Chapter 222 The Ruthless Senior Brother of the Path of the Path of the Cannon Fodder (Part 5) Heng Mo...

After Heng Mo took the pill, he felt a warm sensation spread throughout his body, and his fatigue and weakness quickly dissipated.

He lay on the soft bed with his eyes closed, not falling asleep immediately, but no longer worried about being punished.

He had only been copying the book for three-quarters of an hour, and hadn't even finished the first copy of the Three Character Classic. He was just a little tired. It would still be two or three hours before he fainted, which he had calculated.

This demonic cultivator—no, this senior—was far better than the best-case scenario I had anticipated. Perhaps, just as my intuition told me, she had no intention of harming me.

Heng Mo thought about a bunch of random things, but his mood became more and more relaxed, and he soon fell asleep.

Lin You finally breathed a sigh of relief, having managed to get through this ordeal. Although the process was somewhat difficult, the result was quite good.

In ancient times, the apprenticeship system was very rigorous. Once a master was chosen, it was almost a lifelong commitment. Unless there was a serious crime of betraying one's master and ancestors, one would generally not change masters.

As long as Xiao Mo cultivates diligently and doesn't foolishly try to switch to the Path of Ruthlessness, her mission in this world should be fine.

After working so hard for so long, things have finally settled down, and Lin You finally has time to check what new content has been added to the system page after her promotion.

In addition to including her image in the character information panel, the information is also more detailed:

Name: Heng Mo

Gender: Male

Age: 15 years old

Height: 176cm

Weight: 55kg

Physique: Top-grade Ice Spirit Root

Personality traits: meticulous, outwardly flexible but inwardly principled, seemingly gentle and pragmatic, but inwardly tenacious and unyielding.

Title: Direct disciple of the Xuan Yang Sect, Crown Prince of Anguo

Strengths: A tireless learner

Judging from his personality traits, this kid was definitely making a fool of himself on purpose to test my attitude.

Lin You couldn't help but sigh. It wasn't that she thought there was anything wrong with his probing, but she felt a little sorry for him. This child must have suffered a lot to be used as a bargaining chip for testing others.

She continued browsing the system page and finally discovered a new difference in the world storyline: there was an additional original storyline.

The original storyline tells of Xuan Ling, the number one cultivator in the cultivation world, who, due to his own mistakes, caused his eldest disciple to suffer a cultivation deviation, resulting in the destruction of his country and the death of his people, and his Dao heart becoming unstable.

Then, in order to atone for his sins, he went to the former land of Anguo, picked up a baby girl who appeared out of nowhere, took her back to his sect and took her as his disciple, carefully teaching her as a way to atone for his sins.

Then it was discovered that the female lead had demon blood. Xuan Ling used magic to conceal her bloodline and trained (tortured) her during the day to avenge the dead of Anguo.

In the evening, he felt that she was just a child, innocent and pitiful, and applied medicine to her with a look of heartache. This was repeated many times. He would then use psychological manipulation on the female lead, saying that he was doing this for her own good, and successfully brainwashed her into being love-struck.

Eventually, as the girl grew up, the two went through some changes:

"Master, I love you so much, how can you not love me?"

"My disciple, don't be so naive. What does it matter if I defy the world for your sake!"

"Master, I'm not afraid to be an enemy of the whole world just to be with you!"

"My disciple, if anything happens to you, I will make the whole world pay for your death!!"

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Lin You: ? ? ? ?

I always felt that the original plot was a bit crazy.

Does simply finding any baby to help qualify someone for compensation?

If you discover that the person who is compensating you is the descendant of your enemy, can you simply turn the compensation into revenge?

Torture during the day and treatment at night, plus the element of imprisonment—how could she fall in love with all of this? Doesn't the female lead really have Stockholm syndrome?

And the world doesn't care about your relationship. Can't you two find a secluded place to do your thing? Can't you stop making such a big deal out of it?

However, Heng Mo was truly cannon fodder; he didn't even survive to the beginning of the story, and his death was so tragic.

His sole purpose in existence is:

The male protagonist, feeling guilty towards her, goes to Anguo to find the female protagonist and take her home.

Out of guilt towards him, he took care of the female lead tenderly until she grew up.

Because of his guilt towards her, he was able to torture her severely after discovering her identity.

Then he felt sorry for the female lead, thinking she was innocent and pitiful, and carefully applied medicine to her. The next day, he felt sorry for his deceased eldest disciple, so he tortured the female lead again and continued to apply medicine that night.

