Cautiously Cultivating Immortality in a Strange World

Chapter 28: Ye Jingyun

After returning to his residence, Chen Lin found the Water Moon Pavilion woman standing in the courtyard, gazing up at the sky.

When she saw Chen Lin enter, she looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, but didn’t say a word.

Chen Lin rubbed his nose, not knowing what to say, and directly returned to his room.

After entering his room, he began to refine an Enlightenment Pill.

Since his alchemy talent had already been exposed, there was no need to hide it anymore.

After failing ten times in a row, he finally obtained a black pill.

After completing the refinement, he continued to refine a few more times, naturally still failing.

The purpose of doing so was to cover up his “Hit Every Ten Times” ability. If he succeeded every ten times, it would be too obvious.

By disrupting the order, he could make it seem like he was just lucky.

Even so, the Water Moon Pavilion woman outside still had a shocked expression.

“Is there really someone with such good luck in this world? This is a treasure, no wonder the Master asked me to secretly protect him and take him with me when I leave.”

Chen Lin didn’t know that although Yu Yuehai had lifted his ban, he also asked the Water Moon Pavilion woman to secretly follow him. It was partly because he was afraid he might be in danger, and partly because he wanted to further observe his “good luck” and where it came from.

Or maybe it wasn’t good luck at all, but something else.

Chen Lin didn’t know about this, and even if he did, he couldn’t do anything about it. After refining the pill, he couldn’t wait to start testing it.

This time, he chose to cultivate the Golden Armor, the only defensive technique in the “Detailed Explanation of Elementary Techniques”, which was also a lower-grade technique with ordinary defensive power.

Of course, “ordinary” referred to its effect on cultivators. If it were used against ordinary people, even the strongest martial artist in the world wouldn’t be able to break through.

Defensive techniques were the most difficult to cultivate, and the Golden Armor, despite being a low-level technique, was still very mysterious and complex. Chen Lin had researched it for a long time but couldn’t grasp it.

Unlike Object Manipulation Technique and the Royal Wind Technique, which he could slowly understand, this technique was like a complete mystery.

He couldn’t help but doubt his own intelligence again.

With such talent, he would have been a bottom-of-the-class student in his previous life, a teacher’s nightmare.

However, his academic performance in his previous life wasn’t bad, at least he had passed the college entrance exam, so he blamed the original owner of his body for not being a good target when he transmigrated.

After lamenting for a while, he calmed down and swallowed the Enlightenment Pill.

A mysterious sensation appeared, and Chen Lin immediately began to comprehend the Golden Armor technique.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

Indeed, taking the pill made a difference.

Now, when he looked at the technique’s content, many understandings suddenly appeared in his mind, and the feeling of being unable to understand it disappeared.

After a quarter of an hour, he finally roughly understood the technique’s operating principle, but he still lacked a bit to enter the door.

The mysterious sensation dissipated, and a severe pain suddenly appeared.

Just as Chen Lin was about to curse Yu Yuehai for deceiving him, a cool, refreshing energy suddenly emerged from his dantian and rushed towards his brain.

Then, he felt his head clear up, and the pain subsided significantly.

Although there was still some pain, it was within a tolerable range, and he didn’t need to roll around on the ground holding his head.

It really worked!

Chen Lin was overjoyed.

Although there was a worm in his stomach that was very disgusting, he couldn’t care about that now. He needed to learn more techniques to improve his survival ability.

In a good mood, he tidied up and first cooked a pot of spiritual rice porridge. After eating, he began to refine another Enlightenment Pill.

Because he had already failed several times before, this time he only needed to refine it six times to succeed.

The women from the Water Moon Pavilion outside had been using her senses to observe Chen Lin’s movements, and now she slightly furrowed her brows and revealed a puzzled expression.

Next, she glanced at Yu Yuehai’s room and slowly walked to the door of Chen Lin’s room.

“Knock, knock.”

She stretched out her slender fingers and lightly tapped on the door twice.

“Daoist Chen, I’m coming in!”

After saying that, she didn’t wait for Chen Lin’s response and directly pushed open the door.

Chen Lin immediately stood up, not minding the other party’s rudeness.

Considering their current positions, knocking on the door was already a sign of politeness.

“What business do you have?”

Chen Lin didn’t understand the other party’s intentions and took the initiative to ask.

The woman swept her gaze around the room, finally fixing her eyes on the iron cauldron, and her eyebrows slightly rose.

“Daoist, you truly are a genius. You are able to refine the Enlightenment Pill using such a simple cauldron. It’s really astonishing!”

Chen Lin didn’t speak.

The more you say, the more trouble you’ll get into.

Seeing that Chen Lin didn’t respond, the woman didn’t mind and smiled, “Speaking of which, we can be considered companions now. Daoist Chen probably doesn’t know my name yet? My surname is Ye, my name is Jingyun, and I’ve been cultivating for twenty years, with a Qi Refining cultivation at nine stages.”

Chen Lin’s face revealed a shocked expression.

He didn’t expect this woman’s cultivation to be so high, already reaching the final stage of Qi Refining.

These two were definitely not ordinary cultivators, but he didn’t know which faction they belonged to.

Ye Jingyun didn’t continue to introduce herself, but instead changed the topic, gazing at Chen Lin’s eyes with an expectant expression, “I heard that Daoist is also skilled in crafting talismans?”

Chen Lin was taken aback and nodded, “I can do a little, but currently, I can only refine low-level talismans.”

Having lived with Yu Yuehai in the same courtyard for several years, he knew that the other party was aware of his abilities, and it was impossible to hide.

Ye Jingyun looked at Chen Lin with a seemingly amused expression.

“Daoist, there’s no need to be humble. I heard from my senior brother that you can even refine the Soul-Restraining Talisman, which is a special talisman that even I can’t refine.”

Chen Lin opened his mouth, his heart secretly crying out in surprise.

It seemed that he couldn’t hide anything from the other party.

He forced a bitter smile and said, “It seems that I can’t hide anything from Daoist’s eyes. That time was just a coincidence, and I don’t know why I was able to refine it.”

Ye Jingyun appraised him again and sighed, “Coincidence is also a kind of strength. I just lack that kind of coincidence.”

Chen Lin fell silent again.

He didn’t know what to say, as they weren’t familiar with each other, and if he said something wrong, it might provoke the other party’s anger and lead to trouble.

Now that the Blood Demon Pill had been refined, his role could be considered dispensable, and he needed to find his own position.

Ye Jingyun was only sighing to herself and didn’t intend to comfort Chen Lin. After noticing Chen Lin’s attitude, she couldn’t help but smile.

“Daoist Chen, there’s no need to worry. Although my senior brother’s methods are a bit ruthless, as long as you don’t resist, he won’t make things difficult for you.”

After saying that, she reached into her waist pouch and lightly touched something, producing a jade slip from within.

Under Chen Lin’s puzzled gaze, she handed it to him.

“What does Daoist Ye mean by this?”

Chen Lin asked in puzzlement.

“This is a talisman refinement method. I’d like to ask Daoist Chen to take a look and see if you can refine it.”