Chapter 109 It's really not easy for Iron Chain to live a good life.
The bright moon shines alone, reflecting on the sea, where mandarin ducks, necks intertwined, whisper softly.
A man with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a slender figure leaned down and embraced a thin, frail girl, burying his head in the crook of her neck.
The girl hugged the man, who was much taller than her, with one arm and gently patted his back with the other, turning her head to whisper something.
"Hmm." The response was slow and steady, occasionally coming from the girl's neck, echoing her words.
After much persuasion, Yu Tianxing finally loosened up a bit and didn't hold her so tightly.
Just as Ji Mingran was breathing more easily, she felt the head that had been resting on her neck and gently pecking at her collarbone turn to her neck. Then, she felt a delicate, warm sensation against the soft flesh of her neck, which was ticklish.
Why does Yu Tianxing never listen to her properly? He just keeps tickling her.
Ji Mingran shrank his neck, tilted his head, and pressed his cheek against Yu Tianxing's side.
As expected, this effectively stopped his restless movements. Ji Mingran continued, cheek to cheek, "After we return, I will inform the sect that I am going out for training. I will travel with my fellow disciples and visit you at the Nameless Sect on the way."
A warm sensation came from her neck again, and her flesh was sucked and sucked.
Ji Mingran increased the pressure, tilting his head and pressing his cheek against Yu Tianxing's as he asked, "If it's convenient for you, you can join us. Or I can talk to my senior brother and prepare a room for you so you can stay at Luan Peak. We can cultivate together and become the strongest. What do you think?"
She has already made wonderful plans for the future, and she just needs Yu Tianxing's approval to carry them out immediately upon returning home.
Wonderful days are coming.
Ji Mingran was in a good mood, his lips curled into a wide smile.
The light, ticklish touch stopped, but a deep voice came from the hollow of her neck: "Not yet."
Ji Mingran's smile faltered slightly. "Hmm? Why?"
Yu Tianxing lifted his head from the crook of her neck.
Ji Mingran released his arms from around him and asked, "Does the Nameless Sect have any rules?"
"No," Yu Tianxing said in a low, hoarse voice.
His hands slid down from the back of his neck to cover his clothes, and his gaze swept over Yu Tianxing's clothes before Ji Mingran looked up and asked, "You're not going to back out, are you? You don't want to anymore?"
Does this mean she needs to find a new candidate?
Who should he look for? Ji Mingran had already started racking his brains to recall the people he had met before.
His forehead was immediately pressed against the ground, interrupting his random thoughts.
Yu Tianxing looked down at her, pecked her lips, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm willing. I'm willing, I'm willing to be your Daoist partner."
As if knowing what she was thinking, he gently bit her lip and whispered, "Don't think about replacing me. I will be your best Daoist partner."
Having his thoughts completely exposed, Ji Mingran wasn't guilty at all. He just looked at him in surprise, wondering how he knew.
Yu Tianxing stared into the eyes that were so close to his.
Such clear and bright eyes can easily reveal the thoughts and feelings of their owner if one is not careful.
As long as he gets close enough, Yu Tianxing can tell what Ji Mingran is thinking.
He knew Ji Mingran's personality: she wouldn't pry or pester him. If he didn't take the initiative to explain things clearly, she would readily let him go and continue doing what she wanted to do.
She has always been carefree.
“I am willing.” Yu Tianxing gazed at her intently, making sure Ji Mingran could see the seriousness in his eyes. “I also want to live the life of a Daoist couple with you right away. But not now. My identity and my current situation are not good for you. I will come to you once I have settled things.”
"Alright." Ji Mingran could only agree, "After thinking it over, you're the only one who can be my Daoist partner."
If she were to invite someone else to become her Daoist partner, she would have only thought about it briefly before losing interest and feeling none of the excitement she had felt when she first had the idea of inviting Yu Tianxing. She said, "I won't change anyone."
"Hmm." Yu Tianxing's lips curled up, his eyes seemingly overflowing with light.
He lowered his head and kissed her for a long time.
Ji Mingran vaguely thought that her answer seemed to have pleased Yu Tianxing, and was much more effective than the words she had used to coax him earlier.
After completing the new round of kissing practice, Ji Mingran truly felt that he had improved compared to before. Although he still experienced an electric shock-like tingling sensation and felt weak in his limbs, he was no longer as breathless as before.
Ha! She's managed to exploit some of her new weaknesses.
I need to practice more actively in the future to make more progress in kissing. Ji Mingran secretly made up his mind.
She placed her hands on Yu Tianxing's chest, straightened her clothes, and continued, "But what you're doing, is it difficult?"
"It's quite difficult," Yu Tianxing said without hiding anything from her, "but I'll do it as soon as possible."
“That works too,” Ji Mingran said. Anyway, it wouldn’t interfere with her cultivation, and she was fine with it.
She then asked, "What did you feed me underwater?"
Gently stroking her cheeks, Yu Tianxing said, "The Spirit Nourishing Pill is extremely beneficial to both the primordial spirit and the physical body. The reason you were so hungry was because one of these two aspects was deficient. Once it's replenished, this will stop. Your previously thin cheeks have now returned to normal."
Ji Mingran's hands were still on Yu Tianxing's clothes: "This pill is effective now, it must have been hard to come by."
Her hunger came suddenly. Her fellow disciples and allies knew that this was not ordinary hunger, but none of them knew the reason. However, Yu Tianxing knew.
Not only did they know, they also knew the corresponding elixir.
