How to Be the Perfect Junior Sister to a Reborn Villain - Chapter 40

The sect’s free housing was actually quite impressive.

Elegant, luxurious, refined, cute, there were all sorts of styles available, and they even came furnished with basic furniture.

Yan Jiuzhi quickly chose a spacious courtyard residence perfect for his sword practice.

Everyone else also made their selections rather quickly.

Only Li Xi and Wei Yutong were still standing there comparing options, unable to decide.

Before coming, Li Xi thought the free houses would be fine. But after seeing the upgraded ones

 well, the ones that cost money were definitely more beautiful.

Seeing her struggle for ages, Yan Jiuzhi directly asked the steward disciple, Which ones are built to absorb moonlight?

The steward immediately brought up a new set of projections.

These all had specially treated rooftops crystal-like domes that could open and close.

He pointed to a two-story residence and rotated its full 360-degree image for them to see.

“From the outside, you can’t see inside. The cultivation room on the second floor uses Moon Soul Crystal Stone for the roof. It can gather and refine moonlight essence and can be switched to a regular roof when needed.

This one’s the same, though it’s single-story but more spacious, with a refining or alchemy room attached.

And this one… this one…

The steward was brimming with enthusiasm, pitching each house like a seasoned salesman every single one sounded like a treasure.

Li Xi glanced at the prices the cheapest upgrade required at least twenty thousand mid-grade spirit stones or four thousand sect contribution points.

And that was the internal cost for personal disciples…

“Junior Sister, what do you think of this one?” the steward asked, flashing a big white grin.

“Uh… not much,” Li Xi’s voice weakened as she swallowed hard and quickly averted her eyes.

It’s not that the house isn’t good, it’s that my wallet isn’t!

Ahhh! I need to learn alchemy! I need to make money!

Her head drooped as she forced herself to look back at the free options.

A broke disciple shouldn’t dream so high.

To be fair, the free ones were still detached courtyard-style villas better than anything she could’ve imagined in her past life.

Seeing her trying to pretend she didn’t care, even though her eyes clearly said otherwise, Yan Jiuzhi couldn’t help but find it funny.

“You like this one?” he asked, pointing at the two-story house she’d been staring at the longest.

“Eh?” Li Xi blinked, then quickly shook her head like a rattlesnake.

“No, no, Third Senior Brother, I don’t want it.”

What good was liking it?

That one costs forty thousand mid-grade spirit stones or eighty thousand contribution points! Way too expensive for them.

Yan Jiuzhi simply told her to wait, saying he’d be back soon.

Fine, she’d wait. Li Xi turned back to study the free houses again, considering the one with the big balcony. Maybe I can put a lounge chair up there? That’d be nice…

Wei Yutong, on the other hand, had her eye on another two-story building slightly cheaper than Li Xi’s pick.

It had a wide upper terrace where she could plant spiritual flowers and herbs, with a small isolated cultivation room shaped like a tower made entirely of Wind Spirit Crystal.

That one costs thirty thousand spirit stones or six thousand contribution points.

Proudly, the steward said, “Outside the sect, this would cost at least three or four times more 

if you could even find the materials! This is a special benefit for sect disciples.

And since you’re a Wind Spirit Root cultivator, cultivating here would be twice as effective with half the effort.”

Wei Yutong kept a calm face, but inwardly she was crying.

It made perfect sense, but she simply didn’t have that kind of money.

Her family, the Wei Clan, was a great household, but even they didn’t have a cultivation room like this. She really wanted it…

But poverty crushes ambition. Asking her family for money? If they agreed, it’d come with strings attached, and she had no intention of falling under their control.

She drew a deep breath. Her master had said formation cultivators earned money fast, and among all of Drunken Dust Peak, their formation branch was the wealthiest.

She would just have to work hard, study formations, earn spirit stones, and build her dream house herself!

Just then, an inner sect manager hurried over, lifted a sound transmission jade toward Jin You, and activated it.

A fierce woman’s voice exploded from it:

 Did you spend all my contribution points?!
You racked up debts, too?!
And you dare ignore my messages?!]

A barrage of verbal cannon fire followed.

Jin you froze. “…Mom, if I’m the brat, what does that make you?”

