The place Li Jinzhi chose to cultivate was very secluded, and its only characteristic was that it was cold.

Staying in a cave with ice walls on three sides, the temperature was really unbearable for ordinary people.

If possible, Li Jinzhi also did not want to cultivate here. However, he had read the original novel and knew that he had an ice celestial spiritual root. He also knew that cultivating in a place like this where the cold air was stagnant could yield twice the results with half the effort.

Li Jinzhi rubbed his hands and sat cross-legged while trembling. He closed his eyes and sensed the white light spots around him according to the method described in the incantation.

The cold air almost turned into a solid mist. Li Jinzhi quickly found the light in the darkness.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he carefully guided the light spots over. Suddenly, he felt a chill on his forehead.

Li Jinzhi clearly felt a lump of something colder than the surrounding environment collide into his forehead. The cold air slowly flowed through his meridians and spread throughout his body. Other than the initial discomfort, his body unexpectedly liked this cold air.

The cold air slowly converged into his dantian and took root in the depths. As the cold air surged, Li Jinzhi's eyes lit up!

Every blood vessel, acupoints, and meridians were clearly visible.

However, his dantian was still pitch-black and he could not see anything clearly.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Li Jinzhi secretly nodded. It seemed that he was still very talented in cultivation. After all, the male lead had just started to draw Qi into his body at the end of the month.

While he was still happy, he did not know that because of his unintentional action when he first arrived, the butterfly flapping its wings, the plot of the future was completely different.

One could not advance prematurely in cultivation. A person who had just drawn Qi into his body could not be called a cultivator. He still had to eat three meals a day.

Recalling the look in Ye Cheng's eyes before he left, Li Jinzhi pursed his lips and slowly restrained his breath.

He got up and stepped out of the ice cave. Stepping on the soft snow, he walked towards his bedroom. However, he was stopped by a voice behind him.

"Little brother, where did you come from?" The man's voice was arrogant and frivolous. Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows and looked back at the person.

The person who came had square eyebrows. At first glance, he looked naive and righteous. Coupled with his frivolous voice, it was really strange.

It was the son of the Liu family, Li Jintang, who had dual spirit roots of water and fire.

Behind him was the pretty Hu Sisi. She twisted her handkerchief and looked away with her mouth pouted, as if she did not want him to say anything.

Li Jinzhi secretly pondered. He was afraid that this woman was still sulking because he had brushed her off a few days ago.

"Brother, Jinzhi was just meditating here." He raised his hand and pointed at the small cave behind the rockery.

Fangzheng's eyes were filled with mockery. He pretended to be surprised as he looked at the small cave. "Tsk, little brother, didn't father tell you that there's a Qi Refinement Room in the Li Family Fort?

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Li Jinzhi lowered his eyelids. His tone sounded very sad. "Perhaps Jinzhi's aptitude was not allowed to enter the Qi Refinement Room." He pretended not to hear the two people's taunts and directly ignored Hu Sisi's words.

"Sigh. It's not your fault that you don't have spirit roots." Li Jintang wanted to find an excuse to taunt him and avenge his cousin.

He didn't expect that the other party would put on such a heartbroken expression after just a few sentences. It made him feel as if he had stepped on cotton.

"Although I don't have the Celestial Spiritual Roots, my Dual Spiritual Roots are still considered to be extremely outstanding. When I enter the Celestial Sect in the future, I will definitely take care of you." He put on a sorrowful expression on his face, but he couldn't help but feel a little complacent.

"Thank you, Elder Brother. Jingzhi's stomach is empty. I will go back to my room first." He raised his sleeve and wiped his stomach. His voice was choked with sobs, as if he did not want to stay any longer.

Li Jintang smirked. He waved his hand and turned to leave.

Once he was out of the garden, he snorted disdainfully. "What a joke!"

Hu Sisi's expression was not good. The resentment in her heart twisted her delicate features. She cared most about her face.

Last time, he gave her face in front of that lowly servant. Because of that lowly servant, she could not even complete the task her aunt gave her. This time, he completely ignored her in front of Cousin Jingtang!

Last time, she listened to her aunt and tricked him into going to an area with thin ice. She did not expect that lowly servant would run out and save that person!

After that, she wanted to take credit for herself and gain Li Jinzhi's trust. She did not expect that person to hold onto that lowly servant's hand tightly and refuse to let go!

However, humph.

