The Comeback of the Cannon-Fodder Supporting Actress

Gai Ling once again became famous for her misfortune.

Her day was simply a disaster.

Slipping while walking, choking while eating, almost drowning while drinking water, breaking bowls and plates and getting cut by the shards, even during the Outer Disciple gathering when someone threw a chopstick, it would land on her, and when someone laughed and sprayed water, it would somehow all end up on her clothes.

Anyway, by the end of the day, Gai Ling struggled to crawl back home, trying to get inside but couldn’t open the door, freezing outside for most of the night, and only after midnight could she get inside to rest a bit.

Afterward, the entire Cang Mountain Sect spread tales of the foolish pig and the unlucky person.

Everyone said Gai Ling must have done something guilt-inducing to be so unfortunate.

Anning and Xiao Yuan, on this side, Xiao Yuan mixed red fruit with medicine to refine Elixir, and he packed all the Elixir into small medicine bottles for Tu Mingyue, telling him to eat one every other day to gradually nurture his body and enhance his Spirit Root.

Anning took this opportunity to start pretending to cultivate diligently.

Then, after ten days or so, Anning went to find Fairy Zi Yun.

Fairy Zi Yun was then contemplating traveling down the mountain, planning to inform Anning to listen to the Sect Leader properly, and at that moment Anning came over.

”Why did you come over today?”

Fairy Zi Yun glanced at Anning: ”Usually, you don’t leave Yuan’er until the third call.”

Anning smiled and walked over: ”Listen to you, you’re my master, I must visit you often. You make it sound like I am heartless and unfaithful.”

Fairy Zi Yun tapped Anning’s forehead: ”You’re just acting up, only I can tolerate you, anyone else wouldn’t bear it.”

”Senior Brother can handle it.”

Anning looked justified: ”I’m so beautiful, who would want to make things difficult for me? Everyone is crazy for me, Master is just saying the opposite of what she means.”

Fairy Zi Yun was exasperated: ”Just tell me, did you come to me for something?”

Then Anning leaned forward and said, ”Master, I’ve got to tell you something.”

Fairy Zi Yun lifted her eyelids: ”Go ahead.”

”Master, I found out I formed a Core.”

Anning’s words almost scared Fairy Zi Yun to death.

She released a strand of Divine Sense to probe Anning’s body and discovered a golden pill in Anning’s Dantian.

”When did you find out?”

Anning thought for a moment, ”Just in the last few days. Didn’t you say that I’m far behind Senior Brother in cultivation; such a big gap means we can’t be Dao companions? I saw many senior and junior sisters like Senior Brother, so I thought I shouldn’t let anyone steal him. That’s why I decided to cultivate properly. But as I started to take it seriously, after just a few days of cultivation, I suddenly formed a Core. I almost died from shock.”

”You didn’t undergo a tribulation?”

Zi Yun grabbed Anning’s hand and urgently inquired.

”No:” Anning shook her head, ”Master mentioned going through the Golden Core Tribulation. Senior Brother also underwent it, but I didn’t. Not only did I not face the tribulation, but not even a Heart Demon appeared, it was just cultivating and suddenly forming a Core.”

This situation is something Zi Yun had never encountered.

She quickly sent a message to Chi Hezi, and upon receiving it, Chi Hezi hurried over with Liu Yan and a few others.

Once they arrived, they treated Anning like a rare item and surrounded her for study.

”This isn’t right.”

Chi Hezi scratched his head: ”Our Cang Mountain Sect has existed for thousands of years, never seen such a case, not just our sect, the entire Dongchuan Continent hasn’t seen a case like hers. No tribulation, no unusual phenomena, just directly forming a Golden Core, this is too...”

”Could it negatively affect Ningning’s body?”

Liu Yan was worried about this.

Qing Song carefully checked Anning’s meridians’ condition: ”No worries, her meridians are extremely robust, filled with Spiritual Energy, no hidden injuries inside her body, and all acupoints are open.”

”This is just baffling.”

Zi Yun was puzzled as well.

”Let it be.” Anning was quite indifferent: ”Anyway, it doesn’t harm my body, and I’m spared from being struck by lightning. What a wonderful thing.”

Everyone researched for a long time but couldn’t figure it out, so they simply left Anning be.

Chi Hezi reminded Anning as he was leaving: ”Be careful, if you experience anything unusual inside your body, inform me immediately, and as for Nascent Soul... never mind, you may have to wait hundreds of years to reach the Nascent Soul Stage, no need to worry now.”

Anning nodded.

After chatting with Zi Yun for a while, she returned.

Then, she continued cultivating.

Xiao Yuan also started to enter seclusion for cultivation.

The two entered seclusion, and quickly over half a month passed.

Anning came out of seclusion after more than half a month.

Immediately after coming out, she went to Liuyun Hall.

”Sect Leader Master, Master, something terrible happened.”

Chi Hezi rushed out upon hearing Anning’s cry: ”What happened? Are you physically uncomfortable?”

Anning shook her head: ”Master, I, I came out of seclusion and discovered I formed a Nascent Soul.”

”What?”

Chi Hezi’s body swayed twice, quickly cast Divine Sense to probe Anning’s Qi Sea Dantian.

Then he saw a small figure resembling Anning sitting cross-legged in her Dantian.

”She, she really formed a Nascent Soul.”

Chi Hezi was genuinely terrified.

This nephew is just too... he didn’t know how to put it, she used to spend all her time on grooming, clearly had exceptional talent, yet indulged in beauty care rather than cultivation, so after decades, she only reached Foundation Establishment Stage. This was thanks to elders favoring her and stacking various Spirit Pills and such to boost her cultivation... if it weren’t for those cultivation-enhancing Spiritual Medicines, she might not have established Foundation.

Previously, Chi Hezi thought Anning was just like that, cultivating for hundreds of years, the best she could achieve was a Golden Core Master, but unexpectedly, this child suddenly decided to take cultivation seriously, and within a short period of sincere practice, she formed a Core, and it’s been only half a month since Core Formation she already reached Nascent Soul Stage.

This speed is too rapid, to the point it feels daunting.

Anyway, Chi Hezi has lived so long, and as a sect leader, he naturally knows about other sects’ scenarios, has a rough idea of the talents that have emerged over the millennia in various sects.

However, among the Ten Great Sects, even the most gifted disciple hasn’t reached Nascent Soul Stage in just over half a month like Anning.

”This...” Chi Hezi puzzled for a long while but couldn’t grasp what’s happening, stutteringly instructed Anning: ”Return and consolidate your foundation, be careful these days. If by chance you feel the Nascent Soul Tribulation nearing, immediately notify me.”

”Yes.” Anning cheerfully bowed: ”Master, dear Master, now that I’ve reached Nascent Soul Stage, does this mean I can become Dao companions with Senior Brother?”

Chi Hezi was extremely helpless: ”You’ve been cultivating diligently to become Dao companions with your Senior Brother?”

”Yes.” Anning blinked: ”If not for being with Senior Brother, who would exert such effort, sleeping and playing are way more delightful, these days I’ve been too focused on cultivation to even pay attention to beauty, Master, do you think my skin doesn’t look quite right?”

Chi Hezi kicked over: ”Wasted my worries, get out of here quickly.”

Anning swiftly dodged: ”Master, give me a straightforward answer, when can I become Dao companions with Senior Brother?”

”Wait for your Senior Brother to come out of seclusion first.”