Over the next month.
Apart from focusing on his cultivation, Ye Chen spent his days refining pills and accumuting Spirit Stones.
After becoming familiar with the process of refining the Essence Cultivation Pill, Ye Chen could produce two to three high-grade Essence Cultivation Pills each time he opened the furnace.
However, he kept them for his own use, otherwise, he could have earned even more.
The high-grade Essence Cultivation Pills were extremely effective.
Coupled with the increasingly powerful effects of the Longxiang Prajna Art, Ye Chen could clearly feel his progress every day.
Perhaps in just six months, he could break through to the Fifth Layer of Qi Refining.
Indeed, cultivation could be built upon resources.
But the prerequisite was having resources.
For instance, Ye Chen consumed high-grade Essence Cultivation Pills daily.
In a month, that amounted to six low-grade Spirit Stones.
Besides the Essence Cultivation Pills, he also consumed Elephant Blood Pills to strengthen his body.
All of which were high-grade.
Elephant Blood Pills were more expensive, being a unique pill of the Longxiang Sect, monopolized by them.
For low-grade Elephant Blood Pills, one Spirit Stone could only buy five pills.
For high-grade Elephant Blood Pills, it was a direct one-to-one exchange.
Thirty pills a month meant thirty low-grade Spirit Stones.
In addition, Ye Chen was too zy to cook for himself.
He used Inedia Pills, one a day, to supplement his nutrition.
All in all, Ye Chen consumed nearly forty low-grade Spirit Stones worth of resources in pills alone each month.
This didn't even include the Spirit Stones needed for other Magic and Cultivation Techniques.
This treatment was at least ten times better than when he was with his family.
A quick calcution made Ye Chen sigh from the bottom of his heart.
Indeed, in any world, having money allows you to live better.
...
During this month.
Ye Chen visited Lin Ke'er once a week to deliver pills.
Since Lin Ke'er first felt threatened.
Every time Ye Chen arrived, she would lead him to her room.
It seemed she wanted to avoid Lu Jing.
But every time Ye Chen finished delivering the pills and was about to leave the room.
Lu Jing would coincidentally come out.
She wore different outfits each time, unabashedly showcasing her voluptuous figure.
She was especially enthusiastic in greeting Ye Chen.
Even though Lin Ke'er would always look displeased at these times.
Ye Chen, however, acted as if he didn't notice at all.
Instead, he happily chatted with Lu Jing.
Getting to know Lu Jing better.
This made Lin Ke'er grit her teeth behind Ye Chen's back, unable to maintain her calm demeanor.
Of course, Ye Chen wasn't oblivious to Lin Ke'er's emotions.
But what if he was aware?
Ye Chen wasn't some genuine Lick Spirit!
The gifts were merely to complete the System's tasks.
Although Ye Chen had to admit, to outsiders, his actions seemed like licking.
But Ye Chen had the right to choose whom he wanted to lick.
Lu Jing, in order to gain some benefits from him.
Was so enthusiastic.
Even offering him some perks.
Although he could only see a little, nothing important.
But her attitude was clear.
And what about you, Lin Ke'er?
A demeanor of indifference, like a lotus untouched by mud.
The difference was evident.
However, Ye Chen didn't pn to immediately switch to licking Lu Jing and giving her gifts.
He couldn't be too proactive.
He should wait until Lin Ke'er went into the mountains.
Then slowly, due to Lu Jing's initiative, shift his attention to her.
To win over a diamond bachelor like him, willing to spend on women, Lu Jing would surely put in some effort.
After all, if there was only one tenfold.
Ye Chen would definitely have to take the initiative to give.
But if there were two tenfold female cultivators, both wanting benefits from him.
Then the buyer's market would turn into a seller's market.
After all, his System could only be triggered once a week.
...
Lin Ke'er was also helpless in this situation.
After all, it was Ye Chen who was giving things.
Even though he gave them weekly, it had become a routine.
But she couldn't just go to the One Leaf Pill Shop and tell Ye Chen to give her the gifts directly, without coming to her house.
That would be too unseemly.
So Lin Ke'er made up her mind.
After this trip to the mountains, once she had money.
She would immediately move out and no longer live with that wretched Lu Jing.
The sense of crisis brought by Lu Jing made Lin Ke'er fear losing Ye Chen, the Lick Spirit.
At the same time, Lin Ke'er felt that going into the mountains was dangerous, and she should prepare as much as possible.
Plus, with Ye Chen providing the pills needed for cultivation.
Lin Ke'er deyed her trip into the mountains by a whole month longer than pnned.
The herb gathering team Lin Ke'er chose was carefully selected.
The leader was a te-stage Qi Refining female cultivator, known for her fairness and good reputation.
Lin Ke'er had worked hard to secure a spot.
But the team couldn't wait indefinitely for Lin Ke'er if there were vacancies.
If she didn't join this time, they would repce her.
Although Ye Chen provided pills for her daily cultivation.
The expenses of cultivating immortality were still too high.
Lin Ke'er herself was unemployed, with no source of income, and her savings of Spirit Stones were dwindling.
If she deyed any longer, she feared she wouldn't even be able to pay the rent.
In such circumstances, Lin Ke'er could only agree with the team leader to set off early the next morning.
But the day before departure.
Lin Ke'er proactively went to the One Leaf Pill Shop to find Ye Chen...
...
"Immortal Master, the female cultivator named Lin Ke'er is here to visit."
Inside the room, Ye Chen had just finished refining a batch of Elephant Blood Pills.
Looking at the ten high-grade Elephant Blood Pills, Ye Chen was in a great mood.
Upon hearing the report from the maid outside the door.
Ye Chen was slightly taken aback.
Calcuting the time, it was only the sixth day, not yet a week.
After some thought, Ye Chen instructed the maid to invite Lin Ke'er in.
Since Lin Ke'er had resigned, she could no longer directly enter the backyard.
Ye Chen also stepped out of the room, closing the door behind him, waiting for Lin Ke'er in the courtyard.
The room still carried the lingering fragrance of freshly refined pills.
Ye Chen didn't want anyone to know he could refine Elephant Blood Pills.
Soon, Lin Ke'er arrived.
But her attire was different from usual.
She wore long clothes and pants, a bck outfit.
Quite different from her usual long dress demeanor.
Her hair was tied up high.
Her cool face had a touch more heroism.
"Fairy Lin, what brings you here?"
Seeing her, Ye Chen greeted with a smile.
The maid also served spiritual tea on the stone table.
As an Alchemist of the shop, Ye Chen enjoyed such treatment.
Lin Ke'er looked at Ye Chen and spoke earnestly, "Fellow Daoist Ye, tomorrow morning, I will head into the mountains for my first herb gathering..."
"This trip into the mountains will take quite some time, probably about a month."
"Fellow Daoist Ye, you are my only friend at the Silver Moon Market, and the only one who truly cares for me."
"Naturally, I had to inform you before setting off."
Hearing this, Ye Chen suddenly understood.
So she came to tell him she was leaving.
Previously, Ye Chen might have felt a bit reluctant.
After all, she was the only tenfold.
Lin Ke'er going into the mountains meant Ye Chen would earn fewer Spirit Stones.
But now...
With Lu Jing, another tenfold female cultivator.
Whether Lin Ke'er left or not was irrelevant.
So Ye Chen smiled lightly, "Then I wish Fairy Lin a fruitful journey into the mountains..."
Ye Chen's attitude, completely different from what Lin Ke'er expected, made her pause.
How could Ye Chen not show any reluctance upon hearing she was going into the mountains?
Nor did he show any signs of worry?
This was too strange!
