Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Rear Mountain, bamboo forest.
Cat Southnorth laid on the legs of the girl who looked like a Daoist nun. Her claws were slightly curled, even her eyes were narrowed.
It could be clearly seen that the girl’s cat-petting skills were truly superb.
“Comfy meow~”
Cat Southnorth would often come to the bamboo forest to do a sneak attack once every few days. Was it because children loved to be mischievous, or did she have the thirst to be petted?
Perhaps, it was both.
After the girl’s five slender fingers moved around to rub the black cat’s ears, today’s portion of petting was officially over.
Cat Southnorth laid still on her legs, and after enjoying the pleasant lingering effect silently, she jumped up slightly onto the girl’s shoulders and then hung half of her body there.
The girl who looked like a Daoist nun was too skinny, a little bit too lean, and appeared very weak.
Her shoulders were extremely different from Mu Rongyan’s meaty shoulders. Cat Southnorth could only hang on and not lie down on them.
After doing this on the girl’s shoulders, the small black cat began to garrulously talk about the interesting anecdotes of her trip this time down the mountain.
For example: The delicious things she ate, fun things she bought, how she killed a Ghost King, and the entire process of meeting Lu Xun…
Since a demon’s manifestation was generally like a rebirth. Her wisdom hadn’t completely matured yet, this was why she spoke like a child and dared to simply say everything.
When she spoke about how she thought to subdue Lu Xun and turn him into her own beautiful mount, the Daoist nun-like girl raised her white palms, clenched it into a fist, and then lightly tapped on her cat head.
“Meow!” Cat Southnorth used her two meaty paws to cover her head.
Regarding Second Senior Sister’s sudden chiding, Cat Southnorth expressed her confusion and said, “I only thought that he looked handsome and craved his body. I didn’t intend on doing any outrageous acts, I…”
Before she finished speaking, her head was knocked again—three times in a row!
“Meow!” Cat Southnorth stopped speaking.
After a brief silent vow of anger for two minutes, she started to talk garrulously again.
The Daoist-like girl didn’t speak from the start to the finish of Cat Southnorth’s tales. She was simply the best audience one could have as she listened on silently.
Cat Southnorth was already quite accustomed to this side of her.
Even though the Second Senior Sister was cold in character. Before Sir had accepted her as a disciple, she was actually a literal Daoist nun.
She was both the one who abided by the rules the most and also the one who didn’t abide by them the most. She always fulfilled the rules she herself had approved, however, if she didn’t approve of it, it wouldn’t be able to restrict her the slightest.
Therefore, looking back on it, Cat Southnorth had once said that the Second Senior Sister was the one who said ‘rules were made to be broken’. In reality, Second Senior Sister never said this line, but Cat Southnorth felt that this was what Second Senior Sister taught and lived by example.
Of course, it could be easily understood as a child trying to shift blame.
With that said, even though the Second Senior Sister was such a cold person and a Daoist nun, she actually had such an adorable name. She was called Gu Xiaoman1.
‘Lesser Full Grain’ is the eighth of the twenty-four solar terms and also the second solar term of the summer season. The reason why she was named this was that she was born on this day and was simply named so.
As mentioned previously, the Second Senior Sister didn’t like to talk, even if she did speak, her speech would be especially slow and would tend to break off in strange places.
It was because…
…She was a stutter.
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On the other side of Rear Mountain’s Small Study, Ji Li, who was currently guarding Lu Xun, heard a series of knocks.
She was slightly startled and found it really strange to hear knocking sounds.
Other people were prohibited from entering and exiting Rear Mountain without permission, and Cat Southnorth never knocked whenever she came in, so who was it that was knocking?
Ji Li stood up and opened the door, a bright light shone before her eyes.
The man standing in front of her wasn’t much taller than her, however, his head had its own halo like a light bulb.
Although this was the first time they officially met, Ji Li had already heard about Sect Master Shen Yan’s distinctive features, she immediately paid obeisance.
What she didn’t know was that the Sect Master was truly as short as was said in the rumors.
“Rise, there’s no need to be overly courteous.” Shen Yan revealed what he himself thought to be a benevolent smile.
However, because his looks truly belonged to the vicious type with the addition of his bald head, it didn’t particularly give people a good impression.
Even though he felt that his smile was warm, but in the eyes of an outsider, what they saw was a cruel smile.
