Su Xi was quick with her hands and soon prepared another table of food. The rich aroma of the dry-mixed spicy and hot soup instantly made Tian Gang Zhenren's saliva glands accelerate.
"This." Su Xi intended to introduce the food, but found that Tian Gang Zhenren had already picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
His ravenous appetite made it hard to believe he had just eaten so much.
"Alas." Su Xi sighed and began to eat as well.
For her, talking seemed like a superfluous act now. The more she ate, the more her cultivation would increase.
As Su Xi consumed the food, the celestial talismans in her mind began to spin again. Simultaneously, a faint golden light emanated from the dark cover of the book.
Unfortunately, Su Xi was eating and completely oblivious to the activity in her mind.
Tian Gang Zhenren sensed a flicker of fluctuation but paid it no mind. The only thing that could stir his emotions now was the spicy and hot soup before him.
"Hmph!"
As the last morsel was swallowed, a look of satisfaction spread across Su Xi's face.
After eating several meals today, she found her cultivation was already close to the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment realm.
Under normal circumstances, even with her exceptional talent, it would have taken at least several days to reach the middle stage of Foundation Establishment so quickly. Now, just a few meals had earned her so much.
"It is late today, we will continue tomorrow." Su Xi knew the principle of not overdoing things and did not choose to rush her progress.
While eating was enjoyable, she also understood it placed a significant burden on her body. Continuously eating would truly harm her health.
Tian Gang Zhenren, upon hearing Su Xi's words, glanced at her and said, "Then you will sleep here tonight, and continue making food tomorrow."
With that, he turned and returned to his room.
Su Xi's pretty face darkened upon hearing Tian Gang Zhenren's words, and she grumbled inwardly.
"Not a man at all."
However, considering Tian Gang Zhenren's status as her ancestor, she could only choose to endure.
If she couldn't defeat him, she could only submit.
As a cultivator, where she slept made little difference.
As Su Xi sat on a chair, preparing to rest, she suddenly felt a heavy thud in her head, as if someone was hammering it with a iron hammer.
Caught off guard, she collapsed to the ground, falling unconscious.
Tian Gang Zhenren walked in with a blanket, looked at Su Xi sleeping on the floor, and silently retreated.
This cook seemed even tougher than him, sleeping soundly on the floor without even needing a blanket.
Su Xi was unaware of Tian Gang Zhenren's grumbling. At this moment, she had been pulled before the ancient book in her mind. Many of the characters that were previously incomprehensible were now understandable.
Not only that, but before she could feel happy, her expression instantly turned grim. It was like eating something unpleasant, unable to spit it out or swallow it.
The celestial talismans recorded that anyone who read the text and could not cultivate it to the first level within a month would be cursed by the celestial talismans and never be reincarnated.
Although she didn't know if the contents of the celestial talismans were true, given how strange they were, she already believed seven or eight parts of it. If she couldn't cultivate it well, she would truly lose her life.
Su Xi felt like crying at this forced situation.
In her lifetime, from the intergalactic era to this small world, this was the first time anyone had forced her to do something. This feeling was truly humiliating.
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The cultivation technique recorded on the celestial talismans could only be practiced after reaching the Foundation Establishment realm. Although the book stated that cultivating the first level could move mountains and fill seas.
However, Su Xi's face held only sighs, no trace of joy.
It wasn't that she didn't believe in the power of the celestial talismans, but rather that she didn't believe she could master it within a month. After all, just from the contents of the first level recorded on the celestial talismans, she had no idea what was written.
She recognized every word, but when strung together, she couldn't understand them at all.
At this moment, she suddenly sympathized with the suffering of previous academic failures.
After studying for an entire night alone, Su Xi only managed to understand one sentence. Looking at the remaining three full pages of the first-level cultivation method, she felt like crying.
It would have been better to just give her a swift end rather than let her suffer.
Mentally cursing the author of the celestial talismans, Su Xi suddenly felt a sharp pain in her body, and then the scenery before her eyes changed rapidly. The next moment, she found herself back in the kitchen.
"Ouch." Having slept on the floor all night, as soon as Su Xi's consciousness returned to her body, the ache in her waist and back instantly assaulted her mind.
"Time to eat?" Tian Gang Zhenren, upon hearing Su Xi's groan, instinctively grabbed a bowl and walked in.
Upon entering and discovering Su Xi still asleep, his face instantly fell with disappointment.
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If she wasn't eating, why make noise and give him false hope?
Seeing Tian Gang Zhenren's palpable disappointment, a few black lines appeared on Su Xi's forehead.
"I'm about to die, can you stop thinking about food for a moment? Can you show some concern for your junior?"
Su Xi looked at Tian Gang Zhenren before her. Just as she was about to vent her dissatisfaction, a thought suddenly struck her.
Although she couldn't understand the strange contents of the celestial talismans, Tian Gang Zhenren had lived for so long; he must understand what those peculiar characters on the celestial talismans meant.
Tian Gang Zhenren looked at Su Xi's suddenly changed gaze and couldn't help but take a step back, covering his chest protectively, and asked nervously, "What do you want?"
He was only here to freeload meals, he would absolutely not sell his body.
Su Xi walked towards Tian Gang Zhenren with a smile and said, "Ancestor, I have some questions I'd like you to clarify."
"I don't understand." Tian Gang Zhenren shook his head and flatly refused.
Unfazed by the rejection, Su Xi sighed and said regretfully, "I have a bad habit. If I can't resolve a problem in my heart, I can't properly make food."
Tian Gang Zhenren gave Su Xi a look that clearly said, "I don't believe you for a second," but he quickly gave up.
He had already used a spell to digest the food in his stomach today so he could eat more. Now he was so hungry his back was against his stomach, almost at his limit.
"What do you want to ask?" Tian Gang Zhenren felt that as long as Su Xi didn't ask private questions like her height or age, he could answer them.
Seeing Tian Gang Zhenren back down, Su Xi revealed a smile and recited a few sentences from the celestial talismans, "Tian Xuan Di Fang, Ming Gui You Chang. Ju Mu Yi Tian Shang, Qiao Shou Pan Qing Shang."
"What?" Tian Gang Zhenren's eyes widened instantly upon hearing Su Xi's words. Why did these sentences sound so familiar, as if he had heard them somewhere before.
Seeing the astonished expression on Tian Gang Zhenren's face, Su Xi asked with some disappointment, "Don't you know either?"
Tian Gang Zhenren shook his head, looking somewhat disdainful, "You're bothered by these questions?"
Su Xi, "..."
Why did she suddenly have the urge to drug Tian Gang Zhenren?