There are always fairies plotting against me

Lu Jinan was not in a hurry to say hello, and Pei Wanyu did not interrupt her good disciple's morning exercise. She just stood quietly not far away and looked at the red energy around him.

Qi arises from the heart and moves with the body.

Watching Lu Jinan's powerful punches and the thunderous sound of them breaking through the air during his morning exercise today, Dong Han behind him whispered, "Big Brother is practicing Baji today."

Pei Wanyu nodded slightly. There were many cultivators in the world who specialized in boxing techniques, and many had boxing techniques similar to her own. However, it was great that her own disciple could refine the boxing style to suit her best.

She pursed her lips, a strange look flashing in her eyes. Boys should practice more, otherwise they won't be able to handle a woman with such charm.

After a while, Lu Jinan, who had finished his morning exercise, looked at his master Pei Wanyu.

Pei Wanyu, who was carefully dressed up, had her long hair tied into a unique bun at the back of her head. The light purple tassels added the icing on the cake, embellishing her lightly made-up face with a mature charm.

But paired with her dark purple cross-collared skirt and wide-sleeved shirt embroidered with roses, her charm was much restrained, and she looked more dignified and noble.

Elegant and majestic.

"Greetings, Master." Lu Jinan bowed.

A strange look flashed in Pei Wanyu's eyes. She hadn't noticed it last night, but when she looked at her good disciple's bow today, she felt that there was a sense of maturity in it.

Is it because you are about to reach adulthood?

No...I grew up because of something I did for half a year.

It’s all the fault of that girl Zhu Nanzhi... Really, did that girl seduce her own obedient disciple even after her hair fully grew out?

And that damn girl Qingyue, she was the one who first proposed to bring Jinan back to the sect, but after she came back, they didn’t communicate much. Isn’t this like her home was stolen?

Suppressing the thoughts in her heart, Pei Wanyu smiled slightly: "What are the plans next?"

Lu Jinan stood up straight: "Bathe, visit the sect leader and others, retreat, and then merge with the Tao."

"No rush." ​​Pei Wanyu said, "I've already announced to everyone that you were in seclusion. If you were to go into seclusion again, others would inevitably be worried."

Pei Wanyu took two steps forward and said, "There's no need to visit the Sect Master and the others just yet. The Immortal Seedling Selection Conference hasn't ended yet, and since you're back, you can take over for me."

"It's not over yet?" Lu Jinan asked in surprise.

"In a time of great strife, more talented people emerge than ever before." Pei Wanyu said softly, "Just think of it as showing your face."

"Okay." Lu Jinan nodded and agreed: "Then I'll go wash up first."

Pei Wanyu suddenly tapped her chin with her index finger like a young girl: "Do you need your help?"

"unnecessary."

Lu Jinan refused outright and turned to walk towards his Fuyao Residence. He thought to himself that if she helped him wash, it would only allow him to satisfy the same visual pleasure as last night. Could he still attack his master who was in the realm of God?

In the end, you will be the only one who suffers.

More importantly, he knew very well that in his master's mind, he was still a little brat in the Saint Realm who needed to be worried about when he went out, so now he had to focus on improving his strength.

When it's time to eat and drink, you can always eat and drink.

"What a pity~ Don't you want to know whether your teacher is wearing the black silk stockings you gave her last night?" Pei Wanyu's voice sounded seductively from behind.

"I don't want to." Lu Jinan said without turning his head. He could still tell whether his master was lying to him or not.

At the same time, he couldn't help but complain in his heart. With his master's personality, how could his senior sister who was like an iceberg be her daughter?

She was probably just like me, an anonymous disciple picked up from outside and raised as a daughter.

Watching her apprentice disappear from view, Pei Wanyu slightly restrained her smile and tilted her head to look at Dong Han: "I have nothing to do today, what should I do?"

Dong Han blinked and said, "Should we investigate Zhu Nanzhi's background? Didn't Senior Brother say that she is at the level of a Saint? She must be from a great family."

"This is his own business, let's just forget it." Pei Wanyu turned and walked away, saying with a malicious look, "I don't know when Qingyue will come out of seclusion. It would be interesting to tell her about this."

Dong Han followed the deputy sect leader's steps and asked, "Do you want to see them fight?"