“I’ve come here to see how Little Uncle-Master’s injuries have recovered,” Shen Yan said. He then walked to the side of the bed and used his divine sense to scan Lu Xun’s body, after doing so, he then nodded slightly.
‘He’s been recovering very well, as expected of my finest Spirit Pill.’
With this thought, a pained feeling rose up in his heart.
Once he finished this, he turned towards Ji Li and revealed a benevolent (cruel) smile.
The reason he actually rushed here today was for Ji Li, it was for the sake of leaving behind a good impression.
The news of Ji Li’s aptitude had already spread around the Demon Sect. She had eight ripples! In the entire lands of Heavenly Earth, that would still be few and far between, and not many people with the number of her ripples could be found in the entirety of the large Demon Sect.
Most importantly, her five elements were very clean. Her aptitude for the fire element was very high while the others were next to nothing.
This type of person was a good recruit for cultivating fire type cultivation techniques.
Shen Yan himself was one of the strongest elites that cultivated fire type cultivation techniques in the entire lands of Heavenly Earth!
He kind of wanted to recruit Ji Li as his disciple.
However, according to the Demon Sect’s rules, whenever outer sect disciples were promoted to inner sect disciples, any elders who found a disciple to their liking could toss out an olive branch, but if multiple elders like the disciple, it would then be the disciples’ turn to choose who their master was.
Yes, it was quite like a Xianxia version of a talent show…
According to reason, Shen Yan, as the Demon Sect’s Sect Master, was known to have such profound cultivation, as such, he shouldn’t be worried about having to choose a disciple.
But… wasn’t his outward appearance the effect of the cultivation technique that turned him hairless all over his body?
People loved to use ‘a metal rooster that doesn’t lose a single hair’ when describing a miser. With this said, Shen Yan was truly bald.
Although this was the result of a one-time Qi Deviation when he was young, it ultimately resulted in his current appearance, it still made quite a few disciples who saw him panic.
What if I also fall into Qi Deviation?
The cultivators of the lands of Heavenly Earth didn’t cultivate ‘supreme indifference’ or ‘severing the mortal nature’ and such.
The so-called ‘xian’ word is a person in front and a mountain in the back, it described a person that was as tall as a mountain, that was what a celestial was.1.
A celestial was also a person, and a person would normally have seven emotional states and six sensory pleasures… since this was the case, one would of course be concerned about his or her own appearance, everyone still somewhat cared about outward appearances.
Of course, this wasn’t the main reason. One of the main reasons was that Shen Yan’s actions, in reality, made it clear that he wasn’t a good teacher after all.
Amongst his disciples, there were none that were outstanding to this very day.
The road of cultivation was very bumpy. Unlike in the novels, the male protagonist would obtain a cultivation technique by chance, even under the circumstances of no one teaching the protagonist, he would still be able to cultivate to become the top in the world, it was incredibly ridiculous.
A good master’s guidance on the path of cultivation was extremely great to the point of being unimaginable!
Although it was said that ‘a master would lead a disciple through the gates, true cultivation depended on the individual’, but with some masters, you wouldn’t even be able to find the gate and they might even get you lost!
Even if you found the door on your own with great difficulty, he might even kick you out!
Although Shen Yan wasn’t as bad as the exaggerated saying, his teaching skills were truly poor.
In addition to this, he was amazingly stingy, this was why his disciples had terrible benefits!
On the opposite side of the spectrum, there were various peak masters that just happened to be a notch weaker in strength compared to him, however, what differed was that they were especially impressive at teaching and generally treated their disciples far more generously than he did… now that was f*cking awkward!
As time passed, Shen Yan began to feel a little worried!
The Demon Sect often conducted a martial arts assembly amongst the disciples. He would be somewhat embarrassed sometimes and would urgently feel the need to recruit a beloved disciple to keep up appearances!
After all… although I have no hair, no eyebrows, even no eyelashes, and nose hair, I still want honor!
Because of this, he remembered he had given a Spirit Pill of the highest quality and was thinking of ways to compliment himself. This was how he thought of Ji Li all of a sudden.
“It is rumored that this little girl had a deep relationship with Little Uncle-Master?”
“Then that’s great!”
“She’ll definitely remember this favor!”
“Gifting a Spirit Pill and profit back a beloved disciple…”
“…This isn’t a loss at all!”
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