Chapter 455: No Way! If You’re a Fox, You Must Keep Your Word
Faced with Little Jiu’s desperate plea, Bai Feng shook his head. “No way. Being a fox means keeping your promises. If I say two hours, it’s two hours. No changing your mind halfway.”
“Hmm, if that’s the case…” Little Jiu clenched her teeth, seeming to have made up her mind.
Just as Bai Feng thought Little Jiu was about to go cultivate, she suddenly transformed into a human form—still deliberately keeping her fox ears and those nine fluffy tails flicking around. Classic.
“If I cultivate with you, does that count as double time? So I only have to cultivate for 69 hours instead of 138?” Little Jiu chirped hopefully.
“Nope. I’m not even going to bother with your twisted logic. What about your bottom line? You just give up like that?” Bai Feng was helplessly about to facepalm.
Who was it earlier so resistant to turning into a human? And now, in just one cultivation session, she’s crumpled her own well-guarded line? Amazing.
“Impossible! I don’t want to train for 138 hours straight!” Little Jiu sobbed, hugging Bai Feng like a lost puppy. “I’ll d*e of boredom! I finally got to play such a fun game, and I don’t want to wait ten days to continue!”
Bai Feng: …
He wasn’t sure whether Little Jiu loved gaming, or he had overestimated her bottom line.
“Why not split it up? Can you handle six hours of cultivation a day?” Bai Feng suggested.
Hearing this, Little Jiu tilted her head into deep thought—twelve hours in a day, so she could still play for six hours. Suddenly, she nodded. “No problem!”
“But, if you accumulate more than 500 hours of cultivation, your daily time increases to nine hours. And every additional 500 hours means an extra hour of cultivation per day after that.”
“Y-yeah, no problem!” Little Jiu nodded again, ready to be cautious and d*e a few less times.
She knew her frequent deaths were mostly because she was new to the game, not used to it yet. Once she was familiar, how could she keep dying that many times?
“Good, then keep playing,” Bai Feng waved dismissively and kept working on the game’s next features.
But Little Jiu didn’t leave his side; instead, she kept holding the Image Retainer, leaning on his leg, scrolling through the upcoming game content.
Whether she forgot or had simply given up, she didn’t turn back into beast form. She kept playing as a human.
…
Finally, she achieved Transformation God.
Chu Chu slowly exhaled, but didn’t feel joyful. Bai Feng and Bai Yu Mo had already broken through to Refining Void, and she still lagged well behind.
“Time to go train in the virtual trials again,” she said softly.
She stood up from her meditation mat and, in pushing open the door, accidentally ‘took apart’ her hand.
She looked at her hand’s controller, furrowing her brow. Probably because of the rapid cultivation speed, she felt less in control of her strength than before.
“Better ask Bai Feng,” she decided.
Plus, she might get some alone time with Bai Feng—wait, no, don’t think like that.
She gently shook her head, forcefully suppressing her emotions, and hurried toward Bai Feng’s residence.
After a moment.
Bai Feng listened to Chu Chu’s report, pondering for a few seconds. He thought it wasn’t just because her cultivation advancement was too fast but was likely a side effect of the virtual training. Virtual trials don’t condition the body, and over time, the body might fall behind.
For regular disciples, this isn’t a problem—since they earn points, they can’t stay in the virtual trials for too long, so the physical body tends to keep up with their consciousness.
To fix this, the solution was simple: train and fight more in real life until you fully master your body.
Thinking of that, Bai Feng said, “It’s probably because you’ve been training in the virtual trials for a long time. While you challenge strong opponents and grow stronger in there, your body isn’t keeping up, which causes your control to decline. Don’t enter the virtual trials for a few days. Train with me and Yu Mo together, and you should be fine.”
“Understood, thank you,” Chu Chu nodded. She felt a bit happy at the chance to continue practicing with Bai Feng—though she knew she shouldn’t be, because it would slow her progress.
Bai Feng didn’t notice her conflicting feelings and continued, “Besides, you can also do some tasks that require delicate movements. That’ll help you get better at controlling your body’s strength.”
“Got it,” Chu Chu quickly pushed aside her doubts and started pondering what activities needed fine motor skills. She remembered Bai Yu Mo had learned massage. Maybe she could give it a try?
No, scratch that—her current state would k*ll someone if she tried massage.
Maybe cooking? Or sewing clothes?
Not really suited for her, and besides, Bai Yu Mo and the others were already doing those. She wanted to find something that could help Bai Feng and wasn’t something others had already mastered.
While Chu Chu was lost in thought, Bai Feng took out the Image Retainer, fiddled with it a bit, then placed it in front of her.
“I did some fun little features while working on the game. No harm in playing around with this,” he said.
Curious, Chu Chu took the device and saw a series of circles on it.
“Tap on the bubbles to pop them. Different bubbles need different pressure, and their appearance varies with the music’s intensity,” Bai Feng explained.
He pressed the start button, and a gentle melody floated out of the device.
Chu Chu looked at the expanding bubbles on the screen and hurriedly tapped them.
It was a simple game, but strangely addictive, and the music was surprisingly pleasant.
After the game displayed “Failure,” she looked up curiously. “Did you make this music?”
“Not me. I commissioned someone good at music from the sect,” Bai Feng shook his head.
The music was originally from Yu Ling Long’s advertisement. When he was making the ad, Yu Yao had invited a bunch of musicians, and he took the opportunity to slip in a few requests.
Chu Chu nodded slightly, pondering inwardly: if Bai Feng didn’t say it was Bai Yu Mo and the others who composed it, does that mean they aren’t good at or haven’t learned music?
But if she learned music herself, could she really help Bai Feng?
After a moment of thought, she decided to ask: “Um, do you think I should practice with instruments?”
“Sure! Fine motor skills with instruments help you control your body’s strength too,” Bai Feng smiled. “And if you get good enough, I can have you make a few relaxing tunes as sleep music.”
Sleep music? Hmm, so she might—
Without much hesitation, she made her decision: “Okay, I’ll give it a try!”
