Chapter 387 - 260: Brewing Snow in a Humble Cottage, Spiritual Gourd Persimmon Wine Warms a Sunny Winter Day
Chapter 387: Chapter 260: Brewing Snow in a Humble Cottage, Spiritual Gourd Persimmon Wine Warms a Sunny Winter Day
They had simply become more handsome and beautiful.
This Grandmaster was highly sought after because his Palm Thunder technique was quite miraculous. He had recruited five or six hundred apprentices, but without the support of Spiritual Medicine and Extraordinary Particles, they were destined to achieve nothing within nine years of training.
The only exceptions were those with exceptional character and talent, who could endure loneliness and study diligently. They would have to wait until the Apocalypse arrived to finally achieve a breakthrough from their long period of hard work.
Practicing Traditional Martial Arts and Taoist School cultivation techniques gave one an advantage over ordinary people after the Mysterious Particles emerged.
While Jinling City was abuzz with strange phenomena, sparking heated discussions across the internet, Li Xiang was already holding his little beauty. He traveled submerged in the Sea-Stepping Spirit Whale Ship, heading upstream along the Yangtze River all the way back to Sichuan Province.
Li Family Village was only forty to fifty kilometers from the Yangtze River. Once they were nearby, they used Earth Escape to return home without a sound.
The journey submerged in the Yangtze River was, of course, filled with endless romance.
Li Xiang said, "The currents in the Yangtze are a little weak. The rocking of the boat lacked a certain punch. Next time, let’s go to the ocean and rock the whole sea."
"You’re such a pervert~" Jiang Cai’Er’s eyes narrowed into crescent moons as she smiled.
But all good things must come to an end. Jiang Cai’Er’s vacation was soon over, and Li Xiang took her to school. They shared a reluctant farewell at the front gate.
Due to the persistent rain and snow, the two of them didn’t drive. Walking on the surface in broad daylight used to be inconvenient, but now Li Xiang had Earth Escape. Since upgrading his Earth Pivot World Record, he could travel four to five hundred kilometers per hour. By going directly underground, the roughly eighteen-kilometer trip only took two or three minutes.
And since Jiang Cai’Er had the red Space Gem Ring, she didn’t need to carry any luggage and could stroll into campus with effortless style.
After gallivanting around for so many days, Li Xiang returned home and dedicated himself to his cultivation.
Repairing the Dragon Veins was actually grueling work. It was like a chief surgeon at a major hospital performing a high-intensity surgery that lasts for eight or nine hours. Of course, that surgeon isn’t an Extraordinary Being, and the "surgery" Li Xiang performed was far beyond anything in the mortal world.
Repairing three Divine Level Spirit Veins in a row had also served as a form of training, with obvious benefits for Li Xiang. He could feel the Spiritual Power roiling within him, immeasurably vast and powerful. He was already approaching the upper limit of Tier Eight and was on the verge of a breakthrough.
He activated the "Suppression" technique he had previously grasped, dissolving the impulse to break through and continuing to absorb his recent gains.
Of course, his return didn’t mean he neglected his farm chores. He tidied up the vegetable garden until it looked like a piece of art, clearing out some empty plots to plant cold-resistant vegetables like Napa cabbage, radishes, celtuce, lettuce, spinach, and cilantro. Meanwhile, in the greenhouse, he kept a fire going for heat each day, maintaining a stable temperature.
He also swept the courtyard completely clean of snow. He started before dawn, transforming two large rocks into a pair of stone shovels. Using the Earth Pivot World Record, he maneuvered them back and forth, alternating from left to right. It was incredibly convenient. Not only that, but it also allowed him to simultaneously hone his control over his Spiritual Power and Superpower. He even used it as an opportunity to practice a new form of "Giant Shovel Martial Arts."
The weather finally cleared up for a rare, sunny day. When he woke up, the warm winter sun cast its rays diagonally across the rooftop. Beneath the flying eaves, the Ice Ridges refracted the light into fine golden specks. When the angle was just right, a vibrant rainbow would appear on a wall or the ground, and the kittens would come over to playfully pounce on it, endlessly amused.
The gourds and persimmons in the backyard had ripened. Li Xiang picked all the usable gourds, planning to make them into wine flasks and ladles. He peeled the persimmons to make them into dried persimmon cakes.
Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, and Lei Xiaohui all came over to help. The three women made for a lively, chattering group, and the atmosphere was bustling with excitement.
"Brother Xiang, let me try!" Yao Yao wanted to make a wine gourd with her own hands, so Li Xiang taught her the key points. For instance, when selecting a gourd, one should choose a highly mature one with hard, unbroken skin and a rounded bottom. It was also best to pick one that still had its "dragon head"—the stem and the part it was attached to.
He also explained what tools to use for hollowing out the seeds and the best techniques for getting it perfectly clean inside.
"I’m good at this, Brother! Watch me." Yao Yao giggled, then tapped her chest. A thumb-sized Little Yaoyao immediately hopped out from it.
Although she could now create a Clone about ten centimeters tall, she could, of course, also make smaller ones. She could control its size to be around two or three centimeters, or even as small as one centimeter.
"I’ll have Little Yaoyao go in and get the seeds out. I guarantee you, Brother, she’ll get it perfectly clean for you!" As Yao Yao spoke, the tiny, Thumbelina-like Little Yaoyao slipped through the gourd’s small opening and got to work, meticulously cleaning out the inside.
Li Xiang gave her a thumbs-up. "Impressive!"
It wasn’t just impressive; Yao Yao was also quick-witted and adaptable, knowing how to apply her abilities in creative ways. Her Clone might be small, but it was perfectly suited for this task.
Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui’s eyes widened. ’It can be used like that?’ they thought.
The two of them didn’t have a little helper like that, but they were still very diligent students. Zhao Xueqing materialized a vine and snaked it into the gourd’s opening, swirling it around to clean out the inside. It worked, but it took her longer than Yao Yao.
Only Lei Xiaohui’s Superpower was unsuited for this particular task, but she and Zhao Xueqing were close, so Zhao Xueqing naturally helped her out.
In the end, each of the three women finished making a wine gourd. The crafty Yao Yao secretly used a small knife to carve her name onto the mouth of her gourd. She thought with glee, ’This way, whenever Brother Xiang takes a drink, he’ll be kissing my name. Every time he drinks, he’ll think of me.’
Then she got up and pressed the wine gourd into Li Xiang’s arms, her fingertips subtly brushing against his wrist as if by chance. However, a quick glance revealed that Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui had also secretly carved their own names onto their gourds.