บท 27: Zhou Tiandi*

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"Young master, I've performed the task you gave me."

As Jianyu had concluded his thoughts, Lei Qiang returned, this time she stood there instead of hiding like usual.

"Mhm," Jianyu simply nodded to Lei Qiang and continued, "Bring me a list of the new disciples who recently entered the sect as well as some basic information regarding older disciples who show potential or those who have a glimmer of peculiarity, they don't have to be talented, just unusual, and lastly a basic list of all the important people of the sect."

"Yes, young master." Soon Lei Qiang left, and with this, Jianyu began to lay the foundation of his plans for the sect.

"Yawn..." Jianyu let out a tired yawn as he started to feel drowsy. Even though he was a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment realm, his body, still a child's, needed sleep. Knowing that resisting this urge would only harm him, he surrendered to slumber.

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"Yo ain't that Ye Chen."

"Huh? What's that trash trying to do, fighting Senior Brother Chaoxiang? Does he think he's the same genius as half a year ago?"

"Hmph, he can't put Mount Tai in his eyes!"

"Yea bro... even tho he has eyes..."

As I was heading to the scripture repository, I noticed a commotion near the third arena, meant for the low-level disciples.

"Hm? Fellow disciple, why are there so many people gathered around here?"

I went ahead and called out to one of the many gathered around there, to which the person simply stared blankly at me.

'She seems a bit dazed...'

"Umm... Excuse me?" I questioned her.

Startled, she snapped out of her reverie, her cheeks flushing as she flailed her arms in embarrassment.

"Ah! Umm! I-I apologize! I-I wasn't paying attention right now..."

Seeing her panic like this, I felt the urge to tease her. But, I gave up on that as she was not a mortal, but a monster known as a cultivator who could easily have my balls ripped off and shoved up my ass and feel no remorse about it.

"Not at all, as cultivators we all have a myriad of matters to ponder upon, so there's no need to feel apologetic."

I tried to be as polite as possible, as I for one didn't fancy the idea of being 'You Dare!!'ed on my first year of transmigration.

"Ah-um... Thank you for your understanding!" She replied while also lowering her head a little, the tips of her ear gaining a crimson hue and a foolish smile adorned upon her rather exquisite face.

"A-anyways, do you know what's happening here?"

However, hearing the increasingly loud voice of the girl, I tensed up and tried to continue the conversation.

"Well..." She began, raising her lowered head that still held a bit of crimson, "That person over there is Ye Chen. He used to be a promising talent from the Ye family and joined the sect a year ago. However, about half a year ago, he suddenly lost all of his cultivation. Now, he's challenging Ye Chaoxiang, who's become the Ye family's heir after Ye Chen's fall from grace."

"Huh?"

"Hm?" The girl tilted her head, her expression a mixture of curiosity and puzzlement as she perceived my baffled expression.

"Ah! I-I was just thinking about how it was so weird that he suddenly lost his cultivation." I stammered a bit trying my best to come up with an excuse.

"Ah, yes it's truly strange isn't it?" The girl cupped her chin as she seemed to ponder this.

'This girl... she's really easy to fool...' My thoughts were genuine as I realized that my previous reply was quite unnatural, 'Or maybe she knows and is keeping quiet about... fucking Xianxia freaks!'

"It seems like it's about to begin," I noted, turning our attention back to the arena.

Both me and the girl looked at the fight in the arena, and we were both surprised as we saw Ye Chen defeat Ye Chaoxiang effortlessly

'It's a fucking protagonist!' I screamed internally as realization dawned upon me.

'Fuck! I knew it! This world was a landmine after all.' I screamed yet again as I had been quite wary of this world from the very beginning, going as far as not leaving my cultivation cave for a week!

'Phew, let's calm down. Yeah... I'm someone capable of intellectual thinking...'

'Anyways...'

Turning to the smile, I smiled and extended my hand."That was quite the surprise wasn't it?"

"That it was."

The girl smiled warmly, extending her hand toward mine.

"My name is Zhou Tiandi, it was a pleasure to make your acquaintance." I Introduced myself with a smile as I prepared to get the fuck away from these landmines.

"Ah, my name is Long Ai," she replied warmly, her smile reminiscent of the gentle warmth of spring. "I had a lot of fun talking with you."

Just then, a presence behind me made me turn around, only to find Ye Chen staring at me with a furrowed brow.

"Huh?"

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"Fuck..." Having returned to my quarters, I felt annoyed as hell, since I didn't even get to enjoy my new chance for a month as everything went to shit real fast.

"What should I do? I don't even have that much strength, how should I take care of that Ye Chen guy? Why the fuck was that bastard even frowning at me?! The fuck did I even do?!" I let out a continuous chain of expletives to let out my ever-growing frustrations

"Okay... Let's calm down," I told myself, taking deep breaths.

"For now I should try to gain some strength, I can't afford to lose my second chance."

I steeled myself with determination, an unsettling gleam settled in my eyes.

"Why the hell was he even looking at me like that, it's not like I flushed his grandpa's ashes down the toilet."

"Sigh, let's just sleep for now, I'll go visit the Scripture repository tomorrow. It would be too tragic if I just die due to qi deviation because of clouded thoughts."

"I leave the future's troubles to my future self."

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