Chapter 162 - Balance in Character (2/2)

“Master, her luck is bad for a reason.” She’s paying the price for having the Heart-Cleansing Lotus and for the loss of her demonic Qi. “What’s more, luck cannot be changed. Even if she becomes an independent soul in future, she will still… live an entire life of misfortune.”

“…” So she’s going to be extremely unlucky?

He was afraid the Lotus in Xuan Tong would cause trouble again. What’s more, the Heart-Cleansing Lotus had already become one with Xuan Tong’s body – nobody could remove it.

“If that’s the case, we won’t keep her!” Feng Ying suddenly said. “Little Yu, you can just guide her training.”

Although Feng Ying did not quite understand what he was hearing, he did understand that the child was not suitable to be taken in as a disciple. They went through so much trouble just to get to where they were. Little Yu had not even agreed to become his Dao partner! It would definitely do more harm than good to take in a disciple at this time. They should not – not even one!

“But…” Roasted Chicken Gal hesitated.

“The more unpredictable thing in this world is luck. We can’t help her…”

Before he could finish, they all heard a familiar sound.

[Ding! Success in obtaining the item. Attribute Balancer: If you carry this item around, you can balance multiple attributes in your body (including luck)!]

With another ding, a blue necklace made of crystal appeared out of nowhere and dropped onto the ground.

Feng Ying: “…”

Shen Ying: “…”

Those who heard Shen Ying, who had been repeating after the system word-for-word: “…”

Flips table! Why couldn’t he even woo a girl in peace!

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The system was of high technology indeed. After Shortie put the necklace on, her situation changed for the better. She no longer had a bad fall every three days, nor did she knock into the various furniture every five days. She even tripped far less while walking. She could ascend the mountain without getting hurt.

It was just that the balance was too thorough. While her luck increased, the other aspects of her character decreased. She had a pretty good spirit root and body-type to begin with. It could have allowed her to become stronger really quickly. Yet, after she put on the necklace, she became as average as other three- or four-spirit-root cultivators.

Roasted Chicken Gal explained the various choices to Xuan Tong so that she could make her own decision, but Xuan Tong ultimately decided to keep the necklace on. Although she took much longer to train, she still reaped the benefits of being born in the immortal world. Compared to cultivators in the mortal realm, she was already improving very quickly.

Qi Chengyu did not formally take her in as her disciple, but their relationship was hardly different from a master-disciple relationship. Perhaps it was because they suffered the same fate. Each day, after they finished training, Roasted Chicken Gal would spend the rest of her time offering advice to Xuan Tong. Feng Ying was understandably very dissatisfied with this situation. In an odd display of power, he would go into the training ground just to make his presence known. However Qi Chengyu would throw him out again.

Therefore, each day, the disciples saw a black figure being thrown out of the practice grounds.

The panic this caused in Invincible Sect slowly turned from an urge to remedy the situation to finally becoming used to it.

Perhaps because of what she went through as a child, Xuan Tong trained hard each day. Although the stabilisation was limiting her training, she took it very seriously and continued to train hard day and night. In a mere four years, she reached the advanced Golden Core stage. She looked very close to becoming a Nascent Soul. While her cultivation level was the lowest among all the disciples, she was already showing signs of growing immortal bones. They expected that in a few more years, she would become a true immortal. By this time, she had also grown from a Shortie to a beautiful teenage girl- even taller than Yu Hong.

The only thing that did not change was her offerings to Sect Master.

Shen Ying looked around the peak of the mountain and saw the greenery that did not seem to have an end. Sighing deeply, she wondered when she would ever finish all of the vegetables. Would she have to become a vegetarian?Suddenly, the future seemed bleak. What about… catching a rabbit for Shortie to keep?

“More water, more water.” Radish was waving its leaves and catching the water that was dripping from Shen Ying’s scoop. It said excitedly, “Little Big Sister, if you water me every day, I promise that all the vegetables here would double.”

“…” Double?

Shen Ying’s expression darkened. She kept her scoop and turned to leave. She did not want more vegetables!

“Eh?” Radish stared blankly at her bank and immediately ran forward, using its leaves to catch the corner of her robe. Half of its body was out of the ground. “Little Big Sister, don’t go. Radish has not seen you in a long time.” Hmph! If its enemy had not sealed it here to take care of the vegetables, it would not be here! All it wanted was to remain in Little Big Sister’s backyard and sprout flowers for her.

It thought that Shen Ying would kick it aside as she always did, but she suddenly stopped where she was and looked deep in thought.

“Little Big Sister… What’s wrong?” Radish climbed onto her thigh.

Shen Ying tilted her head and answered, “Do you think… the black fog seems to be dissipating?

Huh? What fog?