Chapter 8: Young Master, You Mustn’t

After looking around two more times and even deliberately making a bit of noise, Ji Wuyue finally confirmed that there really was no one nearby.

Only then did she begin cautiously making her way toward the courtyard gate.

One step, two steps... one step, two steps... like the footsteps of a little thief...

An inch, two inches... an inch, two inches... like the dawning light of victory...

Just like that, the distance between her and the gate kept shrinking.

From several hundred steps at the start, to now no more than a dozen.

Ji Wuyue was overjoyed inside.

Then suddenly, she broke into a run.

She pushed open the gate and stepped over the threshold in one smooth motion.

The instant she saw the light outside, Ji Wuyue was so excited she was nearly moved to tears.

“I’m finally out! I’m free!!”

She could not help crying out in a low voice, her little face flushed red with excitement.

Still excited, she turned back to glance at the small courtyard behind her and found that there was still no movement at all.

That only made her even happier.

She lifted her legs and prepared to flee.

But the moment her foot rose, her whole body shuddered.

An extremely dangerous aura spread through her entire body.

It felt as though some incomparably terrifying existence had fixed its gaze on her.

Under that pressure, Ji Wuyue’s lips trembled, and she could not help begging for mercy.

“Little bean sprout, I was wrong... I should not have tried to run... Please spare me...”

After saying that, she waited uneasily for judgment. Even her raised right foot slowly came back down.

After a long while,

there was no reaction at all.

Ji Wuyue secretly turned her head for a look.

No one!

There was no one behind her.

She looked around again. Still no one!

That dangerous feeling also vanished in an instant.

Ji Wuyue tried raising her foot again.

At once, that dangerous sensation returned.

It was as though the moment she dared take that step, something terrible would happen to her.

Cold sweat continuously beaded on her forehead.

Ji Wuyue lowered her foot once more.

The dangerous feeling disappeared again.

Up. Down. Up. Down.

After repeating this dozens of times, she finally understood one fact.

That was...there was something evil here!

“Ahhh!! There’s a ghost!!”

She had only just gotten out, yet she ran back into the courtyard at several times the speed she had used to leave it.

Inside the room, Jiang Xie stopped cultivating.

His expression was listless.

He had failed again.

This was already the hundred and eightieth time that the feeling had turned out to be wrong.

Every time he thought he was about to break through to the fourth level of the Body Tempering Realm, reality would deliver him a devastating blow.

“Cultivating immortality is so hard...”

Jiang Xie had thought this more than once. He really wanted to just give up and lie flat, but he could not.

He had to keep striving!

He had not lost yet!

He still had his cheat!

And most importantly, he could not disgrace the name of transmigrators!

With that thought, his fighting spirit returned once more.

A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step.

In any case, he was not worried about dying now... no, more accurately, he was not worried about being killed.

He had already hidden bottles filled with his blood all over Jiang City.

Just to be safe, he had even placed some within the neighboring city as well.

Of course, he had not gone there personally....

“There’s a ghost...”

At that moment, Ji Wuyue’s voice vaguely drifted in from outside the room.

Jiang Xie smiled faintly.

A ghost?

No, that was something even more terrifying than a ghost!

He stood up and walked out of the room.

The moment he opened the door, he saw the little girl squatting on the ground with her head in her hands.

“A ghost? Where is there a ghost?”

Jiang Xie asked, though he already knew the answer.

The instant Ji Wuyue saw him, it was as though she had found her savior.

She rushed to his side at once and tightly grabbed the sleeve at his right arm.

“Out... outside...” As though she felt that her current appearance was too weak, Ji Wuyue immediately changed her tone.

“The ghost is outside. This lady commands you to go chase it away at once!”

A glint flashed through Jiang Xie’s eyes, and he readily agreed. “All right!”

With that, the two of them walked toward the outside of the courtyard together.

Once outside, Jiang Xie deliberately circled around once, then said in surprise, “There’s nothing here?”

