Before departure!

Next day early morning, just as the sun rises from the east, and the dark sky shines with its brilliance, a ray of sunlight fell on a small garden of an inner courtyard.

A sixteen-seventeen year old handsome boy wearing black clothing, stretching, bending, and moving in different positions, as beads of sweat continue to fall from his face into the fertile land.

Each move is unpredictably slow and smooth, but every time he stretches and moves in different positions, he shows an unbearable expression on his face as if he's bearing an unimaginable pain, accompanied by sweat flowing through his face and tip-top felling on the ground.

While on the bench next to him, a beautiful girl sitting, nipping her lips and looking at him worriedly whenever she saw his painful expressions, whilst he's exercising, but deep within her eyes a hint of admiration could be seen.

The young handsome boy who is not our protagonist Xing Chen.

After exercising for over an hour, Xing Chen felt tired a bit, the exercise he has been doing is Nine turns body refining art.

Unlike ordinary exercise, it consumes a large amount of energy and vitality, each time these stretching and bending brings huge amount of pain, which is unbearable for the majority of body refining stage cultivators, for general cultivator it's difficult to perform those moves let alone want to practice so freely like him.

'Huff! Huff!'

Taking some deep breaths, Xing Chen walked towards the bench and sat down beside the young girl.

The young girl saw him sitting next to her, feeling his manly breath, she blushed slightly and hastily gave him a jade glass filled with spring water.

"Thanks, Sister Qing" Xing Chen smiled and said the girl next to him.

"No, no young master please don't thank me, this is what I should do, to take care of you." Li Qing waved her hands and said incoherently.

Xing Chen smiled at her but didn't say anything.

After drinking water, he stood up from the bench and said to Li Qing: "Sister Qing I'm going to take a bath, there's a small bag of money under my bed, give it to a servant and told him to purchase 'Flower budding grass' from Uncle Ding's shop completely and bring it to my room."

"As you wish Young master!" Although Li Qing doesn't know why he needs so many Flower budding grass, but she obeyed his instructions without any hesitation.

After Xing Chen went to the bath, Li Qing followed his instructions and pick up the bag full of gold coins, and went to the servant quarter.

Time one minute and one second, soon half an hour passed, Xing Chen returned in his room after bathing, clean handsome face, wet shiny black long hairs hung loose, wearing a loose white gown with lifelike golden lotus sewed on the cuffs, making him more charming and fascinating.

Wearing white clothing, Xing Chen looked as if he's a different person not only he looked more handsome even his temperament changed from indifferent and evil charisma into sunny and ethereal.

Knock! Knock!

When Xing Chen strode towards his bed, he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in," he said as he stopped his footsteps and glanced at the door.

Creak!.....

After the door opened, Li Qing entered the room, while behind her two guards were standing, each holding a big wooden box.

"So quick," Xing Chen acclaimed as he looked surprisingly at two guards behind her holding two big boxes in their hands.

He thought that it might take an hour or two bringing these stalks of grasses but if he's right only less than half an hour passed.

on the other hand, Li Qing'er and two guards entered the room caught off guard and shocked by his handsome appearance, specially Li Qing'er as her heartbeat speed up, throat dried and her face blushed, she never saw such a handsome man, let alone after bathing Xing Chen's cloths and body is still wet and drops of water are dripping from his hairs on the ground so he looks more charming, she also felt that him temperament changed as he look even more handsome and approachable in white dress.

"Y...Yes, Young Master, Flower budding grass already brought, when I was heading for the servant quarter, Senior Mu saw me holding the gold coins bag and asked, after I said that you want to buy a large amount of flower budding grass, he went personally to Master Ding's shop and brought these two boxes of flower budding grass, each box contains a thousand stalks, a total of two thousand together." Returning to her sense Li Qing explained while secretly peeking at him from time to time.

"Oh, no wonder then!" he lifted his brows and muttered.

"Young master you said something?" Li Qing asked subconsciously, because she's standing near him and smelling faint fragrance excuding from his body, so she didn't heard what he said.

"No, nothing!" Xing Chen shook his head lightly.

"But the bag I gave you only contains a thousand gold coins, so why there are an extra thousand stalks are these brought by Uncle Mu?" Xing Chen asked.

Li Qing who was standing next to Xing Chen, has not replied to him instead she reluctantly moved and walked towards the door again.

Xing Chen startled by her sudden action, just as he wanted to ask her what happened? He saw her coming back holding a small black leather bag.

'This bag isn't he asked her to take from his room before?' He looked at the bag with doubt and said in his heart.

Holding bag Li Qing returned next to him, looked at him, and pointed towards the leather bag: "Young Master, Senior Mu didn't take the bag of gold coins and told me to give it back to you. Before knocking on the door I put it on the right side of door."

Saying this she passed the gold coins bag towards him.

Xing Chen held the bag and pressed his brows unknowingly, after a few seconds later he loosened his expressions and sighed.

But he's happy inside his heart, not only saved a thousand gold coins but also got flower budding grass worth two thousand gold coins.

"Well, two brothers put these boxes here." Satisfied in his heart Xing Chen pointed at the empty space near his bed and said to the guards.

"As you wish young master!" both guards already regained their composure so they said loudly, walked farword and placed the two boxes cautiously there.

After putting the boxes two guards hunched a bit towards him and left the room.

"Also Young Master, Senior Mu said that tomorrow when going out for your training, you can't take Small Night horse with you, after all, Night horse strength is already equal to 'Transforming Yuan realm', so he already prepared two Wild East Flying horse for both of you."

After two guards left the room, Li Qing'er turned her head and said to Xing Chen.

"Well, I already thought that Uncle Mu will say something like this." Xing Chen helplessly shrugged his shoulders, but he didn't complain, because he knows if Xiao ye went with him then there is no use for his training.

He still remembers, when last time he went to Qinglong Forest Mountain range for training, xiao ye was also together with him, and that expedition instead of his blood and sweat training become a fun trip for Xiao ye by trampling and killing beasts for fun, at that time any beast in outer range of Qinglong mountain forest saw xaio ye even from several li apart, will directly run away from his terror, so in the end, for over half month he never got a chance to fight with beasts.