Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

Li Gu stopped moving forward; he wouldn't be foolish enough to test whether his cultivation level was enough to break through the defensive formation.

Anyone with a brain can figure it out; it's impossible to crack!

When Hua Qianfang set up this defensive formation, he must have designed it to be so strong that "no cultivator below the seventh level of Qi Refining could break it." If you were to rashly attempt to attack, the defensive formation would likely fluctuate, and given Hua Qianfang's flying speed on his sword, he would arrive in the blink of an eye.

Li Gu observed the terrain, then silently found a place near the defensive formation, where the mountain was relatively solid and the soil layer looked very thick, and dug down into the ground.

Without any tools, he had to dig with his hands. Fortunately, he was no longer an ordinary person, but a cultivator with the sixth level of Qi Refining. When he channeled his energy into his palms, they were like iron shovels, so digging the soil was not a big problem.

But clearly, Li Gu underestimated the difficulty of digging a tunnel.

In movies, villains can dig a huge pit that can bury a person in no time with a shovel, but that's obviously a lie. Li Gu tried digging for a while himself and found that it would take at least several hours to dig a pit big enough for a person to lie in.

Moreover, he was not just digging a pit, but a tunnel that could travel several meters underground, which required an even greater amount of work.

It took two full hours of digging to finally uncover a hollow that resembled the entrance to a tunnel.

Li Gu couldn't delay any longer, so he quickly stopped and looked at the soil he had dug out. He couldn't just pile this stuff on the ground like that; he had to scatter it and spread it out over a large area, covering it with some leaves so it wouldn't look out of place.

Even the initial tunnel entrance needed to be covered with a lot of branches and leaves.

It took quite a while to get it done.

Hurry down the mountain...

Just like when we came, we landed on the rocks with every leap, making sure not to leave any footprints in the mud. This would undoubtedly increase the time it took to move, but it was worth it for safety.

When Li Gu returned to the lonely house, it was still raining, but it was almost dawn.

Senior Brother Zheng was fast asleep, sleeping soundly; his sleep quality improved when he was in a good mood. But Second Senior Brother's eyes were wide open; it seemed this guy, who had just become paralyzed, was still unable to accept the huge change in his life and was going through sleepless nights.

When Li Gu entered, he glared at him, his eyes filled not only with resentment but also with a hint of confusion.

He seemed confused. What was Li Gu doing, sneaking out naked in the middle of the night and not returning until dawn?

Li Gu dried his hair and clothes, put on his own clothes, and patted his second senior brother's face lightly. He lowered his voice and said, "Starting today, new rules! If you glare at me, I'll feed you a cockroach. If you like spiders, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, earthworms, or caterpillars, I can satisfy your special fetishes."

The second senior brother quickly closed his eyes.

"That's a good boy/girl."

Li Gu then returned to bed, lay down, and felt that his hair wasn't dry enough. He was afraid it wouldn't dry naturally before dawn, so he sat up again, shook his head from side to side, and even took a fan and fanned his hair vigorously...

By the time he had completely dried his hair, the sky was already beginning to lighten, and there were already some sounds of people in the flower valley as the early-rising senior and junior disciples began their activities.

Li Gu quickly lay down...

Less than ten minutes after he lay down, a junior brother slipped in and stood in front of Zhou Shijie's bed: "Second Senior Brother, are you feeling better today? I folded a few paper cranes for you. Not many... because there's very little paper in Flower Valley, and Master's last batch is almost used up, so I can't fold more."

The junior apprentice placed several paper cranes on Zhou Shijie's bedside, sighed softly, and left.

Then came all sorts of junior brothers and sisters, taking turns to take care of the second senior brother, feeding him water and food, and cleaning him up. It was quite a lively scene.

What would happen if they found out what the second senior brother was really like?

Li Gu couldn't help but think like that.

With a creak, the door opened, and Senior Sister Zhang entered, carrying a basin of water. She sat down beside Senior Brother Zheng's bed, wiping his body as she whispered, "You seem to be in a good mood again today."

Senior Brother Zheng's eyes were smiling...

Senior Sister Zhang chuckled and whispered, "Sun Xing graduated yesterday. If you hadn't suffered a qi deviation and I hadn't stopped practicing, then we should both have graduated long ago and be traveling the martial world together right now. I wonder what nickname the martial world would give us—the Black Blade Duo, or the Azure Cloud Duo?"

Li Gu thought to himself: Luckily you haven't graduated yet! Every cloud has a silver lining.

At this moment, junior sister Meng Ting also arrived. As soon as she entered the room, she was startled by the large group of senior brothers and sisters surrounding her second senior brother. She had no choice but to hold onto the edge of the basin, stick to the wall, and carefully and quietly crawl over. Halfway through, a senior brother stepped back from the second senior brother's bed, and his back bumped right into the basin of water that junior sister was carrying.

The junior sister had only been a disciple for half a year, and her cultivation progress was extremely slow. She hadn't even mastered body training, and her hands were weak. When someone bumped into her, she couldn't hold the basin steady, and the water splashed up, soaking a large part of the senior brother's clothes with a splash.

Meng Ting was a polite and kind girl. Even though it was clearly the other person's fault, she spoke first, saying, "Senior Brother Wu, I'm sorry, I got your clothes wet."

Senior Brother Wu, whose full name is Wu Wangshu, joined the sect a year later than Li Gu. Li Gu should call him Junior Brother Wu.

This guy has fair skin and a refined manner; he's clearly a young master born into a wealthy family.

According to him, the Wu family was a prestigious clan, with many members serving as officials in the imperial court. However, they offended powerful figures and were all executed. Only Wu Wangshu escaped with his life. When he was being chased by imperial guards, Hua Qianfang saved his life and brought him back to Flower Valley.

Wu Wangshu, burdened with a deep-seated blood feud, naturally longed to leave his master and seek revenge. He studied diligently and practiced tirelessly. After three years of training, he had already reached the second level of the Qi Refining stage. Although he was a little slower than Li Gu, he was still considered a disciple with excellent aptitude and a relatively fast cultivation speed.

Upon hearing his junior sister's apology, Wu Wangshu quickly turned around, completely unconcerned about his soaked clothes on his back, and put on a humble smile: "Oh dear, junior sister was behind me? This is not your fault, it's all my fault. I didn't notice what was happening behind me. You don't need to apologize, I should be the one apologizing to you."

Li Gu nodded inwardly: Junior Brother Wu's words are quite good!

[Ding! The Cultivation World Anti-Fraud Handbook Lv.1 reminds you: Wu Wangshu's statement earlier, "It's because Senior Brother didn't notice what was happening behind him," was a lie. This matter is in the past, so the outcome cannot be changed.]

Li Gu thought to himself, "Huh?" Was that a lie? In other words, he already knew his junior sister was behind him, but he deliberately stepped back to bump the basin of water in her hand. It was a carefully planned "accident."