Chapter 1763 - 1363: If You Don’t Say, How Would I Know?
Beauty?
Beauty is such a wonderful word.
Back in the day when Cang Jie created characters, he probably fell into a dream within which he was captivated, or heard some indescribable celestial sounds, which made him come up with the word beauty to represent all the beautiful things in the world.
This word later became often associated with women.
Women take pride in beauty, and their competition is mostly about beauty.
Unlike men, who compare strength, power, and money.
Comparing beauty with strength that breeds violence, with unreachable power, and with money filled with vulgar copper smell, isn’t it superior, giving people a pleasant feel without fighting or snatching.
Yet now Jiang Dali says he’s both pleased and not comfortable, wanting to punch the woman daring to flaunt beauty before him.
For a long time, ever since the first time he practiced boxing with Qingyi Building’s Xu Foreign Affairs, Xu Wei, this beauty, in the Mountain Village, he hasn’t practiced boxing with women and now he is about to erupt...
He is used to seeing beauties all over the world, Wan Wan, Wang Yuyan, Murong Qingqing, all top beauties, but to say anyone has the unique temperament and charm like Dongfang Bubai before him truly is hard to find, yet he can barely take it.
At the moment he grabbed the wine gourd that flew over his head due to distraction, gulped a mouthful, and threw it back fiercely, saying "Dongfang, drink! Drink wine! I see you haven’t gotten drunk, still teasing me. If not drinking, then let’s fight, it’s not the same as before..."
Jiang Dali chuckled, staring at Dongfang Bubai’s tall and curvaceous figure, "Back then you made lumps all over my head, your movement speed outpaced me by a large margin. Now you have no advantage in speed, your build can’t withstand my punch."
"You brute, you don’t appreciate beauty, only know how to fight and contend."
Dongfang Bubai rolled her eyes at Jiang Dali, swiftly raised the wine pot, and tilted her head back, pouring out the clear fragrant wine, taking a large sip as if to swallow her inner suffocation.
Sometimes, relationships between people are so subtle, she doesn’t fail to understand.
Just like if a man and a woman are overly familiar, even if they both look heaven-like, they feel nothing, instead they have feelings for someone else with lesser conditions, this is worldly emotions, subtle and hard to speak.
Therefore, at this moment, the best course is to remain silent and let nature take its course.
What is destiny?
Isn’t destiny an invisible chain.
What is emotion then?
Emotion is also an invisible chain.
Emotions divide into love and hate, but love and hate have great differences, love makes people yearn for the future, filling them with hope for what’s to come.
Hate, however, makes people think of those painful times in the past.
Luckily, within those past events, there are no longer hurting people.
The forest atmosphere fell into awkwardness for a moment, Dongfang Bubai shook the empty wine gourd, glanced at Jiang Dali and said, "Your dumb dragon has overeaten and is now lying in that tomb sleeping. I need some time to digest, before absorbing the third and fourth segments of Orochi Poison Blood, once absorbed the fourth segment, breaking through to Returning to Truth should not be hard. At that time, we can go to the Holy Dynasty together."
After saying this, a red shadow flickered, and Dongfang Bubai raised her energy, leaping out of the woods.
"Thud," the wine gourd fell at Jiang Dali’s foot.
Jiang Dali looked down to see, the mouth of the gourd wasn’t sealed, the edge of the mouth left a notable red lip mark, he sighed inwardly, "Emotional entanglement... emotional entanglement! The river of emotions flows long, pulse quietly reaches the distant stars. Dust fancies scatter on unfamiliar land, gold is spent frivolously to buy spring fragrance."
At this scene, having finished one poem, the poet Dali lowered his head to look at his fashion image, wearing golden silk pants with ragged fabric strips, his face slightly stiff.
"Seems like... the previously prepared set is the last change of clothes for this trip, all other clothing has been destroyed by that demon dragon during battle... this..."
Jiang Dali felt slightly embarrassed.
His clothes, restricted by his unique body size, are always tailored by the top tailor in the Mountain Village or simply made by Dongfang Bubai, who is better at sewing.
Sometimes Wang Yuyan would also sew some clothing that would easily rip with a little force.
Therefore his clothes always require tailors familiar with his body measurements to make them, wearing other clothes could be very ill-fitting.
"Not a big problem, let’s grab a set of smaller clothes to wear first... Hopefully, there’s a strong man around here smaller in build than me..."
With a thought, Jiang Dali opened the panel to check the current state of the Demon Dragon. Seeing that the Demon Dragon had indeed entered another mutation stage, his rugged face broke into a slight smile. He temporarily dismissed the idea of attempting to break through the Realm now, planning instead to use the Dragon Vein to find a geomantic treasure spot and set up more resurrection points after the Demon Dragon’s mutation concluded, before trying again.
