Cohabitation with Sword Spirit-Chapter 48 - 40: There Is No Such Thing as Lewdness in This World

Chapter 48: Chapter 40: There Is No Such Thing as Lewdness in This World

On the evening of July 13, 2017, very clear

When Wang Jiu returned to Shen Garden, he found the little girl had just taken a bath. Her hair was wet, and her cheeks were flushed as she stood quietly in the middle of the courtyard, breathing rhythmically.

Upon hearing the sound of Wang Jiu opening the door and coming in, Shen Qingming opened her eyes, about to welcome him, but her expression changed.

"What is that thing you’re holding!?"

Wang Jiu said, "I don’t know, I haven’t looked yet. Do you know?"

Shen Qingming’s face instantly turned red, "I, of course I don’t know! That’s why I’m asking you what that thing is!"

Wang Jiu felt relieved, "I see, this was just given to me by Li Xinyu. Since you don’t know either, let’s study it together."

"Together, together..." Shen Qingming’s face turned even redder, and then anger surged, "What’s there to study? Who wants to study such a thing with you!"

As she spoke, Shen Qingming exhaled a long breath, expelling the Spirit Wind that had circulated for dozens of cycles in her body, forming a torrent.

Then, she seriously said to Wang Jiu, "That fat guy... you shouldn’t have too much contact with him."

Wang Jiu was curious, "Li Xinyu? Why? Although his cultivation is ordinary, his personality is warm and cheerful. He doesn’t have the cunning and vile air of a sinister person. Is there something wrong?"

"You’re a flying sword detached from human interactions, and you can discern a person’s good and evil?" Shen Qingming first laughed, shaking her head, and then explained, "He’s indeed not a bad person. In terms of cultivation, although you may not think much of it, he is, after all, the Inner Sect Chief of the Li Family Mansion, and that has its merits. But in this world, there is a type of person worse than a bad person, care to guess what kind?"

As she spoke, Shen Qingming regarded Wang Jiu with an expression that said he would never guess, then added, "Don’t peek at my thoughts!"

Wang Jiu said, "There’s no need to look? The answer is obvious: a dead person."

"..." Shen Qingming was speechless for quite a while, until Wang Jiu started urging her to reveal the answer, she gloomily said, "A sleazy person."

"Sleazy?"

"Yes, such people are really worse than bad people. Look at the bad guys today, even if they commit monstrous crimes, as long as they’re handsome, have good temperament, and are strong, many people will like and admire them, becoming their supporters, and even excusing their crimes. But if someone has a sleazy temperament, there’s no saving them. Even a naive little girl who knows nothing about romance will despise him and want to stay far away from him. And Li Xinyu is honestly the sleaziest person I’ve ever seen."

Wang Jiu listened, only feeling that this segment had many points of difficulty, which were quite hard to understand.

Shen Qingming explained, "In fact, a few years ago, Li Xinyu was pretty good. He was diligent in his cultivation, cheerful in personality, and particularly fond of his sister. But then, somehow, his figure ballooned like a hot air balloon, and he became especially... lecherous, and sleazy."

The girl’s face showed a twisted expression, and her voice became strained, "That look of his, it’s difficult for me to use words to explain clearly to you..."

"Oh, it’s okay. I can see what you’re thinking."

Wang Jiu said, then directly used the Master-Servant Contract to see the images in Shen Qingming’s mind...

It should have been Li Xinyu one or two years ago, shorter and thinner than now. He stood next to a training ground whose floor and walls were as white as jade, standing before a young female cultivator who had just finished a sword dance, panting and drenched in sweat.

Li Xinyu squinted his eyes, with a smile squeezed on his face, quickly approached and handed over a towel.

"Hehe, Ling Yan, your Quehong Sword Dance just now was awesomely beautiful."

"Uh, thank you." The girl named Ling Yan hesitated for a moment, nodded to thank him, and then took the towel to wipe her sweat.

However, the very next moment, Li Xinyu naturally took back the towel she used and tucked it into his bosom, then took out a new one and handed it to her.

The girl stared at Li Xinyu blankly as he kept the towel she had used, her face turning red as if about to cry.

"By the way, this sword dance consumes a lot, and I have a bottle of Moon Marrow Spiritual Liquid here, which is most nourishing for cultivators in the Wind-Rising Realm."

He then untied a small water bottle from his waist.

The girl was indeed a bit tired and, seeing the Moon Marrow Spiritual Liquid, knowing it was good stuff, couldn’t help but thank him and opened the cap to take a sip.

But just when the Spiritual Qi surged within her and the fatigue was dispelled, she realized...

"This, this bottle was already drunk from?!"

Li Xinyu laughed, "I only took a sip before, it’s fine, it’s fine. But, you know, we indirectly, did that, right..."

And then came the sound of the little girl’s sobs and the sight of her fleeing figure.

Shen Qingming asked, "So? Do you understand now? That fat guy is just so sleazy!"

Wang Jiu frowned, "To be honest, I don’t quite understand. Li Xinyu gave that girl a towel and Spiritual Liquid, and then what?"

"You can’t understand this!?" Shen Qingming felt both angry and amused, "He obviously had ulterior motives! Didn’t you see him take back the towel that the other used?"

Wang Jiu said, "He just borrowed the towel, not gifted it, so it’s quite reasonable to retrieve it after use."

"...But it was used!" 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"I think the spirit of economizing and reusing things is not a bad thing."

