Chapter 246: Innate Secretary Saint Body And Her Plugin Jailbreak Brother
The instant Yuan Zhu stepped through the Door, it triggered the Brother and Sister’s Perception, and they both turned their heads to look over at the same time.
Younger Brother, who was leading the orphans in Martial Arts practice and fist training, suddenly stopped his movements, looked up excitedly, and said: “Sir? You’re back!”
Meanwhile, Little Girl, who had some meat on her bones and baby fat on her little face, completely dropped her serious and cold expression, cheered as she spread her arms and charged toward him, her mouth emitting a sweet coquettish sound: “Big brother!”
This scene of the violent big sister acting spoiled instantly stunned Younger Brother in place, dealing a massive blow to his mental world! He simply couldn’t believe that this filthy thing was his own sister?! The contrast was too strong, too terrifying.
On the contrary, Yuan Zhu didn’t find anything wrong with it at all. A cute little girl from a poor mountain area, who had been sponsored by him since childhood and lived a happy life, was now rushing up joyfully upon seeing her great benefactor.
Very reasonable!
What, she’s already 12 years old? Isn’t that exactly how elementary school students should be!
“Big brother, I missed you so much!”
Deeply versed in the art of Hugging the Thigh, clearly knowing whose Shadow Domain this was, and knowing that their current status, authority, and power all came from whom, Little Girl sincerely hugged Yuan Zhu’s thigh tightly without letting go, giving full emotional value of gratitude, reverence, attachment, reluctance, happiness, and more.
She wished she could seal a Brotherhood Oath with blood right on the spot to solidify their ‘brother-sister relationship born of different parents’.
Silly and honest Younger Brother also came before him, looking at his sister who disregarded age and propriety, desperately acting spoiled and currying favor, he opened his mouth as if to speak but hesitated.
Yuan Zhu looked at Younger Brother, who was only a head shorter than him, taller than Lu Rang, with a strong and vital physique full of Life force, subconsciously ignoring that he was only 8 years old. This guy was practically 18 already! His face was a bit youthful, but with thick eyebrows, big eyes full of spirit, he looked just like the protagonist of an ancient shonen manga.
“What are you standing there for? Call him big brother!” Little Girl turned her head and angrily scolded her dumbfounded silly Younger Brother.
Younger Brother immediately stuttered, his face showing shyness as he struggled to speak: “B-Big Brother, hello!”
Yuan Zhu was very satisfied with Little Girl’s cleverness and quick-wittedness. Though half a year had passed without seeing her, he could clearly feel her filial affection and genuine happiness, gratitude, and dependence; at the same time, he was even more satisfied with Younger Brother’s changes—his Strength had already broken through to Earth Rank!
Genius, absolute genius!
Ordinary Insect City residents usually need 2 (genius) to 9 years to break through from Human Rank to Earth Rank. Yet Younger Brother had advanced to Earth Rank and begun condensing acupoints in just half a year.
Not only that, the most basic Earth Rank Promotion requires nurturing and constructing a complete Twelve Main Meridians Meridian Structure in the body. But Younger Brother’s Earth Rank Promotion not only completed the most basic Twelve Main Meridians but also constructed the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, plus an extra Eight Hidden Meridians, totaling a 28 Meridian System!
The thickness of his Foundation and Aptitude was 12 meridians more than an ordinary Earth Rank, with 16 extra, a despairingly vast gap.
In contrast, Little Girl, placed among ordinary orphans, was also considered upper-mid talent. She was still at Human Rank, but had fully completed the Twelve Main Meridians, perfected half (four) of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, successfully opened the Ren and Du Meridians, then stalled.
Yuan Zhu ruffled Little Girl’s loli head vigorously: “You’ve grown a lot and haven’t let down my expectations. I’m very satisfied!”
Little Girl happily narrowed her eyes, enjoying this never-before-experienced wonderful feeling, and eagerly reported: “After you left, big brother, we siblings have worked diligently, managing Animal Husbandry Village for you, seriously Farming Spirit Insects, and studying Pharmacology and Alchemy hard. I can now refine the most basic Hemostatic Powder, and Younger Brother has broken through to Earth Rank and started learning Armor Casting and Weapon Forging!”
