What Kind of Joke Is This? What Decent Person Would Engage in Dual Cultivation?

Night fell, and Lu Chen went down the mountain again.

This time, he came straight to the House of Ten Thousand Beauties wearing a bronze mask.

Who would have thought that the House of Ten Thousand Beauties was already in the palm of his hand?

The first-floor hall was still packed to the brim.

Those who could not find seats simply stood.

The moment Lu Chen entered, the crowd surged toward him and surrounded him.

As if by prior agreement, they all raised the storage pouches in their hands.

There was no need to ask. Their storage pouches definitely contained spirit herbs.

"Everyone, don't rush. First, go to Zhao Hong to register your names and hand over the spirit herbs. I'll refine pills for each of you, but let me make one thing clear first—I'm not refining pills for you for free."

Lu Chen shouted.

"We know. Isn't it just Dual Cultivation?"

Several female cultivators struck flirtatious poses and repeatedly cast seductive glances at Lu Chen.

"..."

Lu Chen was speechless.

Dual Cultivation my ass.

"Forget it. As long as you hand over the spirit herbs needed for alchemy, you can buy back the refined pills at one-third of the usual price. If you can accept that condition, go register with Zhao Hong."

Lu Chen said helplessly.

"Senior, what about female cultivators like us who don't have any Spirit Stones on us?"

A female cultivator asked loudly.

"Then Dual Cultivation it is, but not the kind of Dual Cultivation you're imagining. I'm a decent man, and even my Dual Cultivation is decent. Don't let your thoughts run crooked."

After thinking it over, Lu Chen still felt that absorbing female cultivators' vital essence and converting it into Yin-Yang Essence was a viable method.

So-called Dual Cultivation was merely drawing away a little of their vital essence.

"Decent Dual Cultivation?"

"What kind of joke is this?"

"What decent person engages in Dual Cultivation?"

Everyone was dumbfounded upon hearing this.

At that moment, Zhao Hong led his men in pushing the crowd back.

"Master, the pill-refining room has been prepared. Please go upstairs!"

Zhao Hong had someone clear the way.

"Mm!"

Lu Chen nodded and headed upstairs.

Zhao Hong escorted Lu Chen upstairs. Just as he was about to go back down, Madam Chun grabbed him and pulled him aside.

"Let go of me!"

Zhao Hong flung Madam Chun away.

"You weren't like this before..."

Madam Chun said resentfully.

"When I liked you, you were a treasure. But now, you're dirty. You're dirty, understand? Get the hell away from me. Don't touch me—I think you're filthy!"

Zhao Hong swept his sleeve and left.

"You..."

Madam Chun gritted her teeth as she stared at Zhao Hong's departing back.

"You actually called me dirty?"

Madam Chun's eyes reddened. Was it wrong for me to try to find a way out?

She was filled with bitter hatred.

If soft methods would not work, then she would use hard ones.

Zhao Hong, Zhao Hong, you will never escape the Buddha's palm of this old lady's hand.

Madam Chun turned and left.

This time, Lu Chen moved directly into the Number One Heaven-grade room.

It had been arranged by Liu Yan'er, the Blissful Sect's Holy Maiden.

"Damn, a whole-floor penthouse at the top, a massive Gathering Spirit Formation, and a view over all of Hehuan Town. This is practically an invincible presidential suite in the cultivation world."

Lu Chen was delighted.

Cultivation was already hard enough.

There was nothing wrong with indulging a little now and then.

"Liu Yan'er requests an audience with Master!"

Just as Lu Chen sat down, Liu Yan'er's voice came from outside the door.

"Come in!"

Lu Chen took out a teacup, lifted the teapot, and filled it.

A faint tea fragrance immediately spread through the room.

He took a small sip.

By then, Liu Yan'er had pushed open the door and entered.

"What do you want with me?"

Lu Chen set down his teacup and looked at Liu Yan'er.

This tea was good. It actually contained a faint trace of spiritual energy—it was spirit tea.

"I heard that Master was looking for a teleportation formation, so I personally found a set of teleportation platforms for Master."

As Liu Yan'er spoke, she flipped her right hand, and two tiny formation platforms appeared in her palm.

