txolops Chapter 214 Cohabitation
Chapter 214 Cohabitation
During the chat.
Li Ping also introduced Xiao Yunzhi to Ji Shuxuan and A Yun.
Although it was just a simple name, both of them showed slight changes in expression, clearly having heard of Xiao Yunzhi's great name.
This is not surprising.
As the only one with a Heavenly Spiritual Root among the new generation of cultivators in the Western Wilderness, and born into a prestigious family, he is also extremely skilled in combat and has a record of killing demonic cultivators multiple times.
The Crimson Flame Fairy's reputation in the Western Wilderness is far greater than that of some Core Formation cultivators.
Although it's unclear how this extraordinary fairy ended up with the ordinary Uncle Li, and how Uncle Li seemed to be the one leading the conversation.
However, Ji Shuxuan and Ayun still respectfully bowed to Xiao Yunzhi.
Afterwards, Li Ping inquired about Xu Guike's whereabouts, but Ji Shuxuan told him that Senior Xu and Senior Lin had gone to hunt monsters in the Ice Sea together and might not return for several years.
The shop he was in belonged to Senior Xu, and he and Ayun usually managed it.
Upon hearing this, Li Ping nodded and did not ask any further questions.
The fact that Xu Guike and Ji Shuxuan were both safe and sound was a relief to him.
Ji Shuxuan risked his life to go to the Yan Kingdom to participate in the war in order to obtain the opportunity to establish his foundation. Although he ultimately failed to establish his foundation, he managed to survive in this far north.
He married, had children, and lived a happy and fulfilling life.
With two Foundation Establishment cultivators looking after them, they lived a comfortable life, content with modest wealth.
As for Foundation Establishment... he is already sixty years old this year, and his origin was damaged during the great war in Yan.
Now that he has a happy family, he has long since given up the idea of building a foundation.
Originally, Li Ping was planning to ask around about renting a house, but he happened to run into Ji Shuxuan, who had lived in Feixue City for more than ten years and knew the city very well.
Immediately, Li Ping asked him about the precautions for renting a house in Feixue City.
"Uncle Li, are you going to settle down in Flying Snow City?" Ji Shuxuan was somewhat surprised after hearing Li Ping's words.
After receiving Li Ping's confirmation, he pondered for a moment before saying, "Uncle Li, the cave dwellings in Flying Snow City are mainly built on spiritual veins. For example, the 'Heart-Clearing Garden' where A-Yun and I live is built on a first-grade high-quality spiritual vein. Uncle Li, you are a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so it would be best to rent a cave dwelling located on a second-grade spiritual vein. There are several options, such as 'Emerald Garden' and 'Heavenly Brocade Mansion'."
Li Ping nodded, signaling him to continue.
Ji Shuxuan smiled and said, "These cave dwellings all meet your needs in terms of spiritual environment, Uncle Li, but their architecture differs slightly. The average price of the Bicui Garden cave dwellings is cheaper, but they are also smaller, generally only about half an acre. The cave dwellings in the Tianjin Hua Mansion are larger, but because they are close to the market, privacy is less important due to the constant flow of people. In addition, there are the 'Beifeng Fang' and 'Changping Fang'..."
With Ji Shuxuan's introduction, Li Ping finally gained a general understanding of the second-tier cave dwellings that were rented out in Feixue City.
Ultimately, considering factors such as privacy and size, he decided to first visit Changpingfang, which Ji Shuxuan had mentioned.
Changpingfang is composed of dozens of cave dwellings built along a second-tier spiritual river, offering excellent views and can be considered river-view rooms.
Each cave dwelling occupies nearly a hundred acres, and in addition to the pavilions, it also has a courtyard, and is relatively far away from the cave dwellings of other cultivators.
After setting up the formation, one's privacy can be well protected.
Of course, its price is also much higher than those of ordinary second-tier cave dwellings.
However, for Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi, price was not a consideration.
……
Upon hearing that Li Ping wanted to look at houses, Ji Shuxuan quickly instructed his wife to pack up the shop, while he led Li Ping and his wife to Changpingfang.
Along the way, Ji Shuxuan would occasionally tell them interesting stories about the city to relieve their boredom.
Upon arriving at Changpingfang, he familiarly inquired about information from the person in charge.
Seeing him bustling around so busily, Li Ping felt even more moved.
He remembered that when Ji Shuxuan was cultivating in Fenglan Immortal City twenty years ago, he was single-mindedly focused on cultivation and was very naive about interpersonal relationships.
After years of trials and tribulations, he has unknowingly become a worldly person.
When the person in charge saw that a Foundation Establishment senior had come to rent a cave dwelling, he was very respectful and immediately led Li Ping and the other person to check out the vacant cave dwellings.
After visiting two places, Li Ping was not satisfied with either one.
Until the third cave.
This is a cave dwelling located on a flat area upstream of the Spirit River. It covers an area of about 100 acres, and its spiritual energy environment has reached the second-grade upper level. It is also equipped with a second-grade lower level array.
Most importantly, this cave dwelling is far from any populated area, and the nearest cave dwelling is more than 300 feet away.
The living environment is very quiet and the privacy is quite good.
After consulting Xiao Yunzhi and receiving her consent, Li Ping decided to rent the cave as their lodging in Feixue City.
He immediately inquired with the alchemy manager about the rent for the cave dwelling, the payment method, and other matters.
The other party dared not deceive a Foundation Establishment senior and honestly told him everything.
The rent for the cave dwelling is ninety spirit stones per year. The rent can be paid annually or over several years, as long as it is paid in full before the end of the lease term.
