As the name suggests, a Cloud Skiff is a means of transport that flies on clouds. Its speed rivals that of flying swords, making it convenient and fast, with docking stations in major cities.
Jiang Ke’er is currently at the Green Bridge Skiff Port in Shangqing City, Terminal 2, Domestic Departures.
She bought a Cloud Skiff ticket directly to the Ancient Realm of Learning, then passed through security and sat down quietly in the waiting area.
She was a little hungry, but she found the food at the port to be ridiculously expensive and unappetizing, so she decided to endure it – after all, free meals would be provided on the Cloud Skiff.
With an hour until the Cloud Skiff boarded, Jiang Ke’er, bored, began to cultivate while checking the system interface.
As she looked, she actually discovered something new.
The button was hidden in an inconspicuous little corner. She had to press her face against the system interface’s light screen to see the tiny button.
“Huh, so I can set things myself?”
She clicked it and found that she could… adjust the resolution of the system interface!
“Wow, there’s even a full-screen mode.”
“…”
“What’s the point of that?!”
However, among all these seemingly meaningless interface options, she did find something somewhat useful.
After enabling it, whenever she gained “righteous points” or “villain points,” she would hear a sound in her ear similar to – “Alipay received ~1 yuan~.”
She couldn’t help but feel that the style seemed a bit off.
But its main function wasn’t this; it was to let Jiang Ke’er understand where these points came from.
After the “money received” notification, a prominent floating bullet screen would appear in front of her, moving from right to left.
[Received “xx” righteous/villain points from “XX”]
The large “XX” would display the name of the source.
For instance, just a moment ago, two unexplained bullet screens floated across her vision.
[Received 100 villain points from “Ming Jian.”]
[Received 100 righteous points from “Good Citizen Wang Cuihua.”]
Jiang Ke’er looked utterly bewildered, completely unaware of what had just happened.
She understood that because of her noble character, some people would admire her and silently, constantly thank her in secret… but “Ming Jian,” who the heck are you?
Jiang Ke’er remembered that making others unhappy would earn “villain points,” and receiving gratitude would earn “righteous points.” This was a very popular setting in current system novels.
And this person named Ming Jian suddenly felt unhappy with her, and she had no idea what had just happened to him.
The two bullet screens floated by together, and she wondered if there was any connection between them.
Jiang Ke’er looked around, confirmed that no one nearby was paying attention to her, and could only, still puzzled, suppress her questions.
“Forget it. Come to think of it, I’ve offended quite a few people. It’s normal to have a few grudge-holders occasionally.”
Jiang Ke’er leaned back in the waiting area chair and felt the weak spiritual energy in her dantian, a sense of unease creeping into her heart.
Life is hard, and being a good person is difficult.
She had tried so hard to do good deeds and protect everyone… yet she was still hated by petty individuals.
“Damn it, I’m clearly such a kind and simple little fox.”
“Sigh, the world is degenerating, and people’s hearts are no longer what they used to be… I need to cultivate diligently.”
“Master, look at this Cloud Skiff port. It’s so huge, so high-end and luxurious! Everyone walking around is a wealthy merchant or rich lady, their pockets bulging, demon crystals practically spilling out. Yet, we’re so poor we can’t even afford a private Cloud Skiff, can’t bear to hire an Eight Trigrams Realm bodyguard, and are still far from our small goal of 100 million… Don’t you think you should do something?”
The villain system whispered into Jiang Ke’er’s ear, its voice filled with tempting malice.
Jiang Ke’er had long seen through its little schemes.
It was clearly panicking because the righteous points were so far ahead, fearing that Jiang Ke’er would stray too far down the path of righteousness.
Jiang Ke’er suppressed the excitement bubbling up inside her, merely wiggling the tip of her tail—Finally, you’re getting anxious!
She tilted her small head and earnestly told the villain system, “A gentleman loves money, but acquires it through proper means. I can’t always rely on thieving skills; what belongs to others will always remain theirs.”
“…”
“I’ve decided to wash my hands of it. After all, it was a matter of survival then, I had no choice.” Jiang Ke’er paused, sighing heavenward.
“Before, I didn’t have a choice, but now I want to be a good person.”
Jiang Ke’er couldn’t see the villain system’s expression, but if she could, she’d likely see a heap of question marks.
The villain system fell into a long silence.
Jiang Ke’er knew it must be reflecting on its evil ways.
It would re-emerge, she was sure, and Jiang Ke’er looked forward to its complete transformation—truly getting with the program.
After cultivating for a while longer, Jiang Ke’er boarded the Cloud Skiff.
—”To everyone in the Ancient Realm of Learning, I’m coming!”
“How annoying!”
The person in the black robe watched the departing Cloud Skiff, feeling utterly frustrated.
Just because those seven escorting soldiers didn’t show up on time, she was forced to break through the border checkpoint!
Heaven knew how she survived the overwhelming barrage of crossbow bolts and spells.
She had pushed her lifelong stealth skills to the limit and now just wanted to casually “pat” a fox to relax…
And because she wasted so much time at the border checkpoint, she missed her scheduled Cloud Skiff and now had to wait several hours for the next one.
So frustrating!
Ever since assassinating the emperor of Aolai Kingdom, she had been stealthily making her way toward the border.
But this journey felt like everything was going wrong.
Was it just an illusion? It felt as if a hateful fox was maliciously wiggling its backside ahead, stirring the water with its big tail, making everything on the road go completely against logic… the rhythm was utterly disrupted.
If there truly was such a scoundrel, she’d make sure they paid dearly!
Qiao Xiaoxian removed her hood, closed her crimson eyes filled with killing intent, and lay back in a chair in the waiting room.
Feeling the residual warmth on the chair, a face unconsciously appeared before her.
Speaking of which… how was that real fox doing?