Douluo: The Peerless Sun and Moon Mechanical God

Chapter 79 Getting Closer to Your Heart Day by Day, Protecting the Ice in Her Palm with the Weapon in Your Hands (4K)

The sky was dark and gloomy, and torrential rain pounded down on the long bluestone street, splashing up a white mist.

In the rain, Mingdu was shrouded in a thin veil, and the soul-guiding lights flickered in and out. In such terrible weather, few people had the mood to go out for a stroll.

Of course, one cannot speak too absolutely; there are always exceptions. Several figures broke through the wind and moved forward. Lin Qing, at the forefront, raised his soul power shield to prevent the torrential rain from falling on the girl in his arms.

Meng Hongchen lay there obediently like a child, her once bright and beautiful face now pale with illness, making one feel a strong urge to protect her.

With the outcome decided between the Sun and Moon teams, at Meng Hongchen's insistence, Lin Qing, without a word, scooped up Wen Ruan's soft legs with his right hand, placed his left hand under her shoulder blade, and swept her up in a standard princess carry.

Furthermore, he generously fulfilled the girl's wish, letting her quirky white head rest on his shoulder.

Xiao Meng was so happy she was practically floating on air, while Ye Guyi and Ju Zi on the other side were incredibly frustrated but didn't dare to say anything to stop her.

After all, Meng Hongchen had made outstanding contributions and was a sick person who needed care. She had always been frank about her feelings for Lin Qing and openly expressed her affection. This move of taking advantage of her vulnerability was quite skillful. The two women had no choice but to give up and rest.

Orange: Train hard and wait patiently for the White Tiger!

Ye: I'm going home and sulking!

Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen followed Qingmeng on either side. The grandfather and granddaughter had identical expressions, filled with the desolation of a broken heart. A single "Wait!" shattered their sincere hearts.

Being disliked by one's granddaughter/sister is one of the three great sorrows for men, comparable to having an inhuman boss or having one's wife cheat on them with the neighbor.

Although it is an unchanging truth that daughters are no longer meant to stay at home once they grow up, and they would experience a day of sorrow sooner or later, Meng Hongchen's side had never turned in their favor, and the little cotton-padded jacket was leaking everywhere—the grandfather and granddaughter sighed helplessly, filled with emotion.

Meng Hongchen was suffering from the backlash of Zhu Qingbing Toad Poison. The three men had previously decided to take her back to the Hongchen family's ancestral home to recuperate. Then Lin Qing deployed a level six soul-guided flying vehicle. Upon seeing this, Meng Hongchen stubbornly refused this transgression that violated the rules of Mingdu City, despite her illness.

The entire city of Mingdu was under a no-fly zone. As a respectable woman who abided by the rules of the day and night, she could not act recklessly. She begged Lin Qing to carry her back to the family's ancestral home.

Xiaomeng's feelings are obvious to everyone. It's rare to have a legitimate reason to cuddle, especially in a romantic princess carry. The girl's thoughts are simple and clear: she just wants to enjoy the warmth of his chest a little longer.

At the same time, this indirectly proves that Zhu Qingbing's toad poison backlash will not endanger her life for the time being, and Meng Hongchen's situation is not urgent. She is in a good mood to take advantage of the situation and aggressively pursue her crush.

Leaning against Lin Qing with a look of longing, Meng Hongchen shifted her body to adjust her position, trying to get her ear close to Lin Qing's left chest, secretly listening to the sound of his heartbeat.

"Oh dear, why is my heart beating faster and faster?" Meng Hongchen's voice was melodious.

You misheard me.

Lin Qing remained expressionless as he gently twirled a strand of snow-white hair and brought it close to the nose of the mischievous girl.

Her lithe body was suddenly suspended in mid-air. Meng Hongchen gasped in surprise, then instinctively reached out and wrapped her arms around Lin Qing's neck. A sly smile played on her lips, and her slightly pale lips parted slightly, silently saying:

This person is faking it!

