Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Tragic Life
Sect Leader Chang angrily rebuked: [What? This is simply nonsense!]
Tian Laokou nodded proudly: [Yes, yes, it's just nonsense!]
Qi Shubai's voice also lowered: [Junior Sister, this time it was really inappropriate.]
Tian Laokou suddenly laughed so hard that his teeth were exposed.
[That's right, that's right. This is totally wrong.]
Sect Leader Chang was furious: "Her body has only just recovered and is still weakened. It's time to recuperate. How can her body handle this daily bleeding? No, I have to find a way to help her recover."
Qi Shubai also sighed and said, "It would be bad if I became deficient in both Qi and blood. I really need to replenish my body."
[Yes, yes, it's time to make up for it... huh?]
Tian Laokou stopped nodding halfway and thought, "Wait, is there something wrong?"
*
In the afternoon, Yun Miao practiced the sword-controlling technique, manipulating the tattered iron sword full of gaps to fly quickly through the vegetable field. The golden spiritual power formed a thin sword light on the blade of the iron sword, and the mature fire chives were cut off wherever it passed, and then swept by a thin stream of water and piled on the ground beside.
According to Tian Laokou's original promise, the contribution points earned from selling these chives to Baiweitang will be divided into three tiers. Although this pile of three tiers only has a dozen contribution points, it is a level that the sect disciples don't even bother to look at.
But for Yun Miao, the small rewards from daily quests are normal. A little bit adds up, and players have plenty of time! Help her get back on her feet, and she could plant another hundred acres today!
At this moment, she suddenly heard the voices of her master and senior brother. Turning her head, she saw the white-bearded old man and the handsome young man floating to the ground, each holding a food box.
"My dear disciple, come quickly. Master has brought you something good."
"Junior sister, Senior Brother brought you a gift. Come and see if you like it."
Goodies? Gifts?
Yun Miao's eyes lit up, and he immediately jumped out of the vegetable garden and ran to his master and senior brothers to ask what it was. As a result, he saw them open the food box, revealing a steaming soup pot inside.
Looking to the left, the black chicken soup with oil and white foam was like thick petroleum swaying slightly in the can. The swollen bright red wolfberries kept floating in the black soup, like scarlet eyes in the abyss.
A completely plucked, jet-black dead chicken was stuffed into a soup pot that was completely mismatched to its size. It lay on its back in a horrific posture, its limbs twisted and bones misaligned, its head and feet sticking out of the pot, its lifeless eyes staring at the sky, as if reminiscing about its youth lost in the sunset.
Looking to the right, densely packed chili peppers, chopped peppers, and numbing peppercorns floated in the dazzling, fiery red broth. A dozen still-smoldering, bright-red jujubes radiated light and heat. The red soup in the pot was still seething and surging, emitting a furious sizzle.
The shriveled and black-red blood clots swirled and surged in the boiling soup, and the spicy smell hit Yun Miao's face, making her sneeze.
Yun Miao stood there in a daze: What is this?
Sect Leader Chang and Qi Shubai were also stunned for a moment and looked at each other in surprise.
"Master, you prepared soup too?"
"Shubai, did you prepare a nourishing soup as well? I was thinking of asking Tian Laokou for blood-tonifying pills, so I specially went to the kitchen to make this pot of black chicken soup with wolfberries. It's the best for replenishing qi and blood."
"I also thought that Junior Sister has been living in Danfeng these days, and with Uncle Master taking care of her, she will naturally have no shortage of elixirs to eat, so I also went to the kitchen to make this pot of fire hawthorn duck blood soup. It may not be very good for strengthening the spleen and nourishing qi, but it is very good for replenishing blood."
Tian Laokou, who just came out of the medicine house to check the situation, instantly frowned: He finally understood that the three of you, the master and the apprentice, had agreed to take advantage of him!
On the other side, Yun Miao was wondering what qi and blood replenishment was, when she heard her master and senior brothers first criticize her for letting blood without paying attention to her weak body. Then they each reached out a hand and pulled her into the medicine room, then put the soup pot on the table, and either lovingly or gently asked her to drink it while it was hot.
Yun Miao glanced at the red soup that was still smoldering, then looked at her senior brother. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes said it all.
"Sorry, I haven't cooked for a long time so I'm a little rusty."
