Chapter 223
Chapter 223: The Earlier You Take It, the Earlier the Cooldown Ends
Li Mu had originally told them to go to the Wanren Military District to find him in a couple of days. Now that the Abyss Entrance was gone, the Military District was essentially gone as well.
That was why they had come here ahead of time.
They were afraid they would not be able to find Li Mu afterward.
Li Mu directly brought the mute women back to the villa.
He had bought more than ten villas in one go precisely because he had considered this.
If he wanted to train an unstoppable private force, he would not only provide resources, he would also personally guide them in cultivation arts.
In fact, Li Mu also happened to be planning to use them to test paper-format cultivation arts and improve a batch of paper-format cultivation arts for various weapons.
After all, he could not possibly keep a large group of beautiful women in the Military Residential District.
It was still freer to have his own place.
After returning to the villa complex, the thirty-odd mute women kept following behind Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan.
They thought this was Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan’s home, and all of them were silently marveling at the villa’s luxury.
They had not expected Li Mu to suddenly say, “These villas are all ours. Divide yourselves into groups. Three people to one villa.”
“Pick ten villas and squeeze in a little.”
All the mute women were stunned.
Three people to one villa!
And that was called squeezing in?
Their family circumstances before could not be called poor, but they had not had much background either. Otherwise, Zong Hongsheng would not have set his sights on them.
But they definitely had not lived in villas like these!
The mute women were overwhelmed by the favor and crowded in front of Li Mu, frantically waving their hands.
Li Mu’s vision blurred from watching them.
For a moment, he thought he had found a group of hand-waving dancers. Were they doing a hand-flower dance here?
They could almost rival the Thousand-Hand Guanyin.
“There is no need to act like this. The houses are not being given to you to live in for free. Whether in daily life or cultivation, I will provide enough resources. Living together will also make it convenient for you to train. But I have only one requirement!”
“Do not disappoint me!”
Li Mu’s attitude was firm, so the mute women could only accept living here.
However, no matter what, they refused to let only three people live in one villa.
They strongly requested that thirty people live in just four villas.
After all, every villa had six or seven bedrooms.
Even if each of them had her own room, there would still be no problem.
Li Mu let them have their way.
He looked over everyone’s cultivation.
With the calm girl as the leader, the six strongest among them were all Yellow Rank Sixth Grade.
Most of the others were Yellow Rank Fifth Grade.
There were also three foolish girls at Yellow Rank Fourth Grade.
Li Mu swept his gaze over everyone and said, “Tonight, you have only one mission.”
“Each of you will organize the internal cultivation method you practice, the cultivation arts you have trained in, the weapons you use, and the direction you wish to cultivate toward.”
“Send them to my place later.”
“Tonight, tidy up your villas properly. Tomorrow, unless something unexpected happens, you will officially begin bitter cultivation!”
“In the future, unless necessary, avoid wandering outside.”
After Li Mu finished speaking, all the mute women nodded firmly.
Ever since he had rescued them, Li Mu had never seen them truly smile.
Even when they occasionally showed a hint of a smile, it had been forced out for Li Mu’s sake.
Li Mu did not expose it.
He had not taken in these mute women so they could enjoy life!
This was not so they could go shopping whenever they had nothing to do, appear everywhere in public, and cultivate lazily.
In Li Mu’s view, before they stepped into the Profound Rank, these people did not even have the ability to protect themselves. Going outside would be no different from becoming human-shaped takeout.
What Li Mu wanted was precisely the state of mind they had gained after suffering hardship.
They were extremely indifferent toward many pursuits that ordinary girls should have.
This kind of situation actually allowed them to devote themselves to bitter cultivation.
The harsher he was toward them, the more it might become a kind of salvation for them.
Therefore, Li Mu could not pity them tenderly.
After speaking, he was about to turn and leave.
Wang Yinhuan did not forget to instruct the girls, “You can also make a list of any daily necessities you need. We will purchase them all together.”
“If you have any personal needs, you can tell me.”
After saying that, she even winked at the girls.
