Chapter 148: The High-Level Meeting of Purple Heaven

On the mountain peak, Li Yunfei and Zhang Ziying snuggled together, sitting on a large green boulder, watching the rising sun at the edge of the sky with a profound sense of inner peace.

The morning sun burned away the morning mist, casting a golden glow across the earth. The yin energy completely receded, and yang energy once again filled the entire world.

Dried by the sunlight, the morning mist mixed with rich spiritual energy descended, penetrating into the soil and condensing into droplets of spiritual morning dew on the vegetation.

This spiritual morning dew was an extremely precious spiritual item, possessing the inherent effect of increasing cultivation. If used to brew spiritual tea or spiritual wine, it could elevate the quality of the tea and wine by several tiers.

Mixing some in during pill refinement or artifact forging could similarly greatly enhance the quality.

However, such spiritual morning dew was only produced in blessed lands with exceptionally rich spiritual energy, and its appearance time was extremely short, making it difficult to collect and very rare.

Let alone brewing wine, collecting enough for a few cups of tea would likely take several years of accumulation, and its value ranked among the top five of all spiritual treasures.

Yet for Li Yunfei, as long as he could collect a tiny bottle, he could possess an infinite amount.

The moment the spiritual morning dew appeared and before it began to evaporate, he cast out his divine sense, captured a cluster of it, stored it in a porcelain bottle, and sold it to the system mall.

This tiny porcelain bottle of spiritual morning dew, less than fifty milliliters, could sell for thirty grams of spiritual stones, while buying it back cost a hundred grams of spiritual stones per bottle—already the price of a blood-thirsty flying sword.

He bought a fresh bottle back, handed it to Zhang Ziying, stretched lazily, and said, "It's daylight, time to get to work."

Zhang Ziying drank the spiritual morning dew in one gulp and instantly felt all thirty-six thousand pores in her body open up completely, as a massive surge of spiritual energy poured into her body through every pore.

During regular cultivation, spiritual energy always poured in from the Baihui point at the top of the head; this spiritual morning dew truly possessed extraordinary divine efficacy.

"Mmm... good stuff."

She narrowed her eyes slightly and emitted a comfortable, gentle moan, which almost made Li Yunfei's legs go weak.

Looking at Zhang Ziying beside him, whose face was full of comfortable satisfaction, Li Yunfei said, "Little sister, it's early in the morning, and my yang fire is burning strongly! Are you trying to fan the flames with this reaction?"

Zhang Ziying gave him a coquettish, porcelain-white glare and said nonchalantly, "Although you are a great cultivator at the Golden Core stage, can you build houses?"

"A mortise-and-tenon wooden house is completely different from a modern concrete-poured building, not even a single iron nail is used."

Li Yunfei smiled with confidence and said, "You underestimate the creativity of a Golden Core grand cultivator. Just watch! Let's go, back to the village first."

With that, he embraced Zhang Ziying and swept down from the mountain peak, lightly landing in the courtyard of his ancestral home a moment later.

Honghong sensed their return and crawled out of her tent, while Dahuang and Heizi also stood up.

Li Yunfei nodded at them, then expanded his divine sense to envelop the few slightly intact wooden houses nearby. The structures of the wooden houses immediately presented themselves clearly in his mind.

Every single mortise and tenon joint, the dimensions of the tenons (protrusions) and mortises (grooves), and the exact positions where wedges needed to be driven were all clear to his mind without a single detail missed.

A moment later, Li Yunfei had a plan in mind. He took out paper, a brush, and a drawing board, sat down in a chair, and began drafting the architectural blueprints.

Zhang Ziying and Honghong sat down beside him, offering their own suggestions from time to time.

They had no say in the construction of the ancestral hall, but as for the courtyard where they would live, they could naturally design it according to their own wishes.

The courtyard Li Yunfei intended to build occupied a massive area, taking up nearly one-fifth of the land in Qingyuan Village.