Qi Shubai reacted immediately. He raised his hand and threw a few ice lotus petals into the boiling red soup. The red soup immediately stopped boiling and became the perfect temperature to drink. A spicy lotus fragrance filled the air.
Then he gracefully served a bowl of duck blood soup and placed it in front of Yun Miao with a gentle smile.
"Okay, now you can drink it."
Master Chang raised his hand and tapped the soup pot. The black-bone chicken, which had died with its eyes wide open, was immediately cut into pieces and dropped into the soup. He then filled a bowl and placed it in front of Yun Miao, urging his good disciple to quickly taste the master's cooking.
Yun Miao sat at the table, looking at the two bowls of indescribable soup. She wanted to say that her health bar had been full for a long time, and even Tian Laokou had personally confirmed that she was completely healed and did not need any health supplements at all. But...
She reached out to the black chicken soup, and the old man with white beard immediately looked at her expectantly. She then tentatively reached out to the duck blood soup, and the handsome young man immediately curled his lips.
Yun Miao had no choice but to pick up the black chicken soup pot, close his eyes, take a deep breath and drink it.
Ugh~
Too much salt made the food too salty, and the fishy smell of the black chicken made her feel nauseous and want to vomit. However, just when she couldn't bear it anymore and was about to tell the truth to her master, she saw a prompt box suddenly flash in the darkness in front of her.
[Player health bar limit +10 points]
Yun Miao was stunned. He opened his eyes and carefully examined the system prompt box. This was food that increased attributes? And it was also a high-level food that permanently increased the upper limit of the health bar?!
Her eyes lit up and she looked at the thick black chicken soup again. Who said this chicken soup was bad? This chicken soup was so good!
"Thank you, Master. This chicken soup is so delicious! It's the best chicken soup I've ever had!"
After finishing the black chicken soup, she immediately started drinking duck blood soup. The salt was a little light and the smell was a bit pungent, but the overall taste was slightly better than the black chicken soup. Most importantly, it also increased the health limit.
Yun Miao drank it all up happily: "Thank you, Senior Brother, this duck blood soup is really delicious, it's definitely the best duck blood soup I've ever had!"
She wants to put them all on the players' must-eat list.
Mr. Tian walked over suspiciously and asked, "Is it delicious?"
The head master's cooking is notoriously bad, and although the cooking of junior brother Shubai is good, it is notoriously spicy. How can it be delicious?
He has always believed that if you don't take advantage of an opportunity, you are a fool. At this moment, seeing Yun Miao drinking with a happy face, as if he had eaten some delicious food, he couldn't help but squeeze over half-believingly and said that he also wanted to try it.
Qi Shubai knew that Yun Miao would not be able to finish the two large jars of soup, so he gently and politely served a bowl of duck blood soup to honor his uncle.
Sect Leader Chang didn't want to give it to her at first, but Tian Laokou just looked at him dimly and said, "Brother, the pills I've used on your little disciple these days, plus the pills she cheated me of, are much more expensive than this bowl of black chicken soup."
Sect Leader Chang immediately shut up and glared at Tian Laokou: "Okay, okay, I'll give it to you. You're an adult, but you're still fighting with children for food. Be careful not to overdo it or you might end up having trouble pooping!"
Upon hearing this, Tian Laokou immediately scooped two large pieces of black-bone chicken into his bowl: "It's okay, I'll just sew up that useless butt hole when the time comes, and then tell everyone that your little apprentice taught me how to do it."
Sect Leader Chang: […You are so vulgar!]
While eating, Tian Laokou transmitted a message: "I learned this from you, Senior Brother. It's like saying, 'If the top beam is crooked, the bottom beam will be crooked.' If you could be as gentle and self-disciplined as Junior Brother Shubai, Yan'er and I wouldn't be like we are now. Especially Yan'er, whose temper has become increasingly violent over the years. You must have corrupted her..."
"vomit!
Tian Laokou's telepathic communication was instantly disconnected. He pinched his neck with a grim face, and his throat kept rolling.
This sudden scene startled Qi Shubai, and he hurried forward: "Master, what's wrong with you?"
Tian Laokou's face was filled with pain, and he pointed at his soup bowl with trembling fingers: "This soup... this soup..."
"What's wrong with this soup? Is there poison in it?"
