Chapter 18

For most Huan citizens, buying a residence is the biggest challenge in the world, bar none.

And this also involves a very critical question: where should the residence be bought?

Should it be bought in Yuezhou City, or in Yaowanggou?

Don't even think about Yuezhou City; the housing prices there can make people lose their faith in life.

Just buy the residence in Yaowanggou and live in this place in the future?

Looking at the green trees and red flowers around, living here isn't impossible.

Yaowanggou's housing prices shouldn't be too expensive.

Li Banfeng touched the two thousand yuan in cash in his pocket, estimating what kind of house two thousand yuan could buy.

The rickshaw fare just now seemed to be five hundred yuan...

"Before having a residence, does Yu Yu Zhaixiu have any special abilities?"

"You mean techniques?" Ma Wu thought for a moment. "There are some. After entering the path, even without a residence, a Yu Yu Zhaixiu practitioner's body will be stronger than an ordinary person's, and they can also hide from people's eyes."

"What do you mean by hiding from people's eyes?"

"Yu Yu Zhaixiu practitioners never attract attention; they are often ignored when mixed in a crowd, can avoid surveillance, and high-level Yu Yu Zhaixiu practitioners can even avoid the prying eyes of Ting Xiu practitioners."

Avoiding surveillance.

This is very useful for me!

Li Banfeng's choice leaned toward Yu Yu Zhaixiu, and Qin Qin Xiaopang reminded him from the side: "Brother Li, if you choose Yu Yu Zhaixiu, what will you live on in the future? Those who choose Yu Yu Zhaixiu have money at home and don't worry about food and clothing."

Li Banfeng looked at Qin Qin Xiaopang: "Do I look like someone who worries about food and clothing?"

I really am that kind of person right now.

This is indeed a troublesome matter.

Can't a Yu Yu Zhaixiu practitioner even go out to work?

Must they stay at home all the time?

If it really doesn't work, we can still find a remote work job.

The problem is whether this place has internet...

From a long-term development perspective, Yu Yu Zhaixiu's restrictions are indeed a bit large.

Should I choose Lv Xiu?

"Does Lv Xiu also have talents?"

"Yes!" Ma Wu nodded. "Lv Xiu can walk; their legs and feet are fast, but they must walk every day—they can't not walk.

The higher the level, the farther they walk, so Lv Xiu practitioners have no fixed abode and live wherever they walk."

As far as the current situation is concerned, walking around every day makes it easy to attract the hunt of the Dark Star Bureau.

From a long-term development perspective, Lv Xiu practitioners have no fixed abode and also face livelihood problems, unless they have a profession like a tour guide.

Should I be a Huan Xiu with Ma Wu?

Ma Wu expressed strong agreement: "Brother Li, seeing your strong physique, you are indeed suitable to be a Huan Xiu. Huan Xiu is good at confusing people's minds and can severely damage enemies unknowingly."

This is also a good way out.

But Ma Wu raised a very serious question.

"Brother Li, may I ask about the physique of your beloved?"

Beloved?

"Where would I have a beloved?"

Ma Wu shrugged: "If Brother Li is still single, things are difficult to handle. A fleeting relationship is probably not a long-term plan."

This is a realistic problem. Ma Wu doesn't lack women, but Li Banfeng doesn't have this condition.

Go back to the university to find Teacher Song?

Li Banfeng couldn't return to the school in the short term.

Even if he went back, ten times a day, the teacher couldn't do it either!

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Banfeng had a bold idea: "Can I choose more than one path?"

Cultivate several paths together, occupy all the talents first, and in the future, see which path is suitable, then cultivate that path.

Qin Qin Xiaopang shook his head and smiled: "Where is there such a good thing? You can't even understand one path, and you want to cultivate several?"

Ma Wu didn't laugh; he had heard of similar things: "Cultivating several paths is definitely not possible, but choosing one more—that is, cultivating two paths—is something that has happened.

But such people are basically forced, and it's very difficult to achieve anything.

Think about it, how much energy does it take to cultivate one path?

