Chapter 132: The Person Qi Yi Both Loves and Hates

"Then how did you kill the bugs?" Su Yunhu asked in shock.

"Trump cards," Su Wuji said. "Don't ask what the trump cards are, you understand. Between cultivators, you must never ask someone what their trump card is; it's easy to get beaten up."

Su Yunhu immediately swallowed the words that had just risen to his throat.

If Su Wuji hadn't said that sentence, he really would have asked.

"What trump cards did you use to kill the bugs?"

Yang Guan looked at him and felt utterly speechless.

He heard his father was a merchant who traveled, and had taken him everywhere on business trips since childhood.

Why couldn't this person be a bit more worldly and steady?

Truly, he didn't know how his father raised such an oddball.

"By the way, did you notice? Our reward token is actually a soul artifact. The sect is truly rich," Su Yunhu chattered on. "I heard soul artifacts are extremely rare; one would fetch at least ten thousand spirit stones at an auction outside. We've made a huge profit this time."

"Without a soul artifact, there's no way to confirm the disciples' life or death, okay? Besides, our sect is wealthy and powerful; it doesn't care about this bit of soul artifact material," Su Linyuan added.

Su Yunhu felt a bit stifled; he was truly surprised that the sect's reward token was a soul artifact.

But Su Linyuan, Su Wuji, and the others found it completely normal, showing not a trace of surprise, which made him feel even more stifled.

Not long after, he ran off to discuss the reward token with other students.

After all, there were still people as surprised as him.

The small group Su Yunhu went to happened to include Qi Yi.

Speaking of which, this was the second time she had received the sect's reward token.

But she still felt a little excited. After all, she never expected to receive this reward token so early in this life.

She was only six years old now.

In her past life, she only received the reward token at twenty-nine, when she became a sect servant.

In this life, with Father Su Zhang, her start was too good.

But she felt she couldn't slack off.

Just as Senior Uncle Su Jiuniang, the Vice Headmaster, said, although she could now participate in the small exam rankings, she wouldn't be included in the large exam rankings. She could participate in the small exam rankings mainly because the Su Clan Academy didn't want to appear too stingy.

Even cutting off the small exam benefits for schoolchildren.

Senior Uncle Su also said she would need outstanding performance to have a chance to rejoin the large exam rankings.

The problem was that achieving outstanding performance was quite difficult. The schoolchildren at the Su Clan Academy this year were truly monstrous.

So monstrous that Qi Yi began to doubt her memories of the past.

How did Su Jin break through the ranks among this group of monsters and enter the sect back then?

She remembered that in her past life, Su Jin seemed to be an outer sect disciple as soon as she entered the sect.

"Ah? You actually don't know? Killing that kind of terrifying bug earns double reward points. The reward points we get for completing the mission are one. But the points they get are two.

Su Wuji, Su Cheng, and Su Jin joined forces to kill the bug. They all received two points."

Su Yunhu proudly shared the news he had received.

Seeing the shocked eyes of the other students, he felt very pleased with himself.

Hearing this, Qi Yi was extremely surprised.

"How could they kill that kind of bug with such incredible projectile speed?" she asked, confused.

Right after discovering that bug's amazing projectile power, the first thing she thought of was how to protect herself from the bug's threat.

After all, the bug was so fast she couldn't react in time before it would charge right into her head.

Counter-killing... it was truly too surprising to her.

"They used their trump cards. Don't ask me what trump cards they used to kill the bug. You understand, asking a cultivator about their trump card is wrong; they won't only not tell you, they might even beat you up."

Su Yunhu directly rephrased Su Wuji's words in his own way.

Qi Yi: Frustrated, so frustrated.

You might as well not have mentioned this at all!

But what trump cards does Su Jin have now? Did Grandfather prepare them for her?

She knew Grandfather Su Changying was a very capable great cultivator; his advancement to Jin Dan and his advancement to Nascent Soul were both very smooth.

The key was that in his past life, he particularly protected and doted on Su Shen, while treating her as if she didn't exist.

This life's situation was even more complicated; because Father Su Zhang broke away from the family, Grandfather not only expelled Father Su Zhang from the clan, but also felt disgust and hostility toward them, the step-children of Father Su Zhang.

If it weren't that Su Jin and Su Shen were also Father's biological children, a fact that couldn't be changed, he probably would have expelled all of Father's children from the clan.

She was able to attend the Su Clan Academy only because she was one of Father's step-children.

After all, step-children are still children; even if she didn't bear the surname Su, she was still a relative by marriage to the Su family.

Why did Father Su Zhang only dare to secretly visit Su Jin and Su Shen?

It was because she overheard Father telling Mother: "I cannot appear to visit them. If I go, my father said he will personally break your limbs and spine, leaving you bedridden for life, never to rise again."

At that time, she drew in a sharp breath of cold air, okay? She never expected Grandfather Su Changying would use Mother's safety to threaten Father.

The problem was that Father obediently complied. This shows that Grandfather Su Changying was likely originally a person with a ruthless and decisive temper.

So in her heart, she truly both loved and hated this grandfather, wanting to get close but daring not to.

"Is everyone familiar with your reward tokens? Now we are going to other places to complete missions. Everyone keep quiet," Liu Shi quickly spoke up, reorganized the formation, and then led this group of young students out of the large garden together with the other first-grade classes.

Their next mission was to pick fruit.

And not ordinary fruit, but a kind of small red fruit covered in thorns all over.

This is Crimson Red Fruit, one of the main raw materials for refining Qi-Supplementing Pills.

Because a large number of cultivators went to the outer city district to work, the herb-picking mission also fell to them.

This mission also lasts three days.

Every day, one hundred baskets of crimson fruit must be picked, and each basket must be filled with three jin.

That means three hundred jin must be picked in total.

Facing the medicinal field full of thorns, everyone was scratching their heads.

"After picking the fruit, what else must be done?" Su Jin asked Liu Shi.

"After picking three hundred jin of fruit, you may return to the personal cultivation rooms provided by the medicinal garden for cultivation," Liu Shi said.

Upon hearing this, joy appeared on the faces of the students. After all, during the previous three days of completing tasks, everyone had been too nervous to cultivate for three whole days.

"However, when you pick the spirit fruits, you must choose only those that are ripe. If they are half-ripe or unripe, you will be punished. You will be forced to do miscellaneous labor for other medicinal workers. Doing miscellaneous labor is exhausting, and you must work for at least two hours every day," Master Liu warned them. "And since I am here, do not think you can shirk your duties."