Chapter 7: This Thing Is Her Brother?

At night, Luo Xing tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep...

He had already resigned himself to the fact that he was now Ye Li’s disciple.

Even if he hadn't, there was nothing he could do. He certainly couldn't leave. The most important thing now was to stabilize the unstable bomb that was Ye Li.

In the original story, she started as a normal master, but later...

"Sss... what happened after that?" Luo Xing sat up and scratched his head. 'How did she become so twisted later?'

In the original setting, Ye Li always had a dark side hidden within her. It was just that she usually acted so normal that no one noticed. But then...

He remembered that something Luo Han did triggered her dark side, and then...

She was tormented for nearly several hundred thousand words...

Tsk! After being tormented for so long, Luo Han was really hard to kill...

His brief contact with Ye Li over the past few days had allowed Luo Xing to see glimpses of her dark side more or less...

In any case, he had never seen a master make their disciple give them a foot massage on the very first day!

A foot massage...

Thinking of this, Luo Xing subconsciously looked at his hands...

As he stared at his palms, a strange sensation seemed to linger on his fingertips.

Today's scene was forcefully etched into his mind, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake it off.

The curve of her exquisite arch, the smooth jade-like slope of her instep, and ankles so slender they felt as though they might snap under his grip. Her toes were small and round, her nails gleaming with a faint pearly luster. They were cool to the touch, her skin supple and slightly elastic...

"Dammit! Why am I thinking about this!" Luo Xing pressed his hands against his face and rubbed vigorously, as if trying to scrub the strange thoughts from his brain. "Forget it! Forget it quickly!"

He did eventually forget...

He forgot that after massaging Ye Li’s feet, he hadn't washed his hands yet...

"Speaking of which..." Luo Xing closed his eyes and looked at the display in his mind: **[Massage: 2/10]**. 'Is this really my system?'

After he finished massaging Ye Li’s feet, the progress had locked at "2." He had tried to communicate with this thing that might be a system, but all his attempts ended in failure.

He didn't rule out the possibility that the petty author had found a shred of conscience and prepared a system for him, but the problem was...

How was he supposed to use this system?

What did **[Massage: 2/10]** even mean?

Was it a skill level progress bar?

But what the hell was the use of a "Massage" skill?

Was he supposed to perform a heavy-duty attack on Ye Li’s kidney reflex zones?

...

The next day.

Having stayed in the outer sect for a while, Luo Xing was used to waking up early. He got up at the crack of dawn and waited obediently at the door to Ye Li’s room.

After thinking about it all night, he had decided to play it safe for now.

Regardless of what Ye Li was like now, she was currently his master in name. Being obedient was his top priority. Secondly, while she was still sane, he needed to learn as much as possible.

As for the thing in his head that might be a system...

He would cross that bridge when he came to it...

However, Luo Xing waited at the door for nearly an hour, but there was no sign of Ye Li waking up...

"That's not right..." Luo Xing tilted his head in confusion. 'Does she really oversleep?'

Setting aside whether the Ye Li in the original story had a habit of sleeping in, with her power at the late Mahayana Stage, did she even need to sleep?

It wasn't that Luo Xing hadn't thought about knocking, but he was afraid Ye Li would use "disturbing her rest" as an excuse to...

Sss...

Better wait a little longer...

When one is under another's roof, one must bow their head. While she was still being reasonable, he couldn't give her any chance to torment him.

And so, Luo Xing continued to "stand guard" at the door...

Until noon...

"She’s messing with me, isn't she?"

Luo Xing looked into the empty room and gritted his teeth.

He hadn't even eaten breakfast. He had waited from morning until noon, and when he finally couldn't take it anymore and knocked, there was no response. When he pushed the door open to look...

Ye Li wasn't there at all!

This treacherous master!

She didn't even say a word before going out!

Does she have no manners at all?!

"Forget it..." Luo Xing felt a hint of relief amidst his anger. 'It’s better if she’s not here. It saves her from asking a bunch of questions.'

He might even have ended up massaging her feet again...

Now that things had come to this, he needed to eat. He hadn't eaten much yesterday, and his stomach was already stuck to his back from hunger.

However, when he walked out of the room to prepare lunch for himself, he discovered...

"Wait..." Luo Xing’s eyes twitched as he circled the top of Duan Tian Peak. "There's no kitchen?"

He walked around the peak, his gaze sweeping over every stone step and every bamboo grove...

Oh, he almost forgot. This was a world of cultivation, and he was currently inside a sect...

