At two in the morning, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi finished discussing the Combat Mental Method Fury Heart Attack.
"Su Yuan, you grasped this mental method faster than I did. Given your aptitude, you shouldn't have been only around the middle of the class before."
"Could it be you were hiding your true ability?"
Chen Nuoyi was amazed by how Su Yuan had just explained the mental method in such depth yet with such clarity. She couldn't help wondering what had changed about his aptitude.
When she'd taught Su Yuan martial arts before, he hadn't learned nearly this fast.
Su Yuan could only laugh it off.
"Maybe I'm especially talented when it comes to the Dao Heart, so I learn mental methods faster."
Chen Nuoyi didn't suspect a thing. After spending these past few days with him, she'd found that Su Yuan's Dao Heart really was astonishingly steadfast.
She didn't ask any more. After nodding goodbye, she rode the Shared Flying Sword home to rest.
Su Yuan stood on the rooftop for a while and tried circulating the upgraded Fury Heart Attack. He found that he'd already reached the Minor Achievement stage in his understanding of the mental method.
Reaching Great Achievement before the Martial Arts Competition began wouldn't be a problem.
But he still needed to study how to unleash the full power of this mental method during the competition.
The following day, at noon.
At the school gate, delivery drivers outwitted the school security guards, one meal at a time, bringing lunch to the students.
Every inch of the school's walls had become contested ground between the delivery drivers and the guards. The two sides were locked in a fierce battle.
Just as the guards were tied up dealing with the delivery drivers, a White-haired Loli, white enough to glow, appeared at the school gate without anyone noticing when she'd arrived.
She was unbelievably cute, yet for some reason no one around her paid her any attention.
The White-haired Loli raised her brilliant golden eyes to look at Taihua High School. Her delicate brows drew together.
"So small and shabby."
But then her little brows relaxed again.
"Though... the demonic aura is as deep as an abyss."
Her tiny head turned slightly, and her gaze fell on a building inside the campus. From her perspective, the sky above it was already thick with cold, pitch-black demonic mist.
"There's a Demon Lord hiding in Taihua High School. I... I came to the right place."
A faint flush spread over the White-haired Loli's cheeks. She couldn't help sticking out her little tongue to lick her jelly-like, glistening pink lips, then pattered into the campus.
As if there were no one there.
In the cafeteria, Su Yuan had sold a full 155 portions of Dragon Scale Roasted Goose. Like a farmer admiring a bountiful harvest, he happily wiped the fine sweat from his forehead.
Though he hadn't managed to sell both geese by the end of the lunch rush, selling the rest in the evening should just about do it.
Thinking about how the two of them, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi, would earn a cut of 2,400 yuan in one go today, they could hardly contain their delight.
Just as Su Yuan began packing up, ready to enjoy his own lunch, a "Ding-dong!" rang out in his mind.
[Attention: An extremely dangerous righteous expert is approaching you. She is a fearsome figure who despises evil and searches the world for Demon Lords. With your current strength, you wouldn't last a single move against her.] [An ordinary demonic cultivator would have fallen into utter despair by now, but you must not despair!] [You can't die. You still have ambitions left unfulfilled and sins yet to commit. You must not fall here!] [A sudden Demon Lord Mission has been updated!] [Mission: Staying Alive (In Progress)] [No matter how wretched or humiliated you are, as long as there is still a glimmer of hope, you must endure the humiliation and stay alive until that righteous expert completely abandons her desire to kill you!] [Task Progress: Survival Probability (50%/100%)] [Mission Reward: Random Fortuitous Opportunity *1]
Listening to the system's urgent prompts beside his ear and watching the mission information flash onto the System Panel, Su Yuan was bewildered.
What the heck?
An extremely dangerous righteous expert was coming after him?
T-that couldn't be! He hadn't done anything deserving of heaven's wrath!
But then Su Yuan thought of a possibility.
Could the righteous expert the system meant be the powerful figure who might show up at Taihua High School at any moment, a graduate of one of the Top Ten Immortal Dao Academies?
He still didn't know the details about that expert, but someone whom Taihua High School treated with such respect and had paid so much to hire definitely wasn't an ordinary graduate of one of the top ten academies.
That expert's cultivation might already be at Foundation Establishment Peak—or perhaps she was even a... Golden Core True Person!
And if the expert happened to have a way to identify demonic cultivators, then after noticing the cafeteria was saturated with demonic aura, she might well come looking for him.
Su Yuan broke into a cold sweat.
Fortunately, with the Pure Devil Heart taking effect, his mind grew a little clearer.
Thinking it over, he didn't seem to have much to fear.
When he used the Corpse Refining Method to roast the goose, hadn't he already considered the day someone discovered he was a Demon Lord?
True, he used demonic arts every day to refine Small Medicinal Pills without certification, peered into other people's fates, tempted the Righteous Path Saintess to fall into depravity, and even used corpse-refining methods to roast goose—but he was a good person.
Even if that righteous expert came looking for him, at worst she'd discover that his awakened meridians and the way he prepared the goose were a little unusual.
Was that against the law?
And even if the righteous expert couldn't tolerate a speck of dust in her eye and insisted on making trouble for him, did that mean she could just slap him dead?
This was the Civilized Cultivation Society, after all. Never mind being a Golden Core Cultivator—even Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators had to obey the law.
After thinking it all through, Su Yuan let out a long breath.
That Dog System always liked to exaggerate. He couldn't let it scare him.
Now he just had to figure out how to deal with that righteous expert.
He didn't know what the "random fortuitous opportunity" reward was, but he might as well get his hands on it first.
Su Yuan looked around from the cafeteria serving window, trying to find the righteous expert.
But after searching for a long while, he came up empty.
Just as he was at a loss, a tiny, flawless hand suddenly rose up in front of the serving window, giving Su Yuan a fright.
He looked down and saw a White-haired Loli with a face like a carved doll, standing there in silence, not even tall enough to reach the serving window.
Her pair of clear, bright golden eyes stared unblinkingly at Su Yuan, leaving him in a daze.
Whose kid was this?
[Ding-dong! You are now face-to-face with that extremely dangerous righteous expert. You must tread with the utmost caution with every step from here on!]
Listening to the system prompt that suddenly rang out beside his ear, Su Yuan fell into a long silence.
A righteous expert? Extremely dangerous?
This white-haired little girl?
After spending so much time with the system, Su Yuan was certain he'd figured out its ways.
Yet this damn system had once again sunk to a new low.
It had exaggerated every mission description, made up all kinds of drama, and slandered him, a model young man. He'd put up with all of that. But now it had gone too far and mistaken a harmless White-haired Loli for a righteous expert?
How was a little girl who hadn't even grown out her hair supposed to take him out in one move? Was she going to kill him with cuteness?
Answer me!
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