Xiao Jingting’s house courtyard.

“Daddy, when is father coming back?” Xiao Xiaofan ate his food, moping.

“He’ll be back in a month or so.” Xu Muan said.

Xiao Xiaofan laid on the table looking depressed. “It is still so long! I can’t even enjoy my meal without my father.”

“If it doesn’t taste good, it is because you eat too much.” Xiao Xiaodong said in an angry tone.

“I used to eat even more!” Xiao Xiaofan was dissatisfied.

“It’s only been a month or so! In the past, he was often away from home. It was common to not see him for a month, and it didn’t matter.” Xiao Xiaodong said casually.

Xiao Xiaofan looked at Xiao Xiaodong somewhat strangely and said, “Has something like this ever happened before?”

Xiao Xiaodong nodded saying, “Yes! Before you liked it best when he was not around.”

Xiao Xiaofan fidgeted. “But, but, I like him now! Father is very different now. Brother, you must miss him too.”

Xiao Xiaodong turned around, not facing him and said viciously, “Who misses him? He just left not too long ago. I just saw him, so I don’t miss him.”

Xiao Xiaofan puffed his cheek and said, “No? But you still ask people where our father went and when he’ll be back, but you haven’t been able to find out.”

Xiao Xiaodong blushed and said, “I was just asking casually. He is so stupid that he might get lost after going out. I really don’t know, what should I do……”

Xu Muan rubbed Xiao Xiaofan and Xiao Xiaodong heads and said, “Your father, he should be back soon.”

Xiao Xiaofan sighed and said, “Alright.”

Xy Muan looked at his sighing youngest son and said, “Is daddy’s food not as good as that made by your father?”

Xiao Xiaofan blushed, shook his head and said, “No.”

“Your father isn’t here. You have to cultivate well so you can give him a surprise when he returns.” Xu Muan said.

Xiao Xiaofan nodded his head in a serious manner and said, “Don’t worry daddy. I will try my best.”

“Daddy why didn’t you go with father?” Xiao Xiaodong asked.

Xu Muan touched his stomach and said, “Daddy has this little one here.”

The business at home couldn’t stop yet. As soon as Xiao Jingting left, the output in the field was not enough and drinks couldn’t be supplied for the time being. Xu Muan intended to take the high-end route and only sell the most expensive drinks, limit the sales and do more spiritual wine business. In this world, if you did not have silver, it was difficult to do anything!

“Daddy, are you not worried about Father attracting bees and butterflies from outside?” Xiao Xiaodong asked.

Xu Muan was stunned for a moment, his face overflowing with worries. Xiao Jingting was not the same as the original one. Now, Xiao Jingting had extraordinary charm, so much that Sun Miaomiao wanted him back.

“Your father won’t.” Xu Muan said  but his heart was a little uneasy. “You two cultivate well, wait for your father to return and give him a surprise.”

Xiao Xiaodong nodded solemnly and said, “Good.”

 

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Over there, the Marquis competition was in full swing.

The Marquis distributed different identity cards to different levels of contestants. The bronze medal worth one point for fourth level of Qi Practice cultivators, the silver medal worth three points for the fifth level of Qi Practice cultivators, gold medal worth eight points for sixth level of Qi Practice cultivators, the purple medal worth eighteen points for seven level of Qi Practice cultivators and jade medal for the eighth level of Qi Practice cultivators worth twenty-eight points.

All the contestants were mixed and then teleported into the forest.

Xiao Jingting steadied himself as few people around him quickly scattered.

The Marquis was using a teleportation talisman to send contestants into the Biyue Forest. A teleportation talisman was capable of teleporting twenty people and Xiao Jingting noticed he was the most powerful in his group. Therefore, as soon as they were teleported, the rest immediately scattered.

Xiao Jingting, who had enjoyed the treatment of an expert, couldn’t help but feel a little complacent.

A scream was heard, and Xiao Jingting’s consciousness spread out to see the scene of a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi practice slaughtering a cultivator at the fourth level of Qi practice.

Xiao Jingting swallowed his saliva and subconsciously raised his vigilance.

