Lin Lingling had no idea what Chen Huaian was up to.
Anyway, as soon as he got home, this guy just went into the secondary bedroom and didn’t come out.
“Whatever, I don’t care. I’m exhausted from all that nonsense last night. Time to sleep!”
She cautiously glanced at Ba Ji on the sofa, who happened to look back at her at that moment. Both human and cat shivered simultaneously.
【What’s this human cub staring at me for? Planning to tattle?】 —— Ba Ji, heart pounding with fear.
‘Why is this great fiend glaring at me? Does it want to eat me?’ —— Lin Lingling, legs trembling.
Just thinking about the terrifying shadow reflected on the wall that day made Lin Lingling’s scalp tingle. She quickly scurried into the master bedroom.
Seeing Lin Lingling enter the room, Ba Ji immediately sighed in relief.
It also swiftly jumped onto the windowsill to absorb the spiritual energy emitted by a mysterious spirit plant together with the giant blue fish.
Living here felt like living with a tiger; it couldn’t stay here another day.
…
In the secondary bedroom.
Chen Huaian had already opened his electronic girlfriend game.
He was still confused by the prompt that popped up in the game.
“Fragment of Demon Cultivator? What’s that?”
“And the spider silk soft armor that’s supposedly been delivered? There’s nothing outside the door!”
Previously, he always received mysterious deliveries at the door, but he was sure there was nothing there when he entered today.
As if on cue,
Shua——!
A package appeared out of thin air on the bed.
[Spider Silk Soft Armor – For Chen Xianzun.]
Chen Huaian dumbly stared at the package, his mouth twitching twice:
“Wow, so it’s out in the open now? No more pretense? So all those previous deliveries were just for show, huh?”
He opened the package to find a vest-like garment inside, but much lighter than a bulletproof vest. The smooth fabric underneath seemed to be made of some unknown material.
He had an intense feeling that these plates were probably from the carapace of a face spider!
The plates were connected by silver threads.
When he pulled hard, he could feel that the silver thread between the plates was very elastic—it must be the spider silk.
Killing a face spider dropped a fragment of demon cultivator and spider silk soft armor.
But clearly, the enemy was blown away completely without even ashes left…
This was completely squeezing out every last bit of utility.
“Good stuff, wearing this will surely reduce the chance of becoming skin fragments.” Chen Huaian immediately put on the spider silk soft armor and added it to his list of items to sleep with alongside the Black Scaled Sword.
[Fragment of Demon Cultivator: Token obtained after killing a demon cultivator]
[Gather ten fragments of demon cultivators to unlock the righteous cultivator faction store.]
“Oh, face spiders are demon cultivators, killing demon cultivators drops equipment.” Chen Huaian struck his palm with his fist, suddenly understanding.
He didn’t have too serious notions of good versus evil anyway. After all, many novels and games depict so-called righteous factions as being just okay.
If the evil path must be so crooked and ugly, then he would rather choose to be a handsome righteous cultivator.
“Speaking of which, didn’t I kill a demon cultivator in the game before? Why didn’t it drop any demon cultivator fragments?”
Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes.
There were only three possible scenarios—either you only get fragments for killing demon cultivators in real life, or the demon cultivator wasn’t fully killed by lightning at the time, or the fragments aren’t guaranteed to drop, with random rates.
Anyway, whichever scenario it was, he quietly noted it down.
In the room, Li Qingran and Yue Qianchi were both sitting cross-legged in meditation, in cultivation mode.
It was unclear why Yue Qianchi wrapped herself so tightly—wasn’t she hot?
However, he was merely curious for a moment, then opened the <Character Panel> and selected the <Talent Ability> interface.
Several options popped up.
[Golden Needle Piercing Meridians lv2: Spring Encounter Needle (Small Success), Meridian Opening Needle (Beginner)]
[Qinglian Sword Canon (Beginner)]
[Chaosheng Formula (Conditions Not Met, Cannot Learn)]
“Sure enough, I can cultivate the Chaosheng Formula!” The confirmation brought Chen Huaian even more joy.
Although it didn’t specify the conditions required for cultivation, he felt that full meridian opening was necessary.
Regardless, full meridian opening would only benefit him, not harm him.
“Great! Next, let’s improve the proficiency of the Meridian Opening Needle!”
Chen Huaian opened the detailed information of the Meridian Opening Needle:
[Meridian Opening Needle (Beginner): Opens meridians, but has a high probability of causing disability]
[Upgrade to Small Success requires spending 1999￥ in-game]
That’s right, 1999￥. Previously, he didn’t understand it, thinking it was just a money pit. And the Meridian Opening Needle wasn’t something indispensable either, so 1999￥ was simply too sweet!
“Charge!”
Chen Huaian swiped his hand, transferring 1999￥ into the game through Payment Pass.
However, the Small Success level of the Meridian Opening Needle did not unlock.
