Longevity with a Turtle

Chapter 122: Chapter 103: Small Gathering at Qinghe

She would be staying here for ten years.

From the fifth floor of the Hundred Treasures Tower, looking southwest, one could see Qingping Alley, where Chen Jianghe lived.

’Yu Daniu owes his current status to luck, but he’s also very self-aware, already planning for his son’s Foundation Establishment.’

’Yun Xiaoniu is already at Sixth-Layer Qi Refining Perfection, yet he’s holding off on taking a Misfortune-Breaking Pill to break through. The intention behind this couldn’t be more obvious.’

This made Gao Peiyao hold Yu Daniu in higher regard.

’If Xiaoniu truly makes it to that stage, I wouldn’t mind repaying this favor.’

Gao Peiyao was quite pleased with Xiaoniu.

He was well-mannered, sharp-minded, and measured in his speech—a sharp mind beneath a simple exterior.

’He, on the other hand, has a considerable secret.’

Gao Peiyao gazed toward Qingping Alley. She found it incredibly hard to believe Chen Jianghe’s claim of having a fateful encounter and obtaining Youthful Grass.

Only after becoming an Inner Sect Disciple of the Celestial South Sect did she learn the truth.

In the lands south of the Tongtian River, apart from the depths of the Youxian Mountain Range, the only place that had Youthful Grass was the Celestial South Sect.

Yes, they cultivated it.

By controlling the primary ingredient for refining the Youthful Pill, the Celestial South Sect effectively controlled its price.

Therefore, it was impossible for Youthful Grass to be found anywhere outside of the Youxian Mountain Range’s depths.

Unless someone had brought it from north of the Tongtian River and just so happened to run into Chen Jianghe, allowing him to acquire it.

But the odds of that were simply too low.

’Chen Jianghe, what is your secret? Could you be just like me?’

Gao Peiyao hadn’t exposed Chen Jianghe at the Qinghe Tavern because she had even more secrets of her own.

The Four-Element Pseudo Spirit Root was just a facade she presented to the world.

Even her own master only knew what she allowed him to know.

She would never tell anyone her deepest secrets.

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Chen Jianghe returned to his small courtyard.

This time, he didn’t hang up the ’In Seclusion’ sign. ’Gao Peiyao has come to Qinghe Marketplace,’ he thought. ’She’ll be staying for ten years and is even holding a Foundation Establishment Celebration on New Year’s Eve. Someone might come to invite me any day now.’

’So, it’s best not to hang the ’In Seclusion’ sign.’

’Besides, as New Year’s Eve gets closer, Yun Xiaoniu will surely come looking for me first.’

’Daniu wants Xiaoniu to join this circle, and Gao Peiyao hasn’t objected. Plus, with the matter of the Youthful Grass, Gao Peiyao wanted to procure a stalk for Yu Daniu but was refused.’

’Looks like Gao Peiyao owes Daniu a huge favor, too.’

With Yu Daniu planning for Yun Xiaoniu’s Foundation Establishment, whatever Zhou Miaoyun was hoping for became even more impossible.

Moreover, Yu Daniu could introduce Yun Xiaoniu to that circle, but Zhou Miaoyun could not.

There was just one thing Chen Jianghe couldn’t figure out.

Why hadn’t Zhou Miaoyun mentioned repaying the Spirit Stones?

So many years had passed. The Zhou Family had moved to Luohe Town and should have gotten back on their feet by now.

But she had made no mention of repaying the Spirit Stones she owed to Chen Jianghe and Yu Daniu.

It was rather puzzling.

As for Gao Peiyao not mentioning the Spirit Stones she owed, both Chen Jianghe and Yu Daniu understood the implication perfectly.

Now a lofty Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Gao Peiyao’s debt to them was a way to maintain a connection.

Besides, the benefits she could bring them were worth far more than the Spirit Stones she owed.

Her telling them to ”come find me if you need to buy resources at the Hundred Treasures Tower” was a clear gesture of goodwill.

Chen Jianghe shook his head, pushing these trivial matters aside. For now, he wasn’t short the ten or twenty Spirit Stones Zhou Miaoyun owed him.

’Maybe she really is in some kind of trouble,’ he thought.

With that, he resumed drawing Spirit Talismans.