"Chirp chirp chirp"
The next morning, birdsong rang out from the mountain forest at the peak, sounding rather noisy.
The girl lying on her bed furrowed her brow and slowly opened her eyes.
Looking at the sky, it was already three quarters past the hour of mao.
She was about to sit up, but the mont her palm pressed against the bed board, a sharp pain shot through her palm.
"Damn it! Damn damn damn!"
The pain in her palm reminded Yu Yunwei of yesterday's beating.
She angrily threw her pillow hard onto the floor.
"You want to get up so I'll get up? I just won't go!"
Yu Yunwei angrily lay back down on the bed, her shoulders heaving violently with anger but just as she closed her eyes planning to go back to sleep, what appeared in her mind was Xiao Mo's indifferent gaze and that sentence "Don't make co to your room to call you."
After tossing and turning on the bed for over ten breaths, Yu Yunwei finally gritted her teeth and sat up.
"I want to see what kind of tricks you're up to!"
Getting out of bed, Yu Yunwei huffily put on her dress and walked out of the courtyard.
After washing up, Yu Yunwei sat on a stone stool in the courtyard, staring at Xiao Mo's room.
If eyes could kill, Xiao Mo would have been killed countless tis by Yu Yunwei already.
Just as the hour of mao passed halfway, Xiao Mo's door opened. Yu Yunwei's body trembled slightly, her heartbeat began to accelerate, and an unnad fear spread through her heart.
"I... I'm not afraid of him!" Yu Yunwei encouraged herself in her heart, then shook her head forcefully and continued glaring at Xiao Mo viciously.
Xiao Mo ignored her.
After fetching water to wash up, Xiao Mo took out several books from his storage bag and placed them on the stone table in the courtyard.
"What... what are these?" Yu Yunwei blinked blankly.
"So classics from the various schools of thought, though mostly Confucian," Xiao Mo sat across from her. "From today on, I will teach you to read."
"Read?" Yu Yunwei suspected she had misheard. "You're going to teach to read?"
Xiao Mo nodded, "Don't worry, although my learning isn't high, teaching you should still be no problem."
"No... you... we're demonic sect disciples! Never mind demonic sects, in the entire Western Region, there aren't many people who cultivate Confucianism!" Yu Yunwei laughed angrily, thinking her senior brother's brain must be broken.
"Who says reading necessarily ans following the Confucian path?" Xiao Mo wasn't angry at all. "Reading can cultivate the mind and help you understand so principles."
"I won't read!" Yu Yunwei turned her head away, her tone firm.
"You don't have a choice," Xiao Mo picked up a book and placed it in front of her. "Today we'll start with the Analects."
"I said I won't read!" Yu Yunwei stood up and shouted loudly.
From last night when the two had completely fallen out, Yu Yunwei no longer pretended to be a well-behaved junior sister to Xiao Mo.
"Sit down," Xiao Mo said calmly.
"You..."
"Sit down," Xiao Mo repeated, raising his head to look into her eyes. "I said before, I never say so things a third ti."
Yu Yunwei was so angry her breathing beca rapid but the next mont, she felt ocean-like blood baleful qi surrounding her.
She didn't doubt at all that when he said it a third ti, her head would drop to the ground.
Yu Yunwei clenched her fists tightly. After an internal struggle, she finally sat down beside Xiao Mo.
"Very good," Xiao Mo nodded. "Open the book and recite with : 'The Master said: Is it not a pleasure to learn and practice what you learn?'"
Yu Yunwei kept her lips tightly closed.
"Recite," Xiao Mo repeated calmly, but with an tone that brooked no refusal.
"The... The Master said... learn... learn and practice what you learn... is it not... is it not a pleasure," Yu Yunwei recited word by word.
"Continue: 'Is it not a joy to have friends co from afar?'"
"Is it... is it not a joy to have friends co from afar..."
Ti passed minute by minute, with the sounds of a boy and girl reading echoing through the courtyard.
Generally the boy would recite a sentence first, then the girl would follow and recite the sa sentence.
Then the boy would explain the aning of that sentence to her.
Although Yu Yunwei really wanted to resist, she knew that if she didn't read, she might not survive the morning.
To this day, Yu Yunwei understood Xiao Mo less and less.
He was clearly just a Cave Mansion realm cultivator, yet could kill a Golden Core realm cultivator with one blade.
He clearly wanted to discipline her, but sotis he truly had killing intent toward her.
He was clearly a demonic sect disciple, yet taught her Confucian classics.
He was clearly a child like herself, yet she felt he was like an adult.
When the sun was high, Xue Kui woke up, walked out of her room, and heard the sound of recitation.
She yawned and turned to look.
When she saw Xiao Mo teaching Yu Yunwei to read, Xue Kui was also stunned.
She even suspected she was still sleepy.
In the Western Region, at Ten Thousand Dao Sect one of the ten great demonic sects, on her own Karma Blood Peak, her eldest disciple was teaching her second disciple Confucian classics?
However, Xue Kui looked at Yu Yunwei's unwillingness to learn but having no choice but to learn, then at Xiao Mo's serious teaching appearance, and her lips curved upward, finding it quite interesting indeed.
Just at the hour of si, Xiao Mo closed the book, "That's all for today, we'll continue tomorrow."
"We have to do this tomorrow too?" Yu Yunwei, who had just felt liberated, furrowed her brow tightly.
Xiao Mo glanced at her, "From now on we'll read every day. Besides that, every evening I'll teach you Confucian etiquette."
Yu Yunwei was speechless.
"Did you hear?" Xiao Mo asked.
"I! Heard! It!"
Yu Yunwei turned around viciously, walked into her room like an angry little hen, and slamd the door forcefully.
"Hehehehe..."
Just as Yu Yunwei returned to her room, Xue Kui's laughter ca over.
A fragrant breeze drifted by.
Xue Kui sat in front of Xiao Mo, then interestedly flipped through the Analects, her slender legs crossed together, "You're teaching her to read?"
"Is that not allowed?" Xiao Mo asked.
"How you teach her is your business, I don't care," Xue Kui said carelessly. "But speaking of which, I didn't expect she would actually listen to you."
"She's afraid of death," Xiao Mo took the book from Xue Kui's hands and put it back in his storage bag.
"What if she wasn't afraid of death and insisted on opposing you no matter what?"
Xue Kui propped her elbow on the table, supporting her chin with her palm, looking at Xiao Mo with a half-smile.
"Would you kill her?"
Xiao Mo raised his head, "What do you think?"
"Hahahaha..." Xue Kui ruffled his hair, stood up, and tossed a letter on the table.
"What's this?" Xiao Mo asked.
"A list of people who want to kill you," Xue Kui answered.
"Yesterday you killed a disciple from Cloud Firmant Peak across two realms, which attracted quite a bit of attention. They also know you'll participate in the Holy Son selection, so they're planning to join forces to kill you first, to prevent you from becoming a major threat later."
"So?" Xiao Mo picked up the envelope.
Xue Kui smiled with curved eyes, "Kill them all."
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