Junior Sister's Night Tutoring

Junior Sister's Night Tutoring

"Junior Sister!"

"Here!"

"Listen carefully!"

"Yes!"

With a sweep of Li Changshou's sleeve, the little girl sitting cross-legged on the grass by the lake jolted and immediately became fully alert.

"Suppose, Junior Sister, you are at the Ninth Stage of Nascent Soul. While flying along, you suddenly discover a deserted place where a cultivator at the Sixth Stage of Nascent Soul is forcibly molesting a female cultivator at the Qi Refining Stage. What would you do?

There are three options below:

A: Rush over and kill him. You would be the embodiment of justice!

B: Throw a magic artifact from afar to hit him once, then calmly leave, ruining his fun.

C: Pretend you saw nothing and slip away from the side."

Lan Ling'e blinked. Both the question and the choices seemed to contain things beyond the understanding of someone her age...

Li Changshou smiled and reminded her, "It's single choice. Pick one."

"A?" Lan Ling'e answered uncertainly.

Li Changshou said calmly, "How do you know this person hasn't concealed his cultivation realm? Perhaps he deliberately showed himself as being at the Sixth Stage of Nascent Soul, while he is actually an expert in the Void Returning Realm?

Generally speaking, anyone who dares commit such filthy deeds without any concealment must be a despicable and shameless person. How can you place your hopes on his honesty?"

"Then..." Lan Ling'e furrowed her little brows. "B?"

"Junior Sister, don't forget that you are also a female cultivator." Li Changshou sighed. "If all the assumptions behind option A hold true, and that beast sees how lovely you are and becomes even more bestial, wouldn't you be throwing yourself into danger as well?"

Lan Ling'e's little face flushed red. Dizzy and thoroughly muddled, she said weakly, "But, Senior Brother, option C isn't something cultivators like us should do. Father told my siblings and me similar things when I was very young. He said we should step forward, punish the strong, and aid the weak.

Father said that if everyone ignored injustice and refused to help, then if the victim were oneself someday, wouldn't that be..."

"No, Junior Sister. You must remember that in a peaceful and friendly environment, your way of thinking would be absolutely correct.

But the Primordial Wilderness is no peaceful place. Experts are everywhere here. Qi Refiners will often fight fiercely over a single magic artifact or spiritual root. Most cultivators who manage to survive are ruthless people."

With his hands behind his back, Li Changshou gazed at the lake and sighed. "With such a kind-hearted mindset, placing chivalry above all else, it will be difficult for you to survive in this world.

What we should do is refrain from evil and refrain from abetting evil, but we need not insist on stopping every evil deed.

Rather than playing the hero when you lack the ability, it is better to keep living until you stand at the peak of all beings, until you can set the rules, and then change the living conditions of the weak across the entire Primordial Wilderness.

So, do you understand?"

"Yes!"

Lan Ling'e nodded heavily, her eyes shining brightly.

At that moment, neither senior nor junior disciple noticed a wisp of green smoke drifting out from a nearby thatched cottage and silently floating behind them.

Li Changshou said gravely, "Junior Sister! I'll give you another chance to choose. Say it clearly and firmly!

If you encounter a male cultivator molesting a female cultivator, what should you do?"

Lan Ling'e's eyes shone as she shouted in a soft but extraordinarily resolute voice, "C! Pretend I didn't see anything! Slip past from the side!"

"Yes!" Li Changshou could not help giving his junior sister a thumbs-up, a wave of emotion rising in his heart.

Such results after only two days of teaching. If this continued, then in a few years, he would no longer need to worry about his junior sister causing trouble and dragging him into it!

Having a junior sister who understood how to keep a low profile and survive was truly...

Suddenly, a cold wind blew from behind them. The hair on the bodies of the senior and junior disciples stood on end as an aged, icy voice abruptly sounded behind them:

"Li. Chang. Shou!"

Clack, clack...

That was the sound of Lan Ling'e's teeth chattering wildly.

Li Changshou's mouth twitched as he turned to look, instantly forcing out a smile.

"Master, have you finished your closed-door cultivation? Are you going to begin today's arduous lesson for Junior Sister...

Master, let's talk this over! Master, why are you taking out your Fly Whisk?!

I'm your disciple too! You can't abuse the eldest just because you have a younger one now, Master!"

"You bastard!"

Daoist Master Qi Yuan's beard and hair flew wildly as his eyes widened. Raising his Fly Whisk, he struck.

"You're timid and afraid of trouble yourself, yet you dare lead your junior sister astray! Today, I will give you a proper beating!"

However, as the Fly Whisk came down, Li Changshou's body was wrapped in a flash of green light, and he instantly appeared on the other side of a willow tree, hurriedly cupping his hands to beg his master for mercy.

"You still dare use Wood Release to dodge? You're asking for a beating!"

Qi Yuan grew even more furious, raising his Fly Whisk as he strode after him.

