Full Time Servant

Chapter 248 : Ah Li (2)

"That place is quite far from here. If it's not suitable, don't blame me," the girl said weakly. She didn't know if others would be satisfied with this location of hers."It's fine. Walking around is no problem. Along the way, you can introduce your situation. Oh, you don't need to tell me your background, just tell me about your Lion's Power situation," Xiaoyao was afraid the girl would misunderstand and immediately added an explanation.

"My situation is very simple. I've only cultivated to the basic skills level," the girl said weakly.

"How many years have you been cultivating? When did you start? How long do you cultivate each day?" Xiaoyao asked consecutively. He needed to know all these details to deduce some things.

"I started cultivating when I was seven years old. It's been eight years now. The time I cultivate each day varies, when I don't have food, I cultivate more to forget about being hungry. When I have food, I cultivate less. On average, it's probably around three hours," the girl said.

From the girl's words, Xiaoyao obtained some information. First, this girl was fifteen years old. Second, the girl cultivated more likely to make herself forget about being hungry, which meant this girl probably had irregular meals. Well, she was a little beggar after all.

"Eight years, three hours, then why are you still at basic skills? Logically, three to five years should be enough. Are you trying to build a good foundation?" Xiaoyao looked at the girl with some confusion.

"No, I'm not trying to build a good foundation. It's just because I don't have money to buy Lion's Power manuals. I learned the basic skills by secretly watching others. Also, I heard that breaking through basic skills requires a lot of physical energy and needs large amounts of food to supplement it. I can't afford to eat that much..." the girl said somewhat bitterly. Life's pressures kept her stuck at basic skills.

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"From now on, you don't need to worry. Just eat as much as you want. Taking a bit from this little glutton will be enough for you," Xiaoyao patted Chi Chi on his shoulder.hrough...

"Isn't it competing?" A Li didn't care about Xiaoyao's feelings and pointed at Chi Chi.

"..." Xiaoyao fell silent. This was indeed a glutton that would compete for food.

Along the way, Xiaoyao let Chi Chi find its own food while he also hunted some game. Some short-sighted wild beasts appeared before him, and he could only graciously accept them.

After walking for an hour, just as Xiaoyao was about to ask again, he suddenly found the view opening up before him. Finally, they had emerged from this forest into a clearing of considerable size.

This clearing was formed because there was a riverbank and a long waterfall. Although the waterfall's drop wasn't great, it was very long, over a hundred meters. Below the waterfall was a pool over a hundred meters wide that seemed bottomlessly deep, though the water at the edges wasn't very deep. This pool seemed to have appeared suddenly.

This formation was somewhat strange, but Xiaoyao didn't pay attention to this point. After all, nature could form all kinds of miraculous terrain. Like this waterfall, only here did it widen. Further upstream it was just a small river, only about ten meters wide, completely different from here.

Therefore, there was no need to think much about this matter. Existence was reasonable.

"This place is good. We'll choose here. There's even a small wooden cabin, though it's a bit run-down..." Xiaoyao looked around and discovered downstream from the pool there was a small wooden cabin standing on the riverbank. It's just that this cabin was a bit crooked and askew, obviously built by someone who didn't understand construction.

"..., I built that to block wind and rain..." A Li said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Well, this is actually not bad. We'll organize things here a bit first and eat something. As for this cabin, I'll handle it later. You just focus on cultivating your Lion's Power," Xiaoyao said.

"Is this okay?" A Li was somewhat confused. She was supposedly recruited by Xiaoyao, but now Xiaoyao would handle those miscellaneous tasks while she just cultivated. This made her feel uncomfortable.

"Your task is just to cultivate. My purpose for you is cultivation. However, I need to check your progress. When you're cultivating, I might input true qi to examine your condition," Xiaoyao said.

"Mm, I understand. You can examine as you wish." A Li didn't mind. Although this was a major taboo for martial artists, they wouldn't let anyone's qi enter their body for examination, Xiaoyao's purpose was exactly this. This was originally an agreed-upon matter, so A Li naturally wouldn't object.

At the same time, A Li felt that with her cultivation so low, whether others examined her or not didn't have any special meaning.

Soon Xiaoyao built a sturdy stove on the riverbank covered with pebbles. It was sturdy because they wouldn't be here for just a day or two, this stove would be used continuously.

Next came what surprised A Li. She saw Xiaoyao somehow produce a large pot from nowhere, somehow produce a set of cooking utensils from nowhere, and then some seasonings. Where were all these things stored?

A Li was very suspicious. Although Xiaoyao took everything from his backpack, could this backpack really hold so many things?

For this reason, A Li secretly looked at Xiaoyao's backpack when he had put it on the ground and gone to wash things.

Inside this backpack, A Li discovered there were still lots of things, as if the previous items hadn't actually been taken from inside.

(End of Chapter)