Chapter 37: Using His Life to Flirt with Girls!
"Seven Treasures Have Names, first, strength!"
Ning Rongrong also scrambled to her feet. The Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda shimmered as she activated her First Soul Ring skill, and her gaze never once left Lin Fan.
"Nine Domains Heavenly Dragon Claw!"
The Primordial Ancestral Dragon Martial Soul behind Lin Fan suddenly grew enormous. It let out a dragon's roar, then swung its dark golden claw down with crushing force!
Wherever the dragon claw passed, the air instantly shattered into nothingness. Even space itself warped ever so slightly!
"Roar!"
For the first time, something like fear appeared in the Titan Giant Ape's eyes!
The strange markings on its body began to glow. As they spread, a thick layer of armor, hard as granite, formed over its body!
Boom!
The next moment, the energy dragon claw slammed into the Titan Giant Ape's chest. Its seemingly sturdy defenses crumbled like tofu, smashed to pieces in an unstoppable rush!
The energy claw struck the Titan Giant Ape directly!
Roar!
Amid a thunderous howl, a wildly violent aura burst out from the Titan Giant Ape, sending sand and stones flying in every direction. Many towering trees were uprooted, and the scene looked like the end of the world!
Its original, lantern-sized, ocher-yellow eyes had now turned blood red!
The reason it had flown into a rage was none other than Lin Fan's earlier attack! A massive dragon-claw-shaped wound, nearly two meters long, gaped across the Titan Giant Ape's chest, blood flowing from it like a stream!
Through one of the deeper wounds, one could even see the Titan Giant Ape's stark white bones!
The king of the forest had been thoroughly enraged!
"Brother Lin Fan, catch!"
Just as Lin Fan's expression turned grave and Ning Rongrong looked close to despair, Xiao Wu's voice suddenly rang out overhead!
Lin Fan looked up. Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing had arrived in a helicopter and were tossing down a rope!
Without a word, Lin Fan wrapped his right arm around Ning Rongrong's slender waist and grabbed the rope with his left hand, yanking hard!
His body shot upward like a spring, carrying him straight into the helicopter!
After rescuing Ning Rongrong and Lin Fan, Xiao Wu hurriedly piloted the helicopter away at full speed!
"We finally got out!"
As the Titan Giant Ape's roars faded into the distance, Zhu Zhuqing let out a relieved sigh. Without realizing it, she was drenched in cold sweat!
"Lin Fan, are you okay?!"
Ning Rongrong suddenly cried out beside them. Lin Fan's face had gone deathly pale, and his eyes were shut tight. He had passed out!
At a loss, Ning Rongrong could only cradle Lin Fan in her arms, calling his name over and over!
"Hubby!"
Zhu Zhuqing hurried over, her nerves, which had only just begun to relax, tightening again with worry!
Then she froze, because she clearly saw Lin Fan leaning against Ning Rongrong with a look of enjoyment. He even cracked one eye open and shot Zhu Zhuqing a glance!
That guy... Even at a time like this, he's still taking advantage of girls!
Zhu Zhuqing clicked her tongue, but didn't expose him. Instead, she went to the front to help Xiao Wu fly the helicopter.
Alas, this girl's development is seriously behind. It's nowhere near as nice as lying in Zhuqing's arms...
Breathing in the faint fragrance of the girl in his arms, Lin Fan couldn't help sighing to himself.
Two hours later, the four of them returned to the Rose Hotel without incident.
"Rongrong, get some rest. The two of us will take care of him."
Xiao Wu spoke up.
"Let me look after him. I want to be here when he wakes up. Even though... you two are his wives, he was hurt because of me, so..."
Ning Rongrong's gaze never left Lin Fan as she spoke. By the end, her voice had grown choked with emotion...
"Ah, all right..."
Xiao Wu sighed, then led Zhu Zhuqing out of the room.
"Sister Xiao Wu, what exactly happened?!"
Back in the adjoining room, Zhu Zhuqing shut the door and immediately asked. She had far too many questions!
"Don't worry. Lin Fan's fine. He did all that just to win Rongrong over, and it looks like it worked!"
Xiao Wu pursed her lips as she spoke.
"Win her over? Could it be..."
A thought surfaced in Zhu Zhuqing's mind, though even she could hardly believe it.
"Actually, Mother's keepsake wasn't lost. At the time, I sensed Er Ming approaching—the Titan Giant Ape."
"When I told Brother Lin Fan, he had me direct Er Ming to attack Rongrong, so he could swoop in and save the damsel in distress!"
After Xiao Wu finished, Zhu Zhuqing stood rooted to the spot!
Once she and Lin Fan had become a couple, they were family. She knew Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, but she hadn't known about Xiao Wu's connection to the king of the forest, the Titan Giant Ape!
What shocked Zhu Zhuqing even more was that all of this had been Lin Fan's calculated ploy to get Ning Rongrong to like him!
"That guy... He's literally risking his life to flirt with girls!"
"Why... why were you so foolish... You knew that monster was targeting me, yet you stepped in front of me without hesitation..."
"Please wake up, okay? If you wake up... I... I'll consider being your girlfriend..."
In the room next door, Ning Rongrong looked at Lin Fan lying motionless on the bed, his face deathly pale, and wept as beautifully as a pear blossom in the rain!