Qi Shubai frowned, and his first reaction was that an enemy had sneaked in right under his and his master's noses and poisoned the soup.
However, just as he was about to check the soup pot, he heard Tian Lao gulp down the chicken in his mouth, then retched and said, "Brother, did you stew the chicken without removing the fishy smell? Why does this soup smell like chicken shit? Ugh!"
Then he looked at Yun Miao in disbelief: "This is too smelly. How on earth can you eat it? And eat it so happily?"
Yun Miao finished her meal calmly and poured herself another bowl. "Is it smelly? I think it tastes great. Uncle Master, you don't know what's good."
Tian Laokou firmly said that it was impossible. How could this stuff taste good? There must be something wrong with Yun Miao's taste!
Qi Shubai: ...
He silently withdrew his hand that was about to be checked and turned to look at his master with a sullen face.
Bang!
Master Chang slammed the table so hard that the soup pots and bowls and chopsticks on the table shook, and Tian Laokou's rebuttal stopped abruptly.
"Tian Laokou, come with me, I have something to tell you."
Sect Leader Chang put his arm around the shoulders of Tian Laogou, who was trying to escape, with a forced smile, and walked out while giving Yun Miao some instructions.
"My dear disciple, continue eating. But it's not good to overeat. Feed the extra food to your little black one. No need to save it for your uncle. He's not hungry."
The black chicken soup he worked so hard to cook was only worthy of being drunk by a good kid like Xiao Miao. As for a nasty junior brother like Tian Lao Kou... he would rather feed it to a dog than give it to Tian Lao Kou!
"Mr. Tian, I just approved your grant application a few days ago. Are you feeling bold now? Let's go out and have some fun!"
Tian Laokou raised his hand to grab the door frame and quickly admitted his mistake: [Brother, I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again. For the sake of our friendship over the years, you...]
Without waiting for Tian Laokou to finish, Sect Leader Chang sneered and pried off Tian Laokou's fingers that were clinging to the door frame one by one, then dragged him upwards. Not long after, Yun Miao heard loud noises and Tian Laokou's voice begging for mercy from the top of the mountain.
She listened carefully with her ears perked up while drinking the soup and eating the meat. Suddenly, she felt that the soup in the bowl was even more delicious.
As the amount of health points added to the upper limit of the soup continued to decrease, it gradually dropped from 10 points per sip to only 0.1 points after finishing a bowl. Yun Miao had almost finished the two large cans of soup.
Qi Shubai looked at Yun Miao's flat belly hesitantly: "Junior Sister, don't you feel full?"
Yun Miao thought about the more than 100 points that had just been added to his health bar, and patted his stomach with a satisfied smile.
"Well, I can eat more than the average person, so I won't feel full. And this is a token of my Master and Senior Brothers' love for me, so of course I have to drink a little more to show my love for them."
"Don't even mention two small jars. Even if it's a pot of soup as big as Lake Li, as long as Master and Senior Brother make it for me, I will definitely drink it all in one go!"
She wasn't exaggerating. The satiety setting in "Ask the Three Thousands" is similar to that of most other games on the market. When the satiety level drops to its lowest point, the player experiences a hunger buff, but eating food after reaching the maximum value carries no penalty. Therefore, players typically only have the concept of hunger, not a full stomach.
Therefore, if she wanted to, she could really rush over and drink all the water in Li Lake right now. As for where Mo Aotian would live after drinking it all, it was none of her business.
Qi Shubai laughed when he heard that, raised his hand and called a stream of water to help clean her greasy mouth: "Where did you learn all those sweet words? It's a pity that Master didn't hear it, otherwise he would be moved to tears again."
Yun Miao said seriously, "These are not sweet words, they are the truth."
The smile in Qi Shubai's eyes deepened: "If you continue to be so sincere, I, your senior brother, will be moved to tears. Do you still want to drink this duck blood soup tomorrow? If you do, I will make some more and send it to you tomorrow."
Yun Miao shook her head. She said that although the soup made by her master and senior brother was delicious, her body had recovered long ago and she was now strong enough to knock down a cow. It would be a waste to drink the blood-replenishing soup.
The master and senior brothers are very busy. It is already good enough that they can squeeze out time every day to teach her and answer her questions. There is really no need to waste time on cooking.
