Your Teacher I, am Hella Rich

Chapter 15 - I Have A Little Secret~ Little Secret~

Ji Xiaoli almost blurted out the words, “He lied to me!”, but he wasn’t that much of a sand sculpture. He managed to react at the eleventh hour and didn’t send that out.

This black history must be kept under wraps. Even his disciple couldn’t know. If his disciple found out, where would this master hide his face? Although he doesn’t seem to have the grandeur of a master right now… 

Ji Xiaoli held his breath before saying: 【Anyway, he’s pretending to be a little girl. How wilful and devious. Hold on, disciple, don’t tell me you know that scumbag YueJian ChunHe too?】

Milk Tea Small Crisp knew Boss Yang. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to expect him to also know YueJian ChunHe.

Ji Xiaoli got suspicious, but before he managed to connect the dots, Milk Tea Small Crisp suddenly asked:【You have a main account?】

Ji Xiaoli: “!!!”

【Teacher Orders a Salute: What the fuck!!! How did you know?】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: I know now.】

Ji Xiaoli: “…”

Ji Xiaoli was nearly inclined to set his disciple straight if justice demanded it by expelling Milk Tea Small Crisp from the sect!

Which disciple would do this kind of thing to their own shifu!?

Milk Tea Small Crisp offered an explanation: 【When I first paid my respects, you were only level 60. Your account doesn’t seem to be more than a few days old. Although… you had no idea you could forge your own gold equipment, if you have beef with YueJian ChunHe, it would be on another account. In conclusion, this is just your alt account.】

His disciple was so astute, he had surprisingly managed to surmise the situation.

Ji Xiaoli pretended to have lost a few more brain cells: 【What do you think of my current PK level?】 

The manner in which the topic was diverted was utterly tactless. Milk Tea Small Crisp was struck mute for a moment, seemingly also dumbfounded by Ji Xiaoli’s stupidity. But he did not expose his obtuse shifu as he typed a reply: 【Above average.】

【Ah, just above average?】

Milk Tea Small Crisp: 【Currently, Level 149 is the highest level in the server. Everyone is stuck at Level 149. You’re Level 135, and are calculated in the Level 130-149 arena leaderboard. Your cultivation is not bad for your level, but you only placed 62nd on the Huashan leaderboard. There are many others better than you.】

Ji Xiaoli found himself unable to react as his disciple went off:【Huh?】

【So if you go to the arena now, you will only hit the top 100 at most. It’s unlikely you’ll get any further.】

Ji Xiaoli tabbed open the arena leaderboard, ignoring YueJian ChunHe, who was in first place and far ahead in points when compared to the player who placed second and directly scrolled all the way down to the 100th place. When he tabbed open the female Emei’s profile, he discovered that she was Level 149 with cultivation higher than his by 200 points. Ji Xiaoli was deeply moved: 【Disciple, what you’re saying is, I can defeat her?】

Milk Tea Small Crisp was blasé:【En.】

Ji Xiaoli felt touched for a mere second.

Milk Tea Small Crisp:【After all, you’re a Huashan who is adept at PK-ing.】

Ji Xiaoli: 【……】

It was not too late for him to consider expelling this disciple from the sect!

His own disciple was simply too good, and Ji Xiaoli was a tad worried. He did not lack the funds for playing a game. Although it was impossible for him to toss a few million in at a whim like YueJian ChunHe, this account had seen his blood and sweat. About a hundred thousand had been spent within half a month. Presently, Ji Xiaoli had reached a bottleneck.

Time was needed when leveling. When one levels up, their cultivation would increase and equipment could also be upgraded.

But otherwise, there seemed to be no other methods to improve himself any further.

As though he could hear Ji Xiaoli’s internal monologuing, Milk Tea Small Crisp explained:【You now have one more area that needs to be upgraded. The final aspect of your cultivation that you have yet to enhance.】

Ji Xiaoli was startled:【What? You’re talking about advanced skills?】

One needed to shell out cold, hard cash to draw advanced skills. Ji Xiaoli was no European. It was highly possible that he was no different from YueJian ChunHe, spending 80,000 but being unable to draw a good skill.

Milk Tea Small Crisp: 【No.】

Ji Xiaoli: 【??? What’s that?】

【Guild cheats.】

On the shore of West Lake, the willows linger.

No one knew when the day began to break. The white-clad Emei and the blue-robed swordsman rode on towering steeds that trotted along the banks of the river.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: The main way to improve your cultivation is through leveling, equipment, and cheats. It’s impossible to control leveling, your equipment has been nearly upgraded to the max, and your gems are all enhanced to level 10. When it comes to skills, you already have one gold and two purple skills. Skills can’t be forced, and the number of golden skills dropped per day in each region of “Knight Errant Road” is less than one.】

Ji Xiaoli nodded: 【In other words, even if you toiled your day away, our region might not necessarily have a golden skill?】

【To be precise, the average drop rate is about one in ten days.】

Ji Xiaoli: “……”  It’s not less than one, that’s just one in ten!

