After Becoming the Hero's Ex-fiancée

A Huge Fortune (2)

Li Siyi was about to send a couple of waves over when he saw a female cultivator clad in pink stepping out of the camp. At first glance, she looked delicate and soft. He instinctively looked her over with his soul consciousness and thought he was going blind. He rubbed his eyes vigorously for a while and shouted to Cui Wang, “Little Junior Brother, look, look!”

“Oh,” said Cui Wang, then ignored him and went straight to the depths of the crevice.

“Heh,” said the old ancestor in Cui Wang’s sea of consciousness. “What a big change. That Ming Yu lassie… it’s rather different to be seeing her all dressed up like that,” he chuckled.

Like a monkey, Li Siyi fell from mid-air and shot towards Mingyu. “Mingyu, you—”

He glanced her up and down. “Tsk tsk.” His gaze swept past her narrow waist and painted brows. “—What are you up to?”

Ming Yu was a little uncomfortable and touched her face. “Does it not look good?”

Li Siyi had never been one to bear to say harsh words to female cultivators, but it was only to Ming Yu that he seemed to forget what politeness was. “…Your brows, you drew them with carbon sticks, right?  They are so thick. And this rouge…” He paused. “It’s like a monkey’s butt.”

Actually, it didn’t look that bad, but Li Siyi was someone who frolicked among the fairer sex. All of his lovers were experts at dressing up, and he has long since developed a practiced eye for such things. A novice like Ming Yu could not compare.

At a glance, her appearance was nothing but flaws.

“Li Siyi, you—” Mingyu was so angry that she hit him with her tortoise shell.

Cui Wang took a glance from afar and looked away, then continued to go deeper into the crevice. He would be able to break through the late stage of the Pure Veracity stage with just a bit more cultivation.

“Little Wangwang, your Senior Brother is being chased and beaten. You’re not going to help him?”

Behind him was the sound of booming from the collision of spells, interspersed with Li Siyi’s wailing.

Cui Wang was indifferent.

“Help with what?”

“Help your Senior Brother.”

“Ming Yu likes Senior Brother. I’m not going.”

“……”
The old ancestor held his stomach and pounded the ground as he laughed uncontrollably. “Little Wangwang! This old ancestor really wants to cut open your head to see if the gyrus of your brain is actually the Marianas Trench!”

Cui Wang didn’t understand what he was talking about, but he had already ignored the old ancestor out of habit and walked inwards silently.

“I cannot— I’m about to develop abs from laughing,” he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. “You think Ming Yu likes your Senior Brother? Why?”

Cui Wang said matter-of-factly, “She looks for Senior Brother every time she comes to Guixu Sect.”

…No, no, it’s you she’s looking for. If she doesn’t look for Li Siyi, she won’t be able to ask you out.
To think that this kind of person who’s destined to be alone actually had girls who liked him. The old ancestor lost all hope for this world that only prized looks.

Just then, his good grandson said belatedly, “Ugly.”

Fearing that the old ancestor wouldn’t understand, Cui Wang added, “Senior Brother’s sword tassel—ugly.”

“……”
Scram, get lost.
The old ancestor waved his hand. “Thinking about the sword tassel the little miss gave you? Forget about it, you’ve already buried it. Huh?”

Cui Wang slashed down with his sword, parting the air in a blast and clearing the black fog.

“Huh.” He reached into a crack in the rock wall and found that there was a light purple plant growing in there. It was the size of a palm, and had flowers that were clustered together like a small bowl.

“G-g-g-grass!” The old ancestor was almost stunned speechless by this great-grandson’s luck. “Nine Revolution Resurrection Grass! My dear! This grass—doesn’t it only grow in the depths of the Void, and only possibly obtained after defeating the void beast in a fight that might cost you your life?”

Cui Wang took out a jade shovel from his interdimensional pouch and carefully dug out the Nine Revolution Resurrection Grass along its rootstalk, then transplanted it into a piece of loess specially placed in his transient space. He seemed to be in a good mood, “Mhm.”

“…I can’t—I’m so jealous.”
The old ancestor sprawled down in the sea of consciousness. “To think that back then, I and some eminent elders, a group of five, came back from the Void after narrowly escaping death. Everyone was seriously injured, and yet we only dug up one Nine Revolution Resurrection Grass.”

“There is one more.” Just then, Cui Wang found another light purple plant in the corner of the wall ten feet ahead.

“……”
The old ancestor decided to lie flat.

Zheng Wan did not know that the Nine Revolution Resurrection Grass which she had dreamed of to improve the quality of her vital root had been so easily obtained by Cui Wang, and two at that. She was still at No. 1 Jingqi Street, and stayed there for two days.

The place was full of vital energy. It took her two whole days to sort out the vital energy she gained this time. Without even bothering to draw any talismans, she returned home as fast as she could.

She stayed at her parents’ place for three days, and after seeing that everything was fine, she returned to the sect.

The following days followed a regular pattern. During the day, she would polish her vital energy to make it pure, and at night, she divided her time evenly between practicing the Illusion Creation Art and drawing talismans. Once her soul consciousness was depleted, she would immediately practice the Soul Consciousness Art——
This method of depleting her soul consciousness before cultivating the Soul Consciousness Art made her soul consciousness grow faster than normal.

However, the Ice Heart Talisman was difficult to draw. Even with the special ice element talisman brush and cinnabar pigment, it still took her more than half a month to successfully draw one.

This one success talisman gave her a good start. Following that, Zheng Wan’s success rate when drawing Ice Heart Talismans became higher.

From the beginning, she could only draw two low-quality Ice Heart Talismans a day, but later, she could draw up to five or six a day, and they were all of pretty good quality.

The Ice Heart Talisman had the effects of dispelling illusions and calming the mind, and was especially useful when one was on expeditions. It was just a pity that there are very few cultivators who could draw Ice Heart Talismans on the market, so it has always been in short supply. When Zheng Wan put them out for sale for the first time, there was a huge ruckus as everyone scrambled for them.

A good quality Ice Heart Talisman could be sold for two mid-grade Yuan stones, and one of poorer quality could fetch one and a half mid-grade Yuan stones. Therefore, it wasn’t long before Zheng Wan got a taste of…
Become rich overnight.

From a penniless pauper, she now had a huge fortune of one top-grade Yuan stone and ten mid-grade Yuan stones.

It was at this time, the two Senior Sisters of hers who had gone out for training returned.