Stop crying, I'll give it to you, okay?

The next day, not long after, she soaked in the warm hot spring in the newly built bathhouse, her shoulders and collarbone exposed outside the water, her slightly curled fingers outstretched, and her eyes quietly lowered.

The mist rising from the water's surface framed his features, highlighting his fair and delicate skin, making him look like a painting.

If 337 cannot hear the host's thoughts, then that is indeed the case.

Ah, so comfortable! So comfortable!

[It would be even better with a glass of 82 Lafite.]

[I must say, Xiao Wuli has a pretty good eye for aesthetics; he'd be a top-notch designer in the real world.]

【……】

Sometimes it really wants to give its beautiful host a mute drug.

After soaking in the hot spring, Chi Buwan's cheeks were flushed with a warm blush. He rustled around for a while before putting on his undergarments, then stopped after two seconds.

337 saw this and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chi Buwan sighed deeply and said, "If only I were the emperor, then someone would dress me in these elaborate clothes."

337:.......

After putting on the last piece of clothing, Chi Buwan walked out the door and headed towards the back mountain.

As soon as I arrived, I saw a cold light pierce the sky.

He exclaimed "Wow!" in his mind.

The male lead is indeed the male lead; he can already turn spiritual energy into a cold sword on only the second day after absorbing spiritual energy into his body.

Upon catching a glimpse of Xiao Wuli's face, he inwardly exclaimed "Wow!"

it's beautiful.

Looking at his face makes me want to eat two more bowls of rice.

"Master." Xiao Wuli saw him, his eyes lit up slightly, and then he sheathed his sword and bowed.

Chi Buwan nodded, then turned his head to look at Yun Dan standing to the side.

Yun Dan's personality is just like his name, gentle and unassuming. He is handsome, upright and ethereal, obedient and sensible, with the demeanor of a senior disciple. His strength has also been increasing step by step, and he is now at the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage at a young age.

However, it has a drawback: it tends to put important things last and likes to take long breaths when talking about important things.

Yun Dan bowed to him, her voice calm: "Master, Junior Brother's spiritual energy is abundant, and he will reach the Foundation Establishment stage in at most half a year."

"Not bad." Chi Buwan, not understanding, praised him directly, then instructed, "Cultivate diligently, so that you may rid the people of evil in the future. Never quarrel with others, and do not fight outside. You represent the Xuejiang Peak of the Lingxiao Sect!"

Even if you win, he has no money to pay you back.

They lost...

He never imagined that Xiao Wuli would lose, let alone Yun Dan, whose status as the eldest disciple of the Lingxiao Sect's Xuejiang Peak alone would make him someone people would avoid.

"Disciple understands!" Xiao Wuli couldn't help but smile, his eyes crinkling with joy.

Yun Dan lowered her head slightly and said, "Yes."

After indulging in his masterly fantasy for a while, Chi Buwan nodded in satisfaction and left.

Xiao Wuli stood there watching his back for a while before turning around and suddenly meeting a pair of faint black eyes. His heart skipped a beat.

Yun Dan didn't say anything, but simply said, "Continue your cultivation."

Xiao Wuli hurriedly summoned his sword.

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In just one month, Chi Buwan has already gotten used to life here.

He would take a bath in the bathhouse after waking up in the morning, and then go to the back mountain to check on his disciples' cultivation. Whenever he went there, his disciples would diligently cultivate, and no one dared to slack off.

Sooner or later, someone will stand there strutting around like an angel, showing off.

After pretending to be satisfied, they would leave to play with Xie Hanfeng or go back to their rooms to read some storybooks.

Life was carefree and joyful.

What's even more exciting is that, after his testing, rolling up the sleeves and showing the arms really does solve the problem of the clothes being torn to shreds in front of Xiao Wuli.

The only drawback was that he couldn't understand what the people around him were saying, and he got too close to the translator Xie Hanfeng, which gradually led to some crazy talk spreading in the Lingxiao Sect.

Xie Hanfeng laughed until her stomach hurt while translating for him.

"Hahaha, these people actually think I'm having an affair with you? Am I crazy? To think I'd be lusting after my brother?"

Chi Buwan dipped her chopsticks into the hot pot, picked up something, and held it up, saying, "The last piece of lotus root, do you want some?"

"Eat, eat, eat!" Xie Hanfeng picked up his chopsticks and took the lotus root slices back from his chopsticks. After eating them, he sighed and said, "Foundation Building is good, but I can't resist this craving."

The two are now disguised and concealing their true strength, sitting in an inn eating hot pot.

He was quite full after eating, leaning back in his chair, and said, "I thought hot pot didn't exist in this day and age, but I didn't expect it to have appeared so long ago."

