I have a high-risk profession in the cultivation world.

"What's your name?"

"me……"

"Reporting to Master, I don't have a name yet. I only know that my surname is Luo."

"Luo Suichen, in my past life you told me to cast aside the past with the dust and be reborn. You're quite adept at using high-sounding words."

Luo Suichen lowered his head even further. From above, Chu Chenmu could only see his malnourished hair.

Chu Chenmu pondered for a moment, “‘Luo Chen has already followed the flowing water’. Since your surname is Luo, let’s take two characters from the poem and from now on you will be called Luo Suichen. This name also means to discard the past with the dust and be reborn from now on.”

Luo Suichen was overjoyed, his posture straightened, and his voice was filled with excitement, "Suichen thanks Master! Thank you for bestowing this name upon me!" But his heart remained calm.

[Xiaoyuan, did the male protagonist in this timeline actually reincarnate?]

[Reporting to the host: You have already been reborn.]

[Goodness, he deserves an Oscar.] Chu Chenmu calmly observed Luo Suichen, whose expression seemed genuine, and thought that even an Oscar might not be worthy of him.

Xiao Yuan didn't respond.

Staring at the kneeling figure of the boy before him, the solemn yet heartwarming scene inevitably stirred a sense of emotion in Chu Chenmu, who had barely managed to accept reality.

"I took you as my disciple because I was proud and arrogant, but making you kneel down is a matter of life and death for me."

Nonsense, this kid is a black-hearted sesame dumpling now. He kneels before me today, and I'll make him kneel up Mount Tai in the future.

I wonder if there's a Mount Tai in the cultivation world.

Thinking of this, he quickly said, "Get up. You follow behind me." He chuckled to himself, wondering what if he was too slow to tell him to get up, and then the other day he made him die two days later?

Chu Chenmu made another quick round, receiving confirmation of Luo Suichen's rebirth. He was somewhat distracted, and having not encountered anyone as exceptionally talented as Su Chengdian, he lost all interest in taking anyone else as a disciple. After exchanging a few pleasantries with the sect leader and other elders, he returned to Tianfeng with Luo Suichen and Su Chengdian.

Lingtian Peak is very high. Chu Chenmu's residence, Muchhao Courtyard, is at the summit, while the residences of Tian Yige and the other disciples are halfway up the mountain. If Chu Chenmu hadn't brought the two of them back on his sword, it would have taken them from now until dark to reach the summit on their own.

In his previous life, Luo Suichen had walked up Lingtian Peak from Wuji Palace, a journey that took him a full day and night.

……

Chu Chenmu took the two of them directly to his residence and then sent a message to Tian Yige, asking her to come over as well.

Tian Yige arrived quickly. After entering and paying her respects to her master, she asked, "Master, are these two your two new junior brothers this year?"

“That’s right. This is Su Chengdian, your second junior brother, and this is Luo Suichen, your junior brother.” Chu Chenmu then addressed the two of them, “This is your senior sister, Tian Yige.”

"Greetings, Senior Sister." The two greeted each other in unison, bowing with their hands clasped in greeting.

Unlike her attitude towards Chu Chenmu, Tian Yige only responded to the two of them with a single sentence and greeted them, her tone neither enthusiastic nor cold.

Chu Chenmu then instructed Tian Yige to take the two of them to an empty house halfway up the mountain to settle in, and then let the three of them leave together.

Tian Yige did not take the two directly to the disciples' residence on the mountainside. Instead, she first led them to collect what they were supposed to receive, and then returned to the mountainside of Lingtian Peak to arrange their accommodation.

This is the advantage of being a direct disciple: each of the three has their own independent courtyard, simple yet spacious.

Tian Yige said, "Master doesn't want to bother with trivial matters, so you two should start by cultivating according to the introductory mental cultivation method. Before reaching the third level of Qi Refining, there's no need to learn any techniques or sword moves. If you have any questions, you can come to me first."

After saying that, he turned and went back to his own courtyard.

Su Chengdian: ...I've arrived, Senior Sister.

……

Luo Suichen sat in the simple room that was exactly the same as in his previous life, looking at the package that each of the new disciples had in his hand, slightly lost in thought.

This was the first time he had ever seen such a package.

He casually opened the package, inside were two sets of disciple robes, the color of the Eastern White Sect, a sect map, a basic wooden sword, and an introductory cultivation manual.

In her previous life, after exhausting all her strength to reach Lingtian Peak, she learned that Chu Chenmu had already gone into seclusion, and Tian Yige only gave her an introductory mental cultivation method and sword techniques, a bottle of fasting pills, before leaving gracefully.

No one had told him that he could collect such a package that every new disciple received.

Back then, he only had the same tattered clothes he wears today.

……

But it doesn't matter, he doesn't care about these things now anyway.

He only cared about how to make Chu Chenmu, who was hypocritical and prejudiced against him, pay the price.

"Next, that person should go into seclusion. He'll definitely need to... "

A telepathic message interrupted his thoughts. A paper crane carrying a message landed in front of Luo Suichen, with Chu Chenmu's voice saying, "Suichen, come to my residence immediately."

Luo Suichen frowned, revealing a hint of disgust, and got up to walk towards the mountaintop.

……

After dismissing his three disciples... no, two disciples and a plague god, Chu Chenmu lazily lay half-reclined on the bed, sinking into his consciousness to communicate with Xiao Yuan.

[Xiaoyuan, what's the plot going to happen next?]

[Reporting to the host, you will soon be going into seclusion.] In the original story, after Chu Chenmu took Luo Suichen as his disciple, he immediately went into seclusion for two years.

[Ding! Triggered event: Two years of seclusion. Please complete the mission. Remaining time: 12 hours.]

[Why is there still time left? I have to start my seclusion within 12 hours?]

[That's right, host.]

Chu Chenmu felt that his system was even more aloof than him, offering no unnecessary explanations.

Seclusion...

He pondered to himself, "If I go into seclusion, won't my wicked disciple be neglected for two years just like in the original story? He was already a black-hearted dumpling, and after two years, won't his heart turn black as charcoal?"

Although he now possesses memories of his past life, Chu Chenmu still wants to change his perception of himself in some minor details.

Even if it's just a little bit, maybe it will make dying easier. Although he only traveled for half a day, the pain almost gave him nightmares.

Moreover, in the original owner's memories, he always felt that the original owner was not as Luo Suichen thought. At least in the earlier memories, the original owner was really quite upright and honest.

What if he tried to take Luo Suichen into seclusion with him?

"If I take him with me into seclusion, and we see each other every day for the next two years, he might change his opinion of me and give me a quick death."

Thinking of this, he took out a paper crane with a voice transmission function and called Luo Suichen over.

……

Then he got up from the bed and sat cross-legged on the futon in a proper manner.

Chu Chenmu sat on the futon for a long time without seeing him. He then remembered that he was still a mortal who hadn't yet achieved Qi Refining. Only after Foundation Establishment could one fly on a sword, and Lingtian Peak was extremely high; the journey from the mountainside to the summit was quite long. No wonder Luo Suichen hadn't arrived yet.