Originally, through some of Lu Xianyun's performance, Qiu Jichen had begun to gradually doubt whether Lu Xianyun was really a senior.

If she is really a senior, why is it that sometimes she is helpless with a "food"?

Because he had a special feeling for Lu Xianyun, sometimes when he saw Lu Xianyun going out, Qiu Jichen couldn't help but follow him.

Then he saw Lu Xianyun struggling to fight those ferocious beasts.

It was precisely because he began to doubt this that Qiu Ji Chen dared to let his thoughts run wild and let his feelings for Lu Muyun grow deeper.

But now, after seeing Lu Xianyunlu's skill in refining weapons with her bare hands, Qiu Jichen began to doubt his judgment again.

He was very confused.

He can perform such advanced techniques of refining weapons with his bare hands, but he knows nothing about some basic knowledge of refining weapons. What is going on?

Lu Xianyun looked at Qiu Jichen, whose eyes were confused and whose thoughts were drifting somewhere. He couldn't help but stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, "What are you thinking about?"

Qiu Ji Chen looked at Lu Xianyun and finally couldn't help asking the doubt that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

"Shopkeeper, how old are you this year?"

When asking this question, Qiu Jichen was quite nervous.

They say a woman's age is a secret. If the shop owner is really very old, but she always looks like a little girl, then she must not want others to know her age!

If he asked this, would he anger the owner and get beaten up?

So as soon as he asked this question, Qiu Ji Chen felt a little regretful.

Why did he ask such a question? I wanted to be more tactful, but it would be better to just ask directly if he is a senior!

"Seventeen!" Lu Xianyun answered.

She traveled through time and space at the age of thirteen, and spent a year training with her brother in various places on the continent of cultivation. It has been another three years since she came into this ruins. She is now seventeen.

"Seventeen..." Qiu Ji Chen murmured.

If she was really seventeen, then she couldn't possibly be a senior. Even if she had exceptional talent, allowing her to achieve a strong cultivation at such a young age, her knowledge and experience were destined to be limited.

"You are really not a senior?" Qiu Ji Chen said.

He himself didn't realize that there was a hint of excitement in his voice.

Lu Xianyun couldn't help but lower his head and smile.

In the past, she noticed that people like Qiu Jichen were unusually respectful to her, so she guessed that they might have some misunderstandings about her.

Originally, I was thinking of carrying forward the identity of this "expert".

But if you only meet these people occasionally, you can still hide it. But living with them every day, it's simply impossible!

Furthermore, Lu Xianyun didn't intend to keep this a secret from Qiu Jichen. If he didn't have feelings for him, that would be fine, but if he truly wanted to become his Taoist partner, there couldn't be any lies!

"When did I say I was a senior?" Lu Xianyun said with a smile.

After hearing Lu Xianyun's personal admission, Qiu Jichen couldn't help but feel his shoulders relax, as if a burden had been lifted off his shoulders.

In the days that followed, Lu Xianyun clearly felt the changes in Qiu Jichen.

It seems... more comfortable.

Qiu Jichen wanted to find some usable materials in the ruins to refine the induction cooker, but Lu Xianyun disagreed.

Her father wanted to refine this induction cooker, not just for his own use. It seemed that he had a dream of promoting it so that alchemy would no longer be a problem.

To achieve widespread adoption, the materials must be widely available. The materials found in these ruins are rare and difficult to find elsewhere. Using these materials would make it difficult to market induction cooktops.

"If you find any precious materials here, keep them for yourself! I'd better think of some common materials that can replace them."

"But I don't have all the materials on hand." Qiu Ji Chen said.

The first step in learning how to refine equipment is to memorize all the refining materials in the world. If you can't recite them by heart, you can't proceed to the next step.

So after Qiu Jichen understood Lu Xianyun's requirements, he did not fail to think about what materials he would need, but he did not have that many materials on hand.

That's why he proposed to search in the ruins and solve the problem on the spot.

But unexpectedly, the owner still refused to allow it!

He didn't ask too many questions, because he knew Lu Xianyun must have his own intentions.

Time continues to flow.

With plenty of spirit stones, this group of people's cultivation improved rapidly, but Lu Xianyun and Lu Muyun were the slowest.

Lu Xianyun was slow because he had to improve his skills seven times in each round of cultivation. Lu Muyun was slow because he had secretly used the golden millstone again.

So don’t be fooled by the fact that his cultivation seems low, but in fact, if they fight, he is not inferior to the others at all.

But the price is...

They have already dug up half of the spirit stone mine.

How exaggerated! That’s a mineral vein that can support an entire sect!

But half of them were poached by these six people!

Although, a sect's income does not rely entirely on mining. Part of the mined ore is provided to low-level disciples, while high-level cultivators no longer rely entirely on the sect's spirit stones.

Otherwise, even if there were several mines, they would not be able to support so many monks.

Moreover, not all the spirit stones they dug out were eaten, otherwise they would not have improved their cultivation but would have been starved to death.

Most of the spirit stones are actually hidden in their respective space magic weapons.

They also understood that if they really didn't care and just kept eating, they would not be able to truly control the spiritual power that entered their bodies.

After all, there is no absolute shortcut in this world.

However, after so many years, everyone has explored this relic almost completely.

From the initial difficulty in making any progress to now having a general understanding of the ruins, everyone couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

That night, no one went out, but gathered in Lu Xianyun's shop and gathered around the table.

Liu Qianmo was drawing on a piece of paper.

"Here, this is the topographic map we drew after exploring this ruin. You should have noticed that we still have no idea where this place is."

Liu Qianmo pointed his finger at the very center.

After learning about this relic, Lu Xianyun felt that it didn't seem like a piece cut directly from the outer cultivation continent. It was more like the senior master had cut many different parts and pieced them together.

There are mountains, forests, plains and lakes here.

However, these various terrains formed a circle.