Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

Junior Brother Fang said with a sad expression, "There's no need to change Senior Brother Li's room. It's fine if he continues to share a room with me, so it's easier for me to take care of him."

The second senior brother advised him, "If Junior Brother Li stays in bed all day, he'll soon have his days and nights reversed. He might be sleeping during the day but awake at night. Your movements in the room during the day will easily disturb him. It would be better to let him move to the solitary house to keep Junior Brother Zheng company. Neither of them can move or make any noise, so they won't disturb each other. You can also come to the solitary house anytime you need to take care of him."

Junior Brother Fang gave a muffled "hmm," then lowered his head and walked away...

The sound of clanging and banging came from the woodshed. Before long, he had made a new bed and personally placed it in the lonely house.

The newly built bed smelled of wood, but Li Gu knew that this scent also had another meaning: "the smell of wood bleeding when it is injured," a cruel and heartless scent of death.

The sun is setting...

Li Gu was carefully carried to the new bed by his junior brother Fang and junior sister. They gently laid him down, while senior brother Zheng, who was on the bed next to them, cast a complicated and incomprehensible glance at him. He didn't understand why Li Gu would still suffer a qi deviation when he already knew that the qi-boosting method given by his second senior brother was fake. "Why don't you just stop practicing like that?"

If he could still move and speak, he would have jumped up by now, grabbed Li Gu's collar, and shaken him violently: "Why? Are you an idiot?"

But he couldn't do it; he could only lie quietly to the side.

Junior Brother Fang stood by the bed and whispered, "Senior Brother Li, you...I...sigh..."

Unable to continue, Junior Brother Fang turned and rushed out the door.

The remaining junior sister, Meng Ting, gently sat down on the edge of the bed, stretched out a hand, and grasped Li Gu's hand.

But Li Gu's hands are now completely numb, and he can't feel her soft hands.

Meng Ting bit her lip and said, word by word, "Senior Brother Li, I don't believe someone as outstanding as you would suffer a qi deviation. Someone must have harmed you. You...you should be conscious now, right? If someone harmed you, blink twice."

Li Gu was about to blink!

He immediately realized that his junior sister had only been a disciple for half a year and was still in the body-refining stage, while his second senior brother was at the sixth level of Qi refining.

If the junior sister finds out about this, and if she accidentally reveals it, it will only lead to her being silenced by the second senior brother.

I'll handle this myself after the system "fulfills its lie."

Li Gu's eyes were wide open, not blinking an eye.

Meng Ting stared intently into his eyes, and seeing that he showed no sign of blinking, she couldn't help but sigh deeply: "Is it really that you went into a qi deviation during your practice? If so, blink twice."

Li Gu blinked twice.

Meng Ting's tears instantly welled up again: "Why...why did this happen..."

She stood up and ran out quickly.

The room fell silent instantly, leaving only Li Gu and Senior Brother Zheng, who were lying on the bed unable to move, looking at each other in silence.

Senior Brother Zheng's perspective is extremely complex; he has a million questions to ask.

Li Guneng could guess that he wanted to ask himself why he still fell for the attack despite knowing that the method of cultivation was wrong, and he also wanted to ask why he didn't tell his junior sister about it. These questions were probably driving him crazy.

But he couldn't get the answer, and Li Gu couldn't answer it either.

Eyes can't convey much useful information. Li Gu could only watch as Senior Brother Zheng's gaze shifted from confusion to anger, then from anger to despair, and finally from despair to emptiness...

His hopes for revenge, which had been rekindled by Li Gu just yesterday, were completely shattered today.

As darkness fell, the cool moonlight enveloped the area outside the window.

Footsteps suddenly sounded in the distance...

The footsteps were very light, indicating that the person who came was highly skilled.

Li Gu guessed who it was.

Sure enough, the second senior brother soon walked in.

He first surveyed the room thoroughly, checking under the bed and inside the cabinets, then peered out the window to make sure no one was around before standing beside Li Gu's bed.

Li Gu stared at him with wide eyes, revealing an angry look.

The second senior brother laughed, but his expression no longer held any of its usual gentleness. Instead, it revealed an arrogant, conceited, and cunning face. Only in this secluded room would the second senior brother reveal such a side of himself; this was his secret place where he could freely vent his emotions.

"Junior Brother Li, you didn't expect that, did you? The method of circulating internal energy I gave you was a scam from the very beginning." The second senior brother laughed smugly, "Gathering all your strength to break through the Guanyuan acupoint resulted in all your meridians being severed. How about that? Feeling good? Now, do you feel like dying? But you can't even control your teeth to bite your tongue and commit suicide. You can't even kill yourself. Hahahaha!"

The second senior brother stretched out his right hand and gently patted Li Gu's face: "Tsk tsk, what a handsome face. Junior Sister is so infatuated with your looks that she doesn't even glance at me. Plus, you're a cultivation genius. You've only been in the sect for four years, yet you're already approaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, about to catch up with your senior brother. Tsk tsk! You've always been so proud of yourself, haven't you? So happy, haven't you? But, suddenly going from a prodigy to a cripple with broken meridians, isn't that satisfying?"

"Hahahaha!" The second senior brother knew that Li Gu could not respond, so he just talked to himself. It was obvious that he had been holding these words in his heart for a long time. He could not have a good dream if he did not say them all at once.

He turned his head again and looked at Senior Brother Zheng on the other bed.

He was even happier to see that Senior Brother Zheng was also glaring at him angrily.

The second senior brother walked to the open space between the two beds, spread his arms, and pointed at Li Gu and Senior Brother Zheng on the left and right. His tone was full of pride and self-satisfaction, as if an artist, standing under the spotlight on a stage, pointed to two outstanding works of art and proudly announced to everyone: "I made them."

Unfortunately, the stands were completely empty!

The second senior brother made a winnowing pattern with his palms facing the sky: "I, Zhou Shijie, chose the wrong sect. I shouldn't have joined a sect like Hidden Flower Sect. If I had joined the Demonic Sect, a disciple as cunning and resourceful as me would surely have been Master's favorite. The Demonic Sect would have given me all the rare and precious treasures and groomed me to be their successor. It's a pity... a pity... here, my masterpiece cannot be known to anyone. How unfair!"

"Hmph! Luckily, I'm about to graduate. After I graduate, I'll join the Demonic Sect. Then I'll bring back the Demonic Sect's experts and burn Flower Valley to ashes, killing all the disciples here. Oh, don't worry, I won't kill you two. I'll take you back to the Demonic Sect, build you a secluded house, and raise you... We'll have plenty of time to talk things over later."

The second senior brother's emotions gradually calmed down. He walked to the door, hesitated for a few seconds, and then his expression suddenly changed. He went from looking sinister and vicious to being the gentle and kind second senior brother again. Only then did he open the wooden door and walk out...