The courtyard would be built in the north-center of the village, with the main gate facing south, surrounded by walls that would conveniently enclose the ancestral home, designating it as the location for the back residential chambers.

He also planned to build the ancestral hall on the west side within the courtyard, creating a sense of living together with the clan members. The ancestors would also feel as though they were living "at home," keeping their spirits happy.

As for the area of the village outside the courtyard, Li Yunfei would plant peach trees everywhere and set up a grand array so that the peach trees would bloom with peach blossoms all year round, transforming this place into a peach blossom utopia.

As for creating a maze directly out of peach trees like Peach Blossom Island, that was unnecessary; what he wanted was a peach blossom sanctuary, not an isolated "utopia cut off from the world."

After all, the descendants of the Zhang, Li, and Wang families still had to return every year to offer sacrifices to their ancestors; this village did not belong exclusively to the Li family.

However, since Li Yunfei had occupied other people's homestead plots, he wasn't worried about anyone having objections.

Have objections? Go to the ancestral hall and ask that group of ancestors first.

They were all descendants of the three families, neighbors and villagers, and the Zhang and Li families were even as close as family, so no one would say anything.

When they returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors, Li Yunfei wouldn't mind inviting them into the courtyard to sit and partake in a midday meal.

Taking nearly three hours with the reference of Zhang Ziying and Honghong, all the blueprints for the structures to be built were finally completed.

While they were drawing the blueprints, Dahuang and Heizi lay by their sides keeping watch, while Aobao and Xiaobei were still fast asleep.

Li Yunfei simply waved his hand and put away all the tents, leaving the two of them exposed to the sunlight. The change in light instantly woke them up.

"Alright, everyone come over. Now I'm assigning tasks."

Xiaobei didn't say anything. Although she also loved to eat and sleep, that was just her nature, and she couldn't really be called lazy.

But Aobao was truly somewhat lazy; he got up reluctantly, walked over, and said, "What are we doing? We can't handle anything too complicated."

Li Yunfei said, "It's not complicated, very simple. As long as you have brute strength, that's enough. We're just tearing down houses. Tear down every single house in the village, pile up the timber, and we'll use it as firewood later."

Honghong rubbed her fists and said, "Tearing down houses! I'm good at this, hee hee."

Heizi was also amused. "Woof woof... (I'm good at it too, even though I've never done it before.)"

Aobao asked out of habit, "Then is there a reward?"

Li Yunfei paused, looked at him with narrowed eyes, and said, "You won't work without a reward?"

Seeing Li Yunfei's unfriendly expression, Aobao shrank his neck and chuckled, "How could that be? Of course not. Helping the boss is only natural, how could the boss treat his little brother unfairly? Hehe..."

Li Yunfei: "..."

Heizi drew a sharp breath. *Damn, what a genius!*

This chubby guy looked dull and silly, but he turned out to be an operator with hidden motives. Look at that rhetoric of his, tsk tsk...

The most down-to-earth one was Dahuang. After listening to Li Yunfei's words, it didn't say a word, channeled its demonic energy to manifest its physical form, lowered its head, and charged straight toward Li Yunfei's ancestral home nearby.

*Crash.*

The ancestral home that had stood tall for over a hundred years instantly turned into a pile of ruins, roof tiles clattering down and smashing to pieces.

"Moo... (Someone help move the timber, I don't have hands.)"

Everyone: "..."

Li Yunfei wore a tangled expression. *Why are you so literal!*

He had originally wanted to tear down the ancestral home with his own hands.

...

The fiery and enthusiastic grand enterprise of building the courtyard thus commenced. For this bunch whose lowest cultivation level was at the late Spiritual Awakening stage, tearing down houses was truly a walk in the park.

However, the most efficient and professional house-tearer was undoubtedly Honghong. Wielding her purple-gold hammer, a single strike would cause a house to collapse.

Then, using her divine sense to control the shattered timber and tiles, she flew them off to be stacked aside. She single-handedly took charge of an entire direction of the village.

