My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

The male cultivator turned back to Ruan Chayan and said, "Fellow Daoist, Xiao Wu said you smell particularly good and you seem very friendly. Did you bring some kind of bait for your spirit pet?"

"Please sell me some money, I really can't control my little tyrant anymore."

Ruan Chayan stroked Huajiao's back to soothe it, then shook her head upon hearing this: "No, my spirit beast doesn't eat those things, I've never bought them."

Surely your spirit pet doesn't also like to drink, right?

She couldn't think of any other scent that could be on her besides the smell of alcohol.

Sichuan peppercorns exploded again: {My wine! Mine! You! Let someone else hug you! And you're even giving it away?! My wine!}

Ruan Chayan: {Listen to me! It wasn't me, I didn't! How could there be other spirit beasts who like to drink alcohol!}

Don't get agitated! What's yours is yours, and no one will take it away.

The male cultivator patted the spirit beast pouch with a troubled expression: "Little ancestor, you heard it too, I don't have any snacks on me. When your mother comes later, can you ask her to share some glutinous rice with you?"

The spirit beast pouch twitched a few times, then finally settled down.

The male cultivator sat there, cupped his hands, and said, "My name is Kong Jiu. May I ask how you are addressed, fellow cultivator?"

Ruan Chayan returned the greeting: "Ruan Chayan."

Kong Jiu said knowingly, "You're the Second Elder's newly accepted disciple? Wow, your cultivation level seems quite high. No wonder you're the cultivator who triggered the phoenix phantom."

Ruan Chayan hesitated and said, "Why do all the people I meet seem to know so much about this?"

The male cultivator sitting in front of Ruan Chayan turned around and said, "How could I not understand? How often do we see someone with your aptitude?"

It was only when geniuses like Junior Uncle, Lin Zhuzui, Lu Xizhou, and Nan Huachao entered the sect that the Spirit Testing Pillar showed unusual phenomena. Now that your cultivation level is also very high, and you are now the Second Elder's personal disciple.

Given time, he will surely become another figure who dominates the charts and commands our admiration.

His tone betrayed his jealousy, and his words made those who heard them gnash their teeth with envy.

The female cultivator next to her sneered: "You should listen to your lesson properly. You know your aptitude is inferior to others, yet you sit here doing nothing and don't try. You deserve to be trampled underfoot by others for the rest of your life."

The two in front started arguing, and Kong Jiu sighed, "Junior Sister Ruan, don't mind them. That's just how they are. They're not bad people."

The two of them had some morals and were worried about disturbing other cultivators, so they only argued through telepathy afterward.

The two spirit pets kept glancing at Ruan Chayan, and because their master was in a bad mood, they were all baring their teeth and looking tense.

Ruan Chayan asked Kong Jiu in a low voice, "What kind of ranking are you talking about? What is that?"

Kong Jiu explained, "You may not know this since you're new here, but our sect has posted several lists in the Hongyan Hall to motivate our disciples to cultivate."

There are personal cultivation rankings, sect contribution rankings, past Dao discussion rankings, and so on. These rankings are basically dominated by inner disciples year-round, let alone direct disciples like you.

"I see." Ruan Chayan responded, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a dark shadow. She subconsciously reached out and grabbed it, and surprisingly caught a curly-haired little red dog with its tongue sticking out.

"Awoo! Awoo!" the puppy exclaimed enthusiastically, sticking out its tongue.

Ruan Chayan stared blankly at the puppy holding it up: Huh?

A female nun walked over unhurriedly, bowed, and said, "Excuse me."

"Si Yan, aren't you coming back yet?"

Ruan Chayan put the puppy Siyan on the ground. It whimpered a few times and sat down at the female cultivator's feet.

"Senior Sister Nan." "Greetings, Senior Sister Nan."

People around her greeted her in hushed tones, and Ruan Chayan returned the greeting, wondering if this was one of the geniuses they had just been talking about.

Nan Hua nodded: "Sorry to bother you."

She said to Ruan Chayan, "Come with me for a moment."

As Ruan Chayan watched Nan Huachao's retreating figure, she belatedly realized that Nan Huachao was talking to her.

She approached, carrying the peppercorns, wondering what Nan Huachao wanted to say to her. They had no prior interaction.

Nan Huachao waved her hand to set up a sound-absorbing array, cutting off their conversation.

Her attitude was somewhat aggressive: "What kind of evil cultivation technique have you been practicing? Even after coming to my Shiren Sect, you still don't know how to restrain yourself, causing strange movements from spirit beasts."

With such a huge accusation pinned on her, Ruan Chayan was speechless: "I didn't! What are you talking about, Senior Sister Nan? What strange behavior from a spirit beast?"

Nan Huachao's face was grim: "I was just looking after the spirit beasts in the spirit beast garden with the Grand Elder. Ever since you came to Moon Heart Bridge, the spirit beasts have been trying to get close to you, and they've all started making a ruckus."

It's one thing for a spirit beast to be unclaimed, but even my Si Yan said that you make it feel very close to you. You must have been practicing some kind of evil technique, how could you make a spirit beast behave this way?

What is your purpose in coming to my Shiren Sect?! Why aren't you telling me?!

Nan Huachao grew angrier as she spoke, and directly struck Ruan Chayan with the Binding Spirit Rope, intending to arrest her and punish her.

Ruan Chayan was surprised that her senior sister from the sect would suddenly attack her. She dodged the first blow with a somersault and used a hand seal to break the rope that was winding towards her like a venomous snake.

Xian Ge once talked about common methods of breaking the spirit-binding rope, because she was afraid that the two of them would encounter people like Qiao Hezhi, Gao Yuru, and Zhou Shuxiang again, and that once they were bound by the spirit-binding rope, they would be at the mercy of others.

Nan Huachao hadn't expected her attack to miss. The surprise attack, coupled with the Spirit-Binding Rope made by the Shiren Sect itself… How did Ruan Chayan know how to break the Shiren Sect's Spirit-Binding Rope?!

"Sichuan peppercorns! Don't move!"

Ruan Chayan stopped Huajiao from attacking and stuffed it into her spirit beast pouch.

The elder who was giving the lecture noticed the commotion and went towards them.

The Third Elder, Sun Yu, transmitted his voice to Nan Huachao: "Huachao, you were too impulsive."

Ruan Chayan thought about how Luo Hanying was usually so sarcastic and looked at Nan Huachao with neither humility nor arrogance, saying, "I don't know exactly what happened to make you go crazy like this, but our Shiren Sect has a Discipline Hall. It shouldn't be that we convict and torture people without investigating the specifics, right?"

"Nan Huachao, what do you mean? I know nothing and have been wronged. You'd better give me an explanation!"

Ruan Chayan realized from Nan Huachao's words that it was indeed due to the cultivation technique she was practicing. She hadn't expected that she would affect the spirit beast's impression of her so quickly. This thing wasn't something that could be turned off at will.

Since Nan Huachao thinks this is heresy, it proves that she is not the only one who thinks this way. In order to avoid any complications, Ruan Chayan has no choice but to insist that she knows nothing.

The cultivators in the surrounding classes turned their attention to the commotion. They watched the group silently, their thoughts exploding in their minds.