Chapter 453: Want to be a freeloader, but finally be decent

Inside the Ziyun Tower.

"I was wrong, Yaoyao knows she was wrong. Auntie, Sister Hongluan, please don't be mad at Yaoyao, okay?"

Tu Shan Yaoyao blinked her crystal-like eyes, looking weakly at Tu Shan Xinya and then at Ji Hongluan, her tone carrying a hint of flattery.

Tu Shan Xinya's heart softened upon hearing this. After all, this little fox had been raised by her, and she couldn't truly be angry with her for playing with fire. She stopped pinching Tu Shan Yaoyao's ears and instead used a spell to clean the soot off of her, then gently patted her bottom:

"If you dare to play with fire again, I will certainly not forgive you!"

Tu Shan Yaoyao yelped softly, pretending to be hurt, and reached out to rub her bottom incessantly.

Ji Hongluan was amused by Yaoyao's adorable appearance. She looked at Tu Shan Yaoyao and gave her a small warning:

"If Xiaohua dares to lead you astray again, this palace will have to consider whether or not to confine Xiaohua."

Tu Shan Yaoyao immediately became well-behaved, her little ears twitching non-stop, and said with a serious expression, "It won't happen again, definitely won't happen again, Sister Hongluan, please don't confine Xiaohua..."

"Alright, your auntie and Sister Hongluan are just joking. Yaoyao, come to Master!"

Xu Yang called out to Tu Shan Yaoyao.

Tu Shan Yaoyao's eyes lit up upon hearing her master's call, and she hopped over to Xu Yang. Xu Yang then placed a small stool in front of him. Tu Shan Yaoyao knew this was her spot, so she plopped down on the stool, sitting very properly.

As if she had thought of something, she suddenly turned her head and asked, "Master, did you bring Qitian back from the outside world? It's so cute, fluffy, and its eyes are like gems. Can I raise it, please?"

Qitian?

Everyone present felt unfamiliar with this name, unsure of what species this Qitian was, but according to what Yaoyao said, this Qitian should be a spiritual pet similar to the Little Golden Crow.

"Master, what is this Qitian?"

Yuan Kexuan asked this question on behalf of all the sisters.

Whether it was Ji Hongluan, Tu Shan Xinya, or the other sisters, they all focused their gaze on Xu Yang, as if wanting an answer.

Tu Shan Yaoyao quickly raised her hand, rushing to answer, "Yaoyao knows. Qitian is a little monkey, but it's not one of those annoying macaques. It doesn't steal things or rob people. It's very cute and very shy. Xiaohua and I gave it spiritual food, but it didn't dare to eat it!"

The reason Tu Shan Yaoyao said this about macaques was because there was a relatively large monkey group near Tu Shan. When Yaoyao was young, she accidentally got lost and wandered into the monkeys' habitat, where she was directly robbed by a group of macaques. All the spiritual food on her body was stolen. Fortunately, her auntie arrived in time to get her out safely. Of course, even so, it still caused a very large shadow in her childhood, and she had a deep-seated dislike for macaques. But when she saw Qitian, she didn't dislike monkeys at all, because Qitian was so cute, like a doll that Master had made for her, soft and cuddly, and looked very pleasant to touch, even more pleasant than Xiaohua.

Xu Yang smiled and added, "Qitian has the bloodline of the Qitian Demon Immortal flowing through its body. Its elders asked me to bring it to the outside world and requested me to take good care of it."

It's actually the bloodline of the Qitian Demon Immortal?!

Tu Shan Xinya's eyes narrowed slightly, somewhat startled. As a fox clan member, she had naturally heard of the name of the Qitian Demon Immortal. This was one of the few female demon immortals standing at the pinnacle of the demon race, second only to a few demon emperors in status, and revered by all demon races. Even to this day, many female demon races still regard her as an idol in their hearts, because her bloodline was ordinary, not noble. The effort required to step into the ranks of demon immortals was much greater than those from the great demon clans, even fraught with thorns.

Ji Hongluan had also seen the name of the Qitian Demon Immortal in ancient books, knowing that this was an extraordinary demon race. Her bloodline was bound to be extraordinary when she grew up. Then, she thought of the Little Golden Crow and the Nine Nether Sky Sable on Purple Cloud Peak, in addition to this little monkey. These two little fellows had pure bloodlines. In ancient times, their ancestors could even compete with dragons and phoenixes, extremely extraordinary. If they grew up, they would be of great help. Moreover, she had a strange premonition that in the future, there would definitely be more and more divine beasts like this on Purple Cloud Peak. By then, Purple Cloud Peak wouldn't even need disciples to come forward, and these spiritual pets and divine beasts alone would be enough to sweep away everything. Just imagining it made her feel incredibly powerful.

