Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 134

Days of recovery were very comfortable.
Although Jingting Dao Lord and Chixin Sword Lord didn’t express excessive worry or concern for Li Jin’an, nor did they affectively hold her and weep bitterly—things were as they usually were, with Li Jin’an still being scorned and scolded in front of them—in reality, the two elders’ lingering fear was even more obvious than Xie Huaixue’s.
Even Chixin Sword Lord had taken up residence in the Dao Sect’s guest house, strolling around Qingxiao Peak now and then. Whenever she saw the four idle and aimless Master and disciples, she would give them a good scolding. Only after scolding them senseless would she casually walk away with her hands behind her back, refreshed, feeling more invigorated than any amount of fine wine.
Li Jin’an was so angry she stomped her feet, sending a message to the Sword Sect Master, asking him to call her Master back. What was going on with a bunch of sword cultivators, young and old, crowding the Dao Sect? Anyone who didn’t know would think the Sword Sect had opened a branch sect in the Dao Sect!
Was this appropriate? It was utterly inappropriate!
Sword Sect Master Guan Qiao read the message but didn’t reply.
He was tired of being the Sword Sect Master, but that didn’t mean he had lived long enough. Once a line of sword cultivators joined the Dao Sect, they shouldn’t disturb the former sect’s Master anymore.
Jingting Dao Lord’s way of expressing concern was much more acceptable. Even though she would scorn people like Chixin Sword Lord, Li Jin’an wasn’t at all displeased, because Jingting Dao Lord, after scolding someone, was truly generous when giving gifts!
A few muttered words, and she could get her hands on heavenly treasures and divine weapons. Could there be a more profitable no-capital business than this?
If Shang Dangge knew, she would rush over without stopping, begging Jingting Dao Lord to scold her vigorously. She could withstand such fierce storms!
Of course, only Jingting Dao Lord received this treatment. If anyone else dared to treat Li Jin’an this way, promising a treasure for every scolding, Li Jin’an would stab them through completely.
Anyway, she had been treated as entertainment by Jingting Dao Lord plenty of times, so it wouldn’t hurt for a little while longer. At least now there was compensation for being scolded.
Li Jin’an didn’t care whether she was scolded or not. Once the benefits were in hand, she would immediately go and share the spoils with Xie Huaixue, making Qi Lingzi and the other two incredibly envious.
Although the three youngsters were small, they didn’t care much about reputation. No matter who it was, as long as they offered treasures, they could endure humiliation with indifference even if scolded to their faces, completely lacking Lan Ci’s mad arrogance that made her lose her mind after a single defeat.
Li Jin’an felt they truly lacked backbone. Adorned with various heavenly treasures, she lay on a lounge chair, glancing sideways at her three disciples who were almost drooling. “Don’t you understand the principles of self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and self-sustenance?”
The three disciples, who were massaging her legs, pounding her back, and feeding her spiritual fruits, really wanted to say: Master, please stop showing off your knowledge that runs out after two sentences. Mistress really won’t scorn your lack of knowledge and skill. It would be better to show off the various treasures shimmering with golden light and surrounded by immortal aura all over your body; at least Master truly has those.
And knowledge was even more conspicuous than the treasures on their Master. Facts were facts; it couldn’t be faked.
“Cough!” Li Jin’an coughed forcefully, narrowing her eyes. “Your Master feels your gazes are very impolite. What do you think?”
“We believe whatever Master says is right! You are our heaven, our earth, our Immortal Master whom we revere immensely! If you tell us to go east, we will never go west; if you tell us to hit a chicken, we will never chase a dog!” Tan Yanyi patted her chest, expressing her filial piety towards Master.
If she hadn’t had to glance at the treasures on Li Jin’an every other sentence, and hadn’t narrowed her eyes like her Master, as if blinded by the glittering treasures, with an almost drooling expression, it would have been more convincing.
Li Jin’an nodded knowingly. “So, serving Master without compensation is what you most desire, isn’t it? Don’t worry, Master won’t treat anyone unfairly, and certainly not you. I guarantee you will work diligently until your dying day, sacrificing yourselves for Master.”
Was “work diligently until your dying day, sacrificing yourselves” supposed to be used like that? Shouldn’t that be something they say to express their loyalty?
Who forces them to die for her like that?!
Bad Master!
Li Jin’an crossed her arms and snorted. “Unwilling?”
“Willing, absolutely willing!” Ling Qiu squeezed next to Li Jin’an, acting like a sycophantic courtier with no bottom line. “How could we be unwilling? To be able to serve Master is simply the highest honor for the three of us. We’re too happy to even think of anything else.”
Qi Lingzi nodded unconditionally, not just because she listened to Ling Qiu, but also because she truly was a well-behaved child. Except for insisting that her disorderly, drunken sword moves were Jijin Peak’s secret ultimate techniques and trying to teach them to others, her heart in serving Master was extremely sincere.
“That’s more like it,” Li Jin’an said, raising her chin proudly, not feeling that there was anything wrong with bullying the small with one’s size.
Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu had a clear division of labor: polishing the Blazing Radiance Sword, pounding her back and massaging her shoulders, feeding her spiritual fruits… they clearly looked like skilled workers, completely different from the drunken maniacs of a few days ago.
Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin opposite them watched dumbfounded.
“Haughty before, respectful after; bullying the weak and fearing the strong,” the Great Demon truly commented.
Jiang Fengmian and Shang Dangge agreed profoundly, feeling deeply that these three were indeed the direct disciples of the Jijin Sword Sovereign, perfectly embodying the characteristic of fawning internally and causing trouble externally.
In truth, the three youngsters were the most afraid and the most clingy to Li Jin’an, unable to be chased away.
