Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation

Xue Yuantong first realized that the small landmine hadn't exploded, and she had dodged a bullet.

Then she recalled Jiang Ning's words.

Performing a face change...

Xue Yuantong's little face froze; Jiang Ning wouldn't dare to laugh at her!

She forcefully pulled out a smile, trying to cover for her earlier mistake:

"Ha ha ha, my acting is good, right?"

"You two got so scared, but actually, I did it on purpose, just to test your courage."

"I had actually predicted the landing spot of the small landmine a long time ago; even if you hadn't made a move just now, Jiang Ning, I would still have stomped out the small landmine with one foot, ensuring it wouldn't explode."

"Hey, it can't be helped; who told you, Jiang Ning, to be so cowardly? You stomped out the small landmine before I could."

Xue Yuantong spoke more and more smoothly, her braids perked up, her confidence returning.

She took out another small landmine, gesturing, "Chuchu, light it for me."

Chuchu quickly stepped back two steps, her eyes like scissors' water looking at Xue Yuantong, whirling up a spiral of clarity and rhythm, and she softly said:

"Tongtong, I don't want to light it, I'm a bit scared."

Xue Yuantong reluctantly agreed: "Alright then."

She looked challengingly at Jiang Ning: "You're out of luck today not seeing my superb slingshot skills."

"What a pity," she said, shaking her head in extreme regret.

Jiang Ning thought to himself, 'You really know how to talk nonsense.'

After a while, at the bungalow door, the three of them quieted down again, Xue Yuantong fiddling with her slingshot, randomly aiming at the green wheat field ahead.

Xue Chuchu stood at the wall, memorizing words.

Jiang Ning sat on a stool, basking in the sun, enjoying a relaxed and leisurely winter vacation.

Xue Yuantong moved closer, reached out, bent over, and placed her cellphone on Jiang Ning's lap:

"It's idle anyway, let my cellphone soak up some sun."

After that, Xue Yuantong went back to studying her marbles.

Jiang Ning squinted his eyes, his Divine Sense spreading out, but he wasn't observing Xue Yuantong's random slingshot shooting.

Although Xue Yuantong could sometimes be clumsy, she was still very conscious. She used clay bullets, which immediately broke into pieces when hitting the ground and had no lethal power as long as they didn't hit someone vital, like the eyes.

And Xue Yuantong never aimed the slingshot at people.

Jiang Ning was observing Xue Chuchu, or more precisely, her cellphone.

The word page on Xue Chuchu's phone screen had disappeared, replaced by a QQ friend request.

Xue Chuchu gazed at the friend request. Since she had a cellphone, classmates would ask for her QQ number, and she wouldn't usually refuse.

Apart from that, she would not randomly accept friend requests from strangers.

This friend request now had no accompanying message.

Xue Chuchu habitually typed: "Hello, who is this?"

The person with the black cat avatar replied: "Middle school classmate, please accept."

Xue Chuchu went to middle school in the town, didn't have a cellphone back then and had lost contact with her classmates. Now hearing this, she felt strangely uneasy.

Driven by curiosity, Xue Chuchu accepted the friend request, deciding that if it was a scam, she would immediately delete it.

After accepting, the black cat avatar immediately sent a photo.

Xue Chuchu recognized the photo—it was of Yu Zhou Second Middle School's entrance.

"Xue Chuchu, don't think just because you deleted me, I can't find you. Look, it's your school entrance."

"I'm telling you, I can find you anytime. Just live in the shadows. Not just you, but also your parents, classmates, friends, I will dig them all out."

The black cat avatar sent a series of messages, seemingly well prepared in advance.

"All the people around you, I will dig them out!"

"Xue Chuchu, just you wait and see."

"(Bloody knife) (Bloody knife)."

At that moment, Xue Chuchu recognized who the person was, the one who had hacked her QQ account some time ago, threatening her to send pictures, the one she had deleted.

Unexpectedly, the person had taken a photo in front of her school, which meant—had that person come to Yuzhou?

Even more terrifying was the fact that this person knew her name, knew her class.

If he really wanted to do something dreadful, could she escape?

How could she encounter such a madman!

Xue Chuchu, repressing her fear, quickly deleted the friend.

She was clearly basking in the sun, yet her body felt entirely cold.

If the person knew what she looked like, he wouldn't just let it go. Xue Chuchu understood that her appearance would only drive the bad guy crazier.

Her mood was low, having no idea how to deal with that person.

"Cough cough." Jiang Ning coughed twice, drawing the attention of the others.

"Jiang Ning, are you coughing? Are you sick?" Xue Yuantong asked with concern.

"No," Jiang Ning said.

Xue Yuantong said regretfully: "I'm super good at treating coughs. I have oranges at home. Just take one orange, drop some sesame oil into it, steam it, and eating it will stop the cough."

There she went, showing off her knowledge, wishing Jiang Ning would cough badly, groan in agony.

Then with her miraculous orange, cure his cough, leaving Jiang Ning utterly amazed, from then on regarding her as a divine doctor.

Heh heh heh!

Jiang Ning said, "I'm planning to go out for a while."

Today, he had studied 'Yuan San Magic,' which he hadn't had a chance to test yet.

Just now, when that oddity appeared on Xue Chuchu's QQ, Jiang Ning cast a spell to check, and the person was within fifty kilometers.

