It's Not Easy Being the Man of the House

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Back in the main cave, Ju Yunxiu was pacing anxiously around the stone pier, stamping her feet.

Qin Yi asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Ju Yunxiu pounced on Qin Yi, grabbing him by the collar. "Let Qing Cha out! She'll go crazy if she stays in the wine any longer!"

"... She was just stupid." Qin Yi then realized that he had forgotten about the Qing Cha, so he quickly took out the wine pot and took out the tea leaves.

Thankfully, not too long has passed... It's only been a little over half a day since we flew to the Red Rock Area...

It's already quite impressive that it's only been half a day; the veins of the green tea leaves have turned pink.

Ju Yunxiu carefully pointed.

With a "thump," the tea leaves transformed into a little girl, who lay on the ground fast asleep, drooling all over the floor.

"Oh no, I'm really stupid." Ju Yunxiu rubbed her forehead and carefully turned her over.

Qing Cha's round face was rosy, her mouth was wide open, and she was sleeping soundly, her expression suggesting that she was dreaming of something very pleasant and extremely happy.

Ju Yunxiu patted her cheek; it was hot, and she was still asleep.

Just as Ju Yunxiu was about to use magic to dispel her drunkenness, she heard Qing Cha talk in her sleep. "You stinky uncle, that place is dirty..."

Silence.

Ju Yunxiu's worried expression vanished, replaced by anger. Li Qingjun wore a half-smile, and Qin Yi quietly turned to run away.

Regardless of whether it was dirty or touched somewhere before, even though it was a misunderstanding... why would a drunk girl dream about this?

Since I can't defend myself, I might as well run away.

Ju Yunxiu grabbed him and pulled him back. "Don't run away! You're all filthy. The responsibility of taking care of Qing Cha is now yours!"

"Even if you pick up a dead body, you can't pick up a mentally challenged person; that's illegal..."

Ju Yunxiu's eyes widened.

Qin Yi sniffed and sighed, "Alright, I happen to be short of a... Fan Fire Attendant. I think Qing Cha is perfect for the job."

Actually, there's no need to fan the fire at this point. Right now, this cave abode only has an empty house and a small amount of self-growing spiritual flowers and herbs. There are no suitable medicinal materials for alchemy. Everything needs to start from scratch: fetching water, planting vegetables, setting up a new house, and making this cave abode fully operational.

We'll have to wait until we have the goods before we can fan the flames and refine the elixir.

But how should I put it... this feeling is pretty good.

Since leaving the Rift Valley and starting the Grand Ocean Tournament, they have been endlessly embroiled in fighting, killing, and fleeing, wave after wave without stopping, leaving them utterly exhausted. This is an experience that neither Qin Yi, Ju Yunxiu, nor Li Qingjun enjoy, and it is also detrimental to their cultivation of the Dao Heart.

Returning to his cave abode, the quiet environment for planting herbs, refining elixirs, and cultivating in seclusion felt like stepping back into Transient Peak. Those were the most comfortable and enjoyable times for Qin Yi's cultivation, spent in leisure, with the zither and flute playing in harmony.

Now I can finally relive this time, washing away all the fatigue of this period and letting my soul return to nature.

Furthermore, the scroll and fragments that have stretched for years have finally come to a close, which is essentially a kind of spiritual completion. This is the most suitable time for quiet contemplation.

Without further ado, everyone immediately began to divide the work and set up the cave abode.

At this moment, the absolute differences in each person's temperament became apparent. Li Qingjun immediately chose to open up Martial Cultivation training ground to test the nature of the martial arts and adjust its strength, as if she intended to stay at the training ground for a long time.

Ju Yunxiu then leisurely went to decorate the beautiful and comfortable room. She immediately drew a beautiful and soft bed and materialized it. After thinking for a moment, she ran to the mountain stream outside the cave, picked some spiritual flowers from the mountainside, and brought them back to the room to arrange in a floral arrangement, instantly transforming the secluded cave abode into a boudoir.

Then, after hesitating for a moment, he decorated the adjacent cave with an exact replica.

Actually, Ju Yunxiu felt that Li Qingjun might not live in the house; she might be training in the martial arts field all day long, that's how Martial Cultivation are... But she still had to fulfill her sisterly duty; she couldn't just decorate the house herself and not decorate it for Li Qingjun, right? She didn't know whether this was considered being generous by helping Li Qingjun decorate the house, or if she was worried that Li Qingjun would be forced to stay with her...

However, even if there are two rooms, the result will probably be about the same.

