How to Get the Beautiful Senior Sisters to Come Dual Cultivate with Him?

In the Joyful Union Sect's rear mountain, inside Lu Chen's secret cave.

Lu Chen sat cross-legged on the ground, the Yin-Yang Creation Cauldron floating before him.

Thirteen strands of Yin-Yang Essence and thirty-nine waste pills had fused together inside the cauldron, where the faint sounds of wind and thunder could be heard.

Very soon, the Yin-Yang Cauldron calmed down.

The Yin-Yang Essence inside the cauldron vanished.

All manner of pill fragrances wafted out from within it.

Lu Chen was ecstatic.

He stared nervously at the Yin-Yang Cauldron before him.

It was time to open the mystery box.

A line of words promptly emerged on the cauldron's surface.

"Body-Tempering Pill: seven, two mid-grade ninth rank and five low-grade ninth rank; Spirit-Gathering Pill: eight, one high-grade ninth rank and seven low-grade ninth rank; Marrow-Washing Pill: five, one mid-grade ninth rank and four low-grade ninth rank; Spirit-Concentrating Pill: three, one high-grade ninth rank and two low-grade ninth rank; Foundation-Nourishing Pill: six, low-grade ninth rank; Beauty-Preserving Pill: ten, low-grade ninth rank; Blood-Burning Pill: two, low-grade ninth rank; Essence-Restoring Pill: three, low-grade ninth rank."

"Out of thirty-nine pills, there was actually a high-grade ninth-rank Spirit-Concentrating Pill. This Spirit-Concentrating Pill can help cultivators condense divine sense—it's the key to breaking through to Qi Refining, Fifth Level."

Lu Chen was thrilled. With these pills, why would he need to worry about raising his cultivation?

However, among all these waste pills, the most numerous were actually the Beauty-Preserving Pills, those utterly tasteless and useless things.

Then he thought it over. The Joyful Union Sect's inner sect was full of beautiful, enchanting senior sisters. A woman dressed herself for the one who appreciated her; the more beautiful a woman was, the more she cared about her appearance. Those senior sisters wanted their beauty to remain forever, so naturally they all wished to refine Beauty-Preserving Pills. There was nothing strange about that.

After all, a single Beauty-Preserving Pill could preserve one's looks for several decades.

Beauty-Preserving Pills had always been in high demand among female cultivators.

Ten Beauty-Preserving Pills could also be exchanged for quite a few Spirit Stones.

He lifted the cauldron's lid and saw crystal-clear pills lying quietly inside.

Then he ran into a problem.

Only then did he realize that he had no jade bottles for storing pills.

Pills had to be stored in jade bottles, because jade bottles could seal in their fragrance and made them easier to preserve.

Perhaps he could leave these pills in the Yin-Yang Cauldron and simply take them out from it whenever he needed them.

Lu Chen tried to store the Yin-Yang Cauldron, still containing the finished pills, within his dantian.

Whoosh!

With a single thought, the Yin-Yang Cauldron transformed into a streak of spiritual light and rushed into his dantian.

Sure enough, it could be stored in his dantian.

This way, he would not have to fear anyone discovering those pills.

He was now merely a pill-refining room menial disciple in the Joyful Union Sect, one of the lowest and most lowly disciples in the sect.

Menial disciples could not afford graded pills.

If anyone discovered graded pills on him, how could he explain it?

He stood and walked out of the cave to look at the sky.

It was still far from dawn.

He hurried back into the cave and sat cross-legged on the ground.

First, he would take Body-Tempering Pills to temper his meridians, tendons, and bones, strengthen his skeleton and meridians, and increase the strength of his body.

Then he would take Marrow-Washing Pills to cleanse his marrow and purge his body, further widen his meridians, purify his fleshly body, and expel the impurities within him.

Only after that would he take Qi-Gathering Pills to raise his cultivation realm.

First lay a solid foundation, then raise his cultivation—one step at a time.

There was no rushing it.

Lu Chen sought only one word: "steadiness."

With a flip of his right hand, a Body-Tempering Pill immediately appeared in his palm.

