Chapter 59: Be My Girlfriend First

Chapter 59: Chapter 59: Be My Girlfriend First

His cultivation was impossible to read.

He was imperceptible to Divine Thought.

Before she even had time to react, all of her companions were already on the ground.

He had identified her cultivation technique and origins with a single glance.

Putting all these clues together, Xia Nan quickly arrived at one conclusion: she couldn’t win, and she couldn’t escape.

Therefore...

She folded instantly!

"Senior, you..."

Su Han waved his hand, cutting off Xia Nan’s attempt to probe his background. A profound, mysterious smile crept onto his face.

"You’re very lucky."

Xia Nan froze. ’Lucky? I sneak into someone’s base at night, my team gets wiped the moment we’re over the wall, and now I’m at the mercy of some monster whose power is unfathomable and just scored a quadra kill on us.’

’This... is what you call lucky?’

"What? You don’t believe me?"

Su Han retorted, seeing the odd look on Xia Nan’s face.

"I... believe you."

Xia Nan forced a smile that was uglier than a grimace. "It’s just..."

She glanced at her downed teammates. ’Even if I say I believe you, there’s no way I actually can,’ Xia Nan thought.

"You’re lucky you come from the Supreme Dao. Otherwise... your companions’ current state would be your fate."

Xia Nan: "..."

She looked at her companions, each with a large lump on the back of their head where they’d been knocked out by a blunt stick—especially Sun Jianyuan, who looked like his head had been smashed open and left bleeding by a brick.

Subconsciously, she touched the back of her own head, which was still perfectly intact. Xia Nan suddenly felt that this senior—with his underhanded methods of either hitting people with bricks or knocking them out with blunt sticks—might not be wrong after all.

Compared to her companions, she really was lucky.

It was just...

She looked up at Su Han with a resentful glare, unable to stop herself from complaining internally.

’I’m a girl! A super cute girl! How could you even think of giving me a giant lump on my head?’

’If I had a choice, I’d rather take a sword wound like Fang Wen than get knocked on the head with a stick.’

As she grumbled to herself, she recalled what he’d just said. Her luck was due to her coming from the Supreme Dao.

’So, does he have some sort of connection to the Supreme Dao?’

"Senior... do you have some connection to my sect?"

Su Han smiled faintly. His entire aura shifted in an instant as the energy of the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method manifested from within him.

"The Supreme Foundation Establishment Method! Senior, which ancestor of the Supreme Sect are you?"

Su Han shook his head. "None of them."

"None of them?"

Xia Nan’s eyes were filled with disbelief. The Supreme Foundation Establishment Method was a secret technique of the Supreme Sect. If he wasn’t a successor of the Supreme Dao, how could he possibly have used it for his Foundation Establishment?

Seeing the disbelief in Xia Nan’s eyes, Su Han simply smiled, unconcerned, and began his introduction.

"I am Wang Jiantong of the Beggar Gang."

The Beggar Gang?

Looking at Su Han’s plain clothes and the nine tattered cloth bags he wore, two words subconsciously flashed through Xia Nan’s mind: Nine-Bag Elder!

"So, you’re a Nine-Bag Elder of the Beggar Gang. But I don’t understand, why would you use the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method of my Supreme Dao to build your foundation?"

As she asked this, Xia Nan was secretly terrified.

He wasn’t from the Supreme Sect, yet he’d used the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method for his Foundation Establishment. That meant the technique’s origins were likely... illicit.

By asking, she was prepared to be killed to silence her.

Then again, he had already revealed it himself. If he truly intended to kill her to keep the secret, not asking wouldn’t change her fate.

Besides, he’d already given her preferential treatment because she was from the Supreme Sect—he hadn’t given her a lump on the back of the head and made her lie on the ground. This suggested he was probably on friendly terms with the Supreme Sect.

Indeed.

After Xia Nan asked her question, Su Han made no move to kill her. Instead, a look of reminiscence flickered in his eyes.

"This story... goes back a long, long, long time."

"Back when... I was just a little kid."

Xia Nan blinked, her eyes fixing on Su Han as he began his story.

"It was a cold winter. A woman collapsed in front of the ruined temple where I was staying..."

...

"Later, after I spent three months begging for food to nurse her back to health, her injuries finally stabilized."

"To thank me, she said she would grant me one request, as long as it was within her power."

Xia Nan blinked, a look of realization dawning on her face.

"So, you asked that senior for the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method?

If that’s the case, it would make sense. The Supreme Dao places the highest value on cause and effect. You saved that senior.

To repay the debt, you asked for the technique. As long as you promised not to share it, that senior would have given it to you to resolve her karmic debt..."

Before Xia Nan could finish, Su Han cut her off.

"No, I didn’t ask her for the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method. Back then, I was just a little beggar who wasn’t even sure I’d get to eat once a day. How would I know anything about the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method or the Celestial Demon Foundation Establishment Method?"

Xia Nan was dumbfounded. ’He didn’t ask for it?’

"Then... was your request too minor? Or did you not make a request at all, and to show her gratitude for saving her life, the senior just gave you..."

"Nope."

Su Han shook his head. "This had nothing to do with the Supreme Foundation Establishment Method. And I’m not the type to offer kindness without expecting anything in return."

Now Xia Nan was completely lost. "Then...?"

"I’d spent three months begging for food to keep her alive. When I heard her say I could make any request within her power, I was still a little incredulous.

So I asked, just to be sure, ’Any request?’"

Xia Nan thought for a moment. "The ancestors of my Supreme Dao have always valued integrity and adhered to the laws of cause and effect. If she said you could make a request, she wouldn’t have gone back on her word."

Su Han nodded. "That’s right. She nodded and told me I could ask for anything, and she’d do it as long as it was within her power."

"Then..."

Xia Nan was getting a little antsy. "Senior, what on earth did you ask for?"

Su Han gave a slightly sheepish smile. "I... Well, what I said at the time was: ’Look at me. I’ve got food, I’ve got drink, I’m not worried about my next meal, and I’ve got this huge house to live in. Materialistically speaking, I’m not really missing anything.

You’re telling me to make a request, but I don’t even know what I could ask for. After thinking about it, I guess I’m still missing a wife.

Since anything goes, why don’t you just be my wife?’"

Xia Nan: "...Be... be his wife?"

Su Han nodded. "That’s right. I had plenty to eat and drink, and a huge house. After thinking it over, the only thing I was missing was a wife."

"And... did that senior agree?"

Su Han shot Xia Nan a look like she was an idiot. "How is that even possible? Would you just agree to marry some random guy for no reason?"

Hearing that the senior hadn’t agreed, Xia Nan breathed a sigh of relief, silently thanking her lucky stars.

Then, she heard Su Han’s tone shift.

"But... while she didn’t agree to be my wife, she did agree to be my girlfriend first, so we could slowly cultivate our feelings.

My journey on the path of cultivation officially began while we were... cultivating our relationship."

Xia Nan: "..."