Underwater!
Boom!
A tremendous bang rang out!
Xiao Fan jerked his head up and saw that the surface of the water was covered in raging flames. The water's temperature rose sharply, and it kept evaporating as the water level rapidly dropped.
Suddenly,
A terrifying bird's head plunged into the water, stopping just a meter in front of Xiao Fan. It seemed unable to reach him and roared in fury!
With the help of their special martial arts, the two began arguing underwater.
Lin Xianhuo was truly panicking. "What do we do!?"
"Hold on tight to me!" Xiao Fan shouted.
"Are you a pervert!?"
"Damn it, I have the Earth Escape Technique!"
"Fine, fine!" Lin Xianhuo hurriedly wrapped her arms tightly around Xiao Fan.
Xiao Fan glared at the Fire Sparrow King and gave her the middle finger again. "You beast! Come on!"
The Fire Sparrow King flew into a rage and forcefully thrust her head down.
Xiao Fan went all out.
With a bang, he plunged into the earth, opening a half-meter-wide path through the soil.
"You... just how many cultivation techniques do you know?" Lin Xianhuo couldn't help asking.
But as soon as she spoke, she suddenly realized that their faces were less than ten centimeters apart. Her cheeks flushed red.
Xiao Fan didn't notice. Instead, he said proudly, "I know more cultivation techniques than you've eaten grains of rice!"
"Tsk!" Lin Xianhuo snorted softly.
Three minutes passed, and they had burrowed more than three hundred meters.
Xiao Fan decided to burrow straight into Green Leaf City's sewers.
He wasn't afraid of getting dirty, and as for Lin Xianhuo, who cared about her!
Suddenly, he noticed that the girl in his arms didn't seem to have the Turtle Breathing Technique and was nearly out of breath.
He looked at Lin Xianhuo, her face flushed red from holding her breath and twisted in pain.
Xiao Fan decided to sacrifice his chastity. He broke off the lower half of his mask and pressed his lips to hers.
Lin Xianhuo was instantly stunned and panicked, beating on Xiao Fan's back.
"Idiot, don't you know what artificial respiration is!?" Xiao Fan cursed.
"I'm not interested in an airport runway anyway!"
As he spoke, he even slapped Lin Xianhuo on the forehead.
Both embarrassed and angry, Lin Xianhuo shouted, "That was my first kiss!"
Xiao Fan glared at her. "It was my first kiss too! Is yours the only one worth anything?"
"I'm saving your life, and you're still yelling?"
"Hmph, you damn virgin!" Lin Xianhuo's chest heaved with anger, her cheeks bright red.
"Damn virgin!" Xiao Fan shot back without backing down.
Their war of insults came to a temporary end. After kissing for a while, they got used to it.
Finally, after Xiao Fan had swum for more than ten minutes, the terrifying Fire Sparrow King's aura disappeared.
Suddenly, Lin Xianhuo wanted to tear off Xiao Fan's mask. She was too curious and wanted to see what the person beneath it looked like.
His strength and speed were no weaker than, and even surpassed, those of super geniuses like her. He also had so many strange cultivation techniques and a terrifying combat sense...
He can't really be eighteen, can he? Wouldn't that mean I'd have to be his maid?
But on second thought, she gave up. What if he killed her to silence her?
Just then, she noticed that Xiao Fan was covered in burn scars from head to toe.
She thought someone like him should be easy to find in Green Leaf City, right?
As she pondered this, she found her consciousness rapidly fading, her entire body filled with incomparable exhaustion.
Her eyelids felt as though they were fighting each other, determined to close regardless of anything else. She was as weak as a baby.
After six consecutive shots of adrenaline, all the backlash was hitting her at once...
"Don't... molest me," Lin Xianhuo whispered in Xiao Fan's ear before losing consciousness.
Xiao Fan snorted coldly. "Women will only slow down the speed at which I draw my blade!"
"What should I do with you?"
"I've got it!"
Helpless, Xiao Fan cradled the back of the unconscious Lin Xianhuo's head with one hand and pressed her lips against his, giving her artificial respiration.
Then he swam all the way toward Green Leaf City's sewer pipes!
Swift currents surged through the murky underground waterway. Xiao Fan quietly watched the unconscious Lin Xianhuo and suddenly realized that when this girl wasn't talking, cursing, or calling herself "your granny," and lay quietly unconscious, she truly looked like a porcelain doll meticulously crafted by heaven. She possessed a worldly innocence yet burned with reckless courage, like that long saber engulfed in raging flames, ready to cleave apart all the sorrows of her eighteen years.
