Chapter 213: Chapter 213: Living Together

As they chatted, Li Ping also introduced Xiao Yunzhi to Ji Shu Xuan and Ah Yun.

Although he only mentioned her name, both of their expressions shifted slightly. They had clearly heard of the famous Xiao Yunzhi.

This wasn’t strange.

As the only one with a Celestial Spiritual Root among the Western Wilderness’s new generation of Cultivators, she hailed from a prestigious family and was exceptionally skilled in Magical Combat, with numerous victories against Demon Cultivators to her name.

The Crimson Flame Fairy’s reputation in the Western Wilderness was much greater than even that of some Core Formation Cultivators.

They didn’t know why this highly distinguished Fairy would be traveling with the unremarkable Uncle Li, let alone why he seemed to be leading their conversation.

But Ji Shu Xuan and Ah Yun still bowed respectfully to Xiao Yunzhi.

Afterward, Li Ping asked for news about Xu Guikai, but Ji Shu Xuan told him that Senior Xu and a Senior Lin had gone to the Ice Sea to hunt demonic beasts and might not return for several years.

The shop he was in belonged to Senior Xu, and he and Ah Yun usually managed it for him.

Hearing this, Li Ping nodded and didn’t ask any further.

That Xu Guikai and Ji Shu Xuan were both safe and sound was a comfort to him.

In pursuit of a chance at Foundation Establishment, Ji Shu Xuan had risked his life to join the war in the Yan Kingdom. Although he ultimately failed to reach Foundation Establishment, he had at least survived here in the Land of the Far North.

He had married, had children, and was living a happy and fulfilling life.

With two Foundation Establishment Cultivators looking after them, their lives were quite comfortable. They were content with their modest prosperity.

As for Foundation Establishment... he was already sixty this year, and his Origin had been injured during the great war in the Yan Kingdom.

Now with a happy family, he had long given up the thought of Foundation Establishment.

Li Ping had originally planned to find someone to ask about renting a residence, but now he had run into Ji Shu Xuan, who had lived in Flying Snow City for over a decade and was very familiar with the city’s situation.

Immediately, Li Ping began to ask him about what to look out for when renting in Flying Snow City.

"Uncle Li, are you planning to settle down in Flying Snow City?" Ji Shu Xuan was a little surprised to hear Li Ping’s words.

After receiving Li Ping’s confirmation, he pondered for a moment before saying, "Uncle Li, the residences in Flying Snow City are mainly built along Spirit Veins. For example, Qinxin Garden where Ah Yun and I live is built on a Tier One Upper Grade Spirit Vein. Since you are a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Uncle Li, it would be best to rent a residence on a Tier Two Spirit Vein. The available options include Light Green Garden, Celestial Brocade Mansion, and a few others."

Li Ping nodded, signaling for him to continue.

Ji Shu Xuan said with a smile, "The Spiritual Land environments of these residences all meet your needs, Uncle Li, but their layouts are slightly different. Light Green Garden is cheaper on average, but the plots are smaller, generally only about half a mu. The residences at Celestial Brocade Mansion are larger, but since it’s close to the market square, there’s a lot of foot traffic and not much privacy. Besides those, there’s Beifeng Square, Changping Square..."

Thanks to Ji Shu Xuan’s explanation, Li Ping finally had a general understanding of the Tier Two residences available for rent in Flying Snow City.

In the end, considering factors like privacy and size, he decided to first take a look at the Changping Square that Ji Shu Xuan had mentioned.

Changping Square consisted of several dozen residences built along a Tier Two spirit river, offering excellent views. They were basically riverfront properties.

Moreover, each residence occupied a plot of nearly a hundred mu and came with a courtyard in addition to its main building. They were also spaced far apart from the other Cultivators’ residences.

After setting up an Array, one’s privacy would be very well protected.

Of course, their price was also much higher than that of ordinary Tier Two residences.

However, for Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi, price was not a factor.

...

Hearing that Li Ping wanted to go look at properties, Ji Shu Xuan quickly instructed his wife to close up the shop, then personally led Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi to Changping Square.

Along the way, Ji Shu Xuan would occasionally tell them amusing stories about the city to relieve their fatigue.

When they arrived at Changping Square, he familiarly inquired with the manager.

Seeing him bustling about, Li Ping couldn’t help but feel a surge of emotion.

He remembered that twenty years ago in Fenglan Immortal City, Ji Shu Xuan had been single-mindedly focused on cultivation and was very green when it came to social interactions.

After all these years of being tempered by life, he had unknowingly become a man of the world.

When the manager saw that a Foundation Establishment Senior had come to rent a residence, he adopted a respectful attitude and immediately led the two of them to inspect the vacant properties.

They looked at two properties in a row, but Li Ping wasn’t very satisfied with either.

Until the third residence.

This was a residence on a flat piece of land upstream of the spirit river. It covered about a hundred mu, the Spiritual Qi environment reached Tier Two Upper Grade, and it came with a Tier Two Lower Grade Array.

Most importantly, this residence was far from the hustle and bustle, and the nearest residence was over three hundred zhang away.

The living environment was very quiet and secluded, and the privacy was quite good.

After asking for Xiao Yunzhi’s opinion and getting her approval, Li Ping decided to rent this residence as their place in Flying Snow City.

Immediately, he asked the Qi Refining manager about the rent, payment methods, and other such matters.

The man didn’t dare to deceive a Foundation Establishment Senior and honestly informed him of all the relevant details.

The rent for the residence was ninety Spirit Stones a year. The rent could be paid yearly or for multiple years at once, as long as it was paid in full before the end of the lease.

