Chapter 173: Tenth-Rate Traitor, Another's Plaything
Chu Ling'er sat obediently, white and tender, looking like a small little ball.
Lin Xuan looked at Chu Ling'er; the more he looked, the more he liked her, an involuntary smile of a fond father appearing on his face.
He made up his mind to abduct her back home, protecting Chu Ling'er at all costs, and never letting Gu Qing harm so much as a single hair on Chu Ling'er's head.
"Yao'er, as long as Ling'er becomes my disciple, I will protect her completely; no one will dare to harm her in the slightest."
Lin Xuan put down his teacup, his expression serious and earnest.
"Thank you for your deep affection, Martial Uncle, but my sister's talent is mediocre; she is truly unsuited for great responsibility."
Chu Yao refused directly, sneering in her heart.
No one will dare to harm her in the slightest?
Before saying these words, shouldn't you think about how your five disciples died?
Seeming to have expected Chu Yao's rejection long ago, Lin Xuan immediately took out two jade pendants, the corners of his mouth rising as he spoke faintly.
"These jade pendants contain a wisp of my split soul. As long as you do not accept others' challenges, they can protect you from worry."
He felt that Chu Yao not letting Chu Ling'er become a disciple must be because of the death of his five disciples.
And also those two registered disciples he accepted in the morning who died in the afternoon.
Now that he had given out split soul jade pendants, unless it was someone at the Divine Fire Realm, it would be absolutely impossible to harm a single hair on the two of them.
A smile hung on the corners of Lin Xuan's mouth.
He did not believe that Chu Yao would still refuse when he valued the two sisters so highly.
Once he passed supreme techniques to Chu Ling'er and bestowed supreme treasures, he believed Chu Yao would definitely waver and switch to his sect.
After all, humans strive to reach higher places, just as water flows downwards.
"Please retract this, Martial Uncle; my sister absolutely will not take you as her master."
Chu Yao's tone was resolute.
Since Lin Xuan could not understand human speech, she could not be blamed for speaking bluntly and embarrassing Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan's smile stiffened on his face as he looked at Chu Yao in astonishment.
No, he had given Chu Yao the Enlightenment Rush Jade and the Mother-Child Substitution Divine Fruit; did Chu Yao not feel any gratitude or temptation at all?
He had lowered his status to accept a disciple; why was Chu Yao not pleasantly surprised and full of gratitude?
Looking at the enchanting and charming Chu Yao, Lin Xuan did not know why, but he always felt that today's Chu Yao was a bit strange, completely different from the Chu Yao he had imagined.
Lin Xuan somewhat doubted life; having been rejected repeatedly, he felt his old face could not hang onto the situation.
If not for the System having a mandatory task requiring him to accept a disciple, Lin Xuan would not have lowered his posture so much.
After all, Chu Ling'er's aptitude was not very high, and the reward for accepting a disciple was very limited, even offering him no help whatsoever.
Lin Xuan took a deep breath, his face gloomy: "Why?"
"Martial Uncle, I will speak plainly. If Ling'er takes you as her master, how do we explain it to Martial Aunt Zhimeng?"
Chu Yao said with a face devoid of expression.
Hearing this, Lin Xuan pondered briefly, his expression confident and calm, unable to help laughing softly.
"Heh, so you are afraid of Zhimeng."
He felt relieved in his heart.
He said faintly: "Rest assured, I will keep Ling'er by my side. Even if Zhimeng loses her mind and attacks Ling'er, I can protect her completely."
He had already decided that after abducting such a cute, top-tier young girl home, he would keep her by his side every day.
"Martial Uncle, then what about my Chu Family? How should the million-plus clansmen of my Chu Family conduct themselves?"
Chu Yao asked coldly.
"..."
What does the life or death of your Chu Family have to do with me?
Lin Xuan almost blurted this out.
In his eyes, he was not the Chu Family's nanny; by him accepting Chu Ling'er, the Chu Family was already having green smoke rise from their ancestral graves.
Additionally, Lin Xuan subconsciously felt that since Chu Yao worshipped him so much, she should stop at nothing to become his disciple.
But Chu Yao brought up the Chu Family, and Lin Xuan was stunned.
For a moment, he was speechless.
Because he certainly could not say that Zhimeng would not make a move against the Chu Family, right?
Or that he would shelter the Chu Family.
