Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

The food tasted quite good. At least everyone at the table looked satisfied. After a little interruption, they focused on eating.

Yun Chuyou really enjoyed the joy that food brought her. As she happily bit into a piece of braised pork, the golden finger system suddenly activated and gave her a mission.

[If you want to build a sect, you need to have a voice in it. The sect that the host is currently bound to does not belong to the host. Please replace Xie Fuzhi and become the current master of the Qingxu Sect.]

"Cough, cough, cough, cough!"

Yun Chuyou nearly choked on the meat. Xie Fuzhi looked at her with worry and pushed some of his meat to her bowl, saying, "Don’t rush. There is plenty. I’ll save what Master left for you; take your time."

Meng He, who was happily eating, also stopped and said with big puppy eyes, "Senior martial sister, you can have my share too."

The scene at this moment was filled with kindness and warmth between master and disciple.

"I just choked a little, Meng He. You eat your own," she said, not wanting to eat someone else’s spit.

Yun Chuyou was just startled by the system task. In that moment, a flood of dark thoughts popped into her mind. Was the system asking her to kill her master?

Even though she knew she was now a character in a story, and a melodramatic one at that, she did have a moment of wanting to hurt her master. But before Xie Fuzhi truly destroyed the world, Yun Chuyou would never do such a thing.

Over the years, she could feel that the people around her were real, living beings. The feelings built from little moments would not be completely denied just because this was a book.

Xie Fuzhi is not an NPC; he is different from how he is described in the book. In fact, when she became the Elder Martial Sister of this sect, the storyline began to change.

She glanced at the younger martial sister who had just joined the sect today and casually asked, "Master, when you were collecting disciples, did you come across any outstanding talents on the Immortal Ascending Platform?"

Where there are villains, there are protagonists. The main character of this book, like the female supporting character, first appeared on the Immortal Ascending Platform. As a significant and malicious female supporting character, Zhong Wei’s entrance serves as a contrast to the main character.

Zhong Wei is filthy and is the much-despised little beggar. Ordinary people and wandering cultivators seeking opportunities push her away, and their words of dismissal are considered gentle. With her poor talent and bad mood, when cultivators see her blocking their way, they angrily kick her out of the group.

In contrast, the beautifully refined main character is like a little celestial child. She lives in a mortal city near Lianyun Mountain, where many friends and family of cultivators reside. Some have poor Spiritual Roots and cannot break through the Foundation Establishment stage, and weak Qi Refining cultivators are not much different from ordinary warriors.

In this situation, cultivators would send their relatives to such cities. After all, the cultivation world is very cruel, and although Spirit Qi is thin in mortal cities, at least they can enjoy a life of luxury and comfort.

The main character is the treasured daughter of the richest person in the city. She first went to the Beast Control Sect for testing as recommended by her elders, and it turned out she has an excellent Heavenly Spiritual Root, which is also a highly pure mutated Heavenly Spiritual Root.

This caused a stir at the Immortal Ascending Platform; the leader of Tianheng Sect publicly kept her there and immediately summoned the elders of his sect to compete for her.

After all, it is one of the top sects in the cultivation world. The Beast Control Sect couldn’t outbid Tianheng Sect, and the main character’s master is one of the few great powers at the Soul Changing Stage in the cultivation world.

The old monsters at the Transcendency Stage cannot easily come out to meddle in worldly matters. Right now, the Soul Changing Stage is basically the highest fighting power in the cultivation world.

This strong contrast sparked the female character’s envy, and as the story progressed, this envy turned into intense jealousy.

One is adored by many, while the other is disliked by all. The main character has so many men who admire her, but the man Zhong Wei is infatuated with has never given her a glance and instead, always revolves around the beloved main character.

Xie Fuzhi thought for a moment, "There seems to be a medicinal herb with dual Spiritual Roots for fire, which went to Tianjing Sect."

Cultivators have sharp eyes and ears; at the Nascent Soul Stage, they can sense things from afar, and they know everything that happens on stage clearly.

Yun Chuyou is sure that Xie Fuzhi is not talking about the main character; she wouldn’t lack such presence, and the Spiritual Root doesn’t match.

"Is it a man or a woman? Are they good-looking?"

"It’s a man, and he doesn’t look good at all," Xie Fuzhi said unhappily. "Chuyou, have you forgotten your ideals? How did you say it before? You want to ascend; you are still young and shouldn’t let feelings delay your path."

Now even the gender doesn’t match.

Xie Fuzhi added, "Master was worried that your Transmigration might not go smoothly, so he immediately brought your younger martial sister back and didn’t get to see what happened next."

After receiving a scolding, Yun Chuyou wasn’t upset; it was because she had messed up the original story line, and Zhong Wei didn’t leave a deep impression on the main character as written in the book, so she shouldn’t be madly jealous of her.

After all, out of sight, out of mind. Hearing exaggerated stories from others is very different from facing it yourself; tales in the world can feel somewhat unreal, and the impact isn’t as strong.

Of course, being lovestruck can be frightening too; if the female supporting character becomes crazily infatuated with the main character’s admirer, she might lose control and turn dark.

