Chapter 111

"Oh, oh, oh..." He Pingsheng didn't know why Qiao Huizhu had such an expression, so he could only nod and say, "Then I won't ask!"

Such things were of no benefit to cultivation, so it was better not to ask.

"Then here is the problem!"

Qiao Huizhu sat on the stone stool, leaning her body forward, her face even closer to He Pingsheng.

Then she whispered, "You killed my Dao companion, so I can't get married!"

"You have to compensate me, right?"

He Pingsheng jumped up as if something had bitten his tail: "I... how do I compensate for this?"

"He's already dead, how can I compensate you?"

"Does Xiao Bufan have a younger brother?"

Qiao Huizhu's face turned black in an instant.

She didn't speak, just stared at He Pingsheng for a full dozen breaths before saying, "Junior Brother He, you don't seem like a very stupid person?"

"You don't understand what I mean?"

He Pingsheng had calmed down by this time; he looked at Qiao Huizhu and asked tentatively, "Do you mean, compensate you with me?"

"Pfft..." Qiao Huizhu laughed loudly and said, "Finally understood?"

He Pingsheng's face turned bright red, and he said, "This... this... wouldn't that be too much of a grievance for Qiao Shijie?"

"Don't say that!" Qiao Huizhu said. "However, if we two want to become Dao companions, it won't be that smooth!"

"Our Mount Tianqiang ancestor said that he respects my choice!"

"But if you want to become my Dao companion, he has one condition!"

He Pingsheng asked, "What condition?"

Qiao Huizhu said, "The ancestor said that only when you reach the Golden Core Stage can we two officially become Dao companions!"

"Ah?" He Pingsheng opened his mouth wide: Golden Core Stage?

Although he possessed an heaven-defying treasure like the Treasure-Gathering Basin, the Golden Core Stage was still a bit too far away for him.

According to Uncle-Master Yu Xuan's theory, those who can reach Foundation Establishment by thirty and enter the Golden Core Stage by one hundred are all heaven's proud sons.

Then if I want to enter the Golden Core Stage, it will take at least eighty more years?

This...

"If you also think highly of me!" Qiao Huizhu said, "Then agree first, and we'll talk about the future later!"

He Pingsheng was average in appearance and ordinary in cultivation!

And he had no family background at all.

Before, Qiao Huizhu had seen him three times, but she had never thought highly of him.

But by a twist of fate, in that cave in the Mystic Realm, under the influence of the drug, she had a brief encounter with He Pingsheng, who had fainted from spiritual sense exhaustion.

Things had changed somewhat.

At first, Qiao Huizhu also felt it should just be left at that.

In any case, He Pingsheng himself didn't know about it.

But as time passed, this guy with average looks and ordinary cultivation had actually become increasingly important in her heart.

When she broke through from the twelfth layer of Qi Condensation to the Foundation Establishment Stage, He Pingsheng had once become her inner demon.

So today, three years later, after much consideration, Qiao Huizhu told her aunt everything and brought her aunt to Tai Xu Men.

Otherwise, she truly had no intention of ever seeing He Pingsheng again in this lifetime.

"Of course, don't answer me yet!" Qiao Huizhu said. "I still need to explain the risks to you one by one!"

"Besides this condition from our ancestor, there is one more point!"

"That is the Xiao family!"

"The Xiao family will step in to obstruct us!"

He Pingsheng said, "Xiao Bufan is already dead; what is the point of them obstructing us?"

Qiao Huizhu shook her head and said, "It's not that simple. The Xiao family's intention is to have me marry another disciple of their family!"

"The object of the marriage is named Xiao Xuan!"

"I don't know much about this Xiao Xuan, but if I refuse him and set a marriage contract with you, I'm worried he'll come to cause you trouble!"

"His cultivation isn't high right now, only at the tenth layer of Qi Condensation, but I've heard he is the number one genius of the Xiao family today!"

"For some reason, he only started cultivating at twenty!"

"It only took him three years to go from an ordinary mortal to the tenth layer of Qi Condensation!"

"He is the same age as you, twenty-three this year!"

He Pingsheng felt a wave of discomfort in his heart.

Three years, tenth layer of Qi Condensation?

He really is a freak.

"Then... why didn't he cultivate for the first twenty years?" He Pingsheng asked another question.

Qiao Huizhu said, "I heard that before, everyone thought he was a mortal without a Linggen, but later it was discovered that he didn't lack a Linggen, but possessed a rare Void Linggen!"

"Void Linggen?" He Pingsheng said, "What kind of Linggen is that?"

Qiao Huizhu said, "I don't know either, but that's not the point. The point is, are you afraid?"

"If you're afraid, just pretend I didn't say anything!"

"If you're not afraid, then we two will establish a marriage contract!"

Qiao Huizhu hadn't come today with the absolute intention of establishing a marriage contract with He Pingsheng.

She had two goals.

The first was to establish a marriage contract with He Pingsheng and become Dao companions, so that her inner demon would vanish.

The second was for He Pingsheng to personally reject her, which could also sever her inner demon.

Either one would work!

Although she would be sad and find it hard to accept the second outcome.

"Junior Brother He, do you... agree?" Qiao Huizhu looked at him earnestly, her large eyes full of anticipation.

He Pingsheng nodded and said, "The first time I saw Qiao Shijie, I was stunned by your beauty; at that time, I thought you had become so beautiful through the enhancement of a disguise talisman!"

"The second time I saw Qiao Shijie, I thought, if I could become a Dao companion with a woman like you in this life, it would truly be a blessing of three lifetimes!"

"I lost my parents when I was a teenager and became an orphan; Qiao Shijie Qiao doesn't mind my humble background, doesn't mind my crude appearance, and doesn't mind my ordinary cultivation!"

"So what reason do I have to refuse Qiao Shijie?"

"Therefore, becoming a Dao companion with Qiao Shijie is something I desire!"

In that moment, He Pingsheng thought of many things.

He also wondered if the other party was calculating against him.

It had to be said that this was a possibility.

But what if it was?

If it were truly a calculation, would others stop calculating against you if you refused?

If they didn't calculate through a marriage contract, they could calculate through other things.

Therefore, when considering the marriage contract, one could directly ignore the matter of the other party's calculation.

It was just that he would need to be careful and cautious in the future.

Besides, the Dao companion who had come to his door was the very person he admired; if he refused, wouldn't that be going against the Heavenly Dao? Wouldn't that be going against his own Dao heart?

As for the Xiao family, or Xiao Xuan?

That didn't need to be considered at all.

Just ignore them!

Hearing He Pingsheng's words, Qiao Huizhu smiled.

For her, this was also the most ideal outcome.

He Pingsheng had agreed, so what followed was simple!

Yu Ning had no reason to object!

And because of He Pingsheng's matter, the long-secluded Biyun Laozu Chongyang also walked out of his own cultivation grounds to personally preside over the ceremony for He Pingsheng to establish the marriage contract.