Chapter 1014: Chapter 1013: Each One Is a Sly Old Fox

That night, Lu Zheng made another pot of Fish Soup for Lin Wan.

The Southern Border Black Fish’s Dao Practice was incredibly high; its flesh and blood were pure essence, and the Spiritual Qi inside was rich and mellow. For Lin Wan, just a fist-sized piece of fish meat was enough for her to digest for quite a while.

"Damn, I never would’ve thought, even in my dreams, that I’d get to eat something like this. What’s the difference between this and those Flat Peaches from the Celestial Court?"

Lin Wan took a bite, juice bursting everywhere.

This Black Fish Demon Body had already had its toxicity burned away by Si Lingxi’s Phoenix Divine Fire, so the fish meat was now tender and white, fragrant and steaming.

Lu Zheng chuckled. "The main function of this fish meat is to improve the Constitution and temper the body. It does contain some pure Spiritual Qi, but in terms of absolute quantity, it’s actually not that much. After all, that Black Fish Demon Body was enormous, and its Dao Practice wasn’t all in its flesh and blood.

So this stuff is basically like a special Elixir that improves the Constitution and maybe extends life a tiny bit, but how could it compare to the legendary Flat Peaches?"

"Right, speaking of which..."

Lu Zheng blinked, rubbing his chin with a few thoughtful clicks of his tongue. "Is the higher-up not interested at all in the miraculous Elixirs in my hand, or did they just fail to discover it?"

"How is that possible? The situation with our parents and Zhao Xiaodao’s parents isn’t a secret. You’re just a not-quite-famous old Chinese doctor. It’s just that..."

Lin Wan took another sip of soup, then continued casually, "Even Deng Pao Pao and his wife could pull strings for a whole year once they knew about it. You think the higher-up are worse at this than that couple?"

"Good grief!"

This time it was Lu Zheng’s turn to exclaim. "Never would’ve thought they’re all a bunch of old—cough cough..."

Lin Wan shot Lu Zheng a sideways glance from her beautiful eyes. "What were you gonna say? Old foxes?"

Lu Zheng nodded repeatedly. "Old foxes!"

The moment Lu Zheng admitted it, Lin Wan instead realized she’d guessed wrong.

She took another bite of fish, and under the wash of Spiritual Qi, couldn’t help letting out a little hum. "Bring Sister Qingyan and Sister Ying over tonight, I want to Cultivate!"

Lu Zheng laughed heartily, reached out and placed his hand on Lin Wan’s chest, and a surge of True Qi flowed out, helping Lin Wan smooth out her Qi circulation.

"Hoo—"

Lin Wan let out a long breath, smiled at Lu Zheng, then scooped up a spoonful of soup and fed it into his mouth.

And so, the two of them fed each other back and forth, finishing that meal.

That night, Lin Wan went to Cultivate, and Lu Zheng brought over Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying.

Liu Qingyan asked worriedly, "Sister Lingxi went to look for the Heartless True Desire Demon Ancestor alone. She won’t run into trouble, will she?"

Shen Ying was lying on the sofa, scrolling on her phone as she replied, "Sister Lingxi already suffered once. It’s not that easy to trick her again. Besides, she’s stronger now than she was before."

Lu Zheng also nodded. "Lingxi said that even if she ran into the same situation as last time again, she’d be able to break the Six Desires Celestial Demon Array."

In the past half year, the Light of Fortune inside the Jade Seal had been consumed at a crazy pace. Besides Lu Zheng, Si Lingxi had also reaped a lot of benefits through dual Cultivation.

The Light of Fortune transformed into Phoenix Origin Power, which carried a faintly profound aura. During dual Cultivation, it flowed from Lu Zheng’s body into Si Lingxi’s, even washing away blockages in Si Lingxi herself, letting her climb higher from an already lofty height.

As a result, that half year of dual Cultivation had actually let her break through a bottleneck she’d been stuck at for decades.

Which led to a problem.

Once, Lu Zheng asked Si Lingxi if she was going to Ascend to the Upper Realm after a while, and then she proceeded to ride him hard, and finally gave him a "We’ll go together."

