Chapter 1: Li the Gentleman

在腾云阁...

一群妩媚美丽的少女,要么挥舞着宫扇,表现得风骚,要么用手帕遮住脸,表现得害羞.芬芳的风令人陶醉,融化骨头..."李师傅,请慢慢来,经常回来~""李师傅,你明天要给我画一幅画~""先生,你还欠我一首小诗~""..."腾云阁里来来往往的人都用奇怪的表情看着这一幕,目光频频扫过这个地方,带着嘲讽和羡慕.但李玄机已经习惯了,他和女孩们开玩笑,笑着.路过妓院老板时,还不忘占她的便宜,引来了几声风骚的抱怨..."什么?"妓院老板还有些魅力,白皙的看了他一眼,用嘲讽的语气调侃道:"李师傅不喜欢少女,想重走我的这条老路?妓院老板梁夫人也是十几年前腾云阁的顶级女郎.那些年,李玄机对她的支持很多,所以两人非常熟悉,算是老熟人了..."不要~"李玄机笑了笑,带着一丝意味,道:"老路崎岖不平,又黑又瞎.怕有人把我打倒,吸到半路骨髓,我不敢走动~""死脸~"梁嬷娇地看了他一眼,带着一丝意味的调侃道:"你老了,觉得时间不饶恕吗?李玄机抿了抿嘴,不高兴道:"岁月的痕迹不一定在脸上."..."梁夫人微微一怔,这才明白他的话是什么意思.她又羞又恼,伸手捏了捏他的腰.她似乎想到了什么,摆了摆手驱散周围的少女,把他拉到一边,认真的说道:"对了,老李,你已经查出了你让我打听的事情,不过他们想要的是中品灵石..."李玄机闻言不寒而栗,"多少钱?"一块中品灵石...""多久?""三天...""是金边吗?还是一个有名的地方?"不,不..."梁夫人耐心的解释道:"她们是炼气四层的女修.他们前段时间刚刚失去了自己的道伴,缺钱.他们还没有找到新的.他们别无选择,只能让我问...""他们疯了吗?"李玄机摇了摇头,皱眉道:"亭子里的姑娘们只想要银票.一个炼气四层的女修,竟然敢索要一块中品灵石?梁嬷嬷说:"你知道,女修天生优势.当他们遇到困难时,他们很少陷入这样的境地.我猜他们只会做一次这笔生意...""不要,不要...""真的不想要吗?"Madam Liang's eyes moved and said: "If you don't do this deal, then I'll go and push it…"Li Xuanji saw her twisting her waist and preparing to leave. He hesitated for a while and reluctantly called out: "Wait!"Madam Liang smiled and came back, raising her eyebrows and said: "Master Li changed his mind?""Don't push it first…"Li Xuanji snorted and said: "I'll go back and think about it, and I'll give you an answer tonight."After that, he lost his interest in chatting, wiped off the rouge marks on his neck, tightened his clothes, and left Tengyun Pavilion without looking back…Back at home.He leaned back on the recliner, his eyes blankly looking at the sky, like a lonely old man with half of his body buried in the ground…Li Xuanji had lived two lives. In this life, his parents were cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining. His father practiced alchemy, and his mother was a rare puppet master in the cultivation world.Although his family was not comparable to those of the big clans and sects born of immortal descendants, he had no worries about food, clothing, and use…In his two lives, he also believed that his fortune in this life must be profound, and he would live a wonderful life, so he tried his best to integrate into this world.He knew a thousand words at the age of three, recited ancient poems at the age of five, and followed his parents to learn pharmacology and arithmetic at the age of seven…He was just fantasizing about stepping on the path of cultivation and proving himself as a true immortal, but he suddenly learned that his parents were killed in an adventure and passed away…Without his parents' protection, he also lost his qualification to live in the cultivation market. He was driven out of the market by people and moved to the Lonely City under the protection of the Green Wave Pool.The people who live here are either descendants of cultivators, but have no spiritual roots, and have awkward identities;Or like Li Xuanji, they are down and out and have no one to protect them. They belong to the border between the mundane world and the cultivation world.He lived in a daze for two years, and when he learned that the Green Wave Pool would recruit disciples every few years, and that the Lonely City was also in the recruitment range, he cheered up again!He finally waited for the grand ceremony of the Green Wave Pool to recruit disciples. He confidently went on stage to verify his spiritual root aptitude…But he was told that he had a pseudo-spiritual root of five elements, and his root bone aptitude was rated as very low, only slightly better than a mortal without a spiritual root. Such a spiritual root can't even talk about building a foundation, let alone being able to cultivate to the middle or late stage of Qi Refining…In a word: he can cultivate, but only a little bit.Such a poor cultivation talent naturally has no possibility of entering the Green Wave Pool…From the clouds to the bottom of the valley, nothing more than this.Bitter, too bitter.But Li Xuanji was also a stubborn temper who refused to admit defeat. He worked hard for three years and finally found the sense of qi, and became a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining…After the bitterness, he felt that he was about to get out of the predicament…He also thought that cultivation should be relaxed and moderate. In order to encourage himself, he stepped into Tengyun Pavilion for the first time at the age of sixteen, and spent a lot of money to order a girl with both virtue and art to accompany him for a drink…The next morning, he felt something flickering in his eyes, and he ran back home without even taking the red envelope on the bedside…[You have built a romantic relationship with Liang Shihan (slightly favorable), reward: a wisp of worldly qi…]As the prompt at the bottom of his eyes appeared, he could clearly feel that there seemed to be a wisp of ethereal qi in his body.And what the qi refining stage refined was qi!He just moved his mind, and the so-called 'worldly qi' melted into his body and disappeared.And as he refined the worldly qi, he also vaguely gained some insights into painting, and it was easier to draw with a brush.Through the clouds and see the blue sky, there is hope after despair.He broke through to the first layer of qi refining and officially entered the cultivation world, and he also received the golden finger. It was a double happiness, and he would never forget how excited he was at that time…In order to figure out the use of the golden finger, he hurried back to Tengyun Pavilion in the noon sun and looked for Liang Shihan to have a drink and chat.As expected.Afterwards, he had another wisp of worldly qi in his body…Then he calmed down and stayed in Tengyun Pavilion for a few days. In order to figure out the use of this 'romantic relationship', he successively found several girls to have a drink and chat.If it was in some games in his previous life, he felt that there would be words like 'Musical Skill Experience +6', 'Calligraphy Experience +8', 'Painting Experience +5', 'Chess Skill Experience +4' popping up on his head…But…For several days, the insights he gained from refining worldly qi were all about music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, etc.There was nothing related to cultivation!Later…In