254: Chapter 218 254: Chapter 218 “Let go, let go now, someone is watching.” Zhang Nianjiao struggled a few times, but couldn’t break free.
She didn’t have the man’s strength, nor his higher level of cultivation, and was powerless to move while he held her slender waist.
Jiang Tang just wanted to experience the feeling of holding someone.
Having never been in love in his two lifetimes, he couldn’t remain unmoved under the adoring gaze of a beauty, for he was no saint!
“Release our young lady, you pretty boy, how dare you bully her?”
The guard at the door had been observing the interaction between the two with his Divine Sense.
Without moving an inch, he spoke with a resounding voice.
Jiang Tang let go of the person in his arms, not out of fear for the door guard, but because he was on someone else’s territory.
Zhang Nianjiao, a delicate girl, did not wish to be the subject of gossip.
Zhang Nianjiao’s face turned so red that she seemed to bleed, her shyness prompting her to dash down the stairs and out of the Scripture Pavilion.
Jiang Tang put down the book in his hand and followed her down the stairs, leaving the Scripture Pavilion behind.
“Pretty boy, you have no self-respect.”
The guard, with a jealous and fierce gaze, stared intensely at Jiang Tang, wanting to start a fight but fearing he couldn’t beat him, could only challenge him with his glare.
“Jealous?
What’s it to you if I hold my girlfriend?
You’re sticking your nose in too far,” Jiang Tang said with an exasperating tone and an infuriating expression, driving the other man to the brink of madness without laying a finger on him.
Zhang Nianjiao ran to the door, her reddened face enduring the scornful and judgmental stares of eight girls.
“Zhang Nianjiao, no wonder you didn’t let us in.
So you had these thoughts in mind!
Humph…”
“Shameless…”
“No self-respect…”
“Seducing my boyfriend…”
“You’re so scheming…”
“You’re nothing more than a Fox Demon…”
“Jiang Tang is mine, you’re too despicable for seducing him…”
“Tsk tsk, how shameless to do this behind others’ backs.”
One after another, the girls openly despised, ridiculed, and rebuked Zhang Nianjiao.
Zhang Nianjiao’s blushing face turned even redder, and the accusing words of the girls almost drove her to tears; she wanted nothing more than to find a cave to crawl into.
“It’s not like that…”
As the girls chattered on, Jiang Tang stretched out a hand in a gesture that made them stop their commotion.
This gesture silenced the girls, leaving them feeling resentful.
Xuanyuan Mengting, feeling her status as the alpha threatened, lightly pinched Jiang Tang’s waist in reproach.
Dugu Yan’er released the Love Worm she had prepared in secret.
Once Jiang Tang was affected by the worm, he would become her devoted man.
Should he try to become someone else’s boyfriend, he would suffer excruciating pain.
With so many girls competing for one man, how could they not resort to secret tactics?
She considered herself matchless, unable to allow another girl to claim Jiang Tang.
As the worm she released made its way onto Jiang Tang unnoticed, she smirked with self-satisfaction.
Another girl harbored her own secret ambitions.
Tang Yanhong initially had no other thoughts, but became fiercely jealous when Zhang Nianjiao took Jiang Tang into the Scripture Pavilion; she couldn’t bear the thought of her potential beau becoming someone else’s.
She thought of the poison she carried, the Love Flower Poison.
Once afflicted, Jiang Tang would have to beg her for the antidote.
If he disobeyed her commands, even his great abilities would not save him from certain death.
Such a domineering thought—to prefer the man dead than let another possess him.
Yun Duoduo, thoughtful, had a plan in mind and was waiting for the right opportunity to execute it.
Jiang Tang, sensing something, with his Ocean Wheel cultivation, was aware of every small movement around him, whether it was an ant crawling on the ground or an insect flying by.
Having been invited by so many girls to visit their families, he didn’t know them well and remained vigilant in his interactions with them.
Jiang Tang had already died once and nearly died again; he was no longer the naive man he once was and did not let his guard down around others.
He believed the old saying, “Time reveals the heart.” He knew women could be the most venomous, particularly when love turned to hate.
There were too many women who had turned love into enmity, and he had no desire to become another tragic figure.
He had his own dreams, his own revenge to exact.
With a long road ahead full of danger, one misstep could lead to an abyss.
Jiang Tang feared being controlled by someone else, turned into a puppet, his Cultivation not yet strong enough to be the strongest in the Cultivation World.
Against such sinister tactics, defense was difficult.
Among the girls who invited him to their families, he remained particularly wary of three: Tang Yanhong from the poison-using Tang Sect, Dugu Yan’er the worm-user, and Yun Duoduo, the illusionist.
Their different expressions and personalities made them the people he was on guard against this time.
Jiang Tang felt a small insect crawling onto his clothes and guessed it was Dugu Yan’er making a move on him—or perhaps it was a poisonous insect released by Tang Yanhong.
Without a trace, he sent the insect to Hell Palace, not his bodily space, nor the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space.
He did not want the insect to reproduce and become a blight on the herbs in his space.
Once the insect entered the Hell Palace, it was sucked into the ashen earth by the force of the palace.
Dugu Yan’er, believing her plan had succeeded, tried to instruct the worm inside Jiang Tang’s body.
She felt the worm enter Jiang Tang’s body, but for some unknown reason, she lost contact with it.
Her expression changed, suspecting that Jiang Tang had detected her actions and restrained her worm.
She attempted to rescue the contact-lost creature.
She wanted to release another child worm to connect with the mother worm but soon found that upon reaching Jiang Tang’s body, it too lost contact in just a moment.