Chapter 190: Clear Lines
"Yeying..." Qi Shuo started, but Jiang Yue interrupted him.
"Young master Qi, Yeying only has one mind and heart." He said.
Qi Shuo heard the words and immediately understood. However, he wasn’t willing to give up.
Yeying was the person who calmed his heart demons. Without him, Qi Shuo would have fallen at the very least or become an evil cultivator.
Although he had never thought of himself as a good person, he didn’t want to become an evil cultivator.
Yeying saved him from this, and Qi Shuo felt that their meeting was fated.
"Why can’t you think about it?" He asked. This was the closest he had ever come to confessing, and Jiang Yue was relieved.
At least this way, he could explicitly reject the person.
"I met my Taoist companion on the day I was born. Since then, we have endured many difficulties and have finally come together. Yeying has no mind or heart to think about anyone else."
"Is it because he met you first?" Qi Shuo was bitter.
"No, he and I are perfect for each other. If we did not exist in each other’s life, I have a feeling that both of us would choose the ruthless path."
Jiang Yue didn’t like to think about what he would be like if Yu Nianzhen was not in his life. However, now that he thought about it, he was sure he would have become a ruthless cultivator.
"I hope that young master Qi can give up his heart."
Qi Shuo went silent and looked to be in deep thought.
After ten breaths, his face relaxed, and he smiled at Jiang Yue.
"I came to tell Yeying that there is a cave at the back of the mine."
"Cave?" Jiang Yue cooperated and accepted the subject change.
If he had a choice, he didn’t want others to fall in love with him.
Although it was selfish, he didn’t want to spare his mind for such matters. It was enough to have Nianzhen, and he didn’t need the love of others to make himself feel superior.
"This small secret realm was created by the ancestor of the Lu family. I heard his cave is at the back. Yeying can try to enter."
Jiang Yue frowned when he heard that.
Ordinarily, he would not hesitate to enter the cave of an ancient cultivator.
However, this was the Lu family’s secret realm. He didn’t know if cultivators outside the Lu family could enter the cave.
After thinking about it, he expressed his concern to the young master, but Qi Shuo was not daunted.
"There is no problem. I heard that anyone can enter."
"The cave has many rooms, and the gravity in each room is higher than the mine. What you get depends on your ability."
"Are there any good things left?"
After all, the secret realm had been opened many times.
When he thought about it, Jiang Yue didn’t think there were any good things left.
Otherwise, the Lu family wouldn’t allow outsiders to enter.
"I don’t know about this." Qi Shuo shrugged.
After thinking about it, Jiang Yue decided not to find the cave right away.
For the time being, the gravity in the mine was enough for his training.
When it was no longer enough, he would find the cave. Even if he couldn’t find anything good in the cave, the training opportunity was worth it.
Also, he had only mined five hundred kilogrammes of gravity stones. Before he thought about going to the cave, he had to mine more than three thousand kilogrammes of gravity stones.
If all went well, he would give three thousand kilogrammes to the Lu family and leave the rest for their use.
Although he didn’t have a corresponding inheritance, Jiang Yue had read about gravity training formations.
When he left the secret realm, he planned to actively look for the formation map and arrange the formation in one of the rooms on the second floor of the ancient palace.
If he could not find the formation map, he would find a weapon refiner to refine the gravity stones into gravity bracelets and other training equipment.
’Such things should be useful to Nianzhen.’ He thought, and his eyes softened.
He hadn’t seen his lover for more than three years, and Jiang Yue missed him desperately.
"Yeying..." Qi Shuo called and jolted him from his thoughts.
Jiang Yue looked at the person, and an idea suddenly came to mind.
Without a second thought, he removed a bottle from his storage ring and gave it to Qi Shuo.
"What is this?" Qi Shuo asked without taking the bottle.
"It is to thank young master Qi for inviting me to the secret realm and telling me about the ancestor’s cave."
Qi Shuo frowned. He didn’t want to have such clear lines with Yeying. However, just as he was about to reject the gift, Jiang Yue shoved it into his hands.
"As cultivators, we must be careful about cause and effect." He reminded.
"Yeying saved my life before."
"I didn’t do it intentionally."
Cause and effect considered intention.
Although Qi Shuo felt that he owed a debt, Yeying did not save him intentionally. This kind of debt did not carry a lot of cause and effect.
By inviting Yeying to the secret realm, he gave him a training opportunity that more than cancelled the original debt.
The news about the cave was another training opportunity, and Jiang Yue didn’t want to accumulate more debt.
"Please accept it." Jiang Yue said and insisted on putting the bottle in Qi Shuo’s hand.
"Can I open it?"
"It’s yours now."
At that, Qi Shuo uncorked the bottle, and a pleasant scent drifted into his nose.
"A drop of soul water?" He asked. His voice was a little excited, and Jiang Yue was relieved.
Although he had a limited quantity of soul water, he could spare one drop to nullify the cause and effect with Qi Shuo.
"Thank you."
"You are welcome."
After that, Qi Shuo left hurriedly, and Jiang Yue did not try to keep him.
Instead, he closed his protective formation and made a cup of tea while thinking.
Jiang Yue originally had a plan, but now that he knew about the cave, he wanted to check it out.
’I have to work harder.’ He thought and summoned XiaoLan.
"Did master miss me?" The girlish voice asked, and his lips twitched.
When they met, XiaoLan was a newborn. However, after more than a year together, the little butterfly had learned all kinds of things.
Some were useful, and others were nonsensical, but Jiang Yue didn’t want to limit the butterfly.
After all, knowledge was power. The more she learned, the better her foundation.
"XiaoLan, I want you to retreat to refine the blood-cleansing elixir I bought." Jiang Yue said, and XiaoLan was filled with excitement.
She knew her master had bought the elixir and had been longing for it for a long time.
Although the elixir was only a peak-grade silver rank blood cleansing elixir, it was useful to the little butterfly.
After refining it, XiaoLan’s potential would improve, and Jiang Yue’s blue illusion butterfly bloodline would also improve.
"Master, XiaoLan will work hard."
Jiang Yue smiled and touched the butterfly’s wings, "I know XiaoLan is a good butterfly."
After that, XiaoLan took the bottle of elixir and entered the contract beast space in Jiang Yue’s body.
’I hope I won’t be disappointed.’ Jiang Yue thought and forced himself to calm down.
He had a lot of expectations of the blood-cleansing elixir, but he knew that he couldn’t force things.
If XiaoLan was fortunate, the blood cleansing elixir would be enough to improve her bloodline significantly.
’Everything is up to fate.’ He thought and took a long breath before closing his eyes.
For the next year, Jiang Yue lived a busy but fulfilling life.
His day always began at sunrise, and his morning was divided into two halves.
The first half was used to study lullaby and practice his illusion technique, while the second half was used for formations.
In the afternoon and half of the night, he would enter the mine to dig gravity stones.
This mining doubled as body training, and Jiang Yue received a lot of benefits in one year.
Not only had he mined the required three thousand kilogrammes, but his cultivation had also stabilised at the peak of the qi transformation realm.
Most importantly, his body refining had entered the second level of the flame body refining technique.
After mining, Jiang Yue used the remaining half of the night for qi cultivation.
Although he was at the peak of the realm and couldn’t increase his qi quantity, Jiang Yue wanted to improve the quality.
After one year of polishing, his one hundred million drops of illusion qi were purer than before.
If he continued in this way, Jiang Yue could break through to the origin tempering realm as soon as he left the small secret realm.
’It’s time to find the cave of the Lu ancestor.’ He thought.
