Beating is kissing and scolding is Love.

When these words came out, everyone was shocked, and their expressions were hesitant.

Yu Chuchu was also scared and her face turned a little pale. She barely suppressed her fear and retorted, "If he beats us again, we'll go tell Master again!"

"That's fine," Xiao Yuer said with a sweet smile, "There are so many of you Spirit Sword disciples who started practicing earlier than my brother and are older than my brother. But you still got beaten by my brother and went to tattle. How do you think the other students in the academy will see you when the time comes?"

After speaking, she looked at Chen Nianyun and said, "And you, you're considered a genius? You haven't even extinguished your sword body. My brother hadn't even started practicing when you can't even beat him. You're useless!"

After hearing this, Chen Nianyun gritted his teeth in anger. His chest heaved violently. Just as he was about to say something, Xiao Yuer directly turned around and left, not even giving him a chance to refute.

Dongfang Dan also spat at them again and scoffed, "I thought Spirit Sword was powerful, but it turns out it's just a group of shameless villains. I, Dongfang Dan, disdain to associate with you!"

After speaking, he also turned his head and left with Xiao Yuer, leaving behind the extremely ashamed and angry Chen Nianyun and others.

Although angry while looking at the backs of Xiao Yuer and Dongfang Dan leaving, one of the children still anxiously said, "What should we do now? We originally thought that after telling on Lin Xiaolu, he would be stripped of his inner disciple status. But he was only given detention. What if he comes back..."

"What are you afraid of!" Yu Chuchu glared, "That demon Lin Xiaolu will be detained for three months. By then, Senior Brother Nianyun would have completely mastered Ice Soul Arrow. How could he not deal with him?"

Hearing this, the children all looked towards Chen Nianyun. In their eyes was the last glimmer of hope. Being stared at by so many people, Chen Nianyun could only reluctantly say, "Don't worry everyone. After being defeated by Lin Xiaolu, I have been diligently cultivating. In the past few days, I have almost completely mastered Ice Soul Arrow. When he comes out, we'll take care of him together!"

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...

"I practice here every day, very diligently. My master also said that I have excellent innate talent, a dragon and phoenix among men, a once in a hundred years genius. He also said that I'm the most talented disciple he has ever seen. Every time he sees me practice, he gets so emotional with snot and tears, saying that his ancestral grave has come alive to get such a good disciple as me.

Every time I get overly praised, I can only comfort my master to keep a positive mentality. But I can also understand him. After all, I'm so outstanding, just like a gold nugget wrapped in crap. It's normal for him to be moved to tears."

While speaking, Lin Xiaolu was gnawing on a chicken leg, while the monkey who brought him food, Hou Saner, listened in bewilderment.

"Senior Brother Lin, did Elder Li really say that?"

"Of course, my master said it. He said someone like me joining Emei is simply a blessing for Emei. But I'm more low-key and generally disdain to show off. My master is also very satisfied with this. Every night when he talks in his sleep, he says - I'm fortunate to have accepted Lin Xiaolu as a disciple!"

After hearing this, Hou Saner was shocked and looked at the boy with admiration, exclaiming, "Senior Brother Lin really lives up to being Master Li's disciple that he finally accepted after twenty years. You will definitely become a big shot in our Emei in the future."

"Haha," said Lin Xiaolu with a full stomach, "Don't worry, Monkey, your big brother me is a righteous man. The storyteller often says, when a dog gets rich, he can't forget his fellow dogs. So in the future when this dog makes it big, I'll also bring you along to get rich."

After hearing this, Hou Saner was puzzled and hesitantly said, "Senior Brother Lin, I think you mean when wealth comes, don't forget old friends?"

"That's right."

Hou Saner: ...

After eating a portion of spiritual food, a plate of chopped chicken, and a bowl of vegetable and egg drop soup, Lin Xiaolu was satisfied. He patted his belly and returned to the cave.

Inside the cave, Li Mingru was studying a book with only pictures and no words. Seeing Lin Xiaolu return, he asked without looking up, "Full?"

