If I stay in the Hehuan Sect, I'll live off the pampered daughters of the Heavenly Pride Sect.

It’s over.

Barbie Q is here.

What did I do?

Did I somehow grasp the "female tyrant's" weakness?

This isn't just courting death, it's helping the King of Hell boost his year-end performance!

"that……"

Mo Chengyue looked at Qin Wanzhuang, who was so close to him.

On that imposing face, a complex transformation was taking place, from astonishment and shock to shame and indignation, and even... murderous intent.

We must save ourselves! Immediately! Right now!

"thump!"

Mo Chengyue reacted as if he had been burned, abruptly releasing Qin Wanzhuang's wrist.

He lay prostrate on the ground in an extremely standard and practiced posture that was almost heartbreaking.

The action was so fast that even Qin Wanzhuang didn't have time to react.

"Senior Sister is mighty! Senior Sister's skills are unparalleled! Junior Brother is completely humbled!"

Mo Chengyue, his face pressed against the mud, howled loudly, his voice filled with just the right amount of "fear" and "adoration".

"For a moment just now, I felt like I was facing a towering mountain!"

"Senior sister, you deliberately created an opening to guide me, allowing me to accidentally touch a corner of your clothes!"

"Senior sister's kindness is truly touching, junior brother is moved to tears! Waaaaah... I'm so moved!"

He even forced out two crocodile tears.

Qin Wanzhuang stood there, rubbing her slightly reddened wrist.

The warmth of Mo Chengyue's fingertips and the tactile sensation of spiritual energy as refined as steel needles still lingered on it.

Intentionally creating a weakness?

Doesn't she know in her heart whether it was intentional or not?

In that split second, if it had been a life-or-death struggle, her wrist would have been crippled and her throat might have been bitten through.

This junior brother... he's been keeping it well hidden.

Qin Wanzhuang took a deep breath to calm her agitated emotions.

She looked down at Mo Chengyue, who was still frantically kowtowing and thanking her on the ground, trying to get away with it by being cute. The coldness in her eyes faded, and in its place was an unprecedented light.

That was the look in a miner's eyes when they discovered a rare gold mine.

It was the excitement of a max-level power leveler seeing a top-tier, high-potential account.

"Mo Chengyue".

She spoke slowly, her calm tone sending chills down one's spine.

Mo Chengyue lay on the ground, his body stiffening: "Junior Brother... is here."

"Your acting is really bad."

Qin Wanzhuang sneered, casually tossing the withered branch in her hand into the soil near Mo Chengyue's ear, where it was deeply embedded.

"However, since you have this 'luck' and 'talent'..."

She crouched down, reached out, and patted Mo Chengyue's head like she would a puppy.

"It seems that your previous childish training methods were really too much for you."

Mo Chengyue's heart skipped a beat, and a sense of impending doom rushed to his head.

"Senior sister, what... what do you mean by this? Why don't you just scold me a bit? I'm scared by what you're doing."

Qin Wanzhuang stood up, facing the setting sun, her smile so bright it was almost sinister.

"Pass down the order."

She shouted at the dumbfounded servant disciples in the distance.

"Starting today, the back mountain of Qingquan Peak will be closed for half a month. Not even a fly is allowed to enter."

"Also, go to Baicaotang and get ten doses of the best medicine for bruises and sprains. And bring me that large cauldron used for boiling medicinal baths, and make sure the fire is burning brightly!"

She looked down at Mo Chengyue, whose face was filled with despair, and with a slight parting of her red lips, she uttered the verdict that made his soul leave his body.

"The intensity of the special training over the next two weeks..."

"Trillion."

"As long as you're not dead, train like there's no tomorrow."

Mo Chengyue's eyes rolled back, and he almost died on the spot.

孽 孽!

I should have known better than to try that little trick! Now look what happened, I've gone straight from easy mode to hell mode!

I can't live like this anymore!

……

Peach Blossom Spring, inside the cave.

Xie Buci, who was enjoying drinks with a beautiful woman, suddenly shivered for no apparent reason.

"Achoo!"

He rubbed his nose, looking completely bewildered.

"What's going on? Who's insulting me?"

A beautiful woman named Ruan Yan peeled a grape and held it to his lips, giggling, "Could it be some sister you abandoned who's drawing circles and cursing you?"

