Seeing Niu Tian trying to persuade Wang Dong'er, Tai Tan hurriedly chimed in:
"That's right! Little Dong, you can't be careless about something as important as your marriage. If you go looking for that boy now, one impulsive moment feels good, and staying impulsive keeps feeling good..."
Suddenly, Tai Tan seemed to realize he had said something wrong. He abruptly changed tack and declared firmly, "Eh! No! Anyway, you just can't go."
"Mm..."
Seeing how adamant Niu Tian and Tai Tan were, Wang Dong'er could only sigh and say, "All right."
"Boom!"
Just as Wang Dong'er's sigh faded, a thunderous boom suddenly erupted above the Clear Sky Sect, accompanied by an intensely powerful surge of energy.
"What's going on?"
As the strongest members of the Clear Sky Sect, Niu Tian and Tai Tan naturally sensed this sudden surge of energy immediately, and surprise crossed both their faces.
"It's A-Chen! These phenomena only appear when A-Chen refines a Sixth-Grade Pill!"
Wang Dong'er stared at the extraordinary phenomena outside the window. After a brief moment of bewilderment, she quickly realized what was happening and cried out excitedly.
"That boy caused this?" Hearing the words spilling from Wang Dong'er's red lips, Niu Tian could not help the flicker of surprise that crossed his azure eyes.
Then, with a slight stir of his thoughts, powerful spiritual energy surged from Niu Tian's forehead and swept briefly through Clear Sky Castle.
But after scanning Clear Sky Castle, a look of shock flashed across Niu Tian's face.
"That boy refined the entire Cold Ice Jade Marrow Bed..." Niu Tian said in astonishment. "Little Dong just told us he possessed an exceptionally powerful pill-refining art. It looks like there's no doubt about it."
"He refined it outright?" Tai Tan grumbled, then sent Niu Tian a voice transmission:
"That boy certainly has some nerve. The moment he recognized a treasure, he went ahead and refined it. Neither of us brothers ever even got to enjoy that Cold Ice Jade Marrow Bed, and now that brat has reaped the benefits."
"It's not as though we could use that Cold Ice Jade Marrow Bed anyway. Just consider it Little Dong's dowry." Niu Tian glanced at Tai Tan and replied through a voice transmission:
"Judging by Little Dong's behavior, she probably won't marry anyone but that boy in this lifetime. She nearly went to find him to have a child just now. That says more than enough."
"Hmph!" Tai Tan snorted and transmitted:
"Little Dong has a Seal placed on her by Tang San. No matter how many wicked schemes that boy has in his belly, unless he gets past Tang San, he can forget about touching her!"
"True." Niu Tian nodded in agreement and replied through a voice transmission, "We were too hasty just now. With that Seal on Little Dong, there's no way that boy can succeed."
"First Dad, Second Dad, I'm going to find A-Chen now!" Wang Dong'er called to Niu Tian and Tai Tan, then ran out of the room to look for Lin Xuanchen.
"Go ahead." Niu Tian waved a hand and made a show of reminding her, "Mind your boundaries. Don't cross the line."
Inside the room, Lin Xuanchen beckoned with his hand. Twelve ice-blue pills, still radiating cold air, immediately shot out of the Medicine Cauldron and came to a hover before him.
"Twelve Ice Spirit Pills. Not a bad haul." As Lin Xuanchen gazed at the twelve Ice Spirit Pills floating before him, a smile involuntarily appeared on his handsome face.
"Twelve Ice Spirit Pills. Four or five should be enough to compensate the Ice Empress. I'll keep the rest for now. If that isn't enough, I'll just give her all of them."
Lin Xuanchen lightly tapped his Storage Ring with a finger and took out several jade bottles. He casually placed the twelve hovering Ice Spirit Pills inside them, then returned them to his Storage Ring.
"A-Chen!" Just as Lin Xuanchen finished putting the Ice Spirit Pills into his Storage Ring, Wang Dong'er came into view.
"Dong'er, you're here." Recognizing her, Lin Xuanchen smiled faintly and asked, "So? Have you finished talking to your First Dad and Second Dad?"
"Mm-hmm!" Wang Dong'er nodded her delicate head. "My First Dad and Second Dad have agreed to let us be together!"
"But A-Chen, my First Dad gave me a Brocade Pouch." Wang Dong'er took out the Brocade Pouch Niu Tian had given her and handed it to Lin Xuanchen.
"A-Chen, my First Dad said my father wove this Brocade Pouch himself. Although my First Dad and Second Dad have agreed to our relationship, my First Dad said you still have to complete what's inside the Brocade Pouch before we can truly be together."
A faint blush colored Wang Dong'er's lovely face as she looked at the Brocade Pouch in Lin Xuanchen's hand and slowly explained.
"Your father wove it himself?" Lin Xuanchen froze briefly, then quickly realized what was inside the Brocade Pouch in his hand.
Wasn't this the fucking beginning of Tang San's dog training?
In the original story, Huo Yuhao's life had begun to be repeatedly manipulated by Tang San after he entered the Clear Sky Sect.
First, he had gone to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to pick the Lovesick Heartbreak Red for Wang Dong'er, leaving his entire body paralyzed.
Later, in Qiankun Asking Love Valley, Tang San had killed him and revived him over and over, killing him and reviving him again.
Moreover, to lessen Huo Yuhao's hatred toward Dai Hao, Tang San had constantly slipped in accounts of Dai Hao's heroic deeds for his soldiers.
But no matter how well Dai Hao treated his soldiers on the front lines, he could never make up for what he owed Huo Yuhao and his mother, Huo Yun'er.
He couldn't control his lower half, hadn't even shot it onto the wall, and then failed to make proper arrangements for the child he had fathered.
After that came a whole heap of melodramatic plot developments that had truly left Lin Xuanchen at a loss for words.
And now, Tang San was already trying to slip the dog leash around his neck.
"But... I know the plot. Tang San, you can forget about training me into your dog."
At that thought, the corners of Lin Xuanchen's mouth involuntarily lifted. He had two powerful backers now. Why should he fear Tang San?
"Oh, right, A-Chen. My First Dad said you can't force this Brocade Pouch open. It has his Seal inside, and forcing it open will damage the contents."
"Your spiritual power needs to reach a certain level first. Then you have to use your own spiritual power to break the Seal before you can inspect what's inside."
Wang Dong'er said slowly, "My First Dad only just gave me this Brocade Pouch. I haven't even had time to sneak a peek."
"What, you want to know what's inside?" Lin Xuanchen asked, reaching out to lightly brush Wang Dong'er's pert little nose.
"Of course I do." Wang Dong'er nodded honestly. "I'm actually very curious about what my father left inside the Brocade Pouch."
"What else could it be? Isn't it where your father's dog training begins?"
Hearing the words spilling from Wang Dong'er's red lips, Lin Xuanchen could not help muttering inwardly.
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