Zhao Ling hurriedly nodded to him respectfully. "T-Teacher, what brings you here?"
Qian Xunji gave Zhao Ling a displeased glare. "Zhao Ling, I hope you understand something. You may already possess the strength of a Titled Douluo, but Dong'er is still very weak.
"However, among all the people I have met, her aptitude is second only to yours. I hope you can give her time to grow instead of thinking about romance all day. Do you understand?"
Chapter 105: Don't Drown in Love
"Uh..." Seeing Qian Xunji's displeasure, Zhao Ling understood that he was unhappy about how relentlessly he had been ravishing Dong'er.
After all, Qian Xunji had poured a great deal of effort into Dong'er. If he ravished her every day and made her lose herself in romance, her growth might slow down.
That was clearly unacceptable to Qian Xunji, which was why he had come to negotiate with him personally.
Zhao Ling pondered for a while before asking Qian Xunji in a consultative tone.
"Then, Teacher, how do you think I should handle this?"
Qian Xunji fell silent for a moment before speaking solemnly.
"How about this? Leave Spirit City in two days. Don't misunderstand. I simply hope you and Dong'er will both focus on cultivation first.
"Of course, I'm not someone who enjoys beating a pair of mandarin ducks apart. You can return to Spirit City for a few days each month to keep her company. Once she reaches the strength of a Titled Douluo or above, I won't interfere in your affairs anymore."
"Only a few days each month? Teacher, isn't that a little too cruel to Dong'er and me...?"
Zhao Ling was reluctant. He and Dong'er had only been together for a few days, yet this sneaky bastard was already rushing to drive him out of Spirit City.
Although his intentions were good, well, Zhao Ling still felt rather annoyed.
Qian Xunji knitted his sword-like brows and said in a low voice.
"Zhao Ling, you and Dong'er both possess extraordinary aptitude. Both of you have a chance to become deities in the future. A deity's lifespan is nearly infinite. When that time comes, even if you spend all day entwined together, no one will be able to interfere.
"But if Dong'er spends all day with you and neglects cultivation, slowing her progress or even losing her chance to become a deity altogether, only to perish before your eyes, would you be happy with that?"
Zhao Ling fell silent. Of course he knew Bibi Dong could become a deity, but if his constant ravishing made her neglect cultivation and grow slowly, it was not impossible that she would lose that qualification.
By contrast, in the original work, Bibi Dong cultivated extremely hard early on to take revenge on her teacher and Spirit Hall, becoming a Titled Douluo in her thirties.
Some might say Tang San became a deity earlier than Bibi Dong, but they should not forget that Tang San had consumed several immortal herbs, which had directly increased his Soul Power considerably while also improving his constitution.
If Bibi Dong consumed immortal herbs, her growth might well be no slower than Tang San's.
At that thought, Zhao Ling nodded and agreed. "All right. I'll leave Spirit City in two days. Teacher, you're right. Dong'er really should prioritize improving her strength instead of drowning in romance."
"Good, good..." This time, Qian Xunji nodded in satisfaction, pleased that he could see reality clearly.
After bidding Qian Xunji farewell, Zhao Ling hurried to the kitchen and instructed them to prepare dinner for three before returning to Bibi Dong's bedroom.
As soon as he entered, Ah Yin noticed something unusual in his expression and asked tentatively.
"Darling, what's wrong? Why do you look so clouded with worry? Did something happen?"
Bibi Dong also turned her gaze toward Zhao Ling. Having noticed something as well, she slightly knitted her delicate brows and asked.
"Darling, did Teacher say something to you?"
Zhao Ling nodded without hesitation. "Yes, Teacher did come to discuss something with me..."
He told Bibi Dong what Qian Xunji had said, and the entire room immediately fell silent.
After roughly two minutes of silence, Bibi Dong took Zhao Ling's hands and smiled gently.
"Darling, if you don't want to leave, that's all right. I'll always stand by you. Teacher can't separate us."
Zhao Ling lowered his head and kissed her between the brows.
"Silly girl, your teacher is right. Your aptitude is excellent. Becoming a Titled Douluo will be easy for you, and even reaching the Great Enshrined's level won't be a problem. But if you want to become a deity, you don't have much time to waste.
"For our future, we really can't focus only on the romance before us. As long as we become deities, we'll have nearly infinite time to spend in sweetness together. Do you understand?"
Zhao Ling's words were sincere and heartfelt, moving Bibi Dong deeply. She lifted her head and pecked his cheek before nodding in agreement.
"Darling, you're right. We really shouldn't limit ourselves to the present. As long as we become deities, our future can stretch as far as we wish."
But hearing their rather sentimental exchange, Ah Yin slightly knitted her delicate brows.
"Hiss... Sister Dong'er, if you and Darling can only meet for a few days each month, doesn't that mean he'll have plenty of time to ravish me? Isn't that unfair?"
