“Ahhhhhhh!!”
38’s scream came from her mind as it excitedly shouted: “Voice command received, system activated, Host you’re so awesome!!”
As it spoke, Qin Wanwan heard a series of mechanical clicking and loading sounds in her head, and then a screen appeared in her mind. On the screen was a green light point, scanning the surroundings like a radar.
“Congratulations on officially activating the 3838438 Female Lead Counterattack System. This system provides corresponding services based on points to assist you in successfully counterattacking. Current starting points: 50. Adaptation task completion progress: 90%. Please descend the mountain immediately to complete the task and claim your reward!”
38’s voice was full of joy: “Host, charge forward!”
Qin Wanwan didn’t speak. She observed her surroundings, turned to glance at Jian Xingzhi, and gave him a subtle signal.
Jian Xingzhi understood her meaning, nodded, and quietly took a step back.
“Call it even?” The people around completely failed to notice the two’s intentions. Jun Shu spoke mockingly, “Then what about the marriage contract between our two families?”
“You still have the face to bring that up?” Hearing this, Jian Xingzhi leaned against the table, tilted his head, tossed a handful of melon seeds in his hand, and looked at Jun Shu with a half-smile, “Just a moment ago you were playing the devoted rabbit in Su Yueli’s consciousness sea, and now you suddenly remember you have a marriage contract?”
“Jian Zhiyan!”
Jun Shu turned to look at him, his voice cold: “Don’t court death.”
Hearing this, Jian Xingzhi wanted to hit someone, but seeing 666 beside him holding up a sign that read ‘Fighting and Brawling Prohibited’, he restrained himself again and again. He put down the melon seeds and beckoned to Jun Shu: “Come here, I have something important to tell you.”
Jun Shu frowned. Jian Xingzhi looked completely sincere: “It’s really important, closely related to your marriage contract. Come closer and listen.”
As he spoke, he started making eyes at Qin Wanwan. Though Qin Wanwan didn’t understand why he wanted her to leave early, she still inconspicuously moved toward the door.
Everyone’s attention focused on the speaking Jian Xingzhi. Seeing Jun Shu remain silent, Jian Xingzhi raised an eyebrow: “Didn’t you say you wanted to kill me? You don’t even dare hear one sentence from me?”
“What’s there to fear?”
Jun Shu laughed coldly and walked to Jian Xingzhi’s side, slightly lowering his head to approach him. Jian Xingzhi leaned in and lowered his voice: “Let me tell you, Wanwan told me that she has long since…”
Jun Shu pricked up his ears. Before the words were finished, Jian Xingzhi’s hand moved like lightning, grabbing Jun Shu’s head and slamming it viciously onto the table, shouting: “Go!”
The instant he made his move, Qin Wanwan rushed outward while everyone was caught off guard. After landing that punch, Jian Xingzhi moved with agile swiftness—leaning his chair backward, supporting himself on the ground with one hand, he flipped away from Jun Shu in a single motion, and an explosive talisman detonated in the Linglong Pavilion.
Dust and commotion rose all around, the ground shaking. Qin Wanwan had just rushed out of Linglong Pavilion when she heard the explosion. She turned back in shock and shouted: “Jian Zhiyan!”
“I’m here!”
Jian Xingzhi swept over like the wind, grabbing her wrist in one motion. Qin Wanwan turned back in a daze to see the young man’s pink sleeves fluttering flamboyantly, his profile features sharp and handsome. As he turned his eyes for an instant, his smile was bold and unrestrained: “Let’s go!”
As he spoke, Jun Shu had already pursued them, shouting: “Qin Wan!”
Jian Xingzhi turned and threw three explosive talismans, taking three steps in two strides. Grabbing Qin Wanwan’s wrist, he leaped forward, crossing into the teleportation array prepared beforehand in the plaza, instantly disappearing before Jun Shu.
Jun Shu’s divine sense immediately spread throughout the entire Wenxin Sect. A teleportation array immediately appeared beneath his feet as he charged after them.
