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Sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled light across the surface of the water. Warm mist rose from the hot springs. There was a bubbling sound of water pouring into the pool. Piles of clothes were dropped messily on the surface of a dry rock. It could be seen from the back that the figure by the water was naked, until he descended into the water, hiding broad shoulders and slim back. Long black hair floated across the water’s surface.
The man dipped his head under the water and rose again, flicking droplets of hot water. He let out a low sigh and leaned back against the water. Water trickled down his face, his eyelashes dark with wetness.
Wen Zhihao settled into a comfortable position in the hot springs.
The surfaces and floor of the hot spring were fairly smooth and even. It was probably human-made, but there wasn’t anyone around. Wen Zhihao had checked—or else, how could he be brave enough to enter naked?
The hot water was like a warm hug, washing away the grime of the last few days; any impurities seemed to just dissolve away.
In fact, Wen Zhihao had been out on this secluded mountain for a few days already. His “nap” turned out longer than expected, and he didn’t wake until some inquisitive birds landed on his face and tried to peck at his hair the next (?) day. He could now see why and how cultivators could go into seclusion for so long. They probably slept for ten days at a time. Anyway, since cultivators live longer than mortals, ten days was nothing.
He had spent the following days exploring the area on foot and on sword, napping whenever it took his fancy, sitting on lush grass, on high tree branches, on his sword, and nibbling on steam buns kept warm and preserved in his spatial storage space.
Sitting/floating in the hot pool, Wen Zhihao’s mind easily slipped into thoughts.
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Wen Zhihao tilted his head back into the hot water. The feeling of long wet hair was amusing. There also had to be some kind of cultivation magic that kept it from tangling.
His coding skills from modern earth would not get him a job here. But maybe he could be a delivery guy. A flying sword was obviously very convenient. Even cultivators needed delivery personnel, right?
En, not a bad idea.
With that problem solved, Wen Zhihao washed his clothes and idled the rest of the day away in the hot springs.
It turned out that he could indeed fall asleep in a bath as well. And he could apparently hold his breath for a very long time by using qi to refresh the air in his lungs instead… (phew! or maybe he would have died and transmigrated again to somewhere worse…)
When he finally exited the hot springs, his skin glowed and was not wrinkly at all. Dressing in his now dried clothes, Wen Zhihao wondered where he should go next.
He took flight into the air, eyes widening when he spotted three golden robed cultivators flying his way.
Their impressive auras reached Wen Zhihao before they did. The three of them slowed down upon approaching him, and all three of them gave him a look.
The tallest of them had sharp eyebrows, stern eyes, thin lips, and perfect posture. Lin Yijun was the top disciple of the Golden Sun Sect, just below the Elders. “Outer sect disciple, why are you here?” he demanded.
Wen Zhihao put his hands together. “Greetings to seniors,” he said politely. “Shidi was practising flying. Please excuse me, I have to return back to the sect now.”
Lin Yijun narrowed his eyes. “Very well.”
Wen Zhihao bowed again and flew away.
“Tch,” one of the other cultivators said. “If he was flying, then we would have spotted him earlier.”
“A spy?”
Lin Yijun watched until the outer sect disciple truly entered the sect area. “Later,” he said decisively.
He continued his flight down to the Clear Heart Hot Springs, whose water contained highly concentrated fire and water qi. Its harmony, without being explosive, made it have special healing and cultivation properties. Vials of the water were specially preserved to use to wash wounds, and a soak in the pool could heal the majority of wounds and enhance cultivation. A too-long soak though could cause cultivators’ minds to wash away, with multiple accounts of cultivators completely changing after staying in too long. It was a powerful place to advance cultivation but deceptively dangerous at the same time.
A powerful array surrounded the area that prevented cultivators looking for it to find it: Lin Yijun and his two fellow cultivators had special tokens that allowed them access, tokens that were never handed to outer sect cultivators.
Lin Yijun put the matter of the outer sect disciple out of his mind as he and his two friends descended into the pool. He had more difficult matters to think about.
Meanwhile, back at the Golden Sun Sect, Wen Zhihao dropped by the Clothing Hall.
There was one main cultivator in charge, and he gave Wen Zhihao a cold look. “Yes?”
“Sorry to trouble you. Do you have any soft pillows?”
“Soft pillows?”
“…Or blankets? I’m cold…”
“Cold.” The cultivator’s gaze became disdainful. How weak. He must have been a soft young master.
Wen Zhihao nodded.
“…Very well.”
Because Wen Zhihao wanted “normal”, i.e. uncharmed blankets, the price was cheap, and he had more than enough spiritual stones to exchange. Wen Zhihao stuffed all of them into his spatial storage and headed back to his room to make the comfiest blanket nest.
Author: *cough cough* I just wanted to have one of those “intense descriptions of a person (typically the love interest)” that a lot of stories seem to have, except it’s not a love interest, just our plain MC~
(Did I trick you? )
“A too-long soak could cause cultivators’ minds to wash away…”
considering the entire premise of this novel, that makes sense and also might not be too shabby for cultivation. or i could be wrong! xD
i think the intense description of the usually-love-interest-but-not-this-time is a bit overshadowed by how comfy and pretty the setting seems to be. man, i wanna be a cultivator there. just for a bit. please?