The rest of them were paired up in groups of two.

Aobao and Dahuang formed a group. Dahuang was responsible for the demolition while Aobao stood to the side, munching on a spiritual bamboo shoot while using his divine sense to move timber and tiles, looking exactly like a foreman.

Dahalung didn't harbor any complaints either, only knowing how to keep his head down and work hard. This was an ox—diligent, honest, and steadfast.

Although Aobao was a bit lazy, he knew how to act, occasionally tossing a spiritual bamboo shoot to Dahuang to eat.

Heizi and Xiaobei formed a group. Xiaobei not only used her divine sense to transport timber and tiles, but she also participated in the demolition herself, though her method of tearing down houses was somewhat violent.

Standing in front of a house, she bombarded it wildly with palm lightning. By the time she finished bombing, the entire house had turned into a pile of wood splinters, skipping even the firewood-chopping process and making it ready to burn directly.

By the time she finished tearing down a house, Heizi next door had only managed to dismantle one wooden partition wall. He was an agile-type combatant, and using brute-force methods consumed too much demonic energy.

Therefore, he demolished houses using claw Qi. His efficiency was a bit slow, but it was the most energy-efficient method.

Being quite smart and observant, he would first dismantle the partition walls connected to the load-bearing pillars, and then strike the load-bearing pillars to snap them, causing the house to collapse under its own weight.

Zhang Ziying accompanied Li Yunfei in front of the courtyard of the ancestral home, occasionally helping him with minor tasks.

Li Yunfei had previously sold a piece of timber to the system mall back in Maoxi Village, and buying it now was extremely convenient. This stuff was also cheap—thirteen hundred yuan could buy a ton, which amounted to about fifteen or sixteen logs.

Building the entire courtyard would probably not even consume three hundred grams of spiritual stones.

He first bought a few thousand logs, piling them into a massive stack, and then processed them one by one into the materials he needed.

All the components required to build a wooden house were roughly divided into twelve types, with the shape and dimensions of each component being different.

Although Li Yunfei didn't know the formal names of those components, the shapes and dimensions of every single one were entirely imprinted in his mind.

He needed to do nothing more than manufacture them and then assemble them into complete buildings.

In a sense, building a wooden house was not much different from playing with building blocks, with the core lying in the application of "mechanics."

The first consideration was how to make the house's structure stable and sturdy, and only after that came the issue of aesthetics.

The dilapidated houses in the village were soon torn down, and Li Yunfei had everyone level the ground—digging down where it needed to be leveled, and filling it up where it needed to be raised.

Using a jagged dagger as a tool, supplemented by blade light and divine sense, Li Yunfei crafted the components one by one.

Ordinary people manufacturing wooden house components required carpenter tools such as saws, planes, ink lines, chisels, and drills, but Li Yunfei didn't need any of that.

The blade light condensed from spiritual energy was incomparably sharp; a single gentle sweep left the lumber with dimensions even more standard than those sawed by a saw.

For places that needed holes drilled, he simply shot out finger force directly from his fingers, with each of the five fingers corresponding to a different specification.

At the beginning, Li Yunfei was somewhat cautious and his progress wasn't fast, but after working for a few hours, his speed grew faster and faster.

Preparing all the materials took a total of three days. The ancestors, fearing they would disturb the rest of Li Yunfei and the others, only came out at night to check on the situation and returned underground after staying briefly.

Li Yunfei worked during the day and didn't delay his dual cultivation with Zhang Ziying at night either.

Ever since they broke through that boundary, the two of them no longer strictly practiced the superior dual cultivation method of "exchanging Qi without exchanging bodies."

Instead, they adopted the Daoist inferior dual cultivation method of yin and yang blending, and heaven and earth interacting.

It wasn't that the superior method was necessarily more efficient than the inferior one; they were merely categorized based on their scope of applicability.

