Green Mountain Town (400 Chapters, as Promised)

"Xiao Fan... hungry... food."

Though she was tiny, she had an enormous appetite. Zi Yan was currently sitting cross-legged atop Xiao Fan's head, one hand tugging at his hair while the other pointed at her abyssal maw...

"Xiao Fan, why are you ignoring me!"

"Xiao Fan!"

"I'm—hun—gry!"

Zi Yan suddenly leaned close to Xiao Fan's ear and shouted.

"I hear you! I hear you! Stop pulling my hair! I barely have any to begin with!"

"I'm going bald!"

Xiao Fan raised both hands high and lifted Zi Yan up from beneath her armpits.

Even while being held up, Zi Yan bared her teeth at Xiao Fan, but her tiny pink fists could not reach him at all.

"Xiao Fan! Put me down!"

"No!"

"Chomp!" Zi Yan bit down on Xiao Fan's palm, leaving behind two neat rows of teeth marks.

"Wow, are you a dog or something?" Xiao Fan winced in pain and could only put Zi Yan back down. Zi Yan found a more comfortable position and clung to his front. Helpless, Xiao Fan had no choice but to support her little butt with one hand while carrying his sword in the other, cautiously watching for magical beast attacks.

This strange pair made their way through the perilous Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Zi Yan could never resist Xiao Fan's words, but how could Xiao Fan resist Zi Yan acting cute?

At that moment, Xiao Fan recalled that in his previous life, Xiao Yan seemed to often carry a heavy dark-red ruler on his back. It seemed to be called the Heavy Profound Ruler, and it had the effect of refining Dou Qi. Now, however, Zi Yan was hanging off him...

He just did not know whether Zi Yan was heavier now, or the Heavy Profound Ruler.

Xiao Fan took out a map and said to Zi Yan, "Green Mountain Town is up ahead. There's a medicinal herb shop there, so let's buy some supplies."

Zi Yan immediately became alert, her ears perking up. "A medicinal herb shop!"

"Xiao Fan, Xiao Fan, walk faster!" Zi Yan said, wrapping her arms around Xiao Fan's neck and shaking back and forth.

"Stop shaking me!"

"Aw." Zi Yan's mood sank a little.

"I'll make you Three-Colored Candy Pills later."

"Hehe... Xiao Fan, you're so nice."

Xiao Fan rubbed the veins throbbing on his forehead. He did not even know whether this was training or childcare.

When he had first entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range, there had not even been a trace of magical beasts. Later, he remembered that Zi Yan's true form was an Ancient Void Dragon. Just the slightest release of her aura had frightened all those magical beasts away, so he could only helplessly make Zi Yan conceal her aura...

"Forget it, forget it. Eating comes first."

Just as they entered the outskirts of Green Mountain Town, three burly men approached them head-on.

The taller man among them stroked the greatsword on his back and said to Xiao Fan, "Hey, kid. If you want to enter Green Mountain Town, hand over 1,000 gold coins."

"Boss, look at the ring on that kid's hand. It looks like a Storage Ring!"

"The little girl on his back isn't ordinary either. Those clothes don't look like something commoners would wear!"

"That boy's pretty cute too, Boss. How about..."

Their whispers did not escape Xiao Fan's ears, but what he found most unbearable was this: "You're actually lusting after my body? Look at this Little Dragon Maiden—she's big and round—yet you're lusting after my body?"

Zi Yan could not help bursting into laughter. She asked Xiao Fan, "Xiao Fan-zi, do you want me to make a move?"

When it came to cooking, Zi Yan might not compare to Xiao Fan, but fighting was her specialty. At that moment, she was already planning to have a "heart-to-heart" exchange with the three men. Anyone who dares covet my Xiao Fan, even if they're men, won't be forgiven!

"Let's see what they do first. We need to act in self-defense."

"Mm-hmm, I get it, I get it. Play the pig to eat the tiger, never leave empty-handed, destroy the corpses and erase the evidence."

