The darker the night, the colder it became near the water. Cheng Qian wrapped his clothes tighter and glanced at Han Yuan, who was shivering in just an outer robe, and felt that he deserved it.

As soon as he came to his senses, Yan Zhengming had already spoken his mind.

Yan Zhengming folded his hands in front of his chest and looked at Han Yuan sternly. He threw his sword far aside and waited for his master to return safely. Then he would kick the extremely luxurious sword into the pool - that was a sword that had chopped mice and poked toads.

He said coldly: "You have been practicing for less than a month and you dare to break into the mountain cave. Are you planning to turn Fuyao Mountain into dust in the future? I think you might as well be roasted by rats!"

Han Yuan, with a bruised face and nose, was immediately indignant after hearing such an impolite rebuke. He was about to get angry, but then he remembered that it was his senior brothers who had rescued him at great risk. He immediately extinguished his indignation, lowered his head dejectedly, and listened to the rebuke obediently.

The eldest brother was about to criticize Han Yuan from head to toe, but Li Yun suddenly interrupted.

Li Yun said softly, "Big Brother, Junior Brother, it's my fault. I was the one who urged Junior Brother to go to the back mountain. I didn't know this place was connected to the Valley of Monsters."

When he said this, several people were stunned.

Han Yuan was just a bit of an idiot, who liked to steal and take shortcuts when he had nothing to do, but he was not really stupid. When he was hiding from the big monster in the Monster Valley and was captured by the rat spirits and told to eat, he was scared to death and felt resentful. But this resentment was almost gone when he saw Li Yun coming to rescue him unarmed with his fellow brothers.

At this moment, Li Yun suddenly spoke out, and the last bit of discomfort in Han Yuan's heart was miraculously dispelled by his senior brother's confession.

The little beggar lowered his head a little embarrassedly: "No, it's just my own idea. Besides, it was my senior brothers who saved me."

"No... I didn't actually," Li Yun seemed to have opened his mouth. All of a sudden, the words that were hard to face and hard to say came pouring out like a flood. He said all at once, "After I entered the valley, I knew what was inside. I was actually very scared and wanted to back out several times. If it weren't for my senior brother and third junior brother..."

After hearing what he said, Cheng Qian inexplicably felt that Li Yun was a little cute. The four of them sat here in a crooked manner. Although they all looked embarrassed, they were unprecedentedly harmonious and peaceful. He smiled and said, "Who wouldn't be scared? I was also scared."

"I didn't see you were terribly frightened," Yan Zhengming snorted, "especially when you were touching the bear monster's corpse eighteen times."

Cheng Qian was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding the second half of the sentence, and explained in confusion: "I didn't touch so much, I just wanted to use his sharp teeth to defend myself. Second Brother has nothing in his hands, so he is brave."

After listening to the irrelevant answer from his young junior fellow apprentice, Yan Zhengming realized that he seemed to have said something wrong - for example, he had exposed his usual vulgar pastimes, and a thin layer of red immediately rose on his face.

Li Yun was stunned for a moment, then quickly lowered his head as if to hide something, which showed that he was not very elegant at all.

Han Yuan was much more frank than these "sanctimonious" people. He laughed maliciously and fell down, making the sleeping little demon hum.

Only the "innocent" little Cheng Qian looked puzzled.

Yan Zhengming was so angry that he picked up a small stone and threw it at him. Han Yuan ran away with his head in his hands, and found a shield for himself. He pointed at Tian Yao and said, "I have something important to do! Brother, please show mercy! There is also a female monster here. Should we take her in?"

Li Yun said, "It depends on what Master thinks. I don't know what's going on in the Demon Valley, but they definitely don't want her."

These words made everyone quiet down.

No one wants her...

These words touched Cheng Qian's heart. He glanced at the little demon who hummed twice and then fell into deep sleep. He couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for her.

Yan Zhengming said: "She will most likely stay. Master likes to pick up things when he returns. But I think we'd better come up with a name for her before Master comes back, otherwise..."

He glanced at Han Yuan meaningfully, and Han Yuan's eyelids twitched twice when he thought of his unlucky name.

Yan Zhengming sneered, "If the master names her Han Zhizhi, I'm afraid she won't want to live when she grows up."

Several people discussed it over and over again, and argued about the elegant nicknames of Fenghuaxueyue and the fifty common nicknames of country girls.

Finally, Yan Zhengming made the decision: "Since she was fished out of the puddle in the mountain cave, let's just call her 'Tan'. She will follow the master's surname, Han, Han Tan."

Han Yuan added without further ado, "This is good. We can even give it a nickname, 'Water Pit.'"

Yan Zhengming: “…”

This time he was too lazy to even beat Han Yuan because it was really detrimental to his style.

After an unknown amount of time, Cheng Qian felt sleepy and tired. Before he knew it, he leaned against a rock and fell into a daze amid the chattering and fighting of his fellow disciples. He was not awakened until the dew fell and dawn was approaching.

