Chapter 144

This was also Liu Liu Xiaolou's first time seeing this black cat in the Qingyu Furong Garden. If it weren't for Brother Brother Hutou Jiao's reminder, he wouldn't even have known that this black cat was on the eaves of Yiling Hall.

He looked up and met the eyes of the black cat. The black cat took a few steps back, meowed, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"What the hell?" Liu Liu Xiaolou was a bit surprised, recalling all his experiences on Black Cat Mountain at that time, but he couldn't grasp the point for a moment.

It was Brother Brother Hutou Jiao beside him who seemed to know a little bit, nodding and saying: "So it's from Black Cat Mountain, no wonder. I've only heard that Black Cat Mountain specializes in a kind of black cat, but I've always just heard about it and never seen one. Now that I see it with my own eyes, it's really black."

After chatting for a long time, Brother Brother Hutou Jiao didn't wait for Su Jiuniang to return. The more they talked, the less interested he became. When the grand banquet in Gualu Hall ended, he bid farewell in low spirits.

From this day on, the Qingyu Furong Garden suddenly became quiet. In the past, it was just that the Su family didn't come and the stewards didn't ask, but now it seemed that even the servants and maids were too lazy to enter the garden. Even the most basic two meals a day were difficult to guarantee, as if they had forgotten that there was such a person in the garden.

Liu Liu Xiaolou was too lazy to argue. Anyway, with the big white goose around, he wouldn't starve to death, so he simply immersed himself in cultivation.

With a handful of spirit stones in his hand, it was enough for him to cultivate for a year and still have some left over.

The hot summer passed quickly, and the cold mountain wind swept by, making him feel slightly cold.

Waking up one day, the ground was covered with fallen leaves. Liu Liu Xiaolou stepped on the withered leaves, listening to the crunching sound, and suddenly missed Su Su a little.

It had been a long time since he had eaten Dragon-Beard Golden Carp and crayfish. The dozen or so Dragon-Beard Silver Carp that Su Wuniang had raised in the Dripping Water Pool had long been eaten up by Liu Liu Xiaolou and the big white goose.

Sometimes Liu Liu Xiaolou also wondered if the black cat that was always staring at him from the eaves had also stolen a few? Otherwise, why did the big white goose always spread its wings, lift its long neck, and strike a fighting pose every time it saw the cat appear?

After walking around the garden twice and feeling the full autumn atmosphere, he returned to the front of Yiling Hall, wanting to see the black cat again. He was sure that this black cat must have spirituality; otherwise, it would have been impossible for it to confront the increasingly brave big white goose for so long. If it were even slightly inferior, it would probably have become the big white goose's meal long ago.

So, how could he find a way to catch the black cat and then adopt it?

He leaped onto the eaves, but didn't see the black cat. Liu Liu Xiaolou leaped to the side of the pool and discussed with the big white goose: "Don't fight with this black cat anymore. It should be here to join us. Let's give it a name later, just call it 'Little Black'. You're 'Big White', it's 'Little Black'. You're bigger than it, so let it have some leeway. Our Three Mystical Sect can be considered to have added a member, and only then will it have a flourishing appearance. Huh?"

How come there were six or seven more Dragon-Beard Golden Carp in the pool after just one night?

Liu Liu Xiaolou pointed at the swimming fish and asked: "Tell me, where did they come from?"

The big white goose picked up a Dragon-Beard Golden Carp, strolled up slowly, and gutted the fish right there by the pool. The two-foot-long Dragon-Beard Golden Carp struggled desperately under his palm, its two long whiskers swinging back and forth, creating a "whoosh" sound in the air, but it had no chance to escape. After being pecked a few times by his flat beak, a gash was opened, and blood seeped out instantly.

The big white goose poked its flat beak into the fish's belly, pulled out the fish intestines and bladder, and flicked them outward. A black shadow flew out from the roof, snatched the fish offal, and disappeared in an instant.

The big white goose "ga-gaed" contemptuously at the black shadow, then grabbed the gutted Dragon-Beard Golden Carp and went to the small kitchen of the Qingyu Furong Garden.