Cultivating Two Two Shi Xiu requires eating at least five jin of rice a day; if you add Jiu Xiu, you have to drink three to five jin of wine. Not to mention earning more time, even cultivating step-by-step is quite strenuous."

Li Banfeng asked: "Must two paths be cultivated at the same time? Can't one of them be abandoned?"

"Of course not! Since you've chosen two paths, you can't abandon either. If you cultivate one and drop the other, the practitioner will lose their life because of it.

Therefore, the two paths of dual cultivation must have similar characteristics and complement each other. If the two paths are not similar, the practitioner is very likely to die suddenly on the spot."

Hearing this, Li Banfeng immediately dismissed the idea of dual cultivation.

If two paths must be taken care of at the same time, such a choice is neither wise nor realistic.

Ma Wu was right; a person simply doesn't have the energy to cultivate two paths.

And even if Two Two Shi Xiu and Jiu Xiu had the possibility of dual cultivation—eating and drinking, typically belonging to similar characteristics and complementing each other.

But among the paths provided by the peddler, it seems there are none that complement each other.

Ma Wu asked again: "Dual cultivation requires deep affinity with the path. May I ask how your affinity is, Brother Li?"

Li Banfeng was surprised: "What is affinity with the path?"

Looking at Li Banfeng's ignorant face, Ma Wu was stunned, and Qin Qin Xiaopang was also stunned.

"You don't even know what affinity with the path is?" Qin Qin Xiaopang was very surprised. "If you don't have affinity with the path, why did you come to buy medicine? Isn't this seeking death?"

Seeing Li Banfeng still didn't understand, Ma Wu explained: "Affinity with the path is the foundation. To accumulate foundation, I spent a lot of money to buy water from the Huiming Spring, drinking more than thirty liters before I could build a solid foundation."

Qin Qin Xiaopang snorted: "We aren't rich people, so we ate some small folk remedies, and it took five whole years before I dared to come and buy medicine."

Li Banfeng still didn't understand the concept of affinity with the path: "Must affinity with the path be obtained through special drugs?"

"Drugs?" Ma Wu felt the word "drug" wasn't very appropriate.

Qin Xiaopang understood Li Banfeng's meaning: "It doesn't necessarily have to be eating medicine; you can also go to specific places to accumulate affinity with the path! The place called 'Santoucha' can accumulate affinity with the path!"

Thinking of Santoucha, Li Banfeng shuddered.

To get affinity with the path, growing three heads—it's not worth it.

Li Banfeng asked carefully: "Must there be affinity with the path?"

Qin Qin Xiaopang said: "Otherwise? Do you think anyone who comes to the peddler to buy medicine can become a practitioner?

Affinity with the path is opportunity, a one-in-ten-thousand opportunity! Practitioners are the dragons and phoenixes among people, one in ten thousand!"

Dragons and phoenixes among people?

Isn't that an exaggeration?

I estimate that the one pulling the rickshaw is also a practitioner; is he a dragon or phoenix among people?

Ma Wu looked at Li Banfeng: "I wouldn't say dragon or phoenix among people, and it's best not to go to Santoucha; if you go, I'm afraid you won't come back.

Let's not talk about other things first; the foundation cannot be treated as child's play. Brother Li, do you really have affinity with the path? If you don't have affinity with the path, don't mess around; this truly concerns your life."

Li Banfeng thought for a long time and asked carefully: "Does being touched by the heavenly light count as affinity with the path?"

"You've been touched by the heavenly light?" Ma Wu, who had been clutching his chest, suddenly let go and stood up.

Qin Qin Xiaopang also stood up: "When were you touched by the heavenly light?"

Li Banfeng recalled: "Around two in the afternoon."

Qin Qin Xiaopang looked at the position of the sunset, and Ma Wu took out a gold-cased pocket watch.

"Brother Li, how did you hold on until now?" Ma Wu took several steps back, and Qin Qin Xiaopang followed closely, standing beside Ma Wu.

Li Banfeng gave a dry laugh and confirmed again: "Touched by the heavenly light, if you don't enter the path, you have to die?"

Ma Wu nodded: "Brother Li is right."

Qin Qin Xiaopang took two more steps back: "Not only will you die, but you might also implicate others. I'd better leave first."

