Chapter 91 The Genius Cultivator Used as Cannon Fodder (Part 20) Waiting for Lin You…
When Lin You returned after eating and drinking her fill, Ye Zhen was still coaxing the wolf cub. The little fluffy ball was squatting in the corner, constantly meowing, its four little legs hopping back and forth, looking both cute and fierce.
That howling sound, that hopping and jumping manner, it looks just like a Siberian Husky.
Ye Zhen stood by, humbly peeling fruit, offering dried meat, and showering him with compliments.
It took a lot of effort to finally get the little guy's permission to stroke and massage him.
Lin You looked at the wolf cub whimpering as it was being petted and fell silent. Even if Ye Zhen didn't know he was the male lead, and even if Lin You knew that the two of them were a couple in their past lives, she still couldn't ship them as a couple.
What normal person would ship their best friend with a husky?
I have a feeling that the original male lead's pursuit of his wife was going down a dead end.
Lin You mentally complained a few times, but didn't interrupt the interaction between the two. She simply placed the snacks that Ye Zhen and the wolf cub liked on the table next to her.
She peeked next door and saw that her master was still explaining the exam paper to her junior uncle. Lin You listened for a while. Her master didn't differentiate between subjects when lecturing; she combined several subjects and developed a unique way of understanding this world.
Back in Moonflower Valley, Master had only just started learning physics and chemistry. Yet, in just a few days, he's already teaching Junior Uncle the curriculum up to the third year of junior high.
Are all her targets academic geniuses? Suddenly I feel so much pressure!
Looking at Ye Xinghan, who had no expression but a somewhat vacant look in his eyes, Lin You shrank back, put the snacks she had brought for the two of them at the door, and then went back to her room.
The system's storyline doesn't mention much about the secret realm in Rain City. It only says that Ye Zhen successfully cleared the secret realm and became the apprentice of a remnant soul who had been dead for hundreds of years.
Not only did she successfully become an apprentice, but she also gained complete control of the secret realm, taking over the entire realm and turning it into her personal space.
The remnant soul master naturally also lived in her personal space, providing her with one-on-one guidance in her cultivation at any time, which is also a standard feature of protagonists with a domineering personality.
As for how Ye Zhen cleared the game, the plot didn't mention it at all, but given this world's obsession with following the plot and its protection of the protagonist, Lin You felt that she only needed to observe.
This unique worldview is perhaps a kind of plot hole in the novel.
Putting aside the matter of the secret realm, Lin You opened the system page and submitted the world bug to the company again.
Once this bug is fixed, the world's rules will become more and more perfect, and the people who belong to this world will naturally get better and better. Lin You always hopes that they can live a better life.
Yun Jing's family was once just an ordinary, slightly wealthy merchant family. Decades ago, by chance, a young master of the Yun family was chosen by a cultivator because of his outstanding appearance and was taken away to be his personal attendant.
The young master had only returned to the Yun family once in decades, leaving behind a bottle of youth-preserving pills, two low-grade spirit stones with little spiritual power, and a few beginner talismans.
These things, which seem insignificant to cultivators, are rare treasures in the mortal world. The Yun family also used these things, as well as the fact that a cultivator had emerged from their family, to develop into a first-class family.
The Yun family was proud of this. Yun Jing grew up listening to the stories of this elder, and since he was also beautiful and charming, he wanted to emulate him.
Ye Zhen was the third cultivator he had selected. Of course, if he didn't succeed, there would be a fourth and a fifth.
After Ye Zhen ran into Yun Jing again while out, she stayed in the yard and refused to go out. She didn't care about a mortal, but the wolf cub was really hard to coax. She didn't know why the little guy disliked this mortal.
Unable to catch Ye Zhen, Yun Jing had to change his target. Among the newly arrived immortal masters in the city, there was one who frequented brothels. Perhaps he could try to find out more about him.
Without her shopping buddy, Lin You wandered around for a while and then lost interest in going out.
The main reason was that with the increase in cultivators in Rain City, the city mainly sold low-level talismans, pills, and materials for beginner alchemy and weapon crafting. Lin You bought some casually, stuffed them into two storage bags, and then lost interest.
