"Mu Qing, how about I take you around the Tianyan Sect?"
After exchanging pleasantries again, An Muxi gently took An Muqing's hand and immediately gave Chu Ming a meaningful look.
"You should go back to the mansion first. Xiaoying misses you very much."
Xiaoying?
Who is Xiaoying?
Her sister's words really confused An Muqing, and she quickly turned her questioning gaze to Chu Ming, with a hint of resentment and jealousy mixed in.
"Brother-in-law, who is Xiaoying?"
"A mute girl that I kindly rescued."
Under the gaze of the two women, Chu Ming scratched his cheek with embarrassment. After explaining and introducing Hua Xiaoying's life experience, An Muqing's doubts were dispelled.
"So this is ah."
An Muqing glanced at Chu Ming equally meaningfully.
"Brother-in-law is so lucky. The girl he rescued has a physique that makes plants grow and germinate quickly, and she is so beautiful!"
"You've never seen her, how do you know she's beautiful?"
Faced with An Muqing's strange aura, Chu Ming reached out and pushed the two women's backs and said helplessly.
"Xi'er, please take Mu Qing around Tianyan Sect quickly, otherwise I feel like we will have to fight soon."
"snort."
An Muqing snorted angrily, pulled An Muxi away and fled away, disappearing after a while.
"call--!"
Chu Ming breathed a long sigh of relief and wiped the slight sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand. He felt that he was more nervous at this moment than when he was facing various crises in the fantasy realm.
You can't be alone with these two sisters in the future. Mu Qing is acting more and more aggressive. Are you really not afraid that Xi'er will see some clues?
Chu Ming flew to Danfeng while thinking, and the pretty girl with a sweet smile could not help but appear in his mind.
I wonder how Xiaoying is doing recently and whether her inability to practice has been resolved.
One of the reasons why he went to the Vast Sea Alchemy Sect was for her.
Chu Ming came to the back mountain of Danfeng while thinking, but the scene in front of him made him rub his eyes, and he was shocked in his heart.
this is my house?
In his original impression, although his home was one of the larger ones among the many houses in Danfeng, it looked relatively simple on the outside because there were few people living there.
But the mansion in front of me is now covered with various plants. Not only are there all kinds of bright and fragrant flowers and quiet and fragrant spiritual herbs growing around it like a paradise, there are even towering ancient trees covered with blue and white ice flowers standing in the courtyard. , complementing the rockery and small pond outside the mansion.
To put it bluntly, it looked like a mansion embedded in a beautiful garden, which made Chu Ming marvel in his heart.
"This is too beautiful..."
After repeatedly confirming that the plaque hanging at the top of the mansion's door read "Chu Family Mansion", Chu Ming slowly stepped across the threshold entangled with vines.
However, at this moment, the vines under his feet suddenly seemed to come alive, exuding a lustrous luster, and suddenly rushed toward him with fluctuations in spiritual power.
? ? ?
Chu Ming looked slightly stunned, and quickly used the spiritual power in his Dantian to leak out through the Qi Dan, condensing a thin layer of membrane to block the entanglement of the vines.
At the same time, there was also an emerald green stream of light falling in the courtyard full of flowers and plants.
As the petite figure slowly emerged, all the surrounding plants seemed to have found a backbone, surrounding her in a very anthropomorphic manner, and their movements looked particularly intimate.
"This is……"
Looking at the pretty girl in front of him who was wearing an emerald green peony dress and her silky silk hair was combed into a princess-style hairstyle, Chu Ming's expression gradually changed from astonishment to joy.
"Xiaoying?"
"?"
As if she recognized the person in front of her at the same time, Hua Xiaoying's originally cold eyes suddenly widened, filled with a look of disbelief. In an instant, all the spiritual energy gathered around her disappeared, and even the people surrounding her disappeared. The plants around him also returned to their respective positions.
She stayed there for a long time, then rubbed her eyes and slapped her soft cheeks hard. Such a cute gesture made Chu Ming couldn't help but smile.
"It's not a dream, I'm a real person, Xiaoying, I'm back."