“However, a guy claiming to be your elder brother forcibly Occupied the Shadow Dream Hole, sidelining us, ignoring advice and arbitrarily remodeling the village. Though it brought many Benefits, it also caused the Shadow World’s Development to deviate from the Direction you set, brother. We were powerless to stop it and could only let it be.”
After a simple brag, Little Girl began tattling on the Captain. Then she grumbled about Shopkeeper Lu and Commander Zuo secretly siding with the Captain, covertly selling out Animal Husbandry Village’s Profit in betrayal. As well as the phenomenon among the Captain’s constantly recruited ‘technical villagers’ of abandoning ‘Village Chief Faith’ and switching allegiance to him.
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but feel doubly gratified. This little lackey was truly loyal!
He carefully recalled: back when he descended, he wasn’t stingy with the siblings, but hadn’t given his all either. Yet just from benefits within his ability, he reaped loyalty—this investment was hugely profitable.
“No matter, that gentleman is indeed my Partner. I gave him Permission to Develop the Shadow Domain. Tell me about your Developments during this time—what achievements have there been?”
Hearing Yuan Zhu had no intention of pursuing the Captain’s ‘usurpation and rebellion,’ the exceptionally clever Little Girl decisively dropped the tattling and happily recounted their experiences during this period.
Silly and cute Younger Brother, still slow on the uptake, slightly opened his mouth, wanting to add some ‘betrayal phenomena’ he’d seen daily and propose solutions. But before he could speak, he was interrupted, his eyes filled with clear innocence, somewhat unable to keep up with his sister’s Rhythm.
Miss completely ignored Younger Brother, her voice bright, speech speed astonishing, but articulation clear, with massive information density, described simply and clearly… After a machine-gun barrage, precisely hitting numerous targets, Yuan Zhu listened in admiration!
Simply a heaven-sent little assistant, little secretary—her work efficiency, summarization ability, and expression skills utterly crushed Spicy Stick by four streets; better than the mute Nie Yin by ten thousand Younger Brothers!
Snake Snake sobbed: “Cub, you don’t love Mom anymore!”
In Little Girl’s machine-gun articulation, over the past seven months, because they were granted Administrator Permissions, plus being too young, the siblings weren’t favored by the two ‘big Administrators’ Commander Zuo and Shopkeeper Lu, even looked down upon.
But due to the siblings having access to the Shadow Space and the unique authority to manage Dreamland; plus needing to raise Shadow Yuan Shi Worm and Holy Cough Beetle for Yuan Zhu, they had no choice but to acquiesce to their status.
Thus, the early days had abundant Resources but no real power, and weren’t very smooth.
On the contrary, the overt Agent Shopkeeper Lu and Commander Zuo were both seasoned Underground World veterans with rich Experience. After an initial period of trepidation and caution, they quickly tasted the flavor of ‘power,’ seized great authority, and began exploiting the ownerless, resource-rich Animal Husbandry Village for personal gain.
Commander Zuo held high status in Cicada City, had potential to impact Heaven Rank, controlled Animal Husbandry Village’s military power; Shopkeeper Lu had garbage Strength but rich Business channels, controlled Animal Husbandry Village’s Trade, cooperating tacitly with each other, making a fortune, then reinvesting in themselves…
In the third month, the ‘Captain’ from beyond the heavens descended, reforming Animal Husbandry Village with sweeping changes, sending the two adult leaders out on task after task. But with clear rewards and punishments, he thoroughly tamed the two Tools.
The siblings, being too young and unsuitable for external missions, stayed behind. Plus their high Permissions and precociousness. So the Captain gave Candle a face, began tilting Resources toward them, focusing on cultivating the two siblings.
In just half a year, Younger Brother successively gained Management Rights over Animal Husbandry Village’s Police Department, Interrogation Department, Martial Arts School, Orphanage, and more; Little Girl handled Inner World Mao Shi Worm Farming, Spirit Medicine Garden Cultivation, Spirit Worm Raising, Food Planting, Hospital, Alchemy Industry, and more.