As for food, it's not even half as abundant as Chunxiao City before, and the taste is also inferior. The sweet lotus root stall she stumbled upon that time was a rare delicacy.
Lin You is quite casual about cultivation. It's impossible for her to ascend in this world. The power she cultivates in the small world, when converted into energy that she can take with her, is only about one-twentieth of what she can carry with her.
Lin You began to research side hustles: alchemy, weapon crafting, and talisman making. These were more practical than the small amount of experience points gained from cultivating spiritual power.
As for materials, Lin You had obtained quite a few from opening blind boxes at the Treasure Pavilion, and she wasn't short of spirit stones. She had also bought quite a lot while shopping these past few days, which was enough for her to practice with.
Lin You first learned talismans, using a talisman brush dipped in cinnabar to draw specific shapes on talisman paper by drawing spiritual energy.
She had never used a calligraphy brush before, but when Chu Nanfeng was doing a cheat-like quest, he taught her the skills of playing the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
When Ye Zhen arrived, she saw her best friend solemnly picking up a brush, dipping it in ink, and writing with great vigor, creating complex runes in one go.
The runes were exactly as described in the jade slip, yet nothing happened. There was no dazzling brilliance like any other talisman, nor any fluctuation of spiritual energy.
Ye Zhen looked at the seven or eight discarded talismans already drawn on the table and hurriedly stopped Lin You from continuing to collect them.
These talismans aren't cheap; a hundred can only be bought for one low-grade spirit stone. Even if you have a lot of spirit stones, you can't just squander them like this.
“Youyou, if we want to paint, we can find some ordinary Xuan paper. Frugality is a virtue.” As soon as Ye Zhen finished speaking, Lin You reached out and made a hand gesture that looked like a cleaning spell.
Then, the cinnabar on the talisman was drawn back into the paint box by an invisible force.
"That way it won't be a waste." Lin You unfolded the talisman paper again and continued writing, while casually taking out a bottle of cola from her backpack and tossing it to Ye Zhen.
Lin You doesn't really like carbonated drinks, so she doesn't carry many in her backpack. But Ye Zhen loves them the most, and this is the last bottle.
Ye Zhen held the ice-cold cola, still a little confused. Who uses a cleaning spell like this? And why can a cleaning spell do something like this?!
She looked at the new useless talisman Lin You had written and tried to cast a cleansing spell, but there was no response.
"Raise your left ring finger half an inch higher, and draw an extra half circle with your right index finger, spiritual power..." Lin You explained to Ye Zhen while drawing the talisman.
Ye Zhen made some minor changes with some skepticism, and surprisingly managed to clean the cinnabar successfully. However, she wasn't as skilled as Lin You, and the cleaned cinnabar couldn't be collected into the inkstone for reuse.
"Sister, didn't you just transmigrate here a few months ago? How come you can create your own magic?" Ye Zhen looked Lin You up and down. With her Youyou's Buddhist-like demeanor, she didn't seem like a cultivation genius at all.
Lin You blinked and tentatively asked, "Perhaps, maybe, possibly, it's like modifying program code?"
Ye Zhen, this is absolutely the most modern cultivation method I've ever seen.
"But...aren't you a humanities student?" She remembered this girl saying that she was admitted to the history department. Isn't this a bit too big a leap?
"Oh, I have an older brother who's a programmer. He forces me to study both arts and sciences every few days. If I don't study, he cuts off my internet and cuts off my allowance. That's how I ended up learning a couple of tricks from him."
Lin You couldn't help but purse her lips when she remembered Shen Zechen threatening to cut off her internet connection. That scoundrel Zechen must have already gotten a girlfriend by now.
Ye Zhen rubbed her head, trying to connect the program with the talisman, but unfortunately, she studied humanities and couldn't understand it at all.
"You can modify spells now, how come you haven't learned how to draw talismans yet?" Ye Zhen gave up on investigating this matter and took a sip of her iced cola.
She knew exactly what Lin You's Coke stock was like; this was likely the last bottle of Coke she would ever drink in her life, so of course she had to cherish it.
