Chasing after her husband? Is it even possible to win him back?

Mo Xun and Xue Changyun initially thought it was a trivial matter after hearing the first sentence, but after hearing Chu Xunfeng's second sentence, they exchanged a glance, followed Chu Xunfeng, and walked into the east wing together.

Upon entering the east wing, Mo Xun and Xue Changyun both gasped and exchanged a glance.

This is no small favor.

Meanwhile, Hongzhu and Lao Wang were silently making their way towards the ghost market along the path.

"Miss Hongzhu, what are you thinking about?" Old Wang noticed that Hongzhu's mood seemed to have been quite bad since she left the courtyard, and the Yin energy within her body was constantly surging.

"Our position," Hongzhu's voice was somewhat low, "is that someone from the young master's side has come to help."

"That's a good thing." Old Wang's answer was truly honest and straightforward.

"It's a good thing for the young master, but not necessarily for us." Hongzhu glanced back at Old Wang.

Old Wang was silent for a while, then said, "We are not capable enough to help you much, so it's a good thing that someone is coming to help you."

Hongzhu looked at Lao Wang, whose expression and eyes were very serious. She paused for a moment, then took a deep breath to suppress the restless Yin energy within her body, and her emotions quickly returned to calm.

"You're right, I've been thinking... a bit too much." Hongzhu sighed, her emotions complex.

“Miss Hongzhu is probably overthinking it. We can’t help much anyway. There are many things that are not suitable for the young master and his friends to do. What is rightfully ours will always be ours.” Old Wang’s voice was steady. “Farmers should just focus on farming. We can’t make the heavens send rain.”

"Hmm." Hongzhu accepted Old Wang's lecture with ease, and she glanced at Old Wang a few more times. "Thank you."

"Of course." Old Wang shook his head. "Miss Hongzhu is capable and ambitious, so it's normal for you to overthink things. As for me... I just mentioned my own self-positioning, which might be helpful to you."

Hongzhu withdrew her gaze, gave a soft reply, and stopped talking to the gradually changing Old Wang.

Old Wang merely glanced at Hongzhu's retreating figure and said nothing more.

Old Wang, or rather... the ghost who only remembered the name Wang Yuan'er, has gradually changed. He has gradually begun to understand Hongzhu's thoughts and expressions, and has slowly begun to understand the intentions behind many of the young master's arrangements.

It was as if a celestial being had touched my head; with a single thought, everything became clear.

This may not be anything special; it's more like past memories are gradually returning, and ignorance and confusion are being replaced by the life experiences and ways of thinking he had while he was still alive.

Hongzhu had seen this situation many times before; the enlightenment of the Ghost Clan was essentially the same thing. However, Lao Wang's behavior made Hongzhu somewhat wary of him.

After all, the change in her appearance before and after was too fast and too big.

Perhaps we should go back and remind the young master?

"Hey? Sister Hongzhu?" A call from her as she walked brought Hongzhu back to reality from her reverie.

The young broker was sitting on his doorstep, looking at Hongzhu and Old Wang with surprise. When the two arrived, the broker stood up from the doorstep. "Is there some work to be done? Or is there a problem with the house we were looking for?"

"No, Young Master has something to ask me to do, so I asked you to do it. Young Master Chu wants to find a big house."

“A big house? This…” Ya Zai hesitated for a second. “Sister Hongzhu, you know the rules. Once you’ve paid, there’s no reason for you to go back. If you decide not to stay after the date is set, that’s your business.”

Hongzhu rolled her eyes. "Just go find a place to live."

"Of course we have big houses, it just depends on how big you want, what location you want, and how much you can offer." Ya Zai smiled. Since there was no money involved, he was naturally happy to see a new business opportunity come his way.

"Enough for ten people." Red Candle stared at Tooth Boy. "Is it?"

"Yes... there really is, but the land there is incredibly valuable, and the price is outrageously high. After all, it's a large property left behind by a former master in the inner city." The boy's eyes darted around, and he chuckled. "I don't have the keys to that apartment right now. If you want it, give me a deposit..."

“Take us to see it directly,” Hongzhu interrupted Yazai. “If it’s suitable, I can finalize the deal right away. Young Master doesn’t like trouble.”

