With a slight meditative visualization, Xue Jing immediately conjured an image of the person knocking at the door in his mind.
"It's my sister," he said, glancing at Ning Feng Wan and raising an eyebrow.
The cat-eared girl's pretty face immediately wrinkled into an expression of distress that screamed 'old man with a cellphone on the subway.jpg'.
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Xue Jing laughed, "I asked her to come over, to confirm something."
Platinum light shimmered as Ning Feng Wan transformed into a cat form, jumped onto the window sill, and began to open the window with her cat paw pads pressing against the glass while speaking:
"Then you guys talk, if she asks about me, just say I couldn't stand this family and went out to wander!"
Xue Jing immediately reached out and grabbed her tail.
"Running from reality is pointless, if you can't resist, then just accept it honestly."
The cat's tail was pulled back by Xue Jing, while her front paws extended claws and clung fiercely to the desktop, leaving several deep scratches.
"No!"
"What's so bad about running away, escaping is shameful but effective!"
"Bang bang bang—"
The knocking on the door started softly and grew louder, gradually getting more frustrated.
"Jing, it's me, open the door quick."
Xue Jing thought for a moment, then used Shadow Flame to animate an arm and open the door.
Outside, Xue Wan dressed in a pink short-sleeve chiffon shirt and a floral pleated miniskirt, strode in on her long legs, complaining as she entered:
"Why so slow..."
As she spoke, she noticed Xue Jing holding Miao Miao's tail.
"Hm? What are you doing with Little Feng Wan?"
Xue Jing forcefully pulled Miao Miao back, and her claws screeched sharply against the wooden table as they dragged across it.
"It's nothing... Cats, just like women, always have some inexplicable behaviors."
He held the struggling Miao Miao in his arms nonchalantly as he spoke.
Xue Wan stepped forward, took Miao Miao from Xue Jing's arms into her own, and scolded him:
"It's struggling so hard, did you hurt it by being too rough?"
Xue Jing made an 'eh' sound, touched his chin, and looked a bit awkward: "... Maybe occasionally."
Xue Wan rolled her eyes at him, brought Miao Miao up to her face, planting two kisses, "Little Feng Wan~ it's okay, mommy is here~"
She then buried her face in Miao Miao's belly, taking in two deep breaths.
"Sniff sniff—ah, so fragrant, this little kitty must be trying to seduce mommy~"
"Hehehehe~"
Miao Miao had a numb look, expressionless, not even meowing, as if she were a toy.
...
"How about it?"
Xue Wan lifted her top, revealing her slender and sexy waist, and said somewhat embarrassedly.
As his finger touched the ruby belly button piercing that was the Stigmata on her abdomen, Xue Jing glanced at the panel.
[Detected Divine Substance, now absorbing Divinity…]
[Divine Absorption complete]
[Current Divinity: 953]
Xue Jing nodded, "Yes."
After saying that, his finger left Xue Wan's belly button.
Xue Wan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pulled down her top, covering her waist.
"Indeed, the Divinity in a Blessed One's body is a renewable resource…"
Xue Jing pinched his chin, musing to himself.
Two days ago, through Ban, he had absorbed the Divinity from the Stigmata on his sister, Xue Wan, solving her contamination and mutation problem.
Only two days had passed, and upon touching Xue Wan's Stigmata again, he had absorbed Divinity once more.
Although not much, it was only about a dozen or so points.
"In that case… should I catch a few Blessed Ones and keep them for shearing later on?"
Xue Jing considered this quite seriously.
"Jing."
Xue Wan sat on the sofa, her right hand caressing Miao Miao, who lay beside her with a lost expression, having been played out, while her left hand swiped on her phone and handed it over to Xue Jing.
"You might not know this, but you're trending on social media," Xue Wan said, her voice tinged with amusement.
"Now you're famous… and you've got a very special nickname."
Xue Jing took her phone covered in various cute stickers.
The screen displayed the interface of a blogging app, showing the trending topics ranking, a total of top 20.
