Double Pupils

Chapter 21: Double Pupils

Fairy Xueyun arrived again right after dinner.

Tonight, she was going to sleep with me and tell me a bedtime story.

"Once upon a time, there was a very evil Demonic Cultivator. The Demonic Cultivator killed many cultivators and was eventually jointly slain by the great powers of the Cultivation World."

Jiang Wan: "What if the Demonic Cultivator wasn't evil?"

Fairy Xueyun told her daughter stories about Demonic Cultivators hoping she would take them as a warning.

She was momentarily stunned by Jiang Wan's question.

"An evil Demonic Cultivator?

There are no Demonic Cultivators who aren't evil. Mother tells you, all Demonic Cultivators are bad. We cultivators and Demonic Cultivators are naturally enemies.

If you meet one in the future, it's either you kill them or they kill you."

Jiang Wan said "Oh," thinking her mother's storytelling skills were truly lacking, so different from the novels she used to read.

No details, no plot, just telling her not to become a Demonic Cultivator in the future!

The only benefit was that it was sleep-inducing.

Jiang Wan fell asleep listening, forgetting about her goal to break through to Qi Refining Layer Three.

It wasn't until she woke up the next morning that she remembered she was supposed to cultivate last night.

She picked up the white cat, Fat Tiger, to pet it.

"Fat Tiger, I forgot to cultivate last night. You must remind me tonight. No matter what, I have to break through to Qi Refining Layer Three."

"Meow—"

Fat Tiger meowed in agreement.

Jiang Wan took out the turtle and shook it. It was sleeping even more soundly than she was. Forget it, she couldn't count on it.

"Junior Sister, hurry up and eat chicken legs. That Nangong Fairy and True Lord Tonghua are here again today.

When True Lord Chuzhou was seriously injured before and needed to get married quickly to harmonize yin and yang, they took the opportunity to jack up the price, demanding all four of our spirit veins.

Now that True Lord Chuzhou has recovered and advanced, they're saying they don't want those three spirit veins anymore, but they demand the marriage proceed as soon as possible!

For the Nangong Family to be such a prominent family, they're truly shameless!"

Jiang Wan, surprised, took the chicken leg in her hand and gave a piece to Fat Tiger.

"What did my Mother say? She's not going to agree to them, is she?"

Ziyun shook her head.

"I don't know. The Sect Master is in seclusion, and True Lord Chuzhou is also in seclusion. The Sect Master's wife probably won't agree."

Jiang Wan also thought she wouldn't agree, but she really wanted to see that Nangong Shuyin. Last time, she saw green Fortune above her head; she wondered if it had dropped by now.

"Sister Zixiang, take me there."

"Is this Jiang Wan's courtyard?"

Before Jiang Wan could finish speaking, she heard someone outside talking. That voice sounded so much like that white-haired True Person Nanchen?

As soon as True Person Nanchen finished speaking, he appeared at her door and, upon seeing her, pulled her into a hug.

It was indeed comfortable hugging this little girl.

"You little girl are eating chicken legs first thing in the morning. Don't you get tired of it?"

Jiang Wan looked at the hand holding the chicken leg, then at his snow-white Daoist robe.

"Not tired, it's delicious, I love it! It's even tastier than Candied Hawthorn!

True Person Nanchen, why are you looking for me?"

What else would True Person Nanchen be looking for her for? He just wanted to hug her to heal his injuries.

Because the Chaos Bead on her person inherently possessed yin and yang balance, it could automatically heal the injuries True Person Nanchen sustained from cultivating water-attribute Cultivation Methods.

Just as she asked, True Person Nanchen's eyes flickered as he said:

"I'm here to take you to see some excitement!"

[Daily Good Deed: 1/3. Task Complete. Task Reward: Double Pupils.]

Jiang Wan: What did I do? I didn't do anything, so why did I get a Daily Good Deed?

True Person Nanchen took Jiang Wan directly to the main peak's grand hall. Inside the hall, Fairy Xueyun was discussing the annulment of the engagement with True Lord Tonghua.

