novelinnhs Chapter 38 She's trying to win you over, so why is her favorability rating still increasing?
Chapter 38 She's trying to win you over, so why is her favorability rating still increasing?
In that instant, Cheng Xiao found himself stunned.
It seemed like someone had said those words to him, to that long-faded figure.
It seems to be a memory from before I traveled through time.
But this moment of distraction lasted only a moment.
He gently pushed Long Yingxue away: "Alright, you don't need to comfort me. I'm not that fragile."
"Really, if you're really sad, you can call me Mom from now on, as if your previous mom never existed." Little Dragon Girl blinked her big eyes.
She spoke comforting words in her childish voice.
Now Long Yingxue finally understood that Cheng Xiao's indifference and ruthlessness were just a disguise, a shell he created to protect himself from harm.
She understands this best.
The two could be considered to be in the same boat.
But now she is willing to warm the heart of this sixteen-year-old boy, to warm his heart that has already been broken.
Just like saving my past self.
Cheng Xiao did not intend to continue arguing with Long Yingxue about the "mother" issue.
He pressed Xiaolongnu down onto the bed: "Go and rest, I'm going out to take a look."
After saying that, he didn't give the other person time to react and simply pushed open the door and walked out.
Now that it was fully light outside, Cheng Xiao walked along the path, preparing to go to the Spirit Beast Garden.
Hakimi had been holding back for a long time, and now he could finally speak: "She wins you over, and then her affection level increases. What kind of logic is that? Is that how visual novels are played?"
He never expected that the accident would cause such a large chain reaction.
Long Yingxue's favorability rating soared to 60, an unprecedented breakthrough.
It's hard to imagine that just a few months ago, her favorability rating was negative 100.
Hakimi didn't dare to interrupt the crucial moment between the male and female protagonists. Although he was surprised, he didn't say a word.
"Learn more, observe more, and refrain from offering opinions unnecessarily," Cheng Xiao replied simply.
However, Hakimi immediately exposed him: "Actually, you don't know why her favorability rating went up either!"
He was somewhat gloating.
This big shot is always strategizing and seems to have everything under his control.
Now, finally, something has gotten out of his control.
Cheng Xiao ignored Hakimi.
Long Yingxue's favorability rating has increased, which is a good thing.
It's probably because his acting was so realistic that it triggered her maternal instincts.
Do dragons have this characteristic?
However, Cheng Xiao was more concerned about something else than how much favorability he received.
The instant he heard Long Yingxue's words, he felt as if something was about to burst out of his soul, but he quickly suppressed it.
Cheng Xiao finally realized that these instances were dangerous.
Because these copies seem to be affecting his Dao heart.
Of course, after he transmigrated, he had already severed his seven emotions and six desires by the age of sixteen, so his Dao heart was not so easily influenced.
......
Since Li Mu came to see him last time, Cheng Xiao's life has returned to normal.
Those people seem to have really forgotten the original owner.
Perhaps the original owner's value in their eyes was only that supreme spiritual bone.
Li Mu thought that by bringing him back, he could regain the emperor's favor.
It's just wishful thinking.
Cheng Xiao spent another three months here.
In three months, he used up all the low-level natural treasures he could find in his soul space.
He was careless at the time and was blinded by the first instance.
If he had known that there would be situations where cultivation levels were sealed in the dungeon, he would have prepared more low-level rare and precious treasures.
At that time, I guarantee I'll be able to feed a completely useless person with no cultivation level directly to the Nascent Soul stage.
It wouldn't be as troublesome as it is now.
Every day, he had to think about how to make this physical body absorb more spiritual power from his soul.
However, Cheng Xiao felt that this speed was slow.
In the eyes of the locals, this is already incredibly fast.
After three months of grueling training, both Cheng Xiao and Long Yingxue experienced a qualitative leap in their abilities.
Cheng Xiao's body was already riddled with holes and missing a bone, but thanks to his extreme reshaping technique of "using ice as bones and cold as meridians," his cultivation level had steadily remained at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage.
This was precisely the state the original owner was in when his supreme spiritual bone was removed.
However, his foundation is now more solid than the original owner's, and the spiritual power flowing within him is more condensed.
In terms of physical strength, he has already surpassed the original owner who possessed the Supreme Spirit Bone.
However, Cheng Xiao still felt it was too slow, too slow.
Long Yingxue is making rapid progress.
The terrifying bloodline talent of the True Dragon Clan was fully activated under Cheng Xiao's pressure.
Her strength has now recovered to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage.
