Chapter 273: Establishing Rules, Disciplining a Concubine, Lei Family Moves, Among Loose Cultivators

The entrance to the Primordial Magnetic Earth-Aperture controlled by the Lei family was an underground dark river, which connected to the White Dragon River above. The Lei family built a water pavilion at the water eye where the river connected to the dark river, suppressing the dark river's water eye.

Standing on the water pavilion and looking out, the White Dragon River was vast and mighty, winding past with great momentum.

The dark currents of the water eye stirred the river water. Even though there were no chaotic rocks piercing the sky, one could still see that the dark currents in this section of the river were intricate, rolling up a thousand piles of snow.

A young man wearing a large golden robe stood by the river, standing with his hands behind his back facing the river water under the service of an old man. He frowned, showing majesty at a young age, with more style than the Xuan Emperor Qian Chen had seen.

The boy's eyes seemed to want to see through the river surface and probe into the dark river of the water eye.

He whispered: "Uncle Huang, is that cheap maid of the Xin family still unwilling to yield? The Shenxiao Sect has already abandoned her. Is she still unwilling to offer the passage she controls to my Lei family?"

The old man lowered his head respectfully and said: "Xin Xin Shisan Niang has quite a bit of skill. Even without the support of the Shenxiao Sect, with her several sisters, it is not easy for us to tear our faces."

"I heard she has disappeared for a month..." The boy sneered: "Is she still hoping to climb onto some high branch? I'm afraid that like her several sisters, she has gone to cling to some man again!"

"Since that's the case, why is she unwilling to be a concubine for my father?" The boy mocked: "I'm waiting for my mother to set rules for her! A concubine newly entering my Lei family must kneel in the ancestral hall for three days and kneel in front of the madam's room for one day, until the ancestors permit and the madam bestows tea, only then is it considered entering my family's door."

The boy turned his head, his face distorted, with a sinister look that did not match his age: "Without the support of the Xin family, even if my mother lets her kneel to death there, so what? A cheap maid who doesn't know what's good for her!"

The old man advised: "Young Master, Xin Xin Shisan Niang is not an easy character. Last time, Young Master bypassed the old slave and went to pass a message to her, and Xin Xin Shisan Niang cut off the tongue of the person who passed the message and sent it back, losing the face of our Lei family. The master has already been angry once! Now that the major event is not yet decided, Young Master should still act cautiously!"

The boy slapped the railing, sending wood chips flying, and shouted angrily: "He still dares to come back, losing little master's face, beat him to death, beat his whole family to death!"

"The master has already bestowed a dou of spirit grain and five hundred strings of cash, sending him home to recuperate. Later, he will be promoted to be a manager of our family's industry!" The old servant answered calmly.

"A dou of spirit grain..." The boy's face distorted.

The old servant continued: "The master also said that the spirit grain should be deducted from your allowance."

The boy was even angrier. Just as he was about to fly into a rage, seeing the old servant's expressionless posture, he extinguished his anger.

The old servant also knew that this young master of his, or rather the entire Lei family, practiced the family's thunder method. Therefore, before Foundation Establishment, their temperament was influenced by the thunder method, violent as thunder, exploding at a touch.

Only after penetrating the law could they cultivate Yin thunder, Yin and Yang complementing each other, and change their temperament. But it was only slightly more restrained, and there was still a violent nature in their bones.

The boy said fiercely: "Forget it! When little master reaches Foundation Establishment First Rank, I will have better pills, and I won't need to eat those spirit grains every day."

The boy stared fiercely at the water eye beneath the river surface, as if he wanted to see through it. Suddenly, he laughed loudly: "I really have luck. In the past five hundred years, there has been no great fortune in the nearby counties, but it happened when my Foundation Establishment was about to be completed. As long as father finds the spirit cave and lets me establish my foundation in the spirit cave, it is a miracle that even the children of the Wang and Xie families do not have. I will definitely be able to establish Foundation Establishment First Rank, become a person in the twenty-eight characters of the Shenzhou in the future, and have the posture of First Rank when forming the Core!"

"For the young master's Foundation Establishment, the madam specially spent a huge price to get a pill of primordial energy from the Wuling Immortal Sect." The old man took out a mutton-fat jade bottle from his bosom and said: "The pill of primordial energy is a rare pill without any pill poison and does not affect the Dao foundation's aptitude. This pure Yang spirit pill should help the young master establish his foundation. In this way, combined with the spirit cave, there is a ninety percent chance of success!"

The boy stared eagerly at the jade bottle: "How much did my mother spend?"

"Just the slaves from the dowry were sent out three hundred people." The old man said solemnly: "So Young Master, you must not disappoint the madam's expectations. Before Foundation Establishment, you must not make any mistakes!"

"Father is here!" The boy suddenly looked toward the river, only to see a five-toothed warship slowly sailing from afar. The warship was made of spirit wood and refined with prohibition methods, which could be considered a kind of crude artifact. The warship was equipped with an array, and under the urging of the cultivator, it could avoid water and dive to escape, or travel without wind, but this required grinding spirit jade and throwing it into the array to stimulate the power of primordial energy.

