Fortunately, she hadn’t started the livestream.
Otherwise, this part of the plot would have been so damn frustrating! She would definitely have lost followers!
After being slapped, Chu Moyun stood frozen in place with a pink handprint on his face. He stared coldly at Xie Zhengxing.
“Have you achieved your goal now? Are you happy after seeing us quarrel?”
Xie Zhengxing replied, “Are you going to let go or not?”
Chu Moyun’s eyes darkened.
“How much longer are you going to keep pretending?”
The deranged male lead in a melodramatic romance cultivation novel simply couldn’t hear what anyone else was saying.
People like him were forever immersed in their own world.
So when dealing with someone like that, saying more was useless.
The only solution was—
To take action.
Xie Zhengxing raised her hand.
Smack!
Another slap landed squarely across Chu Moyun’s other cheek.
Unlike Luo Jingxin’s slap, which had carried no spiritual energy and had merely been a grief-stricken outburst, Xie Zhengxing’s strike was solid and forceful. It sent Chu Moyun staggering backward several steps.
Chu Moyun was stunned.
She looked so thin and frail.
How could she possess such terrifying strength?
The shock quickly gave way to fury.
He glared at Xie Zhengxing and said coldly,
“Xie Zhengxing, you dared to hit me? Do you think you’re Jingxin? Do you think I’ll tolerate your unreasonable temper? You’re mistaken. I—”
Before he could finish speaking, Xie Zhengxing simply walked past him.
She left.
She genuinely didn’t want to listen anymore.
Everything this lunatic said was complete nonsense.
If the speaker was foolish, then standing there listening to him ramble on would make her even more foolish.
Chu Moyun remained rooted to the spot, watching helplessly as Xie Zhengxing disappeared into the distance.
With a furious roar, he slammed his fist against the alley wall before letting out a low, enraged laugh through gritted teeth.
“Good… very good, Xie Zhengxing! You’ve trampled on my sincere feelings like this… Fine then. When we return to the sect, if you’re held accountable by the Sect Elders for your failure during this demon extermination mission, I absolutely won’t say a single word in your defense!”
During the demon extermination mission, the disciples of Shanghui Sect were temporarily staying in a courtyard residence outside the City Lord’s Manor.
As soon as Xie Zhengxing entered the courtyard, Du Xinbao and Liu Wan hurried over.
“Xingxing! You’re back!”
Wu Lishan remained as quiet as ever, silently following behind Liu Wan.
Meanwhile, Wang Sui was crouched in a corner, his face deathly pale as he muttered something under his breath.
Xie Zhengxing glanced at him.
“What happened to him? Did the demon hunt in the city not go well?”
Liu Wan shook her head.
“It actually went very smoothly. We killed fifteen demons. But he’s still terrified. As soon as we came back, he curled up in the corner and started trembling. We checked him over already. He wasn’t injured at all.”
Xie Zhengxing fell silent.
Forget it.
Overcoming fear was a lesson Wang Sui would have to learn on his own.
Although the overall situation had already been brought under control, a few demons were still wandering around both inside and outside the city.
The stronger senior brothers and senior sisters of Shanghui Sect had all gone out to clean up the remaining scattered demons.
As for the newly promoted disciples whose strength was still lacking, Luo Jingxin had ordered them to stay behind in the courtyard.
The group sat leisurely around a stone table, drinking water.
Du Xinbao smiled.
“For the next few days, we won’t have to risk our lives anymore. Senior Sister Luo said this mission was already far beyond our capabilities. She said the senior brothers and sisters would handle the rest.”
Liu Wan looked at Xie Zhengxing with admiration sparkling in her eyes.
“Xingxing, Xinbao and I achieved so much this time. Thank you.”
Three newly promoted disciples who hadn’t even reached the Fusion Realm had worked together to kill an Earth Dragon at the Golden Core Realm.
It was an astonishing accomplishment.
“To celebrate successfully completing our first sect mission, let’s eat something delicious!”
“Yay! Food! Food! I’ve been starving!”
“Wang Sui, come over.”
With his usual simple smile, Wu Lishan untied the enormous bundle he had been carrying all along.
Inside were mountains of food and drinks.
Delicate pastries, roast chicken, spicy liangfen, dry-mixed noodles…
Everything had been prepared in advance by Liu Wan.
“You made all these?”
“No. I asked the servants at home to buy them and send them up the mountain. When my parents heard I wanted food, they bought me a whole pile. This dish needs reheating. Xinbao, you’re a Fire Spiritual Root user. You do it.”
“No problem! Leave it to me!”
“Is this roast chicken from that famous restaurant?”
