Ch185 - News of the Male Protagonist

Edited by Zaki

Half a year later,

In the early morning, Liu Mufeng came to his Master’s palace as usual. He placed the two trays of snacks and brewed spiritual tea that he brought on the table and then waited for the arrival of his Master.

After a while, Shen Xin walked in from the outside. Liu Mufeng stood up and bowed his head in a salute. “Greetings, Senior Sister.”

“Sixth Junior Brother, don’t be too polite.” Nodding towards Liu Mufeng, Shen Xin sat on the chair beside him.

Glancing at Shen Xin, Liu Mufeng also sat back in his seat.

“Sixth Junior Brother, three months later will be the Five-Yearly Sect competition. At that time, the alchemists who want to become Master’s disciple will issue a challenge letter to the nine disciples under Master’s tutelage. You are a newcomer and the possibility of you being challenged is very high, are you ready?” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Shen Xin asked.

“Oh, thank you for the reminder, Senior Sister. Master had already mentioned this to me, and I’m ready.” Liu Mufeng said lightly while smiling.

He had just entered the Third Elder’s tutelage, and there would definitely be many people from the inner and outer door who wanted to challenge him and get his seat. Therefore, his Master had suggested that he go into seclusion during the competition. However, Liu Mufeng refused, as he felt that avoiding it was not the way. Moreover, there were explicit rules in the sect. If this time Liu Mufeng refused to participate in the challenge on the grounds of seclusion, then in the next challenge in five years, Liu Mufeng could no longer use the excuse of seclusion. That was to say, within ten years, a disciple must participate in the Five-Yearly Sect competition. He could only escape once by going into seclusion, but could not escape forever. In this case, Liu Mufeng felt that there was no need to avoid it. In case after five years, if someone really caught up to his skills and at that time if he wanted to go into seclusion and could not do so, wouldn’t that be troublesome?

“En, Master has high hopes for Sixth Junior Brother, so please don’t let Master down.” Since the past suspicions were settled with the Sixth Junior Brother, Master had been in a particularly good mood recently, and often ran to her room at night. He even often told Shen Xin how smart and talented Liu Mufeng was, and Shen Xin’s ears were already tired of listening to the praises everyday. After following their Master for many years, Shen Xin could see that Master was very interested in Sixth Junior Brother. He was almost treating the Sixth Junior Brother as his successor. If the Sixth Junior Brother lost in the competition, the Master would definitely be disappointed.

“Don’t worry, Senior Sister. Mufeng will definitely do his best.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng said yes.

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“En.” In response, Liu Mufeng and Shen Xin sat back in their respective seats.

“En, not bad, Mufeng’s tea-making skills are getting better and better now.” Nodding, the Third Elder smiled and looked at his disciple.

“Master is over-praising me. This disciple doesn’t know much about your taste. It’s all due to the good advice from the Senior Sister.” Liu Mufeng said with a smile. After all, he had only just come to study under the Master, and didn’t understand many things very well. Therefore, when Liu Mufeng encountered something he didn’t understand, he would ask Shen Xin for advice. Shen Xin was a good person, she didn’t hide anything from him, and would explain everything in detail to him. This made Liu Mufeng very grateful.

“Sixth Junior Brother is praising me too much. I only gave you some advice, but everything was due to your own hard work.” Speaking of this, Shen Xin smiled. She had to say that Liu Mufeng was really smart and attentive. Every time he asked about the Master’s preference, as long as she answered, he would memorize it carefully. By the next day, she would find that there were things on the table that the Master liked.

“En.” The Third Elder nodded when he heard Liu Mufeng say that. “Mufeng, make some sweet-scented osmanthus cake tomorrow.”

“Okay, Master likes it, I’ll make more.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng responded affirmatively. Master had been fasting for many years. Except for the habit of drinking tea, he did not touch other foods. However, Liu Mufeng found that the cakes he sent were always eaten quickly. Thinking about it, the person who liked to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cakes was not the Master, but the Senior Sister.

Hearing the Master’s words, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Shen Xin’s mouth. She just casually mentioned it last night, saying that Sixth Junior Brother’s sweet-scented osmanthus cake was delicious. Unexpectedly, the Master asked for sweet-scented osmanthus cakes for himself.

“En.” Nodding, the Third Elder lowered his head and took another sip of tea.

Picking up the teapot, Liu Mufeng respectfully poured tea for his Master. He took another cup and also poured Shen Xin a cup of tea.

“Mufeng, this is for you.” The Third Elder handed Liu Mufeng a jade slip.

“Master, this, what is this?” Seeing the jade slip, Liu Mufeng was dumbfounded.

“You’ll know when you see it.” Smiling, the Third Elder spoke as such.

“Oh.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng put down the teapot, picked up the jade slip, and plunged his soul power directly into it. Because he was not expecting it, Liu Mufeng was shocked when he took a quick glance into the jade slip. “Master, you, you helped me investigate Xiao Zhantian?”