Truth be told, the inferior dual cultivation method actually allowed for a faster cultivation speed, since the partners combined much more closely.

The so-called superior method existed because it was suitable for any dual cultivation dao companions to use, whereas the inferior method could only be used by husband-and-wife couples or lovers.

Dao companions and lovers were not the same concept; the term didn't exclusively refer to married couples or lovers among cultivators. Any cultivation partner counted as a dao companion, even if they were merely ordinary friends.

The four elements of the cultivation path—wealth, companionship, method, and land—referred to resources, fellow travelers, techniques, and blessed lands.

Therefore, dual cultivation partners could simply be good friends and companions without necessarily having to be lovers or a married couple.

Such a relationship naturally precluded physical union, and the superior dual cultivation method fulfilled this condition, allowing dual cultivation without physical union to greatly accelerate cultivation speed.

Three days later, the materials were properly prepared, and Li Yunfei began building the house. First, he marked the room layout inside the house on the ground, and then dug out the foundations along the edges of the layout.

Building a house was similar to playing with building blocks, but not entirely identical; at least for the house to be stable, the foundations had to be dug.

This was also simple: after drawing the layout, he used his divine sense to control a flying sword, condensed sword Qi to plunge into the ground, cut out the outline of the foundation, exerted strength to vibrate it so the soil flew up, and then used his divine sense to control the flying soil off to the side.

After laying the foundation, he assembled the main load-bearing components and embedded them into the foundation. Next came inserting the wall panels one by one—each with a tenon on one side and a mortise on the other—connecting them to form complete partition walls.

Under Li Yunfei's operation, the house gradually took shape. Zhang Ziying felt truly full of admiration and boundless worship for him.

Putting it into words made it sound simple, but the description of the above process accounted for less than ten percent of the reality. The complex construction and troublesome assembly of this wooden house nearly drove her out of her mind.

Especially for a large house much bigger than an ordinary wooden house, the level of complexity escalated by several notches.

Li Yunfei had only referenced the ordinary wooden houses in the village to learn the creation and connection methods of the mortise-and-tenon structure, understanding the basic framework of a house.

However, the construction of this large wooden house was something he figured out himself based on the fundamental principles of mechanics.

The simplest part of building a wooden house was the foundation and the four-sided frame; the part that truly held the highest technical content was the roof, yet even this failed to stump Li Yunfei in the slightest.

In just one day, a rectangular wooden house measuring twenty-odd zhang in length and ten zhang in depth from front to back was completed.

Inside, it featured a central hall, side parlors, bedrooms, a study, and a bathroom—fully equipped.

However, the roof still lacked tiles, and the partition walls needed a coat of finish.

Li Yunfei made a special trip into the city to buy some colored steel glazed tiles and wood wax oil. Upon returning, he laid the glazed tiles directly and applied the wood wax oil using his divine sense, completing the construction of the first house.

This house served as the back residence, and next he needed to build wing rooms, guest rooms, and even servant quarters.

With such a massive courtyard, it was naturally impossible for Li Yunfei and the others to manage everything entirely by themselves.

When the time came, they could go to the villages near the hydropower station and hire some local villagers to help manage the courtyard, paying them a regular salary. He believed the villagers would be very happy to do so.

...

A full month and a half later, the main structures of the courtyard were finally declared complete. The primary reason was that in the realm of building houses, the others couldn't offer much help, and he had to handle everything single-handedly.

However, aided by his divine sense, his personal efficiency was still vastly higher than that of dozens of ordinary craftsmen.

After finishing the back residence, the second structure Li Yunfei built was the ancestral hall. He had crafted the spirit tablets for each elder, and they were already enshrined within the hall.

The spirit tablets of the Li family elders were placed in the center, the Zhang family on the left, and the Wang family on the right.

However, Li Yunfei explained to the elders that this arrangement had no other meaning and did not imply any hierarchy; it was simply arranged that way for ease of distinction.

