Chapter 4 Stirring Up the Flames
Fifth Elder: I really thank you!
Li Bai was so frightened that she didn't know whether she should cry or not.
A while later, he let out a huge burp, almost blowing bubbles out of his nose.
"Pfft!" Lan Yue laughed uncontrollably and quickly took out a recording stone to give her senior brother a close-up shot.
[The eldest brother is so silly! I don't know what the author was thinking, making him the villain! Is there really such an adorable villain?]
Villain?
Li Bai scratched the back of his head, somewhat unsure what the word meant.
However, Lan Yue quickly moved on from her thoughts and focused on the sect leader's gossip.
"Senior Brother, let's talk quietly later, there are too many people here," Lan Yue said furtively from the side.
Li Bai felt the countless Daoist spiritual senses gathered around him, and his scalp tingled. He thought to himself, "There are so many people here! Everyone's spiritual senses are focused on this side. Only my junior sister is so carefree that she hasn't noticed yet."
"Or perhaps you shouldn't say anything, Junior Sister," he suggested nervously.
"Huh?" Lan Yue was looking for gossip and didn't hear clearly for a moment.
"It's alright, it's alright, Junior Sister, please continue, please continue." Li Bai shook his head repeatedly. He dared not say anything more, for fear that if he said a few more words, his master would reveal a few more embarrassing things.
He'll really cry then, and I don't even know where he'll cry anymore.
[Should we first look at the unavoidable details about the sect leader and his mortal enemy, or should we first check the female lead's position?]
Lan Yue hesitated in her heart. She thought that the sect leader's gossip was really intriguing!
When I read the novel, these things weren't mentioned. It mostly described the protagonist group's gradual progress. I didn't expect the Three Realms Gossip System to be so powerful.
There's one downside: while there's a lot of gossip and juicy tidbits on it, it takes her spiritual energy to read them.
She had only recently begun to cultivate Qi, and her spiritual awareness was pitifully low.
She read two pieces of gossip today, and they've already made her dizzy.
Damn it, looks like I still need to train harder, otherwise I won't even have any gossip to eat in the future!
This is simply unacceptable to a girl who's just watching the drama unfold!
[Never mind, let's check Nü'e's position first. Nü'e is so pitiful, waaaaah...]
System, where is the female lead right now?
Lan Yue couldn't help but ask the system in her mind, though she hadn't expected it to answer.
Since binding herself to this system, she's mostly been talking to herself here, and the system hasn't answered her much. She's almost resigned to her fate.
However, the next second...
[System: Almost there. The female lead is being bullied in the back mountains right now. We'll find some clues soon.]
Lan Yue: "!!!!"
[System, so you're still alive! That's really something, you finally spoke up.]
[System: If I'm not alive, will you still get to eat melons? You can't do without me, can you? (▼ヘ▼#)]
[Tongzi, you're right, I can't live without you!]
Lan Yue hugged the round, yellow little furball in her sea of consciousness and gave it a big kiss.
The system has stopped working; it seems to have crashed.
[Oh right, what were we talking about? My daughter's already at the back mountain. Holy crap, when did the female lead arrive?]
Lan Yue was so shocked she almost jumped up. She had waited for the main characters for so long, and finally the first person had arrived!
[What a pity, I can't even fly on a sword, even if I went, I'd just be a sitting duck...]
Lan Yue frowned, looking extremely worried.
[Sigh, I wonder when the sect leader will realize that he'll have to suffer like in novels, being tormented by others for a while first? That Nü'e is too pitiful! Wait, where's the sect leader? Where did he go?]
She turned around and found that the sect leader on the main seat had disappeared at some point, and even the surrounding elders were much fewer.
She's probably busy with something important. I heard that the sect leader has a lot to do all day long, dealing with all sorts of trivial matters, even busier than her high school homeroom teacher.
The system fell silent. The gossip system couldn't keep eating gossip forever, and this newbie who couldn't even fly on a sword couldn't save the female lead. Lan Yue could only idly prop her face up and watch the person below fight.
[This martial arts competition seems much more perfunctory than before. Could it be that with the sect leader gone, they don't want to bother with the formalities anymore?]
The familiar voice rang out, and those fighting on the stage almost vomited blood.
What do you mean they don't want to do the pretense anymore now that the sect leader is gone? It's just that the melon you spread was too sweet and they couldn't resist eating it!
How exactly did the sect leader and the Holy Son of Beiling meet? They wanted to hear more about their love-hate relationship and their complicated history!
Now that the sect leader is away, aren't you going to take a look at all the gossip about him?
[Strange, why are all the fights in the ring so limp, like they haven't eaten? Could it be that they exerted themselves too much last night?]
As soon as these thoughts were uttered, several elders flew down, their gazes fixed solemnly on the arena.
Under the stern gazes of the elders, those people dared not hold back any longer, and soon they were locked in a fierce battle.
[I knew it! This is the normal level of our senior brothers and sisters. I must have been half asleep and misread it.]
Lan Yue yawned as she mentally commented on the situation.
The group of people on the stage: "..."
Even though he knew his junior sister was praising them, he still felt very complicated.
"This senior brother in blue, with his left hook, strike while the iron is hot and finish him off!"
"Beautiful senior sister with the umbrella, when we summon the spirit rain, can we secretly add some ingredients to it? Then we can take down not only this one, but a whole group of them! From now on, we can just unleash our ultimate moves!"
"Another senior brother in black robes, our silver needles can not only be used for healing, but also as hidden weapons..."
"..."
There were five arenas in total, and Lan Yue encouraged them to fight on almost all of them. As a result, the elders who were monitoring the area noticed that the disciples who had been fighting peacefully just moments before suddenly became ruthless.
It's either a hidden dagger, a poisonous venom in the rain, or a brutal, visceral fight.
Each one is more ferocious than the last.
The elders watching silently added another layer of protective shield to the arena, and then quietly took a few steps back.
They glanced at the group of disciples locked in fierce combat within the protective shield, then looked at Lan Yue yawning not far away, their feelings becoming even more complicated.
It seems that although this person's talent for cultivation is not very good, he is really good at talking! With just a few simple words of provocation, he changed the atmosphere of the entire arena.
That's more useful than them keeping watch here all morning.
The elders were both amused and exasperated, and then they turned their heads again.
Oh wow, this little guy actually sat next to the Fifth Elder, tugging at his beard and falling asleep. He looked so well-behaved, you couldn't tell at all that he had just been stirring things up and fanning the flames.