Chapter 1585 - 1540: Salted Fish Turns It Around 11

Gai Ling came out for several days with a veil on her face, but even so, she was easily recognized.

Most of those who entered the sect with Gai Ling were little kids, six or seven or eight or nine years old. Their thoughts were different from adults’. They had no concept of respect, nor did they understand what it meant to leave some face for people. When they recognized Gai Ling, they would clap their hands and shout, "Look, the stupid pig is here, the stupid pig is here."

Then everyone would burst into laughter together.

The older senior brothers and senior sisters did not stop them.

After all, they had no acquaintanceship with her, who cares what happens to her.

Thus, Gai Ling got herself a nickname, stupid pig. Whenever people mentioned her, they would say, oh, it’s that stupid pig.

Gai Ling was almost furious to death.

In the evening, she asked the system angrily, "Xiao Lu, what exactly is going on? Why was the task determined to be a failure, and also, you never mentioned any punishment when binding before."

The system still had that half-dead mechanical voice, "It’s in the system code, the host didn’t read it? A task failure is just a failure, there is no reason why."

"Can you not punish me?"

Gai Ling asked, "And your punishment is too, too absurd."

The system remained silent for a while, a stream of data flashed by, and the system almost crashed.

"What a lousy system." Gai Ling cursed furiously.

"According to system judgment, if the host uncouples the associate and seriously does tasks to enhance talent and appearance, although the speed is slow, it won’t lead to punishment. Does the host want to uncouple the associate?"

Gai Ling was somewhat tempted.

If uncoupling the associate meant no punishment, or...

But, she thought about Anning’s stunningly beautiful face and felt particularly unwilling.

"If I do the tasks myself to improve, can I reach the beauty value of Senior Sister Yu?"

"Is the host joking?" This time even the system was excited: "How is that possible? The beauty of Senior Sister Yu, not to mention the cultivation world, is unmatched even in the immortal realm."

"Then I won’t uncouple." Gai Ling was full of jealousy: "I want to get Senior Sister Yu’s beauty value; I want to be more beautiful than her."

Inside the cave mansion, Anning and Xiao Yuan leaned against each other watching the screen with the conversation record between Gai Ling and the system.

Anning sneered, "I already left her a way out, she insists on not taking it, so don’t blame me for being ruthless."

The part where the system and Gai Ling talked about uncoupling the associate was added on purpose by Anning. Anning wanted to see if, giving her a chance to uncouple the associate and earn the conditions and resources by earnestly doing tasks, Gai Ling would change her mind.

If Gai Ling changed her mind and uncoupled the associate, Anning would still leave her a path to survive.

Unfortunately, Gai Ling went down the path herself. She was too greedy and selfish, refused to uncouple no matter what, and after that, Anning definitely would not show mercy.

The text on the screen changed, and a task was released again.

"Please, host, go to the back hill Black Wind Cliff to find a thousand-year-old red fruit. Completing the task can earn +2 beauty value."

Gai Ling was delighted upon hearing this, "This task is much simpler than the last one. Right, is there a location tracker? Send it over."

System: "Host will receive the locator when reaching the path at Black Wind Cliff."

"Alright."

Gai Ling agreed, then she asked the system again, "Can you not release tasks like gaining someone’s favor or the like? Can we release some learning tasks? Like how about reading a book or learning a mental method?"

The system waited for a while before saying, "The host is in the cultivation world, such tasks are too simple and cannot be released. But if the host is diligent and achieves good performance in sect competitions, beauty value can also be earned."

"Achieving good performance?"

Gai Ling frowned, "If I knew this before, I would have associated with someone with good talent to get their talent."

System: ...

Anning and Xiao Yuan looked at each other.

Xiao Yuan went out and called Tu Mingyue, "Ming Yue, how about Master takes you out for some fun?"

Tu Mingyue had already entered the sect. This child is a cultivation maniac, spending all her time in practice. Despite the short time since entering the sect, she has become a third-level cultivator in the Qi Refinement Realm.

