Chapter 674: Chapter 674: No Pain, No Gain Chapter 674: Chapter 674: No Pain, No Gain Tang Wenji arrived at Xiqing Mountain and really regretted her impulsive decision.
For soone who had always lived in Jiangnan, this place was just too cold for her—she even began to understand how the mbers of the Antarctic research team must feel.
Who was the idiot who said that the south was colder than the north? If they’re so tough, why don’t they co and try Xiqing Mountain now?
The cold here was such that no amount of clothing could fend it off; the chill seed to be a burst of Nine Heavens Fierce Wind, turning the military tent into nothing more than decoration.
Fortunately, Feng Jun was prepared for the troubles they faced. After setting Tang Wenji down, he imdiately resorted to his usual thod—blasting!
Thanks to constantly playing with explosives on his mobile phone realm, his operations were pretty slick. He pulled out a Spiritual Hedgehog Spine, drilled several holes into the rocks, stuffed in the explosives, led out the fuse, and then backfilled the holes.
Half an hour later, with a loud boom, he forcefully created a cave in the hollow of the mountain.
If you wanted to survive in this place during the winter, you had to get into a cave.
The cave wasn’t very large, the highest point was just about two ters, but it was around seven or eight square ters in size.
“It’s not spacious enough,” Feng Jun drew out a long blade and started hacking away at the rocky wall.
Tang Wenji was puzzled until she saw large chunks of rock being chopped off; she couldn’t help but inhale sharply, “Tell , Master Feng, what exactly is… your cultivation level?”
She believed the blade was no ordinary weapon, but she was even more certain that such power from the sword was primarily due to the person wielding it.
“My cultivation level in martial arts is at the Innate stage,” Feng Jun chopped at the rocks casually, while speaking, “You’d better start clearing the stones quickly, what are you standing there for… waiting for dinner?”
His mouth could sotis be quite mischievous, letting out sarcastic remarks without hesitation.
“You’re the one eating stones,” Tang Wenji retorted resentfully, then extended her hand, “At least hand a broom, will you?”
Not only did Feng Jun bring a broom, but he also had crowbars, rakes, shovels, and the like, making cleaning the stones quite convenient.
Even so, Tang Wenji couldn’t keep up with the pace at which he was producing rubble.
Two hours later, Feng Jun had successfully expanded the area of the cave to about twenty square ters and even chiseled out a five-square-ter cave, “That’s your resting area, n and won should be separate.”
Tang Wenji snorted, “It’s pitch dark in this cave; even if you stripped naked, I wouldn’t see anything. Why bother with n and won being separate?”
“Who told you it’s dark?” Feng Jun snorted, then brought out a generator, “Just wait, it’s going to light up soon.”
The daily items Feng Jun carried with him were truly substantial. After a rough clean-up of the cave, he started the generator, set up the lights, and laid out the bed, bedding, pots, pans, and ladles, as well as the essentials like firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea.
At the entrance of the cave, he hung two large cotton curtains, enough to shield against the cold winds.
Tang Wenji wasn’t skilled in doing household chores, but even she could tell how remarkable it was to have set up such a well-organized living cave in just four hours.
“Let’s make sothing to eat,” Feng Jun got up and walked to the entrance, “We have an electric oven, a microwave… oh, and if you’re boiling instant noodles, it’s best to use a pressure cooker, since water here boils below ninety degrees.”
Tang Wenji had hardly ever cooked in her life.
However, with so many convenience foods available nowadays, it wasn’t hard to cook. She put so lamb skewers in the oven, set the tir, boiled eggs and corn with a pressure cooker, and then made a big pot of instant noodles, adding things like ham and pickled vegetables.
After she’d done all this, Feng Jun ca back just in ti. He sniffed, “Slls good, I’m really hungry… I’ve set up a Spirit Gathering Array. After we’ve eaten and drunk our fill, you can cultivate near the entrance.”
“Setting up a Spirit Gathering Array here?” Tang Wenji’s mouth twitched slightly; the world of the wealthy was truly beyond the understanding of the poor.
But the next mont, she was struck dumb, “Are we going to stay here for a long ti?”
“We’ll search slowly bit by bit,” Feng Jun sat down, first guzzling down a cup of tea, “Xiqing Mountain is just too large, and the weather is severely harsh. Searching here drains a lot of my spiritual energy, so I need to set up a Spirit Gathering Array to replenish it.”
Then he looked at Tang Wenji with a smile, “Little Celestial Master, you’ll also be wasting ti here, so we can’t let it be for nothing. You can use the Spirit Gathering Array as well.”
While talking, he picked up a large bowl of instant noodles. However, as soon as he took the first bite, he coughed, “Tell … who puts sugar in instant noodles?”
Tang Wenji jumped, startled, “Is adding sugar not okay? I boiled the corn in water, added so sugar to boil the eggs, and then used that water for the noodles… Sugar in instant noodles tastes good.”
Feng Jun’s face turned even darker, “The water you used to boil eggs with shells… to cook instant noodles?”
“Yes,” Tang Wenji nodded, proudly stating, “The water is all from large bottled mineral water; we need to be thrifty. We have to stay here for a long ti.”
Feng Jun rolled his eyes, “Co on, don’t you have to use water to wash the eggs too?”
Tang Wenji blinked, “But these eggs… why should they be washed?”