Cheng Qian woke up with a start and rubbed his eyes hard. He saw that Master Mu Chun, who was working day and night, no longer had the immortal demeanor of a Taoist priest with a sword in front of him. He was looking at them with a sad face.

How good is it? We went on a one-day tour to the cave. There were four of us when we went in and only five came out.

Master Mu Chun looked at the eldest disciple who looked angry, the second disciple who was yawning, the third disciple who looked confused, and the fourth disciple who didn't dare to look up and look at him. Finally, he sighed, "I am three hundred years younger than Master Zi Peng, but I look like her father. Do you know why?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Mu Chun looked straight at Han Yuan and said, "Because she didn't accept any apprentices."

Han Yuan's chin was almost touching his chest.

Yan Zhengming seemed not to hear the obscure accusation in his voice, and interrupted him in a hurry to make trouble: "Master, what did you say to the old hen? Did she scratch you?"

Master Mu Chun rolled his eyes to the sky and said, "Of course I explained the truth to her - Zhengming, practitioners should be careful with their words and actions, and pay attention to winning people over with virtue. What's the reason for you to always speak rudely to your seniors?"

Yan Zhengming: "She almost scratched me! One day I will pluck all her hair and make a feather duster to use for sweeping the mission hall!"

Mu Chun: “…”

Yan Zhengming had his fill of talking and felt much more relaxed, then he remembered his business.

"By the way, Master," he said to Master Mu Chun in a "by the way" tone, "we also found a disciple for you!"

Master Mu Chun looked at the little demon with fleshy arms and legs, put his hands behind his back, looked up at the infinite night sky, and sighed: "My disciples, please let me live a few more years!"

In the master's infinite sorrow, Han Tan became their junior sister.

In countless folk legends, the "little sisters" in the immortal gate have always made people imagine. There are peerless beauties as white as ice and snow, and little confidantes with smiles as beautiful as flowers... But probably no one would want to hear the stories of these fairies when they were in diapers.

At first, Master Mu Chun planned to arrange for several maids around Yan Zhengming to take turns to take care of her. Unfortunately, after less than a day and a half, the demon had already cried so hard that three rooms collapsed.

She raised her voice. Even the cave of Master Zipeng was no problem, let alone a few dilapidated brick houses?

Master Mu Chun had no choice but to move the small puddle to a cave on the mountainside. It was said that the cave was the place where the ancestors practiced in seclusion and could withstand the nine-day divine thunder.

But this made Yan Zhengming's delicate hairdressing girls unhappy.

The heaviest work they did in Yan Zhengming's gentle place was to comb their hair, make incense, and take care of the flowers and plants. How could they bear the tossing of such a small thing? Moreover, the old senior was probably a person who practiced asceticism. There was no hair in the cave. The bed was a hard big stone, and the chair was a hard small stone... Is this a place for people to stay?

Several beauties ran to the leader with tears in their eyes and cried, declaring that they would rather die than go.

In a rage, Master Mu Chun ordered several of his disciples to take turns to take care of their sister who was born with great spiritual powers - who asked them to get into trouble and bring the person back?

The disciples accepted the punishment and had to take turns to wreak havoc on… no, take care of the puddle.

Han Yuan, needless to say, was a scoundrel who came from a beggar family. In just one day, he turned his junior sister Shuikeng, who came from a noble family, into a quasi-beggar, making her wrapped in strange-looking diapers from head to toe and covered in dust.

Because her greedy fourth brother "curiously" tasted most of her milk paste, when the master went to observe at night, he found that the hungry puddle girl was opening her toothless mouth, ready to bite a fleshy big green worm.

Even Cheng Qian, who seemed to be more stable, was unreliable. When it was his turn, Cheng Qian moved his homework into the cave. After finishing his homework, he found some notes left by his predecessors. Although he probably couldn't understand them, he still studied them with great enthusiasm for the whole night. Cheng Qian was so serious and focused that he completely forgot about the existence of his junior sister. When he came to his senses, he found that his junior sister had fallen asleep with a face full of dried milk paste and pitiful tears.

The most troublesome one was Yan Zhengming. He led 17 or 18 Taoist children to the small water hole cave as if seeking revenge. He stood at the door and directed the Taoist children around, refusing to go in half a step. Every time the unlucky child finished defecating, her eldest brother would stand eight feet away with a look of death on his face, and order the Taoist children to wash her from head to toe three or five times. The girl in the water hole was soaked in water all day, and she had three pounds of incense on her body, which successfully knocked out a passing bee.

And the most outrageous one was Li Yun. Li Yun felt that the little apprentice sister was very pitiful because of her short arms and legs and her unstable walking, so he dripped a few drops of golden clam holy water on her, tied a rope around her neck, and led the toad apprentice sister around the mountain for half a circle...

After this battle, Master Mu Chun never dared to hand over the water pit to any of his disciples again - after all, it was a life.

He had no choice but to find someone to weave a basket, and carried the celestial demon on his back every day, poisoning her sight and hearing with all kinds of strange scriptures.