"Cousin, I heard from Aunt that Li Jinzhi will also participate in the immortal sect's preliminary examination in a month." Her eyes moved, looking very pitiful. "If Jingzhi is Cousin …" She wanted to say something but stopped.

Li Jintang smiled in understanding. He bent down and whispered in her ear, "Mother already added a medicine to that boy's medicine bowl to block out spiritual energy. It would be strange if he could cultivate."

Hu Sisi was stunned. Then she smiled and said, "Then Sisi can rest assured."

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Li Jinzhi watched as the other party walked away. The sad expression on his face slowly disappeared. The corners of his eyes were slightly raised. There was no trace of sadness at all.

"Heh."

He turned around and went back to his room with an indifferent expression. For this kind of person, the more indignant you appeared, the more motivated they would be. It was better to show a little weakness so that the other party would not be in the mood to flare up.

Enduring for a while was nothing to Li Jinzhi. He had always been able to bend and stand tall.

One month later, let's wait and see.

He was very curious. What could a dual spirit root of water and fire be cultivated?

It was not like he had dual spirit roots of wood and fire. How could he be so talented?

Heh heh.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, a figure hurried out to welcome him. His heart warmed a little and he allowed the other party to pull him into the courtyard.

Ye Cheng picked up his chopsticks and put food in Li Jinzhi's bowl. He stared at the other party's sparkling eyes and asked, "Are you happy?"

Li Jinzhi was stunned. He adjusted his expression and coughed lightly. "Am I?

Ah, maybe it's because the cook's sweet and sour pork tenderloin is not bad. Eat more. "

He picked up a few large pieces of tenderloin and put them into the other party's bowl. He added some lotus root slices and said to himself, "It's better for a man to have long legs."

Ye Cheng looked at the sweet and sour pork tenderloin in the bowl with a complicated expression. He slowly curved his lips. Long legs?

Li Jinzhi ate the meal in a good mood. After ordering the servants to clean up the table, he spread the Ice Seal Formula on the table and started reading it.

This was an ordinary Qi cultivation technique. There was nothing special about it. It was just an introductory book for the Li family's disciples. Once they entered the Foundation Establishment stage, they would choose other cultivation techniques to cultivate.

The male lead in the original novel also took this path. After entering the Foundation Establishment stage, he cultivated a superior cultivation technique that he found in an ice cave in the snowy region.

It seemed that the male lead met the mute female lead in that arcane realm.

As soon as he recalled the other party's appearance, the gentle girl suddenly turned into the crazy chrysanthemum hunter Ye Cheng. Then, there was a series of "pa pa" sounds.

Li Jinzhi swallowed his saliva and made a decision expressionlessly. He could not have a female lead!

He had to take a detour!

He lowered his head and looked at the big golden words on the cover of the cultivation technique. He frowned slightly. Since it was passed down from generation to generation in the Li family, who had the bloodline of the Ice Phoenix, it was definitely not an ordinary item. However, it was not written in the original novel, so he could only explore it in the future.

After all, that book was only updated to the point where the male lead achieved great success in Yuanying. Moreover, ever since he came here, many things were different from the book.

No, it was completely different.

His personality was not similar to the male lead's. There was no need for him to do things that went against his heart in order to cater to the plot.

For example, getting close to Hu Sisi.

Disgust was disgust. Only the thick-skinned male lead would treat such a woman as a lover.

Although harem girls were desirable, they were still things in the novel. It was enough to feel good when looking at them.

If he really brought a bunch of girls with ulterior motives to him, no one would be able to bear it.

Moreover, this was the world of cultivators. In a place where people could turn against each other for a magic treasure, taking in a bunch of women who would confide in him was simply courting death!

However, later facts proved that some plots were shaken off by the butterfly effect, but the male lead's halo did not fall.

For example, the halo of cute girls.

No matter how a certain person avoided like a poisonous scorpion, no matter how much he complained incessantly, no matter how a certain person suppressed or blocked him, what should come would still come in an endless stream.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Harem." Li Jinzhi held the book and said with a serious face.

The voice in his ear became deeper and deeper. "Is the harem the emperor's harem?

Many women?

Hmm? "

"…" When he realized what he had said, Li Jinzhi flatly denied it. "No, no, no!

I was just thinking about the mystery of this book. "

He stole a glance at the youth in front of him from the corner of his eye. Seeing that the other party's face was full of doubt, he tried to change the topic. "Do you want to try cultivating?

