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Chapter 64 Medicine King Valley 3
The four looked at Liu Shaoyuan, who was silently drinking soup to the side, their eyes filled with resentment.
"Don't look at me like that! These are the signature dishes of Baofu Inn, and even our demon friends love them!" Liu Shaoyuan smiled at the four of them. "After all, you've come to Yaochen City, so as the host, I naturally have to serve you some special delicacies!" But his smile looked wicked no matter how you looked at it.
Cheng Jiu tore the steamed buns into small pieces and put them into the soup, then soaked the roasted meat in it. After mixing them together, he tasted that it was actually quite good.
The three people next to them thought it was a good idea and followed suit.
"What's going on with your Medicine Alliance?" Cheng Jiu was very curious about this. Although she could roughly guess what was going on, she still wanted to know the specifics.
When Liu Shaoyuan heard her ask, he said, "If you want to know, I'll tell you. It's not like it's something I can't tell you."
That Xiao Fan is Elder Xiao Ming's only son. You know, the higher one's cultivation level, the harder it is to have offspring. Elder Xiao Ming, having reached the Great Ascension stage, had long since given up hope of having children. But then, on his last day, he unexpectedly had a son. Therefore, he dotes on this son immensely, treating him like the apple of his eye.
Gongcheng and Gongyu, standing to the side, ate their steamed buns in silence. After all, their parents were at the Great Ascension stage, practically on the verge of ascension, when they conceived them. For their sake, their parents suppressed their cultivation until the two were six years old and their aptitudes were tested, at which point they were allowed to resume their cultivation and ascend.
"Logically speaking, a child in the Mahayana stage should have high aptitude, but Xiao Fan seems to have combined all the shortcomings of his parents. He looks like his father and his aptitude is like his mother's."
His mother was a beautiful cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage. She initially climbed up to Elder Xiao Ming for his resources, but unexpectedly became pregnant.
"I don't know what she was thinking. She must have read too many storybooks to believe that Elder Xiao Ming wanted her to abort the child but hadn't said a word." Liu Shaoyuan was speechless when he heard this.
"Does Elder Xiao Ming have a Daoist partner?" the four asked curiously.
"No, Elder Xiao Ming may have many female confidantes, but he has never had a Daoist partner. That's why I said he's been reading too many storybooks."
So Elder Xiao Ming was unaware of this until he deduced the bloodline connection and discovered the fetus. However, by then the fetus was already quite far along, so the best opportunity for body tempering was missed; otherwise, Xiao Fan's aptitude wouldn't have been so low. Liu Shaoyuan sighed deeply.
"Body tempering." This brought back very bad memories for Cheng Jiu. There were rumors in the cultivation world that some children were nurtured with various rare and precious materials during their fetal development, resulting in the birth of exceptionally talented children.
Her mother, Chen Tingyi, was one of the victims. During Chen Tingyi's pregnancy, her deceased grandmother somehow found various secret formulas that claimed could improve the fetus's fertility and ensure the birth of a boy.
Chen Tingyi was an orphan from a feudal dynasty in the mortal realm, where there was a tradition of male superiority over females. She was just lucky enough to encounter the Yunxiao Sect and thus became a cultivator.
With the influence of such a wicked mother-in-law, and having also come to believe in such ideas herself, she ultimately brought about her own demise.
Seeing her somewhat pale face, Liu Shaoyuan, who came from the same place, understood her somewhat: "This method is not something that small families in our area can afford. The medicinal herbs alone could drain a small family dry."
Cheng Jiu sighed with emotion.
"Speaking of which, has your Luo family come looking for you, Luo Simiao?" Liu Shaoyuan asked curiously. Anyway, since he was taken in as a disciple by his master, the Liu family had never given up harassing him.
"I've changed my name to Cheng Jiu, Cheng Jiu (meaning 'Nine' in Chinese)," Cheng Jiu said calmly.
"You changed your name, you changed your name, that's great!" Liu Shaoyuan understood what she meant. "It seems that you're the most carefree person around here."
"Didn't you leave the Liu family a long time ago?" Cheng Jiu had heard his gossip back then.
"Don't even mention it! Ever since they found out I was taken in as a disciple by my master, they've been harassing me, trying to get me to bring those younger brothers to Medicine King Valley. They have absolutely no shame!" Liu Shaoyuan complained as he spoke of this.
