30: Chapter 30: Physique Improves Again, for No Other Reason

Early in the morning, the servant threw the daily newspaper in from the doorway.

Li Fan, who had long been lying on the grandmaster chair in the courtyard, waved his hand to bring the small newspaper over to see the interesting news that had happened in the Imperial City recently.

Li Fan habitually brewed a pot of tea for himself and took out a bamboo jar, which was the Spirit Dish gifted by the Secret Realm System of the restaurant earlier, yang-strengthening goji berries.

"I don't even know if it's useful."

These past few days, Zhang Zixuan had been torturing him enough. One had to know he was only at Qi Refining, while Zhang Zixuan was in the Dao Entrance Realm.

Given the gap in their Realm and strength, she could easily lift him up and toss him around without any problem.

Thinking of this, Li Fan sighed, silently drank a sip of goji tea, and opened the newspaper.

"The Third Princess's marriage arrangements are settled; she is likely to be married off to a descendant of a noble family."

Looking at the big headline on the front page, Li Fan felt amused. As expected of the Immortal Realm, even the daily newspaper dared to discuss the royal family's marriage without fear of being beheaded.

Not long after, Zhang Zixuan came out from the inner chamber, her hair disheveled.

She took a bundle of pale purple sheer gauze from her Magic Treasure and tossed it to Li Fan, who was on the grandmaster chair, then gave him a seductive look before heading towards the side chamber.

Li Fan rubbed the silky, transparent gauze. He didn't know what Zhang Zixuan wanted to do, and he didn't want to know either, so he continued reading the newspaper.

In the side chamber was a pool of spirit spring. Zhang Zixuan was bathing, relaxing her body. Not long after, a soft, charming voice came from the side chamber.

"Fan-jun~, help me bring the gauze in."

Li Fan buried his head in the newspaper, pretending he didn't hear.

After calling several times with no response, Zhang Zixuan walked out of the side chamber, her body glistening with water droplets, looking pouting and angry.

She took the gauze hanging on the armrest of the grandmaster chair, draped it over herself, and sat astride Li Fan.

"Why didn't you answer me?"

Li Fan put down the newspaper and looked at Zhang Zixuan, who was pretending to be angry but was actually charming.

He sighed inwardly that this woman was truly fickle. It had only been a few days of effort, and she was a completely different person inside and outside the illusion.

"Let me rest a bit more..."

"Then, tonight?"

The next morning, Li Fan came out of the inner chamber holding his waist.

Following the old routine, he picked up the newspaper and lay on the grandmaster chair in the courtyard, first brewing a pot of tea for himself, this time tossing a large handful of goji berries into the teapot.

"Ouch... Let me read the paper first."

"The Third Princess's marriage arrangements have changed; she is likely to choose an outstanding student from this year's civil and martial arts examination."

Looking at the front page, Li Fan took a sip of tea and was just about to think when a seductive sound came from the inner chamber.

"Fan-lang~"

The tea Li Fan had just swallowed almost sprayed out. Could a Dao Entrance Realm Cultivator recover this quickly?

"Cough, cough, put your clothes on first."

"In broad daylight, this is indecent."

Zhang Zixuan didn't care at all and walked straight towards him.

"Hehe... This is a separate courtyard; others cannot come here."

As she spoke, she leaned over and stared straight at Li Fan, her gaze filled with spring, her eyes like waves ready to spill water.

Looking at this fierce, tiger-like appearance, Li Fan supported himself with both hands on the grandmaster chair and retreated, calling out in panic to stop her.

"Wait... Wait a moment...!"

In the afternoon, the noisy peddling from the market woke Li Fan up in the courtyard. He opened his eyes in a daze on the grandmaster chair.

"Did I pass out... cough, cough, did I fall asleep?"

Grabbing a handful of goji berries and stuffing them into his mouth to chew, Li Fan thought that continuing like this was not a solution.

Although his cultivation level was getting higher and higher, why was his body getting weaker and weaker?

So, for the first time in ten days, he opened the System panel.

[Current Realm: Qi Refining Level 13]

[hard training points: 382]

[Essence of Restoration, not fully refined]

With Zhang Zixuan's push, Li Fan had broken through a Realm level without the System for the first time, and his hard training points had also increased significantly.

The main source was from the strongest slacking afk system over the past ten days.

"Not fully refined?"

Li Fan recalled in detail the reason for his crushing defeat in the battle with Zhang Zixuan.

Besides the hard gap in Realm, her mysterious Physique also had a suffocating suction force on him that was extremely difficult to endure.

And the changes brought to his own Physique by the 'Essence of Restoration' must be complementary to Zhang Zixuan's special Physique.

If he could fully refine it, he would definitely be able to go further! Maybe he could even take the initiative in battle.

No sooner said than done, Li Fan skillfully clicked on 'Essence of Restoration' in the System interface, and sure enough, he could use hard training points to upgrade it.

[Consume 300 hard training points to fully refine 'Essence of Restoration']

Seeing the high consumption of hard training points, Li Fan didn't feel pained at all and chose to fully refine the 'Essence of Restoration'.

"Physique, it seems there is a change."

Checking the System interface:

[Innate Yang-Lengthening Sword Body (Incomplete)]

Li Fan was confused. Didn't it say it was fully refined? How could it still be incomplete? He continued to check through the System to see if he could upgrade it.

[Consume 500 hard training points to complete the dao sword loss]

"So that's how it is... Was the previous hasty Fusion of the dao sword still lacking something?"

He breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought there was a problem with the refinement of the Essence of Restoration.

A defective sword embryo was a small matter.

Ensuring the foolproof refinement of the Essence of Restoration was the big matter.

Li Fan looked towards the inner chamber. Zhang Zixuan should be meditating and Cultivating right now.

He had just refined the 'Essence of Restoration' and his spirits were good, so he could go stroll around the market and see what this illusion manifested by Zhang Zixuan looked like.

He took a sip of the tea filled with goji berries and got up, about to get dressed, when another stack of newspapers flew in from the doorway.

Before the newspaper hit the ground, Li Fan waved his hand to summon it to see what explosive news it was, as it had been specially expedited in the afternoon.

"The Third Princess's marriage arrangements have changed; she is likely to choose a good man in the Imperial City to marry."

Seeing this, a bad premonition suddenly surged in Li Fan's heart.

"Maybe... it's better not to go out today."

He took the newspaper and lay back on the grandmaster chair. Before he was even settled, a knock on the door suddenly sounded. Before Li Fan could respond,

He saw the gate kicked open, and two people wearing official uniforms appeared at the door, followed by two armored soldiers.

One of them shouted sternly.

"Who is Li Fan, still not..."

Before he could finish speaking, a soft laugh that shook the soul came from the inner chamber.

After hearing it, the crowd at the door covered their ears and knelt on the ground, then their whole bodies began to turn gray and white.

Not long after, there was only a pile of white bones left. After a while, even the white bones were gone.

Li Fan looked at the tragic scene at the door and swallowed his saliva.

"These rude people disturbed Husband's rest."

Listening to Zixuan's voice transmission, Li Fan realized that Zixuan might not just be domineering in the bedroom.

He waved his hand to close the gate and didn't think about why these people were looking for him; it probably wasn't anything good anyway.

"Husband must rest well so that tonight..."

Facing the declaration of war, Li Fan did not retreat. He clenched his fists and was instead eager to try.

He had completely refined the 'Essence of Restoration'. This time, he would definitely come out on top.