"I haven't learned it yet. I've used up most of my spiritual power by modifying the spell code. The talismans I'm drawing now don't draw spiritual power. I'm just getting a feel for it first."
Lin You's hands moved without stopping, and her smooth, fluid movements reminded Ye Zhen of the heartbreaking history she had when she first arrived.
Even if she had the original owner's memories—no, I mean her own memories from this life—it still took her more than half a month to write the characters with a calligraphy brush.
"You history students also have to practice calligraphy?" Ye Zhen could tell from the way she held the brush that she was an expert.
"No, that's not it. I have a younger brother who is proficient in all kinds of arts, including music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. He thought I should learn more, so I had to learn from him."
When Lin You brought this up, she remembered being nagged by Chu Nanfeng about doing practice problems, and couldn't help but rub her head.
I wonder if there's a time difference between this world and theirs, and whether they received the letters I wrote to them.
"Alright, your older and younger brothers are so capable, they can definitely take good care of themselves. If you really want a younger brother, I'll give you half of A-Ye."
After finishing his day of cultivation, Ling Ye came over to cling to Ye Zhen, but as soon as he arrived, he heard this sentence and was stunned on the spot. The whole demon was in a bad mood.
"Awoooooo! Awoooooo!!" The poor young demon lord was so angry that he forgot to use telepathy and protested by tilting his head back.
Of course, it's also possible that he felt his shouting was more imposing than his soft, childlike voice.
However, judging from Ye Zhen's doting gaze and Lin You's barely suppressed a smile, it was clear that it had no effect.
"Alright, Ye, isn't it good to have another older sister? Youyou has brought you snacks so many times." Ye Zhen picked up the little ball of fur to comfort her, completely unaware of how she had offended this little tyrant again.
Seeing the wolf cub's gritted teeth, Lin You hurriedly put away her talismans and cinnabar to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Sure enough, the bottle of cola that Ye Zhen cherished so much and had only taken a sip of was slapped to the ground by the little guy with one paw.
Although Ye Zhen managed to prop up the bottle with magic in time, half of the cola inside still spilled out.
Ye Zhen, ... I'm not angry, I'm not angry. It's normal for kids to knock things over. At least my own doesn't destroy the house.
Ye Zhen tried to calm herself down, inhaling and exhaling repeatedly, but she was still incredibly angry!
This is the last bottle of Coke she'll ever have!
"Xiaoye! You think I won't beat you up?!"
The wolf cub was lifted up by the scruff of its neck. Ye Zhen, with a Coke bottle in one hand and the wolf cub in the other, stormed out the door.
Seeing this, Lin You couldn't help but say, "Zhenzhen, we can't commit domestic violence!"
“We have an old saying, ‘If you don’t discipline someone for three days, they’ll be climbing on the roof and tearing off the tiles!’” Ye Zhen said, then gave a fierce snort.
Since that day, Lin You has never seen the wolf cub that liked to stick to Ye Zhen again. Even when she made its favorite sweet and sour pork ribs, it was Ye Zhen who brought them to the house for it.
Was she really beaten up? Her best friend doesn't seem like someone with violent tendencies.
Seeing Lin You's probing gaze, Ye Zhen coughed lightly, filled another plate with the wolf cub's favorite food, and ran off in a flash.
Can she say she didn't hit it, but just used a ruler to scare it?!
As a result, it completely angered the dog, and it stayed in its nest and refused to come out no matter what. Even its meals had to be brought to it by Ye Zhen.
We have to send it, otherwise this little rascal will go on a hunger strike. It's still injured, what if it gets sick from starvation?
Ye Zhen rubbed her forehead and resignedly continued to coax him. As for her half-empty bottle of cola, she had already given it to Lin You to keep for later, since her own storage bag couldn't stop time.
It wasn't until three days later, when the secret realm opened, that Lin You finally saw Ling Ye. The little guy was clinging to Ye Zhen's shoulder, determined not to be held by her anymore.
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Author's Note: Ah, I had to review the previous plot again _(:з」∠)_
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