As lanterns lit up and night fell hazy, the bustle outside the City God Temple quieted down.
Before the gate tower, the scene from Yicui Tower in Luandu County filled the center of the water screen. A group of girls clad in thin red and green gauze swayed their graceful figures in dance.
"What a shame. It's just some remote little county after all. The girls are pretty enough, but the choreography and music are downright terrible."
"Mm... I don't want to watch this at all."
An hour later, Chen Mu calmly shut off the Yicui Tower feed, waved a hand to release the Five Ghosts to clear away the table scraps, then turned and returned to the East Cross-Courtyard of the City God Temple.
In the courtyard, beside the Jade Dew Well, Chen Mu took out a rocking chair. He placed the Exquisite Jade Disk on the well's edge, slipped a White Jade Coin into the central groove, then reclined in the chair and looked up at the sky.
Against the boundless, deep-black night sky, countless bright stars glimmered, clear and resplendent.
Though he had watched it for more than ten years, he never tired of this night sky.
Threads of fluorescent light flowed across the Exquisite Jade Disk, and Earth Spirit Vital Qi emerged around it.
Feeling the faint joy radiating from within his body, Chen Mu felt the comfort of meeting an old friend again.
"After going in circles for years, I can finally cultivate Qi and pursue immortality again."
Previously, he had only a little over two hundred White Jade Coins. Even if he returned to the world of the living, he would not have dared cultivate.
Now that Sun Ke had successfully sold the first batch of Fasting Pills, and with the Breath-Stopping Supernatural Ability