Chapter 913 - Tan Xin’s ‘Growth’ (1/2)
Chapter 913: Tan Xin’s ‘Growth’
“It’s been over a week! When will this end?!!” whined Tan Xin, who appeared exhausted as she hung herself on Bai Xiaofei, trying to provoke him.
Bai Xiaofei did not know what kind of lessons Ni Xue had given Tan Xin to make the latter become… a completely different person. She was no longer easily jealous, was more considerate, more proficient in flirting with him, and sometimes she even succeeded!
In short, Tan Xin had become a deadly tantalizing demoness!
For example, at the moment,
Not to mention a week of walking, even if it was a week of flying, she wouldn’t be this tired. She was clearly putting on an act to take advantage of him!
“We’ve only been able to eliminate half of them. Moreover, I have a feeling that with the remaining suspects, each one will be more difficult to investigate than the next. We may have to spend quite some time doing this.” Bai Fei did not expose Tan Xin’s act. “If you are tired, let’s have a rest.”
Hearing this, something clicked in Tan Xin’s mind. Or to be exact, she had been waiting for this sentence…
“An ordinary person like Ni Xue can endure this, how can I not? I’m just worried that your mentality won’t be able to shoulder this. After all, your brain is working all the time,” said Tan Xin softly.
Bai Xiaofei decisively agreed with her, knowing that she had an even more difficult plot for him if he said anything more!
“But then again, Ni Xue, your health is really good. Tossed around by this guy all night and you are still so energetic during the day.” Tan Xin’s tone was envious. From what she had seen, Ni Xue was quite formidable for an ordinary person.
“It may be that my body is quite special. Ever since I was small, my wounds heal faster than others. Unfortunately, I have no chance to become a puppet master, or I’d be a very powerful one!” replied Ni Xue seriously.
Bai Xiaofei only smiled.
At that time, an excited voice came from a distance.
“Big Brother Fei!” Shi Kui was excited as always at the sight of Bai Xiaofei.
Ni Xue froze a little upon hearing his voice.
“Big Brother Fei, you are really hard to catch! I heard that you’ve been wandering around the Holy Puppetsmith Mountain for several days. Why didn’t you visit me?” Shi Kui pulled a dejected face like a wife who had been waiting for her husband.
“I was afraid I’d disturb your work. Haven’t you been studying hard under your master recently? I’m still waiting for your violetgold puppet,” said Bai Xiaofei.
Shi Kui immediately sighed. “I’d like to hurry, but I don’t know what’s happened to Master recently. He has gone into closed-door cultivation and seldom comes out to give us advice. I can ask for advice from my senior brothers, but I feel that they have nothing left to teach me.”
Bai Xiaofei was delighted to hear this. “How long have you been here? And you already think they have nothing left for you to learn from?! Don’t tell me… you are a hidden genius!”
Examining Shi Kui carefully, Bai Xiaofei’s eyes shone. At this rate, my violetgold puppet will be done soon!
“That’s right!” Shi Kui proudly rubbed his nose, then looked at Bai Xiaofei gratefully and said earnestly, “It’s all thanks to you, Brother Fei. I couldn’t have been who I am now without you.”
Bai Xiaofei’s expression immediately grew cold. He already said he didn’t want to hear these words more than once.
“Brother Fei, don’t be angry. I haven’t finished yet,” Shi Kui hurriedly explained. “In the past, all puppetsmiths felt that they should choose puppets that could help with forging, so few paid attention to their puppet master abilities. Therefore, many puppetsmiths stayed below the Master Rank all their lives.”
Hearing this, Bai Xiaofei thought of Shi Kui’s master Pinocchio. It actually took talent to be chased around by low-level human puppets!
“My master is an example of those people, but he is a true genius smith and so he paved a bright path for himself. However, when he ascended to godsmith, he realized one thing: If a puppetsmith wants to truly reach the peak, their strength must match their smithing ability! Otherwise, whether it’s their life span, understanding of puppets, or perception of advanced materials, it will be limited by their puppet master rank.”
“Before, in order to catch up with everyone, I put more effort into my puppet master abilities. At that time, I thought I was going the long roundabout route. Who would have thought that it was a blessing in disguise? Now in the Holy Puppetsmith Mountain, there are very few puppet masters whose ranks are higher than mine. It’s also because of this that I’ve been making rapid progress under my master’s guidance!”
Shi Kui explained clearly sentence by sentence, during which Bai Xiaofei’s expression gradually relaxed.