Seeing Lin Xiaolu's silly look with a runny nose, Li Miaoxin couldn't help laughing. She then took out a handkerchief embroidered with magpie birds and covered his little nose, gently smiling and said: "Blow hard."
"Pfft~"
The boy obediently blew his nose hard. After wiping his nose clean, Li Miaoxin continued to smile and said:
"Actually, Mr. Yang will tell you all these cultivation concepts in the school later.
The path of cultivation is long and lengthy. Junior brothers and sisters don't need to think too much about it. Just focus on happily learning and cultivating at your own pace. You will all eventually attain great achievements in the future."
Listening to his senior sister's words, Lin Xiaolu nodded. He suddenly felt that his senior sister now resembled his vague impression of his mother.
He could still vaguely remember his mother gently wiping his nose like this when he was little.
As for his younger sister Xiao Yuer, she had completely forgotten what their mother looked like, because their parents had passed away when she was only three years old and could hardly remember anything.
After having dinner, the siblings bid farewell to Li Miaoxin and returned to their residence. After washing up with Cleansing Dan, the two children went to bed.
The next morning, the familiar bell rang in the mountains again, waking up the siblings. As Lin Xiaolu groggily sat up in bed, his senior sister Li Miaoxin arrived as promised to dress up the two children.
After some frolicking, Li Miaoxin once again dressed up the siblings into two porcelain doll-like fair young daoists, then led them by the hand to have breakfast.
After the simple breakfast, Lin Xiaolu declined Li Miaoxin's offer to take them to the school. He said he wanted to go by himself. Li Miaoxin did not refuse and agreed with a smile.
"Listen to the teacher when you get to school." Li Miaoxin gently flicked the tips of the siblings' noses and then saw them off as they left.
Soon, the two children walked across the mystic Seeking Dao Bridge again and happily ascended Emei Peak.
Just as they reached the mountain road on Emei Peak, Lin Xiaolu saw an old acquaintance.
It was Dongfang Dan, who had wet his pants in fear of him last time!
Dongfang Dan was now wearing the same cyan daoist robe as him, with a small cloth bag slung over his shoulder. He was trotting ahead of them. When Lin Xiaolu saw him, he immediately yelled out: "Fatty!"
Dongfang Dan seemed startled by the sudden shout. He angrily looked back and shouted, "Who're you calling fatty!"
But when he turned around and saw Lin Xiaolu smiling at him, Dongfang Dan's fat face quivered. His originally angry expression transformed into a gentle, obedient smile in just a second. "Whoever scolds me, I Dongfang Dan will thank him."
"Pfft~" Xiao Yuer, hiding behind her brother, couldn't help but laugh at Dongfang Dan's words, her eyes curling into little crescent moons.
Lin Xiaolu swaggered up to Dongfang Dan and looked at him condescendingly, making the little fatty tremble all over.
"Brother Lu, Brother Lu, what happened last time was all a misunderstanding." He said fearfully while wiping his cold sweat. "Brother Lu, you've already beaten me up once, so let's just call it even, alright?~"
Dongfang Dan was so scared that his calves were shaking. He had no choice but to be afraid. The big shot in front of him was now completely infamous in the school.
On the very first day of school, he had broken the nose of Chen Nianyun, known as the most talented disciple of the Spirit Sword Branch in the last three hundred years, born with an indestructible sword physique!
He had also beaten up Yu Chuchu, a female disciple of the Medicine Origin Branch, until her head bled!
In the end, even Mr. Yang did not escape unscathed, being publicly berated and sworn at right to his face!
Now everyone knew that after twenty years, Li Mingru of the Picking Stars Branch had finally accepted another pair of new disciples. One of them was a fierce brute named Lin Xiaolu.
He was extremely vicious and brutal, devoid of humanity, unconstrained by law or morality. All the students in the school addressed him as Lin the Fierce Brute!
Therefore, how could someone like him, Dongfang Dan, merely a weakling born with an Earth Spirit physique, the son of a Grand Chancellor of Great Viet Country, not cower before such a fierce brute!
Dongfang Dan looked at the boy three years his junior and three inches shorter than him with utter terror, not even daring to breathe, trembling uncontrollably without uttering a word.
"Lead the way, I'm lost." Lin Xiaolu suddenly said.
"Huh?" Dongfang Dan was startled out of his wits.
"I said I can't find the way to the school, so lead the way." Lin Xiaolu repeated.
Dongfang Dan was overjoyed. He quickly beckoned and made way, "Brother Lu, please follow me!"
"Mm." Lin Xiaolu nodded with the airs of an old man, walking with his hands held behind his back and short legs waddling, following closely behind the fat boy. As they walked, he said with satisfaction, "Not bad today, kid."
"Brother Lu teaches me well." Dongfang Dan fawned. "From now on, I, Dongfang Dan, will stick with Brother Lu. I hope Brother Lu will take good care of me."
"Mm, well said." Lin Xiaolu nodded. "From now on you'll follow me. If anyone bullies you in school, just tell them my name."
"Sure thing, Brother Lu!" Dongfang Dan quickly agreed. "From now on, Brother Lu and little sister will be my big brother and sister. If you need anything, just ask and your little brother will surely help without hesitation!"
Hearing such flattery, Lin Xiaolu felt even more arrogant. He thought he really had the talent to be a big brother. In just two days, he had already recruited two little brothers. If things kept going like this, he would probably be able to collect protection fees at Emei before long.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, walking while laughing heartily: "Hahahaha, cough, cough, cough..."
He choked on his laugh. His little face turned red as he coughed incessantly.
"Big brother, are you alright?" Xiao Yuer patted his back in concern.
"No problem, no problem." Lin Xiaolu smiled awkwardly.
Alas! He had wanted to imitate the carefree laugh of a chivalrous hero, but ended up choking himself half to death instead. He really needed to grow up faster.
Arriving at the school, they walked across the stone bank with a flowing creek and waterfall. Lin Xiaolu led his sister and the chubby Dongfang Dan behind him, striding with an air of disregard for kinship and ethics, just like a gangster boss entering the schoolyard.
By now, many students had arrived. They were sitting in the bright study hall, morning reading. When the seven-year-old Lin Xiaolu reached the entrance and saw the situation inside, he deliberately coughed loudly.
His cough was very loud, and the reading sounds of the twenty-odd young daoists in the study hall stopped simultaneously. Then they all looked towards the entrance.
Seeing that it was Lin Xiaolu, the young daoists were shocked.
Among them, Chen Nianyun and Yu Chuchu were especially frightened, their faces pale with terror.
A young daoist sitting in the front row who wasn't present yesterday looked at the boy curiously and asked, "Hello there, are you a new classmate?"
The corners of Lin Xiaolu's mouth curved up slightly. He said loftily, "My name is Lin Xiaolu."
That young daoist was immediately dumbfounded. He exclaimed in astonishment, "You're the legend!"
Lin Xiaolu smiled smugly and nodded. His piercing gaze swept across every child in the study hall. Then he said modestly, "How embarrassing!"
Having said that, he led Xiao Yuer unhurriedly to the window seat closest to the back of the study hall. Dongfang Dan also followed obsequiously.
During the whole process, not a single child in the study hall dared make a sound, not even daring to breathe loudly, for fear of accidentally provoking Lin the Fierce Brute and getting beaten up.