Can you wipe your drool first?

Chuyan's small face stiffened.

Her pure features were filled with shock and humiliation, her spring-like eyes staring straight at Xiao Ran, unable to speak for a long time.

It was as if a flame had stopped, the firelight frozen.

Lingzhou Yue, who was gnawing on a tiger leg, suddenly stiffened her divine face as if from a painting.

"You've only been a disciple for two days and haven't even started Qi Refining, and you already want to take a disciple?"

Xiao Ran spoke slowly and calmly, "There's an old saying in my hometown, 'Don't talk about something if you don't have a plan...' cough cough, meaning that if a cultivator doesn't have a disciple, they'll be laughed at."

Lingzhou Yue smiled faintly.

"You wouldn't want to take this little girl as your disciple, would you?"

Chuyan felt extremely wronged and resentful, but she didn't dare to say much.

"Indeed."

Xiao Ran chewed on the tiger liver, the strong bitter fragrance indescribable.

"This disciple is skilled in farming, construction, and cooking, but I fear that after a hundred years, there will be no one to carry on my legacy. I'm afraid that when the time comes, no one will serve Master, so I want to take a disciple first to pass on my mantle, so that when this disciple passes away one day, Master won't be too lonely."

A ripple of spring light flickered in her starry eyes, Lingzhou Yue raised her pot and took a sip of poisonous wine.

"Whatever you want, just don't forget your master after you take a disciple."

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining 3 Filial Piety Points!]

Xiao Ran was shocked.

He didn't expect that speaking nicely, as long as it could move his master, could also reap a wave of Filial Piety Points, which shows the importance of oratory skills.

"Chuyan, quickly call him 'Master', 'Grandmaster'."

Xiao Ran, I must kill you!

She cursed inwardly, but the girl was very well-behaved.

"Master, Grandmaster."

Xiao Ran didn't miss this opportunity and touched her delicate little head.

"Good disciple."

Chuyan sat obediently, secretly gritting her teeth.

Xiao Ran looked at his master again, who was drinking by herself, not saying much, but her bountiful figure became more and more ethereal.

"Master, you seem to be poisoned."

"Is that so?"

Lingzhou Yue glanced at the wine pot in a perfunctory manner.

"There's too much fake wine these days."

Xiao Ran said, "Today is a good day. To celebrate Master becoming a Grandmaster, we should have a drink."

Lingzhou Yue shook her head.

"Unfortunately, if you drink my wine, you'll die."

"Wait a moment."

Xiao Ran got up and went to the Southern Valley's wine cellar, taking out the Malt Wine that had just finished fermenting.

It was packed in a wooden barrel, weighing more than fifty pounds.

As expected of a celestial spiritual land, the speed of juice production is unmatched.

The juice was pressed into spiritual energy, as cool as ice, transparent in color, slightly yellow, and the smell was very light, like the faint fragrance of grain carried by the wind blowing through wheat waves.

Returning to the Sword Terrace, he placed the wine barrel on a giant rock.

He took out three large white porcelain bowls and filled them with clear rice wine.

Looking at the bountiful woolly master and the petite tool disciple in front of him, forming a stable cycle of filial piety, Xiao Ran felt great.

"This is my newly brewed Malt Wine, let's have a master-disciple sworn brotherhood."

"Malt can also be used to brew wine?"

Lingzhou Yue didn't care about any sworn brotherhood, her attention was all on the wine.

Her refined and slightly upturned nose twitched slightly.

"...Isn't this clearly horse piss?"

Xiao Ran smiled without saying a word, picked up the porcelain white bowl, and took a sip himself first.

Coolness entered his throat, like a flowing waterfall, instantly pouring from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

His limbs, bones, internal organs, and six viscera were washed and scrubbed clean, spotless, as if his body had opened a skylight, his whole body was transparent, enlightened, and integrated with the heaven and earth.

All toxins, even excrement, were washed away, degraded, and dissipated.

This was a completely different experience from the tiger meat stimulating the taste buds and impacting the Dantian wall.