"Since your Nangong Family has no sincerity in fulfilling the engagement, we don't necessarily have to continue it.

Here is the marriage contract. To preserve the face of the female party, I can publicly announce that your family proposed the annulment. We can each marry and take a spouse afterward, without any hindrance!"

True Lord Tonghua, who was wearing a pink robe, clearly had no intention of breaking off the engagement. He sat there at his leisure, clearing his throat.

"Fairy Xueyun, what do you mean by that?

Aren't we discussing how to get the two children married as soon as possible?

True Lord Chuzhou's advancement is something to be celebrated, and with his marriage to Miss Shuyin, your Myriad Talisman Sect is doubly blessed. What a wonderful thing."

Fairy Xueyun took a deep breath. With things as they were, who would still want to marry them?

If they had offered support when Chuzhou was injured and honored the engagement then, it would naturally continue.

Now, thinking about how they had tried to extort them just two days ago, demanding three spirit stone mines and a Ninth-Rank Talisman Treasure before fulfilling the engagement, Fairy Xueyun felt sick to her stomach.

Marrying such a daughter-in-law into the sect, she might even vomit herself to death just seeing her every day.

"True Lord Tonghua, are you getting old and forgetful? That's not what you said the other day. If we can't produce the spirit stone mines and talisman treasure, then let's just break off the engagement!"

Jiang Wan, held in True Person Nanchen's arms, hadn't finished her chicken drumstick and watched with curiosity as the thick-skinned True Lord Tonghua insisted on the engagement.

"The demands from a few days ago were just my old bones being greedy. These two children are destined to be together. Please don't let my momentary greed tear them apart.

Before, True Lord Chuzhou was able to find the Thousand-Year Blood Ganoderma for Miss Shuyin, which shows how much True Lord Chuzhou values my Miss Shuyin."

Fairy Xueyun's expression darkened. She looked at her son, who had just walked in from outside, and worried that her son still had lingering feelings for Nangong Shuyin.

Upon seeing Chuzhou enter, Nangong Shuyin immediately stood up and walked to his side, her face full of grievance. She looked at Chuzhou expectantly and spoke in a sweet, childish voice.

"Brother Chuzhou, how are you feeling? I wanted to heal you before, but Elder Tonghua insisted on adding conditions at the last minute. I, I was so worried. Brother Chuzhou, please don't break off the engagement, okay?

I'm already at the late stage of Foundation Establishment and will soon be able to attempt to condense a Golden Core. When that time comes, we can cultivate together, and we'll definitely, definitely..."

She trailed off, acting shy and demure, as if unable to finish.

Jiang Wan, who was eating her chicken drumstick, couldn't even stomach it anymore.

Thinking of the Double Pupils she had just received as a system reward, her eyes darted. She put away her chicken drumstick, covered her eyes with her two greasy little hands, and put on a shy, embarrassed expression, as if she couldn't bear to watch.

In reality, she was peeking through her fingers, using her Double Pupils to observe Nangong Shuyin, trying to figure out if she was a green tea bitch or a white lotus.

As the Double Pupils in her eyes flashed, True Person Nanchen took Jiang Wan's little hands down and wiped them with a handkerchief.

"Look at your hands, they're all dirty, and you're smearing them on your face."

Jiang Wan retracted her Double Pupils, not having seen anything clearly.

"Oh, Big Brother and Fairy Sister are being shy. Fairy Sister, why don't you have any Primordial Yin in your belly?

The books Daddy showed me said that cultivating a Pure Yang Body and a Pure Yin Body requires them to be complete. Big Brother has Primordial Yang, but you don't have Primordial Yin in your belly, so your cultivation won't be effective!"

Her words shocked everyone. True Person Nanchen quickly covered her mouth and tried to carry her away, but Fairy Xueyun stopped them.

"Stop. What book did your father show you?"

Jiang Wan: "The day Daddy took me to the library, I randomly picked up a book and it was written there. I don't know what book it was."

Wait, was the book the important part right now?