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

At this point, Gu Xingzhu smiled, as if he were making fun of himself.

Zhang Ruoxue's eyes darkened, and almost subconsciously... she pinched the broken elixir hanging around her neck.

To this day, she still remembers what happened back then.

Therefore, she could understand Gu Xingzhuo's feelings, the helplessness and despair of witnessing the death of his loved one... she knew it all too well.

However, she was clumsy and didn't know how to comfort her senior brother.

She glanced at Gu Xingzhuo, pondered for a few seconds, and then asked, "Now that Wang Xiaomo has been reborn as a demonic cultivator... Senior Brother... what do you plan to do?"

……

Faced with this question, Gu Xingzhuo remained silent.

Wang Xiaomo is now a corpse puppet... and a demonic cultivator of the Demon Dynasty. Logically speaking, he should be killed.

but……

He was stunned for a few seconds, then a complex light appeared in his eyes, and just as he was about to say something—

Awooo—

The sharp, piercing howls of wolves echoed in my ears.

A chilling wind suddenly swept through the withered forest, spreading a terrifying aura and carrying a faint smell of blood.

Zhang Ruoxue and Gu Xingzhuo exchanged a glance. Inside the room, only the campfire between the two of them provided some light; otherwise, the surroundings were completely dark.

Ow—

The howls of wolves echoed around them, seemingly drawing ever closer as time passed—perhaps the firelight in the forest had attracted their attention.

"A pack of wolves..."

Gu Xingzhuo made a move to get up, but Zhang Ruoxue stood up first.

As a girl, she was not only scared at this moment, but she even clenched her fists, swung her arms a couple of times, and her face was full of anticipation.

"Senior brother, you stay here for now, I'll go pack up and come right back."

Gu Xingzhuo: "..."

Seeing Gu Xingzhuo staring blankly and not saying anything, Zhang Ruoxue looked at her senior brother curiously again: "What's wrong, senior brother...?"

"It's nothing... I just feel..." Gu Xingzhuo looked at Zhang Ruoxue, who was wearing a sailor uniform and showing off her beautiful figure, and then glanced at Ruoxue's delicate face. He said quietly, "Sometimes, Junior Sister Ruoxue really doesn't seem like a girl."

"Eh?"

"These kinds of scenes are usually very frightening for female cultivators... They might even hide behind someone and tremble with fear."

"But Junior Sister Ruoxue, the first thing you thought of was going to fight the wolf pack..."

Zhang Ruoxue scratched her face in confusion and said, "Is it strange?"

Gu Xingzhuo was speechless for a moment, then asked, "Junior Sister Ruoxue, are you afraid of insects?"

"What's so scary about bugs? They just look a little weird."

Are you afraid of ghosts?

"As for vengeful spirits... they shouldn't be afraid of being punched."

"Then what are you afraid of..."

Zhang Ruoxue was taken aback, then said in a matter-of-fact tone—

"I'm afraid there won't be any wine to drink or meat to eat."

Gu Xingzhuo: "It's alright, Junior Sister, you go ahead. I'll wait here."

Zhang Ruoxue tilted her head, then said "Oh," and then skipped and hopped towards the direction of the wolf pack, clenching her fists with anticipation written all over her face.

Gu Xingzhuo sighed by the campfire, thinking to himself that his junior sister was truly extraordinary... If Zhang Ruoxue hadn't actually been a woman, he would have really thought that the person who had just spoken to him was a man, a cross-dressing man wearing a wig...

But thinking about it carefully, in some ways, the real cross-dressing masters in Yuntian Academy might not be as manly as Zhang Ruoxue.

This is true.

Shortly after a series of mournful wolf howls, a black-haired girl returned with a wide grin, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons.

This time, they also brought back the carcasses of two giant wolves, each nearly two meters long.

Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that the wolves' fangs were shattered, their skulls were now dented with a fist-sized crater, and almost all the bones in their bodies were broken... Clearly, they had been severely beaten before they died.

"Senior brother, senior brother, look, we have food!"

She casually placed the enormous wolf, whose weight was unknown, aside, then rubbed her little hands together with anticipation and licked her lips.

Now Gu Xingzhuo understood why Zhang Ruoxue had volunteered to deal with the wolf pack.

So this girl just wanted to bring two wolves back... for barbecue.

"Oh my, I've never eaten wolf meat before! Today I finally have the chance."

"..."

Looking at Zhang Ruoxue, who had already started preparing to grill the meat, Gu Xingzhuo was speechless for a moment and could only smile bitterly.

Soon, the aroma of the roasted meat began to spread. Zhang Ruoxue might have a talent for roasting meat; at least she felt that she was satisfied enough that she hadn't burned the meat.

Even so, before Zhang Ruoxue could start eating meat and drinking wine, a shadow suddenly appeared not far away.

"Ok?"

Zhang Ruoxue and Gu Xingzhuo turned to look at each other at the same time, and what they saw was a ferocious wolf lying on the ground, its face extremely fierce, baring its teeth and its fur standing on end!

