There were plenty of things, but looking at most of them now, he really couldn't imagine any occasion where they would come in handy.
Especially those pots, bowls, and basins. Chu Xingchen worried that they might have been made from some eminent monk's ashes.
He certainly wasn't in the habit of using someone else's skull as a rice bowl.
So, under Chu Xingchen's strict orders, none of those strange-looking pots, bowls, and basins were allowed into the kitchen.
As for everything else, Li Yingling could take whatever she wanted back to her room. Anything she didn't want would be tossed into an unoccupied side room.
Then there was that wooden fish an eminent monk had passed away over...
He honestly couldn't tell whether the thing was good or bad.
Chu Xingchen told Li Yingling to deal with it herself. If he saw it again, he would take its mallet and knock her little noggin with it.
So, despite the size of the pile, once they sorted through it, hardly anything was reliably useful.
Fortunately, the quilt wasn't something an eminent monk or some great master had sacrificed himself over.
It was just an ordinary silk quilt.
Otherwise, Chu Xingchen would probably keep feeling as though someone was lying on top of him whenever he slept at night.
After they finished sorting, most of the pile ended up in the side room.
And there was no cleaning to do, either.
The three soon gathered in Chu Xingchen's bedroom, exchanging looks as they prepared to hold an all-sect meeting.
Chu Xingchen took a Blood Qi Spirit Stone from his Spatial Ring and placed it on the table.
"All the spirit stones from that mine have been tainted by blood qi, like this."
Li Xingtian frowned slightly. The spirit stones he had used for teleportation at the mine had been like these. He had originally thought there were only a few, and that his master was simply using them up first.
"What's wrong with that?" Li Yingling picked up the Blood Qi Spirit Stone and examined it from every angle. "It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with it."
Li Yingling was clueless about cultivation. After all, she hadn't been cultivating for long, and her cultivation had shot upward purely on the strength of her talent. Everything she knew about cultivation came from reading novels and storybooks.
To her, the spirit stone had merely changed color. She could also sense that the amount of spiritual energy inside it hadn't decreased.
At most, it had just been dyed an ugly color.
Chu Xingchen offered a vivid example. "Suppose you took this thing out in front of the Demon-Suppression Bureau's main entrance. If you managed to crawl back out, that would mean those useless bastards were living off handouts."
Li Yingling understood immediately.
"So, Master, did we come to Yuzhou City this time to solve the spirit stone problem?"
"Yes. I've already asked someone to help resolve it." Chu Xingchen nodded lightly.
"For now, just behave yourselves and cultivate. Once the spirit stone problem is resolved, we'll find ourselves a nice place to settle."
Li Xingtian nodded to show that he understood.
Li Yingling, however, had a little idea of her own. Pouting, she looked pleadingly at her master.
"Master, Yuzhou City's Lantern Festival is coming up... I've never been to one in my whole life."
Li Yingling came from a wealthy, prominent family, but she was born to a concubine and received little affection.
Besides, her mother had been seriously ill for years. Li Yingling often stayed by her side, with few opportunities even to leave the estate, let alone go out and enjoy a festival.
Back at the estate, Li Yingling could only gaze at the high courtyard walls and listen to the sounds of merriment outside.
Perhaps only Li Yingling herself knew just how deeply she longed to see the fish and dragon lanterns dancing outside.
"All right... When the Lantern Festival comes, we'll all go out and enjoy ourselves for a day."
Chu Xingchen nodded in agreement. He understood his eldest disciple's circumstances. Her childhood hadn't been a happy one, and spending a day at the Lantern Festival was hardly a big deal.
Li Yingling wasn't an idiot, either, and she had never caused him any trouble.
She was fairly considerate, and she didn't drop the ball at crucial moments.
"Thank you, Master!" A brilliant smile spread across Li Yingling's face. "You're the best master in the whole world!"
Once Chu Xingchen had been awarded Li Yingling's title of best in the world, the meeting drew to a close.
These Blood Qi Spirit Stones weren't suitable for Li Yingling's cultivation. After all, the blood qi inside could easily disrupt a cultivator's practice.
Someone with a higher cultivation level and steadier state of mind might be fine, but Li Yingling clearly didn't fall into that category.
