"Blue, d.a.m.n you!" Simon was visibly fuming with steam escaping his pores, like a raging gorgon in the midst of its enemy."You didn"t have to kick me that hard…! I just made one mistake…" Blue rubbed his sore b.u.t.t, aching from the immense pain Simon inflicted.
"You hit me from behind so hard… how are you going to take responsibility?"
"..." Simon"s eyes lit like a fuse as he began walking over to Blue, completely disregarding the shocked spectators.
"What do you think you"re doing? Kid, you should run before I take you too-"
PUCHI
Simon did not even turn to face the bandit leader. With a single finger, Simon flicked pebble through the centre of the bandit"s forehead, instantly ending the man"s life. Without a single bit of remorse, Simon carried on walking.
"Wise Senior! Thank you for saving me from the wretched-"
"SHUT THE F**K UP!" Simon gave a piercing stare of killing intent, signalling to the youngster that Simon did not want to talk right now.
"Yes, Senior!" The handsome youngster immediately stopped talking and just stood straight.
"Wise...Senior, would you please leave this matter to us youngsters? This is not something a wise senior like yourself should bother yourself with…" Xue Er respectfully bowed her head out, shaking throughout her entire body before the might of a Core Formation expert.
"Sure, do whatever." Simon waved her off.
"Now onto you…" Simon exhibited a particularly evil smile, with daggers for eyes, staring deep into Blue"s soul.
"Grey… come on, we can talk this out…"
"Nope" Simon dragged Blue away, down the road like a dead corpse.
For roughly 5 hours, Simon dragged Blue by the leg. With no break, Blue"s clothes were utterly destroyed by the roadside rubble and debris, making him shed a tear for his embarra.s.sing situation.
"Grey, can you please let me walk now? Haven"t you dragged me long enough? I literally just moaned once and now you are punis.h.i.+ng me so hard. This is unfair!"
"Promise to stop being weird with me."
"I can"t help it."
"Why."
"I"m straight."
"Like h.e.l.l you are." Simon scoffed in disbelief.
"If you are straight, then I am a womaniser!"
"No seriously, I"m straight." Blue tried to act serious, crossing his arms and pouting in annoyance.
"Stop trying to joke with me. I see through your lies." Simon laughed.
"I"m a girl."
"..."
"Wow, I did not notice." Not even the novel noticed, don"t worry, Simon.
"So stop beating me up!"
"I believe in gender equality though." Simon shrugged and continued dragging Blue along the road.
After another 12 hours of slow and excruciatingly painful walking, Simon and Blue decided to camp by a waterfall situated just a kilometre away from the road. Possessing a nice and cozy cave, the waterfall was indeed a great place to camp for the night since Blue still did not know how to create a tent.
"Finally… I am not getting dragged by the legs anymore… Grey, are you like this with everyone?"
"Nope. I don"t trust you anymore, hmmmph!" Simon pouted and went lie down on his king-sized bed
"Why?" Blue crossed "his" arms.
"I already thought of a few places to take you so we can find you a wife. But it turns out you"re straight and a woman, so now I have to find you a husband. All of the good men are way older than you, the rest are h.o.r.n.y young men with no morals and ethical codes." Simon looked gloomy and tired, clearly having thought through how to help Blue out, only to find out he had been tricked. This made Simon somewhat annoyed.
"You can sleep on the floor from now on."
"So you actually cared?" Blue"s eyes began bubbling with appreciation.
"Well, we are all we have for the next month. I figured I could help you out. Now go and sleep, I"m too tired to talk to you."
"Hmmph!"
Day 3:
Simon and Blue finally made it to the city. After paying a small entry fee, the two managed to find an inn and rented a room there. For the next few days Simon decided to cultivate, managing to break through to the 8th layer of Core Formation. Likewise, Blue managed to get up to the 7th layer.
"Simon, don"t you think that we are doing naughty things in the room since we are a man and a woman in the same room, all alone?" Blue questioned Simon with a worried expression.
"No. You don"t look like a woman."
*Critical Hit*
"Now let"s get back to work. At this pace, we can get to Nascent Soul within two weeks. After that, we can go looking for Master w.a.n.g"s Sect. Should we have any spare time, I will help you look around for some handsome older men." Simon explained the schedule with a plain expression.
He wasn"t much for expression when he explained things. Explanation was just random information for him, not a conversation.
"I don"t need your help with that."
"Fine, whatever. I might as well explain a few things about this place before we start going through this."
"We are currently in a "Cultivation world". The world is nowhere near as primitive as you might think however. At the other end of this continent is a city that looks like a common metropolitan city well within the age of Sci-Fi stuff. Along with that note, weapon arts include the much taboo thing called guns. I decided that the story would be more unique if the character could also use guns to kill each other. I mean swords are cool and all, but you can just shoot someone in the head for an instant kill."
"Then why have we seen no one with a gun?"
"You need to be at the Core Formation stage to even have enough power to wield a spirit gun. Plus, the summoning procedure is very painful and has a low success rate among people of this world. That limitation does not apply to us however. Since I built the system, I can basically do almost anything with 100% success rates. Well, I would still need the prerequisites and I"d also need to make sure I don"t end up making a mistake, but that"s just about it."
"Continuing on, we are considered high level cultivators in this current area, but as we go on, we might find people at the Core Formation stage to be quite average in other regions. It"s a big world. The most powerful dude is an Immortal Grandmaster."
"Pills will automatically make your potential lessen by ma.s.sive degrees, possibly increasing the difficulties of future breakthroughs. So do not take any weird pills."
"Gun cultivation is ranked through the mastery system. Each mastery tier equals an advance in skill and power, allowing for much more options in combat."
"The tiers go as follows, Copper, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Elite, Hacker, and Bot." Each tier can amplify your combat prowess by leaps and bounds, enabling you to take on less experienced experts of higher cultivation."
"I might also add that we will be summoning spirit guns tomorrow, so please ready yourself. I really don"t want to get shot by a bunch of people and be the only one that can shoot back."
"I"m not gonna carry you." Simon sighed.
"Why did you add guns to a Xianxia?" Blue seemed utterly disgusted of this notion. She was a big fan of sword immortals and the unspoken rules that all Xianxia fictions should not stray away from tradition. This idea of guns in a Xianxia just seemed to odd and maybe even heretical.
"I felt bored. A true writer searched for unwritten plots and hooks. I just so happened to have found my hook."
"Also, this place is considered low level, so don"t get too comfortable with it. We will be leaving here soon enough anyways."
"Yep, I understand, can I sleep now?" Blue yawned as she grabbed a set of blue pyjamas from out of nowhere.
"Nice, you learnt the storage technique." Simon gave a warm thumbs up.
"Just make sure to change your clothes in the bathroom. I don"t want to see any of that."
"Why? Are you gay?"
"No, I"m married. Unlike you, who is a virgin who has probably never been in a relations.h.i.+p." Simon was oddly specific in his roast.
"Unless you can somehow prove that you and I are married, I am not budging. A man must have principles." Simon went to bed after saying this.
"How much longer until I can see my family and my disciples again? Blue is so d.a.m.n annoying! Well at least she has a personality, something new everyday. But this is tiring me out!" Simon slowly drifted off into sleep.
"Stupid Blue!"
"SHUT UUUUUP!!!" Blue arose from the bed and blasted Blue with his loud vocals.
"And stop acting like some annoying tsundere when I"m trying to sleep, that really doesn"t work in real life!"
"..."
"What is a tsundere?"
"Go the f**k to bed."