After a long while, Ning Rongrong's sobbing gradually subsided.
This broke the hearts of Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin who were hiding on the side, and they even wished they could bring Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect right now so she would no longer suffer these grievances.
Yet in the end they chose not to do so, because this was Ning Rongrong's own choice, and they respected Ning Rongrong while also hoping Ning Rongrong could gain true growth from this trip.
Ning Rongrong's eye corners carried tear stains, and the skin around her eyes had turned pinkish-pink from crying, making anyone who saw her unable to keep from feeling a tender pity.
She wiped her tears and said in Chen Ci's embrace:
"Brother Chen Ci, on this journey of mine..."
Chen Ci patiently listened to Ning Rongrong pouring out her heart, not interrupting her through the whole process.
Ning Rongrong had actually not encountered any danger along this journey, and all the fear was just psychological.
Yet to be able to accomplish all this, for a teenage girl, was already very brave.
"You are already very brave. If it were other young girls, they might not even dare to take this distant trip."
Chen Ci originally thought this sentence could let Ning Rongrong receive encouragement, but what he did not expect was that what Ning Rongrong focused on was something else.
Ning Rongrong left Chen Ci's embrace with a swish and asked while looking straight into Chen Ci's eyes:
"Brother Chen Ci, how would you know other young girls wouldn't dare to take a distant trip?
"Could it be you still know other young girls?"
Chen Ci was stunned for a moment, as he absolutely had not expected Ning Rongrong to ask such a thing; if he had foreseen it, he would not have said it like that.
"How could I know other young girls?
"Inside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, I basically cultivate at Sword Peak the whole time, and I haven't had the energy to go anywhere else."
Ning Rongrong thought about it carefully and figured it made sense, only then dropping the matter.
Afterward, Chen Ci said:
"Rongrong, I remember there is a city a short distance ahead. Let's walk faster and rest there for a night."
Ning Rongrong felt somewhat puzzled, but because these words were spoken by Chen Ci himself, she suppressed the doubt in her heart.
At the same time, Chen Ci cast a glance at Ning Fengzhi who was hiding in the dark.
Ning Fengzhi then arranged for an auxiliary-system Soul Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to use amplification-type Soul Skills on them, and to use a mental-type Soul Skill on Ning Rongrong to weaken Ning Rongrong's suspicion toward all this.
Under the use of various amplification Soul Skills, Chen Ci and Ning Rongrong's physical strength, endurance, and speed obtained a terrifying boost.
Their traveling speed was extremely fast.
In a few tens of minutes, they hurried to a city.
If Chen Ci remembered correctly, this city was one hundred kilometers away from their previous location.
However, Ning Rongrong indeed seemed tired and did not suspect any abnormalities.
Chen Ci walked to a hotel front desk and said:
"Hello, two rooms please."
The receptionist just wanted to speak when she heard Ning Rongrong, who was holding Chen Ci's arm, say:
"No, just one room!"
Then Ning Rongrong leaned close to Chen Ci's ear and said softly:
"Brother Chen Ci, I'm scared."
"Then one room it is."
At this time, the receptionist finally spoke and said:
"You two, our hotel only has one room left."
Accepting the room card, Chen Ci took Ning Rongrong upstairs to enter the room, which was a deluxe king-size bed room.
Chen Ci carried the exhausted Ning Rongrong onto the bed.
Ning Rongrong's body had developed exceptionally well, and at this moment she lay casually on the bed, brimming with temptation.
He believed that as long as he took this step, Ning Rongrong would definitely not blame him by then.
Because this day would arrive sooner or later.
However, Chen Ci still intended to abide by his original state of mind, preparing to go spend the night on the sofa.
This was not because Chen Ci was a righteous gentleman, but because Ning Fengzhi was watching right beside them.
He had no doubt that as long as he dared to make any out-of-line moves, he would be given a sound beating by Ning Fengzhi.
Just as Chen Ci was about to leave, the half-asleep Ning Rongrong seemed to sense that he was going to leave, reached out to grab his hand, and murmured:
"Brother Chen Ci, don't leave me."
After finishing these words, Ning Rongrong had no further movement. Chen Ci once more wanted to leave, but Ning Rongrong's hand firmly grasped his hand.
Chen Ci could forcefully break free, but doing so would undoubtedly wake Ning Rongrong.
Thus Chen Ci had no choice but to sleep on the same pillow and bed with Ning Rongrong.
Holding the young girl's tender hand in his own and with the young girl's fragrance lingering around his nose, Chen Ci fell soundly asleep just like that.
The next day, early morning.
Chen Ci woke up from his slumber early, which was a habit he had already formed in the Douluo Continent.
If following his normal rhythm, at this time he should be practicing swordsmanship.
But clearly, things were not normal right now.
Because Ning Rongrong, who had slept beside him last night, had wound herself around his body like an octopus starting from goodness knows when.
Leaving him unable to move.
Meanwhile, the young girl's collar was somewhat disheveled because of her movements last night.
Entangled by the young girl, Chen Ci had no way to make any large movements and could only passively gaze at the young girl's bosom.
(I couldn't tell at all, I never expected Rongrong to develop so well.)
(Truly you cannot judge a person by their appearance, and the bosom is unmeasurable.)
Looking at such fine scenery and with his whole body once more surrounded by the young girl's fragrance, Chen Ci inevitably produced a physiological reaction.
At the same time, Ning Rongrong knitted her brows and murmured:
"Brother Chen Ci, something on your body seems to be pressing against me."
Ning Rongrong instinctively reached out her hand to grab that place, and the moment Chen Ci saw it he wanted to stop her, but unfortunately it was too late.
The scalding-hot sensation traveled through the young girl's tender palm straight into his heart, startling Ning Rongrong so much that she woke up all at once.
Ning Rongrong also pulled away from Chen Ci's body, her face flushed red, and her gaze couldn't stop glancing toward a certain direction several times.
Only then did Chen Ci react, arching his body to make it look less conspicuous.
Ning Rongrong hesitated for a moment and asked:
"Brother Chen Ci, aren't you uncomfortable like this?"
"It's a little uncomfortable, but it'll be fine after a little while."
"If it's uncomfortable, let Rongrong help you."
(Help me? How are you going to help like this?)
Chen Ci looked at Ning Rongrong with a face full of confusion, only to see Ning Rongrong open her cherry-red lips.
Chen Ci:?!
A short while later, Chen Ci pulled up his pants.
"So refreshing!
"Taking a dump is so refreshing!"
(The boss of that breakfast shop makes pretty good laxatives; it's a pity not to go manufacture laxatives.)
Ning Rongrong had hired a carriage and waited outside the breakfast shop for a long time.
Seeing Chen Ci come out, she asked:
"Brother Chen Ci, the Clear Heart Technique researched by my dad is useful, right?"
Chen Ci nodded. Ever since Ning Fengzhi broke through to the bottleneck of level seventy-nine, he began researching many things, much better than some unlearned and skill-less fifty-year-old level-twenty-nine genius.
After Ning Rongrong imparted the Clear Heart Technique to him this morning, he recited it a few times, and the desires in his heart vanished completely clean.
Then he went out to eat breakfast, which was how the preceding scene had come about.
Gaining Chen Ci's recognition, Ning Rongrong patted her chest and said happily:
"Researched by my dad, of course it's useful!
"It still can't be passed on to outsiders yet, oh!"
Chen Ci: "Then why did you teach it to me?"
Ning Rongrong: "Brother Chen Ci isn't an outsider~"