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Chapter 338 Dust Heart Only Says It's Extraordinary

What to eat? Given Mei Guyu's temperament, something light and elegant is the only thing that suits her, or as the saying goes, something particularly expensive. But there don't seem to be any restaurants like that on this food street, so forget about it.

Given the weather and the environment... let's just have some chilled beer and barbecue, like meat skewers, lamb kidneys, oysters, and the like.

This food street has a very high flow of people, but the turnover rate of shops is also very high. The shop where Xiaowu and I had skewers two years ago has changed owners and is now selling vermicelli casserole.

I heard that a new barbecue restaurant recently opened here. It's a very traditional charcoal grill with iron skewers, and it looks delicious. Several of my colleagues in the office have mentioned it, and they often come here to eat at night.

Which shop was it again? There are more than one barbecue restaurant on this street. He Kao used his divine sense to scan the area. Hmm, found it. It should be the one not far ahead. It's just a few steps away.

The barbecue restaurant had set up a few small tables outdoors. He Kao glanced at them, then turned to look at Mei Guyu.

He was about to ask if this place was okay when their eyes met, and Mei Guyu nodded and said, "Okay, let's eat here for barbecue."

Mei Guyu casually picked a small table to sit down, scanned the QR code on the corner of the table to order, and then asked with a smile, "Hey, did you actually inherit a box of gold bars?"

He Kao was surprisingly unperturbed when Mei Guyu uttered those words. He wasn't angry at all; in fact, he was quite surprised. Could Elder Mei really joke and tease people?

But then he thought about it again and laughed.

Mei Guyu is neither an old monster from the deep mountains nor an alien of a different species. She is just a girl in her twenties who received a modern education from a young age, went to university, and is now working in a large factory.

He Kao explained with a smile, "We do have gold bars, but only a pair of paperweights, each weighing ten catties, for a total of twenty catties."

Mei Guyu: "I heard that those paperweights can be refined into rough prototypes of magical artifacts, so it's understandable that you gave them to Qian."

He Kao: "It wasn't a gift. He bought it from me for five million. At that time, he had just broken through to the advanced level of cultivation and needed a personal magic weapon. He took a fancy to those paperweights and went to a senior in the sect to refine them into rough magic weapons for him."

Mei Guyu: "It's clearly a rare and precious treasure, but you only sold it for the price of gold."

He Kao shook his head and said, "Given the circumstances at the time, what I had was just a pair of ordinary paperweights, not even as good as paperweights made of sandalwood or marble, because they were too heavy."

Besides, I didn't know anything about rare and precious materials; it was Lao Qian who told me. Lao Qian wasn't lying to me. He said that the pair of paperweights could be made into magical artifacts, and he wanted to give me more, but how much was too much? I insisted on only charging the price of gold.

At that time, Lao Qian was still a vice president, having just switched jobs from his previous public institution. He couldn't come up with five million yuan in cash right away. So he paid it off monthly, and it's still not fully paid off yet, but it should be almost done by the end of this year.

He then leaned forward slightly and said, "Later, Lao Qian was promoted to a higher position, but he had to give me back more than half of his monthly salary, including year-end bonuses. Every day at work, I felt like—the boss was working for me!"

The money was used to buy He Kao's pair of paperweights in October of the year before last, and it's only the beginning of July now, less than two years have passed, and there's still a portion of the five million left to pay.

These words amused Mei Guyu again. Although she didn't say anything, He Kao clearly interpreted another meaning in her laughter—

"You couldn't even recognize that those paperweights could be forged into rough magic weapons, which means that your cultivation level was not even at the high level, but probably not even at the third level, and you had not yet mastered divine sense."

"In that case, your cultivation has progressed remarkably rapidly."

This feeling is like divine thought, yet not quite; it's simply more sophisticated than ordinary divine thought techniques. It's not a thought directly sent into the primordial spirit, but rather allows you to naturally decipher the information, similar to intuitive understanding.

But she didn't say anything, she just chuckled softly—could this be the legendary achievement of the Śrāvaka?

He Kao hadn't expected Mei Guyu to see things from this angle, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond. After thinking for a while, he replied, "Speaking of rapid progress in cultivation, how could I dare to compare with you?"

Mei Guyu: "I have a foundation laid since childhood."

He Kao had actually built a solid foundation since childhood, but he tactfully didn't continue the topic. Instead, he asked, "Why did you suddenly think of inviting me today?"

Mei Guyu: "It's because of that matter. You couldn't come to me, so I had to come to you."

This sentence seemed a bit strange, but He Kao could still decipher another layer of information from the voice—"I've come to ask you to take the Pure Yang Pill together. The specific time depends on your convenience, as soon as possible."

"So straightforward?" He Kao nodded and said, "Okay." Mei Guyu also nodded and said, "Thank you!"

