vrcanaries Chapter 37 Qingli City 3
Chapter 37 Qingli City 3
"It was clearly her mother who switched me with her; I should be the daughter of the Great Ascension Immortal Lord!" The girl's words immediately stirred up a storm.
Cheng Jiu and the others who were watching the drama unfold in the teahouse were stunned. And it wasn't just her; everyone else who had been watching was also stunned!
This is because the Great Vehicle Immortal Lord is a female Immortal Lord, and this Miss Xiao is actually the daughter of this middle-aged male servant.
Medicine King Valley has a secret medicine that can make men pregnant, but the downside is that children born to men are generally less gifted or even inferior compared to children born to women.
Therefore, even with a mother at the Mahayana stage and a father at the Nascent Soul stage, Miss Xiao's aptitude was only white, and she couldn't even enter the Guiyuan Sect.
Of course, this Mahayana-stage immortal lord wouldn't care, otherwise he wouldn't have used this kind of medicine.
They were all shocked. Was it the fact that the male servant in the Mahayana stage had an affair and had a daughter, thus cuckolding the Mahayana master, or was it the drama of the true and false heiress that was shocking?
Actually, both of them are absolutely mind-blowing!
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xiao Yunyi looked at the girl in shock.
"I should be the daughter of the Great Vehicle Immortal Lord, and you are just an illegitimate child born to a concubine! It was your mother who switched us out with her own selfish motives!" the girl said loudly and righteously.
"..." Cheng Jiu slowly began to have a mental storm after this farce: "How can you tell the difference?" In fact, there is no good way to distinguish bloodlines in the cultivation world.
At first, she also found it very amazing. She had always thought that there was such a blood connection and a way to determine bloodline, but in fact there was none. If Luo Zhui and Luo Xing'an hadn't looked so alike, the siblings wouldn't have recognized each other back into the Luo family so easily.
After all, who knows if he's someone's bastard? So how do we determine if this is a real or fake heiress? Unlike in my previous life, there's no way to get a paternity test.
“Xiao Yunyi must be the daughter of the Great Ascension Immortal Lord!” The other two had no doubts whatsoever.
"Why?" Cheng Jiu asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Because one can become a Mahayana Immortal Lord, one will have some knowledge in various fields. For example, one may not be an expert in the I Ching, but one will certainly be able to do so. Children and parents are the closest relationships, and the causal relationship between them is also the deepest."
"The Great Vehicle Immortal Lord has doted on this daughter for so many years. If it weren't for that, he would have discovered it long ago. Besides, even in an ordinary family, if they were really unsure, they could have sought help from the Heavenly Mystery Sect to make a calculation," Yingyue explained.
Regardless of whether they were actually switched or not, if the girl is lying, that's fine, but if she is, then the first of the three to be doomed will definitely be the middle-aged male waiter who came out.
After all, no matter how friendly the Great Vehicle Immortal Lord is, this male servant is still the Great Vehicle Immortal Lord's personal property. He is not even a Daoist partner; according to the system of the Qiongyun Dynasty, he is just a minor servant.
The fact that the servant dared to steal food behind his master's back is tantamount to adultery.
Even if he were beaten to death, no one could say anything. The cultivation world isn't that cruel, but unfortunately, his wife is a Mahayana Immortal Lord, who has plenty of ways to get back at him.
The other party, clearly realizing what was happening, looked extremely displeased and loudly denied it, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about? I only have one person, Immortal Lord Minxiu. I don't even know you. How can you randomly claim someone as your father!"
"Father, I'm your daughter too! Why is she allowed to live such a glamorous life as the daughter of a Great Ascension Immortal Lord?" the girl blurted out. "Don't try to deny it. I heard everything from that woman. Don't try to deny it; this is your jade pendant, isn't it!"
Cheng Jiu was now secretly regretting that he hadn't learned some divination techniques. The key question was whether this girl and the male servant were related by blood.
The fresh, hot melon was practically offered to her, but she couldn't get a bite.
The male attendant said, "Guards, arrest this thief who stole the jade pendant bestowed upon me by the Great Vehicle Immortal Lord!"