The elders naturally had no objections. Leaving aside the fact that there was no hierarchy, even if there were, they wouldn't have had anything to say.

Given Li Yunfei's current status and prestige, the Li family naturally rose in prominence, and occupying the central position was only a matter of course.

The main hall of the ancestral hall was built tightly sealed, completely blocking out the light. The floor beneath the main hall was made of jade and laid out with a "minor gathering yin array."

Thus, yin energy was rich within this ancestral hall, keeping it in a state where yin flourished and yang declined even during the day, yet it wasn't completely devoid of yang energy, resembling roughly the state of the hour of You (around 6 PM).

This meant living people could enter briefly without any adverse effects, feeling only a slight chill, and would be fine once they stepped out into the sunlight.

Meanwhile, the ghosts of the ancestors could also come out during the day, no longer needing to constantly attach themselves to their spirit tablets, though they couldn't leave the ancestral hall itself.

From then on, the ghosts of the ancestors no longer needed to return underground, nor did they even need to return to the netherworld; they could permanently enjoy incense offerings in the mortal realm and condense incense willpower.

In front of the spirit tablets in the main hall stood an altar table holding a large incense burner. A bundle of incense burned in the burner at all times, with joss sticks hanging above it that could burn for over eight hours.

The stepped shelves on the left and right were filled with candles, the flames burning unceasingly day and night to provide illumination and serve as "food" for the ancestors.

Ghosts fed on incense and candles, whereas paper money didn't need to be burned since there was nowhere to spend it even if given to them.

Once the main structures were completed, the next step was building the boundary walls. The walls didn't require a wooden structure and could simply be poured with concrete, which was much simpler though time-consuming.

After digging the foundations, reinforcing frames were woven out of steel bars, wooden boards were set up as molds, concrete was poured to shape them, and then they were plastered over.

Building the boundary walls took only a week, and planting the peach trees took another week.

First, he laid down a grand gathering spiritual array to comprehensively elevate the concentration of spiritual energy in the village, followed by planting the "Jia-Wood Spring Return Array" to keep the entire village feeling like spring all year round.

In this way, the peach trees could bloom with peach blossoms continuously without ever withering.

He bought a batch of green peach trees that naturally bore no fruit, sold them to the system mall, and then dug pits everywhere in the village to plant the peach trees.

The varieties Li Yunfei planted included small-flowered white green-peaches, large-flowered white green-peaches, five-colored green-peaches, thousand-petal peach-reds, weeping green-peaches, landscaping peaches, red green-peaches, deep-red peaches, and so on.

For a time, Qingyuan Village was a riot of brilliant reds and purples, with various peach blossoms competing in splendor, creating a breathtaking view. Renaming Qingyuan Village to Peach Blossom Village wouldn't have been far off.

In the garden within the courtyard, aside from green peach trees, there were also numerous other flowers, preventing anyone from growing tired of the view over long periods of time.

Hanging on the main gate of the courtyard was a plaque reading "Qingyuan Mountain Villa," while beside the gate hung vertical couplets engraved with the lines: "Searching the bounds of Qingyuan, flowers stretch on end; stepping past blossoms to follow the path right to the villa's front."

Thus, Li Yunfei's Qingyuan Village renovation project was fully completed over a span of one month, and what remained was furnishing the place with furniture and articles.

To avoid disrupting the overall style of the villa, Li Yunfei decided against modern furniture and crafted all wooden furniture himself.

This decision won the support of Zhang Ziying and Honghong. Li Yunfei procured some precious woods like Hainan yellow pear, sandalwood, and golden nanmu, and personally built tables, chairs, beds, and cabinets.

By the time he finished everything and they could officially move in, another half month had passed.

During this month and a half, combined with physical dual cultivation and an unrestricted diet of spiritual materials and treasures, Zhang Ziying's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through to the late Spiritual Awakening stage without any barriers.

Because she had taken the Soul Pill, Zhang Ziying had already condensed her yin spirit, acquiring divine sense ahead of time. After learning the communication art, she could now communicate smoothly with animals.