+1
🙈🙈🙈
It would sure be nice…
Sigh~ wouldn’t that be so relaxing.
I wanna hang out there too and just laze around and eat meat buns and spicy noodles too~ It sounded delicious. I also wanna explore the beautiful sceneries there!
I’ll trade all of the technology here just to live somewhere that is not earth and is a fantasy world of swords and magic.
😔
🥺🥺🥺🥺 it would be nice to have the relaxing life here….
I actually went back to see if I had missed a chapter 🤣🤣 our MC is not bad (๑ơ ₃ ơ)♥
😅😅😅 I had to open on the bath scene for ~drama~
Well that was quite clever of you😅
🤣 thanks!
I also want to have smooth, never-drying skin and sleep as much as I want, hmf.
thanks for the chapter~
(Don’t we all!)
thank you for reading!
As we can see╰( ・ ᗜ ・ )➝, the roaming salted fish is in it’s habitat. Going about it’s business unaware of the hidden danger ಠ◡ಠ
Hehe👍
😆😆😆😆😆😆 by being a salted fish, why worry about things!!
I really can’t understand 🤭🤣 since we have a flying sword why don’t we be a delivery guy 🤣🤣 ; this salted fish really??
I mean, with a flying sword, this is a BIG advantage compared to other delivery people!
Author-san, so far this story has been excellent, and I would 100% read even if there was no love interest! Of course, ML is needed for prividing us with important fluff, (sweet fluff is needed in every book!!), but I just especially love this kind of slice-of-life fantasy genre where the MC simply wants to be carefree/lazy/incognito but still ends up having lots of unexpected adventures. Thank you for the happiness!! 💖
❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much for your lovely comment! I hope you’ll continue to enjoy~
Kkkkkkk indeed I was tricked, i thought he would be the shou!
Thank you for the chapter!!
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 I succeeded then~
thank you for reading!
Wait, I’m confused. Is the mc the gong?
MC Gong?!
Thanks for the chapter! Loving this story so far… So, how did he go through the protective array without a token? I have a feeling he’s going to break everyone’s common sense…
Okay, so there is a big problem with the array: you can’t find it if you go looking for it.
And it’s already in a very hard to reach location, so the only reason you should be hanging around there is if you’re from the Golden Sun Sect and you’re looking for it… Wen Zhihao has no idea what it is, he wasn’t looking for it, he was just aimlessly, mindlessly walking around, so the array never triggered!
Basically the people setting it up never thought there would be clueless people like Wen Zhihao in their own sect…
That sounds about right… thank for explaining 😁
Barriers, what are those? Are they yummy?
Wen Zhihao is super lucky, he didn’t trigger the array conditions because he’s literally clueless XD
This luck of the MC goes against the skies: finding cute animals, delicious food, ideal places to sleep and a random hot spring turned out to be almost a treasure!
OMG. Luck is totally Wen Zhihao’s golden finger..
It was a fantastic intense scene of the MC 😤😤😤
Bless him, living THE life 🥺🥺🥺🥺 can’t wait to see what job he actually does get!
Thank you for the chapters!!!
😄😄😄😄😄 I’m glad you liked this chapter~!
can anyone clarify who’s the Top and who’s the bottom?
most likely reversible!
You tricked me! I was so prepared for some hot shixiong. Well, I guess WZH IS the new hot shixiong.
“prevented cultivators looking for it to find it” – did WZH just find this super secret because he was being lazy and not looking for it? 😂
HAHAHA, I’m happy I was able to trick you like that~! Well, to a certain someone…
YEP. Wen Zhihao found it because….he doesn’t even know that it exists
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The author definitely tricked me at the beginning XD. I thought they were introducing a sexy ML. Thanks for the chapter!
hahah success!!! I mean, maybe from the perspective of another character, old man Wen is a sexy ML 😏
LMAO good point XD
Hahahaha. 😂 The MC is just to amazing. Taking a way to long nap in a hot spring which usually makes people go crazy after they dip to long. 🤣
MC doesn’t realise he’s actually OP 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
How did MC find the hot spring then if token is needed to enter the array? 😅. Had his cultivation upgraded too high for him to notice??
The array has a flaw, it only works on people who are looking for the hot springs! XD Wen Zhihao didn’t know it existed and wasn’t looking for it 🤭🤭
Ohhh the MC is my spirit animal 😅😅
Hahaha that’s good!!
Omg, Wen Zhihao is my #SpiritAnimal 😆😂❤
hahaha I’m glad he’s relatable!
Soft blankies 😁
Very important!
Yup author-nim u tricked me right lol…i really thought it was hilarious thinking that it was ML but lol it was MC🤣
omg I’m so happy that you actually thought it was the ML 😆😆
Sooo we need to know how he was able to enter the hot spring xD and also, he soaked for so long! he may be more talented than he knows
It was because he wasn’t looking for it 😆😆😆😆 He’s definitely more lucky than he knows!
MC having a nice long soak in the “super secret cultivation treasure pool ™
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
He’s a salted fish, of course he has an affinity with water and can find his way to the Very Secret Hot Spring 😄
omg 🤣, it all makes sense!
Author using our salted fish for a thirst trap XD
Just twisting the trope a little~
+1 for cultivation magic that keeps hair from tangling.
Thank you for the chapter.
That kind of magic is extremely important! 🤣🤣