Under One Person: Did Zuo Ruotong and I switch bodies?

At the same time.

Led by the third disciple, nine-year-old Li Muxuan bid farewell to his father and arrived at the lower courtyard. As soon as he entered, he saw a young boy with gray hair chopping wood.

After some conversation, he learned that his name was Lu Jin, the young master of the Lu family, one of the four great families of extraordinary people. He then cupped his hands in greeting and said, "Lu Jin, from now on I will have to call you senior brother."

Lu Jin quickly waved his hand.

"No, no, no, we haven't even started yet, so we can't be called fellow disciples. You're a few years older than me, so I should call you Brother Li."

"Alright, Brother Lu!"

It was just a polite remark, so Li Muxuan didn't insist. Instead, he asked, "Brother Lu, I'm new here and don't know anything about the rules. Please tell me what the rules are, and if there's anything I need to do... please let me know!"

First, we need to understand the situation here.

That was his real purpose.

"Ah, there's nothing special about the rules. Here, we just do chores like cleaning and washing every day, and prepare firewood and water for the mountain to use," Lu Jin said, pointing to a large water vat beside him.

"This...is it all going to be done by the two of us?"

Looking at the fifteen water vats, each almost as tall as himself, Li Muxuan was taken aback, then realized, "Hey, here comes the test!"

"No, there's one more."

As soon as Lu Jin finished speaking, the courtyard gate was pushed open, and a sturdy young man walked in carrying a wooden bucket that reached his waist and was full of water. He was panting heavily as he moved to the water vat and poured the water in.

"Hahaha……"

While he was temporarily exhausted and catching his breath against the water tank, Lu Jin introduced, "This is Brother Liu Deshui. Actually, I only did a little of the work here; most of it was done by Brother Liu."

After a brief exchange.

The three of them then became acquainted.

Li Muxuan didn't waste any more words and got to work with everyone until the sun had completely set. Only then did the senior brothers from the sect bring dinner and they sat down to rest.

"call--"

"Aren't you two tired? Take a break and have some food first."

Seeing that Lu Jin and Liu Deshui had put down the bucket and started chopping wood again, he quickly called out to them. But the two of them looked at him, then at their senior brother standing at the door, and swallowed hard before getting back to work.

"..."

Seeing the two of them like this, Li Muxuan said nothing more, but did not help them either, and started eating his meal by himself.

After finishing his meal, he rested for a while until he regained his strength before getting up again. He then worked with the two of them to finish the remaining tasks and reheated their food.

After the two finished eating.

They went inside together and started chatting.

  

"Brother Li, what were you thinking? Your senior brothers are still here, and you're just sitting there resting and eating..." Liu Deshui asked, puzzled. "Aren't you afraid the sect leader will think you're lazy and won't accept you anymore?"

Li Muxuan laughed, "Haha, Brother Liu, what are you saying? When you're tired, rest; when you're hungry, eat. Isn't that the most proper thing to do? Do you think you can just sneak food when the masters aren't around?"

At the same time, a hint of contempt arose in his heart: "Fool, in this lower courtyard, no matter if anyone is watching openly or not, the Left Gate Master probably knows everything we say and do. From today onwards, there can be no pretense in our words and actions."

Through his previous conversations with the two, he roughly understood that the Sanyi Sect had ordered them to fetch water and chop wood as soon as they arrived, but never specified how much would be enough. No matter how much they produced, someone on the mountain would take it all away...

This must be a test!

Over the years, Li Muxuan had come into contact with many practitioners and knew that the most important thing in cultivation was not hard work. Therefore, in his view, the answer to this test was definitely not what Liu Deshui thought. The Sanyi Sect did not want hard labor, but rather people with wisdom and enlightenment.

"Brother Liu, I'd like to ask you, would you like to become a disciple of the Three Ones?"

"Of course I want to! I dream about it!"

"Then you should learn from Xiao Lu. Look at him, he only chops a few bundles of firewood a day, but fills a whole vat with water..." Li Muxuan looked at Lu Jin, "Xiao Lu, why are you like this?"

Lu Jin said matter-of-factly, "I can only chop those few bundles and pick those vats. I'll just do my best. Overexertion will hurt my health."

"Hahaha! Brother Liu, listen to this! You need to take care of yourself. I'm really afraid you'll work yourself to death one day!"

But Liu Deshui frowned: "Xiao Lu is physically weak and cannot be forced. What I excel at is strength and perseverance. In this test, there can be no cheating or trickery... uh."

As soon as he said that, he realized he had misspoke and quickly explained, "I didn't mean you two were being cunning... it's just that I myself..."

"It's alright!"

Li Muxuan waved his hand: "Brother Liu, it's good that you've thought it through. It's a great fate that the three of us are going through this trial together. I sincerely hope that the three of us can all enter the sect in the future and become true fellow disciples!"

The two of them immediately smiled.

"Well said, Brother Li!"

"Yes! Definitely!"

The three chatted for a while longer, and when fatigue set in, Li Muxuan casually asked, "By the way, you two, you said that no rules have ever been set for you on the mountain since you came here, right?"

The two nodded.

"yes."

"really……"

Now that we know this is a test, there must be "questions" or "standards." The most urgent task right now is to figure out the specifics in order to get a "high score"...

Li Muxuan began to think.

"On the surface, the challenge here is chopping wood and carrying water, but upon closer inspection, all the wood and water need to be transported up the mountain for our needs..."

"expense……"

"Oh, right!"

His eyes lit up.

……

……

Early the next morning.

In the sect leader's room, Ming Chen slowly opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.

After half a day of cultivation, he had gradually mastered the essentials of refining the void into spirit. Even without relying on the Qi of the second level of reverse birth and the Heavenly Eye, he could enter a state of deep meditation in the void without being disturbed.

"That means you've gotten the basics down!"

As his spiritual essence improved, his ability to perform the Reverse Life technique with the body of the Left Gate Master became more stable and lasted longer. Although he could still only maintain the surface, the risk of exposure was reduced.

"We're safe for now."

Then, as if remembering something, he used his Reverse Regeneration technique to transform into a younger version of himself, pushed open the door, and summoned Chengzhen: "How did that child who entered the lower courtyard yesterday perform?"

Chengzhen respectfully replied, "I do what I'm supposed to do, eat what I'm supposed to eat, and rest when I'm supposed to rest. I'm not at all constrained and am more relaxed than the Lu family's children."

"Um……"

"Alright, you can go now."

Now that he had become the Left Sect Leader, he had to do what a sect leader was supposed to do. And when he thought that the great calamity that would befall the San Yi Sect in the future was caused by Li Muxuan, Ming Chen narrowed his eyes.

"We have to do something before they go astray..."

As he pondered this, he wandered around the gate, ostensibly as the sect leader on an inspection tour, but in reality, he was familiarizing himself with the surroundings...

And when he reached the front door.

咣 咣 咣!

Suddenly, there was a knock on the mountain gate.