Chapter 925: Attending the Funeral (3800-word supplement)

Yukan Town.

Outside Banxian Hall, everything was plain white, having been transformed into a mourning hall.

Fang Xi, along with a host of sons, daughters, sons-in-law, and daughters-in-law... were all dressed as filial sons and virtuous grandsons, weeping softly before the spirit tablet.

"Fang Yuan" had settled in this town for many years, having long since integrated into the local area; moreover, he possessed brilliant Medicine skills and often gave away medicine, earning quite a good reputation.

The residents of Yukan Town, mindful of his kindness, had many people come to see him off.

Aaron changed his appearance and mingled among the mourners, attending his own funeral—which was quite interesting.

After he put on a show of paying respects to the "remains"—which he had disguised by finding a random corpse—and exchanged formalities with Fang Xi to accept the filial greetings, he walked out to attend the funeral feast.

Once these words were spoken, the expressions of many people changed slightly.

Although he did not know the name or specific background of the Bat Duke, he had calculated that behind Nangong Jie and the wandering Daoist, there must be a true mastermind!

This mastermind had plotted for decades, only for it all to come to nothing in a single day; how could they let it go?

Therefore, he had been watching coldly from the sidelines all these years.

To tell the truth, Aaron still felt it was somewhat inconceivable that he hadn't heard of the Zhao Family and Li Family being wiped out by a Mysterious cultivator.

Several stall owners nearby chuckled upon hearing this: "This young man doesn't know how to shop at all. Who goes straight for the item they love the most? Doesn't that reveal your bottom line? It serves you right to be overcharged!"

"Even if the Li Family's Qi Luck is flourishing and they can turn bad luck into good... but if it spreads to the flowers and plants, especially me, that would be bad."

The Li Family is not to be trifled with!

This is the effort of nearly sixty years!

Even for a practitioner of Daoist Technique, if one does not reach Mysterious Light, one's lifespan remains around one hundred years; if sixty years of time are spent cultivating the Five Viscera Qi, what time is left to break through the realm?

After this concubine entered the household, she gave birth to two chubby boys for him, and now they are both at the age where they can go out to run errands.

He arrived at the valley where he refined Gu.

In reality, the Fang Family had two branches; one was Fang Xi's bloodline inheritance, and as for the other... the entire lineage consisted of only one person!

At this moment, he saw a commotion at the entrance, with carriages and horses clamoring; it turned out a wealthy family had arrived.

"My Li Family and the Fang Family are old family friends; if you have any difficulties in the future, feel free to come find me!"

The largest wealthy family in Yukan Town was, naturally, the Li Family!

Li Yao stepped off the carriage and entered Banxian Hall amidst a crowd of attendants.

That person is—the Bat Duke!

Aaron looked left and right, then arrived at the stall of a lazy youth.

"Or perhaps... the concept of time for cultivators is different from ordinary people, and taking revenge after several decades is no big deal?"

Inside his own body, green, red, and yellow light flowed, faintly containing the wonder of the Five Elements generating one another.

This youth had large eyes and thick eyebrows, with a cynical look on his face, and had randomly placed some items on the stall in front of him.

With this thought, he rose gracefully, left the valley, changed his clothes slightly, shaved his beard, and still looking like a young man, he entered Yuanjia City.

This was because Aaron had changed his plan, feeling that this son might not be reliable; rather than pretending to be his own grandson, it was better to pretend to be his own son.

"Could it be that the mastermind behind the scenes has been held up by something?"

After some paying of respects, Li Yao said to Fang Xi:

"Uncle, do not be too sad. Great-uncle passed away without illness or disaster, having reached the end of his natural life, and with his children and grandchildren surrounding his knees when he left; this is a joyous funeral!"

Aaron pinched his fingers to calculate and couldn't help but smile slightly: "The opportunity has arrived!"

But today, a sudden whim told him that the time had come.

"It sounds quite creepy..."

On a certain street, there were small stalls on both sides, but there were no rare antiques or books on them; they were all local produce sold by farmers who had come to town for the market.

Aaron sat at the banquet and drank a cup of wine.

There are no days or months in the mountains!

On this day, Aaron opened his eyes and discovered that not only had the Heart Fire Palace been cultivated, but the Spleen Earth Palace had also been completed.

Although he was prepared to wait until the Turtle Shell became an ownerless object before going to scavenge for treasure.

Even so, to avoid being caught in the crossfire, Aaron still prepared to leave for a period of time.

In fact, Aaron's trip out this time also included the intention of avoiding someone.

"Then, during this blank period, I can wander around as I please..."

Not only that!

Aaron didn't say much, reached out and picked up a black Turtle Shell, and asked with a smile: "What is the value of this item?"

After eating his own funeral feast, Aaron walked with uneven steps and left Yukan Town.

He had obtained the "Hundred Yang Illustrated Record" inherited from Cang Hezi; although he only remembered most of it, after sharing it with Zhao Feifeng later, he also gained quite a bit.

"From this, it can be seen that this Xin Chen's aptitude for Taoism is only average... If he doesn't refine the Five Viscera and Six Bowels Gu, I'm afraid he will have no hope of reaching Outer Gang in this lifetime!"

The lazy youth's eyes rolled around, and he shouted: "This is a treasure passed down by my ancestors... My dad said this is an item of the immortals; it must sell for at least ten taels of silver!"

And in the position of the heart, a flame-like palace had already formed, within which something was gestating—it seemed human yet not human, and seemed like Gu yet not like Gu.

Yuanjia City was as bustling as usual; the biggest event was nothing more than the Emperor passing away a few years ago, the Crown Prince ascending the throne, and the whole country going into mourning.

"After Liver Wood, it is Heart Fire..."

Through cultivating the Mysterious technique, his Wu skills had greatly improved, and even his previous hidden injuries had healed quite a bit, successfully extending his lifespan.

Aaron didn't mind, found a quiet room, began to sit cross-legged, and cultivated the Five Viscera Qi.

Aaron pinched his fingers to calculate, and the Heart Fire Palace would be at Great Success in at most five years; he secretly thought: "It is indeed as estimated; cultivating the Five Viscera Qi alone takes about ten years, but the Kidney Water Palace will probably take twenty years!"

At this time, the valley had long since been cleaned up; that group of monkeys and the little lecher Zhou Tong and others had all disappeared, leaving only loneliness.

Even when arriving in Yuanjia City, the government would receive them grandly; it is said that there were even imperial edicts sent down with many rewards.

Aaron grumbled inwardly, then his mind sank into cultivation.

Fang Xi was quite distracted at this moment, secretly thinking of his father's dying instructions: "Father really is something... to actually enter the flower fields in his old age, having an illegitimate child outside, and even leaving behind a token, making me swear that I must have him return to the ancestors..."

Even if these common folk didn't understand the weight of it, just seeing that the Zhao Bancheng family was willing to marry off a daughter as a concubine was enough to see the scale of it!

With the support of the Li Family, the Fang Family would surely have long-lasting blessings in the future, free from disasters and tribulations.

"Next, I will just wait until Fang Xi is about to die, then go back to return to the ancestors... After all, old people always have some obsession with such things..."

As long as this foreshadowing is left behind, it will naturally be possible to "return to the ancestors" in the future.

He looked inside himself and discovered that the Liver Wood Palace had been completed, with a jade-green deity inside that was quite grand and imposing.

Of course, what woke him from his closed-door cultivation was not this matter.

After a series of messy events, he even took Zhao Feifeng as a concubine!

"Deal!"

Aaron did not refute, instead tossing out ten taels of silver, taking the Turtle Shell, and leaving.

(End of this chapter)