Crouching in the Corner

Lin Qingying led her people into the courtyard next door. This courtyard had been bought many years ago, specifically to accommodate people from the Sky Demon Sect when they came to participate in such grand meetings.

The top sects all had places like this in the cities closest to them.

Upon entering the yard, they were met with the sight of flowers, potted plants, fruit trees, and clean stone brick paths.

A disciple came up and said, "We disciples have already cleaned up in advance. The beddings and living necessities have all been replaced with new ones for the sect leader. You can rest assured and move in."

Lin Qingying was very satisfied, "Very good, I'm very satisfied."

"Chu Yanran, Wu Hao, you should learn from them."

The two had no choice but to agree.

Ever since Lin Qingying started training ordinary disciples, she rarely got angry anymore and was usually gentle and refined. This was solely because these ordinary disciples behaved very well.

They admitted their mistakes openly and never talked back, unlike those arrogant geniuses who were stubborn as mules and felt that it was always someone else's fault.

Most importantly, when these ordinary disciples obtained sufficient resources, their cultivation level increased almost as fast as the geniuses. Plus they put in enough effort.

"Chu Yanran, give the junior brothers some pills. They've all been delayed in their cultivation these past days."

"Yes, Master."

"Right, don't give any to Wu Hao. He hasn't done anything these days. Let's leave it at that! I'm going to go sleep now."

"Yes, Sect Leader, please rest well."

Wu Hao, Chu Yanran: What a bunch of kiss-ups.

In the afternoon, while Lin Qingying was sleeping soundly, she was awoken by someone's roar.

"Chu Yanran, go see which blind fool is disturbing my rest."

"Yes, Master."

Chu Yanran already had a bellyful of anger with nowhere to vent it. It just so happened that she now ran into someone she could take it out on.

She rushed furiously toward the neighbor's place. Seeing that their door was not closed, she was about to enter,

"You guys are..."

Before she could finish, she turned around and went back.

Because the one roaring was Tang Xiaoyu. She immediately cowered.

When she returned to Lin Qingying's room, "What's going on? Didn't I ask you to go see what was happening next door?"

"Master, I think it would be best if you go over personally."

Lin Qingying got up, "Can't even handle such a small thing. What use do you have?"

Lin Qingying went over to the neighboring courtyard alone. She hadn't even reached the door yet when she heard the roaring that was even more earth-shattering than anything she had ever heard before.

"I fu**ing told you guys to buy daily necessities and beddings, why the hell didn't you buy towels either? You want us to sleep in pots instead?"

"And what's with all of you? I told you to buy flowers and potted plants. And what did you buy for me? What the heck is this? You want me to hold this flower with my hands? You want me to saw this tree down myself?"

"What infuriates me most is you all. I only said a few words about buying ingredients and firewood, yet you didn't know to buy them either? Did you think we could just eat the ingredients raw?"

"Can't you use your brains when you do things? Use your brains, goddammit!" Tang Xiaoyu yelled these last words until she was hoarse.

It could be heard loud and clear within a radius of several hundred meters.

There were many people from various sects living nearby. They all rushed over with murderous looks. But upon seeing that the woman leading the Sky Demon Sect was also there, no one dared to step forward.

Lin Qingying deeply hated people who scolded their disciples like this. She charged right in,

"What do you think you're doing!" Then was stunned speechless.

When Tang Xiaoyu saw an unfamiliar girl rush in, her already foul mood worsened even more.

"What the heck! Haven't seen someone lecturing disciples before? Don't think that just because you're a woman I won't scold you. What are you looking at, get the hell out!"

Lin Qingying: "Oh!" She made a sound and turned to leave.

Seeing this, the others also immediately went back.

"What kind of people were inside? Even the Sky Demon Sect's people retreated obediently."

"Let's not ask anymore. They must be people we cannot afford to offend."

"That's right. We second and third rates especially cannot afford to provoke them."

The crowd dispersed, but Tang Xiaoyu's voice showed no signs of stopping. On the contrary, it grew even louder.

Lin Qingying ran back to her room, hands clutching her chest. "She scared me to death. I didn't know Little Yu could be so terrifying when she loses her temper."

Chu Yanran said impatiently, "Weren't you amazing just now? Why didn't you go deal with it?"

