Chapter 163 - 121: Ascending to an Advanced Creature

Chapter 163: Chapter 121: Ascending to an Advanced Creature

Gu Qing muttered to himself, "With a superhuman physique like mine, I guess I’m limited to dating fellow Extraordinary Beings—cute girls, bombshells, or graceful, mature women."

...

The next day.

Monday.

Gu Qing woke up early, finished his breakfast, and headed for Hai City University.

To save time, he called a ride-share.

Once he was in the car, he made sure to send a message to his junior:

[Gu Qing: Junior, I’m in the car. I should be there before eight.]

[Xia Shuran: Senior, something came up and I got delayed. I’m going to be a few minutes late. You’ll get there before me, so could you wait at the gate for a bit?]

[Gu Qing: No problem.]

[Xia Shuran: Senior, you left so early, did you have breakfast? I brought some steamed buns and soy milk that I made myself this morning. If you haven’t eaten, you can have some to tide you over.]

[Gu Qing: I actually haven’t eaten. Looks like I’ll have to freeload off my dear junior’s breakfast.]

He had, in fact, already eaten breakfast at home, but that wasn’t going to stop him from freeloading some of his junior’s steamed buns.

After all, he possessed the Devouring Attribute, and his appetite was frighteningly large.

Never mind a few steamed buns—he could scarf down a hundred of them in minutes and not feel the least bit full.

Hmm, the main reason was that the buns his junior made by hand were simply too delicious. The taste was unforgettable.

[Xia Shuran: Oh right, Senior, I have some good news to tell you.]

[Gu Qing: What good news?]

[Xia Shuran: I had a breakthrough this morning!]

[Gu Qing: A breakthrough in your tier?]

[Xia Shuran: Yep! I’m at Tier Four now. My strength has multiplied, and I can easily shatter a rock with a single punch. I feel terrifyingly powerful.]

[Gu Qing: Nice. Looks like our combat practice over the weekend really paid off.]

[Xia Shuran: Senior, I’m going to work harder every single day to catch up to you as soon as I can, so I won’t hold you back.]

[Gu Qing: Keep it up. I know you can do it.]

That "keep it up" wasn’t just polite encouragement, but a hope that came from the bottom of his heart.

After spending this time with her, Gu Qing felt his junior was a pretty good match for him.

She was beautiful.

She had a great body.

And what’s more, she had a lively and cheerful personality.

You could say she was perfect.

Gu Qing genuinely hoped his junior’s tier would catch up to his own soon.

That way, when they inevitably got together, he could give it his all and go at it hard, without any fear of breaking his junior.

’Speaking of which, my junior’s initial label was just Martial Arts Grandmaster, but it automatically upgraded to Martial Saint after she awakened her Martial Soul.’

’So if she keeps getting stronger, say by evolving into an Advanced Creature or having a second awakening, will the label above her head upgrade again?’

’If it does, what will the Martial Saint label upgrade into?’

Gu Qing was filled with both curiosity and anticipation.

...

「Nearly forty minutes later.」

Gu Qing arrived at Hai City University first and found a shady spot by the gate to sit down.

Bored, he opened the Night-Speak Forum and started browsing on his phone while he waited for his junior.

’My junior will be here in about fifteen minutes. Just enough time to scroll through a few posts.’

"SQUEAK!"

"SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!"

"SQUEAK SQUEAK!"

Suddenly, a series of squeaks came from the patch of woods beside the university gate.

The instant Gu Qing heard the sound, several lines of text—a translation from the Beast Language—materialized before his eyes.

[Human flesh... smells so good... so tasty...]

[Eat, eat, eat...]

[Dig, dig, dig...]

Seeing the content of the messages, Gu Qing couldn’t help but frown. He immediately looked up in the direction of the sound.

The next second, an extremely familiar figure entered his line of sight, shaking him to his core and making his face a mask of disbelief.

Pigtails.

A JK uniform.

White thigh-high stockings.

’This is... the Ratman junior, Huang Xiaoyue?!’

...

P.S. Holding out my bowl for monthly passes and recommendation votes!