Double Pupils

After dinner, Fairy Xueyun came again.

Tonight, she would sleep with Jiang Wan again and tell her a bedtime story.

"Once upon a time, there was a very wicked demonic cultivator. That demonic cultivator killed many cultivators, and in the end, the great powers of the Cultivation World joined forces and slew him."

Jiang Wan asked, "What if the demonic cultivator isn't bad?"

Fairy Xueyun was telling her daughter a story about demonic cultivators because she wanted Jiang Wan to take it as a warning.

Caught off guard by Jiang Wan's question, she froze for a moment.

"A demonic cultivator who isn't bad?

There are no demonic cultivators who aren't bad. Mother is telling you, every demonic cultivator is bad. We cultivators and demonic cultivators are born enemies.

If you encounter them in the future, either you kill them, or they kill you."

Jiang Wan gave an oh. Her mother truly had no skill at telling stories; it was far worse than the novels she had read before.

There were no details, no plot. She had simply told Jiang Wan never to become a demonic cultivator, and that was it!

The only benefit was that it helped her sleep.

As Jiang Wan listened, she drifted off, forgetting that she needed to work hard to break through to Qi Refining Layer Three.

When she woke the next morning, she finally remembered that she was supposed to cultivate at night.

She took out the white cat Fat Tiger and cuddled it.

"Fat Tiger, I forgot to cultivate last night. You have to 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 gave it a shake. It was sleeping even more deeply than she had been. Forget it, she could not count on it.

"Junior Sister, get up and eat a chicken leg! That Fairy Nangong has come again today, and she brought True Lord Tonghua with her.

Before, when True Person Chuzhou was gravely injured and needed to marry quickly to harmonize yin and yang, they took the opportunity to jack up the price, demanding four spirit veins from us.

Now that True Person Chuzhou has recovered and even advanced, they have come to say they do not want those three spirit veins anymore, but they demand that the marriage be completed as soon as possible!

The Nangong Family is supposed to be a great lineage, yet they are so shameless!"

Jiang Wan was astonished. She split the chicken leg in her hand and gave half to Fat Tiger.

"What did my mother say? She couldn't possibly agree to them, could she?"

Ziyun shook her head.

"I don't know. The Sect Master is currently in secluded cultivation, and True Person Chuzhou is also in secluded cultivation. The Sect Master's Wife probably won't agree."

Jiang Wan thought so too, but she really wanted to see Nangong Shuyin. Last time, Jiang Wan had seen green fortune above her head. She wondered whether it had dropped now.

"Sister Zixiang, take me there."

"Is this little Jiang Wan's courtyard?"

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

The moment True Person Nanchen finished speaking, he was already at her door. The instant he saw her, he scooped her into his arms.

Sure enough, holding this little girl was still comfortable.

"You're eating chicken legs so early in the morning, little girl. Don't you get tired of them?"

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

"I don't get tired of them. They're delicious, I love them, and they're even better than candied hawthorn!

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

What else could True Person Nanchen be looking for her for? He wanted to hold her and heal his injuries.

The Chaos Bead on her body was inherently balanced in yin and yang, allowing the injuries True Person Nanchen had suffered from cultivating a water-attribute cultivation method to recover automatically.

But when she asked, True Person Nanchen's eyes shifted as he said,

"I came to take you to watch the excitement!"

[Daily Good Deed: 1/3.

Mission complete.

Mission reward: Double Pupils.]

Jiang Wan was bewildered. What had she done?

She had done nothing at all. How had she completed a Daily Good Deed?

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

"Since your Nangong Family has no sincerity in honoring the marriage agreement, then we need not insist on continuing this marriage.

Here is the marriage contract. To preserve the woman's reputation, I can announce to the outside world that you proposed the annulment. From now on, each may marry whom they please, without delaying the other!"

True Lord Tonghua, dressed in a pink robe, clearly had no intention of annulling the engagement. He sat there with perfect composure and cleared his throat.

"Why would Fairy Xueyun say such a thing?

Aren't we discussing having the two children marry as soon as possible?

True Person Chuzhou's advancement is certainly cause for celebration. If he also marries our Miss Shuyin, your Myriad Talisman Sect will have double happiness at its gates. What a splendid thing that would be."

Fairy Xueyun took a deep breath. Things had reached this point—who would still marry into their family?

If they had offered timely help when Chuzhou was injured and brought forward the marriage agreement, then naturally the marriage could have continued.

But when she recalled how they had raised their price on the spot just two days ago, refusing to honor the marriage agreement unless they added three spirit stone mines and a Ninth-Rank Talisman Treasure, Fairy Xueyun felt sick to her stomach.

If they brought such a daughter-in-law into the sect, seeing her every day would probably make Fairy Xueyun vomit herself to death.

"Has True Lord Tonghua grown old enough for his memory to fail? That was not what you said two days ago. We cannot provide spirit stone mines or talisman treasures, so let us annul this marriage!"

Held in True Person Nanchen's arms, Jiang Wan had not even finished her chicken leg when she watched the shameless True Lord Tonghua stubbornly insist on the marriage agreement.

"What happened two days ago was merely this old bag of bones being greedy. These two children share a heaven-ordained fate, so please do not tear them apart because of my momentary greed.

True Person Chuzhou once gathered a thousand-year blood ganoderma for Miss Shuyin. It is clear that True Person Chuzhou places great importance on our Miss Shuyin."

Fairy Xueyun's expression darkened as she looked toward her son, who had entered from outside. She was somewhat worried that he still harbored lingering feelings for Nangong Shuyin.

The moment Nangong Shuyin saw Chuzhou enter, she immediately stood and went to his side. Her face was full of grievance as she gazed at him pitifully, her voice sweet and coquettish.

"Brother Chuzhou, how is your body? Earlier, I wanted to heal Brother Chuzhou, but Elder Tonghua insisted on raising the terms at the last minute. I... I was worried to death. Brother Chuzhou, don't annul the engagement, all right?

I'm already at Foundation Establishment Late Stage and will soon be able to attempt Core Formation. Then we can cultivate together, and surely we can... we can..."

At this point, she twisted about in bashful shyness, seemingly unable to continue.

Jiang Wan was so disgusted by the sight that she could not even keep eating her chicken leg.

Thinking of the Double Pupils reward from the system just now, her eyes turned. She put away the chicken leg and covered her eyes with her two greasy little hands, putting on a bashful look as though she was too embarrassed to watch.

In truth, she was peeking through the gaps between her fingers, using her Double Pupils to look at Nangong Shuyin and see whether she was green tea or a white lotus.

The Double Pupils flickered in her eyes, but True Person Nanchen pulled down Jiang Wan's little hands and used a handkerchief to wipe them clean.

"Look at how filthy your hands are, and you were about to smear them all over your face."

Jiang Wan withdrew her Double Pupils, but she had not seen anything.

"Oh, Eldest Brother and Fairy are being shy-shy. Fairy, why don't you have Primordial Yin in your stomach?

The books Daddy showed me said that the Pure Yang Body and Pure Yin Body must both remain whole for cultivation. Eldest Brother has Primordial Yang there, but you have no Primordial Yin in your stomach. That won't be good for cultivation, you know!"

The moment those words fell, everyone in the hall was stunned. True Person Nanchen hurriedly covered her mouth and was about to carry her away when Fairy Xueyun stopped him.

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

Jiang Wan said, "The day Daddy took me to the Library Pavilion, I randomly found a book to read, and it had that written in it. I don't know what book it was."

No, was the important thing really what book it was?