Everyone: …This fool is courting death.

[Wait till I get back and beat you to death! Did your father give you my backup identity token?!]

Then came a loud THUD and a man’s distant wail:

[Mine was taken too! You gave the brat my card! He used mine too—ow, ow! Lighter, woman, lighter—!]

So the couple had both given their backup cards to their son, and now both were broke and in debt.

The manager turned off the transmission and sighed. “Void both cards,” he told the steward.

The debt was already logged canceling the cards wouldn’t erase it.

Before leaving, he shot Jin You a look of pity. Kid, may the heavens help you when your parents get back.

Jin You waved carelessly. Don’t worry, Uncle Wu! They’re both out on missions, they won’t be back anytime soon.

Li Xi walked up, patted his shoulder seriously, and said, I’ll make sure to pull the weeds from your grave.

Lin Zewu mimicked her, also patting his shoulder solemnly. Rest in peace, brother.

Wei Yutong gave a disdainful snort. I’ll honor your memory as the sect’s biggest fool.”

Jin You: 

Each word was like an arrow in his chest. So much for friendship, it shattered faster than autumn leaves.

At that moment, Yan Jiuzhi returned. He pointed at the house Li Xi liked and told the steward, That one. Deduct the contribution points.

Everyone froze. Where did he get that many points so soon after joining the sect?

I got six thousand points for the demon cultivator and human trafficker incidents. Master, Uncle Gao, and Junior Sister each got two thousand as well.

Then I exchanged a few techniques with the sect to make up the rest, Yan Jiuzhi explained.

The others quickly checked their identity tokens sure enough, there were two thousand points each.

But still… what kind of techniques did he trade in that were worth that much?

Actually, they were the same modified cultivation techniques he’d improved for everyone before, plus a few secret arts he’d once found in ancient ruins, things ordinary people couldn’t use.

The evaluation process for techniques took time, so the steward hall had simply given him a temporary three-thousand-point advance.

And truthfully, contribution points were just the smallest part of his reward.

He was the one who had discovered the Gathering Evil Formation and reported the traffickers’ network.

Even though he hadn’t officially joined Taixian Sect at the time, they still rewarded him generously.

From the rewards, he chose three top-tier refining materials Purple Thunder Crystal, Flood Dragon Scale, and Phoenix Bl00d Stone.

All three were extremely rare, practically legendary.

He’d only asked on a whim, yet the sect had all of them and gave them to him without hesitation.

In his past life, he’d gone through hell to find the first two and never managed to obtain the Phoenix Bl00d Stone at all.

This time, the sect had simply handed them to him.

Was his information really worth that much? Or… was this Cengyuan Patriarch’s doing?

If so, then… what was the old patriarch’s true goal?

Yan Jiuzhi thought back to that day in Yunxiao Sect when the patriarch said Eliminate demons, protect the way, his eyes had been steady, filled with hope and conviction.

A sect as large as Taixian, with tens of thousands of disciples, hardly lacked people willing to slay demons.

So why specifically him?

Could it be that the patriarch truly knew about his past life and this one?

He couldn’t figure it out. The man’s intentions seemed clear and honorable, yet somehow… unfathomable.

Such an invitation was impossible to refuse.

After the points were deducted, Li Xi happily dragged Yan Jiuzhi away to choose the location for her new house.

Watching her bounce with joy, Wei Yutong gritted her teeth and stiffly turned toward the free houses again.

But her senior brother suddenly pointed at the one she’d been eyeing earlier.

Junior Sister, since you have a Wind Spirit Root, this one suits you best, he said, handing his jade token to the steward with a wink. “We’ll use Master Hua’s spirit stones, he’s loaded.

Wei Yutong instantly brightened, proudly lifting her chin toward Li Xi.

See? I’m a beloved junior sister, too now. My master and senior brother spoil me as well.

Li Xi didn’t even notice she was too busy clinging to her dear Third Senior Brother’s arm, smiling so sweetly it could give someone a toothache.

Wei Yutong, left, showing off to no one.

She huffed and deliberately chose a residence far, far away from those two.

Her junior sister was something else. How could she be so bold, acting all cutesy toward a man as cold as a killing god? If she watched too long, she was sure her heart couldn’t take it.