According to Li Yunfei's estimation, in another month her cultivation would also break into the Yin Spirit stage, truly becoming a Yin Spirit cultivator, and within half a year he was confident he could push her to the peak of the Yin Spirit stage.

As for the others with Grade-A superior aptitude, none of them likely improved their realm as fast as she did, regardless of how great their fortuitous encounters were.

Li Yunfei dared to say that the cultivation conditions Zhang Ziying enjoyed were the best in the entire world, second only to his own.

An unlimited supply of various spiritual materials, spiritual treasures, and spiritual meats; the primal yang of a Golden Core grand cultivator combined with physical dual cultivation; and nutritional aid from four-dimensional attribute spiritual pills that didn't exist anywhere else in the world.

If such conditions couldn't make her the absolute first among the Grade-A aptitudes, Li Yunfei would definitely suspect that anyone stronger than Zhang Ziying was also using cheats.

To achieve cultivation conditions like hers, unless Daoist Ziwei, Daoist Yuling, and Celestial Master Zhang were lifelong virgins whose primal yang remained intact, and who were willing to bestow it upon some female cultivator with Grade-A superior aptitude, it would be impossible.

Because what provided the greatest boost to Zhang Ziying was Li Yunfei's primal yang.

Primal yang alone wasn't enough; it also required physical dual cultivation every single night without fail, coupled with an unlimited supply of resources, for anyone to even potentially rival Zhang Ziying's conditions.

But was that possible?

Although Ziwei was still unmarried, he was nearly fifty years old, and during the decades before spiritual energy revived, Li Yunfei refused to believe he hadn't broken his chastity.

Both Daoist Yuling and Celestial Master Zhang belonged to the Zhengyi lineage, making it equally impossible for them to maintain a state of pure yang.

Especially the Celestial Master lineage, which was passed down generation after generation from father to son, because the Celestial Master of Mount Longhu could only bear the surname Zhang, and the current Celestial Master Zhang's grandson was already married.

If Daoist Yuling truly remained in a state of pure yang, then what reason would those young girls have had to let him surrender the primal yang he had guarded his entire life?

Therefore, no one else's cultivation level could possibly surpass Zhang Ziying's. As long as they didn't slack off themselves, Zhang Ziying was practically guaranteed one of the positions among the Twelve Earthly Branches.

Although Zhang Ziying was the same age as him, she was a few months older and born in the Year of the Rabbit, so he reserved the position of Mao Rabbit for her.

During this past month and a half, aside from Zhang Ziying's massive cultivation progress, Aobao, Xiaobei, Dahuang, and Heizi had also made gains.

Though not advancing as dramatically as Zhang Ziying, both Aobao and Xiaobei had smoothly stepped into the peak of the Yin Spirit stage, and the next step was to accumulate massive amounts of cultivation to condense their Golden Cores in one go.

Consequently, their appetites surged, and they chewed on spiritual bamboo shoots almost non-stop every single moment. Li Yunfei increased their supply from a hundred spiritual shoots a day to five hundred.

At their rate of gnawing, they would likely condense their Golden Cores in less than a month.

It was said that after these two guys broke through to the Golden Core stage, their combined strength would be enough to rival Great cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage—who knew if that was true or false.

Let's hope it's true! Otherwise, all the spiritual bamboo shoots he spent to raise them would be completely wasted.

The cultivation bases of Dahuang and Heizi had also reached the peak of the Spiritual Awakening stage over half a month ago, and their day of transformation into human form was right around the corner.

Unfortunately, since their cultivation depth fell short of Aobao and Xiaobei's, their digestive and absorptive capacities weren't as strong as theirs, otherwise they would have transformed long ago, given that they lacked no spiritual materials or spiritual meats.

Regarding the trial of a beast transforming into human form, even the Soul Pill was useless; both their cultivation and the strength of their souls had to reach the Yin Spirit stage simultaneously for a successful transformation.

