gaze shifted, avoiding Chen Luonian’s eyes.
“You lied to me earlier, didn’t you?” Chen Luonian said: “I feel like that wasn’t the truth.”
“Hateful!” Huai Zhen couldn’t help but laugh out loud. She bit her lower lip and said: “Your Hun Dun Yuan Xi is slowly taking effect. In the future I can’t trick you anymore.”
“You really were lying to me? What is it, really?” Chen Luonian glared.
“Below the throat really is a better area for concentrating it.” Huai Zhen shamelessly said: “I just didn’t teach you the way to send it into your body and use it, why are you so bothered about it?”
This monster didn’t seem to harbor any malice towards him, but she always seems to be keeping something from him. Well, even if he continues asking she probably wouldn’t reveal it? Chen Luonian didn’t mention this anymore and started to observe the feeling of being saturated in Yuan Xi while saying: “They talked about using qi to link up with weapons. Do I need to do that?”
“You can.” Huai Zhen said: “Even though I don’t know what you can do with Hun Dun Yuan Xi, but in the future if you want the weapon to be able to do it of course you’ll have to let the weapon get familiar with the Yuan Xi.”
After receiving that dagger, it had always been left in the drawer so it was a good time to take it out to mess with it. Chen Luonian maintained the state of the Yuan Xi while taking out the dagger, then slowly moved the Yuan Xi towards the dagger.
Sure enough, once it changed to another thing it wasn’t easy to control. It felt hard to push it into the dagger. Chen Luonian slightly frowned and used more mental strength to push. Suddenly, Yuan Xi rushed out of the dagger. Chen Luonian panicked, causing him to also lose control of the Yuan Xi around his body and it dispersed outwards in a large mass.
“There’s one!” Huai Zhen’s left hand quickly reached out and like lightning pinched the air.
Chen Luonian hurriedly recollected the Yuan Xi while asking: “Did something appear?”
“Yeah.” There seemed to be something twisting around in Huai Zhen’s hand. She smiled and said: “How do they deal with them? Strike and scatter the monster then collect the monster essence?”
“Yeah.” Chen Luonian said.
“Then we’ll keep it for now.” Huai Zhen extended a finger from her right and hand gave it a jab. There was only a pop sound then that thing immediately stopped moving.
“It looks like I can’t practice this method when you’re not around.” Chen Luonian said.
“Right, and yet you blame me for not teaching you before.” Huai Zhen thought about it, then said: “This method isn’t the type that improves with more practice time. It gets better as your understanding deepens…… Practicing more will only speed up the rate your body changes, but I’m afraid it won’t help with comprehending. You best concentrate a bit more to feel the change arising inside and outside of your body.”
“I can’t concentrate too much, otherwise time will……” When Chen Luonian spoke to here, he suddenly started. According to what Huai Zhen said about this, then that ability to slow down time, wouldn’t it be just perfect for trying to comprehend the experience? Immediately Chen Luonian started to concentrate and started to carefully examine and observe the changes in his surroundings.
Huai Zhen saw Chen Luonian suddenly go quiet in the middle of speaking and also didn’t ask anymore. She just sat to the side and casually flipped through the novels on Chen Luonian’s desk.
Suddenly, she felt that the surrounding atmosphere seemed a bit different. Probably Chen Luonian’s Yuan Xi dispersed outwards again. Huai Zhen’s gaze concentrated and was just about to catch the monster when suddenly, in the next instant, that Yuan Xi was recollected again. Huai Zhen couldn’t help but be a bit surprised and her gaze darted to Chen Luonian. Then she figured out the reason, her face exposed a slight smile and she went back to reading.
Actually, Chen Luonian was currently putting to use that pretty useless time ability, raising his concentration ability to observe the current state of his body. In this process, he would occasionally accidentally release the Yuan Xi. Normally, he would still need two seconds before he can react and recollect it, but this time he only needed a split second before he can react and immediately recollect the Yuan Xi, not even enough time for a chink in space to form…… After all, controlling the Yuan Xi is mainly dependent on mental strength. As long as his thoughts respond faster, recollecting it would naturally be faster too.
At this time Chen Luonian controlled the time to a speed not too fast and also not too slow, choosing a time that would allow him to sense the changes more easily. In order not to tire himself out too much, after every couple minutes he would rest for a bit. Working hard like this for almost twenty minutes, Chen Luonian finally couldn’t hold on anymore and relaxed his concentration while recollecting the Yuan Xi to his throat area…… Afterall, he’s still not used to having it cover his body, it would be troublesome if it ended up dispersing.
“Tired?” Huai Zhen asked.
“I’m exhausted.” Chen Luonian’s head spun as he said.
“Using this ability in this type of area is not bad!” Huai Zhen smiled: “Don’t have to guard too long.”
Now she’s willing to say not bad? That time she was still cursing like crazy. Chen Luonian looked at the novel in Huai Zhen’s hand and said: “You also read novels? Can you understand the words?”