As the Domain continuously perfected and Expanded, the siblings were busy as could be. Not only seizing time for Cultivation, but also minding kids, villagers’ Food issues, Worm Raising, Medicine Planting industries, etc. Thus, management ability was forced to skyrocket ahead of schedule. (Only for Little Girl)
Younger Brother, due to personality flaws like being taciturn, honest, hardworking, blindly following his sister, struggled especially in management.
On the contrary, Little Girl thrived like a fish in water, not finding the work on her shoulders hard at all. Instead, she always quickly figured out the ropes, integrated seamlessly, flew high happily every day, full of meaning—that was the satisfaction of wielding great power and self-realization.
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After hearing it all, Yuan Zhu fell silent.
Though Younger Brother managed no fewer ‘institutions and projects’ than Little Girl, his work was merely executing his sister’s plans.
The entire Animal Husbandry Village seemed small, but it was fully equipped despite its size, with every aspect needing ‘Little Girl’ to comprehensively consider and formulate plans for implementation.
Of course, her heaven-defying performance wasn’t because Little Girl was innately gifted, a reincarnation of Zhuge Liang. Her secret to being so awesome was holding 1/12 of the Domain authority, freely accessing Cockroach Village.
Treating the underdeveloped Cockroach Village as an ‘Artificial Intelligence Server,’ it not only had super computing power and simulation ability; it could also connect to all residents’ Dreams in the Domain, transmit info in Dreams, even plant ‘suggestions’ in the subconscious.
With such a Divine Tool assisting, Little Girl handled village chief work like a tiger with wings, slipping through effortlessly. But this still couldn’t overshadow her own talent.
Snake Snake: “Top-notch little secretary! 【Frog Farming Hegemony】 is short on talents like this!”
Yuan Zhu discovered that if he poached Little Girl and took her to Running City, she could handle jobs like 【Frog Factory, Pill Laboratory, Fighting Broker, White Feather Association Cult Leader……】 with ease.
Thus Candle worried: “If we poach Little Girl, will the 【Shadow Domain】 side fall behind?”
Snake Snake: “Absolutely not! Little Girl stationed in the 【Domain】 is just icing on the cake. Without her, the 【Domain Structure】 constructed by Captain can still run smoothly, just with somewhat reduced efficacy. On the other hand, Little Girl, after half a year of tempering, is ready to graduate! Besides, this broken place has incomplete heaven and earth, not suitable for them to display their talents. Look, the cultivation progress of both kids is stuck.”
As communication progressed, after Yuan Zhu understood the brother and sister’s life during this period, he shifted focus to their cultivation.
For transcendents, power is the foundation.
Before joining Yuan Zhu, they were orphans on the edge of 【Insect City】. The True Qi they painstakingly cultivated daily: 1/3 used to resist and clear naturally accumulated pollution in the body; 1/3 refined into 【Qi Threads】 injected into Spirit Insects to nurture them in clearing their internal pollution and stimulate Spirit Insects to produce Insect System spirit materials in exchange for food; only the last 1/3 of True Qi could be used to nurture the Meridian System.
If daily cultivation output is 1, then cultivation efficiency is less than 0.3.
After joining 【Animal Husbandry Village】, the brother and sister’s status soared continuously, no longer worrying about livelihood. With a steady supply of Pure food, Spiritual Energy environment, and able to consume Pills…… the cultivated True Qi is all used to nourish and breed Meridians, or cultivate Spirit Insects.
Efficiency soared from the previous 0.3 to 2, 3, 4, 5…… times or more. Progress was naturally exaggerated, both reaching 【Human Rank Peak】.
Younger Brother gathered 28 Meridians, with aptitude surpassing the top genius of Cicada City City Lord lineage (22 Meridians), stepping into 【Earth Rank】. Little Girl now also possesses 16 Meridians, entering the genius ranks, stuck at 【Human Rank Peak】 and stagnating.
