Chapter 35

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

The next day, in high spirits, Lu Xun pushed the door open.

In any case, as someone with the second layer of the Qi Devouring Formula, he was unlikely to be tired from a bad night’s sleep. On the contrary, he was quite excited.

Yesterday night, he still couldn’t see the sword intent clearly, and whenever he fought against the sword intent, he wouldn’t know what exactly happened, his memories were quite blurry.

After all, sword intent was, in and of itself, a very mysterious thing.

However, he knew that he was ‘killed’ 36 times in one night, that was all he could properly remember.

Thirty-six times in one night, not bad right?

Outside the Small Study, Cat Southnorth was lying on the large rattan chair, one of her legs was crossed, while the other leg was dangling in the air like a clock swaying left and right.

She was biting on a date, upon seeing that Lu Xun had woken up, she smilingly and inarticulately asked him, “Yew wan zome(1. You want some)?”

“No need, thanks Fourth Senior Sister.” Lu Xun just woke up in the early morning, he didn’t want to eat fruits for the time being.

Cat Southnorth ignored him and quickly picked up a date, she then threw it towards Lu Xun. In the interval when Lu Xun opened his lips, she forcibly stuffed the date into his mouth.

Thankfully she utilized ‘skillful strength’, or else, the date might have choked Lu Xun to death.

Lu Xun didn’t have a choice anymore. He took a bite of the date, and upon doing so, he felt that it tasted sweet. After it entered his stomach, it was very refreshing, he even felt much more vigorous now.

“This date isn’t ordinary!”

“Tastes pretty good, right?” Cat Southnorth threw Lu Xun another one, “I just picked it off the tree. You can only eat two per day and you mustn’t eat more, it’ll only do more harm than good if you do.”

Clearly, the lolita especially picked it for him, this made him instinctively feel a slight sense of warmth in his heart.

‘I didn’t cook you fish for nothing!’

It seemed that the fruit trees planted in the Rear Mountain were also out of the ordinary, even the fruits of these date trees had the effect of restoring mental spirit.

Cat Southnorth looked at Lu Xun, her cat ears slightly moved. She took joy in his misfortune, she asked, “How is it? Second Senior Sister’s sword intent… it doesn’t feel good, right?”

Since the lolita’s cultivation was profound, she already sensed everything that happened last night.

After she folded her small hands behind her back, she circled and watched Lu Xun once more. While appearing like an adult-like child, she said, “I counted last night, you were stabbed a total of thirty-six times!”

With that said, she looked at Lu Xun and deliberately said, “Want me to bring you to Second Senior Sister later to request her to withdraw her sword intent?”

She wanted to see how Lu Xun looked when he begged. As for withdrawing the sword intent… how could that be possible, I don’t have that great of a reputation, meow, meow, meow!

Unexpectedly, Lu Xun responded, “No, no, this is Second Senior Sister’s good intentions, I couldn’t possibly refuse it.”

Of course, he didn’t forget to say, “Regarding Second Senior Sister’s sword intent… it won’t dissipate with time, right?”

The mission’s time limit was thirty days.

“Not in the short term,” Cat Southnorth said.

“Great!” Lu Xun couldn’t help but smile.

Cat Southnorth, “???”

‘He was tortured for a whole night, don’t tell me he got addicted to it?’

After teasing the lolita, Lu Xun said, “Let’s go, Fourth Senior Sister, I’ll make some food for you.”

“Hurray! Slurp!” Cat Southnorth immediately threw out all of her cares and started to wait for today’s portion of food to be cooked.

‘It feels like keeping a small cat that doesn’t let you pet her.’ Lu Xun thought.

3…



After arriving at the kitchen, Lu Xun started to knead dough. He was preparing to boil noodles for Second Senior Sister and the lolita.

During these past few days, he had several Demon Sect disciples deliver some fresh ingredients, now that there were plenty of ingredients in the kitchen, he could make a variety of new dishes everyday.

In the early morning, Lu Xun planned to make breakfast light, so he planned a few casual bowls of tomato egg noodles.

While kneading the dough, Lu Xun asked out of curiosity, “Fourth Senior Sister, why did Second Senior Sister suddenly leave me with a sword intent?”

