“Wow, this feeling is way too good!”
Liu Qingyue’s lips were soft, sweet, and fragrant… so comfortable. Even that little tongue was playful, actually dodging.
Moreover, there was a faint virginal fragrance on her body, which ignited a fire in Chu Fan’s heart. Once he kissed her, he could not bear to let go.
“Patriarch, the Sect Master and Grand Elder are here!”
Just then, a familiar voice sounded. It was Bu Yaolian, who had brought Ye Yanji and three middle-aged beauties, each with a graceful figure… they were the Elders of the Joyous Sect!
As soon as Bu Yaolian arrived, he saw an old man kissing Liu Qingyue, the one he had long coveted. The hatred in his heart was immense.
This old man had put on such a righteous front earlier, but he turned out to be the same kind of person.
“Congratulations, host, for shamelessly completing the quest so quickly. You have received the reward: One-Punch Instant-Kill Gloves, five gloves!”
The System’s voice rang out, carrying a hint of contempt.
Chu Fan was speechless. What did it mean by “shamelessly completing the quest”? It was clearly pure wit, wasn’t it?
Chu Fan reluctantly released Liu Qingyue. When he saw tears at the corners of her eyes, he felt a bit speechless. It was his first kiss too, and he only kissed her once without doing anything else. Did she really have to cry?
Seeing the four strong individuals not far away and Bu Yaolian staring at him, Chu Fan clasped his hands behind his back and put on a lofty demeanor.
He said to Liu Qingyue, “This Patriarch is valiant and heroic, with an imposing bearing. You asked something you should not have just now. I did not kill you; I only kissed you as punishment. Is there any need to cry?”
Having said that, Chu Fan added, “Back in the day, when I was dominating the world and at my strongest, countless sect saintesses and demonesses were eager to marry me. But I was focused on cultivation back then and did not involve myself in worldly affairs, so I did not fancy a single one.”
Hearing this, Ye Yanji and the three female Elders were dumbfounded. Was this old man serious? More likely, no one fancied him, right?
Putting aside whether he was truly their sect’s Patriarch, he certainly had a knack for boasting.
“Patriarch, I… I wasn’t crying because I despise you for being an old man. I just felt so moved that the Patriarch kissed me. These are tears of gratitude!”
Liu Qingyue, forcibly kissed by an old man, felt extremely speechless inside, but she was afraid he might get angry, so she could only speak timidly.
“Ahem, so it was gratitude. No need to be moved. If you’re moved, I’ll come find you again next time!”
Chu Fan awkwardly coughed a couple of times, thinking this girl was quite good at lying.
However, he soon reacted: “You say I’m an old man? Don’t I look like a middle-aged uncle?”
From the original owner’s memories, his figure was tall and straight, and he appeared to be a dignified, somewhat handsome man in his thirties. Why did she call him an old man?
“Host, the way you look now, you really are an old man. I can lend you a mirror. I’ve placed it in your Storage Ring. Take a look for yourself!”
Even the System could not resist lending Chu Fan a mirror.
Chu Fan found that there was indeed a mirror inside the Storage Ring. He took it out and was instantly startled.
His hair was a mess, his body was dirty, his beard was long, and because the spiritual energy inside his body had dissipated, his form had shriveled quite a bit. He really did look much older, like an old man in his fifties or sixties.
Chu Fan awkwardly put away the mirror, smiled at Liu Qingyue, and said, “Don’t be scared, beauty. This is just because I’ve been in seclusion too long without eating or drinking. After a few days of grooming, you might just fall for my handsome looks!”
Liu Qingyue’s tears turned into laughter. This old man seemed to have a bit of humor!
“Sect Master, in our sect, only women have ever been Sect Master. Even the Elders are chosen only from women. How can there be an old man as Patriarch?”
At this moment, the Grand Elder looked at Chu Fan for a while before finally voicing her doubts.
Ye Yanji also frowned, looking puzzled.
She had just secretly probed this old man’s cultivation while he was talking to Liu Qingyue, but found it completely unfathomable, as if there were no spiritual energy fluctuations at all. Had he already reached the level of transcending and attaining sagehood, returning everything to simplicity?
“That’s right!”
After hearing the Grand Elder’s words, Bu Yaolian suddenly realized something: “Sect Master, this person is probably not our sect’s Patriarch. He must be some old lecher who popped up from who knows where, pretending to be our Joyous Sect’s Patriarch, and… and he molested Junior Sister Qingyue.”
After saying this, Bu Yaolian pointed at Chu Fan with a severe tone: “This man deserves death!”
Liu Qingyue was completely dumbfounded. Was this old man who forcefully kissed her really not the sect’s Patriarch?
If so, had she been taken advantage of for nothing, without any benefit?
After all, he had just promised that as long as he was here, her sister would not be sent to the Blazing Flame Sect as a cultivation cauldron.
It was precisely because of this that Liu Qingyue felt the kiss was worth it… at least better than having Bu Yaolian take her precious body.
“Slap!”
However, in the next second, Ye Yanji backhanded Bu Yaolian across the face: “Is this any place for you to speak?”
Bu Yaolian gritted his teeth, lowered his head, and covered his face, not daring to say another word.
Only then did Ye Yanji turn to Liu Qingyue and say, “Qingyue, the two of you have been guarding outside the cave the whole time, haven’t you? You never left, right? This… this Senior came out from inside, didn’t he?”
Liu Qingyue nodded: “Yes, Sect Master. We have been guarding outside, and this Senior indeed came out from the cave’s forbidden area.”
Ye Yanji nodded slowly: “This cave has been guarded in rotation by the previous seventeen Sect Masters, day and night, right up to now. I am the eighteenth Sect Master of the Joyous Sect.”
“As far as I know, no one has come out from inside in the past few hundred years. So how long has Senior been inside? How long has he lived?”
Having said this, Ye Yanji paused before continuing: “Therefore, Senior must have lived for thousands of years, his cultivation unfathomable, already transcended and attained sagehood. How dare you, Bu Yaolian, question Senior’s identity?”
“O… over a thousand years? I’ve been in seclusion that long?”
Chu Fan was also stunned. No wonder this Sect Master had never seen him. In thousands of years, so many things had happened!
It seemed that the freezing effect of the ice bed had slowed the dissipation of spiritual power in the body, which was why the body had not decayed for thousands of years.
“Senior, do you mean that you did not even know how long you had been in seclusion inside?”
Ye Yanji and the three Elders looked at each other, all completely at a loss.