"It's your jade pendant, isn't it? How did I expose you? Are you feeling guilty? Let me go, let me go!" The woman struggled to break free from the guards' hands that came to arrest her.
“I am the daughter of the Great Vehicle Immortal Lord. I’ve guessed right. You want to kill me to silence me, right? That woman was afraid you would kill her, so she took me with her to hide in a remote place. Even tigers don’t eat their cubs, you beast are more vicious than a tiger.”
"What are you all doing, letting this woman make such a scene here? Suppress her!" The man's face turned red with anger.
"So you're feeling guilty now? When you were cheating on me, why didn't you think about it? You even had someone impersonate me, you bastard!" the woman shouted desperately.
Seeing the guard in such a disadvantageous position, the male attendant struck the woman's heart meridian with his palm.
The woman was quite strong, but she was only at the Golden Core stage, far inferior to those at the Nascent Soul stage.
Just as she was about to face death, a jade-like hand reached out and grasped her fist.
A handsome young man dressed in blue, with a translucent jade pendant hanging from his waist, reached out to stop him.
The waiter's mouth trembled when he saw him.
"My wife said to stop making a fool of yourself here. Don't let your dirty deeds disturb the Third Miss's good days," the man said coldly.
"No need, I'm not in the mood to participate in this embroidered ball selection today." Xiao Yunyi said impatiently and with disdain, "But let's finish this quickly, I've been so embarrassed today!"
At that moment, the guards seemed to gain strength and pressed the woman down firmly.
The male servant collapsed to the ground and said to Xiao Yunyi, "I am your father, how could you treat me like this?"
“My mother is a Great Ascension Immortal Lord. Everything I have is given to me by her. As for you, you should be prepared to take responsibility when you stole food back then.” Xiao Yunyi said to the young man, “My lord, I entrust my father to you.”
"Rest assured, the Immortal Lord said he won't kill him out of respect for you." The concubine was still quite respectful to the Immortal Lord's most beloved daughter.
"Then I'll go keep my mother company." Xiao Yunyi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and left without looking back.
The men below, who had stopped fighting over the embroidered ball because of this farce, looked at each other, somewhat at a loss. After all, the main character had left, so what was the point of their fight?
"After the Immortal Lord, we will find an auspicious day to hold the ceremony again. We will inform everyone at that time. If you are interested, you can come again later." The concubine said politely, "However, this is a family matter after all, and the Immortal Lord still does not wish to discuss it too much."
The last sentence was addressed not only to the male contestants inside the arena, but also to the spectators watching outside.
In other words, it's best to keep this to yourselves and not spread it around.
Although everyone was eager to know what would happen next, this was ultimately a matter for the Great Ascension stage immortals; they had the desire but not the courage.
"Do you think the Immortal Lord will hold a grudge against Miss Xiao for what her father did?" Although they couldn't get any more information, that didn't stop Cheng Jiu and the others from discussing it.
"No. After all, Miss Xiao isn't favored because of her father; she's earned it all through her own hard work. Just wait and see, I'm afraid Immortal Lord Minxiu will be too busy doting on her to keep up with her," Yingyue affirmed.
“The cultivation world isn’t as strict as the Qiongyun Dynasty. Actually, that male servant was out of his mind and made a bad move. If he had taken the initiative to tell Immortal Lord Minxiu that he wanted to be released and marry someone else, Immortal Lord Minxiu wouldn’t have stopped him.” Wen Sishu sighed. “But he wanted to keep his status as a male servant of a Mahayana Immortal Lord, and at the same time, he wanted to cheat on her. There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
“I thought you men wouldn’t discuss this topic.” Cheng Jiu looked at him with some surprise. She thought that Wen Sishu might be too embarrassed to participate in such a discussion.
"What's the big deal? This happens all the time!" Wen Sishu said nonchalantly. "My aunt's inner courtyard is much more chaotic than theirs. I've seen it all since I was a child."
“His aunt is an official in the Qiongyun Dynasty,” Yingyue explained from the side.
If it weren't for the fact that cultivators couldn't easily venture into the mortal realm, Cheng Jiu would really like to see the Qiongyun Dynasty.
