The next day.
The morning after the rainy night, damp cool air rushed in through the open door, dispersing the scent of the other woman in the room.
Lin An held a heavy pouch in his hand, lost in thought.
According to what he had learned beforehand, if he hadn’t come as a spy, his monthly salary after starting the job would be twenty taels of silver, which converted to spirit stones would be about one-fifth of a piece.
And now, this pouch contained fifty spirit stones.
Lin An silently calculated.
Twenty taels a month, two hundred forty taels a year, two thousand four hundred taels in ten years…
Fifty spirit stones converted to silver is…
“Hiss!” He sucked in a cold breath.
Just one night, and it came so fast.
No wonder…
No, no, no.
Lin An quickly shook his head, casting that thought out of his mind.
A true man born between heaven and earth, how can he dwell resentfully under others!
Speaking of which, after a night of persistent pestering, he had confirmed three things.
First, Lu Mingyue had not discovered his identity.
Second, she really came for cultivation!
As for the third…
This woman was off, wrong in every way.
…
…
Last night.
After Lu Mingyue sat down in position, she didn’t move… not a single move!
Her fair and delicate jade-like feet rested on his stomach as she sat cross-legged, palms facing upward placed on her bent knees.
The smile she had maintained on her face slightly receded.
She closed her eyes and entered a cultivation state, leaving Lin An dumbfounded.
‘You’re serious?’
Before coming here, he had never imagined that such a thing could be so… sacred, yet eerie.
A lustrous, jade-like sheen swirled before his eyes, and thick, viscous spiritual energy poured in from all around.
At this moment, Lu Mingyue was like a goddess from the high heavens.
Even though she was completely naked, she still appeared majestic and dignified.
However, Lin An stared at that beautiful face with closed eyes and concentrated expression, no matter how he looked, he felt a subtle dissonance that he couldn’t quite name.
He wasn’t sure if that description was accurate, but it was as if this woman was imitating a human smile.
Earlier, he hadn’t noticed anything, but now that he was still, caught in this awkward situation, the feeling was exceptionally clear.
‘False human…’
These two words inexplicably popped into his mind.
As he watched, a sense of crisis surged from the depths of his instincts, leaving Lin An baffled.
Although his current situation was indeed quite dangerous, they always said the most dangerous place is the safest.
Lu Mingyue clearly still needed him for the time being, but what was with the warning signals constantly flaring up in his heart?
He couldn’t figure it out, and thinking was useless.
Moreover, from the looks of it, she really planned to cultivate like this until morning.
‘Then at least tell me about the Transparent Sword Body, hey!’
‘Irresponsible woman…’
Lin An shook his head inwardly.
Moving was definitely out of the question.
Since things had come to this, he’d just sleep first.
He needed to rest up to handle any unexpected situations.
Though he didn’t know if he could fall asleep in this awkward position…
On the first night at Heaven Origin Sect, under these circumstances, he drifted off into a drowsy sleep.
He didn’t know exactly how much time had passed, but he was woken up by a kiss.
“Open your mouth.”
A voice sounded in his ear as he slept.
He instinctively opened his mouth, and a warm, soft touch came to his lips.
When he came to his senses and opened his eyes, Lu Mingyue was right there, their eyes meeting.
It seemed a large mass of gas was transferred into his mouth.
Before he understood what was happening, he had swallowed it.
Lin An blinked. “?”
Lu Mingyue straightened up, swayed slightly, then extended a slender jade-like finger and pressed it against his throat, guiding the mass of gas little by little down to his dantian.
“Your primal yang has not been released, my primal yin has not been lost. This mouthful of yin-yang fused Primordial Hunyuan Qi is greatly beneficial to cultivation. Consider it one of my gifts of thanks.”
He hadn’t eaten pork, but he had seen pigs run.
He understood this.
“One of?”
Lu Mingyue had already dressed and was standing by the bed, still wearing that same smile.
She raised her hand and pointed to the bedside, where there was a small pouch embroidered with a crescent silver moon.
“Inside are fifty spirit stones, considered payment for this one time. Every half month, you will need to help me cultivate.”
With that, she said no more, only staring blankly at a faint trace of blood on the bed for a moment before turning and leaving.
Her decisive demeanor carried a bit of a ‘pull up her skirt and deny any recognition’ attitude.
“Hey? You…”
Lin An still didn’t get a chance to ask about his own physique, nor to ask how she had found him.
What was all this?
He looked at the pouch.
Half a month…
He was already eating soft rice?
So was this taking advantage or being taken advantage of?
First time being a spy and he ran into this.
Was there any senior who could teach him what to do next?
Waiting online, pretty urgent…
…
…
Lin An was a spy, but also a servant disciple.
And servant disciples had to work.
Trees could bloom and bear fruit without human care, but crops wouldn’t grow from the ground without tending.
The sect’s operations were the same.
In the morning, following Manager Li’s instructions, he and several other servant disciples went to Senior Sister Liu’s residence in the inner sect to help her tend to the nursery.
Of course, this was not free.
Inner sect disciples would issue task orders here, and servant disciples would help, then receive settlement rewards.
Lin An felt this was fair enough and lived up to the reputation of the number one righteous sect.
In the afternoon, another inner sect disciple issued a task to help feed a spirit pet.
He and another group went there.
During this time, he tried using ‘Observe Like and Dislike’ on others, and those people all had varying shades of white mist appear on them.
This color meant those people had no malice towards him, nor goodwill—just strangers meeting by chance.
Very normal.
From this, only Lu Mingyue was special.
After knowing this, Lin An breathed a sigh of relief.
If it was just one, that was fine.
A few more and he really couldn’t handle it.
After a day, he obtained one ‘Peiyuan Pill’ and one ‘Light Body Talisman.’
‘Hiss… Did I come here to work? Is this right?’
Lin An sat on the chair in his small room, scratching his head.
This compensation was quite generous for an ordinary person, but he didn’t come here to do this!
He put away the pill and talisman, then sat on the bed and began to attempt cultivation.
He would put aside contacting his colleagues for now.
Being too proactive at work meant his thinking was flawed.
He had been pondering that breath of qi Lu Mingyue had transferred all day.
What if it was useful?
Over a decade had passed, and his experience bar had only increased by a tiny sliver.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have bothered to test for an iron rice bowl.
If he truly had ability, who would bother with that?
Innately endowed and laboriously acquired—could they be the same?
Just like the classic issues of genetics and politics.
Forget it, let’s not talk about it…
Sitting on the bed, Lin An tried to enter a meditative state.
He had barely closed his eyes for a moment when he suddenly opened them wide, an expression of disbelief on his face.
He discovered that his experience bar, which hadn’t budged in over a decade, had increased by a large chunk.
This was simply unbelievable.
As for the reason, it was clearly related to that mouthful of Primordial Hunyuan Qi.
‘Could it really be useful?’
Lin An forcefully suppressed his excited heart and trembling hands, then confirmed his condition again.
Feeling the spiritual energy fluctuations in his body, he confirmed that if he could go through this once more at the same rate, he would enter the realm he had dreamed of for so many years—Mortal Martial Realm, First Layer!
Although the Mortal Martial Realm had twelve layers in total, and above that were the Spiritual Martial Realm and Divine Martial Realm, and furthermore, this breath might be one-time only.
But everything is difficult at the start.
Only by taking the first step can there be countless steps afterward.
At this moment, Lin An suddenly felt a bit thankful for coming to Heaven Origin Sect.
Otherwise, in this life, he would probably just loaf around until retirement.
Thinking this way, this soft rice wasn’t so bad.
He was actually looking forward to Lu Mingyue’s arrival in half a month.
Haha.