Cheng Xiao had already planned in his mind that as long as Long Yingxue could break through the bottleneck and enter the Nascent Soul stage, the two of them could officially start considering revenge.
Although this continent is rich in spiritual energy, it still cannot compare to Shenhe Province.
His cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage is already approaching the pinnacle of this continent.
Although Long Yingxue's cultivation level improved rapidly, her attitude towards him became increasingly strange.
He always felt there was a maternal glow in those eyes.
I don't know why Long Yingxue is so determined to be his mother.
Although Xiaolongnu was nearly a thousand years older than him, he did not want the romance route to develop in that direction.
That's really strange.
According to Cheng Xiao's thinking, even if he couldn't reach Chu Ning's perfect state, he should at least treat him as his master, right?
What does it mean to be a son?
Cheng Xiao was speechless, but life went on like this.
Now all that's left is for Long Yingxue to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Before he knew it, he had been in this world for a full six months.
The Cangling Continent welcomed its most grand New Year.
Unlike the New Year in Cheng Xiao's memory, on this continent where beast taming is revered, the way to celebrate the New Year is not simply by decorating with lanterns and colorful decorations, but by holding a grand spirit beast hunting festival.
While people are celebrating the New Year, the spirit beasts are suffering.
These past few days, the Cheng family has been bustling with activity, with festive red silks and lanterns hanging everywhere, illuminating the night as if it were daytime. The air is filled with the aroma of elixirs and spiritual foods.
Countless people are preparing for this day.
The young members of the family were all eager to show off their skills, leading their carefully nurtured spirit beasts around the training ground.
The hunting festival is the best stage for them to demonstrate their strength and acquire family resources, and everyone participates.
Most people dream of soaring to great heights at this grand event.
At this time of year in previous years, the original owner was always the focus of everyone's attention. Wherever his high-level spirit beast passed, there were only flattering and awe-inspiring gazes.
The true genius of the Cheng family, the eldest son, the future heir, and the possessor of the supreme spiritual bone.
But now everything has changed.
This year's grand feast has nothing to do with him.
Cheng Xiao is now just a servant living in a remote corner of the Spirit Beast Garden, responsible for cleaning up excrement and feeding animals.
He is no longer the once-powerful young master.
Cheng Xiao thought this was good, since he didn't like the storyline of the competition.
With the hunting festival approaching, the Spirit Beast Garden has welcomed many young men and women who come to choose their mounts.
Cheng Xian, the half-brother who stole the original owner's supreme spiritual bone, has now become the most prominent young master in the family.
Originally, only married people could come here to choose.
However, many relatives from other families also gained the qualification to come here for selection by currying favor with Cheng Xian.
Zhao Chen is one of them.
As Cheng Xian's most favored lackey, he came to the Spirit Beast Garden today specifically to choose a majestic mount for himself, so that he could show off at the Hunting Festival.
Zhao Chen wandered around the garden but couldn't find anything he liked.
Just as they were about to leave, they unexpectedly saw Cheng Xiao carrying water in a secluded corner.
He paused for a moment, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
He was once a young master, and everyone knew him.
It seems like his bones were removed about a year ago, right?
Logically speaking, this kid had his supreme spiritual bone dug out and was thrown into this desolate place where the sun never shines, yet he's still alive?
Not only was he still panting, but judging from his steady gait, he seemed to be living quite comfortably and in very good condition!
It's so strange that he doesn't look like a disabled person at all.
Zhao Chen narrowed his eyes, and a brilliant idea suddenly came to him—a truly brilliant idea.
He recalled that half a year ago, Cheng Xian forced Cheng Xiao to sign a master-servant blood pact with a crippled snake that had had its tendons removed in order to humiliate him.
Zhao Chen couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought of what he was about to do.
"Young Master Chengxian is currently worried about not having any fun at the hunting festival. If we catch Chengxiao's snake and use it as a live target for people to shoot and have fun at the festival, the young master will definitely be very happy. When the young master is happy, I can have whatever I want."
Just do it.
After Zhao Chen and his servants found out where Cheng Xiao lived, they went straight to his dilapidated little house.
Upon seeing the hut, he didn't stand on ceremony and kicked open Cheng Xiao's already rickety wooden door.
After a loud crash, the wooden door collapsed.
He released his spirit beast.
It was a lion engulfed in crimson flames, named the Flame Lion, a third-tier spirit beast.
As soon as the Flame Lion appeared, it let out a deafening roar, and the scorching air instantly overturned the simple furnishings in the room.
Zhao Chen raised his chin, ready to make a sarcastic remark, but suddenly froze on the spot.
