After the Strategy Mission Failed - Chapter 2

2

“Ding! New World teleportation successful!”
I opened my eyes excitedly, ready to start a big new adventure, but after seeing the familiar grass and trees before me, I fell silent.
038 also fell silent.
“This is… the new world?”
Isn’t this the Lingyun Sect where I stayed during my cultivation days?
“Ho-ho-host, th-this might be a BUG. I’ll go ask Tech Support.”
Ten minutes later, 038 came back with a mournful face.
“Host, there really was a BUG. We traveled to two hundred years later.”
“So, re-teleport?”
“Um… because our performance has been at the bottom for two consecutive years, the Organization isn’t planning to send us to a new world. They said we should just make do and try the capture mission here. They also said if the Demon God is too difficult, switching to a different target is acceptable.”
“…”
Silence.
A profound, awkward silence.
Have I been abandoned by the Organization?
Just because of two years of goose eggs (zero results)?

038 obsequiously took out a ‘Big Recovery Pill’.
“But they gave a BUG compensation, Host.”
“Spineless. One Big Recovery Pill bought you off?”
“Well, the Big Recovery Pill counts as a small Golden Finger (cheat). I’ll communicate with the higher-ups later and ask for more compensation.”
“That’s more like it.”
I chewed on the Big Recovery Pill. As waves of warmth flowed through my veins, my stiff body finally could move.
Looking at the broom in my hand, I frowned.
“Did I transmigrate into a street sweeper?”
“No, no, no, Host.” 038 hurriedly explained. “You are now Shi Yao, the disciple of Sect Leader Chi Yuan of the Lingyun Sect.”
Chi Yuan?
A round-faced boy crying with two trails of snot flashed through my mind.
I didn’t expect the crybaby Junior Brother from back then to be the Sect Leader now.
He really brings honor to his Senior Sister!
But if Shi Yao is the Sect Leader’s disciple, why is she sweeping the floor at the foot of the mountain?
And judging by her bodily functions, she froze to death.
Is there something wrong with the Lingyun Sect?
I narrowed my eyes at the sect on the mountain: “Let’s go, 038. Let’s go up and see how my alma mater has developed.”

3

After so many years, the Lingyun Sect, which used to be at the bottom of the cultivation world, has become an industry giant.
Firstly, because of Xuan Lin, the true god who descended to undergo a tribulation. Secondly, because of me, the Left Guardian of the Demon Realm.
Although I represent the negative side, outsiders know I was extremely filial to my Master. After I became the Left Guardian, the demons near Lingyun Sect moved overnight, fearing they would disturb my Master.
In a way, that counts as benefiting my alma mater.
038 sighed.
“It’s changed so much here. It doesn’t look the same at all. Suddenly, I miss the broken little sect from before.”
I nodded. Although I was often tortured by Xuan Lin at Lingyun Sect, Master treated me extremely well and always secretly took me and Junior Brother down the mountain to play.
I remember once, Master took us drinking. When we came back, we were blocked at the sect gate by a dark-faced Xuan Lin.
At that time, Master straightened his back and let me and Junior Brother go in first. Just for that grace, I will remember Master for a lifetime.
“It’s a pity Master…”
Just as I was feeling emotional—
“Shi Yao, why are you here?”
A charming woman walked up surrounded by a crowd. Seeing me standing there safe and sound with a rosy complexion, a trace of displeasure flashed across her face.
“Have you finished sweeping the snow at the foot of the mountain?”
“Host, it seems these are the people who bullied Shi Yao.”
“Heh.”
I put on a cold face, looking at them one by one, memorizing their appearances.
“Look, look, what are you looking at?”
“Senior Sister Xu Yu is talking to you, did you hear?”
Someone came up to shove me. I stumbled and almost fell, but luckily someone supported me in time.
“Junior Sister Shi Yao, are you alright?”
Xu Yu’s expression changed when she saw the newcomer: “Senior Brother Chen Yue.”
Chen Yue ignored her and only glanced at her faintly: “Why are you gathered here instead of cultivating?”
“We came to ask Senior Sister Shi Yao some questions.” Xu Yu smiled and looked at me. “Right? Senior Sister Shi Yao.”
“No.” I shook my head, then pointed at those people and said to Chen Yue: “They are bullying me.”
Chen Yue: “…”
Xu Yu: “…”
Other disciples present: “…”

4

When Chen Yue escorted me back, he expressed his apologies.
I learned from him that Chi Yuan had gone out a hundred years ago and hadn’t returned. Now, everything in the sect was being handled by Chen Yue’s master.
At first, everyone was somewhat afraid of Shi Yao, after all, she was the Sect Leader’s only disciple.
But as time passed and Chi Yuan didn’t return, rumors started spreading that he had been plotted against and died outside.
As the rumors spread, people’s hearts began to change.
Shi Yao lost her Master’s protection and was envied by her peers…
Tsk.
Logically speaking, Shi Yao should call me ‘Martial Aunt’.
She could have possessed heavenly treasures and walked unhindered in the cultivation world.
Yet now she was bullied to death by these ignorant juniors.
My eyes darkened.
The Lingyun Sect needs a good cleaning. Since Junior Brother isn’t here, Senior Sister might as well do it for him…
Harming fellow disciples should be punishable by immediate execution.
“Host, absolutely not!”
038 hurriedly shouted to stop the killing intent in my brain, trying to soothe me.
“Y-you can’t kill them all, otherwise the world might collapse. If the world collapses, our performance…”
Chen Yue stopped, seeing my gloomy expression, and asked, “Junior Sister Shi Yao, what’s wrong?”
I suppressed the killing intent in my heart, curled my lips, and smiled very sweetly.
“Nothing, Senior Brother Chen Yue. Thank you for helping me out this time. Shi Yao will remember it in her heart.”