NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4: The heavens have not been kind to me.
Spiritual Mystery Peak.
After the recruitment assembly, Luo Qingyue personally brought Jiang Ling to the Spiritual Mystery Peak and took care of everything for arranging his residence.
"From now on, this will be your residence. If you have any problems, just let me know at any time."
After that, Luo Qingyue handed Jiang Ling a token engraved with her own exclusive spiritual seal. "This is a protective and passage token. With it, it can protect your safety at critical times and also allow you to freely enter and exit the sect."
"Thank you, Master."
Jiang Ling bowed respectfully and took the token.
"By the way, in front of me, you can take off your male disguise. There's no need to continue hiding your true form." With this casual remark from Luo Qingyue, Jiang Ling fell into a brief silence.
"Although your disguise secret technique can conceal the aura of a female and change your appearance and voice on the outside, there are some essential things that you can't change."
"..."
"Master... Did you notice it a long time ago?"
"Yes."
Luo Qingyue nodded slightly in response.
As early as when Jiang Ling was far ahead in the entrance trial area, she had already seen that "he" was actually a female.
"I won't interfere too much in your personal grudges. But since you've entered my sect, if you have some difficulties that are hard to talk about, you can frankly discuss them with me."
"As your master... I'll also try to provide you with some help within my power."
Her words were quite clear.
As long as Jiang Ling was willing, Luo Qingyue could be the protective umbrella for "his" revenge.
However...
"Your disciple thanks Master for your concern first."
Jiang Ling bowed and politely declined Luo Qingyue's kindness, showing his own attitude: "For some things, this disciple still wants to solve them by himself."
"Alright, then it's up to you." Luo Qingyue didn't want to force her too much either, as that might backfire instead.
"However, you should at least tell me your real name, right?"
Jiang Ling pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment.
Finally, she still chose to trust this master who didn't expose her identity immediately.
"Your disciple..."
"My name is Jiang Ninger."
...
Near sunset.
"Boom!"
A huge force forcibly pushed open Shen Mu's door.
A pair of round, jade-like, tender and white beautiful legs swayed gently along with the flawless dress as they stepped into his room.
"Good disciple, I have a surprise for you." Luo Qingling looked around and then fixed her eyes on an ancient painting screen with thick mist rising behind it.
"Huh? Why are you taking a bath again?"
"..."
Shen Mu, squatting in the wooden barrel filled with medicinal liquid, rolled his eyes. He was already too tired to complain.
"Master, I want to retreat and cultivate for a while recently. If there's nothing important, I hope you can try to disturb your disciple as little as possible."
"Eh?" Luo Qingling felt it was quite strange as if the sun had risen from the west. "Usually, you don't care about cultivation at all and are always fiddling with those strange things. Why did you suddenly change today?"
"Your disciple just feels that my strength is too weak. I've wasted two years in vain and can't even see the scenery outside Xuanyong City."
"Therefore, I just want to seriously improve myself."
Hearing these words, Luo Qingling's eyebrows slightly raised, and a rare look of surprise appeared in her eyes.
However, this look of surprise was quickly replaced by a calm expression.
"With four mixed spiritual roots, an ordinary body without a special physique, and no particularly outstanding aspects in your natural talent."
"Your upper limit... has actually been predetermined long ago."
Although it was a good thing that his disciple had this ambition to improve, some innate differences were like an insurmountable chasm.
"..."
"Heh~ Has it been predetermined already..."
Shen Mu just let out a mocking chuckle and then lowered his eyes, falling into endless silence.
Indeed...
In such a world, almost everyone's fate is determined from the moment they are born.
However... For an oddball like himself, as long as he didn't die, he would have the chance to reverse everything!
"Ah, you don't have to care too much about things like cultivation. I'm here for everything."
"Really? Then where did Master go wandering around today?"
"Well..." Luo Qingling rolled her eyes slightly and decided to keep it a mystery for a while. "You'll know when you come out after your bath."
Sigh~
I really don't understand what she's up to...
Shen Mu silently sighed in his heart and helplessly lay back in the wooden barrel like a salted fish.
...
At night.
"..."
Shen Mu stared blankly at the blond girl in front of him in the courtyard for a moment as if his eyes had frozen.
"Is this the surprise you gave me?!" His tone was full of disbelief.
"Hello~ Senior Brother, how are you~" Lin Yuhe greeted Shen Mu with a smile on her face, seemingly unaware of Shen Mu's previous wariness of her.
Damn you!
And also! Who is your senior brother?!
At this moment, there were thousands of grass-mud horses galloping in Shen Mu's heart, and he felt like crying but had no tears.
"Se... Senior Brother."
The next moment, the petite pink-haired girl standing beside Lin Yuhe also greeted in a timid voice. Her cute little face was slightly red, and her crystal-clear pink peach blossom eyes were shining with a watery luster.
It seemed that she was a bit shy when seeing Shen Mu's extremely handsome appearance.
"Are you... Tang Yueyao?"
"Um... um..."
When Shen Mu turned his gaze to her, Tang Yueyao lowered her little head and responded weakly, not daring to look directly at his handsome face.
After getting Tang Yueyao's affirmative answer, Shen Mu's hanging heart finally sank completely.
One deadly big trouble wasn't enough, and there was a buy-one-get-one-free deal, with two of them coming...
According to the main storyline of the game's original text, this Tang Yueyao was supposed to go to the Mysterious Elephant Peak to study the art of talismans and become one of the top supports in the male lead's harem.
With her around in the later stage, it would be much easier to clear any difficulty level of dungeons.
Moreover, the most crucial point was that among all the harem heroines, she was also one of the more favored ones.
She was the kind that if anyone touched a single hair of hers, they would be either dead or seriously injured.
She was at the top of the list that ordinary characters must avoid.
As for the top tier, it was naturally the one in front of him, the officially designated main female lead in the main storyline.
At this moment.
Shen Mu really wanted to raise his arms and shout to the sky: Oh, heaven! Why are you so unfair to me!!
What extremely immoral thing did I do in my previous life?
Such torture!
"Cough! Cough!"
Just when the atmosphere among the three of them was rather strange, Luo Qingling coughed twice and said, "From now on, you must get along harmoniously."
"Especially Yuhe. Although you are the eldest miss of the Lin family, in the Wind Spirit Immortal Sect, you still have to abide by the sect's discipline and treaties."
"Don't act as willfully as you did today."
"Your disciple understands and will definitely abide by the sect's regulations in the future."
With that, Lin Yuhe smiled at Shen Mu again.
It seemed to be saying: We'll have plenty of time in the future.
"..."
Shen Mu turned his head aside, already thinking about how to get rid of this overpowered female lead who was from the same world as him and had taken an interest in him.
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