Reincarnated As God 18 The Qingshui Town

The place he teleported to was in a small forest near the town. Although Qingshui town was located in a peaceful part of the continent, there were still some beasts in the wilderness. The strongest were equivalent to the 3rd level of Qi Gathering, which the town lord could easily handle. However, as he was teleported close to the town itself, there were practically no beasts there, not even of the 1st level of Qi Gathering. The wildlife which lived this close to town were either ordinary animals or animals on the threshold of becoming a beast - they simply didn't form their core yet. No matter what, they were all scared off by the aura he was emitting. As he approached the town gates, Meng Li acted like a cultivator of his level would - he restrained his aura. He did it in a way similar to how a cultivator of his level would do - people stronger than the 1st level of Qi Gathering would be able to easily see through his 'disguise' and see his true strength, but he seemed normal to ordinary mortals or people at the same level as him.

As he finished preparing, he was already near the gate. There were guards standing by the side, but they simply looked over him and didn't stop him. As he walked into town, he looked around, not in a hurry to find the reincarnator. The main street was filled with shops selling ordinary, mundane things - meat, food, clothes, etc. There were also some shops selling more high-end products, such as paper, ink, and brushes. The town was entirely filled with mortals - the only cultivators there were the town lord, him, and another young man living with the town lord. The other young man was also at the first layer of Qi Gathering, and he seemed to be either the disciple or descendant of the town lord.

The streets were not filled with people, but they were quite busy. He could see people buying, selling, negotiating... Just by listening in on the conversations around him he managed to learn that the town's main source of income was gathering herbs in the forests surrounding it, and hunting. The herbs were then sold to a shop which distributed them to bigger cities, which had use for them. However, overall the situation of the townspeople wasn't great. The average person lived in poverty, as the herbs were sold cheap, and there was quite a big risk of dying when gathering herbs.

As Meng Li recalled where the soul was located, he realised that the family was probably quite poor. When he arrived at the place, his suspicions were confirmed. Although it still wasn't the slums, the place where the family lived wasn't much better than that. The house was made of wood, and although it did have a fireplace, it wasn't enough to ward off the cold temperatures during winter.

Using Spiritual Sense, he could see a female in the house, who was in a later period of pregnancy. A quick question to the system confirmed that she was, in fact, the mother of the reincarnated soul. He couldn't sense another person in the small house, even though there were signs of another person living there. Her husband was probably out gathering herbs to earn enough money to sustain the family.

However, now that he was there, another question presented itself: how was he supposed to find a house? A quick check of the houses surrounding the one he was standing before, confirmed that they were all full. However, when he checked merely a few houses away, he managed to find one which was abandoned. The house was actually decayed and deteriorated to the point where the roof was on the verge of falling down.

After seeing it, Meng Li already had a plan of what to do. First, he needed to find materials to use when repairing the abandoned home - wood. So, he scanned the town with Spiritual Sense. Fortunately, there was a place selling wood. As Meng Li started walking towards it, he gradually realised that there was a problem with his plan. At first, he wanted to buy enough wood to fix the dilapidated house, put them all in his spatial bag, and there was the problem. He didn't want to reveal the fact that he was a cultivator to the people in the town. As such, he had to change it.

And so he did. He walked towards the gate and left, choosing a random place in the forest. First, he used Spiritual Sense to confirm that no one was watching, and then, he uprooted several trees with a wave of his hand. The holes in the ground were out of place, but there was nothing there which connected it to him, so he didn't care. The trees floated silently in the air. With a wave of his hand, a few strands of Qi shot out, which started to cut the thick trunks. First, he stripped the bark, and then, he started cutting the wood into planks. He continued doing so until he judged that he had enough planks to fix the dilapidated house. He stored all of the planks in his bag of holding.

Then, he returned to the city. Once he was in the city, he scanned it to search for a place with building materials - nails and a hammer. To no surprise, he managed to find them in the local blacksmith. He started heading there, until he realised another problem - no money. With a frown, he asked the system.