With a thumbs-up, Meng Hongchen looked like a triumphant general, her icy blue eyes gleaming with pride. She knew her charm was off the charts, and after a year of proactive pursuit, Lin Qing would never be so easily captivated.

Don't be fooled by his calm demeanor; he's actually holding on with unwavering conviction, secretly enjoying the company of the beautiful woman.

For Meng Hongchen, who had never been in a relationship, having her entire body pressed against the embrace of a man was naturally an extremely unfamiliar and stimulating feeling.

She gazed at Lin Qing, who was so close to her. Under the protection of his silvery-white soul power, his handsome features were like the bright moon hanging high in the night sky, clear and flawless. His long, silvery-gray hair, which was blowing in the wind, would occasionally brush against his face, making her feel a ticklish sensation. She couldn't help but reach out and play with it.

Lin Qing glanced down at the girl who was completely absorbed in her beauty, and out of consideration for the patient, decided to let her be.

"Grandpa, it seems like we're a bit redundant." Xiao Ge walked around to Jing Hongchen's side and lowered his voice.

Jing Hongchen snorted coldly and transmitted his voice, "I don't need to worry about Meng's lifelong happiness. You better hurry up, kid. I'm waiting to step down as the head of Mingde Hall and go home to take care of your children."

"Ahem, I once swore that if I ever used even one of Lin Qing's soul-guided parts, I would remain a bachelor for life." Xiao Hongchen's eyes darted around. "To be honest, I'm thinking of getting him to perform a complete and ultimate sublimation of the metal powder, which would take the power of the 128 level-five soul-guided cannons to another level—"

"I----"

Jing Hongchen felt dizzy and walked to the side with her big belly, trying to avoid seeing or hearing it.

The four walked through the rain and arrived at the ancestral home of the Hongchen family. The rain washed away the sculptures in front of the door, but the three-legged toad still shone brightly.

Lin Qing paused, suddenly realizing that he was surrounded by three members of the Hongchen family.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems are interconnected: the self-inflicted injury stratagem, the beauty trap, the chain stratagem, and so on.

At this moment, Lin Qing was no longer the Qingtian Emperor who swept through Mingde Hall with both palms, but a turtle in a jar, a rabbit being guarded, a fish thrashing on a chopping board, and a wife weeping in the Prime Minister's room—

In short, there is no turning back.

"The backlash from the Ice Toad's poison has left Meng weak and powerless. Xiao Qing, take her back to her room to rest and stay with her for a while."

With a wave of his hand, Jing Hongchen confidently allowed the young man and woman to be alone in a private space, without any concern that the two, being young and full of vigor, might accidentally cross the line.

Silently saying "Grandpa, I love you," Meng Hongchen remotely controlled Lin Qing to walk towards her boudoir. Mechanical elements gathered into a silver-white hand, opened the door, and revealed a world with a distinctly girlish atmosphere.

Her silver-gray eyes reflected a pink kingdom; Xiaomeng's room transcended the definition of a bedroom, truly a princess's palace!

Lin Qing had never actually seen the imperial princess's bedroom, but as a young man who was well-versed in Grimm's Fairy Tales, he imagined that the princess's bedroom had a carpet made of clouds, twinkling stars decorating the room, a bed ten times softer than cotton candy, and fragrant rose petals scattered around it.

Every morning, the warbling orioles sing merrily, waking the sleeping princess through the window.

Meng Hongchen's boudoir was very close to Lin Qing's fantasy. The walls of the room were covered with pink stickers, and thin transparent threads hung from the ceiling, with handmade folded stars suspended from them.

On the bedside table were two plush toys: a three-legged golden toad and a Zhu Qingbing toad. The Zhu Qingbing toad was a whole size larger than the three-legged golden toad, which showed just how much Jing Hongchen doted on his granddaughter.