However, Li Yunfei still fed them plenty of four-dimensional attribute spiritual pills, comprehensively enhancing their physical bodies and soul strength.

After all, these were loyal followers he had taken in, belonging entirely to his own faction, so there was no need to hide anything or hold back.

Although Aobao and Xiaobei nominally belonged to the state and served as titular honorary elders of Zixiao, they followed him after all and would naturally stand on his side if anything happened, which was why Li Yunfei hadn't kept secrets from them either.

As a result, anyone or any beast living with him in this courtyard received extra reinforcement, putting their overall combat power far above cultivators of the same realm.

...

On the second day after Qingyuan Mountain Villa was completely finished and put into use, Li Yunfei prepared to take Zhang Ziying to the village near the hydropower station to hire some villagers back to help manage the villa.

Just as he was steering his flying sword and carrying Zhang Ziying out of the village, he saw a human figure on the mountain executing qinggong, leaping and bounding like flying, rushing toward Qingyuan Village in an almost straight line.

Li Yunfei looked closely and saw that it was Liu斌 (Liu Bin), feeling greatly surprised.

"Brother Bin, you're rushing like this—looking for me for something?"

Liu Bin was in the middle of his journey when he suddenly heard Li Yunfei's voice ringing overhead. He immediately halted his steps, his entire body landing atop a tree canopy, swaying gently with the shaking branches as if he weighed nothing.

Lifting his gaze, he indeed saw Li Yunfei steering a flying sword while carrying Zhang Ziying, slowly descending and hovering right in front of him.

Liu Bin wiped a non-existent sweat from his forehead and said, half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Good grief, when I get back to headquarters, I must make Ziwei build a base station for your village."

"Ziwei has called you several times and couldn't get through. If he hadn't lost your location tracking, he would have wanted to send you a sword-transmitted message."

"What have you been busy with holed up in the mountains? A full month and a half, and you didn't step outside once."

Li Yunfei grinned and said, "I've been busy building my hometown this whole time, so I didn't go out."

Having said that, Li Yunfei noticed Liu Bin's cultivation level and praised, "Not bad! A little over a month and you've broken through to the True Intent realm! What is the martial art true intent you comprehended?"

Mentioning his martial art true intent, Liu Bin displayed quite a bit of complacency. "The martial art true intent I comprehended is called 'Unbroken'."

"Unbroken?" Li Yunfei asked doubtfully, "Is this sword intent or saber intent?"

Liu Bin replied, "It's neither saber intent nor sword intent, but movement intent, carrying the meaning of 'endless backup power, flowing without end'."

"No matter whether I execute saber techniques, sword techniques, fist techniques, or leg techniques, because of the existence of this movement intent, my Qi circulation becomes incomparably smooth and stable."

"Even if I suffer recoil or even backlash, the circulation and output of my Qi will not be interrupted or severed. Therefore, my backup power can be endless and flowing without end, right until my Qi is completely exhausted."

Li Yunfei laughed mockingly, "In gaming terms, isn't that just immunity to spell interruption? Making it sound so damn awesome."

"Uh..." Liu Bin was stunned upon hearing this, feeling rather speechless. It seemed... that was indeed exactly what it was.

Hearing Li Yunfei continue, "Still, it's not bad. Paired with a fierce, storm-like rapid assault, opponents of the same realm will still find it quite difficult to fend off."

Don't look down on Li Yunfei's modest evaluation; in truth, he was well aware that this martial art true intent was exceedingly powerful.

To give a simple example, an opponent of the same realm fought him hand-to-hand, with both their cultivation and martial arts being roughly equal.

After exchanging a heavy blow and suffering the recoil force, the opponent's Qi circulation would experience a tiny stutter, whereas Liu Bin's Qi circulation would remain entirely unaffected, allowing him to immediately deliver the next strike.

So what would the outcome be? The answer went without saying.

