Chapter 84: Slacking Off, Day Eighty-Four
This was the valuable experience Wen Ying had learned from her match with Wang Xiaole last time.
A truly clean and decisive scammer never wastes words—they just lie down straight away!
If she delayed even a moment, she might lose the initiative.
After hitting the ground, Wen Ying closed her eyes and pretended to faint.
It didn’t matter whether the opponent had made a move or not. Last time, hadn’t Wang Xiaole collapsed just because Wen Ying opened her mouth?
The opponent was clearly stunned upon seeing Wen Ying’s actions.
Wen Ying was already waiting for the referee to come down and announce her defeat. Unexpectedly, at this moment, her opponent, who had once read extensively on martial arts classics, spoke thoughtfully.
“So, this is the legendary technique—the Sleeping Fist!”
Hearing the disciple’s words on the stage, the crowd suddenly realized.
So it was a technique. They thought Wen Ying had been intimidated by the opponent’s aura and scared into fainting directly!
But… how come they had never heard that Wen Ying knew any “legendary technique”?
Wen Ying: “…”
Is it too late for me to say I was actually scared into fainting?
“The Trial of Immortals Assembly is truly extraordinary. I didn’t expect to see such a legendary technique.” The opponent drew a long saber from his back, his gaze becoming sharp in an instant. “Good, then let me test it out!”
The opponent channeled energy into his palm, wrapping true energy around the saber blade. He leaped up abruptly, shouting loudly, and slashed towards Wen Ying!
Wen Ying continued to feign unconsciousness.
She deliberately withdrew her protective true energy to avoid bouncing the opponent out of the ring directly.
Anyway, this saber couldn’t hurt her. She would just pretend to bleed a little later.
However—
When the saber struck Wen Ying, a strange thing happened.
The crowd didn’t know if the saber hurt Wen Ying or not, but they clearly saw that the moment the saber hit Wen Ying, it snapped directly into two pieces!
The opponent couldn’t help but be stunned again.
After recovering, he picked up the broken saber from the ground and withdrew the circulating true energy around him.
He stood up and actually bowed respectfully to Wen Ying, who was lying down with her eyes closed pretending to faint. “The Sleeping Fist technique truly lives up to its reputation. Your attack was lightning-fast, imperceptible even to the naked eye. I admit defeat.”
With these words, he conceded.
Although the surrounding spectators were still confused, since the participant himself said so, the match naturally judged Wen Ying the winner.
Wen Ying: “…”
At this moment, she had a slight urge to use a Verbal Abuse Talisman on herself.
I lay down so fast, why can’t I lose!!!
“I came to participate in the Trial of Immortals Assembly with no intention of winning or losing, only hoping to see more supreme martial arts techniques.” The opponent continued speaking to the lying Wen Ying. “Thank you, fellow cultivator. The realm of martial arts is indeed endless. Also, thank you for the saber you sold; it truly makes wishes come true.”
At this moment, Wen Ying finally knew why his crappy saber broke.
It turned out this broken saber was bought from her crappy street stall!
With that quality… bearing his true energy was already pushing it to its limit. And for Wen Ying, whose body cultivation was maxed out, the inherent hardness of her body was the last straw that broke the camel’s back, enough to snap the blade.
This incident teaches us a lesson.
Don’t believe in metaphysics; believe in quality.
Stuff bought for one low-grade spirit stone on “Pinduoduo” (bargain sites) definitely won’t be anything good…
…
【Congratulations, Host! The first link of the series mission is successfully completed! Keep up the good work, Host; this time you will definitely complete the mission!】
As soon as Wen Ying walked off the competition stage, the System’s voice rang in her mind.
“Heh.” Wen Ying sneered, too lazy to even tell it to scram this time.
【Host, the next mission is for the Second Female Lead in the Farming Novel, Mission Two: Pay attention during the match, do not hurt the female lead Mu Xiaoxiao! Incidentally, this mission is also the second link of the series mission; the host still needs to win this match.】
As always, after Wen Ying won, her opponent in the second round was the newly introduced farming novel female lead, Mu Xiaoxiao.
Qian Moshi, who appeared earlier, was the farming novel male lead. And this Mu Xiaoxiao, from Kunlun Cave, was the farming novel female lead.
These two protagonists of the farming novel truly lived up to the genre’s name. Besides cultivation, their main occupations were farming and selling vegetables.
Even their relationship followed the “love-hate” route—getting to know each other gradually through the competition of farming and selling vegetables, going from rivals at the start to appreciating each other in the very end.
…She had to admit, it was indeed very “farming novel.”
But the grievances between this Mu Xiaoxiao and Wen Ying went beyond this.
Mu Xiaoxiao was actually a fallen young lady. After her family’s decline, she started farming to support herself, building a business from scratch, and eventually becoming the number one merchant in the cultivation world alongside Qian Moshi.
And the Mu family used to be neighbors with the Wen family, where Wen Ying belonged.
After her family’s decline, Mu Xiaoxiao humbly rented a small piece of land from the Wen family. Wen Ying, already resentful of Mu Xiaoxiao stealing her limelight in various ways, began to make things difficult for and mock Mu Xiaoxiao everywhere after her fall. As the daughter of Mu Xiaoxiao’s landlord, Wen Ying was even more arrogant, always acting high and mighty in front of Mu Xiaoxiao and often ordering her around like a servant.
