After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 2 - Isnt it normal to want to be stepped on by a fairy-like master?

Chapter 2: Isn’t it normal to want to be stepped on by a fairy-like master?

The sound of Jiang Huai’s cough echoed in the room.

Chu Xianning’s beautiful eyebrows slightly furrowed, ready to draw closer, but Jiang Huai waved his hand and said softly,

“It’s nothing.”

Despite his face still being devoid of color, Chu Xianning could faintly hear his pained groans due to the broken meridians while she practiced swordsmanship in the courtyard at midnight. Yet, his face now bore a calm expression.

“Why no regrets?”

Chu Xianning asked softly.

Jiang Huai picked up a handkerchief to gently wipe his lips, looking at the streak of blood on the pure white fabric. He lifted his head, his gaze falling on Chu Xianning’s beautiful eyes.

“When I was young, Master took me to Tianxuan Sect out of kindness, teaching me to harbor good intentions, to wield my sword to cut down evil and care for the common people. Now, with bloodthirsty demons before me and a sword in my hand, of course I must strike them.”

Chu Xianning’s shoulders trembled slightly, her throat felt tight.

“Didn’t I teach you to be somewhat flexible?”

Jiang Huai replied calmly, “The situation was urgent that day. If I had been any later, those evil cultivators would have already conducted their ritual that night, and it would have been too late to save anyone. Oh right, I heard the sect master has already found places for those children?”

Hearing his question, Chu Xianning knew she couldn’t reason with her foolish disciple and coldly responded,

“Everything has been arranged properly, you don’t need to worry about it.”

“That’s good,” Jiang Huai smiled.

“Do you know that a person without cultivation is not qualified to stay in Tianxuan Sect?” Chu Xianning’s voice grew colder.

Jiang Huai paused for a moment, then chuckled, “Didn’t Granny Jiuyou say there’s still a way to heal me?”

Thinking of this made Chu Xianning even more frustrated.

Granny Jiuyou was the best doctor in the entire Eastern Region. Chu Xianning had spent a century’s worth of spirit stones to invite her, but in the end, Granny Jiuyou could only sigh and shake her head. She prescribed a medicine that was rumored to reconstruct the sea of qi, but to this day, no one had succeeded with this prescription.

It was merely a glimmer of hope.

The prescription listed three medicinal ingredients, each worth millions of spirit stones, all extremely rare and precious. Not to mention the two catalysts required by the prescription: a woman with a Flower Spirit Body and a woman with an Ice Soul Profound Body must dual cultivate for three days to fully refine the ingredients… Additionally, these two women must still retain their primordial yin and have cultivation levels above the seventh realm.

Chu Xianning stared at the prescription, so angry she couldn’t sleep all night.

“Do you think your master would seek medicine for someone who is about to be expelled from the sect?” Chu Xianning scoffed.

Jiang Huai, accustomed to Chu Xianning’s sharp tongue from a young age, was unfazed by such remarks, but now his eyes showed a pitiful look.

“Is Master going to send me down the mountain?”

Chu Xianning found herself at a loss for words.

Seeing her silence, Jiang Huai continued, “I can still wash clothes, cook for Master, and take care of the flowers and plants in the courtyard. Could you perhaps not send me away?”

The grievance and pitifulness in his eyes were too much.

Chu Xianning couldn’t help but recall when he was six years old, she had descended the mountain to eliminate evil and saved a group of children. They were all crying and making a fuss, but only this guy came up to her, hugging her leg and asking where his parents had gone.

His parents had died at the hands of evil cultivators, so Chu Xianning couldn’t answer him. Seeing his deer-like frightened eyes, which were too pitiful, she couldn’t help but pinch his face. He then clung to her leg and wouldn’t let go.

Until she realized he had a clear spirit root and was a natural cultivator, she then took him up the mountain. As a child, Jiang Huai obediently called her “mother,” but as he grew older and his features became more distinct, exuding the air of a young swordsman, he suddenly started calling Chu Xianning “sister.”

His reason was that calling her “mother” made Chu Xianning seem old, and “sister” sounded better.

Chu Xianning vaguely sensed that the little puppy she had adopted was showing a sly fox’s tail. She gave him a frosty glance and from then on, he was only allowed to call her “Master.” If he misspoke, he would be punished. After being hit more than a dozen times, the child finally toughened up.

The cute little boy from her memories had suddenly turned into a young man, so Chu Xianning always felt awkward about it.

“Don’t look at me with those eyes.”

Chu Xianning turned her face away, not wanting to meet those grievous eyes. She had only meant to scare him, but now she felt like a villain.

“Oh, I knew Master wouldn’t send me away.”

Jiang Huai folded the handkerchief and placed it aside, then said, “Master, you seem to have been in a bad mood these days?”

Chu Xianning took a deep breath, “Do you think I should be in a good mood?”

“Having my cultivation destroyed isn’t a big deal,” Jiang Huai said earnestly.

“Then what is a big deal?”

“Master being unhappy is a big deal.”

“Why do you think Master is unhappy?”

