Chapter 251

Seeing this, Jiang Sishui didn't stare at her and pressure her; he turned his head to look at the moon and said, "Just arrived here, are you not used to it? Missing home?"

Deng Yuru nodded, then shook her head: "I'm still not quite used to it, but I don't really miss home."

"Oh?" Jiang Sishui was a little surprised by this answer.

Deng Yuru explained, "I've been stuck at home for over ten years, and I was already bored long ago. It's just that my father worried about my safety and kept a very close eye on me…"

As Deng Yuru spoke of the past, the two gradually fell into idle chat about everyday matters.

278 Fulfilling the Old Promise, Two Maidens' Hearts Turn Home

Watching Jiang Sishui's departing back, Deng Yuru patted her chest and let out a long breath of relief.

"So embarrassing! But… he probably didn't notice anything, right?"

Two small hands pressed against her cheeks, the cool touch easing the burning heat on her face.

Earlier, reading in the diary that the Flower Fairy was more important to him than "Heaven's Scourging Arrow," Deng Yuru couldn't help wondering—would Jiang Sishui treat her the way he treated the Flower Fairy in the future?

Thinking and thinking, she couldn't help but start imagining her future life.

It was precisely at that moment that Jiang Sishui suddenly appeared.

Deng Yuru was caught off guard; feeling guilty, she panicked and was unbearably shy.

Otherwise, given her usual lively temperament, she would have been shy to some degree, but not to that extent.

Fortunately, by the end of her chat with Jiang Sishui, she gradually let her guard down, growing more and more animated as she spoke, wishing she could share every single interesting thing from the past with him.

A spring night is worth a thousand gold pieces; thinking that Jiang Sishui had stayed here listening to her talk for the better part of an hour, Deng Yuru felt a faint warmth in her heart.

With a joyful mood, the young girl walked lightly back to her room.

……

The next day.

"You're looking for the Mayi Sect?"

Fairy Queen Green Mother looked at Jiang Sishui, a glint flashing in her eyes: "What do you want with the Mayi Sect?"

"Looking for someone."

"A woman?"

"Yes." Jiang Sishui didn't hide it.

And having read the diary, Fairy Queen Green Mother also knew who Jiang Sishui's target was.

The Holy Maiden of the Mayi Sect—Zhang Jiejie!

The woman in *The Legend of Chu Liuxiang* who was the only one to bow the marriage hall and consummate the marriage with Chu Liuxiang, even bearing his child, yet was abandoned.

At the time, Jiang Sishui had shown great interest in Zhang Jiejie in his diary, declaring he would snatch the Holy Maiden away from the Mayi Sect.

But the Mayi Sect was too well hidden, and he was alone and weak; he figured he'd wear himself out searching and never find them, so he planned to wait until his strength grew, then mobilize the forces in Suzhou to search together.

And now, Jiang Sishui had ascended to Heaven-Human, and Fairy Queen Green Mother had become his woman, allowing him to indirectly mobilize all the forces of the Immortal Water Palace.

Clearly, the timing was ripe; he put the matter of finding Zhang Jiejie on the agenda.

"The Mayi Sect is most likely deep in the mountains and old forests, right? I understand. I'll have the Immortal Water Palace, along with some other forces in Suzhou, search for them together."

Fairy Queen Green Mother agreed very readily.

If Jiang Sishui had only her as his woman, she would certainly have been furious and thrown a fit on the spot.

But there were far too many women around Jiang Sishui; she couldn't even be bothered to be jealous.

Moreover, with Jiang Sishui's bull-like vigor, if he really had only her as his woman, she would instead be trembling with fear.

"You can use Wan Fu Wan Shouyuan as the center and search in all directions. The Mayi Sect shouldn't be too far from Wan Fu Wan Shouyuan."

As he spoke, Jiang Sishui handed Fairy Queen Green Mother another booklet.

Fairy Queen Green Mother took it in confusion, opened it for a look, and her expression turned strange.

On it was a list of names.

She glanced up at Jiang Sishui, and Fairy Queen Green Mother said peevishly, "What a little lecher, still keeping tabs on so many Misses."

The words had barely fallen when the world spun before her eyes—she had been hoisted onto Jiang Sishui's shoulder.

"Being naughty again, I need to teach you another lesson!"

And so, Fairy Queen Green Mother was once again dragged into that "demon's den" that made her suffer and rejoice at once.

……

Over the next few days, Jiang Sishui launched an unrelenting offensive against Fairy Queen Green Mother.

Not until Fairy Queen Green Mother promised repeatedly that from now on she would obediently be his little wife did she finally get a chance to catch her breath.

