Becoming An Immortal Begins With Marrying A Wife

Chapter 3: Cultivating Immortality is the Way

Chen An immediately saw the prompt at the bottom and his eyes lit up.

The higher the level of marital affection, the higher the profits obtained from the young wife?

This system actually has growth potential?

Is it because the current level of affection is only one star, so the alchemy experience only increases by one each time?

If a five-star level is achieved, wouldn't the efficiency in the future increase fivefold?

Thinking of this, Chen An felt a faint excitement in his heart.

This setting of being able to improve the level of affection really struck a chord with him.

In his previous life as a mobile game enthusiast, he enjoyed achieving various accomplishments that brought him a sense of satisfaction.

"Yinger, you've walked such a long mountain road, your legs must be sore now."

"I'll go boil some water now and help you soak and massage your feet later."

After speaking, Chen An immediately got up and went to the kitchen, skillfully setting up a pot to boil water.

After the water was boiled, he immediately carried it in a wooden bucket to the room and placed it in front of his young wife, saying,

"Yinger, lift your feet up, let me help you take off your shoes."

"Thank you, husband."

Song Huaying didn't act coy and obediently lifted her feet. She listened to her husband and was very well-behaved.

Gently taking off her embroidered shoes and white socks, Chen An unexpectedly found his young wife's feet to be alluring.

The top of her feet were fair and smooth, the soles were tender and rosy, the toes were small and delicate, the whole jade-like foot was petite and lovely, making people unable to resist touching it.

"Yinger, will the water be too hot?"

As Chen An slowly put his young wife's jade-like foot into the water, he asked in a gentle and caring voice.

Song Huaying shook her head and with a hint of shyness in her voice, she said, "It won't be hot, the water temperature is just right."

While saying this, her whole pretty face turned red, she slightly turned to the side, avoiding eye contact with Chen An.

In this cultivation world, people's thoughts were relatively conservative and simple.

For women, their feet were a very private part and should not be exposed in front of others.

And now, Song Huaying's feet were being held by Chen An, which made her feel embarrassed.

Even though she had just become Chen An's wife, it was still too short of a time, and it was inevitable to feel awkward about the intimacy between men and women.

But as a transmigrator, Chen An didn't pay much attention to these things.

Hearing his young wife say that the water temperature was suitable, he immediately put her jade-like foot into the water and skillfully began massaging it.

Sometimes applying more pressure, sometimes lighter, causing Song Huaying to occasionally furrow her eyebrows and couldn't help but let out a soft moan.

[You massage your wife Song Huaying's foot, marital affection +1.]

[Wife: Song Huaying]

[Attribute: Gratitude for a Drop of Water, Repay with a Gushing Spring]

[Affection: 1 star (1/100)]

[Alchemy experience provided: 6]

Seeing the prompt message that popped up in front of him, Chen An felt a surge of motivation and massaged his young wife's foot even more diligently.

However, half an incense stick's worth of time passed in the blink of an eye, and the result was somewhat disappointing to him.

He kept touching, kneading, and massaging, but the water in the wooden bucket had turned cold, and he still didn't see any prompt message indicating an increase in marital affection.

The increase in marital affection level was much more difficult than he had imagined.

But he could feel that his young wife's feelings towards him had deepened a lot.

Because from her watery peach blossom eyes, he could see that the love inside had become even more intense, without any concealment.

The progress bar only increased by 1 point, which simply meant that the system had set the standard for marital affection level too high.

"It seems that it's not realistic to increase the affection level to 2 stars in a short period of time."

"It has to be a steady and gradual process, not too hasty."

Chen An thought this in his heart and quickly brought a piece of cotton cloth to dry his young wife's foot.

After drying it, he sat on the edge of the bed and hugged and cuddled her for a while.

After being affectionate for a while and feeling satisfied, he reluctantly got up and left the room, poured out the cold water from the wooden bucket, and walked into the alchemy room.

In a inconspicuous corner, Chen An took out all his possessions, a total of 8 low-grade spirit stones.

Although not much, it was his savings for two years.

And now, he was going to use these 8 spirit stones to buy all the medicinal materials.

Thinking that after his young wife's body recovered, he would start to rapidly increase his alchemy experience and quickly break through to the intermediate level of the first stage of pill refining.