"If I hadn't been so clever as to latch onto my master's coattails back then, I would be a young master groom in the Liu family now. You have no idea how pretentious my aunt is. She's such a grown woman, yet she still acts like a little girl and acts coquettishly towards my father."
"Why don't you just ignore them?" Senior Sister Ying and the Gong brothers, Gong Cheng and Gong Yu, were listening intently, as they were also very curious about what had happened to their junior sister.
“How can I really ignore him? After all, he is still my biological father.” Liu Shaoyuan was very distressed when he talked about this. His father did that kind of thing to his mother, but his father was still his father.
He is a disciple of the prestigious Medicine King Valley, how could he be labeled as unfilial?
"Hey, Luo Simiao... oh, no, Cheng Jiu, if the Luo family comes to Guiyuan Sect, just like the Liu family, what will you do?" Liu Shaoyuan really wanted to discuss this topic with Cheng Jiu, who had a similar experience, but he was really annoyed by the Liu family these days.
Cheng Jiu was calm and composed. When she left the Luo family, she actually had a self-destructive tendency. Her main goal was to get away from this garbage dump and never want to be associated with it again in her life.
But she has grown up now, and with her master around, her views have long since changed: "Since they want to acknowledge me back, then I will! After all, to be frank, Luo Xing'an is my biological father, and my mother is also in the Luo family. These are relationships that can never be severed."
Moreover, to put it bluntly, there was nothing she could do to them. Although they had schemed against her, to be honest, she had a good childhood. Although her father didn't love her and her mother didn't care for her, the Luo family never shortchanged her materially.
As for the familial relationship, her mother has already forgiven her. How could she, as a child, insist on avenging her mother?
If we were to actually attack them, we would be in no position to stand up to them, so we had no choice but to join them since we couldn't win in a fight.
"?" Liu Shaoyuan looked at her in disbelief. This girl, who dared to buy pills that would make someone faint for three days and then run away when she was young, was now so obedient.
"If I take back the title, I think the positions of patriarch and ancestor should be changed. Then I will be both the patriarch and ancestor of the Luo family."
The Luo family will all be hers eventually. Even if she despises the Luo family as a garbage dump, she shouldn't refuse free labor and resources!
The Wu brothers' affair opened up another path for her. The other party was only an outer disciple of the Guiyuan Sect's Medicine Peak. What was wrong with her, a direct disciple, taking over the Luo family?
Who dares to object? Just make sure those scheming people don't cry when the time comes.
Liu Shaoyuan's eyes lit up: "Hey, this is a great idea! It's really great! I remember there are still some good things in the Liu family's storeroom. It's such a waste to have those good things piled up in the storeroom. Let me, the head of the family and the patriarch, enjoy them!"
As he spoke, he became restless. Why hadn't he thought of that before? The next second, he was held down by Senior Sister Ying.
"Stop getting off-topic, you haven't finished talking about the Medicine Alliance yet."
"Oh! It's that Xiao Fan. He has low aptitude and can't enter Medicine King Valley. Elder Xiao Ming took the initiative to apply to be stationed at the Medicine Alliance for his son. He has made many contributions to Medicine King Valley, so the sect leader agreed."
As it turns out, Xiao Fan is not only unattractive and ugly, but also has poor character. I don't know what he was thinking, but he actually set his sights on those rogue cultivators who are worthless. Previously, the Medicine Alliance had some unspoken rules that made things difficult for those rogue cultivators, but these mostly happened in remote cities.
But ever since Xiao Fan was put into the management of the Medicine Alliance by his father, he has become even more lawless. He does the same thing at the Medicine Alliance headquarters and colludes with other forces to make the Medicine Alliance a mess. "Speaking of this, Liu Shaoyuan complained.
"Isn't Medicine King Valley going to do anything about it?" After all, it's the main alliance. Although the five major sects are powerful now, they can't just ignore appearances!
"Manage? How can we manage him? Elder Xiao Ming is, after all, a Great Ascension Immortal Lord and a Ninth-Rank Alchemist. You don't think Medicine King Valley would offend him for the sake of those rogue cultivators, do you?"
No matter how peaceful the cultivation world may seem, it still follows the principle of respecting the strong, and Elder Xiao Ming is that respected one.
"But don't worry, the sect leader sent his master here this time to give Elder Xiao Ming a warning and tell him not to go too far."
As for anyone else encountering such a thing in the future, they can only blame their bad luck. These words are cruel and cold-hearted.