But that is a matter for the future, and no one can say for sure; at least for now, everything has started well, and that is all thanks to Master’s care for me.

The girl flashed a smile brighter than a sunflower and actively served a piece of fish belly to Xie Fuzhi, "The meat of the fish belly is tender; I give this to you, Master."

Then she served a piece of meat to her younger martial sister, "Eat more meat."

"Now that we have more people in our sect, we can’t develop like we did before," Yun Chuyou said after finishing half a bowl of rice. "Master, you are the leader of our sect; you can’t just ignore things."

Becoming the leader of the sect is the main task issued by the system; those who have played games know that if you don’t push the main task, there won’t be any future tasks, and you won’t get the rewards given by the system.

She didn’t care about those useless supplies, but she was very concerned about the final prize the system offered—successfully ascending and opening a time-space rift to go home. As long as Xie Fuzhi gave up his position and let someone else take over, he should be able to complete the mission.

Yun Chuyou didn’t even directly ask for the position of the leader, yet Xie Fuzhi frowned and said, "From today on, I will not be the leader. I announce that Chuyou will officially take over as the leader of Qingxu Sect, and I will become the Supreme Elder, responsible for overseeing the sect."

The system remained silent, and Yun Chuyou asked, "Is it enough just to announce it like this?"

Even though their sect had few members, they should still follow the proper steps.

Xie Fuzhi took out a small and exquisite leader’s badge from his bag and said, "Hold this. After dinner, I will go inform the previous leaders about this."

There were only four disciples in the sect; the other three had just joined this year. Even if they wanted power, they had no support, and they didn’t think they could surpass Yun Chuyou to become the leader of Qingxu Sect.

Qingxu Sect was so poor that being the leader brought a lot of worry. Fighting over such a small amount of resources would be foolish.

The moment the leader’s badge was in hand, the system’s voice sounded.

[Detection of the cultivation task completed. Congratulations to the host for becoming the leader of Qingxu Sect! Rewards: Building Foundation Pills x10, disciple robes x10, ordinary quality long swords x10, Energy-Boosting Pills (which can increase cultivation by 1000 points). The leader enjoys double cultivation benefits for one hour each day.]

Yun Chuyou’s smile became even brighter. According to the rewards from the system, as long as she helped the sect grow, she might really succeed in ascending.

After the meal, everyone was happy.

When there were only a pile of greasy plates and fish bones left on the table, Zhong Wei was the first to stand up from her seat and offered to help the newly promoted Elder Martial Sister, "Elder Martial Sister, you worked hard cooking. Let me wash the dishes."

In ordinary families in the Mortal World, many girls marry at thirteen or fourteen. Although nine years old is not too young, it is also an age where children can do a lot of work.

Zhong Wei was mistreated since she was young and had to be independent. She may be small, but she can do many household chores.

Today, after joining the sect, she couldn’t do anything for the others and felt quite uneasy. She was eager to show herself, afraid that Yun Chuyou would think she was not valuable and find an excuse to expel her from the sect.

"Wash the dishes? You don’t need to wash them." Yun Chuyou waved a Cleaning Spell, and the pile of greasy dirty dishes became clean again.

Although there is no technological help in the cultivation world, spells are still very useful. Small spells like these that save energy, are convenient, and enhance happiness are the ones Yun Chuyou uses most often.

"Oh, you should put your bowl away. From now on, it will be your special bowl."

Yun Chuyou explained, "Today we eat together for the welcome dinner, but in the future we will have separate meals. Before you join, come to the kitchen to get your food when it’s mealtime."

In the past, the master and apprentice relied on each other. Xie Fuzhi did not mind her, and she respected her teacher and could not look down on him. Now things are different; there are more people in the sect, and they cannot go down the mountain alone for training anytime soon, so separate meals are more suitable.

The two junior brothers are not human. What if their saliva is poisonous to a human cultivator like her? It’s better to be clean and hygienic.

In the sect, Elder Martial Sister makes all the small decisions, while Xie Fuzhi, as the master, only says, "What Elder Martial Sister says is right" and "Listen to Chuyou." Now, even the position of leader has been given to Yun Chuyou by Xie Fuzhi as if it were a piece of candy.

So, what Yun Chuyou said was just a notice, not asking for others’ opinions.

After they finished eating and drinking, the sky darkened. Meng He pushed Yu Jiu back into the room, while Yun Chuyou gave some supplies for the new disciples to Zhong Wei.

She thought the female supporting character was love-struck and simply had too much free time. She let them rest for the last day today, but starting tomorrow, she would have them all practice diligently!

"Achoo achoo achoo!"

While pushing his Second Junior Brother back to the room, Meng He suddenly sneezed several times. He roughly tossed Yu Jiu onto the bed and quickly covered his face as he rushed outside.

The Second Junior Brother is very sick, and he doesn’t want to get infected and end up like the others who are also sick.

Yu Jiu: …

It was late at night, and he didn’t want to move, so he didn’t even turn on the light.

But in the middle of the night, he woke up from a dream because of Meng He’s disgusted face: No, it seems everyone in this sect is sick!

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