Filthy Cultivation: I Pierced the Heavens with the Merit System

"How dare you, you lowly commoner, offend Miss like this!"

Upon hearing this, the three servants behind Yu Zhenzhen were furious. They were about to take action, but Yu Zhenzhen stopped them by raising her hand.

The red-haired girl glared at Li Fuyao with a hint of anger and said in a deep voice:

"Given my status, I can make you die in a thousand ways. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation for your offense just now, I'm afraid I'll make sure you don't live past tomorrow."

"Oh no, I'm so scared!"

Li Fuyao spoke in an exaggerated tone, but her face was completely indifferent.

She casually stroked the soft fur on the back of Bai Suifeng's neck, slowly walking halfway out from behind Zhang Ze, and calmly met his gaze:

"The reason I say you're not as smart as me is simple: I won't make hasty judgments about someone of unknown identity just because of a few provocations from someone with a bad record."

"Because you were jealous of the rewards my three playmates received, you flattered Elder Ye and framed them, causing Elder Ye to take back their Ascension Tokens. Isn't this behavior despicable?"

Yu Zhenzhen narrowed her eyes and reached for the soft whip at her waist, her voice sweet and cold as she sneered:

"I thought you had some reason to speak, but I didn't expect you to come up with such a crude excuse. You dare to speak rudely to me based on this? You're asking for trouble!"

"Hey, look at you, what's wrong with such a pretty young girl getting angry?"

Li Fuyao remained calm upon seeing this. Instead, she curled her lips into a slight smile, shook her head, and said with a composed and gentle laugh:

"Leaving aside the fact that you only heard one side of her story, you can't kill me anyway, so why get so angry?"

"Ha, I can't kill you? What a joke!"

Yu Zhenzhen sneered:

"Killing is forbidden in Yanjian City, so naturally I won't..."

"You can't kill me anywhere else either."

Li Fuyao interrupted her, calmly glancing at everyone opposite her, her eyebrows slightly raised as she asked three questions in a row:

"If I didn't have some background, how could I, with only a mixed spiritual root, have obtained Elder Ye's Ascension Token?"

"If I didn't have a distinguished status, could I face you without batting an eye?"

"Have you ever seen a disciple raised by any secular family who possesses such composure as me?"

The people opposite her were all taken aback by her three resounding questions. They looked at Li Fuyao with suspicion and dared not make a move.

After a moment, Zhou Baogui, who had been silent, suddenly spoke as if he had remembered something:

"No, stop bluffing. If you really came from some prestigious family, why would you be in such a remote place as Yuanshan Town?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Jie seemed to recall something as well. He looked at Li Fuyao with a complicated expression and sighed:

“Yes, back in Yuanshan Town, I heard many Yanjian Sect disciples talking about how you were clearly an orphan girl rescued from a mountain village by Elder Ye’s eldest disciple.”

"Ha, serves you right for putting on airs!"

Upon hearing this, Shang Rui let out a short, shrill laugh. Her eyes, which should have been innocent and pure, were now filled with malice. She sneered gloatingly:

"Now let's see what you have to say!"

This situation not only made Bai Suifeng, who knew the situation well, secretly sweat, but also made Zhang Ze, who was standing in front of Li Fuyao, feel a sudden jolt. He turned around blankly to look at Duan Hongzhi, only to see that the idiot was also looking at Li Fuyao with a completely bewildered expression.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Ze's heart skipped a beat, sensing something was wrong. He thought of the bag of spirit stones Li Fuyao had given him and was about to make a hasty attempt to salvage the situation when he heard the little girl behind him suddenly burst into laughter:

"Xia Jie, Xia Jie, I thought you were smart based on your appearance, but I didn't expect you to be not only stupid, but also deaf!"

