Chapter 85: Become a Disciple
[Beep beep, the host is now reporting the details of this world's mission—
This world is the main world of "Supreme Heavenly Way", and the host is the twin brother of the protagonist of this world (physical attributes are halved).
Mission goal: Help educate children with world consciousness.
Mission rewards: Issued at the end of this world.
Finally, please complete the system task carefully.]
…
No, wait, what is that mission objective?!
What does it mean to help the world consciousness educate children? Who are the children of the world consciousness? The protagonist?!
[Yeah, almost.]
[This is an old customer of ours, so he is a bit more relaxed and has fewer requirements.]
No, our company still has old customers——
Ah, because this world has many smaller worlds under it, many of our colleagues have worked in those smaller worlds...
So which protagonist's brother am I?!
[Of course, we're the protagonists of the main world! The main world's consciousness has fully trusted us, so we can act freely here. This is no less important than the main world where our company is located!]
...Come to think of it, I still don't know what kind of company ours is. If I die, they'll just be caught and put to work straight away, right?!
[Host, you are quite special. You are truly a natural born social animal, one in a million. You will know when the time comes!]
You're not complimenting me at all, are you?!
Then I calmed down and saw my current devastating start—
My dear younger brother, the protagonist, and I were thrown into a basin by a masked servant-like person and slid down a stream.
The water was rushing, and there were all kinds of rocks and tree stumps, leaping along the current, as if we were bravely racing along the rapids.
And my brother, whose name I don’t know, laughed out loud with joy.
Just before we slid down a cliff and fell, a cloud caught the basin beneath us.
A beautiful woman with white hair and wearing colorful clothes looked down at us.
She had a white veil covering her face, but through her peach blossom eyes we could tell she was extremely beautiful. However, the look she gave us was a little complicated.
"...Interesting. Since you're destined to be with me, then become my disciple."
Then my brother and I were adopted by our mother.
My mother's name is Liu Yuan. She is the guardian of this mountain, the leader of Liuming Sect and the only disciple of the sect.
They named one of us Liuluan and the other Liuhong.
——Probably because Liuming Sect is a sect that respects birds and can command hundreds of birds, so the names are all related to birds.
Then the Liuming Sect became three people.
A clan leader whose age was unknown and two half-dead babies.
There is no time in the mountains. Liu Hong and I started refining Qi at the age of three, building our foundation at the age of six, forming our elixir at the age of fifteen, and reaching half a step into Nascent Soul at the age of eighteen. Liu Hong is always one step ahead of me. After all, due to the punishment in the previous world, all my physical qualities were cut in half, so I was much weaker than him when I was a child. Therefore, Liu Yuan always felt that he had made a mistake about our ages, and he calculated it over and over again before confirming that I was the older brother.
"Now that you are eighteen years old, it's time to go down the mountain."
She sat in her seat, chewing an apple, and said unkemptly, "I've been taking care of children for eighteen years. I feel a hundred years older."
Then I looked at the protagonist next to me and said, "Especially you, second brother, you are almost killing all the birds I raised——"
Liu Hong pouted, "I just wanted to play with them, who knew they were so fragile."
"Learn from your brother. He feeds the birds for me, but you just pull their feathers."
"You're comparing me to my brother again!"
The eighteen-year-old boy is arrogant because of his talent. He has been comparing himself with me since he was a child, so he becomes very sensitive when encountering topics like "other people's children".
But the fault is mine.
I subconsciously indulged him in the same way I indulged Zhou Tianqi.
Then something went wrong.
Liu Hong was spoiled by me and became a rebellious son.
Now I regret it.
[…So I say, host, you might as well be a piece of wood like in those previous worlds! ]
[The protagonist is now just a pure naughty child——]
[Do you still remember that your mission is to educate him, not to spoil him?!]
Shut up.
"Mom, when can we go back to the mountains?" I asked Liu Yuan, and then she hit me on the head.
"I told you not to call me mother, but Master. I am a young and beautiful girl."
I looked at the beautiful young girl whose age I didn't know but who must have lived for at least five hundred years, and changed my tone, "Okay, Master. When will we be back?"
Liu Yuan pinched his fingers and gave Liu Hong and me an unfathomable look, "Come back when it's time for you to come back."
Then he took out two storage bags and handed them to us, which contained some necessary items and spirit stones for traveling.
"Don't mention Liuming Sect and my name when you go down the mountain. You can become a disciple of any sect you want. Our sect doesn't have any rules that prohibit you from becoming a disciple elsewhere. It's just..." She looked at Liu Hong, "Second brother, listen to your brother when you go down the mountain. Down there, we won't be spoiling you like we are up there."
Liu Hong wanted to refute, but after looking at Liu Yuan's serious face, he finally nodded.
Then the next day we were driven down the mountain.
"Brother, why is mother in such a hurry for us to go down the mountain?" Liu Hong asked me while looking at the mountain protection formation that had been activated.
Liu Yuan has hardly practiced in these years and has been hiding in his cave without coming out. Any other cultivator would probably be able to guess something, but Liu Hong doesn't think about it at all.
"Mom is going into seclusion." I twirled the jade flute in my hand. "How could my idiot brother not have noticed all these years that Mom has already reached the late stage of the Tribulation and has been dodging the lightning tribulation?"
"She's going to ascend."
Liu Hong looked at me in shock, "Huh?!"
"If mother ascends to heaven, we will become orphans."
Then he was hit on the head by my jade flute, "We were orphans, and it was mother who saved us."
"You don't wonder why I'm the only one on the mountain, do you?"
