Melihat hal itu, Lin Xiao segera melangkah ke atasnya, khawatir formasi akan mengaktifkan diri dan meninggalkannya. Anggota-anggota Lingxian Sect yang mengelilingi Qiankun Transfer Array melihat cahaya putih dari dalam array tepat dua kali tarikan napas setelah Lin Xiao masuk. Dan berikutnya, piringan array yang berada di tanah, bersama Lin Xiao dan Liao Pantu, menghilang dari tempat tersebut. Lin Xiao hanya merasa dirinya dilingkupi cahaya putih sebelum ditarik oleh kekuatan yang tak terbayangkan. Perasaan berat yang intensif segera meresapi seluruh tubuhnya, dan kesadarannya berputar dalam kebingungan sesaat. Sepertinya sudah berlalu waktu yang lama, tetapi juga seperti hanya sesaat. Rasa berat tiba-tiba hilang, digantikan oleh perasaan mantap dan meyakinkan bahwa kakinya menyentuh tanah. Merasakan cahaya putih di sekitarnya memudar, ia perlahan membuka matanya, yang sebelumnya tanpa sadar ia ketatkan. Pada suatu titik, Liao Pantu telah mundur ke dalam Soul Nourishing Pendant. Sekarang, hanya liontin giok hitam pekat yang melayang di sisi Lin Xiao. Qiankun Transfer Disk juga telah teleportasi bersama mereka dan kini berbaring tenah di tanah. Melihat Lin Xiao membuka mata, Liao Pantu berkata kepadanya, Ini adalah pondok gua yang aku atur di luar sekte di masa lalu. Aku banyak melempar mantra penyamaran di atasnya, dan tidak ada yang mengetahuinya. Anda dapat menggunakan tempat ini sebagai landasan. Lin Xiao melihat sekeliling, hampir buta oleh kemewahan gua yang dihadapinya. Meskipun disebut pondok gua, Lin Xiao lebih suka menyebutnya istana. Karena hiasan benar-benar terlalu megah dan mewah! Meskipun sekilas kelihatannya seluruh pondok gua hanya sekitar lima ratus meter persegi—jauh dari ukuran istana—di mana-mana mata melihat, terisi dengan balok yang diukir dan tiang yang dicat. Itu bukan poin utama. Poin utamanya adalah lantai dipasang dengan uburan besar yang jelas-jelas terbuat dari giok berkualitas tertinggi. Menjejakinya, Lin Xiao bahkan bisa merasakan kehangatan samar meresap ke telapak kakinya. Manik-manik yang menggantung pada gorden yang digunakan untuk mempartisi ruangan seluruhnya terbuat dari emas padat. Disusun di sekitar berbagai perabot kayu yang tidak bisa ia namai, tetapi mengeluarkan aroma segar yang terasa sangat mahal. Atap sepenuhnya ditutup dengan piringan batu roh fluorescent yang dihiasi mutiara bercahaya. Dan di dalam tripod dupa yang terbuat dari logam tak dikenal di sisi ruangan, sebatang kayu agarwood yang lebih tebal dari kepalanya sedang terbakar. Yang paling penting, ada tempat tidur di bagian paling belakang. Meskipun Lin Xiao sangat penasaran mengapa seorang kultivator Nascent Soul perlu tidur, itu tidak penting. Yang penting adalah tempat tidur ini sangat halus dibuat, dan terlihat seperti diukir dari satu potongan kayu hitam besar. Dan meskipun pengalaman terbatas, ia benar-benar mengenali kayu hitam ini. Apakah ini tidak sama persis dengan Soul Nourishing Wood yang pernah ia berikan sebelumnya?! Jadi orang ini benar-benar mengambil sepotong Soul Nourishing Wood yang sangat besar hanya untuk mengukir sebuah tempat tidur! Sangat boros! Teringat saat ia mengeluarkan potongan Soul Nourishing Wood miliknya sendiri, orang ini bahkan terlihat sedikit kagum. Namun di sini, ia begitu kaya raya menggunakan potongan kayu yang puluhan kali lebih besar hanya untuk membuat tempat tidur! Sebentar, satu pikiran saja yang melintas di pikiran Lin Xiao: kembali dan menuntut potongan Soul Nourishing Wood-nya kembali dari Senior Liao. Dengan sekilas, semua hal di ruangan menekankan satu kata: mahal! Pondok gua ini, menggabungkan materi manusia dan abadi, menyerang indranya dengan aura tebal kemewahan baru. Lin Xiao melihat ke Liontin Soul Nourishing di sampingnya. Ia benar-benar ingin