"Full, master." Lin Xiaolu hummed contentedly, "Just now when Monkey saw me, he said I've changed a lot, with strong muscular arms, eyes bright as brass bells, brows sharp as swords, full of the aura of a king. He said I have the makings of becoming the next head of Emei. He was so in awe that he clung to my leg and begged me to take him as a little brother. I tried to decline but seeing his sincere attitude, I reluctantly agreed."

Li Mingru snorted contemptuously, "Less bragging, more reading."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaolu nodded and then curiously looked at the book in Li Mingru's hand and asked curiously, "Master, what book are you reading?"

"Cough cough," Li Mingru's old face turned red. He coughed twice and grumbled, "You just ate. Don't do too strenuous exercise. Go horse stance for half an hour."

"Okay."

In the cave, Lin Xiaolu honestly started horse stance, using the exercise to fully digest the food he just ate and nourish his body.

Li Mingru quietly held the book and turned the pages, murmuring, "In a few more days, I will give you another exercise."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaolu was delighted, "What exercise, Master?"

"Getting beaten."

Lin Xiaolu: ???

"This is to exercise your body's ability to withstand hits," Li Mingru slowly explained. "Getting beaten can increase your body's resistance and lay the foundation for learning horizontal practice techniques in the future."

Lin Xiaolu was stunned for a moment. Looking at Li Mingru, he hesitated, "Master, can you be honest?"

"My hands are itchy."

Lin Xiaolu: ???

There is a saying, in the mountains, time passes without knowing the year. Staying in the cave every day recognizing characters, training, eating, and sleeping, Lin Xiaolu's life became very regular. For a time, he even forgot about time.

Perhaps because of the intense training, the boy's appetite grew bigger and bigger recently, eating like a small rice bucket. And he slept soundly too. After training every day, he would wash himself clean with Dust Removal Pill, then once his head hit the pillow he would fall asleep until dawn. His physical fitness improved more and more. Unknowingly, it was already the last month of the three months.

And in this last month, Li Mingru added a new course for him - getting beaten!

In 7-year-old Lin Xiaolu's understanding, beating people was generally just fist fights. He never thought his master would have so many tricks.

Now every day Lin Xiaolu would spend about half an hour being shot by various qi arrows from Li Mingru, running around with a swollen nose and bruised face.

Fist-shaped qi arrows, palm-shaped qi arrows, foot-shaped qi arrows, making the boy feel like he was being surrounded and beaten by a group every day.

He shrieked and dodged back and forth, but Li Mingru shot too many qi arrows!

Shooting dozens of qi arrows in one go, swish swish swish! Who could withstand that? The 7-year-old boy was shot crying miserably every day, arms, legs, chest, all shot full of bruises. Even if he dodged with all his might, he simply couldn't avoid them all.

And somehow, he felt that the speed of Li Mingru's qi arrows seemed to be getting faster and faster. As his own dodging ability improved daily, the speed of these qi arrows was also increasing.

This resulted in the boy coming out full of injuries to eat every time Hou Saner came to deliver food, swollen like Dongfang Dan.

Seeing Lin Xiaolu with his head looking like a pig's, Hou Saner felt bad and said, "Senior Brother Lin, did Elder Li hit you again?"

While voraciously shoving food into his mouth, Lin Xiaolu arrogantly said, "Master has too high expectations of me. He said someone with talent like me must be strict. He wants to forge me into Emei's next head. He also said that if it was a disciple without talent, he wouldn't even bother with them. This is called tough love. You understand, right?"

Hearing this, Hou Saner kept nodding, "Understand, understand."

With a full belly, the battered Lin Xiaolu turned around and went into the cave. Soon, the pitiful cries of the child came from inside again, "Oh Master, I'm wrong! Stop shooting!"

Outside the cave, hearing these tragic cries, Hou Saner shuddered. He couldn't help sighing to himself that Elder Li really loves Senior Brother Lin so much.