Unboxing the New Year Gifts

Taking out the two beautifully packaged New Year gifts from his private storage, Lin Xiao placed them in front of him.

One of the gift bags was large, and the other was small.

The large one was about the size of Little Luan, while the small one was only the size of a palm.

The large one was for Lin Xiao, the host, and the small one was for the Lingxian Sect.

Without hesitation, Lin Xiao opened his own large gift bag first.

He reached out and tore open the outer packaging, only to see a pile of meat chunks of various sizes burst out.

In a moment, they piled up into a small mountain of meat in front of him.

Seeing this meat, Lin Xiao was a bit dumbfounded.

Compared to this small mountain of meat, the size of the large gift bag paled into insignificance.

Good heavens, how did they stuff so much meat into a gift bag only the size of Little Luan?

No wonder the meat burst out like it had been liberated the moment he opened it.

He then picked up a piece, placed it in his private storage, and used the appraisal function on it.

Only then did he discover that the meat was actually from a low-tier spirit beast.

Chihuang Beast Meat: Firm texture, delicious taste, with lingering spiritual energy. An excellent cooking ingredient.

Looking at the pile of meat chunks of varying shades in front of him, he picked up two completely different-looking pieces, put them into his private storage, and continued to appraise them.

The results were mostly the same as before.

Kongfei Bird Meat: Delicate texture, savory and fragrant taste, with lingering spiritual energy. An excellent cooking ingredient.

Qu Crab Meat: Soft texture, rich and succulent taste, with lingering spiritual energy. An excellent cooking ingredient.

Only the types of spirit beasts were different.

Anyway, in the end, the appraisal function shared one common phrase:

An excellent cooking ingredient.

Lin Xiao could not help but wonder if the system was giving a New Year gift to him or to Fuzi.

Or perhaps it was a New Year gift for the entire sect?

But this large gift bag was clearly stated to be for him.

Lin Xiao felt a tiny bit sad.

As expected of a sect system, it even brought its personal systemic bias into the New Year gift for its host.

The next moment, his gaze drifted to the remaining small gift bag that was supposedly for the sect.

If his own New Year gift was already so compromised, what about the one for the sect?

It would definitely be undisguised and blatant!

Lin Xiao crossed his arms over his chest, frowning at the small gift bag. For a few seconds, he did not really want to open it.

He was angry!

Five seconds later, he felt his anger subside, so he picked up the small gift bag and opened it.

This time, unlike before, a pile of things did not burst out all at once.

In fact, this palm-sized gift bag was not even full.

Inside was only a blue bead the size of a baby's fist.

Lin Xiao picked up the bead and examined it carefully.

Other than it being very lustrous and translucent, he could not see anything special about it.

So he did not waste any effort and threw it directly into his private storage, using the appraisal function on the bead.

Yaoguang Attachment Bead: The attaching treasure bead of the Yaoguang Floating Island. Once connected to the Yaoguang Floating Island, a small world can be obtained.

Lin Xiao read the appraisal result several times in disbelief.

Only then was he convinced that what he saw was true.

That is to say, was this system being a bit too obvious in its favoritism?

The New Year gift for the sect was a small world.

And he, the host, was dismissed with a pile of meat that would be gone once eaten.

Moreover, the system definitely knew that he would not keep the food to himself.

He would let Fuzi cook it to share with everyone.

Lin Xiao asked himself very loudly in his mind:

Is this Sys still worth keeping?

No one answered him.

Lin Xiao sighed. Forget it, at least Sys had saved his face and didn't just issue one sect New Year gift.

He was very reluctantly and helplessly satisfied.

Otherwise, what else could he do with this system?

He could not format it, nor could he hack into it.

Standing up, he collected the meat chunks in front of him into his private storage one by one. He planned to put them in the sect's storehouse later so Fuzi could cook them every day for everyone to eat.

As for that Yaoguang Attachment Bead.

Heh.

There was only one fragment of the Yaoguang Floating Island, and he had no idea when he would get the other two.

What small world?

Just wait patiently.

That was what he thought, full of personal grievance.

But in his heart, Lin Xiao was already pondering that when the time came, he would build a grand manor for himself in that small world.

He had even visualized almost all the interior decorations in an instant.

Early the next morning.

Liu Yunan entered the sect's storehouse as usual to fetch today's ingredients for Jiang Youfu.

It couldn't be helped; although ordinary storage bags could reduce moisture to a certain extent, they could not preserve freshness for a long time.

Even though it was winter, ingredients kept in storage bags for too long would still lose their freshness.

Therefore, at present, the ingredients in the sect were basically all placed in the sect's storehouse.

Because a large area inside the storehouse had a preservation function, which was perfectly suited for storing ingredients for the current Lingxian Sect.

It was just a bit troublesome for Liu Yunan, who had to come to the storehouse every day to fetch the ingredients.

However, when Liu Yunan entered the storehouse, he was surprised to find that there was so much more meat in the preservation area!

Currently, apart from himself, only Brother Xiao and Jiang He had the keys to this storehouse.

Jiang He had only returned a few days ago. If he had brought back so much meat to the sect, he certainly wouldn't have waited until last night to suddenly stuff a pile of it into the storehouse.

Thinking about it this way, the person who put this meat here must have been Brother Xiao.

When Liu Yunan walked up to the meat, he found that it actually contained quite rich spiritual energy.

He became even more certain that this must be the meat placed by Brother Xiao.

He just didn't know where Brother Xiao managed to get so much meat containing spiritual energy overnight.

Moreover, the meat looked quite different from one another, so they probably weren't from the same animal.

His gaze shifted, and he saw a worn wooden sign placed on the ground.

Written on it were the words: Edible, give to Fuzi to cook.

Hmm, it was indeed Brother Xiao's handwriting.

Seeing this, Liu Yunan confidently picked out a few large pieces, took them out of the storehouse, and prepared to send them to Fuzi.

Since the first day of the Lunar New Year, after Lin Xiao had chatted with his biological father, he had been thinking about what the sect should do next.

After thinking to the very end, he still decided not to hide from the world.

It wasn't that he was being stubborn.

But rather, he felt that, just as he had told General Mo before, according to their current development, for at least a few years, the outside world would temporarily not know about their sect's cultivation methods.

As long as they were careful when accepting disciples.

And made the character assessments a bit stricter.

Stalling for a few years would definitely not be a problem.

Then he and everyone else would just work hard on cultivating during these few years.

Lin Xiao believed that, based on their sect's current overall cultivation progress, in a few years, as long as they were diligent, it wasn't impossible for their cultivation bases to be strong enough to stand on their own in the mortal realm.

For them, this was a kind of pressure.

Having some pressure was quite good.

Anyway, they would just bury their heads and charge forward.