"Alright then, I'll have to trouble you two to walk a bit further with me." Ya Zai didn't mind too much. In his line of work, he had to be mindful of people's attitudes. Hong Zhu's attitude was nothing to him, not to mention that he had made a small amount of money from Hong Zhu yesterday.

Attitude is irrelevant.

Only the Yin Sha Pearl is genuine.

If he can close this deal, he can live a carefree life for at least six months.

Chapter Thirty-Three: Formations and Yin Sha

“Young Master Chu, this house, along with the renovation of the previous house, will require a total of sixty high-grade Yin Sha Pearls.”

The mansion where Chu Xunfeng was standing at this moment was very large, located in the south of the bustling central district of the Ghost Market. It was unexpectedly quiet and secluded. Unlike the previous small courtyard, the entire mansion was not desolate. Instead, it was well-maintained and seemed to be tidied up regularly.

Chu Xunfeng looked at the mercenary-looking young ghost and handed him a cloth bag.

He had no desire to haggle with the brokers. In the demon race, there was only room for negotiation when doing big business with important figures. With these demons who were just trying to make a living, they wouldn't give him a penny less.

This is not stinginess; rather, it should be described with another similar word.

greedy.

Satisfied with the sixty high-grade Yin Sha Pearls, Ya Zai felt dizzy. He had been in the Black Forest for many years, but he had never encountered a seller so generous in such a large transaction before.

"The key." Red Candle's words brought Tooth Boy back to reality.

Tooth Boy hurriedly pulled out a handful of jade-carved keystones and handed them to Red Candle, while instructing, "The owner of this house arranges for someone to clean and tidy it every month. If you don't need it, just let me know, and I'll stop this for the next two months."

"Let's stop for now." Chu Xunfeng nodded to the young broker.

"Alright, then you all go ahead with your work, I won't bother you any longer." Ya Zai gave a slightly humble smile, cupped his hands in a bow, and then turned and quickly left the mansion.

"Senior brothers and sisters, you should go and rest first. We can talk about anything else tomorrow. It's already late at night." Chu Xunfeng looked up at the sky. "Hongzhu, Lao Wang, you did a good job tonight. This is for you. Take it and rest. Take good care of this mansion tomorrow."

"Understood, young master." Hongzhu took the two cloth bags handed over by Chu Xunfeng and gave one of them to Old Wang beside her.

Old Wang took the cloth bag, lightly weighed it in his hand, and accepted it.

Chu Xunfeng glanced at Old Wang again, but said nothing. He then walked into the three-story pavilion with his senior brother and sister who had been waiting for a while.

The two senior brothers and sisters chose to stay in two side rooms on the second floor with their doors facing each other. The only main room on the third floor was reserved for Chu Xunfeng. The two ghosts, Hongzhu and Laowang, each assumed the role of servants and moved into the side room of the main hall.

As the night deepened, the doors to the two rooms on the second floor were pushed open almost simultaneously. Mo Xun and Xue Changyun exchanged a glance and stepped onto the stairs leading to the third floor. Chu Xunfeng, who had been waiting for a long time, saw his senior brother and sister arrive and took out a large, complete, and connected floorboard from his storage magic treasure.

It occupies nearly ten square meters, and can be placed comfortably in the main room on the third floor, which has almost no furniture.

This floorboard was created by Chu Xunfeng and the system using an array that can purify Yin energy and filter out turbid energy.

The system has a high energy level, allowing it to directly use its built-in functions to create things that the system itself cannot do. However, as a communication and dialogue-enabled entity, combined with some of Chu Xunfeng's whimsical ideas, the system can also instruct Chu Xunfeng to reproduce some of its degraded functions.

In a way, this does meet Chu Xunfeng's needs.

If someone were to perfectly replicate something that could separate the Yin Sha Pearl into Jie Sha and Yin Qi, Chu Xunfeng himself would probably be in deep trouble.

The things on the floor right now perfectly matched Chu Xunfeng's expectations.

He could roughly understand the principle, but the senior brothers and sisters who helped to stabilize the formation, especially senior sister Xue Changyun, really couldn't understand how the formation worked.

