The Journey of Immortal Cultivation
Chapter 77 - 68: Beginner Alchemy Technique

Chapter 77: Chapter 68: Beginner Alchemy Technique

The merchant team was no stranger to this kind of situation, and normally didn’t care much. However, Deng Hao was meticulous and worried about frightening the female guests, so he ordered his men to carry the bear’s carcass downwind to bury it further away, also to avoid attracting other fierce beasts or demons from the mountains. After today’s fight with the Bear Demon, everyone was already very tired, and didn’t want to invite any more trouble.

After dawdling for a while, Liu Yimian finally finished cooking dinner. Probably out of consideration for everyone’s hard work today, he cooked an extra dish tonight, even adding a few slices of salted meat to the soup, which made all the men eat with smiles on their faces.

Cui Yingying reluctantly showed her face in the afternoon, and after reaching the huge rocks, she hid back in the carriage. Everyone was covered in dust and sweat from the afternoon’s fright and encounter with dust storms. As women generally love cleanliness, everyone saw Zhang Sheng quickly wolf down his share of the food and carry a bucket to find water. Fortunately, whistle had found a water source right after climbing onto the rocks, and now he pointed it out to Zhang Sheng, which was a small stream flowing less than a hundred feet away from the camp.

Zhang Sheng was already a thin man, and carrying about twenty pounds of water from a hundred feet away left him gasping for breath with rosy cheeks upon his return. This spectacle left the men at camp gawking, and it took them a while before someone slapped themselves on the face and cursed under their breath, "This is truly a demon!"

Zhang Sheng had already dried a piece of cotton cloth by the fire earlier, and now he took it with him into the carriage, presumably to wipe down his wife’s body. Being a man yet so henpecked by his wife that he didn’t dare slant east when told to go west was truly a loss of face for a seven-feet-tall man. These rough men might not say it out loud, but they all looked down on him in their hearts.

However, Ning Xiaoxian didn’t see it that way. On Earth, a man who is willing to fetch water for his wife’s foot bath and bath is a good man! It shows he is caring and gentle. Of course, that is as long as he’s not only being attentive right before and after payday.

So she praised quietly, "He really is a good man." To be fair, even though Zhang Sheng was timid and cowardly, he was indeed very good to his Lady.

Then she heard Changtian ask rather impulsively, "You actually like this type?" His tone full of incredulity.

Ah, of course he was incredulous, she thought. Changtian was prouder and cared more about his image than the average man. It was hard to imagine him fetching bathing water for a woman. Ah, she bet he would never do such a thing in this lifetime! She retorted petulantly, "What’s wrong with that? Zhang Sheng is handsome, and he’s so nice and considerate to his wife. What’s not to like?"

"Suit yourself," he said after a silence, "but evening practice is about to start. Aren’t you coming in yet?"

"What! Evening practice too?!" Now it was her turn to be incredulous. Her voice unintentionally got louder, drawing looks from people around. She stuck out her tongue and moved a few steps away before continuing in a lower voice, "I’m exhausted today and need to rest. And there’s still evening practice?" She didn’t see Mr. Yan’s smiling eyes as he looked over at her with a bowl in hand.

"Where did you get tired?"

"How could I not be? Twice I escaped from death! And I even saved that fatty’s life. Now the entire merchant team is exhausted, so why am I the only one who has to do evening practice? It’s not fair!" By the end, she was whining as usual, a tactic that usually worked very well for her.

Changtian was silent once more.

"It is indeed unfair," he finally said, to which Ning Xiaoxian immediately smiled. But then he continued, "What fairness is there in the road to Cultivation? You command the God Demon Prison and have my assistance; is that fair to other Cultivators? Someday, when you face an opponent you can’t defeat, would you find that fair?"

"Today, all you did was watch a fight and then sat in the carriage escaping death. How can you speak of being tired? Cultivation is like rowing against the current; if you don’t advance, you will fall back. How can you be so lazy?" Hmm, arguing with her along the way, he had indeed become more cutting with his words, often rendering her speechless.

She was exasperated. Lately, Changtian had been increasingly fond of lecturing her. She really wished he would return to being the silent and taciturn block of ice she first met!

She walked briskly back to the carriage and entered the Fifth Floor of the God Demon Prison, overhearing his voice, "What are you going there for?"

"To bathe!"

"Don’t you always say that after evening practice, you’d be covered in dust anyway?" Sometimes her behavior was incomprehensible.

"I want to bathe, I like bathing, is it any of your business?" she said angrily. She wasn’t as lucky as Zhang Sheng’s wife to have a dutiful husband to fetch water for her, so Granny would have to fend for herself and enjoy a good bath!

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