"Her master, brothers, and sisters have all ascended to heaven, so of course she wants to ascend as soon as possible."
I patted his head again. "Besides, our cultivation speed should be quite fast. Mother said that our aptitude is also top-notch. We both have single spiritual roots. When the time comes, we can just ascend to heaven and come find mother."
Then Liu Hong became visibly happy and accepted what I said.
The young man is really easy to fool.
——Yes, I was fooling him.
Liu Yuan was indeed going to ascend, but she had a hidden injury and her ascension was a near-death experience. She probably sent us down because she was afraid that we would be sad if she failed.
If Liu Hong knew this, he would definitely clamor to go back.
As I said, this child has been spoiled by Liu Yuan and me.
——He is a good kid, but sometimes he is too willful. However, based on my experience in so many worlds, the protagonists are all a bit willful.
[If you continue to spoil your child, you will get so angry that you will beat him sooner or later.]
Shut up, my kid hasn't done anything extremely evil.
However, because of Liu Yuan's hidden injury, I already had a goal when I went down the mountain this time.
I want to find the legendary "Soul-Shaping Pill" for her. The last place the "Soul-Shaping Pill" appeared was in the world's number one sect, Chongguang Sect.
"I'm heading north, to the number one sect in the world. What about you?"
I asked Liu Hong, and he looked at me confused, "Am I not with my brother?"
I sighed, "Ah Hong, this is my brother's decision. You have to make your own decision. It's fine if you want to be with me, but do you really want to go to Chongguang Sect with me?"
Liu Hong fell silent. He thought for a long time, "But I don't know where to go..."
"Then follow me first."
The two of us walked north and reached the northern border in just three days. Liuming Mountain is an isolated mountain overseas. Nowadays, most human cultivators are distributed in the northern and southern borders. The eastern part is close to the sea and is mostly inhabited by demon cultivators and independent cultivators, including Liuming Mountain. Going west is the world of demon cultivators. Gobi, volcanoes, deserts, such places with scarce spiritual energy, only demon cultivators can stay.
The Chongguang Sect is the undisputed overlord of the Northern Territory. One-third of the sects in the Northern Territory are affiliated with the Chongguang Sect. Every May, the Chongguang Sect opens its doors to recruit disciples.
This year, the time for recruiting disciples is exactly ten days later.
It was Liu Hong's first time going down the mountain. He had never seen so many monks and cities. He ran ahead to look around. I followed behind him to keep an eye on the child so that he would not get lost.
...I suddenly felt tired.
[Ding Di Di - Release Phase Task 1: Encounter
On the bridge at the second intersection ahead, there is a destined person. Ask him to accept you as his apprentice.
Mission Reward: All-Attribute Experience Voucher (One Hour)]
I paused, looked at Liu Hong running forward, grabbed his collar and pulled him back.
"Go with my brother to meet someone."
"Who?"
"...The destined one?"
I said uncertainly, remembering the description of the mission, and then saw Liu Hong looking at me with a shocked expression.
I always feel like he misunderstood something, but the more I explain, the more confused he becomes.
"Maybe our future master?"
I pulled him towards the next street intersection and explained something out of caution.
"But don't we already have a mother?"
"Mother is mother, and master is master."
No, this child has forgotten everything his mother said before going down the mountain, right?
Then I saw the white-robed monk standing on the bridge, looking like a banished immortal.
He turned and looked at us.
Those eyes were cold, and at that moment his gaze was fixed on the two of us.
He was dressed in white as snow, but people passing by ignored him. Only we saw him, and he also noticed us.
—Help! Such a perfect Lujiang Master will be our master in the future?!
What kind of world is this?
[Ahem...that's what...you know.]
No, I don't want to understand.
The monk in white robes walked straight towards us. Liu Hong beside him was already stunned, "Brother, he is so beautiful——"
I slapped his eyes and covered them.
No, don't think too much. I'm worried that you'll develop a tragic relationship between a master and a disciple where love turns to hate. Son, let's not play that game.
Then he saluted the approaching monk.
"Senior, you are a fairy. Juniors Liuluan and Liuhong are sorry to disturb your peace."
The monk in white glanced at me and said, "It's okay. You and I have a cause and effect."
"Do you have a master?"
Remembering what Liu Yuan had told us before we left, we both shook our heads and said, "I've only practiced with my mother at home."
"That's right. One has a single spiritual root in the water element, and the other has a single spiritual root in the fire element. At this age, they are almost at the Nascent Soul stage." The white-robed cultivator saw through our spiritual roots in such a short time. "I would like to take you two as my disciples. What do you think?"
He looked at us
"Junior is willing."
"Junior... is willing."
Liuhong and I bowed one after another. Liuhong seemed to be a little confused about what was going on.
"My name is Ling Ye, from the Chongguang Sect. You two will follow me back first." He waved his sleeves and struck our foreheads with two seals. Then he handed us a white jade tablet. "This is my token. In ten days, when the sect opens, you two will take this and go through the ceremony of ascending to the Immortal Platform."
Then disappeared.
Only Liu Hong and I looked at each other in bewilderment, holding the white jade cards in our hands.
"Brother... can we enter the Chongguang Sect like this?"
Liu Hong looked at the white jade plate and looked at me blankly.
"Yeah...I don't know either!"
[Ding Di Di - Stage 1: Encounter (Completed)
Mission Reward: All-Attribute Experience Voucher (One Hour)]
...No, are tasks so easy to complete now?
All I did the whole time was just walk over there!!!
Even the other party took the initiative to accept me as a disciple? !
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