The cost was so huge that even the Lei family did not dare to use it easily.

But for this trip to the Primordial Magnetic Earth-Aperture, they had hardened their hearts and dragged it out.

Just when the Lei family drove the five-toothed warship, picked up the boy and the old servant, as well as the group of people who had been prepared on the water pavilion, onto the warship, and then urged the warship to sink into the water and escape toward the dark river of the water eye.

A group of cultivators from the Jin family also set up artifacts, passed through a canyon, and entered the underground cave.

In the Primordial Magnetic Earth-Aperture, a team of loose cultivators climbed between the cliffs, and Qian Chen, wearing a coarse cloth Daoist robe and dressed simply, was also mixed among them. His flesh body had grown a bit, but he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, with red lips and white teeth, and delicate skin and tender flesh.

No matter how you looked at it, he didn't look like a loose cultivator with ability.

This young Daoist priest was quite tall, and he also carried an oil-paper umbrella diagonally on his shoulder, on which were pasted talismans drawn with coarse yellow talisman paper. But the cinnabar, which was dark red in color and dim in spiritual light, didn't look like any powerful artifact.

The loose cultivators in the same team had the same opinion. A black-faced cultivator raised his chin and signaled to his companion: "What is the background of this person? I am familiar with the loose cultivators who come and go here, but I have never seen this person?"

His companion was dressed as a head-shaved monk, half-Buddhist and half-Daoist, which was also a rarity in the Great Jin where there were few Buddhist cultivators.

The head-shaved monk whispered: "I don't know either, but it should be reliable."

"You don't know and it's still reliable?" The black-faced cultivator glared back.

The head-shaved monk answered honestly: "This is a person introduced by Xin Shisan Niang herself. Can it be unreliable?"

"Heh!" The black-faced cultivator raised his chin at Qian Chen. Qian Chen turned his head blankly, pointing at himself, indicating—is it calling me?

"It's you!" The black-faced cultivator took advantage of everyone resting, stood with his hands on his hips and said: "Kid, do you know the rules?"

"What rules?" Qian Chen asked with a smile.

"Everyone joins forces to explore the secret realm. There are countless dangers on the way. If we don't know the background, who can trust you? If we dare to hand over our backs to you, we don't know your background, and we don't know your methods. How can we cooperate with us?"

"Oh!" Qian Chen smiled: "I am Qian Chen, a loose cultivator in the Jianghu. I achieved my ability after obtaining a Dao book from a senior. I am in the Penetrating Law Realm, and the magic treasure I am good at is this Heaven-Net Umbrella..."

As he said this, he patted the oil-paper umbrella on his back, quite proudly: "Once this umbrella is opened, it is in an invincible position, advancing to attack and retreating to defend. There is also this Dragon Sparrow Ring, which can collect magic treasures..."

Qian Chen was honest, and there was not a single lie in his words.

"A fledgling!" The black-faced cultivator said disdainfully to his companion: "How can someone tell everything as soon as they are asked? Achieving the Penetrating Law Realm at this age, I'm afraid he established a lower-grade Dao foundation, and his future is bleak. And the broken umbrella carried on his back, just that spiritual talisman, one look and you know it's a talisman drawn randomly by a novice. The talisman paper is the cheapest one. One look and you know it's the lowest-grade artifact refined with talismans."

"And you dare to call this an artifact?"

"Once this broken umbrella is opened, it is in an invincible position. With such a big tone, this is a toad that hasn't rinsed its mouth!"

The black-faced man intentionally showed off his identity as a Jianghu veteran in front of Qian Chen, so he sat down against a rock, cleared his throat and said: "Recently, another Daoist talent who is famous in all directions has appeared in our Great Jin. Have you heard of it?"

"As soon as this person made a move, he was rated as a first-grade Dao foundation by the impartial official, and several old seniors said that he is a person who can enter the twenty-eight characters of the Shenzhou in the future."

Someone took over the conversation: "Another child of a great clan! They have the one-generation dragon gate, the monthly evaluation, and the impartial official of the imperial court to evaluate them. Every figure of a powerful clan is praised before they even go out to experience."

"High-gate cultivators have countless servants when they go out, the old servants by their side are Core Formation old monsters, and when they go out to experience, there are hundreds of Dao soldiers following them. Relying on what qi sea pulse image, Dao foundation outer scene, dantian inner scene, measuring bone roots, watching aura to evaluate talents... What a joke!"

"Following people becomes human, reversing becomes immortal! The Great Dao of longevity, the path of the Primordial Spirit, lies only in the word 'fight'! It relies on magic power and divine ability. Only in life-and-death battles can you see true ability and true jade. What kind of talent can that great clan evaluate? The talents of the world are evaluated by the outer nine grades of our loose cultivators."

"The great clans of the Central Lands are comfortable and corrupt, how can they compare to the heroes rising together overseas, and the countless loose cultivators fighting for the dragon and the tiger, the heroes who fought out."

"What twenty-eight characters of the Shenzhou, if they met the cultivators on the overseas Hidden Dragon List, can they enter the top fifty?" ===== CHAPTER 274 =====