A Demon's Sleeping Posture

"Oh! Tell me! What good food was there?" Sixth Senior Brother was in charge of meals, so he cared a great deal about food.

"Hmph! Who has time to worry about that now? Help me wake this fatty up first—or drag him to the dining hall." Tian Linger tugged hard a few more times, but whether he was stuck in the doorframe or not, he did not budge an inch.

"Did Little Junior Brother get rounder again?"

"Haha!" At that, everyone burst into laughter. Though Tian Buyi did not care too much about his own bulky figure, he still disliked hearing the word "fat" from anyone else's mouth. And Little Junior Brother was also rather sensitive to that word.

Tian Buyi simply disliked it; in truth, he still cared a little about his build. Luo Yunji, however, was the complete opposite. He loved his plump little body, especially his soft, fleshy little belly.

But out of consideration for their master Tian Buyi's preferences, it was ultimately Fourth Senior Brother He Dazhi who thought of using "round" in place of "fat."

"No wonder I couldn't drag him!" Tian Linger let go of the blanket in her hands, somewhat discouraged.

"Little pig! Time to get up!" Second Senior Brother Wu Dayi walked up, crouched down, reached out, and patted Little Junior Brother on the butt as he called out, but there was no reaction at all.

Smiling, he shook his head, then reached out and lifted him from the floor.

"Whoa! He really has gotten a lot heavier!" Wu Dayi hefted him and said cheerfully.

Then he carried him back into the room. Before long, he came back out holding Luo Yunji, who was already dressed but still fast asleep.

"Let's have breakfast first. I'll take you to the back mountain today!" Wu Dayi said to Zhang Xiaofan with a smile.

"Where's Eldest Senior Brother?" Usually, it was Eldest Senior Brother who took them to the back mountain.

"Senior Sister Wen Min is here." Sixth Senior Brother smiled rather slyly, and the few who knew the truth all smiled just as slyly.

"Oh! No wonder!" Tian Linger suddenly understood.

Only Zhang Xiaofan was rather confused. As for Luo Yunji, who still had not woken up, he had no mind to pay any attention to such things. In the eyes of all the disciples, aside from eating, all he had in his head was sleeping.

At the dining table, Tian Buyi looked at his little disciple, whose head was knocked against the table yet who still slept on, and his teeth itched with anger. His hand on the table kept rubbing back and forth as he wondered whether to beat him awake.

When the others saw this, they all wanted to laugh but did not dare, and holding it in was rather painful.

After the meal, Wu Dayi carried Luo Yunji, with Tian Linger and Zhang Xiaofan following behind and Big Yellow dashing about ahead of them, and they headed toward the back mountain.

"Here?" Wu Dayi had entered the sect over a hundred years ago and had not been to the bamboo grove where he once practiced the basics in a very long time.

"It's still up ahead! There's still some distance from where Little Fatty sleeps," Tian Linger replied.

"Little Junior Brother really doesn't do his lessons at all?" Wu Dayi still found it a little hard to believe.

"I've been chopping bamboo for almost three years, but this lazy fatty has slept for three years," Tian Linger said bitterly.

When she learned from Su Ru that this lazy fellow had actually already cultivated the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao to the fifth level, her heart was filled with frustration.

"Little Junior Brother really is a monster!" Wu Dayi sighed, imitating Sixth Senior Brother's words.

"That's it!" After turning past several clusters of bamboo, the faint sound of water could be heard, and a huge boulder appeared indistinctly among the bamboo grove.

"It's a good place. Much better than the bamboo grove I chose for practice back then!" Seeing the scene before him, Wu Dayi was quite moved. This was where he had once rested after finishing his lessons. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years had passed, and he actually felt a little nostalgic.

"Do you need me to come pick you up after you're done?" Wu Dayi laid the sleeping Luo Yunji down properly on the huge boulder.

"No need! By then, this Little Fatty will wake up on his own!"

