While it couldn't be described as the most comfortable place they've ever been to, Lou Lan and Lou Ning were both surprised by the inside of the mansion.
It was a little plain, but something in the air brought a strange sort of calm to their minds. If they focused a little, then they could even tell that the spiritual force within the building was more abundant than usual.
"A holy ground?"
"What was that?" The childish voice of Xue Chang popped out of nowhere after Lou Lan whispered his comment to himself.
At first he was frightened because he couldn't sense the strength of this child at all. But upon further inspection he found out that he didn't seem to have any spiritual force within his body.
While he was shocked by this at first, he thought it must've been due to him being extremely untalented. It would make sense why the kid did not know what a holy ground was.
At this time, Tian Hai had entered. Overhearing the conversation, he dutifully answered Xue Chang's question.
"It is said that, on rare occasions, some areas in the world might have spiritual energy much denser than the rest of the area. These places are called holy grounds due to the abundance for powered gathered here. Although compared to true holy grounds, our home cannot even compare, but in this city this place is the closest thing we have to a holy ground."
Xue Chang nodded in understanding. Of course his house would hold spiritual force that was denser than other places within the city.
Tian Hai and Tian Kai had been greedily gobbling up as much of it as they could for the past few weeks to keep their bodies' in top condition.
And lately, their cultivation had been depending on fire elemental force, but that didn't mean spiritual force was no longer useful for them.
Elemental force couldn't just be sustained forever. One would need to feed their elemental force with spiritual energy to stabilize it. And once they finished doing that, their power would officially increase with no drawback.
But if one failed to complete this step in cultivating, their hard earned abilities might just dissipate in a few years.
Pure elemental force was only needed when increasing one's strength, but replenishing and stabilizing this power could use spiritual force instead.
And because the cultivation technique he made was a bit different than others, it would act like a vortex sucking up any spiritual force it could in the surrounding area.
As such, their intense cultivation would make the spiritual force here more dense than other places. Especially when in order to stabilize their power, they needed several times more spiritual force than normal people.
"Such a good place for training!" Lou Lan could already feel his strength rising ever so slightly.
Although it was true this was nothing compared to the holy grounds those large sects had, the density of this place was still beyond his imagination.
"Don't get too comfortable, you're only a guest of this house for now. So don't think you can take advantage of this forever."
Tian Kai gave a prideful snort while watching the incredulous expression on the faces of the strangers. Although he didn't really like them, he had no choice but to let them stay here for now.
If he really did kick them out, even if Xue Chang knew the truth, it would be too embarrassing for all of them.
While Lou Lan was drowning in pleasure from the feeling of limitless power flowing through him, Lou Ning was inspecting the rooms around them.
Looking inside each one, she was surprised to see that the place was quite empty without many furniture or decorations.
"Why is this place so... desolate?"
Now it was Xue Chang's turn to answer questions, "Despite having a nice house like this, we aren't very rich. Plus we don't really need any type of furniture so we kind of just didn't get any."
"That sounds horrible! How could you live in such a place without any form of comfort. No soft blankets, no comfy chairs, no pretty decorations! This is awful!"
Being someone from a large clan, Lou Ning's taste in decor was quite high. And while the house looked pretty majestic in the outside, the inside looked like it had been abandoned.
The huge contrast made a stifling feeling well up in her chest.
"Can you please lead me to the bath, I want to wash myself a little then sleep. Tomorrow, we are going to furnish this place! That is final!"
Tian Hai paused in place while listening to the haughty tone of the girl before him.
He could feel his eye twitching vigorously as he growled out through clenched teeth, "That won't be possible. We don't have the funds, nor can we afford to waste any money on something useless like that!"
*Thump*
Suddenly, a sack filled with gold coins landed on a nearby table within the room. With a sharp glint in her eyes, Lou Ning glared at Tian Hai as she clicked her tongue and questioned, "YOU won't have to spend anything. I'll be handling the expenses as I plan to stay here for a week or two. And whatever we don't spend in that sack, you can keep as rent. After all, poor people like you can't afford to let people live in your home for free. So why don't you take my cha-ri-ty."
Sounding out the last word slowly, Lou Ning turned around and moved toward where the bathroom was.
"I'm sorry for my cousin's behavior. She is used to having things go her way, but she isn't a bad person though!" Lou Lan tried to apologize to Tian Hai, who had a large throbbing vein sticking out of his forehead.
And Xue Chang just stood there thinking to himself how something wasn't right about this situation.
"Did I get the wrong idea?"