Beauty helps me achieve immortality

It took more than half an hour for my wife to heat up the food.

Two dishes, one soup, and two bowls of rice were neatly placed on the table.

Zhao Qing tidied up a bit and went to the table to eat, no longer fiddling with his new alchemy furnace.

The magical rice bought from the market tastes softer and more glutinous than the one from the kitchen, which is inseparable from Wang Shuyue's excellent cooking skills.

The cooked vegetables are even more delicious and tasty. The lines on the green leaves are faintly visible, and the dots of oil reflect the evening sun coming through the window. The unique aroma of vegetable oil fills the small bedroom, making people's appetites whet.

Especially the dish of rabbit meat, which is not only tender and juicy, but also has a special aroma of medicinal herbs. It is stewed in a casserole, and the complex medicinal fragrance fills the nose.

Zhao Qing took two sips, and the juices burst in his mouth, leaving an endless aftertaste. He then drank the egg drop soup his wife had just prepared, and the silky egg drop mixed with the bean curd went down his throat without feeling greasy at all.

"The egg soup is well made. You can try steaming the spiritual rice in bamboo tubes, and adding cinnamon to the rabbit meat will probably have a better effect." The old chef Zhao Qing made a brief comment and gave clear instructions.

The girl held her chin and looked at him, smiling without saying a word.

Looking at his wife's cunning eyes, Zhao Qing stopped talking, picked up the bowl and continued eating.

The food Wang Shuyue cooks is just like her, very exquisite and far superior to the big pot dishes in the kitchen.

But Zhao Qing still had to say a few words to show his family's throne.

With the beauty by his side, Zhao Qing felt a little emotional.

Having a home and food to eat, isn’t this what ordinary people pursue throughout their lives?

The ancients said that food and sex are human nature, nothing more than this.

If Shou Yunshan could calm down, it would be nice for him to go back to the kitchen and do odd jobs for the rest of his life. With a beautiful woman by his side, wine and distant mountains, it would be enough to comfort him for the rest of his life.

People have been busy and wandering for decades, and all they want is a corner of peace.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Qing lay on the bed, enjoying the massage from the soft and boneless little hands, and experiencing the moment of tranquility in this early summer evening.

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At night, Huima Lane was completely silent. Candles were lit in most houses, but in one of them the fire was so bright that the shadows of the window frames were cast on the ground, swaying with the fire.

Inside the room, Zhao Qing was concentrating on feeling the changes in the alchemy furnace.

This was his first attempt to refine multiple pills at once, and it required a higher level of control over his spiritual energy.

The green-yellow alchemy furnace was simple and ancient, with slightly blurred patterns outlined on the furnace body, which had now been engulfed by the fire.

"Shuyue, put the Glauber's salt, talc, and white peony into the furnace!"

Zhao Qing controlled the spiritual energy to wander in the alchemy furnace and had no time to be distracted.

The girl's pretty face flushed red in the firelight. She took out the wet handkerchief she had prepared long ago, stepped forward to remove the iron pot from the inverted furnace, and carefully added the medicinal herbs...

There was no way, the furnace had no lid. After many attempts, I only found an iron pot at home that could seal the furnace mouth tightly.

Zhao Qing sat in front of the alchemy furnace, trying his best to control the fire, while his wife was busy running around by his side, wiping the sweat off her husband from time to time.

Half an hour later, Zhao Qing suddenly realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of making a furnace of multiple pills.

If you want to control the situation inside the alchemy furnace more precisely, the control of spiritual power is too high.

Even though he had now broken through to become a mid-level alchemist, he still felt extremely exhausted. He could only rely on his skills to make pills one by one, and was unable to make three pills at the same time.

This involves the initial use of spiritual consciousness, which can only be achieved in the late stage of Qi Refining.

As the spiritual energy in his body continued to be consumed, a few incense sticks of time passed, and the edge of the iron pot suddenly lifted up, and a round Qi Gathering Pill fell to the side under his control.

He had no time to check and continued to control the situation inside the furnace.

