Hu Tutu had tossed and turned all night over the Demon Race's future and rose early. After washing up, she had barely opened her door when she saw Bai Feiyu standing in a tree with his hands behind his back.
Faint wisps of violet light flowed over Bai Feiyu, winding around him like purple snakes.
They lent an uncanny air to the otherwise upright and righteous Bai Feiyu.
Senior Brother Bai is as handsome as ever! Hu Tutu thought with a sigh of admiration.
Just as Hu Tutu was admiring him, she spotted Leng Qingsong, who had terrified her yesterday, walking up from the foot of the mountain, bare-chested and carrying an enormous tree.
Beneath his cool, handsome face was a body like a stone sculpture, with dew and sweat gleaming across it.
Second Senior Brother nearly scared me into wetting myself yesterday, but looking at him like this, he's pretty perfect too!
Hehehe, I, Tutu, love my senior brothers best!
While Hu Tutu was swooning over the bare-chested Leng Qingsong, he gently lowered the waist-thick tree from his shoulder to the ground.
He raised his hand. A clear sword cry rang out, and an ancient-looking longsword flew from his room.
Leng Qingsong steadied his breathing, his gaze sharpened, and the longsword in his hand slashed out like a rainbow piercing the sun.
Fierce sword strikes engulfed the tree like a sudden downpour. In an instant, the longsword was back in his hand.
The waist-thick tree had become a pile of planks.
"What amazing swordsmanship!" Hu Tutu could not help shouting from the sidelines.
Leng Qingsong glanced at Hu Tutu, then lowered his head and began gathering the planks.
"Second Senior Brother, what are you doing?" Hu Tutu summoned her courage and walked over to Leng Qingsong, asking with what she considered a sweet smile.
With nails held between his lips, planks in one hand, and a hammer in the other, Leng Qingsong coolly uttered two words: "Roof repairs!"
Hu Tutu froze at his answer, then remembered that Leng Qingsong's breakthrough yesterday had blown the entire roof off. Eldest Senior Brother had yelled at him to fix the house today.
Hu Tutu watched her second senior brother, who had seemed like a murderous sword immortal yesterday, carry the planks bare-chested and leap onto the roof, where he began hammering away.
His transformation from peerless sword immortal to roofer was utterly seamless.
A Core Formation cultivator brimming with murderous intent actually obediently followed their unremarkable eldest senior brother's orders.
While Hu Tutu was still marveling at this, Chen Changsheng emerged from the kitchen, wiping his hands on a cloth. Seeing her standing there in a daze, he smiled and said, "Good morning, Junior Sister. The millet porridge will be ready soon. Help me carry it out in a moment!"
"All right, Third Senior Brother!" Hu Tutu bobbed her head in agreement as she walked toward the kitchen.
Although Chen Changsheng gave her the feeling that his smile never reached his eyes, he was her senior brother, so surely he would not harm her without cause!
Hu Tutu entered the kitchen and watched Chen Changsheng bustling about. Rolling up her sleeves, she walked over to him and said, "Senior Brother, what can I, Tutu, help you with?"
Chen Changsheng turned to look at Hu Tutu, an unfathomable gleam in his eyes, and said softly, "Get the bowls and chopsticks ready, then take them outside!"
Hu Tutu nodded and skipped off to gather the bowls and chopsticks.
As Chen Changsheng watched her retreating figure, the strange gleam in his eyes blazed brighter!
The future Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, the Ten Thousand Demons Empress, has become my little junior sister? Has everything changed because I was reborn? No matter what, as long as I build a good relationship with her early on, the tragic fate of my previous life won't befall me again! Chen Changsheng was frantically planning his future.
He had an enormous secret that no one knew: he had been reborn from the future!
After the apocalypse descended, he had struggled through it for over a decade, only to die in the end, his cultivation extinguished!
In this life, I'll stand at the very pinnacle of this world!
Everything I lost-with this second chance at life, I don't want to lose a single thing!
In this life, I have to keep my head down and survive! No reckless moves!