…Please be a little more sympathetic toward this sand sculpture shifu.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: The good gold skills would’ve been snagged up by players like YueJian ChunHe, Jade Starship, and Borrowing Heaven’s Sword. If you want the more generic gold skills, you can issue Megaphones every day to buy gold rank skills. What you can do right now is to upgrade your cheats.】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: You’ve improved a lot in the personal cheats aspect, but guild cheats… You’ve yet to join a guild.】

Ji Xiaoli: 【Yup.】

Milk Tea Small Crisp: 【You also did not join a guild on your main account.】

Ji Xiaoli: 【Damn, how did you figure that out?】

My disciple isn’t a divine seer with miraculous foresight, is he?

Milk Tea Small Crisp:【….Because you don’t even know what a guild cheat is.】

Ji Xiaoli:【……】

Sand sculpture again. 

Next, Milk Tea Small Crisp, as a disciple, gave Ji Xiaoli a lesson. 

Naturally, there would be benefits to joining a guild. The most obvious one being that one could learn guild cheats.

Ji Xiaoli and Milk Tea Small Crisp had yet to join a guild and were lone rangers. Once the two join a guild and learn the guild cheats, their strength will immediately see an improvement.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: Don’t join a small guild.】

Ji Xiaoli was about to nonchalantly say “Let’s just join a random guild” when Milk Tea Small Crisp halted his thought process.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: There won’t be enough guild cheats in smaller guilds. Find the top 10 guilds on the leaderboard. Your best choices would be Emperor Pavilion and Smiling Sword. They are this region’s largest guild. They would be well-stocked in the guild cheats department. Not to mention, their members would have already learned everything they can from those guild cheats. They won’t get in your way to scramble and buy those guild cheats.】

Ji Xiaoli exclaimed:【You need to snatch them up?】

Milk Tea Small Crisp: 【……】

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He did not hear back from his disciple despite waiting for quite a while.

Ji Xiaoli: 【Disciple?】

【Are you stupid…】

As Ji Xiaoli read the three words on the desktop monitor, he recalled the time when the other had sent two voice messages. A voice as clear as a spring cutting through a mountain. If those three words were spoken, then at this moment, Milk Tea Small Crisp’s voice must carry a lilt of laughter to it and sounded despondent.

To summarize in a nutshell, music to his ears.

Ji Xiaoli’s thought process was warped, but Milk Tea Small Crisp did not bother to explain it to him again.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: You’ll understand what guild cheats are once you join a guild. Pick one.】

Ji Xiaoli’s eyes were on the top two guilds in the first region.

Second place, Smiling Sword.

No way! That’s the guild Borrowing Heaven’s Sword and Bei Yuan belong to. Ji Xiaoli had no desire to have anything to do with either of them.

First place, Emperor Pavilion…

【Teacher Orders a Salute: Can’t I get a third option here, disciple…】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: The guild in third place is a lot worse compared to the top two. You won’t be able to snag a guild cheat there.】

【Teacher Orders a Salute: But I don’t want to join Emperor Pavilion. YueJian ChunHe, our sect’s arch-nemesis is there!】

Milk Tea Small Crisp rode to an abrupt halt; the rippling waters of the West Lake in the backdrop. The white-robed Emei calmly queried:【Why don’t you want to join Smiling Sword?】

The blue-clad swordsman sent three question marks, and then asked a rhetorical question:【Why should we join Smiling Sword?】

【You hate YueJian ChunHe. Smiling Sword and Emperor Pavilion are rival guilds. Borrowing Heaven’s Sword also absolutely despises YueJian ChunHe.】

Ji Xiaoli also put his foot down:【What does Borrowing Heaven’s Sword have to do with my hatred for YueJian ChunHe? I also hate Borrowing Heaven’s Sword. And that Bei Yuan turned hostile faster than one can turn a page. Last week she was dead set on YueJian ChunHe and insisted that she would not marry if the groom was not him. This week, she goes off to marry some other guy. What kind of person does that? No wonder YueJian ChunHe doesn’t like her.】

【I get it now…】

【What do you mean you get it now?】

【So YueJian ChunHe doesn’t like her because of this.】

Ji Xiaoli was confused. What was his disciple talking about?

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: There’s no rush when it comes to joining a guild. Even without the guild cheats, it wouldn’t be a problem for you to kill a Youquan with 1W2 cultivation.】

【Teacher Orders a Salute: ???】

The teacher and disciple rode to the Longmen Tavern in Xiliang, led by Milk Tea Small Crisp.

