Chapter 092: World Four [14]
After checking with her spiritual power and discovering that Meng Jiuge had only fallen asleep, Ling Yilin simply picked her up and placed her on the bed in the bedroom.
The Meng Jiuge who had suddenly popped up just now, her words contained too much information, especially her answer to the last question, which was practically sticking the identity of a guardian on her face, no different from showing her cards.
“Xiao Qi, do you still remember what happened after we just came out of the chaotic currents of spacetime?” Ling Yilin asked, sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, looking at Meng Jiuge, who was lying on the bed, with an unreadable expression.
【After I signed the contract with you, Master, you used your own power to temporarily open up a sufficiently high-level passage in the chaotic currents of spacetime, allowing us to successfully leave the chaotic currents of spacetime,】 Xiao Qi simply began to recall from the beginning.
【After leaving the chaotic currents of spacetime, you and I were both very happy, and our first reaction was to occupy a high-level plane. You instantly locked onto a high-level plane at that time, but before you could open the passage and go in, an attack came.】
【You had no defense at that time, Master, so more than half of your power was cut off, and your body was also injured. In a hurry, you randomly chose a low-level plane and went in. The deal you promised the original inhabitant at that time was to help her raise enough money for her mother’s surgery.】
“Was it me who told you that I could recover my injuries by absorbing the world core energy?” Ling Yilin asked.
Xiao Qi was stunned for a moment. 【Master, isn’t this common sense?】
“Then was it me who told you that as long as the protagonist chosen by the world consciousness was blackened, the world would head for destruction without alerting the guardians?” Ling Yilin continued to ask.
Xiao Qi was even more confused. 【Master, this cognition seems to have been in my head from the very beginning. The relationship between you, the world consciousness, and the corresponding small world’s protagonist, this should be an inherited memory, right? I don’t know what I know, but I seem to just know.】
Xiao Qi’s tone began to become uncertain, and then it continued to say, 【Master, I think this cognition should be correct. After all, you have already recovered your strength now. If this cognition is fake, there is no reason why you can repair your injuries and regain your power.】
Ling Yilin did not speak. It was hard to say whether this cognition was true or not, but it was definitely not some inherited memory.
If she was not mistaken, it was most likely a psychological suggestion that the guardian had given her at some point, to ensure that after she entered a small world, the first thing she would do was not to destroy the world, but to try to get close to the protagonist designated by the world consciousness.
It just so happened that in her own memory, there was not much content about the protagonists in other worlds. Perhaps forgetting these memories was also a part of the psychological suggestion.
“Xiao Qi, I shouldn’t have destroyed any worlds yet, right?” Ling Yilin asked, starting to question her own memory.
【No, you have not ruled any small worlds for the time being, Master. However, you seem to have gained the faith of some other small worlds. It’s probably because you have left a good positive influence in those worlds.】
“Positive influence?” Ling Yilin repeated, and then laughed.
Her memory told her that she was born to destroy, but after wasting an unknown amount of time, she had only left a positive influence in a few worlds. Was this still a great demon king who was destined to destroy the world?
【Master, do you suspect that your memory has been tampered with? But you are a strong person in the void. Even the world consciousness of a high-level plane cannot affect your memory.】
“Then who can affect my memory? Do you think that Meng Jiuge from just now can do it?” Ling Yilin asked.
Xiao Qi was silent for a long time. 【Probably not, unless you are willing, and have accepted the other party’s invasion of your sea of consciousness without any resistance. Otherwise, the only one who can modify your memory should be you yourself.】
“Is that so?” Ling Yilin murmured softly. After she lowered her eyes, she hid all the emotions in her heart.
**
Meng Jiuge’s memory stopped at the moment she was trying hard to compress her spiritual power to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. So when she opened her eyes and found that she was lying on the bed, her face was full of confusion.
What was going on? Wasn’t she in closed-door cultivation to break through? How did she break through to the bed? Could it be that the so-called breakthrough was just a big dream?
Meng Jiuge blinked her eyes, reached out and pinched the flesh on her arm, and then sucked in a cold breath in pain.
“You’re not dreaming. You’ve reached the Foundation Establishment stage,” Ling Yilin, who was sitting not far away, said. “You lost consciousness after you broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage. I carried you from the closed-door cultivation room to here.”
“Is… is that so? Thank you, thank you, senior,” Meng Jiuge sat up from the bed with one hand. “Senior, have I successfully reached the Foundation Establishment stage? Or did something happen on the way?”
“Nothing happened. It’s probably because your closed-door cultivation was a little too long, so your body had a delayed reaction,” Ling Yilin said, pausing for a moment, her tone subtle. “You were in closed-door cultivation for a total of fourteen days, plus the time you lost consciousness, a total of fifteen days.”
“Fifteen days?” Meng Jiuge couldn’t help but raise her voice. “Then isn’t it almost the new year!”
