I Just Wanted To Live but I Somehow Became Better Than the Protagonist

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I Just Want to Live Well but I Surpassed the Protagonist – 64 Brother Dislikes

After taking the super grade Gathering Qi Pill, her qi channels expanded with a rumble in her body, and Wu Xue reached the sixth level of Qi Refinement. She was also gradually getting used to cultivation, and could absorb most of the medicinal power of the Gathering Qi Pill. She was no longer as before, causing most of the medicinal power to be lost.

However, she had no concept of how much stronger she had become. She only felt that her strength seemed to have increased, but her body did not grow. She was still so young.

Wu Xue was very anxious, but it was as if the heavens were playing a joke on her. She ate so much every day now, not to mention a certain part developing, she did not even gain an ounce of flesh on her body.

“Ugh… at this rate, young master will be seduced by those evil bodies of the senior sisters.”

Wu Xue had a strong sense of crisis, but when she thought that tonight she would finally be able to continue sleeping in young master’s arms and waking up in young master’s arms, she was very happy.

However, after she came out of seclusion, she heard beautiful flute music and a woman’s heavenly singing voice coming from the living room. A bad feeling flashed through her mind. She ran to the living room and saw two women who were so beautiful that they did not seem real, singing on Ye Yong’s left and right.

The singing was very beautiful, making people feel relaxed. Wu Xue’s originally Shiitake Mushroom Lanshou mood was infected quite a bit. In other words, she was relaxed, but not completely relaxed. Uncomfortable, but not completely uncomfortable.

This mood was even more complicated, right?

“Young master…” After the singing stopped, Wu Xue immediately walked out before they started singing the next song and bowed. “Who are these two fairy sisters?”

Although Wu Xue did not think that her memory was very good, that day when Ye Yong went to the reference hall master’s assessment, she had looked through all the female disciples of the Music and Painting Hall. They were beautiful, but they were not like the two in front of her who gave people a feeling of being very ethereal, as if they did not exist in this world.

“They’re paintings drawn by the Hall Master, and they’ve been given sentience, similar to a person’s soul. You can think of them as painting spirits.”

“Paintings, painting spirits?” Since becoming Ye Yong’s maid, Wu Xue had truly witnessed many things that were beyond her imagination. Earlier, when Ye Yong had been taking his assessment, she had heard Lu Xiaoxiao and the others mention painting spirits while she was waiting in the main hall. Wu Xue had never imagined that paintings drawn by cultivators could look so lifelike. It was simply incredible.

“This one is called Painting Ink, Elder Sister, and this one is Painting Heart, Elder Sister.” Ye Yong continued to introduce them.

The two beautiful painting spirits had their own unique charms and temperaments. Other than their identical figures, they were quite easy to tell apart.

Wu Xue greeted them respectfully and asked if they could eat anything, as she was going to prepare dinner.

“We’ll probably have to wait a few hundred years before we can eat,” Painting Ink said with a smile as she shook her head.

“We appreciate the offer,” Painting Heart added. “However, I’m quite interested in the cooking process. Would it be alright if I observed?”

“I, I’m not very good at cooking. I’ve only recently started learning, so I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed,” Wu Xue replied honestly. In the past, she had been weak and sickly, and her father had never allowed her to do any housework. Even after she had disappeared and ended up living with her uncle, he was a businessman who had maids to do the chores, so she had no need to lift a finger.

After being sold to the Ye family, she had received three days of simple training, but she had never done any of these things before, so she was clumsy and had been scolded quite a bit. Originally, she wouldn’t have been able to ‘take up her post’ so quickly. However, she had caught the eye of Ye Yong’s young master, and he had assigned her to be Ye Yong’s maid.

It had been about three months since she had become Ye Yong’s maid. Ye Yong was a cultivator, and he rarely ate. Regardless of whether he ate or not, Wu Xue would go to the kitchen every day to fetch Ye Yong’s meals and her own at the same time, so she had no opportunity to practice her cooking skills. After arriving at the Skyfall Sect, she no longer had access to the Ye family’s kitchen, so she had decided to become self-sufficient. However, Ye Yong had purchased a cooking system, and he provided her with delicious spirit dishes and spirit rice every day. It was only when Xiao Huan had come to stay for a few days that she had asked Xiao Huan for some tips, as she was afraid that she wouldn’ t know what to do once Ye Yong went into seclusion.

