Chapter Five: Night Tutorial with Junior Sister
"Junior Sister!" "Here!" "Please pay attention!" "Yes!" With a sweep of Li Changshou's sleeve, the young girl sitting cross-legged on the grass by the lake was startled, instantly alert.
"Assuming, Junior Sister, your cultivation is at the ninth stage of Nascent Divinity. While flying on the road, you suddenly discover an uninhabited place where a cultivator at the sixth stage of Nascent Divinity is forcing himself upon a female cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage. What would you do?
Here are three options: A. Rush up and kill him, embodying justice! B. Throw a magical treasure from a distance, hit him, and then calmly leave, disrupting his mood. C. Pretend you didn't see anything and slip away from the side."
Blue Ling'e blinked, finding elements in the question and options that seemed beyond her understanding at her age.
Li Changshou chuckled and reminded, "It's a multiple-choice question, choose."
"A?" Blue Ling'e answered with some uncertainty.
"How do you know that this person hasn't concealed his cultivation, intentionally revealing only the sixth stage of Nascent Divinity, when, in fact, he is a master in the Reversion to Void realm? Generally speaking, those who dare to commit such vile acts openly are undoubtedly despicable individuals. How can you place hope on his honesty?"
"Then," Blue Ling'e furrowed her little brows, "B?"
"Junior Sister, don't forget, you're also a female cultivator," Li Changshou sighed, "If, under the conditions assumed in option A, this beast sees you, a beautiful Junior Sister like you, it might unleash its beastly nature even more. In that case, wouldn't you be putting yourself in danger?"
Blue Ling'e blushed, feeling a bit dizzy and disoriented. She weakly said, "But Senior Brother, option C is not something cultivators of our generation should do. My father told me similar principles when I was very young, urging us siblings to stand up against the strong and support the weak. He said if everyone turns a blind eye to injustice, what if one day you become the victim yourself..."
"No, Junior Sister, you must remember that if it's in a peaceful and friendly environment, your thoughts are absolutely correct. However, the Primordial Wilderness is not such a place. Here, there are numerous experts, and cultivators often fight fiercely for a magical treasure or a spiritual root. Most surviving cultivators are ruthless. What we need to do is not to commit evil, not to do wrong, but also not to necessarily intervene in every evil act. Instead, wait until you reach the pinnacle of existence and have the power to establish rules, to change the entire survival environment for the weaker beings in the Primordial Wilderness. So, do you understand?"
"Yes!" Blue Ling'e nodded heavily, her eyes full of brightness.
At this moment, unbeknownst to the senior and junior siblings, a wisp of green smoke floated out from a nearby thatched cottage and silently approached them from behind.
Li Changshou spoke in a low voice, "Junior Sister, I'll give you another chance to choose. If you encounter a male cultivator assaulting a female cultivator, what would you do?"
Blue Ling'e's eyes were shining, and her voice, though not loud, was exceptionally firm. "Option C, pretend I didn't see anything and slip away from the side!"
"Good!" Li Changshou couldn't help but give his junior sister a thumbs-up, feeling a touch of moved in his heart. After just two days of teaching, if this continued for a few more years, he wouldn't have to worry about his junior sister getting into trouble and involving him.
Having a junior sister who understands how to survive low-key is truly...
Suddenly, a cold wind blew from behind them, causing the senior and junior siblings' hairs to stand on end. An ancient and icy voice sounded from behind:
"Li... Chang... Shou!"
Crack, crack...
Blue Ling'e's teeth chattered in fear.
Li Changshou's mouth twitched as he turned his head to look. Instantly, a forced smile appeared on his face.
"Master, have you finished seclusion? Are you starting today's hard teaching for Little Junior Sister... Master, let's talk nicely! What are you doing with that whisk? I'm also your disciple! You can't mistreat the big one just because you have a little one!"
"Rascal!"
Daoist Qi Yuan's hair flew wildly, his eyes widened, and he swung the whisk, preparing to strike.
"Master, don't get angry! I was just teaching Little Junior Sister for her own good."
"Humph! Our Cultivation Immortal Sect belongs to the Daoist tradition, one of the Three Sects and Three Schools! How did we end up with a disciple who is full of crooked paths and deviant ways like you?"
"It's just that Master has a discerning eye for talents."
"Scoundrel! Today, I'll clean up the sect and get rid of the filth! Waaah, it infuriates me!"
"Master, you don't look handsome when you're angry..."
Under the shade of the willow tree, Little Junior Sister, who was initially nervous about seeing the master beat up her senior brother, gradually found herself laughing at the antics of her master and senior brother "playing around."
She had realized that her master hadn't really used excessive force, and her senior brother's dodging figure seemed quite relaxed.
After chasing for a while, it seemed that her senior brother slipped and fell to the ground. The master pounced and directly pressed him down, using the whisk to fiercely beat her senior brother's buttocks, creating a rhythmic and sonorous sound...
After a while, Daoist Qi Yuan, who had lectured his eldest disciple, stood up, tidied up his messy Daoist robe, and shouted at his embarrassed disciple on the ground:
"Reflect on yourself properly! From now on, you're not allowed to teach your junior sister how to behave! Go and finish building the thatched hut for your junior sister!"
"Yes, Disciple obeys..."
"Ling'e, come here! Master will teach you the Dao and impart knowledge to you! Forget all the twisted theories your senior brother taught you!"
"Okay!"
Ling'e weakly responded, casting worried glances at her senior brother's bruised buttocks under his Daoist robe and then glancing at Li Changshou's right hand hidden in his sleeve...
That right hand gently waved at her, making a thumbs-up gesture.
Ling'e felt a little relieved, and seeing her senior brother's wretched appearance as he lay on the grass, she couldn't help but chuckle. With quick steps, she chased after her master's back.
Her steps became increasingly light and quick, gradually turning into a run...
Li Changshou lay on the cloud and sighed faintly, a cloud gently lifting him.
His master really did strike hard!
Li Changshou scratched his head, lay on the cloud, and began to contemplate. He slowly floated to the third thatched hut, which was almost completed nearby.
...
At night, lying in the grass hut that her senior brother had just built for her, Ling'e, feeling the softness of the grass beneath her, tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep