I'm in the world of cultivation, and I get a system for becoming a wealthy urban tycoon?

The Qin family's flying boat hovered in mid-air for a while.

On the deck, Qin Nanyue and the others seemed to still be looking in their direction.

Lu Yang and Lin Ying assumed they were saying their final goodbyes, so they raised their hands and waved.

Sure enough, after a short while, the black flying boat started up again, like a slowly moving aerial fortress, gradually merging into the distant, layered horizon, and disappeared from sight.

Lu Yang withdrew his gaze, turned to look at Lin Ying beside him, and smiled slightly: "Senior Sister Lin, it's time for me to go too."

Lin Ying's pretty face still had a faint blush, her fingers unconsciously pinching the hem of her sleeve. She nodded gently, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible: "Mmm."

The whispered message Qin Nanyue had sent before leaving was still echoing in her mind: "Once we leave, it'll just be the two of you left. Yingying, you'd better take the initiative!"

Lin Ying took a deep breath.

I took another puff.

Then, summoning all her courage, she raised her head, her gentle eyes looking nervously at Lu Yang: "Junior Brother Lu, we won't see each other again until after the New Year... How about we go for a walk together?"

Lu Yang was taken aback.

Did Senior Sister Lin take the initiative to ask him to go shopping?

This is unprecedented.

A smile immediately spread across his face, and he nodded without hesitation: "Of course! Let's go."

As he spoke, he reached out and, without saying a word, took Lin Ying's small hand that was clutching the hem of her clothes.

Lin Ying trembled slightly, like a rabbit whose ear had been suddenly touched.

She quickly lowered her head, her ears turning a visibly red, her heart pounding in her ears like a drum.

However, after being led by Lu Yang for a few steps, her tense body gradually relaxed, and her breathing slowly became steady.

The two walked hand in hand along the cobblestone streets of the market into the heart of the crowd.

The boy was handsome and tall, the girl was gentle and graceful.

The two walked side by side through the bustling streets on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Wherever they went, passersby turned their heads, their eyes filled with undisguised amazement.

Lin Ying felt a little shy under their gaze, unsure of what to do with her hands and feet.

Lu Yang was quite thick-skinned; he was already used to being watched by people.

He pulled Lin Ying along and turned into a roadside shop that specialized in selling magical artifacts for female cultivators.

The shop was filled with a dazzling array of women's ritual implements, with the walls covered in all sorts of items.

Long skirt, jade bracelet, jade hairpin, hair ornament, waist pendant...

Each item shimmered with a faint, ethereal light, dazzling the eye.

There were quite a few people in the store.

Some female cultivators came alone, while others came in pairs, huddled around the counter, picking and choosing, their whispers and soft laughter rising and falling.

Lu Yang and Lin Ying had only walked a few steps when they noticed a couple of Daoists not far away.

The female priest looked down at a white jade bracelet she was trying on on her wrist, her face full of joy and her eyes sparkling.

She stretched her fair wrist out to the male cultivator beside her and said sweetly, "Darling, look at this jade bracelet, doesn't it suit me perfectly?"

The male cultivator, dressed in a faded gray robe, appeared somewhat awkward and uneasy in the glittering shop.

However, upon seeing the jade bracelet on the female cultivator's wrist, he nodded seriously: "Hmm, it suits you quite well."

He then lowered his voice and cautiously asked the shop assistant next to him, "How many spirit stones is this?"

The shop assistant standing to the side, wearing a standard business smile, answered briskly, "Fellow Daoist, this white jade bracelet is a mid-grade magic artifact. It has the effects of calming the mind and activating a protective shield. Wearing it will enhance your extraordinary temperament. It's a very popular style in our shop, and the price-performance ratio is quite good. You can buy it for only five hundred low-grade spirit stones!"

The moment the words "five hundred" were uttered, the male cultivator's lips twitched visibly.

He paused for a moment, his gaze lingering on the female cultivator's joyful face, a tenderness rising in his eyes.

Then he nodded: "Then I'll buy it..."

Before she could finish speaking, the female cultivator had already taken the jade bracelet off her wrist and handed it back to the shop assistant, saying with a smile, "I've taken a closer look, and the color of this jade bracelet doesn't seem to match my skin tone quite well. Let's take another look."

The male cultivator was taken aback, somewhat bewildered: "Isn't it quite beautiful?"

The shop assistant's smile froze for a moment, but quickly returned, and she continued to persuade, "Yes, my lady, your partner is right, this jade bracelet looks really good on you."

The female cultivator shook her head and said with a smile, "I'd like to look at something else."

The shop assistant had no choice but to take the jade bracelet, carefully inspect it, and only after confirming that there was no damage did he bow and back away.

After the shop assistant walked away, the male cultivator gently approached the female cultivator and whispered, "Wan'er, I clearly saw that you liked it quite a bit, why do you suddenly not want it anymore?"

The female cultivator named Wan'er lowered her voice, her tone tinged with concern: "It's too expensive. Think about it, we still need to rent spirit fields and cave dwellings, and we can't run out of cultivation pills. You'll be taking on demon-hunting missions later; it's so dangerous outside, you'll need to prepare several protective talismans, right? All of these things cost spirit stones!"

