The Naughty Senior Sister
Recalling Jiang Nalan's True Nature

Tuk tuk tuk ....

Yan Xu tapped on the table with his index finger while placing his chin on the back of his right hand.

The handsome face with the aura of immortality was seen pondering, as if recalling an event that had long since passed.

"Original nature ... Jiang Nalan ...."

Yan Xu's murmur was too small, yet it could still sound a few words and the name 'Jiang Nalan' inside.

He closed his eyes slowly, then focused on the memories he had stored during his first encounter with the girl.

...

Two weeks took place after Yan Xu and Ye Miao'er officially became members of the Wind Peak led by Lan Xihe.

They always held a routine training schedule as usual very tight and hard, according to the nature of Lan Xihe's teachings.

Right now, Yan Xu was in the middle of training in the sword arts without any foundation. His teacher— Lan Xihe began to teach him the basics in mastering swordsmanship.

Yan Xu held tightly to a wooden sword with both hands, while Lan Xihe would attack from the front using his still sheathed white sword.

"Ready?" lan Xihe asked as she took an opening position, preparing to attack Yan Xu with killing intent like a starving savage predator.

Yan Xu gulped as he nodded, "Please come at any time, Master!"

"As you wish,— haa!"

Lan Xihe began to attack Yan Xu with a trajectory of sword slashes equal to the strength he had adjusted. Once Yan Xu was judged to be sufficient, his attack power would grow stronger over time.

Plaque! Bruk!

After several tens of slashes, Yan Xu's movements were still very stiff in defense causing Lan Xihe's sudden attack to change the trajectory of his right arm.

That way, the arm grasping the wooden sword lost its grip. Making the wooden sword flung a few meters away from the position Yan Xu was standing in.

"—Ugh!" Yan Xu groaned slightly and felt pain on the shoulder of his arm.

"Wrong! We've over a thousand times repeated this basic lesson, but your movements are still very rigid!" shouted Lan Xihe vigorously teaching.

Lan Xihe confirmed her position to her original posture, it was more appropriate to say that she was exemplifying the opening posture for the foundation of the swordsmanship she was teaching, more precisely, while Yan Xu had to pay attention to every movement while making defensive moves.

Blue bruises could be seen all over his body, he had also lost a lot of breath. The air circulation that was in and out of Yan Xu's body was somewhat chaotic after receiving the damage from Lan Xihe's attack.

Although it looked clearly battered, Yan Xu's spirit to learn was still not extinguished. At least, until he should be able to counterattack on his teacher once.

Yan Xu walked slowly towards the wooden sword that was thrown not far from him. After taking back his sword, Yan Xu again took a defensive stance with a sharp gaze straight towards Lan Xihe.

The gaze was as if saying, 'Shake me!'

Seeing that, Lan Xihe smiled widely and her passion for teaching had increased more than ever.

"— Came!"

With just that brief warning, Lan Xihe barged forward at a top speed according to what Yan Xu could see.

"First freedom!"

Lan Xihe used the same slash pattern as she had done before.

"—Hmph!"

Yan Xu defended with all his might until the moment the surface of his wooden sword and Lan Xihe's sword sheath met each other—

Buk up!

That single slash caused an extremely strong gust of wind for Yan Xu, making him have to be pushed back and create a deep trench with a distance of 1.5 meters from the starting position.

Not only that, Lan Xihe resumed her attacks.

"Good Enough! How about this, hum!"

The second attack still used the same slash trajectory.

Yan Xu immediately moved slightly to the side, strengthening his grip on the sword hilt and preparing the weight of his footing.

In the middle of the road, the trajectory of the sword that was supposed to lead to the side of the stomach turned towards Yan Xu's neck.

The corner of Yan Xu's mouth lifted slightly, "This time— won't be as easy as before!"

Yan Xu coated the surface of his body with qi energy, accelerating his body's movements to move into a proper defensive posture.

"— Unfortunately, it's still a million years too fast for you."

After saying that coldly, Lan Xihe also gave a little extra to her movements by kicking the side of Yan Xu's body.