Chu Xunfeng instructed her on what to do, and she obediently followed his instructions.

As Mo Xun gradually reassembled the formation, he slowly realized that while the principle behind it was simple, its actual operation was almost impossible. The theory existed, but replicating it was nearly impossible.

Absorbing the turbid Yin energy from its travels, it circulates hundreds of times within the formation. Through high-speed circulation and interference from the contents within a portion of the formation's core, it gradually 'throws' contents of different natures from the turbid Yin energy into three other nested formations for further purification and compression.

This is actually the principle behind centrifuges.

But in this world, apart from Chu Xunfeng and the system, it's hard to imagine that the omnipresent turbid Yin energy in the Black Forest could be separated and manipulated in such a way.

After all, in the world of cultivators, no matter how many impurities are mixed in with power, it is still essentially the same power.

Even if the Yin energy is turbid, once it is stirred up and utilized, the turbid energy will be incorporated into the Yin energy.

It took the three of them more than an hour to reconnect the array. Looking at the array on the ground, which still lacked an energy source in its core, Mo Xun couldn't help but sigh, "Junior Brother is truly a genius. In my opinion, this array is not only used to separate turbid energy and yin energy, is it?"

"If there are corresponding methods, this formation can even separate Yin energy," Chu Xunfeng explained casually.

"Yin Sha... can it be separated?" Xue Changyun raised an eyebrow.

“Yin energy and calamity.” Chu Xunfeng nodded. “I tried to operate it once or twice. Although I succeeded, the formation itself did not last long before it broke down.”

“I once heard my master say that if the three regions of the Nine Provinces were still intact, the spiritual energy we use now would be even purer.” Mo Xun said with feeling after hearing Chu Xunfeng’s words, “Although my master did not say it explicitly, I can roughly guess it.”

"It's because of the dead land and the turbid air." Chu Xunfeng looked at the array that lacked the array eye, and then looked up at his senior brother. "I encountered it once in the Ghost Forest. Black mist was mixed with white mist. At that time, I couldn't recognize what the white mist was, but after I separated the Yin Sha Pearl and the Turbid Air Pearl once before, I understood."

"Yes, the pure spiritual energy that we take for granted may still be somewhat impure in the eyes of our master's generation."

"I don't have that feeling." Xue Changyun is a body cultivator. For someone without spiritual roots, scattered spiritual energy is just an intangible concept, completely beyond their reach.

“In essence, Qi and blood should be the energy produced by the physical body, mixed with ‘intention’. The difference between the energy flowing from the inside out and the energy flowing from the outside in is fundamentally different.” Mo Xun smiled.

It's hard to say whether it's a consolation or an explanation.

Xue Changyun didn't press the matter further. After all, if you can't sense it, it doesn't exist. As long as you know how to deal with the magic cultivator's ultimate technique, there's no way to delve deeper into other areas. There's no need to worry unnecessarily.

"Thank you so much, senior brothers and sisters."

"No need to be so polite. We came here to help you." Mo Xun smiled and patted Chu Xunfeng on the shoulder. "If you want to express your gratitude, open that jar of Yu Bing tomorrow and treat me to a drink."

"Definitely." Chu Xunfeng rarely showed a smile as he watched his senior brother and sister go downstairs one after the other.

Turn your gaze away and take one last look at the formation that is still waiting to be activated...

Tomorrow, there will probably be more uninvited guests at the door.

Chapter Thirty-Four: The Red Candle's Jealousy

The next morning, Chu Xunfeng, sitting cross-legged on the empty bed frame, slowly calmed the flickering lightning around him and opened his eyes.

A female ghost dressed in red was standing outside the open door of the main room. Seeing Chu Xunfeng open his eyes, Hongzhu suppressed her discomfort with the lightning-attribute spiritual energy and walked into the main room. "Young master, I have something to report to you."

"Go ahead and say it." Chu Xunfeng used his spiritual root to gradually gather the scattered lightning-attribute spiritual energy in the room, and the red candle was able to move closer to Chu Xunfeng.

“Old Wang has changed too quickly. I always felt that he was probably not a simple person when he was alive…” Hongzhu lowered her voice and whispered her worries.