"What about the water bottle incident then?!"

Wang Jiu was puzzled, "What about it? If you’re referring to that girl caring too much about Li Xinyu’s residual saliva possibly remaining on the bottle mouth, then it’s only because she didn’t consider it clearly. That water bottle was taken from Li Xinyu’s belt, clearly a personal one, so it’s normal for his saliva to remain. Besides, Li Xinyu isn’t some toxic being whose saliva contains poison."

"It’s not about whether it’s poisonous or not!" Shen Qingming was somewhat angry, "And he also especially sleazy emphasized it was an indirect kiss, how disgusting!"

Wang Jiu said, "If you don’t emphasize it, that girl is essentially unknowingly giving him an indirect kiss. I think this kind of failure to fulfill the duty of notification is not to be encouraged."

"Should he be praised for being so straightforward?!"

Wang Jiu retorted, "Isn’t that right?"

"..." Shen Qingming felt she was at a loss in communicating with this person.

Wang Jiu noticed Shen Qingming’s displeasure and thought for a moment: "Let’s conduct an experiment."

"Experiment?"

"Hold on."

Saying that, Wang Jiu flew into the house, retrieved a new towel, approached Shen Qingming to dry her damp long hair, and then used another part to wipe the light sweat off her cheeks.

The girl’s face turned red with heat: "W-What are you doing?"

Wang Jiu didn’t say much, folded the towel away after wiping, and then handed a cup of water to Shen Qingming: "Have a sip of hot water."

Being so close to Wang Jiu, Shen Qingming felt as though she had disrupted her breathing during her recent practice, affecting her Divine Sense, and her thoughts started to blur. Hearing Wang Jiu say those familiar four words about having hot water, she instinctively accepted the cup and took a couple of sips.

Afterward, Wang Jiu said, "That cup, I used it before. Although I can’t secrete saliva, I left my Sword Qi on it, so in some sense, we’ve shared an indirect kiss."

"...Huh?" Shen Qingming was dumbfounded, and the next moment, the cup fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.

Wang Jiu glanced at the shards on the ground: "Even though you destroyed the evidence, it doesn’t change the essence of the matter; we still had an indirect kiss."

"No way!"

Ignoring Shen Qingming’s stubbornness, Wang Jiu just asked, "Then, do you think I’m creepy?"

Shen Qingming wanted to yell at him, you’re not creepy, but dumb enough to make someone cry!

However, lifting her head and looking at the face of the Sword Spirit True Form... some words were hard to say.

Wang Jiu said, "So the question arises, my actions and Li Xinyu’s actions are almost identical, yet you don’t find me creepy, so what’s the reason to judge Li Xinyu as creepy?"

Shen Qingming was silent for a long time, deciding to give up reasoning.

"Fine, I admit it’s mainly because Li Xinyu is fat and ugly."

"That makes sense." Wang Jiu finally received a satisfactory answer, "But his being fat and ugly doesn’t affect me in any way."

Shen Qingming waved her hand: "Then go be friends with him!"

——

Shen Qingming said it casually, not taking it seriously, knowing that creepy fat guy only ever eagerly presented his affection to pretty girls, treating guys coldly, especially handsome ones. His enthusiasm towards Wang Jiu was likely out of some twisted affinity, but this passion wouldn’t last.

However, by the evening, Wang Jiu received a Flying Sword message.

"Li Xinyu invited me to a tea party. July 20th, exactly one week later."

"What!?" Shen Qingming was incredulous, "Him? Tea party? When did that fat bastard learn to drink tea?"

Looking at the invitation in his hand, Wang Jiu added: "He said his sister, Li Chaolu, would also be there."

"Li Chaolu?" Shen Qingming frowned slightly, "Why would that girl attend Li Xinyu’s tea party? Their sibling relationship is always tense... Unless, is it because of you?"

Shen Qingming looked up, scrutinizing Wang Jiu seriously, gradually affirming her judgment.

"Ha, who knew this Sword Spirit of yours is so popular, even the young girl from the third branch is your fan."

After the joke, Shen Qingming didn’t take it seriously either.

But Wang Jiu developed an interest in the tea party: "Then on the 20th, I’ll go have a look. I’ll change that day’s cultivation course to self-study."

"Eh, you’re going?!" Shen Qingming was taken aback, "Why? Don’t you always hate those ignorant girls that flock to the flame?"

"Li Xinyu said that if I don’t agree, his sister will skin him and extract his fat, leaving him to die under the sun, and pleaded with me to save his life given it’s a matter of life and death."

"..." Shen Qingming’s jaw dropped, amazed at the sheer shamelessness of that fat bastard, Li Xinyu.

Wang Jiu said, "He also mentioned that if I attend the tea party, he would give me a set of illustrated Deluxe Edition ’Jin X Something Isn’t Just a Fish in the Pond’, a supplementary edition of ’Such a Great X of Rivers and Mountains.’"

"...Do you know what kind of books those are?"

Wang Jiu shook his head: "I don’t know, but it seems like you do?"

"I don’t know!" Shen Qingming blushed, "But since they’re from that fat bastard’s collection, they can’t be anything good!"

Wang Jiu continued, "He also said he could give me a bottle of his father’s long-stored Red Flood Dragon Blood Wine..."

Before he could finish, Shen Qingming moved closer, looking at Wang Jiu with determination: "Go, you must go!"