“I just skip the words I don’t recognize. Sigh, in the past there wasn’t this type of thing.” Huai Zhen said: “The first time I read it, I thought it was real and was confused to a long time.”
“This ability of mine is also pretty suitable for reading novels.” Chen Luonian said proudly: “It saves a lot of time, in just a few moments I can finish reading.”
I must insert, I’m so jelly!!!! If only I had ‘more time’ for translations.
“No need to try and find good points la, not reading saves the most time.” Huai Zhen rolled her eyes at Chen Luonian and threw the book to one side.
Chen Luonian humphed: “I want to take a bath and get ready to sleep, how about you?”
“You can sleep. I’ll head out for a while.” Huai Zhen smiled: “I’ll find a person, make them have a dream and get some money to buy some clothes.”
“You got all your money this way?” Chen Luonian asked in surprise.
“That’s right ah.” Huai Zhen tilted her head and said: “Find a rich person and chat and play with him for a while. Then ask him for some things and lastly go with him to a hotel to allow him to have a beautiful dream that he can cherish for the rest of his life. Isn’t it very fair?”
“That’s probably not very good.” Chen Luonian clicked his tongue: “Although the opposite side may be very satisfied…… but it’s still really similar to swindling money.”
“If not, then what?” Huai Zhen’s brows knitted: “If I directly robbed them, then it seems those people would be even more hurt.”
“Of course you can’t rob.” Chen Luonian’s thoughts leaped and he quickly said: “The ones you gave me last time are still here. Just use those.” While he pulled out that bag from under his bed.
“Oh? Why didn’t you say so earlier!” Huai Zhen took a few stacks of bills and casually stuffed them into the jeans pockets and jacket pockets while shaking her head and laughing: “In fact, you shouldn’t worry too much about these kinds of little things. After a while, these things will probably be useless.”
“How could money become useless?” Chen Luonian asked in surprise.
“The phoenix has already returned to the human world. Along with the gradual diffusion of Hun Dun Yuan Xi, the alignment of the human world and immortal world will happen sooner or later.” Huai Zhen straightened up and said: “You humans changed this world into such an ugly mess, the stench fills the skies…… Do you think that all the millions of monsters, dieties that are going to return from the immortal realm will be like me and not care?”
Did he just hear something incredibly disastrous? Chen Luonian was stunned and only saw Huai Zhen head outwards while saying with a smile: “Humanity’s happy days, there’s not much left la…… Intelligence of all living things? Ah.” Speaking to this point, Huai Zhen lightly laughed, pushed opened the room door and left.
Chen Luonian was dazed for a while before finally recalling that he was planning to take a shower. He walked out of the room. The five including Chen Shangshan was currently drinking and eating with the TV on. Of the five there were four smoking so the entire house was filled with the smell of smoke. Seeing him come out, all of them only glanced at him, no one really said anything.
Chen Luonian slightly nodded towards them and went into the bathroom, very quickly taking a bath. When he walked out of the bathroom and was just about to return to his room, Chen Shangshan suddenly got up and said: “Luonian, do you have time for a chat?”
In fact, Chen Luonian was really tired but it was rare for uncle to be able to come back, not to mention his situation earlier was a bit unusual. Naturally, it was hard to refuse so Chen Luonian could only nod his head.
“Let’s talk inside your room.” The two entered Chen Luonian’s small room and sat down seperately. Chen Shangshan thought for a while before opening his mouth to speak: “Beside basic economical assistance, I really haven’t paid attention to you that much. I always felt that you also didn’t really need my concern, that’s why at this kind of time I really don’t seem to have any qualifications to meddle in your life.”
If not for Huai Zhen, why would Uncle suddenly run over to say all this? Chen Luonian could only mumble ‘en’ a few times.
After being silent for a while, Chen Shangshan continued: “That girl seems to be older than you?”
Chen Luonian nodded: “Yeah.” Probably several thousands or several ten thousands of years older…….
“That ……” Chen Luonian hesitated, then asked: “Have you taken all the basic protection measures?”
My god! Chen Luonian threw several curses at Huai Zhen inside his heart before forcing himself to nod.
“Do you have any areas in which you need money?” Chen Shangshan continued: “The money your parents left behind I put it into a certificate of deposit in the bank. Originally I was planning to give it to you after you graduate from high school but if……”
Chen Luonian hurriedly said: “Uncle, I’m not short of money.” There’s still several millions underneath the bed.
“Then that’s good.” Chen Shangshan gave a sigh and stood up: “Then I don’t have anything else to say. It seems that you still don’t need me to worry about you.”
These words seem to carry a bit of sadness? Chen Luonian slightly froze, could it be Uncle would rather that he occasionally allow him to worry a bit?
Reaching the door, before Chen Shangshan opened the door he suddenly thought of something and turned back: “It seems she was wearing your clothes?”
