Dual cultivation makes you stronger, everyone else is a prodigy, and I'm the only one slacking

In the following days, Yu Luoning continued to cultivate peacefully in the Star-Picking Palace.

The spiritual energy in the Star-Picking Palace was abundant. As soon as she sat down cross-legged, the spiritual energy automatically flowed into her meridians.

When she was cultivating, Xing Qi would sit next to her, doing nothing. He would just quietly watch her, sometimes looking at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window, sometimes flipping through the book in his hand, quiet and still, like a little prince.

Yu Luoning noticed that he had a small porcelain bottle in his hand.

Xing Qi presented the porcelain bottle to her as if it were a precious treasure.

"This detoxifying ointment can neutralize toxins. Apply it to your face, and you'll feel better quickly."

"Did you go looking for it on purpose?"

Xing Qi nodded.

"The lines on your face, are they poison?"

He didn't ask how she got poisoned, nor did he ask if she needed help, before he brought the medicine.

Yu Luoning looked down at the small porcelain bottle, remained silent for a long time, her eyes reddening, and said:

Thanks.

"I'm happy to be able to help Ningning."

Yu Luoning smiled, raised her hand, and gently spread the ointment on her face. It felt cool, and a surge of spiritual energy seeped into her skin. Before long, the purple marks disappeared.

Back to her peak appearance!

Yu Luoning took out a small mirror and examined her flawless face closely.

The person in the mirror had exquisite features, skin as smooth as jade, and eyes that sparkled with life, making even herself unable to resist looking at them more.

"Xing'er, your medicine is so effective! There's not a single flaw!"

Yu Luoning glanced sideways, pointed at the person in the bronze mirror, and spoke in an exaggerated tone, delivering the emotional value perfectly, which greatly satisfied Xing Qi's inner feelings.

Over here, Yu Luoning put the bronze mirror into his Qiankun bag and said with a smile, "Xing'er, I want to go for a stroll in the mortal realm. Do you want to come?"

Xing Qi's eyes suddenly lit up, shining brightly like a lamp that had been lit.

But he did not answer immediately; instead, he hesitated for a moment and glanced outside the palace.

My brother said he was going out to exorcise demons and wouldn't be at the sect for a month. He wasn't there.

Xing Qi glanced at Yu Luoning.

The words "My brother isn't here" kept echoing in my mind.

After a moment, he slowly nodded.

Yu Luoning smiled and said, "Okay, then we'll go have some fun for a few days. I'll send you back whenever you want."

"Um."

Xing Qi nodded emphatically, his eyes filled with anticipation.

The teleportation technique was activated, and the two figures instantly disappeared from the Star-Picking Palace.

......

Their first stop was still a remote border dynasty on the western side of the Dongbao Continent.

This place has little spiritual energy, and cultivators have never liked to set foot here, thus giving rise to a prosperous and bustling urban atmosphere.

Holding Xing Qi's hand, Yu Luoning strolled through the bustling streets of the city, feeling as if she had returned to modern times and was wandering around the antique-style commercial street.

Xingqi was like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world, constantly looking around and pausing, as if everything was new and interesting and he wanted to take a second look at everything.

Yu Luoning wasn't in a hurry. She followed along leisurely, even acting as a tour guide, giving a very detailed introduction.

The two were strikingly good-looking, attracting frequent glances from passersby along the way.

No one dared to bother them, after all, the two had an otherworldly air about them, and it was clear at a glance that they were not ordinary people.

The streets were bustling with people, and the cries of vendors rose and fell.

Xing Qi tugged at Yu Luoning's sleeve, his eyes filled with undisguised surprise. "Ningning, what's that?"

Yu Luoning followed his gaze and smiled, "That's a mask, something people play with during festivals in the mortal realm. You can wear it on your face. Do you want one?"

Xing Qi nodded emphatically.

Yu Luoning walked straight to the stall, took out some loose silver, and bought two exquisitely crafted small masks.

One is a little rabbit with long ears, and the other is a little fox with a sly smile.

"Here, let me put it on for you."

Yu Luoning put the rabbit mask on Xing Qi's fair and handsome face.

His long eyelashes brushed against the edge of the mask, tickling him.

After wearing the mask for a short time, she took it off, her eyes sparkling as if they were something incredibly precious.

Looking at the woman in front of him, Xing Qi stored the mask in the spiritual domain that had been opened around his dantian, close to his original spiritual power.

The spiritual domain opened in the dantian cannot be seen by others unless it is actively opened.

This location is extremely secluded and intimate for high-level cultivators; it's where they store their natal magic treasures.

The two fooled around as they wandered from one stall to another.

Xingqi found everything she saw unbelievable.

After wandering around for an unknown amount of time, Yu Luoning got hungry.

She took Xingqi's hand and walked into a luxurious restaurant on the street with practiced ease.

