Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

Wu Wangshu wore a friendly smile, trying his best to show his handsome, dashing, charming, and well-mannered demeanor: "Junior Sister, I spilled your water, it's all my fault, let me fetch you some more water."

He snatched the basin from Meng Ting's hands, darted out, and returned shortly with a full basin of water, which he carried to Li Gu's bedside for Meng Ting.

Li Gu finally understood: this guy was trying to curry favor with his junior sister.

Why have I never seen him hanging around my junior sister before?

Oh!

Before I became paralyzed, he felt he couldn't compete with me, so he didn't make a move. Now that he sees me in a vegetative state, lying in bed unable to move, he feels his chance has come.

Li Gu chuckled inwardly: If I were truly paralyzed and bedridden, for the sake of my junior sister's lifelong happiness, I should have a magnanimous heart and wish her a new relationship, instead of clinging to a hopeless good-for-nothing.

But I'm not paralyzed, so the situation is definitely completely different.

Just now, Li Gu was thinking that once he had cleared his tunnel, he would tell his junior sister and junior brother Fang the truth and help them escape from Flower Valley.

Then, a guy who was being ridiculous immediately popped up!

Li Gu thought to himself: How can I stop this? I'm pretending to be paralyzed, so it's inconvenient for me to take action.

This is really a headache.

You can't just sneak into Wu Wangshu's room in the middle of the night and kill him, can you?

He was just pursuing a girl, and although he used a little trick like hitting her with a basin of water, if that were a death sentence, then half the men in the world would be gone.

Li Gu was in a real bind.

Suddenly, he noticed that his junior sister's expression had changed, becoming quite serious. She spoke in a very polite but distant tone, "Senior Brother Wu! I think I understand what you're doing! I'm sorry! Even if Senior Brother Li is like this now, I won't change my mind. Please don't do this again."

Huh? Li Gu was greatly surprised: Junior Sister is amazing, she actually saw through his trickery. Does she also have a system that can see through his lies?

This is something Li Gu doesn't understand!

Women, especially beautiful women, encounter many similar situations from a young age. There are always men around them who use various means to approach them and create various opportunities. Therefore, beautiful women develop the ability to recognize men's tricks from a young age.

Her sensitivity in this regard is a level of skill that men could never imagine.

If the man who uses tricks happens to be someone she likes, she will pretend not to see through him, giving the man a chance, and herself a chance, half-heartedly going along with it, thus achieving a happy marriage.

But if the man who uses tricks isn't someone she likes, then this is how things are handled.

The junior sister said with a serious expression, "Senior Brother Wu, please stop pretending to bump into me by accident."

Wu Wangshu's smile froze...

The large group of junior brothers and sisters surrounding the second senior brother's bed all turned to look at him.

The room suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Wu Wangshu awkwardly glanced around, his gaze finally settling on his junior sister's face. With great difficulty, he managed a strained smile: "I understand... I understand..."

The junior brothers and sisters watching nearby, even Li Gu who wasn't very good at expressing emotions, heard a strange sound, like the sound of Wu Wangshe's overinflated pride shattering, cracking and snapping like background music echoing in the room.

Wu Wangshu seemed to intend to leave without a care in the world, but when he reached the door, his spoiled, arrogant nature, ingrained since childhood, finally broke free. He turned around abruptly, leaped to Li Gu's bedside, pointed at Li Gu's face, and roared, "You rejected me just for such a good-for-nothing? How am I inferior to a good-for-nothing? I, Wu Wangshu, was born into a prestigious family, I am well-educated and courteous, and I have handsome features. No matter how you look at me, I am a million times better than a good-for-nothing. Meng Ting, don't push your luck."

Everyone: "..."

An eerie silence fell over the room once again. Several seconds later, no one expected that Wu Wangshu, who seemed so refined and gentle, would say such harsh words.

Li Gu was alright, his expression calm, because he wasn't a good-for-nothing, and lies couldn't hurt people.

But the truth was a sharp knife; the eyes of the second senior brother and senior brother Zheng had clearly changed.

The group of junior brothers and sisters surrounding the second senior brother didn't really care about him and couldn't understand his gaze.

But Senior Sister Zhang, sitting beside Senior Brother Zheng's bed, slowly spoke up: "If you say the word 'trash' again, I'll risk being punished by Master to break all your meridians. Do you want to bet on whether I dare to do it?"

Wu Wangshu's face instantly turned even more ashen than pig's liver...

He dares not gamble!

Everyone knows Zhang Shijie's temper. In her eyes, Zheng Shixiong is everything. She is willing to give up her apprenticeship, which can be said to be giving up her life, to stay here and take care of him for the rest of her life. No one dares to question what she would do for Zheng Shixiong.

With a dark expression, Wu Wangshu walked out the door and disappeared into the flower bushes.

The junior sister whispered, "Thank you!"

"Why thank me?" Senior Sister Zhang said calmly, "I was speaking up for Senior Brother Zheng, not for Li Gu."

The junior sister hummed in agreement, silently lowered her head, wrung out a cloth from the basin, and began to wipe Li Gu's face. As she wiped, two clear tears suddenly streamed down her face, dripping onto Li Gu's cheek. She whispered in a voice barely above a whisper, "Senior Brother Li, please get better soon... Please get better... Before this happened, someone like Senior Brother Wu never appeared..."

Li Gu felt a little sorry for her.

I'm sorry, I'm not better yet!

In order for us to leave this hellhole alive, I need to pretend to be paralyzed for a while.

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A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Gu would sleep during the day, or pretend to sleep with his eyes closed to cultivate the [Hidden Flower Heart Method]. At night, when it was quiet and still, he would sneak out of his lonely house, climb to the top of the mountain, and dig a tunnel.

On rainy nights, visibility is poor, making it difficult to be discovered when sneaking up the mountain. So he would take off his clothes and sneak up the mountain naked to work.

On rainless nights, when visibility is too high, he has to be very careful when he sneaks out of the lonely house to avoid being discovered by his junior brothers and sisters who are sleepless and looking at the moon from the windowsill.

But rainless nights also have their advantages: you can move faster, you don't need to take off your clothes to avoid getting wet, and you don't need to dry your body or wait for your hair to dry when you get back, giving you an extra half hour to dig tunnels.

Even though he worked for more than two hours every night, the progress of the tunnel was still slow.

First, he dared not place the entrance to his tunnel too close to the defensive formation, fearing he might misjudge the distance and accidentally bump into it, ending up dead. Second, he dared not dig the tunnel too short either, for who knows how thick the invisible wall of the defensive formation was? If he emerged from the ground before the tunnel even passed through the formation, he would be instantly killed.

Stay calm, don't rush, and prioritize safety.

Dig up a small section every day!

Time is a cultivator's friend.