No Feelings!

Jiang Lin decided that, in order to make it in time for the Sect Grand Tournament, he could talk this Chen Jia into becoming his teammate.

Although this girl with an absurdly delicate and beautiful face... bah, this delicate-looking man loved battling bears all over the place in winter and throwing his life into every punch against others!

But setting aside the fact that he was powerful, his head held nothing but fist training. That was refreshingly straightforward. If any misunderstandings arose later, Jiang Lin could persuade him. As far as the bigger picture was concerned, there probably wouldn't be too much trouble.

"I refuse!"

"Hmm?"

"I'm a lone wolf! I have no feelings! I have no teammates!" Chen Jia turned his little head. If he hadn't spoken, his small, willful, adorable appearance really would have made people want to rub him bald.

"Wouldn't that be even better!" Jiang Lin clapped his hands in delight.

"Even better? What's good about it?" Chen Jia's pair of silk-like eyes looked at Jiang Lin as though he were a fool.

"To be honest, Daoist friend, I have my own plans for this Sect Grand Tournament. I really don't want to team up with anyone either. Since you also want to act alone, why don't we form a team in name only and then go our separate ways? What does this man, whose appearance is masculine, whose back is broad and waist thick, and whose entire body exudes manly vigor, think?"

"Manly vigor?"

Chen Jia's long, slender finger pointed at himself. His foolishly adorable expression was simply too cute! What a pity he was a man...

"Yes!"

"Broad-backed and thick-waisted?"

"Yes!"

"Big man?!"

"Yes!"

"Don't you think I'm very feminine?"

"Heh! If you were a woman, wouldn't that mean I, Jiang Lin, was beneath even a woman? Daoist Chen, are you truly insulting me, Jiang Lin? Since you don't want to team up with me, then forget it!"

With a grand sweep of his sleeve, Jiang Lin turned and started to leave.

"Wait... wait..."

Chen Jia caught Jiang Lin by the hem of his clothes. He lowered his delicate head, his long eyelashes fluttering like brushes of snow, his fair little face flushed pink, and his pair of autumn-water eyes challenged Jiang Lin's reason itself.

"That's not what I meant... I'm sorry. Let's... team up..."

The instant Chen Jia raised his eyes... Jiang Lin's nose quietly began to bleed...

Aww, so cute...

"Master, I just accepted a mission and am about to leave. Take good care of yourself, Master, and remember not to fight the Black Bear Monsters on the mountain for their honey anymore. Remember to sun the quilts more often. When you have time, you can take the books in my room out to sun as well. Don't just focus on eating meat. Eat more vegetables too. Your nutrition needs to be balanced."

"Don't go... Little Linlin, don't go... You only just came back not long ago. Stay a few more days... Master hasn't even slept with Little Linlin yet..."

At the dilapidated Small Pavilion on Twin Pearl Peak, Jiang Lin carried a little bundle on his back. As he spoke his farewells, he tried to pry his master off, but the other party was simply holding him too tightly...

"Master... be good. I'll bring Sugar-coated Haws back for you when I return."

"No!"

"I'll definitely make you mousse cake when I get back!"

"No! I only want Little Lin!"

"Master, look! A shooting star!"

"Huh? Where?"

At the instant Jiang Yuni let down her guard, Jiang Lin pried apart Jiang Yuni's lotus-like arms. His Spiritual Energy Horse galloped away at full speed, all in one smooth motion!

"How could you trick your master?! Master doesn't like Little Linlin as much anymore!"

Jiang Yuni shouted at Jiang Lin's distant figure.

Hearing that soft, syrupy cry from Twin Pearl Peak, Jiang Lin wiped a hand across his face...

The Demon Sect cultivators on the nearby peaks also raised their heads one after another. They knew that this pair of master and disciple was once again putting on one of those partings so enviable that people wanted to set them ablaze.

"All right, all right, stop shouting. You sound like a resentful wife. Aren't you embarrassed?"

