Junior sister, I really need to control you

Li Yinsheng's eyes widened even more than hers, and without thinking, he swung his hand and smacked her hard on the head.

"Do you want to die? You dare to alter cultivation techniques so casually!"

"Woo!" With an echo like the striking of a wooden fish, Mu Xiaoyu squatted down, clutching her head.

"All the techniques have been carefully improved by countless predecessors. Changing even a single word could lead to qi deviation. Do you still dare to practice less of a part?"

Li Yinsheng's face darkened: "Looks like I'll really have to keep a close eye on you from now on!"

"Waaah..." Mu Xiaoyu squatted on the ground, looking up at Li Yinsheng, "Senior brother, I'll practice as usual, but can I rest today?"

"This is your second day up the mountain." Li Yinsheng looked down, his face expressionless.

"But...I practiced for four hours yesterday, constantly practicing stances, boxing, and breathing exercises. I'm so tired..."

Mu Xiaoyu looked aggrieved, her eyes moist, as if she might cry at any moment.

"I already said, the Qingxuan True Scripture doesn't overdraw your body; the fatigue from practicing can be relieved with a good night's sleep..."

Halfway through his sentence, Li Yinsheng suddenly stopped, looking at the tears in Mu Xiaoyu's eyes, and then at the empty golden characters in the scroll.

After he completed the task and received the reward last night, the cheat system returned to normal, and there are no new tasks at the moment.

"Alright, consider it a reward for you entering the Pure Profound Scripture in less than half a day. I'll give you a day off to rest well," Li Yinsheng said.

Anyway, the golden finger doesn't have any tasks right now, and the girl looks to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. She probably used to live a life of luxury, and suddenly leaving her parents to cultivate hardship on the mountain, she needs some time to adjust.

The tears in Mu Xiaoyu's eyes instantly turned into joyful, colorful light.

"Besides, you are currently in the stage of laying the foundation, so there is really no need to rush. Anyway, you have only just entered the field, and there is no way you will be able to catch up with the Shaoyang Changdao examination next year."

Li Yinsheng casually suggested, "Why not focus on cultivation first, and then participate in the Shaoyang Ceremony four years from now, once you've reached the second or even third level..."

The familiar, resounding sound of bells and drums echoed in Li Yinsheng's ears, the scroll unfolded before his eyes, and new golden characters appeared.

[Cultivation Ambition: Shaoyang Dao Examination - Now that the Lord of the Grotto-Heaven has joined the sect, he should distinguish himself in the Shaoyang Dao Examination, which tests the potential of disciples, and gain the sect's attention and cultivation!]

Lord of the Grotto Heaven, please make every effort to obtain a high-level evaluation in the Shaoyang Field Dao Examination.

Once the master of the grotto-heaven is over twenty years old or has achieved a first-class rating in the Shaoyang field Dao examination, this cultivation journey will begin the Zhengyang field Dao examination phase.

Each time the Lord of the Cave Heaven receives an evaluation, a lower-level evaluation reward will be issued at the same time, but each reward can only be claimed once and cannot be claimed repeatedly.

Cultivation Rewards:

He passed the Shaoyang Field Examination and received a Grade E evaluation, for which he was awarded one year of cultivation.

He passed the Shaoyang Field Examination and received a Grade D rating, for which he was rewarded with ten years of cultivation.

He passed the Shaoyang Field Examination and received a Grade C rating, for which he was awarded twenty years of cultivation.

He passed the Shaoyang Temple Dao Examination and received a Grade B rating, for which he was awarded fifty years of cultivation.

[Those who pass the Shaoyang Temple Examination and achieve a first-class rating will be rewarded with a century of cultivation.]

Looking at the new task that appeared before him, Li Yinsheng was surprised, silent, and then seemed to be deep in thought.

"Really? Can I really rest today?" Mu Xiaoyu cheered and jumped up from the ground.

"Of course it's fake!" Li Yinsheng's expression turned serious. "Learning the Dao is like guarding a forbidden city; one must be wary of thieves by day and cautious at night! You want to rest after only one day of practice?"

