Chapter 67: Free of Attachments, Shedding the Shackles of Dust
Having purchased the plot of land.
All the subsequent trivial matters—building the house and laying the tiles, officially registering their household in Guling Town once they owned property, and so on—
Fang Shu left entirely to his second uncle, Yu Le.
Having earned his second uncle a family estate this time, Fang Shu was delighted, but he also let out an enormous sigh of relief.
With this house, so long as his second uncle lived steadily in Guling Town from now on, even if he fell so low as to need to sell blood to support the household again, he presumably would not turn into a Blood Ghost.
With work and an estate, aside from lacking a wife, Fang Shu felt he had already arranged everything quite thoroughly for his second uncle.
What he needed to do next was devote himself wholeheartedly to his own cultivation, without touching any worldly distractions.
In an instant, Fang Shu felt as though a shackle around his heart had been unfastened.
He seemed to realize something.
That very day, he entered the meditation chamber of Solitary Gu Hall. Borrowing this sense of ease in body and mind, he circulated his qi and blood, tempering his sinews and bones.
After only one night, the words in his Dao Register changed:
[Realm: First-Tribulation Essence-Refining Human Immortal (89%)]
His cultivation progress had indeed surged. Though it was only "three percent," compared with his usual cultivation, it was still a rare and precious gain.
Especially since Fang Shu now needed only "one percent" more to cultivate his First-Tribulation realm to ninety percent!
According to what the books said, under such circumstances, more impatient immortals could try taking potent tiger-and-wolf medicines, make up that final ten percent