Chapter 121

"Wei Zifeng, where did you find that Liu Yun? Such good luck—truly a heavenly talent!" Wang Quan looked as if he had eaten a lemon.

Wang Quan looked as if he had eaten a lemon.

We need to keep the exclamation marks and quotes.

Let's produce: "【1】 \"Wei Zifeng, where did you find that Liu Yun? Your luck is so good it's practically a heavenly talent!! \" Wang Quan looked as if he had eaten a lemon."

Make sure it's one line.

Hmph.

Wei Zifeng stood with his hands on his hips, a smug grin on his face.

Wei Zifeng stood with his hands on his hips, looking pleased.

We'll do: "【3】 Wei Zifeng stood with his hands on his hips, looking pleased."

Senior Sister frowned: "Junior Brother, your fortune is truly extraordinary—first you settled things with Ling Yan, though Xuan Kun Dao stabbed you in the back; now you've returned and found a heavenly‑talent cultivator. I really don't know how lucky you are."

Ling Yan and Xuan Kun Dao are heavenly talent cultivators.

We'll need to add Ling Yan and Xuan Kun Dao to glossary.

But note: The instruction says list every named entity appearing in these lines. So we must add those.

Thus we need to add:

Ling Yan

Xuan Kun Dao

Senior Sister

Now translate line 4 with those names.

We'll produce: "【4】 Senior Sister frowned: \"Junior Brother, your fortune is truly extraordinary—first you settled things with that Ling Yan, although you were stabbed in the back by Xuan Kun Dao; but this time you came back and found a heavenly talent cultivator, I really don't know just how good your luck is. \""

"Ah, saying it's luck isn't entirely right. Senior Sister, do you remember the shop I mentioned down the mountain?"

"Hundred Treasures Shop? You didn't say you'd leave it to a lone cultivator? Could this Liu Yun be the one?"

"Of course not. The lone cultivator watching the shop is named Yan Buji, and Liu Yun is someone he recruited to work as an assistant in my shop," Wei Zifeng said proudly.

Senior Sister:......

Wang Quan:......

"Then your opportunity truly defies the heavens."

"Yes, I feel Yan Buji is like my lucky star; ever since he arrived, my good luck has been unstoppable!!" Wei Zifeng said happily.

We'll produce: "【11】 \"Yeah, I feel Yan Buji is like my lucky star; since he came, my luck has been so good nothing can stop it!! \" Wei Zifeng said happily."

That's exactly how it is: before Yan Buji arrived there was nothing; after he came he boosted the shop's revenue and kept finding people with extraordinary talent.

Wei Zifeng kept thinking that once the Hundred Treasures Shop stabilizes, he'll definitely find a way to bring Yan Buji into the Huo Xiong Sect; with Yan's support, even greater opportunities might arise.

Wang Quan said sourly: "Just enjoy yourself—Yan Buji is such a capable person, how could he stay lowly forever? Don't end up getting stabbed in the kidney by him one day!"

"Oh, how sour~" Wei Zifeng grimaced, smiling like a chrysanthemum.

Wang Quan's face turned green; he clenched his teeth and fell silent.

No matter how you look at it, this time Wei Zifeng gave them a hand; otherwise they would have faced sect punishment at this juncture.

Senior Sister's eyes shifted and she asked: "What's Yan Buji's background?"

"I heard he was a mountain cultivator brought down by the lone cultivator Zhang Lai; I never expected him to have such a knack for business—within a few months he completely revitalized the Huo Xiong Sect market. Now the daily flow of spiritual stones in the mountain market should be in the thousands, and I've made a little profit too," Wei Zifeng said after thinking.

Wang Quan didn't understand: "What's so impressive about that?"

Senior Sister, also puzzled, said: "We don't know the ways of commerce, but it's true that the mountain market used to have few lone cultivators. The recent surge in their numbers is precisely because of this."

Wei Zifeng looked at Senior Sister and asked: "Senior Sister, do you think the sect will relax its disciple‑recruitment rules this time?"

Senior Sister nodded: "The Sect Master and the elders were already discussing this; you bringing Liu Yun here basically guarantees the rules will be loosened a lot."

"In that case, I want to bring Yan Buji into the sect—I'm not sure if that's possible," Wei Zifeng mused.

"How's his cultivation?" Wang Quan asked from the side.

