Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

"Am I more handsome than you?"

Fan Luokui, Ye Yuchan, Zhang Ruoxue: "..."

78. Adoption and Yunping figurines

Fortunately, Fan Luokui was different from that female disciple surnamed Ye. Even though she did have the urge to kill the lewd young man in front of her, she still suppressed her murderous intent because she always respected her teacher.

—It's just that the way she looked at Yunping had dropped to freezing point.

Before Fan Luokui could speak, the little guy who had been huddled behind her poked his head out and glanced disdainfully across the courtyard.

His first words were full of dissatisfaction and sarcasm.

"This place is so dilapidated, it doesn't look like an academy at all. It's more like a garbage dump in the capital than an academy."

After saying that, she looked up again, staring at Fan Luo Kui's cold profile with a puzzled expression, "Sister Luo Kui, is this really your academy?"

Fan Luokui turned her head without changing her expression, staring at the little girl's face, which was filled with displeasure.

—In fact, she initially felt that the courtyard house was too dilapidated from any angle. With the old rogue's level of skill, he shouldn't be staying in such a shabby place.

She brushed a strand of cherry-colored hair from her forehead and nodded slightly. "Yes."

"Wow~" the little girl exclaimed in surprise, then turned her gaze to Yun Ping not far away, "So even a genius like Sister Luo Kui would condescend to such a slovenly place..."

Sloppy...

Yunping and Ye Yuchan both twitched their lips at the same time, and their liking for this little girl plummeted at that moment.

The old rogue walked straight up to the little girl with a cold expression. Instead of being intimidated by his height, which was half a head taller than her, the girl arrogantly raised her head, put her hands on her hips, and held her delicate nose very high.

Yun Ping pointed down at the little girl, who exuded the arrogance of a noblewoman descending from the mountain, then turned to Fan Luo Kui and asked—

"Hey Luo Kui, where did you get this little girl with the brains of a cat?"

Upon hearing this, the young girl immediately became angry. "Who are you calling mentally ill! I... I am of very high status! You should watch your tone!"

Old Yun glanced at the little girl who had suddenly started bouncing around, completely ignoring what she said, and instead stared at Fan Luo Kui, waiting for her reply.

Fan Luokui felt somewhat helpless about the rude behavior of the little girl she had brought back. She took a deep breath, pulled the noisy girl behind her, and then replied, "I picked her up on the way... well, I guess you could say I found her."

"You picked it up?" Yunping looked astonished.

In response, Zhang Ruoxue, who was traveling with Fan Luokui, explained: "We met her by chance on the way back to the academy. She seemed to have been kidnapped by a group of unknown people. Those people were quite powerful. Before I could even make a move, Luokui rescued her."

Fan Luokui nodded, indicating that Zhang Ruoxue's explanation was perfectly correct.

"Unidentified individuals...kidnapping? And their cultivation level is quite high?"

After a series of keywords, Yunping had almost formed a complete story in his mind.

A wealthy young lady was kidnapped by hostile forces. On the way, she encountered the brave and courageous warrior Fan Luo Kui. Driven by a sense of justice, our junior sister Luo Kui rescued the young lady.

If Fan Luokui were replaced with a male character, this would be a standard harem-building plot.

Unfortunately, Xiao Luo Kui is a real girl—although she's stronger than most men.

"Um—" Fan Luokui spoke again, but this time, her tone was somewhat hesitant, "What does the teacher intend to do with her?"

"How should we handle this...?"

Yun Ping stared at the little girl, who had been pulled behind Fan Luo Kui and was only peeking out with her head, making faces at him incessantly, and fell into deep thought.

If we leave this little guy here, he'll probably get involved in something unpleasant—

Yunping has never been one to enjoy crowds. Apart from matters concerning his own disciples, he avoids getting involved in other affairs whenever possible.

So he was actually more inclined to send the unruly little brat back to her family.

However, let's ask for his/her wishes first.

"Little guy—"

The young man squatted down, a friendly, sunny smile on his lips, and waved to the little girl.

However, faced with Yun Ping's caring older brother demeanor, the little girl proudly raised her head and glanced at him disdainfully, "Hmph, I am not some little girl, watch your words!"

"Then what should I call you?"

"Call me..." The little girl nodded, thought for a few seconds, and then said, "Call me Lady Dawn!"

"Dawn? Is that your name?"

"That's right! So, aren't you amazed by my magnificent name?"

As expected of a rich young lady, even her thought process is different from others.

Yunping wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, still maintaining a rather easygoing smile.

"Then, let me ask you, where do you live? Do you need your sister Luo Kui to take you home?"

"Family?"