Ju Yunxiu pouted, angrily lay down on the bed, and took out a book to read.

The girls' tasks were simple, so Qin Yi was a typical example of someone who did more work than others.

He first planted the Qing Cha in the soil, leaving its head and tuft of hair sticking out, wanting to see if it could still grow...

Then they got down to business. Liusu swallowed the remnant soul and went to sleep to digest it. Ju Yunxiu's training wasn't in traditional Immortal Dao, and Li Qingjun only knew Martial Cultivation. He had to do all sorts of miscellaneous tasks on his own.

Qin Yi sneaked out of the cave and went to the Thousand Mountains Alliance to ask Tai Huang Jun to help him buy a large number of spirit seeds and a lot of spellcasting materials, using up half of the Spirit Stone he had accumulated over the years.

The spirit seeds are for planting herbs, and the materials are for setting up the array.

Back in Red Rock Land, he rummaged through his ring for a long time and finally found something that had been gathering dust for years— the Ghost Cry Vine even the three of them, including Yin Yizhong, couldn't completely destroy when they first went to the Earth Spirit Secret Realm ...

At the time, Liusu said it was a good protective vine for cave abode, but why would I need such a thing in my cave abode on Transient Peak?

Now it has finally come in handy.

The purpose of placing the Ghost Cry Vine outside the rock wall is not to conceal it. It is very well hidden there. Unless one knows there is something there and comes specifically to look for it, a normal Divine Sense scan would not be able to detect the hole. Placing the Ghost Cry Vine outside would be like trying to hide something obvious.

So it was placed inside, at the entrance of the narrow passage leading underground, right at the doorway, and quietly planted.

When the Ghost Cry Vine is first born, it is at most at the late stage of the Qin Xin realm. As it grows older, it will have the strength to soar through the clouds. If it is watered with spiritual spring water and absorbs Spiritual Qi to grow stronger, it may very well have the power of the Radiant Sun. This is easily achieved in this kind of Blessed Land, and it is a very good protection for the cave abode. Even Qin Yi himself does not have this strength at the moment.

As the vines grow, they will climb all over the passage, working in conjunction with the methods to come.

Then, along the passage, arrays and restrictions were set up.

Qin Yi used all his knowledge, learning from Liusu and from various secret realms below the rift valley, employing all sorts of odds and ends, and spent several days making arrangements.

A thousand-foot-long passage, riddled with array formations, restrictions, traps, and overgrown vines, had become a terrifying, densely packed fortress. Unless the opponent possessed overwhelming strength and forced their way in, an entire army would perish here.

If one or two Qian Yuan level cultivators were to come, they would most likely get trapped and humiliated. As for those at the Hui Yang level or below, they would basically be sent to their deaths.

That's not all. After passing through the passage and reaching the mountain stream outside the cave, you can see a network of paths leading in all directions. This place, combined with the twisted rules inherent in the door, has been set up as a primordial Eight Trigrams Maze Array.

This kind of confusing and chaotic phenomenon, combined with the distortion of the Heavenly Dao, is difficult for even a master of this art to decipher. It is a last resort for delaying escape or for guerrilla warfare, allowing for both offense and defense.

Finally, next to the stone pillar in the main cave abode, they placed the Crystal Ball they had taken from Jade True Person to observe the condition of the entire cave abode.

After doing all this, more than ten days had passed. Qin Yi rubbed his aching back and got up wearily.

It's not easy for a man to be in charge...

I vaguely remember when I was little, my dad would do everything at home, like changing light bulbs and fuses; he was practically omnipotent. Now I have to shoulder that responsibility myself...sigh...

Just as he was sighing, a little girl rushed towards him and slapped a huge calligraphy brush across his face with a "bang": "You stinky uncle! Qing Cha aren't for growing!"

Qin Yi tragically brushed the hair off his face, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Qing Cha..."

"What?"

"Are you sure you didn't grow it?" Qin Yi pulled out a Small Mirror: "Take a look for yourself."

Qing Cha looked at herself in the mirror from head to toe and noticed a very faint, slight bulge in a certain spot.

It seems like I've even grown a little bit taller...

Silently drinking Qing Cha.

Qin Yi was stunned.

It actually works...

Is it the effect of the previous transformation of the dark soil, or the influence of the "gate" here?

It should have both, and it may be related to "doors," since this thing pursues "perfection."

The next moment, Qing Cha threw down her brush, ran back to the Spirit Herb Garden, turned over the soil with two shovels, buried herself in it, and looked at him peacefully.