Bound to Mary Sue, I am against involution in the world of immortal cultivation

"The helper you mentioned...could it be him?"

A few days later, Ling You walked out of the small kitchen and looked at the person sitting opposite Fan Ning with an expression that was hard to describe.

"Let's not talk about why he's here... just considering his identity," he frowned, placing the still steaming snack in his hand on Fan Ning's right hand, his tone still a little baffling, "It's not enough for you to have dug up all the resources of the Qingyun Sect, you're even targeting other people's disciples?"

"Does the master know that you are so casual?"

"No, I came here voluntarily," Gu Yuanzhou smiled bitterly, his eyes fixed on Fan Ning's lowered eyes, feeling somewhat helpless: "Miss Fan Ning didn't even let A Zheng go, so how could I possibly just stand there and wait?"

Fan Ning blew away the hot steam coming out of the teacup, raised his eyes slightly, and smiled.

"Don't act like I'm forcing you. I just sent Miss Qin Mingzheng an invitation."

Ling You sat down beside her, glanced at the frustrated weapon refiner genius, and commented sharply: "You knew to chase after someone who had left?"

"Isn't it the first day she left you? It's just an invitation letter. Why are you acting like Fan Ning is trying to steal your Taoist partner... Oh, I forgot. You don't have this kind of relationship yet."

Gu Yuanzhou was speechless.

Ling You has always disliked the way he clearly wants to say something but is cowardly and unwilling to speak. Seeing that he wants to secretly blame Fan Ning, the expression on his face becomes even more ferocious.

"What were you doing this morning?" He raised his eyelids and poured a new cup of hot tea into Fan Ning's empty teacup.

Gu Yuanzhou's eyes looked even more lonely. He looked at the two people in front of him who were particularly compatible. He opened and closed his lips again and again, but in the end he didn't ask a complete question.

"I understand," he said, suppressing the bitterness in his heart. He suddenly looked at Fan Ning, who was eating snacks, sincerely and said, "Let me stay here. I will do whatever you want me to do."

Ling You was not happy and raised his voice: "Stay here?! I didn't even stay here, what are you doing here..."

Gu Yuanzhou explained: "A Zheng is staying here temporarily..."

Ling You didn't listen, turned around and stared at Fan Ning who was smiling.

"Do you really want him to live here? There's only you and Jiang Biehe here..."

"With his small body, can he beat me or Senior Sister Jiang?"

"But if it gets out like this..."

"It won't get out. Even if it does, won't someone else be the one to worry?"

Ling You was at a loss for words, his brows furrowed, and he looked even more unhappy.

"Weren't you the one who rejected my invitation first?" Fan Ning found it amusing, and without caring that there was a frustrated person standing opposite him, he raised his hands and pinched the soft flesh on his face, smiling, "It was you who said you wanted to practice with Master, and that living here would be inconvenient..."

"I was——"

It was just a casual refusal! Ling You was a little angry, but he was unwilling to reveal his heart to her completely.

"...You didn't expect that I didn't try to stop you at all, did you?"

The corners of Fan Ning's lips curled up a little more, and he calmly pinched the two lumps of soft flesh and pulled them, "What do you mean, do you regret it now?"

Ling You didn't say anything, but the thorns on his body that were erected with vigilance softened a lot.

The system couldn't bear to watch and couldn't help but jump out to condemn its own host: [There are people watching on the other side! Shouldn't you guys pay attention to the situation?]

What’s the difference between this and serving a fake banquet in front of someone who can’t even afford to eat?

[Noisy,] Fan Ning pinched his ears, not taking the system's words to heart at all. He even took the initiative to glance at Gu Yuanzhou and said, "If you really can't stand it..."

"Then just close your eyes."

Fan Ning said seriously, "Although Miss Qin Mingzheng will be living here later, she probably won't soften her attitude easily."

Gu Yuanzhou: "..."

Gu Yuanzhou, whose pain point was touched again, closed his eyes tiredly.

"What about you? Anything else to say?"

Fan Ning let go of his hand, his eyes swept across the two red spots that he had pinched, and he picked up a piece of hot osmanthus cake and put it to his mouth.

"Then I'll come live here too," Ling You said, feeling a little uncomfortable. He looked around but refused to meet her gaze. "...After all, you like the cakes I make, so I was planning to come over often anyway."

Fan Ning smiled and indulged him lazily: "Okay, then can we have lotus cake tomorrow?"

Ling You: "...Where did Yueli Sect get the lotus? Wait, you're not interested in the one that the Third Elder just brought over, are you?"

He paused, trying to hear a negative answer from the person in front of him.

but.

Fan Ning, who was refused reception by the Third Elder two days ago because he had fattened up the crane, nodded modestly at this time.

She even had a reason: "I was passing by when I was dealing with pills... There were so many lotus flowers in that field, I probably wouldn't be noticed if I just picked one, two, three, four, or five."

Ling You: “…”

Putting aside the fact that she had obviously planned this for a long time, just the phrase "dealing with the pills" is worth pondering.

After sending away the people in the secret realm that day, Fan Ning suddenly changed his mind and opened the secret realm and placed it in the back mountain of the master. Although he only opened the Mirror Lake, he used the excuse of "defeating himself".

With the Sect Master blazing the trail ahead, along with Soul Cultivator Chucheng and Huiyue Sword, they are watching over the autumn scene at Mirror Lake...

The monks who enter may not live very well, but they will definitely not die.

In actual operation, Fan Ning not only suppressed the evil in Jinghu Lake by allowing the monks from Yueli Sect to enter, but also earned a lot of ticket spirit stones.

Even the subsequent recovery pills made a lot of money.

And these spirit stones turned into strange and bizarre medicinal herbs... They were not poisonous, but they became the cause of Fan Ning's harm to the cranes.

After all, the crane is not an ordinary little animal and can resist the effects of medicine to a certain extent and digest the spiritual energy in it?

"Didn't you say that Senior Sister Jiang was teaching you how to make fasting pills recently?"

Just a few fasting pills... There won't be anything wrong with this, right?

"In theory, yes," Fan Ning pinched her chin, confirming Ling You's firsthand information. Then, she added with some distress, "But the fasting pills on the market are too bland, so I made spicy chicken flavored ones. Maybe I put a little too much chili... Senior Sister said that the disciples who came to buy the pills couldn't accept it."

Ling You: “…”

Ling You was sweating profusely: "...So?"

"So I fed it to the cranes," Fan Ning said, spreading his hands and speaking confidently, "You know me. I don't have any bad intentions, and it's not poisonous... I just didn't want to waste it."

Ling You felt that this was not possible. He remembered the rumor of "cranes breathing fire" that he had faintly heard when he went up the mountain today.

It is known that the rumor has reached the point where "the crane has become obsessed with work and is furious"...

"No, forget about the lotus cakes." Ling You thought of the Third Elder's serious and terrifying expression and twitched his lips. "Others might not be noticed if they picked two, but you—"

"The alarm will sound as soon as you enter the Third Elder's territory."