Chapter 348: One Day I Will Climb to the Highest Peak, and Hold All Mountains Small

Hanagami Junko's face instantly turned red.

In Japan, when it comes to that kind of knowledge, girls don't need to wait until high school — by middle school they basically all already know.

As a lively high school girl, how could Hanagami Junko possibly not understand.

At once, she fidgeted, grabbing the hem of her clothes, not knowing what to say, and then, whether her brain short-circuited or because of all the ideas her school friends had drilled into her, Hanagami Junko said:

"Chie, don't talk nonsense. I'm not good-looking, and I'm flat-chested — why would Mr. Kamikawa ever take a liking to me? If anyone, it'd be Matsuka-nee."

The scene went silent; you could hear a pin drop.

Matsuka Chisato's face turned rosy, and she instinctively glanced down at herself, then covered herself with both hands:

"Junko-chan, what are you saying!"

Kamikawa Chie, seemingly thinking the show wasn't chaotic enough — or perhaps having been led astray by Iori — spoke up:

"You guys shouldn't talk nonsense. As for big or small, Nii-san doesn't mind either way, right, Nii-san?"

In unison, Hanagami Junko and Matsuka Chisato couldn't help but look at Kamikawa Mitsu.

"Ahem…"

Kamikawa Mitsu, embarrassed, reached out and tapped Kamikawa Chie on her little head:

"Chie, stop being naughty. It's so late today — let's just order takeout. You go order some."

As he spoke, he fell into an inexplicable train of thought.

Does he like big or small?

Probably likes both… right?

A contemplative look appeared on his face, and a scene also rose up in his mind.

Hanagami Junko is |··|.

Tsuchimikado Xia Mei is (·)(·).

Matsuka Chisato is (·Y·).

Rikai is (·人·).

Wait! What am I even thinking!

Kamikawa Mitsu hurriedly shook his head, banishing the thoughts from his mind.

He'd almost been led astray by Chie.

In his heart he was thinking this way — to banish the thoughts, not to think randomly — but his body was like an honest man. Kamikawa Mitsu's eyes swept toward Matsuka Chisato. Because of the height difference, he was looking down at her, and since Matsuka Chisato was sitting right beside him, very close.

Looking from this angle…

Big — 'On Range-top, clouds rise from the breast; to the eyes' corners, returning birds fly. One day I will climb to the highest peak, and hold all mountains small… big.'

Perhaps this is why ancient poets loved traveling mountains and waters, gazing at great mountains — because that way it's easiest to compose fine poetry.

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Eastern Nation, South City, the Xiang Hong residence.

Ring ring ring.

A phone call came in.

It was a call from his bro.

"Xiang Hong, come play ranked, we're four short of one. By the way, FPX's skins are about to drop — have you seen them? Flower-Hand-Swing Vayne, and your Lee Sin skin. You planning to grab one?"

"Nah, I'm quitting my gaming addiction lately."

"WTF, I heard that right? The gaming-addict teen Gao Xiang Hong, who's played LOL over ten thousand games, is quitting his gaming addiction? Did spiritual energy just revive or something? Or did you find a girlfriend? Damn, you actually abandoned us bros to enjoy the joy of 'flexing' all by yourself."

"Don't talk nonsense. If I had a girlfriend, would I still be stuck jacking off?"

"Then why are you quitting gaming? Don't tell me it's to sleep early — we're 21st-century youths, there's no such thing as sleeping early. If you're not sleeping early and you're not playing games, then what are you gonna do? Scroll Douyin? Watch Douyin?"

"Damn, you know damn well I don't watch Douyin."

"Fair enough, you only watch Bilibili. So you don't play games and you don't sleep early — could it be you're going to cultivate immortality, hahaha."

Yes, you guessed right — I am going to cultivate immortality, cultivate all night long, boundless magical power.

Gao Xiang Hong thought this in his heart, but out loud he casually made up an excuse — his family had been telling him to take the grad school entrance exam lately, so he had to study hard — and hung up the phone.

Ever since coming into contact with that miraculous chat group, under such a fortuitous chance, as a well-read youth of Hua Nation, a promising young man of 21st-century Hua Nation, how could he let such an opportunity slip away.

He seized this chance.

He was determined to use this chat group to embark on the path of the extraordinary.

These past few days, apart from eating, attending class, and sleeping, every other moment he was either cultivating or chatting in the group.

Through exchanging ideas with the bigshots in the chat group, plus the group leader's fixed weekly red packet, he used the immortal-source stones he snagged from the red packets to trade with the bigshots for cultivation resources, and from there stepped onto the path of cultivation.

Because the chat group was of great importance, before he had the strength to protect himself, Gao Xiang Hong had no intention of revealing it.

He still understood the principle that 'he who holds jade invites guilt' — who knew if someone might learn of the chat group and harbor ill intentions.

This was also why he kept it hidden from his bros.

With practiced ease, he opened his phone and opened the 'Wanna Get Off Today' chat group.

At this moment, the chat group, as usual, was chatting away.

But the content of the conversation was, in some ways, quite different from usual.

Xi Tian Mo Yao: 【Everyone, I'm back!】

Tian Xie Jian Xian: 【Everyone, I'm back. What is everyone doing?】

Immediately after.

All group members one after another typed out 【Welcome back.】 messages.

Da Huang Tian Zun: 【Sword Immortal, Demon Consort — you're the first in our group to take on a mission for the group leader. Quickly tell us, what world did you go to? Did you run into any danger? Was the mission perilous?】

Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian: 【Look at the Demon Consort's words — clearly the mission went very smoothly. What a pity, this old man also wants to go out and travel.】

Chang Nian Feng Shi Tong De Xian Wang: 【Don't say it, how about this—next time let's just stop drawing lots to pick who takes the mission, and take turns instead, alright?】

Mi Tian Da Sheng Jun: 【That won't do. If we take turns, missions don't come every day. Who knows when the group leader will issue one? What if it happens to be my turn and there's no mission, or they just keep delaying and never issue one?】

Da Huang Tian Zun: 【What Grand Sage says is right. And who goes first, who goes after—that's really hard to settle, and it could easily cause conflict.】

Xi Tian Mo Yao Fei: 【I agree with Grand Sage. The opportunities Sword Immortal and I got from this mission are huge. Whether Sword Immortal gained any insight or not, at least I did.

Coming back this time, relying on the immortal source stones I've accumulated these past days, and with this insight, my path will once again stretch far. I'll be one step closer to breaking through to the next realm—a hundred feet up, another inch higher.】

Tian Xie Jian Xian: 【I also gained some insight, and I got quite a lot of resources too. I can exchange them with the group leader for a good number of immortal source stones. It's a real bumper harvest.】

Jiuzhou Di Yi Jian Xian Zun: 【Then let's just keep drawing lots.】

Chang Nian Feng Shi Tong De Xian Wang: 【Forget it, pretend I never said anything. Let's keep drawing lots to decide. Sigh—I don't know when the next mission will be. Ever since I achieved the Dao of the Immortal King, it's been ages since I've felt this kind of anticipation.】

Da Huang Tian Zun: 【Same here.】

Jiuzhou Di Yi Xian Zun: 【This old man feels the same. Once cultivation reaches our realm, aside from breaking through, few things can pique our interest anymore. An unknown mission, an unknown place, unknown dangers—

This feeling gives this old man a sense of returning to those early days before becoming an immortal, when everything was still a blur, and I longed to venture into all sorts of unknown places.】

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