NOVEL WEB Chapter 180.2
That day, they found a large cave to rest before sunset. Cheng Qi took out a Tianyin snake for dinner on a whim.
Not long after the meat was cooked, a strange smell wafted out of the cave, and Li Tianyan couldn’t help but frown.
“Young master, would you like to take a bite of the snake soup first?” Cheng Qi poured some soup into the pot and smelled it. It seemed that the taste wasn’t too unacceptable.
Li Tianyan looked at the bowl of snake soup that was darker than black sesame seeds in his hand, and rejection was written all over his face. “No, I can just eat something else today.”
After reaching the core formation, Cheng Qi could already live without food, but he was still very enthusiastic about eating. When he was in the Tianfan Immortal Sect, he had basically eaten one meal a day unless he was in retreat, and now he still didn’t care about stopping it.
“But didn’t the young master say that Tianyin Snake is good for Yin cultivators?” Cheng Qi said and took a bite first. After blinking a few times, his face wrinkled. “The taste is a bit weird, but it should be better if you drink a few more sips.”
After seeing this, Li Tianyan was even more afraid to try it. He laughed dryly and said, “My five spiritual roots are all Yang, so I won’t drink it.”
“No, you have both yin and yang now. It’s because your five spiritual roots are all yang. It’s easy for yin and yang to become imbalanced, which is why you need to replenish it,” Cheng Qi said with a stubborn look.
Li Tianyan’s yin-type true spiritual energy could almost only be obtained from him. Later, he used the magic cultivator’s death-resurrection technique to fill his inner Dantian with death energy, but this method also required yin energy.
Being speechless by Cheng Qi’s words, Li Tianyan stepped back and said, “It’s enough for me to have you.”
“Young master, be good. It’s not right to be picky about food. Let’s drink snake soup today first. When we get into the city, we can find suitable seasonings and try different flavours,” Cheng Qi coaxed, while the soup bowl in his hand slowly approached Li Tianyan.
Tan Eyu, who was absorbing the Tianyin Snake Demon Pill in the Soul-nurturing Wood, couldn’t help but roll her eyes when she heard the noise outside. The brat was getting more and more naughty. Fortunately, she wasn’t the one being punished this time.
Li Tianyan’s expression changed several times, but he saw that Cheng Qi suddenly choked up the soup in one gulp. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Li Tianyan was thrown into his arms, and then a stream of rich soup slipped into his mouth.
But it wasn’t the disgusting taste he had imagined. On the contrary, the soup tasted quite good. Only then did Li Tianyan realize that Cheng Qi had tricked him.
“How is it? Do you think it tastes better?” Cheng Qi blinked and asked.
Li Tianyan saw the successful smile in his eyes, slapped Cheng Qi on the butt, and said, “Naughty.”
In the past, Cheng Qi would blush a little when he was hit, but now that they had been physical for a long time, he had become thicker-skinned, and he giggled more happily as he leaned into Li Tianyan’s arms. Li Tianyan really couldn’t do anything to him, so he squeezed him tightly in a funny way.
After playing with Cheng Qi for a while, Li Tianyan’s consciousness suddenly detected a group of people coming toward the cave. Neither of them moved; they just sat in front of the fire and continued drinking soup.
Sure enough, it didn’t take long before several young cultivators wearing robes arrived.
“There are already people here.” Pei Yu smelled a strange odour permeating the cave, and her beautiful eyebrows almost knitted together.
“Ah Yu, go and ask those two people if they can let us have the cave,” Zhao Shubao said to the core formation guard beside him.
“Sir, that’s a Core formation cultivator,” the guard named Ah Yu observed the two people in the cave and informed Zhao Shubao.
When they heard about the core formation cultivator, the group couldn’t help but be surprised. The two people in the cave appeared to be quite young, so how could they be core formation cultivators?
“What should we do? I don’t want to stay in a cave with them,” Pei Yu said with an unhappy face. Those two people were cooking something she found disgusting.
“Don’t be picky when you’re away from home. It would be nice if the two seniors would let us stay for the night,” Pei Qing frowned and reprimanded her cousin.
“Xiao Yu, be obedient and stop causing trouble for Brother Zhao,” Pei Qing’s fiancé, Mu Jing, said casually.
“Brother Mu, do you really think I’m causing trouble without reason?” Pei Yu stomped her feet angrily when she heard Mu Jing’s words.
Seeing that Pei Yu was upset, Zhao Shubao coaxed, “It’s okay, Xiao Yu, let me ask.”
Chen Feng also quickly stepped forward to show his courtesy, “Xiao Yu, don’t be angry, Shubao will definitely solve it.”
Li Tianyan was holding the soup bowl, but his consciousness remained focused on the group of people. He found that there were several young foundation-establishment cultivators—three men and two women, about eighteen to twenty-five years old. They all seemed to be second-generation cultivators from prominent families, but the two guards following them were core formation cultivators.
Among this group of young people, two stood out the most. One was a male cultivator surnamed Mu, outstanding in appearance, at the peak of foundation establishment at the age of twenty-five. Li Tianyan thought his aura suggested a single spiritual root.
The other was slightly plump, well-dressed, and well-equipped, looking like he was well-protected by his elders. Even the two Core formation guards were led by him.
The core formation guard saw his young master walking into the cave and had no choice but to accompany him. However, after approaching the two people, his expression suddenly became wary.
The soup made by these two people didn’t resemble what ordinary cultivators used. Looking at one of them, who wore a black mask, they must have encountered a demon cultivator.
Zhao Shubao couldn’t help but frown when he smelled the pot. He then took out a storage bag and said to the two, “Excuse me, I wonder if it would be convenient for the two seniors to share the cave with us.”
Cheng Qi raised his head and glanced at the storage bag. His eyes suddenly lit up when he saw there were a thousand middle-grade spiritual stones in it.
Seeing this, Li Tianyan stretched out his hand to accept the storage bag, then pointed to the open space opposite. “You can go over there.”
“Huh?” Zhao Shubao didn’t quite understand what he meant.
“I can lend it to you for a night, but when you go in, don’t disturb our meal,” Li Tianyan repeated.
“You two already took the spirit stones, how could you go back on your word?” Zhao Yu said with a serious face when he saw that the two were actually playing tricks on them.
“How could we go back on our word? We found this cave first. We took the spirit stones and lent it to you for a night. If you don’t like it, you can leave,” Cheng Qi said confidently.
“You…” Zhao Yu was a little angry when he heard their bold words, but among the two in front of him, one was in the middle stage of the Core formation, and his cultivation was higher than theirs, so he was somewhat wary of them.
At that moment, a female cultivator from the group walked into the cave first, sat down at the other end, and began meditating.
“Brother Zhao, why don’t we just make do for one night?” The other two male cultivators quickly found their places. If there was a real conflict with the two of them, they wouldn’t be able to handle it.
Zhao Shubao was secretly relieved after hearing this. These two strange cultivators seemed difficult to get along with.