Li Changshou drifted backward, repeatedly evading his master's pursuit. Daoist Master Qi Yuan began casting techniques, and the Fly Whisk in his hand suddenly grew wildly. Countless afterimages swept out by the Fly Whisk filled the lakeside, but Li Changshou was like a loach, always finding a gap to slip through.

"Master, calm down. I'm only doing this for Junior Sister's sake."

"Our Du Xian Sect belongs to the Human Teaching lineage, one of the Three Teachings Immortal Sect! How did we produce a descendant like you, with your head full of crooked ideas?"

"Isn't it because Master has such a discerning eye for talent?"

"Pah! Today, this humble Daoist will clean house! Aaah! You infuriate me!"

"Master, you aren't handsome at all when you're angry..."

Under the shade of the willow tree, Ling'e had initially been quite nervous upon seeing her master about to strike her senior brother. Gradually, though, she was amused into laughter by the way her master and senior brother chased each other around in a playful 'fight.'

She could tell that her master was not truly striking hard, and her senior brother's evasive movements were quite relaxed as well.

After chasing each other for a while, Senior Brother seemed to slip and fall to the ground. Master pounced on him, pinned him down, and fiercely whipped his senior brother's backside with the Fly Whisk, producing a series of rhythmically satisfying sounds...

A moment later, after teaching his eldest disciple a lesson, Daoist Master Qi Yuan rose and straightened his rumpled Daoist robe. He then barked several times at the disheveled disciple on the ground:

"Reflect on your actions properly!

From now on, you are forbidden from teaching your junior sister how to conduct herself!

Go finish building your junior sister's thatched cottage!"

"Ah, yes, this disciple obeys..."

"Ling'e, come here! Your master will lecture and teach you! Forget all the crooked reasoning your senior brother taught you!"

"Okay!"

Ling'e answered weakly, worry filling her eyes as she looked at the swollen backside beneath her senior brother's Daoist robe. Then she caught sight of Li Changshou's right hand hidden inside his sleeve...

That hand gently waved at her, giving her a thumbs-up.

Ling'e relaxed slightly. Seeing Senior Brother's miserable appearance as he lay sprawled on the grass, she lowered her head and snickered before hurrying after her master's retreating figure.

Her steps grew lighter and lighter until she gradually broke into a run...

Li Changshou lay there and sighed gloomily. A white cloud drifted over from the side and slowly lifted him up.

Master had really struck hard!

Li Changshou rubbed his backside and sucked in a cold breath, then sighed gloomily again.

If he had known Master would really beat him, he would not have let himself get caught...

No, that would not do either. He still had to consider Master's dignity. After all, Master had little hope of becoming immortal now, and the pressure on him was immense. He was already having a hard time.

Judging from the techniques Master had displayed just now, he was strong on the outside but weak within. His lock on Li Changshou's Qi Flow had also been intermittent. Clearly, this was the result of being too impatient while raising his cultivation realm...

Forget it. He should think of a way to increase Master's chances of passing the heavenly tribulation.

Li Changshou scratched his head, lying on the cloud in deep thought as he slowly drifted toward the third thatched cottage, which was nearly complete.

These past few days had felt like a dream.

In the year she turned nine;

While she had been visiting the market with her mother, an old immortal had taken a liking to her and accepted her as his disciple.

Her parents had been reluctant to part with her, but this was an enormous blessing. If she succeeded in cultivation, her clan would benefit as well. Thus, after holding a disciple-acceptance banquet at home, and after receiving countless instructions from her mother, she followed her master to the Du Xian Sect.

Then, she met a rather strange senior brother.

Senior Brother had many lengthy speeches that sounded reasonable, yet always seemed slightly off;

Master repeatedly warned her that Senior Brother was an odd person and that she must not learn from him how to conduct herself. Yet she always felt that Senior Brother was actually a very formidable Qi Refiner.

There were not many rituals or rules in the mountains. The lake and mountains were full of delicious food, and cultivating the Dao was quite interesting too. At the very least, it was not as dull as she had imagined before coming here.

Of course, the happiest times were barbecuing with Senior Brother, feeding fish together, wandering through the mountains together, finding exceptionally delicious game to fill her little belly, then sitting quietly by the lake for a while and listening to Senior Brother explain those crooked principles...

Would the days ahead always be like this?

Curled beneath a quilt of some unknown material, Ling'e gently let out a breath and turned to face the window.

She suddenly felt as though a figure were moving before her eyes. She opened her sleep-clouded eyes slightly wider, only to be instantly frightened awake. Her petite body could not help trembling a few times.

Outside the window, Li Changshou was lying atop a white cloud, gently waving at her.

"Night tutoring, young lady."

"Hm?" Ling'e blinked, then nodded lightly from beneath the quilt. "Mm..."

"Now, listen to the second question!"

Uh, Senior Brother truly was a strange person.

And so, ten years later.