Chapter 108: 106, Heading to the Market (2/3)

106, Heading to the Market (2/3)

The woman finished gossiping.

She felt satisfied.

She held her daughter and left.

Watching the woman's plump figure as she departed, Chen An couldn't help but sigh:

"Female cultivators are just different; she hasn't even reached forty yet and has already given birth to fifteen descendants, yet she still looks so charming."

"If this were a mortal woman, I fear she would have been drained dry until she didn't even look human anymore."

After sighing.

He turned his head to look at Shen Qingyi beside him and asked:

"Fellow Daoist Shen, I have a question that puzzles me. The Great Thousand Domain and the Mountain Sea Domain are clearly not far apart, basically two regions right next to each other, so how is it that the concentration of Spirit Qi differs so much?"

Shen Qingyi thought for a moment and said, "I don't know the exact reason for this either."

"However, I did hear about such a matter when I was at the Xuanhuang Sect in the past."

"As early as over six hundred years ago, the Spirit Qi concentration of the Great Thousand Domain and the Mountain Sea Domain was the same."

"At that time, the Xuanhuang Sect, as the hegemon of the Great Thousand Domain, and the Heaven and Earth Sect, as the hegemon of the Mountain Sea Domain, were equal in strength."

"Cultivators from both sects often fought fiercely over resources at the border, forging deep conflicts."

"It's just that both sides had similar strength, so neither could ever force the other to submit."

"Until one day over six hundred years ago, the Great Thousand Domain suddenly, for some unknown reason, began to have its Spirit Qi concentration become thin."

"It grew thinner day by day, until today it has become less than seventy percent of the Mountain Sea Domain."

"During this period, the strength of the Xuanhuang Sect also gradually declined, and the gap between it and the Heaven and Earth Sect gradually widened. From then on, the resources at the border of the two domains were all occupied by the Heaven and Earth Sect, and many living beings who originally lived in the Great Thousand Domain also moved to the Mountain Sea Domain one after another to survive."

"That is why we have the current situation today: cultivators of the Mountain Sea Domain look down on cultivators of the Great Thousand Domain, and the Heaven and Earth Sect, being a Nascent Soul sect, looks down on the Xuanhuang Sect."

Shen Qingyi held nothing back and told Chen An everything she knew.

Chen An gained a lot after listening and had a better understanding of the situation in this world.

At the same time, he felt a bit envious of Shen Qingyi, thinking that disciples of large sects are just different; they know a lot of unknown history.

Unlike a grassroots loose cultivator like him, who has no experience at all.

Perhaps until the day he dies, he will never know what kind of world he is living in.

Soon.

The two returned to the house.

As soon as Chen An sat down, his wives and concubines asked about the situation outside just now.

Chen An didn't hide anything and told them all the information he had learned.

After hearing it, the three wives and concubines had different reactions.

Song Huaying felt that Liu Ting was so pitiful, saying that she had completely married the wrong person, unlike herself who married a good husband and lived an incredibly happy life every day.

Wen Zhiyun disagreed, saying that Liu Ting was more laughable than anything; relying on selling her own body to earn cultivation resources and playing the field to scrape money together, she had no sense of wifely virtue at all, and it was disgusting just to look at her.

Gu Xinyue agreed more with Wen Zhiyun's view, but she didn't express her stance and remained silent.

Shen Qingyi was the complete opposite; she harshly criticized both Chen Hu and Liu Ting, saying that neither of them were good things and both deserved to be executed!

Upon hearing this, Song Huaying immediately echoed her, saying it was indeed so, and that Sister Shen saw things clearly.

Seeing this, Wen Zhiyun felt a bit resigned, thinking that her Sister Song was too good at fawning over people; she feared she probably didn't fawn over her husband any less, no wonder her husband doted on her so much.

After the group at the table chatted for about half an hour.

The after-meal chat ended.

The wives and concubines cleaned the dining table until it was spotless.

For the time that followed, everyone was busy with their own tasks.

Song Huaying took her daughter for a nap and, by the way, practiced those three mortal Cultivation Methods to enhance her physical fitness.

Gu Xinyue first cleaned up, then went to the courtyard to learn the Earth Escape Technique.

Wen Zhiyun was a Bitter Cultivator; she went into Chen An's room to serve him, and after releasing his pressure for him, she returned to her own room to cultivate.

She practiced the Qi Refining Technique and the Fireball Technique, and incidentally used Spirit Qi daily to nourish the fetus in her womb.

Shen Qingyi had originally planned to leave after lunch, but after the episode of Chen Hu coming to cause trouble, she decided to stay until the evening to see if Chen Hu would really come to pick a fight, intending to help Chen An resolve the trouble.

During this interval, having nothing to do, she went out to the courtyard to find Gu Xinyue, saying that she was a Gold-Earth dual Spirit Root cultivator and could teach Gu Xinyue the Earth Escape Technique.

