Chapter 8: Cultivation Advancement (First Release on Jinjiang Literature City)

When Yao Sisi asked this question, everyone in the room looked at Gong Yichen. The young master who had spoken earlier chuckled and said, "Brother Yichen, weren't you just going to watch? Why didn't you say a word when they came over?"

Yao Sisi turned her gaze to Gong Yichen and realized that she had never seen this person before.

"I wonder why you wish to see me, young master? I have no recollection of ever meeting you before."

Gong Yichen never expected the visitor to be so direct and domineering. He didn't have much contact with women, so he was a little overwhelmed by the question: "I ran into you yesterday and saw you holding Qi Mu's umbrella. I wanted to say hello but didn't have time. I just happened to be here today and asked you casually."

Seeing that he spoke like this, Qi Mu completely shook off her previous aggressive tone, gritted her teeth, and said with a straight face, "He must have just contracted some kind of dream disease, because he actually connected an umbrella to the fact that I successfully went on a blind date."

Yao Sisi was taken aback: "You're still a child, why are you going on blind dates?"

If she remembered correctly, people here live quite long lives; living to be a hundred is nothing unusual. Why is he in such a hurry when he's not even twenty yet?

Even in ancient times, this is the Xuanwu cultivation world, not a feudal dynasty world...

Qi Mu tightened his grip on his sleeve, glancing at her with a light but not heavy look. His eyes seemed to hold a knife, yet they were hidden in gentle spring water, weak and soft, conveying more of a coquettish tone than a reproach.

Qi Mu: "Senior Sister, I'm not that child anymore, I'm nineteen this year..."

Yao Sisi didn't speak, but walked towards Gong Yichen and stopped a meter away from him. "Since you wanted to see me, have you seen me now?"

Qi Mu couldn't help but take a step forward, not knowing why she didn't want to let that annoying person get close, lest she get stuck to him and bring bad luck.

Gong Yichen felt a pressure coming down on him. If he said he hadn't finished reading, would she have to get even closer?

"Um... Qi Mu's junior sister, why are you dressed like this?" He seemed to have regained his temper and called out to Qi Mu, "Look at your senior sister, her clothes are all torn. She's a guest in your residence, how can you treat her like this?"

The atmosphere inside became so quiet you could hear a pin drop, and some of the young masters, being rather shy, even blushed slightly.

Yao Sisi chuckled softly, the sound echoing in the room and piquing everyone's attention. She straightened her clothes and said, "Young master is very observant. However, these clothes were torn this morning during the hunt. I was meditating in the room when I got back, but I didn't expect to be summoned here in such a hurry."

"From now on, if you want to see me, please send an invitation. Don't bother with these little tricks. I was worried something had happened to you!"

Gong Yichen was scolded and couldn't say what he meant by "wanting to see her, post an invitation"!

He's engaged, how could he possibly meet a woman he's not related to? It's as if he's in love with her.

Seeing that he was embarrassed, Qi Mu added insult to injury: "Wasn't it you who insisted on seeing him? You made it so that Senior Sister couldn't properly recover her profound energy."

Gong Yichen was speechless with anger after being shut down by the two of them. He glanced at the attendant beside him and said, "Let's go!"

As she reached the door, she turned back defiantly and said, "Qi Mu, I heard your family is very worried. Your senior sister thinks you're too young to be of any use. You're not young anymore, so pay more attention to yourself and stop making your family worry."

He was like a defeated rooster, his feathers all over his body, yet he still walked out with his chest puffed out.

Qi Mu gritted his teeth: "Don't bother with my business, you should focus on your own marriage!"

Gong Yichen paused, then left with his men without turning his head.

Qi Mu clasped his hands in a fist salute to the people inside the room and said, "My senior sister hasn't fully recovered yet, so she won't stay with you all any longer." He then said to Yao Sisi, "Junior sister, you should go back first."

Yao Sisi nodded, glanced at everyone present, bowed, and calmly withdrew.

Only after she left did Qi Mu's tense emotions slowly relax. At this moment, the people in the room began to ask, "Qi Mu, when did you get a junior sister? How come there was no word of it?"

They clearly didn't quite believe it.

Qi Mu: "It was collected by my senior uncle when he went out to train. I only saw it a few times when I was young, and I haven't seen it since."

Everyone: "What about your senior uncle?"

Qi Mu: "Master Uncle has something to attend to and can't come back for the time being. Senior Sister came back this time to deliver a birthday gift to the Patriarch."

The head of the Yunxi family is his grandmother, who is turning eighty this year, a minor birthday celebration. Her major birthday is one hundred and twenty. People with average cultivation aptitude almost always pass away before reaching their major birthday.

And he was that person with average talent.

That's why his family wants to get him engaged as soon as possible, since he has no value other than continuing the bloodline.

They are family cultivators, unlike sects. Unlike sects that recruit disciples widely, a family needs people to prosper, and the better their aptitude, the longer they can protect the family.

He's someone who'll be buried at a hundred years old; if he hadn't come from a good family, where would he have the prestige and resources he has today?

Even if he only has a hundred years to live, he can still wait ten more years to get married and have children. But the people in the family don't think that way. They always believe that the sooner there is a new heir, the sooner the family will become powerful. If he is lucky enough to have a talented child, that child could protect the family for two or three hundred years.

As for a man like him whose only function is through bloodline, what good is it if he does a great business? He's only useful for a few decades.

Sometimes I really envy those who are talented. Even if they suffer a bit and work hard, at least they can control their own destiny, instead of living a life that seems like that of an ordinary person.

Yao Sisi left the front yard and returned to her room. Seeing that there were people coming and going outside, she decided not to enter her space. She simply closed the door, crushed the Spirit Gathering Talisman, and began to cultivate.

The spiritual energy in the air slowly gathered and then transformed by space. She silently absorbed the spiritual energy into her meridians, where it slowly gathered in her dantian. After an unknown amount of time, she felt a slight tingling sensation in her dantian, followed by pain in her meridians, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

Not long after, she felt herself break through. The spiritual energy in her dantian was larger than before, and its density was also higher. Her meridians also changed slightly.

Qi Refining Level 2!

She only cultivated for a few days before breaking through; isn't that a bit too fast?

It is said that the early stages of cultivation are relatively easy and fast, but in the later stages, the difficulty increases exponentially, and the speed will slow down.

If you don't have good aptitude, you might stagnate and never be able to get promoted.

"Bang bang bang..."

The wooden door creaked three times. Liu Yuan said, "Is the young lady here? My young master has sent someone over to take your measurements."

Yao Sisi slowly opened her eyes, looked around, and saw that it was already dark.

It's probably almost dinnertime now.

She opened the door with a creak, and Liu Yuan and an elderly woman in her fifties stood outside.

She stepped aside to let her into the room, casually asking, "Have those people left? Are you having a dinner party tonight?"

Liu Yuan: "I'm leaving, otherwise the young master wouldn't have time to send someone over. But if you want to eat something, just let the kitchen know."

He seemed a little jealous at this point, his tone even carrying a hint of sourness: "Anyway, since the young master values ​​you so much, it's not difficult for you to eat whatever you want?"

Yao Sisi raised an eyebrow and waited until the person taking her measurements left before asking, "Is your young master still in the front yard?"

Liu Yuan asked warily, "What are you going to do!"