"Ughhh!" Yan Xu's change of defensive posture became chaotic and the slash was increasingly rapidly pointing towards his neck.

Running out of other methods, Yan Xu weakened the knee that supported his weight so that he could fall to the ground and let the entire defensive posture he knew become a useless mess.

Arriving at the ground, he kicked the ground into Lan Xihe's face to outwit her movements.

"Huuh~"

Looking at the ground that wanted to touch her pretty face, Lan Xihe casually blew the land away so that it returned to its source using a little help of qi energy.

As the ground was heading back to its origin, Yan Xu had already moved aside and taken the opening position to perform the attack— just like Lan Xihe had done before.

If there was a difference, the current him only used that position according to his comprehension while observing every move Lan Xihe made in every hour of lesson.

'It is now impossible to imitate what is taught. If I use the same move, it is certain that Master will easily give a counterattack!'

".... —Stay use only according to the conditions," murmured Yan Xu slowly.

He channeled his qi energy in full on both his wooden arms and sword and gave a powerful slash towards Lan Xihe.

Sensing the sensation of danger— based on the level of strength he was suppressing, Lan Xihe immediately wrapped the hilt of her sword with white qi energy and resisted the attack from Yan Xu.

The two qi energies clashed against each other violently, causing a spark of energy like a colorful little fireworks.

Ignoring how beautiful the spark of color was from the clash of the two qi energies, both of them were still locked in the same position between the attacking and defending positions.

Their weapons trembled with each other, yet Yan Xu's was still seen trembling excessively rather than Lan Xihe's sword hilt.

From the audience position, Yan Xu was currently pushing his attack towards Lan Xihe even though it could kill the person he was attacking.

Otherwise, Yan Xu would not have been able to bring out the full potential of his attack!

Yan Xu growled with all his might, "—Still can ...."

He tried to cross the limit of the amount by which he could channel qi energy to other parts of the body and objects.

He strengthened his grasp and channeled his qi energy while shouting, "Haaaa!!!"

The qi energy that had originally merely enveloped both his hands and wooden sword, had now enveloped all parts of Yan Xu's body.

Even so, he was still unsatisfied that the attack power was not enough to repulse his teacher.

Yan Xu continued to strengthen his entire body with as much qi energy as possible until a few seconds later— ....

BRUK!

Lan Xihe finally used a little extra qi energy from before to repel Yan Xu so that he was flown several meters into the air. The difference was, Yan Xu was still holding the sword and landed with both feet despite being breathless.

Yan Xu's breathing was extremely rough and the flow of his qi energy began to churn, causing an unavoidable pain and fatigue.

Refusing to give up, Yan Xu tried to stand upright again while using the wooden sword as his body's weight support.

Both of his legs were still trembling as he tried to move, yet he still ignored him while smiling as if addicted to something.

"Teacher ... please continue— Ukh!"

Before he forced himself even harder, Lan Xihe used a soul pursuit technique to get to the front of Yan Xu.

He gently struck Yan Xu's head with his slender fist. Making Yan Xu's entire body become weak and collapse to the ground.

As his body was about to collapse touching the ground, Lan Xihe held Yan Xu with both hands and corrected his sitting position, awaken Yan Xu to the trunk of the great tree— where he always gives teachings to his students under the shade of the tree.

"Stabilize the qi energy on your dantian, then gulp down this healing pill," Lan Xihe gave a warm direction to Yan Xu and gave a yellow level healing medicinal pill of high quality.

Slightly groaning, Yan Xu immediately obeyed the orders of his teacher reluctantly, ".... Okay, Teacher ...."

While Yan Xu was making a recovery, back then Lan Xihe would give her oral teachings and evaluation.

"Now, you've reached the stage where a cultivator can channel qi energy throughout his body and other objects, other than himself."

"It should, it can only be done after you reach the realm of the foundation formation of the early stage. However, you have already given a new breakthrough and jumped to that stage, without reaching the realm that should be— or perhaps, precisely that is exactly what most ancient literacies in the world of cultivation hold in view."