The first thing Milk Tea Small Crisp did was take strides toward the bounty list, and purchase a warrant from the NPC. He then proceeded to issue an arrest warrant. Ji Xiaoli tabbed it open.

【Bounty Target: One Wet Hand (Youquan)】

【Awarded Bounty: 100 silver taels】

【Teacher Orders a Salute: Damn, disciple. Your reward is only 100 taels. That’s no way to show what we’re made of!】

Just as Ji Xiaoli finished speaking his mind, Milk Tea Small Crisp suddenly accepted the bounty. Ji Xiaoli had not realized when his disciple’s profession had gone from “Bianjing Merchant” to “Xueyi Inn Slasher”.

In “Knight Errant Road”, once a player selects a profession, they would not be able to change it for the next 12 hours.

Milk Tea Small Crisp had always been a merchant. If he wanted to be a Xueyi Inn slasher, he had to have left his profession at least 12 hours prior. In other words, he had already left his profession this morning when One Wet Hand was provoking Ji Xiaoli in preparation to take up the slasher role.

Only by becoming a slasher can you locate the position of the bounty target through the system.

Ji Xiaoli stared at the white-attired Emei on the screen in bewilderment, only to see the flutter of the train of white silk as the avatar nimbly mounted a horse.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: Let’s go. I found him.】

Ji Xiaoli stared at the screen dumbfoundedly, and only after a moment did he come back to his senses. He didn’t notice how his eyes had curved into crescents in delight as he looked at the dainty, white-clad woman with earnest eyes.

【Ok!】

On the path to vengeance, Ji Xiaoli was so excited that he did not look like he was on his way to kill someone. 

He joyously trailed his disciple to the Great Wall at Jiayuguan. It did not take long for them to locate One Wet Hand.

The masked Youquan assassin spied the approaching teacher-disciple duo, turned tailed, and ran. With a wave of Milk Tea Small Crisp’s ribbon of white silk, he disrupted the cast intended to transport him back to the city.

【Current】One Wet Hand: What is this? Two people with 1W4 cultivation ganging up on me? Cheh, if you want to kill me then go ahead. This laozi still wants to join the treasure hunt event.

【Current】Teacher Orders a Salute: You kill AFK players. Does that not count as bullying?

Ji Xiaoli was clearly obstinate and unwilling to yield. He rolled up his sleeves, intending to pick a fight with One Wet Hand.

【Current】Milk Tea Small Crisp: We’re not banding together. He will fight you 1v1. If you win, we can forget this ever happened. We won’t bother you in the future. If you lose, you issue three Megaphones and call him daddy*.

*叫爸爸 Call me daddy is the literal translation. This Chinese slang expresses worship to the wealthy and powerful. In this case, whoever dominates in the fight will injure the other party’s dignity and pride by having the defeated address them as ‘daddy’.

【Current】One Wet Hand: Are you crazy? Why should I call this noob daddy if I lose? There are no consequences for you two if you lose.

【Current】Teacher Orders a Salute: Fuck! Who are you calling a noob!?

【Current】Milk Tea Small Crisp: If you win, we’ll call you daddy. If you lose, you call him daddy.

Ji Xiaoli immediately got anxious. He PM-ed his disciple: 【Disciple, what are you doing? Why are you still giving face to this sort of person? How about I set a 500RMB bounty on his head every day? Let’s not seek revenge anymore. You said it yourself, our strength lies in us being hella rich!】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: ……】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: You wanted to avenge yourself, didn’t you? Prove it to him. 】

【Teacher Orders a Salute: Me calling him daddy is one thing. Why do you have to do the same!? 】

Milk Tea Small Crisp suddenly fell silent and did not reply.

Ji Xiaoli was about to type up a new message to persuade his disciple, only to receive a PM from the other party.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: Did I say that I wouldn’t bother him once he loses and issues the Megaphones?】

Ji Xiaoli froze and proceeded to take a closer look at Milk Tea Small Crisp’s response.

If One Wet Hand wins, then they will be able to write the entire matter off.

If One Wet Hand loses, then he will need to refer to Ji Xiaoli as daddy three times… And Milk Tea Small Crisp doesn’t seem to intent on letting him off the hook!

Disciple had such black-bellied intentions!

Ji Xiaoli was over the moon.

However, his joy was soon doused by a wave of despondency as his palms dripped with sweat:【Can I really win this, disciple….?】

【Current】One Wet Hand: Yo, that’s what you said. Do you think I’m afraid of solo-ing this noob?

There was some suspicion on One Wet Hand’s end, but barely a day had passed since the incident. There was no way the noob would suddenly become an expert in a day.

【Current】Milk Tea Small Crisp: That’s what I said.

【Private】Milk Tea Small Crisp: If you win against him, I will divulge one of my secrets. If you lose to him….tell me what feud you have with YueJian ChunHe.