Wen Jiu had already settled in Winterfrost City, so he no longer rented a Cave Abode. Instead, he had bought a mountain of his own.
For a Core Formation Cultivator from the Black-and-White Divine Hall, buying a home was easy enough.
He certainly didn't have to shoulder a loan for decades.
He gave Ji Yuan the location in the south of the city, and Ji Yuan turned into a streak of light and flew over.
Before long, amid the many "white-haired old men," he spotted the mountain Wen Jiu had described.
Unlike the Cave Abodes of other Core Formation Cultivators, Wen Jiu's mountain-protecting Formation could regulate the temperature somewhat. His mountain was still a "black-haired old man."
Ji Yuan had barely arrived when a gap opened in the mountain-protecting Formation.
Wen Jiu had clearly been waiting for him.
Ji Yuan flew through and reached the courtyard halfway up the mountain.
No sooner had he landed than the courtyard gate opened. Wen Jiu stood there smiling in a black-and-white robe, beside a slender woman holding a little girl with twin ponytails.
"Greetings, Brother Wen, and sister-in-law."
Ji Yuan wore a simple blue-green robe. With his youthful scholar's face, he looked quite handsome.
"No need for formalities, Brother Li. Come in, come in."
Wen Jiu greeted him with a laugh.
When they had first met, Ji Yuan had thought Wen Jiu was a man of few words.
Only after getting to know him did he discover that Wen Jiu was a chatterbox.
The slender woman beside him also gave Ji Yuan a graceful bow and said with a smile,
"Greetings, Brother Li."
Wen Jiu's wife was named Yan Lanlan. She was also a Core Formation Cultivator, though she was still at the Golden Core Early Stage.
Like Wen Jiu, she had joined