I Start with a Mysterious Island

Chapter 328 - 258: Even the Best Swimmers Drown

SPLASH.

Su Yue, having slipped back under the water, now reappeared behind Lin Li and sent another spray of water flying.

Getting splashed in the face again, Lin Li quickly spun around. But by the time he had, Su Yue had vanished once more.

"Su Yue, don’t you think you’re going a little too far?!" Lin Li said, scanning his surroundings for any sign of her.

"What? With swimming skills as terrible as yours, you think you can get back at me?" Su Yue’s smug voice came from Lin Li’s right.

Turning toward the sound, Lin Li looked at Su Yue’s radiant smile and said helplessly,

"How can you bully someone just because you’re a good swimmer? That’s not right... After all, you’re a teacher, someone who educates and guides the young!

What would your students think if they found out their teacher was doing something like this?"

Lin Li tried to reason with her, hoping to convince Su Yue to stop using her superior swimming skills to mess with him. But having finally gotten a chance to tease him to her heart’s content, how could Su Yue possibly let it go so easily?

"It’s vacation, I’m not at school, and no one here knows me. No one will ever find out what I do..." Su Yue said with a grin.

"..." Hearing this, Lin Li knew that reasoning wouldn’t work on this cunning woman, so he changed his tactics.

"When the lightbulbs in your house burn out or your drain gets clogged, I’m always the one who helps you fix those things.

If you keep messing with me like this, the next time something like that happens at your place, I’m not helping you."

"..." After hearing Lin Li’s semi-threatening words, Su Yue raised a hand to scratch her fair cheek. For a moment, she stopped teasing him.

’So, reasoning with this woman really is pointless...’ Lin Li was thrilled to see his semi-threat was working.

Unfortunately, his joy didn’t last long; the happy expression on his face froze.

"I don’t care! I’ll worry about that later. This is a rare opportunity.

If I miss this chance, who knows when I’ll get another one... Lin Li, just accept your fate today!" Su Yue said, making a playful, menacing gesture at him before scooping up another handful of water and flinging it his way.

SPLASH.

The splashing water on his face didn’t hurt at all, but the feeling of being unable to fight back was incredibly frustrating for Lin Li.

"Hahaha..." Seeing Lin Li get hit by her splash again, Su Yue cackled with glee, like a hen who had just laid an egg.

"You’ve really gone too far this time..." Lin Li said seriously, wiping the seawater from his face.

"I plan to go too far! Come and get me if you can!" Su Yue said defiantly.

She had every reason to be this cocky. After all, the gap between her swimming ability and Lin Li’s was enormous. In Su Yue’s eyes, it was utterly impossible for him to catch her.

Indeed, if Lin Li were just an ordinary person, it would have been impossible to catch Su Yue with his clumsy swimming skills.

But the reality was, Lin Li was now a Second Order High Rank Cultivator.

Since he couldn’t beat her in skill, he’d have to change his approach. Given his current physical conditioning, if he competed with Su Yue in a battle of endurance, the final result would be...

"Heh... Su Yue, you’ve successfully provoked me. When I catch you, don’t you dare apologize and beg for mercy." Lin Li issued his challenge, his tone filled with the determination to capture her.

SPLASH.

In response to Lin Li’s declaration, Su Yue’s smile didn’t waver. She didn’t take him seriously at all. Without saying a word, she simply slapped the water, sending another splash his way as her answer.

Lin Li, now determined to catch Su Yue using his superior physical stamina, let the water hit him in the face.

He wiped the water from his face and put his plan into action, doggy-paddling toward the insufferably arrogant Su Yue in the distance.

SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH...

Water flew everywhere as Lin Li, with his less-than-graceful swimming form, slowly made his way toward Su Yue.

"Hey! You’re actually serious?" Su Yue hadn’t expected Lin Li to be telling the truth about catching her. She wasn’t worried, though. She immediately dove under the water and swam off into the distance.

SPLASH...

After swimming about fifty meters away, Su Yue turned to look back. She saw that she had left Lin Li far behind and laughed as she called out to him, who was still slowly paddling in her direction.

"Lin Li, you need to swim faster! How are you ever going to catch me at that speed?"

Lin Li, who had already decided to wage a war of attrition, calmly replied, "Don’t get too cocky, Su Yue. You’ll be crying later..."

"Tch, anyone can talk big! Come on, come on! Catch me first, then we’ll talk!" Su Yue taunted him smugly.

"You’ll find out soon enough whether I’m all talk," Lin Li retorted.

In the time it took to exchange these few words, he had closed some of the distance between them.

A smile on her face, Su Yue watched Lin Li struggle to swim toward her, trying to catch her. She felt quite happy. In all the time she’d known him, this was the first time they had ever interacted like this.

"Whoa! I didn’t think you could swim that fast!" In the moment Su Yue was lost in thought, she realized Lin Li had already closed the distance to just over ten meters away.