Chapter 142 Discussion

After a short beating, Hanae Chiou and Wang Bugui ended up embracing. Their love was hard to express in words. She was a girl who was viewed as a monster since she was young, yet she was admired by a boy.

He had always been trusting toward her, and she had relied on him emotionally all along. It was a somewhat strange love—she had never expressed her love, while he had always been clueless. It was only at their parting moment that she decided to give up her life to save his.

When he turned back to look for her, she had turned into a pool of blood. He then made a pact with a God of Death for her and venture out into China, where he discovered Yuxu Palace of Mount Kunlun and trained for decades to patch her soul back every day.

Luckily, with the aid of magical medicine, he eventually managed to patch her soul back. However, he realized that he still could not awaken her, and he needed a stronger body for her. As such, he obtained the soul puppet from the Palace of Purple Clouds.

From then on, human and puppet traversed the Earth together. Ordinary people thought he was a puppet master that was manipulating an extremely beautiful looking puppet who looked no different from a real human. They went sightseeing everywhere and he even guided her with wires.

To him, Puppet Chiou was the woman he loved and not a mere puppet. Therefore, he wanted her to see the lovely views that he saw, and he guided her with wires because he wanted to dance with her.

He could still recall stubbornly inviting her to a party when he was still a young boy. He had even tried to dance with her but to no avail. He wanted to fulfill his dream.

The Spirit of the Array, bottom of Jade Lake, battling at the Great Meet, dueling with the Demonic Soul. Finally, he managed to cultivate his primordial spirit to a level which was enough to rouse her.

That night, no one trained. Instead, the group of young talent gathered around to listen to the teachings of their seniors. Wang Bugui and Hanae Chiou sat away from the others, and everyone left them alone.

They could be seen sitting on a rock at a spot far away from the others. Hanae Chiou lifted her head to look at the beautiful starry night sky created by magic. Wang Bugui followed suit.

The two of them remained like this in silence for a long while. They had so much to tell each other, but none of them could speak after they met. Hanae Chiou had always been aggressive, but she felt weak at this moment.

Wang Bugui had always been clueless about women and still intended for her to speak up first. He had also always been chauvinistic and did not know what to tell her anyway.

"You...how long have you been training?"

After 15 minutes, Hanae Chiou finally spoke up. She could sense that this man was really waiting for her to take the initiative, and it was also because of this reason that her tone was more of frustration than emotional.

"If I count my time here and breaking ground at Sister Ziyu's, roughly more than two decades," Wang Bugui replied as he looked at her.

"Has it been that long?" Hanae Chiou's deep blue eyes reflected the starry sky as she kept her head facing upward.

"Right. After I master primordial spirit cultivation, I'll refine yours everyday. I'll also use it to carefully patch up all the parts of your body that have been broken," Wang Bugui blurted out.

Hanae Chiou blushed instantly upon hearing him. "Carefully patch up all parts of my body?!"

"You...! What have you seen?!"

Even though she could already guess his answer, she could not help but ask.

"All... Of... It." Wang Bugui smiled sheepishly as he rubbed his head.

"I...!" Hanae Chiou gritted her teeth and immediately wrapped her arms around her body tightly. Even though they were talking about primordial spirit, according to what Wang Bugui just told her, it was no different from her real body. "Doesn't this mean that he's seen my entire body?"

"I did it for your good, Sister Chiou. Furthermore, I did not harbor any dirty thoughts. Even if I did, I would wait for you to awaken before I really did anything!" Wang Bugui hurriedly explained.

He would have been better off not trying to explain things. Hanae Chiou momentarily forgot that he was completely clueless about how women thought and was so outraged that she pressed him onto the ground and rained a few punches onto him.

"You've already grown into an adult, so why are you still behaving in this manner!" Hanae Chiou was angry and frustrated. To think that he was still completely clueless about her thoughts after all these years.

"I'm telling the truth, Sister Chiou. The most I did was hug you to sleep. I didn't do anything else, not even trying to steal a kiss from you. I know I need to seek your consent before doing such things!" Wang Bugui replied, looking completely innocent.

"Dummy!" Hanae Chiou chided him, but she felt a little thankful. Even though he was really dumb, his love for her was completely pure. Just this factor alone made him outclass most other men in this world.

In truth, she would not blame Wang Bugui even if he really had kissed her without her knowing. Secretly, she yearned for him to have that kind of initiative. But he did not do so for simple reasons.

This was because he was the same Wang Bugui who really respected her and treasured her. He would always think about matters concerning her from her viewpoint.

There were people who said that men who gave in to their wives were not afraid of them, but loved them. Wang Bugui was such a man, and he was an extreme version of this group of people. It was not far off to say that he would never bring up anything that Hanae Chiou did not like.

He would not even think about doing things like that. As for those that she liked, he would do his best to obtain or perform them for her. He would make anyone who disrespected her pay. His love for her was close to spoiling her.

It was like this since he was a child. Anyone who called Hanae Chiou a monster was sent to the emergency room of the hospital. After knowing that she loved red wine, he snuck some out from his family for her to drink.

