Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

He also knows that if Ji Yuan wanted to take action against him... it wouldn’t need to be so troublesome.

As the elixir entered his body, the old drunkard felt a strange sensation.

Pure blood qi spread out, instantly healing the injuries he had previously suffered.

Not only that, it even dispelled some old injuries he had carried for years.

His face grew increasingly flushed, eventually looking as if he were drunk.

With a fully flushed face, he directly spat out a mouthful of stagnant blood.

As he felt relaxed, it even seemed like the barrier in his cultivation loosened a bit.

Ji Yuan, with his insightful gaze, naturally saw through it at a glance.

”Alright, once this matter is resolved, go ahead and focus on your breakthrough. With me here at Brewing Peak.”

”Thank you... Peak Master!”

This time the old drunkard genuinely bowed deeply to Ji Yuan.

The great kindness of helping with a realm breakthrough aside, assisting with healing injuries is extremely valuable.

”Go ahead.”

After watching the old drunkard leave, Ji Yuan quietly released his divine sense.

However, compared to the previous grand display of his presence, this time he stealthily moved over.

His divine sense swept through the surroundings and soon reached the Cloud Rain Sect’s Ancestral Hall again.

But this time... as Ji Yuan’s divine sense just infiltrated, he discovered that there were actually two Nascent Soul cultivators here!

One was naturally the familiar Fairy Baihua, but as for the other, Ji Yuan could see that his cultivation was only at the early-stage Nascent Soul, yet he had never met or known him.

It seemed like even the higher-ups of Cloud Rain Sect didn’t know their sect had such an early-stage Nascent Soul Supreme Elder.

”Cloud Rain Sect really has quite the secrets!”

After investigating this point, Ji Yuan felt it more and more interesting.

After all, staying in a sect without any secrets—how boring!

Soon, he learned the surname of this unfamiliar Nascent Soul from Fairy Baihua’s mouth.

”Senior Brother Zhou.”

That was the name Fairy Baihua used to address him.

Then Fairy Baihua informed him about Sword Wu Ya and Master Danxu coming to cause trouble, and Senior Brother Zhou naturally became extremely angry, although in Ji Yuan’s view, it was mostly impotent fury.

But when Fairy Baihua mentioned that a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator was hidden within the Cloud Rain Sect, this Zhou-named Nascent Soul was so shocked that he took several steps back and finally collapsed into his chair.

”Wha… what?!”

”How is this possible?”

He panicked and looked around, but he knew that Fairy Baihua absolutely wouldn’t deceive him about such a matter.

Moreover, unless a mid-stage Nascent Soul intervened, how could Sword Wu Ya and Master Danxu be scared away?

Realizing this, Zhou Cang suddenly looked up at Fairy Baihua in front of him, with eyes full of panic and astonishment.

After that, the two obviously communicated via sound transmission, which Ji Yuan naturally couldn’t overhear.

After a while, the Zhou-named man got up and mimicked Fairy Baihua’s earlier gesture, making a bow to all sides.

”I am Zhou Cang, thank you, fellow cultivator, for resolving the predicament.”

”Our Cloud Rain Sect is hospitable. If you find comfort staying here, feel free to stay as long as you like. If there is anything you need, just speak out, and we will take care of it for you.”

”...”

Ji Yuan thought about it but still chose not to respond.

Since he had posed as a higher being, he naturally had to keep up the act.

Saying too much would naturally eliminate the mystique, and without that mystique, naturally, he wouldn’t seem like a higher being.

Thus, Ji Yuan refrained from speaking.

After Zhou Cang had made his bow, he resumed conversing with Fairy Baihua through sound transmission.

Clearly, knowing there were other Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect, especially one at mid-stage with cultivation higher than his own, made them uneasy about speaking openly.

After half a day had passed, Zhou Cang got up and took his leave.

Ji Yuan’s divine sense naturally followed him closely, wanting to see what secrets the Cloud Rain Sect was hiding.

But it turns out, Zhou Cang left the Ancestral Hall and went to a nameless peak in the north of Cloud Rain Sect, beginning to close-door cultivation.

... Really just like this?

If Zhou Cang truly stayed within Cloud Rain Sect all along, then why didn’t he come out to support his sect when the two Nascent Soul cultivators from Dan Ding Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect came earlier?

Or was he somewhere else and just returned?

That would be too coincidental.

Not knowing, Ji Yuan kept watching with his divine sense.

After a while, the old drunkard also returned after assigning tasks at various peaks in Cloud Rain Sect.

Besides returning himself, he also brought back several Qi Cultivation cultivators.

Once they finished dividing tasks.

The old drunkard immediately came before Ji Yuan without saying a word, only performing a deep bow.

”Alright, proceed with your breakthrough, I’ll be here.”

Ji Yuan smiled at him as he spoke.

”Yes, thank you, Peak Master.”

The old drunkard said and hurriedly transformed into escape light and left. He naturally has his own cave mansion at Brewing Peak, though he rarely stays there.

But this time was different.

After seeing him depart, Ji Yuan leisurely strolled around Brewing Peak, and any Cloud Rain Sect disciples he encountered along the way stopped to greet him.

Ji Yuan enjoyed this feeling quite a bit.

Hmm... perhaps taking on some disciples wouldn’t be bad?

But the thought was immediately dismissed by him, as he hadn’t succeeded in Nascent Soul Formation yet, so talking about these things was pointless.

Furthermore, he knew that his leisure walks were a rare experience for those Qi Cultivation Stage disciples.

Just like when Ji Yuan was at Water Dragon Sect, being able to see a Core Formation cultivator at Qi Cultivation Stage could be considered an honor in some ways.