The Emperor, with more men than women, made me his mistress.

Yue Li shook her head, clearing her mind of all distractions. Why think so much? Being reborn into this world full of spiritual energy is already a blessing.

After taking the Qi-Inducing Pill, relax your mind and enter a meditative state, feeling the spiritual energy in the air, slowly absorbing it into your meridians, and then having it flow from each meridian into your dantian.

After two hours, the invisibility talisman lost its effect.

Yue Li didn't stop; she stuck another invisibility talisman on herself and continued cultivating.

She didn't dare not use invisibility, because even sitting here, she could hear the occasional roars of wild beasts.

This continued until it got dark, at which point Yue Li got up and went down the mountain to go home.

In the village at the foot of the mountain, every household had already lit their lamps, and those bright lights warmed the entire Qingshan Village.

Yue Li spent half a month cultivating on the mountain, leaving early and returning late.

It wasn't until the family's food rations ran out that Yue Li decided to go to Pingchuan County to take a look and buy some more food.

When Yuecheng was alive, his family owned farmland.

Since Yuecheng fell seriously ill, he has rented out his land to others to cultivate.

After Yue Li arrived, she had no intention of taking back these farmlands.

Not to mention the vast amount of gold and silver she had hoarded in her cultivation world, she was never short of money.

Even if there's a shortage, she doesn't plan to make money by farming.

Furthermore, there was no such thing as women farming during the Qian Yuan era.

If a woman is short of money, she can find a husband who will take care of her. If one husband is not enough, she can find two.

Women in this world are born to be supported by men. If they want a wealthy life, they just need to marry multiple husbands and have multiple children.

When Yue Li finished breakfast and went out, many people in the village were also heading to the county town.

Regardless of gender, everyone greeted Yue Li kindly when they saw her going out.

They watched Yueyue grow up, but now, due to a sudden change in their family circumstances, they haven't seen this little girl go out for a long time.

Some of the older women would hold Yue Li's hand and chat for a bit, then offer a few words of comfort.

Yue Li responded politely, her graceful demeanor prompting the villagers to remark that the loss of a family's breadwinner truly made a difference.

When Yuecheng was alive, Yueyue grew up without a mother. Yuecheng, a grown man, didn't know how to raise a daughter, so she became somewhat timid and shy. She would shrink back when the neighbors talked to her.

Unexpectedly, after experiencing such a change, my personality has become more generous and cheerful.

Yue Li never intended to live according to Yue Yue's personality from the beginning, and this change in her personality is easy to explain.

The sudden death of her father, her only family member, brought about a family tragedy. Shouldn't she change her personality in the first place?

Moreover, she has been in the village for more than a month and has not had contact with many people.

If she hadn't gone out to buy things today, she would have already gone into the mountains, and no one would have seen her.

Moreover, the whole village is now talking about how Yueyue's mother, who has never cared about her, found her a husband from the Shang family in the neighboring Liupu Village—six rude and domineering men in their thirties or forties.

Although Yuan Xinyi was not registered in the same household as Yueyue and had never raised Yueyue for a single day, she did give birth to Yueyue after all.

In the minds of the villagers, or indeed everyone, Yueyue had to obey Yuan Xinyi's arrangement and get married.

Yue Li remained calm amidst the villagers' gazes, which held either pity or sympathy.

When Yue Li went out today, she covered her face with a thin veil, only revealing her captivating fox-like eyes.

Seeing the villagers' reactions, Yue Li continued to talk to them with a smile, but a sarcastic smile appeared on her lips beneath the thin veil.

The six brothers of the Shang family had better not be tempted by Yuan Xinyi and conspire with her to make a move on her. If they really dare to have any wicked thoughts about her...

So her hundred-year stay in the cultivation world wasn't for nothing.

A flash of killing intent crossed Yue Li's lowered eyes.

After entering the tall city gate of Pingchuan County, Yue Li parted ways with the villagers.

Standing on this quaint street, Yue Li felt perfectly at ease, after all, she had spent most of her previous life in the world of cultivation.

However, the architecture of both the markets in the cultivation world and the mortal world is similar to that here.

As Yue Li strolled through the small county town, she noticed that most of the shops and streets were filled with women leading two or three men, leisurely walking around.

She would at least be accompanied by a man.

She was the only one there, a woman wandering around the county town all by herself, which was quite eye-catching.

Others looked at Yue Li, wondering why she hadn't brought a man with her.

Yue Li watched the other women, one carrying the things, another paying, and yet another coaxing them, and Yue Li was speechless.

Yue Li also went into the clothing and jewelry shops and browsed around. In the jewelry shop, Yue Li bought a few exquisite gold ornaments.

She went into the clothing store mainly to see if she could still wear the clothes she wore in the cultivation world.

Her space was filled with clothes that she bought whenever she saw something she liked in the markets of the cultivation world.

Moreover, the clothes worn in the cultivation world do look magnificent and beautiful, and they also have an ethereal feel to them.

She had no intention of leaving the clothes in her spatial storage unworn.

However, Yue Li did not rely entirely on the clothes in her space. She also bought a few more pieces of clothing from a ready-made clothing store so she could wear them into the mountains.

I bought a few more men's clothes that fit my size.

As I passed through an empty alley, I instantly stored the clothes I was carrying into my spatial storage.

Yue Li then went to the rice, flour, and cooking oil shop.

She went directly to a rice, flour, and cooking oil shop and bought 100 jin of refined rice, 100 jin of refined flour, and 50 jin of oil.

After instructing the shop assistant, who was grinning from ear to ear, to deliver the goods to Yuecheng's house in Qingshan Village, Yue Li went to the spice shop.

After buying a lot of seasonings and salt from a spice shop, Yue Li left with the seasonings that the shop assistant had packed for her.

As she walked along the street, looking around, Yue Li instantly put the spice packet in her hand into her spatial storage when she reached a dead corner.

Feeling completely relaxed, Yue Li arrived at the market once again.

The market was even more lively, with vendors calling out their wares, shouting prices, children crying, and adults scolding, creating a vibrant atmosphere of everyday life.

However, Yue Li didn't like the hustle and bustle. She hurriedly bought some vegetables from the vegetable vendor she liked, and then bought a few pounds of pork and two pig trotters from the pork vendor.

I bought ten steamed buns at the shop selling them.

At the shop selling candied fruit, I ordered two pounds of each of the dozen or so kinds of candied fruit available.

At the pastry shop, I ordered two pounds of each of the various pastries.

Yue Li stored all the purchased items into her spatial storage when she passed through corners or dead ends.

Yue Li walked to the market exit empty-handed, saw a vendor selling candied hawthorns, bought a few skewers, and left the market with them.

As Yue Li walked towards the city's exit, she recalled the gold-silver exchange rate when she bought the items earlier.

One tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver.

One tael of silver can be exchanged for 1000 copper coins.

Yue Li wanted to know this not to save money, but because when she was in the cultivation world, she sold a lot of beauty pills to the disciples of her sect.

Moreover, she didn't restrict herself to accepting only spirit stones, so she also collected a considerable amount of gold.

After all, gold might be considered a powerful and influential family in the mortal realm. But in the cultivation world, gold is worthless.

Therefore, since she did not require the use of spirit stones, those who bought the pills were naturally willing to pay in gold.

Yue Li is a college student from the modern world who has a modern obsession with gold.

So now, her space is piled up with a small mountain of gold.

Moreover, the smallest piece of gold she had was a ten-tael gold ingot.

That's why she went to buy jewelry as soon as she arrived in the county town.

She had to go to the jewelry shop and exchange the ten taels of gold for loose silver.