She had grown up doted on by her father and two grandfathers. She had shed more tears today than she had in all her previous years combined!
Looking at the unconscious Lin Fan, Ning Rongrong's heart hurt so much it felt as if thousands of needles were stabbing into it, making it hard to breathe...
"Ahem... Rongrong, you said it yourself... You can't... take it back."
At that moment, Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes and spoke in a halting voice.
"Ah! You're awake... How do you feel?!"
When Ning Rongrong saw Lin Fan come around, her tears turned to laughter. She hurriedly wiped them away, a captivating smile appearing on her pretty face.
"If I didn't wake up, our little fairy would've cried herself dry... Look at you, your eyes are all swollen!"
Lin Fan's heart ached. He raised a hand and gently wiped the tears from Ning Rongrong's face.
"Don't cry. I'm as tough as a cockroach. I'm not going to die..."
Lin Fan bought a healing pill from the system space, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it.
Half of the pain he was in now was an act, but the other half was real!
Although the fight with the Titan Giant Ape had been arranged in advance, Lin Fan had still been seriously injured. If his body hadn't been so strong, even with the Titan Giant Ape holding back, he might have lost half his life!
This experience had also shown him the gap between himself and the truly top-tier powerhouses. So he decided that until he reached the peak of his strength, he should stop tempting fate!
Chapter 38: Damn Restriction
"How do you feel?!"
After Lin Fan swallowed a pill, Ning Rongrong examined him from head to toe, her eyes red with worry.
"It's good medicine, but it's too bitter... If Rongrong gave me a sweet kiss, I'd recover in no time!"
Lin Fan grinned as he spoke, then shamelessly puckered his lips!
"You're still joking at a time like this..."
Ning Rongrong's cheeks flushed crimson. The next moment, she suddenly leaned over and gently pressed her thin, rosy lips against Lin Fan's!
In that instant, Lin Fan felt as if lightning had struck him. The cool, soft, tingling sensation was so wonderful that he couldn't help himself. Ignoring the pain throughout his body, he rolled over and pinned Ning Rongrong beneath him!
"Ah!"
Caught completely off guard, Ning Rongrong cried out like a startled little rabbit, her pretty face turning red as the evening clouds!
"Brother Lin Fan... We can't..."
Ning Rongrong murmured. Her warm breath brushed against Lin Fan's face, mingling with the faint fragrance of the girl's body...
How could Lin Fan possibly hold back? He bent down and kissed Ning Rongrong hard, with a roughness that was almost violent...
Ning Rongrong tried to struggle, but there was no way her strength could match Lin Fan's. Their bodies pressed closer and closer...
The next instant, Lin Fan's tightly shut eyes flew open. His body snapped away from Ning Rongrong like a spring compressed to its limit, sending him hurtling through the air!
Bang!
Lin Fan smashed into the ceiling, shaking the entire Rose Hotel. Then he fell to the floor in a thoroughly wretched heap!
"Damn, what was that noise? They're going at it way too hard!"
In the adjoining room, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing were startled, too. Even when they had cultivated with Lin Fan, it hadn't been this earth-shaking!
"Looks like Hubby succeeded. Our sisterhood's growing again!"
Xiao Wu murmured.
Lin Fan's head was spinning, and every bone in his body felt as if it had come apart!
If he hadn't taken the healing pill just now, that fall might have killed him!
"Brother Lin Fan... Are you okay?!"
Ning Rongrong cried out and hurried over. With some effort, she helped Lin Fan back onto the bed.
"Rongrong... What just happened..."
Lin Fan asked, gasping for breath.
"Grandpa Sword put a restriction on me. Whenever someone of the opposite sex gets physically intimate with me... they're thrown back..."
Ning Rongrong explained, her face red.
Damn you, Sword Douluo! I'll never forgive you!
Lin Fan cursed inwardly. He had already decided to get things going first and ask permission later, and he could tell Ning Rongrong hadn't resisted much. But who could have expected this?!
"Hmph, you brought this on yourself. I told you just now that we couldn't... You big pervert!"
Ning Rongrong puffed out her cheeks. The last three words, "big pervert," came out with a girlish, teasing pout that made Lin Fan's bones practically melt!
"I don't believe it!"
Lin Fan gritted his teeth and lunged at Ning Rongrong again!
Bang!
After just a few breaths, he was sent flying once more!
"Rongrong... When will this restriction be lifted...?"
Lin Fan climbed up from the floor, wincing, and asked unwillingly.
With his current strength, he couldn't break it. Using brute force wouldn't matter if he hurt himself, but it would be bad if he accidentally injured Ning Rongrong.
Lin Fan felt a little hopeless. After what had happened in the Star Dou Forest, he'd thought his relationship with Ning Rongrong would progress by leaps and bounds. Keeping his promise to raise her Soul Power by five levels in half a year should have been no problem!
Now, it seemed that promise would be hard to fulfill!
It was like having a dazzling flower right before your eyes, yet being unable to pluck it. The feeling was truly unbearable!
"Rongrong, you're tired today. Get some rest. My injuries aren't serious, so I'll head back for now!"
After comforting Ning Rongrong, Lin Fan limped back to the adjoining room.
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