However, aside from a trace of delight, Emily Clark felt no pride at all. He had always been an extraordinary figure in the Immortal Realm, a person of great renown. Now, retracing the path of cultivation, he naturally found it easy and familiar. If it weren’t for the lack of spiritual energy in the mortal world and Emily Clark’s somewhat frail body, he might already have reached the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment by now.

After finishing his practice, he washed up, and at 7:30, Emily Clark opened his door. At the same moment, the door of the neighboring room opened as well, and out came a chubby guy.

His name was David Sullivan, a college classmate of Emily Clark and currently his roommate.

“Today I’m moving out to start my blissful life,” David Sullivan said excitedly.

Two days ago, David Sullivan met a chubby girl at a bar.

“No way, you’re moving in together this fast?” Emily Clark exclaimed in disbelief.

“Heh, you have to strike while the iron is hot!” David Sullivan grinned mischievously.

Emily Clark shook his head inwardly and said with a wry smile, “Looks like I’ll have to go up to the nineteenth floor today to post a notice looking for a new roommate.”

Hearing this, David Sullivan’s beady eyes immediately lit up. He brought his round face close to Emily Clark and leered, “I’ve noticed you’ve been getting gloomier these past two months. Must be a hormonal imbalance. I think finding a pretty girl to share the apartment is the best way to fix your hormonal issues.”

“Get lost! I’m not like you!” Emily Clark retorted with a laugh.

“What’s wrong with me? A man who isn’t romantic in his youth is wasting his youth!” David Sullivan pouted, looking smug.

“That’s not romance—you’d get turned on even by a sow!” Emily Clark shot back mercilessly.

At that, David Sullivan lifted his foot to kick at Emily Clark. A strange light flashed in Emily Clark’s eyes. If this were the Immortal Realm, David Sullivan would already be lying on the ground. But today, all he felt was the warmth of true friendship. Ever since he became a dominant figure in the Immortal Realm, he hadn’t felt this way.

The higher you climb, the colder it gets—there’s only endless loneliness and solitude, only schemes and betrayals, the law of the jungle!

To be honest, having fallen into the mundane world, although Emily Clark hated those who plotted against him to the bone, sometimes he thought that starting a new life wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

At the very least, this kind of relaxed, warm banter and laughter was something he could never even dream of in the Immortal Realm.

Emily Clark burst out laughing, and in a flash, he was already at the door.

“You really are a monkey, running that fast!”

Just that little bit of exertion had David Sullivan panting, making Emily Clark seriously wonder how two chubby people could even do that kind of thing.

Emily Clark worked at the Zhejiang Sea Provincial Institute of Geological and Mineral Research, a provincial-level public institution.

The institute was very close to Emily Clark’s current rental at Datang New Village—so close that it only took about ten minutes to walk there. So, while many people in the big city had to get up early to catch crowded buses, Emily Clark could just stroll leisurely to work.

At the exit of Datang New Village, there was a small shop selling steamed buns, always bustling with business. The reason, besides the delicious buns, was that the proprietress was a very attractive young married woman.

Every day on his way to work, Emily Clark would buy two buns and a bag of soy milk from her, eating as he walked.

Today, as usual, Emily Clark stopped by Jenny’s bun shop for breakfast.

As always, this was the busiest time for the proprietress. Her ample chest, straining beneath a floral T-shirt as she bustled about, seemed ready to burst free, making the men buying buns secretly swallow their saliva.

Emily Clark wasn’t that desperate, but when the proprietress bent down to make change for him and inadvertently revealed a flash of snowy white skin, he realized that the heart he’d kept in check for so many years seemed to stir, as if a stone had been thrown into a calm pond, never to be still again.

Emily Clark really enjoyed this long-lost youthful restlessness. It felt as if an old man had returned to his youth, full of vitality.

Besides this long-missed youthful excitement, the buns from Jenny’s shop also awakened Emily Clark’s forgotten appetite. Eating them, he felt they were far tastier than the dragon liver and phoenix marrow of the Immortal Realm.

This feeling, too, was something Emily Clark greatly enjoyed.

Life was vibrant and colorful everywhere, and as Emily Clark’s young heart merged with this body, he found himself blending more and more into society, feeling the richness of life ever more deeply.

Munching on buns, sipping soy milk, and watching the traffic and people go by, Emily Clark strolled leisurely to work.

By the time he arrived, it was almost time to start work, but the office was empty. That was just how things were at this kind of workplace—even when work started, it was normal not to see many people.

Emily Clark made himself a cup of Longjing tea, then sat down at his computer and started surfing the web.

With the advent of the information age, the wisdom of billions of people was converging in this world at every moment. As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang. When the wisdom of billions comes together and circulates endlessly, even the wisdom of the greatest sages of the heavens pales in comparison.