Why Does That Person's Back Feel Strangely Familiar?

"The Aoba Family and Jialie Family usually bully the markets and throw their weight around in Wu Tan City, doing all kinds of evil. Who'd have thought they'd be this generous this time!"

"These are more than thirty Magic Cores, and there are even three Tier 2 Magic Cores among them. The Alchemy Ingredients we need are basically included too. Now we're only missing Purple Leaf Orchid Grass, a Light-element Magic Core, and a Space-element Magic Core."

"Purple Leaf Orchid Grass isn't exactly rare for me. I can get it from the clan's Exchange Vault. But Light-element Magic Cores and Space-element Magic Cores are very uncommon. I don't even know if we can find them in Wu Tan City, and Brother Qingyun doesn't have any money."

In the Xiao Clan, after Xiao Yan helped count the herbs and Magic Cores, a simple, unadorned smile appeared on his face. The Aoba Family and the Jialie Family had truly done them a huge favor this time, basically solving most of the Alchemy Ingredients they needed, with quite a few left over.

Only, the two remaining kinds of Magic Cores were probably the rarest among all Magic Core types. Holy Light Magical Beasts were far too uncommon, while Space-element Magical Beasts were not only rare, but also extremely difficult to capture.

So Su Qingyun still put on the Rakshasa Ghost Mask, planning to go browse the markets of Wu Tan City with Xiao Yan and Xun'er.

When she heard Xiao Yan say they had no money, Xun'er's eyes lit up, and she took out two Black Cards. "Xun'er has money! Xun'er almost forgot. Now that Brother Qingyun has stepped into the mortal world, he needs money with him! Xun'er was careless."

Looking at the two Black Cards Xun'er handed over, and at the girl's sincere, adoring gaze, Su Qingyun felt a little ashamed.

As an upright young man from the twenty-first century, having gone through the era of learning simp-for-girls laws all over the internet, and with experience in the philosophy of lying flat, he really was somewhat unused to living off a woman and spending a girl's money.

The face beneath Su Qingyun's mask smiled slightly, and he said softly, "Xun'er, there's no need. We have some herbs, Magic Cores, and Dou Techniques on hand. If we take them to the auction house and sell them, we can get quite a few gold coins. You don't need to worry about me."

Unexpectedly, Xun'er stopped, and a hint of displeasure appeared on her face instead. "Brother Qingyun, are you treating Xun'er like an outsider? Even Xun'er is yours, so of course Xun'er's gold coins are yours too. If you don't accept them, Xun'er won't agree!"

Xun'er stepped forward and forcefully stuffed the Black Cards into Su Qingyun's pocket.

Faint sunlight spilled down, shining on the two of them. Both had exquisite faces, and the fragrance on each of them drifted at the tips of their noses. They were only a few centimeters apart, and an intimate atmosphere rippled outward.

There was a maidenly fragrance on Xun'er that made Su Qingyun feel refreshed and at ease.

At that moment, the girl's soft palm seemed to touch something through the pocket, making her whole body tremble, and her cheeks instantly flushed crimson.

No one knew what drove the girl to muster up her courage, but she actually turned her hand and grabbed it.

She could not help crying out in surprise, "Oh! So... so hard!"

Now it was Su Qingyun's turn to shudder all over, and he could not help taking two steps back.

Xiao Yan, who understood absolutely nothing, leaned in and asked curiously, "What's so hard? The Black Gold Card? I've never touched a Black Gold Card before. What's it made of? Is it very hard?"

Su Qingyun coughed twice, breaking the intimate mood. "All right, let's go buy Magic Cores. These gold coins, I'll return them to you in the future, Xun'er."

Xun'er's face was already red, and she took the initiative to link her arm through Su Qingyun's. Hearing this, she could not help leaning to his ear, breathing warm air as she said, "Xun'er doesn't want Brother Qingyun to return gold coins. Xun'er wants Qingyun to use something else to repay her. One little tadpole equals one gold coin. How about it?"

"So, Brother Qingyun has to spend more. In the future, you have to return an equal number of tadpoles to Xun'er~"

Hearing this, Su Qingyun's legs trembled, and he felt that something very bad was about to happen.

This girl had been after his body since she was little! Now that she had grown up, how could this be allowed?! Xiao Yan, on the other hand, followed behind Su Qingyun and Xun'er, secretly grinning like a fool:

"Miss Xun'er is Extraordinarily Talented and beautiful too. If she really ends up with Brother Qingyun, they'd be a perfect match. So sweet~ I love this pairing~"

Your future wife has fallen in love with someone else, and you're still grinning like an idiot over there!...

"Let go of me! Hurry and let go of me! Xiao Zhan, let go of me! In my Xiao Clan courtyard, there is actually such a Peerless Young Man. It's far too dangerous for him to go to the marketplace. This Old Man must personally protect him! Don't stop me!"