"Uh..." Zhao Ling and Bibi Dong were both speechless. They had been having a perfectly sentimental moment. Why had this girl jumped in to spoil it?
Meanwhile, Bo Saixi was sitting beside the window of her hotel room, constantly watching Spirit Hall's distant entrance.
She had sat beside this window since early that morning, staring intently at Spirit Hall's entrance in hopes of catching that fellow named Zhao Ling coming out.
She had spent an entire day staking it out. It was nearly four or five in the afternoon now, yet she still had not seen that fellow named Zhao Ling leave Spirit Hall.
With her powerful spiritual power, probing the situation inside Spirit Hall would have been easy. However, releasing her spiritual power to investigate might alert Qian Daoliu.
Perhaps Qian Daoliu would say little because they were acquaintances, but she feared he might misunderstand again-for instance, think she wanted to spy on him. That would be awkward.
Thus, Bo Saixi did not use her spiritual power to investigate Spirit Hall's interior, merely staking out her target in silence...
Over the next few days, Zhao Ling kept Bibi Dong company alone, finally boarding a carriage out of the city under her reluctant gaze.
Seeing Bibi Dong's reluctant eyes brimming with tears, Zhao Ling truly wanted to insist on staying, but he knew he could not.
There was no helping it. Over these past few days, Qian Xunji's gaze had become increasingly unfriendly. If Zhao Ling kept refusing to leave, he suspected Qian Xunji might enlist Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the other enshrined to throw him out.
What Zhao Ling did not know was that, as soon as his carriage departed, Bibi Dong's reluctant expression vanished as she cheerfully headed into Spirit Hall.
"Yes! I finally get a long holiday! I need a good rest. Hmph, a few days ago, Sister Ah Yin told Darling that since they were both leaving, she couldn't share the affection he showered on me.
"As a result, Darling ravished me for several days straight. Now that he and she have left, she's the one who should have a headache. Hmph, serves her right! Ow..."
But before she could celebrate for even half a minute, Bibi Dong's face twisted into a mask of pain...
Chapter 106: Seen Enough?
Bo Saixi saw Zhao Ling and Ah Yin depart in their carriage. After watching Bibi Dong enter Spirit Hall, she leaped straight from the windowsill without thinking, unwilling to lose track of their carriage.
As everyone knew, before the Sun Moon Continent merged with the Douluo Continent and the laws of heaven and earth changed, only Titled Douluo could fly, aside from Soul Masters possessing flying-type Soul Beasts.
Flying was effortless for the level-99 Bo Saixi. However, she did not want to draw too much attention, so after gliding, she landed directly atop Zhao Ling and Ah Yin's carriage.
She was not worried about revealing her identity as Bo Saixi to Zhao Ling. On the contrary, she hoped that after learning her identity, he would comment more in his diary about her and Tang Chen.
Perhaps one day, Zhao Ling would reveal in his diary exactly where Tang Chen was now.
Inside the carriage, Zhao Ling heard a noise overhead. Puzzled, he poked his head out of the window and glanced up.
Unexpectedly, he saw a pair of long, shapely, alluring legs on the roof. Following those legs upward, he could easily take in the lovely view beneath the woman's skirt.
Holy shit? What the hell? Why was there a woman on the roof? Zhao Ling had no idea what the hell was happening.
At that moment, the driver also noticed something amiss and looked up at the roof.
Seeing this, Bo Saixi hurriedly wrapped her long skirt tightly around herself and gave the driver an icy glare.
"What are you looking at? Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out."
The driver hurriedly turned back to face forward, his head full of fog. Who was this woman? Why had she jumped onto his carriage roof? That was bad enough, but why was she acting fiercer than him?
After glaring fiercely at the driver, Bo Saixi turned toward Zhao Ling's clear eyes as he looked up from the window.
Instantly, her displeasure vanished like smoke, and strange feelings surged within her. She had to suppress them as she asked coldly, "Seen enough? Is the view that good?"
Zhao Ling stared in astonishment at the stunning face above the carriage. He had recognized her now. After all, this woman had visited Spirit Hall on the day of his engagement to Bibi Dong and Ah Yin.
Zhao Ling withdrew his head into the carriage, and Ah Yin immediately noticed his strange expression.
"Darling, who's on the roof?"
Before Zhao Ling could say anything more, Ah Yin could not resist poking her head out of the window and glancing upward. Meeting Bo Saixi's gaze, she revealed a gentle smile.
Hehe, Sister Dong'er and I haven't left Spirit Hall these past few days. I thought this beauty might have left long ago, but she actually staked the place out for so many days.
Looks like this beauty is also destined to become a sister in the same trench. At that thought, Ah Yin's smile grew even brighter, making Bo Saixi's hair stand on end. She kept feeling that something was wrong with this woman.
Ah Yin said gently to Bo Saixi, "Sister, do you not have money for a carriage? Why don't you come inside and share ours?"
Looking at Ah Yin's sincere eyes and considering how conspicuous she was standing on the roof, Bo Saixi nodded. She slipped directly through the front curtain and sat beside Ah Yin.
