Chapter 248: Don’t Promise Too Much
Chapter 248: Don’t Promise Too Much
The next day at dawn, the morning light was dim.
A streak of light rose from outside Lianyang Town and headed towards the Blood God Peak in western Liaoning.
Originally, Zhao Qing planned to take his whole family with him. Although he didn't have many acquaintances in Blood God Peak, Shen Mo and Liu Zijing were not strangers to him.
However, Shuyue felt that she was not a Blood Robe disciple and was not suitable to attend the Jingzhe Banquet, so she stayed in Lianyang to accompany Si He.
Qinghuan also stayed to keep Shuyue company. After all, the trip to Blood God Peak would only take three days...the master would be back soon.
The apricot-yellow boat traveled through the clouds. My aunt lay lightly on the edge of the boat, quietly gazing at the sea of clouds below.
This was her first time attending a banquet at Blood God Peak since becoming a Blood Robe disciple. There, she would meet most of the Blood Robe disciples in Yongning Province...
The black hair is flying around the ears.
The woman looked into the distance with her beautiful eyes and said softly, "When we went to the Purple Pearl Holy Land in the early years, we also talked like this while lying on the edge of the spirit boat."
Zhao Qing recalled briefly, put his arm around Xiaoyi's waist and said with a smile, "I remember you weren't wearing boots or socks at that time."
"Duan Wenyu and the Queen Mother are watching the scenery on the other side."
Zhou Xiaoyi bit her lip lightly, and recalled that she had been half-hearted in agreeing to cultivate her spiritual consciousness with Zhao Qing, which had caused damage to the Mingtang.
Since then, she would occasionally walk out of the room and accompany Zhao Qing on Chengyue's spirit boat to enjoy the scenery and chat.
Thinking of this, the woman lifted her slender feet and took off her boots and socks, then glanced at her man.
She slowly extended her spiritual sense... Compared to the past, her spiritual sense is now extremely condensed. Even if she fights with Zhao Qing casually, her realm will not fall.
As the spiritual consciousness connected with each other, Xiaoyi's eyes became somewhat blurred. The beautiful scenery in the distant sky could no longer be seen, and her mind gradually immersed in the collision of spiritual consciousness.
Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and she withdrew her consciousness and stared at Zhao Qing with her beautiful eyes.
Um! ?
Zhao Qing was stunned, not knowing what was wrong with Xiaoyi.
A cold whisper came from my ear...
"Besides Hong Ning and Sun Qian, you haven't touched any other women, right?"
Zhao Qing: ...
He chuckled and said, "Even if it's true, I won't hide it from you."
The aunt's face was full of suspicion, and she looked Zhao Qing up and down with her cold eyes.
"Zeng Nianke has such a voluptuous figure. When she helped you steer the spirit boat before...didn't you do it?"
Damn it!
Zhao Qing took a deep breath: "No."
The woman looked thoughtful, her chest rising and falling slightly. After a while, she said disdainfully, "I don't believe it."
She really knew Zhao Qing too well and knew what would happen when he and Zeng Nianke were alone together.
Given the merchant's temperament, he would definitely offer himself to his man when they were alone. And Zhao Qing was clearly not some chaste scholar, otherwise he would have spent the rest of his life with Shuyue...
The woman's dark eyes turned slightly, and a disdainful snort came from her nose.
"Sun Qian is someone else's medicine slave, yet you're willing to nurture her. Why wouldn't you touch this Foundation Establishment Stage shopkeeper?"
How do I explain this?
Zhao Qing himself couldn't figure it out, but he was really seduced by Sun Qian back then, and he couldn't withstand the critical attack of the little drug slave at all.
Zeng Nianke had been toyed with by Shen Mo, and since he was the owner of a trading company, he was afraid that he would be too deeply involved with the trading company in Songshan in the future...
Finally, Zhao Qing figured out the reason.
He sneered and said, "Calm down. So what if Zeng Nianke has a higher level of cultivation? He is absolutely incomparable to you."
My aunt smiled lightly and turned to look at the sea of clouds.
"Women aren't meant to be compared. They should be collected like porcelain. All the ones you haven't seen before should be displayed at home, and you can take them out and play with them from time to time..."