Why am I thinking about this?
Xiao Fan shook his head and pulled Lin Xianhuo along, dragging her through ten li of water before finally returning beneath Green Leaf City!
He dumped Lin Xianhuo by the sewer pipes and arranged her in a highly seductive, alluring pose. Finally, he took out his phone and snapped a picture!
A photo appeared on Xiao Fan's phone. He nodded in satisfaction, then took off Lin Xianhuo's storage ring and left without another word!
A cautious ship sails for ten thousand years. If the girl really discovered his identity, he would have a way to keep her in check!
People from great families like hers cared most about their reputation!
"So tired!"
Xiao Fan let out a long breath and climbed out through a concealed manhole. He looked around and saw no one, then hurried home without anyone noticing him along the way!
After getting home, he was somewhat frustrated because he couldn't open the storage ring. It had a special restriction on it. A great family was a great family, all right-even their rings were different from ordinary people's!
Next, he washed his body, applied medicinal ointment, and soaked in the water vat!
He was exhausted and thought how nice it would be to fall asleep.
But Xiao Fan was also excited, because he had snatched a Fire Sparrow, and thirty million was coming his way!
Then he got dressed and hurried to the black market, eager to buy the Wind and Lightning Art!
After five years of frequenting the black market, he knew it like the back of his hand. He put on a black robe, changed his disguise, sold a Fire Sparrow part, bought the Wind and Lightning Art, and went home!
Once home, Xiao Fan plopped down on the floor, panting heavily!
He felt as though his limbs were all crying for help, begging Xiao Fan to hurry up and sleep!
That little girl was too heavy, and swimming with her had drained a great deal of energy. Xiao Fan was now practically in a state of collapse.
"Wind and Lightning Art successfully recorded. Beginning automatic cultivation!"
After hearing the system's voice, Xiao Fan picked up his alarm clock in satisfaction, set the time, and fell straight into a deep sleep!
The next morning.
Xiao Fan slept soundly in the house his parents had left him, as he was still exhausted.
Suddenly.
"Ring, ring, ring..."
The alarm went off. Thoroughly irritated, Xiao Fan instinctively wanted to crush the damn clock.
But then a voice recording played.
"The opening ceremony starts in ten minutes. If you skip class again, you'll be expelled."
"The opening ceremony starts in ten minutes. If you skip class again, you'll be expelled."
"The opening ceremony starts in ten minutes. If you skip class again, you'll be expelled..."
Listening to the pleasant male voice, Xiao Fan gradually drifted back to sleep.
But in the very second his consciousness sank completely into the sea,
He jolted awake and slapped the alarm clock's switch.
"Damn!"
"What time is it!?"
The school gates closed at eight, and the current time was... seven fifty-five.
Five minutes left!
"Fuck!" he cursed, hastily getting up and using all sorts of miscellaneous cultivation techniques to brush his teeth, wash up, and get dressed.
Then, under the breakfast shop owner's accustomed gaze, he raced down the interminably long street, his legs almost spinning into wheels.
That was right, Xiao Fan was still a senior in high school, and the kind who sat in the back row.
To be honest, if he laid his cards on the table, he was strong enough to string up even the teachers and beat them.
But he couldn't, because his talent was a one-in-hundreds-of-millions case.
One star, practically nonexistent. His basic speed, strength, and so on were far below everyone else's!
Someone with that kind of talent and this kind of strength at his age would definitely be taken away by the Federation for human dissection.
Today was the first day of the second semester of senior year.
If he was late again, his homeroom teacher's patience had its limits. The teacher would promptly kick him out of the classroom and make him leave school.
So several days ago, he had recorded his own voice and made it his alarm for this morning, reminding himself that being late would bring countless troubles.
"Ding, host, current Wind and Lightning Art cultivation progress: 2%. Approximately ninety more days are needed to complete cultivation."
Hearing the system's voice, Xiao Fan grinned. Mastering a third-tier cultivation technique in three months was a disgrace for the system, but for him, that was incredibly fast!
If he had to practice it himself, seriously and step by step, he was afraid it would take more than ten years.
He finally reached the school gates and vaulted up with practiced ease, clearing them!
The security guard roared, "Who was that!?"
"Do you know you're late?"
Xiao Fan couldn't be bothered with him. He kept accelerating, streaking across the campus like an afterimage and heading straight for his senior-year Class One.
Afterward, unwilling to let it go, the security guard checked the surveillance footage, but saw only an afterimage. His scalp tingled with anger, and it never occurred to him to wonder what kind of student could run that fast!