Taoist cultivation begins with being a miner

Back at his residence, Lu Yan began to check his harvest.

There were seventeen storage bags in total, and the contents that were poured out were like a small mountain.

Lu Yan first took out the spirit stones and counted them; there were 1,265 of them.

It can be said that he became rich overnight.

Six medium-grade magic weapons and twenty low-grade magic weapons.

Forty first-tier advanced talismans and one hundred and fifty first-tier intermediate talismans.

Thirty-five high-grade Spirit Nourishing Pills and over two hundred mid-grade Spirit Nourishing Pills.

There are also twenty other types of first-tier high-grade pills and more than seventy first-tier mid-grade pills.

In addition, there are also some precious items such as martial arts manuals, medicinal herbs, and materials.

These things are enough to cover my expenses for a long time.

The operation was very successful. The deaths of Cheng Yue and others, along with the previous cultivators, directly reduced the Cheng family's strength by two-thirds.

Nowadays, the Cheng family only has some direct descendants left.

Moreover, without the caravans, their family's situation would fall into a vicious cycle.

However, Lu Yan couldn't worry about that now; he needed to raise his strength to the fifth level of Qi Refining first.

For the next period of time, Lu Yan stopped mining and making talismans and began to cultivate day and night until he successfully broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining fourteen days later.

The first thing I did after leaving home was to find out what the Cheng family was up to.

The deaths of Cheng Yue and his group directly broke Cheng Shan and others, especially Yuan Bo, who was also the maternal uncle of Cheng Mingyu and Cheng Minghua.

So the Cheng family hired high-level cultivators to search for help, and even spent a lot of money to find a Foundation Establishment cultivator to assist them.

As a result, Cheng Yue and his companions' remains were found. However, due to the White Jade Skull Demon, the blame was ultimately shifted to the evil cultivators, causing quite a stir.

Although they both belong to the human race, the evil cultivators and the righteous cultivators belong to different camps and often fight each other.

Moreover, evil cultivators usually improve their cultivation by devouring the flesh and blood of living people, which is a cruel method and has always been feared by everyone.

It is said that even the city lord was alarmed by this incident and specially dispatched cultivators to patrol Wuyou City. After all, even a Qi Refining Ninth Level cultivator was killed silently, making all Qi Refining cultivators feel insecure.

When the Cheng family learned that it was the work of evil cultivators, they dared not investigate further and could only swallow their anger.

……

Now that things have come to this point, Lu Yan is no longer in a hurry to target the Cheng family, and his life begins to return to normal.

Mining, feeding chickens, crafting talismans, practicing martial arts, cultivating oneself, and studying the Eight Trigrams.

Seven days later, just as Lu Yan was preparing to cause trouble for the Cheng family again, Li Feng invited him to go for drinks.

When they arrived at their residence, they found all eight of them there, and the feast was unexpectedly lavish.

Upon inquiry, it was learned that Li Feng and Mei Xiaoyu had fallen in love and become Daoist partners.

Of the three female cultivators, Shang Lin teaches Chinese Pinyin, Pang Ziyue has a completely androgynous appearance, and Mei Xiaoyu is the most popular among them.

Lu Yan remembered that several of the five male cultivators were interested in Mei Xiaoyu, but he never expected that Li Feng would win her over in the end.

In this day and age, true feelings are rare, and Lu Yan also sent them his sincere blessings.

After returning, Lu Yan began investigating and tracking the remaining cultivators of the Cheng family.

Cheng Shan stayed at home all day, working hard to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, while Cheng Mingyu, Cheng Minghua and the others often went out to play.

Among the four direct descendants of the Cheng family, Cheng Mingyu is at the seventh level of Qi Refining, which is difficult for me to deal with now, but the remaining Cheng Minghua, Cheng Mingyao, and Cheng Minglin are either at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining.

With my current strength, dealing with them shouldn't be difficult.

After the four of them went out together, Lu Yan followed them from morning until noon when they entered a large restaurant in the inner city.

The cost of living in the inner city is much higher than in the middle city. A meal here can easily cost more than ten low-grade spirit stones, and it will be even more expensive if you order a few bottles of good wine.

But it's worth the price. Here, the Five-Colored Chicken and the Gentle Breeze Deer are the lowest-level ingredients, while first-tier high-level monsters are everywhere, and there are even second-tier monsters.

Lu Yan went in with them for a meal, and to his surprise, the food was not only delicious but also helped to boost his blood and energy.

After they left, Lu Yan sneaked into their private room and stole the chopsticks they had used.

After returning, Lu Yan began to use the Pen of Truth to learn about their situation.

First is Cheng Mingyu. He is the eldest son of the Cheng family, so he must know a lot.

"Today's haul is amazing! I never expected a single demon beast to be worth 165 low-grade spirit stones. I'm rich!"

"We made quite a bit of money from these Blacktooth Wolves we bought today. These guys are obviously novices; it's their first time selling Blacktooth Wolves, and they don't know their true value."

"..."

"Ugh, what a bad day. I lost over thirty spirit stones. Damn it, I have to make it all back tomorrow."

"We lost! How could we lose again today? This shouldn't be the case, didn't we win quite a bit at the beginning?"

"If only I had stopped then, things wouldn't have turned out this way."

"..."

"Huh~ I didn't expect there to be a female cultivator at the late stage of Qi Refining in this Yin Yang Pavilion~"

Tsk tsk tsk~ I have to say, this female cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining is really different from other female cultivators. She is a bit expensive, but it is definitely worth the price~

"I ordered her again today. To be honest, if I hadn't taken a lot of Qi-strengthening and Yang-increasing pills beforehand, I really wouldn't have been a match for her."

"I'll rest tomorrow. I'm so young, yet I already feel a bit overwhelmed. I shouldn't be like this."

"..."

"This...this...I never expected my aunt to be seducing me. What should I do?"

Sigh, there's nothing I can do but try to appease my aunt on behalf of my second uncle.

My second uncle is so engrossed in his spiritual practice that he has no time to take care of my aunt. For the sake of family harmony, I feel it is my duty to do so.

Lu Yan: ...

This cultivation family is really chaotic.

"I was such a fucking idiot. I used to always go to the Yin-Yang Pavilion and wasted so many spirit stones. Now I can do it at home, and the older ones know more and serve me so well that I feel like I'm in heaven."

"I had another tryst with my aunt today. After taking care of her for so long, she is even more radiant."

"Another sleepless night..."

"..."

"I've been feeling a bit weak lately, I should take a few more Gu Yuan Zeng Yang Dan pills, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well at night."

"As expected, the Strengthening Yang Pill is really effective. Just a few pills are enough to keep me going all night. I'll continue taking it tomorrow."

"..."

"Oh my, Auntie is so amazing! My legs feel weak every time I walk. If this keeps up, I'll be exhausted."

"Today my aunt prepared twenty pills of Guyuan Zengyang Dan for me, as well as a lot of nourishing medicinal herbs."

Even so, I still can't muster any backbone. Sigh... what kind of life is this?

"No wonder my second uncle is so engrossed in cultivation all day long. My aunt is just too difficult to deal with. If this continues, I feel like I'm bound to die young."

"For the sake of my own life, I've decided to move out."

Lu Yan: ...

It feels so familiar.

"How dare someone target my Cheng family? They must have a death wish. Once we find out who did it, we will grind them to dust."

Lu Yan stopped writing with his pen and looked at the contents of the paper, finally getting to the point.