Chapter Twelve: My Lord, Forgive Me

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At dawn, a ray of sunlight pierced the lattice window and fell across Lin Fan’s face.

His consciousness gradually cleared.

He sensed that his five senses had become far sharper than before.

This was probably one of the changes brought about by reaching the first level of Qi Refinement.

He could clearly sense Bai Xiyue standing outside the bedroom with six maids, all of them watching him.

“Young Master is so handsome. He looks as though he stepped right out of a painting.”

“Handsome is only part of it. Young Master’s talent is one in ten thousand! He only received the cultivation technique yesterday, yet he reached the first level of Qi Refinement in a single night. He’s practically a monster!”

“Could Young Master be the legendary Heavenly Spirit Root?”

“Shh, keep your voice down. Don’t wake him.”

Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes, and his vision gradually came into focus.

Bai Xiyue stood quietly outside the door, leading the six maids he had taken in the day before.

Seeing that he was awake, all seven bowed in unison.

“Young Master is awake.”

Only then did Lin Fan notice that each of them was holding something.

Su Yun carried a basin of hot water. A few pink flower petals floated amid the rising steam, releasing a faint fragrance.

Sophie held an exquisitely embroidered towel.

The others carried either fresh robes or shoes, socks, belts, and various other necessities. Everything had been prepared.

What a display…

Lin Fan sighed inwardly. This treatment was even more extravagant than the way emperors were dressed after waking up in the movies!

“Attend to Young Master as he changes,” Bai Xiyue instructed softly.

As soon as she spoke, the maids, dressed in colorful silk skirts, filed into the room.

Although Lin Fan felt somewhat uncomfortable, he allowed them to do as they pleased.

After all, this was his first time experiencing the feeling of being waited on by others.

He had never enjoyed such treatment in his former life.

He had to admit, it felt rather pleasant.

After washing up and dressing, he was escorted to the dining hall.

The table was covered with an array of exquisite breakfast dishes.

Su Yun brought over a small covered stew pot. When she lifted the lid, a rich milky aroma immediately filled the room.

“Young Master, this is bird’s-nest soup I prepared myself,” she said sweetly. “I added deer milk. Please give it a try!”

Sophie also presented an elegant food box.

“Young Master, these are pastries I made,” she said shyly. “I added several rare spiritual ingredients…”

And so it went.

Lin Fan sampled everything one by one.

The flavor was indeed excellent.

After breakfast—

“Young Master, now that you’ve finished eating, we’ve prepared a performance for your entertainment!” Su Yun announced brightly, with a hint of self-satisfaction in her voice.

“We discussed it last night and decided to combine each of our specialties…”

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She blinked eagerly at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan wanted to watch as well. After all, who didn’t enjoy listening to songs in a pleasure house or appreciating flowers and jade beauties?

But Lin Fan knew that this was not yet the time for indulgence.

He had to improve his cultivation as quickly as possible and free himself from the Su family’s control.

For now, these women would only slow down his cultivation.

Thus, he shook his head, his expression solemn.

“The path of immortality requires perseverance. We cultivators must contend with Heaven and struggle against Earth.”

His tone was grave, utterly unlike his usual manner.

“Although your talents are not particularly high, where there is a will, there is a way.”

“As long as you cultivate diligently, attaining the Great Dao is not impossible!”

His gaze swept over the seven women, carrying a hint of encouragement.

“So, from this moment onward, you must all cultivate properly!”

The seven women were stunned.

They exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes filled with confusion.

Bai Xiyue, in particular, looked utterly lost.

Lin Fan’s sudden speech was rather like visiting Massage Technician Number Thirty-Six and encouraging her to stop washing people’s feet and pursue her dreams instead. Anyone would probably take him for a lunatic.

That was exactly how he seemed to the women at that moment.

“Young Master… this…”

Bai Xiyue was briefly rendered speechless. She could not fathom what Lin Fan was thinking.

After all, hadn’t Lin Fan asked her master for so many maids precisely for his own amusement?

Why was he suddenly urging them to cultivate?

Lin Fan cleared his throat.