The two dined in a private room on the second floor, where Yu Luoning ordered a table full of signature dishes.

They planned to let this little prince from the celestial realm taste the delicacies of the human world.

Unfortunately, before we could even eat our food for a short while, the waiter came running up nervously.

His voice trembled: "Two immortals, a prince outside requests an audience."

Xing Qi paused, turning his head to look at her: "Your Highness?"

Yu Luoning found the title novel; in the cultivation world, she hadn't heard the title "Prince" in a long time.

After thinking for a moment, I gave him an explanation.

A human dynasty, ruled by an emperor.

Princes were usually the emperor's brothers or sons, wielding great power and considered extremely important figures in the eyes of ordinary people.

Xing Qi listened attentively and nodded to indicate that he understood.

The two then met the Prince of Donghe, a man in his forties or fifties who was very humble and whose forehead was covered in cold sweat.

Yu Luoning asked, "Are you asking for medicine? I'm not giving away my pills for free. What are you going to offer in exchange?"

The prince was taken aback, and hurriedly said with trepidation, "Forgive me, fairy. I left in a hurry and did not know what you need. As long as there is gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and jade in the mortal world... I will certainly offer it to you."

"I don't want any of these mundane things."

Yu Luoning interrupted him, glanced at Xing Qi who was quiet beside her, seemingly out of place in this world, and suddenly had an idea.

"There must be plenty of ways to enjoy life in the mortal realm, right? Here's what you'd like to do: find some interesting entertainment. If you can make this young friend beside me happy, you'll naturally receive plenty of elixirs and magic pills."

Xing Qi turned his head upon hearing the sound, his gaze falling on Yu Luoning's face, and he was slightly taken aback.

He clearly hadn't expected that Yu Luoning's plan to exchange was merely to make him happy.

A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, then his heart felt as if it had been struck by something warm and soft, and his fingers on his knees curled up involuntarily.

"Ningning...no need."

Yu Luoning suddenly moved closer, tilting her head, her beautiful eyes sparkling with tiny glints of light.

"Yes, I will. We agreed when we came out that I would show you around the world."

To me, Xing'er's smile is more precious than anything else.

Xing Qi's breathing hit a beat, and after a moment, he nodded blankly.

The prince dared not delay, and half an hour later, the curtains were drawn over the private rooms of the restaurant.

A white cloth is drawn back, and several small shadow puppets flutter and dance behind the screen.

"Fairy, this is a popular lantern shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, that has recently become popular in the mortal realm."

"Using shadows as a medium and skin as a tool."

Yu Luoning nodded, and then the two of them looked at it intently.

She rested her chin on her hand, not finding anything particularly appealing about these things. Although the folk tunes of the mortal world had their own charm, they were too crude and could not compare to the games and entertainment of later generations.

As she watched, Yu Luoning grew somewhat bored.

But when I turned my head, I was stunned.

Xing Qi, standing beside him, was completely stunned.

He watched intently, his clear eyes seeming to sparkle with tiny stars.

Yu Luoning's heart softened when she saw him like this.

One performance ends, and another begins.

Only after the three songs were finished did the craftsmen kneel down in fear and trepidation.

Yu Luoning was in a great mood and decisively took out a mild tonic pill from her storage bag and handed it over.

To everyone's surprise, after receiving it, the Prince of Donghe knelt down with a thud.

"My lord, you are wise. I am seeking medicine to cure my daughter, but her condition is not simply due to cold constitution; she suffers from congenital heart meridian depletion, and there is no cure."

Over the years, Xiao Wang has sought many elixirs from various immortal masters, but... they can only provide temporary relief and cannot cure the root cause.

"I beg the fairy to have mercy and grant me a truly miraculous elixir that can defy fate. I, the prince, am willing to give up my entire royal fortune in exchange."

Yu Luoning frowned slightly, clearly not expecting the other party to specify a pill.

Where would she find medicine that could help mortals defy fate? Her storage bag was full of ordinary pills.

His gaze involuntarily fell on the spatial jade bracelet on his wrist. It did indeed contain pills from the continent of Xingqi. Not to mention prolonging life, it could even bring the dead back to life and heal flesh and bones.

Yu Luoning turned her head to look at Xing Qi and asked, "Xing'er, may I use one of the high-grade life-extending pills from your bracelet?"

Xing Qi was slightly taken aback: "Ningning, now that these things have been given to you, they belong to you. You can give them to whomever you want and do with them however you like."

He paused, lowered his eyes slightly, and said, "I... don't want to be so distant with Ningning..."

Upon hearing this, Yu Luoning's heart melted completely.

She was screaming inside.

Why? Why? This incredibly handsome young man isn't in her list of beauties.

A top-tier rich, beautiful, and successful woman—who could resist that?

Yu Luoning coughed lightly, forcibly suppressing her wicked thoughts that were stirring within her.

