Consequences of recklessness

"Aren't he a motivated one~ Even if he is injured this much, still finish your mission."

Xiaoli smiles while taking care of a sleeping Ning Yue.

"Yeah, this level of motivation is something I didn't see for a long time."

Hou Yi sits beside Ning Yue's bed and picks up his arm full of bandages.

"Even from me too, isn't."

Xiaoli asks Hou Yi with a sad smile because she knows she is lazy and cowardly, so she chooses to walk on the medical path instead.

"*Sigh*… You have your own goal, and Your intellect has helped our sect many times before. Don't feel bad about it."

Hou Yi softly pats his ex-pupils with kindness before looking at Ning Yue with worry.

"But I'm afraid this level is too much for someone like him; if he is someone with extraordinary talent or wealth, he can easily reach heaven, but in the current stage of his life, he is only going to get himself killed."

He doesn't know how to fix this attitude of Ning Yue; it is unique and fearsome.

"But he didn't have to push himself this hard; I expected him to fail, not succeed!"

Hou Yi gave Ning Yue the mission because he knew the tiger would flee if injured, and Ning Yue still lacked the firepower to finish the fight; he planned to use the failure to teach Ning Yue movement skills to intercept his opponent's movement!

And most importantly, to fucking rest!

This boy is too eager to fight and stop caring for his own body!

When he gave him the mission paper, there was no slight signal of worry or fear coming out of the boy! Isn't he injured, and his teacher sent him to fight a tiger?!

At least show some concern for your safety!

Most cultivators, when they get even a slight injury, will stop to heal their body first before continuing their life because they know it could damage the body in the long term, but this boy seems not to know or doesn't care about this fact and jumps too deep in the trouble.

"Don't worry, grandpa; you should prepare for his next lesson, so he doesn't have free time to get in danger~!"

Xiaoli smiles and tries to cheer him up.

"Yeah, you're right. I should go and prepare the scroll before he wakes up."

Hou Yi stands up and pat Xiaoli on the shoulder.

"The rest I leave to you; thank you for sacrificing your time for this old man and this reckless kid."

"Don't thank me, master. Consider it payback for my debt…."

She may fail to be the cultivator her master hoped for, but at least she can help her junior become one.

"You should forget about it, Xiaoli; It's not your fault that you hated pain. It's my fault that forced you into this world in the first place…."

Hou Yi sadly smiles before he walks away with guilt.

"You, the one who should forget it… It has been 10 years, master…."

Xiaoli sits down and rubs Ning Yue's whole body to help him relax his tense muscles with no other motive!

"I will not let you die that easily, my lovely junior. You have to free our master first."

She whispered into his ear before walking away to prepare a "special pill" for him.

It is a pill using a "special" part from the tiger, but the pill may or may not have a "serious" side effect.

***

"Ning Yue, remember this; whatever happens, fight!"

His father's words echo in the void of his consciousness.

Ning Yue opens his eyes, and the void suddenly fills with a vivid image of the wolves.

"You guys never learn, do you! Come, if you want to DIE!!"

After he spoke, the wolves jumped on him and bit their fangs into his body.

The blood is flowing out from everywhere, and the pain is indescribable.

He tries to raise his fist, but it feels heavy, like a world anchor tire to his arm.

But stubborn as he is, little by little, he lifts his arm and squishes the wolf head, one by one.

The wolf's head explodes like a balloon and covers himself in blood, making him look like a walking blood demon.

But his thirst doesn't go away; even if he feels so much pain by just moving one finger, he still wants to kill more, hurt more.

"You lowly beast! You didn't punch me because my words hurt you, but you did because you're just an animal looking for a fight!!"

Suddenly, Liao Liwei appeared from the woods and directly shouted at him.

"No! I didn't! You just said bad things to me and made me angry!!"

"LIE! You know your true desire. Just remember, when others say you would fail, you start to train more. Why, when it was me, you kept punching? Because you want to kill me, you find an excuse to do so! You are not a good man; you are just hiding the fact that you are a natural-born killer!!"

"NO!"

Ning Yue suddenly screamed and woke up on the bed in the middle of the day.

