Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Blushing, Red Eyes (Please Follow this Story)_l
Translator: 549690339
Because cultivators transport spiritual Qi and consume elixirs, their appearance and age are often not proportional.
Therefore, in the Immortal Cultivation World, the last thing you should do when judging a person is to judge them by their appearance.
Ruo Chen doesn’t know what the Spirit Root attribute of Gu Caiyi is.
But when he was chatting with Bai Meiling, he asked others about their age.
He remembers that Gu Caiyi was already thirty-seven years old.
Being at the eighth level of Qi refinement at the age of thirty-seven is considered neither good nor bad. She definitely has aptitude, but it’s not amazingly good either, otherwise, she would have already been accepted into a sect.
However, to his surprise, in just a few days of not seeing her, she had already broken through to the ninth level of Qi refinement.
This left Luo Chen very shocked.
“How did you manage to do it, did you consume an elixir?”
“Hehe, you’ve hit the nail on the head.”
Gu Caiyi pursed her lips, “For some reason, there have been quite a few new faces in The Great River District recently, including many at the Foundation Establishment Stage.”
“The Zhong Ding Family and our Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion are the most frequented places by them”
“To us cultivators at the Qi Refinement Stage, the elixirs that are precious are nothing in the eyes of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators. We performed a new dance recently and pleased a Late Stage Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator. He casually rewarded us with a bottle of Dusting Pills.”
Luo Chen’s eyes widened, “Dusting Pills!”
“It seems you’re not as ignorant as you appear!”
Of course, Luo Chen is not so naive as to not know about Dusting Pills.
These are top-grade elixirs for those at the Qi Refinement Stage with effects of transcending the mortal world and transforming into dust.
The potency of one pill far exceeds that of same level Qi Nurturing Pills by several times! Its selling price is even tenfold higher!
In cases when low-level cultivators can’t find Foundation Establishment Pills, they often use Dusting Pills attempt a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Although the effect is not nearly as good as the Foundation Establishment Pill, it does help to some extent.
“We got a bottle of Dusting Pills, with each of us getting one. As the lead dancer, I got two.”
Gu Caiyi laughed proudly: “I’ve been staying at the Feathers Clothes Building for these past few days, and with these two pills, I’ve broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refinement.”
“Hey, does your Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion still accept people?” Luo Chen sounded a bit sour, with envy in his reddened eyes.
“What are you going to do, play the pimp?”
“Nonsense, I’ve always been talented from a young age, excellent in both singing and dancing!”
“Alright, enough joking around.” Gu Caiyi became serious, “I wanted to tell you, there might be some incident happening in The Great River District soon because of so many unfamiliar cultivators. Be careful when you go out and make sure you don’t offend anyone you shouldn’t.”
Luo Chen nodded emphatically. The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.
Outsider cultivators are the most feared.
They don’t have their roots here and don’t care much about the various rules in The Great River District.
Sometimes, they kill out of anger and then flee by thousands of miles, making them unreachable to the Yu Ding Sword Sect stationed cultivators.
During the quiet night, Luo Chen thought about the day’s events, feeling a mix of emotions.
Others easily broke through to the ninth level of Qi Refinement, only one step away from Foundation Establishment.
Yet, he was still struggling at the fourth level of Qi Refinement.
The huge gap really makes one feel rather uncomfortable beneath the forced smile.
However, despite the sourness, Luo Chen was still happy for Gu Caiyi.
This woman has been taking good care of him since he moved in here.
She would usually greet him when coming in or going out, giving him, a nobody in the Immortal Cultivation World, a sense of existence.
When she discovered his predicament regarding Alchemy Equipment, she used her network to connect him with low-cost, high-quality Pill Furnaces.
Luo Chen couldn’t help but moan.
While inside, he was so focused he didn’t realize it, but after coming out, he realized that the Pill Room was indeed a big furnace.
“It must be a problem with my design and materials, otherwise it wouldn’t be so hot.”
“If there was a disciple of Ailao Mountain to design the Pill Room for me, that would be great.”
After fantasizing for a moment, Luo Chen shook his head with a smile.
Where would he get the Spirit Stones to hire a disciple from a prestigious Great Sect to design a Pill Room for him!
The appearance fee, I am afraid, would have to start at at least a thousand or eight hundred!
After a simple lunch, Luo Chen gritted his teeth and went into the Pill Room again.
The second furnace, start refining!
“Is Xiao Luo home?”
“He’s busy, do you need something, Sister Caiyi?”
“It’s nothing, carry on with your work!”
“You’re refining pills again!”
“There’s no other way, I’m forced by life.”
“Stop making yourself sound so pitiful, I brought you a box of Qingyuan Cakes, eat them while they’re hot.”
“Leave them outside for now, I really can’t leave, I’m about to lower the heat and add the main material.”
“Then I’ll leave first, come out and chat when you’re done.”
In the afternoon, Luo Chen was staring blankly in front of the well, with a haggard expression.
Gu Caiyi walked out the door and happened to see this scene.
She walked up to him with a frown on her face, “What’s been going on with you recently, Luo Chen?”
“Nothing, just refining pills as usual.” Luo Chen came to his senses, rubbed his eyes, and quickly stood up.
“And you’re still saying it’s nothing, look at yourself.”
With the circulation of Qi Power, the remaining water traces on the ground merged into a Water Mirror.
Luo Chen lowered his head to look, only to see his own eyes were swollen, with heavy eye bags, lips chapped dry.
The disheveled hair, having broken free from the hair tie, adherently covered his face.
At first glance, seemed as though he had worked a month’s worth of overtime in front of a computer in his previous life.
Was this caused by the high temperature of a Pill Refiner?
Luo Chen was not quite sure, but in recent ten-day cycle of pill refining, he had tried his best to complete two furnaces a day.
The success rate was merely passable, it did not reach the expected 20% success rate, but it was much better than the beginner level.
It was just that refining pills required constant supervision with the Spirit Vision Technique.
It not only consumed the Spirit Qi, but it was also very tiring for the eyes, especially under long-term attention, it was extremely exhausting.
Not wanting to show weakness in front of a woman, Luo Chen casually changed the subject.
His gaze unconsciously fell on Gu Caiyi’s arm, a transparent white gauze, draping on it.
“Is this a newly purchased magic tool?”
“You have good taste!” Gu Caiyi lifted the gauze, said cheerfully: “A Foundation Establishment Cultivator named Fei Bowen gave it to me, an Ascendant Grade Defense Magic Tool.”
Luo Chen was taken aback.
An Ascendant Grade magic tool with defense attributes?
Could someone actually afford to give this away?
He asked: “Are Foundation Establishment Cultivators so rich? This magic tool is worth at least four to five thousand Spirit Stones, isn’t it?”
Gu Caiyi giggled,”Typical Foundation Establishment Cultivators aren’t rich, they might even be stingier than us, the Rogue Cultivators. But Fei Bowen is different.”
“Hmm? How so?”