Chu Xianning finally turned around to look into his eyes, only to suddenly realize that the pitiful look on his face had vanished. As she spoke, his eyes revealed a hint of a successful scheme.

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“I understand now. Master does care about me.”

Chu Xianning had always cared about Jiang Huai, but being cold by nature, she never liked to show it openly.

Chu Xianning resisted the urge to hit his head.

Now that his cultivation was gone, a slap from her would probably turn him into mush.

Patience, Chu Xianning, patience.

“Give me half a year.”

Jiang Huai’s eyes earnestly gazed at Chu Xianning. Seeing the anger in her eyes, he soothed softly, “I will recover.”

“With your sea of qi destroyed, what will you use to cultivate?”

“There’s always a way.”

Jiang Huai was about to explain his plan for the next half year, but Chu Xianning had already stood up and walked towards the door.

“Master, where are you going?”

“To catch Granny Jiuyou before she’s gone too far and have her check your head again.”

……

Jiang Huai called out several times but couldn’t make Chu Xianning come back.

He could only helplessly look at the ceiling, pondering how to find a reasonable excuse to appease his master and keep her from worrying about his injuries, but he couldn’t reveal his system to others.

Well, as a transmigrator, having a system was a reasonable thing.

But his system was not very proper.

Because his system was called 【Evil Accumulation System】, which issued tasks based on the evil thoughts in his subconscious mind. Completing tasks would earn him points and item rewards, which could be exchanged for many items in the shop.

But the tasks issued by the system were never serious.

For example, the recent task: 【Master Chu Xianning has long regarded you as part of her family through the years of companionship. Now, because you followed the path of cultivation she taught you, you have destroyed your cultivation by slaying evil cultivators, ruining your bright future, and from now on, you will be laughed at and scorned like a dog. As your master, she feels guilty, and Granny Jiuyou’s prescription happens to require your Master’s body. This is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of your Master’s guilt! Seize the moment when Master’s temperament changes after drinking, get her drunk, and then take her down!】

【To cultivate, you must first sleep with your Master.】

【Task Reward: Advanced experience scroll*10, Ice Series Sword Tempering Stone*1, Points* 10 million】

Yes, this broken system was very improper.

From a young age, Jiang Huai had received many such tasks from the system. The system had no ability to communicate with him, purely a heartless task issuer. The system’s manual stated that all tasks were generated based on his deepest desires.

Ha, I, Jiang Huai, am clearly a decent person!

Those previous tasks like【Taking advantage of being young to peek at Master bathing without getting hit】,【Massaging Master after sword practice when she’s tired】,【Washing Master’s feet to show filial piety】were not what he wanted!

This dog system was just making things up! Slandering the image of him, Jiang Huai, as a gentleman!

But the rewards were indeed tempting.

Jiang Huai began to browse through his system’s inventory, looking at the used-up experience scrolls. He was a bit troubled; on the day he went to the evil cultivator’s altar, he had planned for the worst to face two Nascent Soul late-stage evil cultivators, which he could barely handle. But that day, there was also a Divine Transformation cultivator who was there to guide his Nascent Soul late-stage son in the formation.

Jiang Huai had used up all the low-grade experience scrolls he had saved up from his Master over the years to kill that Divine Transformation cultivator, ultimately burning him to ashes with a fire.

But now, he was indeed ruined.

The system shop did have a specific pill for his situation, which could repair his shattered sea of qi and even give him a new Ancient Sacred Body, but it required fifty million points.

The item description hyped up the Ancient Sacred Body, but Jiang Huai only wanted the effect of repairing the sea of qi. Unfortunately, they didn’t sell it separately, just a ruthless swindler.

Jiang Huai sighed deeply.

With the system in hand, he wasn’t worried at all about his cultivation being destroyed. If he had to, he could accumulate fifty million points by showing more ‘filial piety’ to his Master. As long as he wasn’t killed by his Master in the process, he could save up enough soon. But seeing Master’s recent cold demeanor, Jiang Huai felt somewhat guilty.

He knew Master felt guilty. She must think that because she had taught him that way, he had made such a choice, and now that he had ended up like this, she was partly responsible.

But even without Master’s teachings, Jiang Huai would have done the same.

As a transmigrator with a righteous background, a good young man who had been brainwashed by superhero movies since childhood, instilled with the idea that great power comes with great responsibility, and who happened to have a sword in hand, how could he ignore cries for help?

Recently, Master had been in a bad mood, and he definitely couldn’t casually fleece her. His engagement will be broken off soon, so the system will probably issue a new prank task.

Jiang Huai had already prepared the lines “Thirty years in the west of the river, thirty years in the east of the river, do not look down on the young for being poor!”

After transmigrating for so many years, he had always been the gentle and amiable Eldest Senior Brother, never having the opportunity to pretend to be a pig to eat a tiger or show off in front of others.

Back in the day, when he was huddled in bed with his phone, watching a character shout out this line, his blood boiled.

Now the opportunity was right in front of him. Jiang Huai, you must seize it firmly!