Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Inside the training room.

Li Ping sat cross-legged, holding a blank jade slip in his hand, and used his divine sense to inscribe something on the jade slip.

He is writing a reply to Master Ji.

Compared to paper letters, recording jade slips with one's divine sense is somewhat like the word processing software he used in his previous life.

Not only is it simple and easy to operate, but it also allows for free editing of text, insertion of images and illusions, making it more flexible than writing on paper.

The only drawback is that jade slips themselves need to be purchased with spirit stones, unlike paper letters which can be obtained from the mortal world using gold and silver.

Previously, he communicated with Master Ji using paper letters, mainly because they were cheap and did not require additional spirit stones.

However, now that he is rich enough, he no longer cares about the spirit stones needed to buy blank jade slips, so he is too lazy to write anything and chooses to use jade slips to carry messages.

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In his reply, Li Ping first expressed his gratitude to Master Ji for attending his master's funeral on his behalf and for overseeing the Sword Casting Manor, ensuring a smooth handover of the manor after his master's death.

Then, he offered his heartfelt congratulations to Ji Dao's granddaughter for joining the Crimson Flame Sect and to him for renting a spiritual land for his family to advance to the next level.

Finally, in the letter, he explained that he was doing quite well in the Immortal City.

Considering the poor cultivation environment in Jiang Kingdom, he hoped to bring his third senior brother's grandson to the Immortal City so that he could personally teach him.

If Master Ji trusts him, he can also choose one of his own descendants to send to the Immortal City, where he will treat them equally and nurture them accordingly.

Finally, he said that he no longer needed spirit stones, so he would send more things back.

I hope this will be of some help to Master Ji's family in their early stages, and I also ask Master Ji to continue to help take care of the Sword Casting Manor.

The list of items is as follows: a number of healing and internal energy-enhancing pills for mortals, 10 bottles of Qi-boosting pills, 10 bottles of Qi-gathering pills, four second-grade low-level spirit talismans, and a number of spirit stones.

At the same time, Li Ping explained the purpose of these supplies: the pills used by ordinary people were for his third senior brother.

Half of the remaining pills and talismans were given to Master Ji, and the other half were given to the grandson of the third senior brother, to be delivered on his behalf.

The spirit stones were the travel expenses for the third senior brother's grandson and Master Ji's junior to come to the Immortal City with the caravan, and Master Ji was asked to buy them some magical artifacts for self-defense.

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After finishing writing the letter to Master Ji, Li Ping took out paper and pen to write a letter to his third senior brother.

The letter was roughly meant to comfort the third senior brother, and to express that he would take care of the Yan family. It also explained to him that the Immortal City was more suitable for independent cultivators, and reassured him about the safety of his grandson after arriving in the Immortal City.

After finishing writing the letter, Li Ping took out a storage bag the size of a palm.

Then he stuffed the supplies, letter, and jade slip into the storage bag, then put the storage bag into the wooden box and sealed it with the agreed key.

Previously, when he communicated with Master Ji, he did not use storage bags to store items.

He used storage bags this time mainly because he had a lot of things that couldn't fit in the wooden boxes.

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After doing all this, Li Ping called Bai Lin over and instructed her to hand the wooden box over to Gu Musheng.

"Yes, I understand." Upon hearing Li Ping's instructions, Bai Lin blinked and immediately turned to leave.

"Come back." Li Ping quickly called out to her, "Do you have spirit stones? I haven't given you the spirit stones for sending the letter yet."

Bai Lin stopped and paused for a moment before saying, "I have spirit stones."

Li Ping asked in surprise, "Where did you get these spirit stones? Besides, this is for sending me a letter, how can I use your spirit stones?"

After saying that, he was about to take out the spirit stones for postage from his storage bag when he heard Bai Lin's embarrassed voice: "I sold the bottle of beauty pills that Master Hu gave me."

"A beauty-enhancing pill?" Li Ping suddenly remembered.