The little girl shuddered, her bright eyes instantly filled with fearful black liquid.

Her cheeks suddenly turned pale, and she quickly pulled her head back behind Fan Luokui, her small hands gripping the hem of Fan Luokui's shrine maiden outfit tightly.

Without realizing it, she raised her voice: "Home... I can never go home, I can never go home in this lifetime! Only here with Sister Luo Kui does it feel comfortable. Being with Sister Luo Kui feels much better than being at home... And Sister Luo Kui speaks so sweetly, and she's so capable..."

In short, she didn't want to go home.

The old rogue gasped, stood up, and slowly turned his gaze away from Xiao Chenxi.

Judging from the girl's behavior, she seems to be traumatized by the kidnapping. Her reluctance to go home is probably because she is afraid of being kidnapped again.

Fan Luo Kui didn't know how to comfort Xiao Chenxi, who suddenly started trembling all over, so she reached out and touched her head, then looked up at Yun Ping with a complicated expression, "What should we do?"

The old rogue spread his hands and said, "There's nothing we can do. If she doesn't tell us where she lives, we can't send her back."

"And judging from her behavior, she seems quite attached to you. Why don't you take charge of taking care of her daily needs?"

Fan Luokui pointed to herself in astonishment, "Me?"

"Otherwise what?" Old Yun rolled his eyes. "You brought her back yourself, so of course you're the one to deal with it."

"..."

The cherry-haired girl fell into a brief silence.

She lowered her head and met Xiao Chenxi's tearful, pitiful eyes. Her cold heart seemed to tremble slightly.

Ugh... What a hassle.

"Ok."

In the end, Fan Luokui accepted the idea of ​​raising a little girl.

As if he had expected this, Yunping smiled slightly, turned his back, sat back down on the stone bench, and said.

"That's settled then. You can take care of this little girl for now. As for when to send her back, we'll see when we have a clue or when the little girl is willing to talk."

"Um……"

Fan Luokui naturally had no objection to Yunping's actions.

"Oh, right."

At that moment, as if he had thought of something, Yunping gently tapped the stone table in front of him.

His gaze swept over the three female disciples present. Now that all three of them were there, and Xiao Jiang had already cultivated the basics for a full month, it was about time to move on to the next stage.

The battle of all factions is about to begin, and if we don't step up our efforts now...

Yunping couldn't help but smile when he thought of the bet between himself and Jiang Huaru.

He had a lot of confidence in his apprentices.

And so, words brimming with confidence uttered from the young man's mouth—

"You've already completed a month of training, and it's about time you got used to it. It's time to let you familiarize yourselves with the battle of the myriad factions."

"Familiar with the battle of the myriad factions?" Ye Yuchan tilted her head, her tone full of confusion. "How are you familiar with it?"

"Do you remember the doll I mentioned?"

Doll?

Rewinding to a month ago, Yunping seemed to have indeed said that he would control his partner.

Fan Luokui and Zhang Ruoxue, on the other hand, were completely bewildered and had no idea what the two of them were talking about.

At that time, Fan Luokui, who had already received guidance, went back to her room to think, while Zhang Ruoxue was constantly practicing Wing Chun. Therefore, only Ye Yuchan had ever heard of the word "puppet".

"I vaguely remember... wait a minute..." A look of surprise suddenly appeared on Ye Yuchan's face. She stared at Yun Ping as if she were looking at a monster: "You're not going to conjure up an army of Doraemon and the blue fat cat and make us fight each other, are you?"

Yunping waved his hand, "Go away, what are you saying? Do you think I'm that kind of person with a perverse sense of humor?"

Ye Yuchan calmly considered the matter for a moment, then nodded emphatically: "Yes."

"...If you keep going like this, I'm going to give you a good beating in bed sooner or later."

"Cut~"

On the surface, Ye Yuchan curled her lips in disdain, but in reality, she was a little flustered.

She turned her head away, refusing to look at Yunping's gloomy face.

On the other side, Zhang Ruoxue also asked, "So, what kind of doll is it?"

"I'll show it to you now, and you'll see."

"Now?"

Amidst everyone's confusion, Yunping's right-hand storage ring emitted a white light, and in an instant, four humanoid models, each the size of an adult man's palm, appeared in the center of the stone table.

At that moment, everyone saw it—it was so lifelike, like a miniature version of a real person, and completely naked…

and many more?

Completely naked?

"Uh...sorry, I think I took the wrong one."

Looking at the several naked female figurines posed in various peculiar ways on the stone table, Yunping blushed and awkwardly put them all away.

Under the increasingly cold gazes of the three female disciples, Yun Ping coughed twice, attempting to ease the awkwardness that permeated the courtyard.