Of course, now there was another problem.

Lu Zheng scratched his brow. What if Si Lingxi just directly killed the Heartless True Desire Demon Ancestor—wouldn’t that mean he’d lose out on a ton of Light of Fortune?

A Demon Ancestor whose True Spirit had descended to the Lower Realm!

Shit, he’d been careless. He should’ve gone with Si Lingxi!

Lu Zheng sighed, fished another jar of wine out of the gourd, poured himself a cup, and downed it in one go to ease his gloom.

Liu Qingyan sniffed. "Isn’t that Golden Centipede Spirit Spleen Wine?"

"Nope, this is Fish God Wine." Lu Zheng raised his cup. "It’s wine steeped with Black Fish bones and Thousand-year-old Ginseng plus seven auxiliary ingredients. Packs more punch than Golden Centipede Spirit Spleen Wine. Want some?"

Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan both shook their heads in unison, then Liu Qingyan took out a porcelain bottle from her bracelet.

Lu Zheng arched a brow. "Don’t tell me that’s..."

"I added some Black Fish Blood into the Three Yellow and Three Ganoderma Pill. The medicinal effect’s doubled, and the nature of the medicine is mild." Liu Qingyan handed the porcelain bottle to Lu Zheng. "Wan can take it."

Lu Zheng shook his head. "She just had a bowl of fish soup. You can give it to her yourself tomorrow."

"Alright." Liu Qingyan nodded and put the bottle away, then sighed. "As expected of a Great Demon with ten thousand years of Dao Practice. Even though it scattered its entire Cultivation, its Demon Body itself is top-tier among Heavenly and Earthly Treasures."

"Fish meat for soup, fish bones for wine, fish blood for medicine—and that’s not even counting the Fish Scales."

Lu Zheng thought again of the pile of Black Fish Scales in the gourd. That was another huge fortune. Each piece could be refined into a Water Element Magical Treasure with solid power; use a few together and the combination would be even more terrifying.

In that case...

If he arranged a ring of Magical Treasures around a certain Japan as a formation, he might be able to raise a sky-high tsunami and lock the whole place down...

Lu Zheng shook his head. He couldn’t keep thinking about it. Any more and he’d start getting ideas.

...

Early the next morning, Liu Qingyan got up bright and early to make breakfast for everyone.

Lu Zheng and Shen Ying were responsible for eating. Halfway through the meal, Lin Wan finally walked out of her room.

"Sister Qingyan! Sister Ying!"

Shen Ying waved Lin Wan over to sit. "Not bad, not bad, your Dao Practice has improved again. Maybe after a bit more time, you’ll be able to fly on your own."

"I’m still far from that."

Lin Wan was modest, but she couldn’t hide the smile on her face. She thanked Liu Qingyan while chatting with Shen Ying about the bottlenecks in the Taiyuan Mysterious Scripture.

After all, that Cultivation Technique was mainly practiced by her and Shen Ying.

"Sister Qingyan, you don’t have to go to Renxin Hall today?"

"Two more clinics have opened in the county, and it’s summer now, so there aren’t many patients. It’s just Father sitting in the shop. Even Yue Yao went to the Wang Family to Cultivate with Little Sister Xiao Wan."

"That’s great. My annual leave isn’t over yet anyway. Let’s go somewhere and walk around."

"Sure, where to?" Liu Qingyan nodded and asked. "Domestic or abroad?"

"Where do you want to go?" Lu Zheng asked.

Liu Qingyan tilted her head. "I don’t know either. Sister Ying, any ideas?"

"Nope. I just got back from the East Sea and had a blast already. Right now I only want to team up with you guys and game." Shen Ying raised her phone.

Everyone, "..."

Lin Wan said helplessly, "You stomp noobs every day—what’s so fun about that?"

Shen Ying shot a look at Lu Zheng. "Then you’ll have to ask Lu Lang. Isn’t he stomping noobs on Blue Star every day?"

Lu Zheng: ???