Chapter 402: Everything Is Properly Arranged

He goes out early and returns late every day, just wandering around various places in the market, gathering all kinds of information.

If there is cheap merchandise information, he will inform Monk Cheng Xin and Daoist Huo Yun, who are idle and bored, and have recently been thinking of doing a small business.

The Immortal City is about to arrive, so he must have more ways to make a living; living in the Immortal City is not easy! Not only inside the Immortal City, even the surrounding towns are said to have sky‑high prices, far less comfortable than ruling over the little worlds.

Nascent Souls are as common as dogs, immortals walk the streets; this is the state of the Eternal Immortal City and its surrounding towns. Trying to collect protection fees near the city with cultivation level is futile; one can only earn money with real skill.

News of the puppet people still comes in bits, with victories and defeats in battles against cultivators. Overall, cultivators treat the puppet people as just another monster—a ordinary one, far more normal than demonic cultivators or the Abyssal clan.

In such a good place, the three female cultivators of the Piaoxiang Sect naturally did not miss the chance and started doing business, looking everywhere for suitable dual‑cultivation partners.

Wei Yuning, as the actual leader of this group, thinks a bit more, after all most of them are "useless people" who only know cultivation; he has to handle their eating, drinking, relieving, and sleeping.

As for these people's future livelihood, he has already planned it all, everything arranged perfectly.

Running a restaurant is the main business, projecting Shadow Retaining Stones is the side business; after all, outsiders find it hard to learn the food recipes, but with Shadow Retaining Stones, outsiders will eventually imitate them after seeing them a few times.

Moreover, the profit prospects of movies are unclear; only the restaurant is stable.

Having previous experience with the Heavenly Fire Stove, this group finds returning to the food industry a familiar road.

After waiting two days and seeing no abnormalities, Wei Yuning publicly declared a closed‑door cultivation and entered the Life Space Ring again.

After a brief cheerful chat with Present Scripture, he began contacting Lord Divine Turtle to send out a batch of supplies.

Lord Divine Turtle replied quickly. He had actually prepared the supplies long ago, but last time Snow Big threw a tantrum and refused to bring them out. Simple supplies cannot be sent; they must be carried by a living creature.

A flash of light passed, and a pretty woman in a white dress with red flowers stepped out.

"Mei junior sister!" Wei Yuning exclaimed with delight.

"Is this… a Daoist friend from the Cloud Hidden Sect?" Elder Present Scripture stammered.

Only then did Wei Yuning remember that the head of Present Scripture was still nearby; to outsiders, Wei Yuning is the senior brother of the Black Dragon City Shenwu Gate disciples, and his relation to the Cloud Hidden Sect is only that of allies.

Mei Xuan glanced at Present Scripture, blinked, and smiled, "Senior Brother Wei, is this person also a cultivator of our esteemed gate?"

"No, he is the head of the Qian Yuan Sect, a Present Scripture Daoist friend!" Wei Yuning said.

"Oh, oh, oh, so you're Mei junior sister of the Cloud Hidden Sect. I address you as Mei junior sister, just as I call Brother Wei Zhuang. You won't mind, will you?" After advancing to the Nascent Soul, the head of Present Scripture became a handsome, refined young man, much more confident.

"Present Scripture Daoist friend, before Brother Wei Zhuang and I entered our respective sects, we were siblings in a small sect, so we should still call each other Daoist friends!" Mei Xuan said naturally, making it hard not to believe her.

Present Scripture looked embarrassed, hurriedly said, "I see, I see, seems you still have things to discuss, I won't disturb you!" Then he hurried away from the bamboo house and strolled outside.

After Present Scripture left, Mei Xuan's expression shifted from calm; she stepped forward, hugged Wei Yuning, and with a sobbing, excited voice said, "Senior brother, I miss you so much! If I didn't know you were out there, I really couldn't hold on any longer; being head of the sect is too tiring!"

Wei Yuning patted Mei Xuan's slender shoulder, saying nothing.

After a while, Mei Xuan shyly loosened her grip on Wei Yuning.

She looked up and down at Wei Yuning, frowned and said, "Why do you still look like this? Aren't you planning to change back? No, your cultivation seems even higher!"

"Not that high, just the Out‑of‑Body Stage!" Wei Yuning modestly replied.

His realm is indeed that stage, but he did not explain that if he now fully unleashed his aura, anyone would think he were an immortal. Since he inhaled a Huangzhong fruit last time, this strange condition appeared.

"I forced my way to the Nascent Soul by taking the Wood Infant Pill; now I'm probably going to find it hard to pass the tribulation!" Mei Xuan said, a hint of disappointment.

Wei Yuning nodded and said, "If there's a chance, don't overexert yourself, spend more time cultivating. Didn't Senior Brother Qing Wu help you? And Qing Ling?"

"I… just the pressure is too great!" Mei Xuan exhaled, "Speaking of it, Brother Qing Wu and Uncle Qing He are more qualified to be the sect's head; one is an inner‑gate disciple, the other a direct‑line disciple, both familiar with sect affairs, yet they made me take the position, really! Still, they have helped me a lot, especially Brother Qing Wu!"

"Both of them are fine. By the way, how's the situation with the White Shadow Clan lately?" Wei Yuning asked.

"With Uncle Qing He around, the White Shadow Clan is very orderly; except when permitted, they stay in the Dead Silence Realm!" At this point, Mei Xuan's face showed worry, "Now Uncle Qing He's cultivation is high; I feel he's not my match, his Dead Silence aura does not fear my Mei Xue Sheng Jing."

Wei Yuning fell silent for a moment, then said, "Don't worry about Qing He; as long as he keeps his mind, he won't do anything out of line. As for the future, the White Shadow Clan cannot be allowed to remain!"

"Ah!?" That's… that's best, the White Shadow Clan are ultimately the Dark Clan!

Qing He's power comes from the Evil Infant, whose body currently resides inside the Life Space Ring; it is still the source of the Ring's growth. Wei Yuning has not figured out how to deal with the Evil Infant, so he can only take it step by step.

The two were silent for a while.

Seeing Mei Xuan's mood a little down, Wei Yuning suddenly grabbed her arm and said, "Junior sister, come with me, I'll show you something!"

"Alright, senior brother!"

The two left the bamboo house and headed straight to the area where the withered trees stand.

As soon as they were under the green shade of the withered trees, Mei Xuan exclaimed with delight, "What a comfortable wood‑type essence! This isn't the wood‑type essence of the cultivation world; only the Immortal Realm can have this, right?"

Wei Yuning laughed, "I don't know either!" He said while pulling out an inconspicuous clod of earth, then drew a knife, made three swift cuts, dug a hole near the roots, and tossed the clod into it.

Mei Xuan saw Wei Yuning say nothing, so she didn't ask.

"Junior sister, do you see the fruit on this tree?" After burying the earth, Wei Yuning pointed to the fruit hidden among the withered wood.