His whole person was purified!

Chuyan also timidly took a sip.

As if her whole body had been penetrated, her small face instantly turned red, her eyes were clear, and the way she looked at Xiao Ran was different.

For a cleanliness-freak girl like her, eating tiger meat was a forced choice, she had to grit her teeth and swallow it, and in the end, it stimulated her Dantian Qi Sea.

Drinking Malt Wine was really awesome!

"Really?"

Looking at the exaggerated reactions of Xiao Ran and Chuyan, Lingzhou Yue picked up the bowl with a slightly disgusted expression and took a small sip.

In just a moment, her sword-like eyebrows softened, as if she had seen the starry sky.

Xiao Ran silently collected Filial Piety Points.

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 Filial Piety Point!]

Another sip, and another sip, in the blink of an eye, she drank it all.

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 Filial Piety Point!]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 Filial Piety Point!]

[...]

Lingzhou Yue felt refreshed, and inadvertently, the accumulated poisonous wine in her body was completely eliminated...

However, as a big shot in the wine world, she had a lot of style and was not so easily conquered.

"Your clear rice wine tastes good, but it's too light and not suitable for an old wine connoisseur like me who has experienced the vicissitudes of life."

Xiao Ran smiled and said:

"Then drink more."

Glug glug glug...

[Congratulations to the host...]

It wasn't just Lingzhou Yue.

Chuyan, perhaps because of the joy of joining Sword-Wielding Mountain, or the depression of being Xiao Ran's disciple, or because the Malt Wine was too delicious, couldn't help but drink a lot as well.

Xiao Ran smiled without saying a word, but he didn't dare to drink any more.

This wine has a huge aftereffect!

A huge breakthrough! Moreover, this aftereffect doesn't come from alcohol or spiritual power, but from comprehending the heaven and earth and tracing back to life.

Xiao Ran only took a sip, and he remembered all kinds of things from his previous life, the sweetness and bitterness, how many people were separated by the sea and could not be crossed.

Chuyan was also quickly hit.

Recalling the past in the Palace, she suddenly remembered her deceased mother... her delicate body softened and she fell on the Sword Terrace.

"The little girl is still too young, learning to drink like an adult, three bowls of clear rice wine can also get her drunk."

Lingzhou Yue was, after all, an old wine connoisseur, pointing out the country, gesticulating and scolding, in the blink of an eye, the world spun, the sea changed, and she fell to the ground with a thud.

A soft exclamation, a thud, all within ten breaths.

"This wine is potent!"

Xiao Ran sealed the wine barrel and placed it in the system space for absolute preservation.

Then he looked at the ground.

On one side was his bold and forthright female master, her face as beautiful as a painting, her body sculpted by gods and demons, though her lying posture was a bit ungraceful, stirring up all sorts of fantasies.

On the other side was his newly acquired tool-disciple, a five-foot loli with a pure and beautiful appearance but a lewd heart, her limp posture making her seem delicate and lovable.

Statistically speaking, it wasn't easy to gather two top-tier beauties.

Xiao Ran looked up at the brilliant starry sky.

Transmigrators are always surrounded by beauties... it really is a law of the universe! He opened the system panel and glanced at his Filial Piety Points.

After successively purchasing Architecture, Brewing, Farming, and Cooking—

His Filial Piety Points had still risen to 50!

Xiao Ran had a feeling that in the next few days, as long as he massaged his master's shoulders, prepared hot springs, fruits, vegetables, home-style stir-fries, grilled seafood...

100 Filial Piety Points, Qi Refining Cultivation... within reach! Thinking this, he suddenly felt full of energy, eager to immediately—

Suddenly! A flash of white silk before his eyes.

Xiao Ran was kicked to the ground.

His left wrist was firmly pinned down by a knee covered in a translucent bamboo-patterned white gauze, his right wrist was held tightly by a soft, slender hand, and his abdomen was crushed by another knee.

A sharp blade was pressed against his jaw, shimmering with a cold light in the flickering firelight.