He was unafraid of being scolded by his seniors, nor did he care. All in all, he was willing to sacrifice that much for her.

"Who is that 'Sister Zhiyu' you talked about earlier on?" Hanae Chiou recalled that offensive part of his speech earlier on. Women were always very sensitive toward such things.

"She's one of the most powerful people in the world right now. I'm very sure that even Father is no match for her. She was the one who gave me the puppet body you own now," Wang Bugui replied with a smile.

He was truly thankful toward Zi Yuxiao. She had helped him more than once and never asked for any repayment. She was someone like a real sister to him, and a great benefactor of his to boot.

"Is she beautiful then?" Hanae Chiou asked. Any woman in love always had to compare her beauty in the eyes of her lover to other women.

"Even though I couldn't really see her face clearly, I'm sure that she's a woman of peerless beauty who can drive entire nations crazy over her! However, she's just a sister to me. That's because I like you!" Wang Bugui replied with a toothy grin.

Hanae Chiou smiled upon hearing him. She knew that this man would never lie to her, and she realized how true his love was. No matter how beautiful other women were, they were just ordinary looking compared to her.

She remained grinning and in a daze, her usually cold and overbearing look turning into a uniquely beautiful expression. When she removed her armor, she was just another woman.

"Sister Chiou, please be together with me! I don't want you to leave me, ever again!"

Wang Bugui plucked up his courage to say. The other side of Hanae Chiou was even more mesmerizing to him. He did not know how to declare his love for her in fanciful words and only knew how to woo her with a heartfelt speech.

"Dummy, haven't we already been together for a long time? It was already so when our souls connected," Hanae Chiou replied as she blushed a little.

"That's great!"

Wang Bugui smiled and hugged the love of his life. Even though Hanae Chiou did not possess a real body or heart, she could feel warmth surge into her primordial spirit.

They looked at each other lovingly. Hanae Chiou closed her eyes slowly, and clueless as he was, even Wang Bugui understood what to do next. He touched her lips lightly and kissed her as they remained in embrace.

Unfortunately, Hanae Chiou could not feel her heart beat faster, as any woman in her place would normally feel. After all, a puppet did not possess the normal senses of a human. She did not feel pain, had no heartbeat, had no sense of taste and did not have all of the important human organs.

Naturally, Wang Bugui noticed her strange behavior. "Rest assured, Chiou, I'll let you regain your real body. Once I become a Greater Power, you'll be able to understand how to remold your body!" he said.

"It's alright, as long as you're with me. We'll be an even better match if I don't have a heart. From now on, we'll go through thick and thin together." Hanae Chiou forced herself to smile.

"I'll definitely not let you wait for too long!" Wang Bugui promised as he clenched his fists tightly.

He then wrapped his arms around her back and both of them rested their heads on each other as they admired the night sky together. They spoke long into the night, neither of them holding back any of their emotions any longer.

"I wish to sleep now," Hanae Chiou said during midnight. Unexpectedly, she was tired, and it should not have been the case.

"Sleep then. I'll be here with you," Wang Bugui replied and smiled at her. She smiled back at him gently and nestled her head onto his chest, which made her feel at ease.

Wang Bugui observed Chiou carefully after she had slept and realized that her primordial spirit was still not stable enough. He had managed to awaken her now, but not for a sustained period of time. He needed much more powerful primordial spirit for that.

He hugged Hanae Chiou until the sun rose. He only hurried over to Yun Jinghong's when he realized that she had still not woken up.

"You've come. Where is Hanae Chiou?" Yun Jinghong had sensed his presence while he still far away, and he sensed that something was odd about the lack of Puppet Chiou's presence.

"Her primordial spirit is still not strong enough, and she can remain awake for six hours a day at most," Wang Bugui sighed.

"How could this be true?!"

Lyu Hao and the others felt it was too bizarre to be true. Wang Bugui had waited for so long for her to wake up, and it was too unjust for them to just be able to meet each other for six hours a day!

"Actually I realized that her primordial spirit was a little weak yesterday, but the situation was a little more serious than I thought," Leng Shuangrong added as her exquisite eyebrows furrowed.

"Are you telling me you still wish to find rare medicine for your primordial spirit? How could there be still such medicine left in the world?" Meiqing shook her head and sighed.

"The situation cannot be changed just by refining his primordial spirit with medicine. He still needs a higher level of cultivation—at least that of a Greater Power, to let the woman's primordial spirit to completely stabilize."

The Demonic Soul said at this moment. Everyone agreed upon hearing it. It was more important to possess a greater pool of primordial spirit.

The Demonic Soul then turned to Wang Bugui. "So, you need to learn a method of cultivating your primordial spirit. There's a Taoist drawing beneath the parade square of the Sixth District which can test your primordial spirit. Do you dare to venture there?"

"What?!"

Everyone was extremely shocked upon hearing it. The Sixth District! It was a place where even Greater Powers could easily end up dead, and it was suggesting Wang Bugui, who was only of Sage level, to venture there. Was that not akin to sending him to his death?