chapter 13 Wearing a bathrobe to the clothing store

Chen You withdrew his gaze and said, "Wait for me in the car."
"Ah, alright..." Qu Mei snapped back to reality and quickly replied, stepping away.
Chen You listened to the footsteps of Qu Mei leaving. He gripped the knife stuck in Zhu Hao's palm and pulled it forcefully.
"Squishhh!"
"Ah!" A piercing scream echoed from inside the house, startling Qu Mei. She instinctively looked in that direction.
Unfortunately, her distance from the door prevented her from seeing what was happening inside.
Qu Mei could only avert her gaze and continue walking towards the car.
In her mind, she replayed the scene of Chen You battling the formidable Juewu Warrior. That man was really strong. Was he also a formidable Juewu Warrior?
Qu Mei opened the car door, got in, and sat in the passenger seat, looking at the villa's door.
After a while, Chen You came out of the villa. Under Qu Mei's watchful eyes, he got into the car.
The car started and slowly moved away from the villa.
"What happened to that person?" Qu Mei asked cautiously.
Chen You said calmly, "You don't need to know."
Eliminating someone and covering it up, when there were no witnesses, was too simple. After taking the formidable Juewu weapon he needed, Chen You stowed Zhu Hao's body in his Qiankun Ring.
Inside the Qiankun Ring, there wasn’t any air, any living being entering would meet its end.
With Zhu Hao dealt with, Chen You's next task was to go through the formalities to secure his residence.
Upon hearing this, Qu Mei could only close her mouth slowly and stop talking.
This was indeed not something she could be involved in.
The formalities weren't too troublesome, but there were many contracts to be signed.
After completing the paperwork for the residence, Chen You drove back to the villa.
With a place to stay, he chose a secluded bedroom on the second floor, got on the bed, and took out the Yellow Yellow Brass Grass.
Looking at the Yellow Brass Grass in his hand, resembling ginseng, Chen You didn't hesitate at all. He directly inserted it into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed.
As soon as the Yellow Brass Grass entered his stomach, a surge of energy spread out. It felt as if he had swallowed a ball of fire. The flames slowly descended from his throat, the searing sensation almost killing him.
Chen You quickly closed his eyes, mobilized his spiritual power, and the pale yellow spiritual power flew along his meridians, slowly covering the organs in his body to protect them from the intense energy. Then, he used the freed-up spiritual power to draw out and assimilate the powerful energy.
This kind of cultivation required immense patience and time. Fortunately, Chen You had good patience and he absorbed it little by little.
After "digesting" one stalk of Yellow Brass Grass, he ate the second one. He gradually absorbed the energy from the Yellow Brass Grass, accumulating it into his own spiritual power.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a muffled sound echoed in his body.
Chen You moved, attentively observing the changes within.
The meridians in his body were like small streams, spreading throughout his entire body. Initially, these meridians were suspended with golden gaseous spiritual power, in small quantities.
But now, the meridians were crowded with golden gaseous spiritual power, densely packed together. Some of it had even started to tend towards liquefaction.
A small portion of the spiritual power had melted into a liquid, indicating he was transcending towards the late Qi Refining Stage!
In the Qi Refining Stage, spiritual power is gaseous, in the Fusion Stage, it becomes liquid, and in the Golden Core Stage, it solidifies.
All five stalks of Yellow Brass Grass were consumed, and he finally advanced. He had gone from Fusion Stage to Golden Core Stage.
Night had fall, and his bedroom was pitch black.
At this moment, Chen You slowly opened his eyes. In a blink of an eye, a pair of golden lights illuminated the black bedroom, emanating from Chen You's eyes.
A powerful aura emanated from Chen You.
He closed his eyes again, concealing his aura.
After a while, Chen You regained his composure, suppressed his aura, and opened his eyes, and looked around.
The bedroom was completely dark, clearly indicating that night had fallen.
Chen You got out of bed, turned on the light.
As the light illuminated the room, he summoned two crimson daggers and a cleaver to appear in front of him with a wave of his hand.
Juewu weapons - these were the source of power for formidable Juewu Warriors. They gathered all the formidable Juewu power of the Juewu Warrior.
Without them, a formidable Juewu Warrior was nothing more than a useless person.
"They say that Juewu Weapons are composed of formidable Juewu power. In my opinion, they're all made up of spiritual power. In other words, is formidable Juewu power and spiritual power essentially the same?" Chen You muttered to himself, examining one of the daggers with a slight furrow of his brow.
He didn't bother thinking too much about it. He placed the dagger back on the bed and closed his eyes.
Whether they were of the same origin didn't matter. These three Juewu Weapons, made up of spiritual power, were his supplements.