So this is how their relationship started to work out?!

Considering the world's storyline, Xuan Ling is truly a bastard! It's a pity I can't beat him, otherwise I really wanted to put a sack over his head!

Lin You muttered and complained all night, and when Heng Mo woke up, it was already broad daylight the next day.

He was startled and hurriedly got up. It was simply unacceptable for someone to sleep in on the second day after becoming an apprentice.

As soon as he stepped out of the bedroom, he saw Lin You sitting at the desk, checking the Three Character Classic he had copied, and he couldn't help but shudder again.

He learned to read entirely by squatting under the window of the private school and eavesdropping. He learned to write by tracing characters on the ground. It was only after a long period of diligent practice that he could write the characters correctly.

However, he never had the money to buy pen, ink, or paper, so his handwriting could only be described as barely neat. If this senior was to punish him for this, then he deserved to be punished.

After what happened yesterday, Lin You actually understood what he was thinking, and couldn't help but reach out and ruffle his hair, saying:

"What nonsense are you thinking? In the future, you'll have hundreds or thousands of years to live in cultivation. You'll have plenty of time to practice calligraphy. Hurry up and go wash up and eat. Your master has already sent your food over."

Unlike Xuan Ling, that lunatic, the Seventh Elder knew how to love his child. When he came in the morning and saw that his disciple was still sleeping, he not only didn't wake him up, but also had the handymen disciples on the mountain prepare a small kitchen in the disciple's courtyard.

The food was spiritual food that mortals could eat, nourishing the body and clearing away impurities. They were even instructed to cook it in the style of Anguo, which was incredibly thoughtful.

Lin You said meaningfully, "Your master has already had a new piece of land cleared out specifically for you to grow spiritual food. It's true that you should find a master who loves children. Those aloof lunatics will only make you suffer more and more, and then you'll have endless suffering."

Heng Mo obediently nodded in agreement, but felt that after a night, this senior seemed to dislike the Supreme Elder even more. Yesterday he only said that the elder was sick, but today he had directly become a lunatic.

The Seventh Elder truly treats his disciples like children, but in the world's storyline, that lunatic Xuan Ling throws someone into the formation, then stuffs a bottle of fasting pills into their mouth and doesn't care about anything else.

The Bigu Pill sounds fancy, but Lin You has seen it before. It tastes bland and each pill only keeps you full for one to three days. How is that any different from when she first transmigrated and couldn't eat anything?

He talks about training his disciples' character, but isn't that just because he's too lazy to care? He doesn't want to put any effort into their food and drink, or into fasting pills; he doesn't want to put any effort into their cultivation methods. He just throws his disciples into a formation and lets them learn on their own. Isn't that pure irresponsibility?

In modern terms, it would be like a top student from Tsinghua or Peking University insisting on having a high level of education, going to teach elementary school prodigies, distributing the textbooks, locking them up in solitary confinement, making them study on their own, and having someone stand by with a whip to supervise them; if they couldn't learn, they would be whipped.

Not only that, but they also don't let the students eat or sleep well, and they don't allow them to rest 24 hours a day. Every now and then, they would go over and look down on them, saying that the students could not even understand such simple questions at a glance, and that it was a waste of their genius.

In ancient times, when the master-disciple relationship was unequal, he could still maintain his persona and be irresponsible. If this kind of person were in modern times, he would probably be beaten to death by the students' parents.

They no longer embrace the modern trend of enduring hardship without facing it.

After listening to her muttering complaints, Heng Mo ate his meal while silently adding in his mind: Although he didn't know where the modern world was, this kind of teaching of disciples was not common in their mortal realm.

After the meal, Heng Mo went to pay his respects to his master. After receiving several gifts, he also received a detailed introductory cultivation method and a two-hour one-on-one teaching lecture.

The Seventh Elder's cultivation level was only at the late Golden Core stage, which was far inferior to the other elders who were all at the Nascent Soul stage, and he was even less comparable to Xuan Ling, who was at the Divine Transformation stage.

However, because he often helped other senior students teach their junior students, he was truly skilled in teaching, and he taught the basic techniques one by one from scratch.

Where are the acupoints of the meridians, how to use mental power to guide the spiritual energy that suits you, what kind of trajectory is more suitable for the spiritual energy to flow in the meridians, how to store the spiritual energy in the dantian, etc.

