Little girl, are you shy?
Chen Ye couldn’t help but chuckle, feeling much of his fatigue dissipate.
Wait a minute...
His heart skipped a beat, and he quickly stepped forward.
Seeing the Red Orchid thriving, Chen Ye finally wiped the cold sweat off his forehead:
"I was so busy I muddled my mind, thinking I didn’t finish the treatment yesterday and fell asleep..."
Now, the most troublesome Rotting Marrow Syndrome has been resolved.
Next, he only needs to nourish it for two days and observe the condition of the Red Orchid in time.
"No wonder it’s me! This Red Orchid is a First Tier Middle Grade Spiritual Medicine, with a market price of thirty to forty Spirit Stones..."
Chen Ye was a bit reluctant to return the Red Orchid to Tian Feng.
But without sacrificing the cubs, you can’t catch the wolf.
As long as he cooperates with the Stone Mirror Association behind Tian Feng, he can earn an endless stream of Spirit Stones in the future!
Moreover,
Tian Feng had mentioned beforehand that if they cooperate, after curing those seriously ill seedlings, the Spirit Stones would be split forty-sixty!
Chen Ye gets forty, and the Stone Mirror Association gets sixty.
All Chen Ye has to do is handle the treatment, while the acquisition and sale of Spiritual Medicine are not his concern.
Just with the Red Orchid, he earned more than a dozen Spirit Stones!
"But this Demon Cultivator remains a hidden danger after all."
Chen Ye searched his memory exhaustively, pacing back and forth in the Cultivation Room.
How did this terrible predecessor get involved with a Demon Cultivator?
He worried that the Demon Cultivator was still thinking about Qing Jun...
"In the memory, the one contacting Chen Ye wasn’t the Demon Cultivator but a Loose Cultivator from the shantytown. It seemed the Demon Cultivator had recruited a lot of people to collect numerous furnaces for him."
Chen Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
Since that’s the case, it shows that the Demon Cultivator wasn’t specifically targeting Qing Jun.
He worried that being the future World-Ending Demoness, something peculiar on Qing Jun might have drawn attention.
But he reasoned, if Qing Jun truly had something unusual, she wouldn’t have achieved her cultivation only five hundred years later.
...
Swallowing the Qi Nourishing Pill, meditating, and occasionally taking care of the Red Marrow Flower.
Chen Ye’s days of hard cultivation were dull, trapped in the Cultivation Room without stepping out.
Yet occasionally, he could hear the laughter of his two apprentices.
Every now and then, Qing Jun would bring a large porcelain bowl of food, and Zhiwei would bring hot water for him to wash.
Chen Ye had already learned from experience,
If the food was somewhat spicy, it was cooked by Qing Jun; if it was bland, it was cooked by Zhiwei.
"Am I taking care of the apprentices, or are they taking care of me?"
"If I didn’t have apprentices, I’d have to spend Spiritual Sand to buy Grain Avoidance Pills. No wonder Grain Avoidance Pills are so popular; who wants to cook while cultivating..."
With apprentices for company,
The days don’t seem so boring.
Five days flew by.
The ten Qi Nourishing Pills purchased from the Market were all consumed.
Chen Ye’s eyes suddenly opened wide, gleaming with brilliance.
The progress over these five days far exceeded Chen Ye’s expectations!
"Panel!"
[Name: Chen Ye]
[Longevity: 40/82]
[Spiritual Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth]
[Realm: Qi Cultivation Fourth-Layer]
[Cultivation Technique: Evergreen Technique Perfection: 280/400; Heavy Body Technique Great Success: 24/200]
[Skills: Bone-Scraping Whip Minor Achievement: 50/100; Culinary Skill Great Success: 130/200; Disease Removal Saber Technique Perfection: 180/400; Fostering Technique Great Success: 55/200; Cloud Rain Technique Great Success: 55/200; Geng Metal Technique Perfection: 210/400]
Such is the power of Spirit Stones!
Two Qi Nourishing Pills a day, equivalent to consuming two Spirit Stones a day.
Ten Spirit Stones downed, directly allowing Evergreen Technique to break through into Perfection, even just a hundred and twenty proficiency points short of breaking through to Limit Break!