After a series of chopping sounds, with a "whoosh," the sound of flames igniting came from the small kitchen.

Liu Liu Xiaolou had long been accustomed to this set of operations. What he found strange today was the relationship between the big white goose and the black cat.

Coming to the door of the small kitchen, letting the big white goose busy itself inside, Liu Liu Xiaolou leaned against the door and asked: "Big White, was that flick of yours feeding Little Black?"

"Ga ga!"

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"You guys aren't fighting anymore? Or have you already decided the winner?"

The big white goose poked its head out of the small kitchen and glanced at Liu Liu Xiaolou.

Liu Liu Xiaolou realized that this question was a bit complicated and hard to answer, so he changed the question: "You won?"

"Ga ga!"

"So it submits to you now?"

"Ga!"

Not long after, the big white goose came out with the roasted Dragon-Beard Golden Carp and threw it to Liu Liu Xiaolou. It had to be said that the big white goose's craftsmanship was really not very good; the fish skin was burnt, but who would blame a big white goose that could roast fish?

The Dragon-Beard Golden Carp was divided into two halves by Liu Liu Xiaolou, and both man and goose ate half. After eating, Liu Liu Xiaolou exhorted: "Big White, I'm going back to the room to continue practicing. You should also be careful and know the rules. This is Mount Mount Shenwu, not our Wulong Mountain. It's not that you can't take fish from the back mountain, but you must be careful and don't take too much, or it won't be good if someone finds out. When you have time, you can bring back some crayfish."

He turned and walked a few steps, then looked back and said: "Don't forget to clean up the fish bones."

"Ga!"

"Why not?"

A black shadow suddenly flashed by and disappeared again in the blink of an eye. Liu Liu Xiaolou couldn't help but be startled: "Ha! Do you all appear like this?" When he looked again, the fish bones and residue on the ground were gone without a trace.

"Not convinced? Still not convinced after losing? Want to fight again?"

"Ga!"

"Not fighting anymore?"

"Ga ga!"

Neither daring to fight nor willing to admit defeat, yet you still feed it? Well, this relationship still needs time to be sorted out.

Returning to the bedroom, he closed the door and continued to practice. Of the twenty-three acupoints of the Hand Hand Shaoyang Meridian, he had already opened eight: Guanchong, Yemen, Zhongzhu, Yangchi, Waiguan, Zhigou, Huizong, and Sanyangluo, and was currently launching an attack on Sidu. The acupoints of the Hand Hand Shaoyang Meridian were relatively easier, and one could be opened with one and a half to two spirit stones, but there were too many acupoints, so the time spent was also calculated in years.

It wasn't just a matter of spiritual power, but also the realization barrier when opening each meridian, and the spirit material barrier required for certain acupoints—they were all hurdles. It could be said that the path of Qi Refinement was long, and a large number of cultivators were discouraged by these hurdles, gradually grinding away their will, and spent their whole lives wandering around various meridians.

Liu Liu Xiaolou had been relatively smooth in the past two years, breaking through two levels from Qi Refinement Stage 2 to Stage 4, which could be considered quite good. Such progress also encouraged and urged him not to be the least bit slack, but to advance bravely.

When the third snow of this winter fell on Mount Mount Shenwu, a spirit stone in his palm was exhausted and turned into debris and powder. His cultivation progress also reached the fifteenth acupoint—Jianliao. After six months of seclusion and consuming fourteen spirit stones, the cultivation of the fourth stage of Qi Refinement was finally more than halfway through!

Jianliao was a major acupoint with an acupoint pool to store true qi. Liu Liu Xiaolou estimated that the spirit stones required would be between two and a half and even three.

Calculating it, it had been exactly one year since he married into Mount Mount Shenwu. It was time to go out and get some fresh air. Moreover, the Su family also owed him seven spirit stones. Although he wasn't short of spirit stones now, a debt must never be left unpaid.

Liu Liu Xiaolou pushed open the gate of the Furong Garden, which had been closed for half a year, and headed toward the villa's treasury.

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