Ning Yuantai imdiately grew serious upon hearing this:
"Xue, what's going on?"
As he spoke, he walked over to the corner, reached up to unhook a walkie-talkie hanging on the wall, and instructed the pilot to stop imdiately.
"There should be an ambush ahead, targeting ," Xue Jing said, looking out of the plane window.
Ning Yuantai frowned and said, "An ambush? Could it be the sky pirates again?"
Ning Yuantai, who trusted Xue Jing's words completely without any doubt, imdiately started thinking about who would dare to ambush a plane belonging to The Sixth Agency.
"I don't think so," Xue Jing said, his gaze turning towards Miao Miao beside him, whose fur was still puffed up as if it had been electrocuted.
"...Unlike the minor skirmishes we've had with the sky pirates before, this ti it might be very dangerous," Xue Jing said, narrowing his eyes.
At these words, Ning Yuantai shivered, realizing the gravity of the situation if even Xue considered it dangerous...
It was as if he could feel a monstrous beast slowly opening its eyes far ahead of the plane, its gaze fixed straight upon him. He quickly suggested, "Then shall we turn back now? Or take a detour?"
Xue Jing shook his head and said, "Since they're after , any attempt to avoid them now would be futile. There is only an eternal thief, not an eternal guard. I'm not used to being watched in the shadows. Let's resolve what can be resolved now."
"Open the cabin door."
Seeing Xue Jing's determination, Ning Yuantai imdiately nodded with a solemn expression: "Yes!"
The two left the small compartnt and headed to the cabin. At Ning Yuantai's command, the cabin door hissed open, and the fierce wind from high above surged into the cabin, blowing Xue Jing's dium-length hair backward.
Xue Jing stood at the cabin door, holding onto the fra, and turned to Ning Yuantai:
"Let the plane keep its distance from this area, no matter what happens, do not co close, understand?"
Ning Yuantai swallowed hard, nodding emphatically: "Understood, Xue, don't worry!"
Xue Jing humd in response, took a step forward, and fell from the plane.
Seeing this, Ning Yuantai closed the cabin door, and imdiately gave the order: "Turn the plane around, get away from here!"
He then raised his right hand, pressed a few buttons on his wristband, and waited a mont.
"Hello? Old Xu, Xue and I have run into so trouble..."
...
Having applied Feather Transformation to himself, Xue Jing hovered in the air as if walking on solid ground.
He turned to Miao Miao crouching on his shoulder and whispered softly, "Teacher Wan, take refuge in the Nonexistent Beast for a bit."
Miao Miao nodded at his words and said:
"Wait a mont."
"My blood is boiling, just like when I ca into contact with those Dragon Cult mbers before. Amongst those lying in ambush, there should be people from the Dragon Cult."
Upon hearing this, Xue Jing's heart stirred and said:
"Do you an to use that new ability?"
Miao Miao nodded and said, "Correct...hand the clothes."
Xue Jing manipulated the Nonexistent Beast to open its invisible mouth, then reached inside to pull out a set of won's clothing.
In a sparkle of white-gold light, Ning Fengwan regained her human form, quickly dressed, and then nestled herself against Xue Jing, who wrapped one arm around her waist, holding her in his embrace.
With a smile in his eyes, Xue Jing looked at Ning Fengwan, now faced with him at less than ten centiters apart, and raised an eyebrow:
"So...shall we begin?"
A perfect blush blood on Ning Fengwan's impeccable, stunning face, and her slender, intense phoenix eyes gave him a slight glare, her quiet voice tinged with shyness:
"Mhm..."
With that, she slowly closed her eyes, her lush lashes trembling, her unadorned lips slightly parted as if very tense.
Xue Jing smiled, leaned in gently, and their lips t in a kiss.
This was not out-of-place flirting before a big fight...probably.
Since Ning Fengwan rged with the Cat Tail Ring, a lot of ti had passed. Through the occasional stimulation of the fusion process by Xue Jing, she had finally activated a new ability after "Serpent Slayer Spearhead" and "The Invincible Lionheart."
It was called the "Power of Loving Fragrance."
The Cat Goddess Bastet, residing within the Cat Tail Ring, was a Heretic God with complex jurisdictions.
She was ferociously wild, an advocate of battle with nurous victories, and had even slain "Apep, the Serpent of Chaos," becoming the bane of dragons and snakes.
At the sa ti, she was also a gentle guardian deity of the ho and the protector of "fragrance."
Ho signifies "sharing."
The new ability "Power of Loving Fragrance" acquired by Ning Fengwan could share a portion of her own abilities temporarily with her family through the act of sharing "fragrance."
And "fragrance" requires a dium.
And the best dium is... bodily fluids.
By concentrating the "Power of Loving Fragrance" within bodily fluids and transferring it onto family mbers.
When Ning Fengwan initially activated this ability and learned that its usage required the transfer of bodily fluids, she wasn't alard.
After all, blood is also a type of bodily fluid, so in the future, when Xue Jing needed it, she could simply cut herself and give him so blood.
...However, that wouldn't work.
The ability of Loving Fragrance cos from the mutual sharing among family mbers; "offering blood" as a form of self-harm and exploitation is not accepted by Loving Fragrance.
Therefore, the most convenient choice left...was saliva.
"Sizzle...sizzle..."