"You must know that spiritual practice is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you fall behind! Fishing for three days and drying nets for two is already incredibly lazy; do you really expect to fish one day and dry nets the next?"

"What rest? Come on, junior sister, let's go cultivate! The early bird catches the worm, and you've already missed morning practice, so you have to work twice as hard to make up for it!"

Mu Xiaoyu was stunned at first, seemingly unable to immediately react to Li Yinsheng's words.

A few breaths later, her delicate face flushed red at a visible speed, and a crystalline glow appeared at the corners of her eyes.

Chapter 5 New Mission: Wealth for Cultivation

At noon, in the open space in front of the Xuanzhen Temple.

Mu Xiaoyu was sweating profusely.

Her hemp robe was almost completely soaked with sweat, and strands of hair hanging down from her forehead and temples clung messily to her cheeks and forehead. Even the ground was covered with traces of sweat.

Li Yinsheng stood to the side, holding a thin bamboo stick upside down in his hand.

Whenever Mu Xiaoyu made a slightly distorted movement, or her breathing became slightly off, he would immediately use a bamboo stick to press on her acupoints or joints to help her adjust her movements or regulate her breathing.

The next Shaoyang Dao Examination will be held at the end of next year.

Li Yinsheng didn't expect Mu Xiaoyu to achieve any good results in the next Shaoyang Dao Examination.

The Shaoyang Dao Examination is a competition between young disciples of the Daoist temple and young disciples of the higher lineages. Even when he had twenty years of cultivation, he was only at the C-level. How much more so for his junior sister who had just entered the sect yesterday.

But... his cultivation level is different now.

Although he had cultivated for fifty years and reached the eighth level of the Qingxuan True Scripture, he was not considered particularly powerful among the many Taoist temples, and he had only received the reward once.

If he can receive more rewards in the future and his cultivation level increases, even reaching the True Person realm of over a hundred years, he might be able to train his junior sister more quickly.

Even if the next Shaoyang Dao Examination is too close, given her age, she can still participate in the Shaoyang Dao Examination two years from now, which will be just the right time before she is too old.

If you achieve a Grade C rating, you'll receive a reward of thirty years of cultivation. If you achieve Grade B, the reward will skyrocket to eighty years.

If it can reach Grade A...

Li Yinsheng shook his head, dismissing the somewhat absurd idea.

No matter how well I can train Junior Sister Mu in the future, I need to start working hard now!

The Shaoyang Dao Examination is only open to disciples under the age of twenty. My junior sister is already fifteen this year, so we must make the most of every second!

Mu Xiaoyu, who was practicing her boxing and breathing exercises, had no idea what Li Yinsheng was thinking. She only felt that every part of her body was sore and aching.

Although with practice, a warm current, about the thickness of a chopstick, flows through the body, providing some relief to the affected areas, it's only a drop in the ocean, and the body still aches and pains more and more.

But she really didn't dare to stop.

Although this handsome senior brother never spoke in a fierce tone or with a fierce expression, what he said was truly terrifying—fifty lashes with a rattan cane!

And now he's holding a thin bamboo stick in his hand. Hitting someone with a bamboo stick... it should hurt just as much as hitting someone with a rattan cane, right?

The more Mu Xiaoyu thought about it, the more wronged she felt.

She never wanted to cultivate immortality, but her parents kept saying strange things like, "We can only feel at ease once you're on the mountain, and we can go all out," and they coaxed her up here.

When she came, her parents lied to her, saying that the mountain was full of delicacies such as fresh bamboo shoots and mushrooms, as well as delicious wild game. They also said that the food eaten by immortals was incomparable to that in the royal palace. Only then did she reluctantly agree to go up the mountain.

However, to be fair, the pickled bamboo shoots last night were indeed quite delicious.

The bamboo shoots are fresh, crisp, tender, and fragrant upon first bite, with a subtle sweetness. After chewing a few more times, the crisp and tender bamboo shoots seem to melt in your mouth...

