The Otherworld

I-II

3RD PERSON POV:

A strong voice rang out from outside the carriage, easily traveling through the curtains hanging on the outer side of the sturdy wood carriage "There is truly a shortage of horses. We can only impose on you this time Shidi. Since your basic foundation is lacking, it is also a good opportunity for you to train"
Shen Qingqiu looked up, exhaling in pity for Ming Fan, thinking of how he should prevent the horrible death of his head disciple. He looked forward at the screen in front of him, contemplating what he should say to get the trip going. After contemplating, he decided to go with what he went with before.

"Ming Fan, what is taking so long?"

Ming Fan, thinking his Shizun is on his side, responds immediately with a "Nothing Shizun, we will depart now!"
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Shen Qingqiu sat in silence for around fifteen minutes before the bubbly voice of Ning Yingying rang out from behind the curtain "Shizun, they're bullying A-Luo! You cannot allow this to continue!"
Shen Qingqiu, having thought about what he should say when this came up, responded rather quickly. "Ning Yingying, bring Ming Fan to me."
Ning Yingyin, who though her Shizun was going to punish Ming Fan, happily obliged.

"Shizun called for me?" Shen Qingqiu looked at the boy, and responded with a flat tone "Indeed, give your horse to Luo Binghe."

The second that sentence left Shen Qingqiu's lips a warning sound echoed in his mind

[WARNING OOC!! OOC!!]
[SHEN QINGQIU WOULD NEVER PRIORITIZE LUO BINGHE OVER MING FAN]
[SYSTEM WILL DEDUCT 100 B POINTS]

[HOST WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!! (*ﾟ▽ﾟ)?!?
THIS IS TOTALLY OOC BEHAVIOR!!!
THE MAIN SYSTEM WILL FORCE ME TO TAKE AWAY B POINTS NOW（'-'）]

Shen Qingqiu exasperatedly told  the system to postpone the removal to after his explanation, and turned back to Ming Fan who looked shocked, and was stunned into silence for a while. "Well?" His Shizun speaking again snapped him out of his stupefied state. "Of course Shizun." He said with a wobbly voice.

After giving his horse to Binghe, he stood still next to the carriage, ready to walk while contemplating what was wrong with his Shizun, and if he should call Mu Shishu to check up on him, but the light tap on his shoulder from his Shizun brought him out of his contemplation. With a jerk of his head, Shen Qingqiu signaled that Ming Fan should enter the carriage, and that was almost as surprising as him demanding he give his horse to Luo Binghe!

All the disciples looked on in shock, not even Ning Yingying had ever gotten to ride in Shizuns carriage!
However, with a a quick snap of his fan, Shen Qingqiu shook the disciples out of their stupor and got the trip to start again.

After everything was done, Shen Qingqiu tuned his mind to the system channel and explained his reasoning behind his actions.

Shen Qingqiu wasn't a patient man, and if he was going to have to wait for Luo Binghe to slowly follow them, then he would surely get more annoyed then he would be if he gave Luo Binghe a horse.

Asking a disciple to go get another horse would reflect poorly on his head disciple for lying, and in turn, on him.

Luo Binghe couldn't share horses with anyone because all the male disciples hated him and would push him off their mounts, that would lead to more delay, and letting a man and female ride on a horse together was out of the question unless they were married.

Letting Binghe into the carriage was out of the question as Shen Qingqiu would under no circumstance do that, but letting Ming Fan into the carriage was not, as he was Shen Qingqiu's head disciple.

With that explanation and a quick check to make sure he hasn't lost any B points the journey continued in silence.

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Shen Qingqiu sat through the pleads of Old Master Chen and his wife Die-er before finally getting to excuse himself from their presence after a dramatic display of sadness about the deaths of the Old Master Chens concubines. He had already heard it once before, there was no need to listen to it again, so instead he read the quest description the system provided and tried to remember in detail what happened, and go from there with the planning the whole thing.

On the way back to his chambers, Ning Yingying ran up to him and asked for permission to go exploring the town. Remembering what happened last time this happened, he agreed but told her to bring a chaperone. Of course, being Ning Yingying, she had to bring her precious A-Luo with her since he was her best friend.

After they left, everything unfurled similarly to last time. Binghe came running, explaining the Ning Yingying was kidnapped, Shen Qingqiu, already know who the demon was, confronted Die-er about being the skinner demon, defeated her with a singular strike, and took Ning Yingying back, rejoicing internally at the pop up window that told him he had disabled the OOC function, talked to Old Master Chen about what happened, and left in the carriage.