The First Legendary Demonic Scholar
Chapter 61: Water Troubles
Shen Yuan stood on the edge of the broken cliff where only the front wall of his house remained.
When he opened the door of his former house, all he could see was the sense of the same dense sea of clouds surrounding the deadly forest and a sea of smaller mountains peeking out of the clouds.
"I still cannot imagine just how I survived the fall." Shen Yuan took in the scene before him with little to no emotion on his face.
Then he decided it was time he checked out the new place.
Creak...
The inside of the hut looked no different from the one he was living in before. But there were some personal items of the old owner of the building.
’Quite a bit personal.’ Seeing underwear lying on the bed with suspicious stains right beside a severed arm, Shen Yuan could not stop his eyes from twitching.
"Oh, no one took the task of cleaning the house. So you are on your own." Shen Yuan recalled the words of the supervisor and the sly look he shot his way before he gave him the keys.
"That bastard did it on purpose." Shen Yuan stared at the bloody wall and the items lying all around the room and could not help but wonder if he should kill the Overseer Jiang for making him do all this meaningless work.
"Whatever. I should clean up. I have no other place after all." Shen Yuan brought out cleaning equipment from behind the house, which came along with the place.
There was an extra cleaning robe in his inventory, which he had bought specifically to wear when he was cleaning his house.
Strapping a white cloth on his face and changing into dark robes Shen Yuan picked up the wild boar bristle brush and a cleaning bucket.
...
"At least now it looks a bit habitable." Shen Yuan wiped nonexistent sweat from his face as he removed the dirty clothes from his body.
He had thrown everything that should not have belonged in the room.
Sadly, even the severed arm.
The whole place was now so clean that you could see it practically shining.
He had thrown away all the sheets and even the bed down the cliff. Shen Yuan could never bring himself to use something others have used.
If he did, he would keep seeing the image of the first time he saw the bed in his mind.
"There are only 5 days left before I become a senior servant; I can spend them on the ground. Besides this way, I have more room space." Even though it was the only way to save his life, Shen Yuan was not eager to become a senior servant.
’A senior servants were just that. A servant.’ From his memories, Shen Yuan knew what would happen to him. They were bound to be assigned to inner disciples.
Each inner disciple gets one servant, and they can do whatever they want with them.
All this time, they had been trained on how to serve their ’masters.’ Even though the classes only took place at the start of the year when he had yet to take over this body, he still had the memories, which made it easier for him to not make a fool of himself.
’Things I have to do to survive.’
Shen Yuan walked to the middle of the room, which only needed him to take two steps. With slight movements of his fingers he brought out a huge wooden bathtub that looked a lot like the one in Candy’s bathroom.
In fact it was the same one.
She told him, ever since he used it for tempering his body, she could not bring herself to take a bath in it, so she allowed him to have it.
He carried it out of the market into the forest before storing it in his inventory. He did not want to carry it around, but he also did not want otters to see him use the powers of the system.
"Now all that’s left is filling it with water." Unlike the brothel. There was no supply of water for the servants. "I wonder if I can store water in the inventory too."
Shen Yuan decided to test his theory after he had gotten in some training.
It did not take long before he was back inside the forest. He picked up the two heaviest boulders he could carry on his back and attached them to some ropes and a wooden log, making it a perfect barbell.
Then he climbed on top of a tree and started doing some squats with weight. Following up with chest press and bicep curls.
He trained every part of the body until he could feel it trembling from the sheer stress.
Once finished, he stored the barbell away and walked to the lake.
But unfortunately, there were some other servants who were using the lake.
A man and a woman.
The two servants were doing more than just taking a bath. They could not even keep their hands off of each other.
"Yeah, I am never using that water to take a bath." Shen Yuan recalled all those times he had taken a bath in the lake and even drank from it just because it looked clear.
Without waiting for another second, he bolted from the place and ran towards the only place he knew where he could find clear water.
There was not just one lake in the forest; there were a few more. Some were deep inside the forest.
But there was a problem.
The deeper you go inside the forest, the more powerful beasts you encounter.
Shen Yuan knew this because he had followed an unranked beast to find its pack, but unfortunately he found none. It seems the beast was alone, fending off the world by itself, just like him.
But he did find it, drinking water from a clear, running river. The river came from somewhere from a higher hill, but he did not have the daring personality to follow it to the source.
"I wonder if I will encounter him today?" Shen Yuan jumped from one tree to another, moving like some ninja without even leaving a physical trace of his presence.
Woosh!