"Senior, we were just cooperating. How can you talk about owing favors? At the very least, we're even — neither of us owes the other anything," Chu Feng said.
"That's for me to decide. If I say you owe me, then you owe me. Stop arguing with me, kid."
"Kid, don't try to reason with a woman. Got it?" Xia Xingchen's tone was threatening.
But Chu Feng was not the least bit intimidated.
"Alright, stop dawdling. Let me see your wrist."
As she spoke, she grabbed Chu Feng's wrist again. She wanted to see whether she could help him get rid of this threat.
"Can you remove it?" Xia Xingchen saw through Chu Feng's intention.
"My cultivation isn't high enough yet." After a careful examination, Chu Feng came to that conclusion.
This thing was indeed troublesome. For anyone else, unless they possessed absolute strength, there would be no way to remove it at all.
But because this object had been bound to his father, Chu Feng could draw upon his father's bloodline. Even without a cultivation level that absolutely suppressed it, he could still extract it.
However, he would need to be at least at the True God Realm to do so. He simply couldn't manage it right now.
"Why not call your father over?" Xia Xingchen suggested.
"Senior, I'm really not deceiving you this time. I truly don't know where my father is," Chu Feng said.
"Oh? That makes sense. Your father probably isn't by your side. Otherwise, how could he just watch you get bullied?"
Xia Xingchen chuckled, then pulled her hand back from Chu Feng's grasp.
"But it doesn't really matter. This thing isn't actually much of a threat to me. As long as your father doesn't harm me, it won't hurt me either," Xia Xingchen said.
"Senior, how old was my father when you met him, and what was his cultivation level at the time?" Chu Feng asked curiously.
"Why are you asking me everything? Just ask him yourself when you see him next."
"Don't tell me you're not close with your father?" Xia Xingchen asked.
"I really don't see him very often," Chu Feng admitted.
"No wonder you're so curious. Actually, I'm quite curious about your father's current cultivation level too. But you wouldn't know, would you?" Xia Xingchen asked.
"That's right." Chu Feng gave an awkward smile.
"Your father has quite the nerve — having such an outstanding son and not keeping him by his side." Xia Xingchen sounded somewhat reproachful.
"My father has his own reasons," Chu Feng said.
"He doesn't even protect you, yet you still defend him. I can see that you're not only loyal but also quite filial." Xia Xingchen looked at Chu Feng with a smile.
She was someone who loved to smile, but this smile she gave Chu Feng was different from the one she had worn when they first met.
"Senior, then why did you leave the Firmament Immortal Sect?" Chu Feng asked.
"What, finished being curious about my relationship with your father, and now you're curious about me?" Xia Xingchen said.
"I'm just concerned about you. We could be called comrades who've faced life and death together, couldn't we?"
"But if Senior doesn't want to say, I absolutely won't press you," Chu Feng added.
"There's nothing to it, really. That old man from the Firmament Immortal Sect had his eye on me. Didn't they say that in the Age of Gods, the younger generation is crucial?"
"But every single one of his descendants was more useless than the last, so he wanted me to bear him a child — one with exceptional talent."
"I refused, so I ran away."
"As for the Firmament Immortal Art we practice — it's incomplete. He told me that himself."
"He said that as long as I married him, he would teach me the complete Firmament Immortal Art," Xia Xingchen said.
"The old man you're referring to — would that be the Sect Master of the Firmament Immortal Sect?" Chu Feng asked.
"Who else would dare?" Xia Xingchen replied.
"Fair enough."
"Rest assured, Senior. I'll keep this completely confidential."
"But since even the Sect Master of the Firmament Immortal Sect wasn't good enough for you, could it be that you already have someone in your heart?" Chu Feng said.
"No. I've never met anyone who could make my heart flutter."
"Really? Senior has never met someone who made your heart flutter?" Chu Feng asked.
"Is that so unusual? Have you?" Xia Xingchen asked.
"I have," Chu Feng said.
"For real? A little brat like you?" Xia Xingchen was somewhat surprised.
"I'm not that little anymore. If I hadn't been cultivating, I'd practically be an old man by now."
"People my age who are ordinary might already have several children. Those who married early could even be grandfathers," Chu Feng said.
"That actually makes sense. In the martial cultivation world, you're still a kid. But ordinary people who don't cultivate only live a few decades. By their standards, you really aren't young anymore."
"Then tell me — what does it feel like when your heart flutters?" Xia Xingchen asked.