At the seventh and eighth spots, Xue Jing saw two topics clearly related to himself.
"#U19 Maple City Elimination Match"
"#XueJingMyHusband"
Xue Jing: "..."
He clicked on one of the topics, which showed there were a total of 69,000 posts in the discussion.
[[Xue Jing smiling at camera.gif] Posting this for no particular reason, just showing off my husband]
[When is my husband's next match? I've already bought my boat ticket to Maple City!]
[Can you not be so disgusting? He's a minor, and you keep calling him 'husband'. You really have no sense of morality, especially since he's MY husband]
[Even if I were dead, nailed in my coffin, I would still shout from my grave with my decayed vocal cords: Xue Jing my husband!!]
Xue Jing looked at the comments with an expression of 'elderly person on the subway with phone.jpg' disgust and was a bit speechless.
The thing was, it was one thing for the girls to go crazy, but many of the clearly male users were the same, if not crazier.
[Let's be real, my husband's skills are freaking awesome. I've never seen anyone in a U19 match conjure up such a huge clump of Saber Qi before, at least not in the Outer Ring]
[Did anyone notice the details? It was Li Chengxuan who first showed off his Sword Qi to my husband, and then my husband struck back with this move. It has that youthful vibe, 'I want to defeat you where you're proudest']
[Bro, it's not your fault, it's all my disgusting jealousy and pathetic self-esteem.
The moment I saw my husband's face, I totally lost my defenses, throwing down my armor and helmet, sweating buckets in the heat of summer, body burning up, my depression flaring up, life seemed colorless, like a Saiyan caught by the tail, an ability user carrying Hailou Stone, a Tail Beast extracted from its Jinchuriki, an Ultraman without light, completely losing the will to live]
[A teacher asked three students what they could use to fill a room. The first student brought in balloons, filling the room to the brim, but the teacher shook their head at the gaps between the balloons. The second student brought in a candle, and the room became filled with light, but the teacher still shook their head at the resulting shadows.
The third student played a video of my husband, and instantly, the room was shot full]
[Today I got yelled at by the foreman for mixing the cement too thin. He smashed my trowel and asked if water was free. I didn't dare retort. What he didn't know was that I hadn't added extra water; it was just that while mixing the cement, I was looking at my husband's photo and my drool fell into the mix]
"I admit you are a bit attractive. If I were forty, I would definitely divorce to marry you. If I were thirty, I'd definitely break up with someone to chase after you. If I were twenty, I'd definitely do everything possible to get to know you. But I'm only seven, facing the pressure of compulsory nine-year education, please forgive me, hubby."
…
There are many such crazed, stereotypical posts, a whole bunch of them, both tacky and trendy.
Xue Jing wiped the goosebumps on her arm and handed the phone back to Xue Wan, then went into self-imposed isolation on the couch, just like Miao Miao who had been played to a state of submission.
"Hahaha… *hic*."
Seeing the comments above and looking at the self-isolated Xue Jing, Xue Wan laughed until tears came out, almost running out of breath.
"I, a young martial arts prodigy, reaching my peak as soon as I debuted, slaying opponents with a single strike, astonishing the entire world, and thus, I got my exclusive title—my hubby."
"Pfft—hahahaha."
Xue Jing's mouth twitched.
"If you've got nothing else going on, hurry up and roll back to school."
Xue Wan wiped the tears and drool from the corners of her eyes, took a moment to catch her breath, and then said:
"No, my status at school is a bit strange right now."
As she spoke, she gave Xue Jing a wistful look.
"Up until the day before yesterday, I was still the most beautiful school beauty Maple City University had seen in a decade."
"Today, others don't call me Goddess Xue anymore."
Xue Jing: "How so?"
Xue Wan gritted her teeth: "Now everyone is calling me... big sister-in-law!!"
"...Hehe."
Xue Jing laughed.
"This post is indeed the root of all evil!"
