The Object of Qi Yuan's Obsession

Jiang Lingsu stood frozen in place, hardly believing her ears.

She... the illustrious...

Build her own house?

A thatched cottage at that?

Her spells, meant for this?

She wanted to say something to Qi Yuan.

Unfortunately, Qi Yuan seemed not to notice her expression.

He looked up at the clouds in the sky and said, "You'd better hurry. It might rain tonight."

Jiang Lingsu paused, blinking her eyes. "Senior Brother, what if I don't finish in time?"

She really wanted to send him a voice message: Help me.

"There's a bench in my room," Qi Yuan said. "If you're afraid of getting rained on, I'll lend it to you for the night."

With that, Qi Yuan turned and walked into the thatched cottage.

Jiang Lingsu clenched her fists, watching her Senior Brother's retreating back.

She resigned herself to fate.

After all, she wasn't the type to force someone to pity a damsel in distress.

Her own business, her own doing.

She followed Qi Yuan into the yard and began hauling thatch and some wood to build her own... nest?

Annoyed as she was, Jiang Lingsu still remembered why she had come here.

The first thing to do was find that exalted figure.

Though Seven Colors Peak Lord Ruan Yixi was the most likely candidate, it could also be someone else.

Maybe, beneath the Shinguang Sect, there was a seal, with a supreme being slumbering inside.

As for Qi Yuan, she'd treat him as an ordinary Senior Brother—no close contact, no deliberate coldness, just going with the flow.

Clouds gathered and scattered as Jiang Lingsu labored to build her thatched cottage.

Where there had been empty space, a thatched cottage now stood.

Though she had never built a house or lived in a thatched cottage, she had cultivated spells.

And she had plenty of treasures hidden on her.

If the house wasn't stable, she could just slap a "Body Immobilization Talisman" on it—what was there to fear about it collapsing?

After finishing the house, the sky was still bright.

Jiang Lingsu clapped her hands, looking at the house with immense satisfaction.

"Senior Brother."

She went outside Qi Yuan's house and called out.

No matter what, she had joined the Seven Colors Peak, so she had to keep up appearances.

She needed to learn the Seven Colors Peak's spells.

"Come in," Qi Yuan's voice came.

Jiang Lingsu hurried inside.

As soon as she entered, she saw Qi Yuan holding a square jade slip in his hand.

She recognized the shape of that jade slip.

"Senior Brother, are you playing a game?" Jiang Lingsu asked.

The current Immortal Realm was no longer the stagnant one of old.

Entertainment was abundant.

Gambling on pills.

Listening to songs in brothels.

Sword immortal dances.

Even games were plentiful.

The square jade slip in Qi Yuan's hand, by its shape, was a Game Jade Slip.

Such jade slips usually stored all kinds of games.

Fighting, cave exploration, farming... everything imaginable.

But these Game Jade Slips weren't cheap.

Especially the complex, large-scale ones, which even had formations carved into them, with characters and backgrounds so lifelike they seemed real.

That was why jade slip games were so popular.

Of course, many of those models were too obscene to circulate openly.

Of course, anyone who could afford to play Jade Slip games wasn't exactly short on cash.

Qi Yuan played the game without looking up. "Mm."

"Senior Brother, have you been playing games all afternoon?" Jiang Lingsu asked.

Thinking about how she'd been working while he played games here, she felt a bit of resentment.

"Senior Brother, aren't you cultivating? If I'm not mistaken, you should be at the peak of Qi Refining, just one step away from Foundation Establishment." Jiang Lingsu was also at the peak of Qi Refining.

"I am cultivating," Qi Yuan said.

Playing games was cultivation?

Sure, some Game Jade Slips had games that were beneficial for cultivation, but those were extremely rare and valuable.

"Playing games? Cultivation?" Jiang Lingsu paused, then something clicked. "Senior Brother, you're from the Obsession Lineage—what is your object of obsession?"

The cultivation of the Obsession Lineage was quite different from other lineages.

Other lineages cultivated by finding techniques suited to their spiritual roots and training on their own.

The Obsession Lineage needed to find something to obsess over.

To be obsessed with an object.

Like jade, like flowers, or like swords.

According to the elders in Jiang Lingsu's family, the Obsession Lineage's cultivation focused on the power of the mind.

Devoting one's heart to the object of obsession.

The extreme of obsession was madness.

It made one somewhat out of sync with the outside world.

Thus, cultivators of the Obsession Lineage were extremely hard to communicate with.

Jiang Lingsu had met cultivators from the Obsession Lineage before, but never one obsessed with games.

Usually, those obsessed with games were sent by their families for treatment, with Lightning Therapy being the most popular.

After all, traditional Immortal Realm didn't really recognize game obsession as part the Obsession Lineage.

"Does this count as obsession?" Qi Yuan didn't look up. "If it does, then I'm obsessed with it."

Jiang Lingsu didn't know what to say.

Should she apply for Lightning Therapy for Senior Brother?

Was being obsessed with games promising?

"Senior Brother, isn't this a bit unreliable? I've never heard of any great cultivator being obsessed with games."

In the Obsession Lineage, the object of obsession had differences in potential.

For example, being obsessed with trees—a Millennium Dragon Blood Tree was better than an ordinary tree, and Heavenly Fortune Wood was better than a Millennium Dragon Blood Tree.

Games... what future did they have?

"In a new era, we must accept new things." Qi Yuan glanced faintly at Jiang Lingsu.

He had obtained this Game Jade Slip a year ago.

Even before he'd transmigrated to this world.

This jade slip, in Qi Yuan's view, was a game console.

But this game console was special—it seemed... to be able to connect to a network.

His transmigration to this world was closely tied to this Game Jade Slip.

He even guessed that his eyes' ability to see hidden information was related to this Game Jade Slip.

In this world, he'd seen many Game Jade Slips that looked similar to his, but were actually completely different.

Jiang Lingsu was left speechless.

But then she remembered why she'd come.

She continued, "Senior Brother, can you give me the cultivation technique for Seven Colors Peak?"

Qi Yuan looked at Jiang Lingsu seriously. "The Seven Colors Peak technique can't be cultivated."

"Why?" Jiang Lingsu asked.

Could it be that Senior Brother knew some secret?

Was it related to the Peak Lord?

"The technique is poisonous."

"Pfft..." If Jiang Lingsu had water in her mouth, she would have spat it out.

Right now, in her eyes, he was just a raving lunatic.

But remembering the information she'd looked up before coming, this senior brother of Seven Colors Peak really was a bit unhinged.

That was no surprise.

"Senior Brother, I don't mind if you give me the technique," Jiang Lingsu said.

Qi Yuan slowly pulled out a jade slip and handed it to Jiang Lingsu. "This is the cultivation method of Seven Colors Peak.

However, it's only half complete.

The first part is the original technique; the latter part is my revision, but it hasn't been fully revised."

He handed the technique jade slip to Jiang Lingsu.