As it turned out, when people thought you were unimportant, they would not go out of their way to insult you. They would simply ignore you.
That was exactly how Cheng Yu felt right now. He had been treated like thin air. Ji Han and the other two had all ignored him, chatting about things they assumed he knew nothing about or could not understand.
Cheng Yu understood. After all, he was currently just a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy, and one who had lived in the mountains for years at that. It was perfectly normal for people to overlook him.
In reality, however, Cheng Yu had listened to Ji Han and the two fellow disciples chat for only a little while before he went off to shoot the breeze with the System.
(So, are all young people this cocky these days? One minute they're kicking the Demon-Worshipping Cult Leader around, the next they're punching the Demon Dynasty's Son of Heaven.) (¬д¬.)
That was right. Gongliang She and his junior sister sounded like a couple of brats fresh out in the world. At first, they had said reasonably sensible things about rooting out evil, protecting the innocent, and guiding people's hearts. But the longer they talked, the bigger their boasts grew, as though Gongliang She would stumble upon an unparalleled secret manual at any moment, master its divine arts, and then crush every enemy in the world with a flip of his hand, becoming the second Eternal Great Sage and the present era's Invincible.
Li Pei'er believed him like a mindless fangirl, of course. The way she gazed at Gongliang She was practically dripping with affection. All Cheng Yu could do was marvel that the wisdom of the ancients had not deceived him: a junior sister's feelings for her senior brother