The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Shen Yifei didn't sleep much that night.

Although it was Zhou Yuntong's first time, her Golden Core stage physique gave her an amazing recovery ability. The two of them kept going for most of the night, only stopping at dawn.

Shen Yifei leaned against the headboard, Zhou Yuntong rested on his chest, and neither of them spoke.

After a long while, Zhou Yuntong finally spoke: "Junior Brother Shen, what you said... about not harvesting and not replenishing, is that true?"

"Really. Feel it; has the spiritual energy in your dantian decreased?"

Zhou Yuntong closed her eyes and felt for a while. When she opened them, her expression was somewhat complicated.

"No, it's not less, it's actually a little more."

"That's it. I practice dual cultivation with others, but I never drain their energy. You help me, I help you, it's mutually beneficial."

Zhou Yuntong stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled.

"Junior Brother Shen, you're not the person I expected."

"What did you think of me before?"

"Those who come from the Joyful Union Sect are definitely full of bad intentions. They want to take advantage of any female cultivator they see, and then run away after they've done so."

Shen Yifei chuckled: "That's a stereotype. There are good people in the Hehuan Sect too, like me."

Zhou Yuntong was amused by him, and after laughing, she leaned back against his chest.

"Junior Brother Shen, may I come to see you again in the future?"

"Sure, you're welcome anytime. But there's one condition."

"What are the conditions?"

"Keep it a secret. I'll be staying at the Qingyun Sect for another six months. If people find out I slept with a Golden Core cultivator, those Golden Core cultivators will tear me apart!"

Zhou Yuntong nodded, lay there for a while longer, and then got up to get dressed.

She was dressed with her back to him. Shen Yifei watched her back and thought that although this woman was not as alluring as Liu Mengli, she was more genuine. She said what she wanted and did what she wanted without hiding anything.

"Senior Sister Zhou."

"Hmm?" Zhou Yuntong turned around.

"Can you calm your mind now with your 'Ice Heart Manual'?"

Zhou Yuntong paused for a moment, then smiled: "Yes, it's possible. I just don't know how long it will last."

"If you can't calm down, come back again, I'll help you."

Zhou Yuntong blushed, tied her belt, and walked away quickly.

Liu Mengli emerged from the cauldron, leaned against the bedpost, her green eyes fixed on him, a half-smile playing on her lips.

"Little one, yet another one."

"They came to me of their own accord; I didn't force them."

"Just standing there is coercion," Liu Mengli said, walking over and sitting down on the edge of the bed. "The scent of medicine on you is the biggest form of coercion. When people smell it, they feel like they're being scratched by a cat; who else would they come to if not you?"

Shen Yifei didn't reply. Of course he knew how strange the medicinal scent on his body was. Sun Yiran had said that the scent would become even stronger after dual cultivation with a female cultivator at the Golden Core stage.

I spent most of last night with Zhou Yuntong, so my body smells even stronger now.

"I need to find a way to cover up this smell." He sat up, rubbed his nose, and said, "If this continues, I'll have to ruin every female cultivator in the Qingyun Sect."

"So what if you cause trouble? It's not like you're the one who suffers." Liu Mengli crossed her legs. "Anyway, you'll be leaving in six months. You can just cause trouble and walk away. Do you think they'll chase you all the way to the Hehuan Sect?"

"No, we have to find a way to cover up this smell."

"Why cover it up? It's such a waste to cover it up." Liu Mengli leaned closer, sniffed his shoulder, and narrowed her green eyes. "Your scent makes people have all sorts of fantasies. If you opened a brothel, you could make a fortune just by standing there."

Shen Yifei slapped her away: "Stop giving me bad ideas."

But he knew in his heart that the scent couldn't be hidden. The medicinal fragrance emanated from his very bones, mingling with the pills he had consumed and the demonic beasts he had refined, becoming a part of his body. He could conceal it for a time, but not forever.

I might as well not cover it up anymore.

In the days that followed, Shen Yifei completely let go.

Anyway, the female cultivators of the Qingyun Sect can't resist his scent, so rather than letting them suffer, I might as well grant their wish.

He didn't consider himself a gentleman; what kind of sordid things hadn't he seen during his years at the Joyful Union Sect? This little thing was nothing.