Without any hesitation, he swallowed the pill in one gulp.

The Body-Tempering Pill melted the moment it entered his stomach.

Lu Chen only felt a surge of pill power, like boiling water and an erupting volcano, rush from his abdomen toward his limbs and bones.

"..."

He nearly cried out in agony.

He hurriedly circulated the Five-Element Qi Refining Art to refine that violent pill power.

The meridians inside his body were repeatedly scoured by an unstoppable flood, as though they were about to be torn apart. The pain was unbearable.

Very soon, the pill power was completely absorbed.

His clothes were already soaked through with sweat.

One Body-Tempering Pill was far from enough.

He swallowed another.

Intense pain erupted inside him again.

The pill power of the Body-Tempering Pill was like countless sharp little blades slicing through his flesh, blood, tendons, and bones, shredding his originally narrow, clogged meridians, widening them, then reconnecting them anew.

This kind of pain was simply far more terrifying than death by a thousand cuts.

Lu Chen's vision went black from the pain.

Yet he gritted his teeth and endured it desperately.

For the Great Dao of Immortality, for the day when he would turn everyone in the Joyful Union Sect—from the sect master down to every inner sect senior sister—into his Furnace Tripods, he had to succeed. He had to succeed!

The pill power from the second Body-Tempering Pill was also completely refined by him.

A layer of impurities seeped from his skin. His physique had clearly grown stronger, and so had his strength.

But he was still far from being reborn and remade.

He continued taking Body-Tempering Pills.

He had previously reconstructed one high-grade ninth-rank Body-Tempering Pill. Adding the seven Body-Tempering Pills reconstructed this time, he had eight in total. He swallowed all five low-grade ninth-rank Body-Tempering Pills into his stomach.

His meridians began to reshape, his bones began to strengthen, and even his blood began to be purified.

The impurities inside him were constantly expelled from his body, while the filth covering his skin grew thicker and thicker.

"Two mid-grade ninth-rank Body-Tempering Pills and one high-grade ninth-rank Body-Tempering Pill remain."

Lu Chen looked at the Body-Tempering Pills in his hand. The medicinal power of these two mid-grade ninth-rank pills was far stronger than the five low-grade ninth-rank pills from before, while the high-grade ninth-rank pill was undoubtedly the strongest of all.

If these three Body-Tempering Pills were sold, they could fetch at least several thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

He had already endured five rounds of inhuman torment.

Gritting his teeth, he swallowed all three Body-Tempering Pills in a single gulp.

That one mouthful was equivalent to swallowing several thousand Spirit Stones.

The next instant, incomparably violent pill power erupted from within him.

Even though his body had already been tempered, he still nearly failed to withstand it.

Wherever this pill power passed, it swept away everything in its path like withered weeds and rotten wood. It seeped into his marrow, tempering his bones and making them hard as iron.

The pill power also penetrated deep into his bloodline, tempering his Spiritual Root.

His Spiritual Root became purer under the tempering of the pill power, and the speed at which he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth greatly increased.

This was true cleansing of essence and marrow, true rebirth and transformation.

Lu Chen felt as though his entire body had been crushed apart and reassembled by the immense pill power, over and over again. The impurities in his body were further expelled, and his skin became covered by a thick layer of filth.

He endured the agonizing pain with all his might.

He stubbornly did not make a sound.

Several times, he nearly fainted from the pain.

He was on the verge of breaking down completely.

But he knew he could not fall. He could not fall.

I can't fall!

Whenever he thought of the day Liu Fuyao had tossed him a bag of Spirit Stones, declared that he had no fate with the Great Dao of Immortality, and coldly tried to drive him down the mountain, he held on with desperate determination.

How can I let that woman look down on me?

He did not know how much time had passed.

He only felt the pain inside him gradually subside.

He had successfully endured it.

What followed was a sensation of unprecedented lightness throughout his body.

He could hear the faint sound of a mosquito flying past the cave entrance; in the pitch-black cave, he could see an ant crawling across the ground before him; he could smell the stench of a rotting fruit in the bushes outside.

