Chapter 24: The New Home Is Really Good!

"Why? Of course, because there are ghosts!"

Caiyi, who had just woken up, said with a smile while combing her waist-length hair.

Opposite her, Luo Chen was sitting at the doorway, holding a large flower-patterned bowl, shoveling rice with spiritual energy into his mouth.

A few pieces of bright red beef were placed on one side of the bowl; when the rice was shoveled, the beef trembled, which was very tempting.

"You made it yourself?"

Looking at the woman who walked to his front and stared straight at the pieces of beef, Luo Chen said tentatively.

"Want a piece?"

"Okay!"

*Good heavens*, you really aren't polite!

Watching the largest piece of beef enter that rosy little mouth under the traction of spiritual power, Luo Chen wanted to cry but had no tears.

To reward himself for working hard today, he had specifically cut an extra two taels of meat, and now it had all gone into this woman's mouth.

And she was at the eighth layer of Qi Refining; he had nowhere to reason.

It's all my own mouth's fault!

"Woo-woo, soft, rotten, and flavorful, spicy and delicious, the faint medicinal herb taste not only locked in the juice but also contained rich spiritual energy."

Caiyi narrowed her eyes, enjoying the mouthful of beef as she swallowed.

"I didn't expect you to be so good at living; this skill is much better than the chefs at our Heavenly Fragrance Tower, and it's not inferior even compared to the spiritual chefs at Zhong Ding's place."

After praising him a few times, she realized that Luo Chen was shoveling the rice in his bowl quickly.

Amused and annoyed, she tapped Luo Chen on the head.

"Eating a piece of your beef, is it that bad?"

*Gulp! *

"Hungry, purely hungry, don't misunderstand, Sister Caiyi."

Caiyi licked her lips, still wanting more.

"I didn't eat your beef for nothing; I've already found out clearly for you. The yin energy in the Great River Market only seeps out through the array, and there's no harm at all, as long as you don't stay for too long, there's almost no effect."

"How long is 'too long'?" Luo Chen asked hurriedly.

"At least a month, the kind where you close-door cultivate without moving."

Luo Chen heaved a huge sigh of relief.

When he was sleeping with a thick quilt last night, he was more or less uneasy in his heart.

Cultivation was already very difficult; if his Dao foundation was ruined by yin energy, that would truly be bad luck.

With his mood relaxed, the speed of eating slowed down involuntarily.

His gaze even had time to follow the graceful figure of Caiyi as she moved.

Under the control of spiritual power, she drew a bucket of water from the corner of the courtyard, and she bent down, the clear water brushing her face.

When she raised her head, the water droplets on her face had a colorful, magnificent feeling under the sunlight.

"Does it look good?"

"It looks good!"

"Giggle, giggle..."

Forgive Luo Chen for not knowing what adjectives to use; he could only use the sound of a hen laying an egg to describe that crisp and charming laughter.

Caiyi sat on the swing built under the tree in the west wing, suddenly a bit melancholy.

"They all say I look good, but they also say I don't meet the entry requirements for the Hehuan Sect."

What are the entry requirements for the Hehuan Sect?

Don't sects only look at age and spiritual roots when recruiting disciples?

Caiyi didn't say; sitting on that swing that looked like it was built for a child, her waist and hips were pulled tight, forming a silhouette like a honey peach.

As she swung back and forth, her unadorned cheeks looked at the sky, a bit lonely.

Luo Chen realized that Caiyi was different from Bai Meiling and Feng Xia; she was more like some of the people he had seen chasing Foundation Establishment.

Among loose cultivators, there were many such people, but also not that many.

Because most of them would gradually become vulgar under the difficult current situation, and end up toiling for a living until the end of their days.

Then, in the day-to-day toil, they would forget that the original intention of toiling was actually to pursue the Great Dao of Foundation Establishment.

