What Qi Yuan Was Obsessed With

Jiang Lingsu stood where she was, scarcely daring to believe her ears.

She... a dignified...

Build her own house?

And a thatched cottage at that??

Her spells were to be used for this?

She really wanted to say something to Qi Yuan.

Unfortunately, Qi Yuan seemed not to notice her expression at all.

He raised his head to look at the clouds overhead and said, "You'd better hurry. It might rain tonight."

Jiang Lingsu froze for a moment and blinked. "Senior Brother, what if I can't finish it?"

She desperately wanted to send her senior brother 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 you that bench to sleep on."

After saying that, Qi Yuan walked into the Thatched Cottage.

Jiang Lingsu clenched her fists and stared at her senior brother's retreating back.

She resigned herself to her fate.

After all, she was not the sort of woman who forced others to pity and cherish her.

Her own matters, she would handle herself.

She followed Qi Yuan into the courtyard, then began carrying armfuls of thatch and wood to build her own... nest?

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

The first thing she needed to do was find that expert.

Although the Seven Colors Peak Lord, Ruan Yixi, was the most likely candidate to be that expert, it was also possible that there was someone else.

Perhaps beneath the Shinguang Sect lay a seal, with an ultimate powerhouse slumbering inside it.

As for Qi Yuan, she could simply treat him as an ordinary senior brother. She would neither become too close to him nor deliberately distance herself from him. She would let everything take its course.

Clouds gathered and scattered as Jiang Lingsu worked hard on building her thatched cottage.

A thatched cottage appeared in what had once been an empty space.

Though she had never built a house before, nor lived in a thatched cottage, she had at least cultivated spells.

Moreover, she had quite a few treasures hidden on her person.

If the house was unstable, she could just slap on a Body Immobilization Talisman. Would she still need to fear it collapsing?

After finishing the house, it was still early.

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

"Senior Brother."

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

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

She needed to learn Seven Colors Peak's spells.

"Come in," Qi Yuan's voice called out.

Jiang Lingsu hurried inside.

The moment she entered, she saw Qi Yuan holding a square jade slip.

She had seen the design of this jade slip before.

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

The current Immortal Realm was no longer the lifeless, decaying cultivation world it had once been.

Entertainment was also exceedingly abundant.

Pill gambling.

Listening to music in pleasure houses.

Sword immortals dancing.

Even games came in great variety.

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

Such jade slips generally stored all kinds of games.

Fighting, exploring caves, farming... everything one could want.

However, these Game Jade Slips were not cheap.

Especially the complicated large-scale games, some of which even had formations engraved within them. The characters and settings inside were vividly lifelike, as though they were real.

That was precisely why jade slip games were so popular.

Of course, quite a few of them were excessively erotic and could only circulate in secret.

Naturally, anyone who could afford to play jade slip games was not short on money.

Qi Yuan kept playing without even raising his head. "Mm."

"Senior Brother, did you play games all afternoon?" Jiang Lingsu asked.

Thinking of how she had been working nonstop while her senior brother had been gaming in here, she felt somewhat unbalanced.

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

"I am cultivating," Qi Yuan said.

Playing games was cultivation?

Though some games within Game Jade Slips truly benefited cultivation, those Game Jade Slips were exceptionally rare and precious.

"Playing games? Cultivating?" Jiang Lingsu paused, then suddenly thought of something. "Senior Brother, you belong to the Obsession Lineage. What is the thing you have placed your obsession upon?"

The Obsession Lineage cultivated quite differently from other lineages.

For other lineages, cultivation meant finding a technique suited to one's spiritual roots and cultivating it personally.

The Obsession Lineage, however, needed to find the thing they were obsessed with.

To be infatuated with an object.

For example, jade, flowers, or swords.

According to the elders of Jiang Lingsu's Lineage, the Obsession Lineage's cultivation emphasized the power of the heart.

They poured their hearts into the thing they were obsessed with.

When obsession reached its extreme, it became madness.

They became somewhat out of place with the outside world.

Thus, cultivators of the Obsession Lineage were extraordinarily difficult to communicate with.

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

Generally speaking, anyone obsessed with games would be sent by their clan for treatment. Lightning Therapy was the most popular method.

After all, the traditional cultivation world did not particularly recognize being obsessed with games as part of the Obsession Lineage.

"Does this count as obsession?" Qi Yuan did not raise his head. "If it does, then I'm obsessed with this."

Jiang Lingsu did not know what to say.

Should she apply for Lightning Therapy for her senior brother?

Was being obsessed with games really promising?

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

Within the Obsession Lineage, the objects of obsession differed in potential.

For instance, if one was obsessed with trees, a Millennium Dragon Blood Tree was better than an ordinary tree, while Heavenly Fortune Wood was better still than a Millennium Dragon Blood Tree.

Games... what future did they have?

"In a new era, we need to accept new things." Qi Yuan gave Jiang Lingsu a bland glance.

He had possessed this Game Jade Slip for an entire year.

He had obtained it before transmigrating into this world.

To Qi Yuan, this jade slip was a game console.

But this game console was rather special. It seemed... able to connect to the internet.

His transmigration into this world was deeply connected to this Game Jade Slip.

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

In this world, he had also seen quite a few Game Jade Slips that looked somewhat similar to his, but were actually completely different.

Jiang Lingsu was left speechless.

But then she remembered why she had come.

She continued, "Senior Brother, could you give me Seven Colors Peak's cultivation technique?"

Qi Yuan looked at Jiang Lingsu and said with a serious expression, "Seven Colors Peak's technique cannot be cultivated."

"Why?" Jiang Lingsu asked.

Could it be that Senior Brother knew some secret?

Did this have something to do with the Peak Lord?

"The technique is poisonous."

"Pfft..." If Jiang Lingsu had been drinking water, she certainly would have sprayed it out.

To her, Qi Yuan now looked like a madman muttering nonsense.

But then she recalled the information she had investigated before coming here. Seven Colors Peak's senior brother was indeed a strange, muttering fellow.

So it was not surprising.

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

Qi Yuan slowly took out a jade slip and handed it to Jiang Lingsu. "This is Seven Colors Peak's cultivation art.

However, it is only one and a half parts.

The first half is the original technique. The latter half was modified by me, but I have not finished modifying it."

He handed the Technique Jade Slip to Jiang Lingsu.