153: Boy, bye girl

"It's you?" Jiang Yuan was completely stunned when he saw Lin Qingyan. He never expected that she would be the one to save him. "Yes, I saved you, thank me," Lin Qingyan said with her arms crossed, her small face cold and arrogant. Remembering the scene when he first woke up, Jiang Yuan said with a strange expression, "Then my clothes..." Lin Qingyan's expression changed slightly, and she turned her head away, saying, "You burned your clothes yourself, it has nothing to do with me."

"You... saw it, right?"

"Who, who saw it! Who's interested in your naked body?" Lin Qingyan walked out of the bathroom into the living room, sat on the sofa with her legs crossed, raised her hand to open the refrigerator with her mental power, and took out a bottle of chilled juice to drink.

She looked at Jiang Yuan, who had walked into the living room, and said, "You can really sleep, you slept for three whole days."

"Three days? Has it been that long?" Jiang Yuan asked in surprise. He remembered his parents and Mo Xixi's family and quickly checked his messages.

He found that they had sent him many messages and was relieved to know that they were now safe and protected in the Martial Artist Guild.

After replying to the messages from his family, Yan Runan, Ji Feiyue, Xu Yihan, Luo Xi, and others who had sent messages expressing their concern, Jiang Yuan looked at Lin Qingyan again: "By the way, how is the Abyss Invasion?! Has it been quelled?"

"It was quelled on the same day, by the Red King alone," Lin Qingyan said calmly.

"Red King?"

"General Li Dong, the current Dean of Shenwu Academy, one of the Nine Kings of Great Xia, title Red King," Lin Qingyan said while drinking juice, "He came to South River City with a relic and quickly quelled the void invasion and the beast tide, and then went to the South Sea Theater to help repel the South Sea Monarch, that's what the internet says."

So that's how it was.

Jiang Yuan nodded slightly and then asked her how she found him.

It turned out that on the night the Abyss Invasion ended, when Lin Qingyan passed by a tall building, she noticed an unusual aura emanating from the top.

She thought it was a lingering fierce beast.

Upon closer inspection, she found it wasn't a fierce beast, but Jiang Yuan sleeping in a fire cocoon.

...

"If it weren't for the fact that you helped me in the college entrance examination instance, I wouldn't have saved you," Lin Qingyan said, holding the chilled juice can, her crossed legs gently swaying, her left arm supporting her small face, her ice-blue eyes looking at Jiang Yuan with a half-smile, "Now, you owe me a life-saving favor, how are you going to repay it?"

Realizing that she seemed to have something in mind, Jiang Yuan said resolutely, "I also saved you the first time we went into the Abyss, so we're even now."

"Dream on! If I hadn't found you so early and brought you home, you would have probably been found and sacrificed by the Abyss Believers. I even used three high-level genetic potions on you to help replenish your potential, and you want to just forget about this debt?"

Lin Qingyan flashed in front of Jiang Yuan, poked his chest with her finger, and looked up, saying, "Don't even think about it!"

Jiang Yuan looked down at her.

The young girl's black hair cascaded like a waterfall, her jade neck was slender, and she emitted a faint fragrance.

That exquisitely beautiful and fair little face was full of annoyance, and her dreamlike eyes, like a desert lake, held undeniable seriousness.

It was as if if Jiang Yuan dared to refuse and be ungrateful, she would furrow her delicate brows, take out a large saber, and chop off Jiang Yuan's dog head.

Jiang Yuan sighed and said, "Alright, consider it a favor I owe you."

Lin Qingyan's face lit up with a smile upon hearing this; when she smiled, the entire living room seemed to brighten.

"That's more like it."

The young girl before him was like the white moonlight in every young man's dream, possessing a hazy, dreamy beauty that existed in memory, a beauty that didn't seem to belong to the mortal world.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

To reach this level just by appearance alone, her extra charm must be at least 50, right?

A can of cold juice was pressed against Jiang Yuan's face.

Jiang Yuan came back to his senses.