Lan Xihe spat once then continued, "Ptoeey!— It's ridiculous just because most people can do that in the realm of early stage foundation formation, all ancient literary records claim to have reached the realm first before doing so."

"Well, anyway, you've managed to make one breakthrough that ridiculous predecessors who wrote that down in every ancient literary record that there was a— but!"

Lan Xihe smiled wryly and shook her head a few times, "You did that without hiding at all the intention to kill me, right?"

Yan Xu directly replied to Lan Xihe's sarcastic sentence without delay, "Of course, Master."

"Murid Naughty!— .. haaah~~ ...."

Lan Xihe immediately removed the urge to beat up Yan Xu while sighing deeply. He could not beat up his mischievous disciples too often for fear of causing injuries that were hard to heal.

Yan Xu also found out that his teacher was indeed an abusive woman, but on the other hand he was also someone who was gentle— so that his teacher was unlikely to cause permanent disability or attacks that could kill him, either, well that was the least in Yan Xu's mind.

Looking at the overly slow flow of qi around Yan Xu, Lan Xihe tilted her head feeling puzzled, "Are you still yet to determine the qi energy absorption method?"

Yan Xu nodded, "Right, Master."

Lan Xihe stroked her chin while pacing back and forth a few times, "Why? Aren't you already in the realm of fourth level qi condensation, the qi absorption method should have been determined since you can manipulate qi energy."

Hearing that, Yan Xu himself was also perplexed in answering Lan Xihe's question. While helping Miao'er who was being weakened by the medicinal effects, he naturally learned how to manipulate qi energy.

Every visit to the small library of Peak Wind, he had also studied various sorts of methods in the absorption of qi energy into the cultivator's dantian core.

The problem lies in how his body is unable to find a match to the various methods he sees in each literature, making Yan Xu unable to act rashly despite having studied the various types of methods he could find in the library.

He was still hesitant with his thoughts, so the wise choice was to wait for Yan Xu to speak up. Safe steps in hiding his biggest secret, every teaching must be done naturally with the element of surprise— so as not to cause suspicion from his own students.

After a while, Yan Xu finally ventured to open his mouth while preparing for the suspicion he would cause on the surface on the relationship between the teacher and the disciple they had.

"To be honest, Disciple still has not found a suitable method," Yan Xu said in a quite reluctant tone.

Lan Xihe nodded and said, "It seems like my guess is correct ..." she took out a book from her dimension storage bag and threw it at Yan Xu.

"—It was a qi energy absorption method called 'Qi Gong', it might have been his destiny that the second person who matched this method was my first disciple," Lan Xihe covered her mouth while giggling amusedly.

Yan Xu lowered his head slightly and noticed the book that was on his lap. With a hint of hesitation, he raised his head and directed an innocent expression at Lan Xihe, "Did Master not feel curious?"

"Curious? Why would I feel something so ridiculous?" lan Xihe asked as she followed along putting a plain expression on her beautiful face that was flawless like porcelain.

Yan Xu scratched the back of his head while timidly explaining, "Isn't it strange that Disciples don't match the existing methods? It was possible that the Disciple was just an ordinary human being who did not have any talent in cultivating."

"Omong empty."

Instantly Lan Xihe's face turned cold and the air around her was somewhat gripping.

"Eh?" Yan Xu was stunned by the sudden change in atmosphere.

Regardless of Yan Xu's shock, Lan Xihe spoke again.

"Talent or whatever it is, you don't have to have it. If you want to do something, just do it with all your heart. Whether you can or not, what about the end result, it's nothing to think about while enjoying the process!"

Lan Xihe changed her expression to become warmer and placed both of her slender hands behind her back while gazing towards the clear sky.

"The curiosity you're saying isn't very important."

Yan Xu ventured to ask in the strange air around them, "Why, Master?"

Lan Xihe turned around with a beautiful smile on her face as she said, "Because you are unique. Why bother thinking about things that are not important just because they are different from others? That means, you have things that they don't have and that's worth being grateful for."

