Sword for Hire
Chapter 45

Chu Huai Xu Was a Little Misogynistic?

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At the words "Demon Suppression," the first person Chu Huai Xu thought of was the True Martial Emperor.

The True Martial Emperor, also known as the Demon Purging Heavenly Venerable and the Disheveled Ancestor, was a famous deity in Daoism.

Wudang Mountain was his sacred ground.

Under normal circumstances, someone who went down the mountain to slay demons and exorcise evil spirits wouldn't deserve the title "Demon Purging."

This Junior Uncle of the Dao Sect had become a Great Cultivator at nineteen. After entering the Fifth Realm, the first thing he did was descend the mountain and start killing!

He was a Peerless killer who Proved Dao through killing!

For Chu Huai Xu, the good news was that Jiazi Demon Purge hadn't yet lasted a full sixty years. It had been only forty-three years so far.

Killing for a full sixty years was a goal he had set for himself.

The bad news was that everyone had their own definition of what counted as a demon.

This Junior Uncle undoubtedly had his own set of standards.

Over the past forty-odd years, he had killed off the lineages of several evil sects.

Chu Huai Xu didn't dare take a chance against someone like that.

As a result, the urgency he felt about leveling up grew even stronger.

He didn't know when this Junior Uncle would return to the Dao Sect.

But before he did, Chu Huai Xu needed to at least reach the First Realm and do his best to climb that mountain.

The mountain where that sword was!

A mountain filled with treasures.

At the thought of this, Chu Huai Xu yearned even more to gain Experience Points.

So he guarded Han Shuangjiang ever more closely, making sure she didn't take a single Water Blade hit.

Please let me keep all the Experience Points to myself.

At that moment, Chu Huai Xu had no idea that the involuntary shiver he'd just given had sent Han Shuangjiang, a theoretician, spiraling into all sorts of wild thoughts.

No wonder theoreticians were so inferior. Someone with firsthand experience would surely know that a shiver couldn't be just one little tremble.

"W-why did you shiver?" Han Shuangjiang's face was flushed red, and she couldn't help asking, her voice tinged with embarrassment and indignation.

"Huh? Did I just shiver?" Chu Huai Xu genuinely hadn't noticed.

Hearing the surprise in his voice, this Big Ice Block was plunged into awkwardness once again. She realized she'd been letting her imagination run away with her.

It wasn't his body that was dirty. It was her mind.

She even felt a little guilty.

He's protecting me from every Water Blade, and there are still more coming. It's only normal for the pain to make him shiver. How could I... how could I think of that sort of thing?

It had to be said that the basic education she'd received from Red Sleeves Beckon and the Joyful Sect had been etched into her soul.

As she often did, she started to hate herself a little.

Even when she'd first met Chu Huai Xu and, almost as if possessed, blurted out the words "Cultivation Cauldron," she'd felt deeply disgusted with herself once she came to her senses.

The man pressed against her back saw her lower her head, her expression downcast.

Having already gotten the information he'd wanted, he spoke up again. "More than half the time has passed, and the Water Blades don't seem to be increasing anymore. They've stayed at this number."

"That's good," Han Shuangjiang said softly.

Then she asked the same question again. "Can you really hold on? Don't push yourself."

Chu Huai Xu gave his usual tea-like reply. "It's fine. I can still bear it."

He'd already realized that Han Shuangjiang didn't understand his Pain Threshold.

Or maybe she'd heard me screaming while I practiced next door so often that she hadn't realized I'd already been completely "transformed" by the process?

In the end, just as with their previous conversations, this Big Ice Block only said, "Oh."

Chu Huai Xu was speechless. He looked down at her and said irritably, "Oh, oh, oh. Is 'oh' all you know how to say?"

Han Shuangjiang didn't answer.

With the conversation ending abruptly once more, the two of them once again became fully aware of their bodies.

Chu Huai Xu was a little misogynistic.

He suddenly felt that his knee had bumped against her calf.

Her jade-white legs were long, and her calves were shapely and springy.

Someone with wide hips couldn't possibly have thighs as thin as bamboo stalks.

If she did, her legs would be so far apart that they couldn't come together at all. On Earth, people would have whispered behind her back in school, slandering her with all sorts of vile remarks.

Han Shuangjiang had an incredibly alluring curve to her hips, so her upper thighs were round, full, and close together, with a soft, substantial quality.

But her calves were shapely, and her legs were exceptionally long. So her full upper thighs didn't make her legs look thick overall. Instead, they added to her appeal.

That meant every brush of their thighs was all the more captivating.

Realizing they'd made contact again, Han Shuangjiang shifted away.

She gripped the protruding stones in the wall with both hands and leaned forward.

The current pushed her, and her full breasts pressed against the stone wall once more.

