His stomach was burning as he walked aimlessly, he wanted to snap the neck of that bastard and drink his warm blood to calm down.

Su Yuchen lost his mind and walked towards the contribution hall. He wanted to spend the stellar rocks and buy a short sword.

He needs to learn it quickly and stab him.

Those mocking eyes need to be burned.

His wanton tongue needs to be urinated on.

He must hold his head in both of his hands and crush it, the red and pink of his brain should splatter all over, that’s a masterpiece to look at.

‘I am going crazy.’

‘I should stop these dangerous thoughts.’

‘I might as well cry and relieve the pain I am in.’

Su Yuchen wanted to stop all the mental thoughts that he couldn’t control.

He walked forward with reddened watery eyes. His knees wanted to give up from the pain.

Su Yuchen doesn’t want to cry like a child, but he couldn't help feel ashamed. Never in his both lives, was he embarrassed like that. He didn’t even do anything wrong!

The very few Xianxia series he has seen in his past life flashed through his mind. He never managed to watch any of them beyond the first few episodes. The way they showed the righteous world never appealed to him.

He found a grove, entered it and sat under a tree. His mind was disturbed.

Never in his life did he liked the righteous sects being portrayed as hypocrites and shown as shrewd people without compassion. It irked him.

At that time he thought, “Couldn’t the writers at least give this faction a different name?”

When he realised that he was born in an cultivation world, he began to panic about the righteous sects.

Then these past few years of ordinary life never let him have thoughts about the dangers present in the cultivation world.

Now, the second day in the righteous sect reminded him of the possible cruel cultivation world described in the shows. The possibility became his reality.

That inner sect disciple, he frightened him before he even did anything. It is his fear of cultivators. Just the thought of retaliating after he dodged the spit, was crushed by his fear of him. It was fear that made him involuntarily react and decide to crush any thoughts about killing.

Before he even realised what happened, fear saved him.

He began to overthink and remembered the malicious and bloodthirsty cultivators who doesn’t bat an eye to kill in the xianxia settings.

The scheming and cunning elders from the sects sprouted more doubts into Su Yuchen’s mind. Are the elders from his sect similar to what he had seen in the shows?

Are there arrogant sect disciples in this world who would kill someone if they doesn’t like the glance from them?

Fear began to well up in Su Yuchen’s mind. Now he has no cultivation and he will have to face many disciples for a year as an ordinary person. Fear clouded his mind.

He tried to distract himself from overthinking. He made a decision and quickly got up, he brushed off the dust on his clothes and walked towards the mount stable.

At the Mount Stable.

Su Yuchen saw the same Senior brother from the day before. He greeted him, “Senior Brother Li, good afternoon.”

Li Jun looked at the pale junior disciple in front of him, “It’s good to see you again, Junior brother. I hope you are well?”

“I appreciate your concern, Senior Brother. I am doing well.” Su Yuchen replied in a low voice.

“Do you want to rent the horse again? I must remind you, there are only two more free chances to rent for you in this month.” The Senior Brother Li said to Su Yuchen.

“I want to buy an horse.” Su Yuchen replied.

“You want to buy an horse? Okay, that would be 50 gold shells.” Senior Brother Li told the cost.

“I only have stellar rocks with me. Do you take that?” Su Yuchen asked.

“Of course! Why not? Come with me, you can choose a horse.” After agreeing, Senior Brother Li took Su Yuchen to the horse stable.

Su Yuchen looked at all the horses in the stable, there were a lot of horses of different sizes and colours in the stable. He walked towards the horses and checked them.

When Su Yuchen was checking the third horse, Senior Brother Li called him, “What do you think about this horse, Junior Brother?”

Su Yuchen looked at the horse Senior Brother Li stood beside. That muscular horse had a shiny white coat with a very smooth looking mane. Its clear eyes were looking at him.

“If you pay 40 more gold shells, you can have this horse, Junior Brother. Do you want to buy this one?” Senior Brother Li asked Su Yuchen with a charming smile.

“Is it a better breed?” Su Yuchen asked.

“Yes, Junior Brother. While other mortal horses have a 5 percent chance of becoming a first-order beast, this horse breed has a 10 percent chance.” Senior Brother Li maintained the charming smile as he informed Su Yuchen. "Of course this 10 percent might feel like not much of an improvement, but that’s not what we need in a horse worth 90 gold shells. With better bloodline than most ordinary horse breeds, this horse is also faster than others, and with better stamina for long distances. How? Do you want to buy it?”

“How much faster?” Su Yuchen asked.

“A lot faster for 90 gold shells, you can cover twice the distance compared to other mortal horses. You need to shell out 120 gold shells minimum to buy a horse of this breed in the outside world. I am giving you a massive discount.” Senior Brother Li stressed the last sentence. “Do you want to buy this horse?”

“Yes, thanks for the discount, Senior Brother Li." Su Yuchen clasped his hands towards Senior Brother Li. He had a good first impression of him and felt his words were genuine. He just needs to check about the price.

“Can I ride it?”

