Chu Xuan subconsciously looked down at her own attire, "I'm dressed so conservatively, how could I be considered provocative?"

She felt somewhat indignant.

"Sister Chu, isn't she dressed quite normally?"

"Don't be fooled by how tightly she's wrapped up. Every contour is accentuated, as if she's afraid others won't know what her body looks like. Isn't that provocative?"

"I think you're just upset because you can't form a bond with Sister Chu Xuan..."

"I'm just speaking the truth. If you ask any male disciple, they'll definitely agree with me."

"Hmph, the other disciples' cultivation of their temperament is not as poor as yours..."

Then Chu Xuan heard Li Chuan comparing her to Chu Mengyou and her master, spouting all sorts of imagined nonsense.

She was both amused and annoyed.

"Today, I must teach you a lesson so you understand what it means to respect your senior sister."

Chu Xuan flew towards Li Chuan and the others, but stopped shortly after.

"Forget it, this little old man looks like he's not far from death. I don't want to scare him to death. I'll deal with him after he breaks through; there will be plenty of opportunities later."

While watching the scene in the bronze mirror, Chu Xuan flew towards the Seventh Elder Peak.

After returning to her residence, she put the bronze mirror aside, watched it for a while, then meditated, using Li Chuan and Chu Mengyou as tools to temper her temperament.

To say she wasn't affected would be self-deception; she was just trying her best to restrain herself.

She knew that the day she was completely unaffected by such scenes would be the day her temperament was perfected.

Unknowingly, dawn had arrived.

"Junior brother, it's time for me to leave." Chu Mengyou got up to leave, but was held back by Li Chuan.

Under her puzzled gaze, Li Chuan took out another handful of spirit stones.

Chu Mengyou was suddenly a bit exasperated, "Why do you always do this?"

Li Chuan smiled broadly, "Because I like seeing that reluctant look on your face when you have no choice but to accept..."

Chu Xuan, seeing Chu Mengyou accept the spirit stones, suddenly realized, "So they're calculating by the hour? Half an hour is 21 spirit stones? That means a day would be 500 spirit stones, and a year would be 170,000 to 180,000 spirit stones?"

"Oh my, is Junior Sister Mengyou that expensive?!"

"No, wait, maybe it can't be calculated like that!"

"But earning 71 spirit stones in just over an hour isn't a low income."

Chu Xuan actually started calculating Chu Mengyou's income.

She didn't find Chu Mengyou's behavior inappropriate.

This was the Yin-Yang Sect, extremely tolerant and even encouraging of matters between the sexes.

In other places, Li Chuan and Chu Mengyou would likely have become the shame of the sect.

...

At the entrance of Minor World No. 1 of the Yin-Yang Sect, Li Chuan stretched lazily in the warm sun.

"Comfortable!" He enjoyed stretching his muscles and bones.

He had spent all the spirit stones he earned yesterday, and now he was back to work to earn more.

After entering the minor world, Li Chuan got busy again.

Now, with his level 8 spirit plant identification, not only did he have more unfamiliar spirit plant information in his mind, but he also became more proficient at identifying them.

This time, he stayed in the minor world until nightfall before leaving, and his harvest was both abundant and not so abundant.

The reason for this was that he found over 20 spirit herbs, and with the addition of spirit flowers, spirit vines, spirit trees, and spirit fruits, the total was nearly 40.

However, although the quantity was high, the value was greatly reduced.

Because most of them were newly sprouted spirit plants, their prices were halved, and several were only worth 1 spirit stone.

So, all these things combined only exchanged for 219 spirit stones and contributions.

He wasn't too satisfied, but Zhou Hanhe and Zhao Mingxuan were envious.

"Are there still so many good things in Minor World No. 1? How is this old guy so lucky!" Zhou Hanhe's eyes were filled with jealousy as he watched Li Chuan's departing figure.

"Look at the spirit herbs he brought today; many of them have just started growing. Even if these spirit herbs were right in front of us, we might not be able to spot them. We can only say that Junior Brother Li Chuan has a keen eye." Zhao Mingxuan sighed.

Although he was envious, he wasn't driven to madness by jealousy.

Zhou Hanhe, however, said, "This old guy must have some special method. When Sister Min returns, let her follow this old guy and see what's going on."

Hu Min was his Dao companion, and he often used his position to pick out a few disciples who brought back the most spirit plants from the minor world and had Hu Min secretly follow them.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "pawread dot com".

When the other party found valuable spirit plants, he would step in and claim them as his own.

Most disciples with expertise in spirit plants had poor aptitude and only turned to studying spirit plant cultivation art when they felt breakthrough was hopeless, so their strength was weak, and they could only watch as Hu Min took the spirit plants.

This method was tried and true, and Zhou Hanhe had grown to enjoy it, as Hu Min would give him a thirty percent share of the spirit plants she took, allowing him to earn money effortlessly.

He planned to use the same trick on Li Chuan this time.

Li Chuan was unaware that he had been targeted for earning just a few spirit stones. He was now on his way to find the senior sister who once told him to know his place and questioned how he dared to seek dual cultivation with someone at the fourth level of Qi Refining when he was only at the third.

Since Chu Mengyou could be won over with spirit stones, he wanted to see if this senior sister, who was only one level higher than him, would remain as haughty in the face of spirit stones.

He didn't know the senior sister's name; he had only followed her to her residence because he found her beautiful. After discovering she was alone, Li Chuan approached her to inquire about becoming Dao companions.

After all, he considered himself not weak, with rich experience in minor worlds and Immortal Abode Ruins, barely qualifying as an elite cultivator.

But unexpectedly, he was humiliated after just one question.

He realized then that the way he saw himself and the way others saw him were vastly different!

Li Chuan knocked on the door, and when it opened, a beautiful female cultivator in white appeared.

"Sister, long time no see." Li Chuan put on what he thought was an amiable smile, but to her, it still seemed sleazy.

"You again?" The female cultivator crossed her arms, looking down at him.

"Sister, I came to ask for your help." Li Chuan directly took out 100 spirit stones.

Seeing the spirit stones emitting a faint blue glow, the female cultivator's expression finally softened.

"What do you need help with?" she asked.

Li Chuan replied, "I wish to form an Immortal Fate with you, Sister."