Chapter 54: Chapter 51: Unsheathed

Moist black hair cascaded down her back, droplets of water gliding down her strands onto her soft, jade-like skin, flowing into the bottomless ravines.

With her willow-leaf eyebrows and phoenix eyes, her beauty was almost inconceivable, as if her radiant face, seemingly unaware of what had happened, was caught with her mouth slightly open in a bewildered state.

Two sharp little canine teeth added a touch of dangerous cuteness to her, and the two cat ears on her head trembled slightly, causing Ning Fengwan’s face to gradually turn a shade of embarrassed red.

She clasped her hands over her chest, and the long cat tail encased in a white gold tail ring that grew on her tailbone wrapped around Xue Jing’s head, covering his eyes.

“Don’t look!!”

The girlish voice was almost breaking into a cry.

Xue Jing: “…”

He felt the silky soft touch rubbing back and forth across his chest, adding a slightly fuzzy sensation and a subtle nub… Xue Jing’s expression immediately became odd.

He indeed stopped looking… but it seemed that looking was not the issue now…

After thinking for a moment, Xue Jing spoke up to comfort her, “Teacher Wan, calm down, I didn’t see anything.”

Seeing that Xue Jing’s eyes were covered by the cat tail, indeed showing that he could see nothing, Ning Fengwan gradually calmed down.

“…”

But soon, she realized an even more fatal truth.

The touch transmitted a shudder-inducing thrill of electric current.

“Mmm~”

Xue Jing heard a strange sound next to his ear, and his expression instantly became even more peculiar.

“How could it… suddenly revert.”

Ning Fengwan, while suppressing the thrilling sensation, gritted her teeth and said annoyedly.

“It might be that you accidentally triggered the transformation condition of this Divine Relic,” Xue Jing tried to speak in a calm tone.

But inevitably, his voice wavered slightly.

His heart was beating fast.

His body, in the throes of late adolescence and at the Great Perfection Realm, was like a piece of paper that ignites at a single touch, difficult to restrain.

Trigger conditions?

Ning Fengwan, suppressing her embarrassment, recalled the earlier scene.

She had taken off Xue Jing’s glasses, and then…

developed a tiny bit… just a tiny bit of feeling for him.

And then reverted to human?

What kind of nonsensical trigger conditions are these, could she be the protagonist of some cat-girl theme narrative from another realm?

Ning Fengwan, who had been watching animations recently and had learned many things, twitched the corner of her mouth.

All reverted to human, yet the cat ears, the canine teeth, this tail…

Damned ‘Divine’, what kind of crappy legacy is this!

“…”

“You…”

Ning Fengwan suddenly angrily slapped Xue Jing.

“Don’t think anything messy, this was just an accident!”

She saw that the holy sword… was drawn.

“There’s nothing I can do to control it,” Xue Jing said calmly.

After pausing, he continued, “But… if you don’t get out soon, there might be more things I can’t control.”

Ning Fengwan: “…”

“Hmph, then I’ll move the tail away, and you cover your eyes with your hands…”

Xue Jing nodded.

Seeing this, Ning Fengwan carefully held the edge of the bathtub, ready to stand up.

But then, another accident happened.

Either she was too emotionally unsettled and made a mistake, or because there was still some shower gel left on the edge of the bathtub, as soon as Ning Fengwan pushed herself up to leave, her palm slipped.

She sat back down, creating a splash of water.

Not only that, but for some reason, Xue Jing’s body was now somewhat slippery. Ning Fengwan watched helplessly as she slid down…

“Hmm~”

“Hiss…”

Xue Jing sharply inhaled a breath of cold air.

“Teacher Wan, you…”

Ning Fengwan was on the verge of collapse and said ashamedly, “It wasn’t on purpose…”

Xue Jing trembled and covered his eyes with his hands.

His voice also trembled, “I understand… Please leave now.”

“Otherwise, you might not be able to leave at all.”

Watching as Xue Jing’s veins bulged and he was about to lose control and truly reach the realm of Great Perfection of his youth, a trace of fear emerged in Ning Fengwan’s heart. She quickly got up and fled the bathroom like she was escaping.

“…”

As the door closed, the bathroom fell silent.

Xue Jing sighed, suppressing the restless energy within him.

But still, he could not calm down for a long time; his divine sword was more difficult to suppress than an AK.

He gently touched his chest with his hand.

He didn’t know if it was because of the shower gel or something else, but it felt sticky…

Xue Jing wore a bizarre expression.

…

Meanwhile, in a secret basement in the South City district,

Jiao Hongyuan, a man of robust and upright stature with an aged face, stood with his hands behind his back, looking towards the center of the basement.

There lay a four-meter-tall, enormous ‘Nest.’

The exterior looked like a bee’s nest, but the color was closer to sky blue. Its surface, like flesh, constantly squirmed, and from time to time, it would pulsate like a heart, emitting a dull sound.

“Clang.”

The cover above the basement was lifted, and a figure with a bandaged head, leaning on a cane, came down the stairs.

Jiao Hongyuan turned to glance at him, noting his appearance, and asked with puzzlement,

“Kaiping, what happened?”

Duan Kaiping leaned on his cane, bowing awkwardly to Jiao Hongyuan, “I’ve seen Teacher.”

“Something happened today…” His face showed difficulty as he explained how he had gone to trouble Lou Huiying but was unexpectedly ambushed, resulting in Lou Huiying shooting him in the head.

Jiao Hongyuan frowned.

“Didn’t I tell you to avoid causing any trouble lately? Are you deaf?”

Duan Kaiping felt as if he was plunged into an icy cave under his cold gaze, and sweat flowed freely; he quickly knelt down, enduring the stabbing pain in his thigh.

“Teacher! I was wrong!”

He swallowed, feeling as if an extremely sharp dagger was sliding across his neck, its cold light threatening, ready to easily sever his head at any moment.

After a long while, as the cold, knife-like gaze faded, Jiao Hongyuan said indifferently, “All right, get up.”

“Yes.” Duan Kaiping breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and then noticed that his body was completely soaked in sweat, and a puddle had formed at his feet.

“Has ‘Number One’ grown any bigger?” Jiao Hongyuan suddenly asked.

Duan Kaiping quickly nodded, “I just checked the cage, and it’s already bigger than a dog, growing at a frightening speed.”

Speaking of ‘Number One,’ a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, and goosebumps covered his body.

It wasn’t fear of its strength or anything else, but a sheer psychological repulsion to its appearance.

Jiao Hongyuan nodded his head.

“Number One is just a test subject; the proportions are still not perfect. The Heavenly Lodge Insect Mother can birth even better children…”

“However, Kangde Corporation seems to want to test the effects first. After a while, once Number One has fully grown, we’ll release it.”

Duan Kaiping respectfully nodded, “Yes.”

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