Just after Jiang Lin's back foot left, a graceful woman with beautiful features stepped onto Twin Pearl Peak.

"Embarrassed?"

Jiang Yuni's figure gradually changed. The Hashimoto Kannai who had originally been only one and a half meters tall became a one-point-seven-meter-tall senior-sister beauty...

A seductive smile appeared at the corners of Jiang Yuni's lips. Her previously vacant, adorable eyes instantly turned cold and queenly. She undid her hair bun.

Her black eyes, cherry-pink lips, and graceful figure became even more pronounced beneath the already rather small long robe, while her flowing hair drifted lightly in the wind.

"Your subordinate pays respects to the Sect Leader..."

Fang Ruo smiled and gathered her skirt in a curtsy.

The master of Twin Pearl Peak, Jiang Yuni, also known as Jiang Yu Ni, was the hidden strongest expert of the Sun Moon Sect and a once-in-a-millennium genius. She had inherited the position of Sect Leader at twenty and reached the Nascent Soul Realm Third Stage at thirty, standing only one step away from the Jade Purity Realm. Unfortunately, she had been unable to break through in the twenty years since then, so she secluded herself on Twin Pearl Peak, handing the sect's affairs to others and devoting herself to cultivation.

Aside from a very small number of people, no one knew her identity.

"Did the Sect Leader go follow Jiang Lin again this time?"

Whenever Jiang Lin descended the mountain to gain experience, this beautiful Sect Leader would secretly follow him, afraid that something might happen to him. The only exception was the last time, when she had been in seclusion and hadn't known that Jiang Lin had gone to the Dragon Gate Sect...

"Because I was in seclusion last time, I didn't find out that Little Jiang Lin had gone to the Dragon Gate Sect until he came back. Little Jiang Lin even said those four Dragon Veins were picked up! Hmph! He definitely stole them from the Dragon Gate Sect. This time, Lin Qingwan's Dao Heart was damaged at the Dragon Gate Sect, and I guessed it must have something to do with Little Lin.

"The Dragon Gate Sect will definitely send Lin Qingwan to the Sect Grand Tournament to temper her Dao Heart, while Little Lin is out on a mission now! It must be for that Lin Qingwan! After all, Little Lin is so kind-hearted. He must feel guilty and want to make it up to her! What if, after going back and forth like this, they really develop feelings for each other?

"If I don't make a move soon, my Little Lin will be spirited away by that demoness!"

Fang Ruo sighed softly. "Then what does the Sect Leader plan to do this time?"

Jiang Yuni gave a bewitching smile. Her figure turned, her skirt hem fluttered, and in the blink of an eye she became an adorable little girl of about ten years old.

"Daoist Jiang, why do you look like you're in such a hurry?" Outside the Demon Sect, Chen Jia, who had seen Jiang Lin galloping toward their meeting place as though he were fleeing with his sister-in-law, asked in surprise.

"It's a long story..."

Jiang Lin remembered the way his master had clung to him with tears and snot streaming down her face. Then he thought of the empty-nest image of his master alone on Twin Pearl Peak, and he suddenly felt rather guilty.

After this mission is over, I should spend more time with Master...

"The time is getting on, Brother Chen. Let's set off now."

"All right."

Because a Pure Martial Warrior could not Ride the Wind and travel through the air before reaching the Seventh Realm, the Distant Excursion Realm, Jiang Lin wanted to pull him onto his Spiritual Energy Horse so they could gallop together, one in front of the other.

But Chen Jia refused no matter what, saying that he wanted to temper his physique...

And so Jiang Lin flew through the sky while Chen Jia ran along the ground... On the evening of the fifth day, the two reached a cave a thousand li from Black Tortoise Mountain, where the Sect Grand Tournament was being held. They planned to enter the mountain first thing the next morning.

Just as the two of them were roasting fish, the sound of a little girl's sobbing came from not far outside the cave...