Are You Sure You Want to Form a Marriage Alliance with Your Junior Disciple, a Ten-Year-Old Girl?

"What?!"

Hearing Qing Luo's words, Xuan Kongzi was completely stunned.

Third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking...

The legendary Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame actually wanted to form a marriage alliance with his disciple?!

It was not only Xuan Kongzi who was stunned.

Tianleizi and Xuanyi, standing beside him, also stared at the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in utter shock.

They had a strange feeling.

It seemed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had come specifically for Xuan Kongzi's disciple?!

"What? You're still not satisfied?!"

At that,

Qing Luo could not help furrowing his brows.

Before coming here,

he had already considered that the other party might find his words difficult to believe, so he had deliberately proposed a marriage alliance to earn their trust.

After all,

throughout history, there had been no better diplomatic method than a marriage alliance.

"No..."

Xuan Kongzi hurriedly explained,

"Senior, the Cao Ying you mentioned... is she the Cao Ying whom this junior accepted as a disciple only a few days ago?!"

Qing Luo silently looked at Xuan Kongzi, unable to understand what he was trying to say.

Seeing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame remain silent,

Xuan Kongzi took out a token.

With a casual toss, he threw the token into the void behind him.

"Senior, please wait... a moment!"

"Fine!"

Qing Luo did not know what Xuan Kongzi was up to,

but he was confident

that the other party would not dare play tricks in front of him.

Before long,

an elderly woman at the Dou Zong level emerged from the space of the Pill Territory, leading an eight- or nine-year-old girl by the hand.

"Master, were you looking for me?!"

The moment the girl appeared, she called out to Xuan Kongzi in a crisp voice,

"Cao Ying, come here!"

Xuan Kongzi beckoned to the girl.

Qing Luo: ???

"Senior, this is the disciple this junior has just accepted, Cao Ying. She is ten years old. When you spoke of a marriage alliance earlier... did you mean with her?!"

Xuan Kongzi had Cao Ying stand before him as he asked for confirmation.

"Fuck!"

Seeing this,

even Qing Luo, despite how composed he had been, could not stop the corner of his mouth from twitching.

Wait,

this was Cao Ying?

No one had told him Cao Ying was only ten years old?!

In the original story,

when Xiao Yan came to the Central Plains for the grand alchemy competition, Cao Ying was already twenty-two, wasn't she?

Wait!

Ten years old?!

Qing Luo suddenly realized something.

In the original story,

Xiao Yan was twenty-seven when he went to the Central Plains to participate in the Pill Convention.

That meant

Xiao Yan was five years older than Cao Ying. If Cao Ying was ten, then wasn't Xiao Yan only fifteen?!

Xiao Yan had broken through to Dou Zhe at eleven,

lost his Dou Qi at twelve,

and then entered his three-year period of being a waste.

Fifteen-year-old Xiao Yan...

That meant the plot was now at the point where Xiao Yan was just about to rise. Perhaps Yao Lao had not even awakened yet?!

Fuck—

So he had transmigrated right to the beginning...

"Senior... are you listening? Are you sure you want to form a marriage alliance with this junior's disciple, with a ten-year-old girl?!"

Seeing that Qing Luo did not react, Xuan Kongzi reminded him.

Upon hearing Xuan Kongzi's question,

Qing Luo returned to his senses.

Looking at the innocent-looking girl standing before Xuan Kongzi, who seemed somewhat afraid of him,

"You don't need to call me Senior. You can call me Demon Venerable, or Qing Luo!"

Qing Luo waved his hand.

"This junior greets Demon Venerable Qing Luo!"

Xuan Kongzi cupped his fists.

"We greet Demon Venerable Qing Luo!"

Seeing this, Tianleizi, Xuanyi, and the elderly woman who had just appeared also spoke respectfully.

"Cao Ying greets Demon Venerable... Qing Luo!"

Cao Ying also said in her crisp voice.

At that,

even Qing Luo felt somewhat awkward.

Ahem, ahem—

Qing Luo coughed twice and said, "Your disciple is indeed a little too young. It is too early for a marriage alliance. I can first become engaged to her. In any case, this is my sincerity toward the Pill Tower, as well as the Yao Clan behind you!"

"An engagement... Senior, shouldn't you reconsider this matter..."

Xuan Kongzi was also dumbfounded.

He was finding Qing Luo increasingly impossible to understand.

As the incarnation of the third-ranked Heavenly Flame, he had suddenly appeared at the Pill Tower and suddenly announced that he wanted to become engaged to his disciple?!

