Chapter 194: Noisy Fellow

　　“Do you have any mystic crystals?”

　　“I do.” Xie Lianzhen took out a pouch and threw it over.

　　Lu Mingshu opened it up. There was more than ten inside, and they all looked fine.

　　He just carries around this many mystic crystals, and he gave them to me without hesitation when asked. The Seventh Truth Platform is indeed rich!

　　Xie Lianzhen watched her arrange some kind of shape on the ground with pebbles. She left the center empty, then filled the gap with mystic crystals.

　　Xie Lianzhen couldn’t contain his curiosity. “What are you doing? Casting a spell?”

　　Lu Mingshu side-eyed him and continued her work, ignoring him.

　　“Wait a second, didn’t you get a hundred mystic crystals from Jiayan? What about the prize for ranking first?” he continued.

　　Lu Mingshu stood up and cleaned her hands. “Why would I use mine when I can use someone else’s?” she slowly replied.

　　“Besides, this paltry number of mystic crystals isn’t something that Young Master Lianzhen would care about, right?”

　　With that, Xie Lianzhen watched her scramble here and there, arranging different shapes at different places and filling the gaps with mystic crystals.

　　He suddenly disliked his legs a little. Why can I never stand up?

　　“Done.” Lu Mingshu came back and passed him the pouch with only three mystic crystals left. “Could you help me out with something? Activate the spells later, alright?”

　　She pointed to the small spells arranged with pebbles on the river bank.

　　“How?”

　　“Transfer mystic energy to the mystic crystals.”

　　Xie Lianzhen nodded.

　　“First, second, third, fourth… follow the sequence. The rest, leave to me. Start when I say so.”

　　After that, Lu Mingshu leapt up to the steep incline. “Start!”

　　Xie Lianzhen flicked his fingers. A ray of light shot out and landed on the mystic crystal.

　　The mystic crystal activated. With a loud rumble, it lit up and swiftly spread out.

　　Followed by the second, then the third….

　　At the same time, the surroundings lit up.

　　After activating the four spells, Xie Lianzhen looked up. He saw Lu Mingshu running non-stop to each different spell placed on different slopes.

　　He sighed mentally and caressed his legs.

　　After all the spells were lit up, the different rays of light shot up and met at a point, forming a mild golden net.

　　At the same time, the energy spread out, and space started shaking lightly.

　　Xie Lianzhen was flabbergasted. That fast?

　　Lu Mingshu jumped up. Before he could say anything, she hit the back of the wheelchair hard. Xie Lianzhen felt light, and he floated up into the sky with his wheelchair.

　　“What are you doing?”

　　Lu Mingshu followed behind him. “Moving somewhere safe.”

　　“Can’t you just say that?” Xie Lianzhen felt like being mean. “I may not be able to stand, but I can still move freely. Do you have a problem understanding that?”

　　“It’s faster like this.”

　　After two more turns, they landed on a narrow slope.

　　Xie Lianzhen did not wish to say anything more. He had always thought that he would be fine even if he couldn’t stand up since he was still able to travel anywhere he wanted. It just hit him that it was really inconvenient without functioning legs.

　　Space shook even more violently. The mystic crystals in the spells activated certain energy, which was added into space. It was like a stream flowing into the huge river.

　　With the big difference in force, the stream would be submerged into the river. Due to the river being unstable, already having a hard time trying to balance itself, it would lose its balance with the stream interfering.

　　The ground below them shook violently. Xie Lianzhen reached out to grab onto Lu Mingshu.

　　Unexpectedly, she brushed him off when he held onto her sleeves.

　　“What the…” Xie Lianzhen swallowed back his words and looked at her in surprise. “What are you trying to do?”

　　He saw Lu Mingshu fishing out her sword and drawing two big circles around them both.

　　“Do you think you are freaking Sun Wukong? Drawing circles to prevent monsters from coming in?”

　　Lu Mingshu kept her sword. “I’m indeed Sun Wukong. What are you going to do about it?”

　　“What a joke…”

　　Xie Lianzhen kept quiet after realizing that everything outside of the circle was shaking violently, but the area inside the circle was only shaking lightly as if there was some force protecting them.

　　“What’s going on?” He changed his tune. “How did you do that?”

　　Lu Mingshu smiled in reply.

　　Xie Lianzhen stared at the circles in confusion.

　　Szzz—–

　　A soft cracking sound could be heard, and a crack appeared in space.

　　“I get it!” Xie Lianzhen clapped. “You already calculated that this area wouldn’t be affected, and the circles are unnecessary. You just wanted to scare me.”

　　Lu Mingshu looked at him with wide eyes.

　　She disliked that Xie Lianzhen always looked proud, so she purposely came up with a prank to scare him. However, he saw through it so easily.

　　“Well, am I right? Xie Lianzhen smiled brightly.

　　“How could you tell?” she asked. “Do you know math?”

　　“Not much. But I didn’t need to calculate it.” He pointed to his chest. “I just read people.”

　　“Hmph!”

　　Seeing her expression change, Xie Lianzhen probed. “You hate to hear that? Oh, I understand now.” He nodded. “You may look smart, but you are always doing things that others deem stupid.”

　　“Hmph!”

　　He smiled at her. “That’s not the right mentality! This world is filled with cunning people. If you want to lead a simple life, you should come to me because I’ll be the one dealing with them, and you can lead the simple life you want!”

　　Lu Mingshu furrowed her eyebrows and turned to him. “Xie Lianzhen.”

　　“Well? I’m making sense, right?” He grinned.

　　“Do you know what you look like now?”

　　“What?”

　　“Draw a mole on your face and you could be a matchmaker!”

　　But Xie Lianzhen wasn’t angered by her comment. “Aren’t I matchmaking for myself? Oh, there’s a saying that goes, ‘A fierce woman is afraid of guys who pester.’ Is this true?”

　　Lu Mingshu clenched her fists tightly. “Could I ask a favour from you?”

　　“Why do you need to ask for a favour? Just speak up and I will definitely fulfil your request.”

　　“Great, then please – shut up!”

　　Xie Lianzhen raised his eyebrows. “Are you perhaps afraid that I’ll succeed in convincing you?”

　　“You’re so freaking noisy!”

　　“It’s not a good idea to avoid this.”

　　For the first time in her life, Lu Mingshu had the urge to dice someone into eighteen pieces. Does he think that I am actually unaware of what he’s thinking? From seducing to threatening, now that he realized neither of those worked, he decided to just pester her. He had never truly changed his mind. He still thought it was fun to tease her.

　　What made her most irritated was that, even though she wanted to just cut through the tangled mess, she couldn’t because Xie Lianzhen had blocked her escape route. She was afraid that she may not be able to control herself one day and kill him.

　　Crack!

　　Space could no longer hold the vibration, and with one crack, space was filled with cracks and shattered.

　　“The barrier is broken!” Lu Mingshu shouted in glee.