Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 3: Yunmei is injured

In the valley, a magnificent waterfall cascades down like the Milky Way, and the splashing water spreads into a hazy mist like smoke.

All around, there are towering ancient trees and entwined vines, and occasionally there are a few crisp bird calls. Everything is so peaceful and natural.

Xiao Yichen stood shirtless on the rocks under the waterfall, enduring the tremendous pressure on his body.

"Hu... Hu..." Xiao Yichen gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and tried his best to resist the water that kept hitting his back fiercely.

After more than half a year of practice, he was able to steady himself on the rocks against the impact of the waterfall. It was also because of these months of training that his figure began to become slender and strong, with clear muscle lines. What made him even more satisfied was that he was no longer as good-looking but useless as he was a few months ago. Now, whether in appearance or strength, he was only 70% behind you, my dear readers.

With his current strength, he can fight against ordinary beasts without being at a disadvantage. You know, when he first entered this world of cultivating immortals, he couldn't even beat a chicken. This is already a great improvement.

Under the waterfall, his skin gradually turned red, veins bulged, and every inch of his muscles was stretched to the extreme under the impact of the water, but his eyes were extremely firm, revealing an indomitable will, until he had no extra strength left, his feet slipped, and his body was instantly washed into the lake by the current.

He climbed ashore with great difficulty, breathing in the air in big gulps, but a smile of great satisfaction appeared on his face. He looked at his abdominal muscles that had been well-maintained and now showed again. His angular face and thick eyebrows looked like two sharp swords.

"Hehe, with this appearance, which senior sister can resist my temptation, hehe."

Glanced at the sun in the sky.

"It's almost time. That witch will probably be back soon. If she finds out I'm not home, I'm afraid she'll tease me again."

He put on his clothes and wrapped himself up tightly. He couldn't let the fairy senior sister notice his changes too early. If his little thoughts were discovered, his plan to improve himself would be ruined and he would have to continue eating those tonic pills.

After all, from the very beginning, Yun Mei never treated him as a Taoist partner. What she wanted was just a qualified cauldron. If one day, she found out that the cauldron was about to improve to the point where she was not worthy of using it, she would probably take action directly. Even if the effect was not optimal, she would not want to waste so much time in vain and let her take advantage of it in the end. Therefore, Xiao Yichen had to keep it secret now.

Just as he returned to his residence and lay down to rest for a while, Yunmei pushed the door open and came in. Seeing this, Xiao Yichen immediately stood up, walked slowly towards her, led the beautiful woman in front of him to sit at the table, and naturally rubbed her shoulders.

"Senior Sister, are you tired from practicing today? Please don't damage your body, or I'll be sad." Xiao Yichen said softly, giving it enough emotional value.

Hearing this, Yun Mei grabbed his hand, pulled him into her arms, rested her head on Xiao Yichen's shoulder, and slowly told him about how the elders took them out for training today. As she spoke, the strength of her arms around Xiao Yichen grew stronger and stronger, as if she wished she could merge Xiao Yichen's entire body into hers.

Feeling that the other party's strength was growing stronger, he coughed a few times, which slowly brought Yunmei's thoughts back. She stared at Xiao Yichen's handsome face that looked like an official, and smiled doubtfully: "Junior brother, I find that I am becoming more and more obsessed with you recently. Your physique has also become much stronger. Have you been secretly accepting pills given to you by other senior sisters behind my back?" As she spoke, she bit Xiao Yichen's arm.

Xiao Yichen felt the pain in his hand and tried to relax his muscles to avoid being noticed. He smiled awkwardly and said, "This is all thanks to the elixir you gave me, Senior Sister. I feel that my cultivation speed has become more and more handy recently, so it just happened naturally."

"Really? Then let senior sister check it out." Yun Mei gave a wicked smile and threw him onto the bed. However, Xiao Yichen had also figured out the temperament of this senior sister during this period of time and knew that she would not really do that kind of thing to him. He took the initiative and pressed her under him while laughing, and began to say cheesy love words to her.

