Chapter 53 Never Having Suffered the Hardships of Life
Seeing the girl skipping and hopping towards him, Chi Wenqing sensed a surge of satisfaction upon noticing the improvement in her spiritual power and aura.
Hmm... using the Wood Spirit Clan as a stepping stone for his junior sister was indeed a good idea.
Mu Jianjian walked over to her senior brother, feeling embarrassed, and explained, "They kept me talking about this and that for a while, apologizing and offering gifts. I'm not comfortable in those kinds of situations... Oh, right, I'll give you the Brocade Fragment."
Seeing her senior brother take it, Mu Jianjian began to share her conversation with the tree spirit, "...It also said that we met a long, long time ago! Do you think this is fate between me and the tree spirit?"
"No." Chi Wenqing's voice was calm, and he denied it the next second. He lowered his eyes and looked at the girl's messy hair, resisting the urge to help her comb it.
Mu Jianjian keenly sensed her senior brother's displeasure and was wondering what she had said wrong when a haughty voice came from behind her.
"I want to have a match with you!"
Chi Wenqing's mood soured again, and he squinted as he saw a young girl approaching.
A surge of anger rose within him again. He already had so little time to spend with Jianjian, and now he had to get involved in something like this.
Mu Jianjian turned to look at the girl glaring at her, tilting her head in confusion, "Why?"
She doesn't seem to know this girl, does she?
"For no reason, I want to fight you right now." Wan Xing met the white-robed man's cold gaze and trembled involuntarily, turning her eyes away to look at Mu Jianjian.
"Ah..." Mu Jianjian inexplicably felt that it was her senior brother's romantic entanglements, and shook her head, "I won't compare."
She secretly glared at her senior brother, while the man looked innocent.
"Why? You think you can't beat me? So you're just giving up?" Wan Xing was too lazy to pretend in front of Chi Wenqing anymore, and she sneered.
“No,” Mu Jianjian said, not liking the inexplicable strong hostility from the other party, “I just think it’s unnecessary and a waste of time.”
She stated this fact casually.
Mu Jianjian could sense that the woman in front of her was more powerful than herself, but she was confident that she could defeat her with a single blow.
"It's just that the young lord is protecting him." Wan Xing raised his chin, his eyes full of provocation and disdain.
Chi Wenqing's smile faded, his eyes darkened, and he felt someone take his arm.
"Hey, I do have a powerful backer, are you angry or not?" Mu Jianjian made no attempt to hide her laid-back attitude. "Provocation won't work on me."
The girl's cheerful voice slowly flowed into Chi Wenqing's heart, soothing his slight restlessness.
He was indeed her support.
"You!" Wan Xing was furious. She wanted to attack directly, but she was afraid of the young master behind the girl, so she could only stand still and stare. She watched the two of them start chatting again as if no one else was around, and finally couldn't help but shout, "What do you want in return for agreeing to fight me?"
"Then why do you insist on competing with me?" Mu Jianjian asked genuinely.
Wan Xing hesitated, then clenched her fists. Finally, she looked up at the stunningly beautiful girl and said, word by word, "I want to prove to them that I am better than you."
The other party was just lucky to receive the favor of the divine tree, and was also good-looking enough to win the favor of the young lord. Such a useless person at the second level of Foundation Establishment was praised and worshipped by everyone in the clan.
On what grounds?
"Ah..." Mu Jianjian didn't expect this reason. No wonder she had this attitude when she appeared. She must be a young lady from the Wood Spirit Clan.
After careful consideration, she sincerely said, "Actually, I don't think it's necessary to prove yourself to others. Proving yourself to yourself is often the most important thing, because only you know your own journey."
Wan Xing's heart skipped a beat. She said, embarrassed and annoyed, "So, are you going to compete or not?"
"Okay, come on." Mu Jianjian nodded. She realized that she really liked tugging at her senior brother's clothes. She pulled on the white-robed man's clothes and looked up, "Senior brother, I'm going."
"good."
How do you want to compete?
"It's a pure fight, any way you want." Wan Xing gathered her true energy, and a thick branch slowly extended from below her. "Until the other side concedes defeat."
"Okay." Mu Jianjian was just about to test the mental strength she had trained during the sacrificial ceremony, so she smiled brightly. "Here I come!"
For some reason, Wan Xing felt an unnatural stirring in her heart after seeing the girl's confident and bright smile. Before she could recover, a chill crept along her neck and spread throughout her body.
Mu Jianjian's hand was just a hair's breadth away from her neck. "It's over."
Why is she so fast at the second level of Foundation Establishment?
"Why are you so fast?" Wan Xing couldn't help but blurt out what was on her mind.
"Hmm, I guess it's something I developed while running for my life," Mu Jianjian replied. "You lost."
"Again, I didn't react in time!" Wan Xing explained urgently.
“That’s a different price.” Mu Jianjian revealed a sly smile.
Wan Xing snorted coldly, "Just name your price."
Mu Jianjian nodded.
Great, she likes rich, naive young ladies like that.
Mu Jianjian never thinks she has too much money.
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As it turned out, no matter how many times they competed, even though Wan Xing was three levels higher than Mu Jianjian, he still couldn't last more than a few moves against her.
As he lost more and more spirit stones, Wan Xing's face grew paler and paler.
"Why?"
She finally stopped and asked, unwilling to give up.
Mu Jianjian reached out and put the spirit stones back into her waist pouch, saying, "You have almost no practical combat experience. Many times your intentions are too obvious, and they are easily seen through."
A tear slowly rolled down Wan Xing's face, and then more and more fell like beans.
So embarrassing...
He was repeatedly defeated by those he looked down upon, especially in front of Shaojun.
“Um…” Mu Jianjian watched the girl run away crying and sighed, “This child is obviously spoiled and has never experienced the harsh realities of life.”
"Has Jianjian been through the harsh realities of life?" Chi Wenqing found this description interesting and looked at the girl.
Her personality was so different from the original Mu Jianjian that he became more and more curious about her past, but he couldn't help but feel sorry for her.
“Many…” Mu Jianjian blurted out subconsciously, but then suddenly remembered the original owner’s personality and family, and immediately changed her words, “Most of the time there are none.”
Uh-huh.
Mu Jianjian nodded firmly.
Seeing the girl's black hair become even more disheveled after she shook it, Chi Wenqing couldn't resist using his hand as a comb to tidy it up.
If Jianjian doesn't want to talk about it, then so be it.
One day, Jianjian will willingly tell you about her past.
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