"It's interesting, isn't it?" Pei Wanyu's pace became a little more cheerful: "Let her be like an iceberg every day and see if she gets anxious."

"Deputy Sect Leader, does the eldest sister really like the eldest brother? I never felt that way." Dong Han asked in confusion, "Are you forcing a match?"

"How can you call it forced matchmaking?" Pei Wanyu narrowed her eyes slightly. "Back then, she couldn't take her eyes off him."

"Can't Senior Sister see it?" Dong Han was even more confused.

"How could a cultivator not see that?" Pei Wanyu said ambiguously, "That's not important. What's important is fighting with Zhu Nanzhi."

"Then what?" Dong Han continued to ask: "Big Brother even teased you!"

Pei Wanyu walked out of the main gate of Taichu Hall, looked at the myriad colors that came into view, and said lightly: "That is my good disciple's own business."

She reached the stairs and looked down at the strange peak. Arms folded across her chest, she tapped her right arm with her left index finger and said calmly, "Go, have Chunyu notify the other four sects and seven academies, tell those young people..."

Wan Dao Sect's Senior Brother Lu Jinan has emerged from seclusion."

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Chapter 30 "Meet Big Brother!"

After bathing, Lu Jinan changed into the standard brocade robe for direct disciples of the Wandao Sect, which was white in color with gilded black patterns, and then left Taichu Peak directly.

As an immortal sect that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years and is now the number one sect in the world, the Wandao Sect naturally has a strong foundation and a huge scale.

With the five major halls of Taiyi, Taichu, Taishi, Taisu and Taiji, which are derived from the Wuji in Taoism and the beginning of all things, as the core, Wandao Sect is arranged with the mountains of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, and has two courtyards, four halls, five pavilions, eight towers and nine peaks under its jurisdiction, thus completing the operation of the entire sect.

The first thing Lu Jinan did when he first arrived at Wandao Sect was to follow his master Pei Wanyu to visit the immortals in these places one by one. In addition to leaving an impression on these people, he also learned how high the status of his master Pei Wanyu was in Wandao Sect.

Pei Wanyu, the deputy sect leader and the master of Taichu Palace, is the second most powerful person in Wandao Sect after the sect leader.

At that time, he thought that he must not embarrass his cheap master who was so charming, sexy and graceful.

Lu Jinan also did it.

Leaving Taichu Peak, Lu Jinan walked onto the stone bridge corridor leading to the Wandao Sect's gate at the foot of the mountain, and suddenly there were more people there.

"Finally, morning exercises are over. Today's Immortal Seedling Assessment is about to begin. Let's go take a look at those young and inexperienced candidates. It's so interesting."

"Well, let's stop by the cafeteria to get some snacks."

"Every day there are a lot of cute, innocent, and slightly silly people. Their tests are so fun to watch. Do you think there will be something even more interesting happening today?"

"Big, big, big..."

"perhaps?"

"Big Brother!!!"

"Big Brother? Where is he? He is really Big Brother!"

"Who called me Big Brother? Has Big Brother come out of seclusion... Big Brother!"

"I've met senior brother!"

"I've met senior brother!"

Amid the noise of restless footsteps, there gradually emerged a series of chaotic but neatly sounding polite greetings.

Lu Jinan stopped and politely greeted his fellow junior brothers and sisters, followed by a chatter of curious inquiries such as "When did the senior brother come out of retreat?", "Where is the senior brother going?", "Is the senior brother going to take another mission?"

The morning just after the hour of Chen suddenly becomes full of life.

When Lu Jinan informed everyone that he was going to supervise the exam for his master, everyone politely stopped interrupting him and made way for him to go first, and then—

One by one, the communication compasses lit up, conveying the same message: The eldest brother has come out of seclusion.

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A few kilometers up the mountainside platform from the Wandao Sect's mountain gate is the testing ground for the Wandao Sect's Immortal Seedling Selection Conference.

Just after noon, the place was bustling with people.

There were disciples of the Wandao Sect who were responsible for maintaining order on the scene, and disciples who were invigilating the examinations, but more were young people and teenagers who came to participate in the selection conference and their families.

As the world's number one immortal sect, the Wandao Sect's three-yearly immortal seedling selection conference is mainly divided into two levels. The first is the young immortal seedlings who are seven years old and can embark on the path of immortal cultivation. The second is the talented seedlings who have completed the thirteenth level of Qi Refining and stepped into the Guiyuan Realm before the age of ten.