So Li Yingling was told to spend more time practicing her divine abilities and strive to reach the next level.
Li Xingtian, on the other hand, could cultivate using the Blood Qi Spirit Stones. Now that Chu Xingchen thought about it, the cultivation method he practiced did seem a little sinister...
At the very least, it could drain someone's blood qi while they were still alive... No matter how he looked at it, that had something to do with evil cultivators.
Li Xingtian didn't ask any further questions about his cultivation method, and Chu Xingchen naturally didn't volunteer any explanations...
Chu Xingchen couldn't explain a cultivation method supplied by the system, either.
He just had to practice it. A cultivation method produced by the system naturally had no side effects, so it probably wouldn't turn him into some great demon.
Although practicing it might be a little sinister, its underlying nature probably wasn't too... sinister, right?
Having absorbed the blood qi of a Golden Core Stage cultivator, Li Xingtian had now risen to the foundation establishment middle stage, catching up to his senior sister.
And during their wait in Yuzhou City, Li Xingtian could cultivate with Blood Qi Spirit Stones. At this rate, the day the junior brother surpassed his senior sister should be just around the corner.
As for what Chu Xingchen would do?
Naturally... he would slack off openly and without shame.
After all, his eldest disciple was exceptionally gifted. Any divine ability she comprehended was one he comprehended.
His second disciple worked hard at cultivation. Whatever spiritual energy he cultivated was equivalent to Chu Xingchen cultivating it himself.
Thanks to the system's rewards, one spirit stone effectively did the work of two. If he used spirit stones to cultivate himself, that would be pure wastefulness.
So, after setting up a concealment formation around Li Xingtian's room to ensure his cultivation wouldn't produce spiritual energy fluctuations that attracted attention, Chu Xingchen had done everything he needed to do.
Previously, he had even needed to cook to satisfy his disciples' appetites. Now that they were in Yuzhou City, they could simply go out and eat whatever they wanted.
He had no spirit stones, but Chu Xingchen still had plenty of gold and silver.
As an immortal, he was dirt-poor; as a mortal, he possessed a vast fortune. That was a true portrait of Chu Xingchen's circumstances.
Thus, a few days later, with nothing to do, Chu Xingchen decided to train his state of mind-by fishing.
Fishing wasn't permitted inside Yuzhou City, so anyone who wanted to fish had to go outside the city.
And so, beside a large river not far from Yuzhou City, Chu Xingchen slouched in a chair with a fishing rod in hand, fishing at his leisure.
Every so often, a stream of pure spiritual energy flowed into Chu Xingchen's body-the feedback from Li Xingtian's cultivation.
He had achieved fully automated cultivation.
Moreover, thanks to that feedback, Chu Xingchen could tell how much Li Xingtian was slacking off that day. This was practically remote surveillance.
He could remotely catch any disciple who liked to slack off, though both of his disciples were quite diligent.
Li Xingtian stood out the most, devoting nearly all his time to cultivation.
Chu Xingchen frequently received feedback rewards from the system.
"Ah... looks like I'm going home empty-handed again."
As the sun began to sink toward the west, Chu Xingchen prepared to reel in his line and head home. He hadn't caught a single fish over the past few days.
He had barely fished in his previous life. After coming to this world, he had spent his time rushing from place to place just to recruit a disciple, leaving even less time for fishing.
But going home empty-handed was out of the question.
Even if he had to drain the river, he wasn't going home empty-handed and letting his disciples laugh at him.
Just as Chu Xingchen was about to reel in his line and give these stupid, uncooperative fish a little taste of a Golden Core True Person's might, something happened.
The rod in his hand suddenly grew heavy as he reeled it in.
Chu Xingchen's eyes lit up, and he hauled the rod upward with a powerful jerk.
He had finally caught a fish by actually fishing!
As the rod rose clear of the water, an enormous shape burst from the surface.
Chu Xingchen glanced over. What a huge fish...
Then he suddenly frowned and took a closer look.
Fuck! That wasn't a fish! It was one huge corpse!
This had to be Li Yingling's fault. That wooden fish was definitely cursed!
An eminent monk's merit, my ass! What kind of merit made someone reel in a corpse instead of a fish?
When I got back, I was making Li Yingling burn that damned wooden fish!
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