Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

"Uncle Zhu, I've fixed all of these items. Please take a look."

After lunch, Shen Wenwen took a nap, while Shen Bai delivered the four everyday ritual implements that he had repaired the day before to the repair shop near their home.

The repair shop owner, named Zhu Shi, was in his thirties and had a Qi Refining Level 30 cultivation. He had previously been on good terms with his parents, so he took good care of the brother and sister.

"Xiao Bai, your cooking skills are getting better and better."

Zhu Shi took a spirit stone and tested the four daily-use magical artifacts one by one. He praised Shen Bai's craftsmanship: "Back then, I had limited talent and didn't study properly even after entering the Dao Academy. Otherwise, I wouldn't have ended up repairing daily-use magical artifacts for others."

While chatting, Zhu Shi handed over three spirit stones, which Shen Bai accepted without hesitation and stuffed into his pocket.

Repairing these four everyday magical artifacts would cost nearly one spirit stone in total, leaving me with only two spirit stones in profit.

Therefore, being overly polite will only cause you to suffer losses.

"Uncle Zhu, is there anything else? I'd like to fix more so I can practice my skills more."

Emboldened, Shen Bai glanced inside the shop. Zhu Shi shook his head and said, "These past few days, we've been taking on big jobs. You can't repair them without spiritual power. Let's wait."

Shen Bai nodded, turned around, and went home to take a nap.

That's how this kind of part-time job works. When there's work, you can earn several spirit stones in one night. When there's no work, you can be idle for several days.

The large items Zhu Shi referred to were everyday ritual implements such as washing machines.

For cultivators, with spiritual power and magic, a simple dust-avoiding spell can solve the problem of dirty and smelly clothes.

Families without cultivators but with slightly better financial situations usually put up dust-repelling talismans and use cleansing talismans for washing clothes. Families with average financial situations, on the other hand, need to use bulky washing machines.

The washing machine incorporates multiple modes such as wind and rain array, cleaning array, and low-temperature flame array, integrating washing, stain removal, and drying into one unit. Throw in a pile of clothes weighing over ten kilograms, and they will be as clean as new in less than fifteen minutes, ready to wear right out of the house.

The spirit stones consumed each month are only one or two, so many families have purchased them.

This magical artifact appears simple, but it is actually extremely complex. Without one or two years of experience as a crafting apprentice, one would have no idea where to begin. Moreover, even slightly complex problems require the use of spiritual power to repair; it is very difficult to fix using only the functions of spirit stones.

In addition, there are refrigerators and air conditioners.

The technology for refrigerators sounds simple; all you need to do is add a frost array. Air conditioners have an additional low-temperature flame array, but this involves temperature adjustment and control, and the complex arrays inside are quite complicated.

These everyday ritual implements can basically be used with spells or talismans if there are practitioners in the family. However, spells cannot be kept on all the time. You can't just do nothing all day but keep heating up and cooling down the house, right?

Using talismans has a short duration; for example, an ice talisman will only last a few days before becoming useless. Therefore, daily talismans are mostly used when going out.

Therefore, in the long run, buying everyday ritual implements is more practical and economical than using magic and talismans.

These large items are not like small items such as stoves, where the problems are simple.

Shen Bai now has a very solid theoretical foundation in weapon crafting and formations, but unfortunately he lacks spiritual power, so even if he wanted to, he couldn't practice them.

……

After a good fifteen minutes of sleep, Shen Bai woke Shen Wenwen up and took her to school, still half asleep.

[Ding! Jealousy from Lü Shu +5, current level 75!]

Just as Shen Bai was about to leave, he stopped and suddenly bent down towards Shen Wenwen: "Come on, give your brother a kiss!"

"don't want!"

Shen Wenwen yawned and turned to leave.

Shen Bai wasn't going to waste such a good opportunity. He stepped in front of Shen Wenwen and offered his face again: "Just one kiss!"

"Get away from me!"

Shen Wenwen shoved Shen Baijunyi's face away, pouting as she walked forward: "You're acting strange today. Did the sauce for the noodles at noon expire? Ugh, I'm afraid I'll get diarrhea later! You bad brother, hurry up and get to school looking all round!"