"Senior Sister, you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life. You don't know that I fell deeply in love with you the first time I saw you. After learning that you chose me as your Taoist partner, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep the whole night. If there is another life, I still hope to meet you."

As a time traveler, these cheesy love words came to his mind easily. After a while, he had coaxed Yunmei into being very happy. After getting rid of the situation of being taken advantage of, the two of them just lay on the bed and chatted with each other, and bursts of silly laughter could be heard from the room from time to time.

Even Yunmei herself didn't notice that the way she looked at Xiao Yichen began to change. It was no longer the same as before. Now, a hint of tenderness had unconsciously emerged in her eyes.

After Yun Mei left, Xiao Yi stayed in the house for a while, making sure she was far away. Then he immediately got up and ran out, heading towards the waterfall. As he ran, he complained in his heart, "It turns out that living off a gigolo is so hard."

After arriving at the waterfall, Xiao Yichen took off his shirt and walked towards the stone again.

Ever since his physique became several times stronger than that of an ordinary person, he no longer needed to sleep for long periods of time to recover his strength. Now he dared not slack off at all, as this was related to his life and property, and he did not want to follow in the footsteps of those sickly brothers.

"Come on, work hard, create miracles..." Xiao Yichen shouted the slogan to himself, stepped on the stone, and faced the continuous pressure of the water flow. He gritted his teeth and resisted. He had a premonition that he was about to break through to the Body Tempering Realm, just a little bit away.

In this way, Xiao Yichen's strength continued to improve through training day after day. Occasionally, when he was free, he would go outside the valley to find ordinary wild beasts to practice. Now he can easily subdue the opponent, but he does not take their lives. Such strength can be regarded as a master in the mortal world.

Time passed day by day. That night, Xiao Yichen returned to his room as usual and waited quietly for Yun Mei, but she did not come. It was not until dawn that he saw Yun Mei, seriously injured, being taken into the sect's alchemy room by two senior sisters. There were traces of blood on the ground where she walked, and it seemed that she was seriously injured.

"What happened? No, we have to go and see."

Xiao Yichen came to the outside of the alchemy room, stood guard there, and paced back and forth. No matter how you looked at it, these actions made him look like a gentle and considerate Taoist partner. After all, he had to act completely and not let others gossip about him.

Soon, Yunmei was taken out of the alchemy room with the help of other senior sisters. Her injuries had been treated, and she should be able to recover soon with some rest.

Taking Yunmei from his senior sister's hand, Xiao Yichen showed a distressed expression on his face and slowly brought her back to her own room.

When he walked out of the room, he found that people around him kept pointing and talking at him. Xiao Yichen would never let people talk about him behind his back. He walked up and grabbed a male disciple's arm, frowning and asking in a deep voice, "What were you talking about just now?"

The male disciple had never expected Xiao Yichen to actually grab him and question him. Coupled with the pain in his arm, his body trembled unconsciously, but he remained strong and calm as he replied, "You don't know? Your partner was injured while traveling this time. They will definitely lose in the sect competition in a few months. Then you will be lost to others as gambling money."

He let go of the man's arm and waited for the people around him to leave. Xiao Yichen stood there for a long time, unable to recover.

"This is really a bit unexpected." He sighed softly. Although getting rid of Yun Mei was his dream, Yun Mei was injured now. If he lost to a female disciple whose cultivation was not as good as hers in the sect competition, then Xiao Yichen, as the trophy, would be in an even more dangerous situation.

He returned to his room in a somewhat depressed mood, holding his head and thinking about how to solve the problem. Suddenly, his eyes caught sight of a wooden box that he had stuffed under the bed.

"Yes, aren't there healing pills?" Xiao Yichen was delighted. The wooden box under the bed contained the pills that Yun Mei had given him. However, since he started to improve his cultivation through practice, he never ate these again. He hid them all under the bed to avoid being discovered.

He quickly walked out of the house and ran towards the alchemy room in the sect. Along the way, people kept looking at him with puzzled eyes, wondering what he was going to do.