Chapter 107: 105. Differences Between the Two Domains (1/3)

105. Differences Between the Two Domains (1/3)

Listening to the noise coming from outside the door, Chen An looked at his three wives and concubines and stood up, saying:

"I'll go out and take a look."

"Alchemist Chen, I will go with you."

After Shen Qingyi finished speaking, she stood up and followed Chen An out of the house.

The wives and concubines in the room were all very sensible and did not follow to join in the excitement, though their faces showed some worry.

After all, they had only just moved here not long ago and were unfamiliar with the place; it was hard not to feel anxious when someone suddenly pounded on the door like this.

"Mother, I want to go with Father too!"

Chen Yuejian had inherited her mother's curiosity, and seeing her father go out, she also wanted to follow and join in the excitement.

Song Huaying wiped her mouth, pulled her up, and walked toward the room, saying as they walked: "Father is handling business, so you shouldn't go and join in the excitement. Otherwise, if you hinder Father's work, Father won't want you anymore in the future."

"Ah—"

"Then I won't go..."

Chen Yuejian softened immediately, terrified of making her father unhappy.

Although she was not yet two years old, she could already more or less perceive who the master of this house was.

The front yard.

In front of the door.

Chen An opened the gate with a creak.

Immediately coming into view was a male cultivator wearing a short shirt with a wide collar, revealing a pair of thick arms and two solid pectoral muscles.

This male cultivator did not hide his cultivation; the Spirit Qi pressure of a Foundation Establishment First Layer was wantonly emitted, and his face looked full of confidence, giving people a sense of superiority.

"Who are you two? Where is Liu Ting!"

Seeing Chen An and Shen Qingyi come out of the room, the male cultivator was stunned for a moment, then loudly questioned them.

Chen An was unhurried and calm, his voice steady: "Fellow Daoist Liu sold this house to me this morning and has already moved away."

"Sold it to you?"

The male cultivator widened his eyes, thinking for a moment that he had misheard.

Then, the next second, he became somewhat exasperated: "Who allowed her to sell it?! This is my house! What right does she have to sell it!"

"You two, I'll give you half a day to move out. If you are still lingering here when I come back tonight, you will bear the consequences!"

After dropping these words, the male cultivator left while cursing, without explaining any reason from beginning to end.

Watching the back of the person leaving, Chen An could not help but slightly furrow his brows.

This house seemed to have some problems.

No wonder that Fellow Daoist Liu was in such a hurry to sell.

It felt like he had been scammed...

At this moment, Shen Qingyi on the side asked: "Alchemist Chen, what is the situation?"

"I'm not too sure about this either." Chen An shook his head, then added: "However, I bought this house through the proper channels, so there shouldn't be any procedural issues."

"That is good." Shen Qingyi nodded, her voice crisp and confident: "If this person dares to come and cause trouble tonight, I will handle it for you."

Chen An smiled bitterly inside, thinking that Shen Qingyi had better not take action, or it would be another life lost in a matter of minutes.

They had only moved to the Red Cedar Forest a few days ago, and he did not want to cause any deaths.

He only wanted to live steadily, cultivate feelings with his wives and daughter every day, silently improve his strength through the system, and be a low-profile cultivator who lived a colorful life.

"Two fellow daoists, I was walking from over there and heard your conversation. You bought Fellow Daoist Liu's house and intend to settle down here, right?"

A middle-aged woman with decent looks, holding an infant in her arms, walked over from the front to strike up a conversation.

The woman did not deliberately hide her cultivation; her Spirit Qi pressure of the Qi Refining Seventh Layer was fully visible, making her a powerhouse of the Qi Refining Late Stage.

Chen An smiled kindly: "Yes, we just bought the house this morning and have lived here for less than half a day."

After hearing this, the woman smiled and introduced herself: "My surname is Luo. I wonder how the two fellow daoists are addressed?"

"My surname is Chen, and the one beside me is surnamed Shen."

"So it is Fellow Daoist Chen and Fellow Daoist Shen. My home is right over there; we will be neighbors from now on."

"Indeed, we are neighbors. Please give us your guidance in the future, Fellow Daoist Luo."

"By the way, where did you move from?"

The woman asked with curiosity while teasing the infant in her arms.

Chen An replied truthfully: "We just moved from the Great Thousand Domain."

"Great Thousand Domain?"

The woman thought for a moment and asked: "Is that the place on the west side of the Mountain Sea Domain, the place famous for its thin Spirit Qi?"

"Yes."

Chen An nodded.

The woman raised her eyebrows and said: "So it really is that godforsaken place."

"Fellow Daoist Chen, Fellow Daoist Shen, you moved to the right place."

"In that broken place called the Great Thousand Domain, the Spirit Qi is so thin it's as if it doesn't exist."

"Cultivation is difficult, and earning Spirit Stones is also difficult. Even dogs wouldn't live there!"

When saying this, the woman's slightly attractive face was full of arrogance, prejudice, disdain, and discrimination.

She looked down on the Great Thousand Domain, just like many city dwellers look down on country folk.

Chen An just smiled and said nothing about this.

But Shen Qingyi beside him could not stand listening to this anymore and retorted:

"Fellow Daoist Luo, your words are too one-sided. The Spirit Qi concentration in the Great Thousand Domain is indeed not as good as in the Mountain Sea Domain, but because of that, there are fewer Demon Beasts in the Great Thousand Domain, making it more livable. People living there don't have to live in fear every day."