However, seeing Zhao Ling's faraway gaze, she felt a trace of embarrassment.
When Ah Yin saw Zhao Ling's faraway gaze, she knew he must be commenting in his diary again.
Just as Ah Yin expected, Zhao Ling had indeed summoned the Diary Panel and begun venting on it.
[What the hell is going on? Has Bo Saixi gone crazy? Never mind coming all the way from Sea God Island to the Douluo Continent to find Tang Chen.]
[Why has she jumped onto the carriage Ah Yin and I are riding in? Don't tell me she's run out of Gold Soul Coins and can only hitch a ride.]
[How could that be? Who is she? She's the High Priest of Sea God Island, the Sea God's representative on the Douluo Continent. Only an idiot would believe she has no Gold Soul Coins.]
[Huh, could she have fallen for my good looks and wanted to travel around the Douluo Continent with me?]
[Uh, thinking that way makes me feel a bit like an average guy with unwarranted confidence.]
[Ew, I'd better drive these strange thoughts out of my head. If I get too influenced by that sort of baseless confidence, finding wives later might be difficult.]
[She's probably leaving Spirit City to search for Tang Chen elsewhere. She saw a carriage passing and happened to jump onto the one Ah Yin and I are riding in.]
[Hehe, she could rack her brains and never imagine that someone in the carriage she happened to jump onto actually knows where Tang Chen is now. But I'm not telling. Hilarious...]
After finishing his comments, Zhao Ling clicked to upload the diary. He then received the Tang Sect's secret manual, the "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record," along with a notification that he could choose any three cultivation or combat techniques within it to raise to maximum level.
Zhao Ling sank into thought. He could choose three to maximize, while the others would require gradual cultivation, so he had to pick the three most useful ones.
For Zhao Ling, the most useful were probably Mysterious Jade Hand, Purple Demon Eye, and the method of using hidden weapons, Hundred Hidden Weapon Solutions.
As for Mysterious Heaven Skill, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Zhao Ling did not think they were particularly useful. The latter two especially were simply far too underwhelming for him.
Once Zhao Ling finished considering his choices, he saw a streak of golden light fly out of the Diary Panel and enter his mind.
Instantly, Zhao Ling felt many memories appear in his mind. His eyes filled with purple, and almost in an instant, he gained boundless-level powers of observation, along with the ability to see through all illusions.
His hands also instantly turned the color of white jade. Now, Zhao Ling could touch the Tang Sect's poisonous hidden weapons without any reservations, which pleased him greatly.
While Zhao Ling digested the contents of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record in his mind, Ah Yin and Bo Saixi saw their respective exclusive copies of "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy" appear.
Ah Yin knew her exclusive "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy" was visible only to her, so she opened the "Diary Copy" with a thought without hesitation.
She began reading the diary's contents. In any case, she knew only she could see her exclusive Diary Copy.
Bo Saixi, however, felt rather awkward. If the two people before her saw this "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy" suddenly appear, wouldn't they question her?
But she quickly discovered that neither of them seemed to see the illusory "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy" before her. This miraculous situation struck her as unbelievable.
Were these two blind? Such a large "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy," yet neither of them saw it?
Unconvinced, Bo Saixi opened the "Diary Copy" with a thought. A magnetic voice poured directly into her ears, yet the two before her still turned a deaf ear.
Could it be... Bo Saixi finally realized that this "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy" was visible only to her. At least, the copy she possessed was visible only to her...
Chapter 107: Do You Dislike Her That Much?
At that thought, Bo Saixi could not help secretly breathing a sigh of relief. Since this "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy" was visible only to her, things would be easy.
She would no longer have to worry about others discovering her reading the diary.
As Zhao Ling digested the "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record" provided by the system and the two women read their respective copies of "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy," the entire carriage briefly sank into deathly silence.
However, after finishing "Zhao Ling's Diary Copy," Ah Yin turned toward Bo Saixi and introduced herself with a smile.
"Sister, my name is Ah Yin. May I ask your name? I never imagined we would share such a connection.
"We only met a few days ago, and today we're sharing a carriage."
Hearing this, Bo Saixi also revealed a serene smile and nodded to Ah Yin.
"Hello, my name is Bo Saixi. Now that you mention what happened a couple of days ago, I remember. We truly do share a connection."
To stay beside Zhao Ling and learn news of Tang Chen, Bo Saixi was certainly willing to bend or stand tall as needed.
She actually lied with her eyes wide open, claiming she and Ah Yin shared a connection.
But she knew perfectly well how many days she had staked out that hotel, all to wait for Zhao Ling and Ah Yin to leave Spirit Hall.
Now that she had seen them leave, it would have been downright absurd not to hurry and jump onto their carriage for a ride.
Ah Yin also understood the situation perfectly well, but she was more than eager for this woman, Bo Saixi, to spend more time around her darling.
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