In the evening, Erniu brought a jar of beef bone soup. Looking at the thick milky white soup, Lai Siyu knew that the soup must have been simmered for a long time. Although it was a bit salty, she still drank two large bowls.
"Brother Erniu, I still have to participate in the third selection tomorrow. Let's go together."
Erniu was stunned, thinking that Grandpa Gu must have made some arrangements, so he smiled and said, "Okay."
Looking at Lai Siyu's star-like eyes, Erniu felt his heart melt. This girl was so special. She was never pretentious like other women. She never complained about the dirt or tiredness of work. Even after suffering such a huge blow, she never seemed depressed. In her eyes, the word "difficult" never existed.
She was so optimistic and always had a bright smile on her face. That smile seeped into his heart like sunshine, bringing warmth to that cold place.
"Is there something on my face?" Lai Siyu looked at Erniu strangely. She touched her face randomly with her hands, but there was nothing!
"Oh, nothing. I just wanted to see if you were feeling better." Erniu came back to his senses and quickly withdrew his gaze from Lai Siyu's face, a hint of panic flashing in his eyes. "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."
Erniu left after saying a few words, walking very quickly, like a thief afraid of being discovered.
Lai Siyu felt puzzled. She took a mirror and looked at herself carefully, and there was indeed nothing on her face.
The next morning, just as the sky was getting light, the square outside the Qingyun Sect's mountain gate was already full of people, all discussing the competition that took place the day before.
"What a pity for that little girl! She broke the Qingyun Sect's century-long record, only to become a cripple for it, and her cultivation would cease forever. It's really not worth it!"
"Humph! She's overestimating herself. A genius like Gongsun Fei only managed to reach 2,000 steps, and a little girl like her is trying to show off..."
"Gongsun Fei is a genius, yes, but this girl is two hundred and one steps higher than him. That's the ladder to heaven, it's not like you haven't climbed it before."
"So what? Doesn't that mean I've lost the opportunity to cultivate? It's not that Senior Brother Gongsun doesn't want to compete with her, but he doesn't act recklessly or fight foolishly. Humph, a useless person, the title of first place still falls on Senior Brother Gongsun's head..."
A girl surrounded by several people passed by and happened to hear these words. Her brows furrowed slightly, and her pretty face was full of disgust.
"Flatterer!"
"Whoever is talking nonsense behind my back, I'll slap her to death!"
This outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect was speaking excitedly when someone called him a "sycophant." His anger immediately soared. He turned and swung his palm, but was caught mid-strike by a soft, white hand. Before he could react, his hand snapped and broke!
"Yang Liu from the Yang family of Pengcheng." The woman said lightly and left without looking back.
Even after Yang Liu had walked a long way off, the male cultivator was still staring blankly in the direction she had left. The Yang family of Pengcheng was indeed a renowned cultivation power. The girl from their family was cold, proud, and pure, like an orchid in a valley, something one could only yearn for. (To be honest! Well, she's just so beautiful, I want to have sex with her...)
"Senior Brother Cheng!"
"Senior Brother Cheng, your hand is broken!"
"Who, whose hand is broken? Go play somewhere else!"
"Senior Brother Cheng, your hand is broken!"
"Whose hand? My hand?" The young male cultivator finally reacted. He raised both his hands in front of his eyes and saw his drooping right hand. A heart-wrenching pain came over him. Without even a scream, his eyes went dark and he fainted.
The selection was to be conducted at three quarters past the hour of Chen. At that time, all four hundred people to be selected had gathered at the foot of the mountain gate, listening to the disciples sent by Qingyun Sect explaining the rules of "asking for the way".
Lai Siyu and Erniu stood in the corner. Although she had stole the limelight in the Qingyun Ladder competition, none of these people had ever seen her true face. After all, she was a bloody person when she was teleported out.
After introducing the disciples of Qingyun Sect, he took their name tags and called out their names one by one to confirm their identities. When he called out Lai Siyu, he cast fiery glances at her.
Lai Siyu couldn't help but shrink her head. Erniu squeezed her hand gently and gave her an encouraging look. Lai Siyu smiled at Erniu, stuck out her tongue playfully, and then roared with full energy: "Here!"
"It turned out to be her!" Gongsun Fei gritted his teeth, and glared at Lai Siyu. If these glares could kill, Lai Siyu would have been chopped into pieces long ago.
"How could that be? Isn't she useless?"
"How can Qingyun Sect allow such a useless person to join? Isn't that a waste of resources?"
"That's right, a loser like you is trying to snatch a spot from us. How shameless!"
"We can't let her participate in the last competition..."
Lai Siyu listened to these people's discussion with a smile. Seeing that the disciples from Qingyun Sect had no intention of stopping them and had expressions of watching the fun on their faces, she walked to the front of the team and waved to everyone.
Everyone didn't know what she was talking about and focused their attention on her. The scene suddenly became quiet.
"Have I passed the first competition?" Lai Siyu asked the Qingyun Sect disciples, but he was asking everyone who participated in the selection.
"Passed." One of the female disciples of Qingyun Sect answered impatiently.
"Then I passed the second round, right?" Lai Siyu asked.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? If you didn't pass, how could you stand here?" another male disciple of Qingyun Sect said angrily.
"Oh, so you all know that I've passed the first two rounds! Since I've passed the first two rounds, I'm eligible for the third round, right?"
Lai Siyu, who had been gentle and soft-spoken just before, suddenly rolled up her sleeves, put one hand on her waist, pointed at the candidates and cursed, "I earned my qualifications! It's none of your business whether I'm useless or not! You're a bunch of idiots with nothing to do! The thousand-year-old rules of Qingyun Sect can't be broken by a bunch of idiots! Damn it, the Sect Master hasn't even told me to leave yet you're already excited. Did your family open Qingyun Sect? Bah! Talking nonsense to you is just a slur on my mouth!"
After cursing, Lai Siyu returned to Erniu and stood beside him in a leisurely manner, without taking away a cloud.
Erniu tugged at her sleeve and whispered, "Little Laizi, don't mention the word 'I' all the time. You're a girl."
"Brother Erniu, wasn't I angry? I promised you that I wouldn't be like this when you are around." Lai Siyu said weakly.
What do you mean by "I wasn't like this when you were here"? Erniu sneered in his heart and whispered, "I remember everyone who said something bad about you. Brother Erniu will make them pay for their unreasonable behavior today!"
"Brother Erniu..."
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