“It’s already over. Today is the first day of the new year,” Ling Yilin said, and after a beat, she added, “Happy New Year.”
“I didn’t make the news of your successful Foundation Establishment public. Yan Zhiming and the others should be quite concerned about you,” Ling Yilin said, closely observing Meng Jiuge’s every move.
“Ha-Happy New Year…” Meng Jiuge blinked her eyes hard and subconsciously searched her surroundings. After discovering that her phone was on the bedside table, she immediately bent down and took it.
After unlocking her phone, Meng Jiuge saw a pile of unread messages. After a wail, she began to type and reply to her master and senior sisters who were concerned about her.
Seeing that the expression on Meng Jiuge’s face had changed several times, Ling Yilin confirmed that the current Meng Jiuge was the original Meng Jiuge of this world, and her original guard was let down a lot.
Meng Jiuge was busy for a full hour. During this period, she made several phone calls on the bed, not only to the people of her sect, but also to her friends at the university.
If those people could still contact Meng Jiuge’s ‘parents’, some people were planning to report Meng Jiuge as missing.
After comforting her friends, Meng Jiuge let out a long sigh of relief and showed a look of having survived a disaster.
“Senior, I’m already a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator. Can I not cultivate so intensely in the future?” After throwing her phone away, Meng Jiuge shamelessly moved closer to Ling Yilin.
“Just carry the spirit stone with you and maintain the daily circulation of spiritual power,” Ling Yilin said. She had already locked the person up for more than two months. It was time to let Meng Jiuge take a breath.
“Yay! Thank you, senior!” A cheer came from Meng Jiuge’s mouth.
“I no longer require you to complete the cultivation tasks every day, so our previous agreement is also void,” Ling Yilin added slowly.
“Huh? What! How can you be so cruel, senior!” The happy expression only existed on Meng Jiuge’s face for a few short seconds, and it quickly turned into a pitiful look on the verge of tears.
“It’s just that the agreement has expired. There’s nothing cruel about it,” Ling Yilin was unmoved.
Meng Jiuge howled while holding Ling Yilin’s arm for a while. Seeing that Ling Yilin was determined not to relent, she could only try another angle. “Senior, look, I’ve already reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Shouldn’t you reward me a little?”
“I’m not your master. Why should I reward you?” Ling Yilin asked in return.
“But you are my senior, and you have also taught me so many things. You can be considered half of my master~” Meng Jiuge hugged Ling Yilin’s arm and acted spoiled.
“Senior, senior, are you willing to give your most, most, most beloved junior a little, insignificant reward? To make her a happy big girl?” Meng Jiuge’s eyes widened, trying to convey her sincerity through her eyes.
“When did you become my most, most, most beloved junior?” Ling Yilin wanted to laugh a little in her heart, but her face was still calm.
“Besides me, have you taught any other juniors, senior?” Meng Jiuge asked.
Ling Yilin’s eyebrow arched slightly. “The only junior I have taught and the most, most, most beloved junior are not the same concept. There shouldn’t be an equal sign between the two.”
“Even if it’s not, it’s just a matter of time,” Meng Jiuge began to be unreasonable. “Senior, just give me a little reward! I want to get a reward from you, or I won’t have any motivation to cultivate!”
From a certain perspective, whether it was the original Meng Jiuge of this world or not, she was fearless in front of Ling Yilin, as if she was not worried at all that she would turn on her.
Noticing this, Ling Yilin couldn’t help but narrow her eyes slightly. She pinched Meng Jiuge’s chin with her hand, lowered her head, and looked at her. “Little snack, have you forgotten your constitution?”
“The you in the Qi Condensation stage was dispensable to me, but now it’s different. Eating the current you can improve my strength by a lot,” a curve appeared on the corner of Ling Yilin’s mouth. “You’re hugging me like this. Do you want me to eat you?”
Meng Jiuge was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes widened even more than before, with a look of full sincerity. “If you want, senior, then eat me! I am willing to become a part of you! To be with you forever!”
Ling Yilin: …
“You’re not afraid of death?” Ling Yilin narrowed her eyes. Did she have no deterrent power in front of Meng Jiuge now?
“I’m afraid. But my life was originally yours, senior. If you want to take it back, of course, you can,” Meng Jiuge said and couldn’t help but close her mouth and make a swallowing motion.
“Senior, you’re so close to me. Isn’t this a little not good?” Meng Jiuge slowed her tone, and a blush appeared on her cheeks. “Senior, I’m actually a person who is attracted to looks. If you continue like this, I probably won’t be able to hold back.”
“Hmm?” Ling Yilin was genuinely confused. “What did you say?”
Wasn’t Meng Jiuge a fluffy-lover? She was in human form now, not her original form. How could she not be able to hold back?