The day they were thrown back, drunk, Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu only stayed put on the chairs for a moment before drunkenly getting up to find water. Li Jin’an rarely felt a bit of affection for the three of them and got up to pour them water.
Then…
The three youngsters, with blurry, drunken eyes, saw her. Tan Yanyi was the first to burst into loud sobs, directly influencing her senior and junior sisters, who all started wailing. It was a demonic sound piercing the ears, harsh and unpleasant to listen to. They even rushed to Li Jin’an’s feet, hugging her thighs, snot running down their faces, crying and wailing “Master” simultaneously.
The scene was out of control for a moment, making Li Jin’an even think she had ascended to the west on a crane, and these utterly filial little brats were crying at her grave.
Li Jin’an wanted to turn to Xie Huaixue for help, but she had to kick away one disciple and then pry off Tan Yanyi clinging to her back.
Jiang Fengmian, Shang Dangge, and Jie Yunjin sneered repeatedly, not surprised at all.
What else? If these three youngsters couldn’t be beaten or scolded and still caused trouble for others, would they be in such a state of disarray?!
So, in order to witness the delightful scene of Li Jin’an being tormented by her disciples, Shang Dangge and Jie Yunjin had stayed until now. However, they discovered that these three little things were completely two-faced: they showed no mercy when harming innocent people, yet humbly demeaned themselves in front of their own Master.
One was willing to hit, and the other was willing to take it.
It made them seem like they were stuck in an awkward position, pleasing no one.
“Do you realize this now?” Li Jin’an said with a face full of disdain.
Compared to her, Qi Lingzi and the other two were mere amateurs; inciting others’ anger only required a single sentence and an expression.
“…What was that saying again? Old ginger is spicier. Master is just more asking for a beating than disciples,” Shang Dangge said with difficulty after a long silence.
Jie Yunjin pursed her lips, gesturing for Shang Dangge to look at Xie Huaixue, who was sitting quietly and composedly nearby. “As long as you can defeat her, you can make her less ‘asking for a beating’.”
Otherwise, a menace would always be a menace.
Li Jin’an said dismissively, “The fact that no one has managed to kill me yet only proves that cultivators of your generation and the next are too useless. I am ashamed to be associated with you all.”
Just who was the world-shaking menace among their generation of cultivators?!
Seeing the three youngsters’ eyes sparkling, Jiang Fengmian’s mind already conjured a bleak future for the cultivation world. She proposed with utmost sincerity, “…Please teach them something good.”
Qi Lingzi, Tan Yanyi, and Ling Qiu already had the cultivation levels to lead the younger generation of cultivators. Unfortunately, their cultivation kept up, but their conduct did not.
If the future of the cultivation world was going to be like these three, it would truly be utterly dismaying.
“What nonsense! I am clearly nurturing them with gentle influence and earnest advice!” Li Jin’an took the scroll from Xie Huaixue’s hand and strove to speak gracefully and politely.
Now, not only did the three youngsters think their Master was a sieve when it came to knowledge and completely disagreed with Li Jin’an’s statement, but even the two people and one snake looked at her strangely.
Jiang Fengmian said very tactfully, “People are ultimately different. There’s no need to abandon your own characteristics to cater to others; it’s not very suitable. You, like this… you’re already very good.”
To be honest, Li Jin’an wasn’t as terrifying even when she was furious and about to chop someone as she was now. She gave everyone goosebumps, making them want to turn and run.
Her unspoken meaning was simple: even if Xie Huaixue was a learned scholar knowledgeable in both ancient and modern times, it had nothing to do with Li Jin’an. There was no need for her to learn everything from Xie Huaixue. The chasm between people was deeper than the racial barriers between humans and demons, or humans and monsters.
At least demonic beasts could transform into human forms, and cultivators could fall into demonhood. There were also many instances where the human, demon, and demonic races feigned cooperation and feigned alliance. But the Jijin Sword Sovereign truly should not flaunt her meager knowledge!
Li Jin’an was angered into shame. After chasing everyone away, she was still furious, standing with hands on hips and stomping her feet. She turned to Xie Huaixue. “Did I really learn badly?”
She was so preoccupied with being looked down upon that she had forgotten that Xie Huaixue’s way of expressing concern was to have her read and study together, and how extremely unwilling she had been, wishing she could gnaw on the books instead.
“You learned extremely well,” Xie Huaixue said gently and with certainty.
Li Jin’an’s face immediately lit up with a smile. She returned the compliment to her Dao companion, who tirelessly taught her. “It’s because you taught well… no, wait, I didn’t want to read those cumbersome… mind-twisting things at all!”
She simply couldn’t remember the term ‘cumbersome and obscure’, so she could only replace it with ‘mind-twisting’.
If she truly had a desire to learn and was suited for studying, she wouldn’t have angered the academy tutors so much that they wanted to hang themselves in front of Chixin Sword Lord.
Xie Huaixue leaned back against the chair, neither avoiding nor being perfunctory. She said earnestly, “But I like the way you look when you read.”
Li Jin’an twisted her mouth, wanting to argue her case. After all, she truly was impatient with things that made her skin crawl. But she quickly succumbed to Xie Huaixue’s gaze, completely unable to resist, feeling quite disheartened at how quickly she had given in. “Fine, I’ll agree this one time, but don’t you dare gain an inch and want a mile.”
They had already made the most unlearned and untalented Jijin Sword Sovereign read. How much more could they possibly gain an inch and want a mile?
“But Huaixue, why do you insist on me reading?” Li Jin’an nipped Xie Huaixue’s ear, asking sullenly.
“Because I prefer to see you vibrant and ardent. Where my heart finds peace, there is my home.”