Biting Back, Huh?!

"Brother Chen... You really don't have any older or younger sisters?"

"Brother Chen, pay attention to me."

"Brother Chen, you couldn't possibly be angry that I watched you bathe, could you? How about this, then? I'll let you watch me."

As Chen Jia walked, Jiang Lin kept asking questions. Under the moonlight, Chen Jia's cheeks grew redder and redder, while the Notoriety Points he received from Chen Jia kept increasing.

To tell the truth, every time Jiang Lin said something, his own little heart beat extremely fast.

At first, Jiang Lin had genuinely thought Chen Jia had an older or younger sister or something. But for some reason, he later discovered that every time he said something to Chen Jia, she would glare at him, and a system notification would always appear in his mind.

[Notoriety Points from Chen Jia +40... +30... +50...]

Even if he were as slow-witted as could be, he could still figure out that Chen Jia was Chen Jia.

In other words, although this girl was as flat as a plain, no matter how one looked at it, she was still a girl.

And he had watched a girl bathe...

Jiang Lin hardly dared to think about it.

No matter what, he would rather die than admit it!

Not only would he refuse to admit it, he also had to cover it up. And the best way to cover it up was to shift the target—to redirect everyone's attention from "peeking at Chen Jia bathing" to "who exactly Chen Jia was."

He would gradually downplay the matter of "peeking at Chen Jia" bathing. Otherwise, two protagonists already wanted to kill him. If there were one more, he would cry himself to death.

"Jiang Lin! I don't know who Chen Jia is! Stop asking! And another thing! I'm very angry right now!"

Suddenly, Chen Jia turned around and glared at Jiang Lin with puffed-up cheeks.

She was furious that this man in front of her had peeked at her bathing. But what made her even angrier was that he had not even considered the possibility that she was that girl.

He had clearly already seen her body, yet this fellow was acting as if nothing had happened!

What was that supposed to mean?!

Did she really not look like a girl at all?

Was having a flat chest her fault?!

Her mother had said, "If the chest cannot be flattened, how can one flatten the world?"

So what if she had a flat chest?!

How could those big-breasted women practice martial arts?!

With breasts that large, how could their punches be fast?!

The more the girl thought about it, the angrier she became. As her limpid eyes stared at Jiang Lin, he suddenly felt a chill run down his back...

"You beast! Go to hell!"

"Ah..."

Chen Jia's fist came flying. Jiang Lin smashed through three trees, shattered a small hill, and finally crashed to the ground.

"Brother Chen... Why did you hit me..."

Jiang Lin covered his chest and struggled to stand...

"Jiang! I am Chen Jia! Chen Jia is me! I'm proud of my flat chest! Don't let me see you again! I'll beat you every time I see you! And if you dare tell anyone what happened today, I'll break the third leg of every man among you! Though I don't know why Mother said you men have three legs! Anyway, breaking it is the important part!"

The girl flew into a towering rage and simply stopped disguising her voice. Her voice, as sweet as a silver bell yet somewhat adorable, rang through the mountain forest.

"Go find your lousy diagram by yourself! Hmph!"

The girl snorted, turned around, and left.

"Brother Chen... No... Younger Sister Chen, I actually like smaller breasts... Really..."

Watching Chen Jia's figure sprint away, Jiang Lin knew he had gone too far. He hurriedly shouted, trying to salvage his image at the last moment. But the girl ran back and pounded him in the chest with her tiny fists...

Jiang Lin truly felt as if he were about to ascend to heaven.

Seeing Jiang Lin lying on the ground without getting up, the girl exhaled a fragrant breath, pursed her lips in satisfaction, and seemed to have punched out all the pent-up frustration in her heart. Feeling refreshed, she clapped her hands and left.

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Lin crawled up from the ground.

Although he had taken two more punches, fortunately the system had not prophesied that this girl would scatter his ashes. Not a bad deal...

Jiang Lin bought a bottle of ordinary healing potion from the system store with 200 Notoriety Points and drank it in one gulp. After circulating his energy to recuperate for a quarter of an hour, he exhaled a breath of foul air. Just as he was about to stand, Jiang Lin suddenly sensed a slight change in his Spirit Sea.

Wait! Was he about to break through?!

Jiang Lin's heart jolted.

Cultivators cultivated both their minds and their energy. Jiang Lin felt that his Dao heart was quite firm, so he mainly cultivated his energy. Could it be that Chen Jia's two punches had accidentally opened his Ren and Du Meridians?

Damn... Was he a masochist?

It wasn't that Jiang Lin didn't want to break through. On the contrary, he wanted to break through more than anyone. After all, because of that damnable system, he was destined to charge bravely down the path of becoming a villain. Although he had plenty of Resurrection Coins, no matter how one put it, cultivation was the foundation for survival!

Otherwise, if those protagonists really kicked open his Twin Pearl Peak and then came at him one man and one sword, even all his Resurrection Coins would not be enough.

The problem was that breaking through from the Cave Mansion Realm to the Sea Gazing Realm took one hour at the fastest and two days at the slowest.

The circle would be shrinking in another day. And if someone happened to pass by, wouldn't he be at their mercy? He had insulted everyone by calling them trash...

Should he hold it in first and break through after leaving?

That wouldn't work. Aside from breaking through from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Jade Purity Realm, breaking through in the Bewildering Secret Realm would cause the realm's laws to instantly suppress him back to the initial stage of the Cave Mansion Realm. It was like compressing cotton again and again, which was beneficial for strengthening the Dragon Gate Realm. How could he waste such a good opportunity?

Sure enough, just as Jiang Lin closed his eyes and broke through while wrestling with his indecision, dozens of figures in black leaped out!

"Cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle..."

Laughter like a Goblin's entered Jiang Lin's ears.

"Who goes there?"

Steadying his mind, Jiang Lin slowly raised his head and opened his eyes. What he saw was the other party's pitch-black night clothes.

"Since you asked so sincerely!"

"Then we'll mercifully tell you!"

"To make the world tremble in fear."

"To guard the darkness of the world."

"To kill, burn, and commit every evil under the sun..."

"Villainous characters both domineering and nightmare-like!"

"We! Are the Dugu Demonic Sect!"

"..."

Although Jiang Lin desperately wanted to complain, why did the Dugu Demonic Sect sound so familiar?

"Oh, you're the ones who wiped out the Carefree Sect?"

"Hahaha... It was merely a tiny eighth-grade sect. So what if we wiped it out? A minor achievement, hardly worth mentioning."

"We're both Demonic Sects, acting according to our interests. I understand. But why did the Dugu Demonic Sect target a small sect? Such a thankless task seems unnecessary."

"Heh, you don't need to know that. Just take good care of yourself first."

"Jiang Lin, hand over the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram. For the sake of our being fellow travelers, we can let you break through in peace."

"Leaving aside how you know I have the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, it isn't on me..."

"Not on you? Compared to a diagram, aren't you afraid we'll damage the foundation of your Dao while you're breaking through?"

"No... The diagram really isn't on me. I lost it."

"Still playing tough? Attack! Pierce this pretty boy to death!"

"???"

[Thanks to "Ya Ling" for 200 Qidian coins, "Wind and Rain" for 100 book coins, and "..." (I can't type the name...) for 100 book coins and above, everyone, for your rewards~~~ (???)]