At the Perfection level of Evergreen Technique, longevity increases by another ten years!
Cultivation efficiency is further improved!
Previously, if Chen Ye had enough Qi Replenishing Pills, it would take him six months to break through Qi Cultivation Fourth-Layer.
But now, under the same conditions, it only takes four months!
Unfortunately,
The first time taking Qi Nourishing Pills was very effective.
But after taking more, the body gradually developed a resistance, also known as Erysipelas.
Now, one Qi Nourishing Pill can only increase his cultivation technique proficiency by twenty points.
Apart from that, Chen Ye was surprised by the breakthrough in the Heavy Body Technique.
He never deliberately practiced the Heavy Body Technique; he just carried the Iron Sword for weight, yet still smoothly broke through to Great Success.
"Tsk tsk, if I keep breaking through like this, will I become a muscle-bound monster?"
Chen Ye pinched his arm, already clearly feeling the muscle contours.
His abdomen was beginning to show the outlines of eight-pack abs.
The current him was vastly different from the frail, sickly predecessor!
But the more than twenty pounds Iron Sword was no longer suitable for practicing the Great Success Heavy Body Technique.
Sometime, he must replace it with something else.
"Ma... Master? Is that you, Master?"
The White Furred Ball rubbed its eyes, no longer playing with the black cat.
Its little mouth slightly agape, unable to believe this man in front of it was its master!
Younger and more robust than Master!
Previously, Chen Ye sat on a chair for cultivation.
Neither Zhiwei nor Qing Jun had the chance to properly observe Chen Ye.
This was the first time in five days.
Chen Ye stepped out of the Cultivation Room, letting his apprentices examine him in the sunlight.
Chen Ye’s face darkened: "If I’m not your master, who else am I?"
"Oh... right, if you’re not Master, where did he go?"
The White Furred Ball furrowed its soft eyebrows, racking its brains, suddenly its eyes lit up,
"Master wasn’t this young, you must be Master’s younger brother!"
Young?
Hearing this word, Chen Ye was quite surprised.
He rubbed his face.
Apparently, the skin was smoother than before, with far fewer wrinkles.
Not far away, the Black Furred Ball, who was cleaning the courtyard, heard the commotion.
Its little face turned pale,
Rushing beside Qing Jun, covering her mouth: "Qing Jun, don’t be mischievous!"
No matter how gentle Master seemed on the surface, he must not be angered!
Qing Jun was very unwilling, pushing her sister’s hand away: "Then, sister, look!"
Look?
What was there to see, the one coming out of the Cultivation Room, who else could it be other than Chen Ye?
With these thoughts, the Black Furred Ball glanced casually, its eyes froze: "Ma... Master?"
Forget it.
Seeing the astonished looks of the two little girls, Chen Ye was quite pleased.
But this matter also made him vigilant:
The effects of the panel were too strong, easily letting others notice some clues.
Fortunately, in the Cultivation Realm, it’s rare for others to notice small signs.
Luckily, Chen Ye explained: "It’s because Master practiced the Body Refining Technique, and broke through these past few days. In just five days, you can’t recognize Master anymore, huh?"
The two furballs exchanged a tacit glance.
"At this moment."
Chen Ye’s spirits rose, thinking it was Tian Feng who had come.
However, upon opening the door, he saw a somewhat familiar face,
A young lady, with an age seemingly around twenty.
Wearing a white dress, with delicate features and fair skin.
Her nose was adorned with beads of sweat, but her face was written with worry.
It was rare for any female cultivator other than those from the Cloud Clothing Pavilion to wear such cumbersome clothes.
Chen Ye politely cupped his hands: "Hello, there is indeed a black cat here. Please, would you like to come in and have a look?"
The young female cultivator’s eye brightened with surprise as she looked over and saw the black cat.
"Ah! Yes, that’s right, this little cat belongs to me. I’ve been looking all over for it."
The young female cultivator, delighted, took over the black cat:
"But... would it be alright if I and my partner paid you a visit later? Since we’re neighbors, it would be nice to get to know each other better. What do you think?"
Chen Ye had already anticipated this: "Sure, why not?"
However, after the female cultivator left,
He suddenly realized,
This female cultivator, isn’t she the same one the predecessor flirted with once?
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