Poke Where You Don’t Understand

Looking at her somewhat ashamed and reluctant expression, Xiao Jihan lowered his gaze and said, “Then, thank you, Master.”

After saying that, he picked up the empty bowl and the untouched side dishes and turned to leave.

Favorability: -49 (Disgust)

Phew~

Yan Shu breathed a sigh of relief. Well, exchanging a bit of food for 5 points of favorability wasn’t a bad deal for her.

However, not eating anything felt strange. Ahhh!

On another note, his favorability towards her is now -49 (Disgust). Does this mean he no longer wants to kill her? Yan Shu felt a glimmer of joy but quickly calmed down.

No, she couldn’t be proud or complacent. Xiao Jihan’s favorability could drop again with just a glance, and his thought process was quite peculiar. She didn’t know when it would turn back to hatred. Her head wasn’t firmly attached to her neck, so she still needed to continue raising his favorability.

It would be best to raise it to a positive number, so even if it dropped, it wouldn’t fall into hatred.

Huh?

Something doesn’t seem quite right.

He came in with -49, and he left with -49. Does that mean her porridge was eaten for nothing?!!

Yan Shu: (▼ヘ▼#)

Without the porridge this morning, Yan Shu suddenly realized that she and Xiao Jihan had no interaction anymore.

For several days in a row, she hadn’t seen Xiao Jihan.

Without seeing him, she naturally couldn’t raise his favorability. She didn’t even know if his favorability had dropped or not.

Yan Shu became a bit anxious, afraid that Xiao Jihan was secretly lowering her favorability somewhere, just like when he went to get a robe and came back with a sword ready to kill her.

She contacted the Third Senior Brother, Liu Zhiqing, using the Xuanling Mirror and asked him how he usually interacted with his disciples.

Liu Zhiqing glanced at Yan Shu through the Xuanling Mirror and raised an eyebrow, saying, “Junior Sister, what you want to ask is how to cultivate the relationship between master and disciple, right?”

There was no need to be so blunt.

Yan Shu cleared her throat and was about to speak, but she saw Liu Zhiqing raise his chin and snort, “Once a master, forever a father. Emotions are natural, why bother actively cultivating them?”

Yan Shu’s mouth twitched. “Senior Brother, you’re quite proud.”

Liu Zhiqing didn’t shy away and nodded, “Senior Brother has five direct disciples, and each of them respects and admires Senior Brother greatly. As for Junior Junior Sister, who has only taken one disciple, not only does she not receive respect, but she also has to constantly please and seek to repair the relationship. Comparatively, Senior Brother is indeed proud.”

Yan Shu’s lungs hurt from being poked, so she decisively closed the Xuanling Mirror and threw it aside, sulking.

Where did she go wrong in her mind? She went to ask the most unconventional Senior Brother Liu Zhiqing!

After a while, the Xuanling Mirror rang, and it was a message from Liu Zhiqing.

Yan Shu hesitated for a moment but decided to answer.

This time, Liu Zhiqing didn’t poke her lungs. He earnestly said, “Junior Sister, you can inquire about his studies and show concern for him. After we came back from Wushang Peak that night, Senior Brother inquired about Xiao Jihan’s past.”

“That child is pitiful. Besides his birth mother, he has never felt anyone’s care. Even when he came to Xuantian Sect, he was bullied every day. He thought his life would get better after coming to Wushang Peak, but he didn’t expect to encounter someone like you...”

He paused halfway through his words and glanced at her.

Yan Shu understood his meaning. It was saying that he encountered her, a heartless and ruthless demon who only wanted his blood.

Yan Shu kept a straight face and didn’t say anything.

Liu Zhiqing cleared his throat. “In any case, that child is lacking in love. If you want to make amends and mend your relationship as master and disciple, you should make him feel your care, just like a mother. Over time, he will change his opinion of you.”

Yan Shu thought Liu Zhiqing made a lot of sense. Treating Xiao Jihan as a rebellious son wouldn’t be wrong.

Even though her soul was just an 18-year-old girl who had just started her first year of college.

After closing the Xuanling Mirror, Yan Shu went out to find Xiao Jihan. She didn’t dare to appear too eager, so she pretended to take a stroll around Wushang Peak, hoping for a chance encounter. However, after wandering outside for a while, she didn’t see any trace of Xiao Jihan. After some thought, she decided to take the initiative and head towards his courtyard.

As she approached the house, she realized that Xiao Jihan’s courtyard was restricted. The original host was a bad student, and Yan Shu, who inherited her memories, was also clueless. When she saw the restriction, she could only exclaim, “Wow, that’s amazing!”

Indeed, he was the male lead. He seemed to know everything that she, as his master, didn’t know. But then again, she didn’t teach him anything. Whether in the early or later stages, the male lead ascended to immortality step by step, relying on his extraordinary comprehension and heaven-defying opportunities.

Yan Shu circled Xiao Jihan’s house like Grandma Liu who had entered the Daguanyuan for the first time, and she probably understood why he had imposed this restriction. In the original novel, a few days before killing the original host, the male lead broke through to the Nascent Soul stage. After Yan Shu transmigrated, she didn’t bother him anymore and even gave him pills, spiritual herbs, and spiritual rice. He should be close to a breakthrough, so he went into seclusion.

Having figured it out, Yan Shu breathed a sigh of relief. If he was busy with his breakthrough, he wouldn’t have time to think about her. This way, his favorability wouldn’t drop to hatred, and she would be safe.

Relieved, Yan Shu didn’t want to disturb Xiao Jihan and turned to leave.

In the past few days, she had been preoccupied with raising favorability and hadn’t fully integrated the memories of the original host, including the cultivation techniques she possessed and those she didn’t. Now that she had some free time, Yan Shu carefully reviewed and mastered the cultivation techniques and memories of the original host.

As for alchemy and artifact refining, Yan Shu sadly discovered that even with a change of identity, she was still a bad student. It seemed that she could only rely on her cultivation level.

Although she had a seal in her body that prevented her from breaking through, it didn’t hinder her cultivation. She also found that the consciousness of the Sect Master of the Xuantian Sect was left in the seal, which could be used as an on-demand teacher. Whenever she had any questions, she could use her spiritual power to impact the seal and awaken the consciousness of the Sect Master.

In this way, in just over ten days, Yan Shu had already integrated and become proficient in the cultivation techniques of the original host.

On this day, after Yan Shu perfectly controlled her spiritual power and displayed a set of the Nine Transformations Lightning Shadow Whip, the Sect Master of the Xuantian Sect looked at her with a complex expression.

Seeing his expression, Yan Shu immediately had a bad premonition and quickly asked, “Master, what’s wrong?”

The Sect Master of Xuantian Sect looked at her with a complicated expression and said, “From now on, I can no longer be available on demand.”

The term “available on demand” was quite accurate. During this period, Yan Shu had become addicted to cultivation. Whenever she didn’t understand something, she would poke the seal. If the technique didn’t work smoothly, she would poke the seal. Whenever she remembered something she didn’t know about the cultivation world, she would poke the seal.

In short, poke, poke, poke, poke—wherever she didn’t understand, she would poke it.