She probed the jade bracelet with her divine sense and took out a high-grade pill that exuded immortal energy.

The prince was a connoisseur; he stared at the radiant elixir for a moment, stunned.

"Listen, here's the medicine, but you'd better really have a daughter to save. If you dare to lie to me, you should know the consequences."

"Xiao Wang is absolutely telling the truth!"

Yu Luoning felt a pang of regret; a top-grade pill had been exchanged for a shadow puppet show.

However, if it makes Xingqi happy, then it's worth it.

Yu Luoning thought the matter was over, but she didn't expect that before she had eaten for a while, there was another commotion outside.

She got up, walked to the window, and looked down. Below, a dense crowd of people were kneeling. Men, women, young and old, all sorts of faces were there.

"May the fairy bestow blessings upon us!"

Then everyone joined in the shouting, creating a rather spectacular scene.

Upon seeing Yu Luoning appear, the people kneeling downstairs immediately stirred.

They shouted for blessings, for elixirs, for opportunities, and some even held their children above their heads, begging Yu Luoning to take them as disciples.

"I am not a fairy, I am just a Qi refiner. I have no magic to protect you, nor any spiritual power to bless you."

Yu Luoning shouted.

But the people below were not about to give up so easily.

"Fairy, my child has been sick for five years. Please grant me a pill."

"Fairy, my elderly mother is dying. Please grant me this filial piety and bestow upon me a pill."

"Fairy, my Ah Huang is dying, please help me!"

"Fairy, saving one is the same as saving us..."

Yu Luoning frowned, feeling as if she were being supported.

She gave a cold laugh.

Xing Qi walked over quietly, raising his hand to prepare to cast a spell and bestow blessings.

Yu Luoning caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of her eye and grabbed his hand.

"Listen to their reasons, how similar they are? We don't know if they're true or not yet, so let's wait and see."

Xing Qi paused, puzzled, and asked, "But I just gave that prince a pill."

Yu Luoning paused for a moment.

"That's different. He traded shadow puppetry for it, so it wasn't a free gift."

"Look at these people again. They haven't done anything, yet they want to force me to give them things and coerce me into doing things. If I were in a good mood, I might give them to one or two, but where am I supposed to find so many pills for so many people?"

Xing Qi remained silent for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully.

"So the difference is that doing it yourself and being forced to do it are different."

"Of course, nobody wants to be forced to do something, even if it's the right thing to do or reasonable."

Xing Qi nodded, as if he understood something.

From the time he could remember, everyone told him that he was the divine son of the Azure Sky Sect, that he was born to shoulder the mission of inheriting the Azure Sky Sect, and that he was born to pray for this world. He could not go out, could not fall in love, and could not let the spiritual veins deplete.

It seems he never considered whether he was willing or not.

Yu Luoning didn't say anything more. She used a teleportation spell, and the two of them left the place.

When they landed again, they found themselves on an unnamed island.

The two gazed at the boundless, magnificent sea.

Xingqi asked her, "If someone asks you to do something, can you refuse if you don't want to?"

Yu Luoning thought for a moment, "Of course you can. It's not shameful to refuse someone."

Xing Qi lowered his eyes, his voice somewhat heavy: "But that matter is very important, and if we don't do it, it will have very serious consequences."

Yu Luoning, who had been acting nonchalantly, was taken aback upon hearing this.

Very serious consequences!?

As expected, Xing Qi's identity is definitely not simple!

Fortunately, I had the desire but not the courage.

Yu Luoning said seriously, "It depends on the situation. It depends on whether you have enjoyed your rights."

"Simply put, if you've eaten someone else's rice, you really have to do the work that's supposed to be done, otherwise you'll be an ingrate."

Xing Qi was taken aback.

Yu Luoning added, "Of course, obligations and rights are equal. You can't expect to work for someone else for the rest of your life just because you've only eaten a bowl of porridge, right? That would make you a heartless capitalist."

"What is a black-hearted capitalist?" Xing Qi's eyes showed a hint of confusion.

When asked this, Yu Luoning was furious. "A heartless employer who squeezes every last bit of your remaining value."

Like my old...employer, who did the work of five people but only received one salary. Don't you think I'm a complete traitor?

"No, Ningning is just reliable and capable, able to handle a lot of things on her own."

"Ningning, you are amazing."

Xing Qi looked serious, his clear eyes filled with tenderness.

Upon hearing this, Yu Luoning's lips curled up uncontrollably, as if they were springy.

The little fairy boy is simply an angel incarnate.

This reignited her thieving desires that she had just suppressed.

Or, we could elope with him.

I wonder if he'll get beaten to death by her family after abducting a top-tier rich and beautiful woman.

Yu Luoning's left and right brains fought each other, but in the end, reason prevailed, and she obediently gave up the idea.