Chapter 39: Chapter 39 We Rogue Cultivators Want to Stick Together to Keep Warm_i
Translator: 549690339
Stepping into the East Wing Room, Luo Chen finally understood why his Reverse Room only cost the minimum of ten Spirit Stones per month. The space wasn’t vast, but it was well-planned.
The windows were placed in perfect positions for natural light.
And it was not as cold here at night.
In comparison to the warm and comfortable East Wing Room, his Reverse Room felt like a combined warehouse and ice cellar.
After feeling sorry for himself for a bit, Luo Chen blissfully sat down at the dining table.
Feng Xia glanced at him and set a bowl of Spirit Rice in front of him.
“Thank you, Sister Xia!”
Feng Xia replied, “No need to thank me, Xiu Xiu is treating.”
She hadn’t spoken before, but when she did, it sounded like the texture of sandpaper being rubbed together.
Luo Chen furrowed his brows and carefully asked, “Sister Xia, your voice...?”
“It’s been like this for a long time. Years ago, when I was testing medicines for the Hundred Herbs Pavilion, I accidentally consumed a poisonous herb. Although I received medical treatment, my voice could only recover to this extent.”
Bai Meiling sat nearby, her tone somewhat melancholic.
Only then did Luo Chen understand the reason.
The jobs at large companies were not easy either!
Despite being just one of the Medicine King Sect’s businesses, the operations within the Hundred Herbs Pavilion were often fraught with risks.
Jobs like Feng Xia’s, a medicine tester, paid well, but were tremendously risky. Common herbs, due to their growing environments and cohabitation with Demon Beasts, often developed unique mutations.
If these differences could be detected conventionally, that would be best. However, if they were undetectable, cultivators had to subject their own bodies to experimentation.
Feng Xia did this job.
Recently, things have improved slightly. The Hundred Herbs Pavilion in The Great River District hired a new medicine tester, so she started working on the deep processing of medicinal materials.
“What are you talking about? Why is the atmosphere so heavy?”
Fu Xiuxiu came over with a sizzling plate of meat.
“Try this, it’s the elbow meat of a Camel Scale Beast that I brought back from Shen Fu Pavilion. I wanted to let you all taste something fresh.”
After Bai Meiling told her what they were talking about, Fu Xiuxiu also sighed. “This is the life of us Rogue Cultivators. It’s either living day to day in the Outer City or being at the mercy of others in the Inner City. More lucrative jobs always involve paying huge prices.” The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.
After hearing this, the faces of Bai Meiling and Feng Xia darkened.
But Luo Chen seemed rather indifferent.
Being at the mercy of others?
One had to have the capacity to be ordered around first.
Not to mention anything else, every young and beautiful female cultivator in places like Spirit Medicine Hall and Wanbao Pavilion was in charge of receptions.
The male cultivators were not even given the chance to be ordered around.
“Thus, it’s all the more important for us to help each other and stick together.” Fu Xiuxiu poured wine for everyone. When Bai Meiling tried to pour her own wine, Fu Xiuxiu stopped her.
“Living here means we’re all connected by fate. If we face difficulties in life or cultivation, we should try our best to help each other.”
“Xiao Luo, although you just moved in, with Senior Sun watching over us, we know there are no issues with your character.”
“From now on, we’re all one family.”
Having said that, she raised her wine cup.
Bai Meiling and Feng Xia also raised their cups.
Surprisingly, Luo Chen was taken aback.
Ever since he arrived in this world, he had only witnessed chaos and murders in the Outer City, as well as cultivators squabbling over cultivation resources in the marketplace.
Truthfully, it was somewhat brutal.
After all, Bai Meiling and the others had to work the next day.
“Put it here, put it here.”
“Everyone, have some water!”
“Thank you, Steward Liu, here are five spirit stones, please count them...”
Both men laughed.
There’s no need to count five spirit stones, it’s plain to see.
After storing the spirit stones and chatting with Luo Chen for a while, Steward
Liu left the courtyard with a few cultivators from the early stage of Qi Refinement.
Luo Chen looked at the mountainous pile of bricks and stones, nodding in satisfaction.
The Cloud Sand Bricks for walling, the premium Stream White Stone that can specially insulate heat, along with a batch of highly adhesive sulfur soil, his pill room construction could finally start.
Without any hesitation, Luo Chen rolled up his sleeves and began moving bricks into his own room.
By noon, he had already begun laying down Stream White Stone in a plot of land partitioned off in the Reverse Room.
Fu Xiuxiu had woken up in the morning and brought out many potted plants from her room, placing them where they could bask in the sun.
She would occasionally prune the branches and occasionally add spiritual fertilizer.
After greeting the busy Luo Chen, she did not disturb him further.
By midday, Luo Chen looked at the Pill Room that was beginning to take shape, feeling a strong sense of accomplishment.
Finally, I m a pill refiner who has his own workspace!”
Seeing the content and proud Luo Chen, Fu Xiuxiu smiled and said, “Xiao Luo, you are definitely going to be a famous pill refinement grandmaster known in all six realms in the future!”
Luo Chen chuckled, “Of course, I am a pill refinement prodigy!”
“Do you want to have lunch together? We still have some leftover dishes from yesterday.”
“Wouldn’t that be... well, if you insist, then I will gladly accept!”
Their midday meal was therefore, shared between the two of them.
Fu Xiuxiu was a very gentle woman and her experiences were vast. She often readily provided answers to Luo Chen’s doubts concerning his cultivation. This was a feeling Luo Chen had never experienced with Elder Chen, Wang Yuan, or even Gu Caiyi.
In Fu Xiuxiu’s own words, she had also attempted to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage.
But, without the assistance of a Foundation Establishment Pill, the only result
for rogue cultivators like her was failure.
Since then, she had given up on any extravagant hopes of Foundation Establishment.
Even her usual cultivation was only out of habit developed over many years.
“I’ve enjoyed two meals prepared by Sister Xiu Xiu, I feel a bit embarrassed. How about I wash the dishes!”
Fu Xiuxiu waved Luo Chen’s hand away, “Men should not do these kinds of tasks, let me handle it!”
Luo Chen, picking his teeth, stood at the kitchen door, watching Fu Xiuxiu wearing an apron and washing dishes by the sink.
He was almost moved to tears.
In his previous life, as a true-blooded man from Chuan Yu, he could never enjoy such treatment.
The only girlfriend he ever had always claimed herself as a “laborer on the Shu Road Mountain”.
“Sister Xiu Xiu, do you usually stay at the Shen Fu Pavilion?”
Hmm, there are rooms equipped there for managers with a small Qi gathering array, suitable for our cultivation.”
“I see you have many plants here that prefer the sun. Keeping them indoors while feeding them spiritual fertilizer may not be the best.”
Luo Chen made a suggestion, “How about leaving them outside? I can help take care of them when I’m free.”
He certainly wasn’t coveting the one pot of Moonlight Grass, which is known for its calming and soul-stabilizing properties.
Having placed the dishes on the rack, Fu Xiuxiu thought for a moment before nodding.
“I’ll have to trouble you, then..”