Thump!

Hearing such a powerful and extremely glorious enlightenment, Yan Xu kowtowed in front of Lan Xihe by banging his forehead violently on the ground.

"Teachers have very broad insight and vision, the horizon of knowledge as well as the way of view of the Disciple has really been updated today! The students are so grateful!"

"O-oh, as long as you get the essence of that explanation, aha-hahaha ...."

Lan Xihe scratched her flushed cheeks from feeling a little embarrassed, but the embarrassment was soon covered by the relief over the open-mindedness of her scheming mischievous disciple. In other words, he could say that all sorts of things he took out of the system function were unique and different from others.

'Alibi is perfect in the secret concealment of the system.'

Lan Xihe smiled cunningly in her heart as she looked at Yan Xu who was still in a prostrate state with a feeling of gratitude, when viewed from the outside.

...

After the training session was over, Lan Xihe then moved to Miao'er's side and left Yan Xu alone.

Observing around, Yan Xu immediately returned to the hut and checked if there were any tappers a few times until it felt safe.

Ensuring that there was not a single eavesdropper, Yan Xu sat on the bed staring straight at the entrance.

A crooked grin appeared on his handsome face, he was unable to endure the strange feeling he was unable to explain and felt quite pleasant inside him.

Subconsciously, he began to laugh out loud as if there was something funny that could shake his stomach. He continued to laugh out loud until he let out tears from both sides.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! .. Damn, remembering Master's words made my stomach even more ticklish. Seriously, I also want to try to echo that sentence if there is a situation that supports— bah!"

The small mutter and crooked laughter grew even bigger, as well as Yan Xu still not caring about the surroundings. He still laughed at himself, reproaching himself for unnecessary fear.

Having a mysterious immortal body, was tantamount to having a cheat that every cultivator craved. A carelessness allowed others to become suspicious of his body as it did not fit into various cultivation methods.

For that as well he had prepared various kinds of excuses to convince the other party. However, all of it was futile because beyond her expectations, Lan Xihe did not care at all— made her excessive fear look extremely ridiculous.

'How can I withstand this silliness of lack of self? Haah~~ ....'

After being content to laugh at his own silliness, a few moments later he began to calm down while holding a book given by his teacher during the exercise.

With his distinctive crooked grin like a villain character yet still looking very handsome, he read the book carefully.

A black wrinkle appeared on Yan Xu's forehead as he began to drift away in reading every sentence in the book.

If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then the body is the window of the universe.

An unparalleled purity of nature, it can be absorbed into the universe and form various pure and abundant streams upon a formation.

".... Hmmm .. purity .. the body is like a universe that holds a great amount of a pure essence of nature ...."

Yan Xu began to study the meaning contained in the sentence in order to gain enlightenment.

However, after several hours of studying it, he was still unable to gain enlightenment at all so his head felt dizzy.

Sighing heavily, he threw himself onto the mattress and placed the book on his body that was lying on his back facing towards the roof of the hut.

"I'm really still a long way off in understanding the strange meaning of the sentence contained in this book," Yan Xu muttered feeling a fatigue that exceeded his limits.

Both of her beautiful eyelids started to fall completely closed because they could not withstand the mental fatigue due to the practice as well as the learning from the Qi Gong method book.

...

After losing consciousness, black darkness began to envelop Yan Xu's entire vision.

Within his own subconscious, Yan Xu immediately realized that he had fallen asleep in the real world.

He was curled up in endless darkness, his eyes had already lost color and left behind the shadow of a desperate handsome prince. It was undeniable that Yan Xu had the perfect maximum charm, just like that, wanting any expression he wore would always look incredible in the eyes of others.

"Once again, I entered into an innate nightmare state of life on Earth."

Yan Xu began to cover both of his ears, while preparing whatever he could because of the maki maki cuss sound of the entire person towards him as Yan Shen— as well as Yan Xu— slowly drew closer.

Before the furious sound waves reached him, a streak of white light as holy as snow descended from the sky and shone on Yan Xu's body that was still curled up while covering both ears.

