Chapter 148: Xin Shisan Niang

Qian Chen draped the pale yellow silk ribbon transformed from the single-horned thunder python over his sleeve. Looking at the thunder clouds that had not yet dispersed in the sky, Qian Chen picked up the tail of the pale yellow silk ribbon and gave it a casual flick. A chain condensed from thunder light suddenly slashed out, like an electric snake, traversing the sky and neatly splitting the thunder clouds in half.

A sliver of blue sky was revealed.

Although the rich thunder essence had been swallowed by the Thunder-Light Python Dragon, there was still some remaining that poured down with the thunder and scattered around. Perhaps this pill refining had not been a complete success, and the external scene triggered was only ordinary. Apart from the thunder descending with a bit more momentum, there were no other special effects.

"Although the power of this Thunder-Light Electric Lock is still acceptable, it cannot be refined into a Heavenly Thunder divine ability, making it difficult to cultivate the Soundless Divine Thunder through this. I still need to summarize my experience and refine a Five-Lei Dan." Qian Chen nodded slightly: "It seems that if I want to refine a Five-Lei Dan, I need to try a few more times and find a few more thunder-attribute spirit objects with purer essences."

"Looking at it this way, I have no choice but to agree to the Tao family's invitation!"

However, entering the secret realm required waiting for the calm period of the Earth-Pole Yuan Magnet. Qian Chen measured the celestial timing; it would take at least a few months for the changes in the Earth-Pole Yuan Magnet to enter a relatively calm period. He could just take advantage of the slight insights into the thunder method gained during pill refining to see if he could accumulate a bit more magic power and advance his cultivation of the thunder method.

Perhaps he wouldn't even need to refine a Five-Lei Dan to cultivate the Five-Thunder Method?

Having made up his mind, Qian Chen was no longer in a hurry to find Young Master Tao. He just let the Heaven-Luo San hang down its clear light to seal the cave and put the spirit elixir materials that had piled up in the side room during this time into his Universe Bag. He continued his closed-door cultivation. Every day, apart from polishing his magic power and riding the clouds to collect qi, he would nurture the Heaven-Luo San and the Great Sound Thunder-Music Zither until they were pure and familiar, and he even refined the Xuanhuang Ruyi obtained from Madam Chilian.

During this period, quite a few people came to probe outside his cave, but seeing Qian Chen's appearance of being intent on bitter cultivation and not showing his face, they all dispersed.

Two decades later, a woman with a graceful lotus-step gait, eyes carrying a charming intent, and an extremely coquettish appearance appeared near the Great Spirit Peak. She walked with small steps, her whole body seemingly carrying falling peach blossoms, walking on the mountain road with a pace that seemed both slow and fast, followed by a small maid with a cone-shaped face.

"Miss, that person killed our people, why do you still want to go to the door to apologize? Didn't Great-Granduncle Six say he wanted to give him a hard time?" the small maid whispered.

"What do those wild monsters count as our own people? Great-Granduncle Six is also senile! When has our Xin family ever been willing to stand up for the dead? Even if that Treasure-Seeking Rat's innate divine ability was good, it's already a dead demon! Why offend the living for the sake of the dead?"

"Then Miss, you don't have to go to the door to apologize in person, do you?" the small maid said in a low voice.

Xin Shisan Niang played with a peach blossom in her hand and said gloomily: "Because our Xin family is not a pure-blooded human race, although the family's strength is not bad, it is difficult to integrate into the circle of the Guangling aristocratic families. If it weren't for our relationship with the Tushan Fox Clan and the protection of the Xia Houshi, we might have been classified as demons and monsters and bullied by others."

"Even so, isn't our Xin family unable to enter the clan genealogy? In the Great Jin, we can only rely on offering daughters to enter the palace to maintain our family status? The most outstanding daughters of the Xin family have all gone to be concubines for others. My eldest sister entered the palace to be a consort, and my third sister was carried in a small sedan chair to be a concubine for the ancestor of the Xia Houshi? Those old guys, relying on selling their daughters to live happily and maintain the airs of an aristocratic family. A woman like me who is going to be a concubine cannot put on such airs as they do. I can only be humble and say all the nice things to avoid accidentally provoking someone I can't afford to offend."