Even with the backlash from the deadly poison, Meng Hongchen still cared about her beautiful image. Reluctantly leaving his embrace, she ran into the bathroom and changed into a clean and refreshing pink and white nightgown.

Her skirt just reached above her knees, her bare legs were long and slender, her skin was as white as jade, and her delicate feet were on the Flaming Lion King carpet, her toes tinged with a light pink. The girl was clean and soft, like a blooming white lotus flower.

She spun around 360 degrees in front of Lin Qing, her skirt billowing in a brilliant arc. Then, Miss Meng became completely obedient, slowly climbing onto the bed, curling up into a small ball, biting her lip tightly, enduring the waves of pain and icy chill brought on by Zhu Qing's Ice Toad Poison.

The blankets suddenly spread out, covering her shapely body with silk quilts woven from Arctic silkworms. As Lin Qing tucked the blankets in, Meng Hongchen chuckled foolishly, as if imagining their happy married life, with Lin Qing taking such good care of her as he did today.

"The backlash from the Ice Toad's poison... is it just a matter of you enduring it?" Lin Qing asked softly.

"Yes, the martial soul is inherently flawed, and Grandpa and my brother are powerless to help." Meng Hongchen nodded. "The martial soul inherited by the Hongchen family is the Golden Toad, and occasionally a Three-Legged Golden Toad and a Zhu Qing Ice Toad will be born."

As her cultivation level increased, the poison of the Ice Toad gradually began to backfire on Zhu Qing, the Ice Toad Soul Master. Her ancestors searched the entire Sun Moon Empire but found no effective solution, leaving only the advice that Zhu Qing, the Ice Toad, should abandon her poison-attribute soul rings to avoid the icy poison attacking her heart and causing her sudden death.

"If it doesn't absorb the poison-attribute soul ring, Zhu Qingbing Toad will be almost completely useless."

Lin Qing shook his head. The ice and fire attributes of the Zhu Qing Ice Toad were both designed to benefit poison; refusing to use poison would be tantamount to cutting off its own arm.

"So nobody listens to the ancestor at all." Meng Hongchen smiled slyly. "Cultivating the Zhu Qing Ice Toad Martial Soul can make a Soul Master live a glorious life for a hundred years. So what if I die suddenly? I'm not afraid."

I was already very careful, avoiding the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Extinction Demon Spider and choosing instead the Twenty-Thousand-Year-Old Crimson Ice Toad with the same martial soul origin, but I still underestimated the severity of the poison's backlash. I've never experienced such a severe backlash on a rainy day before.

After a pause, Meng Hongchen sighed softly, "Grandpa searched through historical records and even looked for ancient methods from the Douluo Three Kingdoms."

He discovered that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage, from which Poison Douluo Dugu Bo originated ten thousand years ago, was also afflicted by the deadly poison. Ultimately, the Sea God Tang San intervened, helping Poison Douluo alleviate the pain of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent's venom backlash. However, gods are ethereal and their wisdom is beyond our comprehension; we could only silently give up.

"this----"

Lin Qing squinted. He had indeed saved her, but at the cost of Dugu Bo's Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, which he considered his backyard garden, being inexplicably renamed Tang.

However, the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye is indeed a powerful technique.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

Xiao Meng rolled around on the bed, her long, white hair disheveled, and looked at Lin Qing with teary eyes, looking both pitiful and funny.

"How about I act out a rare metal in three bites to distract you?" Lin Qingsheng came up with a mischievous idea.

"How can you and my brother share the same brain?!" Meng Hongchen complained loudly. "When we were little, I cried out in pain, and I wanted Xiao Hongchen to comfort me with empathy. He came up with this outrageous method, and afterwards I chased after him and beat him up for three days!"

"I feel your pain —"

Lin Qing sat on the soft bed, rolled up her school uniform sleeves, and stretched out her arm, which had a perfect balance of softness and firmness: "If it hurts, bite me. We'll share the burden."

"Awoo!"