Not long after, the second Qi Gathering Pill pushed the iron pot open again.

Until most of the spiritual energy in his body was used up, he made three pills in one furnace, and all of them were successful!

It took nearly an hour, which was much more efficient than before, but it also consumed more spiritual energy and strength.

The correct way to refine multiple pills in one furnace is to dissolve the medicinal materials and make pills at the same time.

However, Zhao Qing could only transform the liquid into pills at the same time. Whether he could make pills depended on the temporary state. He had not done it well just now, so he could only refine the pills one by one.

[Obtain Qi Gathering Pill Proficiency: 3]

[Qi Gathering Pill Mastery: Mastery and Integration (23/100)]

As the panel emerged, Zhao Qing let out a long sigh.

Sure enough, the accumulation of proficiency is related to quantity!

He casually handed the three pills to his wife, told her to keep them in the wooden box, and then began to meditate to recover his spiritual energy and prepare to refine the next batch.

Even though he was very tired, he became excited when he thought about the cost of the Qi Gathering Pill and the benefits of refining it.

One furnace of pills can earn you four spirit stones!

If he could accumulate enough spirit stones in the future, he even planned to buy a spirit gathering array and set it up in the yard.

This way, the absorption of spiritual energy through practice can be more efficient, recovery from meditation will be much faster, and the operation of the Green Pine Formation will no longer require the support of spiritual stones.

Even though the spirit gathering array is very expensive, costing hundreds of spirit stones, it is obviously very cost-effective.

Otherwise, just maintaining the long-range rotation of the defensive array would be a considerable expense.

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Three days later, Zhao Qing followed the morning dew and headed straight from Nanfang to the sect's stove.

In two days, it will be the day to collect rent in Beifang, and maybe people from Huanyu Pavilion will come to our door too.

So he decided to go to the kitchen in advance to check the situation. If there was no problem, he would move back to the courtyard in the next two days.

However, on the forest path leading to the kitchen, he heard shouting from afar.

"Senior Brother Zhao!"

"Brother Zhao is back!"

Zhao Qing walked with his head down, feeling somewhat confused.

Are you calling me? I don't think so.

When did I get such a high salary after returning? But the voice seems familiar...

He looked back and saw that they were his little neighbors.

The new servant at No. 59 Dingzi was currently drawing water from a distant stream.

"It seems that the depths of Shouyun Mountain have become completely peaceful..."

It was obvious that everyone had resumed work, which meant that the storm had passed and the kitchen had returned to normal.

Zhao Qing turned and walked towards the crowd, deciding to say hello.

"Brother Zhao, long time no see!"

"Senior Brother Zhao!"

"Brother Zhao, have you ever met Miao Jian in the city?"

Zhao Qing smiled and greeted everyone one by one, then replied, "Have you met Miao Jian? How's that? Has he been in the city all this time?"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Shen Su. The female cultivator, who was not good at socializing, blushed like a monkey's butt.

"Reply, reply to Senior Brother, Brother Jian spends most of his time in the city, and he comes back to see us occasionally."

Zhao Qing looked at the young people and immediately understood what was going on.

It's possible that Miao Jian and Shen Su are together.

He jokingly said, "Didn't I come back to see you?"

"This...look at me, and look at them."

The female cultivator who lived with Shen Su laughed so hard that she almost got the bucket washed away.

Zhao Qing waved his hand slightly and got down to business: "What's going on in the mountains lately? While you were fetching water, did your senior brother assign you the task of chopping wood?"

A male cultivator replied, "The demonic beasts surrounding Shouyun Mountain have all been cleared. The day before yesterday, several fellow Inner Sect members went deep inside and set up a large formation to prevent Foundation Establishment-stage demonic beasts from reaching the outer reaches."

"He also led us to drive those wandering cultivators down the mountain..."

"It is said that the elders of the sect have issued an order to use Shouyun Mountain as a trial ground for assessing disciples, and no independent cultivators will be allowed to come here from now on."