Several female disciples listened to Tang Xiaoyu's murmurs and wished they could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
"How embarrassing! That said, a man's body is different from ours!"
"His body does have a nice shape!"
"Stop talking. It's fine if you know it yourself, why say it out loud?"
Tang Xiaoyu cursed and turned back to process the fish downstream, then brought the processed fish back to the resting spot.
Liu YuXin was resting with her eyes closed. Hearing the sound, she opened her eyes to see the fish in Tang Xiaoyu's hands. She immediately stood up.
"This fish is so fat. I happen to have some salt. It will definitely taste great grilled."
Tang Xiaoyu handed her the fish: "Then you grill it!"
Watching her skilled movements, Tang Xiaoyu felt a sense of pleasure.
Liu YuXin started grilling the fish, swallowing her saliva: "Wait a little longer, it'll be ready soon."
She took out from her pocket a paper package a little bigger than her thumb and carefully opened it, evenly sprinkling the salt inside over the fish.
"Here, eat first." Liu YuXin passed a grilled fish to Tang Xiaoyu.
Seeing her swallowing saliva, Tang Xiaoyu received it and took a bite: "Delicious, smells so good!"
Liu YuXin was drooling staring at the raw fish in her hand.
Just when her saliva was about to flow out, she finally got her wish and tasted the fish.
"So delicious, ten thousand times better than buns!"
After the two were full, Liu YuXin asked, "Is there a river over there?"
"There's a small creek."
"Then I'll go there to take a bath. I stink all over."
Tang Xiaoyu stopped her, "Never go there. Just now I met several female hooligans who stared at me lustfully."
Liu YuXin asked nervously: "You didn't get taken advantage of by them, did you?"
"Of course not. Do they know who I am?"
Liu YuXin said, "Tomorrow I'll go with you to protect you."
"OK."
Without talking for the whole night, the next noon, Liu YuXin touched her stomach and remembered yesterday's fish.
"Tang Xiaoyu, let's go catch some fish."
"OK."
The two came to the creek: "Tang Xiaoyu, take off your clothes and catch the fish. I'll keep watch from above. If any female hooligans come, I'll yell."
"Hurry up and take off your clothes to catch them. There are so many fish. They'll all swim away later." Liu YuXin urged.
"Alright! You go keep watch from afar."
"I'm going now. Hurry up and catch the fish!"
When Tang Xiaoyu climbed onto the shore holding the fish, Liu YuXin had already run back.
"So many fish. I'll go process them first. Hurry up and put your clothes on, don't catch a cold!"
The clothes Tang Xiaoyu was holding fell onto the ground. She was seen naked again today.
Soon it was time for Fengxi Sect to recruit disciples. Tang Xiaoyu and Liu YuXin followed behind the troops walking up the mountain.
Arriving at Fengxi Sect's mountain gate, Tang Xiaoyu and Liu YuXin stood at the back, listening to the announcement of the recruitment criteria.
Luckily there was no age limit, so the two could sign up.
The old recruitment process: climbing the Immortal Ladder, simply put, climbing stairs with formations. The only difference was that the end of these stairs couldn't be seen.
This was to test one's willpower. The more stairs climbed, the higher the probability of being selected.
Soon, thousands of people started swarming up the stairs leading to the mid-peak.
"Tang Xiaoyu, don't rush. Take it slowly. Climbing stairs requires gradual progress."
Subsequently, the two walked up at a steady pace. The higher they went, the more people gave up.
Seeing Liu YuXin's increasingly strained expression, Tang Xiaoyu knew the pressure on the girl was getting greater.
As for Tang Xiaoyu, she didn't feel anything, just panting as she followed.
"Tang Xiaoyu, hang in there. We've surpassed most people already. The higher we climb, the greater our chance of being selected."
Tang Xiaoyu panted heavily: "I can still persist. Can we rest first so I can catch my breath?"
"No way. This tests our willpower. We must make it up in one go. Give me your hand, I'll pull you."
A black line appeared on Tang Xiaoyu's head. [Miss, do you believe I can dash up right now?]