Just like that, in the blink of an eye, the hall became empty.

Chen An lay in his room, lost in thought for a while.

He thought about what he should do next.

One, cultivation.

The current Red Cedar Forest is not like the Bamboo Leaf Forest; if his cultivation is only at Foundation Establishment, he has no sense of security at all.

He must improve his cultivation as soon as possible, at least starting from Golden Core.

Two, alchemy.

Alchemy is a means of making a living; he must tidy up the Alchemy Room as soon as possible, purchase the corresponding medicinal herbs, and start making money.

However, since he is already a Second-tier Alchemist, it is a bit of a waste to refine First-tier pills.

It is time to learn how to refine Second-tier pills.

Three, leveling up.

The levels of his relationships with his wives and concubines, his relationship with his daughter, and the levels of various skills—all these must be arranged well, and time must be allocated as much as possible.

Speaking of skills, he has too few skills now.

He doesn't even know Sword Flight, which is standard for Foundation Establishment.

I need to find time to wander around the Market and buy some Dharma Spells and Cultivation Methods to practice and improve my combat power.

Thinking of this, Chen An sat up from the bed, intending to take advantage of the time before dark to go to the Market and look around.

As soon as he got out of bed, the soft, sweet voice of his little wife, Song Huaying, rang out from outside the door.

"Husband, may I come in?"

"Mm, come in."

After Chen An finished speaking, he moved his mind and opened the door from a distance, allowing Song Huaying outside to enter.

And when the door opened, he was stunned.

Song Huaying, standing outside the door, had completely changed from her usual pure and sweet style.

She had changed into a Black Tight Suit.

Her beautiful hair was tied up high.

At her waist, she wore a Changjian.

Her entire style of dress had a very strong sense of déjà vu of Shen Qingyi.

Seeing the door open, Song Huaying immediately walked in like a thief and quickly closed the door.

She imitated Shen Qingyi's usual words and actions, keeping her upper body straight and her steps grand, walking straight to Chen An and stopping, then imitating Shen Qingyi's tone as she said:

"Alchemist Chen, am I beautiful?"

"Extremely beautiful."

Chen An swallowed, instantly hooked by his little wife's getup.

His little wife really knows how to play.

Clearly a little woman from a feudal society, yet she had self-taught herself to actively play at role-playing to add some spice to her husband's life.

Truly clever.

Chen An no longer restrained himself, pulling his little wife into his arms and looking into her eyes as he asked:

"Good Ying, where did you get this tight suit?"

"I wove it myself."

Song Huaying said playfully: "I saw that you, Husband, want to eat Sister Shen every day, but can't get to it for the moment, so I could only think to play as Sister Shen myself to satisfy your craving."

"Ying, you understand your husband too well."

"Alchemist Chen, I am not Ying, I am Fellow Daoist Shen."

"Yes, yes, yes, you are Fellow Daoist Shen."

"Alchemist Chen, I like children, I like a fair and chubby son; can you help me?"

"I absolutely can!"

After Chen An finished speaking, he and his little wife both fell onto the bed.

Time passed exceptionally quickly.

In the blink of an eye.

Two sticks of incense worth of time had passed.

Chen An came out of the room holding his little wife, both of them looking refreshed.

"Husband, it's about time for Xiao Yuejian to wake up; I'm going back to the room to check on her."

"Mm, go ahead."

Chen An said, kissing his little wife hard on the face, then smiling as he watched her leave.

At this moment, Shen Qingyi walked in from the courtyard.

Chen An looked at the authentic Shen Qingyi before him, dressed in a Black Tight Suit, and the heat he had just managed to calm down in his heart surged up again all at once.

Shen Qingyi was very sensitive and felt Chen An's scorching gaze immediately.

She felt a bit uncomfortable, hesitated for a moment in her heart, and finally asked in confusion:

"Alchemist Chen, I was just in the courtyard and seemed to hear you calling my name; I wonder if I heard wrong."

"You must have heard wrong."

Chen An lied through his teeth, and after speaking, asked: "Fellow Daoist Shen, how is Yue learning the Earth Escape Technique?"

Shen Qingyi replied: "She is learning very well; Yue has quite high comprehension, and I believe she will master the Earth Escape Technique within a month."

Chen An was pleasantly surprised to hear this, not expecting his little ice-cold concubine to be so talented.

This is a future with promise.

Thinking this, he smiled and said to Shen Qingyi: "Fellow Daoist Shen, I need to go out to the Market to buy some things, which might take over an hour; while I am gone, could I trouble you to help look after my wife and daughter at home?"

"No problem, Alchemist Chen, you can go with peace of mind."

"Then I will trouble you, Fellow Daoist Shen."

After finishing the arrangements, Chen An did not waste any more time and soon left to head to the Market.

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