Qi Shubai took her pulse, checked her body, and nodded with satisfaction: "She is indeed quite strong, but she still has a long way to go before she can defeat Niu Rao. Don't let up."
Niu Rao happened to walk in at this moment and touched the horns in confusion: "Ah? Who wants to hit me?"
Yun Miao silently looked at Qi Shubai: Oh no, Senior Brother was caught joking with someone else, Senior Brother Wenrou is going to be ruined~
Qi Shubai turned and smiled gently at Niu Rao: "Junior Brother Niu, are you here to see Uncle Tian?"
Niu Rao nodded immediately and glanced at the long jade slip in his hand. "The people from the Deacon Hall said that there was a problem with the Peak Master's application for funding this time. He needs to explain the specific purpose of it. Let me give this jade slip to him."
Qi Shubai pointed in the direction of the top of Danfeng Mountain: "Master and Uncle-master just went to the top of the mountain to spar. Judging from the noise, they should be over by now. You should be able to find Uncle-master if you go to the top of the mountain now."
"Master has always taken the funding issue very seriously. You might as well go now. Business is more important."
"Yes, the Peak Master is worried about not having enough materials and spirit stones to research new pill recipes."
Niu Rao nodded in agreement, thanked his senior brother, and hurriedly flew towards the top of the mountain.
Yun Miao turned her head silently and looked at Qi Shubai again. She didn't say anything, but everything was implied.
Qi Shubai smiled and patted her head: "Good sister, we are in the same group, so you have to keep it a secret for me."
Yun Miao immediately pounded his left chest with a serious expression and said, "Don't worry, Senior Brother. I won't tell anyone about you trying to instigate me to punch Senior Brother Fei Niu. I promise!"
Qi Shubai: "...Thank you so much, Junior Sister."
After Qi Shubai left, Yun Miao scraped the bottoms of two soup pots, put the soup into a bowl, and placed it in front of Xiao Hei. He also handed over the bowl that Tian Laokou had left.
"Come, Xiao Hei, this is your dinner tonight."
Xiao Hei lowered his head and sniffed, then looked up at Yun Miao and walked away silently.
"Being picky about food doesn't make a good kid."
Seeing that Xiao Hei refused to eat, Yun Miao simply ate the bowl he had scraped out from the bottom of the jar. He then calmly commented, "It actually tastes pretty good. It's nutritious and healthy, much better than those meals filled with dead mice, snails, and hair."
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Late at night, a young girl in green clothes, whose white disciple uniform had been dyed green with grass juice, was sleeping soundly on a bamboo bed, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was happy that she could go to Luohua Town with her friends tomorrow.
In a pavilion on the top of Danfeng Mountain, Tian Laokou, Sect Leader Chang and Qi Shubai were sitting there with serious and gloomy expressions.
Qi Shubai sighed: "Master's guess is correct, Junior Sister...she really has no sense of pain."
Tian Laokou still felt the stinky smell of chicken shit lingering in his mouth. He took a gulp of tea and said, "It's more than just that she doesn't feel pain. I'm starting to doubt whether she has a sense of taste."
Sect Leader Chang glared at him and said, "I tasted it before and it tasted good. Shubai thought it was good too, and Xiaomiao really liked it. I think you're the one with the taste problem."
Tian Lao snorted, "That's just because you accepted two good disciples who are willing to speak for you against their conscience."
Sect Leader Chang coughed dryly and said, "You flatter me. One of my two disciples is too serious. He seems well-behaved and understands the facts, but he is actually quite opinionated. The other is too lively and can get into trouble if he's not careful. They only gravitate towards this one strength of mine. I need to discipline them properly in the future."
Tian Laokou: ...Ugh!
Mr. Tian rolled his eyes and then got back to the point. He said frankly that there is indeed a kind of painlessness in the world. Some people are born with painlessness. Although they can be injured, bleed to death, they have never felt pain. However, some people develop painlessness later in life due to various reasons.
Last time, a seriously injured female disciple was sent to the medicine house for treatment. Yun Miao showed a look of pity when he saw the female disciple being pricked like a hedgehog with fine needles. He also poured a cup of honey water and handed it to the female disciple when she was crying and wailing.
