Chapter 1028: Have to Try if There's a Chance

In the end, Xu Que successfully fished out all the Vitality Rice in this Vitality Ant nest!

Adding the portion he had hurriedly fished out earlier, all the Vitality Rice added up to a total of nearly a thousand years of lifespan.

Although the Queen was incomparably unwilling, out of fear of Xu Que's identity, plus his Reincarnation Palm that could control the Life and Death rules of this realm, she finally could only cooperate!

"Remember, come to my room alone tonight. I have important matters to discuss with you!"

Xu Que threw down a sentence with a smile and left with the woman.

The Queen watched Xu Que and the others' departing backs, her face full of annoyance, and she stomped her little feet in anger: "Hmph, this despicable and shameless human, he is simply too far from the Chosen One described by the ancestors. And he wants this seat to go to his room tonight? You wish. Don't think this seat doesn't know your dirty thoughts; you clearly want to absorb this seat's lifespan! This seat will absolutely not go!"

After saying this, she waved her hand and ordered the many Vitality Ants: "Move everything in the nest and move to the western suburbs with this seat to find my father!"

At the same time, Xu Que had long since moved away from the eastern suburbs and approached the human city!

Along the way, he learned quite a few things from the woman. In this city, Vitality Rice was the only currency, which could buy everything and make countless cultivators go crazy!

Like Xu Que, who now possessed a thousand years of lifespan in Vitality Rice, he was absolutely enough to become the leader of a medium-sized faction in the city.

As for the so-called safe place she mentioned earlier, she was too embarrassed to bring it up again.

With Xu Que's strength, an existence that could crush the Ant Queen, he had obtained tens of thousands of grains of Vitality Rice in one go, adding up to over a thousand years of lifespan. How could she dare to bring up her small cooperation of a mere twenty grains of Vitality Rice!

"Fellow Daoist, let's part ways here. I have decided to go to that place alone!"

Finally, arriving in front of the city, the woman finally opened her mouth to say goodbye.

"Good, take care of yourself!" Xu Que smiled and nodded slightly.

Even if he now possessed tens of thousands of grains of Vitality Rice, he couldn't possibly distribute them to this woman for no reason.

Nowadays, what is the use of being beautiful?

In the cultivation world, especially in this city, being beautiful is the most useless thing. Xu Que even dared to imagine that if he casually threw out a few dozen grains of Vitality Rice, countless beautiful women would swarm over, and there would be no lack of those with higher beauty than this woman!

"The one who should take care is you!" The woman suddenly replied, her gaze slightly looking at the city, shaking her head: "Although your strength is powerful, there are also Human Immortal Realm experts here. Remember, they are true Human Immortal Realm experts, and there is more than one. If they know you can control the Life and Death rules, they will definitely join forces to deal with you, so you had better keep a low profile! Goodbye!"

After saying this, the woman bowed and turned to leave.

Xu Que raised his eyebrows and immediately called her: "Miss, wait a moment!"

"Hmm? Fellow Daoist, what else is there?" The woman was startled and turned around.

Xu Que revealed a smile: "Actually, you don't need to take risks. How about this, you answer a few of my questions, and I will give you twenty grains of Vitality Rice as a reward, how about it?"

"This..." The woman was stunned instantly.

Although she also knew how easily Xu Que obtained Vitality Rice, taking out twenty grains of Vitality Rice as a reward all at once was truly the first time she had seen it. This was simply too generous, making her feel uneasy instantly!

"Just... just answering questions?" She asked somewhat nervously.

"Of course. If I were to do other things, I would definitely increase the price, so don't worry!" Xu Que immediately smiled, his eyes squinting.

Seeing this smile, the woman remembered the expression Xu Que had when he told the Queen to find him in his room tonight, and she felt a chill instantly, hurriedly responding: "I will only answer questions, other things are unnecessary!"

"Good!" Xu Que nodded and smiled.

In fact, he had only mentioned that casually before. After all, he really hadn't thought about having sex with an ant, otherwise he wouldn't have only told the Queen to find him in his room tonight.

You have to know, he didn't even have a place to stay in the city right now, so where would he have a room?

Moreover, the city was heavily guarded. If a Queen came alone, wouldn't it be a one-way trip?

"What do you want to ask?" The woman looked at Xu Que seriously, already prepared to earn these twenty grains of Vitality Rice to extend her brother's life.

After all, this was also a helpless choice. She also knew that if she went to that so-called safe place alone, it would ultimately be very unsafe. Xu Que was deliberately helping her now, in this way, so that she wouldn't feel like it was charity!