Luo Chen was also a vulgar person, but he reminded himself from time to time that the purpose of refining elixirs and earning spirit stones was not for spirit stones, but to buy enough resources to pursue longevity.

"When did you come back this morning? Why didn't I hear any sound?"

"I came back at the Yin hour last night."

The Yin hour was about three to five in the morning.

Compared to coming home at the Mao hour before, it was two hours earlier.

No wonder he didn't hear any movement.

"These past two months have been like this; those ladybugs, I don't know what's wrong, but they are extra enthusiastic at the beginning of the month, all rushing to the Heavenly Fragrance Tower."

Ladybugs?

*Patrons*, he meant.

"Then after two or three days, I don't know if they've spent all their spirit stones or don't have the energy, but they sneakily go back."

Wait, the beginning of the month?

Luo Chen seemed to realize something, his gaze subconsciously avoiding Caiyi.

"Actually, those of us who dance and play music are all fine; it's just the sisters who do the flesh business who are miserable, telling Mom that the beginning of the month is especially tiring, and they all want to adjust their holidays to the beginning of the month."

A certain man gave a dry laugh, saying nothing.

Staring at the remaining few grains of rice in the bowl, he shoveled them into his mouth one by one.

"Of course, the sisters also earn more. Some have already thought about sticking it out for a while, saving enough spirit stones, then changing to another market, and finding an honest loose cultivator to marry. Striving to give birth to a child with spiritual roots, and in the future, joining a large sect to reach Foundation Establishment."

Luo Chen lowered his head, drawing circles with his fingers.

I really want to thank them on behalf of the honest loose cultivators.

"Why aren't you talking? Is it because you don't like hearing about things in the Heavenly Fragrance Tower?" Caiyi suddenly turned her head to look over.

Luo Chen waved his hands hurriedly. "How could that be? It's just that I've never eaten pork, so I don't know how to join the conversation."

"Heh, you kid!" Caiyi gave a playful laugh, then advised: "If you still want to reach Foundation Establishment, then it's best not to lose your primordial yang before that."

Luo Chen grunted.

Regarding this, he was relatively knowledgeable.

Most cultivation techniques in the Qi Refining chapter would set a lock to ensure that low-grade disciples didn't lose their primordial yang.

The Evergreen Technique also had similar warnings.

"Right, I'll ask a question." Luo Chen felt a bit of a headache. "In the inner city, how do cultivators solve the problem of practicing spells?"

Caiyi looked at him strangely. "Just practice, how else can you solve it?"

"No, I mean some spells that need to be constantly released and constantly practiced. For example, Fireball Art, Great Sword Art, and other large-scale attacks."

Luo Chen said distressingly: "The place is too small, and it's easy to disturb the neighbors."

"Fighting is strictly prohibited in the inner city; why would you learn those spells? Shouldn't you be keeping your spiritual power full at all times to use for rushing to a higher realm?" Caiyi didn't understand.

Luo Chen was even more strange. "Spells and magic artifacts are means of protecting the Dao; shouldn't they be skillfully mastered?"

"And, the inner city doesn't seem absolutely safe either!"

"Fine, there are indeed one or two idiots every year in the inner city who provoke the rules of the Yuding Sword Sect; it doesn't count as absolutely safe."

Caiyi shrugged, giving Luo Chen the answer he wanted.

"As far as I know, inner-city cultivators who want to practice high-power spells either go out of the city to empty land in the wilderness, or go to the fighting platform of the Yuding Sword Pavilion."

"Fighting platform?"

"Mm, it costs money, starting at one spirit stone per session; if you want an opponent to spar with, then the price doubles a hundred times."

Luo Chen's eyelids jumped.

So the Yuding Sword Sect's money-grabbing is also so low-class!

Perhaps seeing that Luo Chen was short of money, Caiyi gave him another solution.

"There's basically no one in the courtyard during the day; you can practice in the corner of the wall, just remember to replenish the soil at any time and don't let Senior Sun discover it." ===== CHAPTER 32 =====