It could be said that although this farming novel female lead had just debuted, the grudge between Wen Ying and her had been forged long ago.
This was why Xu Huang chose Mu Xiaoxiao to frame Wen Ying.
With such a terrible relationship between the two, and Wen Ying having a prior record of bullying Mu Xiaoxiao, intentionally injuring Mu Xiaoxiao at this moment seemed very plausible.
Of course, this wasn’t Xu Huang’s ultimate goal.
Xu Huang’s true goal was to pave the way for the next cycle, where Wen Ying would cruelly cripple all her own cultivation.
Now that Xu Huang had become like a loudspeaker, she would probably only become more frenzied.
But what did this have to do with Wen Ying?
Wen Ying had no intention of harming others, but no intention of saving them either.
Her only goal was—throw the match! Charge!
…
When Wen Ying arrived at the dining hall, she once again received enthusiastic congratulations from Wang Goudan.
Wen Ying had figured it out: this Wang Goudan not only had terrible cooking skills but his emotional intelligence wasn’t much higher than his cooking skills.
Even now that his cooking skills had improved, his emotional intelligence remained steadfastly low.
After teaching cooking, Wen Ying left the dining hall with the packed food.
After this period of teaching, Wang Goudan could already independently complete a simple meal, but Wen Ying still used the convenient environment here to cook for herself. Just as agreed upon initially.
It’s just…
Wen Ying never saw Da Hei come.
Perhaps, after Peace Town last time, Da Hei had left the Xun Xian Sect completely.
Maybe Da Hei stayed here before just to go to Peace Town with them, who knows.
Wen Ying squeezed the short flute in her sleeve.
There were many miscellaneous things in her pocket dimension, so to avoid losing it, Wen Ying always kept this short flute in her sleeve.
If she blew it now… Wen Ying thought amusingly, maybe she could verify if Da Hei was in the Xun Xian Sect?
But Wen Ying ultimately didn’t blow it.
Before Xun Xian Town, Wen Ying had actually always regarded Da Hei as merely a new character who might help her escape reincarnation, but after that day…
Wen Ying still remembered Da Hei’s words: “Because it’s you.”
Although Wen Ying still couldn’t figure out why Da Hei trusted her so much… it couldn’t be because of those few small steamed buns and two dishes of pickles, right?
But…
Wen Ying couldn’t help but chuckle and shrug.
Unconditional trust really moved her easily.
The news of Wen Ying’s victory spread throughout the Xun Xian Sect faster than other news.
This wasn’t just due to the battlefield reporter Li Xiangyue, but more because everyone in the Xun Xian Sect was genuinely very interested in Wen Ying’s gossip.
After delivering food to Little Sun Sun, Wen Ying thought she would receive a round of congratulations from Shen Linfeng just like Wang Goudan when she returned to her room. Unexpectedly, Shen Linfeng was surprisingly silent.
As if understanding Wen Ying’s mood perfectly, Shen Linfeng was even quieter than usual.
She didn’t know if it was a coincidence, that he understood her too well, or… if he had ulterior motives.
If possible, Wen Ying hoped it wasn’t the last case.
Really, before this reincarnation cycle, Wen Ying had been lonely in this world for too long.
If there really could be someone who understood her heart…
Looking at Shen Linfeng’s face, the image of Da Hei gradually appeared in Wen Ying’s mind, actually overlapping with the Shen Linfeng before her.
Huh.
This was the first time Wen Ying noticed that although Shen Linfeng and Da Hei gave completely different vibes, their height and build seemed almost identical.
Seemingly stared at by Wen Ying for too long, Shen Linfeng touched his face shyly, a pink blush gradually rising on his cheeks.
“Ahem.” Wen Ying snapped back to reality, hurriedly coughed twice, and lifted the packed food in her hand. “Xiao Hei, Shen Linfeng, come come come, meal time!”
Hearing there was food, Xiao Hei, who had been sleeping lazily on the bed a moment ago, jumped up instantly. He leaped off the bed and ran to Wen Ying at top speed, quickly scrambling onto the table, waiting for the arrival of the food.
Good for nothing but eating, that probably described Xiao Hei.
Wen Ying placed Xiao Hei’s portion on the table and handed Shen Linfeng his portion.
Xiao Hei need not be mentioned; his appetite was huge. Whether vegetarian or meat, sour, sweet, bitter, or spicy, human food or cat food—as long as it was edible, he could lick the plate clean.
But Shen Linfeng was extremely picky. He would return the vegetables Wen Ying brought before even opening them, indicating he wouldn’t eat them.
It couldn’t be called wasteful, just a bit too picky.
She really didn’t expect Shen Linfeng, this seemingly timid and well-behaved child, to be a carnivore who couldn’t go without meat.
It’s just…
Being so picky, how did he survive before?
If his background was truly as he described, there was no way he could have developed such a picky eating habit. If he were truly that picky, even if he luckily survived, he would probably be skinny as a stick long ago. Where would he have the strength to sweep and clean?
But from the first moment Wen Ying saw Shen Linfeng, he was neither thin nor short.
Because of his personality, Wen Ying always felt Shen Linfeng was just a child, just a younger brother.
But discussing his physique… taller than Wen Ying, hidden under loose robes—although Wen Ying couldn’t see if Shen Linfeng had muscles, his shoulders were broad. The word “scrawny” had nothing to do with Shen Linfeng.
Unless, he was a cultivator, and he didn’t need to eat at all.
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