Chapter 167: The first day, six in the morning, Luo Xing was purely dumbfounded.

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Seeing Luo Xing stand there with a puzzled, dazed expression, Liu Ruyan felt a quiet thrill in her heart…

Young male cultivators like this, pure and simple with no worldly experience, were the easiest to handle. Sure enough!

In all her time on the path of cultivation, Liu Ruyan had learned one truth: rather than relying on her own efforts, it was far better to let others work for her.

Although inner disciples didn’t need to exchange sect contribution points for cultivation resources like outer disciples, their treatment still fell short of what personal disciples received.

So she had always wanted to find a suitable dao companion, ideally someone with extremely high status, excellent treatment, and someone she could easily control and manipulate.

And the best candidate would be a personal disciple within the sect.

Of course, she had considered aiming for the elders or the Sect Master, but Sect Master Bai Li Qin Mo was someone she couldn’t even get a glimpse of on a daily basis; Fourth Elder Lü Siqi was a man of noble character with no interest in matters of romance; Fifth Elder Jun Wujin was just a drunken old coot. Those options were immediately crossed off her list.

That left only the two personal disciples of Lü Siqi, because all the other elders’ personal disciples were women, so she had no way to approach them.

But…

Lü Siqi’s eldest disciple was never around, and his other disciple, Hong An, was practically a clone of his master. She had no way in there either.

Liu Ruyan had once thought her plan would die before it even got started, until Luo Xing appeared.

Even as a personal disciple of the Supreme Elder, his talent and aptitude doomed him to not go far on the path of cultivation. So she had planned to wait for a more suitable person to appear.

In fact, as far back as the day Luo Xing was taken as a personal disciple by Ye Li, she had considered setting her sights on him. But then she remembered he only had a Medium Spiritual Root, so she dropped the idea.

But now, after witnessing Luo Xing’s strength, she changed her mind in an instant…

In terms of status, Luo Xing was the personal disciple of Supreme Elder Ye Li.

In terms of strength, Luo Xing, at the early Golden Core Stage, had shattered the mental state of Zhang Kun, who was at the late Golden Core Stage.

Without a doubt, Luo Xing was her most suitable candidate.

If she could become Luo Xing’s dao companion, cultivation resources would never be in short supply. The fact that he had broken through to the Golden Core Stage in just over a year was the best proof.

Without sufficient cultivation resources, there was no way Luo Xing could have gone from an ordinary mortal to the Golden Core Stage in just a few years.

Furthermore, Supreme Elder Ye Li couldn’t stay at Xuantian Sect forever. She would eventually ascend, and when that time came, Luo Xing, as her only personal disciple, would surely become the new master of Duan Tian Peak, and might even become the new Sect Master of Xuantian Sect as the Sect Master’s junior apprentice nephew.

And at that point, wouldn’t she become the Sect Master’s wife!

From the moment she learned Luo Xing had defeated Zhang Kun, it only took Liu Ruyan an hour to figure all of this out, and so she set her plan into motion.

First, she needed to make contact with Luo Xing, and challenging him was the best way.

While Luo Xing stood there in stunned silence, Liu Ruyan thought she had everything figured out in three sentences, so she continued, “Actually… I know… Senior Brother, you… it must have been really hard for you to get this far, right?”

Liu Ruyan took an hour to figure out her plan, and Luo Xing took only three sentences to figure out hers.

Luo Xing: “…Mm… got it, this woman wants my body.”

Liu Ruyan was ten times out of ten after his value, so she’d come to seduce him.

As for why he was so sure…

With just those three characters of her name, Luo Xing couldn’t possibly guess wrong!

“And then?” Luo Xing raised an eyebrow. “What do you want to say to me?”

Liu Ruyan: “…”

Why was he reacting like this?

This… isn’t right, is it?

By all logic, Luo Xing should now be saying “On the path of cultivation, how could there be no hardships,” or “It’s merely a bit of wind and frost,” and then putting on an expression of “Ah, Junior Sister Ruyan, you truly understand me,” right?

But instead he…

“Stop!”