Cat Southnorth sat on the table, and while watching Lu Xun’s movements of kneading dough, she said, “It’s possible that upon seeing you advance to the second layer of the Qi Devouring Formula, she probably thought that the Sea of Qi you saw was too little, this is why she’s tempering you more.”

Lu Xun, “…”

‘It was truly the lashing of love!’

“Then… regarding Second Senior Sister’s sword intent, how much power did she use?” Lu Xun asked out of curiosity.

“How much?” Cat Southnorth couldn’t help but sneer, she continued, “You’ll know in the future.”

After hearing this, Lu Xun didn’t think too much about it anymore. He just knew that he was still very weak right now, this was why he just continued to focus on kneading the dough.

The noodles he was making today were the type where the tomato and eggs were stewed in soy sauce and spices, this was more in line with his personal tastes.

After pouring the tomato and egg onto the noodles, it looked pretty good already.

After he was finished making it, they brought the noodles and hurried to the small bamboo forest.

Lu Xun felt that he shouldered a heavy responsibility now. He had to fatten the overly slim Second Senior Sister, in addition, he also had to satisfy this little cat by his side.

Inside the bamboo forest, Second Senior Sister was still sitting on the giant rock.

Her back gave off a cold and indifferent feeling, the wide Daoist robe she wore drifted along with the gentle breeze, it had a little bit of a refined taste.

Lu Xun stood by the rock, and with a sweet-mouth and a dark heart, he cupped his hands in obeisance towards his Second Senior Sister, “Thank you Second Senior Sister for your guidance.”

The guidance he mentioned was naturally the sword intent.

Second Senior Sister slightly nodded, she was still habitually silent.

After meeting and getting along with her for a few days, Lu Xun already had a basic understanding of Second Senior Sister, he already knew that the cold and indifferent Second Senior Sister was… actually a stutter.

For some unknown reason, the stutter really jabbed at his affection, this was why he loved to seek death in front of Second Senior Sister—the more you stutter, the more I want to tease you to speak.

1Of course, Lu Xun, the dirty dog, still understood how to grasp proper decorum.

He pretended to not see Second Senior Sister nodding her head, and continued to cup his hands in obeisance, “Thank you Second Senior Sister for your guidance.”

1He loved to act, this was why he put on the appearance of ‘Since Second Senior Sister seemed not to have heard me, I’ll thank her again.’

After a good while, only then did a voice come from above the rock, “I… I heard.”

Her talking speed was obviously deliberately slowed down. She wanted to control her stutter, but she was still helpless.

Lu Xun obviously knew when to stop. Being naughty for a little while was fine, but he couldn’t wildly tease her.

He really didn’t find the stutter funny, so of course, he didn’t intentionally tease Second Senior Sister for it. On the contrary, he truly felt that… it was a little cute.

1Finally, in the quiet bamboo forest, only the sounds of three people eating noodles remained. The gentle breeze brushed past them, and occasionally a few bamboo leaves would fall down and land on Lu Xun’s shoulder.

He felt an indescribable feeling of contentment right now.

After eating their fill, Lu Xun and Cat Southnorth leaned against a bamboo in a manner unbefitting their image, their movements were very unified as if they were one person, they rubbed their slightly protruding bellies in a clockwise fashion.

Lu Xun lifted his head again and looked at Second Senior Sister’s back. After staring for a while, he thought, ‘Did she get fatter? It doesn’t seem like it, she’s still a little too slim.’

Only after thinking about it carefully did he remember that it had only been a few days, Second Senior Sister wasn’t like you guys who could skyrocket their weight just by celebrating Chinese New Year1.

1Unexpectedly, his gaze finally stopped at the wooden hairpin inserted in Second Senior Sister’s hair bun.

For some unknown reason, the wooden hairpin simply attracted Lu Xun’s gaze.

1He sensed a familiar smell on it.

After looking at it for a long time, only then did Lu Xun suddenly realize that this wooden hairpin was Second Senior Sister’s sword!

…A wooden sword!

He indistinctly sensed the sword intent on the wooden hairpin!

‘How unexpected! Second Senior Sister’s sword is actually a wooden sword, and she also used it as a hairpin that was casually inserted into her beautiful hair bun.’