Chapter 166

For those on the path of cultivation, however, most of their time is spent in meditation. This is especially true for Luo Han, who, as an alchemist, sees her spare time consumed by pill refining; she has neither the time nor the inclination to ponder interpersonal complexities. Only those cultivators who have crawled their way up from the very bottom are truly ruthless, deep, and calculating. Most cultivators like Luo Han live entirely within their comfort zones, which keeps their temperaments relatively simple. It is precisely this simplicity that stirs a faint sense of guilt in Yu Xian. Though he has always been unscrupulous, his conscience occasionally bubbles to the surface. The women around him were all acquired through transactional relationships; even if feelings developed later on, it could not change the nature of how things began. Thus, no matter how many women he had, he never considered himself a scoundrel. Everything between them was an exchange of interests—if one were to suddenly start talking about true love, it would be pushing it a bit too far.