Part 5

Opening the doors to the Xia Clan's library, Jasmine saw a hypocrite sitting on a chair reading a book along the meridians.

As soon as Jasmine entered the library, Xia Qingyue stood up and closed the book and left the hall. Her gaze remained the same cold, and her face impassive.

"Again…" Jasmine hissed, gritting his teeth. "It's been half a year already… why…"

From that night, when they met, the hypocrite began to treat him coldly and aloofly. Every time Qingyue left the room, Jasmine always ran into her, but she continued to ignore him like empty air.

For the first two months, this did not bother him, but when he began to actively engage in alchemy, the young man became irritated to the limit. The hypocrite often came out while he was preparing the pills, because of which he had to interrupt the process more than ten times already.

He could have ignored her and would have done so if he could, but the assignment with six months left was beginning to weigh on him a little.

If at first Jasmine was not afraid of the penalty for failure, then feeling that Xia Qingyue was moving away from him every time, it seemed to him that death with a scythe was coming closer and closer to him.

- I need to think of something ... - he muttered for the umpteenth time. After leaving the clan, he went to the garden, which is looked after by a lonely old man, but now he is on vacation, and no one else touches his fruits of diligence. Even Xia Hongyi ordered not to touch the garden until the old man in charge returned.

Sitting under a tree that bloomed with petals like cherry blossoms, Jasmine closed his eyes.

"Why did the hypocrite behave like this from that time? I treated her rudely, but she shouldn't treat me like that just because of this…" Jasmine remembered that Yun Che treated Xia Qingyue very rudely and lustfully in Against the Gods, but she became closer to him. So why doesn't it work with him?

- I'm still a child? No, it's incredible. Jasmine shook his head. In this world, the age of 12 is not considered small, because children, especially practicing children, grow up quite quickly. – System, do you know the answer to my question? he asked some time later.

System: Yes, I know the reason for Xia Qingyue's behavior. Cost per answer: 2000 points.

- ... - Jasmine smiled wryly. The answer was expensive at first glance, but he also knew that by knowing the reason for this behavior, he would be able to come up with a plan to conquer this hypocrite. And if he falls in love with her, then an incredible talent will be his ally. It is expensive.

Feeling someone else's presence, Jasmine opened his eyes and looked into the distance. There was a big, beefy guy with a baby face running there, but he recognized him.

"Xia Yuanba…" Jasmine would never have thought that such a child with an innocent heart and kind soul would become a Tyrant in the future who would kill hundreds of thousands of people without hesitation. He didn't want that fate for this child, but Jasmine couldn't help it. He simply didn't want to do anything extra that would make him Yun Che's enemy. If he could kill this protagonist now, then Jasmine would not hesitate to take Xia Yuanba under his wing, as he reminded him of Yuichiro's grandson.

- Sister, what are you doing here? He heard Xia Yuanba's voice as he ran around the corner of the building.

"The system… was Xia Qingyue just there?"

System: Yes, it is. She stood there for a while and looked at you.

- Ha… ha ha! Jasmine laughed nervously. For half a year he has been suffering from this stupid task and therefore he could not develop normally in alchemy. Fortunately, the system gave him small tasks, for example: beat all the men in the tavern or find a thief ... Because of his activities, he could not go outside, since anyone can match the short guy in the hood that beats everyone in bars with a boy with such remarkable appearance. After all, the hood, although it hides his hair with some part of his face, but his eyes stand out anyway.

- The system, and often this hypocrite looked at me during these six months? Jasmine breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't know the reason why she was ignoring him, but since she was standing there watching him, there was a chance, right?

System: For the past six months, Xia Qingyue has been watching you three times a week.

"...why didn't you tell me that?" - completely calmed down, asked Jasmine. He did not think that Qingyue was watching him on purpose, since he was the one who created the chance encounters with her.

System: You didn't ask.

- And that's right. - he wasn't angry. Jasmine should not and did not want to blame the system in such situations, since he himself is to blame. Moreover, in the past world, he answered many times in this way to other people.

He didn't want to waste his points on some sort of answer to a question. So he closed his eyes and thought again.

And when the sun went down below the horizon, Jasmine opened his eyes.

"System, you are much better than the treasures and techniques in this universe, aren't you?" he asked, pursing his lips into a smile.

System: Yes, it is. Even the True Gods would want the System if they knew about it.

- So you can manipulate people and control them?

System: …I can… But you have no right to do so.

Jasmine just shrugged.

- Who said that I will use it? And I don't need manipulation or anything like that. There will be enough obsession.

The system was silent for a while, but after about ten minutes, it answered.

System: Applying this type of mind control is acceptable. Price: 1500 points.

- I'm buying. Have Xia Qingyue come to this place as soon as I say.

System: Make Xia Qingyue think of visiting this place. The conditions are set.

Jasmine nodded and all his points that he had earned during these six months disappeared. He could only sigh.

Putting on his hood, he left the Xia Clan and went to the nearest expensive bar. From selling the bodies of the monsters he killed and the cores, he received a large amount of money, so he did not worry about them.

Going inside, he was greeted by a pretty girl of about 16 in appearance. She had long dark hair and green eyes.

- Welcome, sir. Will you send me here for a drink? We received a good Winter Cherry Wine just the day before.

Jasmine nodded and sat down at her suggested seat.

- Bring me ten bottles of the strongest Wine. he said as he placed 1 Lapis Lazuli Coin on the table, which was equal to 10,000 gold.

- Ah... yes, sir! - the girl was surprised by such a young voice, but she quickly came to her senses.

Ten minutes later, Jasmine was drinking wine as if he were a thirsty man in the desert.

- In gives ... who is he?

He reminds me of someone...

Visitors approached Jasmine's table, but every single one of them were practitioners of at least the Spiritual Stage. This bar was expensive and not everyone could afford it.

As he finished his tenth bottle of Winter Cherry Wine to the applause of the diners, Jasmine felt himself suddenly getting drunk. His head was spinning, but he quickly regained his composure.

Without a word, he walked out, but...

System: Beat the practitioners here and leave a hickey on the neck of the girl who served you. Reward: 200 points.

- Fuck you, ***!!!!! – sharply turning around and under his own cry, he jumped into the crowd.

- I remembered him! It is he! It's the one who beats everyone up in places like this...haaah! – some cultivator remembered the silhouette of Jasmine, but he did not even let him finish and threw a chair at him, and then finished him off with a kick.

- Bastard! Get it, Striking Wing!

- Sky Drop!

- Too pretentious! Jasmine yelled back at the two practitioners, who used their skills to go behind their backs with Moon Disintegration and knock them out. There were no True Profound practitioners here, so Jasmine could knock out two or even three people with one blow.

The rest of the practitioners also fought him with their bare hands. Although they were enraged by the behavior of this brat, they were not going to draw their weapons or treasures in front of such a crowd. Each of them thought: it is better to fall together with everyone else than to be disgraced in an unequal battle in front of other practitioners.

And an hour later, Jasmine on staggering legs reached the Xia Clan, having received points and experience for the task. For these six months, he completed tasks and gained experience, but even that was not enough to raise his level. He, just as ordered, sucked the girl's neck, under her sweet moan.

- The system ... proceed.