Free Web NovelThe moon illuminated the rooftop, and Autumn Water Pavilion was silent, save for the sparse chirping of birds and the faint sound of Master grinding her teeth, making the atmosphere exceptionally tranquil.
Li Mo sat upright, holding the soft, jade-like Ice Cube in his arms, one hand supporting her slender waist and the other resting on her thigh.
Ying Bing was expressionless, feeling the warmth on her thigh and waist, and pursed her lips, remaining motionless as if under a Body-Fixing Spell.
She pursed her lips, her gaze deep as she lowered her eyes.
It felt... hot.
"You..."
"Forty, it's Forty. As a blacksmith, it's perfectly reasonable to have a second hammer on him, right?"
"....."
How strange, the law of complementary softness and hardness had failed on Xiao Li; his mouth could still be so stubbornly unyielding!
After saying that, Li Mo felt the delicate hand on his shoulder curl into a tight fist.
He looked up to see Ice Cube's eyes deep and her tone light:
"As expected of someone who has achieved Major Achievement in body tempering, his body is like a Sharp Weapon...."
Li Mo thought for a moment and said, "I've made a little progress recently. It's Body Tempering Perfection, my body is like a famous artifact."
"?"
Hearing this, Ying Bing was stunned, and a look of astonishment appeared on her cold face.
The body was the most difficult to refine. She had endured the baptism and torment of Taiyin Power from a very early age to forge her icy, jade-like physique.
Yet, even so, her physique was still slightly inferior to his before.
Now, it was probably... much more inferior.
The countdown to the ranking was getting closer and closer.....
However, her Yi Soul strength should have the advantage, and she wouldn't suffer losses from divine weapons again.
Yin and Yang Qi surged, and the Taiyin Intent Soul shimmered with the moon in the sky, as time flowed quietly.
Unconsciously, the hour of midnight arrived.
The System would never be absent or late:
【Listing all Prodigies within the Eastern Wasteland Region, Yunzhou, and Southern Border...】
【Comparing combat power...】
【Fiftieth-ranked Prodigy of the Three Regions: Huang Donglai.】
【Forty-ninth-ranked Prodigy of the Three Regions: Du Yu.】
....
Ying Bing watched the rankings intently, without blinking.
Soon, the rankings reached the top ten.
Li Mo's initial sitting posture could still be considered that of a proper gentleman, not prone to random movements, but after a moment, he suddenly noticed that Ice Cube always kept her eyes down, staring at one spot.
Moreover, her soft, fragrant body was slightly tense.
"What is Ice Cube looking at?"
Xiao Li was a curious student and also looked down. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
As he looked down, his eyes were obscured, and he almost bounced back.
"Mmm mmm..."
"?"
Ying Bing shivered, her tense body softening slightly. She pursed her lips, wanting to glare at Li Mo.
But his eyes were already covered.
His clear breath seemed to hit her heart, tickling it.
Ice Cube had just wanted to say something.
The System's ranking, however, had already reached its end.
【Second-ranked Prodigy of the Three Regions: Ying Bing.】
【First-ranked Prodigy of the Three Regions: Li Mo.】
【Congratulations, Host, on securing second place in this ranking. Please continue to strive for excellence.】
【Please promptly find the winner and complete the loser's punishment... Oh~ Detecting that the Host is currently sitting in the winner's arms, I'll be going now, I won't disturb you~】
"......"
The System vanished on the spot after its mischief, giving no one a chance to retort. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
"Hmm?"
Xiao Li, whose face was buried in her, suddenly realized something was amiss.
Why was Ice Cube's already not-slow heartbeat getting faster and faster?
Not only was it getting faster, but the sound of her heartbeat also seemed louder than before.
Li Mo asked blankly, "Ice Cube?"
"Why do you keep scratching your neck lately?"
Ying Bing asked a puzzling question.
She herself didn't know how she had asked it.
She lowered her gaze to the young man's neck, where faint red marks were visible, likely scratched by himself.
Li Mo was puzzled but still nodded:
"My neck often feels a bit itchy, like a mosquito bite. My physique Realm is already so strong, what mosquito could bite me and cause a bump? It's been even itchier lately, and medicine doesn't help."
"How strange. Ice Cube, do you have any ideas?"
"......"
Ying Bing couldn't help but recall the scene from her dream.
That's right, Qin Yuzhi seemed to have said that.
Dreams and reality, to a certain extent, have an obscure connection and can influence each other.
The higher one's mastery of the Dao of Dreams, the more obvious this becomes.
But she had neither cultivated the Dao of Dreams nor was her Realm sufficient for the connection between dreams and reality to reach this level.....
However, now did not seem to be the time to ponder this question.
"I don't know either," Ying Bing said softly, tucking /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ a strand of hair behind her ear and turning her gaze elsewhere.
"Darn it."
As everyone knows, Ice Cube is incredibly vast and profound.
Even she had no solution, and he was still a bit inferior to her, merely broad and profound... Hmm?
When he was little and got mosquito bites, what did his mother do?
Xiao Li had a flash of inspiration:
"Hey, although I don't know the reason, I seem to have thought of a method!"
"What method?"
"Saliva! When I was little and got mosquito bites, my mother would apply saliva to the bump and then add a Seal to reinforce it."
Saying that, Li Mo followed suit, extending his hand to Ice Cube's wrist and carving a cross with his fingernail.
Ying Bing pursed her lips and asked, "Will that... be useful?"
"The bump will be useful. Mother's methods are always reliable, but I can't see my own neck..."
Li Mo blinked: "Sister, help me."
"....."
Ying Bing bit her lips lightly, a ripple of moonlight in her eyes.
"Sister, it's itchy....."
"Really... I can't do anything with you."
After Ying Bing finished speaking, she suddenly lowered her head.
Li Mo was stunned, and then he felt his neck, itchy, warm, and with a gentle biting sensation.
He suddenly remembered the cat he had kept in his previous life, a calico longhair, beautiful but usually very aloof. Not only did it keep strangers away, but it also ignored him, its litter-scooper.
Except when it was time for canned food in the morning, it would jump onto the bed and lick his neck.
"Does it... still itch?" Ice Cube looked up, her eyes hazy.
"Mm... Mm!"
The proper gentleman Xiao Li felt the warmth on his neck quickly turn cool.
It no longer itched there.
But it seemed.
Like something itchy wanted to crawl out from his heart...
So he nodded seriously, indicating affirmation.
As everyone knows, applying saliva and sealing mosquito bites involves two steps.
But Ice Cube actually combined them into one, simplifying it to a single step!
Ice Cube was a Genius!
The moonlight, like silver gauze, enveloped the two on the rooftop.
The two were a bit stiff at first, especially the expressionless Han Xianzi.
But gradually, she seemed like an Ice Cube being melted in someone's arms....
......
PS: Just got home this afternoon, so the update is a bit late, but it's still three chapters today. Apologies, dear readers.
Taking a break really works, hehe.