But Lin Qingying ignored her and instead asked, "She couldn't recognize me with the way I look now, right!"

"What do you think?"

"She probably didn't recognize me, otherwise she wouldn't have spoken to me like that."

"Let's go, let's listen in on their conversation from the other side of the wall."

Next, the Sky Demon Sect disciples saw their Sect Leader and Eldest Senior Sister standing by the wall listening in on the situation next door.

The silly Wu Hao even enthusiastically volunteered to go teach the neighbors a lesson, but was persuaded to stop by the looks his junior brothers gave him, as if he was an idiot.

Next door, Tang Xiaoyu stood on the steps, "Comrades, comrades! Can you be a little more sensible when you do things?"

"Look at my hair, it has gone white in so many places! Ah, turned white in so many places!"

"Use the smarts you had when deceiving me in your daily tasks, can you do that?"

"Little Ling'er, I'm referring to you. Yet you're still whispering among yourselves over there."

Her disciples below had long gotten used to this. No matter what Tang Xiaoyu said, they let it enter one ear and leave through the other. They basically ignored it.

Seeing her cousin so angry that he was about to explode, Tang Xiaoyan quickly brought over a cup of water.

"Cousin, calm down. Don't bother with their level of intelligence."

Tang Xiaoyu calmed himself a little, "Alright. It's not your fault. It was my mistake for not teaching you guys properly in the past."

"Go buy the rest of the stuff back now!"

Xiao Xue whispered, "Sect Leader, we've spent all the money already."

Tang Xiaoyu spat out the water in his mouth, "Spent it all?"

Everyone nodded.

Tang Xiaoyu almost fell flat on his face. He shakily took out some silver notes, exhausted, "Here, take this and buy back the rest of the stuff."

"Yes, Sect Leader."

After they left, Tang Xiaoyu directly smashed the cup in his hand into smithereens.

"Just what sin did I commit in my previous life to deserve you all coming here to torment me now."

Old Zhou felt a little embarrassed and advised, "Sect Leader, calm down. Don't bother with their level. Everything is my fault for not having taught them well previously."

"Forget it. It's all in the past already anyway. Even if I have to go become an ironsmith to raise more money, I'm still going to recruit more disciples to mess with."

"Yes, Sect Leader."

On the other side, Chu Yanran felt a little awkward. She finally realized why her Master used to have such a nasty temper. It stemmed from people like us!

When she looked at her Master now, gentle and refined, speaking softly all the time, except when dealing with them.

Wu Hao's heart crumbled. So this was the truth!

Lin Qingying empathized, "Just let disciples like these go crazy. It really makes one mad enough to die. What's the point in keeping them?"

As she said this, she looked again at her own disciples, her heart full of satisfaction. When her eyes fell upon Wu Hao, she felt he was such an eyesore.

"Wu Hao, go over there and go crazy."

The dejected Wu Hao wanted to cry. He could only quietly slip away.

When he arrived at the neighbor's door, he suddenly caught sight of Tang Xiaoyu and immediately cheered up.

He rushed inside and shouted, "Bro Tang, what are you doing here!"

Tang Xiaoyu took one look at the visitor. He looked somewhat familiar but couldn't remember who he was.

"Bro Tang, I'm Wu Hao from Qingyun Sword Sect. We've met before."

Tang Xiaoyu recalled that time he sang and this guy had cheered the loudest for him.

"Bro Wu, are your senior sisters here too?"

"They're here! Right next door to you guys."

Hearing this, Tang Xiaoyu whispered, "They don't know I'm here right!"

Wu Hao thought about it and felt they probably didn't know. Otherwise why didn't they come over?

So he replied, "They probably don't know."

Tang Xiaoyu put his arm around his shoulder, "Keep your voice down. Don't let them find out I'm staying here no matter what. Consider this me owing you a favor, bro."

Wu Hao also whispered, "Don't worry, Bro Tang!"

On the other side, Lin Qingying had heard their whispered conversation loud and clear.

She gnashed her teeth, "You think that just because you whispered I wouldn't be able to hear you?"

"Good going, Tang Xiaoyu. What did your letter say back then? That you missed me so much you couldn't even sleep. Now your fox tail can't be hidden huh!"

"Since you don't want to see me, I'm going to purposely go see you every day. Let's see what else you have to say then!"