Beauty helps me achieve immortality

After returning home, Zhao Qing handed the rice and vegetables to his wife to cook, while he set up the newly bought clay pot in the corner of the bedroom...

There was no way. This room was too small and there was not enough private space for him to refine the elixir.

Wang Shuyue was washing vegetables in the outer hall, ignoring her husband's behavior. After a moment, she checked the food Zhao Qing had brought back again, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and she said softly, "Husband, I'm going out to buy some oil and salt."

Zhao Qing, who was sorting medicinal herbs, turned around in surprise, looked at his wife, and pressed his forehead speechlessly.

"I'm used to eating in the kitchen and forgot to buy oil and salt. I'll go there again and you stay at home."

He waved his hand to signal his wife to come closer. "I'll write you a recipe. Please grind it for me and weigh it."

After an incense stick, he pushed the yellow paper in front of his wife and instructed: "Don't wash these herbs, as it will easily lose its medicinal properties. I will use my spiritual power to remove impurities when refining the elixir."

After saying that, he walked out the door.

You have to eat. Although it's okay to just make do with a meal, it always feels a lot more awkward. I can't really explain why it feels awkward.

After he went to the market to buy oil and salt, he gradually realized that what his family lacked was not oil and salt, but peace of mind.

Moving suddenly and living in a temporary residence means that life is already very unstable. If you can't even afford the most basic three meals a day, it would be too miserable.

He sighed softly while carrying the oil and salt: "I hope the sect can resolve the Shouyun Mountain issue as soon as possible."

He stayed in Beifang for the past two days. Not only was the space too small, it was also very inconvenient. It felt like he was staying in a temporary hotel... No matter how soft the bed in a hotel was, it was not as comforting as the tattered mat at home.

As Zhao Qing walked, he suddenly frowned and looked around.

It was already late at night, and there was no one on the way home. It was so quiet that it seemed a little abnormal.

The night wind blew the weeds on the roadside, caressing people's bodies and bringing a little chill.

Zhao Qing silently circulated his spiritual energy, and with his other hand, he pinched the spirit-protecting talisman in his sleeve and continued to walk quickly in the night.

He smelled a familiar smell. There was a time when he was immersed in this smell almost every day - he always killed some livestock in the kitchen, so he couldn't help but get used to this smell.

It was blood. The smell of blood.

"Could it be that a wandering cultivator who was hunting monsters just passed by here? Did he carry the monster's blood? Or was the wound not treated in time?"

Zhao Qing tensed his nerves, with the Chi Lian Jue ready to go. After walking a little further, his expression became even uglier.

The scene before him was truly eerie. The night wind blew up the scattered yellow papers, sending them flying all over the sky. Zhao Qing frowned as he walked through the yellow papers, contemplating for a long time before reaching out to stop a piece of paper. There was writing on it.

It is filled with densely packed acupuncture points, passes, spiritual energy routes and hand gestures.

These should be the scattered pages of a certain martial arts book!

Zhao Qing suddenly looked up and looked in the distance in the direction where the wind was blowing. A black shadow was lying quietly in the grass. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice it at all at night.

His nose twitched slightly, the smell of blood also came from this direction!

Someone must have encountered a robber when passing by here... Obviously, the black shadow in the grass was undoubtedly a corpse, a corpse that had been stripped of all its belongings.

The skills you carry with you will be thrown away by the robber, and will fly all over the sky with the wind.

Zhao Qing silently put away the soul-protecting talisman, took out the golden talisman, and held it in his left hand with a swagger.

Then, he threw away the cloth bag containing oil and salt and held the oil bottle directly in his right hand.

Finally, he lifted the hem of his clothes and gently lifted it, revealing a wooden sign with the word "Danxia" clearly written on the front and "Zhao Qing, the stove workshop clerk" on the back.

Zhao Qing naturally put the wooden sign on his waist, with the front facing outwards, and walked home in a swagger.

It should be...possibly...perhaps, it seems that no one would attack a sect disciple holding a golden talisman just to snatch food and oil, right?

The night is very quiet, and the wind is even more noisy.

Zhao Qing walked briskly without stopping for a moment and soon arrived near Huima Lane.

"call!"

He took two deep breaths slowly before putting away the wooden sign and talisman and entering the house.

……

While his wife was cooking, Zhao Qing stood by the window, lost in thought.

He knew that there were robbery cultivators in Danxia City.

However, as a disciple of the sect, he never took it too seriously. After all, Danxia City had inner sect brothers patrolling it, and it was also the sect's private territory. He didn't go down the mountain often, so whether there were robberies or not didn't seem to have much to do with him.

However, when he actually lived in the city and saw the corpse with his own eyes, he suddenly realized a very critical issue.

If someone really wants to kill people for treasure, it seems they won’t care whether you are a disciple of the Danxia Sect or not.

I'm going to rob people, and I might die if I fail one day. Why would I care about these things?

Thinking of this, he silently took out the spiritual carved wooden plaque given by Matchmaker Xu, and wondered in his heart: Is Ma Xiang's formation reliable this time?

No, I need to quickly improve my proficiency in making Qi Gathering Pills. If I can achieve a high success rate, it will be easier to earn Spirit Stones. Then I can buy a high-level Spirit Formation, various talismans, and protective robes...

After a long while, he composed himself, sat down at the dining table, and examined the virtual panel.

[Alchemist: Beginner-level mid-grade (310/500)]

[Single Experience: 5+5]

[Bond: Intimacy]

[Bond Experience Bonus: 5]

[Qi Gathering Pill Mastery: Mastery and Integration (3/100)]

[Li Zi·Chi Lian Jue: Entering the Hall and Mastering the Mastery (5/100)]

……

The experience bonus from dual cultivation is quite high now, so I should be able to break through soon and reach the level of a beginner-level mid-grade alchemist. However, it will take a long time to accumulate proficiency in Qi Gathering Pills to the next level.

The main reason is that the recovery speed of spiritual power cannot keep up, and the control is not enough to support the refining of multiple pills in one furnace.

If I could break through the fourth level of Qi Refining, things should change... At least the speed of spiritual power recovery would be increased. Perhaps after breaking through to the level of a mid-grade alchemist, refining low-grade Qi Gathering Pills would be easier.

Zhao Qing tapped the table lightly with his fingers, making plans for the next period of time.

First try to refine the Marrow Cleansing Pill and break through to the middle stage of Qi Refining. At the same time, increase the frequency of dual cultivation. After all the cultivation and realm have been broken through, then work on your proficiency in the Qi Gathering Pill and find ways to make more money.

Before you reach the middle stage of Qi Refining, you should never go out unless it is necessary.

Unless the rent is due.

"Shuyue, when I just came back, I saw a body on the roadside. There must be some casual cultivators killing people and robbing people near Beifang."

"We'll be staying at home during this time. Every five days, I'll take advantage of the Chenshi time when the brothers are on patrol to go back to the sect to check on the situation. If the situation at Shouyun Mountain can be resolved, we'll move back."

Wang Shuyue held her face with her hands, listened to her husband's arrangements, and nodded obediently.

Zhao Qing was talking when he suddenly stopped and said, "Why don't you react at all? Aren't you scared?"

The girl nodded subconsciously, then shook her head slightly. "I'm afraid, but a robber cultivator wouldn't rob a mortal. There's nothing to steal. If anything goes wrong, I'll leave."

good idea!

Zhao Qing directly rejected his wife's proposal.

I'm a Qi-refining cultivator who doesn't dare to go out, so how can I ask my mortal wife to go out and find out what's going on? Don't be ridiculous!