Zi Yan patted her not-so-prominent chest and explained with the fullest extent of her vocabulary.

"Right. Hm? No, that's not right... though it kind of is."

"Who taught you that?"

The boss of the three had clearly been persuaded by his two underlings. He drew his greatsword and threatened Xiao Fan, "Kid, hand over your Storage Ring and valuables, and I can guarantee this little sister won't die!"

Xiao Fan froze. Was I included in his target too?

"Boss, what would two brats know? Let's just do it." One of them, with a particularly sleazy air about him, rubbed his hands together while staring lecherously at Xiao Fan.

A shudder ran through Xiao Fan's entire body. For once, he cursed, "Fuck! I can't take this anymore!"

Xiao Fan tossed his sword aside, charged forward with Zi Yan on his back, and said, "People like this deserve a proper beating, fist against flesh!"

"Go, Xiao Fan!"

Zi Yan was grinning so widely that she could barely close her mouth. She giggled as she watched Xiao Fan attack with her on his back.

The three men were obviously stunned. Who would have thought that this tiny boy would dare fight back?

"Kid, you'd better not—"

His fist cut through the air. At such speed, even the air seemed to emit a piercing sonic boom!

The man who had just been incomparably lecherous was smashed straight into the ground by Xiao Fan's punch.

No one knew what the man thought in his final moments, but if anyone did, it was probably: Have you ever been hit by a punch at the speed of sound...

"Second Brother!"

"You brat..."

"What about me! And you too!" Xiao Fan pointed at the remaining two, his tone completely devoid of politeness. He was utterly unlike the fat sheep he had seemed to be moments ago.

The two were startled by Xiao Fan's aura. Then they looked at their second brother, whose head was buried in the ground and whose entire body was planted upside down in the dirt, and unconsciously swallowed.

With a thud, they both dropped to their knees, pleading, "Young hero, spare us! The three of us merely had evil thoughts for a moment. We absolutely did not..."

But they soon discovered that the boy before them had no intention of letting them go...

"Hey, Xiao Fan, is it really okay to bury them here?"

"Don't worry. No one will find them."

"Hmph, three poor bastards." Zi Yan patted the dirt from her hands and looked with satisfaction at the three little mounds before her.

"Xiao Fan, what's this medicine those three had? Can you eat it?"

Zi Yan handed a jade bottle to Xiao Fan.

"Hm? Let me see."

Xiao Fan took the jade bottle and habitually opened it. But the moment he cracked it open, multicolored smoke seeped from the gap, and he immediately replaced the stopper.

With a serious expression, he said to Zi Yan, "Do you have any more? Hand them all over."

"No! They're my spoils of war!" The moment Zi Yan heard that Xiao Fan wanted to take them, she immediately hid both hands behind her back.

"You clearly didn't do any work."

"I dug the graves!"

"That still doesn't work. You can't eat this."

"No, no, I won't!" Zi Yan shook her head like a rattle drum. She had already figured it out—Xiao Fan must have discovered something good and was trying to trick her, the fool, again.

I, Zi Yan, am not a fool!

"Three bottles of Sugar Pills in exchange!"

"Deal!"

Zi Yan obediently handed over the spoils she had just acquired and received three bottles of Sugar Pills in return.

Although Xiao Fan was somewhat suspicious, seeing Zi Yan be so obedient still left him feeling a little uneasy.

"Let's go."

"Coming!"

Zi Yan once again found a comfortable spot on Xiao Fan, climbed onto his back, and lay there. One of the jade bottles in her hand vanished in an instant.

That jade bottle was one of the spoils from earlier. Xiao Fan was actually rather speechless. Three grown men had been carrying Aphrodisiac Powder.

The key issue was that he had no way to explain this stuff to Zi Yan. He did not want to pollute the little girl's innocent mind.

"Still, this Aphrodisiac Powder is only an ordinary medicine, yet its preparation method is top-tier. Its potency, its duration—just one whiff suggests it was made by a master alchemist at the very least."