The sooner he advanced to the Tribulation Period, the sooner he could return to the immortal realm. Nothing else was important.
The Emperor's Immortal Technique was passed down from emperors of generations past. With this method, he could absorb all the spiritual power within a ten-mile radius and forcefully channelled it into his own body for cultivation.
The air in the immortal realm was saturated with immortal energy. As long as he operated the Emperor's Immortal Technique, his advancement would be as swift as riding a rocket.
However, even a 100-mile radius here in the mortal realm was useless because there was no trace of spiritual power.
Chen You wasn't using the Emperor’s Immortal Technique now for the sake of the ambient spiritual power, but to absorb the spiritual power from the three Juewu Weapons in front of him. He locked onto the three weapons with the Emperor’s Immortal Technique and activated the technique.
From the outside, it looked as if the three weapons were being drawn by something, trembling slightly. Then, thin threads of reddish light peeled off them. These threads resembled smoke rising from a sacrificial incense stick, except they were crimson. The three Juewu Weapons emitted three thin streams of smoke, as if being drawn towards Chen You's forehead.
The three streams of smoke merged into one, eerily penetrating Chen You's forehead.
It's in! Chen You's heart stirred.
Indeed, it was spiritual power!
After entering Chen You's body, the crimson Juewu Weapons naturally transformed into golden specks and gradually merged into Chen You's meridians.
So pure!
Chen You was pleasantly surprised!
This energy was incredibly pure. Unlike the Yellow Brass Grass, which required him to use spiritual power to refine it bit by bit before slowly drawing out and assimilating its energy, the spiritual power absorbed from the Juewu Weapons had no impurities. It automatically transformed into spiritual power and entered his body.
The gaseous spiritual power within his meridians became denser and began to overflow. It was like dark clouds outside the window, so dense and heavy that it slowly condensed into a liquid, descending from the sky and moistening the dry earth.
Pattering sounds filled the room.
However, Chen You was completely unaware.
More and more of the gaseous spiritual power inside his body turned into liquid.
Splash! A strange sound echoed from within, and Chen You felt his body become lighter. Everything seemed to have changed.
He focused his mind inwards.
If his meridians were like streams before, they were truly streams now. The 'water' in these streams was like golden liquid.
Although it was in small quantities, but this was enough to excite Chen You.
Early stage of Fusion!
So fast!
Chen You slowly opened his eyes. A fleeting golden light shone in his eyes.
He glanced at the bed; the three Juewu Weapons he had placed in front of him had disappeared without a trace.
Chen You got off the bed. As soon as he did, he felt his body become significantly lighter.
He hadn't expected the Juewu Weapons of formidable Juewu Warriors in this world to be such a source of replenishment. Just by casually taking three Juewu Weapons and devouring them, he had helped himself enter the early stage of Integration.
If he were to grab a few dozen more, wouldn't he be able to reach the Tribulation Period?
He had originally thought that the mortal realm was highly unsuitable for cultivation. It seemed that wasn't the case. With Juewu Weapons, cultivation here wasn't difficult at all.
Chen You entered the bathroom and took a bath.
From the late stage of Qi Condensation to the late stage of Integration, his body had been tempered by spiritual power, causing changes in his physique. All impurities had been expelled through his pores. Bathing was necessary.
After bathing, Chen You put on a bathrobe and went outside.
He no longer had any clean clothes to change into, so he could only go out in his bathrobe.
Fortunately, money could solve anything. He arrived at a clothing store.
A man in a bathrobe, wearing cotton slippers, entered the clothing store. This man was Chen You.
The customers in the store all cast strange glances at Chen You.
Coming to a public place dressed in a bathrobe and slippers?
"Sir, please wait a moment," the security guard of the clothing store stopped Chen You as soon as he entered.
The guard walked over from behind Chen You and stood in front of him, saying, "Sir, could you please put on some clothes before entering."
Chen You scanned his surroundings and fixed his indifferent gaze on the security guard in front of him. "Isn't this a clothing store?"
The guard was about 1.73 meters tall, while Chen You, after advancing from mid-Qi Condensation to early Integration, had undergone changes in both aura and physique. He was now nearly 1.8 meters tall, towering over the guard by half a head.
They faced each other, and Chen You's imposing presence didn't waver. He calmly stared at the guard.
The guard felt a hint of pressure.
"This is a clothing store, but..."
"Isn't a clothing store a place for people to buy clothes? I don't have any good clothes to wear, so I came here to get some, but you're telling me to go out and put on clothes first. In other words, you want me to go somewhere else to buy clothes. So, does this mean you don't want to do business here anymore?" Chen You said slowly, enunciating each word.
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