“Ahem… actually… Junior Sister was thinking…”

Luo Xing’s sudden interruption made Liu Ruyan swallow back the words she was about to say. “Wh… what is it?”

“Don’t call yourself junior sister in front of me.” Luo Xing said coldly. “My master has only one disciple. You have no right to call yourself my junior sister. What standing do you have to claim that title?”

Hearing this, Liu Ruyan’s face nearly cracked under the strain of maintaining her tender expression…

Was this Luo Xing hostile toward her?

“I… I overstepped my bounds…”

Liu Ruyan, deep and calculating as she was, quickly recovered her composure and then put on a look of dejection. “I just… greatly admire someone as hardworking as Senior Brother Luo… so… so I wanted to address you as brother and sister to grow closer…”

“Oh, no need.”

Luo Xing shrugged and spread his hands. “I’m a personal disciple, and you’re an inner disciple. Better we keep some distance.”

These words nearly made Liu Ruyan grind her teeth to powder…

The very reason I’m after you is your status as a personal disciple!

Isn’t that obvious!

For the sake of her glorious future, Liu Ruyan could only suppress the urge to curse Luo Xing out from the depths of her soul and forced a smile. “Senior Brother Luo, all your hard work has brought you such achievements. You want Elder Ye to acknowledge you, right?”

“Mm.”

Luo Xing gave a slight nod. “Something like that.”

After all, if he didn’t make it into the top ten, he would die…

Die of embarrassment, that is…

“Then let me help you, Senior Brother.”

Seeing that he had finally taken the bait, Liu Ruyan spoke up. “In this match, I can voluntarily concede and let you win this round directly.”

As she said this, her cheeks suddenly flushed, and she put on a bashful expression. “Ruyan asks for nothing in return, only that Senior Brother may have smooth sailing on the path of cultivation…”

“Stop.”

Luo Xing raised his hand again to cut off Liu Ruyan’s “selfless offering,” and said, “There’s one thing I don’t understand.”

Interrupted in her “script” for the second time, Liu Ruyan was feeling quite frustrated, but with the principle of not wasting all her effort at this point, she forced another smile. “Senior Brother… what is it you don’t understand?”

Luo Xing pointed directly at Liu Ruyan. “It’s not like I can’t beat you. Why would I need you to concede and hand me the win?”

Liu Ruyan was stunned for a long moment. “Ah… Ah?!”

When Liu Ruyan, with red-rimmed eyes, handed her identity jade token to the Deacon Elder and said she was withdrawing, the Deacon Elder looked at Luo Xing with an extremely complicated expression…

What on earth was going through this kid’s head?

He could even be that ruthless to a female disciple like this?

Did he not know the meaning of chivalry toward the fairer sex?

The other disciples around were thinking the same thing, feeling that Luo Xing truly wouldn’t stop until he beat his opponent into withdrawing from the tournament.

For points, he would beat anyone half to death.

Luo Xing, meanwhile, just shrugged and pouted, looking completely like “what are you going to do about it?”

In truth, if Liu Ruyan had challenged him straightforwardly, he wouldn’t have gone so far as to beat her into withdrawing.

But…

Who told her to play her tea tricks in front of him?

He, Luo Xing, was a devout follower of pure love. In this life, he had three hatreds: scheming women, blond bastards, and cuckoldry.

Liu Ruyan had stepped right on his landmine.

When it came to tea tricks, could she really outdo Luo Xing?

Besides…

He, Luo Xing, actually had the [Tea Art] as a professional skill. Did you, Liu Ruyan, have that?

As for Luo Xing’s “cruel destruction of flowers,” everyone only muttered a couple of complaints in their minds and said nothing more…

After all, the tournament rules didn’t say you couldn’t make someone cry, nor did they say you couldn’t beat someone into withdrawing.

It wasn’t against the rules, just a bit immoral, that was all…

Seeing Liu Ruyan glare at him with bitter resentment before walking away, Luo Xing inexplicably felt his mood lighten. He felt like his cultivation had even improved a little!

It was just a shame there was no one to share this with, otherwise…

But right at that moment, Luo Xing suddenly sensed a wave of coldness from behind, as if someone was staring at him with an extremely chilling gaze…