Mu Zixi recalled what Elder Sang had secretly told her that morning after the master-disciple ceremony: “By the way, you have a secret senior brother.”
Secret?
Her master actually had a disciple? She had a senior brother?
“Since my master is so powerful, this senior brother must also be very powerful!” she thought.
“Is the secret senior brother the kind of man who hides in the shadows, who’s secretive, calm, and cool and says few words but will come up and touch my head after I’ve done something wrong and tell me with a magnetic voice, ‘Don’t worry, I’m here for you?’
“Wow, this is great!”
She’d had rather high expectations for this secret senior brother, but after seeing Xu Xiaoshou, her dreams were shattered.
“Xu Xiaoshou, how could it be you?!”
To her, this guy only fit the “strange man” description in her fantasy, and the rest of the other adjectives could be removed.
“Don’t call him Xu Xiaoshou, called him Senior Brother!” Elder Sang suddenly appeared in front of her and struck his knuckles down. The little girl could do nothing but cradle her head in her arms.
“Hi, Senior Brother.”
“Cursed, passive point, 1.”
Xu Xiaoshou was amused. “What?” he asked while cupping a hand behind his ear.
Mu Zixi glared at him and exclaimed, her face white with fury, “Xu Xiaoshou, watch yourself!”
Bang!
Elder Sang struck his knuckles down again, and Mu Zixi said with tears in her eyes, “Hi, Senior Brother!”
“Very good.”
Xu Xiaoshou burst into laughter.
He was still surprised that his junior sister was Mu Zixi.
He’d first met this girl on the competition platform, where this violent girl had almost blown him up. She was pretty good with fighting control. If it wasn’t for that bad habit of hers, she would have expelled him from the platform.
However, it didn’t look like she had an Innate Level physique, so why did Elder Sang take her as a disciple?
Xu Xiaoshou was very curious.
Yet, Elder Sang didn’t care so much. He waved his hand and said, “All sit down.”
Having said that, Elder Sang took out his large tripod bathtub. Seeing this, Mu Zixi was shocked.
Xu Xiaoshou was amused and came closer to the bathtub and asked, “What does it look like?”
Elder Sang paused for a second but didn’t turn his head around, as he was obviously focused on the task at hand for the time being, and he still held a grudge against Xu Xiaoshou for the comment he’d made last time about his Magic Pill Tripod looking like a bathtub!
“This thing,” Mu Zixi paused, looking hesitant. “It looks like a Magic Pill Tripod.”
Elder Sang was pleased and glared at Xu Xiaoshou. But before he could say anything, the little girl went on to say, a cautious look in her eyes, “But aren’t we supposed to cultivate magic pills? What’s the point of taking this bathtub out?”
“Poo!” Xu Xiaoshou immediately burst out laughing. “Look, I told you this thing looked like a bathtub, but you didn’t believe me, old man.
“If it didn’t have three feet…” He trailed off mid-sentence, as the old man was glaring at him with a murderous look in his eyes.
Xu Xiaoshou wryly rubbed the back of his head and turned toward Mu Zixi. “Magic Pill Tripod!” he lectured her. “This is the Magic Pill Tripod! Don’t you have any sense?”
Mu Zixi rolled her eyes. “You think I’m stupid?”
Elder Sang’s eyelids twitched, and he said crossly, “This is indeed a Magic Pill Tripod!”
“Uh.”
The young girl’s pretty face seemed full of questions, and she glared back at Xu Xiaoshou.
Cursed, Passive Points +2.
“Okay, enough of this nonsense!” Elder Sang rolled up the sleeves of his robe. “I’ll make a load of magic pills first so you can see what you can learn.”
The large bathtub was placed underneath a large red bead. No sooner had Elder Sang’s hands reached out then the milky white exterior immediately started to warm up, giving off a reddish glow.
“It’s turning red?” Mu Zixi said while curiously reaching out her hand.
Xu Xiaoshou glanced at Elder Sang, who was cultivating the magic pills, and found that the old man obviously had no intentions of explaining this. As the senior brother, he had no choice but to take on this responsibility.
He pointed to a void below the tripod. “See that?”
“What?” Mu Zixi inclined her head and rubbed her eyes, but failed to see anything.
“Air?”
Xu Xiaoshou: “…”
“It’s the Infernal Heavens. The old man should have talked to you about it!”
But he suddenly realized something. He had the passive technique Sense, but this little girl did not!
“Try to see it with your spiritual thoughts.”
After one’s cultivation level broke through to the Origin Court level of the three innate levels, an origin court would be opened up in the brain, giving birth to spiritual thoughts.
Its role was similar to Sense, but one had to actively use it. Any passive effect was probably nothing but a danger warning.
Mu Zixi swept over the area with her spiritual thoughts and saw the invisible Infernal Heavens under the tripod. She was stunned!