Chapter 25: Chance Encounter

  For over ten days, Qin Luo Yi went to the training room every day for cultivation. Even when Xie Ru Yan pulled her to see the dowry, she just took a quick glance and left after going through the motions.

  In her heart, there was no joy and anticipation of a bride-to-be.

  With the help of the elixir in her bracelet, the spiritual energy inside her body had increased by several times. However, her current physical condition was really not suitable for cultivation. The forcibly absorbed spiritual energy ran extremely slowly and stagnated in her meridians!

  To make it run successfully for a whole week is more exhausting than having a fierce fight with someone who has high martial arts skills! It requires using all one's strength!

  So most of the time, she can only keep the absorbed spiritual energy in her dantian, allowing it to rotate and circulate within a small range inside.

  What made her even more depressed was that the spiritual power hidden in her dantian couldn't be used for attacking... It's like a person guarding a huge treasure bowl, watching the treasures inside increase but unable to take them out and use them.

  Qin Luoyi withdrew from his cultivation state, a hint of helplessness flashing in his pitch-black eyes.

  He secretly sighed, actually it's not like he couldn't attack at all!

  The spiritual energy inside her body, because it was absorbed from the spiritual elixir, is extremely pure and has now grown to the size of an egg. However, that spiritual energy in the dantian cannot quickly pass through the meridians and can only erupt directly from her abdomen...

  Uh...

  Someone else just raised their hand and spiritual energy came out, but his own spiritual energy was gushing out from his belly, he thought to himself that it's really speechless!

  Better than nothing!

  At critical moments, there is a big difference between having spiritual power and not having it!

  Having made up her mind, Qin Luo Yi became cheerful again. She lifted the hem of her apricot-colored skirt and jumped down from the soft couch, opened the door and walked out.

  After more than ten days of intense consumption, the spiritual elixir in her bracelet had been almost depleted. She had to go and buy spiritual plants, refine them into pills, in order to continue cultivating.

  Dai accompanied Da He out of Yingxue Garden and happened to run into Xing Er who was carrying a box of exquisite jewelry back from outside.

  "Miss, the young lady asks you to take a look at this box of jewelry and see if there's anything that catches your eye... If you like something, you can keep it and wear it on the wedding day." Xing'er said with a smile.

  Qin Luo didn't even glance at the jewelry box, waved her hand and said indifferently: "You help me pick one out." As she spoke, she continued walking forward.

  Xing'er pouted and smiled with her eyes narrowed, jogging alongside her: "Young Mistress, it's not a servant's job to help you choose, why should I help you?"

  Qin stopped in her tracks and thought for a moment: "Alright, you can leave it there. I'll go out for a bit, and when I come back, we can take our time to choose."

  Xing'er nodded and turned to walk towards the Yingxue Garden with a smile. As for the county master taking Dahei out, she and Liu'er as well as other maids and even the palace guards had already gotten used to it.

  Qin Luo wore a cloak and walked to a secluded place, soon arriving at the tall wall surrounding the Wang Fu. Sitting on Da Hei's back, they easily left the Wang Fu.

  This time she only removed the veil from her face and didn't paint a disguise on her face like last time.

  It had been over a dozen days since she last saw that popsicle boy, Teng Mu Changqing. She had deliberately inquired from the Wang Fu's guards and found out that nothing special had happened in the capital during this period of time.

  It seems that the man either met with foul play or has already left the capital... As for guessing they left the capital, it's because when she heard them speaking that day, she noticed that Tong Mu Lang Qing and the people from Chu Guo's capital had very different accents.

  She went straight to Xianling Square, a shop that sold spiritual plants she had visited last time, and let Dahei wait on one side.

  Unlike the last time when there were many people and she was treated coldly, as soon as she walked in, a neatly dressed black-clad youth who looked very agile came forward to greet her.

  The young man's sharp eyes swept over her, taking in her stunning face, the exquisite clothes made by the famous Jade Showroom of Chu State, and the unassuming yet luxurious headpiece... Her captivating eyes sparkled with a hint that this young girl was either rich or noble.

  The smile on his face grew more intense as he asked her with great enthusiasm what she needed.

  Qin Luo's clothes fluttered slightly as she hooked her lips, rattling off the spiritual plants she needed in one breath, and finally asked: "Do you have these things here?"

  "Ah! Miss, the spiritual plants we have here are the most complete in the entire capital city! Please wait a moment, I'll get them for you right away!" The young man in black exclaimed excitedly.

  Qin Luo nodded slightly.

  It was afternoon and there weren't many people in the shop, perhaps because she had ordered too many things at once, so everyone inside turned their heads to quietly size her up.

  Qin fell off his clothes and didn't think much of it.

  Nor did he drink the tea served by the young shop assistant, but turned around and walked towards the shelves where the sample plants were placed, and looked at them slowly.

  "Brother! It's right here, I just saw that incredibly powerful 500-year-old Purple Lingzhi mushroom... Ah, unfortunately, I didn't bring enough money and had to leave first. I don't know if it's still here now..." A clear, crisp, and extremely pleasant voice mixed with a hint of regret suddenly rang out in the store.

  Qin's clothes moved slightly in her heart. She turned her head back and took a glance.

  A hint of playful smile appeared at the corner of her lips, Zi Lingzhi... was also a 500-year-old one, and it was on the list of spiritual plants she had just reported to Xiaoshuai. Fortunately, she came early, if she was late, it would have fallen into someone else's hands.

  That was a kind of spiritual plant that she must use to refine the Seventh-Order Purple Heart Pill.

  The woman who spoke was very young, only about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a palm-sized face, skin that was tender and delicate to the touch, and features that were exceptionally fine.

  Wearing a pale pink cheongsam, the hem embroidered with light blue butterflies about to fly, and draped in a layer of white gauze. As she moves lightly, there is a feeling that she might drift away with the wind. Her silky black hair floats casually around her waist, her figure slender, her waist weak, making her even more charming and moving.

  What a beauty!

  Qin Luoyi raised an eyebrow and silently praised herself in her heart.

  "A five-hundred-year-old Zi Ling Chi? It's indeed a good thing! Cousin, don't worry, you've only been gone for half an hour at most, it must still be there." The man accompanying the woman in pink clothing spoke up to comfort her, his voice warm and pleasant.

  A man in his forties, resembling a shopkeeper, came forward with swift steps and bowed respectfully, saying: "Your humble servant has seen the Third Imperial Highness!"

  Qin Luo Yi was admiring the handsome men and beautiful women when her phoenix eyes narrowed.

  Third Prince?

  The man in white clothes with his back to her was actually her fiancé - Chu Yixiu?

  The corners of her mouth curled up into a perfect smile, and her luck was also unusually good!

  "Boss Yu, I heard that your store has a 500-year-old purple lingzhi mushroom? Bring it out and let me take a look!" Chu Yixiu raised his hand elegantly to gesture for him to stand up, then directly stated his purpose.

  "This...". Boss Yu's face changed, and he hesitantly opened his mouth: "Your Highness, just now, that purple lingzhi has already been bought by someone!"

  While speaking, he glanced sideways in the direction of Qin Luo Yi with the corner of his eye and quickly looked away.