Xu Ke had never expected that the "Toilet" ntioned by Duan Zhuo'e would actually turn out to be a tall, beautiful woman. This completely overturned his imagination.
"Mister Xu, have you heard of ?" Xiang Hongyu asked, slightly surprised by his astonishnt. She had been inquiring about Xu Ke since she arrived in Tianhai, but she hadn't expected him to know who she was.
"I've... I've heard of you." Xu Ke felt his breathing beco erratic.
"Sister Yu, Mister Xu got along well with Qianqian and the others in Sui City, so it's normal that he's heard of you," Da Tou Ma Lian chid in from the side. "He's probably just surprised because he didn't expect 'Toilet' to be a woman."
"Why don't you explain how you got your nickna," Duan Chongfeng said, unfazed by Xu Ke's reaction. He had been just as astonished when he first learned that Xiang Hongyu's nickna was 'Toilet.'
What on earth did a girl have to go through to be nicknad 'Toilet'?
Xu Ke's expression was slightly stifled. He was sowhat unaccustod to interacting with people who were so blunt. The last person who had struck him as this straightforward was Feng Wei. But he had to admit, what Ma Lian said was exactly what he was thinking.
"Oh, I see," Xiang Hongyu said, not minding at all as she laughed heartily. "Is that right, Mister Xu? Did Da Tou get it right? Do you really want to know? If you do, I'll tell you."
Xu Ke and Tang Yingchang exchanged a speechless glance, feeling as though they were talking to a lunatic. But he still nodded candidly. "Yes, I am indeed very curious."
"There's nothing to it." Xiang Hongyu smiled, a hint of pride in her voice. "When I first joined the Northern Dragon Guard, I'd eaten too much and ended up clogging the toilet. After clogging it, I ran to the cafeteria to get my boss—that is, Qianqian—to help unclog it. Back then, I was quite shy and spoke too softly, so she couldn't hear and told to speak up. I got flustered and just started yelling that the toilet was clogged. The whole cafeteria heard . After that, the nickna spread throughout the Northern Dragon Guard."
"HAHAHAHAHA... That's hilarious," she roared with laughter after finishing her story.
Da Tou Ma Lian also burst out laughing. "Yes, yes!"
Duan Chongfeng, Tang Yingchang, Xu Ke: "..."
Xu Ke, especially, was practically suffocating. Can this conversation even continue normally?
He didn't know whether he should laugh or not, so he finally squeezed out a dry chuckle. "Ha, ha, ha... That, that's certainly... remarkable!" He wracked his brain for a neutral word to describe Xiang Hongyu's story.
At that mont, only one thought filled his mind.
Is Ki Qinyin sure she sent them here for my training? Or did I co here to train myself on how to deal with these people?
"Not remarkable, not at all! It's actually quite embarrassing, HAHAHA," Xiang Hongyu continued to laugh boisterously.
Xu Ke forced a smile. "Oh, not at all. Everyone's like that when they're young. We all have monts like that." He was trying to console her by saying that everyone has embarrassing monts.
But Xiang Hongyu froze for a second, then asked in astonishnt, "Mister Xu, you've clogged a toilet before, too?"
Xu Ke: "???"
What the hell?
Duan Chongfeng: "HAHAHAHAHA."
His face was a mask of pure schadenfreude. Seeing Xu Ke's stifled expression, he cackled inwardly. You've had this day coming, lad!
Tang Yingchang kept a straight face, but the twitching corner of his mouth betrayed him. The two of them weren't laughing at Xiang Hongyu's story, but at Xu Ke's mortified expression.
"No," Xu Ke said, taking a deep breath and shaking his head slightly.
"Well, that's a bit of a sha," Xiang Hongyu said with so regret.
"Haha..." Xu Ke forced another dry laugh and changed the subject. "Right, I have things to do, so I'll be going now. We can chat again so other ti."
"Then please take care, Mister Xu. We must find an opportunity to chat again," Xiang Hongyu said with a nod, but a fierce, fighting spirit shone strangely in her eyes. She seed to be eagerly anticipating their next eting.
After nodding goodbye to Ma Lian, Xu Ke walked briskly away from Villa Number One without a single look back. He needed to return and consider whether he should devise a special training plan just to deal with Xiang Hongyu.
After Xu Ke left, Xiang Hongyu and Ma Lian turned to Duan Chongfeng.
"Boss Duan, we'll head back now."
"Alright!" Duan Chongfeng nodded, quickly saying his farewells. Clearly, he wasn't very keen on continuing the conversation with Xiang Hongyu either.
The two headed toward the villa where the Northern Dragon Guard was staying. Once Duan Chongfeng was completely out of sight, Xiang Hongyu's lips curled into a subtle smile. "Da Tou, don't you think this Xu Ke is quite interesting?"
"Yeah," Ma Lian nodded seriously. "He didn't find it funny that you clogged the toilet, just remarkable. Moreover, his cultivation is quite formidable. He's already reached the Innate Stage. It's completely different from the rumors. It's true what they say... seeing is believing."
"Yeah..." Xiang Hongyu was lost in thought for a mont before clapping her hands excitedly. "That's more like it! Only soone at the Innate Initial Stage is worthy of my battle plan... Wait, what did you say?"
Her excitent suddenly froze as she stared intently at Da Tou.
"Seeing is believing," Ma Lian repeated.
"No, the part where you said he's reached the Innate Stage?"
"Yes, didn't you feel it?"
"Holy shit..." Xiang Hongyu was stunned.
Only now did she belatedly realize that Xu Ke had been exuding an aura, one that was clearly at the Innate Initial Stage. And it was obvious he had just broken through in the last couple of days. Otherwise, the overflow of True Qi wouldn't be so severe!
"Weren't the reports saying he was at the Postnatal Late Stage? How could this be?!" Disbelief gradually crept across her face.
The intelligence she had on Xu Ke's cultivation level was from the ti of the Wu League selection trials. That was the only ti he had made a public appearance before going to Sui City. She never imagined that in just the few days since her information was last updated, Xu Ke had already beco Innate.
Why? How can soone reach the Innate Stage in just half a month?
"Perhaps it's our incompetence, failing to gather information in ti," Ma Lian began to self-reflect seriously.
"Shut up," Xiang Hongyu snapped. "Get back to the villa. I need to ask the boss."
She had imdiately put it together. Xu Ke just returned to Tianhai with Bai Qian'er today. She must know the reason for his inexplicable Innate aura.
"Let's go!"
As they walked back, Xiang Hongyu muttered to herself, "Damn it, the guy is already at the Innate Stage. How the hell are we supposed to fight him now? We can't win..."
...
After leaving Villa Number One, Xu Ke quickly made his way ho to rest. After a full day of running around nonstop, even a robot would have fallen apart, let alone Xu Ke. Moreover, the realization upon leaving the villa that he would be facing people like Xiang Hongyu for a long ti to co was a shock to his system.
"Elder Tang, I can now be certain that Xiang Hongyu and her group were probably sent by Mada Yu to train ," Xu Ke said helplessly.
"Haha, Mister Xu, it's rare to see you so defeated."
"This isn't defeat. This is just life being too hard," Xu Ke said with a wry laugh.
Little did he know, his casual jest to Tang Yingchang would turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Xiang Hongyu was indeed about to start training him now.
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