On the hard bed inside the room, there was no snake that had been decapitated.
Instead, a creature entirely silvery-white was lurking there, its scales shimmering in the dimly lit hut.
This creature has crystal-clear dragon horns on its head.
Those imposing, golden vertical pupils were coldly staring at him.
In just a moment, that terrifying word appeared in his mind.
dragon!
Only dragons are like that!
Zhao Chen was horrified, but he quickly dismissed the absurd thought.
He's just scaring himself.
Cheng Xiao's spiritual bones were dug out, and he lost all his cultivation. He couldn't even control the lowest-level spirit beasts, so how could he possibly raise a true dragon?
Even if it looks very similar, it's probably just a mutated water snake with unusual fur.
Unexpectedly, he actually managed to raise the useless snake.
However, this only fueled Zhao Chen's evil intentions.
What's the point of a useless snake? If he could offer this spirit beast to Young Master Cheng for his amusement, that would be a truly great achievement.
Zhao Chen snapped out of his daze, arrogantly pointing at Long Yingxue on the bed, and taunted, "Trash, it's only been half a year, and you've gotten quite clean, you mudfish! Drag this lump of flesh out and let my lion practice its teeth! Perfect as a live target for my hunting festival warm-up!"
Faced with this blatant provocation, Cheng Xiao didn't even lift an eyelid.
He couldn't understand why these lackeys, even though they clearly knew something was wrong, still insisted on coming up to provoke him.
It's like some kind of regular program.
When the time comes, if you beat the young, the old will come; if you beat the old, the even older will come; and so on, generation after generation, without end.
Although Long Yingxue's cultivation level has not yet reached the Nascent Soul stage, she cannot act recklessly in the Cheng family.
But dealing with a fly is still no problem.
He sat quietly at the table and said to Long Yingxue, who was lying lazily on the bed, "Go, bite him to death."
As soon as he finished speaking, the silver dragon on the bed moved.
After months of hellish training by Cheng Xiao, Long Yingxue's inherent ferocity, that of a true dragon, had been fully unleashed.
The "snake tendon" sewn into her bone marrow on her back, though a disgrace, endowed her with terrifying flexibility far exceeding that of her kind.
She can no longer use any of the dragon's abilities, but she doesn't need to now.
Long Yingxue has learned a new way of fighting.
She had long wanted to kill everyone who had hurt Cheng Xiao.
Now is the perfect time to start with this blind thing.
Zhao Chen didn't even have time to react; he only heard a whooshing sound.
The giant dragon on the bed board then disappeared.
With her body honed to perfection through countless trials, Long Yingxue transformed into a bolt of silver lightning and shot out instantly!
The Fiery Lion, which had been swaggering around, didn't even have time to react and didn't even let out a scream.
The ear-piercing sound of bones cracking echoed inside the room.
Long Yingxue bit down hard on the Flame Lion's throat, and the terrifying bite force combined with the inertia of the fall directly tore the neck off the third-tier spirit beast!
The scene was extremely violent, a clean and swift kill!
Hot blood gushed out, splattering all over Zhao Chen's head and face.
"You...you..." Zhao Chen didn't react for a moment, and couldn't even speak clearly.
He watched as his prized spirit beast instantly turned into a headless corpse, his mind going completely blank.
Immediately, all the fear in his heart turned into a furious rage.
"You worthless piece of trash without any spiritual bones, how dare you plot against my spirit beast!"
In his view, he had simply been caught off guard and ambushed.
Zhao Chen's eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating that he was extremely angry.
He suddenly drew his long sword from his waist and thrust it fiercely at Cheng Xiao.
In his eyes, the person in front of him was nothing but a useless piece of trash without any spiritual power!
Cheng Xiao didn't dodge; he simply raised his right hand and casually slapped out.
A tremendous sound suddenly erupted.
The longsword Zhao Chen thrust out shattered into countless pieces in an instant.
He felt as if he had been hit head-on by something heavy, his face contorted violently, and his scream was choked in his throat.
Faced with absolute power, he was sent flying backwards, sword and all, crashing through the open door and slamming heavily against the wall surrounding the Spirit Beast Garden.
The enormous impact caused the entire stone wall to shake violently.
Fortunately, the Cheng family's building materials were solid, and Cheng Xiao didn't go all out.
The wall didn't collapse; it just developed cracks.
Zhao Chen was embedded deep in the broken stone wall, his hands and feet hanging limply at his sides.
Cheng Xiao looked down at his right hand, which he had just swung, and gently flicked his wrist.
"The explosive power of a mortal's body is still a bit lacking."