“En, didn’t you say that he is your enemy? I asked the News Pavilion of the sect to help investigate. His current situation is inside. He is not as powerful as you think. Currently he is only a three-star Spiritual King Realm cultivator and his strength is not as strong as you. His sister is a double spiritual root, but after she came to the Zunhuang Continent, she got her spiritual roots washed and is now a three-star in the Spiritual Master Ream. The Brother and Sister performed quite poorly in the Imperial clan and are not too outstanding.” Looking at his apprentice, the Third Elder said lightly.

Hearing this, Liu Mufeng bowed his head gratefully. “Thank you Master.”

“Between you and me, Master and Apprentice, there is no need for thanks.” Waving his hand, the Third Elder said indifferently.

“Sixth Junior Brother, you can rest assured now. You know everything about your enemy’s situation.” Speaking of this, Shen Xin smiled.

Liu Mufeng smiled bitterly. “Senior Sister, you don’t know. This Xiao Zhantian’s greatest skill is not his swordsmanship, but his ability to please women. This person has countless female confidants in the Lingwu Sect of Lingwu Continent, and the partner he married was also a City Lord’s Granddaughter. At that time, she was a third-level alchemist, very remarkable. To put it bluntly, this person’s greatest ability is to eatsoft rice.”

After reading the original book, Liu Mufeng realized that the male protagonist’s greatest skill was not swordsmanship, nor his superior talent and his unbelievable luck. It was his ability to please women and eat soft rice. To be honest, if it wasn’t for the help of the six heroines, he might not have achieved that and might not become a big winner in life. Therefore, Liu Mufeng felt that Xiao Zhantian, this stallion man, had the greatest ability to eat soft rice.

“Eat, eat soft rice!” Hearing this, Shen Xin laughed.

“En, that’s a good point. Although this kid is mediocre in the Imperial clan, he is nevertheless loved by his Master’s Granddaughter. At this moment, he is pursuing Sun Miaomiao, the Granddaughter of the Sword Peak Master of the Imperial clan. If he can marry Sun Miaomiao then he would have a certain status and position in the Imperial clan.”

“There’s actually such a thing!” Shen Xin didn’t expect this.

“Xiao Zhantian is quite thick-skinned, and he is very good at dealing and coaxing women. This Sun Miaomiao should choose him.” Sun Miaomiao was the third heroine, and if calculating the time, she and the male protagonist should marry in five years. However, at this moment, the male protagonist did not have the first and the second heroine around him and there were not so many obstacles. For sure their marriage would be ahead of schedule.

“Don’t worry, even if he marries Sun Miaomiao, he won’t be able to make waves for the time being. The cultivators of the Imperial clan do not have guts to run over to our Lingwu Sect to make trouble. However, if you and Jiang Xu meet them outside, you need to be careful. This Sun Miaomiao’s strength is not low, and she is already a nine-star in the Spiritual King Realm. Moreover, her Grandfather is a Peak Master and in the strength of the Spiritual Venerable Realm, making him very difficult to deal with.”

“Yes, this disciple understands, thank you Master for reminding me.” Nodding, Liu Mufeng hurriedly agreed.

“En, Xiao Zhantian’s news is all on the jade slip. You should go back in the afternoon and take a good look. In addition, what are your thoughts on the Five-Yearly Sect competition? Do you really want to participate?” The Third Elder asked uncertainly.

“Master, this disciple thought thoroughly about this matter. I can dodge on the first day but not the fifteenth. This disciple doesn’t want to hide. This disciple wants to participate in the competition and accept the challenge of other fourth-level alchemists.”

Looking at Liu Mufeng’s determined face, the Third Elder nodded. “Okay, you can participate if you want. Anyway, the person who will come up with the challenges is myself. Moreover, if there are more than ten people challenging you, then you also have the right to choose your opponent for yourself.” Challenges like this one actually have more advantages for the challenged. First reason being, it would be the Master who would be giving the test. As a Master, it was natural for him to know which pills his apprentice was good at refining and which pills he was not good at. Second reason was that there were only ten places to challenge. It could be said that the more people who challenge, the better. If there were more people, the challenged disciple could choose. If you choose the person with the worst alchemy skills, you will naturally not lose.

“Master, rest assured, this disciple will go all out and will not make you lose face.” Liu Mufeng knew that if he lost this kind of competition, he would have to leave Pill Peak and give up the position of being the Sixth Disciple of Pill Peak to the winner. And then he would need to be chosen by some other Elder. For the Master, it would be extremely dishonourable if his disciple would lose to the challenger. Therefore, whether it was for the Master or for himself, he must not lose.

“Well, I am at ease with you. What I am most uneasy about right now are the other three newly initiated disciples, as well as the Fourth and Fifth disciples. They went into seclusion five years ago and did not participate in the competition. This time they must participate”

“Yeah, I don’t know if the Fourth Junior Sister and Fifth Junior Brother can do it.” Shen Xin was also very worried about this.