Leaving aside the profligate Chen Xuantong's later behavior, in the Chen Household's courtyard, Old Master Chen Changqing prepared a lavish family banquet to celebrate his granddaughter's escape from disaster and thank Liu Changxu and the widow Liu Qing'er for their help.
As they traded cups and drank, Chen Changqing suddenly sighed, emboldened by the wine:
"I am already over ninety this year. Although Qi Refinement cultivators can live up to a hundred and twenty, hidden injuries from battles in my younger days mean I have only a few years left.
"But my poor granddaughter-once I am gone, what will become of her with her meager cultivation?"
As he spoke, tears streamed down Chen Changqing's aged face! Beside him, Chen Wan'er also shed sorrowful tears!
Hearing the Chen Household grandfather and granddaughter's words, the widow Liu Qing'er thought of her own bitter life, and her tears began falling one after another!
Watching their half-genuine, half-feigned performance, Liu Changxu felt something he could not quite describe.
As an old monster who had lived for over two hundred years, Chen Changqing found the performance by the three of them suddenly made this experience of the mortal world feel rather tasteless!
People! Why did someone try to scheme against me wherever I went?
It happened within his lineage, and it was no different here in the world of low-level cultivators.
Liu Changxu did not believe that Chen Wan'er, with her exceptional beauty, could not find a suitable Dao companion.
Chen Changqing merely wanted to secure a better future for Chen Wan'er.
Thus, Liu Changxu pretended not to notice the Chen Household grandfather and granddaughter's performance. Feigning an inability to hold his liquor, he staggered back to his own courtyard.
The next day, Liu Changxu hung a sign outside his courtyard announcing that he was