"Um… probably around Lianqi Level Three?"

"Only Level Three, not that impressive—does he have any backing?"

"No, his origins can't be verified, and lone cultivators still care about that. But his aptitude must be lacking, otherwise he wouldn't be at such a low level," Wei Zifeng sighed.

Senior Sister shook her head: "That probably won't catch the elders' eye—would you and I even want such an ordinary junior brother?"

Wang Quan nodded: "What Senior Sister said is correct."

Wei Zifeng sighed: "I'll ask about it when the time comes."

If it really can't work out, there's nothing we can do..

Note there are two periods at end; we keep as is.

Later we can give him a share, let him stay down the mountain to help watch the Hundred Treasures Shop—that's not bad; if one day he brings another heavenly‑talent disciple to us, we'll strike it rich!

Right, when we go down the mountain we also have to give him benefits—can't let his heart grow cold.

After a few days following Liu Yun's matter, Yan Buji, through arduous cultivation, finally perfected his Lianqi Level One spiritual power, reaching a point where it could not advance further.

"Good thing I earlier scavenged some stuff from those people and sold it for spiritual stones; otherwise I truly wouldn't know how to cultivate," Yan Buji said with a bitter face, once again feeling how hard cultivation is.

Besides that, he also had to worry about how to prepare a second batch of the Ming Wang Gong cultivation elixir.

So how exactly do those powerful cultivators allocate their time in a day?

They also have to earn spiritual stones, gather spiritual materials, practice cultivation arts, learn esoteric techniques, refine accumulation devices, and go out for training.....

Looking at it this way, unless there truly is a great power backing them behind the scenes, even cultivators would be stretched thin.

The key is the lifespan issue!

If Yan Buji were to bitterly cultivate, as long as he had enough spiritual stones he could stay in seclusion until death, but what's the point of such bitter cultivation if he can't break through his realm?

Yan Buji shook his head, not wanting to think about these worrisome matters.

He re‑entered meditation, beginning his first practice of the Nine Turns Technique!

The Nine Turns Technique is quite profound; when the practice ends it does not plunge the cultivator into weakness, and the dissipated spiritual power does not vanish completely—it condenses into a single thread of power that remains in the dantian.

The process didn't last long—it was completed in just half a day.

Feeling that in the half‑empty dantian only a faint thread of spiritual power remained, like when he first drew qi into his body, Yan Buji's mouth twitched and he let out a long sigh.

"Still, the spiritual power has indeed condensed a lot—this single thread of second‑turn spiritual power is far stronger in quality than the power I previously refined!"

Although the quality is high, the quantity is low.

Moreover, when Yan Buji again circulated the Planting Tree Manual in cultivation, he noticed that the spiritual energy he absorbed no longer refined instantly into power as before, but kept accumulating through circulation!

After a full day, Yan Buji finally managed, without spiritual stones, to absorb enough to transmute a single thread of second‑turn spiritual power!

To fill the dantian without spiritual stones, he estimates it would take a whole half‑year of bitter cultivation!

And this is merely the amount of spiritual power at Lianqi Level One!

Yan Buji opened his eyes, gritted his teeth and said: "This Nine Turns Technique truly isn't something a person can practice—can my lifespan last until I reach Lianqi Level Ten spiritual power and the Nine Turns day?"

Lack of resources!!!

Any resources will do!

Yan Buji's eyes reddened; he even thought of taking all the spiritual stones and materials from the Hundred Treasures Shop.

But such a one‑hammer deal carries too much risk—Yan Buji definitely wouldn't do it.

But how should he cultivate then?

Spiritual land?

Then he would have to join a sect, but with his aptitude, how could he possibly join a cultivation sect?

Wild spirit lands are probably hard to find, and he lacks a great deal of knowledge, yet he also needs to quickly cultivate a bright‑body jade‑bone robust aptitude…

Or should he beg Wei Zifeng to bring him into the Fire Bear Sect?

But he didn't say he lacked the intention; rather, the Fire Bear Sect doesn't accept cultivators with such poor aptitude, so even if he had connections, he couldn't openly violate the sect's rules.

Yan Buji's eyes flickered, and he took a deep breath: "There are only two and a half years left; if I can't join the Fire Bear Sect within those two and a half years, I'll have to look for another path."