Quick Transmigration: Rescuing the Blackened Male Lead - Chapter 468
Chapter 468: Disciple, Please Spare Me (3)
As soon as her words fell, several individuals entered from outside.
They nodded slightly and then dragged the three disciples out, their pleas for mercy echoing, “Master, we won’t dare again! Please have mercy!”
Shen Mubai had been tempted to directly cripple their cultivation, but the constraints of her role prevented it.
She could only bide her time and plan for the future.
She instructed one of the attendants, “Go and summon Yan Rong.”
The attendant obediently replied, “Yes, Immortal.”
Not long after, a young man dressed in black entered.
His aura was somber, and with his head slightly bowed, he knelt in the great hall and spoke in a low voice, “Disciple Yan Rong greets Master.”
Shen Mubai tossed him a few bottles of pills and a secret manual.
Her tone was cold as she said, “It was a mistake on my part to wrongly accuse you earlier. Take these as compensation.”
In truth, she didn’t want to speak to the protagonist in such an unpleasant tone.
However, Liu Yuezhen’s personality was arrogant and haughty.
Even when realizing her mistakes, she wouldn’t lower herself to apologize.
At most, she would hand over some items to smooth things over.
Yan Rong slightly lifted his face, revealing strikingly handsome features.
His sword-like eyebrows were sharply defined, and his deep, shadowed eyes carried an air of melancholy.
When his gaze fell on the items before him, he paused briefly and said, “Thank you, Master.”
His tone was calm—neither overly grateful nor resentful.
Yan Rong’s expression was serene, like a pool of stagnant water.
Shen Mubai knew it would take time for him to change his opinion of her.
Moreover, due to the constraints of her role, she couldn’t directly show kindness.
Instead, she replied haughtily, “You may leave.”
Yan Rong nodded slightly.
“Yes, Master.”
After he left, Shen Mubai complained to the system in frustration, “I’d be lucky if the protagonist doesn’t hate me. Changing his opinion of me seems almost impossible.”
The mission in this world was to help Yan Rong restore his spiritual roots and reach the Mahayana stage within 300 years.
When Shen Mubai first heard the mission, she almost died on the spot.
Restoring spiritual roots was already an incredibly difficult task, and reaching the Mahayana stage in 300 years? They might as well ask her to ascend directly to heaven.
The system’s explanation was simple: as long as the protagonist is involved, nothing is impossible.
What could Shen Mubai say to that? She could only chuckle bitterly and accept the mission.
The immediate priority was figuring out how to keep the protagonist close while avoiding suspicion.
Three hundred years might sound like a long time, but in the cultivation world, it was merely the span of a few closed-door meditation sessions.
The cultivation hierarchy consisted of: Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Out-of-Body, Dividing Soul, Integration, Void Refinement, and finally Mahayana.
After Mahayana, one would undergo the tribulation to ascend.
However, with the current decline in spiritual energy and the scarcity of heavenly treasures, the path of cultivation had become much more arduous.
Even for a major sect like Qiyang Sect, accessing such resources was no easy feat.
Shen Mubai didn’t want to wait a whole month for the restrictions of her role to lift before bringing the protagonist closer.
Not only was a month a long time, but a sudden change in her behavior and attitude toward a disciple with ruined spiritual roots would undoubtedly arouse suspicion.
Others might even speculate about her being possessed.
Although the system had perfectly integrated her soul with this body, avoiding unnecessary trouble was still the wiser choice.
While Shen Mubai was agonizing over these matters, the sect leader sent an invitation for her to attend a meeting.
