Having finally achieved his goal of dual cultivation with Susu, Liu Xiaolou was in high spirits.
Sometimes, he fantasized that one day, if Susu suffered some misfortune in the Su family, he would break bitterly with them in a fit of fearless courage and rescue her. Perhaps such a heroic feat of saving a beauty would win the adorable, lovely little maidservant's wholehearted devotion, and she would follow him to roam the ends of the earth from then on.
But the truth was that there were never so many tales of heroes saving beauties in this world. Beauties generally did not need heroes to rescue them; in fact, most of them lived quite well.
For now, then, it was all merely Liu Xiaolou's wishful thinking. He could only use the final year of shelter provided by the Su family to find ways to improve his cultivation, preparing for the return of those precarious days when he would eat one spirit stone while racking his brains over where the next one would come from.
Perhaps one day in the future, he would gain the ability to care for Susu. But that required him to keep striving without pause.
He cultivated diligently, striving not to waste a single hour as he repeatedly assaulted the Xingjian Acupoint. Yet the Young Masters from the Impotence Circle interrupted him from time to time. To honor his agreement, and for the spirit stones that could be converted in the future, he had no choice but to keep opening the Lin Yuan Xuan Shi Formation, letting those Young Masters arrive ravenous and leave with their eyes shining.
By year's end, Liu Xiaolou had consecutively opened the Xingjian and Taichong Acupoints. The Foot Jueyin Meridian had broken through three acupoints in a row, thoroughly stabilizing his cultivation at