The proud and elegant Fairy Queen Green Mother, the dignified Palace Master of the Immortal Water Palace, could never have imagined that one day she would be conquered in such a way.

And she was thoroughly convinced, whether she liked it or not.

……

Jinzhou.

A lone rider moved slowly forward.

Ren Yingying's pupils' colored light gradually faded, her eyelids closed then opened, and she turned around: "Big Brother Jiang, my 'Soul-Capturing Great Art' has reached minor completion!"

Seeing the leaping joy in Ren Yingying's bright, beautiful eyes, Jiang Sishui couldn't help feeling happy for her.

However, teaching Ren Yingying the "Soul-Capturing Great Art" was secondary; the main thing was the rapidly advancing relationship between the two.

At the beginning, although the two traveled together, Ren Yingying absolutely refused to share a horse with Jiang Sishui.

Regarding this, although Jiang Sishui felt a little regret, he could understand.

Because Ren Yingying was originally a girl with extremely thin skin, extremely prone to blushing.

To a degree ordinary people found hard to comprehend.

In *The Smiling, Proud Wanderer*, Ren Yingying fell for Linghu Chong back in the Green Bamboo Lane in Luoyang.

Once when the two of them were traveling together, Ren Yingying would only walk behind Linghu Chong, and wouldn't allow him to turn his head to see her true face.

Afterwards, the scene of the two traveling together happened to be spotted by a group of Sun Moon Holy Cult followers. The cultists were terrified out of their wits and directly stabbed their own eyes with daggers.

Linghu Chong was startled on the spot and asked the reason, only to learn that they were using this to demonstrate their resolve, showing that they had never seen the Holy Maiden together with a man.

Judging from these people's instinctive reactions, the Holy Maiden Ren Yingying's thin skin was probably known to everyone in the Sun Moon Holy Cult.

Now in reality, Ren Yingying clearly retained her personality from the original work.

And during these past few days, taking the opportunity of teaching the "Soul-Snatching Great Law," Jiang Sishui also kept drawing the two of them closer.

Now, the two of them could share a single horse, and Ren Yingying could lean peacefully in Jiang Sishui's embrace.

Jiang Sishui tilted his head forward, pressing his forehead against Ren Yingying's, and said softly: "If you want to master it quickly, there's actually an even faster method."

"What method?" Ren Yingying asked, curious.

Jiang Sishui smiled slightly and said: "Have you noticed that Blue Phoenix's cultivation has been advancing by leaps and bounds recently?"

"..."

Ren Yingying's pretty face turned beet red at a speed visible to the naked eye, her heart pounding wildly.

She knew what Jiang Sishui's method was.

After all, having self-created a "Northern Sea Divine Art" that could use dual cultivation to promote each other's cultivation, Jiang Sishui, in his pride, had bragged about it plenty in his diary.

And the quick-mastery method Jiang Sishui spoke of was to pour his comprehension of the "Soul-Snatching Great Law" into her while doing that sort of thing.

Having obtained the "Soul-Snatching Great Law" for over a month, Jiang Sishui had already cultivated it to perfection, so helping Ren Yingying was no problem at all.

Jiang Sishui saw Ren Yingying's shy and timid appearance and assumed that Blue Phoenix had privately told her about the many benefits involved.

Seeing the maiden's cheeks flush like rosy clouds, her eyes swirl with autumn waves, radiant beyond compare, Jiang Sishui's heart swayed.

Suddenly tightening both arms, he held Ren Yingying and sealed her sandalwood lips with his.

Ren Yingying's apricot eyes suddenly flew wide open.

279 — A secret manual of the Buddha's Palm? What a coincidence?

Squeak—

A sharp, drawn-out cry suddenly rang out, accompanied by a point of red light shooting straight up into the sky before exploding apart.

That light was extremely dazzling, appearing especially brilliant against the gloomy overcast sky.

And this commotion also jolted Ren Yingying awake from her daze from being attacked.

She hurriedly pushed Jiang Sishui away, turned around, pressed her cherry lips tightly together, her heart thumping wildly, her lowered graceful head almost buried into her chest.

Just as she was flustered and at a loss, Jiang Sishui suddenly pointed into the distance and said: "It's a signal flare."

As for what had just happened, he absolutely refused to mention it, as if nothing had occurred at all.

Of course, this wasn't taking advantage and refusing to acknowledge it, but rather thinking of Ren Yingying.

Sure enough, Ren Yingying, upon hearing this, also played along very well, taking the cue and saying: "Then let's go over and take a look."