Fuck.
After cursing inwardly, Li Shouyi glared at the still-smug Su Wan'er and snapped, "Get outside and face the wall. Reflect on your mistakes and think hard about what you did wrong."
After hearing the system's mechanical voice, Li Shouyi had nearly exploded on the spot.
Every last one of them was screwing him over.
How was he supposed to survive a month from now?
"Huh?"
Seeing Li Shouyi's ugly expression, Su Wan'er was a little dumbfounded.
Did I comprehend it wrong?
No, Master must be afraid I'll grow arrogant and complacent. That's why he's deliberately putting on a stern face to remind me.
After all, the Cultivation World is full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons. I've barely even begun!
At that thought, Su Wan'er looked at Li Shouyi with admiration shining in her eyes. "Master, I understand your painstaking intentions now. I won't let you down!"
With that, she walked out with determination written across her face.
Li Shouyi: ????
What nonsense have these masters of overthinking dreamed up now?
But then he sighed inwardly. Anyway, there's basically no hope of earning rewards from these two anymore.
I'd better find some new disciples!
Otherwise, my little life will be in danger a month from now.
The next day, having made up his mind, Li Shouyi prepared to try his luck outside. Before leaving, he told Su Wan'er to take good care of Lin Shuishui. If she slept herself to death, he would have a hard time explaining it.
Li Shouyi had no idea that, during the few days he was away, his two beloved disciples would throw the entire sect into an uproar.
"Place your bets! Bet big, win big! Too slow, and you'll miss out!"
On a terrace in the Boundless Sect's outer sect grounds, a crowd had gathered amid nonstop shouting.
"Haha! Seventeen, big! I won!"
"Move aside! I bet a thousand low-grade spirit stones!"
"Don't rush, don't rush! There's enough for everyone!"
Su Wan'er paid out spirit stones at a leisurely pace, smiling cheerfully without the slightest annoyance at losing money.
"What are you doing?"
A mildly angry voice suddenly came from nearby. The crowd turned toward it, and upon seeing the speaker, someone cried out, "The law enforcement elder is here!"
"Shit! Run!"
"Old Ma, wait for me!"
"Piss off! Are you shouting my name because you're afraid Elder Yan won't recognize me?"
At the cry announcing the law enforcement elder, the crowd scattered and fled.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't run!"
Su Wan'er panicked. She had not given away enough money today yet!
Clutching several large bags of spirit stones, she stood rooted to the spot, at a complete loss. As a result, Yan Hai caught her red-handed.
"Whose disciple are you? Why are you running a gambling operation here?"
"Huh? Me?"
"My master is Golden Core Elder Li Shouyi."
"Elder, do you know my master?"
Still unaware of what was happening, Su Wan'er stared blankly at Yan Hai.
"Hmph! So it's him."
"Where is he? I'll personally drag him before the sect leader and demand to know how he teaches his disciples. Openly violating sect rules—he's simply leading his disciples astray!"
Yan Hai had long disliked Li Shouyi.
Relying on his youth, he stirred up trouble every day and showed absolutely no regard for the Law Enforcement Peak under Yan Hai's charge.
Now Su Wan'er understood. This man wanted to make trouble for her master.
She immediately bristled and said with restrained anger, "What gives you the right to criticize my master?"
Her master had disregarded the world's judgment for her sake. Who knew how much pressure he had endured to take her as his disciple?
Most importantly, her master had helped her comprehend the Great Dao of Cause and Effect. What right did this man have to say he was leading his disciples astray?
"Just look at yourself! Instead of working hard at your cultivation, you're gathering other disciples here to gamble."
"As the saying goes, raising a child without teaching them is the father's fault."
"As your master, Li Shouyi failed to teach you these things. That makes it his fault."
The more Yan Hai spoke, the angrier he became. He was a dignified Golden Core law enforcement elder, yet a mere ordinary disciple dared to talk back to him in public.
He was absolutely going to report Li Shouyi.
In a moment, he would go to the sect leader and lodge a scathing complaint against him.
Ideally, Li Shouyi would be expelled from the Boundless Sect.
"You..."
Su Wan'er still wanted to explain on her master's behalf, but someone suddenly ran over and interrupted their conversation.
"Something's wrong! Lin Shuishui has fallen over again in the sect dining hall!"
Hearing this, Su Wan'er cried out, "Senior Sister!"
She hurried toward the dining hall.
The Boundless Sect maintained a dining hall specifically for disciples who could not yet go without food. In theory, Lin Shuishui had already reached Foundation Establishment and no longer needed to eat at all.
Unfortunately, she had only recently advanced, and Li Shouyi had forgotten to teach her. Thus, this "crouching dragon" still went to the dining hall out of habit.
And that meal led straight to trouble.
Inside the Boundless Sect's dining hall for disciples below Foundation Establishment.
Lin Shuishui lay face-down in her food, still holding a pair of chopsticks.
From a distance, anyone who did not know better would have thought she was dead!
"Tsk, tsk. So this is that sleeping goddess!"
"That's impressive. She can even fall asleep while eating."
"Heh-heh, I have a question. Would this sleeping goddess fall asleep while emptying her bowels, too?"
The male disciples around her all wore knowing, indulgent grins.
The female disciples also looked at Lin Shuishui with disgust. Their expressions made it plain that they detested this girl who spent all day sleeping without getting up.
After jogging all the way to the dining hall, Su Wan'er saw Lin Shuishui slumped over the table and hurried over to call to her.
"Senior Sister, wake up! Hurry and wake up!"
Finally, after Su Wan'er exerted the strength of nine oxen and two tigers.
Lin Shuishui woke with a soft murmur.
"Second Junior Sister, where am I?"
"Senior Sister, you're in the dining hall!"
When everyone around them saw Lin Shuishui's rice-covered face and bleary eyes, she looked as though she had not slept nearly enough.
They burst into laughter.
"Haha! Look at her! She's even drooling!"
"This woman really has no shame."
"So white."
"Damn! You can even turn a specimen like this into dirty talk?"
Hearing the surrounding mockery, Su Wan'er's little face instantly flushed red.
Unable to hold back, she spoke up. "What do you people know? My senior sister is comprehending the supreme Great Dao! How could ordinary mortals like you possibly understand?"
They might have stopped if she had said nothing, but her words only made them laugh harder.
"Haha! Did you hear that?"
"This is the first time I've heard of cultivating in your sleep!"
"Ah, Junior Brother, that just shows how little you know. You really can cultivate while sleeping!"
"Could Senior Brother be talking about the legendary art of dual cultivation?"
As the crowd's remarks grew increasingly outrageous, Su Wan'er's face turned crimson with anger when one male disciple suggested that Li Shouyi might be taking Lin Shuishui along to practice dual cultivation.
She could no longer hold back.
She bellowed, "Shut up!"
Her shout startled everyone around her.
Once one of the disciples from the Law Enforcement Peak recovered, he snapped angrily, "What are you shouting for? Don't you know loud disturbances are forbidden in the dining hall?"
"Exactly! What good is a loud voice? If you've got what it takes, enter the sect's rising star competition!"
Those words gave the furious Su Wan'er an idea. Taking hold of Lin Shuishui, who had fallen asleep again, she snapped at the crowd, "Listen up, all of you! My senior sister and I will definitely enter the rising star competition. When the time comes, we'll settle our accounts with every single one of you!"
With that, she dragged Lin Shuishui outside.
She never noticed the mysterious smile of a successful scheme on the face of the man standing behind the crowd.
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