Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
With these thoughts in mind, Shen Yan felt happier the longer he thought about it, even the pained feeling in his chest caused by the free supreme-grade Spirit Pill faded a lot.
Even the way he looked and talked to Ji Li became gentler.
However, despite his happiness, his voice was still coarse and somewhat like a screeching chicken, even if he tried to spare no effort to make his tone gentler, it was still only the difference between a screeching chicken that had been squeezed hard and a screeching chicken that had been squeezed lightly.
Ji Li stood by the side, her face, which had some baby fat, had a startled expression. She didn’t even dare to look up at him.
Considering that she was sixteen years of age, she would still be a student on Earth.
It was like the first day of school for her. She had done nothing wrong and had surprisingly encountered a fierce political education office director for no reason, if it were you, you’d also have panicked.
This was the Demon Sect, the man in front of her was one of the few people with the most powerful demonic flames in the entire lands of Heavenly Earth!
Shen Yan, who had no self-awareness of what he was doing, thought that he had already left a pretty good impression in Ji Li’s mind. After all, he was a dignified master of a sect and already displayed a sufficiently amiable and approachable attitude.
However, a certain amount of hinting still needed to be done after all his efforts to maintain a good image.
He waved his sleeve and a red crystal appeared in his hand.
The crystal was very small, roughly the size of a nail on the thumb.
“This is a fire essence. Your constitution is more suitable to cultivate fire-element cultivation techniques, it’s also quite beneficial to cultivators of the first tier. Remember to wear it on you, think of it as your reward for taking care of Little Uncle-Master these past few days.”
The fire essence wasn’t something excessively precious, not to mention, the piece Shen Yan gave her was… a bit small.
However, he himself felt that as the master of a sect, the things granted to a junior held a completely different meaning, didn’t they?
Besides, she was still a little girl who’d just entered the doors of cultivation.
Losing not a single hair1… Specifically speaking, since he had no hair to be lost, he was very good at creating the greatest value from the smallest of gifts!
This wasn’t called being stingy! If you don’t manage your household affairs, then you don’t know how expensive daily necessities are—you wouldn’t understand!
“Thank you Lord Sect Master!” Ji Li hurriedly accepted the reward, not daring to be the slightest bit negligent.
Shen Yan saw that things were about to be set, he slightly smiled and said in the screeching chicken-like voice of his, “You’re very gifted, a good recruit. Hopefully you will cultivate assiduously and enter the inner sect soon. This lord looks forward to that day.”
He felt that his earnest acknowledgment was brimming with a master’s great expectations for a future disciple.
“She should have understood what I meant, right?”
As a grand sect master, he couldn’t say too much and still had to keep up appearances.
After hearing this, Ji Li was slightly startled. She hurriedly paid obeisance to him again, however, it was like starch paste inside her mind.
Up until Shen Yan left, she still didn’t figure out any of the meanings behind his words, she just blankly and courteously walked Shen Yan out of the door, and then watched him leave.
After returning to the room, she carefully examined the fire essence in her hands, only to think that it was thoroughly red and quite pretty.
As she continued to look at it, she eventually became tired of the object, and then she turned to examine Lu Xun’s face once more.
This face of his… she wouldn’t get tired of looking at it no matter what.
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The night gradually became darker.
The Rear Mountain during nightfall had another scenic feel to it.
Through the open window, Ji Li could see fireflies wandering around. They were like Rear Mountain’s candle flames that moved about randomly.
The nights at Rear Mountain were very quiet. If… if only Cat Southnorth’s snoring wasn’t so noisy.
Yes, the catgirl lolita laid down—in a manner very unbefitting of her image—on a massive rattan chair and snored with her mouth open, it seemed that she also appeared to be drooling.
Ji Li previously thought that cultivators would have great differences from ordinary people. She heard stories that they didn’t eat any crops and abstained from desires, long having transcended the mortal vulgarities.
Now that she had entered the Demon Sect, she discovered that so-called cultivators were only like ordinary people with cultivation.