As for Situ Qingqing and the other disciples, they seemed less surprised, because they were used to it. Master's light was too bright, overshadowing the light of the so-called divine beasts and spiritual pets. In their hearts, not to mention the bloodline of the Qitian Demon Immortal, even if Master brought back a true dragon and phoenix one day, they wouldn't feel the slightest bit of a problem, because Master's charm was like that.

"So, Master, can Yaoyao raise Qitian? Yaoyao will definitely raise it to be fat and chubby!" Tu Shan Yaoyao's lively eyes flickered, looking expectantly at Xu Yang.

Xu Yang rubbed Tu Shan Yaoyao's head and said softly, "Yaoyao, you're still a little one yourself and need the care of your auntie and senior sisters. How can you raise Qitian well? How about this, Master can promise you that when you grow up, Qitian can be given to you to take care of. As for now, let's put it with Xiao Hei first. Although it's a beaver, it's second to none in taking care of spiritual pets."

Although she was rejected by her master, Tu Shan Yaoyao was not sad at all, but waved her fist, full of fighting spirit:

"Then Yaoyao will grow up quickly and strive to be able to take care of Qitian as soon as possible!"

"Good."

Xu Yang smiled knowingly.

After this little interlude, Xu Yang began to talk about serious matters, telling the people present who were particularly close to him about what he had encountered in the outside world, including the existence of alien races. Of course, he didn't reveal anything about Xu Tiandi, because the Heavenly Emperor involved great karma, and he didn't want to involve them unless necessary.

When everyone heard that alien races were corroding the heavens and earth, they widened their eyes, finding it both unbelievable and unexpectedly reasonable, because these beings who descended from the upper realm were actually treating the geniuses and monsters of their world as flesh and blood medicine, instead of carefully cultivating them. This approach was undoubtedly draining the pond to catch the fish, which sounded very outrageous, but it was an indisputable fact.

"Master, I suspect that the nobles behind these upper realm beings may be instructed by these alien races, or even that these nobles are alien races in disguise!"

Yuan Kexuan's expression was serious, and her voice was clear and cold.

"Yes."

Xu Yang also had this guess, and even his guess was even worse. The Heavenly Dao was corroded by alien races, and those so-called nobles in the Nine Heavens were either spokespersons for the alien races, or they were parasitized by the alien races. The reason why they haven't revealed their ferocious faces yet, and are using the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as livestock, is because there are still strong people resisting, causing these alien races to only be able to slowly corrode...

The others' faces were filled with grief and indignation upon hearing this guess. They had embarked on the path of cultivation in order to ascend to immortality, to live as long as the heavens, and to be able to keep up with their master's footsteps, to be by his side no matter how many years passed, never abandoning him. But these alien races were treating them as flesh and blood medicine, and when they were ripe, they would use a sickle to ruthlessly harvest them. This behavior was equivalent to treating this world as a pasture, and they were livestock, and those alien races were the farming landlords.

"Cultivation is inherently about fighting with the heavens for life. Even the heavens cannot take my life, so how can I be willing to fall into the hands of alien races and become nourishment to nourish them!"

Ji Hongluan's face was angry, her clothes puffing up with anger.

"Sect Master is right, we don't want to be any flesh and blood medicine!"

"The alien races deserve to die!"

"Are the alien races strong? I don't believe it. I will definitely cultivate to a higher realm and then blow up these alien races!"

"I'll go back and ask my close family elders to see if they know about the existence of alien races!"

"..."

Liu Beifeng looked at the excited senior sisters without saying anything, just clenching her fists and silently vowing in her heart:

"Senior sisters, Master, I will work hard to become stronger. I will definitely protect you and protect everything on Purple Cloud Peak!"

She regarded Purple Cloud Peak as her home, and her senior sisters and master as her closest family members. This was everything she had finally obtained, and she would never allow anyone to destroy it, not even alien races.

"So, the road is long and difficult, you can't take it lightly, you still need to work hard to cultivate and strive to stand shoulder to shoulder with Master as soon as possible, or even surpass Master. In that case, Master can lie down and eat your soft rice..."

Xu Yang made a joke, intending to ease the pressure on everyone.

But the speaker had no intention, and the listener took it to heart. Ji Hongluan's face suddenly turned red, and she glared at Xu Yang with her beautiful eyes, meaning roughly 'How dare you say such a thing with so many disciples present'.

