Ji Yun watched as Yue Xi lowered her head to drink porridge, completely avoiding his gaze, and felt both amused and exasperated.

"Why fifty years?"

Yuexi whispered, "There's a couple in our sect who have been together for a hundred years..."

Ji Yun rubbed his forehead, realizing that asking anything now would be inappropriate, and continued eating.

The fire phoenix looked left and right, finding it quite amusing. These humans were so awkward, completely unlike us demon beasts...

After finishing his meal, Ji Yun began cultivating. The first level of the Tai Xu Kong Ming Jue has four stages: Concentrating the Spirit, Gathering the Soul, Refining the Spirit, and Enlightenment.

The first stage is very simple. Successfully cultivating it leads to the formation of a physical form, but this only results in an empty physical form without a true soul.

He struggled a bit in the second stage. The Dharma Image was still in a closed-eye state. Only by successfully gathering the soul could this huge Dharma Image truly be controlled by the soul.

Ji Yun held the spirit stone in his hand, continuously absorbing the spiritual energy within it to cultivate. His body became semi-transparent, with each meridian appearing as a black line.

There was a pile of spirit stones beside him; he could take more when he ran out.

After thinking for a moment, Yuexi set up a barrier around him and then shattered some of the spirit stones, instantly filling the entire barrier with spiritual energy.

While watching TV, she also had to devote a significant portion of her attention to observing Ji Yun in case anything went wrong during his cultivation.

An hour passed.

Little Fire scratched its feathers and jumped onto Yuexi's lap: "Master, Little Master absorbs spiritual energy very quickly. These spirit stones are probably only enough for him to cultivate for one day."

"Ji Yun cultivates a soul cultivation technique, which is inherently more difficult and requires more resources. Moreover, he doesn't need many resources at the beginning, but later on, he will need to arrange some pills and formations to nourish his soul."

Thinking of the things in the storage bag, she breathed a sigh of relief; otherwise, she really wouldn't have been able to support Ji Yun.

As the spiritual energy circulated and was absorbed within the body, the Dharma image became noticeably clearer.

By afternoon, Ji Yun had stopped cultivating.

He remembered that today was Qixi Festival.

He was taking Yuexi out at that moment, and the two were walking down the street.

Yuexi asked curiously, "Why are those people so angry while playing on their phones? They keep shouting and yelling."

Ji Yun glanced at the two people playing games together on the bench by the roadside, then turned around and whispered, "They're playing games, and because they can't beat others, they're cursing and swearing because they're bad at the game."

"Oh, is the game fun? I want to play too."

"Well... okay, I'll teach you how to play when we get back. Just don't get addicted to it. You have to learn to control yourself. Just play it when you're bored."

Yuexi felt that this person was overthinking things. She was several hundred years old and already a mature Nascent Soul cultivator. What could possibly make her addicted to something?

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Upon hearing this, Ji Yun nodded. After all, she was a girl who was several hundred years old, so it was only natural that she had self-control.

They walked to a bubble tea shop, bought two cups of bubble tea, and then strolled around while drinking them.

Suddenly Ji Yun stopped and turned to ask, "Have we forgotten something?"

Yuexi blinked her big eyes, took a sip of her milk tea, thought for a moment, and shook her head, saying, "It's nothing."

Ji Yun was also a little annoyed, feeling like she had forgotten her keys when she went out. After thinking about it, she decided to ignore it.

The two walked along the pedestrian street. In fact, Ji Yun didn't know where she was going. She wandered aimlessly, going wherever the road took her.

"Do you think this hairpin is pretty?"

Yuexi picked it up and looked at it. It was very beautiful, simple and elegant, and carved from wood.

The young female boss immediately said, "This is carved from sandalwood. It's very beautiful and suits this beautiful lady perfectly."

Yuexi was conflicted; she really wanted it, but she already had it.

"Are you going to buy it for me? Actually, no need, I already have one on my head."

Ji Yun smiled and said, "Today is Friends' Day, so I bought this for you. You can use it interchangeably."

"Friends' Day?"

Yuexi was a little confused, but she also noticed that there seemed to be quite a few festivals in this world, which she had only briefly learned about last time.

Ji Yun said earnestly, "That's right. Good friends can give each other gifts on this holiday, which means their friendship is very deep."

"Oh? Then I'll give you something later too, but... I don't think I have anything to give you. By the way, what do you like?"

Yuexi looked at him seriously. After all, it was Friends' Day, and it was the first time the two of them had celebrated it together, so she wanted to take it seriously.

The beautiful shop owner was stunned. Was this some kind of nonsense? How could this girl believe it? She had been running her stall for so long and had never encountered a customer like this before.

Ji Yun paid for it, then helped her remove the original hairpin, letting her long hair fall down, and then used the hairpin she bought to curl it up.

He's very skilled at this; don't ask, the answer is he's done it before.

Yuexi carefully touched the hairpin with her hand, somewhat happy, then nudged Ji Yun and asked, "You still haven't told me what you like?"

"Let me think... I don't seem to know what I like."

Ji Yun did think about it seriously, but found that there was nothing she wanted. Why couldn't she suddenly remember what she liked?

He scratched his head, wondering why this was happening, because from childhood to adulthood, no one had ever asked him what he liked.

He buys whatever he needs himself, since no one has ever given him anything before.

Yuexi turned her head to the side, looking at Ji Yun with some confusion, and reached out to take his hand.

Ji Yun looked at her with some surprise; this was the first time Yue Xi had taken his hand on her own initiative.

"Actually, you can do this, like those two people, and hold my hand."

"They're a couple, that's why they're holding hands. Do you think I can't tell?" Yuexi pointed to the other side, where two girls were strolling hand in hand.

"Friends are like them, always holding hands."

“Hmm, what Fairy Moon said makes sense.” Ji Yun stopped teasing her.

What should I do if she sees two girls holding hands?

Anyway, I didn't lie to her; it was her own interpretation, so it has nothing to do with me.

Yuexi suddenly thought for a moment, let go of Ji Yun's hand, and then took out her phone.

Open the encyclopedia and enter "What do boys like?"

"AI-powered response: Gift preferences vary from person to person, but generally include the following types: First, electronic products..."

Ji Yun knew what she was searching for and leaned over to see the answer.

Yuexi pushed away the head that was reaching out to her: "Hey, don't look, I'm just looking up some information."

Ji Yun suppressed a laugh: "Why don't you just ask me what you want to investigate?"

"You keep asking me... You're so annoying, I'm not checking anymore, it's all a mess."

Yuexi put her phone away, took Ji Yun's hand again, and walked on, still thinking about what gift to give her good friend later.

Ji Yun said softly, "The necklace you gave me last time was very nice, I've been wearing it all this time, there's no need to give me another one, you can give me one next time, anyway there's a Friends' Day every year."

"No, last time is last time."

Yuexi felt that exchanging gifts would make this event more meaningful, since it was their first Friends' Day together...