Just as Tang Xiaoyu was about to refuse, Liu YuXin grabbed her hand and pulled her along up.
With Liu YuXin's persistence, the two ranked 189 and 190 respectively, not a bad result. Although not genius material that made it to the peak, they passed the first test.
"The top 500 disciples stay. The rest may leave."
The ones not kept drooped their heads dejectedly and left. The remaining had smiles brimming on their faces.
"Next, we'll test your aptitude. Everyone line up to take the test in order."
Some passed, some failed in front. There were also a few geniuses whose results made the crowd cry out in surprise.
Among them was a boy who surprised Tang Xiaoyu - the one who had wrongly directed them earlier.
When it was Liu YuXin's turn, she was very nervous but still gave Tang Xiaoyu an encouraging look.
Liu YuXin's aptitude was very poor, barely passing the test.
She walked back excitedly to Tang Xiaoyu's side: "I passed! You'll surely pass too!"
Tang Xiaoyu wasn't worried at all: "Thanks for the blessings!"
As expected, Tang Xiaoyu passed the test easily, though her aptitude wasn't great either.
"Those who passed stay. The rest may leave."
What followed was elders selecting disciples. Naturally, geniuses were in high demand. As for Tang Xiaoyu and the others, they would either become outer sect disciples or handyman disciples.
On the elders' platform, an elder with exceptional looks and figure leaned lazily in her chair.
Fengxi Sect's sect leader said to her: "Junior sister, this year you have to take two disciples, otherwise your peak will be merged into another one."
The woman sat up straight: "Fine!"
"There are some decent disciples this year. Take whoever you fancy."
The woman glanced at the disciples below, pointing at Tang Xiaoyu and Liu YuXin, "Just these two. Although they have ordinary looks and poor aptitude, I like challenges."
A black line appeared on Tang Xiaoyu's head again. [You can say I have poor aptitude, but you can't insult my looks!]
Liu YuXin excitedly pulled Tang Xiaoyu down on their knees: "Disciple Liu YuXin greets Master!"
Tang Xiaoyu cooperated: "Disciple Tang Xiaoyu greets Master!"
"Rise. Follow me back!"
She turned to the sect leader: "Senior brother, I'll head back first."
"What more can I say? Hurry back!"
Tang Xiaoyu and Liu YuXin followed their master back to their peak.
"Our Falling Leaf Peak has a total of eight people including you two. Food, shelter, clothing - all depend on yourselves. Later I'll have your eldest senior sister brief you on the rules."
Looking at the crudely built wooden houses, Tang Xiaoyu knew what kind of people they were - free-spirited when put nicely, lazy when put bluntly.
"Settle your own accommodation. Tools are with your senior sister. Get materials from the mountain forest yourselves. Make your own food. Ingredients are in the kitchen."
Liu YuXin respectfully said, "Understood, Master."
"Now I'll bring you to meet your senior brothers and sisters."
When they arrived at the open space in front of the wooden houses: "Everyone, come out to meet your new junior brother and sister."
Soon, four women and a man emerged from the houses. Seeing them, Tang Xiaoyu almost yelled "female hooligans".
The four women were also extremely surprised seeing Tang Xiaoyu, but pretended nothing had happened.
"Sixth junior sister Liu YuXin, seventh junior brother Tang Xiaoyu."
Another black line appeared on Tang Xiaoyu's head. [What the, shouldn't I be old six given my age?]
"Greetings, seniors." Liu YuXin respectfully greeted them.
Tang Xiaoyu half-heartedly bowed, not saying anything.
"Alright, get to know each other. I'm going to rest first."
After her master left, Tang Xiaoyu said to Liu YuXin: "These four female hooligans peeped at my body."
The man beside them was stunned speechless, unbelievingly looking at his four senior sisters.
Tang Xiaoyu continued: "You four better stay away from me. I don't have seniors like you."
The man advised: "Junior brother seven, maybe there's some misunderstanding between you."
Tang Xiaoyu retorted angrily: "No misunderstanding, just facts. Also, don't call me junior brother seven."
Without giving the others a chance to speak, he turned and left to prepare housing materials.
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
