Chapter 484

"A miss is as good as a mile. Xuan Yuan Dapan will never be able to cross this step in his entire life. Relying on dual cultivation to enter the Earth Immortal Realm—do you think he's practicing the 'Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon'? Furthermore, an Earth Immortal is nothing—is he really that strong? The Demon Master Pang Ban was beaten into a coma by me, and Donghuang Taiyi retreated three times before me. A mere Xuan Yuan Dapan can be extinguished with a flick of a finger!"

Lin Fan spoke to Xuan Yuan Jingxuan with a smile, his fingers digging into the holes in his head, causing Xuan Yuan Jingxuan to almost faint from the pain.

"Who are you? Who on earth are you!"

Xuan Yuan Jingxuan cried out in a breakdown; he truly felt that death would be better than this.

"My name is Lin Fan!"

"Young Master Tianji, you are Young Master Tianji Lin Fan? Our Xuan Yuan family has never offended you; why must you interfere in the affairs of the Xuan Yuan family!"

Xuan Yuan Jingxuan naturally knew the prestige of Young Master Tianji. It was rumored that Lin Fan had defeated a 300,000-strong Mongol army head-on on the grasslands, but he should be in the Great Qin right now.

Xuan Yuan Jingxuan could not figure out why Lin Fan would suddenly appear in the Xuan Yuan family of Huishan and be so targeted against him.

"Because Xuan Yuan Qingfeng is my woman, and naturally I must act when she is in trouble!"

Lin Fan did not hide it and told him straight.

"What on earth do you want!"

Xuan Yuan Jingxuan's face was now covered in blood flowing from his head, and he could barely open his eyes. Having lost so much blood, he was already showing signs of dizziness and fainting.

But Lin Fan used his true essence to protect him, ensuring he wouldn't die from excessive blood loss, while also preventing him from fainting.

"I've discovered that you and Xuan Yuan Dapan are the same kind of people—so lecherous and shameless. So, I plan to fulfill your wishes and let you two dual cultivate once. That scene must be very spectacular!"

Lin Fan said to Xuan Yuan Jingxuan with interest.

"What?"

Xuan Yuan Jingxuan had been drifting in and out of consciousness, but upon hearing this, he immediately sobered up. Could this Young Master Tianji be a devil? How could he come up with such a thing!

"Good, let those two shameless people get together!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yuan Qingfeng looked at Xuan Yuan Jingxuan with satisfaction. This bastard actually coveted her mother; killing him would be letting him off too easily. Let it be as Lin Fan said.

"Qingfeng, did you invite him?"

At this moment, Xuan Yuan Qingfeng's mother walked over, looked Lin Fan up and down a few times, and asked.

"That's right, Mother. He is Young Master Tianji Lin Fan, and your daughter has already pledged her life to him!"

In front of her mother, Xuan Yuan Qingfeng was too embarrassed to say she had thrown herself at him, so she had to say she had pledged her life to Lin Fan.

"I see. Since that's the case, then Mother can rest assured!"

The beauty touched Xuan Yuan Qingfeng's face. Although she hadn't been able to marry the person she liked, it was a good thing that her daughter could be with the person she liked.

"Since you're here, why not come in!"

Lin Fan suddenly said in a deep voice toward the courtyard gate.

"Young Master Tianji lives up to his reputation. Xuan Yuan Jingcheng pays his respects."

A man who looked like a middle-aged scholar walked in; he looked like a weak scholar with no strength to truss a chicken.

"Hiding your talents for over thirty years, have you decided not to hide anymore?"

Lin Fan looked at the man before him and said with a hint of teasing.

"I never deliberately hid anything; it's just that they were biased, and I couldn't be bothered to explain!"

Xuan Yuan Jingcheng also smiled faintly. He knew that before Lin Fan, everything about him was laid bare.

Xuan Yuan Qingfeng looked at her father thoughtfully, while her mother was somewhat incredulous upon hearing Lin Fan's words.

