She turned to look. It was Feng Jin, still being forcibly held by Feng Yingbo.
Feng Yingbo’s grip on Feng Jin was not too strong, but Feng Jin struggled too fiercely. Her neck and face had both turned red.
Bo Xuenong still heeded Feng Jin’s plea for help and stopped. “Senior Shishu, if you keep going, you’ll strangle her unconscious.”
Feng Yingbo had not noticed at first.
After all, she truly had not used much strength, and Feng Jin had her back to her.
Reminded by Bo Xuenong, she noticed Feng Jin’s flushed neck and hurriedly released her hand. Her fingertip climbed onto Feng Jin’s neck. “Why didn’t you say it hurt!”
She wanted to apply medicine for Feng Jin, but Feng Jin fled behind Bo Xuenong in one motion.
Feng Yingbo looked at her empty hand, wanting to speak but stopping.
After a good while, she asked Bo Xuenong somewhat dazedly, “Xuenong, am I a bad elder?”
She seemed stimulated by Feng Jin’s evasion. Bo Xuenong had just wanted to drag Feng Jin out from behind her when Feng Yingbo did not linger in sorrowful expression for long. She stuffed the ointment into Bo Xuenong’s palm and tilted her head to glare at the child shrunk behind Bo Xuenong. “If you don’t want me to care for you, then I won’t. From now on, let your eldest senior sister manage you.”
Why not ask if she was willing?
Bo Xuenong had just wanted to protest when Feng Yingbo’s gaze suddenly scattered. Her body plummeted without warning right by Bo Xuenong’s hand.
Bo Xuenong was startled and hurriedly grabbed Feng Yingbo.
She feared Shen Yanting turning back to see Feng Yingbo fallen at her feet and guessing she had harmed Feng Yingbo.
Bo Xuenong tugged Feng Yingbo’s arm to lift her up a bit and then discovered Feng Yingbo had actually fainted. She had no consciousness at all and could only lean on Bo Xuenong’s arm to barely stay upright. Bo Xuenong was completely dumbfounded. With her other hand, she pulled Feng Jin to the front. “What’s wrong with Shishu Feng?”
Feng Jin reached toward Feng Yingbo, hesitated a moment, then helped Bo Xuenong support her. “Eldest Senior Sister, didn’t you know her body is weak?”
She had learned of Feng Yingbo’s frail health from Feng Jin’s thoughts, but she had not known it was this bad.
Usually, Feng Yingbo seemed perfectly normal, not like someone carrying an illness.
Feng Jin had just been avoiding Feng Yingbo earlier, but now she wished Feng Yingbo could grow right onto her body. She kept supporting Feng Yingbo’s body upward, not letting her fall: “She forcibly divided her blood energy to me, so she had long been depleted in both qi and blood. No pill could replenish it; she could only recover slowly. Normally, it wasn’t too obvious, but once she was injured and bled, it became very clear. Even minor wounds took her a long time to heal. Healing pills couldn’t help her either; she absorbed those healing pills much slower than other pills. As long as she was injured and bled, she was either unconscious or on the way to unconsciousness.”
Bo Xuenong remembered.
Feng Yingbo had indeed been injured and bled just now.
Feng Jin deliberately spoke lightly, as if she didn’t care much about Feng Yingbo. But… if Feng Jin’s arms holding Feng Yingbo could relax a bit, Bo Xuenong might have believed it. She had felt earlier that Feng Jin couldn’t possibly not care about Feng Yingbo, and she still thought so now.
She would subconsciously avoid Feng Yingbo, but what she was actually avoiding wasn’t Feng Yingbo herself, but the emotions that came with her.
Bo Xuenong stood together with Feng Jin, one on each side supporting Feng Yingbo, looking toward Wu Qingshu and Shen Yanting.
She transmitted sound to Feng Jin: ‘Master thinks Shishu Feng is good, so Shishu Feng is a good person. She won’t abuse you like your parents in your previous life; she’ll only treat you well. Whether you admit it or not, by your identity in this life, you are Shishu Feng and Yu Cenwan’s daughter. Aren’t you the one who most craves familial love? Now there’s a mother willing to treat you well—isn’t that great? Don’t be hasty in despairing. You should give yourself a chance, and give Shishu Feng a chance too.’
Feng Jin glanced at Bo Xuenong several more times, gaining a clearer understanding of how much Bo Xuenong’s change in attitude toward Shen Yanting reflected her care for others.
She used the exchanged Sound Transmission Technique to tell Bo Xuenong: “Eldest Senior Sister, if I fail the task, I’ll disappear from this world. Feng Yingbo is indeed a good person. Because she’s a good person, I hope she loves me a little less, so she won’t be sad when I disappear.”
Feng Jin had more concerns than Bo Xuenong had imagined. She was a kind child, and kind children always considered others first.
But Bo Xuenong didn’t agree: “If you avoid her, with Shishu Feng being hot and cold toward her, won’t Shishu Feng be even sadder?”
Bo Xuenong thought for a moment and continued transmitting: “You have to believe Yu Cenwan is a good person. Once she knows you’re her daughter, she’ll love you wholeheartedly.”
