Drunks are great!

It was a clear day, bright with sunshine.

Whistling cheerfully, Li Shouyi flew on his sword toward the Heavenly Sword Sect with his two beloved disciples.

"Master, could you check whether my butt is burned?"

A soft, sweet voice came from the back of the broad flying sword.

But Li Shouyi did not even turn his head. He sneered, "Try acting cute again and see if I beat you to death."

"Hmph, you're just playing favorites, Master. Why don't you ever hit Senior Sister?"

"If you were even half as well-behaved as your senior sister, I'd already be burning incense in gratitude."

"Hmph, I don't want to be a lazy pig all day."

Su Wan'er had once again returned to looking like a pretty, adorable young woman.

Although Li Shouyi had seemed to burn her quite badly last night, only the two of them knew it had merely been a game.

Su Wan'er had pretended to suffer a few injuries, while Li Shouyi had used the excuse to vent his anger.

It had all been an act, though it had certainly hurt a little.

Once Su Wan'er realized Li Shouyi was ignoring her, she immediately went to pester Lin Shuishui.

"Senior Sister, could you check whether there's a hole in my pants?"

Su Wan'er sneaked another glance at Li Shouyi.

Lin Shuishui: ZzZz

When Li Shouyi heard no reply from Lin Shuishui, he burst out laughing. "Hahaha, idiot."

Su Wan'er wanted to trade a few more barbs with Li Shouyi, but he suddenly said, "Wake your senior sister. We're here."

"Huh?"

"That fast?"

After muttering those two lines, Su Wan'er began shaking Lin Shuishui violently.

When the three landed, a towering mountain thrusting straight into the clouds stood before them.

The mountain was steep, like a sharp sword pointing toward the heavens.

That was no mere description. Countless strands of fierce Sword Qi actually radiated from the mountain.

They had barely landed when a shifty-eyed man approached and pitched his wares. "Would you like to take a look at a guide?"

"They're very cheap, just ten Spirit Stones each."

"I'll take one."

Miss Su, with money to burn, paid for a copy and began reading.

"Thank you for your patronage. May fate bring us together again."

The sleazy man was about to slip away when Li Shouyi grabbed his collar and said with a beaming smile, "Don't be in such a hurry. I'm not looking for trouble. I just have a few more questions."

Li Shouyi knew perfectly well how resourceful these information peddlers were. He could use their help to find himself a disciple.

"Hehe, sir, what are you talking about? I don't understand at all."

"Kid, keep playing dumb and I'll break your legs."

As Li Shouyi spoke, he released a trace of his Golden Core Realm aura, frightening the sleazy man so badly that his face instantly went white.

"Senior, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have deliberately kept it from you. This lousy book is actually useless. You could learn everything in it just by asking around."

"Senior, here are your Spirit Stones. Please let me go."

The sleazy man instantly dropped to his knees, looking at Li Shouyi with an expression of tearless misery and hoping he would let him off.

Li Shouyi smiled at him. "Keep the Spirit Stones. Now tell me, among the people competing here, do you know anyone famous for being especially useless?"

"Useless? Senior, you've asked the right person!"

The sleazy man perked up immediately at the topic. Pointing at a figure beneath the large tree ahead, he smiled. "Look, Senior. That's the famous good-for-nothing, the drunkard Pei Zhujiu."

"She was born without a spiritual root, yet she still shamelessly insists on cultivating. More importantly, she gets uncomfortable all over if she goes a single day without drinking."

"She's infamous as a good-for-nothing in the Heavenly Sword Sect. If her family weren't the cultivation world's most famous liquor-brewing lineage, who knows where she'd have died by now?"

Li Shouyi's eyes instantly lit up.

Drunks are great!

Having no spiritual root is even better. No spiritual root means she can't store spiritual energy, so naturally, her cultivation can't advance.

Wouldn't that take care of the system mission?

"All right, you can scram."

Having gotten the information he wanted, Li Shouyi instantly turned his back on the man and snatched the pouch of Spirit Stones from his hand.

Then he led Su Wan'er and a yawning Lin Shuishui toward the drunkard beneath the tree.

The sleazy man stood there in bewilderment. He looked at his empty hands, then in the direction Li Shouyi had gone, and muttered indignantly.

"What a thug!"

Li Shouyi brought the two women beneath a large tree, where a woman lay with dark hair covering her face, obscuring her features.

The reek of alcohol coming off her was strong enough to make people sneeze.

Li Shouyi hurriedly shut off his sense of smell, approached her, and smiled. "Do you feel lost?"

His words caught Pei Zhujiu's attention.

"What's it to you?"

"You envy them, don't you?"

"You envy how they can cultivate, soar freely through the sky, and roam the world with sword in hand."

Li Shouyi had noticed that Pei Zhujiu had been watching the cultivators ahead, and he had seen longing and yearning in her eyes.

"So what?"

After hearing Li Shouyi out, Pei Zhujiu took out a crystal-clear liquor bottle, swallowed a mouthful, and continued looking at him.

"Do you want to cultivate? I can teach you."

"Hahaha, even if you're trying to scam someone, find a better excuse."

"Everyone in the Heavenly Sword Sect knows that I, Pei Zhujiu, have no spiritual root. How exactly are you going to teach me?"

Li Shouyi smiled at her, then pointed at Lin Shuishui. "Lin Shuishui, reveal your spiritual root and let her see."

"Oh!"

At Li Shouyi's instruction, Lin Shuishui circulated her magical power and revealed her spiritual root.

"Pure white as jade, without a trace of color. This kind of spiritual root is considered the most useless in the Cultivation World."

Pointing at Lin Shuishui's glowing spiritual root, Li Shouyi smiled at Pei Zhujiu and continued, "She's my eldest disciple, and she's currently at Foundation Establishment. After cultivating under me for less than two months, she went from having no cultivation at all straight to Foundation Establishment."

"What did you say?"

When Lin Shuishui had revealed her colorless spiritual root, Pei Zhujiu had not been particularly surprised!

It was what Li Shouyi said afterward that truly stunned her.

"She's my second disciple. She also has the lowest-grade spiritual root, and she's at Foundation Establishment too."

Li Shouyi pointed at Su Wan'er, who obligingly revealed her spiritual root as well.

"You..."

Pei Zhujiu found it hard to believe, but she thought that if this was true, perhaps the man before her really could enable her to cultivate.

"Would you be willing to become my third disciple?"

"Would you be willing to show everyone that nothing in this world is absolute?"

"Would you be willing to stand before them as a cultivator and slap them hard across the face?"

At that moment, Pei Zhujiu felt as though she saw an endless sea of stars in Li Shouyi's eyes...