Chapter 661: As Long As I'm Not Awkward

"Brother Jian, cherish these three months of living together, but don't go and get someone pregnant!"

Ning Rongrong appeared to be smiling, but she was actually gritting her teeth as she smoothed out Qin Jian's clothes and loosened his collar.

"How could it be that fast..."

Sweat appeared on Qin Jian's forehead.

"Brother..."

Xiao Wu leaned weakly against him, rubbing her little face against his cheek again and again: "You mustn't forget Xiao Wu, Brother surely won't have a new love and forget the old, right?"

Qin Jian and Poseixi subconsciously looked at each other, then both turned their faces away.

Seriously, this is so awkward!

What is all this...

"Ahem, High Priest, I will go arrange for those two to stay in my Seahorse City," Haima Douluo said, bowing: "I will arrange their lodging and meals well, so they can undergo their Assessment without any worries."

Poseixi was just about to nod, but heard Haima Douluo add: "I will also remind them not to disturb the High Priest within these three months."

Poseixi: "..."

She had a premonition that after today's events, her cold and aloof image and reputation as High Priest would be gone forever...

As the other six Holy Pillar Guardians returned, Haima Douluo also led away Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu, who kept looking back every few steps.

The Sea within the Sea here was soon left with only Qin Jian and Poseixi standing by the water.

"Whew..."

Poseixi let out a breath that was almost imperceptible.

Qin Jian smiled: "No one is watching, feel a bit more relaxed?"

Poseixi turned to look at him, her eyes also holding a smile: "Aren't you?"

Qin Jian said as if nothing had happened: "Not me, I don't feel awkward at all."

"If you aren't awkward, why did you deliberately bring up some handshake etiquette?"

Poseixi looked at his profile.

It felt quite peculiar to have such an equal conversation with someone for the first time.

"As long as I'm not awkward, the one who is awkward is someone else, for example..."

Qin Jian reached out and took hold of Poseixi's soft left hand without a hint of artifice, smiling slightly: "Look, I don't feel awkward."

A touch of warmth was transmitted from his palm, like a warm breeze blowing through a lake of the heart that had been so tranquil it seemed not to have rippled for thousands of years, causing ripples to spread.

Poseixi subconsciously pulled her hand back, but this time Qin Jian did not stop at a mere touch like before.

Instead, the moment she wanted to pull it out, his fingers suddenly slid in, and their fingers interlaced.

Poseixi: "!"

"How can you be so unreserved?"

The temperature of her cheeks rose by a few degrees, and she couldn't help but say: "After all, we don't have any relationship, is it really okay for you to do this?"

Qin Jian then let go of her hand as if nothing had happened and pulled it back: "Oh, I was just earnestly completing the Sea God's Assessment; after all, I was just being clever earlier."

The sense of proportion and the degree of ambiguity were handled perfectly.

Poseixi felt very helpless hearing him attribute the matter to the Sea God, as this pit was indeed dug by the Sea God whom she revered...

"Follow me, the Sea God Hall... actually..."

Poseixi didn't know what she thought of, and signs of awkwardness began to appear again.

"Hum hum hum..."

Qin Jian walked into mid-air following her footsteps.

The two walked as if strolling in a courtyard toward the Central Inner Sea of Sea God Island, toward the Sea God Hall on the towering isolated cliff.

A Title Douluo at last, finally able to try the feeling of walking in the air.

Out of the corner of her eye, Poseixi saw him stepping on the air step by step as casually as she did, and a flash of astonishment crossed her brow.

This kind of subtle control is usually only achieved by Spirit Masters who have accumulated many years at the Title Douluo level to be so free and easy.

And given Qin Jian's age, he had clearly only recently entered the Title Douluo level; she didn't know where he got such strong control...

Qin Jian's control was naturally not as good as hers, but he could manipulate the wind element.

One is stepping on the air to go up, the other is the air actively supporting one to go up; how could the difficulty be the same?

"Tap, tap."

With two light sounds, Qin Jian and Poseixi landed together in front of the water-blue Sea God Hall.

As the symbol of Sea God Island, the Sea God Hall, which the High Priest had guarded for countless years, was naturally magnificent, grand, and imposing.

Several cone-shaped spikes on the eaves pierced straight into the sky, sharp and fierce.

A statue of a Trident, hundreds of meters tall, stood in the center of the main hall's roof, its massive form visible from far away across the entire Sea God Island.

"What a spectacular Sea God Hall..."

Qin Jian sighed in a low voice, praising it politely as if entering someone else's house for the first time.

Poseixi said with slight awkwardness: "You... come in with me..."

Qin Jian looked at her strangely, not knowing why she suddenly seemed a bit coy.

"What's wrong with you?" he asked directly.

Poseixi paused her steps, then continued walking inside: "You'll know when you come in and see..."

Qin Jian followed her across the high threshold and entered the empty main hall...

Yes, it was empty, extremely empty!

The entire hall, which was several thousand square meters, actually only had a tall Sea God Statue erected in the deepest part, along with a water-blue prayer mat in front of the statue; there was nothing else.

"You... don't tell me you've been living in here the whole time?" Qin Jian was dumbfounded.

He finally knew why Poseixi felt embarrassed.

That was because the place where she lived really had nothing…

How could he let Qin Jian stay here like this? Sit and discuss the Dao together? Is this "sitting and discussing the Dao" proper? If it were proper, then this life would be impossible to live…

"I…"

Poseixi turned slightly to the side, not looking at Qin Jian's expression: "For the past ten years, I have just sat there cultivating in seclusion, never once going out… Just me alone, so there was nothing that needed preparing…"

Qin Jian opened his mouth: "You… don't you need to eat, bathe, or sleep?"

Poseixi lowered her head, looking bashful: "Ever since reaching Limit Douluo, I can no longer remember how long it has been since I last ate anything… As for bathing, I can maintain cleanliness myself, so naturally, there is no need for such a superfluous act… Sleeping is even less necessary; meditation can replace it…"

Qin Jian clutched his forehead: "Are you perhaps a legendary ascetic monk? Don't you find it dull?"

"Dull, is it…"

Poseixi touched her hair: "Sometimes, perhaps, but I have nothing else to do, so I can only continue cultivating like this…"

"Then do you have any results from these decades of cultivation? Still a Limit Douluo?" Qin Jian glanced at her.

Poseixi looked back and smiled: "Although my time is running out, at least… I have maintained the appearance of my youth, haven't I?"

Qin Jian was choked up: "Is this the goal of your decades of bitter cultivation? Why not take advantage of your youth to do more interesting things?"

"Interesting things?" Poseixi shook her head: "I don't know what else I could do."

"Don't you want to go look around? Get to know more people? See more of the different places and scenery in this world?" Qin Jian asked.

Poseixi continued to shake her head: "No, I don't find that very interesting."

"Then what do you find more interesting? Could it be faith in the Sea God?" Qin Jian said, speechless.

Poseixi turned to look at him: "It is not. What I want is affection, I want the most beautiful feelings in this world."

Qin Jian was astonished: "Then why have you sat here dully for so many years? If you yearn for this, shouldn't you go out and meet more people?"

The corners of Poseixi's lips curled up bit by bit, and even her eyes slowly curved into a gentle arc: "Because… the person I have been waiting for all along… he never appeared…"

(End of this chapter)