Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

The sky was turning a pale white, and a new day had begun.

Zhang Yi was the first to arrive at the isolated house. Ever since he learned that Li Gu and Zheng Xiaodong were secretly digging a tunnel to escape, Zhang Yi had been the first to arrive every day and the last to leave every night.

Before the arrival of his junior brothers and sisters who were taking care of Li Gu and Zhou Shijie, Zhang Yi would always walk around the lonely house twice.

She first went to the flowerbed behind the house, and gently, without leaving a trace, rearranged the shovel, restoring it to the way it was when she left last night.

He then stomped on a few small stones behind the house several times, covering them with his footprints.

Only then did he carry the basin of water into the house.

Gently, she sat down on the edge of Zheng Xiaodong's bed, took out a damp cloth, and began to wipe his body. As she wiped, she bent down and whispered in his ear, "You guys were so careless last night. The shovel was crooked, and the footprints were all over the place. What happened?"

Zheng Xiaodong replied in a hoarse, low voice, "We found a mass grave. My senior brothers and sisters, and Sun Xing, are all in the grave."

"Oh!" Zhang Yi simply uttered a faint "oh," her face showing no surprise, appearing quite indifferent, as if she hadn't heard anything at all. She merely shifted her position slightly, sitting down beside Li Gu's bed, and whispered in his ear, "My senior brother Zheng is careless; there must be something he missed. Junior brother Li, what else did you see?"

Li Gu sighed softly: "Senior Brother Sun's body wasn't dressed."

Zhang Yi immediately understood something, her brows furrowing slightly, clearly feeling somewhat uncomfortable. However, she quickly composed herself, gently flicked the hem of her clothes, and whispered, "I wonder which senior sister wore these clothes. I pray that if she is watching from heaven, she will bless me to escape this valley alive."

Her words made Li Gu feel much better.

Yup!

There's no need to feel uncomfortable wearing clothes taken from a dead person. The original owner of these clothes must have been on our side! If he has a spirit in heaven, he will only bless us, not harm us.

Just then, the door opened.

The junior sister, carrying a basin of water, hummed a song as she skipped in. She immediately spotted Zhang Yi sitting on the edge of Li Gu's bed and exclaimed in surprise, "Huh? Senior Sister Zhang, you're sitting in the wrong place! Your Senior Brother Zheng is over here..."

Zhang Yi turned his head, the sadness on his face long gone, replaced by a faint smile: "I know! I was just telling your junior brother Li about your embarrassing incident. I heard that you broke the water bucket yesterday when you were fetching water, which made junior brother Huang spend a long time weaving a new one."

"Huh?" Meng Ting exclaimed in alarm, "Senior Brother Li isn't mine! We're not married yet!"

"It's not that we don't have them, it's that we 'haven't' yet," Zhang Yi laughed. "Then we'll be one family sooner or later."

"Senior Sister Zhang is so annoying today." Meng Ting pushed past Zhang Yi and occupied the edge of Li Gu's bed, looking like she was determined to take it from him, her cheeks puffed out.

Seeing her like this, Li Gu, Zheng Xiaodong, and Zhang Yi all thought: the truth really shouldn't be told to junior sister too early; it's better to keep her in the dark.

If she knew where her clothes came from, would she refuse to wear clothes anymore, even if it meant death? Would she just stay in bed crying all day?

Li Gu couldn't help but imagine what his junior sister would look like if she took off her clothes and threw them away.

This realization struck me as a disaster!

One of my friends immediately showed signs of uncontrollably raising his head.

Even if the junior sister is naturally naive, she would still be suspicious if she saw that thing look up.

Li Gu was extremely anxious, but being anxious was useless; every man understands that.

Just then, Zhang Yi suddenly reached out and grabbed his junior sister's arm, dragging her outside: "Junior sister, come with me. I just saw a very beautiful bumblebee over at the flowerbed. I'll take you to see it."

The junior sister's expression changed drastically: "Huh? I don't like Bumblebee! No, I don't want to see it."

But her cultivation level was no match for Zhang Yi's, and she was dragged out in an instant. Zhang Yi's voice rang out from outside: "Don't worry, it's a cute chubby wasp, chubby and very well-behaved."

"How can a wasp be cute? It can't be cute even if it's fat! No, I don't want it! Ahhhhh! Senior Sister Zhang, what's wrong with you today? You're like a completely different person! No, don't put it in front of me! Ahhhhh... Help!"

The junior sister's call summoned a large group of disciples, who laughed and giggled nearby.

Li Gu breathed a sigh of relief: Phew, Senior Sister Zhang, well done.

He had just breathed a sigh of relief when it suddenly occurred to him, "Since Senior Sister Zhang helped me, doesn't that mean she saw through my lewd thoughts? Maybe I was looking like a lecherous fool just now!"

Oh no! This is a major social disaster! I can't stay on Earth anymore, let me go to Mars.

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That evening, after the people who had been taking care of Li Gu and Zhou Shijie left, Zhang Yi found an excuse to stay and continue the conversation that they hadn't finished that morning.

With plenty of time available today, Li Gu and Zheng Xiaodong decided to explore the area further.

Yesterday, I was so excited because I had just dug a tunnel that I went out to explore. But today I can't just wander around aimlessly. I need to do some directional exploration.

Li Gu was a transmigrator who, upon arriving in this world, fell into a deep mountain forest and was picked up by Hua Qianfang and taken to Flower Valley. He was completely clueless about the outside world: "Senior Brother Zheng, when Hua Qianfang brought you into Flower Valley, you were already able to remember things, right? Do you know which mountain we are in? What cities are around? Which direction should we explore in?"

Zheng Xiaodong tilted his head and thought for a moment: "I came in when I was sixteen. Zhang Yi was fourteen that year, and we could remember things. Hua Qianfang flew us into the mountains on his sword. That was my first time flying. I was so excited that I didn't remember anything."

Li Gu: "..."

Fortunately, Zhang Yi wasn't stupid: "Back then, Hua Qianfang found me and Senior Brother Zheng in Congzhou City. Then he flew straight south on his sword and arrived at Flower Valley in the time it takes to drink a cup of hot tea. I had already calculated that our current location should be in the center of the 'Bashan Mountains'. From here, it's 200 li to the east to Ghost City, 300 li to the west to Puzhou, and the shortest way out of the mountains is to the south, which only takes 100 li to reach Jiangzhou."

Li Gu frowned: "Jiangzhou is the closest to the south, so heading south is the most dangerous because the shortest route means we have the best chance of escaping south. Once Hua Qianfang discovers we've escaped, he'll definitely search south immediately. Even if we manage to escape into Jiangzhou, once he finds us, he can scan the entire city with his divine sense and catch us."

Zhang Yi smiled and said, "No! No one is allowed to use their divine sense to scan anything in Jiangzhou City, no matter how powerful they are. This is an ironclad rule that all cultivators, whether from the righteous or the wicked path, must abide by."