"...="
Although Hua Xiaoying didn't say a word, her tight lips began to tremble violently. In an instant, her bright eyes were covered with hazy mist, and she immediately ran all the way and rushed into Chu Ming's arms. inside.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Listening to Hua Xiaoying's sobs filled with deep longing and nostalgia, Chu Ming's originally excited heart seemed to be infected, and the warmth gradually spread to his limbs. He immediately squatted down and hugged the crying girl tightly. In his arms, he stroked her back and comforted her softly.
"Stop crying, Xiaoying, am I back now?"
"..."
After listening to the voice that she had been thinking about all night finally appeared in her ears, Hua Xiaoying could not suppress the sadness in her heart. She turned from sobbing to crying, and even almost lost her breath several times and coughed like crazy. Chu Ming was so frightened that she didn't dare to say anything. He could only gently caress her back and instill spiritual power into her body to soothe her excited heart.
After a while, after the sobs in his ears gradually subsided, Chu Ming let go of Hua Xiaoying, wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled, trying to lighten the atmosphere with teasing.
"My face has been stained with tears. It's not pretty."
"..."
When Hua Xiaoying heard this, she quickly touched her face with her hands, then took out a pen and paper and wrote.
"Brother Chu Ming, I miss you so much!"
"I miss you too, Xiaoying."
Seeing that Hua Xiaoying was so excited after seeing him, Chu Ming couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.
I originally thought that I was alone in the world of cultivating immortals, but I didn’t expect that someone would be thinking about me.
In this case, I can no longer leave without saying goodbye, and I can be considered a family member.
"Let's go in and talk."
Chu Ming took Hua Xiaoying to the main hall, and she then brought tea very considerately.
"Xiaoying, nothing happened at home during the more than a month I was out, right?"
Hua Xiaoying shook her head when she heard this, and then suddenly seemed to think of something. She brought a thick stack of bills from the accounting room and placed it in front of Chu Ming, which made him a little dumbfounded.
"This is……"
"The four cities of Tianyan Sect have been acquired by our Chu family."
"..."
? ? ?
Hua Xiaoying's words almost made Chu Ming spit out the tea in his mouth, and his expression became extremely shocked.
"All four cities have been acquired? The Chu family? It's us...right?"
Hua Xiaoying nodded, and immediately told in detail what happened during the more than a month since he was out.
"So that's it..."
For a long time, Chu Ming held his chin, looked at the green plants outside the door and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Because he helped Tianyan Sect win first place in the Alchemy Competition, and also achieved first place in the Inner Sect Competition, and even became the youngest elder of the Holy Alchemy Palace since its establishment.
With the addition of various honors and statuses, Hua Xiaoying used these momentum to continuously strengthen the power of the Chu family where Chu Ming belonged. It only took half a month to acquire the Xu family, which originally controlled two cities. Then it took more than half a month to merge the remaining two cities into its own power, and finally achieved the amazing achievement of four cities jointly belonging to the Chu family.
And during this process, he actually received unanimous support from all the forces. Of course, it was not just because Chu Ming's reputation was too dazzling in the Tianyan Sect, more than half of the credit was due to Hua Xiaoying, who broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining Realm. On the body.
With the help of her physique that can promote growth and increase the longevity of plants, many previously rare spiritual herbs and elixir materials began to emerge in endlessly. This resulted in the Chu family's foundation being particularly solid even though it annexed four cities. The people below had no complaints.
"This is too strong."
After Chu Ming sorted out his thoughts, he realized that if he was asked to do it, he would definitely not be able to do it as well as Hua Xiaoying, which made him exclaim in amazement.
"Xiaoying, your business skills are so great!"
"It's not that I'm great, it's that brother Chu Ming, your prestige is too high."
Hua Xiaoying shook her head and immediately started writing and drawing on the paper.
"Every family that I talked to about business, after hearing your name, smiled and agreed to everything without even hesitating."
"Even several of the big families that control the western city came to me directly and wanted to discuss the merger with our Chu family in detail."
"Is it……"
Chu Ming couldn't help but fell into deep thought again.
I just won the first place in the alchemy competition that the younger generation of the Northern Territory participated in, and the first place in the inner sect competition. Shouldn't the prestige become so high?
Could it be said that the Holy Pill Palace secretly helped Hua Xiaoying?
It’s really possible!
Chu Ming couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
Logically speaking, even if he has enough prestige, the forces of the four major cities are so complex that it is simply impossible to merge them in such a short period of time.
