Su Ming suddenly noticed Xiao Wu's eyes were red and asked with concern, "Xiao Wu, what's wrong? Why are your eyes red?"
"Huh?"
Xiao Wu was startled: This is all your fault!
"It's nothing, I just accidentally bit my tongue while eating, and it hurt a bit."
Su Ming gently said, "Take it easy, no one's going to steal your food."
"Mm."
After they finished eating, the two went their separate ways to practice.
Though they had now become brother and sister, they couldn't always be together, and at this stage, they were just siblings.
Su Ming planned to give Xiao Wu a bottle of body-refining liquid every day. Once she used it all up, her physique would greatly improve.
Currently, Su Ming had both cultivation and spiritual power techniques, but he was still missing a body-strengthening method. He hoped to have a stroke of luck and get one soon.
Time ticked away, and soon it was midnight.
Su Ming eagerly looked at his diary, hoping for an amazing reward!
[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing today's diary. Rewards: Fully Automatic Large Refrigerator, Happy Chips*10, and Master Cooking Skills.]
Su Ming: "Wow, system, really?"
Su Ming was dumbfounded. Had he used up all his luck by getting too many good items recently? What kind of rewards were these?
Of the three, only "Master Cooking Skills" seemed useful—maybe it could come in handy in the wild. The other two were just ordinary items! Although they were useful, they weren't much to get excited about. (The system doesn't always give top-tier items, sometimes there are normal rewards too.)
Su Ming kept reassuring himself: "No worries, this is just a fluke!"
He then started recording today's rewards.
[Today's rewards were, to put it bluntly, underwhelming. Maybe the good items I got before used up my luck. I mean, I got a refrigerator, ten bags of chips, and some cooking skills. The only thing that's somewhat useful is the cooking ability.]
[The other two items are pretty average. Though I haven't had chips in a while, and I do kind of miss them.]
[As for the fridge, it seems like refrigerators don't even exist in the world of Douluo yet. Its only use will be to store drinks and food.]
[At least now I can keep my unfinished Happy Fat Water cold. I have a feeling I'll be getting more food from the system in the future.]
[I'm seriously starting to wonder if that bad luck talisman somehow backfired on me. Otherwise, how did my luck drop so much?]
The female protagonists were also a bit surprised. They hadn't expected that not all the rewards from the diary would be powerful—sometimes they were just everyday items. But in a way, this made it seem more balanced.
[Ding, the women mentioned in today's diary are Xiao Wu 24 times, and Ah Yin 14 times.]
[The female protagonist mentioned the most today is Xiao Wu, who receives the reward: Wind God Leg Three-Day Entry Pass.]
Seeing Xiao Wu named as the top recipient again, the others weren't even surprised anymore. After all, she had appeared earlier, and today's reward was pretty decent.
Xiao Wu was thrilled. With this reward, she'd soon master the Wind God Leg technique. She wondered if she could merge it with her Exploding Eight-Stage Drop technique to increase its power even further!
Six days passed quickly.
During these six days, Su Ming took Xiao Wu to the hotel every day.
Don't overthink it—it was just for using the body-refining liquid.
Su Ming wasn't slacking off either. While Xiao Wu was refining her body, he would practice his Wood Sutra, constantly compressing his soul power. As for his spiritual power training, he continued after his previously trained spiritual power became more solid. Over the past five days, his spiritual strength had increased significantly.
Although training spiritual power was painful, the results were worth it.
But over these six days, Su Ming was deeply disappointed. Every time he wrote in the diary, the rewards were just food, drinks, and Gold Soul Coins—nothing exceptional.
In his diary, he hadn't mentioned many of the female protagonists' names, except for Xiao Wu a few times, and even the rewards she got were limited.
This led the female protagonists to speculate that maybe the more Su Ming mentioned them, the higher the chance of receiving a top-tier reward. And the same went for them—simply being named the most wasn't enough; the more they were mentioned, the better the reward quality.
One day, Su Ming noticed that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had returned from the Spirit Beast Forest, and it seemed that Tang San had obtained his first spirit ring.
But something was off—Yu Xiaogang was covered in blood, and he had been carried back by someone. Could this be the effect of the bad luck talisman? That powerful?
He had thought the talisman would just bring some misfortune, but apparently, it was much more serious. Su Ming decided to ask Tang San about it later. The talisman's power was truly terrifying!
Su Ming hurried over and asked Tang San what had happened to Yu Xiaogang, and why he had been carried back.
Tang San frowned and explained, "Teacher and I spent several days in the Spirit Beast Forest before finally finding a spirit beast suitable for me—a 400-year-old Datura Snake."
"But Teacher's martial spirit wasn't a match for it, so we had to flee. The snake was too fast, and Teacher sent out his Luo San Pao to cover our escape. Unfortunately, Luo San Pao was bitten by the snake."
"Since Luo San Pao is connected to Teacher, Teacher was also poisoned. Eventually, Teacher collapsed from exhaustion, and we were about to be caught up when he lost consciousness."
Tang San hesitated, then added quietly, "You know my body techniques are pretty decent, and I've also created my own spirit skills. In the end, I managed to wear down the Datura Snake and kill it."
Su Ming: "Wear it down? More like you used hidden weapons to finish it off, right?"
Tang San awkwardly continued, "During the fight with the snake, Teacher got caught in the battle and... well, the Datura Snake spat venom at him. I dodged it, but Teacher, who was unconscious, got hit. And the place he got hit... well, it's in a very awkward spot."
Tang San pointed to a spot below Su Ming's stomach. "Right there. I'm afraid he won't be able to keep it."
Su Ming thought to himself, Looks like the bad luck talisman worked after all. I didn't expect it to directly destroy that part of Yu Xiaogang's body. In the original story, even though he passed out, he wasn't caught in the crossfire. But now, it just so happened that this area got hit. Yikes.
Su Ming asked, "So who are these people that carried the master back?"
Tang San replied, "They were also in the forest hunting for spirit rings, led by one of our academy's teachers. They ran into us and, knowing Teacher was friends with the principal, helped bring him back."
Su Ming then asked, "Did you manage to absorb your spirit ring?"
Tang San nodded. "Yes, one of the teachers stayed with me while I absorbed the ring. The others took Teacher back to see if the principal could help him. The teacher who stayed with me tried to dissuade me, saying the ring might conflict with my Blue Silver Grass martial spirit, but I trusted Teacher's theory and absorbed it anyway."
Su Ming, still puzzled, asked, "If you stayed to absorb the ring, how did you catch up with them?"
Tang San scratched his head. "I thought absorbing a spirit ring would take a long time, but I finished in a minute. So, I hurried to catch up with them."
After explaining, Tang San went off with the other teacher to find the principal, hoping there was a way to save his master's crucial part. But from what Tang San could tell, unless there was a miracle, even if that part could be saved, it would still be useless.
Su Ming shook his head. It seemed that, just as the system warned, the bad luck talisman was not to be taken lightly. One wrong move, and a person's future could be ruined.