Ling Yilin’s question was quickly answered by Meng Jiuge with her mouth, but it was not spoken, but directly kissed.
At the age of eighteen or nineteen, it was the time to dare to love and fight, and to be bold.
Meng Jiuge felt that she couldn’t hold back, so she simply didn’t. Ignoring her pinched chin, she directly held Ling Yilin’s face with her hands and gave her a peck.
“Senior, this is how I can’t hold back,” Meng Jiuge said with an honest face. Seeing that Ling Yilin had no reaction, she seized the opportunity and gave her a second peck.
Ling Yilin reacted this time, immediately let go of Meng Jiuge’s hand, and retreated several steps.
“Do you know what you’re doing?” Ling Yilin put on a straight face and subconsciously swallowed.
“I know. I was attracted to your looks, senior, and couldn’t hold back,” Meng Jiuge said with a frank face. “Don’t worry, senior. I’ll be responsible for you after I kiss you! I won’t be a heartless person!”
“Stop. Don’t misuse idioms,” Ling Yilin pinched the bridge of her nose. She hadn’t even digested the news that the other Meng Jiuge had told her. How did this Meng Jiuge start to be restless again?
Or was it that this Meng Jiuge was not the original one?
Thinking of this, Ling Yilin narrowed her eyes slightly. This possibility was very small, but it was not zero.
“You like me?” Ling Yilin asked.
“Yes, I like you, senior,” Meng Jiuge nodded.
Ling Yilin laughed. “What do you like about me? Do you like my looks? But this is just my transformed appearance. If I want, it’s not a difficult thing for me to change my appearance.”
“As for being good-looking or not, as long as it’s a demon race with a normal aesthetic, they won’t be an ugly person after they transform.”
Meng Jiuge held up her fingers and began to count. “I like your human form, senior. I like your original form. I like the appearance of a big tiger, and I also like the appearance of a little tiger. I like that you are willing to guide me, I like that you are willing to save me, I like that you are willing to let me sleep with you, I like to groom your fur, I like your paws, I like your beautiful eyes, I like your tail…”
“Stop!” Ling Yilin began to have a headache. Did this kind of liking also count as liking? Wasn’t it a little too shallow?
“You mean, if my original form were another animal, you wouldn’t like me?” Ling Yilin asked.
“Of course not. If you were another animal, senior, of course, I would also like you,” Meng Jiuge said and licked her lips. “Liking should be a kind of feeling, right? When you appeared in front of me, I had this feeling. I like everything about you, senior.”
Sincerity was always a killer move. After meeting Meng Jiuge’s sincere eyes, Ling Yilin also didn’t know what to say.
The two of them just looked at each other from a distance of about half a meter, and neither of them was willing to move their gaze away first.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes. Meng Jiuge, who had a relatively poor patience, couldn’t take it anymore.
“Senior, isn’t the lifespan of a cultivator longer than an ordinary person’s? Do you want to give it a try with me? If after trying, we find that we are not suitable together, you can reject my liking then, right?”
“Try?” Ling Yilin’s eyes changed slightly. “What do you want to try?”
“Of course, it’s to try being in a relationship with you, senior. I like you, senior. If you don’t hate it, I think we can give it a try.”
“Shouldn’t a relationship be built on the basis of mutual liking?”
“Generally speaking, yes. But you and I are not ordinary people, so there is no need to consider the general situation.”
“I’m not interested in playing house with you.”
“But you have already been with me for a long time, senior. If you don’t have a little bit of liking for me, you shouldn’t be at my home at such an important time,” Meng Jiuge said, a hint of a cunning look in her eyes.
“Senior, you won’t lose anything by giving it a try. I will work hard to be a twenty-four-filial good girlfriend!” Meng Jiuge said with conviction.
After getting along for so long, Meng Jiuge had already grasped Ling Yilin’s thoughts. As long as she did not decisively refuse, there was a chance.
If Ling Yilin really had no feelings for her at all, she should have, when she had kissed her, given her a slap like in the TV dramas and cursed her, instead of questioning what she liked about her here.
Ling Yilin fell into silence again. She couldn’t, in front of Meng Jiuge, point at her nose and say that she was being sentimental, that she didn’t like her at all.
“Senior, why don’t we just use three months as a deadline? If after we have been in a relationship for three months, you still don’t like me, then we can go back to our previous relationship, right?” Meng Jiuge said.
This statement seemed to be a step back for Meng Jiuge, but as long as Ling Yilin agreed, their relationship would have taken a solid step forward.
“One month. At the end of the first lunar month, our trial will end,” Ling Yilin said.
“Yay! Senior! Can I kiss you?” Meng Jiuge immediately pounced over.
Ling Yilin did not say anything, but once again pinched Meng Jiuge’s chin and told her what a kiss was.
