Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 1009: Chapter 8 Too Suspicious

When it comes to scheming for the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment, Luo Yan’s approach was probably the simplest.

The reason is straightforward: the Kunlun Heaven-Mending Stone fragment is located within the secret realm of Heavenly Gate Peak. Therefore, Chi Song Immortal needed to lay down many restrictions to prevent anyone from sneaking into the secret realm.

For example, Shushan’s Heaven-Mending Stone fragment is directly embedded within the restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower. If one does not have a profound mastery of formations, they can’t extract it smoothly at all.

This means the higher the difficulty of the operation to retrieve the stone fragment, the fewer backup plans the immortals might set up.

No matter how challenging the former is, at least it’s an open card, whereas the backup plans are completely unknown. Therefore, Luo Yan would rather tackle the former than deal with the latter.

As for Penglai Jade Pure View, the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment is placed within the spatial layer of Wan Xiang Immortal. Without practicing Sleeve Universe, one couldn’t even find the location of the space.

From this perspective, the possibility of immortal’s backup plans being set in the spatial layer isn’t that high.

However, in terms of the diversity of methods, Wan Xiang Immortal’s various divine skills surely surpass the Long Eyebrow Immortal, who tends to use force to break cleverness.

Long Eyebrow Immortal can embed the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment within the restrictions of the Sword Pillar and let things rot, but Wan Xiang Immortal might set up some bizarre traps!

Regardless, everything must wait for that day to act — Wan Xiang Immortal hasn’t left Penglai, so he certainly couldn’t risk going over for investigations.

Therefore, lately, Luo Yan has just stayed in the Heavenly Craft Workshop, focusing on handling numerous commissions from the outside world, mostly custom formation requests.

The sudden dedication of Workshop Master shocked Shi Liuli, Liang Ruohua, and Shi Qing — they entrusted Shi Liuli to check on Luo Yan’s thoughts, wondering if he’d experienced deviation or sudden madness.

“Is there anything wrong?” Luo Yan asked puzzledly, “As the Workshop Master, handling Heavenly Craft Workshop’s client orders is a rightful matter, isn’t it?”

You know it’s a rightful matter… Seeing him speak so righteously, Shi Liuli was momentarily speechless, only able to mutter:

“Yes, indeed, that’s quite right.”

She quietly left the study and cast another hexagram.

The copper coin fell, indicating an ominous hexagram.

Shi Liuli fell silent as evil hexagrams are extremely rare and generally appear in ambiguous forms.

Such an extremely apparent, unambiguous ominous hexagram was the first time Shi Liuli had seen since mastering art calculation.

Her hand trembled slightly, unable to resist casting the copper coin again.

As the copper coin flew, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

One hexagram doesn’t repeat; it’s an iron rule. If repeated, it proves the calculator’s Daoist Heart had wavered, making the result inaccurate.

Sure enough, when the copper coin fell again, it turned into a sign of turning misfortune into fortune.

Turning misfortune into fortune, following the previous misfortune, naturally was a good thing — but it violated the principle of not repeating hexagrams, leaving Shi Liuli unable to ease her mind.

No matter how she calculated, it couldn’t be accurate.

Slightly annoyed in her heart, Shi Liuli quietly returned to the Sword Casting Workshop, planning to have a heartfelt talk with her husband tonight.

If Xu Yinglian and An Zhisu were here, they’d probably directly confront Luo Yan with “I got an ominous hexagram, explain to me what this ominous means.”

But Shi Liuli wasn’t that type. As her mind calmly turned, she considered if her husband intended to keep something from her, then rushing over for inquiries not only wouldn’t get her the desired answer but would also tip him off, making him more alert.

Yes, even though “tip off” might not suit, portraying him as somewhat cunning, that’s essentially the meaning.

By evening, when Luo Yan returned from the study, he found a lavish spread of dishes set on the table.

Eight meat and eight vegetable dishes, dazzling to the eyes, resembling an imperial banquet that made Luo Yan tremble, thinking dear wife might have detected something fishy and spiked the dishes with cultivation-destroying poison to lock him up in the Heavenly Craft Workshop’s basement?

“Husband, please sit.” Shi Liuli smiled gently.

Luo Yan sat down warily, watching Shi Liuli gracefully use her right hand to hold chopsticks, her left hand lightly clutching her right sleeve, picking an Immortal Fruit into his bowl.

“Husband, have a taste. How’s the flavor?”

“Wife.” Already anxious, Luo Yan dared not taste, merely forcing a smile, “We both are Grain-Avoiding Cultivators; why indulge in this culinary pleasure? Perhaps I should store it, and eat some when work exhausts me, as a midnight snack…”

“No way.” Shi Liuli said with a grin, “This is my heartfelt intention; not tasting even a bite is simply unjustifiable, isn’t it?”

Convinced more than ever the food was tainted, Luo Yan hastily asked:

“Why suddenly decide to cook today?”

“Here’s the thing.” Shi Liuli softly spoke, “Husband has always been somewhat… carefree, but recently suddenly devoted to work, taking everyone by surprise, so after much thought, I decided to prepare a feast to reward husband as encouragement.”

Saying this, she personally picked a bit from each dish, eating it to show it was non-toxic.

Seeing this, Luo Yan realized he misunderstood, feeling deep shame within.

To conceal this embarrassment, he forcibly pretended not to suspect the dishes were poisoned, merely switching topics, laughing:

“It’s not much; I just suddenly feel I’ve been too lazy previously, leaving numerous matters for wife to handle, which is simply unacceptable.”

“For husband to have such thoughts, it’s truly wonderful.” Shi Liuli wiped her eye corners.

It wasn’t such a touching moment as to bring tears… Though he spoke falsely, seeing Shi Liuli in such a state, Luo Yan felt somewhat guilty.

“Given this, the Heavenly Craft Workshop still has many pending tasks, including sect-related requirements and ceremonial invitations from the Sect Leader, elders, etc. It’d be appreciated if husband could manage them as well — after all, it’s the duty of the Workshop Master.”

Stunned, Luo Yan quickly refused:

“Ahem! I’ve only just begun handling workshop affairs, still feeling a bit unfamiliar — Wife, let me adapt for a short period first, perhaps next month? Next month definitely!”

“That would work.” Shi Liuli nodded in agreement.

Seeing Shi Liuli no longer insist, Luo Yan sighed in relief inwardly and then dined together with Shi Liuli.

While chewing the delicacies, Shi Liuli thought to herself:

Willing to undertake some workshop tasks but unwilling to take over entirely. This implies he’s not genuinely enthusiastic about working but driven by other motives… perhaps compensatory psychology? A desire to make amends?

Adapting for a short period, saying “next month”… not merely procrastination, yet provides “next month” as a timeframe, implying by next month, the motive driving him to perform these tasks will no longer exist?

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