At the beginning of the year, Master Hu from next door came to visit him. Perhaps thinking that Bai Lin was his concubine, he gave Bai Lin a bottle of beauty pills that could help female cultivators maintain their youthful appearance.

After Master Hu left, Bai Lin handed over the beauty pills, but Li Ping naturally refused to accept them, telling her to handle them herself. He had assumed Bai Lin would take them herself, but the young girl had unexpectedly sold them.

"Who did you sell it to?" Li Ping asked curiously.

Bai Lin was very honest: "I sold it to Sister Cheng Yao. It cost 120 spirit stones in total."

Li Ping shook his head slightly: "Impossible, how could Cheng Yao possibly afford it?"

Cheng Yao was only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, a low-grade first-level spirit plant master. Her annual income was only about thirty or forty spirit stones. After paying the 20 spirit stones for the Foundation Establishment fund and adding her own cultivation needs, she had no spirit stones left at all.

Not to mention spending such a large sum of spirit stones just to buy a beauty pill that has no benefit to cultivation.

Seeing that Li Ping didn't believe her, Bai Lin hurriedly explained, "It's true, it was Sister Cheng Yao's manager who paid the spirit stones."

Hearing that it was a sycophant who paid for the spirit stones, Li Ping was speechless. However, since it was a mutual agreement, one was willing to give and the other was willing to receive, he had nothing to say.

"Keep your spirit stones for yourself." He shook his head and took out the spirit stones from his storage bag.

After thinking for a moment, he took out two more bottles of Qi-boosting pills and handed them to the girl: "You've worked hard these past few days. Here are two bottles of Qi-boosting pills. Take them and try to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining as soon as possible."

Bai Lin quickly accepted the spirit stones and pills, saying, "Thank you, Senior!"

Li Ping didn't correct Bai Lin's form of address; he simply waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."

Bai Lin quickly replied, "Yes, senior!"

"Senior." Watching the girl's departing figure, Li Ping shook his head slightly. He had originally planned to talk to Bai Lin soon and ask her if she would be willing to become his concubine.

But now, after receiving his master's final letter, he was no longer in the mood for it.

"Let's discuss this matter later."

……

Fangshi.

A man and a woman walked into a shop selling robes. If Berlin were here, he would immediately recognize them as Cheng Yao and Wang Xingwei.

"Young master, is there anything I can do for you?" The low-level Qi Refining clerk in the shop sensed Wang Xingwei's aura and immediately greeted him with a bright smile.

As for Cheng Yao, who was standing to the side, because of her plain appearance and ordinary clothes, he mistook her for Wang Xingwei's maid.

"Huh?" Wang Xingwei looked at Cheng Yao, somewhat at a loss.

Having grown up in the streets, Cheng Yao naturally saw through the clerk's intentions at a glance. She stepped forward without ceremony and said arrogantly, "Bring me that robe so I can take a look."

The clerk then realized that he had made a mistake; Cheng Yao, who appeared to be a maid, was actually the one in control between the two.

He quickly said with a fawning smile, "Please wait a moment, fairy, I will get you your magic robe right away."

Seeing the obsequious attitude of the receptionist, Cheng Yao nodded in satisfaction: "Hurry up."

……

Half an hour later, when the two came out of the robe shop, Cheng Yao had changed into a brand new red robe.

"Let's go to the Buddhist artifacts shop." Cheng Yao wanted to browse around some more.

Wang Xingwei, standing to the side, timidly spoke up, "Sister Cheng Yao, I'm sorry, I'm out of spirit stones."

"You've spent all your spirit stones?" Cheng Yao turned her head, her stern gaze fixed on Wang Xingwei. He couldn't help but lower his head in shame; he was truly useless.

Cheng Yao's voice came from beside him: "Then let's skip it today. We'll come again next month when you get your salary."

Wang Xingwei finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Sister Cheng Yao, thank you."

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