The mute women immediately revealed faint smiles of gratitude and bowed toward Wang Yinhuan.
They actually understood Li Mu’s coldness.
Because this path was one they had chosen for themselves.
But Wang Yinhuan’s concern made them feel equally grateful.
As girls, even if they had no pursuits, they still had needs. If they could not go out often, there were feminine products they would be too embarrassed to mention to Li Mu.
There was not much to tidy up in the villas.
All the villas had luxurious renovations and came fully furnished. They could move in with nothing but their bags.
Even the bedding had already been prepared by Wang Yinhuan in several sets and stored inside her Storage Space.
Not long after Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan returned to their villa, the girls came over together in a rush again.
They handed in thirty sets of information.
Li Mu smiled helplessly.
“You do not need to move as a group every single time, do you?”
“Couldn’t you just send a representative?”
As he spoke, Li Mu picked up the information and glanced at it. His brows immediately furrowed.
“Where are your names?”
Li Mu was speechless.
The signatures on these documents were actually “Li Mute One,” “Li Mute Two,” “Li Mute Three.”
All the way to “Li Mute Thirty.”
Wang Yinhuan took out her phone on her own initiative and handed it to the calm girl.
She let the girl type on her phone.
The calm girl typed: “No family, no self. We arranged the order according to our birthdays. Please grant this, Master.”
Li Mu was completely speechless.
Master?
This word seemed a little too weighty.
But Li Mu truly did not want to argue with them over such minor details anymore.
Master it was.
He could bear the title.
“All right! Then who is Mute One?”
Li Mu asked.
The calm girl raised her hand.
“Mute Two?”
A twin-tailed girl raised her hand.
Every time Li Mu called out a number, the corresponding girl raised her hand.
Li Mu forcibly memorized the names corresponding to each of them.
After that, he let them leave.
In any case, Li Mu had no plans to sleep tonight.
Chu Ying, An Xing, and the others were still busy at the Overall Command Center.
Night was when the foreign races were most likely to make a move.
Li Mu did not want to participate in those headache-inducing plans and personnel transfers.
He only told Chu Ying and the others to call him if something happened.
He would stand by at any time.
Wang Yinhuan accompanied Li Mu as he studied the mute women’s information.
According to their individual situations, Li Mu arranged a dedicated Ghost-Axe Destiny Pill for each of them.
Then, based on their three main weapons...Saber, spear, and whip.
He began improving the paper-format versions of several cultivation arts related to those weapons that he had come into contact with.
The most important thing was the internal cultivation method!
Using his own Great Heavenly Immortal Art as the prototype, Li Mu produced a set of internal cultivation heart methods.
Although its actual effect was far inferior to the Great Heavenly Immortal Art...
And it did not have the miraculous effects of the Great Heavenly Immortal Art...
As a pure internal cultivation method, its effect was still far beyond ordinary internal cultivation methods!
However, this cultivation art was too profound and mysterious.
Even if they obtained the paper-format cultivation art, probably even a top genius would find it difficult to understand even twenty to thirty percent of it.
Therefore, this cultivation art was unlikely to be widely popularized.
Li Mu had to constantly guide and correct them.
He had to help them understand it.
Even if the mute women stayed by his side all day, Li Mu could not guarantee they would understand seventy to eighty percent of it.
It was no exaggeration to say this.
Up to now...The mute women were the first group of people Li Mu had spent this much effort on.
Early the next morning...
Every mute woman received a “Bitter Cultivation First-Day Gift Pack” from Li Mu.
It contained one personally customized S-Grade Ghost-Axe Destiny Pill.
High-Grade Body-Fortifying Pill x3, High-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill x3, Earthvein Spirit Blossom Pill x3.
Only when the mute women took the pills and felt their effects did they understand what kind of resource configuration Li Mu had given them.
This was a “spiral straight into heaven on the spot” level of configuration!
And Li Mu’s instruction to them was:
“The earlier you take them, the earlier your resistance cooldown recovers. Once you finish them, there will be more...”