Watch out! Something's wrong with this guard.

As dusk fell and the first snow of winter began to fall, all the elementary students left the mountain and headed back to their lodgings at the foot of the mountain.

Rather than an area, it was more like a small town where elementary school students gathered. Although it couldn't compare to the exquisite beauty of the mountains and the houses weren't particularly nice, it was already quite good for many people who were originally struggling to make ends meet.

For Lu Yunshi, this place wasn't bad. Although he was never hungry, he was never picky about where he lived.

Lu Yunshi's house was very simple. It was a thatched hut surrounded by a small courtyard and a small kitchen that could only accommodate one person. Inside the house, there was a bed, a table, and a bookcase. That was all.

"Sigh~" Lu Yunshi, who was sitting at the desk, did not make any extra movements. Instead, he lay on the table as if he had no bones.

"How boring!" Lu Yunshi exclaimed after a long while.

But such boring days are nothing to worry about.

Lu Yunshi has no relatives or friends. In the unrememberable past, he may have been embraced and nurtured with love.

But he couldn't remember. Unlike other transmigrators, he didn't have memories from the womb. Those inexplicable memories are still fragments that he can't piece together even now.

Aside from perhaps being more precocious than other children, Lu Yunshi was not particularly special.

However, Lu Yunshi couldn't say for sure whether this was because he was living a second life or because of his subsequent experiences.

After that, he remained a guard.

How can someone without strength act as a bodyguard?

Lu Yunshi was unaware of this, but since he had already taken on this role, he accepted his fate of being chosen.

Aside from dealing with a somewhat emotionally unstable kid, this path is relatively stable, though boring, but acceptable.

I guess it wouldn't matter if I lived like this for the rest of my life.

Perhaps it's just a peaceful life, and then suddenly, somewhere, no one cares, and the end comes.

If that's the case, can I have a third chance?

Hmm... let's not.

As he pondered, Lu Yunshi slowly closed his eyes, as if he was about to fall asleep. The amount of activity he had done today was still too much for him.

First, he was beaten up, and then he fought with Xiaomei, which was beyond his ability to withstand.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. Lu Yunshi's unfocused eyes cleared the moment he heard the sound, and he immediately stood up and said in a calm tone.

"Come in!" As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yunshi's door was pushed open, and a man walked in with a worried expression.

"Boss, something bad has happened."

Lu Yunshi frowned slightly. "Calm down!"

Upon hearing Lu Yunshi's words, the man who entered paused for a moment. Although his expression was still anxious, he remained silent for a few seconds as Lu Yunshi had instructed, silently rehearsing his words before speaking.

"Boss, Zhao Dali went to cause trouble for Brother Ba and tried to steal something."

"Rob what? It's not the time to distribute resources yet," Lu Yunshi asked curiously.

"He said that the myna bird stole his earthworm ginseng, and now he has surrounded the myna bird with his men. The myna bird clearly found the thing himself, but this bastard just glanced at it and claimed it as his."

The man glanced at Lu Yunshi as he spoke, then continued.

"I originally wanted to help Brother Ba directly, but even with me, I'm afraid we're no match for Zhao Dali. After thinking about it, I decided to come and find you, Boss, first."

"Earthworm Ginseng..."

Every so often, the academy would distribute a certain amount of resources to the beginners. However, the beginners would not be satisfied with just the resources provided by the academy, so they would often go out to the mountains not far from the academy to look for spiritual herbs that could be used for cultivation whenever they had time.

Earth Dragon Ginseng is considered one of the better ones, at least for body-tempering cultivators, its effects are quite good.

"But the earth dragon ginseng... it probably won't be very effective for Zhao Dali, who is about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, right?"

There was also infighting among the elementary students. The resources provided by the academy would never increase; they would always remain the same, and everyone wanted to have more.

Coincidentally, although the academy provides resources, it does not actually distribute every resource to every elementary student. Instead, it places them in a specific location for anyone to take.

Lu Yunshi couldn't understand the academy's attitude. Since they had decided to recruit students from outside, they should have done a better job.

But they did nothing about it, and even when people like crabs tried to take advantage of the resources originally intended for elementary students, no one paid any attention.

This approach is more like inciting conflict among elementary school students, making them fight each other for things.

It can be described in two words.

Raising Gu!

The practice of forming cliques arose after internal struggles among elementary school students.

There are many elementary students, so there are also many groups that come together, some large and some small.

Zhao Dali is the leader of a relatively strong group. His late-stage Body Tempering realm is not weak among the elementary students. He also frequently defecates and urinates on the faces of the other elementary students.

But this time, the trouble was directed at Lao Ba, which still surprised Lu Yunshi.

Although some of them were considered by the elementary students to be outside of a group, thanks to their methods, no one had ever caused them any trouble.

"Time waits for no one, let's go take a look first, Lao Jiu!" Lu Yunshi said to Lao Jiu without much thought.

"Hey!" Old Jiu's face lit up with joy, and he immediately followed Lu Yunshi out of the house.

The journey, which should have taken about ten minutes, was quickly completed thanks to the two's deliberate speed. Lao Ba's house was surrounded by more than a dozen people. Although these people were only at the early stage of Body Tempering, they were already troublesome when they joined forces. With Zhao Dali himself added to the mix, it was no wonder that Lao Ba, who was at the mid-stage of Body Tempering, couldn't even get out of his own house.

Lu Yunshi withdrew his gaze from the dozen or so people and looked towards Lao Ba's doorway, where the two stood facing each other.

The person inside was naturally Lao Ba, while the one outside was Zhao Dali.

"We've been here for a while, not a long time, but not a short either. Are they just going to watch us like this?" Lu Yunshi asked, looking at the person beside him.

"Well... anyway, when I saw them, they were already like this. Zhao Dali didn't do anything, and of course, my Eighth Brother didn't dare to do anything either."

Then, Lao Jiu recounted in detail everything he had seen from beginning to end.

"Heh." Lu Yunshi laughed after hearing Lao Jiu's description.