"Aaaah!"

"Second Elder! You need to calm down! Who was it that said earlier that he was composed and unflustered, unlike us shallow people?"

"Quick, hold down Second Elder's hands!"

In a dead-end alley of the Xiao Clan, Xiao Zhan personally led people to restrain the crazed Second Elder Xiao Ying. Ever since Xiao Ying had taken one look at Su Qingyun, this little old man had been in a state of excitement. Xiao Zhan could only hurriedly comfort and advise him, "Second Elder, don't get worked up! Don't worry, I long ago sent people to secretly protect our benefactor. Once you've calmed down, if you want to take over this matter, I'll definitely hand it to you!"

The Xiao Clan was built against the mountain. Halfway up the slope, Aoba Pa and Jialie Bi had already been wandering around with their men for half the day, yet there was still not the slightest progress.

Jialie Ao leaned against the wooden railing and took a sip of the water a servant handed him. Immediately after, he spat it into the air, and a mist of water spread out.

The Xiao Clan disciples below were still confused. How was it raining on such a sunny day?

When they realized it was Jialie Ao's saliva, they all glared furiously.

Jialie Ao threw them a provocative look, not caring in the slightest.

Immediately after, his gaze turned toward the Xiao Clan's main square at the very bottom, where he saw an extremely beautiful figure.

Wasn't that Goddess Xun'er?

Why was Goddess Xun'er holding someone's arm? A man's? "Damn it, what the hell? He actually dares get so close to Xun'er?"

"I have to teach you a lesson!"

He gazed at the young man's back as he walked out of the Xiao Clan estate and said viciously.

Just as he was thinking of finding an excuse to slip away, his gaze suddenly passed through the mist of water lingering in the air. He rubbed his eyes again, and he actually felt a sense of déjà vu toward that back. He could not help patting his father, Jialie Bi, and saying in a low voice, "Father, hurry and look at that back. Don't you feel something unusual? Although he's wearing red clothes and a red mask, it's as if some white fairy spirit is appearing around him."

"It's him? No, that's not right. It shouldn't be him. That child should already be dead. A two- or three-year-old child rushing into a vast sea of fire had no reason to survive. It might just be a coincidence."

"Because of that, your Younger Sister cried and made a fuss for several years. Even now, she still hasn't come out of it."

Jialie Bi gazed at Su Qingyun's back, but as he watched that figure gradually recede, his heart was also filled with confusion. Although the young man wore a strange red mask, that aura on him could not be disguised.

If that child had not died, he should have reached this age too, right? Ten years ago, in the outskirts of Wu Tan City, there appeared a child born with the aura of a fairy spirit, with an extremely handsome appearance. His six-year-old daughter, Jialie Si, fell for that child at first sight, crying and kicking up a fuss because she wanted to be with him.

In addition, Jialie Bi himself had also been astonished by that child as if seeing a Heavenly Being. Moreover, that child had no status or background, only an Old Grandma who depended on him for survival. As the Jialie Family of the Three Great Clans of Wu Tan City, they could naturally handle him however they wished.

Unexpectedly, that old thing was extremely stubborn and was unwilling to hand the child over to the Jialie Family. It even drew the attention of the Aoba Family. Both families wanted to take that child as a child groom for their own daughters, and both had crooked thoughts.

Unexpectedly, in the end, it brewed into a tragedy. When the old woman died in the sea of fire, a strange might burst out from the child, and he broke free from the restraint of the experts of the two clans and rushed inside.

When the great fire was extinguished, there was no longer any sign of that child. They estimated that he had been burned to ash. The two Clan Heads lamented it endlessly, and to this day, they still had not forgotten that child's peerless, fairy-like bearing.

"Better safe than sorry. Return to the clan. Send someone to remove his mask. If that really is that child grown up, we'll be able to recognize him at a glance."

"Even if he really did grow up, with a fire that big back then, shouldn't he have been disfigured?"

"Do as I say."

Jialie Bi instructed.

Immediately after, he turned back to look at the round, middle-aged Aoba Pa, who was wiping the sweat from his face and sighing, then smiled and said, "Brother Aoba, come, shall we look over there?"

"Hm? Where did my worthy nephew go?"

"Oh, you know how it is. My son has been frail since childhood, so he went home to rest. Let's keep walking. Who knows, we might find traces of that mysterious expert, and just in time, we can also probe the Xiao Clan's foundations."

Jialie Bi had eight hundred schemes in his mind as he changed the topic with Aoba Pa.

Before confirming the young man's identity and grasping him in his palm, he absolutely could not let that fellow Aoba Pa know about this.

If Aoba Pa had not brought people to interfere back then, perhaps he would long ago have obtained that Beloved Son-in-Law with the immortal-like looks!