“Qingran, I miss you so much!”
In room 418, Chen Huaian held his phone and typed. He had no idea his words had been altered beyond recognition. On the table not far away, a man was shivering from the spiciness of Cao Heiya’s Ba Ji.
Hearing Chen Huaian’s voice, Li Qingran’s eyes seemed to melt into a pool of honey, her whole being glowing with happiness.
“Master! Qingran misses you very much!”
Li Qingran looked around but couldn’t see Chen Huaian anywhere.
[Master is still fighting the big monster, but I left a trace of my mind with you, so I can talk to you occasionally.]
Li Qingran felt a twinge of disappointment but quickly regained her spirits and asked with concern, “Master, were you hurt by the big monster? And your poison…”
[Don’t worry, Master is fine.]
“Oh, that’s good. Master is the best!” Li Qingran thought to herself. How could he be fine?
With such a serious poison, Master must be in unimaginable pain, right?
In her mind, she pictured a scene of carnage—a bloodstained battlefield, a white-haired immortal lying against the corpse of a monstrous beast, his sword still embedded in the creature. Though wounded, he endured the pain just to communicate with his faraway disciple.
Just the thought of it…
Her heart pounded wildly.
No, no, no!
Li Qingran blushed and knocked her head.
This isn’t the time for these thoughts!
“Master, I have joined a new sect. Everyone here is very kind to me. Tomorrow, I’ll go to the Sutra Pavilion to find a way to detoxify you.”
Hearing this only made Chen Huaian more depressed.
[What sect did you join?]
“Jiange.” Li Qingran pouted slightly, then smiled brightly. “I was going to join Lingxi Valley, but there was an accident, and I didn’t make it. The young master of Lingxi Valley doesn’t like men—when she heard that you were my master, she kicked me out.”
[What?! This is outrageous!]
Chen Huaian rolled his eyes in frustration and mentally added Lingxi Valley’s young master to his blacklist.
[Qingran, just you wait. If you ever meet that young master again, I’ll make sure she pays! She dared to kick you out? Who does she think she is? Does she think she can bully my beloved disciple, Chen Xianzun, whenever she pleases?]
[Heh, Lingxi Valley, you must be tired of living! You dared to wrong my disciple? When I return, I’ll wipe you out in an instant!]
“Master, it’s okay.” Li Qingran shook her head. “Everyone has their own principles. She just doesn’t accept male-affiliated disciples. I’ve found an even better place now.”
Chen Huaian’s mouth twitched.
[Jiange?!]
“Yes!” Li Qingran beamed. “This was the sect you used to belong to. The moment I saw that they don’t activate windproof formations when flying swords, I knew it!”
Wait.
Chen Huaian was baffled.
Windproof formation? Do you need to activate a windproof formation when flying swords?
Where is this formation? How do you turn it on?
And… Jiange is the sect where he used to stay?
What the hell?!
[Who told you that?]
“The Pavilion Master. He said you were the Supreme Elder, but no one knows where you’ve gone. He told me to train hard because you wouldn’t accept a weak disciple.”
Li Qingran smiled sweetly, her eyes filled with admiration, her expression dreamy.
Chen Huaian stared at her innocent, blissful face.
If his guess was right, this silly girl had been completely deceived.
That Pavilion Master must have sensed something and drawn a grand illusion for her. Now, she was like a donkey chasing a carrot, with him, Chen Xianzun, as the carrot.
Realizing this, Chen Huaian couldn’t help but laugh.
“Master, should I tell the Pavilion Master about your condition? Maybe he can help…”
[No… well… fine.]
Chen Huaian initially wanted to refuse outright.
After all, he wasn’t actually the Supreme Elder.
But then he reconsidered.
Since the Pavilion Master had already tricked Li Qingran, why not play along and see how far this deception could go?
“Alright! I’ll go see the Pavilion Master tomorrow!”
Li Qingran nodded seriously, her face determined.
Chen Huaian opened the game map and checked Jiange’s status. To his surprise, every disciple in Jiange was marked as a green dot—there wasn’t a single yellow or red one.
That meant not one person had ill intentions.
Even the two disciples currently dueling fiercely harbored no real hostility toward each other.
It was all just friendly sparring.
Chen Huaian sighed.
“Fine, fine. If she didn’t get into Lingxi Valley, so be it.”
As the saying goes, plans can’t keep up with changes.
Just like how he hadn’t expected to encounter two massive wolves while climbing a mountain.
Suddenly, a game notification popped up.
[Your electronic girlfriend’s cave is too shabby. Recharge ¥68 to give her a warm home!]
Chen Huaian sneered.
A mere ¥68? Peanuts!
Even if this was just a ploy to get him to spend more, so what?
He, Chen Krypton Xianzun, had money to spare!
Recharge!
Swish—!
Li Qingran had just picked up a broom to clean the dust from her cave when—flash!—a golden light surrounded her.
Her stone house transformed into a beautifully furnished wooden home, with brand-new furniture replacing the old.
This scene felt so familiar.
Li Qingran froze in place, staring at the house, her eyes glistening with warmth.
For her, the most cherished things weren’t magical artifacts or spirit stones. Not even pills that could restore her dantian ranked first.
She would never forget that stormy night.
The night she first heard the word home.
The home that sheltered her from the wind and rain appeared before her once again.
A simple wooden and stone house might mean nothing to other cultivators, but to her, it was the most precious thing in the world.
When Chen Huaian took her away from Wanqing Mountain, she had looked back at her small stone house for a long time, feeling a deep sense of loss.
The care her master gave her was always hidden in details that others wouldn’t notice—those small yet irreplaceable gestures that she could never fully repay.
But what Li Qingran didn’t know was that, at this very moment, while she was feeling deeply moved…
Chen Huaian, on the other end of the phone, was staring at the screen in complete shock.
[You have enabled the Electronic Girlfriend’s Cave function.]
[You can now freely purchase the following items to help your electronic girlfriend cultivate.]
- 〈Permanent Primary Spirit Gathering Array: ¥10,000 (Automatically replenishes spiritual stones)〉
- 〈Permanent Mid-Level Spirit Gathering Array: ¥100,000 (Automatically replenishes spiritual stones)〉
- 〈Unlock a Spiritual Field: ¥5,000〉
- 〈Unlock 10 Spiritual Fields: ¥48,800〉
- 〈Upgrade Spiritual Fields to Lv1 (Increases production and growth rate of spiritual plants): ¥1,000〉
- 〈Build a Spirit Beast Pen: ¥50,000 (Unlocks Spirit Beast Cub Shop)〉
- 〈Construct a Primary Black Armor Array: ¥5,000 (Automatically replenishes materials)〉
- …
- 〈Upgrade Cave to Lv2 (Enhances comfort): ¥998〉
[All of the above upgrades can be purchased with spiritual stones or spiritual crystals at an equivalent exchange rate.]
Chen Huaian slowly typed a single question mark.
Then, he zoomed out from Li Qingran’s newly renovated home.
Looking at the barren cliffside now divided into various plots, ready for cultivation…
A familiar old game surfaced in his mind.
He muttered in disbelief—
“What the hell is this… QQ Farm?!”