Li Fuyao, holding the little one in her arms, laughed heartily. She glanced around disdainfully, adopting an arrogant posture as if everyone around her was an idiot, and asked Xia Jie mockingly:

"You only heard that I was an orphan, but didn't you hear that I also distributed many precious magic treasures to my senior brothers and sisters?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Zhenzhen and the male and female cultivators in blue robes all looked at Xia Jie with puzzled expressions. Before Xia Jie could say anything, Duan Hongzhi suddenly exclaimed:

"Yes, yes, I remember now. I testify with my Dao heart that this did indeed happen!"

Seeing everyone looking at him, his face flushed, and he shrank behind Zhang Ze, peeking out half his head and mustering his courage to say in a trembling voice:

"I am one of the disciples who participated in the demon-slaying operation. I, Duan Hongzhi, swear on my Dao heart that my friend Fuyao did indeed donate a large number of magic treasures to protect the people. At that time, quite a few disciples received these magic treasures. You can find out about this with just a few questions."

"And, also, young friend Fuyao said that these treasures were seized from demonic cultivators, and that we could use them freely without feeling bad..."

After saying so much in one breath, Duan Hongzhi, who is usually introverted, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Seeing Li Fuyao nod approvingly at him, he felt greatly relieved and instantly felt a surge of heroic spirit to go to great lengths for his benefactor. When he spoke again, he not only spoke with much more confidence, but also, in his excitement, he even skipped the rambling.

Duan Hongzhi clenched his fists and loudly defended himself:

"Although we believed it at the time, now that we think about it carefully, most of the items used by demonic cultivators are evil and cruel, but those magical treasures don't have a trace of demonic energy. They are clearly items used by righteous cultivators!"

"Not only can our young friend Fuyao produce so many magical treasures, but she also has a strong sense of righteousness and acts with great integrity. How could she possibly be just an orphan girl from a mountain village!"

Hearing this, Zhang Ze felt emboldened again. He was about to say something when Li Fuyao pinched him from behind, and he immediately shut his mouth with a serious expression.

The little girl behind him casually glanced at everyone, then nonchalantly opened her lips:

"Li Fuyao is just an alias I used for this training trip. The orphan identity is only for convenience. As for the rest, I advise you not to ask. That's not something someone of your status should know."

As she spoke, she patted Zhang Ze on the shoulder, then turned and walked away without looking back.

"You two shouldn't waste your time on irrelevant people. I've never even seen a low-level demon beast like the Crimson Flame Tiger before. Take me to play."

"Don't take their threats of killing me seriously. I have bodyguards with me, so I'll be fine."

Seeing her disdainful attitude towards everyone present, the people opposite her felt their faces burning with embarrassment.

Zhuo Yuxuan and Shi Jiazhi haven't said anything since they were beaten. Yu Zhenzhen, on the other hand, has the magnanimity cultivated from a prominent family since childhood. Although she was full of anger because of the humiliation, she was also calculating and did not act rashly.

Shang Rui, who had been pampered since childhood, couldn't swallow the anger of being repeatedly humiliated.

She broke free from Xia Jie and Zhou Baogui's attempts to hold her down, took a few steps forward, and stood in front of Yu Zhenzhen, angrily shouting:

"Li Fuyao, what are you bluffing for? You call yourself a secret guard!"

"You're nothing but something Miss Yu could crush with one hand. You don't even deserve to... Ah!"

She covered her mouth and screamed in agony, looking at Yu Zhenzhen with tears in her eyes, filled with shock and anger. The young lady, her face grim, raised her hand and lashed out with her whip again.

"Who do you think you are, to tell me what to do?"

After scolding them, Yu Zhenzhen pursed her lips and vented her anger on Zhuo Yuxuan and Shi Jiazhi:

"You two shameless bastards, it's all because of your arrogance and provocation!"

"Not only did it offend people's eyes, but it also made me lose face. It's truly hateful!"

She lashed them dozens of times until their screams drew the attention of the black-clad cultivators nearby, who frowned in disapproval. Only then, slightly out of breath, did she throw down the whip and give the order in a deep voice:

"Investigate! I need all the information on Li Fuyao within three days!"

"I refuse to believe it. No matter how powerful she is, she can't possibly be so powerful that my Yu family can't touch her."