“Though I saw this coming. How long was I cultivating for? Haven’t they only been gone for like a few minutes?”

We were walking, and I started to question them. I swear people like to exaggerate things that don’t need to be exaggerated.

I mean, I’m here cultivating for like 20 minutes and already we got something that’s gone up shiznit creek. I knew something like this was bound to happen.

“You’ve been cultivating for 2 hours. W—We wanted to reach out to you, but the pressure from you cultivating was too much for us, so we could only wait until you were finished… well? Say something already!”

If you are wondering why she is asking for me to say something, it is because I paused with a look of horror on my face while my expression remains unchanged. If you’re wondering how that works, I have nothing to say to you.

How did so much time pass, and I didn’t even know? Goodness, couldn’t I and Pebbles have this skill back on earth with our alcoholic uncles? Man is life unfair.

“Hold on, why not do something without me? I mean, what do you do when something like this happened in the past?” I asked Feng Yu.

“W—We never needed to do anything because something like this never happened before,” Feng Yu said as panic ran amok on her face.

Darn it. This is the curse of being an MC. Something just has to happen for some reason because I’m here.

“Alright, fine. Here is what we’re going to do. We’re going to look for them… with me, I guess. There are two likely plotlines at work here. One is that they are being hunted and/or trapped by a magical beast that they are unable to defeat and cannot make their way over to us, or two, they are trapped by people who don’t like them and have ulterior motives, AKA enemies.”

“Wait, h—how do you know this?” Feng Yu asked me. I could see the anxiousness rising within her by the minute. Is this really a good time to ask me how do I know about this?

Before I answered her, I sensed something unusual and quite frankly it made me feel even more prone to invasion than a celebrity’s personal life and I did not like it.

Vrrm!

If you’re wondering what that SFX was for, then look no further. I just generated a shield or dome, I should say, composed entirely of tribulation lightning.

After doing that, the feeling that didn’t understand the concept of personal privacy went away. Thank goodness, could you imagine what it would feel like to be on the toilet and the same thing happens?

It would probably cause you to involuntary clench, aaaaand I’m going off track… back to the situation at hand.

“What is this?” Shen Ling asked with a look of wonder.

“The paparazzi’s bane,” I answered.

“What?”

“Do either of you have a weapon? Like a sword or something?” I didn’t want to waste too much time.

“Uhm yeah,” Feng Yu answered absentmindedly, taking out a sword from her storage ring before handing it over to Long Di.

When she realised what she’d done, her cheeks turned red in embarrassment. Because of their financial situation, she didn’t have a proper weapon. The sword she just took out was a normal weapon.

In reality, its craftsmanship was unparalleled, but in the end, it was just a mortal weapon and couldn’t do much to or for cultivators.

“Good stuff,” this weapon is truly a cut above the rest. Whoever made this is truly talented.

“Who made this?” I asked her, I was actually interested.

“It was given to me by the first elder,” she replied.

I could feel my eyebrows rising ever so slightly. “Well, colour me surprised.”

“Well, it’s gonna need some work for my purpose, unfortunately.”

I summoned tribulation lightning in my hand that held the sword and compelled it to fuse with the sword, which caused cracks to appear all over its surface.

What are you doing!?”

“Saving you and Shen Ling’s lives along with the boys,” I didn’t feel like answering Feng Yu’s question, but I did, considering that this was probably a gift from her master.

“How did you come to the conclusion you came to before,” Shen Ling asked me.

I guess I never did answer that question now that I think about it. She’s quite perceptive.

“Easy. the plot needs to continue and these are the most likely candidates. You won’t understand being a part of the plot and everything. Forget about that and hear me out now.” I was no longer playing around at this time.

“Do everything that I’m about to tell you, do exactly as I tell it. If you deviate from the plan, your friends can only be saved if I expend more effort, and I am very lazy, which means… they will die.”

After that, I explained to them my plan. I swear I haven’t read any novel that had any eleven-year-old doing this much work, but oh well.

After I was done, I dispelled the shield and the same feeling came over me again.

I was just about to move off when my spidey senses went off and I felt the cultivation level of one of the existences in the forest.

“Well, slap my dumper bumper and call me dem cheeks, this is gonna need some mending."

“What do you me—”

Krrshhh!

“W—What are you doing!?” Feng Yu asked me in shock when she saw the grey lightning dancing wildly around my arm.

“Hmm…” I didn’t answer her since what I was going to do was… I wanna say unethical.

Then again, most mainline cultivation novels have genocide-level slaughter happening on the daily, sometimes by the MC themselves, so I’m gonna push my morality (or what’s left of it) aside for the moment.

She watched as my arm drowned in tribulation lightning shot towards her.

“Aaaah!”