The first person to come to us was a junior sister introduced by Zhou Yuntong, named Fang Qing. She was in the late stage of Foundation Establishment and wasn't particularly beautiful, but she was young and fresh.

This girl was two years younger than him and had never even held a man's hand. After smelling his scent, she lost her appetite and couldn't concentrate on her cultivation. Zhou Yuntong took pity on her and brought her over.

Shen Yifei didn't stand on ceremony. He led Fang Qing into the house, closed the door, and brought her out several hours later. When the girl came out, her legs were weak, but her cultivation level had noticeably improved.

The news spread among the female cultivators of the Qingyun Sect, and it became increasingly outrageous.

Some say Shen Yifei has a natural "furnace physique," meaning that when he cultivates with female cultivators, he not only doesn't absorb their essence but can also help them improve their cultivation. Others say that the pills he refines have special effects, beautifying the skin and maintaining youthfulness.

Some people say that when he was in the Hehuan Sect, he served eight senior sisters by himself, and the next day all eight of them broke through to the next level.

Shen Yifei listened to these rumors, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Liu Mengli rolled around laughing inside the cauldron: "Eight senior sisters? Hahahaha, little guy, your reputation is completely ruined."

"What's so bad about it? I don't care." Shen Yifei sat cross-legged on the bed, counting the spirit stones in his ring. "Anyway, I'm leaving in six months. Let them spread whatever they want."

For the past two weeks, he has been living a more comfortable life in the Qingyun Sect than he did in the Hehuan Sect.

His pill business was booming, with people lining up to have him refine pills. He could refine all kinds of pills—Qi Gathering Pills, Foundation Establishment Pills, Yuan Nourishing Pills—and he could make any kind. He charged 20% of the medicinal materials as a service fee, then used his Myriad Things Cauldron to refine them, producing top-grade pills in droves. The remaining scraps could be easily replaced with whatever was left.

Spirit stones flowed into the ring like water. In half a month, he had accumulated nearly 50,000 spirit stones.

And that doesn't even include the top-grade pills. He had over twenty top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills alone, which could sell for two thousand spirit stones each on the market, but he didn't sell a single one. It was more worthwhile to keep these to give as favors later than to sell them for spirit stones.

The female cultivators were also quite busy.

Fang Qing, whom Zhou Yuntong introduced, doubled her cultivation speed after being violated by him, reaching the threshold of the Golden Core stage from the late Foundation Establishment stage in just three days. This news drove the female cultivators of the Qingyun Sect completely mad.

First came Zhou Yuntong's fellow disciples, then people from other peaks, and finally even the elders' nominal disciples came.

Shen Yifei accepted all comers.

Anyway, he had almost mastered the second level of the Yin-Yang Absorption Technique. Cultivating with female cultivators not only didn't harm his body, but he could also use their Yin energy to refine his own spiritual energy. In addition, with the Xuan Yin Technique taught by Sun Yiran, his cultivation level increased rapidly under the balance of Yin and Yang.

In just half a month, he went from the mid-Foundation Establishment stage to the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, just one step away from the Golden Core stage.

"Little guy, your cultivation speed is terrifying in the Hehuan Sect."

"It would scare people to death anywhere." Shen Yifei finished his practice and exhaled a breath of turbid air. "Going from the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment to the peak of the late stage in half a month, even for a genius among geniuses, would take several years."

"Aren't you afraid of an unstable foundation?"

"Very stable." Shen Yifei stood up and stretched his limbs. "When I cultivate with those female cultivators, it's not just for the sake of pleasure. With the balance of Yin and Yang, the speed at which spiritual energy circulates in my body is three times faster than when cultivating alone, and every strand of spiritual energy is refined and purified. My foundation is even more solid than those who cultivate in ascetic ways."

Liu Mengli took a bite of the spirit fruit, her green eyes fixed on him: "Aren't you afraid that one day you'll run into a tough nut and they'll pluck you out?"

"I'll deal with it when I encounter them. I'm not afraid of anyone below the Golden Core stage. As for those above the Golden Core stage... they wouldn't even look at me."

He had barely finished speaking when there was another knock on the door.

Shen Yifei suddenly had a bad feeling!