His body started sweating like crazy, and his heart pounded so loud like a war drum.

"Nightmare?"

Xiaoli sat on the bed and held his palm to help calm him down.

'Must be an effect from the aroma. I used it to help stimulate the body, but maybe he is too sensitive….'

The air in the room smelled spicier than usual because Xiaoli used a rare herb to make Ning Yue's internal organs more active.

His blood loss was severe, and his muscle was damaged; if she didn't use the aroma, he might need to recover for months to heal.

"Sort of. Thank you, Senior Xiaoli, for taking care of me; I promise to pay back as soon as possible."

Ning Yue lowers his head a little and tries to stand up.

"UGH!!!!"

He feels shape pain rushing from below; it is a leg cramp that came from overloading his leg muscle yesterday.

It also feels so sore that he can't move his leg!

"The cramp, wasn't it? I did as much massage as possible, but it only worsened."

His muscles are dying because they can't recover from the damage.

"If your senior wasn't a medical expert, you will be crippled if you keep overdoing master's tasks like this."

"Sorry…. It must be a moment, and it was my first mission, and I didn't want to start with a fail."

"I understand you. When I switched from a cultivator to a medical path, I overlearned my skill and got back pain and a headache for weeks! Haha~."

She brightly laughs like it is a great memory. But in reality, she had to wake up 18 hours a day to keep studying the medical field before passing a test from the first elder and gaining permission to work in the sect's medical pavilion.

The medical path is the hardest in the cultivation world; This is why all clans and sects desire people who know how to make pills and treat wounds.

"Sleep and rest for now. If you keep rushing your life like this, forget about winning the tournament; just not dying is a challenge on its own."

With a warning from Xiaoli and his body crying in pain, Ning Yue finally decides to take a rest.

He stops trying to move and leans back comfortably on the bed.

"Good boy~."

Xiaoli pats him on his head while preparing a wooden table and lighting a fire in a cauldron.

"What are you doing, senior Xiaoli?"

"Call me Xiaoli. And I'm making you a special pill."

She opened the nearby wooden block and pulled out something with 2 circular shapes and 1 cylinder shape before throwing them into the cauldron.

"Xiaoli, what is that?"

Ning Yue sees it with his eye; doesn't he have something like that on his body too? But he is way bigger.

"Are you a pervert? Do you want your pretty senior to say such a word aloud~?"

Xiaoli teases him with a playful smile.

"N-No!"

"Heh, You such a naughty boy~."

She lightly smirks before returning to concocting the special pill for Ning Yue.

"Trying to bait your senior to say a dirty thing. You sure are cleverer than your looks."

Xiaoli laughs.

"Here, your special pill."

After a long wait, the pills are finished.

Normally the pills will have a brown color because they are mostly from normal plants with a slice of special cultivation ingredient in them, but this pill is mainly made from a two-tailed tiger organ, so it is a high-quality mortal pill.

The pill is bright green like a tiger's fur, emitting a mysterious and forceful aura.

"Oh, this is too much!"

Ning Yue can't accept such a colorful pill.

"Don't worry~. This pill is made from your prey; think of it as a special reward for bringing it back in full."

The mission he accepts is to kill the two-tailed tiger; to take the bounty, he only needs to bring its tails back as evidence, not the full 400kg of body.

"Then it's fine, I guess…."

Ning Yue accepted the pill and quickly ate it.

"It should help your body to stimulate faster and help you recover your muscles."

Xiaoli explains the benefit of the pill but smiles suspiciously while doing it, making Ning Yue shiver.

"Oh!"

Ning Yue doesn't have to wait too long; his body starts to feel the heat rising, in a good way!

His muscle becomes tenser as a second passes, but the pain quickly disappears.

He has regained control of his leg and can rise and sit on the bed.

"My arm doesn't hurt at all!"

He moves his arm around like it is nothing; his leg may still be stiff to move, but this is a walk in the park compared to the previous cramp.

"It seems your body adapts fast to medicine; I wonder when the side effects will start?"

"Side effect?"

But before Xiaoli can answer his question, he can feel something rising, and it isn't his fist.