Chapter 148: The Clingy Wang Wang Hejiu

Lü Qing'er was indeed very annoyed right now.

Because over the past few days, this Wang Wang Hejiu had come to pester her more than once — the guy, whenever he had the time, would spare no effort to strike up a conversation with her, to engineer a chance encounter.

It was truly boredom taken to the extreme.

And this time was no different.

She had finished her cultivation here but had not left directly because she wanted to wait for Li Luo to come out together. Who would have known that this Wang Wang Hejiu would still be like a lingering ghost, insisting on latching onto her.

"Classmate Qing'er, we could say we got acquainted through fighting. Back during the Master Selection Competition, I struck a bit too heavily, and afterward I couldn't sleep at night over it — that's why I've been seeking you out again and again, just wanting to apologize to you."

From the side came Wang Wang Hejiu's apologetic voice. He gazed with a faint smile at the girl before him — her slender, supple figure, her slim waist, brows like kingfisher feathers, skin like white snow, the legs beneath her short skirt wrapped in pristine white silk stockings, straight and shapely, and especially those hands encased in ice-silk gloves — even hidden beneath the gloves, they still gave off a sense of perfection.

It made one's heart stir involuntarily.

Lü Qing'er said coolly, "There's no need for an apology. In the Master Selection Competition, we were opponents to begin with. You did nothing wrong, so please don't use that as an excuse to come find me."

Wang Wang Hejiu gave a somewhat helpless laugh. "Why must you be like this, Classmate Qing'er? I have no other intentions, I just want to get to know you. Please believe in my sincerity."

Lü Qing'er was truly too lazy to say another word to him. She simply lifted her foot, intending to leave first.

Wang Wang Hejiu raised the arm holding his jade-green fan, smiling as he tried to block Lü Qing'er for a moment.

But the instant he raised his hand, several faint whistling sounds of cutting wind suddenly came. Wang Wang Hejiu's eyes narrowed to slits, his fan swept sideways, and jade-green phase force seemed to transform into a howling gale that roared forth.

Plip plip!

The jade-green wind swept past, and several water arrows were dissolved, turning into droplets that fell onto the ground.

"This classmate, your character has quite a problem. When chasing a girl, if pestering alone worked, would there still be a single bachelor left under the heavens?" A teasing laugh rang out from the side at this moment.

Hearing that familiar voice, Lü Qing'er's eyes lit up. Her gaze shot over, and then she saw Li Luo squeeze out from the crowd, walking over with a smile on his face.

Wang Wang Hejiu looked at the brilliance that suddenly bloomed on Lü Qing'er's pretty face, his brow creasing slightly. He turned his head to look at Li Luo and said, "You're Li Luo?"

"Although you might think I'm putting on an act, I think among the new students, you shouldn't be able to find a second face as handsome as mine." Li Luo said thoughtfully.

The corner of Wang Wang Hejiu's eye twitched slightly. Although he knew the other was deliberately trying to provoke him into losing his composure, faced with such shameless words, he still couldn't help wanting to make a move.

But in the end he forcibly held himself back and said flatly, "Li Luo, don't go looking for trouble, alright? I have no grudge with you, so why must you come provoke me?"

Li Luo stepped forward, stood in front of Lü Qing'er, and looked Wang Wang Hejiu straight in the eye. He gave a somewhat helpless laugh and said, "Although I believe in being kind to others, when you injured her during the Master Selection Competition, we already had a bit of a grudge between us."

Lü Qing'er had only stepped in to block Wang Wang Hejiu for his sake, and Wang Wang Hejiu had injured her. So this grudge — if Li Luo was still a man, he had to take it on.

But in the Master Selection Competition, everyone had their own goals. Wang Wang Hejiu going after him to obtain the Purple Brilliance Fu Yin was actually understandable as human nature. Li Luo wouldn't pursue it too much on that account. But after the Master Selection Competition, to still come pester Lü Qing'er — that was going too far.

Behind Li Luo, Lü Qing'er gazed at his back with shimmering, dewy eyes.

And this sudden standoff between Li Luo and Wang Wang Hejiu instantly became the focal point of the area. Many gazes turned their way — after all, Li Luo, who had just broken the Xiangxi record of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy with his endurance, still had his moment's heat.

Added to that, Wang Wang Hejiu was no nobody either — among the new students, his strength was second only to Qin Qin Zhulu's.

These two going up against each other — the show was simply irresistible.

Wang Wang Hejiu looked at Li Luo with flat eyes and said, "And what can you do about it?"

Li Luo smiled slightly and said, "I hope you won't pester my friend. This kind of relentless pestering not only has no effect, it will only make people disgusted."

Wang Wang Hejiu smiled and said, "I have my own way of doing things. Li Luo, are you in any position to lecture me?"

"You un-listenable little poisonous bird." Li Luo smiled.