Thus, after following the complicated spell steps, Jiang Ning deduced the person's exact location, planting a temporary mark, now ready to find them at any time.

Xue Yuantong said, "My mom's almost done cooking, and she made something delicious today!"

"How much longer until the food is ready?" Jiang Ning asked.

Standing at the front door, Xue Yuantong took a deep breath through her small nose, smelling the aroma coming from the kitchen, and made her judgment:

"About half an hour."

Jiang Ning trusted her judgment about the mealtime and nodded.

"Alright, I'll be back within half an hour."

He pushed out his mountain bike and rode towards the river dam.

When he reached a secluded area, Jiang Ning stored the mountain bike into the Storage Ring, summoned the Spirit Boat, activated the Concealing Array, and flew towards his destination.

He was now going to trace the internet connection to beat someone up.

The person who threatened Xue Chuchu was despicable and relentless, especially since he had decided to dig into the relationships around Xue Chuchu, Jiang Ning had resolved not to let him go.

The target's mark was about 17 kilometers away from the river dam, located in the center of Tu County's city.

Jiang Ning rode the Spirit Boat, accelerating rapidly, and shot through the air.

Two minutes later.

The Spirit Boat hovered near a 24-story building; the target was on the 9th floor.

Jiang Ning maneuvered the Spirit Boat, circling half the building to reach the window of the 9th floor.

With a probe of his Divine Sense, sound from a stereo came from the room— a man in his late twenties was playing a zombie shooting game.

Spiritual Power seeped through the crevices into the window, setting up Soundproof and Wind Technique Arrays.

Spiritual Power opened the window, and the invisible Jiang Ning stepped inside.

"Ratatat!"

The game's sound effects were explosive; the young man was clicking away with his mouse.

On the screen, his character was wielding a gun, headshotting rushing zombies.

His voice accompanied the action: "Damn, this game is too violent, too awesome!"

Jiang Ning stood behind him, watching him play.

After a while, the young man picked up the smartphone on his desk, expertly swiping to the contact of a 25-year-old woman who just got married and had a one-year-old child.

"Come out to play tonight, big sister."

A message quickly came back: "Are you crazy? My husband is back."

The young man replied with a laugh, "Just one word, coming or not?"

She seemed to hesitate for a moment: "I'll wait for you at the usual place."

"I'll drive to pick you up this afternoon, remember to bring the child," he said, then put down the phone, his smile growing even wider.

He had been chatting with this woman for two months; she had not been married long, and her husband was mostly away for work.

Being a local with his own house and car, and an easy job that left him with plenty of time, he loved to seduce women whose other halves worked away from home.

Such women, often alone at home, inevitably felt lonely. Once he got their contact details, he was very likely to win them over.

It was indeed tough to chat at first, but the young man was patient. Everyone has moments of emptiness, and who doesn't fall ill?

He would start with normal conversations, maintaining a good relationship, then as soon as the woman fell sick, he would immediately offer to bring her medicine, using it as an excuse to visit and take care, fetching water, buying meals, making a hot towel.

During her illness, when she was physically and emotionally vulnerable, he would subtly strike, hinting at her distant and indifferent husband, quickly closing the gap with her.

Afterward, he'd steer the conversation to more personal topics, and it wouldn't be long before he succeeded.

With this method, the young man had already succeeded with seven or eight women and was having a great time.

Additionally, when idle, he would scam people online, recently targeting naïve online games to trick children, ruining the accounts they worked hard on.

Just then, a message popped up on his QQ:

"Uncle, you spent all the gold coins I earned today."

"Please stop spending my gold coins, okay?"

The young man burst out laughing, delighted. After obtaining the child's account details, he would watch the child earn gold coins in the game and spend as much as the child earned, completely ruining it!

The child couldn't change the password, which was hilarious.

He replied: "Sure, little brat. Send me some photos of your mom, and I'll spare you."

The young man put his phone down, content. Only in such ways could he find a bit of pleasure.

He grabbed the mouse again, blasting two more zombies: "This game really hits the spot; I just love this kind of bloody violence!"

Jiang Ning still stood behind him, quietly observing him.

What a despicable scumbag…

Suddenly, a voice filled the room: "Do you know what real violence is?"

The gaming young man heard the voice, felt creepy, and scanned the room with his eyes but found no one speaking.

"What's that? Trying to spook me?" the young man shouted impatiently.

Chaotic Spiritual Power formed into a giant hand, instantly enveloping the young man, slamming his head down onto the desk with a "bang," causing the computer table to shake violently.

The young man flailed his arms in terror, struggling to get up:

"What is this, get lost, get out!"

Jiang Ning continued, "Shooting a zombie or even a person with a gun isn't violence."

"Real violence is when I put your hand on a chopping board and chop off your fingers one by one with a kitchen knife."

"That's what violence is."

As he finished speaking.

Spiritual Power dragged the young man out of the bedroom.

From within the Soundproof Array, intermittent and continuous screams echoed.

The smartphone on the desk suddenly lit up, and the child's chat window strangely displayed a new line of text:

"I am the just Ultraman, the villain has been punished, and no one will log into your account again. Don't tell your password to anyone."

The window of the 9th floor opened and closed, and a whirlwind entered the room, tossing the bed, wardrobe, computer, and chairs into a pile of debris.

The Spirit Boat shot through the sky.