Li Ping nodded to himself.

Ninety Spirit Stones a year wasn’t much cheaper than his rent at Immortal Peach Mountain, but the area of this residence was only about one-tenth the size. It seemed outrageously expensive.

However, the price for the Immortal Peach Mountain residence had been set by the Meng family to attract High-tier artisans—a "let’s be friends" price that couldn’t be considered normal.

Furthermore, Spirit Veins were scarce in the Land of the Far North, so residence rentals were correspondingly much more expensive than those under similar conditions in the Western Wilderness.

"This price is fine." Li Ping nodded, accepting the price.

The manager immediately led him to the administrative office, where he took out nine hundred Low-Tier Spirit Stones and signed a ten-year contract with the Flying Snow City officials.

He didn’t plan on leaving Flying Snow City anytime soon.

...

On the day the contract was signed, Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi moved into the rented residence.

The hundred-mu residence had dozens of rooms, and the two of them each chose one as their personal cultivation chamber.

Li Ping planned to use the remaining rooms as an Alchemy Room and a Talisman Room.

After using a cleaning spell to tidy up the courtyard, Li Ping suggested to Xiao Yunzhi that they hire an Array Master to set up another Array within the residence’s existing one to prevent outsiders from spying on them.

Xiao Yunzhi, however, just smiled without saying a word.

Seeing Li Ping’s confused expression, she quickly explained with a smile, "Brother Li, I’m actually a Tier Two Array Master. Why don’t you leave the residence’s Array to me?"

Before this, when Ji Shu Xuan had called Li Ping ’Uncle Li’, it had made Xiao Yunzhi hesitate.

After Li Ping explained his true identity to her, Xiao Yunzhi finally realized that the ’Physician Yan’ she knew was actually Li Ping’s alias, and not the other way around.

Surprised that Xiao Yunzhi was an Array Master, Li Ping nodded. "That works too. I’ll leave the matter of the Array to you, Yunzhi."

"Don’t worry, Brother Li!" Xiao Yunzhi smiled and nodded.

...

Afterward, the two left the residence and headed to the market square for a banquet.

To host Uncle Li, Ji Shu Xuan had specially booked a spirit banquet at the city’s Golden Goblet Tower to welcome him and wash away the dust of his journey.

The reason Li Ping attended the banquet wasn’t for the food; he simply couldn’t bear to refuse such a sincere gesture of respect.

That night, in a private room at the Golden Goblet Tower, the group ate and chatted.

Besides Li Ping, Xiao Yunzhi, and Ji Shu Xuan and his wife, there were also two young children. The older one looked about ten, while the younger was only five or six.

These two children were Ji Shu Xuan’s.

Their conversation during the day had been rushed, but now they had plenty of time. Ji Shu Xuan asked Li Ping about his family and friends back home.

He learned that the Ji family was developing well, and that Yan Hengchuan had become dao partners with a Foundation Establishment Female Cultivator from the Yu family.

While Ji Shu Xuan was genuinely happy to hear this, a wistful look couldn’t help but cross his face.

Back then, it was seeing Yan Hengchuan’s successful Foundation Establishment that made him determined to gather his courage and go to the Yan Kingdom to fight for his own chance at Foundation Establishment.

But he ended up a slave and almost died.

Only after losing a simple life and getting it back did he learn to cherish it.

Now, he had come to terms with it all and was very satisfied with his current situation.

With a wife and children, his energy was now focused on his family. He no longer went on adventures, only hoping to take care of his wife and kids and live out his life in peace.

...

Ji Shu Xuan had really splurged to host Uncle Li this time.

The spirit banquet and Spirit Wine cost him nearly one hundred Spirit Stones in total, but he didn’t regret the expense in the slightest.

After all, Uncle Li had taken care of him for so many years, and the resources he had given him were worth more than ten times this banquet.

When the banquet ended, he saw Li Ping and Xiao Yunzhi off before returning home with his wife and children.

His wife, however, was stunned to find that both of her children were tightly clutching a red envelope.

Upon questioning, the two little ones timidly said that it was a gift from Grandpa Li.

Ji Shu Xuan opened the two red envelopes and discovered a Middle-tier Spirit Stone inside each one.

Only then did he realize that the welcoming gift Uncle Li had given his children was far more valuable than what he had spent that day.

"This is too valuable. We should return it to Uncle Li tomorrow," his wife said, her expression a little panicked.

Ji Shu Xuan shook his head. "There’s no need. Uncle Li isn’t an outsider."

’The Uncle Li of today is probably even more formidable than he was twenty years ago, not someone an ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator can compare to. He had noticed it today when they were renting the residence—Uncle Li and that Crimson Flame Fairy had rented only one residence together. From this, it was clear that the relationship between Uncle Li and the Crimson Flame Fairy was truly extraordinary!’

Thinking of this, a strange thought suddenly popped into his head: ’Could it be that Uncle Li and the Crimson Flame Fairy eloped? Is that why they appeared together in the Land of the Far North?’

’That’s Uncle Li for you.’

...

Under the night sky, two figures returned to their residence in Changping Square.

Having drunk Spirit Wine at the banquet, Xiao Yunzhi’s face was flushed. She said softly, "Brother Li, it’s too late today. I’ll set up the Array tomorrow."

"Mm," Li Ping nodded slightly and returned to his room alone, leaving Xiao Yunzhi standing alone in the courtyard.

Seeing him leave, she sighed, circulated her Magical Power to expel the Spirit Wine from her system, and her complexion instantly returned to normal.

Then, she also returned to her own room.

Living in the same residence, the two officially began living together.

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