However, the brother and sister’s current 【True Qi System】 has taken a Brand New Mutation route, and after entering 【Earth Rank】, lacks follow-up Cultivation Technique references.
Ultimately, it’s Yuan Zhu’s fault.
On the eve of his last return, he became interested in the affinity properties of 【Holy Cough Particle】 with 【Coleoptera, Hemiptera Spirit Insects】. And Cicada City’s Dao Seed and Spirit Insects all belong to 【Hemiptera】, which have affinity with 【Holy Light, Holy Cough Particle】.
Thus he not only cultivated a large number of Holy Light System Spirit Insects, but also gave the brother and sister 【Holy Cough Blessing】, polluting and alienating their Physical Body, Meridians, True Qi; and left several vitality-abundant 【Holy Cough Erosion. Demonic Giant Insect】 as living Spirit Stone mines, producing Holy Cough Particle day and night for their cultivation.
Half a year passed in a flash. As Yuan Zhu’s fanatic die-hard fans, the brother and sister never questioned their cultivation path, instead diligently using 【Breathing Method】 to inhale and refine 【Holy Cough Particle】 day and night, successfully developing 【Holy Cough True Qi】 to breed Meridians.
In wuxia novels, this is a tier higher than Zuo Lengchan’s 【Cold Ice True Qi】—an 【Innate Level. Holy Light Variant True Qi】.
The Meridian System bred from this naturally differs from the traditional Insect System Twelve Main Meridians.
When Younger Brother broke through to 【Earth Rank】 and began condensing his first acupoint, he fell into stagnation and got stuck.
Now it was Boss’s turn to describe his condition. He opened his mouth, but due to being inarticulate: “I……” for a long time, he couldn’t say anything.
This made the petite and exquisite loli big sister roll her eyes repeatedly, constantly emphasizing to Yuan Zhu: “My younger brother is only 8 years old this year, a bit dumb, it’s excusable!”
Boss looked down innocently at his sister, his eyes full of grievance.
Taking advantage of the 12-year-old big sister’s quibbling, Yuan Zhu cast an 【Evil Detection】 at Boss, and cooperated with the Holy Cough Mark left in the other’s body for an internal-external scan.
This situation was somewhat like a hospital’s CT contrast scan. More detailed and profound than directly and crudely observing others with 【Soul Crystal】, able to read Younger Brother’s Physical Body condition more meticulously.
And according to the feedback, Younger Brother’s 【True Qi System】 has undergone subtle changes over the past half year, gradually becoming maladapted to the native environment, with True Qi composition increasingly dependent on the Brand New 【Holy Cough Particle】.
The supernatural Energy cultivated in the body is still True Qi, but its properties are shifting entirely toward 【Holy Light】. It can be understood as 【Variant True Qi】 gradually eroding 【Holy Light Energy】…… Moreover, this alienated Holy Cough True Qi has lost most properties of 【Holy Light】, so it can be stored long-term.
Snake Snake: “What Boss has cultivated now is True Qi with a ‘Holy Light flavor’, not 【Holy Light】 itself. He doesn’t belong to the Holy Church Faction, but is a pro-Holy Light guiding party in the 【Insect System Qi Refining Faction】! I think he’s worth vigorously cultivating!”
Yuan Zhu: “Following this Rhythm, even if we really succeed in cultivating 【Holy Light. Masked Cultivator】, it won’t be 【Holy Light System】 anymore?!”
Snake Snake: “Though not belonging to 【Holy Church】, it belongs to you, Boss! Boss’s 【Holy Cough True Qi】 is firmly controlled by your 【Holy Cough Particle】 at the supernatural source, yet unable to convert to 【Light】, always remaining True Qi. Then this branch of Boss’s 【Masked Holy Cough Knight】 will always be unrelated to 【Holy Church】, yet can continuously erode and transfer assets from the 【Holy Light System】, growing and strengthening your personal power.”
“Just like 【Anti-Law. Shadow】 continuously prying at the corner of 【Great Desolation Immortal Scripture】. One day, the 【Old Immortal Scripture Master】 will discover that 【Anti-Law】 has emptied all its Property.”
“Yes!”
