Yu Xingwu raised an eyebrow as she looked at Ye Su.
So, after all that, Ye Su hadn’t heard a single word she’d said.
“I said, if Eldest Senior Brother had waited any longer to bring me food, I would’ve starved to death.”
“Also, I’d like to buy a bottle of Fasting Pills from you, Eldest Senior Brother. Chocolate-flavored ones. Ah, no, green plum-flavored ones. Here are two supreme-grade spirit stones. That should be enough, right?”
【How annoying. I completely forgot they don’t have chocolate-flavored ones here. I’ll just have to settle for green plum flavor.】
Ye Su: “…”
Chocolate flavor… So there was a flavor he didn’t know about. His junior sister rarely took Fasting Pills. Apparently, it was because none of them suited her tastes.
Seeing that Ye Su hadn’t moved, Yu Xingwu couldn’t help thinking—a single supreme-grade spirit stone was equivalent to one hundred high-grade spirit stones.
A bottle of Fasting Pills cost approximately one hundred and fifty high-grade spirit stones.
As long as Ye Su wasn’t a dishonest merchant, two supreme-grade spirit stones would be more than enough to buy a bottle of Fasting Pills.
Ye Su stared blankly at the two supreme-grade spirit stones Yu Xingwu was offering him, his brows furrowing.
“You’re my junior sister. If there’s any pill you want, you only need to tell me. Why would you need to give me spirit stones? Or are you angry with me because I couldn’t bring you dinner last night?”
Yu Xingwu pursed her lips.
Faced with someone who would eventually oppose her at every turn and become her sworn enemy for the female protagonist’s sake, she felt there was no need to keep up this act of close brother-sister affection.
So she said, “As the saying goes, even brothers should keep their accounts clear. Eldest Senior Brother and I merely study under the same master. I wouldn’t feel right taking advantage of you, so I should pay for the pills. It’s not as though I can’t afford them.”
【I’m not the female protagonist. How could I possibly take your pills for free?! You should save those free pills for your new junior sister when she arrives. I certainly can’t accept them.】
Ye Su: “…” A new junior sister? Where was this new junior sister supposed to come from?
Their master was still in seclusion, and he’d never heard him mention taking on another disciple.
More importantly, his junior sister clearly hadn’t spoken those words aloud, yet he’d heard them.
Could it be that he was able to hear his junior sister’s inner thoughts?!
After finishing her silent complaints, Yu Xingwu took the food container from Ye Su’s hand. She then held out her palm as a reminder. “Eldest Senior Brother, the Fasting Pills.”
Ye Su studied Yu Xingwu with a searching gaze before taking out a bottle of Fasting Pills.
“Junior Sister, if you don’t want to take Fasting Pills, I can come and bring you food every day.”
Yu Xingwu shook her head vigorously. “There’s no need, Senior Brother. Fasting Pills are actually quite tasty when you only eat them occasionally.”
【There’s really no need to bring me food. The better you treat me now, the more you’ll target me in the future. So save yourself the trouble, you ultimate backup boyfriend~】
Ye Su: “…?” There it was again. “Ultimate backup boyfriend”… What exactly was an ultimate backup boyfriend?
And why would he ever target her? She was his only junior sister, the one he doted on most. If only she didn’t like Shen Zhuo…
Yu Xingwu took the dishes out of the food container. Seeing that Ye Su still hadn’t left, she decided to dismiss him. “Eldest Senior Brother, why are you still here? Are you planning to stay and help me copy the sect rules?”
Ye Su: “…”
Although Ye Su very much wanted to stay, it was obvious that Yu Xingwu didn’t particularly welcome him. She had even openly asked him to leave, so he could only depart for the time being.
He wanted to see for himself whether their master would really accept another disciple.
He, Ye Su, had only one junior sister, and nobody could ever replace her.
Yu Xingwu remained at Reflection Cliff for three days.
Apart from Ye Su’s single visit, her villainous fiancé, Shen Zhuo, hadn’t even bothered to come and see her once. It was obvious just how little he cared for her.
Originally, she had planned to spend the past few days doing absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, the system had forced her to cultivate.
According to the system, she was supposed to be an arrogant, domineering Vicious Female Supporting Character. Without sufficient strength, how could she possibly throw her weight around?
After thinking about it, she realized the system had a point. If she lacked strength but continued courting death by constantly provoking the female protagonist, she might end up dead before she could even finish following the storyline!
To preserve her life and complete her storyline missions, she needed to work harder. A Vicious Female Supporting Character couldn’t rely on vicious words alone. She needed real strength, too!
And so, she spent all three days cultivating the Qi-Gathering Art.
Fortunately, although Reflection Cliff was a place where disciples who had broken the rules were punished, its spiritual energy was quite abundant.