Feng Jun glared at her fiercely, “Which part of the chicken do eggs co from?”
Despite saying that, he still slurped down several bowls of food and then lay down to rest.
The next day, he woke up early, cooked a large pot of rice porridge, ate five salted duck eggs, and a pound of roasted lamb skewers, and then went out to explore.
Tang Wenji wasn’t convinced in her heart, feeling that she too could take a stroll in Xiqing Mountain, but less than two hours after going out, she rushed back desperately, almost frozen into a lump of ice upon return.
anwhile, Feng Jun ca back leisurely after dark, and just because of this, she had to admit defeat.
What she didn’t know was that Feng Jun’s experience was also unspeakably bitter. Throughout the entire day, he was constantly ascending and descending, and with the cold weather, his physical stamina was simply not enough, forcing him to consu his spiritual energy instead.
Fortunately, three days later, the Spirit Gathering Array finally accumulated enough spiritual energy. Although it was just an interdiate-level Spirit Gathering Array used for Qi Refinent, Feng Jun was only at the interdiate level of Qi Refinent himself. The array couldn’t help him improve his cultivation level, but it was more than sufficient in replenishing his spiritual energy.
As for Tang Wenji, she could only curl up in the cave, either earnestly cultivating, cooking, washing dishes, tidying up the room, or even clearing out all the small stones from the cave.
She felt she was developing the tendency to beco a housewife… indeed, out of boredom, she even started binge-watching dramas.
After ten days, she suggested to Feng Jun, “We have been exploring the eastern part of Xiqing Mountain so far, and we haven’t been to the west yet, but now there’s only a little over ten days until the New Year.”
“Search for two more days,” Feng Jun said, furrowing his brows, “if we really can’t find anything, then we’ll go ho for the New Year and co back afterward… to search the western part.”
Actually, whether he went ho for the New Year didn’t matter to him at all. Advancing in rank was what was truly important, even though on the mobile phone interface side things weren’t making progress, but Feng soone has a life that must go on!
It turns out you really can’t jinx things. The very next day at noon, Feng Jun rushed back in high spirits, “I’ve found an Earth Vein that is suitable for my cultivation, quickly pack up… we’re moving.”
Moving was simple; just stuff everything into the Storage Bag, pick up Xiao Tian, and fly off.
The Earth Vein he discovered was over thirty kiloters away, almost reaching the middle part of Xiqing Mountain.
This Earth Vein was halfway up the mountain, even closer to the summit, which was why he hadn’t found it initially.
Feng Jun had always believed that Earth Veins had to be closer to the ground, so when looking for Earth Veins, he would usually search at the foot of the mountain or in valleys. Considering the Earth Veins of Maoshan and Wangwu Mountain, he also searched mid-mountain but had never explored above the mid-mountain level.
This ti he was in a hurry, not just checking his mobile phone, but also carrying the small tower, occasionally operating it, finally discovering the confluence of the Earth Vein in Xiqing Mountain.
Actually, the spot where he operated the small tower was seven or eight miles away from the Earth Vein confluence spot, but the small tower shot up six or seven ters high. Overjoyed, he searched around and finally found the proper location.
At the Earth Veins convergence, the small tower could grow seventeen or eighteen ters high, exactly the height the tower could reach on the mobile phone interface during his tests.
Feng Jun, together with Tang Wenji, stopped at a suitable position more than three hundred ters from the center.
This ti, he couldn’t dare use any blasting drugs; directly near an Earth Vein, he manually excavated a cave. But because people are more spirited during happy events, it didn’t take much ti to dig out and organize the cave.
Then it was business as usual: the generator started turning, the Spirit Gathering Array was set up, and pots and jars were taken out.
With the Earth Vein nearby, it really was different. After a night’s sleep, Feng Jun woke up, lifted the curtain and went out, surprised to find that the spiritual energy gathered by the Spirit Gathering Array had already exceeded half.
Tang Wenji was also very sensitive to spiritual energy—almost comparable to Zhang Caixin. When she stepped out, she too was shocked, “The Spirit Gathering Array set up beside this Earth Vein has such an obvious amplifying effect?”
“What did you expect?” Feng Jun asked, smiling back at her, then continued in a more serious tone, “Alright, have so food and then help as a protector.”
He had taken Tang Wenji to visit those three Cave Heavens as a convenience, but this fourth one couldn’t be considered a re convenience at all—the presence of Xiao Tian greatly added to his burden and might also expose so of his secrets.
However, if he cultivated in Xiqing Mountain, he truly needed soone to act as a protector. The area was mostly deserted, so there wasn’t any worry about people causing trouble, but what if the troublemaker was… a natural disaster?
If he cultivated inside the tower, he wouldn’t be able to observe what was happening outside. If a natural calamity happened outside, he might be totally unaware.
That’s when he would need soone to alert him: an accident has occurred.
Tang Wenji felt her blood surging upon hearing this, “I… can I be your protector?”
Being a protector for a Great Cultivator was such a rare honor.
Feng Jun smiled and nodded, then turned to leave, “I’ll be in your hands then. If there’s an accident, just lightly tap the tower.”
“Lightly tap the tower?” Tang Wenji muttered softly to herself, frowning slightly. What tower?
She hadn’t had ti to react when, in the next mont, her eyes suddenly widened in disbelief, “You can’t be serious…”
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