[Yes. New variants of beasts which evolved here or new things created here are available for summoning.]

Relieved, Meng Li went to the summoning tab. From eavesdropping on the people around him, he managed to learn that the currency was simply coins - copper, silver and gold. Quickly searching the summoning tab, he summoned a hundred of each type of coin. With a thought, he managed to summon them directly into his bag of holding.

In merely a few minutes, he was at the blacksmith's forge. The person who greeted him as he walked in was a young man, who seemed to be a student of the blacksmith. He was quite pleasant to talk with, and the transaction was easy. Meng Li bought several crates of nails and a hammer. The young man offered help to carry them, but Meng Li refused. Walking out with the crates of nails, he found an alley and stored them in the bag of holding.

With everything prepared, he was ready. He just needed to wait for the night to arrive. In a few minutes, he arrived at the house of the young couple. As he was walking by, he noticed that the man was back, and that the couple were eating a meal, consisting of porridge with a few pieces of meat.

The scene warmed his heart, and he couldn't help but smile slightly.

A few houses down the road, there was the dilapidated house. It was truly in a horrible condition, even worse than he thought. Meng Li furrowed his brows slightly, but didn't think much of it and simply sat down in the bushes next to the house. He needed to wait until the night now.

However, he had a few hours at hand, so he thought about the Heavenly Yin Yang Shroud technique laying in his bag of holding.

With a thought, it appeared in his hand. The booklet was small and simple, but st.u.r.dy. It still looked relatively new, with merely a few scratches on the cover. The technique was described in the introduction. It's primary function was to confuse the heavens and obscure the events that happened there, by disturbing the balance of Yin and Yang within a certain region. The effect of the shroud was extremely subtle, and only people who could comprehend laws were able to notice it. That's because the technique blocked off a region of s.p.a.ce, obscuring laws and, by extension, the heavens.

Meng Li couldn't help but be surprised by it. When the system described the technique, he didn't think that it was so heaven-defying. However, he was quite happy that he was able to discover such a profound technique in the summoning tab.

The technique itself was quite confusing. The technique required him to follow and extremely weird path in the body as well as use his qi to connect with the world around him. After comprehending the technique for a few hours, Meng Li felt ready to try. He put the booklet away, and prepared the special position the technique required. It was similar to the lotus position, but slightly different. After that, he started circulating according to the technique. Immediately after his Qi completed one circulation, he felt a strange force in his body. It was only the body, as he hadn't extended the field of Qi yet.

With his cultivation, he was able to use the technique to obscure a radius of around five kilometres, but now, he needed just a few dozen meters. He could also control the shape of the field to only affect the house with the reincarnated soul. As he extended the technique towards the house, he asked the system.
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[Yes, slightly. The consumption is decreased by half. It will last until the end of the adaptive period.]

Meng Li was relieved. Because the consumption of innate Qi was decreased by half when he was using the technique, he simply needed to do it for a few hours every day and had some times to socialize with his new neighbours. He wanted to live in the area for a period of time to meet the reincarnated soul, so he needed to fit in.

As he was waiting for the night to come, Meng Li constantly used the technique to shroud the house with the developing soul. After a few hours, the sun finally set above the horizon and Meng Li could sense the people on the street go to sleep.

After he could see that no one was watching, he stood up and walked out of the bushes. His plan was simply. He would get all of the materials first, then summon them from the bag of holding at night to ensure no one would be suspicious of why he would try to renovate such an old building. When the neighbours woke up in the morning, they would think that people simply brought the materials during the night.

And so, Meng Li took out the planks and the crates of nails, as well as the hammer. That was it. And now, he had to wait for the morning once again, to start building. He didn't want to incite ire from his new neighbours by working during the night...

And so, he waited. This time, he sat on the planks since they were more comfortable than the cold ground. The air was quite chilly, but it didn't bother him. He simply sat there and used the shrouding technique on the small house a few dozen meters down the road. And so, he waited for the light of dawn.