"All right! Then I'll head back first. You should finish your lessons and return early too."

Only after Wu Dayi had gone far away did Zhang Xiaofan ask curiously, "Senior Sister! Why not let Little Junior Brother sleep in his room?"

Zhang Xiaofan looked at Luo Yunji, who was sleeping sweetly on the huge boulder, and thought to himself, He really can sleep!

"Mm! Well! Actually, my dad tacitly allowed it. And the senior brothers all want to mess with this lazy fellow a bit, though it has absolutely no effect. My dad hopes that one day, Little Junior Brother will suddenly become self-aware and finish his lessons on his own. As for the senior brothers, it's because Little Junior Brother's cultivation is too monstrous, so they feel unbalanced and want to bully him a little." As Tian Linger finished speaking, she herself became amused.

"This counts as bullying?" Zhang Xiaofan could not quite understand.

"Actually, Little Junior Brother's cultivation rose in a rather inexplicable way, and my dad doesn't know how to explain it either. Because none of us have really seen Little Junior Brother cultivate. So my dad concluded that it might have something to do with Little Junior Brother's usual schedule. That's why things ended up like this." Tian Linger pointed at Luo Yunji sleeping on the huge boulder and explained to Zhang Xiaofan.

"Sleeping can increase cultivation too?" Zhang Xiaofan felt that cultivation did not seem as difficult as Eldest Senior Brother had said.

"Hmph, hmph! What did you think? Haven't you heard what the senior brothers call him in private? It's Little... Monster! All right, hurry up and do your lessons." After saying this, Tian Linger went to search for her own target and complete her lessons.

Zhang Xiaofan also gathered himself and began searching for his own target.

Since it was part of cultivation for those three years into the sect, the Black-Joint Bamboo was naturally no ordinary species. Therefore, no matter what posture or method Zhang Xiaofan used, he could not damage the Black-Joint Bamboo in the slightest. Instead, his own forehead was whipped by the rebounding Black-Joint Bamboo, raising a large bump. As he rubbed his forehead and grimaced, from the corner of his eye he noticed that the figure that should have been there had suddenly disappeared.

Zhang Xiaofan jolted and hurriedly ran over.

Sure enough, Luo Yunji was no longer on the huge boulder. He circled the boulder once but still did not see him. Then he looked into the lake, and that one glance nearly scared him half to death.

"Senior Sister! Senior Sister! Help!" Zhang Xiaofan shouted, so anxious he was almost crying. In the lake, Luo Yunji was floating in the center, bobbing up and down. Without waiting for Tian Linger to come over, Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly jumped into the lake and swam toward the center.

Fortunately, back in the village, climbing trees and going into the water had been essential skills for children playing together, so Zhang Xiaofan was fairly good in the water.

Hearing the cry for help, Tian Linger dropped her firewood knife and rushed over with all her might.

The moment she turned around the huge boulder, she saw the figure bobbing and drifting in the center of the lake, as well as Zhang Xiaofan, who kept trying to get close to Little Fatty. Seeing Zhang Xiaofan repeatedly bounced away by the blue light around Luo Yunji, he was already so anxious that he had burst into tears.

"Junior Brother!" Driven by Zhang Xiaofan's emotions, Tian Linger also began to feel uneasy.

"Senior Sister! I can't... I can't save Little Junior Brother! What... what do we do?!" Zhang Xiaofan choked out, crying as he looked at Tian Linger on the shore, yet he still did not give up trying to touch Luo Yunji's body.

This was the first time something like this had happened. Little Junior Brother's sleeping posture had never been this outrageous before. He had actually managed to sleep his way from such a high rock into the lake. Speaking of which, how had he gotten down there? Seeing that the two people in the lake did not seem to be in any danger for the moment, Tian Linger breathed a sigh of relief. She turned her head to look at the huge boulder, then looked again at Luo Yunji in the middle of the lake, and curiosity suddenly rose in her heart.