Lin Qingyan shook the juice can at him.

"Juice, want some?"

"Thank you." Jiang Yuan reached out to take it, opened it, and took a sip. The cold, fragrant taste with stimulating bubbles stimulated his mouth, making his mind feel refreshed.

"That day of the Abyss Invasion, was it you who killed that frozen demon snake?" Lin Qingyan sat back on the sofa and looked at Jiang Yuan, asking.

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment.

It seemed like that was the case.

Seeing his expression, Lin Qingyan knew she had guessed correctly. She let out a light snort from her nose, somewhat tsundere, "Meddling, I didn't need your help, I could have dealt with it myself."

She thought Jiang Yuan had helped because he saw her.

Little did she know that Jiang Yuan had only acted because the frozen demon snake was blocking the way.

And this small misunderstanding also led Lin Qingyan to inexplicably choose to bring him home the moment she found him.

"So what exactly happened to you that day? How were you so severely injured?" Lin Qingyan asked.

Because Bei Mingxue had blocked all information, Lin Qingyan didn't know everything that had happened at Martial Arts No. 1 High School that day.

Jiang Yuan remembered the terrifying divine lightning that pierced through the void, as thick as a mountain range, and a hint of lingering fear and gloom flashed in his eyes.

He shook his head and didn't explain further, only saying that he had gone to Martial Arts No. 1 High School that day and fought a life-and-death battle with an eighth-tier fierce beast.

"Eighth, eighth-tier?!" Lin Qingyan was greatly shocked, her mouth wide open.

She thought that her full combat power was already monstrous enough to match a sixth-tier fierce beast.

But you're telling me that you already have the strength to fight a life-and-death battle with an eighth-tier fierce beast?!

"What level are you at now?"

"Lv39, what about you?"

"..." Lin Qingyan was speechless.

After going through that Abyss Invasion, she was only Lv27.

Although she could be considered astonishing in the younger generation, compared to the guy in front of her, there was really no comparison; on the contrary, the gap was getting wider.

"Not as high as you," Lin Qingyan replied sulkily, taking a sip of the chilled juice in her hand.

Looking at her, Jiang Yuan thought of the ice sword dropped by the frozen demon snake in his System inventory and raised his hand to take it out.

A biting cold instantly permeated the surroundings, and ice crystals appeared on all sides of the living room.

"This, do you want it?"

Lin Qingyan looked over and used her appraisal skill.

[Frozen Death Demon Sword] (Dark Gold High Grade). Equipment Level: Lv45. Active Skill: Summon Ice Golem.

She held out her hand towards Jiang Yuan, palm up, her meaning self-evident.

"..." Black lines appeared on Jiang Yuan's forehead.

"What are you thinking, do you think it's free? Pay for it."

"Greedy, stingy," Lin Qingyan grumbled, taking out a skill book and a bank card.

"A high-level skill book + 30 million cash, that should be enough to trade, right?"

Together, they were only worth sixty million.

However, a Lv45 Dark Gold High Grade single-element weapon could be worth at least over a hundred million.

Forget it.

Considering her three high-level potions, Jiang Yuan chose to take a loss and threw the ice sword in his hand to her.

He took the skill book and bank card.

"Appraise."

[Aurora Slash] (High Grade): Swordsman skill, consumes a large amount of vitality and blood to release a powerful slash as gorgeous as the aurora, range 1000 meters. Damage +270%, Critical Damage +340%, comes with Cleave and Armor Penetration effects, cooldown 5 seconds. Learning conditions: LV35, Strength value exceeds 3000.

Not bad.

Learned it.

"By the way, has anything happened these past few days?" Jiang Yuan asked casually while comprehending the Aurora Slash skill.

However, Lin Qingyan's movements paused, her expression became serious, and she sat cross-legged on the sofa.

"Hmm, a big event has happened."

Jiang Yuan looked up: "A big event?"

Lin Qingyan nodded: "Much more serious than you can imagine!"