“Uh……” Chen Luonian froze for a while before saying: “Her clothes, were torn.”
Chen Shangshan slightly started and hesitated for a moment before saying: “It’s best not to play anything too dangerous……” After thinking a while, probably because it was still hard to word it, in the end he shook his head and went out the door.
Chen Luonian gave a long sigh, closed the lights and collapsed on the bed. Thinking of everything that happened the past few days, he couldn’t help but feel a bit of a headache. However, he was after all extremely tired. Soon enough, he deeply entered the land of dreams.
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The next morning, he didn’t see Huai Zhen. Chen Luonian felt relief as well as a bit of disappointment. This fox monster’s never sincere in her words. Perhaps last night she only said she was going to stay because she was in the mood, but after going out to play ended up regretting it. She has remarkable abilities anyways, so there’s no need to worry about her.
After school, he headed to the basement below the teachers’ building again. This time, he was the first one here. Chen Luonian set up the metal plate and according to the usual practice, picked up the practice dagger and continued practicing. After all, the set assignment everyday is to practice each move five hundred times. The sooner he starts the earlier he can go home.
Not long later, Hou Tianliang and Zhang Zhiwen ran in with loud stomps as if they were racing. Seeing Chen Luonian, Hou Tianliang immediately called: “Luonian! I heard you got injured. What are you still practicing?”
Chen Luonian had completely forgotten that he had got injured yesterday. After spacing out for a bit, he said: “I’m fine.”
“Eh?” Hou Tianliang said with surprise: “Unrivaled Giant said you spurted a lot of blood though.”
“That was someone else’s blood.” Chen Luonian could only try to reply ambiguously.
“F***, stinky mosquito, you’re cheating!” Hou Tianliang discovered Zhang Zhiwen had already sneakily and quietly set up the metal plate. He cried out and hurried up his movements, not questioning Chen Luonian anymore.
“This is related to tonight’s dinner after all.” Zhang Zhiwen brandished his sword and fiercely hacked as he laughed mischievously.
Hou Tianglian with great difficulty got ready to start work. He was already behind by about 20 slashes and protested as he sped up to try to overtake him.
A while later, Huang Zongru also arrived. Lastly Ye Weishan and Lai Yixin also entered. Everyone saw that Chen Luonian seemed fine and couldn’t help but look astonished. Especially Ye Weishan was the most shocked. She saw Chen Luonian was actually still waving a dagger and was scared to the point her eyes froze.
After a bunch of confusion brought on by a burst of inquries, Lai Yixin and Huang Zhongru who did not see the actual scene no longer nitpicked about it. There was only Ye Weishan left that still occasionally glanced unconvinced at Chen Luonian. As for Lai Yixin, though he hasn’t completely recovered, but walking was harmless and he could still coach everyone on their movements.
The current practice now is once two moves are finished, everyone eats the bentos they ordered together and rests a while before continuing and finishing the rest of the assignment. What Zhang Zhiwen and Hou Tianliang were competing about just now was precisely who would finished these two moves first. However, even though Hou Tianliang started later, the movement of a katana is still somewhat faster than that of a double-edged sword after all. In the end he was able to catch up, so Hou Tianliang got to freely take a piece of all the dishes in Zhang Zhiwen’s bento.
And, not paying attention to the two that were eating while bickering, Chen Luonian that finished the two moves assignment the earliest had already finished eating and was currently resting to one side. Suddenly, Ye Weishan passed by in front of him and glanced at him, shooting him a meaningful glance.
Chen Luonain slightly started and looked at Ye Weishan that was walking outwards, only to see her reach the door and shoot yet another glance at him. Chen Luonian finally confirmed that Ye Weishan was calling him, but why did she need to be this sneaky? Thinking to here, the tips of Chen Luonian’s ears heated up a bit for no reason as he got up and followed her out.
Sure enough, Ye Weishan stood at the head of the first floor stairs waiting. She waved towards Chen Luonian and the two of them walked around the outer side of the stairs to an area where no one was around. Ye Weishan turned back and asked: “How’s your wound?”
This woman really likes to worry…… Chen Luonian hesitated for a moment before saying: “Didn’t I already say I’m fine?”
“That’s not possible. And you’re even swinging a dagger…… The injury already reopened, didn’t it?” Ye Weishan said solemnly: “Don’t try to act brave anymore. If you don’t want to let people know, I can privately take you to the hospital, alright?”
“I’m really fine.” Chen Luonian said.
“I don’t believe you. Let me see the injury.” Ye Weishan said.
“No need.”
“Let me see!”
My god, this is seriously a bit troublesome…… Chen Luonian’s personality was a bit lazy towards dealing with people from the start. Since he was cornered to the point he had no other options, Chen Luonain’s expression turned hard and he clicked his tongue: “So what if I don’t want to let people see! Acting like this, are you trying to force me to quit?”
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