What sincerity was he even showing...

"Xuan Kongzi, I have already made concessions. You have brushed me off again and again. Do you look down on me, or do you think the sincerity I have offered is insufficient?!"

Qing Luo shouted sternly.

As he spoke,

Qing Luo's gaze swept up and down Xuanyi beside Xuan Kongzi.

If Xuan Kongzi truly thought an engagement was not enough...

then Xuanyi

was not entirely unacceptable either. She was a little old, but older women knew how to take care of people!

The problem was,

Xuanyi was Yao Lao's first love, which made Qing Luo feel rather uncomfortable.

As third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking,

did he really have to chew on such old meat?!

That would become a dark chapter in his history...

Meanwhile,

sensing Qing Luo's appraising gaze, Xuanyi's eyes constricted as she instinctively took two steps back.

"I wouldn't dare. Demon Venerable Qing Luo taking a liking to this junior's disciple is Cao Ying's good fortune. An engagement is naturally acceptable!"

Xuan Kongzi had also noticed Qing Luo's gaze and hurriedly spoke.

He did not know what Qing Luo was trying to do,

but he had a feeling

that if he continued refusing, the conditions the other party proposed would definitely become even more outrageous than this!

"Master... what is an engagement?"

When she heard her master mention her name again, Cao Ying tilted her head up and asked in a crisp voice.

"An engagement..."

Xuan Kongzi glanced at Qing Luo and explained, "After becoming engaged, this Senior Demon Venerable Qing Luo will be Cao Ying's fiancé..."

"Fiancé..."

Cao Ying hid behind Xuan Kongzi, watching Qing Luo with timid curiosity.

"I have a fiancé..."

Ahem, ahem—

Qing Luo coughed twice and changed the subject.

"Xuan Kongzi, can you now take me into the Pill Territory to meet the Supreme Elders behind the Pill Territory!"

"Demon Venerable, please!"

After pondering for a moment, Xuan Kongzi bowed and gestured for Qing Luo to proceed.

He was somewhat uncertain of Qing Luo's intentions.

However,

the other party had previously mentioned Attaining Emperorhood and the rise and fall of the Emperor Clans...

Moreover, he could sense that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was around the level of a Seven-Star Dou Zun.

Even if he made some major move after entering the Pill Tower, the Supreme Elders and the others would intervene. The situation would not become impossible to control!

Sensing Xuan Kongzi's attitude,

Qing Luo stepped into the void and followed behind Xuan Kongzi and the others, entering the independent space belonging to the Pill Tower.

Pill Territory!

Spatial ripples spread through a certain area.

Xuan Kongzi, Tianleizi, Qing Luo, and the others emerged from the spatial ripples.

The moment he entered the Pill Tower,

Qing Luo could smell the rich medicinal fragrance permeating the air.

Before his eyes stood a towering giant tower, surrounded by a boundless sea of clouds!

The giant tower had nine levels.

Faint, thin golden patterns flowed around its body, each one carrying the accumulated alchemical heritage of a thousand years.

They contained the purest medicinal power.

Inhaling them into one's lungs could nourish the soul and cultivate one's vital energy!

Below stretched Medicinal Jade steps for thousands of miles, with spiritual herbs growing thickly on either side beneath a faint rosy glow.

At the end of the steps stood the mountain gate of the Little Pill Tower.

On either side of the mountain gate stood two pill cauldron sculptures over a thousand zhang tall, complementing the Pill Tower in radiant splendor.

To the left and right of the steps,

pavilions filled the mountain forests.

Looking out, one could see pill cauldrons steaming and smell interwoven pill fragrances.

The Yao Clan's ten-thousand-year foundation was displayed before Qing Luo without the slightest concealment.

This was an Emperor Clan!

"Demon Venerable, this is the Pill Tower. Its nine levels contain a million pill formulas, and it is the sacred land of all alchemists!"

"The starry expanse above the Pill Tower is the Star Region. The Supreme Elders you seek are in the Little Pill Tower. They normally cultivate in seclusion and must be notified first..."

As soon as they set foot in the Pill Tower, Xuan Kongzi, acting as host, took the initiative to introduce the layout of the Pill Territory to Qing Luo.

"What did you say?"

Before Xuan Kongzi could finish, Qing Luo interrupted him.

"This junior said... the Supreme Elders normally cultivate in seclusion..."

"Not that sentence. The one before it!"

"The area above the Pill Tower is the Star Region?!"

Xuan Kongzi replied after thinking it over.