She endured a long period of torment before he finally gave it to her, which means he had also just obtained the elixir.
Just like the food she desperately needed before, when everyone had no other choice and she was starving, he suddenly took out some food and called her to eat.
Ji Mingran already suspected that the food Yu Tianxing temporarily took out for her was not actually from his own stores, but rather something he had obtained through some unknown means. It was precisely because he didn't originally have any that the food was limited in quantity, forcing him to strictly control her daily food intake.
How do you create something from nothing every time?
There was more than one thing that Yu Tianxing hadn't told her.
Ji Mingran looked at the collar of her clothes, which she was lightly clutching, with clear, calm eyes.
Yu Tianxing wore a black robe embroidered with intricate silver thread patterns, and the lapel was also decorated with interwoven silver patterns.
She used to think of it as just a pattern.
Since obtaining the Spirit Stone and consuming the Spirit Nourishing Pill, her physical condition has undergone a qualitative leap after digestion and absorption.
She can see things she couldn't see before.
For example, the iron chains that were tightly wrapped around Yu Tianxing.
She never pried into other people's affairs, but this time, she did feel a strong urge to investigate: "Yu Tianxing, is this why you can't become my Daoist partner immediately?"
......
A gentle breeze brushed past her and him.
This was the first time that, after the two rose from the seabed, silence was returned to the moonlit night and the ocean.
"You saw it?" Yu Tianxing asked after a long silence.
"Let me see." Ji Mingran hooked the silver thread on her clothes, and the soft sound of iron chains rang out, forcing Yu Tianxing to move closer to her.
Seeing that he could not refuse, he simply leaned down to her again and buried his face in the crook of her neck.
The rustling of robes and the clanging of chains mingled softly as Ji Mingran followed the rust, slowly moving from the outside of the robes inwards, his fingertips tracing every inch of the inner fabric.
The cool muscles warmed up with the gentle touch of fingertips.
The breathing on his shoulder suddenly became rapid and heavy.
"Are you in a lot of pain?" Ji Mingran's brows furrowed more and more as she touched him. The iron chain pierced through Yu Tianxing's shoulder blades, collarbone, chest, waist, and lower abdomen. There were probably many more in places she couldn't reach.
Yu Tianxing said in a hoarse voice, "I'm used to it, it doesn't hurt."
He must be in a lot of pain. Ji Mingran thought, his voice hoarse from the pain.
"I didn't mean for you to see." After taking a few deep breaths with his head resting on her neck, Yu Tianxing's voice calmed down considerably, his lips pressed against her carotid artery. "Don't worry, I'll break free from it. I will."
"Yu Tianxing." Ji Mingran turned his head, his eyes serious. "If I unlock this, will you be able to cultivate with me?"
Yu Tianxing remained silent for a long time before saying, "I can do it myself."
Ji Mingran kept asking, "If we can unlock it, will we be able to live as a couple?"
Good days are just around the corner, why wait so slowly? Seizing every second is etched into her very being.
Understanding her meaning instantly, Yu Tianxing sighed with a hint of helplessness, "Mingran, you don't need to go to all that trouble. I can do it myself."
"You think I'm not strong enough?" Ji Mingran asked. "Now that I have the Spirit Stone, everything will be different. My cultivation progress won't be so slow."
“I know your strength. For a mere Spirit Nourishing Pill to allow you to see it, your cultivation foundation is far deeper than I imagined.” Yu Tianxing raised his head and slowly said, “It was me, it was I who was not worthy of making you take the risk.”
"Why do you think that?" Ji Mingran didn't understand.
A wisp of gloom settled on his handsome face. After pursing his lips for a moment, Yu Tianxing said, "I want to break free, take a good rest, change my name and identity, and then be with you."
What's going on? Is he so ashamed to be seen in public? Ji Mingran carefully examined Yu Tianxing's face.
Every curve and every feature seems to have been meticulously sculpted by the gods.
There's no reason for it.
Ji Mingran speculated, "What did you do wrong? You've only been here for a short time, what could you have done to deserve this?"
She immediately thought, "Is it still related to the Nameless Sect?"
Yu Tianxing parted his lips slightly, about to answer. Ji Mingran's sect jade token trembled.
She looked down.
She had already sent a telepathic message back to let him know she was alright, but perhaps because of the delay, the sect's jade token relayed Shen Qingluo's worried voice: "Mingran, are you alright?"
Ji Mingran replied, "I'm fine."
Upon hearing her response, Shen Qingluo immediately said, "Where are you? The prize pool secret realm is about to close, we're coming to pick you up."
"Grandma, are you hurt?" Guan Wangzhen asked loudly, "Why haven't you been teleported back yet?"
The jade pendant faintly carried the background sounds of Xiao Ji crying out: "Father! Mother! Where have you both gone? Where are you?"
Zhu Shibai's voice interrupted: "Grandma, the weather in the sea is acting strangely, unlike what we heard about the secret realm being closed. We might be kicked out. Where are you? We'll come get you."
Logically speaking, Zhu Shibai should have been able to find her by following her sword. Were they asking her location several times because the distance was too far?
"My goodness, what a huge moon!"
"What's going on?"
"It's coming after us!"
What a huge moon!
Ji Mingran looked at the moon, which had been beside them, with a puzzled expression.
His eyes widened.
The round moon had somehow appeared beside them, almost touching them!
Almost in the blink of an eye, before she could react, a blinding light engulfed them.
"It's alright." She only heard Yu Tianxing say, "After we get out, Mingran, focus on your cultivation. I'll come find you after this is over."
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