The Xin family could be considered a half-demon clan of human-fox mixed blood. Perhaps having obtained the bloodline of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, the family had always been yin-strong and yang-weak.

The daughters of the Xin family were all-sided and exquisite, often doing everything perfectly, and the family's inherited cultivation methods were also suitable for women to practice, and their cultivation bases were usually a notch higher than the male foxes.

It was only because the most outstanding daughters of the Xin family had all become concubines for others, maintaining various relationships within the clan.

Therefore, gradually, the power held by the women was handed over to those few old and mediocre male foxes. It just so happened that those few elders had lived long without a bit of the fox's cunning and intelligence, knowing only a belly full of petty cleverness. This made Xin Shisan Niang look down on them from the bottom of her heart... A few days ago, two monsters that an elder had taken a fancy to and wanted to win over offended someone's door and were killed by others.

They were actually still clamoring to teach this person a lesson.

Xin Shisan Niang had wanted to sneer and mock at the time. Let alone just two wild monsters, even if it were the human emperor, the future Primordial Spirit Venerable, or even a son-in-law of the Xin family who had been killed, once a person was dead, they had no value. To offend a living person whose depth was unknown for the sake of a dead person—those elders were probably living too comfortably from selling their daughters, and their brains had been flooded with water!

The Xin family did not have the deep connections of the Tao family, so they couldn't figure out Qian Chen's background. But just looking at the financial power he displayed in the Wuling Market made Xin Shisan Niang feel a bit shocked.

She immediately used the excuse of apologizing, wanting to make contact to see if she could establish any other relationships.

Aren't relationships all made? In the history of the Xin family, they had turned enemies into friends countless times. Even those who couldn't be provoked, as long as they were "slept" into submission, all hatred could be resolved. What's more, there was no enmity yet!

Arriving at a corner of the green mountain where Qian Chen's cave was located, Xin Shisan Niang looked at the thunder essence that had not yet dispersed, as well as the small stream that had been blasted into a small pond and was now much more rapid and steep, her expression somewhat solemn.

"I also know a little about that Shu Laibao and Ha Tuntian. Great-Uncle Six wanted to use two goddaughters to recruit them, which was certainly being blinded by lard, but these two monsters really had some skills. Apart from Shu Laibao's keen and astonishing spiritual perception, its escape method was also not bad, and its cultivation base was already about to condense a demon pill. Ha Tuntian's divine ability of 'great belly can contain' was even more extraordinary. Even if I wanted to deal with them, it would take some effort."

"But according to the Wuling Immortal Gate disciples who saw the thunder light here that day, when the heavenly thunder poured down that day, an astonishing thunder light traversed the sky, and the two monsters were instantly killed... That thunder light had brows and eyes; it must have been some extraordinary divine ability."

Xin Shisan Niang looked at the huge pit blasted out by the thunder on the ground, and her heart suddenly moved.

Arriving in front of the cave where Qian Chen was temporarily staying, Xin Shisan Niang raised her hand to summon two peach blossoms transformed from malevolent qi, sending them into the clear light of the Heaven-Luo San without the slightest malice. The peach blossom malevolent qi slightly touched the clear light and was annihilated. Xin Shisan Niang was even more secretly shocked, putting away much of her coquettishness and becoming slightly more dignified and solemn.

Judging from the touch Xin Shisan Niang had just experienced, this clear light magic treasure protecting the cave...

Even if she were to let go and attack for half a month, she wouldn't be able to shake it in the slightest.

Xin Shisan Niang thought that there were only a few pieces in the clan that could surpass this magic treasure. One had to know that their Xin family, relying on nepotism and pillow talk, had always accumulated a very rich family foundation. And because they were not ordinary demon clans without a background, they never feared people coming to exterminate them.