Xie Buci shook his head, his gaze turning towards the back mountain, a hint of sympathy in his eyes—a lament for his fellow human beings.

"No, this feeling..."

"Something must have happened to Junior Brother Mo."

He sighed, raised his wine glass, and solemnly toasted the empty space in the distance.

"Junior brother, it's not that your senior brother doesn't want to save you."

"You've fallen into the hands of that female demon... You can rest in peace on your journey."

"This time next year, your senior brother will definitely burn more paper money for you. Take care!"

……

The setting sun, like blood, baked the back of Qingquan Peak like a giant pizza oven.

A burnt smell filled the air. It was the smell of clothes burning, and also the smell of Mo Chengyue's mental state collapsing.

"Still trying to run?"

Qin Wanzhuang's voice drifted from behind him. Although she showed no emotion, it sent a chill down Mo Chengyue's spine.

There was only a "whoosh" sound!

A crimson sword aura grazed his scalp and slammed into the boulder in front of him. The boulder didn't even make a sound before turning into a pool of steaming lava.

Mo Chengyue swallowed hard, and his feet seemed to have a motor, making him run so fast that his legs left afterimages.

This isn't special training! This is clearly a one-sided beating of a child!

From noon to sunset, for a full three hours, Qin Wanzhuang was like a heartless killing machine. She wielded that broken tree branch with the force of a Gatling gun.

With each strike, a scorching "blazing sun sword energy" pierced into the meridians. No one died, but the feeling of someone using a red-hot iron skewer to unclog a sewer in your veins was so intense it sent shivers down your spine.

"Bang!"

Mo Chengyue felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and he rolled around a dozen times in a classic "Wild Goose Descending on the Sand" style, finally collapsing in a "spread-eagle" position in the mud pit, too tired to move.

A withered branch hung steadily an inch above his brow.

"One hundred and eight questions."

Qin Wanzhuang looked down at him, her gaze sharper than the sword energy in her hand.

"Today I left 108 blazing sun sword energies in your body, sealing your meridians and scorching your dantian."

She gathered up the withered branches, her tone as calm as if she were discussing what to have for dinner: "If you can't refine and expel these sword energies through sheer willpower tonight, they will erupt during tomorrow's special training. At that time, you will know what it means to be 'devoured by a thousand ants.'"

Mo Chengyue lay in the mud, his breath streaked with sparks: "Senior sister... this dosage... is it lethal? Can it be considered a work-related injury?"

Qin Wanzhuang didn't respond to his comment at all.

She turned around, and the setting sun stretched her shadow like a drawn sword.

"Remember this: the people of Qingquan Peak shed blood, not tears."

"Tomorrow morning at dawn, I want to see you lively and energetic. If you can't get up..." She turned her head, revealing half of her cold and beautiful profile, "The snakes in the Serpent Cave have been very irritable lately, and they just happen to need someone to cool them down."

After saying that, the figure flashed and disappeared.

Mo Chengyue stood frozen in place for a long while before suddenly springing up, pointing at the streak of light and roaring silently, "What a disaster!"

"Even the donkeys in the production team aren't treated like this! This is a serious violation of labor laws!"

Despite his cursing, his body betrayed him, and he collapsed back to the ground. Mo Chengyue felt like a shrimp thrown into an oven, his entire body throbbing with urgency.

One hundred and eight blazing sun sword energies—it wouldn't be as satisfying if even one were missing.

"I need to go back and take my medicine right away..."

Mo Chengyue was groaning and trying to get up when the storage bag in his arms suddenly jolted.

Immediately afterward, a blindingly bright, icy blue light flashed, nearly blinding him. Mo Chengyue froze, his hand trembling as he pulled out the jade talisman he both loved and hated.

At this moment, this thing is flashing wildly like a death knell.

"..."

Mo Chengyue looked up at the newly risen moon, then at the volcano about to erupt within his body.

My mental state completely collapsed.

"I can't possibly work another day like this! I just finished my day shift and got tortured by my senior colleague, and now I have to go on the night shift to serve that ice-cold female demon?"

"And I'm a 'fire person' right now! I'm going to see that walking central air conditioner with all this heat."

"Isn't this like pouring cold water into a pot of hot oil? It'll explode!"

But not going?

Mo Chengyue shuddered as he recalled Leng Yuexin's disdainful gaze.

Not going would definitely mean the death penalty, but going... might get you a suspended death sentence.