This terrible posture...

No, this posture wasn't terrible at all! Xiao Ran looked closely, both hands that could use the Resonance Power were restrained, and his abdomen, which he needed to use his movement techniques, was also pinned down.

In other words, even when dealing with a Mortal like him, the girl didn't let her guard down at all because she had tasted the power of the Resonance Power, completely locking him down.

This little girl wasn't as innocent and naive as she looked, she was very cautious.

Xiao Ran was glad that he had taken a roundabout approach to win over the girl, otherwise, encountering her in the Disciple Challenge would have been a very troublesome matter.

Chuyan was a Golden Core cultivator after all. After fainting, she subconsciously cleared the alcohol residue from her Dantian, suddenly flipped over, and kicked Xiao Ran over.

Then she knelt on him, firmly locking down his evil Resonance Hands, and drew her sword against him to avenge her humiliation.

While the Sword-Wielding Elder hadn't woken up yet, Chuyan knelt on Xiao Ran and hissed:

"You took advantage of me!"

Even with a sharp sword against his jaw, Xiao Ran remained calm.

He felt quite comfortable being pinned down, except for not being able to exert any force.

"My master is bigger than you in every way, and I didn't even think about taking advantage of her, why would I take advantage of a little kid like you?"

"You—"

Chuyan gritted her teeth and held her breath.

"I mean, you took advantage of my seniority!"

Xiao Ran smiled:

"If you don't get into Sword-Wielding Mountain, you'll still have to call me Martial Uncle. Is it so hard to call me Master now?"

"Yes, it is!"

Chuyan's face flushed red, and she was about to cry from grievance.

"A good woman doesn't submit under a man!"

Is that your reason for female superiority?

Xiao Ran simply said:

"You don't have to call me Master all the time. You can call me by my name or whatever you want when Master isn't around; however, if Master is nearby, you must call me Master. Sword-Wielding Mountain must have some decorum."

Chuyan glared at him fiercely.

"What if I don't agree?"

Xiao Ran curled his lips, acting like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water.

"Then I'll see you at the Disciple Challenge arena. From then on, you'll never have the chance to get this close to Master again."

"Fine, I agree."

Surprisingly, Chuyan agreed very readily.

She naturally knew the pros and cons. Drawing her sword was just to give Xiao Ran a show of force, to prevent him from bullying her in the future.

"Remember, you can't take advantage of me in the future!"

Xiao Ran thought.

Am I, Xiao Ran, that kind of person?

Depleting the pond to catch all the fish is unwise; mutual benefit is the perfect way to manipulate a disciple tool.

"As a teacher, I don't like to use seniority to suppress others. Although you are a disciple, you are free to do and say whatever you want. I won't take advantage of you."

You keep calling yourself 'teacher,' and you say you're not taking advantage? Chuyan wore a stern expression, released Xiao Ran, stood up, and sheathed her sword. While tidying her clothes, she threatened casually,

"If you dare to bully me in the future, touch me while I'm sleeping, or make me have children, I'll castrate you and run back to the Palace, so your child will grow up in a world without a father, discriminated against, and subjected to all kinds of humiliation!"

Xiao Ran's tone faltered, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

His jaw dropped in shock, barely connected by a layer of skin.

Worthy of you, thinking so far ahead...

After a long while, he composed himself and said earnestly,

"This is something between husband and wife, not something that should happen between a master and disciple."

Chuyan continued to glare at him.

"Don't lie!"

Xiao Ran shook his head and turned to look at Lingzhou Yue.

"Master is too immersed in her drunken state; I doubt I can wake her. I'll carry Master to the hot spring to sober her up. Give me a hand."

Chuyan's eyes widened, and she quickly stopped him, "Men and women shouldn't touch. Let me do it!"

"Could you wipe your drool first, please?"

How could Xiao Ran give up such a great opportunity to show filial piety? Without another word, he carried Lingzhou Yue on his back and left.

"Remember one thing—it's my responsibility to be filial to Master; your responsibility is to be filial to me."