Chapter 30: The Misty Rain Tower

The next morning, Luo Chen's biological clock woke him up as usual.

He sensed his internal condition and was extremely satisfied.

Before going to bed last night, he had practiced the Eternal Spring Technique to restore his spiritual energy and then took a Qi Nourishing Pill.

In the section for the fourth level of Qi Cultivation, there was a slight increase, from one to two.

"Indeed, it's a progress bar, not a proficiency level."

He confirmed his guess again. Both lifespan and realm were displayed as progress bars, while techniques, spells, and skills were shown as proficiency levels.

"If I take all five bottles of Qi Nourishing Pills I bought, I should be able to fill up about half the progress bar."

It was a bit slow, but if combined with the Perfect Eternal Spring Technique and the first-stage spirit meridian, the progress bar should increase more.

Compared to the snail-paced cultivation speed of the past, this change was already a complete transformation.

After a brief calculation, Luo Chen stopped worrying about it.

He took out the forty Fire Dog Whips from his storage bag and rubbed his hands together.

The other raw materials, sourced from the Hundred Herbs Hall, saved him a lot of processing time. All he needed to do now was to specially process the main ingredients and start the preparation of the Wondrous Pill.

Time is spiritual stone!

Let's get to work!

Around the hour of Chen (7-9 AM), just as the sun was about to rise, Luo Chen finally prepared the medicinal liquid.

Next, he needed to soak the Fire Dog Whips in it for three days and three nights until they were soft and mushy.

Luo Chen carefully placed each Fire Dog Whip into a wooden basin, and a foul smell immediately spread out.

Luo Chen put on a homemade mask and occasionally stirred the Fire Dog Whips.

While he was busy, a sound of vomiting came from the courtyard.

"Ugh!"

"How foul!"

Then, hurried footsteps approached.

Knock, knock, knock!

The door was knocked on.

Luo Chen opened the door, and a somewhat familiar little face appeared before him.

"You're vomiting!"

The woman with the round face, who was speaking, was halfway through her sentence when the stench from inside the room made her gag.

She supported herself at the door with one hand and pointed at the only window of the back room.

"Quickly, open the Misty Rain Tower and vomit!"

Luo Chen immediately channeled a strand of spiritual energy, and the magical tool given by Sun Shou hummed to life.

At the same time, the various strange odors in the room gradually disappeared.

At the end of the Misty Rain Tower facing outside, clear droplets began to drip down.

This was the first time Luo Chen had activated this magical tool, and he was quite surprised by its reaction.

"A cultivation version of a range hood?"

"What range hood? This is a first-stage magical tool developed by Tianfan City for smoke absorption and odor removal."

The round-faced female cultivator said, then glared at Luo Chen angrily, "What are you doing so early in the morning? Are you trying to make life difficult for others?"

She paused, then hesitated as she looked at Luo Chen, realizing she knew him.

Luo Chen also found her familiar-looking, unadorned face familiar.

Suddenly, he remembered.

"You're Little Ling from the Hundred Herbs Hall!"

Bai Meiling wrinkled her nose, "You're surnamed Luo, right? What's your name?"

Although she looked small and cute, she was a genuine seventh-level Qi Cultivation cultivator.

Luo Chen was not annoyed by her impolite words and said casually, "Junior Luo Chen, greetings, Senior Bai."

"What junior and senior? Do I look old?" Bai Meiling wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, "And what are you doing so early in the morning? Don't you know there are other people living in the courtyard? You'll get complaints if you keep this up."

That was true.

When Sun Shou rented the house to Luo Chen, he had mentioned it.

The management fee of one spirit stone included the responsibility of resolving neighborhood disputes.

"Sorry, I'll be more careful in the future. I'll remember to activate the Misty Rain Tower when processing medicinal materials, Senior Bai. Please don't complain about me this time, Little Ling!"

Luo Chen said with a smile, noticing that she didn't seem to mind being called Little Ling but was sensitive to being called Senior Bai.

"Hmph!"

Bai Meiling huffed, letting the matter drop.

She glanced at the wooden basin next to the stove, and her expression suddenly became strange.

"What are you soaking those things in?"

"Uh, it's a trade secret, I can't really say." It was a small trick in the pill formula that could maximize the medicinal properties of the Fire Dog Whips.

Why were the aphrodisiacs for cultivators so expensive on the market?

Because the raw materials were costly.

Luo Chen could use cheap Fire Dog Whips without weakening the medicinal power, thanks to the processing formula.

Unsatisfied with her curiosity, Bai Meiling became angry and her eyes darted around.

"Are you a pill master?"

"I think I am!"

The Abstinence Powder could barely be considered a pill, but the Wondrous Pill definitely was.

Luo Chen had the confidence to call himself a pill master.

"Then what kind of pill are you refining?"

Luo Chen was frustrated. Why did two women ask him this question in just one day?

"Are you embarrassed to say? Or afraid to say?" Bai Meiling narrowed her eyes, "You're not refining some evil pill, are you? The Jade Tripod Sword Sect is a righteous sect and does not allow cultivators to refine those evil pills that harm heaven and reason!"

Luo Chen immediately tensed up, "Absolutely not an evil pill!"

Bai Meiling said, "Then why are you stammering?"

Luo Chen was starting to doubt whether renting this courtyard was a mistake.

It wasn't that he was shy about revealing what he was refining.

He had already abandoned his pride when he made the decision.

In front of male cultivators, he could talk confidently and fluently, citing classics and authorities.

Because male cultivators were his target customers.

But female cultivators?

That would be very awkward.

It would only invite disdain and nothing else.

Other women might be fine, but Gu Caiyi and Bai Meiling were his neighbors for at least the next three months.

Who would want to live with disdainful looks for three months?

"Hmph, I know a thing or two about pills. No matter what you refine, sell me one when it's done. If it's an evil pill, I'll report you to the Jade Tripod Sword Pavilion and get a reward."

"I have to go to work, see you!"

With that, she rushed out of the gate.

Luo Chen then noticed a large, sturdy woman standing at the gate, apparently waiting for Bai Meiling.

If he wasn't mistaken, it was Feng Xia, who lived in the other side room and worked at the Hundred Herbs Hall with Bai Meiling.

Watching these two female cultivators rush off to work, Luo Chen felt a twinge of nostalgia.

They seemed very down-to-earth, unlike the cultivators in this world, more like white-collar women from his previous life on Earth.

On their faces, there was no sign of the dedication to cultivation or the ferocity of the outer city cultivators.

All they had was the satisfaction and happiness of going to work and coming home every day.

When interacting with Luo Chen, a fourth-level Qi Cultivation cultivator, they were not distant, as if they had completely set aside their cultivation levels and were just ordinary people talking to each other.

In the absence of desires and demands, why should ordinary people be polite to each other?

"Too bad places like the Hundred Herbs Hall and Spirit Source Hall only hire female cultivators, or I would have applied there too."

Muttering to himself, Luo Chen got back to the busy work of processing the medicinal materials.

(End of Chapter)