“Hm?” Ji Wuyue’s eyes were full of suspicion.

She also tried to move around a bit, but the moment she lifted her foot, that dangerous feeling appeared again.

“It’s here! It’s here!” she suddenly cried out.

Jiang Xie took a few more turns around the place and said, “There’s nothing here!”

Then he put on a thoughtful expression.

The moment Ji Wuyue saw that, she immediately grew nervous and asked, “What is it?”

Jiang Xie looked grave. “I think it may have set its sights on you.”

“Ah?” Ji Wuyue’s face instantly turned deathly pale.

Her two small hands grabbed Jiang Xie’s sleeve again. “Th-Then... then what do we do?”

“I have a way.”

“What way?”

“No need to rush. Let’s go inside and talk it through slowly.”

.......

A short while later, inside the room in the small courtyard, Ji Wuyue and Jiang Xie sat facing each other.

Ji Wuyue’s face was flushed red, and she could not help asking, “Do we really have to do this?”

“Of course.”

Outside the courtyard, Old Wu returned looking flushed with drink. The moment he stepped inside, he heard the conversation between Jiang Xie and the other girl.

Do we really have to do this?

Do what???

Young Master, you are only thirteen!!

Wait, what if I have misunderstood?

At that moment, Old Wu’s thoughts spun wildly.

He slowly walked to a corner of the courtyard and sat down, deciding that he had better observe a little longer.

Very soon, voices came again.

“Can you really not change it to some other request?”

“No. It has to be this.”

“Ah! But... I’m shy.”

“There is no need to be shy. I’m only going to touch it once.”

...

Touch it once???

Young Master, what exactly are you touching?

Old Wu was starting to lose his composure, but he still forced himself to endure it and continued hiding.

“All right, but you can only touch it once.”

“Mhm, the feel of it is really nice. Soft and smooth.”

????

Young Master, what exactly are you touching???

All kinds of guesses began flooding Old Wu’s mind.

“Then I’m going to put it in now, all right? It is a bit tight, so it might hurt a little. You will have to bear with it.”

“Mhm, I will. Hurry up. I do not want anyone to find out...”

...

?????????

What a sin!!!

Young Master, both you and she are still only children!!!!

How could you do such a thing!!

This absolutely cannot happen!!

Hearing those two lines, Old Wu was now completely certain of the guess in his heart. He was so shocked that he tore out a tuft of his beard.

He could not wait any longer.

He could not let the Young Master become so deeply infatuated with beauty at such a young age!!

Old Wu dashed straight toward the room.

With a great shove of his hand, he flung the door open, not caring in the slightest what the people inside were doing, and shouted at once:

“Young Master, you mustn’t!! Absolutely mustn’t!! You are still too young! How could you do this!”

......

The air seemed to freeze in an instant....

“Old Wu, what are you doing?” Jiang Xie looked at him as though he were an idiot.

“Young Master, you are still too young, you must not...” Halfway through his sentence, Old Wu’s throat seemed to lock up.

In his line of sight, Jiang Xie was holding a bracelet in his right hand, while his other hand held the little girl’s right hand.

Clearly, Jiang Xie was in the middle of putting that bracelet onto the little girl’s wrist.

And that bracelet truly was not large. It was only slightly bigger than the little girl’s palm.

If it were forced on, it really would hurt a little...

Old Wu only felt his mind buzzing.

His face, already red from drinking, became even redder.

He wished he could find a hole on the spot and crawl straight into it.

“It is nothing... nothing... I drank too much and got muddle-headed. Ah, I am so sleepy. I am going to rest now. Young Master, you two carry on... carry on...”

Old Wu brought out his ultimate skill of playing dumb to the fullest.

It was a move he had learned from following Jiang Xie around.

Then he hobbled and staggered out of the room.

“He is drunk. Let’s continue. I’m going to put it on now, all right? It will hurt, so bear with it...”

“All right...”