The Marquis had invited two alchemists for this competition. Alchemists were extraordinary existences and the pills made by them could often bring the effectiveness of the spirit plant to six or seven times, or even ten times the original level.

Alchemists were rare, and the success rate of refining pills was very low, making pills very difficult to obtain.

All the points from this competition could be exchanged for pills, and the more points you had, the more pills you could exchange for, so it was no wonder that everyone was being crazy.

Xiao Jingting was just about to make a move when his jade pendant suddenly became hot. Xiao Jingting could not help but feel a little baffled.

A strange thought came to Xiao Jingting’s mind. It was the jade pendant consciousness.

Although it was somewhat baffling, Xiao Jingting complied with the jade pendant’s request and walked to the left.

“Bicolor grass seedling, the main ingredient for Qing Yun Pill for cultivating.” A strange voice sounded in Xiao Jingting’s head, and then a prescription for the pill poured into Xiao Jingting’s head.

Xiao Jingting was stunned for a moment. This was the identification function? It seemed he had found a treasure!

But why didn’t jade pendant have a reaction like this before? Xiao Jingting guessed that before, there might not be enough aura in the jade pendant, or maybe the grade of the spirit plants before was too low, so the jade pendant didn’t care.

Xiao Jingting transplanted the three Bicolor grass seedlings into the space. Originally, Xiao Jingting planned to find a place to hide for a period of time. However, his jade pendant’s mutation suddenly stimulated Xiao Jingting’s fighting spirit. With the jade pendant in hand, those seedlings that were still immature for others, were priceless to him ah!

 

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Three days in the tournament was the peak of the fighting, with high-level cultivators frantically killing low-level cultivators in order to gain points, the number of people who entered the forest decreased by 30%.

After three days, the cultivators who entered the Biyue Forest either found people to team up with or concealed themselves, so there were very few fights.

In the secret realm, identity cards were worth a lot of money as were all kinds of spirit grasses and beast cores, but all kinds of insignificant poisonous insects in the forest could kill people too.

The geniuses of some small towns were nothing more than ants to be just slaughtered here.

Xiao Jingting carefully moved through the forest. His cultivation was at sixth level of Qi Practice, so he consciously avoided encountering some low-level cultivators.

Relying on the jade pendant’s guidance, Xiao Jingting discovered many spirit grass seedlings, and Xiao Jingting transplanted them all into the jade pendant’s space.

“Illusory Snow Lotus, two hundred years old, semi-mature.”

Xiao Jingting hid in the tree as the transmission of the jade pendant kept echoing in Xiao Jingting’s ears.

Xiao Jingting rolled his eyes. This jade pendant space was a fake good that only cared about spirit grasses and herbs, and didn’t remind him that this Illusory Snow Lotus was already being observed for a long time.

Fortunately, he was cautious enough. If he had rushed forward rashly, he might have already been cut up by that group of wolf-like tigers.

Xiao Jingting sighed in his heart and looked towards the two sides facing each other.

“Fifth Miss, the Marquis household is big and has huge business. Such an Illusory Snow Lotus is nothing. Fifth Miss, why are you so aggressive?”

Ouyang Mingyue snorted coldly and said, “Since you know my identity, you should give up on your own accord. Go away, this Miss is in a good mood so she will spare your life. Don’t get in the way here.”

Xiao Jingting rubbed his nose and thought: This tale is full of lies!

He thought that when they met such a beautiful woman like Ouyang Mingyue, those male cultivators would make every effort to offer their hospitality. However, he didn’t expect that the other party would actually ask Ouyang Mingyue to give up.

It seemed that in this cultivation world, treasures were more important than beauty. However, it was also not strange, this world had all kinds of beauties. Although beauties were good, they were unfortunately too fierce, it was also possible that these men did not like women.

“Fifth Miss always told that everything is about the first come first served, right?” The leading male cultivator opposite Ouyang Mingyue coldly said.

Ouyang Mingyue lightly snorted and said, “Treasures naturally belong to those who can keep them.”