She counted the items one by one on her fingers, and laughed at herself when she finished: "Five hundred spirit stones... that's enough to buy a lot of things."

The male cultivator opened his mouth, then fell silent.

After a while, a deep sense of guilt surfaced in his eyes. He gently took Wan'er's hand, his voice a little hoarse: "Once we've saved enough money, I'll definitely buy it for you!"

Wan'er smiled and nodded, her eyes curving into crescents: "Then I'll remember it~~"

The two smiled at each other, took hands, and turned to walk out of the store.

Not far away, Lu Yang and Lin Ying witnessed the entire scene from beginning to end.

Lin Ying's gaze followed the backs of the Daoist couple, and she unconsciously gripped Lu Yang's hand in return.

She tiptoed closer to Lu Yang's ear, her voice soft and gentle, her breath brushing against his ear: "Those two are so loving."

Lu Yang turned his head to look at her, smiled slightly, and deliberately lowered his voice: "Just like us?"

Lin Ying's hard-won courage vanished on the spot. Her face flushed, she lowered her head, and couldn't utter a single word.

Lu Yang smiled and waved to the shop assistant not far away.

The shop assistant hurried over, his expression many times more respectful than before, and he even bowed slightly.

After all, having served customers in this restaurant for so many years, tailoring the menu to each customer is a basic skill.

The two people in front of me were dressed in the outer disciple robes of the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect, and each of them had an outstanding temperament, which was far beyond what ordinary rogue cultivators could match.

"Distinguished guests, how may I help you?"

Lu Yang gestured with his chin toward the departing couple at the door and said softly, "Go and get that jade bracelet from earlier and give it to them. Don't say I bought it."

The shop assistant was stunned.

Lin Ying was also stunned.

Lin Ying quietly tugged at Lu Yang's hand and whispered, "Junior brother, why did you give them jade bracelets?"

Five hundred low-grade spirit stones were indeed nothing to Lu Yang, and Lin Ying was certainly aware of this.

She had heard Nan Yue mention that Junior Brother Lu was the kind of person who would exchange 300,000 spirit stones for contribution points without batting an eye.

But she never expected that Lu Yang would spend money on two complete strangers.

Not to mention Lin Ying, the shop assistant's expression was even more interesting, and the way she looked at Lu Yang even had a strange look in her eyes.

What are this person's hobbies?

Sending spirit stones to strangers?

Lu Yang squeezed Lin Ying's soft little hand, blinked, and said with a half-smile, "It's rare to meet a couple as loving as us. I'm happy, so let's consider this a New Year's gift for them."

Lin Ying's face flushed red again. She raised her hand and gently patted him, her voice both shy and soft: "Junior Brother Lu... be serious."

Lu Yang smiled but didn't explain further.

Actually, what I said just now wasn't entirely to tease Lin Ying.

Another reason was that he was moved by that couple.

The female cultivator clearly loved that jade bracelet so much; her eyes practically lit up when she wore it.

But when she heard the price, her first reaction wasn't to beg and plead, but to start calculating their future expenses one by one: spiritual fields, pills, talismans... she was thinking about their future life together.

The male cultivator was clearly short of money, but seeing his partner's delighted expression, he gritted his teeth and decided to buy it.

To be honest, this kind of mutual consideration is rare, whether in a past life or this one.

So, since we've run into them and they seem fun to us, let's just spend some money on them.

Five hundred low-grade spirit stones were really nothing to him.

My happiness is priceless.

He's happy now, so he's willing to spend money.

"Go on, everyone's already out." Lu Yang gestured with his chin toward the door and added, "And tell them Happy New Year."

The shop assistant finally came to her senses and quickly took the white jade bracelet out of the counter, carefully holding it in her hands.

With a casual flick of his wrist, five hundred low-grade spirit stones clattered from his storage ring onto a wooden shelf beside him, gleaming with spiritual light.

The shop assistant carefully put away the spirit stones, then quickly chased after the shop with the jade bracelet in her hands.

The couple had only walked a few steps out of the shop.

"Fellow Daoists! Please wait!"

The couple turned around upon hearing the sound, looking completely bewildered.

The girl named Wan'er recognized the shop assistant from before, frowned slightly, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? We said we weren't buying anything."

The shop assistant took a deep breath, still organizing her thoughts, and handed over the white jade bracelet with both hands.

The couple looked at each other in bewilderment.

Wan'er waved her hand and said, "Fellow Daoist, we really aren't buying..."

"No, no," the shop assistant quickly waved her hand, her smile sincere. "A gentleman just asked me to give this jade bracelet to you two. He also wished you both a Happy New Year."

"??????"

The couple's expressions froze instantly, as if they had heard something completely incomprehensible.

Several cultivators passing by also stopped in their tracks and looked over in bewilderment.

What the hell?

Is it now fashionable to give New Year's gifts to strangers?

The gift they're giving away is a magical artifact worth hundreds of spirit stones?!

Which deity is so arrogant?