Free Web NovelChapter 245: Chapter 245: Then Let’s Just Take It by Force!
However, Jiang Xinghai said nothing, merely offering an awkward smile.
He had made a decision long ago: he would not even consider marriage until he found his parents.
"Alright, I’m going to bed. You should get some rest too." Shen Lingxue stood up and headed upstairs.
Jiang Xinghai opened his mouth to speak, then closed it, watching in silence as Shen Lingxue’s somewhat listless figure disappeared up the stairs.
He was deeply conflicted.
In truth, he had developed feelings for Shen Lingxue over this period.
But he couldn’t give Shen Lingxue the answer she was looking for, not yet.
What made him so conflicted was that he also desperately desired her.
’A Thousand Derivation Spiritual Body!’
HUFF...
Jiang Xinghai let out a long sigh and returned to his room.
「3:00 AM.」
Drawing from the Cultivation Skills in his memory, he selected one suitable for Shen Lingxue’s Thousand Derivation Spiritual Body: the "Star Decision".
He also chose the "Purple Smoke Record" for Shen Lingyin, writing out both manuals by hand.
Jiang Xinghai had no intention of sleeping. He simply sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and cultivated the "Eight-Nine Celestial Skill" to gather his strength.
「Two hours later.」
A pearly light appeared in the eastern sky. It was 5:00 AM.
"Time to go."
Jiang Xinghai left the two Cultivation Skill manuals and a note on the living room coffee table, then drove away.
He was heading to the Central State to acquire the final ingredient needed to concoct the Gathering Essence Pill: Dragon Scale Bamboo.
He had originally entrusted this task to Xue Zhong and Yan Qingshan.
However, news came last night that the Dragon Scale Bamboo was under heavy guard by the Martial Arts Department, making it impossible to obtain.
’The Martial Arts Department, huh?’
Jiang Xinghai was unfazed. He floored the accelerator and merged onto the highway.
「Half an hour after he left.」
Shen Zhengye got up for his morning run and saw the note on the coffee table.
’Jiang has worked tirelessly to help our Shen Family for over half a month. It’s about time he tended to his own affairs. Don’t you worry, Jiang. My cultivation hasn’t stalled. I’m about to break through to the Venerable realm, and after that, no one in Jizhou will be my match.’ Feeling quite gratified, Shen Zhengye placed the note back where he found it and set off on his morning run.
「Another half an hour later.」
Shen Lingxue also came downstairs.
She saw the two handwritten manuals and the note on the coffee table and began to read.
"Uncle, Auntie, Lingxue, Lingyin, thank you for your trust and help during this time. Seeing the Shen Family on the rise again has fulfilled a wish of mine.
However, to help you all improve your strength even further, I am preparing to concoct a batch of Gathering Essence Pills. By the time you read this, I will have already reached the Central State to procure the ingredients. Someone will deliver them to you before nightfall. freewebnσvel.cøm
After that, I’m making a trip to the Provincial City. I’ll be back by noon tomorrow at the latest.
As for these two handwritten Cultivation Skills, the "Star Decision" is for Lingxue, and the "Purple Smoke Record" is for Lingyin. Uncle, please guide them through their initial practice." freewebnσvel.cøm
’Handwritten manuals...’
Shen Lingxue took a deep breath. Looking at the two manuals, both handwritten and around forty to fifty pages long, made her heart ache.
She knew Jiang Xinghai must have stayed up all night to finish them.
’Last night, if only I had been more forward...’ Shen Lingxue couldn’t help but feel a pang of self-reproach.
From the moment Jiang Xinghai had arrived, he had been working tirelessly for the Shen Family, yet she had always acted cold and aloof, at times even unfeeling.
’Jiang Xinghai, when you come back, I’ll be more forward.’
Shen Lingxue had always been unable to let go of her so-called lofty pride, but now that Jiang Xinghai had left Jizhou, she was filled with regret...
「7:30 AM.」
「Central State, the Yan Family.」
Yan Qingshan. The sole survivor of yesterday’s expedition to Jizhou, he had since been taken as a servant by Jiang Xinghai.
Now, he and Xue Zhong were sitting with Jiang Xinghai, talking.
After a moment of thought, Jiang Xinghai said, "Old Yan, you’ll lead the way later. We’ll just take it by force."
"By force?" Yan Qingshan’s face was a mask of misery.
Xue Zhong’s expression was also complicated. "Master, the Martial Arts Department was established by the Dragon Country, after all. If we take it by force, there will undoubtedly be repercussions. Besides, those few at the Martial Arts Department reached the Great Venerable realm a long time ago."
"Old Xue, you don’t need to involve yourself in this any further. Have you made any progress finding the Alchemy Cauldron I asked for?" Jiang Xinghai asked, turning his head.
"Yes, I was just preparing to go retrieve it," Xue Zhong said hurriedly.
"Then go. Just bring it here to the Yan Family estate," Jiang Xinghai said with a wave of his hand.
Xue Zhong asked again, "And the matter of the Dragon Scale Bamboo...?"
"Old Yan and I will be enough," Jiang Xinghai said, waving his hand dismissively.
Xue Zhong nodded and left, but his heart was still heavy with worry.
’Take it by force?’
’Even if his master Jiang Xinghai was powerful enough to rob the Central State Martial Arts Department, what about the Provincial City’s Martial Arts Department?’
’The Provincial City’s Martial Arts Department would be furious and would definitely come after Jiang Xinghai!’
"Patriarch Mu, what brings you here?"
Just as Xue Zhong walked out the main gate, he saw two women getting out of a car.
One was Mu Huang, the Patriarch of the Central State’s Mu Family. The other was her granddaughter, Mu Jianni.
Jiang Xinghai had met the two of them once before, during a visit to the Mu Family on his last trip to Jizhou.
"Master Xue, you really are here. Then Jiang Xinghai must be here as well, right?"
Although Mu Huang was a woman, she was the Patriarch of her family, but upon seeing Xue Zhong, her usual imposing aura had vanished.
"Patriarch Mu, addressing my master by his name is quite disrespectful." Xue Zhong’s gaze turned icy, and his brow furrowed.
