After transmigrating, I cultivated immortality by smelling the scent.

Chapter 22 A life-saving grace should be repaid with one's body

"Beauty saves the hero? Look at you, you're clearly a coward!" Li Xinyan joked.

Ye Xiaobai looked at his disheveled appearance and indeed looked like a defeated bear.

“Senior Sister Li is right, but I should repay this life-saving grace with my body,” Ye Xiaobai said with a smile.

"No, no, no, just make me a few good meals!" Li Xinyan quickly waved her hand and said.

Seeing Ye Xiaobai sway as he stood up, he quickly went over to lend a hand and supported Ye Xiaobai's arm.

Hearing Li Xinyan's words, Ye Xiaobai felt extremely disappointed, but when he felt the warmth from his arm, he immediately pretended that he was seriously injured and leaned his head directly against Li Xinyan.

"Ouch!" Ye Xiaobai pretended to be in pain.

After feeling Ye Xiaobai's head, Li Xinyan immediately tossed it aside and said with a hint of anger, "Good heavens, I came here to save you out of kindness, and you're trying to take advantage of me."

"Senior sister, that's not it, I'm just too badly injured!" Ye Xiaobai immediately retorted, and without Li Xinyan's support, he pretended to be unable to stand and swayed from side to side.

Seeing Ye Xiaobai swaying and unable to stand steadily, Li Xinyan couldn't bear it and went over to help Ye Xiaobai.

Ye Xiaobai, ever the mischievous one, still mustered the courage to ask, "Senior Sister, how did you get here? Did you sense I was in danger?"

"Get lost! I just wanted to grab a bite at Xiaoyao Restaurant this morning, it was just on my way, what do you mean by telepathy?" Li Xinyan retorted immediately.

"What a coincidence! That must be fate!"

"..."

Li Xinyan looked disdainful, but seeing Ye Xiaobai constantly leaning against her, she immediately threatened, "If you don't stand properly, I'll throw you aside."

"Senior sister, I'm really injured, and I'm afraid I won't be able to cook today," Ye Xiaobai blurted out.

"Alright! This is the last time!" Li Xinyan had been worn down to no end.

"Long live Senior Sister!" Ye Xiaobai cheered happily, raising her hand without realizing that she was standing there steadily.

When Li Xinyan saw Ye Xiaobai standing there unharmed, she finally realized that she had been deceived by Ye Xiaobai.

Seeing the fiery look in Li Xinyan's eyes, Ye Xiaobai suddenly realized that he had forgotten to pretend, so he quickly put on an act again and tried to lean on Li Xinyan.

"You still want to lie to me!" Li Xinyan said angrily, and then reached out to hit Ye Xiaobai.

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!" Ye Xiaobai said as he ran towards Xiaoyao Restaurant.

Before long, Ye Xiaobai and Li Xinyan arrived at Xiaoyao Restaurant.

Li Minghan checked the time and realized that Ye Xiaobai hadn't arrived by then, so he was worried that something might have happened to Ye Xiaobai on the way.

Just then, seeing Li Xinyan chasing and hitting Ye Xiaobai, whose clothes were tattered and stained with blood, Li Minghan immediately scolded Li Xinyan, "Xinyan, what are you doing? You've beaten my junior nephew Ye like this!"

"Hmph!" Li Xinyan didn't explain anything and stormed into Xiaoyao Restaurant.

Li Minghan looked puzzled and asked, "Hmm?" He then looked at Ye Xiaobai and asked, "Junior Nephew Ye, what's going on?"

Li Xiaobai recounted in detail the attack she suffered that morning, while Ye Xiaobai gave a brief account of Li Xinyan's situation.

Upon hearing that Ye Xiaobai had been attacked, Li Minghan was shocked and asked, "Junior Nephew Ye, are you alright?"

"It's alright, but we can take this opportunity to rest for a day?"

"What? Take a day off? Our Xiaoyao Restaurant is really popular lately. Won't taking a day off affect our future business?"

