Filthy Cultivation: I Pierced the Heavens with the Merit System

Upon hearing this, Li Fuyao turned around and saw the young man in red, surnamed Xia, raising his fist amidst raging flames. She quickly protected the fruit plate in her hand and dodged to the side.

Seeing that the boy missed his target and was about to get up and try again, she held the fruit plate in one hand and used her Sharp Metal Palm technique in the other to deliver a resounding blow to him without any hesitation:

"It's endless, right?"

Li Fuyao's expression turned cold as she looked at the three of them. She casually placed the fruit plate she was holding on the table beside her, looked at the boy who had been slapped so hard he rolled twice and was now sitting on the ground clutching his face, and asked in a deep voice:

"What, I'm just too lazy to pay attention to you, and you think I'm easy to bully?"

"Do you have to pick a time when someone's in a bad mood to invite a beating?"

She glanced at the astonished and indignant boy in red, then swept her gaze over the girl with the necklace and the short, chubby boy, and sneered:

"These are the scions trained by the three major families?"

"It's one thing to bully others by forming cliques, but you're also stupid, wicked, and ridiculously incompetent. So what if I look down on you?"

The girl and the short, chubby boy looked slightly resentful, their lips trembling as if they wanted to say something, but they kept quiet out of fear of Li Fuyao's just-revealed skill. They could only lower their heads and hurriedly step forward to help the boy in red back.

"Let go! Who needs your help!"

Unexpectedly, the red-clad youth shook them off and, with half his face swollen, shouted at Li Fuyao:

"Our three families have made great contributions in this demonic cultivator turmoil! What right do you have to hit me? What right do you have to look down on people?!"

Seeing this, the young girl Yingluo mustered up her courage and shouted that she would go and tell Elder Ye.

Only the short, chubby boy who had just spoken up looked cautious. Seeing Li Fuyao's indifferent expression and Bai Suifeng stopping his practice and walking towards them, he hurriedly tugged at his partner's sleeve, trying to get them to leave quickly.

"There are three of us, Zhou Baogui, what are you afraid of?"

With her beloved humiliated and injured, the short, stout boy wanted to leave, but Yingluo refused. She flung Zhou Baogui's hand away, pulled out a long red whip, and lashed out at Li Fuyao.

"You dare hurt Brother Xia? I'll make you pay!"

"Do you need to tell me she's pretty?"

As Bai Suifeng spoke, he quickly leaped forward, grabbed the end of the whip, and pulled the girl until she stumbled:

"That brat dared to lay a hand on my sister, a slap in the face is too lenient! Who do you think you are, daring to stand up for him?"

After saying that, he raised his long leg and kicked hard, leaving a shoe print on the face of the red-clad boy who was glaring and throwing punches:

"You brainless good-for-nothings! My sister earned her merits through her own hard work. What right do you people who rely on your family have to bark like dogs?"

The boy in red stopped barking because Bai Suifeng didn't soften his stance and stop like Li Fuyao.

Seeing their friend fall to the ground, the other two panicked.

Knowing they had met their match, they lost their initial arrogance and, under Bai Suifeng's cold gaze, carried the red-clad boy away in a disheveled manner.

"Hey, the mute guy can talk now?"

Li Fuyao crossed her arms and stared at Bai Suifeng with a half-closed gaze, then sneered in a sarcastic tone, "What are you doing here?"

"Why do you think I came here?"

Seeing that the three people had disappeared, Bai Suifeng turned around impatiently, picked up the fruit plate with one hand, and pulled Li Fuyao by the other, heading towards where she had just been resting.

"You just leave when someone tells you to, but why are you so nice to others?"

He slammed the fruit plate down on the table, his face full of resentment, and glared at Li Fuyao, who was forcing a smile.

"And me? How could you bear to ignore me for so many days?"

"Two and a half days, a full two and a half days!"

Bai Suifeng raised two fingers and angrily accused:

"You haven't comforted me after all this time! Do you even consider me your older brother?!"

"But you were wrong that day. I only got angry with you because I considered you my older brother. Would you think I acted like that with anyone else?"

With the Cold War thawing, Li Fuyao wisely stopped while she was ahead, pulling him down to sit and offering a serious analysis:

"It was my idea to tidy up the yard and give it away anyway. It's fine if you don't want to help with the work, and it's normal if the gift doesn't suit your taste. Even if you complain, I know that's not what you really meant."

"What really makes me angry is that you don't even want to walk, but you want someone to carry you."

Li Fuyao chuckled at Bai Suifeng's suddenly widened eyes, then immediately became serious and said earnestly:

“I told you at the auction that you need to change your spoiled attitude, but you still want someone to carry you even for something as trivial as not wanting to walk.”

"Have you thought about this? We haven't even entered the Yanjian Sect yet. If we hire someone to hold you, and this prolonged contact is noticed by someone with ulterior motives, how much risk would that bring to us?"

"But, but I didn't say I was going to find someone else."

Bai Suifeng looked at Li Fuyao with his puppy-dog eyes drooping, feeling wronged. After all these events, he had a pretty good understanding of Li Fuyao's personality. In order to avoid any more misunderstandings, he suppressed his shyness and explained:

“I lost everything when I fell, except for the Qiankun Spear, which you helped me retrieve. I don’t have anything to give you as a gift, but remembering how much you liked my beast form, I thought I’d give myself to you.”

Seeing Li Fuyao so embarrassed that sweat beaded on her forehead, Bai Suifeng added another pitiful blow:

"And I really love your gift. I've actually been sleeping with it these past two days."

Bai Suifeng took out a white wolf doll from his storage bag, hugged it to his chest, looked at Li Fuyao with a forlorn expression, and said in a low, soft voice:

"I said that because you like my beast form, and I wanted to fulfill your wish, but I was too embarrassed to say it directly, so..."

OMG!

Look what I've done!

Li Fuyao quickly covered Bai Suifeng's mouth and apologized repeatedly, a wave of guilt washing over her.

damned!

Compared to the sincere heart in front of her, her self-righteous cold war these past few days was like a greasy, unreasonable, and brainless father figure!

How could she doubt the sincerity of a little wolf!

Bai Suifeng listened to Li Fuyao's soft, apologetic voice and her remorseful words, then pretended to be heartbroken and turned away to hide his smile.

Haha, he'd already figured out that his little sister responds better to gentle persuasion than force!

I knew this trick would work! ヽ(￣▽￣)?

He happily swallowed the apple that Li Fuyao fed him, then smiled and picked up the jujubes from the fruit plate and handed them back. Li Fuyao accepted them with great gratitude and immediately picked up another item to feed him.

The awkwardness between the two was gone, and they sat knee to knee, as intimate as real siblings.

With each feeding the other, the fruit platter was quickly emptied, and the two little ones soon reconciled and were as close as ever.

Just as Li Fuyao managed to stand up and start strolling around, the flying boat was about to land.

Disciples of the Yanjian Sect emerged from their rooms in twos and threes, chatting and laughing together on the deck of the corridor. Lin Qingqing and Qu Xiu also came out of their rooms.

Unlike the other disciples, the two senior sisters exchanged a glance with slightly furrowed brows, and walked towards Li Fuyao together:

"Little Fuyao, you and Little Suifeng, come with us."