Chapter 144: I, Xu Xiaoshou, Never Take the Initiative

“What kind of joke is this?”

Luo Leilei was utterly dumbfounded.

She had struggled for so long trying to break the seal, and yet this guy had just pulled it out with brute force?

This left her seriously doubting her own strength.

“Received suspicion, Passive Value, 1.”

Xu Xiaoshou was still in mid-air and hadn't even gotten a clear look at the sword sheath when it violently shook and slipped from his palm, flying off into the distance.

“Telepathic?”

He had only seen such a telepathic object before on Su Qianqian's "Mu Ming Cheng Xue".

Now, Xu Xiaoshou was intrigued. This thing was just the right size—it could serve as clothing for "Zang Ku"!

It might be a bit humiliating for it, though...

But that didn't matter; this was the price for slashing him 280,000 times!

Want to run?

Not that easy!

With Master-level "Minjie", it was no joke. Xu Xiaoshou blinked, and in an instant, he was in front of the sword sheath.

It froze in fright and turned to flee!

“Oh ho, it really has some consciousness?”

With another leap, Xu Xiaoshou seized the sword sheath. Once he set his sights on something, how could it escape?

From the corner of his eye, a flash of purple lightning passed, and the next second, another fair hand was on the sword sheath he was holding.

Luo Leilei?

The sword sheath struggled, facing her directly!

Xu Xiaoshou's eyes widened in disbelief, staring at her.

“You…”

“What?”

Luo Leilei knew it was a bit shameless to go back on her word, but this wasn't the time to worry about face. If she didn't get this thing, her long-term mission would be wasted!

“This girl will teach you a lesson today… A woman's words are like a ghost's deceptions!”

Xu Xiaoshou was speechless, his gaze dropping to her hand on his, shocked:

“…You're touching me?”

Luo Leilei felt as if she'd been struck by lightning.

What!

This girl was grabbing the sword sheath—when did I touch you!

She glanced down and saw her hand on Xu Xiaoshou's hand…

“Received curse, Passive Value, 1.”

Blushes rose on her fair face as Luo Leilei yanked her hand away like it had been electrocuted.

“I didn't mean to…”

But Xu Xiaoshou's "Minjie" was at Master level!

The moment Luo Leilei's hand left, before she could grip again, in that flash, he had already drawn out the entire sword sheath.

In a few swift moves, he darted several zhang away with it.

“Want to teach Xu Xiaoshou a lesson?” He eyed the girl up and down disdainfully. “You're still too green!”

“You!”

Luo Leilei was furious.

Was this guy doing it on purpose?

How could he pull off such a seamless act even in that situation?

This guy is toxic!

“Put the thing down, and I'll let you leave.”

Luo Leilei's expression darkened.

“Oh, getting angry?” Xu Xiaoshou chuckled, sarcastically. “Wasn't it you who said, ‘If you pull it out, it's yours’?”

Luo Leilei's eye twitched. How was she to know this guy was such a freak…

It was all because she was too young and had boasted.

“Did I say that? I forgot!”

She puffed out her chest and said righteously.

“Heh, women!”

Xu Xiaoshou grabbed the black sword sheath and vanished in a flash.

“Come chase me if you can!”

Luo Leilei: “…”

Damn it!

She gritted her teeth, Luo Leilei was seething; this guy's tone was too provoking!

“You don't know what's good for you!”

She clenched her fists, her clothes rustling.

Purple electricity crackled around Luo Leilei, even her pupils shooting out electric light.

“Holy crap!”

Xu Xiaoshou ran while using his spiritual sense; this little girl was no ordinary person, with innate "Xian Tian Shu Xing Zhi Li" of lightning?

Thinking about it, his heart twitched.

Damn system—if it hadn't swallowed his innate attribute power, he should have such enviable abilities too.

Crack!

While lost in thought, a thunderclap sounded, and the girl in white, surrounded by electricity, appeared right in front of him.

“Damn, are you cheating?”

Xu Xiaoshou thought his current speed meant those guys he'd met before couldn't even touch his shadow.

How could this girl keep up?

“Are you really a new rank thirty-three?”

Xu Xiaoshou asked in shock.

“Correct!”

Luo Leilei nodded slightly, bluntly.

“Hand over the sword sheath if you know what's good for you, or don't blame this girl for being merciless.”

She paused, since she had backstabbed first, and added,

“If you really need something, I can compensate you a bit.”

She really shouldn't have boasted. If not for her conscience, she would've just snatched it.

Sigh, this girl is just too soft-hearted.

Xu Xiaoshou tried to fly again, but Luo Leilei followed with a dark face.

“No need to struggle; your speed is too slow—you can't escape my palm.”

She advised kindly.

Xu Xiaoshou took a deep breath; he didn't expect the gap between new rank thirty-threes to be so big.

“Huff”

“Among the young experts I've met, I, Xu Xiaoshou, admit you're the fastest! But as for the sword sheath…”

Xu Xiaoshou smirked and put it into his ring.

“No way!”

Before his smugness could last, a black light flew out from his chest and shot into the sky.

“Ge ge ge…”

Luo Leilei burst out laughing, quickly covering her mouth and vanishing, reappearing with the black sword sheath in hand.

“Xu Xiaoshou, you're still too naive. Didn't you know spiritual items can't be put into spatial rings?”

Xu Xiaoshou: “…”

Shit!

He messed up!

Now he understood why Su Qianqian always carried her great sword on her back.

Turns out this thing can't be confined?

“Luo Leilei! You'd better give me the thing back. I'm Xu Xiaoshou, and I generally don't hit women.”

He said seriously.

“Oh, getting angry?”

Luo Leilei finally enjoyed the pleasure of turning the tables, vanishing in a flash.

“Come grab it if you can!”

Xu Xiaoshou: “…”

Damn it!

You're the first to dare toy with me like this—even more hateful than that sword sheath that slashed me 280,000 times!

“Chase you?”

“You think too highly of yourself. I, Xu Xiaoshou, never take the initiative!”

He pinched his fingers, infusing faint sword energy and gathering ordinary mind power, casually swinging it through the sky.

Yet, in the next second, spiritual mist roiled in the heavens, as if immortals were enraged; winds howled from the four seas, like dragons soaring.

Luo Leilei felt her hairs stand on end, as if facing death; she barely turned, and that sword energy that could tear the sky was already at her chest!

“Boom!”

Her pupils lost focus instantly; the sword energy hit the sword sheath, which hit her chest.

“Crack—”

Luo Leilei felt her ribs shatter, spitting out blood as she flew backward.

Her tiger's mouth split, and the sword sheath flew out again.

“Swoosh!”

Xu Xiaoshou's sword-riding figure appeared above, easily taking the sword sheath.

He moved the fingers that had released the terrifying sword energy to his mouth, blowing gently as if mist rose.

His faint voice echoed in the void.

“One sword, one thought!”