After weaving relationships for thousands of years, they had actually reached a level that even the Tao family had to fear.

Now, Xin Shisan Niang's eldest sister was a consort in the palace and one of the Jin Emperor's most favored concubines. Although because of the taboo of bloodline, it was almost impossible for her to give birth to an imperial prince, she was also the most successful because of this. Apart from the Wang and Xie families who didn't need to give face, even the Qinghe Cui family, the Wu Yue Qian family, and the Langya Zhuge family had to be cautious when they met her.

Xin Shisan Niang breathed out like a spring breeze and laughed with a voice that made people completely unable to hold on: "I am the Thirteenth Daughter of the Xin family. Because the two 'small beasts' in my family were reckless and disturbed the Daoist friend's bitter cultivation, I have come specially to plead guilty!"

Qian Chen in the pill chamber gave a light "Eh!", and the clear light above the cave gathered, transforming into the Heaven-Luo San and returning to his hand.

He pushed open the door and saw a charming woman standing in front of the cave, bowing gracefully, her posture extremely low. Although Qian Chen wouldn't develop a good impression at first sight, he couldn't develop any ill will under such a soft posture. He immediately laughed: "Daoist friend, please come in... I accidentally killed your family's 'small beasts' the day before yesterday, and I was just waiting for the owner to come and pursue it!"

Qian Chen invited her into the main hall. Xin Shisan Niang saw that he was alone, with no Daoist boys or maids to serve him, and she had three points of understanding in her heart.

Qian Chen sighed and said: "I was practicing divine abilities that day, and I didn't expect the two monsters from your family to break in. I couldn't withdraw my hand in time and accidentally killed them. Because I didn't know the origin of these two demons, I didn't go to the door to apologize. Please forgive me!"

Xin Shisan Niang laughed: "Daoist friend, you misunderstood! Those two monsters were because my family failed to discipline them properly, and they escaped privately. These two demons were wild and untamable, with many bad habits. Breaking into the vicinity of the Daoist friend's cave, I'm afraid they still had some bad intentions. Dying is naturally deserved, and we should instead apologize to the Daoist friend for failing to discipline them!"

"Oh!" Qian Chen nodded slightly. Now he knew why those two monsters had broken in so recklessly.

Xin Shisan Niang glanced around the cave intentionally or unintentionally, feeling even more the thunderous qi that made her heart vigilant. She turned a few thoughts and laughed slightly: "I observe the divine ability the Daoist friend practiced, which seems to be a thunder method. Those two monsters had some skills, yet the Daoist friend could beat them to death just by not being able to withdraw his divine ability in time. It can be seen that you must have extraordinary attainments in the thunder method."

Qian Chen didn't hide it either and said generously: "My magic power is shallow, I only have these two thunder methods that are worth looking at!"

As for the one sword, one blade, one zither, the Ice Soul Cold Light Heaven-Luo San, and finally transforming into the Eight-Armed Nezha and overturning the whole scene—those were all small tricks not worth mentioning.

"In that case, I have a presumptuous request!" Xin Shisan Niang's face revealed a worried look, and she said with a pitiful appearance: "I practice Yimu magic power and fear thunder light and thunder shock the most. It just so happens that my family accidentally discovered a secret realm..."

Qian Chen's expression changed slightly, and he asked curiously: "Could it be a subterranean Yuan Magnet Earth Aperture, filled with Yuan Magnet qi, and therefore thunder light is intertwined at all times, forming a dangerous place?"

Xin Shisan Niang said in surprise: "How did the Daoist friend know?"

Qian Chen tapped the table with his finger, seemingly thinking about something. He was silent for a moment before suddenly opening his mouth: "Lady Xin, do you know that someone has already told me this?"

Xin Shisan Niang's beautiful eyes flowed, revealing a smile that was not in the words: "Could it be the Guangling Tao family? In this way, I have three points of groundless suspicion about the reason for the loss of my family's 'small beasts'!" ===== CHAPTER 149 =====