Today, I had a conversation with Mei Guyu, and I have some indescribable feelings. We had eaten together before, but why did today feel different?
Before he could even utter a word, Mei Guyu knew what he was going to say. This wasn't due to his cultivation of spiritual arts, but rather his clear understanding of the sword heart, allowing him to see through many situations at a glance.

There were some things that He Kao could understand without Mei Guyu saying them aloud, and he didn't even need to use divine sense, but rather the legendary attainment of the Śrāvaka path.

Mei Guyu is an excellent comrade-in-arms, capable of seamless cooperation. However, if an ordinary couple were to live together, things might be... a bit scary.

But Mei Guyu made all of this very natural. She possessed extraordinary skills, but she did not show them off to ordinary people. Yet she did not deliberately act like a completely ordinary person, even though she had lost her supernatural powers.

Just then, the dishes we ordered were served one after another.

The outdoor barbecue setup includes a small table and a stove, which has one advantage: if you feel the meat skewers aren't cooked enough, you can grill them a little more yourself; if you think the flavor isn't strong enough, you can sprinkle on some cumin, salt and pepper, chili powder, or something similar.

He Kao grilled and ate, drank half a glass of draft beer, leaned back in his chair and watched the pedestrians on the street. He felt very comfortable and relaxed and couldn't help but sigh, "This kind of ordinary life is also a kind of enjoyment."

Mei Guyu, holding the chisel in her hand, said calmly, "For you, it may indeed be a pleasure. But for ordinary people, it's just life."

This is a bit convoluted. It doesn't involve any attainment of fame or recognition; it's just an ordinary statement, but He Kao was able to understand it.

He Kao possesses an extraordinary level of cultivation, so it's impossible for him to have only the life of an ordinary person, or rather, truly ordinary people are destined never to have a life like his.

With his abilities and cultivation, he could choose to enjoy the life of an ordinary person, but what he truly enjoys is something else entirely: the confidence that comes with his extraordinary cultivation level.

It was just a casual remark, but Mei Guyu implied that he was being pretentious. He Kao knew he couldn't refute it, so he could only raise his glass to her as if to toast her, and then down the remaining half glass of draft beer in one gulp.

When the large kidneys, roasted until they were black and greasy, were served, He Kao sprinkled cumin on them and continued roasting them while using his divine sense to say, "Taking the pill requires the help of the Yin-Yang Taiji Array, which will take about twelve hours."

If you don't have to work overtime on Saturday morning, then we'll start taking the pills on Friday evening and by Saturday morning.

Mei Guyu: "Even if we don't work overtime on Saturday morning and set off after get off work on Friday, we probably still won't have enough time to get to Fengwei Township and take the Chunyang Pill at that time."

He Kao asked in bewilderment, "We don't need to go to Fengwei Township, do we?" Then he slapped his forehead, "Oh, so you didn't know? There's a small Tai Chi Yin Yang Array set up in Qihuang Lingyuan, which I brought out from Lingxi Cave Heaven..."

Then he gave a brief explanation of what the Tai Chi Yin Yang Formation was all about... Those who knew about this matter were very conscientious in keeping it a secret and did not disclose it to anyone, so Mei Guyu still does not know.

Elder Gu and the others didn't intend to hide it from Mei Guyu, but they assumed He Kao would tell her. However, He Kao didn't find an opportunity to tell her until now, and instructed Mei Guyu to keep it a secret as well.

Mei Guyu was fine with it, so the two agreed to go to Qihuang Lingyuan together after get off work on Friday. He Kao would inform Lin Qingshuang in advance so that no one would appear in the vicinity to disturb them.

He Kao was inexplicably relieved. It seemed that Mei Guyu was not omniscient after all! Then he felt that he was a little ridiculous. What was ridiculous was the thought itself—how could Mei Guyu be omniscient?
So he ordered another draft beer and took the initiative to clink glasses with Mei Guyu. As the clinking of glasses rang out, Mei Guyu spoke up again in a low voice: "Being able to see people's common feelings is not the same as invading brain cells."

Well, he's seen right through me again!
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While He Kao and Mei Guyu were enjoying barbecue skewers, Xiaomeng was having a meeting.

Hu Weidong sat at the table, calmly observing everyone around him. This was a large conference hall with an exaggeratedly large round table in the center.

How to describe it? If everyone in the room were ordinary people, they would have to shout to talk to each other, and the whole conference hall would echo.

There were thirteen chairs around the round table, all the same size, but one of them had a gold-edged pattern on its back, which defined the center of the round table, where the person sitting was named Arthur.

Arthur is the first elder of the Supreme Council of the Free Alliance.

The name and the table are clearly imitations of the legendary King Arthur and his twelve Knights of the Round Table, but they seem somewhat out of place.

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(End of this chapter)