In her impression, Xuan Yuan Jingcheng had always been an unmotivated, dull, and boring bookworm, but listening to their conversation, Xuan Yuan Jingcheng had actually been hiding his true self all along.

"You are no match for Xuan Yuan Dapan; you'd better leave him to me!"

Lin Fan looked quietly at the man before him. Who would have thought that reading books could produce such an expert? But Xuan Yuan Dapan was not someone he could deal with right now, and perishing together was not advisable either.

"But I am Qingfeng's father!"

Xuan Yuan Jingcheng's tone was unexpectedly firm; it was clear he intended to settle things with Xuan Yuan Dapan himself.

"If I weren't here, you would naturally need to do it. But since I am here, my woman will naturally be protected by me!"

Lin Fan shook his head. This matter could not be left to others. He had promised to help Xuan Yuan Qingfeng resolve the Xuan Yuan family's affairs, and this was his promise; no one could change it.

"Do you know martial arts?"

The beauty walked slowly to Xuan Yuan Jingcheng and asked.

"I don't know martial arts; I study the Confucian Dao. But there is a golden house in books. I enter the Dao through Confucianism, so I am not necessarily a match for a martial arts expert!"

Xuan Yuan Jingcheng turned his head and said with a serious expression.

"Why didn't you stop me back then?"

The beauty was silent for a moment before suddenly asking.

"First, I hadn't reached this realm back then and was powerless to resist. Second, it was your own wish, and I respect your choice!"

Xuan Yuan Jingcheng was also silent for a while before saying somewhat helplessly.

"Young Master, what exactly happened to my mother back then?"

Xuan Yuan Qingfeng leaned over to Lin Fan and asked in a low voice.

"Back then, I offered myself as a pillow, becoming the dual cultivation furnace for the old ancestor, Xuan Yuan Dapan."

The beauty spoke faintly, but it was like a thunderclap that stunned Xuan Yuan Qingfeng.

"Why, Mother? Why on earth did you do that!"

After a long while, Xuan Yuan Qingfeng came to her senses and looked at her mother in disbelief.

"Your mother liked the Northern Liang Princess Wu Su, who dressed as a man, back then. Later, Wu Su left without saying goodbye, and your mother fell into trouble in the Jianghu. Your father begged Xuan Yuan Dapan to save your mother, but your mother looked down on your father, thinking he was a bookworm, and he couldn't be compared to the spirited and heroic image of Wu Su in her heart."

"But the Xuan Yuan family was powerful, and your mother was forced to marry your father, but she agreed to only bear him one child, regardless of gender. Later, perhaps she wanted to test if your father truly loved her, or perhaps she wanted to take revenge on your father by degrading herself—in short, she offered herself as a pillow and voluntarily became Xuan Yuan Dapan's dual cultivation furnace."

Lin Fan slowly recounted the past of Xuan Yuan Qingfeng's mother, and everyone looked at him in astonishment.

Even Xuan Yuan Qingfeng's mother could not help but look at Lin Fan. She hadn't expected him to know so much about her affairs, even being able to fathom her psychological state back then.

Back then, her offering herself as a pillow indeed had these two reasons. First, she hated Xuan Yuan Jingcheng for forcibly marrying her, causing her wish to marry a Jianghu hero like Wu Su to fall through, and instead marrying a bookworm like him.

Second, although Xuan Yuan Jingcheng had married her, he had always treated her with the utmost respect, even when she set three conditions for him, he remained unmoved. For a time, she couldn't tell if Xuan Yuan Jingcheng truly loved her or not, and at that time, she even discovered that she seemed to have fallen in love with Xuan Yuan Jingcheng a little.

So, in order to test if Xuan Yuan Jingcheng truly loved her, and also to cut off her own thoughts, she chose to offer herself as a pillow and become Xuan Yuan Dapan's dual cultivation furnace.