“Do you think Su Xingyue and I brought you here for your beauty, for our own pleasure? Wrong!”

Lin Fan’s expression was righteous and imposing.

“I only thought cultivating was boring, so I brought you here to cultivate alongside me!”

“Although your talents are somewhat lacking, with me here, you need not worry about bottlenecks.”

Lin Fan’s voice suddenly became filled with temptation.

“No bottlenecks…”

He deliberately drew out the words.

At this, the women’s beautiful eyes widened, and their breathing quickened.

What Lin Fan said was true. As long as they did not encounter bottlenecks and continued cultivating diligently, reaching Foundation Establishment would be virtually guaranteed.

They might even have a chance of touching the Golden Core stage!

“I brought you here so that you could grow alongside me! Think about it. Without bottlenecks, we can break through to Foundation Establishment in a few years. In ten or twenty years, the Golden Core stage will no longer be a dream!”

“By then, I’ll take you all traveling across the realm…”

Lin Fan was remarkably skilled at painting grand visions.

The women stared at him, suddenly realizing that they had misunderstood him. They had assumed Lin Fan was a man who lusted after beauty.

They had never imagined that he was a man with lofty ambitions.

“Young Master, are you truly serious?” Su Yun’s voice trembled slightly, clearly filled with excitement.

The others also looked toward him with questioning eyes, their gazes brimming with longing.

Lin Fan nodded.

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“Of course.”

The corners of his lips curved upward.

“However, helping you break through your bottlenecks consumes a certain amount of my energy, so spirit stones are required to replenish it.”

“As for the exact number of spirit stones needed, Little Yue will explain it to you later.”

“Young Master told me before that the higher one’s cultivation, the more difficult it is to break through bottlenecks, and the greater the toll it takes on him.”

“Breaking through to the second level of Qi Refinement requires four spirit stones. The third level requires six spirit stones, and so on.”

“Compared with breaking through a bottleneck, this amount of spirit stones is hardly anything at all!”

Bai Xiyue raised her voice slightly.

“Meeting Young Master is an immense opportunity for all of you, so you must seize it properly!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Fan nodded in satisfaction.

For a moment, all the women felt that they had been too narrow-minded. They had actually misunderstood Young Master.

“Young Master, I shouldn’t have thought that way about you. I’m going to cultivate right now!” Su Yun was the first to lose patience. She sprang to her feet and hurried toward her room.

“We’ll go too!”

The other women also rose one after another. In an instant, the lively voices that had filled the sitting room vanished without a trace.

All of them eagerly returned to their rooms and began cultivating.

As soon as they started, the mechanical system notifications began ringing in Lin Fan’s mind.

[Su Yun is cultivating. Cultivation +1]

[Sophie is cultivating. Cultivation +1]

…

Compared with the rate at which Su Xingyue’s cultivation had previously been fed back to him, their notifications came far less frequently.

When Su Xingyue cultivated, she could practically send him a point of cultivation every so often.

With these six women, however, the intervals were much longer.

Clearly, the higher their cultivation, the greater the amount of cultivation they returned to him.

Fortunately, there were six of them.

Lin Fan could clearly feel the spiritual energy within his body steadily increasing.

The sensation was truly exquisite.

“Little Yue, you should cultivate diligently as well.”

Lin Fan turned toward Bai Xiyue and smiled.

“I know your master assigned you another task, but… I certainly won’t treat you unfairly.”

A trace of nervousness flickered across Bai Xiyue’s face.

As Lin Fan had said, Su Xingyue had sent her to attend to his daily needs, but she had given her another assignment as well.

She was to observe Lin Fan’s every action and report back to her in a timely manner.

“Young Master, I’m sorry. I thought you had asked for so many maids because of… And my master told me to…”

Lin Fan waved his hand.

“You had no choice in the matter. Just report my circumstances to your master as usual.”

It was perfectly normal for Su Xingyue to have Bai Xiyue keep watch over him. Not watching him would have been the truly abnormal thing.

For now, however, Lin Fan was already considering how to win the little girl over.