CHAPTER 588: CHAPTER 183: [NEXT MISSION]

The girl sat up, the sheet slipping down her body, revealing her beautiful collarbone. She walked to the bathroom, looked at her reflection in the mirror, and couldn’t help but blush at the absurdity of the morning.

Then, at the bathroom window, she saw Chen Yan downstairs in the yard, crazily torturing himself.

Watching Chen Yan with a slab of bluestone on his shoulder, and another clamped under his left arm, running swiftly around the yard... Lu Sisi was first stunned, then looked puzzled.

Was it... I couldn’t satisfy him? His energy had nowhere to be released?

Lu Sisi’s face turned even redder.

·

From that day on, for three consecutive days, the young couple didn’t step out of their villa.

The second side effect of the Divine Tree Juice lasted for three days as well.

However, the absurdity reduced significantly after waking up the second morning, and by the third day, things were just a bit more intense than usual.

After these three days, Lu Sisi seemed to have changed somewhat. Occasionally, when she looked at Chen Yan, her gaze became more alluring, but eventually she began to appear a bit shy, avoiding physical contact with Chen Yan reflexively.

·

"Did you forget about me?"

While Chen Yan was brushing his teeth in front of the mirror, he suddenly saw a line of words slowly appearing on it. It was written in the fog that covered the mirror after his shower.

Chen Yan was taken aback, then he realized.

He thought for a moment, walked out, got dressed, took out a Talisman, lit it, and leaped into the Mirror World.

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In the Mirror World, right inside Chen Yan’s villa, a little girl was pouting, looking at Chen Yan with some dissatisfaction.

"Do you even know how many days it’s been since you last came to see me?"

Chen Yan looked a bit embarrassed, "Well, I’ve been a bit busy lately..."

The little girl had a mocking look on her face, "Don’t forget, I’m in the Mirror World; I can see everything happening in the real world through every mirror! Do you really need me to say what you’ve been doing these past few days?"

"... Uh..." Chen Yan coughed and said sternly, "Don’t snoop around for no reason, or you’ll end up with styes!"

The little girl was displeased, "Don’t worry, I’m not interested in spying on you humans mating!"

Hmm?

Chen Yan was first startled by these words, then realized that she was a Lark Demon, not a human.

"I’ve been waiting at home for too long without you coming by, I got really bored, so I couldn’t help but come find you today!" the little girl said coldly, "Have you forgotten what you promised me?"

Chen Yan sighed in surrender, "It’s my fault for being careless and neglectful!"

After speaking, he directly pulled out his Jade Pendant from the Inspection Bureau. With a thought, all sorts of food appeared in a heap on the ground.

Thanks to that guy Ye Wei, who stockpiled an abundance for the ’apocalypse,’ especially a mountain of food supplies.

Apart from various grains, oils, and rations, that guy also hoarded a lot of different snacks.

Chen Yan took out a large pile of snacks and placed them in front of the little girl, but after she glanced at them, she didn’t seem very happy.

However, when Chen Yan subsequently handed over two Ink Spirit Crystals filled with Primordial Qi and took back three empty ones from the little girl, her expression finally softened a bit.

"Look at this item." Chen Yan also produced a "Yin Sha Spirit Crystal"—a "mineral" formed by the root system of the Divine Tree underground.

The little girl took it, examined it briefly, and nodded, "This is good material, highly compatible with Primordial Qi. It can be used to craft a Magical Artifact... Also, it can serve as Qi storage material, similar to the Ink Spirit Crystals I gave you."

The little girl pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you have any more of this?"

Chen Yan thought it over. He didn’t have much left, so he took out all he had, which were only five pieces of varying sizes of Yin Sha Spirit Crystal.

The little girl smiled, "That’s enough."

After a pause, she glanced at Chen Yan, "Give me those, and I’ll make you a Magical Artifact—it’s quite impoverished that you, a cultivator of the Guiyuan Realm, still don’t have a suitable one."

Chen Yan’s eyes lit up! This girl was a Half-Step Venerable! Artifacts made by her were extraordinary.

"Thank you so much for that!" Chen Yan quickly cupped his hands with a smile, "Do you have any conditions?"

"Find me a few Inner Cores from the Demon Race." The little girl immediately stated her condition.

Chen Yan’s face fell, "Aren’t you asking a bit much? The value of these Yin Sha Spirit Crystals isn’t that high. A few Inner Cores from the Demon Race... are worth much more than these stones."

The little girl chuckled leisurely, "You don’t have to get them if you can’t find them—by the way, I’m almost done figuring out that mahjong tile, just short a few Demon Race Inner Cores to fully understand how to use it."

"Alright! I’ll try my best to get them for you!" Chen Yan, feeling a surge of motivation, readily agreed.

This world might have rare demon races, but the Domain Realm has plenty!

Even if he doesn’t personally hunt demon races, he can still buy them!

He remembered that there were different grades of Demon Race Inner Cores available in the Alchemy Workshop and material shops at Snow Cliff Pass.

But...

He needed to find a way to earn more money! Make money in the Domain Realm!

Chen Yan sighed in his heart.

He had just recently escaped poverty and gained wealth in the real world, but now he had to experience the scarcity of funds in the Domain Realm.

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With the enhanced Spirit Gathering Array, the intensity of the Primordial Qi concentration at home greatly accelerated Chen Yan’s cultivation speed—every day after completing the Circulation practice, he would use the remaining time to absorb Primordial Qi and inject it into the Ring, just like in the previous apocalypse!