"First tell me about your background, including your understanding of the three continents of the Immortal Realm!" Xu Que asked directly.

Previously, he had learned a part of the Immortal Realm from Wang Qiannian, but he could see that Wang Qiannian didn't have the patience to answer and was very careless. Now, being able to hear more from this woman, he felt that these twenty grains of Vitality Rice were spent very worthily!

"I am from the Xuanhuang Continent and am a teacher at the Lihuo Academy..." The woman didn't hesitate and started talking about her identity and background.

Her name was Blue Xinyue, and she was a teacher at a second-rate academy in the Xuanhuang Continent. The meaning of a second-rate academy was that it was one level lower than the Eastern Tang Academy, the Green Vine Academy, and the Nine Rivers Academy.

In the Xuanhuang Continent, there were only those Three Great Academies as first-rate academies, while there were over a hundred second-rate academies, and as for third-rate academies, there were even more.

And the symbol for dividing the academy levels was to see how many Human Immortal Realm experts were in the academy.

Like in a first-rate academy, there must be at least one expert at the late stage of the Human Immortal Realm, and ten experts at the initial stage of the Human Immortal Realm or above sitting in the academy, even if it was just in name. Moreover, it also required more than one hundred Human Immortal Realm experts to teach in the academy, which were the teachers or instructors they mentioned!

This mode was similar to sects, but the academy's mode was more scientific. They detailed the teaching staff, and all teachers had their own courses they were good at. Besides cultivation, alchemy, talismans, arrays, etc., there were also zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, ensuring that the disciples in the academy could develop comprehensively and cultivate talents and elites for the Xuanhuang Continent.

Finally, after these disciples graduated, they would either stay in the academy to teach or be transported to major sects, and there were even fixed quotas every year to be sent to the higher-level Earth Continent!

In this way, the academy's influence spread throughout the world, and its status became increasingly consolidated.

Blue Xinyue had been a disciple in the Lihuo Academy, but her aptitude could only be considered average. Finally, after stepping into the Human Immortal Realm, she stayed in the academy to teach. On one hand, she could receive the academy's protection, and on the other hand, she could take care of her younger brother who only had Half-Immortal Realm cultivation!

But what surprised Xu Que was that Blue Xinyue taught calligraphy and painting in the academy.

"You are actually a painter?" Xu Que was surprised.

"Three thousand Great Daos can all be used to ask for immortality. Zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting are also not trivial in the Immortal Realm, and their difficulty is not simpler than the Dao of Arrays and Alchemy! I paint a picture, which can contain Dao Rhyme, allowing others to comprehend the Dao and break through bottlenecks." Blue Xinyue said.

"Is this useful for yourself?" Xu Que smiled.

"Of course it's useful, at least it can be exchanged for spirit crystals. Fellow Daoist, don't look down on the Dao of Painting. This is an extremely profound Dao. It is rumored that there was once a Painting Immortal in the Immortal Realm who could take out Immortal Artifacts from paintings with a wave of his brush. He integrated the process of artifact refining into the painting in great detail, from the material of artifact refining to the control of flames, all relying on one brush and one paper, finally creating something out of nothing." Blue Xinyue replied.

Xu Que raised his eyebrows instantly. Relying on one brush and one paper, creating something out of nothing? Isn't this the Magic Brush Ma Liang?

"Powerful, powerful. It seems I have to try it if there's a chance!" Xu Que squinted and smiled.

If one day he also came into contact with the Dao of Painting, he would definitely go study human anatomy, starting from cells, creating something out of nothing, and painting the several Japanese teachers who taught him mysterious knowledge in his youth!

"Oh? Fellow Daoist Xu is also interested in becoming a painter?" Blue Xinyue asked curiously.

She could see that Xu Que's bone age absolutely wouldn't exceed a hundred years. To step into the Half-Immortal Realm at such a young age and have such extraordinary strength, his aptitude was absolutely not simple.

If he was also interested in coming into contact with the Dao of Painting, and if he had innate talent, it wouldn't be a bad thing for their painting world!

"No!"

However, Xu Que shook his head, a hint of ambiguous smile hanging on the corners of his mouth, and replied: "I want to be an illustrator!"

"Illustrator?"

Blue Xinyue was instantly confused. She had never heard of this job title!

"Fine, you should continue to introduce the Immortal Realm. By the way, have you heard of Yaochi?" Xu Que waved his hand, not continuing to talk about the illustrator thing.

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