As for the spiritual root possessed by her current body, it was a Heavenly Spiritual Root, the kind associated with cultivation geniuses—a Fire-Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.
A Heavenly Spiritual Root possessed only one attribute. Its quality and cultivation speed surpassed those of an ordinary Single Spiritual Root, and before reaching the Golden Core Stage, its owner would encounter no bottlenecks when advancing through Foundation Establishment or forming a Golden Core.
The worst type of spiritual root was the Five-Element Spiritual Root, also known as a Mixed Spiritual Root. Generally, the more spiritual-root attributes a cultivator possessed, the slower their cultivation speed.
Although the True Young Miss, the female protagonist, possessed a Five-Element Spiritual Root, she would eventually cultivate even faster than Yu Xingwu, despite Yu Xingwu having a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
Because of this, Yu Xingwu would be thoroughly humiliated, with people mocking her for possessing a Heavenly Spiritual Root yet still being inferior to someone with a Mixed Spiritual Root.
She could be vicious. She could court death and frame the female protagonist. But she couldn’t stand the thought of being blessed with such exceptional cultivation talent only to lose to someone with a Mixed Spiritual Root.
If she suffered that kind of humiliation, she’d be furious enough to die!
Thinking about it this way, she felt the system was absolutely right. Regardless of whether it was to help her court death more effectively, she had to work harder at cultivating.
Over the past three days, she had followed the Qi-Gathering Art’s instructions, drawing spiritual energy into her body through the Baihui Point at the crown of her head.
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On the third day, as spiritual power surged and filled her Spiritual Palace, she was delighted to feel a barrier somewhere inside her body begin to loosen. She knew it was the bottleneck preventing her breakthrough.
Without hesitation, she pressed forward, repeatedly attempting to break through the barrier.
After roughly two hours of relentless effort, the barrier finally shattered. She successfully advanced from the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
She was no longer the Qi Refining Stage cultivator who hadn’t even reached Foundation Establishment, as her fellow disciples had called her just a few days earlier.
Only after reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage could a cultivator truly be considered to have embarked upon the path of immortality. At this stage, one’s lifespan could extend to two hundred years.
She cast several Cleaning Spells on herself and changed into a brand-new dress.
As an arrogant and spoiled Vicious Female Supporting Character, Yu Xingwu in the novel had never worn the sect’s standard disciple uniform.
Because of this, she always stood out among the other disciples, who were all dressed in what amounted to matching school uniforms.
She was quite satisfied with this arrangement because her Storage Ring contained more than a thousand sets of beautiful dresses and luxurious robes. It was practically like having an entire historical costume dress-up game at her disposal.
So, being a Vicious Female Supporting Character did have its advantages.
The bad news was that, according to the novel’s plot, once her cheap father[2]Cheap dad (白捡的爹): web novel slang for a parent that the protagonist acquires automatically by transmigrating, without having done anything to earn them. jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_3694186_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_3694186_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], }); brought the True Young Miss back to the sect, he would take away her Storage Ring and give it to the female protagonist, along with everything inside.
The reason was that the Storage Ring had actually been left behind by the True Young Miss’s late mother. Naturally, as the Fake Young Miss, Yu Xingwu was considered unworthy of possessing it.
This was also the beginning of the conflict that led Yu Xingwu to target and bully the female protagonist in the novel.
Thinking about it made her heart ache.
She had just examined the Storage Ring with her Divine Sense[3]Divine sense (灵识, língshí): a cultivator’s spiritual perception, an awareness that extends beyond the five ordinary senses. Cultivators project it outward to scan their surroundings, … Continue reading jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_3694186_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_3694186_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });, and it contained quite a few valuable treasures.
After all, her cheap father was the Grand Elder of the Tianlan Sect, someone whose status was equal to that of the Sect Master. Moreover, the Tianlan Sect was one of the Four Great Sects, with immense wealth and deep foundations.
One could easily imagine how many treasures and spirit stones her Storage Ring contained. Giving all of them away just like that? She’d be lying if she said it didn’t hurt.
Besides, becoming a Fake Young Miss wasn’t something she had chosen. More importantly, she was supposed to be a Vicious Female Supporting Character. How could she possibly allow herself to suffer such a loss?
She could hand over the Storage Ring, but everything inside it had to remain hers. She needed to find another Storage Ring and transfer all her belongings into it.
【System, how many points does a Storage Ring cost in the System Shop?】
“Dear host, it only costs 200 points~ Unfortunately, your current balance is zero, so you cannot exchange for one.”
Yu Xingwu remained completely calm. They were just points, after all. She hadn’t forgotten that she still had a living, breathing ATM.”
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