Her clothes had already been slashed by the Water Blades, revealing a deep, alluring cleavage.

Now that they were pressed against the wall, her pale, soft flesh spread to either side, squeezing together even more.

Yet they retained their distinctive fullness, proof that despite their softness, they had a pleasing elasticity.

Chu Huai Xu felt as though the joint between his neck and face had stiffened. He couldn't turn his head or look away.

He simply stared at the "abyss."

It was only human nature.

As the seconds ticked by, the two of them silently shifted away from each other every time they accidentally touched.

But the more it happened, and the longer they remained silent, the more the ambiguous, intimate atmosphere lingered.

Suddenly, they heard a faint noise, followed by Liu Chengqi's angry shout.

The sound came from behind them.

Chu Huai Xu stayed relatively calm, but Han Shuangjiang jolted violently in fright.

His chest pressed directly against her back.

His full, shapely backside brushed against her once more.

This time, it seemed to catch in the cleft of her buttocks for a moment, then flick upward.

That made the thin undergarments clinging to the cleft of Han Shuangjiang's backside after getting wet ride even deeper.

The man and woman both felt a tingling current sweep through their bodies.

They stiffened as though turned to stone, not daring to move.

Even more frighteningly, he vaguely felt a little empty.

Chu Huai Xu was a little misogynistic.

In the end, the frightened Han Shuangjiang was the first to speak.

"Is someone about to come in?"

That was what she feared most.

She'd felt her body growing warm earlier, but now the places where her clothes were in tatters felt chilly.

"Don't worry. They won't get in anytime soon. Can't you tell he's just venting his frustration?" Chu Huai Xu stayed fairly calm and tried to comfort her.

He guessed Liu Chengqi had been lucky enough to find his way out of the maze, only to get trapped in an Illusionary realm. The young man had probably run out of patience, which was why he'd made such a racket.

"Looks like this stone door doesn't block sound very well," Chu Huai Xu said softly.

Strangely, a man and a woman could be pressed together like this, and speaking normally was no big deal. But when he spoke in a near-whisper, it made her ears itch.

"Oh," Han Shuangjiang answered, still nervous.

If anyone saw such a... steamy scene, she'd want to die.

Why did this quarter of an hour feel so endless?

At last, the countdown in the system before Chu Huai Xu's eyes reached zero.

The Water Blades sweeping toward them vanished completely, and the Body Tempering Potion stopped pouring out of the four holes.

"All right, the trial's over. That Transparent Barrier should be gone," he reminded her.

At his words, Han Shuangjiang immediately raised her hand and tapped the air. Sure enough, it was gone.

Seeing that, she hurried to get away from this "troublesome place."

But Chu Huai Xu said, "Get out first and put your hand on the Spirit Disk to open the stone door ahead."

"There's still a little Body Tempering Potion left here. I'll absorb it for a while longer. No need to waste it," he explained, stepping backward.

"All right." Han Shuangjiang immediately climbed out.

Splash—! More droplets fell from her body, wetting the blue-gray stone slabs along the bank.

Chu Huai Xu looked up at her, taking in her entire wet figure from behind.

From his angle, her legs looked even longer.

Her clothes were soaked through and had turned slightly sheer. They clung to her skin, faintly revealing the outline of her legs.

The wet fabric clung to her perfectly curved hips, so full and shapely. A slit had been cut at the small of her back, revealing a patch of snowy white skin.

It fell at such an extreme angle that he almost seemed to glimpse the top of the cleft between her buttocks—though perhaps he hadn't.

The girl was so beautiful that every part of her was just right. She was like a masterpiece created to show off the creator's skill.

More importantly, every touch from earlier still lingered in his memory.

But the pool had been full of Body Tempering Potion, and he hadn't been able to see clearly underwater.

Now that she was out of the water, it was hard not to let his imagination run wild, wondering whether he'd touched this spot or that one.

Her shoulder, her leg, her backside, her waist.

There was no suppressing those wild thoughts!

They grew, and grew, and grew!

Was Chu Huai Xu a little misogynistic?

Han Shuangjiang walked toward the Spirit Disk, her movements replacing the beauty of her stillness with something dynamic.

After only a few steps, she took a spare robe from her Storage Token and draped it over herself.

She hadn't even considered finding somewhere to change.

Even with Chu Huai Xu facing away from her, she couldn't bring herself to stand naked behind a man.

Han Shuangjiang went to the Spirit Disk and, as Chu Huai Xu had instructed, placed her palm on it.

A mysterious power began to ripple outward. The pointer on the Spirit Disk moved, quickly reaching the mark for "ten."

Nine Yin Physique, Super Grade Spiritual Embryo!

The girl raised her lovely eyes toward the stone door ahead and held her breath.

Chu Huai Xu looked at the stone door too.

It didn't open.

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