Unless the Holy Pill Palace secretly intervened to help Hua Xiaoying.
Of course, their purpose is also very clear, that is, they want to integrate the four major cities into one, which will be easier to manage.
But they created the four major markets. If they were to merge them, it would inevitably destroy the diversity of the market and make many retail investors or families afraid to move into Tianyan Sect's markets.
That's why Shengdan Temple took the convenient step of borrowing my momentum to secretly help Hua Xiaoying bring all the forces in the four major cities together for management.
"Wonderful!"
Chu Ming couldn't help but admire, which made Hua Xiaoying tilt her head in confusion.
"Brother Chu Ming, what's so wonderful?"
"nothing."
Chu Ming chuckled and touched Hua Xiaoying's head.
"Thank you for your hard work, Hua Xiaoying. I originally just wanted you to look after my house, but I didn't expect you to bring me such a big surprise!"
"This is what I should do."
Seeing the shy look on Hua Xiaoying's downcast face, Chu Ming immediately pointed to the many plants outside the house and asked curiously.
"By the way, Xiaoying, did you plant all those plants outside?"
Hua Xiaoying shook her head when she heard this, and immediately wrote on the paper.
"They came to us on their own."
"???"
The words on this paper really confused Chu Ming's brain again.
Come to the door yourself?
Are these plants still growing legs?
Seeing Chu Ming's confused look, Hua Xiaoying wrote the explanation on the paper.
"With the help of my master's wife, I successfully broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining Realm."
"Since then, every time I wake up at night, I will find many plants and flowers growing in the mansion the next morning. After cleaning them, they have grown back on the third day, and there are even more. "
"There's nothing I can do, so I just let them grow in the yard."
"But I discovered that these plants contain very rare elixir materials, and I can also talk to them and communicate with them with my spiritual consciousness!"
Communicate with spiritual consciousness?
Seeing these words, Chu Ming suddenly remembered the scene when he was suddenly attacked by the vines under his feet when he first entered the door, and the strange phenomenon of those plants surrounding Hua Xiaoying being hostile to him.
I asked why the vine attacked me at first and then withdrew. It turned out that Hua Xiaoying thought I was an intruder at first.
Then wouldn't my own mansion have another way to prevent outsiders from entering?
"So that's it."
Chu Ming took Hua Xiaoying's hand solemnly and used his spiritual power to penetrate her body to check. The sudden intimate contact made her blush, but she did not refuse.
"Xiaoying, your Dantian has gotten much better!"
After a while, Chu Ming suddenly opened his eyes and said excitedly.
"This way you can practice normally in the future!"
When Hua Xiaoying had just broken through to the Qi Refining Realm, when Chu Ming used spiritual power to examine her body, he found that her Dantian was in dilapidated condition and it was difficult to store even if she absorbed spiritual power.
Now, not only can she store spiritual power with her Dantian, which is gradually returning to life, but there is even an ethereal cloud tower faintly condensed inside.
Chu Ming knew that this was what the Qi Refining Realm must do to cross over to the Foundation Establishment Realm, to solidify this ethereal cloud tower into a Qi Foundation that could absorb and release spiritual power.
"These are all the contributions of Master's wife,"
Hua Xiaoying seemed a little shy after being held by Chu Ming's wrist, writing and drawing on the paper with her crimson face lowered.
"Master's wife, after she came out of seclusion with Sister Xi'er some time ago, she helped me consolidate the spiritual power in my Dantian, and also fed me a pink pill."
"After I digested it, I found that I had just entered the Qi Refining Realm and had broken through to the fourth level of the Qi Refining Realm."
"Yes, it seems that Master is also very interested in you."
Chu Ming chuckled and touched Hua Xiaoying's head, then asked casually.
"But when did you call Xi'er sister? I don't remember you calling her sister-in-law before?"
"..."
When Chu Ming asked, Hua Xiaoying's face instantly turned red, her hands were tangled in front of her, and she hesitated shyly, unable to say a word, which made him very confused.
"What's wrong? Is there a conflict between you two?"
When Hua Xiaoying heard this, she shook her head quickly, as if she had made up her mind. She suddenly raised her shy eyes and pressed her lips to Chu Ming's cheek. (End of chapter)