menanyakan pada Liao Pantu: apakah menanam keabadian biasanya menekankan terlepas dari keinginan duniawi? Mengapa... Mungkin ekspresi Lin Xiao terlalu jelas. Meskipun ia tidak mengatakannya, Liao Pantu bisa membaca pikirannya. Dari dalam liontin giok, ia mendengus dingin dan berkata: Hanya karena aku menanam keabadian berarti aku tidak bisa memiliki selera estetika sendiri? Ini terlihat bagus! Selain itu, aku bersusah payah mendapatkan tempat tidur itu. Aku menanam Mantra Pemurnian Jiwa, dan kayu Soul Nourishing ini sangat bermanfaat untuk kultivasi aku. Hentikan pandanganmu terhadapku seperti aku boros menghabiskan harta berharga! Melihatnya bertindak demikian benar dan percaya diri, Lin Xiao memberi Oh tanpa emosi dan berbalik untuk melanjutkan tur pondok gua. Jika ruangan ini dibongkar dan ditukar dengan uang dan persediaan di dunia manusia, kemungkinan bisa memberi makan seluruh negara. Liao Pantu tidak memedulikannya lagi. Memperpanjang tubuh jiwa dari Liontin Soul Nourishing, ia berjalan langsung ke tempat tidur yang hilang dan berbaring. Sedikit kepuasan terlepas dari bibirnya: Sudah puluhan tahun. Benar-benar tidak ada tempat yang senyaman sarangku sendiri. Meskipun ia absen selama beberapa dekade, tidak satu pun debu yang terlihat di seluruh pondok gua. Setelah selesai tur, Lin Xiao duduk di sebuah kursi di dekatnya. Mungkin karena Liao Pantu mendirikan Formasi Pengumpul Roh di sini, energi roh di pondok gua ini padat sekali—bahkan lebih dari ruangan kultivasi sekte mereka. Lin Xiao merasa bahwa kecepatan fungsi kultivasi idle di tubuhnya tampak meningkat signifikan. Ia berpikir tentang itu. Mungkin tidak hanya karena pondok gua Senior Liao teratur dengan baik; mungkin juga berhubungan dengan fakta bahwa mereka sekarang berada di dunia kultivasi. Bagaimanapun, Senior Liao pernah bilang padanya bahwa konsentrasi energi roh di dunia kultivasi jauh lebih besar dari dunia manusia. Oleh karena itu, sekte-sekte kultivasi di dunia manusia hanya faksi kecil yang tidak berperingkat. Menahan dorongan untuk duduk silah dan mulai menanam, Lin Xiao melihat Liao Pantu yang beristirahat di tempat tidur dengan mata tertutup, dan bertanya: Senior, di mana tempat pengumpulan terdekat untuk kultivator? Namun, Liao Pantu hanya melambaikan tangan dengan ekspresi malas dan berkata: Anak, tidak perlu terburu-buru menjelajahi dunia kultivasi. Istirahat sebentar dulu. Kamu baru berusia dua belas tahun sekarang. Mengapa kamu selalu tergesa-gesa sepanjang hari, seolah-olah dikejar hantu? Aku tinggal di sekte sepanjang hari dan jarang melihatmu. Ayo tidur bersamaku. Aku bersusah payah mendapatkan tempat tidur gantung ini dari kayu Soul Nourishing raksasa. Tidur di atasnya akan memberi manfaat besar untuk kultivator Fondasi kecil seperti kamu. Setelah berkata demikian, ia mengabaikan Lin Xiao, menutup mata, dan tertidur. Melihat ini, Lin Xiao tidak punya pilihan selain mengikuti keinginan tuannya. Ia berjalan ke tempat tidur dan berbaring juga. Ia sedikit penasaran tentang manfaat sebenarnya dari tempat tidur ini, yang Senior Liao klaim sangat bagus untuknya. Dari jauh, tempat tidur tidak terlihat sebesar itu, tapi saat Lin Xiao mendekat, ia menyadari bahwa itu absurdly besar. Secara visual, sekitar lima meter panjang dan tiga meter lebar. Ia merasa bisa dengan santai berguling-guling di atasnya. Segera setelah berbaring, ia merasa kesadarannya ilahi dilingkupi dan di Lembut oleh kekuatan yang tak terdeskripsikan. Seperti seekor ikan kecil yang hanya pernah mengetahui teluk dangkal di bawah matahari terik dan tidak pernah merasakan kenyamanan sejati, tiba-tiba dilepaskan ke kolam dalam dan sejasa—kenyamanan sedalam itu membuat seseorang menghela nafas. Tanpa sadar, Lin Xiao, yang saat ini sedikit membutuhkan tidur, akhirnya tertidur dalam. Namun, mereka gagal menyadari bahwa di luar pondok gua, di pintu masuk formasi yang Liao Pantu dirikan dulu, tiga kultivator Qi Condensation sedang meneliti sesuatu. Salah satu kultivator memegang kompas di tangan, bergumam sendiri dan menghitung dengan jari sementara menyelaraskannya dengan lingkungan. Dan dua yang lainnya jelas mulai tidak sabar dan mendorongnya dengan keras:
