I Just Wanted to Live, but I Somehow Became Better Than the Main Character

“Your art skills have improved again from yesterday.”

In the examination house, Ye Yong was in between the painting beauties.

Even though Hua Ming and Hua Xin were both created by Mu Qing Yin, they didn’t look similar at all and had very different personalities.

Hua Ming was passionate like fire, while Hua Xin was gentle like water. Both of them were graceful and sexy, and their voices were so heavenly that just listening to them would make people relax.

If a normal man stayed there, he wouldn’t be able to stay focused for long.

So how could Ye Yong interact with them normally and naturally? Was Ye Yong not a normal man? No, the reason he could do so was because his divine soul and willpower were far stronger than cultivators with similar cultivation and because the painting beauties did not try to use their terrifying ability that could influence cultivators’ divine souls.

So why did Ye Yong come to discuss painting techniques with the painting beauties whom he couldn’t do anything with? Well, that was because Ye Yong wanted to get closer to Mu Qing Yin through them. He knew that whenever he came over, Mu Qing Yin would pay attention to him and learn about his character and personality through the painting beauties.

“Lil bro drew so well, big sis wants to give you some rewards.” Hua Ming said, pressing her body on Ye Yong. Although she was a “soul”, physical contact with her was still possible. She could even draw and write with a pen, though there was a time limit, as interacting with physical objects with a “soul” body consumed soul power.

“That’s right. Lil bro Ye, how about letting big sis give you some rewards?” Hua Xin copied Hua Ming, putting herself on Ye Yong and whispered into his ears, trying to seduce him.

“Thank you for your offer, big sis. I wholeheartedly appreciate it. However, I have only just started cultivating, and there is still a long way for me to go. If I indulge in big sis’s kindness and warmth right now, it would affect my progress in cultivation.”

As if! If I have a daoist couple, I would dual cultivate with my daoist couple every day. After all, the system store does have very high grade dual cultivation arts. As a bookworm, I do want to experience what dual cultivation is like. Is it really that amazing? I mean, you can get stronger and enjoy yourself at the same time; is there anything that can be better than that? However, since I’m currently only in the beginning stages of the novel, I have to pay attention to maintaining my character so I don’t expose my true nature.

Hearing Ye Yong’s answer, satisfaction flashed through both painting beauties’ eyes. They stopped teasing and seducing Ye Yong and started to point out the mistakes in his art. They are painting souls, and Mu Qing Yin was an Ascension Realm powerhouse, so it wasn’t difficult for them to teach Ye Yong.

Ye Yong didn’t actually need to be taught. He could simply spend 200k transcend points to buy the [Dao of Painting], which would allow him to immediately comprehend the Dao and gain the knowledge that saints have, but then he would be a monster. If Mu Qing Yin couldn’t teach him, then would he be teaching her instead?

One must show off in moderation as showing off too much would be counterproductive. Besides, if my art skills continuously improved, little by little, Mu Qing Yin would see this improvement, and her favorability of me will subconsciously increase. This was partially why Ye Yong had been at the examination house for the past few days.

“Thanks for the teachings, big sis,” Ye Yong respectfully thanked the painting beauties after they guided him. He didn’t disrespect them just because they weren’t “living”, which made the painting beauties very happy.

For some reason, the painting beauties felt the urge to tease Ye Yong again. They wanted to do it, even without Mu Qing Yin’s instructions this time. Maybe it was because of the mysterious and marvelous aura they felt from Ye Yong when they got close to him. That aura seems to speed up our process of becoming specters.

“Lil br-” Before they could say anything, Ye Yong took out the glittering transmission stone, said something, and stood up to bid farewell to them.

“Once again, thank you for your guidance today. I’ve been visiting continuously the past few days, but I hope I wasn’t being a bother to you two.”

“You weren’t.”

“You can come over often.”

“Then please excuse me when I come to visit in the future.”

“Of course.”

“You’re always welcome.”

Hua Ming and Hua Xin saw Ye Yong off. After Ye Yong left, they looked at each other and returned to their own paintings. The house became silent, with not a trace of the previous cheerful atmosphere.

Mu Qing Yin, who was in the Hall Master’s cave, noticed the painting beauties’ abnormalities and murmured, “Looks like lil br- Ye Yong’s interactions with them over the past few days had caused their consciousness and sense of self to strengthen, making them more and more like real people and not just objects. It’s a pity that their speed of absorbing spiritual energy is too slow, so they can’t really become living things.”

