Li Qinghai returo the Green Bamboo Residence.

  The first thing he did was to check the Book of Good Fortune.

  The Book recorded:

  [You survived an attack from a powerful cultivator. Although the cultivator only used ohousandth of their strength.]

  [The main reason you survived is that someone helped you block the fatal attack.]

  [This is the effect of your charm, you have gained good fortune, and your charisma is dazzling.]

  Aroke of good fortune.

  Although this good fortune didn’t increase his strength and wasn’t very signifit, its existence meant that in his reination, he might be a handsome man.

  Anyway, good fortune is always wele, and Li Qinghai wasn’t picky.

  After reading the Book of Good Fortune, Li Qinghai proceeded to check his Ste Bag.

  He took out the Ste Bag from his pocket and admired it fondly.

  The Ste Bag given by a big shot was different; not only was it edged with gold thread, but it was also engraved with exquisite patterns, clearly high-end and cssy.

  The Ste Bag was a treasure Li Qinghai had dreamed of.

  With this item, anything could be stored away, making it extremely ve.

  Li Qinghai then infused a trace of spiritual energy, along with a bit of mental power, into it.

  He immediately saile of glittering spirit stones!

  For a small cultivator like Li Qinghai at the Qi Refining stage, this was definitely a fortune.

  However, the Ste Bag didn’t just tain spirit stones.

  Li Qinghai quickly discovered several books.

  "Beast pendium"

  "plete Guide to Spiritual Pnts"

  "Insights on Magical Artifacts and Crafting"

  "Alchemy and the Properties of Spiritual Herbs"

  "Essentials of Talismans and Formations"

  …………

  Li Qinghai skimmed through them; there were no powerful cultivation manuals, just introductory knowledge books.

  However, Li Qinghai khat for a novice cultivator like him, uanding this knowledge was indeed quite important.

  Li Qinghai remembered that on the mountaintop, the big shot had clearly instructed him not to wander around during this time and to focus on cultivating at home.

  Perhaps the big shot intended for him to read more books and only go out after finishing them.

  Such a powerful figure was not someone Li Qinghai dared to provoke, so he could only follow the big shot's instrus and read at home.

  Otherwise, if the big shot suddenly decided to test his knowledge and he couldn’t answer, he might be sent to the Refle Cliff to reflect for years...

  That would be truly disastrous!

  Even though he couldn’t go out and court death, reading was still better than cultivating!

  Li Qinghai casually picked up the "Beast pendium" and began to read.

  But in fact, Li Qinghai misuood Liu Daoyuan's iions.

  Liu Daoyuan's real iion was to prevent Li Qinghai from stantly seekih and to have him improve his strength first.

  The reason he left so many books was just to let Li Qinghai learn some basiowledge in his spare time.

  Who knew Li Qinghai would pletely misinterpret it?

  Meanwhile.

  Lu Beixue also returo her Falling Snow Residence.

  As soon as she ehe small house, the old dy floated out from the neckce.

  Havihe old dy once before, Lu Beixue was retively calm at this moment.

  "Who are you?"

  "You call me Golden Elixir Granny."

  "What are your iions in followio seize my body?"

  Golden Elixir Granny asked with i, "If I really wao seize your body, how would you respond?"

  "There's no way to respond, you're much strohan me," Lu Beixue said holy.

  "Hehe, you’re quite straightforward, young dy," Golden Elixir Granny said, then added an expnation.

  "Rest assured, I won't seize your body. I primarily cultivate fire teiques, excelling in alchemy. And you have a perfect mutated Ice Spiritual Root, this body is not suitable for me."

  Perfect mutated Ice Spiritual Root?

  Lu Beixue was naturally aware of spiritual roots.

  Mundane, low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, top-grade, perfect.

  Perfect mutation could be sidered a genius among geniuses.

  If she had a perfect mutated Ice Spiritual Root, how could she have been stuck at the third level of Qi Refining after three years of cultivation?

  So Lu Beixue shook her head slightly, "You must be mistaken, I only have a low-grade Ice Spiritual Root."

  On this issue, Golden Elixir Gran a bit embarrassed.

  She cleared her throat lightly.

  Then said, "I reviously tricked by a vilin, causio suffer backsh from heavenly fire during alchemy. I used a secret teique to borrow your Ice Spiritual Root to suppress the fire poison. So, the strength of your spiritual root was temporarily reduced to low-grade."

  Hearing this, Lu Beixue's eyes widened in anger.

  So, she was a favored child of heaven!

  But because of Golden Elixir Granny, she had been humiliated for three years.

  If not for Li Qinghai saving her, she might have perished.

  Let alone having the ce to experiehe life of a genius.

  Golden Elixir Granny tinued, "Actually, acc to my inal pn, even if you had a low-grade spiritual root, with normal cultivation for a year, I could recover my injuries by abs your spiritual energy."

  Upon hearing this, Lu Beixue trembled with rage!

  So, for three years, she had been stuck at the third level of Qi Refining because Golden Elixir Granny had been stealing her spiritual energy!!

  Lu Beixue now wished she could fight Golden Elixir Granny!

  Seeing Lu Beixue so furious, Golden Elixir Granny quickly offered some fort.

  "I am now awake, and I promise to make up for the three years you wasted. I even help you bee a powerful figure iure!"

  Although Lu Beixue was very angry, she did not lose her reason.

  She khat sihings had already happehere was no going back.

  The only optio was to cooperate with Golden Elixir Granny.

  "What do you wao do iurn for helping me bee stronger?"

  Seeing Lu Beixue calm down so quickly, Golden Elixir Granny nodded slightly in appreciation.

  "Your current strength is still too weak. At least wait until you reach the Diviransformation stage before we talk."

  With that, Golden Elixir Granny ged the subjed tinued.

  "By the way, why has your spiritual energy acquisition been so slow these past few years? If you hadn't found a pce with slightly denser spiritual energy today, I wouldn't know when I could wake up."

  "The thing is..."

  Lu Beixue expihe situation briefly.

  She talked about being bullied while cultivating on M Cultivation Mountaiing in not having a good pce to cultivate.

  She mentioned her spiritual herbs beied, leaving her without enough spirit stoo exge for elixirs for cultivation.

  Basically, she could only exge for one Qi densing Elixir a year, which was very meager.

  All along, she had been cultivating in Falling Snow Residence, so her speed was naturally slow.

  Golden Elixir Granny, upon hearing this, was so angry that her soul trembled.

  "That Ye Fan! Such despicable behavior, making me, Golden Elixir Granny, sleep for two extra years! Men are indeed no good!"

  Lu Beixue disagreed and softly retorted, "There are good men..."

  Golden Elixir Granny thought of something, "The good man you mentioned, is it the one I met on the mountaintop before?"

  Lu Beixue didn’t answer, and Golden Elixir Granny took it as a silent firmation and tinued.

  "I see him as just a pretty face, probably only ied in your beauty."

  "He's different!" Lu Beixue argued, uo tolerate Golden Elixir Granny's snder of Li Qinghai.

  "I’ve used more spirit stohan you’ve eaten rice. You’re still young and ’t tell the sweet talk of men! Take my advice, cut off your feelings early, and don’t get in too deep!"

  Lu Beixue turned her head away, clearly not wanting to eh Golden Elixir Granny anymore.

  Golden Elixir Granny pondered slightly, thinking to herself, this young girl seems deeply infatuated; I must make her see that boy's hypocrisy and iions soon!

  CPDD