With a wave of her right hand, the two platforms flew from her hand, rapidly enlarged, and landed on the floor.

Fortunately, the sitting room was large enough. Otherwise, it would not have held both platforms.

"These two formation platforms can expand and shrink, making them convenient to carry. Good stuff!"

Lu Chen praised.

"I shall demonstrate for Master!"

As Liu Yan'er spoke, she stepped onto one of the formation platforms.

She directly placed several Spirit Stones into a recessed groove on the platform. The platform Devouring the Spirit Stones' spiritual energy, countless formation patterns began to emerge across its surface. A mass of spiritual light rose from the platform and instantly enveloped Liu Yan'er.

The formation patterns on the other platform lit up as well.

The void twisted in an instant, and a mass of spiritual light emerged atop the platform.

When the light faded, Liu Yan'er appeared on the other formation platform.

"A spatial formation... Void Shift..."

Lu Chen was both startled and delighted.

This thing was excellent.

At a critical moment, it could be used to escape with one's life.

Liu Yan'er then teleported back along the same route from the nearby platform.

Just like that, she began playing at blinking between the two formation platforms in the room.

Lu Chen truly had not expected teleportation platforms could be used like this.

She was outrageously wealthy.

Just watching made Lu Chen's heart ache. After all, each teleportation used up several Spirit Stones.

And they were not ordinary Spirit Stones, but High-Grade Spirit Stones.

Liu Yan'er could no longer be described merely as a tycoon.

Was the Blissful Sect really that loaded?

"Master, this set of platforms has a maximum teleportation range of five hundred li. Beyond five hundred li, it will fail. Each use consumes six High-Grade Spirit Stones."

Liu Yan'er stopped after playing around for a while.

"..."

Lu Chen was depressed.

Six High-Grade Spirit Stones per use?

What kind of joke was that?

Even if this set of platforms were given to him, he could not afford to use it.

"You... How many High-Grade Spirit Stones do you still have?"

Lu Chen looked at Liu Yan'er. In any case, he did not have even a single High-Grade Spirit Stone.

"Ah..."

Liu Yan'er froze at his question, then flipped her right hand. A storage pouch appeared in her hand, and she respectfully offered it to Lu Chen.

Lu Chen took it and opened it. The spiritual light inside the storage pouch immediately dazzled him so badly that he could barely keep his eyes open.

There were at least dozens of High-Grade Spirit Stones in the pouch.

The Blissful Sect's Holy Maiden really was rolling in wealth.

"People don't offer courtesy for no reason. Tell me, what do you want from me?"

As Lu Chen spoke, he put away the pouch of High-Grade Spirit Stones.

First the formation platforms, then a pouch of High-Grade Spirit Stones.

Heh heh, this little vixen must be asking for something.

"This... my cultivation has reached a bottleneck. Could Master grant me a Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill...?"

Liu Yan'er looked at Lu Chen with hopeful eyes.

"A Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill?"

Lu Chen was stunned when he heard that.

It took two hundred strands of Yin-Yang Essence to reconstruct a ruined Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill.

He still had two ruined Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pills on hand.

But he did not have enough Yin-Yang Essence.

"Master, I know this request is a little excessive... but if I can successfully break through to the Golden Core Realm, I can stomp that Blissful Holy Son beneath my foot. Then the position of Blissful Sect Master will be in the palm of my hand. I truly want to improve myself. I hope Master will fulfill my wish!"

As Liu Yan'er spoke, she bowed to Lu Chen.

"Mm, the Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill is not easy to refine, and I don't have the spirit herbs needed to refine one either."

Lu Chen pondered for a moment, then said, "How about this? If you can gather one set of spirit herbs needed to refine a Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill, I'll help you obtain one. How does that sound?"

Lu Chen could only stall for as long as he could.

"Thank you, Master. I shall immediately order people to collect the spirit herbs needed for alchemy!"

Liu Yan'er was overjoyed.

"Master, a woman in white says she has an appointment with you and wishes to discuss the Dao of alchemy with you. Will you see her?"

At that moment, Zhao Hong's voice came from outside the door.

Hearing this, Lu Chen thought, So she came after all.