Xiao Jingting was dumbfounded as he looked at Ouyang Mingyue’s extraordinary face. This Fifth Miss was really something! However, it was only right for the Marquis’ proud daughter to be like this.

A cultivator behind the man was the first to lead the attack towards Ouyang Mingyue.

“Brother, why are you talking to this stinky bitch? She’s a member of the Marquis household. She has many magic weapons on her, if we kill her, all these treasures will be ours.” A man with raised eyebrows said greedily. 

Ouyang Mingyue seemed to be infuriated and roared, “You are looking for death.”

Ouyang Mingyue controlled her magic weapon and attacked the three men. Each of the three male cultivators took out a pitch-black banner and fought back.

Xiao Jingting frowned. As soon as the three male cultivators banners were taken out, black fog swirled. It was nothing good to look at.

Xiao Jingting squinted his eyes and thought: Ouyang Mingyue seemed to have underestimated them. Although she was at the seventh level of Qi Practice, she was only one person. But there were three cultivators at the sixth level of Qi Practice on the opposite side.

“Demonic cultivator? Where are you guys from?” Ouyang Mingyue shrieked.

Xiao Jingting’s pupil shrank. Demonic cultivators acted ruthlessly. Moreover, they also liked to kill people to refine treasures. When a cultivator encounters a demonic cultivator, he must kill him. But this competition was actually mixed with demonic cultivators and it seemed that their cultivation was not low.

The three demonic cultivators obviously didn’t want to talk much with Ouyang Mingyue and attacked with all their might.

Xiao Jingting discovered that the three demonic cultivators seemed to have cultivated some sort of combined attack technique, so when they cooperated, their attack power was extremely high. Putting Ouyang Mingyue in a weak position.

“Big brother, the stinky bitch wants to escape.”

“We can’t let her escape, otherwise we will be in endless trouble.”

The three men surrounded Ouyang Mingyue, and all of their chaotic attacks fell on Ouyang Mingyue.

Ouyang Mingyue seemed to be cornered but in the blink of an eye she flung out a dozen talismans, making the three cultivators let Ouyang Mingyue out.

Xiao Jingting was watching in pain as Ouyang Mingyue used all sixth grade talismans. Sixth grade talismans were really expensive.

“Bitch!” The three of them were smashed by Ouyang Mingyue.

The magic weapons in their hands were also smashed into pieces. Under the attack of Ouyang Mingyue, the three of them obviously suffered a lot of losses.

Ouyang Mingyue panted as she looked at the three of them, her eyes filled with anger.

Xiao Jingting shook his head and thought: Ouyang Mingyue is too impatient. Using so many talismans at once might have depleted the aura in her body. Although the three demonic cultivators were also injured, their situation was better than Ouyang Mingyue’s. Ouyang Mingyue seemed unable to hold on.

Ouyang Mingyue detonated two Thunder beads, and turned around to run.

Xiao Jingting was instantly impressed with Ouyang Mingyue. Miss Ouyang was a flexible girl! Seeing the situation was not good, she ran away.

Xiao Jingting noticed that on Ouyang Mingyue feet were seventh-grade imperial wind boots. The clothes on her body came with a light body talisman, had excellent texture and first-rate protection. The bracelets on her hands also seemed to be extraordinary.

Xiao Jingting swallowed his saliva and thought: This woman is rich! Robbing a rich woman is a high income job but this rich woman doesn’t seem to be easy to rob.

Xiao Jingting waited for a while, as the three cultivators retreated.

“That stinky bitch! She actually ran away.”

“This bitch will definitely spread the demonic cultivation thing everywhere.”

“What’s there to be afraid of? It’s not our real faces anyway. We’ll just cover our demonic Qi later and pretend to be cultivators at the fifth level of Qi practice.”

“That bitch’s bracelet could actually launch an attack from a Foundation stage cultivator, seriously injuring second brother.”

“Who let her be a lady of the Marquis household? If you encounter someone from the Marquis’ house again in the future, just hide.”

When Xiao Jingting listened to three brothers’ conversation, he could not help but secretly wonder. Cultivation of second generation cultivators was really not the same! 

 

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