The Secret to Picking Up Girls

"Little sister, long time no see. Why are you crying the moment you see me? Am I that scary?" The man in black said with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.

The black-clothed man's voice was a little hoarse, making it difficult to discern his original voice.

"Hateful, you're still the same as ever." Wu Xueqing raised her head, her face like a pear blossom in the rain, revealing a look of incomparable resentment, her pink fist gently pounding the black-clothed man's chest.

As she spoke, Wu Xueqing's beautiful big eyes stared at the black-clothed man's face, her gaze filled with inexplicable colors. After a long while, she reached out and gently stroked the black-clothed man's cheek, and said faintly, "It really is you. I've been looking for you for so, so long!"

The black-clothed man's body trembled almost imperceptibly. After a long while, he laughed and said, "So I came."

Wu Xueqing gently leaned against the black-clothed man's body and said, "But why didn't you come to find me? Don't you know how much I miss you? Although you are so bad and so fierce to me, you have always been in my heart."

The man in black was silent, only holding Wu Xueqing's hand tighter.

"Is your injury healed?" Wu Xueqing leaned against the black-clothed man's body, her hand gently stroking the place where he had been injured.

"Yes, it's been healed for a long time." The man in black said.

"Let's not be separated in the future, okay?" Wu Xueqing raised her head, looking at the man in black with hopeful eyes.

The man in black was silent, but in Wu Xueqing's eyes, not speaking meant tacit consent.

On the summit of Cangshan Mountain in Dali, Yunnan, on the square outside a secluded palace, nearly a thousand followers dressed in long white robes gathered together, surrounded by piles of bonfires, shouting, jumping, and dancing to a mysterious rhythm, as if performing some kind of ritual.

In the middle of these nearly a thousand white-clothed people, dozens of people dressed in long white robes and faces covered with white veils knelt in the main hall, performing the ritual of three bows and nine kowtows to a statue more than ten meters long. These dozens of long-robed people were clearly the representatives of this group.

The statue was black bronze in color and depicted a man holding a torch, his face ferocious and looking very mighty. He was the Fire God Adas.

Two hours later, the ritual was finally over. The white-robed man at the very front led the group of white-clothed people behind him back to the palace and sat in the seat of honor.

The white-robed masked man sitting in the seat of honor glanced at the group of white-clothed people below with a majestic gaze, the sharp gaze causing the white-robed people below to lower their heads unnaturally.

The white-robed masked man in the seat of honor seemed very satisfied with this effect, nodded almost imperceptibly, and said in a deep voice, "The Fire God Adas is the most honorable great god of our Fire Worship Sect. As Adas's servants, we of the Fire Worship Sect have the obligation to rescue our god. This is the goal that our Fire Worship Sect has been striving for for nearly a thousand years."

"Sect Leader, this time, we have successfully obtained two Heaven-Opening Pearls. Can we unseal him?" One of the white-robed masked men standing at the very front on the left stood out.

"Yes, very good, but this is far from enough." The white-robed man said.

"Sect Leader, why do we need Heaven-Opening Pearls? Can't we use other magical treasures?" Another white-robed man asked in confusion.

The white-robed people responded in unison.

After the meeting, the Fire Worship Sect Leader returned to the training room and sat cross-legged on a futon. After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes. His right hand opened, and a ball of black flames shot out from his hand like an arrow, landing on a precious knife on the table. In an instant, the precious knife was vaporized into the air.

The Fire Worship Sect Leader's face revealed a hint of joy at the sight.

Suddenly, a blurry shadow flashed in front of the Fire Worship Sect Leader.

"Congratulations, Sect Leader, for cultivating our sect's Black Fire to the Great Perfection realm. Except for the gods, the Sect Leader is already invincible in the world." A white-robed man, also wearing a mask, said. His voice was a little old.

"Invincible in the world?" The Fire Worship Sect Leader sighed, nodded slightly, and turned his gaze to the white-robed man, asking, "Venerable One, how is the situation over there?"

"Sect Leader, the people of Tianfu have agreed to cooperate with us fully, but the conditions have not changed. They need the Holy Maiden..." The white-robed man did not continue, but the Fire Worship Sect Leader understood what he meant.

Two strange lights burst out from the Fire Worship Sect Leader's eyes, and he asked in a deep voice, "Did they really say that?"

The white-robed man nodded silently.

The Fire Worship Sect Leader clenched his fist tightly. After a long while, he turned to the white-robed man and asked, "Is the Holy Maiden still unable to forget that boy?"

The white-robed man nodded slightly and sighed, "It's been six years. People say that time can dilute everything, but it's different when used on the Holy Maiden. Perhaps the Holy Maiden is too simple!"

"Hmph! Hmph, simple. Maybe she will give up once that boy dies! Venerable One, you handle this matter. Whoever hinders my sect's great cause, no matter who it is, shall be killed without mercy!" The Fire Worship Sect Leader said the last sentence almost word by word.

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Ever since Zhang Yuze transformed into the man in black and met Wu Xueqing, Wu Xueqing had never mentioned the man in black to Zhang Yuze again. Zhang Yuze didn't know if Wu Xueqing knew that the man in black and he were the same person, or if she had other thoughts in her heart. However, Zhang Yuze felt a greater love than before in Wu Xueqing's gaze towards him. In any case, Zhang Yuze was happy to see this change.

Xiamen University Main Campus

The Music Department and the Dance Department were not in the branch campus due to facility issues, but in the main campus of Xiamen University.

These past few days, what Zhang Yuze couldn't let go of was the MM named Lin Yuxian that he met when picking up new students. Zhang Yuze was still a little doubtful as to whether she was Xianxian, so he prepared to find out before the start of school.

"Hello, classmate, I'm asking you about someone!" Zhang Yuze walked to the outside of a freshman girl's dormitory building, looked at an MM with a face full of acne, and asked very politely.

But what made Zhang Yuze extremely depressed was that this MM directly ignored him, as if she hadn't seen him at all, and walked straight past him.