"No, no, no, it is you, Fellow Daoist Shen, who has the wrong perspective. As long as one has stepped onto the path of cultivation, we cultivators should meet difficulties head-on. If one only considers preserving their life, then why cultivate immortality at all?"

The female cultivator retorted with a look of disapproval.

Shen Qingyi wanted to say something to refute this, but Chen An pulled on her sleeve, and she stopped speaking.

Seeing that this woman was so gossipy, Chen An thought she must know everything about the neighbors and residents in this area, so he smiled and asked her:

"Fellow Daoist Luo, you should have seen it just now; a male cultivator came over and asked me to move out of this house. I wonder who that male cultivator is, and what relationship he has with the original owner of this house, Fellow Daoist Liu?"

"Those two? They are a perfect match, both rotten to the core."

At the mention of the male cultivator from just now and the former owner of the house, Fellow Daoist Liu, the woman's face was full of disgust.

Afterward, she began to tell Chen An about the relationship between the two.

The male cultivator from just now is named Chen Hu, and he is the ex-husband of the house's former owner, Liu Ting.

Chen Hu is a member of a Golden Core gang in the Red Cedar Forest, often spending his days in a drunken stupor at the Pleasure Pavilion, carousing with the Female Cultivators there night after night.

As time went on, after patronizing the place for so long, he developed feelings for Liu Ting, who was a Female Cultivator at the Pleasure Pavilion.

As early as ten years ago, Chen Hu redeemed Liu Ting, bought this house for her in Baicao Lane, and to prove his love, he put only her name on the property deed, covered all her living expenses, and even provided all her cultivation resources.

As a result, ten years later today, this Liu Ting achieved Foundation Establishment, latched onto a Golden Core family, and kicked this Chen Hu to the curb.

However, one cannot blame Liu Ting entirely.

Because this Chen Hu, while he was very good to Liu Ting at the beginning, became addicted to gambling in the later years. Sometimes when he owed money, he would make Liu Ting go sleep with his creditors, and sometimes he even made Liu Ting return to her old profession to support him.

When Liu Ting refused, this Chen Hu would resort to violence, cursing her for acting holier-than-thou as a Female Cultivator.

Speaking of this, the woman smiled and asked Chen An and Shen Qingyi, "When you hear this, don't you think this Liu Ting is quite pitiful?"

Before the two could answer, the woman said that this Liu Ting was not pitiful at all, because she was playing the field, secretly keeping several sugar daddies on the hook.

Otherwise, how could a mere Female Cultivator with ordinary aptitude have the resources to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage and then join a Golden Core family?

After hearing the woman's words, Chen An smiled, thinking that neither Chen Hu nor Liu Ting were good people.

And Shen Qingyi, who was beside him, looked distressed.

Her urge to punish the wicked and eliminate evil was acting up.

She wanted to draw her sword and go hack at Chen Hu and Liu Ting.

One forced a woman who had turned over a new leaf back into prostitution.

The other fished for money from wealthy men.

Both deserve to be executed!

Chen An noticed Shen Qingyi's abnormality and knew that this righteous companion of his was about to have another episode.

So he quickly changed the subject, looked at the baby in the woman's arms, and asked with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist Luo, how old is your son this year? He looks so full of Spirit Qi."

"Fellow Daoist Chen, your judgment is somewhat worrying. This is not a son, it's a daughter!"

The woman corrected him with a speechless expression.

Chen An felt a bit awkward.

Soon, the woman smiled again and said, "However, Fellow Daoist Chen, you do have some judgment in one area; you saw at a glance that my daughter has Spirit Qi."

"I won't hide it from you, my daughter's Spirit Root is extraordinary; she has the potential for Foundation Establishment."

"Moreover, she has the potential to achieve Foundation Establishment before the age of fifty."

"When she grows up, she will certainly be able to walk out of this old and dilapidated Baicao Lane, join a Golden Core family or a Golden Core sect, and lead the whole family to glory."

"But Fellow Daoist Chen, you don't need to be too envious. This precious daughter of mine is the fifteenth one I've given birth to; it took me nearly forty years in total, so it was not easy at all."

The woman said with a look of not wanting to look back on the past.

Fif... fifteen?

Chen An was also stunned; it turns out this woman treats having children like a lottery.

As long as one is born with a good Spirit Root aptitude, the whole family can soar to the sky?

Fine, fine, it really is true that all paths can lead to immortality.

Chen An couldn't help but smile bitterly.

At this moment, the woman carefully examined the appearances of Chen An and Shen Qingyi, and couldn't help but say with envy:

"I have to say, the two of you are so good-looking that it makes people jealous. The children you have in the future will surely be handsome boys and beautiful girls."

"Even if the descendants' talent isn't good, they can still live a good life based on their outstanding looks."

"Because the girls can marry into Golden Core families as concubines, and the boys can marry into Golden Core families as live-in sons-in-law; the family is destined to be prosperous."

The woman meant no harm and wasn't insulting anyone; she was truly envious.

Chen An understood the woman's meaning, and couldn't help but feel a sense of shame.

This woman purely treats children as tools for her own advancement.

One cannot say she is wrong, but one cannot say she is right either.

It just feels not quite right.

On the other side, Shen Qingyi heard this and explained, "Fellow Daoist Luo, you have misunderstood. He and I are just friends, not husband and wife."

Just friends?

Not husband and wife?

Then why are you two, a lone man and a lone woman, staying in the same room?

The look in the woman's eyes when she looked at Shen Qingyi became a bit strange, suspecting that she was a Female Cultivator providing services.

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