With Chu Yao's shrewdness, would she believe it?
"Martial Uncle, you couldn't possibly want my family to be destroyed and then have me follow you to flee for our lives, right?"
Seeing his silence, Chu Yao could not help opening her mouth to mock him.
Hearing these words, Lin Xuan's expression cracked inch by inch, as if a fig leaf had been torn off, and annoyance spread from the bottom of his heart.
Lin Xuan took a deep breath and smiled bitterly: "Yao'er, am I that kind of person?"
"Martial Uncle naturally is not, but Martial Uncle is doing exactly that."
Chu Yao left him a little face, but not much.
It was just that Lin Xuan's face looked as ugly as if he had eaten two dead mice.
Chu Yao's words were already very clearly insinuating that he was either mentally challenged or intentionally causing the Chu Family's destruction.
Lin Xuan's mental state collapsed.
Looking at Chu Yao, his eyes were filled with disbelief.
He could not believe that at a temperature of thirty-seven degrees, such cold words could be spoken.
Grinding his face into the ground again and again and again.
Is this still Niece Chu Yao who worships and is grateful to him?
Lin Xuan remained silent, looking at the enchanting and charming Chu Yao, doubting life.
He always felt that things shouldn't be this way.
But exactly where the problem lay, Lin Xuan did not know.
"Ling'er."
Gu Qing's voice broke the dead silence of the atmosphere.
Hearing this, Chu Ling'er's large, sparkling eyes lit up, as if filled with stars.
Her short legs churned rapidly as she flew into Gu Qing's arms.
"Brother Gu Qing!"
"Mm."
Gu Qing grunted, supporting her small bottom with one hand, smelling the familiar natural fragrance and faint milky scent, somewhat intoxicated.
Unable to resist, he pinched her white and tender cheek, then cast an appreciative glance at Chu Yao.
He had arrived long ago; Chu Yao's angry retort to Lin Xuan had greatly broadened his horizons.
Chu Yao was simply clear-headed in the human world.
A tenth-rate traitor within the camp of the Destined Heroine.
He must reward her with some Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi later.
Thinking this, Gu Qing finally looked towards Lin Xuan.
Even with one hand supporting the young girl, he remained fearless of the Divine Fire Realm.
"You..."
"You guys..."
Seeing this, Lin Xuan's eyes bulged out, and he trembled all over with anger.
His brain felt as if struck by five thunders.
Watching Chu Ling'er hang on Gu Qing's body, Lin Xuan felt he was going crazy.
"Elder Lin Xuan, do you want to take my woman as your disciple?"
Gu Qing's smile was mocking, as if examining a fool.
"Pu!"
Woman?
Chu Ling'er is Gu Qing's woman?
The superb young girl he thought about day and night had actually already become Gu Qing's woman?!
Lin Xuan's blood rushed in reverse; he was so angry he spat blood, unable to accept it even a little.
His heart felt as if pricked by countless needles, a fine and prickly pain.
At this moment, Lin Xuan felt like a huge foolish sucker.
"You deceived me?"
Lin Xuan looked at Chu Yao, his voice completely losing its composure.
"Martial Uncle, you never asked, and I never said Ling'er was unmarried; where does the accusation of deception come from?"
Chu Yao's expression was calm; she quietly walked behind Gu Qing, her smile charming and moving, her fiery red lips vivid as she slowly spoke.
"To tell Martial Uncle the truth, Ling'er was brought back by Young Master Gu. My father has long since given Ling'er to Young Master Gu."
"..."
"Given?"
Hearing these words, Lin Xuan's heart ached even more.
The young girl he constantly thought of, cherished like a pearl or treasure, and swore to protect, was actually a plaything given to Gu Qing by someone else.
Lin Xuan wished he could turn back time to the beginning, slap Chu Ling'er's father to death with one palm, and then take Chu Ling'er away.
"Elder Lin Xuan, now that you know, do you still want to take Ling'er as your disciple? If not, hurry up and leave."
Gu Qing's voice was ridiculing; after saying this, the delicate body of Chu Ling'er in his arms stiffened slightly.
Gu Qing patted a certain part of her body, signaling her not to overthink it.
"Leave?"
Lin Xuan's eyes were bloodshot.
Chu Yao and Gu Qing deceived him so miserably, and Gu Qing thought he could send him away with just one sentence?
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