“Oh! Consumption!” He paused for a moment, then realized.
Just charging money wasn’t enough; you had to spend it!
Alright!
Then let’s spend it!
Overlay!!”
Kong kong kong!
Ten spirit crystals fell from the void, forming a high-grade spirit-gathering array surrounding the medium-grade spirit-gathering array.
This commotion startled Yue Qianchi and Li Qingran out of their meditations.
“Is there an enemy?” Yue Qianchi’s gaze sharpened as she looked around. Seeing no enemies, her eyes widened in astonishment as she exclaimed, “Boundless Heaven and Earth! This… this is a high-grade spirit-gathering array? What rich spiritual energy!”
When the medium-grade spirit-gathering array appeared in the room before, although she suffered a social death, the joy of cultivating with the enhancement of the medium-grade spirit-gathering array quickly pulled her out of her embarrassment.
Even if someone saw her, so what? It was rumored that Li Qingran’s master was some kind of Grand Elder?
That old monster must be hundreds of years old, long past having any feelings towards young girls like her.
They sought the Great Dao, how could they have vulgar thoughts?
Normally, within the sect, she wouldn’t even dare to use a primary spirit-gathering array, thanks to Su Qinian channeling the spiritual energy from several peaks into Sunset Peak, making the entire Sunset Peak filled with spiritual energy, achieving effects similar to activating a primary spirit-gathering array. Otherwise, her current realm definitely wouldn’t have reached Golden Core Mid-stage.
Thinking she wouldn’t have a chance to cultivate during this trip with Li Qingran.
Unexpectedly, just before bedtime, the master directly took out a medium-sized spirit-gathering array.
Now nearing midnight, a high-grade spirit-gathering array was taken out.
Looking at the ten spirit crystals in the center of the array, Yue Qianchi swallowed hard.
A high-grade spirit-gathering array…
Could she, Yue Qianchi, enjoy such luxury?
“Sister, your master is amazing!” Yue Qianchi gave a thumbs-up to Li Qingran, who was still a little dazed beside her.
“By the way, sister, does your master have a partner?”
“Pa… Partner?” Li Qingran’s face turned red, but she quickly realized something and became wary, looking at her senior sister: “Sister, why do you ask?”
“I’m just wondering,” Yue Qianchi squeezed her ample chest and smiled suggestively, “Look at me, I’m not bad-looking. If I tidy up, I’m absolutely beautiful. If your master doesn’t have a partner, why not…”
“No!!!”
Li Qingran crossed her arms over her chest, her face red: “Absolutely no!”
“Why?” Yue Qianchi was somewhat surprised. She was just joking, not expecting Li Qingran to react so strongly.
“Because… because…” Li Qingran’s face was flushed, biting her lips, lowering her head and averting her eyes, muttering: “Because the master is already an old man, with such a big age difference from Sister. If they become partners, it would be… strange, right?”
“But I think age isn’t a problem.” Yue Qianchi observed Li Qingran’s small expression meaningfully and said: “An old man I can accept too! Unlike Sister Qingran who only likes young and handsome genius youths~”
“Who says?” Li Qingran retorted.
Yue Qianchi pressed on: “So, Sister can also accept an old man?”
“Ahh…” Li Qingran blankly stared at Yue Qianchi, her eyes vacant: “I… I… You…”
“Sister, I’m not talking to you anymore!”
Li Qingran was speechless, fearing that her master might hear whatever she said.
She could only turn around and give Yue Qianchi a huffy back.
“Hahaha, alright, focus on cultivation, Sister won’t tease you anymore.” Yue Qianchi stopped Li Qingran’s waist and smiled: “The high-grade spirit-gathering array is going to waste~”
Li Qingran turned around, her eyes glaring at Yue Qianchi: “Did Sister give up on becoming my master’s partner?”
Hey! This little girl was still hung up on this?!
Yue Qianchi laughed helplessly: “Oh dear, given up, I can’t compete~ tsk tsk.”
Li Qingran heard implications in Yue Qianchi’s words.
She moved aside like a petulant child, closed her eyes, and lightly hummed as she continued cultivating.
…
At the same time.
[Proficiency in Meridian Opening Technique improved to Small Success.]
Chen Huaian’s mind cleared instantly, feeling some inexplicable knowledge added to his memory.
The next level of proficiency for the Meridian Opening Technique already showed up.
[Upgrade to Great Success requires spending 6666￥ in-game]
“Alright, this price is very reasonable! Charge!”
After recharging, Chen Huaian started studying how to spend the money more cost-effectively.
Can’t keep extending the duration of the high-grade spirit-gathering array, right?
Li Qingran and Yue Qianchi still needed to travel. Recharging too much would be wasteful.
He opened the electronic girlfriend store and scanned it up and down.
The moment his eyes landed on a certain item, they lit up.
Ji ji!
This one’s good!!
You’re the one I’ll go for!!!
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