Perhaps due to her upbringing, Feng Jin always seemed shrouded in a fog of inferiority and cowardice. She didn’t quite believe she could successfully complete the task, nor did she want to have the ability to resolve the troubles that came her way. This wasn’t good. Bo Xuenong even wanted to tell Feng Jin that this world was different from her original one. In the Cultivation World, as long as one was strong enough, nothing was unsolvable.
Wasn’t it just about gaining wholehearted love? As long as one was strong enough, they could use the Soul Separation Technique to tamper with others’ memories and get love too—it was just that… the System would probably judge it as cheating.
Bo Xuenong still leaned toward believing Yu Cenwan wouldn’t disappoint her.
She had confidence in Yu Cenwan. As for the reason, of course, it was because Yu Cenwan and Shen Yanting came from the same master. Feng Jin had said before that the disciples taught by Mo Tingshu all had strong morals and sense of responsibility. If so, being responsible for her daughter was something she should do.
In Bo Xuenong’s eyes, Yu Cenwan had long become the best target for earning points.
Bo Xuenong didn’t tell Feng Jin this. Her gaze shifted and fixed on Wu Qingshu’s back: “Little Jin, I remember you said you could see the favorability of Strategy Targets toward you. What’s Wu Qingshu’s favorability toward you?”
Bo Xuenong didn’t have a task to Strategy Conquer someone to stay in this world.
The System didn’t track favorability for her, and she couldn’t see others’ favorability toward Feng Jin. Now, she could only ask Feng Jin.
Feng Jin: “Ten points.”
Bo Xuenong was a bit surprised. She had just seen Wu Qingshu pinching Feng Jin’s face, hugging her, and adding so many points for her. She thought Wu Qingshu’s liking for Feng Jin was at least over fifty. Unexpectedly, it was only ten. No wonder she had no expectations for completing the task. It seemed this Love Firmer Than Gold favorability wasn’t that easy to increase.
No wonder Feng Jin had low expectations for completing the Strategy Conquest task. As she was still sighing, she suddenly heard Feng Jin transmit: “It’s the same as Eldest Senior Sister’s favorability toward me.”
Her?
Only ten points for her?
It seemed reasonable too. She originally didn’t like anyone other than Shen Yanting much.
Bo Xuenong felt ten points was fair, until she asked Feng Jin: “What’s Master’s favorability toward you?”
Feng Jin: “Elder Shen’s favorability toward me is seventy.”
Seventy!
It was as high as seventy!
Bo Xuenong instantly felt her own ten favorability points were very wrong. She had clearly been very good to Feng Jin and very patient. How could it be only ten?
Shen Yanting had seventy favorability toward Feng Jin, so she should have the same as Shen Yanting.
Bo Xuenong squeezed out a smile: “Little Jin, Eldest Senior Sister will treat you even better from now on.”
Feng Jin was stunned for a moment and hadn’t reacted to what Bo Xuenong wanted to do when she suddenly heard Bo Xuenong ask her: “Did my favorability toward you increase?”
Feng Jin blankly replied: “No.”
Bo Xuenong wasn’t convinced. She smiled even more gently and reached out to pat Feng Jin’s head: “Did it increase now?”
“No.”
Bo Xuenong didn’t believe it. She smiled even more brightly and pinched Feng Jin’s arm for her: “Now?”
“It dropped one point.”
Bo Xuenong got a bit angry. Feng Jin suddenly added: “It dropped another point.”
“…”
The System’s judgment of favorability definitely had issues. How could her favorability toward Feng Jin be even lower than Wu Qingshu’s, whom they had just met?
If the System had a physical form, she would have hacked at it a couple times to vent.
Bo Xuenong secretly resolved to raise her favorability sooner or later. She took two deep breaths to forcibly calm her irritable mood: “Yu Cenwan probably has no favorability toward you now, right? I should have more than her.”
“Probably…” Feng Jin hadn’t even met Yu Cenwan and had never seen Yu Cenwan’s favorability toward her. After checking, her voice paused for a good while before she continued transmitting: “Eldest Senior Sister, Yu Cenwan’s favorability toward me is twenty.”
Twenty!
It was twenty!
Bo Xuenong suspiciously sized up Feng Jin: “Have you met Yu Cenwan?”
Feng Jin hurriedly shook her head: “No, I haven’t left the Imperial Serenity Sect in these two hundred years.”
Bo Xuenong couldn’t help being curious. She wanted to know how Yu Cenwan, who hadn’t even met Feng Jin, had raised her favorability so high. Maybe she could learn from it and catch up to Shen Yanting.
“Little Jin, do you think the System knows?”
While talking to Feng Jin, Bo Xuenong pulled up her System panel.
The System understood her inner voice and replied, now sprawled on the panel.
【Exchange for the truth of Yu Cenwan’s favorability increase toward you for only twenty points. Exchange for the video also only forty points. Don’t miss out passing by.】
As expected, things related to Strategy Targets cost very few points. Info on Yu Cenwan, this Female Protagonist, was even a bit cheaper than for silver grade ones like Wu Qingshu and the others. Though it might be because it was just a story segment. Bo Xuenong glanced at her points. They had been nine hundred short of two thousand earlier, but after her and Feng Jin’s efforts, they had now risen to three thousand two hundred.
As expected, Love Firmer Than Gold increased points the fastest.
This way, exchanging a Soul-Devouring Gu with selectable souls for Fu Aoqing would leave them with twelve hundred points still.