"No, on the one hand, everyone has been working very hard these past few days, so it's good for them to take a break; on the other hand, if customers can't enjoy our food for a while, they'll definitely be even more enthusiastic when we reopen," Ye Xiaobai chuckled.

"Playing hard to get? Casting a long line to catch a big fish?"

"Hahaha"

……

Inside Xiaoyao Restaurant.

Ye Xiaobai and Sun Tiexin still prepared a sumptuous breakfast for everyone. Li Minghan also announced that the business would be closed for a day so that everyone could get some rest.

"Thank you, Manager Li!" All the employees thanked Li Minghan for giving them a day off, as they had all been incredibly busy lately.

Ye Xiaobai walked over to Li Xinyan, holding the fried dumplings he had made himself, and said with a smile, "Senior sister, these fried dumplings taste really good, would you like to try some?"

"Hmph!" Li Xinyan completely ignored Ye Xiaobai and went to Li Minghan's side with the food.

Ye Xiaobai looked embarrassed and could only find another opportunity to talk to Li Xinyan.

After everyone finished eating, they left happily. Li Minghan specifically told Ye Xiaobai to be careful when going out and left a communication talisman so that he could contact him directly if needed.

Ye Xiaobai didn't stand on ceremony and also took out some spirit stones in advance, intending to buy some spirit talismans for self-defense.

Li Minghan didn't say anything, and he gave the spirit stones very generously. He also said that he would report Ye Xiaobai's attack to the market administrators and ask them to strengthen patrols in the market to ensure the safety of the merchants.

Ye Xiaobai took the spirit stones, bought some spirit talismans, and went back to cultivate. After this attack, Ye Xiaobai once again felt that his cultivation level was too low and he needed to improve it as soon as possible. He also needed to learn some new cultivation techniques, as he currently lacked offensive methods.

Ye Xiaobai planned to exchange for an offensive cultivation technique at the sect once he reached the fifth level of Qi Refining. However, he had too few contribution points and also had to do quests, which gave him a headache.

Ye Xiaobai stopped thinking about it and started cultivating after taking a few Qi Refining Pills.

……

A restaurant.

A few people were chatting there, one of whom was the former restaurant owner surnamed Zhao.

"Manager Zhao, although the mission failed, my brother was also injured. We agreed on 200 spirit stones, so giving only 100 spirit stones now is not fair." The speaker was the black-clad cultivator who attacked Ye Xiaobai that morning.

"Liu Ergou, how dare you say that? You couldn't even handle someone at the fourth level of Qi Refining, how dare you ask for 200 spirit stones?" Manager Zhao said angrily.

"Manager Zhao, you can't say that! Everything was settled, but then this unexpected obstacle appeared out of nowhere!" the black-clad cultivator desperately tried to argue.

"Stop making excuses. Failure is failure. Take the spirit stones and leave the market immediately, and don't ever come back!"

"Manager Zhao, how much more? Look at my brother like this!" The black-clad cultivator pointed to his injured brother.

"Not a single spirit stone more! Aren't you leaving?"

The black-clad cultivator was helpless. He had thought it would be an easy task, where he could simply earn 200 spirit stones, but unexpectedly, something went wrong.

Just then, a servant ran into the room and said to Manager Zhao, "Xiaoyao Restaurant is closed for the day because the chef was attacked!"

"Okay, you can go now!"

The servant quickly ran out.

Upon hearing that Xiaoyao Restaurant had closed down due to his own reasons, the black-clad monk shamelessly said to Manager Zhao, "Manager Zhao, the closure of Xiaoyao Restaurant was also due to the efforts of us brothers. Please compensate us a little more for the medical expenses."

"I give up! Take the spirit stones and get out of here!" With that, Manager Zhao threw out 50 spirit stones.

"Thank you, Manager Zhao!" The black-clad cultivator took the spirit stones and turned to leave with his injured brother.