She changed the subject: "My mother said so."
what! ?
Is my mother-in-law so avant-garde?
"My father has many women. He often goes to the Jiaofangsi or brothels. He has many romantic affairs in Chu."
The woman only mentioned it briefly, then turned her gaze to Zhao Qing: "Have you ever eaten Si He's beast body?"
Zhao Qing said speechlessly: "I can't even eat a human body."
My aunt bit her lip again and thought.
After a long while, she slowly leaned back into Zhao Qing's arms and whispered, "Shuyue, Qinghuan, or me, who can serve you more comfortably?"
Zhao Qing remained silent, secretly complaining to Si He that life really couldn't be too easy...
"Hmm? It's Qing Huan, right?"
Zhou Xiaoyi chuckled, tilted her neck back, and looked into the man's eyes.
Zhao Qing pondered for a long time and said seriously: "To be honest, I feel at ease with you."
"I'm asking you whose body you love more!"
Zhao Qing blurted out: "Of course it's you!"
My aunt has intermittent illness, so Shuyue and Qinghuan have to bear the consequences.
The woman smiled lightly, knowing that her man definitely didn't think so, but she didn't say anything more.
Instead, he continued the previous topic: "Although my father had many women, he also cared deeply about my mother back then."
"My mother doesn't care about him at all. She even tells me about my father's embarrassing things in private."
As she spoke casually, she took out the pair of scarlet jade shoes and stepped into them with her snow-white feet.
Da da.
Zhou Xiaoyi leaned over and whispered in her ear, her voice as gentle as an orchid: "Even though porcelain is beautiful, you can't be greedy, my husband."
"No matter what kind of woman you like outside, whether she is cold and beautiful or lowly, whether she is a human or a beast, Xiaoyi can learn to serve her man."
How can a beast learn?!
Zhao Qing's heart trembled immediately, and he felt Xiaoyi licking his ears gently, and his breath entering his ear canal made him feel itchy.
The woman pursed her lips and chuckled, "Don't fall for men. I can't learn Long Yang's love."
As she leaned forward, her knees touched the ground and her slender ankles crossed.
She knelt on the ground, raised her neck, and chuckled, "Don't move, I can do it myself."
……
In the spring, Blood God Peak is still an endless expanse of green plains.
After floating up and down among the cliffs for a long time, the apricot-yellow boat finally arrived at the foot of the peaks.
Zhao Qing suppressed the smile on his lips and took Xiaoyi's slender hand and stepped onto the green lawn.
At this moment, there are more than a dozen spirit boats parked at the foot of the Blood God Peak. Most of them are the regulations of the Blood Clothes Trading House, and some are the personal property of the Blood Clothes disciples.
Zhao Qing rubbed the communication jade in his hand and quickly found where Liu Zijing and his group were. He took Xiaoyi to visit them.
A few years ago, he and Qinghuan came to Liao Kingdom and went to Changshengfang with Liu Zijing.
However, later on, after the whole family traveled through many areas, he came to the Liao Kingdom alone to attend the banquet.
But every year when Jingzhe arrived at the Blood God Peak, he would go to Liu Zijing and Shen Mo to sit for a while.
At this moment, there were still scattered cultivators flying in the wind. After their eyes swept over the woman next to Zhao Qing, their gazes couldn't help but linger for a moment.
They were already very familiar with Zhao, the garrison commander of the Chu State. They all knew that his wife Gu Qinghuan was also a disciple of the Blood Robe, and was also stationed in Zhongzhou, which was very unusual.
But the person beside him today... is not Gu Qinghuan, but his body is also full of rich blood and energy, so he must be of his own bloodline without a doubt.
After taking a quick look, many foundation-building cultivators rushed straight to the top of the mountain to chat about Zhao Qing with their familiar fellow Taoists.
The young man in the Jindan realm stood at the edge of the spirit boat, chuckled and nodded to Zhao Qing and the others.
"Senior Brother Liu."
Zhao Qing first greeted them, then boarded the boat and took the apricots handed to him by Shen Mo.
"This is……?"
Shen Mo smiled and said, "I left early this year. I accompanied Senior Brother Liu to Qixia and brought some food from Yaowang Valley."
That's it...
