Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 270 - 68: Big Brother, Severely Beat the Useless Sister

In Xie Ruoxi’s simplistic worldview, the captain’s harsh training was definitely bullying, and as her relative, her brother was bound to stand by her side.

Yan Yu’s evaluation of this was: Naive.

In her previous life, the pretty good-for-nothing only started her career in her thirties and then later rose to become the number one cultivator of the Annan Army. Her power even approached that of Lord Master, but internally, she didn’t even have as much say as Chen Lingyun, which shows her utter lack of social acumen.

Let me give her a proper lesson!

At the school entrance, Yan Yu saw Xie Rushan being stopped by the security guards—tall and thin, wearing a nondescript, dusky windbreaker, with a bulging backpack on his back, pacing back and forth with a bottle of mineral water in hand, clearly a poor college student with little money in his pockets.

Yan Yu quickly approached and asked,

"Xie Rushan? Xie Ruoxi’s brother?"

"Yes!" Xie Rushan hurriedly replied, "And you are...?"

His gaze made a quick sweep across Yan Yu’s face, suspicion gradually appearing.

The face that had flashed by in his sister’s video last night... However, the person in the video was a middle-aged man, and this one was a youngster, which made Xie Rushan uncertain.

Yan Yu also noticed the change in his expression and preemptively took control of the situation, saying,

"You’re here to deal with the matter of your sister injuring someone, right? Come, I’ll take you to see the injured party."

Xie Rushan felt as if he had been struck by lightning; all his suspicions disappeared, leaving only shock and panic in his mind:

What, my sister hurt someone?

"Wait a moment," he quickly caught up with Yan Yu, anxiously asking, "My sister hurt someone? That can’t be! She has been well-behaved since she was little; she has never even had a fight, let alone getting into an argument and blushing!"

"She never told you?" Yan Yu feigned surprise and said, "Xie Ruoxi has been detected to have cultivation potential and has already signed a cultivation agreement with our military."

Xie Rushan: !!!

On the way to the infirmary, Yan Yu didn’t talk about how Xie Ruoxi became a cultivator, only broadly said that "she is learning a Thunder Method," "she operated it indoors against regulations," "blew up the entire building," "the instructor was seriously injured and taken away for emergency treatment." Xie Rushan was so shocked that he was lost and extremely nervous, and nearly immediately called his parents for help.

"Fortunately, Instructor Qi is now out of life-threatening danger," Yan Yu said nonchalantly, "So we weren’t originally planning to inform her family, but since you were in the area, I thought I’d mention it."

"Then, about these medical expenses..." Xie Rushan worriedly asked.

"The medical expenses are not a problem; they can be deducted from her future cultivator’s income," replied Yan Yu.

Relieved that it wouldn’t ask for money from home, Xie Rushan also breathed a sigh of relief.

The Xie family had been farming for three generations, working as tenant farmers for landlords and hardly had any savings. Supporting just him at university was already difficult. If his sister caused trouble outside and needed to compensate for hundreds of thousands in medical expenses, they would have to borrow money, but the question was who would be willing to lend it to them?

Although he didn’t know how much the medical expenses would be or how much his sister’s "cultivator income" would amount to, as long as she could handle it herself without asking the family for money, that was naturally the best outcome—otherwise, his parents would definitely lose sleep for months. Your next journey awaits at novelbuddy

Yan Yu led Xie Rushan to the infirmary, where from outside the ward they visited the still sleeping Qi Changping. After asking the head nurse about the current condition of the injured person, the anxious elder brother-in-law finally began to calm down somewhat.

"However," Yan Yu continued with a sigh, "Xie Ruoxi’s enthusiasm lately has not been very high, she even considered retiring from the service, and we’ve been working on her ideology..."

Xie Rushan: !!!!!

He nearly blacked out.

"Why does she want to retire?" Xie Rushan struggled to hold back his anxious emotion and asked again.

"She finds it hard and tiresome and wants to quit," Yan Yu explained lightly. "If it were a regular job, resigning wouldn’t be a big deal, but deserting is absolutely unacceptable. Continuing this way will only make the leaders have a negative opinion of her, and I’m also under a lot of pressure."

"So you are actually..."

"I’m the captain of her tactical squad," Yan Yu responded, "Yan Yu, ’Yan’ from the word ’swallow’, and ’Yu’ meaning ’abundant’."

"Oh, I think I’ve heard your name," Xie Rushan replied, feeling it sounded familiar, but he rarely watched the news on TV, so he didn’t think much of it and said in frustration, "Captain Yan, let’s do this, take me to see my sister, and I’ll work on her ideology."

This elder brother-in-law might be simple, but he wasn’t stupid. After hearing Yan Yu speak so much, he of course understood the implications in his words.

But he knew his sister’s personality better; she had been unwilling to study even from a young age and was indeed capable of doing something as irrational as "deserting."

I must give her a good talking-to! That’s it, hasn’t my sister always kept this a secret from home? I’ll start by using our parents to scold her!

