During the years her husband had spent back at his old home on the mainland, Yang Qingxue had truly come to understand how difficult it was to support the lineage alone. Once he returned, she could not help complaining about the hardships she had endured, just like an ordinary mortal woman, without a trace of a Nascent Soul True Lord's commanding presence.
After pouring out her troubles to her husband, the pressure and grievances pent up in Yang Qingxue's heart gradually dissipated, and she slowly regained her composure.
Especially when she noticed Su Jinxiu and the other women watching beside her, her lovely face flushed faintly. She slipped out of her husband's embrace and resumed her usual expression.
While his wife vented her grievances, Liu Changxu simply listened quietly. Once she had let it all out and gradually regained her composure, he smiled and said to Yang Qingxue:
"Thank you for all your hard work these past years, my dear! Now that I'm home, you won't have to worry anymore. Let's go take a bath in the spirit pool!"
With that, he took Yang Qingxue to the spirit pool in the Ruyi Lotus Palace without giving her a chance to refuse. Seeing this, Su Jinxiu and the other women followed.
There were several spirit pools in the Ruyi Lotus Palace, but the one he and his wives visited was the highest-grade pool, prepared exclusively for them.
This spirit pool was built inside a hall constructed from high-grade spirit jade, called Jade Pool Hall.
After passing through the restrictions into Jade Pool Hall, they could see the crystal-blue spirit pool, with wisps of white mist rising from it.
The spirit pool was not large, measuring ten zhang long and five zhang wide, but it was built entirely from high-grade spirit jade