The Legend of Fangren

PS: I feel that I really don't like or am not good at suppressing the kind of plot and power struggle, so I'll just go back to the leisurely farming and resource gathering style of Minecraft, and depict more of the things and things I see in the mystical world.

(I would also like to thank some readers for their suggestions, which gave me direction.)

…The following is the main text…

A few days later, the chaos in Qumu City subsided, but other aspects of the chaos remained.

With the city lord gone, a person is needed to unify the situation. If other families in the city are allowed to take power, conflicts will inevitably arise, affecting the people.

The old city lord was right; Qu Yang had executed him, so he had to take over. Now, after roughly reorganizing various affairs, he finally had some free time to send his younger sister and apprentice to the south gate.

"Qu Mei, you don't need to stay. It's time for me to enter the world, but it's time for you to leave it. The mysteries of the Xuan Realm are waiting for you to see and experience. You shouldn't be confined to this city wall."

Although Qu Mei had no intention of leaving, Qu Yang was determined and refused to let her stay no matter what.

Back then, my father went down the wrong path his whole life because he saw power when he was young. How could he let his little sister repeat the same mistake?

"But brother..."

"Stop talking." Seeing how stubborn she was, Qu Yang gave Fang Shi a look, and Fang Shi then gave Luo He a look.

The two then stepped forward and grabbed Qu Mei's arms from both sides.

"Senior Sister Qu, let's go."

"Ahhh!! I don't want to!" Qu Mei shouted, but two arms couldn't fight against four arms. She could only be carried away mercilessly. In the end, she could only shout that her older brother should take good care of her second aunt.

Qu Yang naturally agreed. His second aunt treated him like her own son, and he should repay her with filial piety.

Who told him to be so filial? He even personally saw his own father off on his deathbed.

Now, let's turn our attention to Qu Mei.

Luo He and Fang Shi lifted Senior Sister Qu above their heads in a strange way, and only after Senior Sister Qu had calmed down did she say, "You can put me down now, right?"

Fang Shi said, "As long as you don't run away, it's fine."

"..." Qu Mei twisted her body awkwardly, "We've already come several miles, why should I run anymore?"

So the two of them put her down.

As soon as Qu Mei landed, she glanced at Fang Shi with a hint of resentment, then jumped to Luo He's side, as if drawing a line between them.

Fang Shi asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Hehe~" Qu Mei made a face at him, not getting close herself, and also pulling Luo He away from letting her get close, which made Fang Shi very depressed.

He wondered when he had ever offended these two people. Even when he was lifting the person just now, he had his hands innocently supporting the shoulder blades.

Having no other choice, feeling neglected, he had to approach the elder.

After the events in the two cities, the personnel structure of the training team underwent some changes.

Fang Shi and his two companions stayed in Qumu City for several days when the elders of Qingye City arrived with their disciples.

However, the Grand Elder and another Junior Elder have been officially identified as traitors and have disappeared without a trace. They are now wanted by various parts of the sect.

Among the disciples, many senior and junior brothers were excited when they first came down the mountain, and most of them were injured and could not come. They could only return to the sect to recuperate and wait for the next batch of training teams to come down the mountain.

As for He Qisheng and He Lin, and Feng Zhonghua and Zhao Ba, these two pairs of master and servant can be considered as indices of the official struggles in Qingye City, and both of them stayed in Qingye City.

As a result, the training team is now led by the two junior elders, Qian Shaoyun and Yun Yue, and the team that originally had more than a dozen disciples has been reduced to just six disciples.

Whether it was a coincidence or not... Fang Shi looked around and confirmed that he was indeed the only boy in the group at the moment. He had a feeling similar to when he first heard that Luo He was staying in the Yin Courtyard. He never expected that it would be his turn so soon.

Unfortunately, the other three senior and junior sisters were all from Qingxiu Workshop and were not very familiar with each other. They also knew that he and Luohe were childhood friends, so they always kept their distance and didn't say much to each other. They always gathered in the back and chattered. It was obvious that they were gossiping about the strange things between Fang Shi, Luohe, and Qu Mei.

Helpless, the puzzled Fang Shi had no choice but to walk to the front of the line and squeeze between the two junior elders.

"What's wrong, Junior Brother Fang?" Elder Yun Yue asked gently.

She treated her junior brother, who had saved her life, with great gentleness.

Before Fang Shi could even get into character, Qian Shaoyun teased him mercilessly, "Looking at him like this, what else could it be? He got rejected by those two girls."

When the group reunited, the others learned about what had happened in Qumu City, and naturally, a group of gossipy senior and junior sisters dug up gossip about the three of them.

However, because the two narrators always felt ashamed and stopped talking halfway through their stories, the description of the whole incident was extremely vague, leaving much room for the audience's imagination.

Although there was a reason for it, within half a day, the story of Fang Shi taking care of the two girls in the cave had been distorted into at least three versions, each more absurd than the last.

Amidst the gossip, Qu Mei had no choice but to pull Luo He along to "isolate" Fang Shi.

Yun Yue chuckled and said, "Junior Brother Fang, don't worry too much. Although the Yin Wood Silk can deceive people's minds, it won't obscure their sights and memories. It's normal for the junior sisters to be a little shy."

"Tch~ That sounds nice," Fang Shi scoffed, thinking to himself, "Why hasn't anyone interviewed me? I promise to recount the whole incident in its entirety, every detail from beginning to end is a tale of suffering, how can there be any ambiguity?"

Putting everything else aside, just based on the principle that men and women should not touch each other, the three of them hadn't bathed for three days in the cave, and their bodies were covered with food scraps and dirty water, so you can imagine how smelly they were.

However... to be fair, Senior Sister Qu is indeed several cup sizes larger than He Zi, which is quite astonishing for a fifteen or sixteen-year-old. No wonder she's a young lady; she's well-nourished.

Thinking of this, Fang Shi's gaze unconsciously shifted left and right. With his current height as a young man, this movement allowed him to look directly at the mountain peaks.

"oops…"

The price was obvious: Elder Qian delivered a chop to the neck.

This was truly a difficult situation; surrounded by beautiful women, it was impolite to move his gaze anywhere.

Let's look up at the mountains and rivers at a 45-degree angle. The vastness of the world and the spirit of humility and composure are the true colors of a man.

Soon, noon was approaching.

Two elders, along with six disciples, surrounded a strange deer with three short antlers.

The strange deer is not large, only as tall as a person, but it is a mythical beast, its element is wood, and its antlers are poisonous.

The group dissected it, extracted its spirit flesh, and used it as their lunch.

"Fangzi, what are you looking at?" During the meal, Luohe saw Fang Shi sitting to the side with his share of meat, flipping through a book, so she came over and asked curiously.

Fang Shi stared at the pages of the book, only replying aloud, "I'm looking at my breathing technique."

"Oh?"

Qu Mei heard this and came over to take a look, saying, "Isn't this a scripture for mystical beasts and monsters? Why is it a breathing technique?"

Fang Shi shrugged: "I have a special constitution. My master said that all I need to do is know how to eat and drink well."

"..." Upon hearing this, the two women once again isolated him in unison.

Hmph, it's just women's jealousy.

Little did he know that in addition to his regular meals of meat and spirit, he also often had to eat fruit as a snack every day. In recent days, his stomach was not satisfied with vegetarian snacks and he increasingly wanted to eat meat.

It is evident that his body is growing, which in turn causes his inner energy to require more profound energy. It is unknown which stage of the Nourishing Breath Realm he has reached.

In this predicament, he could only do more research in order to find a way to catch a mythical beast to eat.