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Seeing this, Lin Xiao hurriedly stepped onto it, afraid that the array would activate immediately and leave him behind.
The Lingxian Sect members surrounding the Qiankun Transfer Array saw a flash of white light from within the array just two breaths after Lin Xiao stepped in. In the next instant, the array disk resting on the ground, along with Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu, vanished from the spot.
Lin Xiao only felt himself enveloped by a white light before being sucked in by an incredibly strong force. An intense sense of weightlessness instantly swept over his entire body, and his consciousness spun in a momentary bout of dizziness.
It seemed like a long time had passed, yet also like a mere instant. The weightlessness suddenly vanished, replaced by the solid, reassuring feeling of his feet touching the ground.
Sensing the white light around him fading, he slowly opened his eyes, which he had unknowingly squeezed shut.
At some point, Liao Pantu had retreated into the Soul Nourishing Pendant. Now, only the pitch-black jade pendant floated beside Lin Xiao.
The Qiankun Transfer Disk had also been teleported over with them and was currently lying quietly on the ground.
Seeing Lin Xiao open his eyes, Liao Pantu said to him, This is a cave dwelling I set up outside the sect in the past. I cast many concealment spells over it, and no one knows about it. You can use this place as a foothold.
Lin Xiao looked around, almost blinded by the sheer extravagance of the cave dwelling before him.
Although it was called a cave dwelling, Lin Xiao would rather call it a palace.
Because the decor was truly too magnificent and opulent!
Even though a rough glance suggested the entire cave dwelling was only about five hundred square meters—far from the size of a palace—everywhere the eye could see was filled with carved beams and painted pillars.
That wasn't the main point.
The main point was that the floor was paved with massive tiles made of what was clearly top-quality jade. Stepping on it, Lin Xiao could even feel a faint warmth seeping into the soles of his feet.
The beads hanging on the curtains used to partition the space were entirely made of solid gold. Arranged all around were various types of wooden furniture he couldn't name, but they exuded a refreshing fragrance that smelled incredibly expensive.
The ceiling was completely covered in fluorescent spirit stone slabs inlaid with luminous pearls.
And inside an incense tripod made of an unknown metal beside the room, a stick of agarwood thicker than his head was burning.
Most importantly, there was the bed at the very back. Although Lin Xiao was very curious as to why a Nascent Soul cultivator would even need to sleep, that wasn't important.
What was important was that this bed was an exquisitely crafted canopy bed, and it looked as though it had been carved from a single massive piece of black wood. And despite his limited experience, he actually recognized this black wood.
Wasn't this exactly the same as the Soul Nourishing Wood he had given away before?!
So this guy actually took such a massive piece of Soul Nourishing Wood just to carve a bed!
It was simply too extravagant! Thinking back to when he had taken out his own piece of Soul Nourishing Wood, this person had even looked a bit surprised.
