Bocun lay outside Bocheng. Here, mountains neighboured water, the scenery magnificent and grand, with even mist and fog swirling about.
There was a damp earthy scent in the air.
Luo Chen took a taxi to get himself here. After feeling it out, he could indeed directly sense a trace of spiritual energy.
This made Luo Chen feel somewhat strange. One must know that in the present world, even a place like Kunlun had almost no spiritual energy left. Yet this place, though its scenery looked fine, where did this spiritual energy come from?
The spirit-gathering array at Panlong Bay in Tongzhou could also gather spiritual energy, but last time Luo Chen went into closed-door cultivation, he directly consumed it all. How long it would take for spiritual energy to gather again was unknown.
But this place was different. Luo Chen had not detected any spirit-gathering array, nor anything special.
Yet he could sense that trace of faint spiritual energy.
Luo Chen stood for a while. Soon a Porsche Panamera drove over.
A tall woman stepped out of the car. It was Tang Xin.
Luo Chen was slightly stunned. The affairs of the world were truly unpredictable. Things like fate and destiny were truly unfathomable.
And Tang Xin was also stunned. “You?”
“You want to rent a house?” Tang Xin had originally been full of smiles, but her face immediately turned cold.
“Rent if you want, forget it if you don’t.” Luo Chen spoke very impolitely.
Tang Xin’s mind turned. That ancestral house, though its environment was not bad, had very few people willing to live in it. After all, one person living in such a large house was rather scary.
So she hurriedly spoke. “Rent!”
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go see the house.” Luo Chen directly spoke.
This made Tang Xin immediately somewhat unhappy again.
Normally she was liked and respected by people. Apart from directors, when had anyone dared to speak to her with this attitude?
But after all, Luo Chen was the money-giver, the boss. Tang Xin clenched her fist, and finally endured her anger and went with Luo Chen.
Tang Xin’s ancestral house was right at the village entrance, third row, fifth house.
But now this village had been largely rebuilt before. Many families had built small villas, and there were also house numbers.
Although Tang Xin’s ancestral house had only been renovated at the time, it also had a house number hung up.
Bocun 305. Next door, 304 was also an antique house.
It was said an old man lived inside, frighteningly advanced in age. With nothing to do, he practised Tai Chi and boxing on the hilltop. In any case, from the time Tang Xin could remember, that old man had already been here.
So many years had passed. That old man was reportedly still there.
But at this moment, the main gate was tightly shut. One did not know whether the old man had already left.
Tang Xin took out the key and opened the main gate. Inside, it was actually quite antique and elegant, rather nice.
The courtyard had blue stone slabs. Under an old willow tree there were stone tables and stone stools, only now they were already piled with fallen leaves.
Inside, pavilions and wing rooms were fully equipped, giving a feeling somewhat like a siheyuan.
Luo Chen was not picky either. After directly paying the rent, he took the key.
Tang Xin felt it strange. Luo Chen was after all a young man. How could he live in this kind of place?
But thinking about it, who cared? As long as it could be rented out.
Moreover, Tang Xin had asked an exorbitant price. This house was charging nine thousand a month. Yet Luo Chen did not even blink an eyebrow and directly paid.
Seeing Luo Chen so straightforward, Tang Xin again felt somewhat unable to bear it.
But to return part of the money to Luo Chen face-to-face did not seem quite appropriate either.
Finally Tang Xin spoke generously. “Later I’ll treat you to a meal. To be honest, I originally thought no one would rent it, and even planned to pay people to clean it.” Tang Xin spoke the truth.
Luo Chen did not mind either. “They say no fight no acquaintance. Consider this my apology for yesterday’s matter.” Tang Xin was already making an apology.
“Contact tomorrow then.” Luo Chen nodded and did not refuse.
After Luo Chen waited for Tang Xin to leave, with a wave of his hand, a clear wind immediately swept through the entire house. Everything became bright and new.
Then Luo Chen sat cross-legged with somewhat of a headache.
The Lihuo essence inside his body was too violent. Luo Chen internally examined his purple mansion.
Inside the purple mansion, it was as if a sun had been placed inside, incomparably scorching hot, with a sea of fire churning.
If not for the Taihuang Sutra suppressing it, Luo Chen would likely have been unable to endure long ago.
After all, that kind of thing was not something his current Awakening Second Layer could touch. At the very least, he would have to reach the Ancestral Return realm after Awakening Ninth Layer before he could touch it.
But to make Luo Chen give up the Lihuo essence was clearly impossible. After all, fortune favoured the bold.
So even though it was very dangerous, Luo Chen wanted to take the risk and try.
This refining process was undoubtedly painful. Luo Chen was as if thrown into a furnace, wrapped in fierce flames.
The Lihuo essence, this kind of thing could be called a divine flame that refines all things by burning.
Back then in the Immortal Realm, the Lihuo Divine Lord held a Lihuo divine furnace in his hand. Though it was far from the top ten immortal artifacts.
But the other party had used the Lihuo divine furnace to smelt an entire great realm.
Directly burning all living beings in that great realm alive, to the point that even that great realm was burned down.
That was a great realm, protected by Dao divine laws, yet it could still be burned down. One could see how terrifying this Lihuo was.
It was even a great deal higher than the legendary Samadhi True Fire.
Comparing it like this, although Luo Chen previously seemed to lightly absorb the Lihuo essence, clearly only Luo Chen knew the danger within.
If not for the Taihuang Sutra, even if you gave Luo Chen a hundred guts, he would not dare to absorb the Lihuo essence.
But now even with the Taihuang Sutra suppressing it, Luo Chen refining it made Luo Chen suffer to the extreme.
But as an Immortal Venerable, whether in cultivation experience or techniques, Luo Chen was not something ordinary people could compare to.
He finally had a flash of inspiration and directly took out the Vajra Glazed Body to cultivate as well.
This way, though it was dividing his attention between two things, the effect was extremely good.
The Vajra Glazed Body could offset part of the heaven-burning power of the Lihuo essence.
And the Lihuo essence could also refine the impurities produced by Luo Chen cultivating the Vajra Glazed Body.
Putting the two things together, they could simply be called complementary, a match made in heaven.
Only, the moment Luo Chen began cultivating here, though it was silent and noiseless, it still produced some effects.
Especially next door.
Next door at this moment, there was a girl with a ponytail swinging her fists. The girl looked pure and coldly beautiful, with fair skin.
Her figure was curvy, with straight long legs wearing pink sweatpants, and her upper body also wore a pink sports top. Only, the loose sports top could hardly conceal the woman’s impressive bust.
Originally in this weather, many places outside still had snow. It should not be so hot and dry.
But for some reason, the more Yang Ruyu swung her fists, the hotter and drier she felt, and the more she had a feeling of irritability and restlessness.
In the end, she was even sweating profusely.
“Calm your mind, nurture your qi!” An aged voice transmitted. An old man appeared silently behind Yang Ruyu.