After the medicinal herbs were dealt with, the maids had taken Chu Lingxi away to bathe, comb her hair, and change into fresh clothes. Steaming pastries were being prepared in the kitchen as well.
Lin Fan's mind settled completely.
Outside, the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce was still struggling to hold on. It was buying up the Commandery City's high-grade medicinal herbs at a frantic pace, clinging to its plan to monopolize them and dreaming of dragging him down.
But they could never have imagined that he had already slipped past their blockade. Their calculations were doomed to come to nothing.
For that, he had his Hidden Dragon Breath Concealment Technique to thank. It had kept them convinced that he had only just entered the Early Bright Force Realm.
Lin Fan walked to the cushion where he often sat in the courtyard and settled cross-legged upon it.
A gentle breeze brushed through the courtyard. All was quiet.
Lin Fan closed his eyes. With a thought, his thirty-thousandfold Cultivation Acceleration activated once more.
Vigorous Inner Qi surged through his limbs and bones, washing through his meridians again and again, tempering his sinews and bones, and generating fresh Inner Qi.
In the days that followed, Lin Fan remained relaxed and at ease. He refined pills and cultivated diligently every day, never once stopping.
Now and then, he offered Chu Lingxi a few pointers on her cultivation. He was her master in name, after all.
Most of the time, though, he had Chu Lingxi accompany Lin Ruoruo in studying poetry, books, etiquette, and such under a female tutor. There was no rush to cultivate. A few infusions of his Inner Qi would take care of that.
As for the hostile standoff with the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall and all the schemes and turmoil outside,