The wolf was nearly three meters long, with azure fur, and its scarlet eyes were filled with wariness and ferocity towards Zhang Ruoxue and Gu Xingzhuo.

"Wolves again?" Zhang Ruoxue frowned, looking at the giant wolf in the shadows, and slowly stood up: "I remember I just broke the alpha wolf's neck, the pack should have retreated..."

She looked at the giant wolf in the distance, puzzled, and said with a complicated expression, "Could it be that the alpha wolf's wife came looking for us earlier...?"

Gu Xingzhuo first silently marveled at Zhang Ruoxue's unique way of thinking, and then straightened his expression.

“I don’t think so… Junior sister, look at the wolf’s back, it seems to have a leather saddle.”

"saddle?"

Looking around, Zhang Ruoxue indeed saw the leather saddle on the wolf's back, which was clearly made for people to ride.

The giant wolf also wore a black collar that was faintly visible below its neck, but it was not very noticeable because the wolf's fur was a bit long.

This wolf... isn't it a wild magical beast?

now.

The giant wolf was staring intently at Zhang Ruoxue, letting out threatening growls as if warning the two of them.

"How to do?"

Zhang Ruoxue shook her hand. Since it might be someone else's wolf, she couldn't just take action directly. So she turned to Gu Xingzhuo and asked, "Should I break this wolf's neck in half first?"

"Can a neck be broken even by twisting it halfway...? Even a slight break would cause serious trouble, wouldn't it?"

“What should we do then…” Zhang Ruoxue looked at the huge roasted wolf leg in her hand, her eyes lighting up. “How about… I give the meat to it, and it might go back to its owner after it’s full.”

He truly deserves the title of the number one idiot at Yuntian Academy...

Gu Xingzhuo glanced silently at Zhang Ruoxue, who thought she had come up with a good idea, and couldn't help but shatter her fantasy: "Junior Sister Ruoxue, don't forget... what you're holding is wolf meat."

"The bodies of its brethren are still roasting on the rack..."

"Ah... oh."

Zhang Ruoxue lowered her head in disappointment, her smile slowly fading, and then she threw the question back to Gu Xingzhuo.

"So what do we do now? Just let it hiss...ha~ hiss...ha? We have to think of something."

"Well..."

Just as Gu Xingzhuo was pondering, a wisp of fire appeared in the shadows in the distance.

However, unlike the campfire in front of the two, it seemed to be held by a figure, and the firelight seemed to carry a few strands of sacred Buddhist light.

The man seemed to have sensed something as well, and stepped cautiously out of the shadows, holding a torch in his hand. However, the handle of the torch seemed to be covered with gold powder and engraved with a large number of Buddhist characters.

The robust young man, with a stern and imposing face, approached the giant wolf. He glanced at his vehicle, which was growling in a low voice, and frowned in concentration.

He turned his gaze to Zhang Ruoxue and Gu Xingzhuo in the distance, his right hand quietly gripping the scabbard at his waist, and asked sharply.

Who are you? What are you doing here?!

When confronted with the question, the two exchanged a glance.

In fact, while the man was observing Zhang Ruoxue and Gu Xingzhuo, the two of them were also observing him.

The man who suddenly appeared was not dressed unusually; he wore a simple black top, unlike the robes of any sect.

However, the other party had no demonic aura whatsoever and even possessed Buddhist artifacts, so he was definitely not a cultivator from the Demon Dynasty.

Since he's not a demonic cultivator, things are much easier to discuss.

Gu Xingzhuo stood up voluntarily, after all, he couldn't hand over the right to speak to that silly junior sister next to him—

"We are just monks passing through... we are just resting here for a while."

"Rest here? Just passing by?" The man's expression grew even more serious and suspicious. "Do you know that this is the border of the Empire, with the Demon Dynasty invading from the outside? This is not a safe place."

Gu Xingzhuo had already made a decision on this matter.

"We come from Sansang City, entrusted by the city lord to go to Broken Wood City to provide support."

"From Sansang City?" The man was taken aback, then remembered that it was true, but he still couldn't shake his doubts. "But the cultivators from Sansang City arrived a few days ago. Why didn't you go with them?"

"Because we encountered demonic cultivators from the Demon Dynasty on the way, we were delayed and couldn't keep up with the others."

Upon hearing this, the man understood immediately—indeed, news had recently come that demonic cultivators were wreaking havoc in the vicinity, and Gu Xingzhuo's answer certainly matched the situation.

Furthermore, his purpose in coming here was to investigate whether there were any demonic cultivator strongholds nearby, which coincides with Gu Xingzhuo's testimony.

The man breathed a sigh of relief, then lowered his guard slightly, reaching out to stroke the giant wolf's fur beside him to calm it down.

“Recently, there have been frequent reports of attacks by demonic cultivators. Since we’ve run into them, I’ll take you to Broken Wood City.”

"Then thank you very much."

Gu Xingzhuo politely bowed to the man, who in turn nodded slightly in response.