She glanced at Xiao Yuan, a bit disdainful.

"Master, I am cultivating now."

Xiao Yuan chuckled and patted her head, "Don’t always stay cooped up in the cave mansion cultivating, you’ll become silly. Look at that... that Gai Ling is stupid, isn’t she? Come on, let’s go out and play, this cultivation path must balance work and rest."

Tu Mingyue was particularly helpless, but this was her master whom she acknowledged, what else could she do? She could only endure a bit.

Tu Mingyue followed Xiao Yuan outside, Xiao Yuan picked her up and jumped onto the flying sword, first took her for a tour in the air, then flew straight towards the back hill.

"Master, where are we going?"

Tu Mingyue looked down at the cloud-covered mountain peaks under her feet, as well as the main peaks of Cang Mountain Sect and various beautiful sceneries, she felt an infinite sense of ambition in her heart, feeling quite pleased.

"Going to the back hill to play."

Xiao Yuan reached the back hill, jumped off the flying sword, and pointed to a mountain cliff to Tu Mingyue, "Over there is Black Wind Cliff, make sure you don’t go there yourself, there’s the Mist Forest there, it’s a dangerous place."

Tu Mingyue obediently nodded, "I won’t go."

Black Wind Cliff is large, not only does it have cliffs, but also a creek and a small patch of forest.

Xiao Yuan let Tu Mingyue wait by the creek, he ran into the forest to catch a wild chicken, came out and lit a fire, and together with Tu Mingyue, they killed, cleaned, and roasted the chicken over the fire.

Xiao Yuan split half the chicken, the remaining half he packed and tossed into the Storage Ring, "This is for your Mistress to eat when we return."

The two shared half a chicken, after finishing, Xiao Yuan let Tu Mingyue play in this area while he sat cross-legged to use his divine sense to locate where the red fruit was.

After probing for a while, Xiao Yuan smiled and stood up.

"Ming Yue, Master will take you to find something good."

Tu Mingyue tilted her head and looked at Xiao Yuan seriously, appearing very cute, but the words she said were a bit cold, "Master, what kind of trouble are you up to again? You’re already grown up, how come all you know is to play."

Xiao Yuan held his forehead, "Not cute at all."

Tu Mingyue rolled her eyes, "Master is not cute."

The master and disciple bantered as they went to the cliffside, Xiao Yuan peered down for a glance, below the cliff was a dark haze of fog, no one knew what was below.

But on the edge of the fog, there was a faint red glow.

"You’re lucky."

Xiao Yuan patted Tu Mingyue’s head, "Wait here, Master will go down and get something good for you."

Tu Mingyue grabbed Xiao Yuan.

"What’s wrong?" Xiao Yuan asked.

Tu Mingyue shook her head hard, "Master, don’t go, I don’t want anything good."

She was scared.

The black fog truly looked intimidating, Tu Mingyue knew those were poison gases, she feared Xiao Yuan would get into trouble if he came into contact with them.

"No problem." Xiao Yuan smiled, pushed Tu Mingyue back a little, "Stand firm."

He leaped down, Tu Mingyue’s face turned pale with fright.

She crushed a Communication Talisman and reported to Anning, "Mistress, Master is being naughty, he jumped down the Black Wind Cliff."

Right after, Tu Mingyue heard Anning’s voice, "Wait there."

Only, before Anning could hurry over, Xiao Yuan was already back.

He had a bright red fruit in his hand.

"Master." Tu Mingyue was almost terrified to tears. Seeing Xiao Yuan, she ran straight over, "Master, are you alright."

Anning arrived riding on a flying sword just then.

Upon arriving, she saw the little girl with a pale face, tears still clinging to her cheeks.

Anning glared at Xiao Yuan, "Look at the good deed you’ve done."

Xiao Yuan rubbed his nose, "I’m doing it for you guys’ good."

Anning hugged Tu Mingyue, "Alright, Ming Yue, don’t be afraid, Mistress is here."