By then, he would refine all the purchased medicinal materials into pills and make a big profit.

In this way, the problem of rising rent can be successfully resolved.

As time goes by and savings accumulate, perhaps I can even go to the Treasure Pavilion to buy a dual cultivation technique to assist in my cultivation, and become stronger together with my beautiful wife.

After all, the mortal body cannot live for long, at most a hundred years later it will become a mere skeleton.

Chen An doesn't want his beloved wife to leave him early. The longer she lives, the better. It would be best if she could stay forever young.

"Yinger, I need to go out to purchase alchemy materials. Stay at home and don't go out."

"Yes, I understand. Husband, please take care when you're outside."

After a brief reminder, Chen An quickly walked out of the house under the watchful gaze of his wife.

He was very cautious along the way.

Even if it meant taking a detour, he would always choose the main road instead of taking shortcuts to save time.

He kept his eyes and ears open, ready to defend himself at any moment.

Because he lived in the cheap area of Bamboo Leaf Forest.

In the cheap area, he could only avoid threats from outside the forest, such as the blood demon group that destroyed Azure Rock Town.

But internal dangers were not guaranteed.

Incidents of fighting and robbery occurred from time to time.

It was similar to the slums of his previous life.

If he wanted to live peacefully, he had to move to the core area.

However, the rent there was exorbitant, requiring 1 medium-grade spirit stone per month, which was equivalent to 100 low-grade spirit stones.

This was not affordable for someone like Chen An, a low-level cultivator.

Those who could live in the core area were mostly mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

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Bamboo Leaf Forest, the market.

As soon as Chen An entered, many vendors greeted him.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, long time no see."

"I heard Fellow Daoist Chen married a beautiful wife. It's truly enviable."

"The path to immortality is difficult. It's a good choice to enjoy some worldly pleasures while young. We should learn from Fellow Daoist Chen."

Facing the banter of the crowd, Chen An smiled and nodded in response, then quickly walked towards the nearby medicine shop.

The market he was in now was developed by independent cultivators in Bamboo Leaf Forest to meet their trading needs.

Many independent cultivators would set up stalls here, and those with better financial conditions would even open their own shops.

As an alchemist, Chen An often came here to sell pills, so he had gotten to know many cultivators who were also vendors.

Before long, Chen An arrived at the medicine shop.

As usual, he bought a large amount of medicinal materials at a 10% discount as an old customer.

While packing the herbs, he chatted with the shopkeeper.

During the conversation, he asked about the incident of the blood demons destroying a city this afternoon.

From the shopkeeper, he learned that a sect called Mysterious Yellow Sect had recently discovered a spirit stone vein in a deserted mountain not far from Bamboo Leaf Forest.

While mining, they accidentally dug into the nest of blood demons, causing a large group of blood demons to become homeless and wander around.

When the shopkeeper mentioned this, he couldn't help but condemn Mysterious Yellow Sect.

He cursed them for releasing such a large group of blood demons without taking responsibility, causing several towns nearby to be destroyed and indirectly affecting his business.

Chen An was also angry after hearing this, but more than that, he felt helpless.

In this world, the lives of mortals were truly cheap. Whether they lived or died, no one cared. This made him, who had transmigrated from a civilized society, feel a bit sad.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, I have a money-making opportunity for you. I don't know if you're interested?"

The shopkeeper, who had just been complaining, suddenly changed his tone and looked at Chen An with a smile.

"What opportunity?"

Chen An knew that there were no free lunches, but he was curious.

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "There are blood demons everywhere outside now. Although it is a disaster for mortals, for us cultivators, it is actually an opportunity."

"As far as I know, many independent cultivators in Bamboo Leaf Forest have formed teams to hunt blood demons."

"Just killing one casually can earn at least 10 low-grade spirit stones. It's much faster than staying at home and working hard to make money through alchemy."

"Fellow Daoist Chen, if you have the idea of hunting blood demons, I can introduce you to a team, but there will be a small referral fee."

After listening, Chen An smiled and politely declined, "I don't have any plans at the moment. If I have the idea in the future, I will definitely come to you for a referral."

After all, he was someone who possessed a system now. He could take it easy and didn't need to take risks to make money.

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