Chapter 187

"The hell is this a hot spring?"

A moment later, Jiang Xun looked at the dirty little creek in front of him, which was basically entirely black and even contained black sludge, and stared wide-eyed at Gufang Ninglin.

"It is! Try it, this water has a temperature." Gufang Ninglin placed her hand into the creek and said with a straight face.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun tried it too, and it really did have a temperature.

"It's black because the temperature is occasionally too high, which scalds the silt underneath; this is the most natural, best hot spring, and the Dao Master and the others' hot springs were all moved up from here."

Gufang Ninglin said.

If he hadn't seen He Luyun's hot spring, which was clear to the bottom and emitted a thin mist, Jiang Xun would have almost believed her.

"You used Spirit Power to heat up dirty water, trying to trick me into jumping in, right?"

Jiang Xun withdrew his hand and looked at Gufang Ninglin speechlessly.

"Oh, your Senior Sister isn't as bad as you think; otherwise, let's take off our clothes first, and then Senior Sister will go down with you." Gufang Ninglin also withdrew her hand and said.

"Take off our clothes?"

"To soak in the hot spring, of course, you have to be naked to be comfortable." Gufang Ninglin nodded.

"This, won't people come?" Jiang Xun said, looking at the surroundings.

The surroundings were a forest, and they truly hadn't seen anyone along the way.

"No, no, didn't I say? Only I know about this place." Gufang Ninglin nodded, then pushed Jiang Xun behind a large rock: "You take yours off over here, and I'll take mine off on the other side; once we're done, we'll go down together."

Hearing this, Jiang Xun did feel a moment of temptation.

But he suddenly realized, this isn't the Lingerie-Sect!

What is this girl trying to do...

"She wants to trick you into taking off your clothes, hahahahaha."

Si Yuyan had seen through Gufang Ninglin's little scheme.

She even feigned the sound of taking off clothes on the other side of the rock.

Hearing the sound, Jiang Xun felt helpless, so he decided to play along with her; he also started pretending to take off his clothes, and a moment later said: "Senior Sister, I'm done, are you ready?"

"I'm ready!" Gufang Ninglin jumped in front of Jiang Xun, and sure enough, she hadn't taken anything off! Moreover, she was holding a talisman paper, which she slammed onto Jiang Xun's chest.

"Eh?" Seeing that Jiang Xun hadn't taken off his clothes, Gufang Ninglin was stunned.

After the talisman paper dissipated on Jiang Xun's body, a scroll appeared in Gufang Ninglin's hand, and on the scroll was Jiang Xun's current appearance.

If he had taken off his clothes, what would have been drawn was a naked Jiang Xun.

"An Image Shadow Talisman? I thought nobody would buy this stuff." Jiang Xun looked at the scroll in her hand and smiled.

"Ah! You saw through it." Gufang Ninglin looked disappointed and put the scroll into her storage ring.

"Senior Sister, I haven't offended you, have I?" Jiang Xun asked cautiously.

"No." Gufang Ninglin shook her head.

"Then why are you messing with me?" Jiang Xun was between laughter and tears.

"The Senior Brothers don't play with me, and the people of Tianwai Island look down on our Gufang Dynasty; nobody pays attention to me. Now that you've finally come and are willing to play with me, I just wanted to play with you."

Gufang Ninglin stood on tiptoe, twisting her ankles while lowering her head and whispering.

It sounded like she was very pitiful.

"... If I had been tricked by you into taking off my clothes, it wouldn't be as simple as just playing; I would have lost all face." Jiang Xun curled his lips and said.

"Fine, I admit I was a bit excessive; how about I kowtow to you?" Gufang Ninglin looked up, staring at Jiang Xun with eager eyes; this delicate appearance was truly pitiable.

"Better not." Jiang Xun waved his hands repeatedly; he didn't want to shorten his life. Having grown up in the Lingerie-Sect, how could Jiang Xun not see that Gufang Ninglin was deliberately putting on a pitiable act to make Jiang Xun forgive her?

To put it nicely, she's just a playful little girl.

To put it bluntly, she's a green tea.

But since he was a newcomer, there was no need to make things too awkward with her; giving her a way out was enough.

"How about this, I'll take you to the market and buy you a gift? As a greeting gift." Jiang Xun looked at Gufang Ninglin and said.

"Buy a gift?" Hearing this, Gufang Ninglin looked at Jiang Xun; she hadn't expected Jiang Xun to say that.

"Let's go." Jiang Xun didn't wait for her to react and pulled her up to fly directly.

Being held in Jiang Xun's arms like this and flying in the air, even if Jiang Xun didn't use his Natural Charm Bone, any woman would be a little moved.

Gufang Ninglin even more generously wrapped her arms around Jiang Xun's neck and let him carry her as they flew.

The two soon landed at the market, and he put Gufang Ninglin down.

Gufang Ninglin directly hooked her arm around Jiang Xun's.

Many people in the market looked at the two of them; some had seen Jiang Xun before, and now they saw Gufang Ninglin holding Jiang Xun's arm.

It was hard not to guess that Jiang Xun and Gufang Ninglin were Dao companions.

"Are you really going to buy me a gift?" Gufang Ninglin looked up at Jiang Xun and asked.

"Yes, you can buy whatever you want." Jiang Xun nodded; anyway, everything could be returned.

"Then there is something I have always wanted, but I can't afford it; can you buy it for me?" Gufang Ninglin said.

"Sure."

"It's really expensive, you know."

"No matter how expensive it is, it's fine."

"Then let's go, follow me." Gufang Ninglin took Jiang Xun's hand and walked toward the depths of the market.

Everyone looked at them and discussed them; Jiang Xun could hear most of what they were saying, all about their identities, the Tenth Prince, and so on.

Some also mentioned, isn't the Tenth Prince of the Tianyu Dynasty seriously ill?

But since Jiang Xun appeared here, this "rumor" naturally collapsed on its own.

Others were discussing Gufang Ninglin, all saying she came from that poor Gufang Dynasty, a remote corner, and that they didn't even deserve to be called a dynasty when they weren't even as good as a royal clan.

"They probably don't even have anyone selling clothes where they come from, right? Look at what she's wearing!"

"Must be living deep in the mountains, hahahaha."

"And she has the nerve to come to the market; can she even afford to buy anything?"

"Isn't it because she hooked up with a Prince of the Tianyu Dynasty?"

"Look at her, like a slutty fox; how is someone like that worthy of entering Tianwai Island?"

There were many more excessive remarks looking down on the Gufang Dynasty and Gufang Ninglin.

Jiang Xun heard them all, and Gufang Ninglin naturally heard them too, but her expression remained completely unmoved; she was clearly already used to it.

Jiang Xun reckoned that if it weren't for the sake of He Luyun, Gufang Ninglin would have been insulted to her face the moment she walked into the market, rather than just being gossiped about behind her back.

"Are you not going to refute them?" Jiang Xun said, looking at Gufang Ninglin, who was holding his hand.

"Refute what? Everything they said is true," Gufang Ninglin smiled.

But these words of theirs reminded Jiang Xun of the Lingerie-Sect; Tu Qing, Gu Qing, and the others were also often gossiped about with all sorts of nonsense, but they always took revenge on the spot.

Gufang Ninglin... perhaps she was also afraid that if she refuted them, the Gufang Dynasty would face retaliation? Or perhaps she would be expelled and forced to leave Tianwai Island, so she just kept enduring it all?