She would also make many subconscious moves to avoid danger on a daily basis. This wasn't just during the fight with Mo Aotian, when she consciously avoided his attacks. Previously, when Tian Laokou deliberately placed a needle on the table and asked her to bring it to him, she would habitually take the end of the needle that was closer to the eye than the tip. There were many other similar attempts.
People who are born with analgesia will not care about these small details, because even if the needle tip pricks their hand, the damage caused is minimal. Most people are afraid of needle pricks, but in fact they are only afraid of the fleeting stinging pain when the needle is pricked.
Yun Miao's various behaviors showed that she knew the taste of pain, or had felt the taste of pain before, but now she had lost her perception of pain for some reason.
Even Tian Laokou, who loved to take advantage of others, was afraid to try the spicy fire hawthorn duck blood soup and only dared to reach for the dark black chicken soup, but she drank it all in one breath without changing her expression.
"Perhaps their body has undergone some kind of modification, perhaps they've suffered immense pain, or perhaps they were once severely injured and on the verge of death, but luckily survived and lost their sense of pain..."
"She was a mortal before. Judging from her conversation, she seems to have only a superficial understanding of many aspects of the cultivation world, but she also seems to know some things in great detail..."
"Ning Yu told me that she was once scammed out of money because of a little black dog..."
"People without parents are always easily bullied..."
"Always saying how cruel the world of cultivation is, how cruel the world is, and full of twisted theories that seem to have a lot of insights into life..."
"Remember what I told you about her farming under the moonlight that day? They say steel is forged through repeated tempering. A child who has never experienced setbacks wouldn't be able to possess her tenacity..."
The more Mr. Tian spoke, the more silent and stagnant the atmosphere in the pavilion became.
Sect Leader Chang sighed, "I've always felt that Xiao Miao's intelligence and willpower in the Heavenly Ladder didn't seem childish. And when she was diagnosed with the lowest grade of the Five Spiritual Roots, she wasn't the least bit surprised or frightened. She was incredibly calm."
"Either she already knew her spiritual roots, or she's heard a lot of disparaging remarks like this. Or maybe it's both."
Tian Laokou's eyes were gloomy. "She must be a child from a small family in the cultivation world. Judging from the disgusting practices of those families, they probably tested her spiritual roots shortly after she was born, found out that she had five low-grade spiritual roots, and then threw her into some desolate yard."
"She received no special instruction, and all she knew about the world of cultivation was overheard. She was only recently released or escaped. Perhaps she truly has no parents, or perhaps having parents is the same as having none. In any case, I'm afraid her life at home wasn't easy."
"And the surname Yun... the Yun family, recently known as the number one cultivation family in Yunzhou, seems to be this Yun, right?"
Sect Leader Chang clenched his fists, his eyes were filled with coldness, and his aura was rising steadily. The pressure from a peak Mahayana expert not only made the chirping of insects and frogs on the top of the mountain stop abruptly, but also made Tian Laokou and Qi Shubai feel their breathing was obstructed.
"I don't care whether Xiao Miao was from the Yun family or some other aristocratic family. In short, those guys didn't educate her well and mistook pearls for fish eyes. They were too stupid. Now Xiao Miao has become my disciple, and as a master, I will naturally do my best to raise her well. She said she was an orphan without a father or a mother, so she is an orphan without a father or a mother.
"It's good that those guys don't come. If they dare to cause trouble, I will tear off their heads and bury them in the fertile fields of Danfeng!"
Tian Laokou frowned in disdain: "Don't, I don't accept all the junk in Danfeng. What if my spiritual plants are poisoned to death?"
Qi Shubai poured his master a cup of tea to calm him down, then said with his usual smile, "Master, don't worry. If any ignorant people come to visit, I'll take care of them. I promise I won't let them disturb Junior Sister."
At this moment, the three of them just sat together and briefly analyzed Yun Miao's possible past. The focus of the subsequent discussion was still on Yun Miao's current education issues, but they didn't expect that some people really couldn't stand the nagging.
The next morning, Master Chang had just finished teaching his young disciple and flew back to Xuantian Palace to handle today's sect business. He found Ge Yan waiting for him in the hall, and what she reported was exactly the Yun family that Tian Laokou mentioned.
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The author has something to say: Sect Leader Chang: Woo woo woo, my dear disciple, you really suffered in the past! QAQ
Yun Miao, who was killing everyone in the game: ???
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