…

Before he walked back to his residence, Ye Yong bought some spiritual medicine and spiritual meat from the system store, many of which could nourish the divine soul. Qin Shi Meng had been in enlightenment for 4 days, so even if she was tired physically, she would still be mentally tired. If she ate food that could nourish the divine soul now, not only would she be better able to understand what she learned during her enlightenment, but she would also be able to strengthen her divine soul.

The Nascent Soul Realm was a separation point. For cultivators, their divine souls were very important. Once a cultivator reached the Nascent Soul Realm, they had to both try to comprehend the Dao and develop their soul power, and both of these were related to their divine souls. There was no harm in nourishing the divine soul in advance.

For the sake of his future thighs and wife, Ye Yong was very attentive and considerate for Qin Shi Meng.

Now that he had the ingredients, Ye Yong just needed to cook the food. Well, he didn’t need to actually go in the kitchen or even know anything about cooking, as he purchased the [Automatic Cooking System] from the system store.

Just like the [Idle Automatic Cultivation Art Cultivating System], it had an elementary level, an intermediate level, and a high level system. The elementary level system could cook ingredients up to rank 3, the intermediate level system could cook ingredients up to rank 6, and the high level system could cook ingredients up to rank 9.

The highest rank ingredient in this world was only rank 9, and if Ye Yong goes to the immortal world, then the cooking system could break through its worldly limits and be able to make immortal-rank food.

Ye Yong didn’t just buy this system for Qin Shi Meng. He was getting sick from downing so many pills, so he thought of occasionally eating spiritual food in place of pills.

With the same materials, a beyond-grade spiritual food had the same effect as a beyond-grade pill. However, spiritual food was food, so cultivators would get full from eating it, so it was impossible to consume large quantities of spiritual food in a short time, unlike with pills.

The system also sold the [Automatic Alchemy System], which would automatically make pills by having ingredients thrown into it. It was insane. However, just having the system was not enough. They also needed a high-rank fire and a high-rank furnace to be able to create high-ranked pills. Well, it wasn’t impossible to create high-rank pills with low-rank furnaces or low-rank fires, but there was a high probability of failure, and even if it was successful, the pills made would only be low-grade pills.

The same applied to the [Automatic Cooking System]. It required a high-rank fire and a high-rank pot.

And that still wasn’t enough. They also required pill and food recipes to be able to make them. After all, unlike humans, a system wasn’t creative and didn’t know how to “create” stuff.

Simply put, Ye Yong needed a ton of transcend points.

Ye Yong chose not to buy the [Automatic Alchemy System] just yet as he was currently only in the Foundation Establishment Realm, so he wasn’t losing much from directly buying beyond-grade pills from the system store.

The [Automatic Cooking System] was a different story. Even if Ye Yong didn’t eat, he needed to feed Wu Xue, as martial cultivators couldn’t live without food in the beginning. In fact, they had to eat a lot. Only when they reached the Organ Refinement Realm and refined their organs could they live without eating for a long time, but they still need to eat occasionally. After all, martial cultivators used energy qi, not spiritual energy. Spiritual energy could replace food as fuel and nourishment for cultivators’ bodies, but not energy qi. It could at most strengthen the bodies of martial cultivators.

Ye Yong spent a total of 250k transcend points on a high-rank, high-rank pot, and [High Level Automatic Cooking System]. He was a bit pained by the amount of transcend points he had to spend, but it was better for him to buy the high level system now instead of buying the intermediate level system now and buying the high level in the future. If he did that, he would have spent 50k extra transcend points for no reason.

After that, he spent 20k transcend points to buy medicinal food knowledge and elementary and intermediate recommended recipe sets, which included hundreds of recipes for rank 1 to 6 spiritual food.

Having spent a total of 270k transcend points, Ye Yong became broke again and now only had 50k transcend points left. However, since he didn’t have to worry about spiritual food for quite a while in the future, he felt that it was worth it.

It took time for the system to cook, so after selecting the spiritual he wanted the system to cook, Ye Yong threw all the ingredients into the system and then sat down at a stream near the examination room and cultivated his divine art.

About half an hour later, two rank 3 divine soul nourishment spiritual food was completed, along with three rank 1 spiritual food that Wu Xue and Lil Huan could eat. Ye Yong got on his flying artifact and returned to his residence.

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