[Ding! Jealousy from Lü Shu +5, current level 80!]

[Ding! Your rival Lu Shu's jealousy level has reached 80. You can extract one of his abilities.]

[Please choose one of the following three abilities from your rival, Lü Shu.]

【Ability 1: Perfect Level "Flying Skateboard"】

[Ability Two: Heavenly Voice]

[Skill 3: Absolute Pitch]

[Note: The host can only draw abilities from rivals who are stronger than themselves, and each rival can be drawn a maximum of three times.]

"What's going on?"

Looking at Lü Shu's three abilities, Shen Bai felt as if he had encountered an extremely powerful person.

Perfect pitch? A heavenly voice? Does this mean this unassuming little guy is a musical genius? With these two talents, he'll probably be able to easily get into a music academy in the future.

What's with this "Perfect Level Flying Skateboard" thing? Are you really planning to dye your hair blonde, ride a flying skateboard to our building, sing love songs, and pick up Shen Wenwen to go out and have fun?

Are all the blond guys this good now?

Kid, give up on that idea!

Shen Bai glanced at the little guy not far away with a gloomy expression and chose ability one.

A skill at the highest level is definitely a good thing.

I have a flying skateboard myself; my parents bought me one when I was in junior high. But because it costs spirit stones, it's just been gathering dust at home ever since.

As for the Heavenly Voice and Absolute Pitch, they are also quite good. But don't rush to get them yet; there are still two more opportunities to snag them, and they will definitely be yours then.

Hmph, everything you can do, I can do too, and I'm even better at it than you.

If you try to show off in front of Wenwen in the future, don't blame me, your older brother, for making things difficult for you!

……

With a joyful heart, Shen Bai arrived at the school.

The afternoon classes consist entirely of practical training, with no theoretical lessons, as the martial arts exam accounts for the majority of the score. Students can choose to either practice martial arts techniques or hone their combat skills in the arena.

Having earned the title of "one man against all," Shen Bai rushed into the cultivation room to test the effects of his doubled aptitude. This infuriated Qian Kai, Wang Wei, Jia Feng, and the others who were determined to teach Shen Bai a lesson, because they all saw that Bai Qingqing's gaze was fixed on Shen Bai's back, as if glued to it.

[Ding! Jealousy from Wang Wei +3, current level 76!]

[Ding! Jealousy from Jia Feng +3, current level 74!]

[Ding! Jealousy from Xie Zong +4, current level 78!]

……

Shen Bai entered the cultivation room, sat down cross-legged, and gradually calmed his mind. Once his mind was free of distractions, he began to circulate the "Mysterious Origin Heart Sutra" to temper his blood.

The "Xuan Yuan Heart Sutra" is a fundamental mental cultivation method jointly researched and created by many Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the Xuan Yuan Empire. Cultivating this mental cultivation method can smoothly return one's acquired nature to one's innate nature and successfully enter the Qi Refining stage. It is the mental cultivation method with the most practitioners among the general public of the Xuan Yuan Empire.

The seventh level of the afterlife, also known as the Blood Transformation Realm, is an important dividing line between the middle and late stages of a martial artist's life. Only after the blood transfusion of the entire body is completed can one be considered to have truly completed the first transformation.

If you're from a wealthy family, you can eat spirit beast meat to accelerate this process with high energy. But children from ordinary families, especially Shen Bai, can only temper themselves slowly, drop by drop, with the effort of water dripping on stone.

This is why Shen Baika remained at this level for a full year.

One step at a time, one step at a time.

Now that his aptitude has doubled, Shen Bai didn't have a clear concept of these four words before. But when he started refining his blood, he immediately found that his control over true qi and the speed of blood refining were much easier than when he was cultivating normally.

An hour later, Shen Bai finished his practice and stood up, feeling the surging power of blood energy within his body, a happy smile appearing on his face.

Within a week at most, I will definitely be able to step into the seventh level of the Day After Tomorrow realm.

Thank you, Qian Kai.

Another 50 points in hand!