Chen Ping'an reeked of alcohol as he returned to his residence in Cloudtop City.0

There was a ring of Snow Soil Talismans drawn around the wall of the residence, and these talismans could repel minor thieves but couldn't repel powerful cultivators. Even so, this was still better than nothing.0

Chen Ping'an lightly shook his azure robe after entering the courtyard, causing the smell of alcohol to completely dissipate. He entered the room where Guest Elder Xu usually cultivated, sitting down on a cushion that could gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. He had already hung the couplet on the wall behind him, causing the initially empty room to feel a bit more like a scripture library. 0

Chen Ping'an planned to hang this couplet on the first floor of the bamboo building when he returned to Downtrodden Mountain in the future. He definitely wouldn't sell it, and he would instead treat it like a family heirloom, similar to how he was treating the calligraphy works that the inebriated county lieutenant had written in cursive script.0

Chen Ping'an retrieved the vermilion Daoist badge made from jujube wood, thinking that he needed to make haste and successfully refine this item first. Otherwise, any Qi refiner could casually open this minimization treasure and enter it if they managed to get their hands on it. Moreover, simply performing basic refinement and storing the minimization treasure in his acupoint wouldn't be enough.0

When it came to refining items in the world, basic refinement would allow items to become intangible, meaning they could be stored in one's acupoints. However, like the immortal coins in his possession, these items could still be easily overwritten and traded between cultivators. Standard refinement was analogous to constructing an ancestral hall in one's mountain, allowing the items to truly take root in one's acupoints....0