Moreover, her offer to cook dinner was just a strategic retreat. Her real intention was to secretly observe the relationship between them and the young master.

“It’s alright. I’m just going to watch.”

Since Painting Heart had put it that way, Wu Xue naturally couldn’t refuse, as she was just a lowly maid.

After Wu Xue had taken Painting Heart to the kitchen to demonstrate her half-baked cooking skills, Ye Yong turned his attention to the scroll hanging on the wall.

The scroll was empty, as the ‘things’ inside had already escaped. Painting Ink had said that they couldn’t eat anything, which was normal since spirits couldn’t consume physical objects. However, what if it was something that was also a spirit?

For example, could they eat food that was created through painting? Would it have any flavor?

As a curious and enthusiastic young man, Ye Yong shared this idea with Painting Ink.

Painting Ink was very surprised when she heard this. “That’s something we’ve never considered before. After the Hall Master painted us, she placed us in the assessment room. Moreover, as spirits, we’ve never thought about eating anything.”

In the past, they had indeed never thought about it. However, after spending more time with Ye Yong, Painting Ink and Painting Heart had transformed from mere tools who only knew how to follow Mu Qingyin’s orders into spirits with a relatively high degree of self -awareness. They had also gradually become curious about the world around them.

“Why don’t we try it?” Ye Yong took out a piece of white paper and quickly sketched a large pancake. Don’t ask why it was a pancake. The answer was simply because pancakes were easy to draw.

Painting Ink chuckled when she saw it. “Young Brother, that’s not going to work. In addition to good painting skills, you also need a good spirit brush, spirit ink, and spirit scroll to create a painting spirit.”

Of course, Ye Yong knew this. He was just being deliberate. “Then… Elder Sister, would you mind if I painted on your scroll?”

“You’re so annoying, Young Brother. The scroll is my body. Are you saying that you want to paint on my body? How can you just draw on me like that?” Although she said this, there was no hint of rejection on Painting Ink’s face. Her eyes shimmered with a watery light as she gazed at Ye Yong, clearly thinking about something else. After a moment, her red lips parted slightly. “If Young Brother is willing to give Elder Sister a hug, then Elder Sister will let you paint on me.”

Over the past few days, although they had often teased Ye Yong with their words, they had only made occasional physical contact. They had never tried to have any large-scale contact before.

As for why Painting Ink was making such a request, it was because she wanted to experience the strange aura on Ye Yong’s body more closely. She always felt that this aura could accelerate her spiritualization.

Ye Yong didn’t know what Painting Ink was thinking. He thought that it was because he was too charming. Besides, he had purchased a high-level shielding talisman, so he wasn’t afraid of others probing his body with their divine soul power.

Although he did want to try and see what it felt like to hug a painting spirit, Ye Yong was an idol with a carefully crafted image, so he couldn’t possibly agree too readily.

Thus, Young Master Ye put on a shy expression. “That wouldn’t be very appropriate, would it?”

“What, are you afraid that Elder Sister will take advantage of you?” Painting Ink quite enjoyed seeing Ye Yong like this.

“I’m afraid that I’ll take advantage of Elder Sister.”

“Then let’s just call it a mutual advantage. Neither of us will be at a disadvantage.”

Mu Qingyin could see and hear everything that the painting spirits did, but she couldn’t know what they were thinking. She had originally been reading a book while using a small portion of her divine sense to pay attention to Ye Yong’s movements. However, when she heard Painting Ink’s words, she was shocked.

What was going on? Could spirits actually fall in love with living people?

Although she was shocked, Mu Qingyin didn’t stop them. She wanted to know what would happen if spirits really did fall in love with living people, and whether it would accelerate the development of the spirits’ self-awareness.

Thus, the three people and spirits, who were completely out of sync with each other, each had their own thoughts.