Chapter 70: Leglock from Lian Lin?
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Everyone looked in confusion at Bai Ju, who seemed to have gone mad. He laughed and covered his face with his hands as if trying to avoid reality, but all he met was endless darkness. Watching this, Xie Qing merely smiled, then dispelled the influence of the technique, as his Qi was almost exhausted. Ignoring the nagging pain in his Golden Core, he began to observe the spectacle.
Eventually, people from the Medicine Pavilion arrived. Some of them started collecting Bai Bai's torn flesh, while the others rushed to Xie Qing to heal his wound.
"Oh, how terrible... what a deep wound. It matches the shape of Bai Bai's sword. What a scumbag, he must have completely forgotten that the sect's rules apply even to disciples of the main court, even if they are from an influential family," one of the disciples muttered angrily as he quickly patched up Xie Qing's wound.
Fortunately, some advanced potions and pills allowed the wound to be healed within five minutes. Although it hadn't completely closed, it no longer posed a threat to Xie Qing's life. Leaving Xie Qing in the care of Elder Lian Xin, the Medicine Pavilion disciples helped their colleagues collect Bai Bai's flesh and then carried him away.
By the next morning, the incident had caused much controversy and unrest. Representatives of the Bai family arrived at the sect, looking furious. They were now in the Sect Master's Pavilion.
"Sect Master Lian, we demand that you hand over Elder Bai Ju and disciple Xie Qing for further investigation!" shouted a middle-aged man, then lowered his voice when he noticed that Lian Lin had become distracted from her papers, "...We ask for your cooperation. The Bai family will not refuse you in the future if you need anything."
"Hah..."
Lian Lin smiled and shook her head, looking disappointed. The man in front of her was named Bai Yi Xian, and he was one of the former talents of the Bai family, now acting as a negotiator. After yesterday's events, the Bai family quickly learned everything and realized that an elder from their family had killed one of the potentially valuable offspring! They couldn't help but be angry.
Like bees disturbed by the sudden actions of a beekeeper, they decided to sting Elder Bai Ju as quickly as possible and also eliminate disciple Xie Qing, who was likely not innocent either. However, they encountered a firm refusal from Lian Lin and were forced to go for a personal meeting to show their position and try to negotiate.
"Bai Yi Xian... I think you overestimate your Bai family a bit too much. Let's start our conversation from this point," Lian Lin finally decided to respond, setting aside her papers. She coldly looked at Bai Yi Xian, who looked displeased, "I see discontent in your eyes. How amusing. Do you consider the Heavenly Sword Sect your subordinates?
Perhaps I should tell Madam Xu Mei about this news? I'm sure she'll enjoy such a thing."
"Eh... n-no, I didn't mean that. I apologize for leaving such an impression," Bai Yi Xian immediately paled and bowed.
"Is that so? Then I'll forget about your words, as I am a very magnanimous person," Lian Lin nodded and said, her gaze emanating coldness. She adjusted her glasses in their round frame, then continued, "Following your logic, I should hand over an elder of my sect to you, and then also a disciple, right? Doesn't that sound a bit funny? I think so too."
"Sect Master Lian, I can understand your dissatisfaction, and I am also a bit confused by the current mood in the Bai family, but I very much hope for your understanding. There are now many people who want to get their hands on Bai Ju to punish him," Bai Yi Xian began speaking in a much calmer and more polite tone when he was brought down from the heavens to the ground.
He clasped his hands together and said, "If I can't return with him to the Bai family, it will at least complicate the current situation, understand?"
Lian Lin did not respond and merely tapped her fingers on the table, looking at Bai Yi Xian with an unreadable expression. Bai Yi Xian also did not rush to continue his speech, understanding that Lian Lin intended to think about it for a while. No matter how brilliant and prestigious he was in the Bai family, here his status was comparable to that of a simple outer court disciple.
Seconds turned into minutes, and only after five minutes did Lian Lin open her mouth to give a short but decisive answer.
"The sect will deal with this and answer the Bai family."
"What?"
Bai Yi Xian frowned when he heard her words. This was a polite "no" that tore away all possibilities for negotiations from the roots. He couldn't help but feel anger, sensing that his family was being ignored, but this anger he could only suppress within himself. Standing up and coldly looking at Lian Lin, he said goodbye:
"Alright, I'll pass on your answer to the Bai family. I apologize for wasting your time."
"Yes, indeed, you wasted my time in vain, so I won't see you off," Lian Lin casually replied, making Bai Yi Xian almost stumble as he passed through the threshold.
"Hmph!"
Turning her gaze away from the angry Bai Yi Xian, Lian Lin looked at the window through which Xie Qing had entered. "I missed you, sister," he said with a smile and landed on the floor, brushing off the dust.
"Did you? Maybe you brought me some new techniques?" Lian Lin asked with gleaming eyes, regaining her usual lazy appearance.
"...No. Do you think they grow on bushes for me?" Xie Qing replied, rolling his eyes. He found a chair and sat down, pulling out a bottle of spiritual wine from inside his robe and raising it into the air to Lian Lin's applause: "I stole this from Bai Bai's cellar! I still have twenty more bottles like this, each worth 500 Spiritual Stones, and the most expensive one is 5000!
Since I can't sell it, let's drink it!"
"Hooray," came the lackluster response from Lian Lin.
He couldn't sell the wine because it was numbered and bought directly from the store, which, upon order, issued spiritual wine. It was easy to find out the identity of the buyer, and this would bring a bunch of problems. For the sake of short-term profit, it was not worth turning the Bai family into enemies.