Cultivators in the cultivation world could perform Inedia once they reached the Foundation Building Realm. Ye Li, being in the Mahayana Stage, naturally didn't need to eat. Thus, Duan Tian Peak wouldn't have a kitchen—such a facility would be a waste of space.

But the problem was...

Luo Xing...

He hadn't even reached the Qi Refining Realm yet!

He still needed to eat, damn it!

"Fine..." Luo Xing could only give up on the idea of cooking. "I'll just go out to eat! A living person won't let themselves starve to death..."

*Whoosh—*

The wind at the top of Duan Tian Peak ruffled Luo Xing’s hair and also threw his heart into disarray...

It was only at this moment that he finally remembered that Ye Li’s Duan Tian Peak had no paths leading up or down. In other words, unless you could fly, you couldn't leave at all.

According to the original setting, Ye Li was someone who didn't particularly enjoy socializing unless she had a specific need.

To put it another way, she liked to bother others, but she didn't like others bothering her.

Therefore, Duan Tian Peak itself automatically filtered out any cultivators who couldn't fly...

Those who couldn't fly couldn't come up, and those who couldn't fly...

Naturally, they couldn't go down either. Just like Luo Xing...

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Two months later...

Above the sea of clouds, Luo Han rode a Green Feathered Crane toward Duan Tian Peak, carrying a food container that radiated warmth.

"I wonder if my brother has been focusing on his cultivation lately..." Luo Han murmured to herself. "And he seemed to have some misunderstandings about Elder Ye..."

After cultivating for two months, she had successfully entered the mid-level of the Qi Refining Realm. Therefore, she had specifically asked her master for a half-day leave to see her brother...

She just didn't know why, but when her master learned she was going to Duan Tian Peak, the man who had originally promised to give her a ride suddenly claimed to be busy. He could only arrange for a Green Feathered Crane to send her over.

Additionally, he had given her several spiritual tools that were supposedly for self-defense and escape...

She didn't understand. She was just visiting her brother, not attacking a demonic sect.

Along the way, Luo Han couldn't help but worry if her brother was working hard or if he had angered Elder Ye...

After all, as a Supreme Elder, Ye Li was not only beautiful and kind but also broad-minded. Regarding the fact that Luo Xing had slandered her behind her back, she had not only let it go but had even taken him in as a personal disciple...

In Luo Han’s view, Ye Li must have felt that Luo Xing had a straightforward personality and was a diamond in the rough, which was why she ignored the past and accepted him.

Luo Han thought, 'I have to have a good talk with him later. After all, that was just an unrealistic dream. He mustn't let Elder Ye’s hard work go to waste...'

Before long, the Green Feathered Crane landed gracefully at the top of Duan Tian Peak.

Luo Han leapt off the crane’s back, but she didn't see Ye Li or Luo Xing.

She only saw someone curled up next to the glowing embers of a fire...

A savage?

The savage was dressed in rags, with disheveled hair and a grimy face that obscured most of his features. Only a pair of sunken yet strangely bright eyes were visible. He hunkered in front of the fire, struggling to tear into a piece of grilled fish in his hands.

Luo Han was speechless.

'Wait. Where did the crane take me? Is this still the Xuantian Sect? Is this still Duan Tian Peak? Why is there a savage here?'

"Um... young master... sir..." Luo Han didn't know how to address this "savage," her voice tinged with uncertainty. "May I ask... who you are..."

Before she could finish, the savage suddenly looked up at Luo Han...

As if confirming something, he rubbed his eyes with his hands and then threw away the grilled fish. Using both hands and feet, he scrambled and crawled toward her, letting out muffled, incoherent roars: "Wooo! Haha! Ga-ga-ga!"

Luo Han’s heart tightened, and she instinctively took a half-step back. Her fingers inside her sleeve gripped the protective spiritual tool her master had given her...

But in the next instant, the savage actually knelt on the spot and slid all the way to her feet, leaving two grooves in the ground behind him. He death-gripped the hem of her clothes, his voice trembling and broken. "Waaaa... Sister! You’re finally here! Are you here to save me?!"

The wind suddenly went still...

Luo Han froze in place, her pupils shrinking as a shockwave hit her brain.

"...Sister?"

She looked down at the savage before her...

Although the messy hair covered most of his face, the familiar contours of his brow and the lingering tone of his voice...

"You... you... Xing?!"

She could hardly believe her eyes.

This thing that looked like a beggar and acted like a madman...

*Cough, cough...*

No...

This savage was her brother?