I don't want to be trained by my senior sister!

After finishing the incredibly delicious, super-sized, milky, fragrant steamed bun, Fang Xuan closed his eyes and began refining it.

A warm current rose from the dantian and slowly flowed through the limbs and bones.

As spiritual power increases, the laws resonate, and one's aura rises.

It feels like I'm just one thin layer away from becoming a Golden Immortal.

Time passed slowly, and the aura grew stronger.

Then... it stopped.

Fang Xuan opened his eyes and froze.

...Hmm? Why is it still a little short?

He looked inward at his dantian and found that his cultivation level was stuck at the peak of the ninth level of True Immortal, just one step away from becoming a Golden Immortal.

That line was as thin as paper, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break through it.

He frowned, pondering what was going on.

Just then...

A system notification sounded.

Fang Xuan's spirits lifted. A mission had arrived?

Perfect timing! I'm just a little short of breaking through; maybe the mission reward can make up for it...

Hmm...? So...?

It's not like the system is deliberately holding back his cultivation level, just waiting for him to complete the task now.

Open the system panel.

[Task Reward: Instantly advance your cultivation to Golden Immortal (no bottleneck)]

Fang Xuan was stunned after reading it.

System, did you use the wrong word?

He looked at it carefully three more times, and it was correct.

But... wasn't he always the one being assigned to a position? How did he suddenly become the master?

This is to inform you...

Fang Xuan: "..."

The system finally detected it?

wrong......

He suddenly became alert.

Although that's what the mission says, on the main panel, the word "Master" is still clearly marked on the line for Senior Sister.

His panel still displays...

Something's fishy...

Is this system up to something?

This way, it can use the least amount of reward to greatly increase the training value of both of them.

A win-win situation?

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

No, I can't accept that.

I almost forgot how long I'd been being called "master" by the system...

This system is unreliable; he needs to be careful.

He was preparing to refuse.

[Host hesitation detected, reward increased!]

[New Reward: Comprehension of the Law of Time +20%]

Just a second later, [Quest accepted...]

[Received successfully!]

Fang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

I was almost too slow, but thankfully I caught it...

This system is so unreliable, but luckily he has top-notch strategic thinking.

Ahem, but this is to comprehend the laws of time and break through to the Golden Immortal realm more quickly, since the cultivation foundation provided by the system is also more stable.

He wasn't planning on doing anything... right?

But... I'm sorry, senior sister.

This is all for their future happiness...

Fang Xuan stood up and used his right hand to open up space.

Then he stepped inside.

.......

In the space.

Ning Qian was sitting cross-legged on a stone platform, closing her eyes to rest.

The surrounding area was her own little nest.

A soft couch, a few lamps, and a small tea table with tea set on it.

It's okay if there's no big bed.

They haven't used beds for a long time.

Sensing the spatial fluctuations, Ning Qian opened her eyes.

Seeing Fang Xuan enter, her eyes lit up slightly. Her junior brother had come so early; wasn't he being a little too hasty...?

But the next second, she froze.

Because my junior brother's expression... something's not right...

That expression... she'd seen it before.

He always had this expression on his face whenever he tried to "punish" her using the laws of lust.

Ning Qian's heart tightened immediately. What's wrong with her junior brother?

"Do you know you were wrong?" Fang Xuan asked directly, getting to the point.

"Huh?" Ning Qian was a little confused.

She...she didn't do anything wrong, did she?

Could it be... could it be that my junior brother discovered that I lied to him in that time-reversed space?

No, no, my junior brother shouldn't care about amnesia...

That was... the time before when she would trick her junior brother into dual cultivation every day and exploit him?

Or... is it that she has never told him the secret of her many reincarnations?

The more she thought about it, the more guilty she felt.

Fang Xuan walked up to her and stopped.

He looked down at her without saying a word, but his eyes held a meaningful look.

She bit her lower lip and lowered her head: "Junior brother, I...I was wrong."

Fang Xuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Um......?

Senior sister admitted her mistake? But he hasn't even said anything yet...

He coughed lightly and decided to ignore it.

"What's wrong?"

Ning Qian lowered her head even further: "Everything is wrong..."

Fang Xuan: "..."

Could it be that my senior sister is hiding something from him?

His guilty conscience is so obvious.