The teleportation array moved both of them to the mountainside. Just as they landed, they felt the ground shaking violently beneath their feet, making it almost impossible to stand steady. Before Qin Wanwan could speak, she felt a gust of wind sweeping from behind. She pushed Jian Xingzhi to the side and shouted: “Down the mountain!”
As she spoke, she led Jun Shu leaping toward higher ground. Jian Xingzhi had no cultivation and couldn’t fly, so he ran swiftly on the ground, chasing below while shouting to Qin Wanwan: “Southeast direction, three hundred zhang!”
Without another word, Qin Wanwan touched her toes and flew toward the southeast. Jun Shu pressed in close, grabbing Qin Wanwan: “If you want to go down the mountain, I’ll take you. Why are you running?”
Qin Wanwan kicked at him. Jun Shu caught her ankle and flung her through the air. Qin Wanwan cried out anxiously: “38!”
As soon as the words left her mouth, an electric current passed directly from Qin Wanwan’s body to Jun Shu’s hand. Jun Shu released her in sudden pain, and Qin Wanwan immediately fled toward the direction Jian Xingzhi had specified.
“Electric shock effect, deduct 5 points.”
38’s voice rang out. Qin Wanwan’s hand trembled, and in that instant, Jun Shu caught her again. He frowned: “Wan’er…”
“What on earth are you clinging to me for?!”
Qin Wanwan couldn’t understand.
“Second electric shock, deduct 5 points.” 38 released electricity without hesitation. Jun Shu’s arm trembled from the shock and he immediately released her. A white ribbon flew from his sleeve, wrapping around Qin Wanwan’s waist. He pressed his lips together and spoke with difficulty, “I wronged you in the past. You and I ultimately have a marriage contract…”
“Ahhh 38!!”
Qin Wanwan realized what he was about to say and broke down on the spot. 38 also immediately sent a strong electric current through. Its voice trembling, it spoke: “This person is too disgusting. He’s not suddenly having an epiphany and wanting to reconcile with you, is he?”
“Stop talking, I have goosebumps all over!” Qin Wanwan frantically rushed forward. 38 caught its breath and reported: “5 points, you have 35 points remaining.”
In an instant, Qin Wanwan clenched her fists: “Can I spend 30 points to electrocute him to death?”
“Host, get a grip,” 38 found Qin Wanwan’s notion absurd, “30 points and you want to kill a Nascent Soul cultivator? Why don’t you go back and sleep some more?”
She knew this system was useless!
Qin Wanwan couldn’t rely on it. She could only rely on ‘Jian Zhiyan’s’ arrangements.
She had long since figured out that this guy hadn’t set up the array according to her instructions at all. But that didn’t really matter—his arrangements didn’t seem problematic either. The only issue was that she had no idea where to run and could only rush in the direction ‘Jian Zhiyan’ had given.
Though Jian Xingzhi couldn’t fly, he ran extremely fast. Taking advantage of Qin Wanwan’s entanglement with Jun Shu, he had already run to a tree beside the teleportation array, poised and ready.
Watching Qin Wanwan and Jun Shu chase one after another, he perched on a branch hidden in the foliage. Seeing Qin Wanwan run past him first with Jun Shu following close behind, Jian Xingzhi seized the moment without hesitation. His entire body pounced down from above, pressing Jun Shu into the teleportation array!
As Jian Xingzhi pounced, Jun Shu reacted with quick hands and sharp eyes, grabbing Qin Wanwan. Qin Wanwan grabbed Jian Xingzhi, and all three fell into the array together.
Thinking about what lay beyond the teleportation array, Jian Xingzhi instantly exploded. Before landing, he threw a punch straight at Jun Shu’s head, his divine sense transforming into needles that pierced directly into Jun Shu’s consciousness sea. Simultaneously kicking viciously at Jun Shu’s body, he grabbed Qin Wanwan and leaped with all his might before they landed, barely managing to stand on solid ground.
Qin Wanwan hadn’t yet reacted when she smelled a foul odor. She immediately realized where she was. Seeing Jun Shu, who seemed to have been knocked unconscious by Jian Xingzhi and fallen into the pit, Qin Wanwan grabbed Jian Xingzhi and started to run.