A simple touch of the lips could not be considered an intimate act. At the very least, one had to invade the other’s territory and plunder what did not originally belong to one.
Meng Jiuge’s courage was very great, but her practical experience was a duck’s egg. If it weren’t for the fact that a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator could hold their breath for a period of time, Meng Jiuge would probably have passed out from lack of oxygen after the kiss.
“Senior! How about we do it again?” Meng Jiuge said while taking a deep breath and savoring the feeling from before.
Was this the feeling of a kiss? So wonderful! Especially when the tip of her tongue slid over her upper palate, her whole body was numb.
It was quite addictive.
“Not so good. You were in closed-door cultivation for fifteen days. I only used a simple cleaning spell on you. I suggest you go and take a shower and change your clothes,” Ling Yilin reached out and pushed away Meng Jiuge, who was trying to get closer, and couldn’t help but doubt if her decision was correct.
A month’s time seemed a little too long. She should have said half a month, or ten days.
“Okay! Then do you want to take a shower with me, senior? The one in the bathroom is a double bathtub. We can take a bath together!” Meng Jiuge said with a rosy face.
Shyness was certain, but wanting to cuddle was even more certain.
“No need. You go by yourself,” Ling Yilin refused coldly.
It was only the first day. Did they have to kiss, bathe together, and go to bed directly? This speed was a little too fast. It would make her look like a beast.
Hmm—
It had nothing to do with her original form. It was purely that the progress was a little too fast. Even a beast would not do this kind of thing.
She was just a little girl who had not seen much of the world and had zero experience in love. Now her words were bold. It was guaranteed that after they were really frank with each other, she would become timid.
**
“Hmm? What?” Yan Zhiming was still a little dizzy after receiving her little disciple’s ‘good news’ call.
One was because what her little disciple had said was a little too absurd, and the other was because she had gotten drunk at her junior sister Yan Qingyi’s home yesterday and had not recovered after a whole night.
As expected of the wine that her own junior sister had brewed. Not only did it contain spiritual power, but the aftereffect was also particularly strong.
“Master, I’m with senior! Senior is my girlfriend!” Meng Jiuge repeated, her tone still exceptionally excited.
“Master, senior said that my Foundation Establishment stage cultivation is already enough to go out and see the world. Why don’t you send me a few difficult missions?”
“You don’t have to worry about my safety, master. Senior will be with me! We will be inseparable for at least twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four!”
Yan Zhiming held her phone. After a long while, she finally digested what Meng Jiuge had said.
“You…” Yan Zhiming had originally wanted to say something, but after spitting out the first word, she felt that it was unnecessary and simply got straight to the point. “Are you sure Senior Ling will be with you?”
“Yes! Senior will be with me!” Meng Jiuge said, relaxing her body and lying on the fluffy thing.
Ling Yilin, who had returned to her original form, wagged her tail. Her side-lying posture looked very casual and lazy, but her pricked-up ears revealed her true thoughts.
“If that’s the case, I’ll pick a relatively difficult mission from the B-level for you,” Yan Zhiming recalled a relatively tricky mission.
“Are you interested in a missing person case? C City has had eighteen little girls go missing in the past two months. They are about the same age as you. One of them is a person who has signed a confidentiality agreement with us and has retained a part of her memory.”
Yan Zhiming said. Seeing that her little disciple had not refused and Ling Yilin had not made a sound, she continued to briefly describe the details.
“That student is called Jiang Ming’an. She has a little bit of spiritual power fluctuation in her body and can only barely condense qi. She can’t cast any spells. We initially suspect that it is related to a cross-province human trafficking gang, but the other side has concealed their aura, and we can’t find too many useful clues.”
“There have also been cultivators who have taken on this mission, but he only found a small county in another province. He did not continue to follow up and was held up by more important matters, and was forced to give up the mission.”
“Master, if it’s a human trafficker, have the police intervened?” Meng Jiuge asked.
Yan Zhiming: “They have, but the other party is very familiar with the police’s procedures. I suspect that one of their members has been in the system. The surveillance left behind did not capture any faces, and they even disguised their height and body shape. The Sky Eye system can’t lock on them at all.”
“I’ll take this mission. This period is a good time to visit relatives and friends. You can send me the detailed information, master. Senior and I will set off tomorrow!” Meng Jiuge said and casually stroked the thick fur on Ling Yilin’s body.
“Okay, I’ll go and get the information and send it to you later,” Yan Zhiming said. “Remember, you must act with Senior Ling. There is at least one demonic cultivator with a Foundation Establishment stage cultivation among the enemies. They have many tricks. You can’t let down your guard at any time.”
“Don’t worry, master. Senior will protect me,” Meng Jiuge said, changing the phone from the earpiece to the speaker mode. “Senior, you will protect me, right!”
Ling Yilin snorted. “I’m not to the point where I can’t even protect you.”