Yet here, he was so filthy rich that he used a piece of wood dozens of times larger just to make a bed!
For a moment, only one thought crossed Lin Xiao's mind: go back and demand his piece of Soul Nourishing Wood back from Senior Liao.
With just a glance, everything in the room emphasized a single word: expensive!
This cave dwelling, combining both mortal and immortal materials, assaulted his senses with a thick aura of nouveau riche ostentation.
Lin Xiao glanced at the Soul Nourishing Pendant beside him. He really wanted to ask Liao Pantu: doesn't cultivating immortality usually emphasize being detached from worldly desires? Why...
Perhaps Lin Xiao's expression was too obvious. Even though he didn't voice his question, Liao Pantu managed to read his mind. From within the jade pendant, he gave a cold snort and said:
Just because I cultivate immortality means I can't have my own aesthetic tastes? It looks good this way!
Besides, I went to great lengths to get that bed. I cultivate the Soul Refining Incantation, and this Soul Nourishing Wood is of great benefit to my cultivation. Stop looking at me like I'm recklessly wasting precious treasures!
Seeing him act so righteous and confident, Lin Xiao gave an emotionless Oh and turned around to continue touring the cave dwelling.
If this room were dismantled and exchanged for money and provisions in the mortal realm, it could probably feed an entire country.
Liao Pantu paid him no more mind. Extending his soul body out from the Soul Nourishing Pendant, he walked straight over to his long-lost bed and lay down. A sigh of satisfaction escaped his lips:
It's been decades. There's truly no place as comfortable as my own nest.
Despite his absence of several decades, not a single speck of dust could be seen in the entire cave dwelling.
After finishing his tour, Lin Xiao sat down in a nearby chair.
Perhaps because Liao Pantu had set up a Spirit Gathering Array here, the spiritual energy in this cave dwelling was incredibly dense—even more so than in the cultivation rooms of their sect.
Lin Xiao felt that the speed of the idle cultivation function within his body seemed to have sped up significantly.
He thought about it. Perhaps it wasn't just because Senior Liao's cave dwelling was well-arranged; it might also have to do with the fact that they were now located within the cultivation world.
After all, Senior Liao had told him before that the spiritual energy concentration in the cultivation world was far greater than that in the mortal realm.
Therefore, those cultivation sects in the mortal realm were just unrated, minor factions.
Resisting the urge to sit cross-legged on the spot and start cultivating, Lin Xiao looked at Liao Pantu, who was resting on the bed with his eyes closed, and asked:
Senior, where is the nearest gathering place for cultivators?
However, Liao Pantu simply waved at him with a lazy expression and said:
Kid, there's no rush to explore the cultivation world. Rest for a bit first. You're only twelve years old right now. Why are you always rushing around doing this and that all day, as if a ghost is chasing you? I stay in the sect all day and hardly ever see you.
Come have a good sleep with me. I went to great lengths to get this canopy bed made of giant Soul Nourishing Wood. Sleeping on it will bring great benefits to a little Foundation Establishment cultivator like you.
Having said that, he ignored Lin Xiao, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao had no choice but to follow his host's wishes. He walked over to the bed and lay down as well.
He was a little curious about exactly what benefits this bed, which Senior Liao claimed was so good for him, actually held.
From a distance, the bed didn't seem that large, but when Lin Xiao got close, he realized it was absurdly huge. Visually, it was about five meters long and three meters wide. He felt like he could casually do somersaults on it.
As soon as he lay down, he felt his divine sense enveloped and gently soothed by an indescribable power. It was like a little fish, which had only ever known a shallow bay under the scorching sun and had never experienced true comfort, suddenly being released into a cool, deep pool—a comfort so profound it made one sigh.
Unknowingly, Lin Xiao, who currently had little need for sleep, actually fell into a deep slumber.
However, they failed to notice that outside the cave dwelling, at the entrance of the array Liao Pantu had set up long ago, three Qi Condensation cultivators were currently studying something.
One of the cultivators held a compass in his hand, muttering to himself and counting on his fingers while aligning it with the surroundings.
And the other two were clearly getting a bit impatient and urged him aloud:
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