Chapter 428: The Little Fox Has Too Many Little Schemes, Bibi Dong Is Also in Vast Sea City
Chapter 428: The Little Fox Has Too Many Little Schemes, Bibi Dong Is Also in Vast Sea City
The fishy smell in the alley had not yet dissipated.
Hu Liena was still suspended in mid-air by the Blue Silver Vines in an extremely shameful posture.
Lin Qingmo looked the young girl before him up and down, his expression shifting from amusement to surprise.
"Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall, why aren’t you staying properly in Spirit City instead of coming all the way to Vast Sea City to follow me?"
Lin Qingmo crossed his arms.
Hu Liena turned her face away, her earlobes red enough to fry an egg.
"I... I saw in the Chat Group that you said you were going to Sea God Island."
Her voice was muffled, carrying a hint of unwilling muttering.
"So you ran to Vast Sea City to intercept me? To assassinate me?"
"As if?!"
Hu Liena hurriedly explained, "I just wanted to test your strength just now!"
Hu Liena glared at Lin Qingmo with her watery eyes.
"Who knew that you—"
"Who knew I was so strong?" Lin Qingmo finished for her.
Hu Liena’s expression was as if she had been forced to drink a mouthful of unsweetened bitter melon juice.
That was indeed what she had thought.
First follow him, then launch a sneak attack, and after beating Lin Qingmo to the ground, look down on him and say, "Your strength is not enough."
As revenge for before.
The script was written perfectly, and the lines had been rehearsed several times.
As a result, she was counter-killed within three seconds of the start.
She hadn’t even managed to say a single complete line.
But the focus of Lin Qingmo’s attention was clearly not her inner monologue.
He narrowed his eyes: "Wait, how did you know I was in Vast Sea City? And how did you recognize me?"
Hu Liena’s gaze instantly drifted.
It wasn’t the drifting of a guilty conscience, but an instinctive avoidance reaction when asked a question she couldn’t answer.
She certainly couldn’t say that her teacher, Bibi Dong, had brought her, and it was even more impossible to say that her teacher was in Vast Sea City.
"I..."
Her brain operated at high speed, concocting a seemingly reasonable excuse within 0.3 seconds.
"I am the Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall, and our intelligence network covers the entire continent."
"Is it hard to track your whereabouts?"
"From Suotuo City to Heaven Dou City, Spirit Hall can track your post-horse records, city gate registrations, and even which restaurant you ate at along the way."
As she spoke, she started to believe it herself, and her tone became increasingly firm.
"As for recognizing you, do you think the intelligence portrait artists of Spirit Hall are just sitting around doing nothing?"
Lin Qingmo stared at her for two seconds.
This explanation made sense.
The intelligence network of Spirit Hall was indeed the best on the continent, and even the Heaven Dou Empire had to step aside.
But he always felt that there was something in Hu Liena’s eyes.
Beneath that forced self-righteousness hid a thin layer of guilty conscience.
However, he did not delve deeper.
"Then why do you want to go to Sea God Island?"
Hu Liena rolled her eyes, that expression unique to young girls, full of coyness and stubbornness, appearing particularly vivid on her foxy face.
"Of course it’s to become stronger, what else could it be for?"
"You said yourself that the God Trial can increase the spirit ring age and accelerate Cultivate, who wouldn’t want such an opportunity?"
What she didn’t say was that the skirmish they had just had when they first met had woken her up.
She was, after all, the leader of the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall, a Spirit King, and an existence that would crush any peer she was placed in front of.
Yet in front of Lin Qingmo, she couldn’t even take a single move.
Her Charm was ignored, her speed was predicted, and her Spirit Ability was easily torn apart by the vines.
The entire process from start to finish took no more than five breaths.
This gap made her heart panic.
If she didn’t go to Sea God Island to mooch off the God Trial, the gap between her and Lin Qingmo would only get wider and wider.
So wide that she wouldn’t even be able to see his back.
This was absolutely something Hu Liena could not accept.
Hu Liena twisted her body again, the Blue Silver Vines rubbing against her waist, creating a slight tingling sensation.
She had maintained this posture for several minutes.
Her legs were spread and hung up, her arms tied behind her back, and she herself was suspended in mid-air, looking very much like an object on display.
This made her feel completely uncomfortable.
"I say—"
She bit her lower lip, her voice carrying a hint of weakness she was extremely unwilling to show.
"Can you let me down first?"
"I’m not here to capture you, and I’m no match for you."
Lin Qingmo glanced at her.
Her expression really didn’t look like she was lying.
That mix of shame and anger was real, and the glistening water in her eyes was also real.
Although he always felt there was some sort of trick to Hu Liena’s appearance that he didn’t know about.
But a Spirit King really couldn’t make any waves in front of him.
He snapped his fingers.
The Blue Silver Vines loosened and retreated like a receding tide.
"Thud!"
Hu Liena fell from mid-air, reaching out to support herself against the mottled stone wall to barely steady her figure.
She rubbed the red marks left on her wrists, lowered her head to straighten the black robe that had been messed up by the vines, the blush on her face not yet faded.
Seeing Lin Qingmo turn and walk away.
"Wait!"
He turned back.
Hu Liena stood in place, clutching the hem of her black robe with both hands, the gaze she had used to glare at him now drifting to the mottled stone wall beside her.
"I..."
"Can I go to Sea God Island with you?"
Her tone was as awkward as if she were confessing to a crush.
Lin Qingmo raised an eyebrow.
"I promise! I absolutely won’t cause trouble!"
Hu Liena hurriedly added, holding up three fingers to swear to the heavens.
"I’m just doing this to improve my strength, I’ll leave immediately after participating in the God Trial, please trust me this once."
Fearing that Lin Qingmo wouldn’t believe her, she softened her tone even more.
"Besides... look, I don’t know too little about Sea God Island, I’ve looked up the types of Sea Spirit Beast, taking me along won’t drag you down."
Lin Qingmo did not answer immediately.
He was silent for a few seconds, his gaze landing on Hu Liena’s face.
On that foxy face, there was unwillingness, shame, and anger, and a sense of powerlessness after being beaten, but there was no malice or calculation.
It was just like a proud fox pushed down from the mountaintop, looking obedient after being left battered and bruised.
"Fine." He nodded.
Hu Liena was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes suddenly lit up.
"But there is a condition."
Lin Qingmo held up one finger: "After boarding the ship, listen to my commands in everything, the God Trial depends on individual ability, and when I say retreat, we retreat."
"Deal!"
Hu Liena was afraid he would go back on his word and agreed immediately.
Lin Qingmo didn’t say anything more and turned to walk out of the alley.
Hu Liena watched Lin Qingmo’s back disappear at the alley entrance and let out a long sigh.
Then she leaned against the stone wall and cursed in a voice only she could hear.
"Damn Lin Qingmo... wait until I get stronger, next time I will definitely beat you back!"
However, she doubted internally, even if she became stronger through the God Trial, could she really beat this man?
She wasn’t sure.
This thought made her very uncomfortable.
It was simply a lack of self-confidence.
However, she soon shook her head, looking encouraged: "Hmph, I was just careless just now, how could I be afraid of him?"
"Hey, are you still coming or not?"
Lin Qingmo looked back at her.
"Oh, oh, coming, coming!"
Hu Liena immediately put away her little schemes and trotted to catch up.
(End of Chapter)
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