The Heart Calming Incantation from Another World

"Tch... they're about to fight." Lin Li, blending in with the crowd of onlookers, stood at the outermost edge, watching the two young men whose bodies were radiating a faint Pale Gold spiritual light, ready to throw down.

"Sigh, fighting over something this trivial. What are you going to do when the Ability Management Bureau investigator shows up?"

The Ability Management Bureau was the law enforcement agency in this world responsible for overseeing Cultivators. From minor scuffles like the one brewing here to major criminal cases, as long as a Cultivator was involved, it fell under their jurisdiction.

Just as the two young men, both at the early first-rank stage, were about to come to blows, a sharp shout rang out beside them.

"What do you two think you're doing? Stop it right now."

The surrounding crowd parted to make way as a man in his early thirties, wearing a black uniform, stepped up to the two young men who were on the verge of fighting.

"An investigator."

Everyone present immediately recognized his identity from the uniform he wore.

The two young men, who had been ready to throw punches, instantly extinguished the Pale Gold spiritual light flaring from their bodies, plastering friendly smiles on their faces.

"According to regulations, Cultivators are not allowed to brawl in public. You two—"

Before the investigator could finish his sentence, the two young men quickly interrupted him.

"Investigator, sir, we weren't actually fighting! It was just a minor misunderstanding—we got a little heated and raised our voices a bit..."

After saying this in unison, they both reached out and shook each other's hands.

"It was my fault. From now on, when I take this road, I definitely won't ride my e-bike onto the sidewalk."

"Brother, I'm also to blame. I shouldn't have suddenly darted out of that alley, catching you off guard and making you fall..."

The two young men, who had been ready to throw down moments ago, were now acting like the best of friends, leaving the onlooking crowd utterly dumbfounded.

Lin Li wasn't surprised in the least by this turn of events.

Because if Cultivators got into a fight in public and were caught red-handed by an investigator, they'd face at least a day of administrative detention.

The investigator, who had arrived at the scene after receiving a report, saw that the two young men were admitting their mistakes quite sincerely, and his stern expression softened slightly.

"Don't resort to violence over such trivial matters in the future. Force isn't the only way to solve problems.

You both have early first-rank strength—if you'd actually fought, you could easily have hurt the ordinary people nearby."

The two young men nodded repeatedly as they listened to the investigator's lecture.

Seeing that there was no fight to watch, the surrounding crowd dispersed.

Lin Li watched the two departing Cultivators with a hint of envy, thinking to himself.

"Seriously, people like them can become Cultivators, while a law-abiding, model citizen like me can never be one for life. How unfair is that?"

At the entrance of Su Yue's home in Happiness Garden residential area.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

Not long after Lin Li knocked, hurried footsteps sounded from inside the room.

"Patter, patter, patter..."

"Coming!"

The person inside first peered through the peephole to see who was at the door, then with a click, opened it.

A beautiful girl with a generous heart and an ample figure appeared before Lin Li.

Standing at one meter seventy-two, with delicate, pretty features and a curvaceous, fiery body, she was the kind of girl that would make any man's heart race.

Of course, Lin Li wasn't among those who would be swept off their feet by her.

Having known her for so many years, he'd built up a certain immunity to her charm.

"Come on in!" Su Yue cheerfully invited Lin Li inside, bending down to grab a pair of men's slippers from the shoe cabinet and placing them in front of him.

"Can't handle this!" As Su Yue casually bent over, a flash of white at her collar made Lin Li, who had been confident in his resistance, immediately start reciting the Heart Calming Incantation.

"Prosperity, civilization, freedom, equality, justice, integrity..."

After chanting the twenty-four-character Heart Calming Incantation twice, Lin Li felt the beautiful woman before him turn into a mere skeleton of pink bones, no longer able to disturb him.

"Lin Li, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and put on the slippers and come in!" Su Yue urged when she saw him frozen at the door.

"Ah... oh..."

Snapped out of it by Su Yue's call, Lin Li instantly returned from his Zen-like state to normal.

As he slipped on the slippers and walked inside, catching a glimpse of Su Yue's swaying figure in her thin, strappy nightgown, he quickly averted his gaze and silently recited the Heart Calming Incantation again.

"Calling you over early in the morning to help me unclog the drain—really sorry to put you through this..." Su Yue poured Lin Li a glass of his favorite Happy Soda for Otaku and handed it to him.

"No problem, I've got nothing else to do anyway..." Lin Li took the soda she offered and took a small sip.

"So what's up with your kitchen drain? Didn't I unclog it last week? How's it blocked again?"

Hearing Lin Li's question, Su Yue felt a bit embarrassed. She raised her right hand and scratched her cheek with a slender finger. "I accidentally dropped a handful of greens into the drain while washing vegetables."

"Alright, got it." Lin Li nodded, then downed the remaining half glass of Happy Soda for Otaku in one gulp before heading to Su Yue's kitchen to help her unclog the drain.

As they say, practice makes perfect. Over the years, having unclogged Su Yue's drain many times, Lin Li had become quite skilled at it.

A moment later, the clogged drain was cleared by Lin Li in just a few tries.

"All done. Be more careful from now on, and don't let it clog again." Lin Li washed his hands in the kitchen, then walked out to the living room and said to Su Yue, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

"Thanks a lot!" Su Yue said with a bright smile. Then she got up from the sofa and went to her bedroom to change clothes.

When she came out of the bedroom wearing a pretty floral-print dress, Lin Li looked at her with some confusion.

"There's no food left in the fridge. I'm going to the market to buy some ingredients for lunch."

So she was going grocery shopping... Lin Li nodded. "Want me to come with you?"

"No need. Just stay home and watch TV." Su Yue shook her head, then picked up her bag from the sofa and headed out the door.