Not to mention Heng Mo, who had just started cultivating, even Lin You, who had already established his foundation, followed along to learn and consolidate his foundation, feeling that his cultivation had become more solid.

The Seventh Elder taught him everything in great detail, and since time truly flies in cultivation, it was already a month later when Heng Mo finally began to grasp the basics of Qi cultivation.

The Seventh Elder always rewards children for their progress, and this time he gave Heng Mo a three-day break. After all, the little disciple hadn't gone out since arriving at the Xuan Yang Sect, so it was better not to be too aloof.

After spending a month together, Heng Mo realized that his master was easy to talk to. He hesitated for a while before tentatively asking, "Master, may I go home for a visit?"

Everyone says that once you enter the immortal sect, you need to sever your worldly ties, but with so many demonic cultivators running rampant in Anguo, he really can't rest easy about his own emperor who worries about everything.

The Seventh Elder looked puzzled after hearing his words. "If you want to go home, just go. Why are you asking me?"

Heng Mo: ...? ? ?

He couldn't help but ask, "Isn't it said that cultivating immortality requires severing all worldly ties?"

The Seventh Elder looked at him with a mixture of curiosity and affection, as if he were looking at his own silly child: "We are cultivators, not monks. Cultivators can marry and have children. Who says that cultivation means severing ties with family and friends? It's not like we all cultivate the ruthless path like Junior Uncle."

Heng Mo suddenly raised his head, staring in shock at the wide-eyed man. So, if he followed the number one person in the world to cultivate the Path of Ruthlessness, he would really have to sever all ties with family and friends?!

The Seventh Elder chuckled as he watched his little apprentice's rare childishness. He stuffed a handful of talismans into his hand and instructed him to go to the Mission Hall to find a manpower-operated flying sword or flying boat. After telling him to be careful on the way, he strolled off to visit his herb garden.

Hmm, I can also take a look at the spiritual rice and vegetables that I'm growing for my little apprentice next to the herb garden.

After a long pause, Heng Mo suddenly turned his head and looked at Lin You, who was standing leisurely to the side. He suddenly remembered what Lin You had said when she first appeared:

My role is the cannon fodder rescue system. Your future is too bleak; your family will be destroyed and you will die...

What if she's not a fraud at all?

What if what she said is true?

He was an orphan from a young age, but it can't be said that he had no home. He grew up on the charity of many families, and he even recognized the Emperor as his father. Anguo was his home. When his home was destroyed... he died...

Heng Mo felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He trembled all over and broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, Lin You sent a burst of spiritual energy to him in time, which allowed him to catch his breath. Then he saw the silly boy kneel down again with a thud.

"Heng Moxie, thank you for saving my life! I was being petty and thought you had ulterior motives, but it turns out you really wanted to save me!" Lin You reacted quickly this time and managed to pull the man up before he could kowtow.

But how exactly did he so hastily confirm this?

Seeing her confusion, Heng Mo pursed his lips slightly, "Last time, after you listened to Master's lecture, when you were in meditation, Master saw that I was studying too hard, so he took me out for a walk and we just ran into the Supreme Elder."

After saying that, Heng Mo showed a complicated expression. That day, Xuan Ling had caught him and lectured him, from his outstanding talent but unwillingness to endure hardship, to his idleness and lack of suitability for cultivation, and also added that he was indeed just like his master, willingly degenerating, and wasting his top-grade ice spiritual root talent.

Heng Mo knew that when he was choosing a master, if Lin You hadn't interfered, he would have definitely chosen Xuan Ling, the most powerful and suitable master for his spiritual root cultivation, just so that he could learn something as soon as possible and be able to take care of Anguo.

However, given Xuan Ling's personality as he had witnessed it, he probably wouldn't have had a chance to take care of Anguo at all, and might even be forced by Xuan Ling's self-righteousness to sever all ties with the world.

After listening to his story, Lin You remained silent for a while before finally speaking up and complaining: "Isn't this crazy guy supposed to be a heartless Taoist who never goes down the mountain and doesn't care about anything? Why is he picking on you?"

It is said that he refused to show his face in the previous sect competition, which is why the Xuan Yang Sect ranked third. Since then, his persona of being otherworldly, aloof, and highbrow has spread throughout the cultivation world.

Now he's deliberately coming down the mountain to ambush you and lecture you? Is someone with such a petty mind really suited to cultivate the Path of Ruthlessness?! Or is his so-called Path of Ruthlessness essentially just selfishness?

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