“Yep, that’s the one!”
“My goodness, Wanwan! It’s expensive, and the queue is always ridiculously long! You’re amazing!”
…
For the next several days, Xie Zhengxing, Du Xinbao, and the others enjoyed an incredibly relaxed vacation-like life.
The system also finished updating.
Every time Xie Zhengxing ended a livestream, besides receiving Genetic Enhancement Fluid, she also earned one or two points of Mental Resistance as a reward.
Perhaps because the amount converted each time was so small, she carefully examined her own mental state and found that there wasn’t any obvious change compared to before.
Still, rewards related to the mind were extremely valuable.
As long as she continued livestreaming every day and accumulated them little by little, there would eventually come a day when the improvement would undergo a qualitative leap.
At some point, the bloody smell lingering throughout the city had completely disappeared.
In its place lingered the fresh fragrance of a forest after rain.
This time, the conflict between Chu Moyun and Luo Jingxin had become especially serious.
They took turns bringing disciples back to the residence, somehow managing to live in the same courtyard without ever meeting each other.
Whenever Chu Moyun saw Xie Zhengxing’s group lying side by side in the courtyard, basking lazily in the sun without a shred of ambition, he would curl his lips into a cold sneer before flicking his sleeve and walking away.
He had never witnessed Xie Zhengxing accomplishing anything.
From Chu Moyun’s perspective, aside from causing trouble between him and Luo Jingxin once and running around so recklessly that he had searched everywhere for her, Xie Zhengxing had contributed absolutely nothing to this demon extermination mission.
Being punished after returning to the sect was already a certainty.
As for the mysterious senior who had helped them—
The City Lord had mentioned that a senior from Tianyan Sect had once visited him and given him a miraculous magical artifact, instructing him to place it at the center of the city to disperse the scent of blood before quietly departing.
Chu Moyun guessed that this person must have been the one who had helped him.
Compared to Chu Moyun’s open hostility, Luo Jingxin was much more reserved.
Only occasionally would her gaze sweep over Xie Zhengxing, carrying emotions that were difficult to describe.
There was sadness.
Jealousy.
And a faint trace of guilt.
【Xiaoxiao: What does the female lead’s expression mean?】
【Awake at 3 A.M.: I think I get it now. From her and Chu Moyun’s perspective, Xingxing didn’t contribute anything. Hunting the remaining scattered demons would have been the best chance for someone as weak as Xingxing to earn mission credit. But Luo Jingxin specifically told Xingxing and the others not to leave the courtyard and said the senior brothers and sisters would handle everything.】
【Big Sis Loves Me: AHHHHHH! Beautiful lady, don’t use that gorgeous face to compete over a man! I refuse to let you go crazy!!】
【Why Are There Mosquitoes in Winter?: Sigh… Streamer really has terrible luck. She didn’t even do anything, yet both the male and female leads ended up holding a grudge against her.】
【Your Strong One Has Arrived: Can’t be helped. The original host existed solely to create obstacles in the male and female leads’ romance. This world is completely insane, and even the world’s will is forcing drama to happen.】
【Don’t Want to Work: But Streamer’s mental state is seriously impressive. She isn’t affected by either of them at all. She’s just lying here sunbathing and snacking…】
【Who Do You Think You Are: So our career-obsessed streamer has officially become the emperor now? Whatever happened to the hardworking streamer we were promised?】
【Riding Grandma Across the Galaxy: What else can she do? After all, Teacher Ian is here. →_→】
【Ian: ^-^】
As soon as Ian’s comment floated across the screen, the livestream’s audience of over one hundred thousand viewers immediately erupted with excitement.
【Ian Forever: AHHHHHH! Teacher Ian even uses emoticons! He’s so handsome and charming!】
【Sixty-Year-Old Guarding the Border: Teacher Ian likes watching Streamer sunbathe, and I like watching Streamer sunbathe too! Therefore, Teacher Ian likes me!】
【Minshu Interstellar Art Studio: We just love watching people sunbathe. It gives off such a warm and relaxing atmosphere.】
【Painting Gallery: Look at the lighting and shadows in this courtyard. The bright areas are bright, the shaded areas are shaded. Isn’t it wonderful?~】
【Rational Art Analysis: Even the arrangement of the five people is aesthetically pleasing. They’re positioned perfectly, neatly aligned. I seem to be sensing some sort of profound artistic essence from this…】
The long-time viewers glanced at the livestream, where the five people were lying around in thoroughly unglamorous poses under the sun.
Collectively, they fell silent.
Seriously.
Ian’s fans were taking blind devotion to an absolutely ridiculous level.