School Beauty's Personal Crazy Young Master

Chapter 1226: Chapter 1312: Encirclement by the Purple Cloud Palace

With Chen Nan’s cultivation reaching this level, he could basically memorize anything at a glance.

Furthermore, his comprehension was naturally high. As long as the girl spoke once, he could completely remember these characters.

After one night, Chen Nan learned over five thousand characters. These were the most commonly used characters; although he hadn’t learned all the characters, he was no longer illiterate in this world.

After visiting the Demon Mansion in the morning, Chen Nan went outside the city to practice as usual and only returned in the evening. The girl was already waiting for him at the inn.

After two nights of studying, Chen Nan learned more than ten thousand characters.

The girl held the book, seemingly happier than Chen Nan: ”Brother Chen, you learn really fast.”

”Thank you for your help. These more than ten thousand characters are enough for me to use daily.” Chen Nan hesitated for a moment, then looked towards the door and said, ”Starting tonight, you shouldn’t come anymore; if people find out a girl visits me every night, it might affect your reputation.”

The girl’s face was full of disappointment. She shook her head and said, ”But there are still tens of thousands of characters left; you haven’t finished learning them.”

”Learning the most common ones is enough; the rest doesn’t matter.” Chen Nan shook his head and said, ”How about you leave the book here? If I have time, I can study it myself using the annotations.”

Having learned it all, he chased her away. Although Chen Nan felt this was somewhat excessive.

However, thinking about the purpose of this journey and the bloody lessons learned in the mortal world, he had no choice but to harden his heart.

His life was destined to be full of battles, and he was not a safe person to be around. It was better to part ways now, before their friendship deepened.

The girl looked at him with grievance: ”Why do you change your face so easily?”

”I’ve learned the characters, and you’re of no use to me anymore. Why should I keep you around? Go back to the Purple Cloud Palace.” Chen Nan said coldly, turning his back on her, thinking: In this Tao Realm, I can barely protect myself; it does you no good to stick around.”

Tears welled up in the girl’s eyes: ”Brother Chen, do you really dislike me that much?”

”Leave!”

Chen Nan pointed to the door with his back to her.

The girl sobbed, wiped her eyes, and said, ”Take care of yourself, leave Xuanwu City as soon as possible. There are spies from all major sects everywhere; it’s easy for them to find you.”

Chen Nan listened silently without turning around.

The girl stood there for a moment, and seeing Chen Nan didn’t turn around at all, she turned away with a look of loss and walked to the door.

Chen Nan couldn’t help but glance back at her departing figure as she reached the door, but she stopped again, prompting him to quickly turn away, afraid of being discovered.

”Brother Chen, you’ve never asked my name. I know you don’t care, but since we’ve met, I wish to leave something with you, even if it’s just a name. I am Yu Wenqingxue.” After she finished speaking, she reluctantly left the room.

Yu Wenqingxue!

The name engraved itself in Chen Nan’s heart. It wasn’t until her footsteps had faded away that Chen Nan turned around.

After leaving the inn, Chen Nan went to the Demon Mansion again, but it was the same as before—completely empty.

Chen Nan went to his usual place of practice.

After several days of cultivation, he felt his inner strength had reached a limit; taking another step forward would mean a breakthrough in realm.

At that moment, Chen Nan was at the peak of the Earth Penetrating Second Layer Heaven.

Chen Nan worked hard all day, continuously trying to reach the next realm, but he was unable to break through.

After dark, he had no choice but to return to Xuanwu City. He visited the Demon Mansion again before going back to the inn. After several days together, with Yu Wenqingxue now gone, Chen Nan suddenly felt a sense of emptiness inside.

Standing at the entrance in a daze for a while, Chen Nan walked inside and closed the door.

He sat cross-legged on the floor and began meditating and cultivating.

He only needed to take one more step to break through the realm, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t take that step.

In the middle of the night, when all was quiet.

According to mortal time, it was already midnight.

No matter how many times Chen Nan tried, he couldn’t break through. Then he opened his eyes to look outside the window and said, ”You’ve been watching from outside for so long, aren’t you tired?”

”Creak...”

The window was gently pushed open. Yu Wenqingxue popped her head inside, smiling innocently at him.

Chen Nan felt as if fate was playing a joke on him. He had deliberately been avoiding her, yet she clung to him, leaving no room to hide: ”It’s late at night, why are you outside my window instead of sleeping?”

Yu Wenqingxue blushed slightly, stammering: ”I...I just wanted to check on you, Brother Chen.”

”What’s there to see? Go back to sleep.” Chen Nan said.

Yu Wenqingxue not only didn’t leave, but instead climbed in through the window, looking at him with a bit of grievance: ”I couldn’t sleep, so I came out.”

Chen Nan had a bad premonition.

From their interaction these days, it seemed that the girl had developed feelings for him. Otherwise, even if she couldn’t sleep, she shouldn’t have come here in the middle of the night!

”Yu Wen, it’s late, and we are, after all, different genders. You should go back.” Chen Nan walked over to open the door, saying, ”Moreover, I am already married. If any rumors spread, it would do neither of us any good.”

Yu Wenqingxue’s face changed slightly, and she retreated two steps: ”You’re married?”

Chen Nan nodded, saying, ”So, for my sake and for your own reputation, please leave quickly.”

Yu Wenqingxue didn’t say anything further. Her expression was somewhat wooden as she walked out step by step.

Chen Nan closed the door and sat down to continue cultivating. However, it was not even a quarter of an hour before noises erupted outside, a wave of inner strength approached, and it seemed many cultivators were heading this way.

Chen Nan, who was living on the second floor, opened the window and looked towards the street, seeing over a hundred disciples from the Purple Cloud Palace surrounding the inn, both on land and in mid-air.

Could it be she betrayed me?

Chen Nan thought, then immediately dismissed the idea.

Although he had hurt her feelings, with Yu Wenqingxue’s character, she would never do such a thing.

The most likely scenario was that when she came, she was followed!

After all, she had been teaching me to read for the past few days and hadn’t returned at night, which could easily arouse suspicion from the Purple Cloud Palace, making it likely for them to send someone to follow her.

While Chen Nan was silently pondering—

”This scoundrel dares to seduce Junior Sister Yuwen, causing her to be so distracted. Guard everything; don’t let him escape. I want him to neither live nor die!” A male voice came from outside, full of jealousy and anger.