But no matter which level, the assessment is extremely harsh: because no matter how poor the disciples recruited by Wandao Sect are, they must have the qualifications to become a True Lord in the Zuozhao Realm.

But even though the requirements are harsh, there is still an endless stream of applicants for the Wandao Sect's Immortal Seedling Selection Conference, which is held every three years.

In today's competitive world, the number of applicants is innumerable. Even after several rounds of elimination, the candidates who have made it to the present are still a sea of ​​candidates, with no end in sight.

The candidates maintained order under the maintenance of Wandao Sect disciples, and the parents of the candidates further away were nervous and expectant.

On a high platform farther away, dozens of monks wearing the standard brocade robes for direct disciples stood with their hands behind their backs, exuding the aura of a saint in their expressionless silence.

For the direct disciples of the Wandao Sect, as long as they do not reach the Hedao realm, they will always be just direct disciples. They do not have the qualifications to go out and establish a sect or to enter the various courtyards, halls, pavilions, towers, and peaks within the sect to formally participate in the affairs of the sect.

"There are still eight to nine thousand people who have reached this stage this year. I estimate that around five thousand will be able to join the sect in the end."

"That's a lot! Luckily, they don't have to compete with us for food... Why hasn't Junior Brother Zhao come over yet? I'm really craving those Kaishan Mang Beef Buns that the cafeteria just started selling today."

"Are you selling Kaishan Mang beef buns today?"

“Yes, but the quantity is limited.”

"I quickly asked where Junior Brother Zhao went."

The serious-looking disciples whispered to each other, and then someone asked the young man standing in the middle, "Second Brother, have you had breakfast?"

Jiang Wuya responded calmly: "Let's get started."

"Why is the deputy sect leader late today?"

"Maybe... huh?"

With the beeping sound of the communication compass, the expressions of the brothers and sisters who had originally had stern faces immediately changed. They looked at each other, and then at the same time looked at the second brother Jiang Wuya, whose communication compass was silent, and a look of evil taste suddenly appeared in their eyes.

Then--

"go!"

One by one, the disciples left the platform and headed towards the mountain.

"You..." Jiang Wuya's eyes twitched. The assessment was about to begin, why did they run away after receiving the message?

"Big Brother has come out of seclusion!"

"real or fake?"

"Really? The brothers and sisters on the mountain have already said hello, hehehe."

"I was wondering why the brothers and sisters who taught me directly suddenly ran away..."

"Hahaha, Second Brother can't run away."

On the high platform, Jiang Wuya, who had already heard the voices of his fellow students who were maintaining order below, couldn't help but change his expression. He subconsciously took a step forward, then quickly stopped.

If I run away, who will preside over the assessment?

"They teamed up to screw me... I have to give them some exercise this afternoon!"

Jiang Wuya clenched his fists and glanced absentmindedly at the road down the mountain. The whispers of the inner disciples who were maintaining order at the scene gradually drowned out the voices of the candidates and their families.

"It's already time, why hasn't the assessment started yet?"

"Look, the only one left among the direct disciples is Jiang Wuya, the chief of Taishi Palace."

"Even the inner disciples are in commotion. Did something big happen in the Wandao Sect?"

"It doesn't look like... Look at them!"

All the inner disciples present looked in the same direction with respect in their eyes. Even Jiang Wuya, the chief of Taishi Hall on the high platform, turned around with a look of joy in his eyes. "Big Brother, you have finally come out of seclusion."

Everyone was surprised, thinking that some powerful person from the Wandao Sect had come down the mountain to inspect, so they kept silent. The scene was quiet for a while.

Then came——

"I've met senior brother."

After Jiang Wuya, the second senior brother of Wandao Sect, bowed first, the inner disciples who were there to maintain order or other disciples who came here to watch the Immortal Seedling Selection Conference followed suit and bowed in unison, the sound like a loud bell.

"I've met senior brother."

On the stone steps of the mountain, Lu Jinan walked down the stairs surrounded by his fellow disciples.

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Author: Thanks to 獻子獻子 for the reward of 1000 coins and 彼苍者天 for the reward of 100 coins.

Chapter 31 Mu Qingyue Comes Out of Seclusion