Strange noises rose in the wilderness outside the city, where two small snakes seed to be fighting, their bodies entwined together, locked in an indecipherable battle.
In a daze, Ning Fengwan was quickly swept away by Xue Jing, lost in the sensation, unable to extricate herself.
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There was only one faint suspicion flickering in his heart.
Why is he so skilled...
Strangely enough, Xue Jing and Ning Fengwan had a very close relationship, having been through many trivial matters together, but they had never experienced the most basic step...
Therefore, up until now, this was their first kiss.
For Ning Fengwan, it was indeed her first ti, as if a young maiden were riding in a bridal sedan. For Xue Jing... barring the childhood roughhousing with his sister Xue Wan, this was also a first in his lifeti.
Sweet... physically sweet.
Like eating ice cream, under the blessing of the Power of Loving Fragrance, it was already sweet, and now even sweeter.
Gradually, Xue Jing's blood began to boil, and tiny holes appeared at the tips of his fingers.
Silver-white sharpness flickered as razor-sharp claws slowly extended from the small holes at his fingertips.
...
In the distance, a goat-eyed woman hidden behind a large boulder looked towards the sky. The radial cracks in the white of her eyes were flashing violently.
At this mont, her skin was quite bizarre, with traces of movent all over, as if many small bugs were buried underneath, about to 'hatch' out.
"...The plane suddenly turned back."
"...Xue Jing stayed behind, hovering in mid-air."
"...There's a black cat on his shoulder...that cat has turned into a woman."
She spoke in a bland tone, devoid of emotion, like a robot narrating the scenes she witnessed.
The Snake Man known as Sect Hierarch nodded, "She possesses the 'Cat Tail Ring' and can turn into a cat. Without a doubt, it is Ning Fengwan, the Leader of Qing City Dragon Cult."
The goat-eyed woman said expressionlessly: "Xue Jing must have noticed... but he isn't running."
"This man is as confident as he appears on TV..."
The Snake Man shook his head, "If I had such terrifying power, I would be confident too."
"Let's go. Since we've been discovered, there's no point in hiding. We should et him and see if we can talk things through... If it's not necessary, I really don't want to fight with such a monster."
He lifted his sleeve to reveal his arm.
Just like when people get goosebumps, his arm, covered with dense black serpent scales, trembled non-stop, enough to make soone with trypophobia faint on the spot.
"Do you really think that soone who knows there's an enemy lying in ambush but still decides to walk into the lion's den without any hesitation would just give up what we want after a few words?"
The goat-eyed woman glanced at the Sect Hierarch.
"We have to try... Let's go."
The Snake Man stood up, raised his hand in a wave, then levitated and flew towards the sky.
Behind him, figures erged from their hiding places across the wilderness, levitating and following behind him.
Before long, a stream of hundreds had ford.
The goat-eyed woman, pressing down a wriggling bulge on her right arm with her left hand, clenched her teeth and staggered slightly, nearly falling.
The young man beside her, worried, said, "Sister Kui... are you okay?"
As he spoke, he held out a syringe to Sister Kui: "You should take one shot! The symptoms of the Mutative Disease are already showing..."
Sister Kui pushed the syringe away and shook her head, "I'm fine, don't worry... Let's go, we'll catch up to them."
...
Slowly separating, a transparent thread was pulled apart, and Xue Jing looked around coolly at the hundreds of figures that had surrounded them.
In his arms, Ning Fengwan was in a daze, her face blank and a crystal droplet slipping from the corner of her mouth...
She breathed lightly and gradually ca back to her senses. The flush on her beautiful face lingered; the cat ears on her head twitched occasionally, giving her the illusion of having just returned from heaven to earth.
How could it be so...
"Really rude of you guys," Xue Jing said as if nothing had happened, without any embarrassnt from having their intimate mont witnessed, and he coldly surveyed the crowd around him.
Among these people, most were flying in the air with single-operator flight devices attached to their bodies.
Moreover, all of them were floating in mid-air, presumably all using anti-gravity flight equipnt made with Dragon Breed cores.
Talk about rich resources—items related to Dragon Breed are very expensive, and yet several hundred appeared at once...
"Seeing us in the middle of important business, it's bad enough not to hide away, but to actually crowd around to watch, is truly too unaware."
Xue Jing spoke calmly, fixing his gaze on the few leading people.
The Snake Man bowed deeply with his eyes closed towards Xue Jing and spoke with sincerity: "Mr. Xue Jing, a pleasure to et you. Please allow to introduce myself... I am the Sect Hierarch of Yuan City Dragon Cult... and the current leader of the overall sect, from the sa lineage as Sect Leader Ning next to you."
"I co here not for anything else but at the request of our Divine Child, to ask Sect Leader Ning to visit our core sect and have an exchange with the Divine Child."
Ning Fengwan didn't even glance at him, but said sowhat shyly to Xue Jing:
"Jing, be careful."
Xue Jing gently touched her head and whispered,
"Don't worry."
No sooner had the words left his mouth than the Nonexistent Beast opened its jaws and engulfed Ning Fengwan into the invisible.
This sight made the goat-eyed woman's gaze flash, feeling that sothing was amiss.
"Cut the talk."
"If you dared to appear before , that ans you are ready."
Xue Jing slowly said, reaching into the empty space beside him and pulling out an ancient and graceful long knife, its bright blade flashing with cold light.
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