Qin Qin Xiaopang clutched his stomach and walked unsteadily into the distance, and the peddler shouted: "It hasn't been half an hour yet!"

Qin Qin Xiaopang waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, it's about enough."

Two attendants supported Ma Wu and also prepared to leave. Seeing Li Banfeng still in place, Ma Wu turned his head and advised: "Brother Li, enter the path quickly. If you are one step late, I'm afraid you'll explode.

What will explode out is hard to say, and how many people will be hurt is hard to say. It's a matter of life and death; this cannot be delayed."

Li Banfeng asked: "Touched by the heavenly light, is the affinity with the path deep?"

"Deep, quite deep!" Ma Wu said while walking. "Brother Li, don't think about dual cultivation; save your life first!"

The two left one after another, and the peddler was still busy with business.

A woman of about fifty came to him to buy a bottle of vanishing cream, and then asked the peddler for a small pinch, which she applied directly to her face.

"Don't feel bad, I have to see if this quality is pure!"

The peddler smiled: "What are you saying, sister? After applying my vanishing cream, this skin can spring water!"

"You have a sweet mouth!" The woman smiled and turned to leave.

Vanishing cream, an ancestor-level skincare product.

This thing is not much different from today's face cream; its main function is to prevent skin from drying and cracking. Li Banfeng had seen a vanishing cream bottle in Old Lady Wu's room at the orphanage and had even applied it to his own face.

Not to mention, this peddler's vanishing cream is extraordinary; after the woman applied it, her face really gained a few more points of luster. This is perhaps the reason why she came to the wilderness to find the peddler to buy things.

The sky was getting dark, and the guests had all left.

The peddler turned back to look at Li Banfeng and asked: "Have you chosen? The Soul-Returning Soup can only save your life for four hours; you don't have much time left."

After saying this, the peddler waved his hand, and a row of drawers automatically pulled out from the cabinet, filled with medicinal powders of various colors.

This was urging Li Banfeng to use the medicine immediately.

There really wasn't much time left; Li Banfeng drank the Soul-Returning Soup at less than three o'clock, and now it wasn't far from seven o'clock.

He had already made up his mind to choose Lv Xiu.

Although he was more inclined toward Yu Yu Zhaixiu in his heart, the difficulty of buying a residence was too great, so for the sake of subsequent cultivation, Lv Xiu was the most reasonable choice.

"I choose Lv Xiu..."

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him: "I want Soul-Returning Soup, I want Soul-Returning Soup!"

Li Banfeng turned his head and saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure.

Saying he was familiar was because he was common in the news.

Saying he was unfamiliar was because it was Li Banfeng's first time seeing him in person.

The legendary short-distance star Qiao Yuesheng, with vigorous strides, rushed toward Li Banfeng at high speed.

Under the sunset, an afterimage of his body appeared.

Li Banfeng believed that with his current speed, he could definitely set a new world record.

But this wasn't the point.

The point was, he was rushing toward Li Banfeng and crashed directly into him.

Li Banfeng was knocked into the air on the spot, then rushed toward the peddler's cabinet.

The peddler hurriedly retracted the drawer, but was one step too slow.

*Bang*, a muffled sound, Li Banfeng crashed into the cabinet.

Two drawers didn't have time to be retracted, and the medicinal powder splashed out.

The blue Lv Xiu and golden Yu Yu Zhaixiu medicinal powders landed on Li Banfeng's face, and unbearable intense pain struck; Li Banfeng lost consciousness on the spot.

The peddler looked at Li Banfeng, then looked at Qiao Yuesheng in front of him.

Qiao Yuesheng grabbed the peddler's shoulder, tears in his eyes: "I want Soul-Returning Soup, I want Soul-Returning Soup!"

Roots of blood vessels were clearly protruding on his skin.

Some blood vessels were slowly rupturing.

Qiao Yuesheng looked at the peddler, his face full of begging.

The peddler looked at Qiao Yuesheng, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

After a long silence, the peddler's tone was cold: "You hurt his life and ruined my reputation; how should this account be settled?"

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