With Jun Shu’s physique, he would probably only be dazed for a moment. Having kicked Jun Shu into such a pit, for Jun Shu to climb out would be like a fight to the death.
Most importantly, by then Jun Shu would be covered in filth—fighting him would be too disgusting!!
But Jian Xingzhi was completely unaware of how terrifying the situation was. As she grabbed him to run, he pushed back and pulled her in return, while pulling out a string of firecrackers from his pocket: “Wait, I have one more thing prepared.”
“Hurry up and leave!!”
Qin Wanwan was about to collapse.
Jian Xingzhi struck a match, lit the firecrackers and tossed them backward, finally satisfied. Grabbing Qin Wanwan, he rushed out: “Run!”
Qin Wanwan didn’t need him to say it. She grabbed him and leaped to higher ground, running extremely fast.
Moments later, the sound of firecrackers and Jun Shu’s furious roar erupted together in celebration behind them, crackling and popping as if in farewell.
Accompanying the sound of firecrackers was a series of explosions mixed with tremors like mountains collapsing and earth splitting. Qin Wanwan didn’t dare look back at all. Grabbing Jian Xingzhi, she charged down the mountain. As she ran, she felt boulders rolling down. When she had run far enough and turned back, she heard only a thunderous “boom” as the entire Wenxin Sect collapsed together.
At that very moment, an imposing pressure descended from the sky. Qin Wanwan grabbed Jian Xingzhi and dove into the mountain forest. The two almost simultaneously recited incantations, concealing their auras.
“What petty scoundrel,” Shen Zhiming’s voice came from the clouds, his divine sense sweeping the surrounding area, “dares to cause chaos in Wenxin Sect?!”
Neither Qin Wanwan nor Jian Xingzhi dared to move. They lay on the ground, exchanged a glance, and after feeling Shen Zhiming’s divine sense leave, both simultaneously got up and started running toward the edge of the dense forest.
“Where to?”
Jian Xingzhi slowed down, following beside Qin Wanwan. Qin Wanwan didn’t dare use techniques, fearing she’d alert Shen Zhiming. Before she could think it through, she heard a “ding” and the system voice rang out:
[Task One completed perfectly, reward points +1000, total points 1035]
[Task Two: Seek sword in Sword Tomb, reveal your abilities for the first time. Estimated reward points 2000. Do you accept the task?]
It asked whether to accept the task, but there was no “no” option on the screen at all.
Looking at this system’s forced sale and the 2000 points that were even more than Task One, Qin Wanwan knew Task Two was definitely more dangerous than Task One.
Thinking of being stabbed by that sword, her stomach ached. She pretended not to know its tricks and secretly made a decision in her heart.
The task had to be done, the immortal realm had to be returned to, but this ‘Jian Zhiyan’ was too uncontrollable. Though the person wasn’t bad, he was full of suspicious points, violent in methods—who knew when he might stab her again.
She would find a small town, arrange things properly for ‘Jian Zhiyan’, then use her own methods to slowly level up.
As she pondered, she scanned the map in her mind, determining where to part ways with Jian Xingzhi.
“Xunxian Town.”
She spoke: “Let’s go rest first.”
“All right.”
Jian Xingzhi nodded, his gaze falling on the screen in his own mind, looking at the content written there with a thoughtful expression.
What was written there read:
[Task One “Accompany Female Lead Down the Mountain” completed, reward points +500, total points -500]
[Task Two: Within 5 days, cause trouble for the female lead at least 10 times, assist the female lead in completing at least 5 brawls. Reward points +50]
[Task Three: Within 10 days, seduce the lecherous demon Qianliu to kidnap yourself, force the female lead to battle the lecherous demon, obtain the treasure ‘Thousand Faces’ from the lecherous demon’s hands. Reward points +100]
[Task Four: Within 3 months, make the female lead say with genuine sincerity ‘I will always protect you until ascension.’ Reward points +1000]
Jian Xingzhi: “…”