Chapter 42

"Junior brother, I have something to ask you~Are you there?"

The voice was getting closer, accompanied by a clearer sound of bells.

Lin Jichen looked down the mountain and saw Nangong Yue running up with brisk steps. The bells on her deerskin boots were shaking under her lead.

The bulging hill on Nangong Yue's chest was shaking with it...

The slight shaking when running made Lin Jichen a little dizzy.

Nangong Yue was delighted when she saw Lin Jichen as soon as she came up.

A smile flew across Nangong Yue's face, like the ripples of a clear spring, overflowing from the dimples on both sides of her cheeks and spreading all over her face.

"Junior brother, what a coincidence, I found you just when I came to look for you. I thought you were asleep, so I was just about to go to the living room to look for you."

Lin Jichen smiled and bowed: "It's a coincidence, what's the matter with you looking for me so late at night?"

Nangong Yue raised her eyebrows, immediately put her hands on her waist, and said in a very innocent way: "Can't I come to play with you if I have nothing to do?"

"Of course, as long as you want to come to me, let alone sleeping, even if you are going to the toilet, I will not hesitate to pull up my pants to see you." Lin Jichen joked.

Nangong Yue was immediately amused, laughing and angry, pinching her nose, and said contemptuously: "You stinky junior brother, you said so disgustingly, who asked you to pull up your pants to see me."

Lin Jichen smiled awkwardly: "This is a metaphor, but the wording is not appropriate, then... I will come out without pulling up my pants?"

Of course, the latter sentence was what he said in his heart.

"Forget it, I'm a generous senior sister, so I won't bother about it. I came to you because I really have something to ask."

"Senior sister, just tell me."

Nangong Yue explained her purpose: "We, the disciples of the Sword Sect, whether in the outer hall, the branch hall or the inner hall, need to complete at least three tasks during each major realm, and the difficulty varies."

"They are ordinary, difficult and extremely difficult. I haven't done any tasks since I crystallized. Now I feel that I'm about to break through the Jindan realm. If I don't complete the tasks, I will be punished by the sect."

Lin Jichen asked in confusion: "Why didn't you do the tasks?"

Nangong Yue blushed and smiled embarrassedly: "I was too playful and hid away every day to read romance novels... I just... I forgot..."

Lin Jichen laughed dumbly. He didn't expect Nangong Yue to have this hobby, reading romance novels in the mortal world? She is a cultivator.

"Oh! None of this matters. What matters is that if I don't finish the task quickly, my father will come back and find out, and he will have to burn all my treasured romance books."

Nangong Yue seemed to have begun to imagine the horrible scene, and her face was full of despair.

"Okay, then how can I help you?" Lin Jichen asked.

Nangong Yue immediately replied: "I have already rushed to complete the ordinary and difficult tasks of the Crystal Realm. Now I only have the extremely difficult task left, which is a demon-killing task. This task requires two people to go together, and I need to find a helper."

"Looking for me? I'm only in the Qi Refining Realm..." Lin Jichen smiled bitterly.

The tasks of the Foundation Establishment Realm are very difficult for him, let alone the Crystal Realm.

Crossing two major realms, even if he is not an ordinary Qi Refining Realm cultivator, it is impossible for him to complete the tasks of the Crystal Realm.

Nangong Yue comforted him, "Don't worry about that. Actually, the two of us are not really going to have another person to help me. It's just that the risk of the extremely difficult mission is a bit high. Once a critical situation occurs, one of them can escape and ask for help from the sect. At the same time, it can also play a supervisory role to prevent some disciples from being cunning and using any means to complete the mission."

"Junior brother, I know that your cultivation is still shallow, but I promise to protect you. You can just stay behind me or hide nearby where you can see me."

Nangong Yue patted her chest and promised, and proudly boasted, "Besides, I am already at the peak of crystallization, half a foot into the golden elixir realm, The mission of the Crystal Realm is a piece of cake for me. No, not even a piece of cake, at most half a piece of cake! "

Lin Jichen did not rush to agree, but curiously asked: "There are so many inner hall disciples, why don't you find others, but find me? Any inner hall disciple's cultivation is much higher than mine, wouldn't it be better to help you complete this mission?"

Nangong Yue's face drooped, her pink little mouth pouted, and she said unhappily: "I want to, but no one is willing to go on the mission with me."

"Huh? Senior sister...are you so unpopular? Don't you owe everyone money?" Lin Jichen guessed with a smile.

Nangong Yueliang stared at Lin Jichen with her big eyes, and said angrily: "You are unpopular, you owe money and don't pay it back!"

"What's the reason?" Lin Jichen was quite strange.

After all, with Nangong Yue's beauty, as long as she opens her mouth, many male disciples in the inner hall will probably be eager to step forward.

NanGong Yue sighed and explained the reason.

"Because no one wants to offend the eldest senior brother."

"Eldest senior brother?"

"Well, eldest senior brother Chu Tianhan is the most promising disciple in the inner hall. He has reached the late Jindan stage at a young age and has a high prestige among the disciples."

"What does that have to do with this? Did you offend him?" Lin Jichen was suspicious.

Nangong Yue shook her head and said, "It's not that I offended him, but I rejected him."

"To tell you the truth, the eldest senior brother has been pursuing me. He has been actively offering to accompany me and help me on this mission, but I don't like him, so I refused."

Lin Jichen suddenly realized that this was the case.

No wonder Nangong Yue didn't look for so many inner hall disciples with high cultivation, but chose to look for a rookie like himself in the Qi Refining Realm as a helper.

It seems that the senior brother is pursuing her. Nangong Yue refuses the senior brother. Who among the other junior brothers and sisters dares to agree to Nangong Yue? Wouldn't that be equivalent to offending the senior brother?

This also caused Nangong Yue to have no one to invite, so she had to come to Lin Jichen.

"If I agree to you, won't I also offend the senior brother?" Lin Jichen smiled bitterly. He didn't want to offend anyone!

Whoever wants to be the shield can be the shield.

Nangong Yue smiled awkwardly and said with encouragement: "You won't, you are the master's last disciple, the eldest brother dare not provoke you, and besides, your cultivation is so low, he is embarrassed to bully you."

Lin Jichen rolled his eyes and said: "Do you think this is comforting or heartbreaking?"

Nangong Yue smiled foolishly and begged: "Junior brother, just promise me, if I fail to complete the task, my father will really burn all my romance novels, can you bear to see me in pain?"

"It's not that exaggerated, it's just burning a few romance novels, it's not that serious, can't I just buy them again." Lin Jichen didn't believe it.

"Why not, my biggest hobby is reading romance novels, and those I collected are all out of print. They can't be bought in Fengqu City. They will be gone if they are burned." Nangong Yue said seriously.

"Then I can't help you. You should find someone else. I'm sorry that Junior Brother can't agree."

Lin Jichen still refused.

Just kidding, for a few romance books, I offended a late Jindan opponent, what a pity.

"Wuwu... No one is willing to help me, why am I so miserable, wuwu... Even my junior brother doesn't help me, I'm so good to you, wuwuwu..."

Lin Jichen didn't expect that after he refused, Nangong Yue would cry directly.

It wasn't fake crying, but real tears.

Probably because she was rejected many times and suffered a lot, she pinned her last hope on him.

Unexpectedly, she was still rejected.

Nangong Yue, who has always been loved by thousands, fell to the bottom of her mood, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, sobbing.

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