Yuan Kexuan's ears were also red, because she was probably the one who was eaten soft rice the most on weekdays.

Situ Qingqing, Ruan Yuer, Qin Kewan, Xu Dongying, and Tu Shan Xinya all had different expressions, but their pretty faces all turned rosy at the same time, as if they had heard something extraordinary.

And Xue Jinli, who had never been eaten, couldn't help but glance down when she heard her master's words, and her expression suddenly became a little sad and indignant, sad and indignant and powerless. This was not her fault, it was inborn, what could she do? Did she really have to cultivate that kind of shape-shifting technique?

Tu Shan Yaoyao was young and didn't think deeply. When she heard that her master wanted to eat soft rice, she stood up from the stool with a thud and patted her chest:

"Master, don't worry, Yaoyao will definitely let you lie down in the future and let you eat soft rice!"

Liu Beifeng, who had not spoken all along, then said, "Master, like Senior Sister Yaoyao, I will work hard to cultivate and strive to let you eat soft rice as soon as possible!"

Liu Beifeng's words were sincere, without any other emotions mixed in. It seemed that she had a pure master-disciple relationship with Xu Yang, but in reality, only Liu Beifeng herself knew how fast her heart was beating when she finished saying those words, so fast that she could hear it, like a drum, beating wildly in her chest.

"Good, good, Yaoyao and Xiao Beifeng are so thoughtful." Xu Yang smiled particularly happily.

Ji Hongluan stared at Xu Yang for a while and found that she might have been thinking too much, and her cheeks gradually became a little hot, getting redder and redder. She thought:

"What's wrong with this palace, why is it getting more and more dirty... It must have been corrupted by this evil disciple!"

She naturally threw the blame on Xu Yang, because who told this evil disciple to tease her with ambiguous words from time to time, every now and then, which led her to develop a habitual way of thinking, and she would always think crookedly no matter what was said, so it was all Xu Yang's fault.

And Yuan Kexuan felt that it was okay, because no matter what, she had to let Master eat soft rice, whether it was ambiguous or in a normal context.

As for Situ Qingqing, she didn't care at all. She had read so many martial arts secrets, even if she was pure before, she had already been dyed.

Xue Jinli secretly breathed a sigh of relief, her chest not rising and falling much, and her originally sad and indignant mood suddenly disappeared, and she felt very happy, as if the road had turned around and the rain had cleared, thinking:

"So Master doesn't mean that, I'm thinking too much, hehe, I knew Master wasn't such a superficial person!"

"Okay, in order to be able to eat soft rice as soon as possible, Master has prepared a lot of things for you, all of which are cultivation resources that you can use!"

Xu Yang took out a portion of the treasures stored in the system space. This portion was all pre-divided by him, evenly distributed to each person, including pills, exercises, divine weapons, spiritual objects, and divine sources. Anyway, cultivation could use them all.

And Xu Yang gave Ji Hongluan and Tu Shan Xinya two more Sumeru rings, which contained massive amounts of cultivation resources. Although these cultivation resources were not of high grade, they were more than enough to cultivate clansmen and disciples.

After distributing the cultivation resources, Xu Yang began to impart knowledge and resolve doubts for his disciples. Over the past few months, all the disciples had encountered some problems in their cultivation more or less, and Xu Yang, as a master, could always provide the most correct solutions based on the problems they raised. Several disciples even broke through on the spot and improved several small realms after Xu Yang solved the problems.

This situation was completely within Xu Yang's expectations, because he knew very well that his eight direct disciples were all very talented, much stronger than those self-proclaimed noble beings from the upper realm. If they had enough resources and did not fall midway, he believed that his eight disciples would definitely become the strongest people in this world in the future.

Eight supreme experts!

By then, it would no longer be a dream for Xu Yang to eat soft rice!

The more Xu Yang thought about it, the more beautiful he felt. He looked at Ji Hongluan and asked:

"Little Hongluan, what about you?"

He had just subtly sensed Ji Hongluan's cultivation level, and compared to a few months ago, her cultivation speed was indeed a bit slow, so she must have encountered a lot of trouble in her cultivation.

Ji Hongluan raised her chin proudly, snorted, and said, "This palace hasn't encountered any cultivation problems..."

She did have some problems, but she still wanted to maintain the arrogance of the master and didn't want to lower her head and ask this evil disciple for advice, mainly because the position of the main wife was almost lost, and maintaining the dignity of the master was her last bit of face!

Xu Yang knew what she was thinking and didn't expose her, but was thinking that when they were alone, he would slowly help Little Hongluan solve the problem...