Queen: I'll Just Watch Quietly

Xiao Yi Xian hesitated for a moment, but in the end obediently slipped into Lu Yuan's arms.

"I heard that the old geezer from the Mo Clan took a fancy to you as soon as you arrived."

"As expected, I have a good eye."

Lu Yuan lowered his gaze and smiled faintly at Xiao Yi Xian's face, which had grown increasingly delicate as her Woeful Poison Body developed.

"It seems he was interested in my constitution." Xiao Yi Xian covered her mouth and giggled.

"That still means I have a good eye. It's all the same." Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow smugly. "Your constitution, your looks, your bearing, your figure, and your personality are all parts of you."

"You always manage to make whatever you say sound reasonable." Xiao Yi Xian lowered her head shyly.

Lu Yuan reached out and stroked Xiao Yi Xian's and Qing Lin's heads, then gently moved them away and produced two wooden boxes with a turn of his wrist.

"These are gifts my mother left for my future Dao companions. Yun'er has already accepted hers, and there's one each for you."

Qing Lin's beautiful eyes lit up, and she accepted a wooden box without hesitation.

She had only one wish in this life: to be Lu Yuan's maid for the rest of her days.

She had not expected Lu Yuan to acknowledge her as a Dao companion, which made her all the more willing to accept.

However, he could have many Dao companions, but she could be his only personal maid. She did not want that status to change.

As for the gift from her mother-in-law, she would like it no matter what it was, as long as it was a symbol of her status.

"How beautiful." Qing Lin opened the wooden box and found a jade bangle of a deep green.

"Let me put it on you." Lu Yuan took out the bangle and slipped it onto Qing Lin's wrist, then said, "Use your soul power to leave an imprint on it. It doesn't just look pretty; it can also subtly increase your soul power over time, and it's a high-grade storage item."

"In the future, when you form contracts with serpent-type magical beasts, you can store them in a high-grade storage item if you don't want to absorb their cultivation right away."

"All right, young master." Qing Lin raised her wrist, overjoyed.

Xiao Yi Xian opened her wooden box with an elegant motion and found that hers was not green, but a pale purple jade bangle.

Lu Yuan likewise put the bangle on her wrist and had her form a soul contract with it.

As for the last one, he naturally stored it in his eye space.

Queen Medusa, in the form of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, opened her eyes and glanced at it before closing them again.

"Yun'er's bangle is pale cyan, Qing Lin's is deep green, and Xian'er's is pale purple. They all suit them quite well, and there's one dark purple bangle left that I haven't given away."

"Anyone who didn't know better would think my mother could see the future."

His thoughts wandering, Lu Yuan led Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian into the courtyard, where they joined Yun Yun.

The three women were a pleasing sight. Lu Yuan spoke to them frankly. "You already know that the inheritance I received has to do with dual cultivating with women."

"I'm not a promiscuous man, but with the struggle for the great Dao before me, I truly can't devote myself to just one of you and love no other."

"What I can promise you is that I will never let you down."

"If we encounter danger or a powerful enemy in the future, I'll die before any of you do."

"Wealth, companions, methods, and land-you are the Dao companions I have acknowledged, and I will do everything I can to support you on your paths as well."

Lu Yuan offered no sweet words, simply telling the three women what he truly felt in his heart.

But all three were practical women who did not stand on ceremony, and they found his words more pleasing than any declaration of love.

"Young master, as long as Qing Lin can stay by your side for the rest of her life, that's enough." Qing Lin was the first to speak; she paid no attention to anything else. "If not for you, young master, Qing Lin would still be a mixed-blood everyone wanted to beat and bully. How could she have what she has today?"

"I trust you." Xiao Yi Xian's gaze was firmer than ever. "You know about my constitution. If you don't leave me, I won't abandon you."

"My two younger sisters were so quick to give their answers that they've put me in a difficult spot." Yun Yun sat upright, without a trace of a sect master's noble bearing or imposing presence, and smiled charmingly. "I have no way to repay you for saving my life, so I can only offer myself to you. I'll listen to whatever you say."

She had already accepted the gift, so she would not stand on ceremony any longer.

"Mm." Lu Yuan smiled and nodded.

"What I gave you just now were gifts from my mother. I also want to give you tokens of my affection."

"Qing Lin, absorb the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor's power as quickly as you can. The people of the Heavenly Snake Mansion won't let this rest. They'll definitely send someone again, at least a Dou Zong expert, and they may have a seventh-rank serpent-type magical beast with them. When the time comes, I'll capture it for you."

Qing Lin looked serious and nodded obediently.

"Xian'er, you don't need to worry about your Woeful Poison Body. Besides the method I've mastered, I recently learned of a Poison Pill Method that can help when you're ready to break through to Dou Zun. I've also prepared something suitable to trade with someone else for it."

Xiao Yi Xian's beautiful eyes lit up. Now she could cultivate the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture without restraint and speed up her progress.

"Yun'er, for your gift, I may have to offer borrowed flowers to Buddha." Lu Yuan looked at Yun Yun.

"Offer borrowed flowers to Buddha?" Yun Yun looked curious.

"The Misty Cloud Sect's inheritance." Lu Yuan's gaze sharpened. "You're the Misty Cloud Sect Master, so you should know that Yun Potian, the founder of the Misty Cloud Sect, was once a Dou Zun expert renowned throughout the Dou Qi Continent."

"But look at the Misty Cloud Sect now. It can't produce even a single Dou Zong. It's weaker than the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, the Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley in the three surrounding empires."

"Do you think that makes sense?"

Yun Yun's breath caught. "Could it be that you know about our Misty Cloud Sect's true inheritance?" she asked in disbelief.

Not even she, the Misty Cloud Sect Master, knew about it, nor did her teacher or her teacher's teacher. How could Lu Yuan, an outsider, know?

"I have a guess." Lu Yuan did not dare guarantee it either. He smiled and said, "I'll know once I go back to the Misty Cloud Sect with you and check."

"But even if I can't obtain the Misty Cloud Sect's inheritance, I have a way to help you grow stronger as quickly as possible."

"Also, I recently received some information that concerns the Misty Cloud Sect's survival."

To Lu Yuan, nurturing Yun Yun and the other two women was also a way of nurturing himself.

He could still obtain one supreme copy and one perfect copy from each of the three women.

After the first perfect copy, he could make another perfect copy once every year.

That meant the three women would each provide him with a benefit every year. Accumulated over time, those benefits would be terrifying.

The stronger the three women became, the more and better things he would naturally be able to copy from them.

"What did you say!?" Yun Yun sprang to her feet, unable to control her expression. "It concerns the survival of my Misty Cloud Sect?"

Her Misty Cloud Sect had been in decline, but in recent years it had halted its downward slide and even shown signs of growing again. How could its very survival be at stake?

"You know Xiao Yan, don't you?" Lu Yuan asked instead of answering.

"Xiao Yan?" Yun Yun paused, then nodded slightly. "Of course I know him. That was the name of my disciple Nalan Yanran's fiancé, but Yanran broke off the engagement with him over a year ago."

Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged a glance.

A broken engagement... such a familiar plot.

After answering, Yun Yun suddenly realized something. Clenching her hands, she asked, "Is there something special about this Xiao Yan?"

"Mm, he isn't all that special." Lu Yuan smiled faintly. "He just happens to have an eighth-tier alchemist as his teacher."

Yun Yun: ???

"An e-eighth-tier alchemist!?"