“You can.”

After riding the horse on the field behind the stable, Su Yuchen paid for the horse, Senior Brother Li gave him 910 gold shells as change. He didn’t count them and just put them in the storage bag. He was trusting the senior disciple to not cheat him.

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“Now, tell me, Junior Brother Su, what happened to you?” Senior Brother Li asked Su Yuchen with a friendly smile in a gentle voice. “You don’t look good even though there’s nothing wrong with your health and cultivation. Did you encounter some other problem?”

“Nothing, no problem, Senior Brother.” Su Yuchen was troubled by the question of Senior Brother Li.

“I am trying to help you here, Junior Disciple. You are new to this sect and might not know anything about how things are here and how they work. Learning from a senior disciple is not something you should be embarrassed about.” Senior Brother Li continued to ask Su Yuchen in a gentle tone.

Su Yuchen felt awkward when Senior Brother Li continued to ask him. He was not willing to speak about the embarrassment he faced.

“I am indeed troubled with something. The inner sect disciples guarding the Rune Hall, are demanding me to pay one stellar rock to enter the hall and I am not willing to pay the stellar rock. Though I still want to learn more about runes in the future. Senior Brother Li, you also know the importance of the stellar rocks to us disciples. What should I do, Senior Brother?" Su Yuchen decided to hide about what happened to him and inquired about another problem.

Senior Brother Li’s expression changed when he listened to the problem. He stared at Su Yuchen and asked, “You didn’t pay to enter the hall, so the inner sect disciples did something embarrassing to you. Is that what happened?”

Su Yuchen face became ugly when he was asked by the Senior Brother Li. He said awkwardly, “You are too straight forward, Senior Brother. You didn’t even hesitate to ask me that.”

Senior Brother Li shook his head as he said to Su Yuchen, “This isn’t something hard to guess. When there are dark clouds in the monsoon season, it might rain, when there are inner sect disciples guarding the hall, you might get humiliated. These are common possibilities, easy to guess.”

Senior Brother Li looked into Su Yuchen’s eyes and asked him, “Do you want to make them pay back?”

“No. I am too weak. I don’t want to offend that inner disciple again.” Su Yuchen responded instantly. He doesn’t want to slip his tongue in front of this senior brother.

“Are you too weak to be a man?” Senior Brother Li laughed sarcastically. “Well, I can understand the thoughts running in your mind. I also refused to pay and was kicked out by the inner disciple guards. Couldn’t eat any food for days.”

Su Yuchen looked at him in surprise.

“Don’t be surprised, a lot of disciples stand up against these inner disciples. Many complained to the deacons and elder. However, only a few guards got punished and that too because of offending a deacon’s disciple or an elder’s disciple. They generally turn a blind eye to these actions of the guards.” Senior Brother Li informed Su Yuchen.

Su Yuchen frowned listening to Senior Brother Li, he asked him, “Can’t these inner disciples just ignore the people who refuse to pay and leave. I didn’t speak back to them when they asked me to pay, I apologised to them and then left. Still, they embarrassed me.”

“You need to know, every inner sect disciple will look down on the mission of guarding. The guards you meet are just unlucky and in an urgent need to complete their quota of missions. They feel they are forced into taking that mission and feel humiliated to guard. These inner sect disciples came up with the idea to exploit the weak disciples. This became part of that mission for them, this mission now gives them power. And when you refuse to pay to them it only means one thing in their eyes. You are looking down on them and that power. They then take out their anger on you.” Senior Brother Li explained to Su Yuchen. “You might feel this is unreasonable, it is, but for them this makes sense.”

Senior Brother Li looked straight into Su Yuchen’s eyes and said sternly, “I advice you, don’t think about revenge and beating sense into them. You are very obviously poor and have no background from the way you behave, but you, an ordinary person without cultivation managed to be recruited as an inner sect disciple. It means your talents must be very high. After three years you will be breaking through the Meridian Refinement Realm and reach the next realm, you can then enter tutelage under a very high ranking elder. This will be your path. Anyone can guess it. Most people will try to show their favour to you, like me. Those guards should also have left you alone, but they didn’t, because either they must have connections with high level persons or they don’t care about you. Both cases are very bad. You don’t want to continue offending them. So don’t have ideas like, cultivating for the next decade, reaching a realm higher than them and exacting revenge. Take my advice, live a happy life, cultivate to your full potential. You will forget this day in at most a year.”

Su Yuchen felt slightly better after listening to Senior Brother Li, “Thank you for your advice Senior Brother. I will try to practice what you said.”

“Good, I hope you do. If you still can’t forget this day, then learn the background of that guard, and then learn the background of that guard’s background. Practice till you are no longer afraid of them and then exact the heavenly retribution on the guard. Even if he becomes old you can torture him and his family. If he dies before you can exact your revenge just play with his bloodline. What are your thoughts on this, Junior Brother?” After saying this Senior Brother Li laughed loudly, “Ha-ha-ha!”

Su Yuchen was flabbergasted by the idea and then forced himself to give a very awkward laugh.