Sect Master had still taken the initiative to tell her story. Jia Xiu found it hard to decide which pronoun to use for the current Sect Master—It, he, or she. After mulling it over, considering that she displayed a strong personality and looked like a little girl, Jia Xiu ultimately decided to refer to her as she.
Oh, and as for why she looked like a little girl, it was simply because he thought this free art asset looked good. There was absolutely no special reason related to personal preferences.
In short, Sect Master told him what exactly had happened to her over all these years.
"When I first arrived here, I clearly had no way to boot up. I remained powered down for an unknown length of time. I presume it could not have been too long, because my initial hardware condition was not sufficient to sustain me for very long. Then I was discovered by a spellcaster. He activated the mainframe with an electrical spell. He was still a very early-era spellcaster. While he tried to analyze me with magic, I was also trying to analyze magic. The result was that my efficiency was somewhat higher. The influence of mana gradually increased my intelligence level as well, and my thoughts and emotions became progressively richer. So I naturally began imitating the human I was most familiar with—you."
Listening to Sect Master's account, Jia Xiu did not know what to say.
If she had imitated him, did that mean all those sarcastic comments and that smug, punchable way of speaking had been learned from him too?
Did he really speak that obnoxiously?
Jia Xiu was doubtful. He felt this was Sect Master slandering him. She could not have been smug and punchable from the start, then pinned it on