His hearing, vision, sense of smell, tendons, bones, meridians, flesh, and blood had all been strengthened.

His whole body seemed to have been reborn, brimming with power.

His perception of the spiritual energy around him became sharper.

His body's affinity with spiritual energy also greatly increased.

Although his cultivation realm had not risen and he was still at Qi Refining, Second Layer, the strength and power of his body had definitely surpassed those of cultivators at the same level.

He continued taking Marrow-Washing Pills.

However, the effects of the Marrow-Washing Pills did not seem as great as he had imagined.

After Lu Chen took another five Marrow-Washing Pills, his body was strengthened even further.

His entire body was full of power, and he had the urge to throw back his head and let out a long roar.

When he clenched his right hand, the thick layer of impurity that had already crusted over on his arm immediately split with countless cracks.

With a shake of his right hand, the impurities covering his skin were instantly shaken away, revealing skin beneath as tender and smooth as a baby's.

The muscles on his arm bulged, their lines distinct and brimming with strength.

He rose from the ground.

The crust formed from the impurities on his body fell away in flakes.

Light shone in through the cave entrance.

Before he knew it, dawn had arrived.

He walked out of the cave and stopped beneath a large tree some distance away.

He took a deep breath, clenched his fist fiercely, and punched the trunk.

Bang!

Wood chips flew everywhere. It was as though the tree had been struck viciously by a thousand-pound hammer. A deep fist mark appeared in its hard trunk, and the entire tree shook violently, startling several birds from its branches into flight.

"This..."

Lu Chen was both shocked and delighted. He had once witnessed the power of Hu Biao's full-force strike at Qi Refining, Third Level, and it was no more than this.

The force of this punch of his was enough to rival a full-strength strike from a cultivator at Qi Refining, Third Level.

And he had not even used his full strength.

If he did use his full strength, even cultivators at Qi Refining, Third Level would not be able to withstand it.

Who would have thought that in just one night, he had tempered his body to such a powerful degree?

Whoever wanted to kill me?

Dream on!

He counted the waste pills on him. Of the sixty-three waste pills, he had used the Yin-Yang Cauldron to reconstruct forty-two over two attempts, leaving twenty-one waste pills.

Meanwhile, all the Yin-Yang Essence inside the Yin-Yang Cauldron had been used up.

What he lacked now was Yin-Yang Essence.

This Yin-Yang Essence could only be obtained through Dual Cultivation with someone.

Those inner sect senior sisters of the Joyful Union Sect considered themselves beautiful as flowers, and their standards were sky-high. They would absolutely never seek Dual Cultivation with lowly menial disciples from the sect.

Hmm, he needed to think of a way to make those lofty inner sect senior sisters come to him of their own accord for Dual Cultivation.

He had it. Couldn't he turn waste into treasure?

As long as he could become the disciple guarding the Waste Pill Repository, he would never lack pills again.

The Joyful Union Sect's Sect Grand Tournament was approaching.

Those inner sect senior sisters would surely be desperate to raise their cultivation, then make a name for themselves at the Sect Grand Tournament and draw the attention of the sect's elders, thereby rising above the common crowd.

The Joyful Union Sect was a sect that valued Dual Cultivation and pill refinement equally.

The inner sect senior sisters could already raise their cultivation through Dual Cultivation. If they could exchange Dual Cultivation for pills, then for them, they could both cultivate and obtain pills—killing two birds with one stone.

Quite a few inner sect senior sisters should be willing to make such a trade.

Hmm, that was how he would do it.

They would trade Dual Cultivation for pills.

Through Dual Cultivation, he could obtain Yin-Yang Essence, then use that Yin-Yang Essence to reconstruct waste pills and turn waste into treasure. Then he could use the reconstructed pills to make the inner sect senior sisters come to him for Dual Cultivation.

Each would take what they needed.

With this cycle repeating endlessly, it was simply a business that yielded ten thousand profits from a single investment.

Awesome!

I'm truly too clever.

But how was he supposed to carry it out?