Her icy blue eyes lit up instantly, and Meng Hongchen sprang out with lightning speed, grabbing Lin Qing's arm as if she wanted to devour it like a soft, sweet pig's trotter.

However, a fraction of a second before the teeth touched the skin, Meng Hongchen withdrew her blood-red mouth and instead pulled the arm and hand into the blanket, turning it into a large doll that a girl would hug before going to sleep.

"I bit you during that mortal class selection competition."

Xiao Meng inhaled Lin Qing's scent deeply, savoring it: "Now I can't bear to bite her."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qing smiled. It was then that he noticed Meng Hongchen had a set of neat and beautiful teeth.

"I'm so tired, I want to sleep."

Meng Hongchen closed her eyes.

"Go to sleep, I'll stay with you."

Lin Qing glanced at the lightning and thunder outside the window. The world was blurred by the torrential rain, and raindrops pattered against the windowpane.

"Will you stay with me forever?" Her voice was muffled.

"At least I can stay with you until tomorrow."

"Then let's do it day by day, and then year by year."

Meng Hongchen tightened her arms around him, her curled-up body leaning towards him. Through the thin fabric of her nightgown, Lin Qing could almost touch the girl's youthful, fiery body, like a furnace close to his side, scorching hot.

The room was quiet and peaceful, with only the sound of steady, long breathing. Lin Qing gazed quietly at those clear eyes and brows, her long eyelashes casting two soft shadows, and her snow-white hair as pure as the purest silk in the world.

Outside the window, wind and rain raged, but inside, it was warm and cozy.

In the early morning, the first rays of sunlight streamed into the room through the window curtains.

The biological clock, ingrained from going to school, started ticking away. Meng Hongchen opened her eyes, and the figure maintaining a protective posture came into view. The figure's long silver-gray hair shimmered with a soft sheen, and the rising sun outlined the gentle contours of her profile.

Good morning, dreams.

"Good morning! Go to the academy now, don't stay here with me!"

A feeling of overflowing happiness welled up in her heart, and a blush rose on Meng Hongchen's cheeks. Her body was not yet able to support the high-intensity training, so she had to ask for leave to rest. Therefore, she urged Lin Qing to go to school and not to delay her studies.

Pulling out his aching arm, Lin Qing realized he had had a rather torturous night. Meng Hongchen's sleeping posture was quite restless, always shifting positions, making him feel both pain and pleasure.

It must be admitted that one should look at a person with new eyes after three days of separation. Meng Hongchen is gradually maturing and growing into a graceful young woman.

As Lin Qing left Xiao Meng's room, she bumped into Xiao Hongchen.

The two talked about Meng Hongchen's situation and learned that her younger sister was alright. Xiao Hongchen breathed a sigh of relief, and Qingxiao went to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy together.

"Qing, what do you think of my sister?"

Despite much hesitation, Xiao Hongchen ultimately couldn't hold back.

"A lively girl, sincere and passionate," Lin Qing said sincerely.

"Yes, Meng has been like this since she was little. Once she has something she likes, she will pursue it with all her might. I believe you can tell that she likes you very much."

With his striking blue-green eyes, Xiao Hongchen gripped Lin Qing's shoulders, his expression grim, his voice low and deep, as if bearing a heavy burden: "Because of your appearance, I want to learn more about the legendary history of Douluo Continent. There's a book that has deeply moved me. If my brothers who have risked their lives together and my precious sister eventually come together, I want to entrust you with something as your elder brother."

Use the weapons in your hands to protect the ice in her palms.

Qing: (°—)! ?

Applying formulas incorrectly is academic misconduct!

Lin Qing could guess with his eyes closed which unofficial history book Xiao Hongchen was reading.

The dialogue is a bit awkward, but beneath Brother Xiao's comedic persona, his genuine love for his sister is undeniable.

Meeting Xiao Hongchen's earnest gaze, Lin Qing returned the gaze with the same earnestness.

"must."