I left home early, but unfortunately I didn't bring any food for you, I only brought a mouth to feed.
"Senior Brother Shen, Senior Brother Liu." Xiaoyi bowed gracefully and saluted seriously as she approached.
Liu Zijing smiled and waved his hand: "It's not the first time we've met, there's no need for so many complicated formalities."
He looked at Zhao Qing and jokingly said, "Are you still planning to ask me for a gift?"
Zhao Qing complained in his heart, who was he looking down on?
He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Xiaoyi is now also a Blood Robe disciple, she should greet the two brothers with respect."
"As for this meeting gift... Xiaoyi can be considered my sister-in-law, right?"
Liu Zijing glared at Zhao Qing, then smiled and took out a pot of spirit wine and handed it to his aunt, as a gesture of accepting this junior sister.
Zhou Xiaoyi's beautiful eyes fluttered, knowing that the two were joking, and she did not hesitate to accept the wine jug given by Liu Zijing.
Zhao Qing directly pulled Xiaoyi to the edge of the spirit boat and asked casually, "Brother, have you heard about the Blood Son Trial recently?"
Liu Zijing took a few more apricots from in front of Shen Mo and threw them to Zhou Xiaoyi, saying unhappily, "It's strange that you ask me, a cultivator in the Golden Core Realm, about the Eighth Blood Son."
"So, Senior Brother, you haven't heard of it?"
Liu Zijing: ...
He looked Zhao Qing up and down, feeling somewhat surprised at his junior brother's cultivation level. He had already reached the third level of foundation building, which was not too slow.
At this rate, they would have the chance to reach the Golden Elixir stage in about thirty years. Although there were thresholds at each step of practice, there were few Blood Robe disciples who could not advance to the Golden Elixir stage.
After all, the Azure Dragon Blood Codex doesn't rely too much on aptitude, and the lifespan of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is nearly three hundred years. As long as they don't die prematurely... most Blood Robe disciples can steadily advance to the Golden Core realm.
At this moment, the very young-looking senior brother rolled his eyes, took out a jade slip and threw it to Zhao Qing.
"News about the Cuiyuan lineage in Qu Yunzhou."
"The Hidden Dragon Abyss in the Blood Robe Tower has sunk three feet. It is suspected that the eighth person who was in seclusion there has broken through."
"The Blood Son Trial will only take place within the next two years."
Zhao Qing was delighted, knowing that Liu Zijing had news, otherwise he would not have sent him a message at the bottom of the peak.
He carefully examined the contents of the jade slip and then returned it.
[The Blood Robe lineage is a hidden dragon in the abyss, the shore rises thirty feet, the eighth Blood Robe walks vacant, the Blood Sons are about to fight.]
To be honest, he didn't quite understand it.
"What exactly is the Hidden Dragon Abyss?"
Liu Zijing raised his eyebrows and smiled: "You'll have to ask those blood sons in the top hall. They have all entered the Dragon Abyss."
Shen Mo was playing with the newly bought mechanical beast on the side, and did not forget to interrupt.
"The abyss of the hidden dragon is a thousand feet deep."
"It's considered a secret place for cultivation. Besides the world's walkers who can retreat there, it's also where the new walkers compete. The blood sons of all ninety states in the world have entered the abyss of the hidden dragon."
He thought for a moment and whispered, "Cultivators can absorb the opportunities within. Once the opportunities are taken, the Dragon Abyss will sink."
"The Blood Robe lineage uses the number of feet of shore elevation as a metric to describe the opportunities a cultivator receives."
"The Dragon Abyss's shore rises thirty feet, and the eighth walker gains a new opportunity."
My aunt's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered, "A thirty-foot opportunity?"
Liu Zijing chuckled: "Exactly."
Zhao Qing understood instantly that the promotion of the man in blood-stained robe to the Golden Core stage was actually a guess.
There are opportunities in the depths of Longyuan, but they cannot be obtained by walking or retreating. This means that the person who was retreating there has already come out, and the time also coincides with each other, so there is a rumor that the Blood Son Trial is about to begin.
Ripples of Yin Hua appeared in his mind, and Si He was curious about whether the opportunity of thirty feet was big or small.
