Junior Sister, I Really Have to Control You

Chapter 14: Chapter 6: Artifact Manipulation Skill, Burning Wind Skill

With a shift of his thoughts, the Golden Character before his eyes faded away. Li Yinsheng looked at Mu Xiaoyu.

She was sitting on the ground, holding the pale yellow talismanic charm that represented one hundred talismanic coins in both hands, giggling foolishly.

”HEHE... HEHEHE...”

This small talismanic charm was already a mountain of delicacies in her eyes. She had begun to imagine what snacks she could buy at the market in the Baoguang Temple—candied hawthorn sticks, liaohua crisps, jade crumb cakes, sweet dew biscuits, crispy qiongye leaves, candied crabapples, perilla drinks, and Deer Cakes...

”Junior Sister.” Li Yinsheng’s voice brought Mu Xiaoyu back to reality.

”Senior Brother!” Holding the talismanic coins, Mu Xiaoyu looked at Li Yinsheng with a well-behaved expression.

”Do you want some more talismanic coins?” Li Yinsheng asked.

Mu Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment before nodding vigorously. Who wouldn’t want to buy more food?

”Then do you want to make a bet with me?” Li Yinsheng said leisurely. ”It is currently 1:00 PM, and it is five hours away from the Li Zhi Hour. We will bet on whether you can continuously cultivate without resting before Midnight. If you lose, you have to return those one hundred talismanic coins to me.

”If you win, I’ll give you more talismanic coins. However, you must promise me that apart from buying snacks, you won’t spend them recklessly. You must ask me before using them.”

Mu Xiaoyu’s eyes widened, completely ignoring the additional conditions of the bet. She yelled in horror, ”I’ll die, won’t I? I’ll definitely die of exhaustion like this! Senior Brother, are you trying to give me talismanic coins or joss paper for the dead?”

”You won’t,” Li Yinsheng shook his head. ”The First Layer of the Qingxuan Scripture is entirely for consolidating the foundation. It only cultivates Primordial Energy and not Magical Power, so you can’t be considered a true Cultivator right now; you’re still a mortal.

”Since you are a mortal, as long as you have the Nourishing Essence Pill, you can make up for the deficit. Even if you cultivate for six or seven hours a day, you will be fine. When you cultivate to the second layer and have a higher foundation, you actually won’t have this convenience.”

”But it will still be tiring!” cried Mu Xiaoyu, who had eaten several Nourishing Essence Pills and practiced for several hours yesterday.

”But it won’t tire you to death,” Li Yinsheng said.

”I won’t do it! I already have one hundred talismanic coins, and that’s enough to buy a lot of delicious food! I won’t bet! Absolutely not!” Mu Xiaoyu shook her head repeatedly.

”Are you sure you won’t reconsider? If you win, I’ll give you a lot of talismanic coins,” Li Yinsheng tempted her patiently.

”What’s the point even if you give me more, Senior Brother? I definitely won’t be able to last for five hours, and by then I won’t even have the one hundred talismanic coins,” Mu Xiaoyu said firmly. ”No matter how many talismanic coins you offer, I still won’t bet!”

”You wouldn’t bet even for ten thousand talismanic coins?” Li Yinsheng asked.

”I won’t...” Mu Xiaoyu’s voice got stuck in her throat. ”T-T-T... Ten thousand coins!!!”

She lacked a proper concept of talismanic coins; from a Cultivator’s perspective, she didn’t understand the true significance of ten thousand talismanic coins. But from her own point of view, she felt as if a towering mountain made of countless snacks and delicacies had risen from the ground before her eyes. Its circumference couldn’t be measured in miles, and its height couldn’t be fathomed.

Oh, how dizzyingly high it was!

How long would it take to eat all of that?!

”I’ll take the bet!” Mu Xiaoyu jumped up from the ground and showed the pale yellow talismanic charm worth one hundred talismanic coins. ”Senior Brother, this is my stake!”

”You’re agreeing just like that? Won’t you think it over carefully?” Li Yinsheng kindly reminded her.

Mu Xiaoyu’s eyes were as resolute as someone facing death unflinchingly.

Li Yinsheng smiled faintly and lightly patted the Qiankun Bag at his waist. Dozens of talismanic charms of various colors and sizes flew out, floating in front of him. ”This is my stake. These add up to exactly ten thousand talismanic coins.”