Regardless of what martial art true intent the opponent possessed, as long as they couldn't achieve a one-hit kill or severely wound him in a single strike, the one who lost in the end would nine times out of ten be the opponent.

To a certain extent, Liu Bin's martial art true intent was nearly invincible among martial artists of the same realm.

The reason it was "nearly" and not absolute was because certain special martial art true intents could indeed achieve one-hit kills or even kill enemies across realms among peers.

For instance, "Jade Shattered."

*Better to be shattered jade than intact tile.*

Gathering one's entire cultivation into a single strike and releasing it without leaving a way out—either you die or I perish, or at the very least end up in mutual destruction.

Against such martial art true intent, how many people of the same realm could possibly withstand it?

Li Yunfei waved his hand and said, "Alright, let's talk business! What do you want with me?"

"Oh!" Liu Bin's expression turned serious, and he said solemnly, "County and town-level administrative regions nationwide have all been cleared out, and currently only the villages remain. The proposal you submitted earlier about using water-bullet guns to fight ghosts was adopted and has begun nationwide promotion."

"The state has issued an announcement via the News Simulcast, lifting the curfew across all county and town-level administrative regions nationwide. Local garrisons are deploying according to the successful experience of Yutong County to enter the villages and clear out ghosts and monsters."

"Also, your proposal to build ancestral halls in villages and enshrine the ghosts of elders who died of old age was likewise adopted. Ziwei has recorded a Second-Class Merit for you."

"Zixiao is about to hold a high-level meeting, and as one of the elders of the Twelve Earthly Branches, you naturally must attend."

Upon hearing this, Li Yunfei said happily, "I didn't expect them to move so fast. There are still two days until the Triple-Broken Day, yet they actually managed to resolve the issue before it—they really pulled out all the stops, I suppose."

"When is the meeting time? Where is the location? What preparations do I need to make?"

Liu Bin said, "The meeting time is five days from now, the afternoon of December 24th, Christmas Eve, at 3 PM. The location is the Zixiao Headquarters Assembly Hall at Yuquan Mountain in the capital."

"Remember that when you go there, you cannot fly straight up the mountain; there is a guardian grand array on the mountain, and flying up randomly will result in being attacked by the array. You can only land halfway up the mountain and then walk up."

"Once you've been to headquarters and obtained a special tally, you'll be able to fly straight up the mountain without triggering the array—that's the privilege of a Zixiao Venerable Elder."

"As for preparations, if you have any proposals you want to raise or suggestions for the organization, you can think about them beforehand and it's best to write them down."

"During the proposal stage of the meeting, you can bring them up, and then everyone will discuss them and finally vote on whether to implement them. The procedure is pretty much the same as the National People's Congress."

Listening to Liu Bin's words, Li Yunfei nodded and said, "I understand. I'll be there on time in five days."

Liu Bin said, "Bring me along for the ride then! I've broken through to the True Intent realm and need to report for duty at headquarters; my position will probably be reassigned."

Li Yunfei laughed and said, "Oh, so you're getting a promotion and a raise! Congratulations, congratulations."

Liu Bin also cupped his fists with a smile, "Hehe, mutual congratulations, mutual congratulations."

"Alright, I'll notify you when we're ready to set off."

With the business settled, Li Yunfei shook his head and said, "Yingzi and I have some business to attend to, so I won't entertain you for now. Do you want to go check out the fruits of my month-and-a-half labor? Honghong and the others are at home."

Liu Bin said with keen interest, "Since I'm already here, I naturally have to pay respects to the utopia your Excellency, Great Elder Chenlong, hammered out over a month and a half."

He had already learned before that Li Yunfei planned to transform his hometown into a utopia, which was why he spoke thus.

"Then you go on ahead yourself! I'm going into the village to find some villagers to help manage the estate."

"Good grief, you even need to hire people to manage it? Just how big is your so-called estate? Alright then! Go ahead and do your thing, you two busy yourselves."