And the wild honey is even clearer and brighter than the oil at home. As soon as you open the jar, more than a dozen kinds of floral fragrances rush into your nose, even more fragrant than the garden at home when it is in full bloom.

She only ate a little last night, and her mouth felt as sweet as if she had been drinking spring water all night long; the floral fragrance on the tip of her nose seemed to linger until morning...

But it's still not worth it! And even if it's delicious, it's just pickled bamboo shoots and wild honey! We have all sorts of delicious food at home!

"Waaaaah, Daddy, Mommy, where are you? I want to go home! I want to go home so badly!" Mu Xiaoyu cried out in her heart.

Thinking of going home, she couldn't hold back any longer. She mustered her courage, stopped punching and breathing exercises, and turned to look at Li Yinsheng.

So what if I get beaten? It hurts, and so does practicing martial arts! What if I get beaten up and expelled from the temple? Then I can go home!

When she was a child, her family hired a female tutor to teach her to read, and that's how she drove the tutor away.

If she couldn't recite her lessons well, her hands would be slapped. But even after being slapped, she still wouldn't recite. In the end, the teacher got so angry that he went to say goodbye to her parents.

Then she realized that the teacher had gone easy on her when he hit her hand with the ruler; her parents' hands hurt much more than the teacher's!

"Hmm? Why did you suddenly stop, Junior Sister?" Li Yinsheng looked at Mu Xiaoyu and asked with some confusion.

Mu Xiaoyu caught her breath for a couple of moments, then put her hands on her hips, giving him a look of grim determination: "Senior brother! I really can't practice anymore! Hit me if you want!"

After saying this, Mu Xiaoyu stretched out her left hand, her palm clenched, waiting for the bamboo stick to fall on her.

She was still quite uneasy. Although she had been beaten before, the teachers were all women who weren't very strong, so the beatings on her hands didn't hurt much.

Her father was strong, but when she cried a couple of times, he would hit her hand less hard.

Senior brother is a cultivator, so his beatings must hurt more than Daddy's, right? Mu Xiaoyu held her breath, closed her eyes tightly, and turned her face away.

The hard bamboo stick rested gently on her palm.

Mu Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, her eyelashes trembling as she opened her eyes and looked at Li Yinsheng.

"Junior sister, what are you saying? You haven't violated any of the temple's rules, why would I hit you?" Li Yinsheng smiled gently at her.

"Junior sister must be tired from practicing, right? Just tell me directly, there's no need to hold it in. Cultivation is about balance, so take a break when you're tired."

Looking at that handsome, refined face bathed in sunlight, smiling warmly at her, Mu Xiaoyu couldn't help but slow her breathing.

It turns out that Senior Brother Li is actually a good person. I was afraid to tell him that I was tired before, so he made me keep practicing...

Oh right, I sneaked a bite last night, but my senior didn't punish me. So, he's clearly a really good person; I misunderstood him.

Thinking about it carefully, her senior brother was the most handsome person she had ever seen in her life. Someone so handsome couldn't possibly be a bad person, right?

The thought grew in her mind, and Li Yinsheng appeared even more handsome in Mu Xiaoyu's eyes...

Li Yinsheng looked down at his junior sister, who was only up to his chest, with a warm smile on his face.

"Junior sister, go rest for half a cup of tea, drink some water, take a nourishing pill, and come back to continue practicing."

Half a cup? Tea?

Mu Xiaoyu stared wide-eyed at Li Yinsheng—what a despicable and wicked senior brother!

"Senior brother, can we rest a little longer?" Mu Xiaoyu tried to struggle.

"Then let's add a cup of tea," Li Yinsheng said.

"A little longer?" Mu Xiaoyu pressed her advantage.

"After you've rested well, practice for another two hours, then you can rest for half a cup of tea," Li Yinsheng suggested.

"Senior brother, what should I do if I want to cry?" Mu Xiaoyu asked, sniffling.

“Your break timer has already started,” Li Yinsheng said calmly. “Crying also counts as time.”

……

After half a cup of tea.