order to figure out the use of 'romantic relationship', he left Gucheng and went to the mundane world for two years.He visited all kinds of brothels, flower boats and hookah bars, and indeed built a lot of romantic relationships, and also rewarded a lot of worldly qi.But, the worldly qi seemed to be only interested in the mundane world, and did not add anything related to cultivation after refining!The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.After spending all his family's fortune, he returned to Gucheng again. Not only did his cultivation level stagnate at the first layer of qi refining, but he also had to worry about his livelihood after returning to Gucheng…Fortunately, in these two years, his insights into music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, etc. have improved a lot. Such achievements can be called masters in the mundane world.Relying on selling some paintings and calligraphy, he could barely make a living.But how could he, Li Xuanji, be content with mediocrity?After settling down for a while, he had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and 'slightly' artistically processed what he saw and heard in Tengyun Pavilion and the two years he went out, and wrote a motivational story book called "The Peach Blossom Chronicles"…He then cooperated with Moyunxuan, a shop that sells stationery in Gucheng, and the sales were quite good. Not only did he solve the problem of livelihood, but he also had extra money to explore the use of romantic relationship. His life was also stabilized.In a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed…In these ten years, his insights into music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, etc. have reached a certain threshold, and even things like cutting, sewing and other women's work are very proficient.During this period, in order to explore whether the 'worldly qi' could add something related to cultivation…He tried to touch some auxiliary cultivation skills such as alchemy, refining, talisman making, formation, cultivating spiritual plants, and raising spiritual beasts.Because of his childhood exposure, he even dabbled in some of the more niche skills in the cultivation world, such as puppetry.However, however…Now Li Xuanji is middle-aged, lying on the recliner like a salted fish…His cultivation level was only at the second layer of qi refining, and he had no spells or cultivation level.The only thing he had in his hands was the basic knowledge of cultivation that all cultivators knew, and the "Nine Essentials of Alchemy" and "Basic Outline of Puppetry" passed down by his parents.The former was common, and the latter was too obscure…The enthusiasm for exploring the use of 'worldly qi' was long extinguished by the cold reality.As for why he still lingered in the world, to put it nicely, he went to collect material for "The Peach Blossom Chronicles", and it was a habit he had cultivated for a long time. To put it plainly, he was unwilling!He came to this wonderful and diverse cultivation world, and he also had a golden finger by his side. How could he be content to stay in the qi refining stage until he died?"Alas~ life~"He was almost done with his sage mode, and Li Xuanji sighed and got up from the recliner.Back in his room, his bed and bedside were filled with puppetry puppets of various sizes and shapes, and they were lifelike.These little playthings that accompanied him were the only psychological comfort he had in those years when he spent all his family's fortune.Li Xuanji lay on the bed and wanted to close his eyes and rest, but he couldn't sleep as he tossed and turned, thinking of the 'qi refining fourth layer female cultivator' that the mother of Tengyun Pavilion said.Romantic relationship, romantic relationship, is it possible that I, Li, only have romantic relationship, but no immortal relationship?He wanted to find a dao companion to verify his guess…However, he had a five-element pseudo-spiritual root, and his cultivation level was only at the second layer of qi refining. This kind of cultivation talent and cultivation level was the bottom of the barrel in the cultivation world, and he couldn't find a dao companion…In the cultivation world, when two cultivators with spiritual roots combine, the probability of their children having spiritual roots will also be higher.And there is no one-husband-one-wife rule in the cultivation world. Some female cultivators would rather be the thirty-second concubine of a foundation-building cultivator than live a hard life with a qi refining cultivator.There are also some cultivators who have no hope of building a foundation, and focus their energy on establishing a family and having many offspring. Their favorite thing to do is to collect those low-level female cultivators…In such a big environment, it is very difficult for a low-level cultivator like him who has not only poor cultivation talent, but also no family background to back him up, to find a dao companion.Later he changed his mind and thought that if he couldn't find a dao companion, as long as there was a female cultivator who was willing, he could also verify his guess…So he set his sights on Tengyun Pavilion.Now with the help of his old friend, he has made a connection, and it is a female cultivator in the middle stage of qi refining, but the price of a medium-grade spirit stone is really outrageous!But, he has to try it anyway!!Li Xuanji thought of the old shopkeeper of Moyunxuan who came to urge him to write a few days ago, and he sighed and got up, went to his small study, and spread out the paper and ink…Work, earn spirit stones!!He picked up the brush and pondered for a while, as if he had some ideas, and wrote: "The Peach Blossom Chronicles (Chapter 178)";He continued: As we said last time, the Great Love Immortal and the Supreme Elder of the Hehuan Sect fought for several days, shaking the sky and the earth, and the sun and the moon were dark…For several hours…He first finalized the manuscript, and then drew some lifelike illustrations.After the ink dried, he put the manuscript in his sleeve, put on a masked hat, and went out of the door…