Mysterious mirror hanging high

"Hey, Yu'er..."

Zhao Yuanchen carefully studied the face of the lovely girl in front of him and couldn't help but wonder: "Yu'er, I'm not the kind of greasy person who would persuade prostitutes to change their ways, so I won't ask how you ended up in prostitution."

"It's just... you have such a beautiful face and such an outstanding temperament, why do you have so many vulgar customers coming in from outside, but your place is so deserted?"

Li Jiangyu looked worried and sighed, "Sir, you may not know that I've been in some trouble in the past few days."

"A few days ago, I just broke through the second level of body refinement... This is actually a good thing. After all, people in our line of work have some body refinement skills that can strengthen our appearance and firm our bodies, so there's no need to spend extra money on beauty."

"It just so happens that my body-building technique is the [Golden Sun Body-building Technique]. This technique is the most aggressive among all body-building techniques. I can't hold back on my strength on a normal day, and when I have a breakthrough, I'm even more reckless."

"The mortal body is not as good as that of a Qi-cultivating cultivator who has been cleansed by spiritual energy. Without physical training, it is very fragile. Yesterday, I was receiving a customer and accidentally injured him, which cost me a large sum of spiritual money... Now, I can hardly receive any customers!"

Li Jiangyu said "the guests were hurt" lightly, which made Zhao Yuanchen shudder. He felt a chill in his lower body and lost interest for a moment.

"This... then won't you only be able to accept clients who have practiced physical training?"

"That's all we can do! But now that the Hercules puppets are commonplace in the Immortal City, most mortal body cultivators have lost their livelihoods and have returned to the mortal world to enjoy themselves. How can there be many customers like this?"

Li Jiangyu lowered her brows and eyes: "Alas, sir, I see you are very handsome, and I wanted to give you a discount, but now I am afraid of hurting you... What if you have practiced physical training before, even if it is only the first level?"

Zhao Yuanchen stood there in a daze, thinking of the [Iron Sand Body] that he had pawned. He gritted his teeth and said:

"Yu'er, wait..."

"I'll patronize you next time!"

After saying that, he left in a hurry.

Li Jiangyu watched Zhao Yuanchen's back as he left, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, her face slowly changed, her joints crackled, and finally she turned back into Jing Yu's appearance.

"When the Kudu Treasure Body has been refined to the Treasure Body realm, changing appearances is a matter of a split second, and the variety of its forms has indeed increased significantly."

Jing Yu narrowed his eyes and pondered, "I created this look by imitating Li Jiangmei's model, but I only gained a little bit of her charm, and I don't even have the fate of being a [Turning Country Beauty], but I still managed to confuse this brat... Could it be that this look really is in line with some kind of heavenly law?"

Jing Yu sighed as he thought of this: "This brat is truly a fool. If the girl from this flower shop really had the cultivation level of the second level of Body Refining, why would she need to sell her body here? She could live a carefree life in a small, ordinary country! He actually believed it..."

Jing Yu flashed and followed him without a trace. Sure enough, he saw Zhao Yuanchen go to the pawnshop without hesitation and redeem the [Iron Sand Body] that he had just pawned for eighty spirit coins.

Then Jing Yu secretly threw ten spiritual coins on the road that Zhao Yuanchen had to take to go home. Zhao Yuanchen picked up the spiritual coins and was overjoyed. He went to a nearby blacksmith shop and bought several hundred kilograms of iron sand. He hired someone to send it back to Xuan Jingju. It was obvious that he was going to take real action.

"Well, at least now he can embark on the path of body training."

As for what direction Zhao Yuanchen will take after his body training and how much he can achieve, Jing Yu has no idea yet.

However, Zhao Yuanchen was originally addicted to alcohol and sex, and his body was hollowed out at a young age. He was destined to have a short life. Now, if he can start to cultivate his body, even if he only reaches the first level of body cultivation, he can lock the remaining qi, blood, essence and energy in his body, and even slowly replenish it, thus prolonging his lifespan.

In fact, it is almost a major change in destiny.

"Yuan Chen is a bit of a fool. He doesn't quite understand the twists and turns of people's hearts, so he's easily influenced. I just used a little trick to make him follow the path I designed for him. If I used this method on Yuan Xi, I'm afraid that girl would immediately see through it. Manipulating a fool is one way, manipulating a smart person is another... Fate is not unchangeable, it just requires going with the flow."

"Yuan Chen loves wine and women, so I started with them. This hobby is a flaw, but I can use it to prolong his life..."

Jing Yu pondered deeply, "I am a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Compared to the mortals in the Immortal City, I am already a celestial being. To me, the fate of mortals is nothing but something I can manipulate at will. Isn't that what it means to manipulate fate?"

"But comparatively speaking, I am only at the Foundation Establishment stage now. To those high and mighty Dao Lords and Dao Venerables, isn't my fate nothing more than a matter of course?"

This small experiment gave Jing Yu some understanding of fate. The mysterious mirror in his dantian shook slightly and gave some feedback.

Jing Yu felt it carefully and felt that the magic power in his body seemed to have a subtle and essential improvement, and it was a little thicker and tougher than before. However, this slight improvement was so weak that he could not even feel it if he did not observe it carefully.

"This method works!"

Jing Yu was cheered up. He really could slowly improve the quality of the magic power cultivated by [Questioning the Mirror and Observing Fate Method] through this method!

"I just don't know if this feedback is because I changed Yuan Chen's fate, or because I have a new understanding of fate."

If it is the former, this kind of improvement in the essence of magic power can be replicated continuously. If it is the latter, it will be difficult to replicate unless Jing Yu has a new realization like a flash of inspiration.

Jing Yu certainly hoped it was the former, but he also felt that it was unlikely. After all, Zhao Yuanchen had only hurriedly redeemed the [Iron Sand Body] and had not yet started formal body training. Strictly speaking, his fate had not really changed. If there was any feedback, it would not be now.

This feedback came along with his understanding, so it was self-evident how to perfect the technique.

Jing Yu couldn't help but feel in high spirits as he had an idea for the subsequent path of his own Qi training system. Although he had just established his foundation and was still far from the perfect golden elixir realm where the skills were cut off, it would never hurt to plan early.

Although Jing Yu realized many years later that realizing the essence of fate and improving magic power is actually something that needs to be considered very late in the destiny, the accidental flash of inspiration that year and the desire to change Zhao Yuanchen's fate turned out to be a good thing, greatly advancing the process and giving Jing Yu an innate advantage in the thorny road of fate, which turned out to be of great benefit later.

However, that was a long, long time ago.