Xue Wan showed her phone to Xue Jing.
It was a post titled "Let me show everyone my hubby." It was the same one seen on Jiang Siwei's phone after yesterday's competition.
By now, the number of shares had nearly reached a million, and the comments were close to two million. It was insanely popular.
"What do I do now? I don't want to be called 'big sister-in-law'!"
Xue Wan complained.
Xue Jing touched her chin: "Give up. That's the burden you must bear as an older sister."
"I don't wanna… Goddess Xue sounds much nicer."
Xue Wan collapsed on the couch and buried her face in Miao Miao's unmoving belly.
"Sniff sniff—sigh, only Little Feng Wan can heal my body and soul."
After making a fuss for a while, Xue Jing checked the time on her phone and said to Xue Wan:
"I have a friend competing today, and I'm going to the venue. Do you want to come with me?"
Xue Wan sat up: "Let's go!"
"But with your current popularity, your appearance at the venue is like stealing the show—the spectators will probably just watch you instead of the match."
Xue Jing took out an ordinary-looking pair of glasses from the bedside table, put them on his nose, and pushed them with his finger, causing a glint of reflection off the lenses.
"With these on, it won't be a problem."
…
Inside Maple City Sports Arena.
In the contestant observation area, a tall and burly Kou Chengjian looked at the lively and bustling crowd and voiced his confusion:
"Is it just me or does it seem like there are a lot more people than yesterday?"
A teenager nearby casually responded:
"It's not your imagination… there really are more people. Didn't you see the news?"
Another participant, Du Mingluan, spoke indifferently: "Because of Xue Jing… after he trended on the hot search, it increased the popularity of the Maple City elimination rounds, attracting a lot of attention to this competition."
When he heard Du Mingluan speak, Kou Chengjian couldn't help but laugh.
"Hey, shorty, your next match if you advance is against Xue Jing, right? I heard you were talking big before the match started, weren't you?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, I just can't help but want to howl in laughter whenever I see these kinds of delusional clown acts!"
Unfazed, Du Mingluan simply glanced at him and said:
"You'd better just not talk to me."
Kou Chengjian scoffed: "Why? You planning to throw some tough talk my way too?"
Du Mingluan shook his head: "No, you'd better look at the spectator seats."
Confused, Kou Chengjian looked up.
Upon looking, his face suddenly darkened.
Many spectators… particularly the female ones, were excitedly aiming their phones towards their direction, snapping pictures.
During the previous fight at the dock with Du Mingluan, Xue Jing had stopped them, and that man with a twisted sense of fun had forcefully held both of their heads together and photographed them in an embrace...
After he had knocked them out cold and staged them in a compromising pose, a crowd of reporters had a field day shooting photos.
After the news came out, the netizens who loved a good show began pairing them into a couple.
Seeing that he and Du Mingluan were attracting attention again, Kou Chengjian's mouth twitched, and he hurriedly moved aside, getting as far away from Du Mingluan as possible.
Having observed this, Du Mingluan kept his composure and breathed a silent sigh of relief.
A short while later, two figures emerged from the player's passage.
"Jing, the view from here is really nice; it's totally different from the audience seats."
Xue Wan arrived at the contestant observation area, and her eyes lit up when she looked toward the stage.
She patted Xue Jing's shoulder: "It's quite the honor to let me, an unrelated person, come in here."
"I didn't expect it either."
Xue Jing nodded.
He had originally planned for Xue Wan to watch the match from the players' resting room, but when he asked a staff member if he could bring Xue Wan to the contestant observation area,
the staff member readily contacted the higher-ups, and soon they received permission.
"Hm? It's you two?"
Xue Wan noticed Du Mingluan and Kou Chengjian, who were standing far apart from each other in the observation area.
She asked in confusion, "Why are you standing so far apart? Acting all guilty?"
When Du Mingluan and Kou Chengjian heard Xue Wan's voice, they turned to look.
Instantly, they broke out in a cold sweat.
…