Immediately, he strode out of the woods confidently.
After the Demon Dragon successfully mutated this time, it was expected to evolve again, and the two bulges on its back, unsurprisingly, were set to transform into wings, fully transitioning into a Ying Long.
If viewed from a human perspective, it means the Demon Dragon is breaking through from the level of Heavenly Person’s Perfection to the Returning to Truth Realm.
In the Returning to Truth Realm, Jiang Dali, as a Pioneer, had already reached the pinnacle of this realm, about to aspire to Breaking Realm, essentially gaining success and elevating everything around him to prosperity.
His many friends, like Xiao Feng who refined eight Dragon Balls, and Dongfang Bubai who absorbed and refined Orochi Poison Blood with his help, and his lazy mount, the Demon Dragon, all benefited, hopeful to move from the Heavenly Human Realm to the Returning to Truth Realm.
If not for his influence, in the previous life, no matter how talented these people were, most would have ended up with a tragic outcome due to their intense personalities, and not had the chance to aspire to Breaking Realm... So, valuing the process of life, don’t ask where the road leads, as life has no ultimate destination, it’s a perpetual journey, forever moving forward.
And isn’t it the same for friends? Accompanying each other for life, inseparable, drinking together, is this not the most cherished and touching happiness in the Martial World?
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Two days later.
Outside the Holy Tomb, a group of players working through missions inside the tomb were startled by the roar of the Demon Dragon that burst out of the tomb, scattering in all directions, then watched as it suddenly revealed huge, bat-like black wings with bone spurs before taking off into the sky under their shocked gazes.
On the dragon’s body, the figures of Jiang Dali and Dongfang Bubai stood side by side proudly against the sky, leaving Liao Rushen behind to recuperate and heal on his own as they headed straight for the next Holy Tomb location.
The players, seeing the winged Demon Dragon and the seemingly more beautiful Dongfang Bubai, were left pointing and discussing after their initial shock.
"Well, look at that, even a Demon Dragon has grown wings. Flying creatures with wings are birds, what do you call a dragon with wings?"
"Of course, it’s called the Flying Bat Ke Zhen’e, dummy."
"If you put it that way, Zhu Cong, the skillful scholar, won’t be pleased."
"Hahaha! Didn’t you all notice the outfit of the Black Wind Village Chief? A few days ago, an unlucky fellow got all his clothes robbed by the Black Wind Village Chief at the roadblock, and now he’s actually wearing them, hahaha, that guy’s going to be famous."
"The Black Wind Village Chief has not robbed anyone for years, and now suddenly pulls this off, and only robs clothes. Truly the Great Village Chief who enjoys forcing people to do things, but does dressing like a Vajra Gourd Baby really suit him?"
"Never did I feel that our mighty Great Village Chief wouldn’t match with Miss Dongfang, but at this moment, I’m starting to think so."
"Hey, idiots! Did none of you notice that all those stone sculpture puppets in the Holy Tomb were taken out by the village chief, only leaving behind a dozen armless and legless crippled ones for us? It’s maddening!"
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In the high sky, the strong wind whistled, blowing the snow-white reed flowers along the riverbanks into a whirling dance, like lake waves ebbing and flowing.
Jiang Dali uncomfortably flexed his fists and feet constrained by tight clothes, then looked at Dongfang Bubai nearby, who was playing with her fingers but not doing embroidery as usual, and with a dark face, he said, "Are you deliberately giving me a hard time? It’s been two days, with your needlework, you could have made a set of clothes, yet you would rather play with your fingers here and not pick up the needle?"
Dongfang Bubai lightly laughed, lifting her clear eyes to glance into the distance and said softly, "My needles are for making human skin clothes, not to be casually used as a useless tailor. But if you ask, I can tailor-make a set for you, do you want it? If you do, just say it earlier, if you don’t say... how would I know?"
Jiang Dali’s eyelid twitched, taking a deep breath, hearing the clothes on his body make a ’ch-ch’ sound with his chest’s rise and fall, tightening against him, he hummed in a muffled voice, "Forget it, I feel that with that old immortal Xiao Sanxiao always following us, there’ll be trouble sooner or later. I’ll get you to make one when this set wears out."
Dongfang Bubai was slightly stunned, then turned her head to pretend to look at the scenery of the riverbank below, hiding the silent smile in her eyes.
This guy!
Still so proud, preferring to be mocked by a group of Abnormal People rather than by her, isn’t that even more laughable...
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