"That concubine seems quite young." Cheng Jiu thought of the man who came out later, and to describe him in one word, he was "top-notch."
"Him? He's no ordinary person. He's not even thirty years old this year, not even a fraction of the age of Immortal Lord Minxiu. Actually, he's quite famous within the Guiyuan Sect." Yingyue said, "When this guy awakened his talent, it was only a green talent, and none of the five major sects accepted him at the time."
Then, unwilling to accept his fate, he sought a powerful female cultivator to rely on. He chose the Myriad Sounds Sect, learned the zither, and became the top courtesan in the sect's music pavilion. He then climbed the social ladder to become the concubine of the Minxiu Immortal Lord, and was greatly favored by her.
"With his talent, he definitely wouldn't have reached the Nascent Soul stage by the age of thirty, but he's already at the late Nascent Soul stage."
At first, many people laughed at him, but now, well, even many disciples from the outer sect and not the inner sect envy him and want to imitate him, but the sect leader has stopped them.” Wen Sishu sighed.
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He noticed the two people looking at him. Wen Sishu shrugged: "What?"
"Junior brother, how do you know so much about this?" Yingyue had only recently met him, yet he already knew about this kind of gossip.
"I heard it from some of the younger disciples when I went to the Chushi Hall before," Wen Sishu hurriedly clarified, afraid that they would also think he was the kind of person who wanted to curry favor with a powerful figure, and that he was a good boy who insisted on being strong and independent.
The three chatted until they arrived at Guiyuan Sect. The two had to report back to Elder Yao, so they parted ways.
Back in the courtyard, she channeled some wood elemental energy into the medicinal herbs planted there.
Then I slowly examined the things I had bought this time. First was the little turtle. A scroll, a broken sword, and several jade-like items, all piled up together in a jumble.
She picked up the little turtle, which was the first thing she sensed. She first used her divine sense to explore it, but found nothing. However, it was precisely because she found nothing that it was worth checking.
After all, Cheng Jiu admitted that she was just a novice in the Golden Core stage. If even she could detect this thing, it probably wasn't a great treasure.
She picked it up and looked at it from left to right, then shook it. After thinking for a moment, she took out a seventh-grade sword talisman, walked into the courtyard, placed the little turtle on the ground, activated the sword talisman, and the little turtle was completely unharmed when the talisman exploded.
Upon closer inspection, she realized this object was extraordinary. She took out the Heavenly Wood Sword, focused her sword intent, and sparks flew everywhere, yet the little turtle remained firmly perched there.
As if mocking her, she sent out the little black dragon again. After being constantly fed with spiritual herbs, the dragon had already left its infancy and was now a dragon with both fire and wood attributes!
The little black dragon spewed out a breath of dragon fire, but the little turtle didn't show any signs of deformation under the high temperature.
Despite trying all sorts of methods—heavenly thunderbolts, talismans, formations—the little tortoise remained as steady as Mount Tai.
Enraged, Cheng Jiu gave it the middle finger. Since the method of cultivating immortality couldn't work, then let's use the power of science.
Fortunately, she had learned the ancient method of making sulfuric acid, and the sulfuric acid from the cultivation world seemed to be more effective; at least a drop that accidentally spilled directly broke through the ground.
Damaging the yard will be punished, but if it's indoors, you can just buy a new floorboard and replace it yourself, and no one will notice.
She dripped concentrated sulfuric acid onto the little turtle, and a strong smell wafted up. The concentrated sulfuric acid seemed to be constantly battling with the little turtle.
After the reaction stopped, the little turtle's shell became pitted and uneven. Only a small hole appeared in the center of its shell.
Cheng Jiu picked up a hairpin and started fiddling with it at the small hole. He accidentally touched something, and the tortoise shell slowly opened, revealing a key inside.
It seemed to be the key to some powerful being from a secret realm; she reached into the ring.
The remaining items were quite ordinary; the only valuable ones were the two fifth-grade spiritual artifacts.
However, compared to the spirit stones she spent, she still made a profit overall, and she was quite satisfied with her trip to the black market.