Chapter 222: Chuting

"Xiao Guiluan."

Li Yuanjiao, in a black robe, was walking on the stone road covered in moonlight, his heart filled with indescribable feelings. Seeing that he was about to get married, yet he hadn't even seen the other party's face, he felt both anticipation and anxiety, pursing his lips without a word.

Li Yuanjiao walked for a while, and the small courtyard appeared in front of him. He gently took off his jade crown, and his black hair scattered with the wind, dancing in the air. Li Yuanjiao's black hair was exactly the same as his mother, Mu Yalu, full of soft luster. He let his hair hang loose, stepped forward, and gently knocked on the wooden door in front of him.

"Mother."

The sound of footsteps arrived in an instant, and the wooden door of the courtyard creaked open. The maid welcomed him in, and Mu Yalu stood in the courtyard with a smile, saying softly:

"Jiao'er."

Li Yuanjiao entered the courtyard, sat down gently, took the teacup handed by the maid, dismissed the attendants, and said in a low voice:

"Mother... has she made things difficult for you?"

Mother naturally referred to the mistress, Dou Shi. Although Li Yuanjiao had a deep relationship with Li Yuanxiu, he was also worried that Dou Shi would lose her son and harbor hatred, making things difficult for Mu Yalu.

"No."

Mu Yalu shook her head, a trace of pity flashing in her eyes, and said in a low voice:

"She knows about your passing down. Although she lost Yuanxiu, she still has Yuanping to take care of, and she treats me quite well... She is ice-snow smart. Yuanping might have to rely on you in the future, so naturally, she has to treat me well."

"That is good."

Li Yuanjiao nodded slightly and continued:

"The family has matched me with a girl named Xiao Guiluan... She is a concubine-born daughter of a direct branch of a family immortal clan, possesses spiritual apertures, and I heard she is also at the fourth level of Embryonic Breath."

"What? A family immortal clan?"

These four words turned in Mu Yalu's mind, making her hands and feet panic. After a long while, she murmured:

"This... this immortal clan girl, will she be arrogant in temperament... I am a mother, but how should I meet her..."

"This junior doesn't know."

Li Yuanjiao couldn't help but smile slightly when he saw her appearance and teased her a few words. But he didn't expect Mu Yalu to calm down for a few breaths, then suddenly become serious and anxious:

"Jiao'er... do you really not want to be the head of the family?! The current situation is no longer the same as before. You still have to consider it carefully... You are the first person in the Yuanqing generation. Yuanping has innate defects and definitely cannot compare to you. You have married an immortal clan girl. If you don't sit in the position of the head of the family, what will others think."

Li Yuanjiao shook his head and said in a low voice:

"This junior has no intention of this. Let Yuanping do it."

"As for what others think."

Li Yuanjiao laughed, patted the sword at his waist on the table, and said in a low voice:

"When I break through to Qi Refining, I will find a place to cultivate by myself, not often down the mountain, so there will be less trouble."

"As for Yuanping managing the family..."

Li Yuanjiao shook his head with a smile, signaling Mu Yalu to come closer to listen, and then said in a low voice:

"Mother, don't forget my few concubine-born brothers. They are all people who hold a town now. They are most afraid of me managing the family, and they are also afraid that the head of the family will fall to other branches. Yuanping managing the family is what they like most. With them helping, who can turn things over?"

Mu Yalu nodded, sighing secretly in her heart, holding back many words, not knowing where to start. She was not worried about Li Yuanping being difficult to manage the family. With Li Xuanxuan and Li Yuanjiao, even if Li Yuanping were a fool who only knew how to say yes, he could sit firmly in that position. She thought to herself:

"The biggest disaster is my child. Now the brothers are harmonious, naturally there is no problem, but who can guarantee that descendants will be filial and brotherly for generations... Such a strong lineage, three weak lineages, and a strong maternal family, it is really dangerous."

Mu Yalu thought about it, really uneasy, and said softly:

"Jiao'er... Yuanping is naturally no problem, but Xiao Guiluan has a deep background, and you are the leader of the Yuanqing generation. The three lineages are weak, and only my lineage is strong, but it happens to occupy the position of the head of the family. If descendants have ideas..."

"Mother!"

Li Yuanjiao suddenly interrupted her, as if he knew what she was going to say, and smiled:

"My family has no such cowards."

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Senior Xiao Chuting stood quietly in the cold wind high in the sky, gazing toward the direction of the Qingchi Sect in silence. The magical powers of the Zifu cultivators were colliding in the air, emitting bursts of colorful light. He let out a soft breath, and the magical power within his body stirred restlessly.

"More than three hundred years..."

He looked into the distance. Qingchi Peak appeared and disappeared in the clouds in the distance, a desolate autumn color. From time to time, magic power light flowed back in the sky, and ordinary people walked below. Five counties of families, how many people and disciples, three hundred years of people's fat and blood, were transported to the Qingchi Sect every year, achieving others' cultivation.

When Senior Xiao Chuting was twelve, he had stood beside his uncle, Xiao Xianyou, in this very same spot. Xiao Xianyou had carefully explained to him how the Qingchi Demon Sect used all sorts of bloody methods to feed on the blood of everyone from commoners and rogue cultivators to noble families, and he had laughed:

"I heard that Shanyue has a Foundation called 'Drinking People's Blood', which is truly appropriate. If this divine ability becomes a metal nature, escapes from the hands of those two, and sees the scenery of this world, it will definitely make it laugh its teeth off, ashamed of itself!"

Senior Xiao Chuting listened ignorantly and asked:

"I once heard that there was a battle between immortals and demons in the world, a great battle at Pingmingjin, where many immortals fell. Did this great battle break the order of heaven and earth..."

Xiao Xianyou was silent, drank a sip of wine from the gourd, and said decadently:

"Things are just like this."

Senior Xiao Chuting felt a bit indignant and said in a low voice:

"Why? If I were to manage the family, support loose cultivators externally, unite the clan internally, I would definitely make disciples farm personally, cultivators love the people, overthrow Qingchi, and change to a new sky."

Senior Xiao Chuting felt that he was talking big and felt a bit ashamed. Later, Xiao Xianyou died, Xiao Chuchou left in anger, and the Xiao family fell into a decline. It was Senior Xiao Chuting's turn to manage the family. He finally discovered that the Xiao family was also born by drinking people's blood, just not so cruel, not so blatant.

If Senior Xiao Chuting wanted to change all this, he would have to kill all his uncles and brothers, remove his aunts and sisters, and then watch the Xiao family fall in front of him, and new families would grow on this land, drinking blood more cruelly and blatantly.

The mountains and rivers of Li Xia County rose and fell in front of him. The bloody disaster seemed to have passed. People walked through the empty alleys, and all kinds of jackals and wolves walked outside the city, staring with green eyes, waiting. That disaster fed them, so they still miss human flesh to this day.

The colored light of the divine ability gradually rose from Senior Xiao Chuting, constantly flowing in the sky, like a stone thrown into the lake, ripples rippling open. The sound from his mouth echoed in the air, carried by the divine ability in all directions.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 223 =====