"Chu Feng, you've been so good to me, I... I really don't know how to repay you." Xian Miaomiao was deeply grateful. Though her heart was brimming with warmth, those beautiful eyes — like a river of stars — actually shimmered with the beginnings of tears.
"Then why don't you offer yourself to me and make me your Ancient Elf son-in-law?" Chu Feng said with a grin.
Xian Miaomiao had been gazing at him with deep emotion, but the moment she heard Chu Feng say that, she immediately pouted and said, "Fine, but not me. I'll marry my sister off to you."
"Forget about your sister. I'm not into older women," Chu Feng said.
"You dare look down on my sister? Just watch — I'll tell her," Xian Miaomiao said.
"No, no, no! For all the effort I put into helping you, can't you let me off just this once?" Chu Feng said.
"All right, all right. Seeing as you worked so hard, I'll let you off this once." Xian Miaomiao placed her hands on her hips with a look of smug pride, but she quickly seemed to remember something and said to Chu Feng with a serious expression, "But seriously, Chu Feng, I won't let you help me for nothing. Someday, I'll help you too."
"Oh come on, don't get all mushy on me. That's not like you."
"I'm at least a good brother who's been stabbed by you twice. Do we really need to keep such clear accounts?" Chu Feng said with some impatience. He knew Xian Miaomiao was grateful, but he hadn't helped her expecting anything in return, so he didn't like it when she got like this.
"Fine then. Since you don't like the mushy sentimental me, I'll just have to stab you two more times." Seeing that Chu Feng had actually criticized her, a wicked grin spread across Xian Miaomiao's lips. She then slipped her small hands through the Blood Devouring Armor and started tickling Chu Feng.
"Hey, hey, hey — stop it!" Feeling those two smooth, soft little hands making direct contact with his skin, Chu Feng immediately panicked.
"Hahaha, who would have thought that the great Dragon Mark Spirit World Master would be ticklish!" Xian Miaomiao said with a triumphant look.
"It's not that I'm ticklish. I'm afraid you'll provoke a reaction out of me, and if I can't hold back, I'll take you right here and now," Chu Feng said.
"Take you right here and now?" Xian Miaomiao's beautiful eyes flickered with uncertainty. At first she didn't quite understand, but suddenly, her small face flushed red. She shouted at Chu Feng, "You pervert!" and then stormed off.
"Hey, hey, hey, beauty — how is the boss a pervert? He clearly didn't do anything to you! You were the one messing with him the whole time. If anything, you were the one harassing him!" However, the cheeky Little Red trotted up with a puzzled expression and asked.
"I... I... I..." Being confronted by Little Red like this, Xian Miaomiao had initially wanted to explain, but after thinking about it for a long while, she realized she couldn't. No matter how she tried to justify herself, she would still be in the wrong.
So Xian Miaomiao's face grew redder and redder, and she became increasingly furious. Finally, she grabbed Little Red and began pulling and tugging at it, all the while shouting, "You wretched Little Red! How dare you take his side! Whose side are you even on?!"
"Aaaah! Beauty, please let me go! I'm on your side!"
"Then why do you keep defending him?"
"I'm just telling the truth! Fair and square, you know!"
"Fair and square, huh? Truth-telling, huh?"
"Aaah! I was wrong! Stop pulling! I'm not a rubber band! Ah — oh — no —"
After Chu Feng had gathered the scattered power, Xian Miaomiao didn't waste any time either. She immediately entered a focused state and began refining the Ancient Immortal Flower.