Xie Hanfeng readily agreed, saying, "I'll come again next month!"

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, one cannot eat too much mortal food, otherwise it will affect cultivation. Therefore, Chi Buwan and Xie Hanfeng decided to eat it twice a month.

"Get out of our way!! Do you know who we are? How dare you stop us?"

Suddenly a commotion arose downstairs.

Chi Buwan and Xie Hanfeng looked down at the window at the same time and saw a man dressed in flowing white robes walking in the middle of the road. He was not particularly handsome or ugly, just an ordinary man who would be easily lost in a crowd. However, he exuded a faint spiritual aura, which made him stand out in the crowd.

The man was walking in the middle of the road without anyone stopping him, but the people next to him pushed aside the stalls of the vendors on both sides, making a wider path.

"The Immortal Yixing has reappeared."

"Is the sect tournament about to begin again?"

"Registration started a few days ago. Immortal Yixing is the one who tests people's levels; his strength is extraordinary, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator that we mortals rarely encounter!"

People at the Nascent Soul stage and above rarely appear in the mortal realm because they lack the resources they desire. Furthermore, the mortal realm is protected by various sects, so those with ill intentions at the Nascent Soul stage and above dare not cause trouble there.

"Is this the route to the Lingxiao Sect? I wonder how many disciples from the Lingxiao Sect are participating this year."

"Who cares how many stages they come in? They'll be in first place no matter which one they're in."

"I've always felt there's something wrong with this stage, especially the Nascent Soul stage. The difference between the early and late stages is so huge, yet they're still grouped together. Isn't that a sure way to lose?"

"Why do you care so much? The Sect Tournament is a rare opportunity for cross-level training, where participants can exert their full strength without dying, under the protection of various sects. Those cultivators are probably overjoyed."

Chi Buwan looked up and met Xie Hanfeng's gaze.

"Immortal! I only run a small business. You've overturned my stall, and I have no income today. You..."

"Get out of my way! How dare you approach the Immortal Yi Xing?"

A crashing sound came from downstairs at the inn. Chi Buwan and Xie Hanfeng looked out the window again and saw a tall man wearing a veil that covered his face catch the person who was being forcefully pushed aside.

"That merchant is foolish! Immortal Yi Xing is a Nascent Soul cultivator, how dare he provoke him? This kind of thing happens every year, what happened to those who resisted before?"

Someone replied, "What else can we do? In this world, who dares to provoke a cultivator? Those merchants who resisted, no one dares to buy from them anymore, for fear of displeasing the immortals."

"I know this vendor. I think he's Li Lao Er from the very end of Xiangshan Road. His family is poor. He can only afford to make one block of tofu a day. After he sells it, he just has enough money for his household expenses and the soybeans for tomorrow. The two people next to the immortal knocked down his stall. The tofu is all ruined. No one will buy it. He won't have money to buy soybeans to make tofu to sell tomorrow."

"It's a pity, his tofu was quite delicious, I'm afraid we won't be able to eat it again in the future."

As Chi Buwan listened to Xie Hanfeng's emotionally charged translation, his brows furrowed tightly.

"Who was the person who came out to catch Li Lao Er? Their skills are so good, could they also be a cultivator?"

The surrounding discussion did not stop.

"Have you forgotten? There are disciples of the Lingxiao Sect around here who are exorcising demons. Look at the jade pendant on his waist; only disciples of the Lingxiao Sect have that."

"Which peak does this disciple belong to?"

"It looks a bit like Xue Jiangfeng."

"Xue Jiangfeng?? The disciple of the Jade Immortal Venerable who is known as the most beautiful woman in the world? If his disciple comes, will he himself come? I wonder if I will have the chance to see the peerless beauty of the Immortal Venerable before I die, a beauty that is said to make countless people want to commit crimes."

Xie Hanfeng glanced at Chi Buwan and began to feel fortunate that he couldn't understand the language here.

Chi Buwan thinks he's beautiful, but he doesn't like hearing others say he's beautiful. He only likes to be praised as a tough guy and a man.

But his waist... it went limp at the slightest touch, he didn't look like a tough guy at all.

Chi Buwan noticed his gaze and looked at him. "What?"

"It's nothing." Xie Hanfeng withdrew his gaze, looked down at what was happening outside the window, and asked, "Is this person wearing a veil from your peak? Can you tell who it is?"

Chi Bu Wan: "Can't you even see such an obvious figure?"

"Hmm?" Xie Hanfeng paused for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Xiao Wuli?"

Chi Buwan: "Yeah, I recognized him as soon as he came out."

Xie Hanfeng was stunned for a long time.