Although they suspected him, the "Mark of Vengeance" indicated that the killer was Bai Ju, so he was only suspected.
Since it wasn't very good to throw away the wine like that, Xie Qing decided to have fun and visited Lian Lin. Xu Mei and Lian Xin were busy at the elders' meeting, and his mother couldn't drink due to a hangover. Xu Mei's spiritual wine could make even a Soul Nascent cultivator drunk, not to mention such wine that could make even Xu Mei drunk.
It was decided to visit his older sister Lian Lin, who resolutely shielded him from various attentive glances. Pouring the wine into glasses, they clinked them together and began to drink. Lian Lin's facial muscles relaxed, and she began to look half-asleep.
"Aah... such a sweet aftertaste and a hint of bitterness, plus there's so much rich Qi in this wine that it only enhances the taste. Fantastic!" Lian Lin praised the wine.
"Hehe, what did you think? Robbing a rich kid is no joke!" Xie Qing boasted as if he had acquired this wine and not stolen it.
They spent time drinking wine. After emptying a bottle of wine, Xie Qing wearily rubbed his eyes. Drinking too much spiritual wine could easily get you drunk, and his head was already empty. Lian Lin was already snoring on the table. Looking at her, Xie Qing shook his head.
"What an uncomfortable position. How can she even sleep on this hard table and chair?" he wondered, then approached and picked her up, carrying her like a princess.
The table was made of strong wood that even a Soul Nascent cultivator couldn't break. This table held important documents, and it was impossible to break into it due to the many formations. All of this was a real pain, so Xie Qing didn't want to deal with it. However, he knew that breaking the table would be a difficult task. And sleeping on it was masochism.
So, he carried Lian Lin to the bedroom. Avoiding the elders in the corridor, he reached her bedroom, opened the door with his elbow, and then pushed it open with his foot. And there he saw Lian Lin's messy room. He couldn't help but shake his head, even his requests couldn't teach his older sister to fold things instead of scattering them around the room.
Closing the door behind him so that Lian Lin wouldn't lose her reputation as the sect master, he put her on the bed and, admiring her sleeping face, took off her glasses and placed them on the nightstand. "By the way, why does she wear glasses at all? She doesn't have any vision problems," he thought, then put on the glasses for fun: "Eh?"
Immediately, the world before his eyes changed, and it seemed to become darker. All the colors faded and became much less expressive, and he could see countless lines and geometric figures around the room.
"Is this... a formation and Qi?" Xie Qing wondered.
It seemed that these glasses also possessed a special power. However, he didn't understand how Lian Lin could live with such terrible lighting; he couldn't see anything in front of him. Therefore, he decided to take off the glasses and place them on the nightstand.
Then, looking around the room and seeing that underwear and clothes were scattered all over the floor, he decided, as a younger brother, to help her and clean up, and at the same time, he would sober up a bit from the alcohol. First, he arranged the clothes and put them in the closet, and then he moved on to the underwear. Thongs, ordinary panties, and bras lay on the floor, and it looked unsightly.
Examining all of this, Xie Qing roughly understood her sizes, somewhere around a C-cup, which was also not bad. Although Lian Lin still felt insecure about her size. "Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Big breasts are good, but who said small breasts are bad?" Shaking his head, as if Xie Qing was disappointed by such stereotypical thinking, he, as a true gentleman, began to touch her thongs and picked them up, examining them.
"Damn. She wears such bold thongs under her clothes. As expected of the sect master!" he thought admiringly. Of course, after that, he put them away and didn't do anything strange. He was a pervert, not a horny animal... probably.
Having arranged everything in the wardrobes and superficially gotten rid of the dust, Xie Qing wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead. "Finally, order and cleanliness. Now it doesn't look like a minefield," he thought, satisfied with himself.
Since childhood, his mother had taught him to be neat and clean. Therefore, he still adhered to this teaching. Since the deed was done, he decided to go outside and breathe some air, but before that, he decided to cover Lian Lin with a blanket. And this was a fatal mistake.
"Eh?"
Xie Qing felt the world before his eyes spin, and then an unusual sensation of warmth and softness touched his cheek. With his peripheral vision, he saw that he was pressing his cheek against Lian Lin's chest, while her legs were wrapped around his waist. He had fallen into a trap!
"Leglock?" Xie Qing thought, as always, thinking about perversions, "Tempting... but how do I get out of this situation? It's easier to destroy the world than to wake up Lian Lin..."
No matter how he tried, Lian Lin didn't want to wake up, and he could only sigh, accepting his fate. One way or another, there was nothing to do. He slapped Lian Lin's butt. "Mm..." Through her sleep, Lian Lin moaned and frowned, and her legs only tightened more around Xie Qing's waist. Now he really couldn't escape.
"Oh, damn it, I'm in trouble," Xie Qing thought, forgetting to wipe that disgusting satisfied smile from his face. Although he pretended to be a helpless sheep, his hands couldn't help but caress his older sister's body. He behaved shamelessly and calmed down only after examining all the parts of her body available to him at the moment.
"The rest of the DLC is blocked by clothing," Xie Qing sadly thought. However, he was able to conduct an examination and realized that Lian Lin's body was very slender, and although she didn't look that adult, she had her charm.
Although it was very interesting why he, under the pretext of checking her merits, groped the body of a defenseless woman, one could only assume that he was a shameless bastard. "I'm only worried about whether she's eating well," Xie Qing defended himself from the strange accusations that sounded against him from his inner voice and offendedly rolled his eyes, "I'm just a caring younger brother."
And this "caring younger brother" didn't forget to pat Lian Lin's buttocks while she slept. He took it as payment for cleaning the room.