Wang Wang Hejiu's face darkened. "What are you cursing at!"

"I speak nicely to you and you won't listen — you insist on being cursed at. Are you just asking for it?" Li Luo said.

If you want to sling barbs, did you ever bother to ask when this Young House Master of House Luolan House has ever admitted defeat?!

Wang Wang Hejiu's gaze turned icy. The jade-green folding fan in his hand suddenly became a streak of green light, stabbing violently straight at Li Luo's face. Green phase force churned over it, giving off a faint fishy stench.

Phase force likewise surged on Li Luo's body. He pressed two fingers together, channeled his phase force, and met the jade-green folding fan head-on.

Bang!

A burst of phase force erupted. Li Luo's body trembled slightly, while the folding fan in Wang Wang Hejiu's hand was suddenly flicked open by the impact, dissolving the onrushing phase force.

"Oh? Flower Seed Realm already?" Wang Wang Hejiu looked at Li Luo with a glint of surprise in his eyes. From the contact just now, the intensity of phase force Li Luo displayed had clearly reached the level of the Flower Seed Realm.

"It seems this round of Xiangxi brought you quite a benefit."

Wang Wang Hejiu's expression was flat as he said, "But, do you think you're the only one who benefited?"

The folding fan in his hand suddenly snapped shut. The next instant, surging phase force erupted from within his body — so powerful that it caused the expressions of quite a few onlookers around them to shift slightly.

"This phase force..."

"Wang Wang Hejiu has actually broken through to the second stage of the Phase Master Realm — the Pattern Engraving Stage!"

"That's not surprising. He was already at the lower Flower Seed Realm before, only a hair's breadth from breaking through. He triggered Xiangxi earlier and took the chance to break through — that's normal."

"Impressive, worthy of the second-ranked figure."

"..."

Wang Wang Hejiu revealed his phase force and said flatly to Li Luo, "Also, let me teach you something — when fighting against a poison phase, don't casually use your body to make contact."

He pointed at Li Luo's fingers. One could see that there, green light was actually churning — it was poison qi eroding Li Luo's body.

Li Luo raised his fingers and looked at the poison qi on his fingertips. A hint of surprise also surfaced in his eyes. This poison phase was indeed special — the slightest contact, and one was infected.

But he wasn't overly panicked by it. He simply calmly circulated his wood phase power. One could see another wave of green, ripple-like phase force appear at his fingertips, colliding with the poison qi.

The two clashed, a faint fishy stench rose, and the poison qi was dissolved away.

Wood phase power inherently possessed some detoxifying properties.

Li Luo evaluated with a smile on his face, "This bit of toxicity couldn't even kill a chicken."

"Tough talk!"

Wang Wang Hejiu's gaze turned slightly cold. Just as he was about to strike, a voice suddenly came, and at the same time a figure stepped out from the crowd: "Wang Wang Hejiu, I've already said this Li Luo — I'll handle him."

Li Luo looked over. The person was none other than Duze Duze Beixuan. At this moment, the latter was locking onto him with a cold, sinister gaze.

Seeing this, Lü Qing'er's willow-leaf brows instantly shot up. Was the other side trying to gang up on them with numbers?

She took a single step forward, about to stand shoulder to shoulder with Li Luo. But the instant her figure moved, a burst of phase force fluctuation erupted beneath her feet — flower vines suddenly appeared, binding both her feet.

Lü Qing'er's whole body surged with a cold aura. She turned her head and saw a girl with braided hair not far away smiling at her.

That girl seemed to be called Qi Qi Luozi, a teammate of Wang Wang Hejiu and Duze Duze Beixuan.

Duze Duze Beixuan's gaze locked onto Li Luo with icy coldness. "Li Luo, I was careless at the Master Selection Tournament. Let's do this again!"

The moment his figure moved, he was about to shoot explosively toward Li Luo.

But just at that moment, from the shadows nearby, a jet-black phase force suddenly shot out like an arrow with eerie speed, stabbing straight toward Duze Duze Beixuan's waist and abdomen.

The sudden attack made Duze Duze Beixuan's face darken. He threw a punch, rolling phase force seemingly bringing with it a piercing wind-breaking sound, and in one punch shattered that shadow-like black arrow.

At the same time, his gaze looked over and saw that in the shadows there, at some unknown point, a figure wrapped entirely in a black robe and hood had appeared.

"Student Xin Fu?" Duze Duze Beixuan's eyes turned slightly cold.

At the same time, specks of fluorescent light suddenly began falling above Lü Qing'er's head. The fluorescent light landed on the flower vines beneath her feet, and the latter immediately received some kind of stimulus and began rapidly receding.

Lü Qing'er's gaze turned toward the edge of the crowd, where she saw a petite girl with an extremely pure and sweet appearance smiling at her with a friendly yet somewhat shy smile.

It was Bai Bai Mengmeng.