That light not only shone an endless darkness on his dream, but it provided warmth as if someone was embracing the body of Yan Xu— where he really needed help.

"Mc ...."

A slight gentle groan shot out from Yan Xu's mouth, indicating that he was comfortable with the warmth that the light was sharing. He changed his position to lie on his back, while facing the dark ceiling in the absence of any existence.

Thanks to the help of the light that was enveloping all parts of his body, Yan Xu was able to clear his mind and heart from the fear and regret of life on Earth that was too excessive.

His mind was in a state where he could think, encouraging his curiosity to move to learn what was currently going on. He tried to perform a demonstration like channeling qi energy into his body.

"Ughhh!"

The pain like being hit by a blunt object was felt at the dantian point of Yan Xu. Most likely because the physical body in the real world also unconsciously follows what he is doing.

"If there's an award for delirious people in old age, maybe I can get a gold medal at every award."

Yan Xu chuckled amusedly at the condition that he felt was a bit untrue since only this time did he feel it.

He tried to move from his position, looking around filled with darkness, without anyone filling every corner.

"It's rare to have a dream with a private room for training like this, is it possible that I try training here?"

Gaining enlightenment, Yan Xu began a vague experiment in training the Qi Gong method.

"Imagine this body is the universe ...."

While focusing his entire mind on the center point of his dantian, Yan Xu cast a shadow that the center point was like a sun that was in the middle of the rotation of the various planets surrounding it.

"Absorbing the purest essence .. creating an early formation of the universe .. of untouched purity ...."

The various dantian points on Yan Xu's entire body began to glow with an extremely rapid change of color.

At this point, Yan Xu felt an extremely strong pressure on his body, yet he did not choose to give up before— ....

"Yes!"

He gasped in shock and immediately got up from his sleep, then looked around the hut and Lan Xihe from afar was shaking her waist, looking at him full of anger. Lan Xihe's deadly killing intent made her forget the existence of the Qi Gong method book that she had always held until she fell asleep had disappeared.

"You ... What did you do to destroy your own hut, huh?!" lan Xihe shouted in anger.

Yan Xu immediately knelt down with both feet while feeling an enormous crisis, "Gu-teacher! Mu-student can explain the situation—aiya!"

"No need for an explanation, you must accept your punishment!"

Not yet able to explain, Lan Xihe pulled her ears roughly and carried her under the shade of a large tree. Not to forget also he immediately recovered the damage to his mischievous disciple hut while walking away.

From afar, there could be the sound of cries for help and pain from a man and the collision of blunt objects as well as some phenomena of qi energy clashing against each other.

Although Yan Xu had destroyed the hut he lived in, it was certain that the Qi Gong method somehow managed to master mysteriously thanks to the experiments in the subconscious, surely with the help of the light that kept him away from the nightmares of the day.

...

After being satisfied with beating Yan Xu, Lan Xihe kicked the naughty disciple immediately to return to his hut.

Making sure that she was far away, there was a gentle and sweet smile from Lan Xihe's mouth.

"I was worried about the first attempt to hand out an item from the system, but it was unexpected that he was so lucky to be able to master it in sleep, even without the help of the system."

He giggled in light of Yan Xu's silly expression of confusion in a state of slumber while shrouded in the aura of the Qi Gong method book, where the book was actually an item that came from the function of his system.

"Well, whatever it is, as long as it works, not a problem~♪"

Not long after saying that, a notification menu appeared in his field of view.

"Ding!♪ Congratulations! Student «Yan Xu» has mastered the method [Qi Gong], Get ↑ ...... Points and ↑ ..... Experience!"

"Yaay~!♪" Lan Xihe jumped happy like happy kids for getting new toys.

With that feeling of happiness, he did not care about the fact that what he taught was a technique where only himself could use it.

Coupled with Yan Xu, there were now only two people who could use the Qi Gong method in Xuanyuan realm.

Lan Xihe: "Points are already filled up a lot, it's time to do the lottery! (≧▽≦)"