Because right now, gathered around him were some of the most extraordinary people of the future!
"Senior Brother! What's burning?" Having finished gathering the bowls and chopsticks, Hu Tutu sniffed the air and asked in confusion.
"Oh no! The porridge is burnt!" Chen Changsheng hurriedly grabbed a long ladle and stirred the pot, from which waves of burnt odor rose.
Chen Changsheng frowned, raised a finger, and lightly touched the scorched millet porridge.
A speck of dark azure light flashed over the millet porridge. When he lifted his finger again, it was covered in burnt residue.
Looks like this Puppet Body needs more upgrades! Chen Changsheng thought, examining his scorched finger.
Then he did something utterly shocking!
Chen Changsheng discreetly snapped off the scorched finger and slipped it into his sleeve, then took out a brand-new finger and fitted it into place!
Chen Changsheng carried out breakfast, while Hu Tutu brought the bowls and chopsticks and set them on the table.
Holding a large steamed bun in both hands, Hu Tutu looked from Bai Feiyu, standing in the tree with his hands behind his back, to Leng Qingsong, straddling the roof in his new role as repairman.
"Third Senior Brother, who do you think is more handsome, Second Senior Brother or Fourth Senior Brother?" Hu Tutu asked, a little lovestruck.
Chen Changsheng's chopsticks paused. With a Charm Value of 9, he did not believe he had ever lost to anyone in looks. He simply never readily showed outsiders his true face.
"They're both handsome! Just like me!" Chen Changsheng said with a composed smile.
Hu Tutu glanced at Chen Changsheng's plain, honest-looking face and suddenly giggled. "That's right! Third Senior Brother, you're handsome too!"
Looking at Hu Tutu's smile, blooming like a flower, Chen Changsheng drifted into a daze. He suddenly remembered when he had first joined the sect. That figure in a blue-green robe had been squatting on a rock and had flippantly pinned him down and pulled the mask from his face, saying with smiling eyes, "Well now, such a handsome young fellow. Why wear a mask every day?"
In his memories, that figure in the blue-green robe stood in the sunlight, seemingly bathed in a golden halo.
The sight had left him spellbound.
Why does Third Senior Brother seem so silly? Why does he keep spacing out? Hu Tutu bit into her bun, utterly puzzled.
Chen Changsheng came back to his senses. Seeming to remember something, he laughed and said, "I wonder if Eldest Senior Brother is up yet. Junior Sister, let me tell you, here on Little Peak, you can provoke anyone, but never provoke Eldest Senior Brother when he's grumpy from waking up!"
At Chen Changsheng's words, Hu Tutu put down her bun and asked in confusion, "Third Senior Brother, I have nothing against Eldest Senior Brother. I just want to ask, do you really consider him your eldest senior brother?"
An ordinary person at only the ninth level of Qi Refining was indeed outstanding compared with average cultivators of Eldest Senior Brother's age, but among such a group of geniuses, he certainly seemed rather mediocre.
And geniuses were proud. Whether Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, or Chen Changsheng before her, how could they willingly place themselves beneath an ordinary person at the ninth level of Qi Refining?
Chen Changsheng naturally understood Hu Tutu's tactfully phrased question. His smile vanished, and he looked at her solemnly. "Tutu, what I'm about to say may sound a little harsh, but I still need to tell you!"
Seeing Chen Changsheng suddenly turn serious, Hu Tutu immediately sat up straight. Her earlier words had indeed been rude, and she obediently pricked up her ears to listen to his lecture.
"Senior Brother Ouyang is our eldest senior brother, and our only eldest senior brother. Even if Senior Brother Ouyang wanted to become the Sect Master of the Azure Cloud Sect, none of the three of us would have any objection!" Chen Changsheng declared with solemn conviction.
Looking at Hu Tutu, who seemed to only half understand, Chen Changsheng silently added to himself:
Whatever anyone else does, I, Chen Changsheng, will stake my life on protecting Senior Brother Ouyang for as long as he lives!
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