Chapter 37: Slacking Off, Day Thirty-Seven
Wen Ying ultimately stayed in the sect.
While leaving the sect held the allure of unknown plot characters and maps, since there was already a new interesting story within the sect, she might as well stay and watch.
As for being expelled…
There would be plenty of opportunities.
Wen Ying would diligently slack off, striving to be expelled by Xu Mofeng before she killed him.
At least let him do one good deed before he dies.
Physically leaving the sect was a simple matter for Wen Ying, but being expelled held a different significance.
Once the plot was disrupted to this point, it would trigger a chain reaction, creating earth-shattering new developments. Besides, Wen Ying was also curious how the system would react.
Since she was staying in the Xun Xian Sect, Wen Ying remained an inner sect disciple.
Thus, Lan Xiaoming happily escorted Wen Ying back to her cultivation place, where she resumed her daily training.
Lan Xiaoming only sent Wen Ying back out of kindness, and Wen Ying didn’t refuse.
Elder Mo Ru’s lessons were quite interesting, anyway. As for Big Black and Little Sun Sun… let those two acquaintances spend more time together.
At this moment, Wen Ying didn’t know that her pursuit of momentary amusement would lead to immense regret later…
The moment Wen Ying appeared at the cultivation grounds, everyone’s gaze immediately converged on her.
This was the first time everyone looked at Wen Ying collectively, but their gazes lacked mockery or disdain.
The matter was bizarre, but considering the context, it wasn’t incomprehensible.
According to Lan Xiaoming, on the surface, she was kept because of a “joint petition from the disciples.”
Wen Ying looked at Lu Xiaojie, who was secretly waving to her with excitement in his eyes.
If only Lu Xiaojie had petitioned for her to stay, Wen Ying could understand, but this joint petition from all the disciples…?
Lu Xiaojie, a new disciple, was an insignificant figure among the new batch, and couldn’t possibly rally all the disciples.
Wen Ying nodded at Lu Xiaojie, then calmly walked into the group of disciples.
Soon, she learned what had happened through the thoughts of the main characters and other disciples with speaking roles.
After Wen Ying left, Xu Mofeng soon left, suppressing his anger.
After that, Elder Mo Ru’s lesson began on time.
However, the disciples secretly began circulating a piece of paper.
Wen Ying guessed that Lu Xiaojie was the initiator.
The first signature on the joint petition to keep her was Lu Xiaojie’s.
Attached to the petition was another small note:
[Senior brothers and sisters who, like me, believe in Senior Sister Wen and hope she stays, please sign here, thank you!]
Logically, except for Lu Xiaojie, the disciples generally despised Wen Ying, the villainous female supporting character. Why would they sign?
But there are so many unbelievable things in this world.
Every disciple signed.
There were two reasons.
First, they didn’t mind Wen Ying leading them into the forbidden area. Except for the initial attack by the tree demon, they didn’t feel their lives were threatened. On the contrary, it was because of entering the forbidden area and being attacked that they had the great fortune to see the Exam God—
The Exam God!! Being able to pay respects to her, the disciples felt confident facing the next three years of trials!
Deep down, they were somewhat grateful to Wen Ying…
Since it involved a deity, logically, they should repay Wen Ying for helping them see the god…
Of course, just because of the Exam God, the disciples were at most hesitant, not enough to sign their names.
What truly made them decide to sign was the second reason.
An idle rumour spread among the disciples:
“If Wen Ying is expelled, won’t our after-dinner entertainment be gone?”
Everyone thought—
Wow! So reasonable!
Without Wen Ying, the sect would only have kind geniuses, wouldn’t life become incredibly boring?
Who would they gossip about? Who would they make fun of?
Wouldn’t their lives consist only of monotonous cultivation?!
Ugh—no.
Driven by both gratitude and reluctance, along with herd mentality and knowing that Sect Leader Xu was easy to persuade, they signed their names.
Yes, herd mentality.
Before the other disciples, Feng Si Xuan, Fu Shuangxue, and Xu Tongtong were the first to sign.
Fu Shuangxue was worried about further accidents, so he escorted Xu Tongtong there, but when he saw his master, he stayed for a while. After Xu Mofeng left, he was about to leave, but received the paper from Lu Xiaojie.
Fu Shuangxue thought for a moment and signed his name.
He had repeatedly wrongly accused Senior Sister Wen in the dining hall incident. Then Senior Sister Wen had helped him so much, even leaving the gratitude to him. Fu Shuangxue missed the best chance to explain and always felt guilty.
Fu Shuangxue also doubted Wen Ying’s involvement in luring them into the forbidden area. After the dining hall incident, Fu Shuangxue knew Wen Ying was far from simple. If she had really done it, how could she have been seen by those junior disciples?
Seeing Fu Shuangxue sign, Xu Tongtong didn’t even look at it and immediately signed her name.
She trusted Senior Brother Fu. Whatever Senior Brother Fu decided was always correct!
After receiving the paper, Feng Si Xuan quickly scanned it, then dipped her brush and signed her name.
She believed Wen Ying was innocent, it was an intuition. When Senior Sister Wen had helped her release her powers, she felt that Senior Sister Wen was definitely a good person!
With these geniuses leading the way, what reason did the other disciples have not to sign? Sign!
They all wanted Wen Ying to stay!
The reason the joint petition reached the Sect Leader so quickly was because—
Elder Mo Ru asked the disciples to deliver it quickly.
Elder Mo Ru also hoped Wen Ying would stay!
Wen Ying: …
This class of disciples and teacher could sing “The Most Dazzling National Style” together.
“Stay!”
In the end, the only one who didn’t want Wen Ying to stay was Wen Ying herself.