Upon taking another look at Cat Southnorth’s sleeping posture—her small butt was sticking up so high that it almost reached the sky!
The venerable impression she had of her completely crumbled.
Ji Li sat down cross-legged and prepared to circulate a Heavenly Cycle, forging ahead her own cultivation. However, once she saw Lu Xun, who was still lying on the bed, move his brows slightly, she quickly stopped what she was doing.
He slowly opened his eyes as Ji Li promptly helped him sit up.
Outside, Cat Southnorth, who had been lying on the rattan chair in a manner that should’ve been unbefitting of her image, heard the movements inside, her ears moved slightly and she jumped right in through the window.
“I see you recovered quite well!” She sized up Lu Xun before saying this.
Lu Xun looked down at his own body, upon doing so, he found that it certainly was almost fully recovered.
After jumping off the cliff, he probably turned into a mush, the kind of mush that needed to be censored in games.
He originally thought that after he expended a revival chance, he would be able to revive on the spot with full health, but unexpectedly, he was only left with a single drop of blood in his health points.
‘I wanted to revive on the spot to show off! But I fell into such a state in the end…’
‘What should this be considered as? The repercussions of transmigration?’
‘I’ll let it be that my revival counts wouldn’t accumulate and refresh, however, it also let me suffer this kind of torture?!’
‘This is a pitfall! There’s something wrong with this account as expected!’
The lolita continued to look at him and said, “The Sect Master fed you a Spirit Pill, if not, you would have really suffered.”
“I see, so that’s the case.” Lu Xun nodded, no wonder his health was nearly back to full throttle.
After sensing his body carefully, he felt that his constitution seemed to have improved quite a lot.
Cat Southnorth leapt lightly and sat her small buttocks on the table. She looked at Lu Xun and said, “Let me ask you, as an ordinary man without any strand of cultivation, how could you hang on to a single breath and not die in that moment?”
“That’s a secret.” Lu Xun bluntly responded.
“Tsk, I guess that it should be some treasure on you, right? Fine! Don’t tell me, it’s not like I’d covet your treasure!” Cat Southnorth said while curling her lips.
Once she mentioned the word ‘treasure’, Lu Xun’s thoughts kick-started once more. Speaking of which… the Demon Sect really had a hidden treasure without a master, however, he, at this very moment, didn’t have the slightest ability to even search for it.
After he looked at the mission notice, he discovered that he now completed the mission of becoming a disciple and happily obtained the perfect start. Now… What path should he take next? He needed to find a proper time to plan his next course of actions properly.
He was a man who worked according to plans. It would be more efficient this way, the objective would also be clearer, his train of thought would also be better when thinking about problems regarding his course of actions.
That treasure… he quite still wanted it.
No! He was determined to have it!
Cat Southnorth saw that Lu Xun seemed to be lost in thought, she couldn’t help but say, “Hey, hey, what are you thinking?”
Lu Xun raised his head and responded, “Nothing much, I just simply spaced out a little, what is it?”
The lolita no longer sat on the table and instead stood on the wooden table, and then, she stood up straight with her hands folded behind her back. These series of movements were done smoothly, after doing so, she forcibly squeezed out an expression that had the manner of a great scholar. She said, “Are you forgetting something?”
“Oh? What am I forgetting?” Lu Xun was a little confused.
Cat Southnorth almost stomped her feet in anger. Her cat ears stood straight up as she said loudly, “You still haven’t called me Senior Sister!”
The lolita perked up her small chin a bit, her expression was full of joy and complacency!
She had always been Rear Mountain’s youngest, now, she was finally a senior sister!
As Cat Southnorth was in high spirits, Lu Xun unexpectedly shifted the focus of the conversation drastically. He stared at Ji Li and said:
“Are you forgetting something?”
“What?” Ji Li was expressionless.
“Hurry up and call me Little Great Uncle-Master!” Lu Xun started to pinch the pushover1, trying out how it felt in to the touch and seeing if it was good to pinch.
If it was good to pinch, he would pinch it more in the future.
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