Maybe you also have spiritual roots. If that's the case, you can go to the immortal sect with me in a month. "

Although Ye Cheng still had doubts in his heart, when he heard the last sentence, his attention was indeed attracted. Almost without thinking, he nodded. "I'll try!" This way, they wouldn't have to separate. This way, he wouldn't be abandoned.

Ye Cheng solemnly picked up the book on the table and read it word by word.

Li Jinzhi looked at the other party's serious expression and his pitch-black pupils constricted. "You can read," he said firmly.

Ye Cheng's hand that was holding the book froze. He raised his head with difficulty, his eyes blank.

"You can read."

Li Jinzhi looked at his face and his tone became even more certain. "How can a lowly servant know how to read?" He stared at the other party's eyes and asked word by word, "What are you hiding from me?"

"No!" Ye Cheng hurriedly denied. His eyes were filled with sorrow. "I, I didn't hide anything from you."

He lowered his eyelids and was silent for a while before he said slowly, "My mother can read. I lived with her until I was ten years old." His lowered black eyes were deep and serene.

Li Jinzhi frowned. "What happened after that?

You don't seem to have mentioned your mother. "

"She's dead."

When Ye Cheng said this word, he was unexpectedly calm. "She has some hysteria. She's good and bad sometimes. When she's good, she teaches me how to read. She's quite gentle. When she's ill, she'll …" His voice lowered.

"How does she treat you when she's ill?" Li Jinzhi looked at the other party's expression and his heart twitched.

Ye Cheng lowered his eyes and raised his hand to roll up his sleeves. Li Jinzhi took a closer look and gasped.

He couldn't tell at first, but when he looked closely, his honey-colored arm was actually covered with dense scars.

Perhaps it was because it had been a long time, but after the scars faded, it was hard to tell if one didn't look closely.

"She took that pair of scissors and chased me around the house. I didn't dare to scream for fear of attracting the other servants in the yard."

The youth bent his body and trembled slightly. "They would drag my mother to the woodshed and lock her up. They wouldn't care about her anymore."

Li Jinzhi opened his mouth and wanted to comfort him, but found that he couldn't say a word. He could only pat the other party's back with one hand to comfort him silently.

"Does it hurt?" He touched the scars with one hand. The uneven touch made his heart ache.

"No, there are so many wounds that even the pain is numb."

Ye Cheng laughed softly. Coupled with his choked voice, it was a little scary. "Working under the sun in summer, sweat seeped into the wounds, swelling and ulcerating them. That's the most painful thing."

Li Jinzhi's hand paused. His chest was filled with an emotion called heartache. It was sore and swollen.

His thoughts unconsciously drifted back to the orphanage. He was locked up in the warehouse by the child king for two days. It wasn't until the nuns found that one of the children was missing that they found him, who was almost unconscious.

The darkest memory was dug out. Li Jinzhi found that this experience was not even one percent of what Ye Cheng went through.

He was abused by his biological mother. In addition to his body, he was even more heartbroken.

He suddenly regretted testing Ye Cheng. He regretted that he shouldn't have forced Ye Cheng to dig out this memory.

"Everything will be fine in the future." Li Jinzhi paused. His gaze was gentle but firm. "You have me for everything."

Ye Cheng bent over and buried his whole face in the shadow.

The warmth of the palm on his back penetrated his clothes and reached his heart. The smile on his face grew wider and wider. In the end, even his body trembled slightly. "You said it." His voice was hoarse.

Feeling the trembling of his hand, Li Jinzhi panicked and patted it a few times. "Don't cry. I said it. Even if I have to leave temporarily, I will definitely find you."

Ye Cheng nodded and didn't say anything. He avoided the important and dwell on the trivial to gain sympathy. He easily avoided the test.

His experience was real. However, he was afraid to let the other party know about his mother's identity and his background.

He knew that it was a test, but he deliberately exposed a flaw in order to make the other party accept him completely.

Ye Cheng wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. He picked up the manual that had fallen on the ground and read it.

Half an hour later, he sat quietly on the bed in his bedroom. His hands formed a complicated handprint and he tried to draw Qi into his body.

Li Jinzhi closed the door for him and walked towards the small dog hole with a heavy heart.

Since he had made a promise to others, he had to practice harder and use his strength to fulfill his promise.