Zhao Qing did not hesitate. After all, he was very familiar with Senior Brother Liu, so he directly relayed the information and asked in detail about Qianlongzhiyuan.
Liu Zijing seemed to have prepared the answer long ago. He first nodded to the acquaintances passing by on the green lawn, and then slowly told the story.
"There was once a Blood Son who crossed eleven realms in the Hidden Dragon Abyss and descended six hundred feet from the shore. That Blood Son was directly kicked out of the Dragon Abyss."
"The next person I know is Senior Brother Pang Zhen."
"Senior Brother Pang Zhen participated in the Spiritual Transformation Realm Walking Competition and once obtained a five-foot opportunity. It is a high-quality spiritual treasure... If you must discount it, it is worth 100,000 spirit stones for a one-foot opportunity."
Zhao Qing smacked his lips in surprise, he really was doing business.
Brother's words to describe opportunity are truly... plain and simple.
However, before he could say anything, Liu Zijing suddenly activated the spiritual restriction of the spirit boat, instantly cutting off the surrounding perception.
Zhao Qing frowned and waited for the other party to speak.
My aunt also opened her beautiful eyes and fell into thought, wondering what Liu Zijing wanted to discuss in private.
"call……"
Liu Zijing and Shen Mo looked at each other and sighed slightly.
"Celebrate."
"I originally followed Senior Brother Pang Zhen's wishes and left you in Yongning Prefecture to participate in the Blood Son Trial."
"only……"
He hesitated for a moment, as if he had made a decision.
"It is extremely rare to find someone bearing the Azure Dragon Mark. Even the Blood Sons in the Top Hall have only heard of it. You are the first such case."
"The brothers want to keep you in Yongning and become your blood son."
"When the blood sons of the ninety states of the world enter Longyuan together in the future, you may be able to achieve unexpected results and elevate the status of my Yongning Blood Robe lineage."
Shen Mo put down the exquisite mechanical beast in his hand and whispered, "Ninety states will compete. In addition to selecting a leader to walk the walk, they will also rank each state and determine the level of resources."
"Even though the Eighth Blood Son's status is not high, our Yongning Prefecture is already weak and has been ranked last for many years."
Zhao Qing frowned slightly. He knew that Yongning was remote and weak, but... he didn't expect it to be so weak.
He held his breath and looked at his aunt, then continued to look at Senior Brother Liu, knowing that the key point of his words was still to come.
Liu Zijing gazed at the towering Blood God Peak and said slowly, "It's a shame to stay in this remote Yongning when you have the qualifications to directly pass the trial."
"You go to Qianhuanzhou."
"There aren't many high-level cultivators in Qianhuan Province. Usually, a cultivator who has reached the Divine Transformation stage can become the head of a sect. The Blood Robe lineage has a very strong say in Qianhuan."
"If you can become the blood son of Qianhuanzhou, your family's future will be much smoother than Yongning's."
He thought for a moment and then said, "I have a close friend in Qianhuanzhou. I can ask him to pick you up."
"There are also acquaintances in other states. You can consider it yourself."
"It's just... it's such a pity that this Azure Dragon entered your life in Yongning Prefecture. Senior Brother can't help you much."
what! ?
Zhao Qing stared at Liu Zijing's eyes seriously and knew that he was not acting.
Hong Ning wanted him to leave Yongning, and his senior brother also wanted him to leave Yongning, both for his own good.
Can……
But my little wife is still developing in Lianyang. Besides, if I leave Yongning, I won’t be familiar with the place. Where should I go?
The most important thing is that he has his father to protect him in Yongning.
"Speak clearly, is she a concubine or my biological father?" Si He said with a smile.
Zhao Qing: "This is not a conflict."
He bowed respectfully to Liu Zijing and said, "Zhao Qing will seriously consider this matter. Thank you in advance, Senior Brother, for your advice."
Liu Zijing chuckled and changed the subject: "I'm waiting for you at the foot of the peak for another matter."
"If you ascend to the throne of the Blood Son in Yongning Prefecture, all profits from all the merchant houses in Chu will belong to you."
"Blood God Peak won't take a single cent."
"This is what Senior Brother Pang Zhen asked me to tell you. He should summon you to the top hall tomorrow. Remember not to promise too much..."
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