But as Wen Ying said, just this joint petition couldn’t possibly make Xu Mofeng waver so easily.
As for the reason on Xu Mofeng’s side…
She’ll investigate later. Reading minds is easy, and if that fails, she can use the Memory Peering Technique. Easy peasy.
Entertainment first, serious business later. Let’s enjoy this fun class!
…
Since Wen Ying had returned, the morning class continued as usual.
Today’s full-day lesson was “alchemy.”
In the morning, they collected herbs in the back mountain; in the afternoon, they refined pills.
Here, Elder Mo Ru deliberately kept them in suspense, not telling them what kind of pills they would refine, only showing the herbs they needed to collect.
Wen Ying thought…
If she wasn’t mistaken…
This herb seemed to be… foxtail grass?
Refining pills with foxtail grass?
What kind of pills? It wouldn’t be like that anime Wen Ying had watched, using foxtail grass to make noodles, would it?
It seemed that the previous “KTFFF” wasn’t the most absurd thing.
Or rather, there were many, many other things as absurd as that in Elder Mo Ru’s possession…
Wen Ying once again entered the familiar back mountain.
As a ubiquitous grass found on roadsides and even parking lot cracks, foxtail grass probably never imagined that one day it would have such a high status, being revered as a spiritual herb and diligently searched for by a large group of disciples.
The back mountain was an important place for Xun Xian Sect disciples for their stage-specific trials and practice during training.
For example, during trials, the elders would introduce a suitable number and level of spirit beasts. On ordinary days, if they needed to collect herbs, gather spiritual energy, etc., the elders would also lead the disciples here.
This common weed wasn’t numerous in the back mountain. The disciples quickly dispersed to search.
[“The Second Female Lead in a Xianxia Novel” Mission Six: Stay as far away from the cliff as possible! Avoid accidentally pushing Xu Tongtong off the cliff!]
The plot had progressed to this point.
In the original plot, Wen Ying and Xu Tongtong happened to be collecting herbs in the back mountain at the same time. Wen Ying, while searching for herbs, walked backward without looking, bumping into Xu Tongtong, who was admiring the scenery on the cliff edge, and sending her tumbling down.
Then, according to Xu Tongtong, who miraculously survived the fall, there was an unparalleled view below the cliff.
This time, no one was framing anyone.
It could only be said, why did these two idiots meet?
One didn’t watch where she was going on the cliff edge, the other was even worse, going to the cliff edge to see the scenery.
Because this mission was so easy to complete, in previous reincarnations, Wen Ying simply stayed far from the cliff and naturally didn’t bump into Xu Tongtong, completing the mission.
But this time, Wen Ying had other plans.
She wanted to jump off the cliff!
She didn’t have any rebellious feelings toward the system; she simply wanted to see what the “unparalleled view,” as Xu Tongtong described it, actually was.
So, Wen Ying didn’t bother looking for foxtail grass.
Anyway, she was a bad student, with limited abilities, so failing to hand in her homework was normal.
As soon as she entered the back mountain, she strode purposefully towards the cliff.
[Host, Host! What are you doing!]
The system finally popped up again.
[“Can’t you see? Of course, I’m going to the cliff edge.”] Wen Ying said disdainfully to the system.
[Host! You’ve failed missions consecutively recently. This mission is so simple; we can’t fail again!]
The system earnestly pleaded.
Wen Ying ignored the system and continued towards the cliff.
When Wen Ying reached the cliff edge, Xu Tongtong was standing there, just as in the original plot, looking at the scenery below.
Wen Ying didn’t bump into Xu Tongtong, but didn’t pay attention to her either.
The cliff was large enough; she could jump from another spot.
Seeing Wen Ying walk directly to the edge of the cliff, the system finally seemed to understand what she wanted to do.
[Host! Host! What are you doing! The mission, don’t forget the mission! Stay away from the cliff, stay away from the cliff!]
The system’s tone, besides its usual worry, was more anxious this time, its voice even somewhat urgent.
Wen Ying raised an eyebrow.
The system was probably… trying to stop her from jumping off the cliff?
It shouldn’t be afraid of her dying.
In a previous reincarnation, Wen Ying died immediately after ascending after surviving the tribulation; the system didn’t say a word.
So, was it afraid of itself breaking?
Or… dying?
As Wen Ying approached the cliff, the system’s voice became more urgent.
[Stop, stop!]
Wen Ying ignored it.
Without hesitation, she walked to the edge of the cliff and jumped.
“Senior Sister Wen——!” Xu Tongtong, hearing the sound, turned her head out of curiosity and saw Wen Ying jump off the cliff.
She rushed to the edge of the cliff, reaching out to grab her, but it was already too far.
Without thinking, Xu Tongtong also jumped.
While jumping, she shouted: “Senior Sister Wen, I’m coming to save you——!”
Wen Ying, who was preparing to use her qi to slowly descend: …
As expected of an intellect unaffected by the intelligence-reducing technique.
Wen Ying had heard of people jumping into water and others jumping in to save them, but seeing someone jump off a cliff and then jumping down to save them…
Wen Ying had never seen that before.
A disciple who was searching for foxtail grass witnessed the scene.
The disciple’s jaw dropped; even the herb he had just pulled dropped to the ground.
After a long time, he recovered, picked up the herb, and ran while shouting:
“Good heavens! Good heavens! I just saw Senior Sister Wen and Junior Sister Xu jump off a cliff to die together——!”
Author’s Note:
The “stay” plot point is referenced from Da Zhang Wei’s recent appearance on [Name of Show – likely a Chinese variety show].
The anime is Dr. Stone.
Finally, guess what’s at the bottom of the cliff?
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