Li Ping nodded slightly in his heart.
Ninety spirit stones a year is not much cheaper than the rent for his cave dwelling on Immortal Peach Mountain, but the cave dwelling is only about one-tenth the size of the one on Immortal Peach Mountain, which seems ridiculously expensive.
However, the price of the Immortal Peach Mountain Cave was a "friendship price" set by the Meng family to attract high-level craftsmen, and should not be regarded as a normal price.
In addition, spiritual veins are scarce in the far north, so the rent for a cave dwelling is correspondingly much higher than that of a cave dwelling with similar conditions in the western wilderness.
"This price is fine." Li Ping nodded, agreeing to the price.
He was immediately led to the steward's office, where he took out nine hundred low-grade spirit stones and made a ten-year contract with the officials of Flying Snow City.
He doesn't plan to leave Flying Snow City anytime soon.
……
On the day the contract was signed, Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi moved into the rented cave dwelling together.
The cave dwelling, covering an area of 100 acres, has dozens of rooms, and the two of them each chose one as their place of cultivation.
Li Ping planned to use the remaining rooms as alchemy and talisman-making rooms.
After using his cleaning skills to tidy up the courtyard, Li Ping suggested to Xiao Yunzhi that they ask a formation master to set up another formation within the existing formation of the cave, so as to prevent outsiders from spying on it.
Xiao Yunzhi smiled but remained silent.
Seeing Li Ping's puzzled look, she quickly smiled and explained, "Brother Li, I am a second-level array master. Please leave the array for this cave to me."
Before this, Ji Shuxuan's address of Li Ping as "Uncle Li" had already made Xiao Yunzhi hesitate.
Li Ping then revealed his true identity to her, and Xiao Yunzhi realized that the "Doctor Yan" she knew was actually Li Ping's alias, not the other way around.
Surprised that Xiao Yunzhi was a formation master, Li Ping nodded and said, "Very well, then I'll leave the formation matter to you, Yunzhi."
"Don't worry, Brother Li!" Xiao Yunzhi smiled and nodded.
……
Afterwards, the two left the cave and went to the market for a banquet.
To welcome Uncle Li, Ji Shuxuan specially booked a banquet at the "Golden Goblet Restaurant" in the city to give him a proper welcome.
Li Ping attended the banquet not because he was greedy, but simply because he couldn't bear to disappoint his filial piety.
That night, in a private room at Jinzunlou Restaurant, the group ate and chatted.
Besides Li Ping, Xiao Yunzhi, and the Ji Shuxuan couple, there were two young children, the older one about ten years old and the younger one only five or six years old.
These two children are Ji Shuxuan's children.
The conversation during the day was rather rushed, but now that they had plenty of time, Ji Shuxuan asked Li Ping about the situation of his family and friends.
Upon learning that the Ji family was doing well and that Yan Hengchuan had become a Daoist couple with a Foundation Establishment female cultivator from the Yu family.
While Ji Shuxuan was genuinely happy, a hint of wistfulness also appeared on his face.
It was seeing Yan Hengchuan successfully establish his foundation that inspired him to muster the courage to go to the Yan Kingdom to try and secure a foundation-building opportunity.
However, he ended up as a slave and almost died.
In the ordinariness of life, we only learn to cherish what we have lost and then regained.
He has come to terms with it now and is quite content with his current situation.
With a wife and children, he focused all his energy on his family, no longer venturing out to take risks, hoping only to take good care of his wife and children and live out his life peacefully.
……
Ji Shuxuan spent a fortune to entertain Uncle Li this time.
The spiritual feast and wine cost him nearly a hundred spirit stones, but he didn't feel bad about it.
After all, Uncle Li had taken care of him for so many years, and the resources he had given him were more than ten times that of this feast.
After the banquet ended, he saw Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi off and returned home with his wife and children.
His wife was astonished to find that both of her children were tightly clutching a red envelope in their hands.
When asked, the two little ones timidly said that it was a gift from Grandpa Li.
Ji Shuxuan opened the two red envelopes and found that each contained a mid-grade spirit stone.
He then realized that the gift Uncle Li had given his child was far more expensive than what he had spent that day.
"This is too valuable. Let's return it to Uncle Li tomorrow." His wife looked somewhat flustered.
Ji Shuxuan shook his head: "No need, Uncle Li is no stranger."
He believed that Uncle Li was now even more powerful than he had been twenty years ago, far surpassing the abilities of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.
When he was renting the cave dwelling today, he discovered that Uncle Li and that Crimson Flame Fairy had only rented one cave dwelling.
This shows that the relationship between Uncle Li and Fairy Chiyan is truly extraordinary!
At this thought, a strange idea suddenly popped into his mind: "Could it be that Uncle Li and Fairy Crimson Flame eloped, which is why they both appeared in the far north?"
"As expected of Uncle Li."
……
Under the cover of night, two figures returned to the cave dwelling in Changpingfang.
Because she had drunk wine at the spirit banquet, Xiao Yunzhi's face was a little flushed. She said softly, "Brother Li, it's too late today. I'll set up the formation tomorrow."
"Hmm." Li Ping nodded slightly and returned to the house alone, leaving Xiao Yunzhi standing alone in the courtyard.
Seeing Li Ping's actions, she sighed, circulated her magic power to expel the spiritual wine from her body, and her complexion immediately returned to normal.
Then she returned to her own house.
Living in the same cave, the two officially began their cohabitation.
Read Chapter 213, Cohabitation, now to begin your exciting day.