"Ruoxi, you wouldn’t want mom and dad to know you’re not properly fulfilling your duties as a cultivator, would you?"

Xie Rushan followed Yan Yu to the training ground, and on the way, he quickly thought of what to say. As soon as he entered, he put on a stern face.

Upon seeing her older brother arrive, Xie Ruoxi was suddenly overwhelmed with grievances of being bullied by Yan Yu recently. Her eyes reddened, a glimmer of tears emerged, and she instantly switched from a helpless big rabbit to a wronged one. She rose to her feet to cry and call out:

"Old brother!"

Little did she know that Xie Rushan had already been forewarned by Yan Yu and had turned into an unfeeling elder brother with a heart of stone, and he coldly said:

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"I’ve heard it all from Captain Yan! Ruoxi, you became a cultivator but kept it from our family. We’ll let that pass for now, but I heard that you actually want to quit the team recently? Getting cold feet, thinking of deserting?"

Xie Ruoxi was struck as if by lightning, her mouth half open, looking as if her soul had slipped out, her whole appearance turning gray.

"How could you do this!" Xie Rushan continued to berate her out of frustration, "You’ve previously gone to work, to be a photographer, how much money could you make in a month? Mom and Dad have also said it many times, if you’re not planning on going to college, at least you should have a stable source of income. Isn’t being a cultivator in the military good?

A cultivator is also considered a career track... uh, right?"

"Of course it’s a career track, a secure job." Yan Yu added fuel to the fire from the side.

"Right," Xie Rushan immediately felt more confident and continued, "Your cousin Wenwen, after graduating from college, has been trying to pass the civil service exams for three years now and still hasn’t managed it! You’re directly in the system now, what’s there to be dissatisfied with? And now thinking of leaving the service... do you want to anger mom and dad to death?"

"I..." Xie Ruoxi was on the verge of tears, thinking to herself that her older brother had no idea that her job involved getting beaten every day!

But Xie Rushan didn’t give his sister the chance to argue further and quickly changed to a sorrowful expression, continuing to say:

"Sis, you know the family’s situation isn’t good, we’re now at the point where we can’t even afford to get sick. Dad had stomach pains and went to the health clinic, the doctor said he needed a gastroscopy, but he didn’t want to spend the money and didn’t go. When he’s in pain, he just presses a pen against his stomach.

He hasn’t told you, all because he’s worried that you work too hard and too desperately to make money, and he doesn’t want you to feel pressured, but this..."

Xie Ruoxi could no longer withstand it and finally burst into tears, sobbing:

"I won’t leave the battle team, I won’t leave! Brother, I’ll definitely work hard, I’ll send money home right away, tell dad to get treatment quickly..."

Xie Rushan managed to talk himself into being overcome with emotion. With little ability to earn money himself, he became even more sad as he spoke, and the siblings nearly cried together in each other’s arms.

Yan Yu watched silently from the side, feeling very satisfied with the older cousin’s on-the-spot performance.

After such a stern talking-to from her own brother, Xie Ruoxi should now be willing to train properly, right?

If even this can’t correct her useless disposition, then I’m really out of options.

After mutual confessions of regret, Yan Yu was quite happy to give Xie Ruoxi half a day off, letting her take her older cousin around Jinling Prefecture, have some good food, and incidentally reinforce the impression that "the family really needs you to earn money."

As Qi Changping would say, it was "injecting her with chicken blood."

Inject! Inject her hard!

With Xie Ruoxi out on leave, and Yan Yu having nothing else to do, he flew home on his sword.

Time for a long nap!

After lying on the sofa playing with his phone for a while, he suddenly saw a piece of news in the cultivator group chat:

The first generation Witch King had appeared.

As I mentioned before, with the collapse of the secular governments of the southern countries, their civilian supernatural forces also began fighting among themselves, with endless internal strife and killing, which could be described as the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms of the Indochina Peninsula." The sorcerers are akin to the military governors, belonging to a lawless and violent class of groups that bring disaster to the country.

If the North can produce an Eclipse Queen, the South certainly cannot remain in chaos forever. Just like monkey troops in nature will eventually produce a king — every once in a while, a sorcerer will rise who is powerful enough to begin trying to subjugate and integrate all the sorcerer forces on the southern peninsula. This individual is then called the "Witch King."

The emergence of the Witch King can be good or bad, but mostly it’s bad, creating a significant threat to border security, which is why the Qing’an Battle Team where Li Minghu belongs has urgently set out from Lingnan Province to stand by in Nanjiang Province.

The fellow cultivator students in the group chat also began discussing the current situation and predicting the impact of the Witch King’s rise on Lu Country, with the university student cultivators from the Annan National Defense Academy being particularly anxious.

However, Yan Yu remembered that in his previous life, not long after the first generation Witch King rose to power, he was cursed to death by his deputy.

The deputy took over as the second-generation Witch King, and to shift internal conflicts, began waging wars everywhere, also setting a path for subsequent Witch Kings... The ordeal of Valkyrie Li Minghu seemed to start from this point.

Hmm, I should ask her how she’s been feeling lately.