Cultivation Begins with Caring for Sister-in-law

Chapter 810 - 815, - 816: Yelang Matters Concluded, Farewell_2

Xingluo was a bit disappointed, seeing that Chen Mo didn’t want the Princess, he could only step back and insist that Princess Deti must be accepted.Hearing this, Chen Mo blinked his eyes. If he refused now, Xingluo might become uneasy.

Moreover, Princess Deti was indeed quite beautiful, an ice-cold beauty, better than a princess he had never met, so he accepted her.

At this moment, Chen Mo suddenly felt a bit melancholic.

If he had known last night, he wouldn’t have let Xuelan detoxify Princess Deti.

After dealing with the Lin Family’s affairs.

Chen Mo asked Xingluo about Lu Sheng, King Chong, and the family members of the Luo Family.

According to the Inspector’s information, their family members had all escaped to the Western Regions and were sheltered by Yelang.

Xingluo was taken aback and hurriedly called Liu Quji to learn the details.

Liu Quji said that the family members of Lu Sheng were indeed sheltered by Yelang, but only the Third Prince and his confidants knew their exact whereabouts.

Hearing this, Xingluo advised Chen Mo to wait a moment while he sent people to investigate.

By the afternoon, Xingluo told Chen Mo that after questioning the Third Prince, he found that the family members of Lu Sheng, King Chong, and the Luo family had been used for cultivation by the Third Prince’s master and were all dead, with no remains to be found.

Chen Mo frowned, but it was also good in a way, saving him from further slaughter.

Due to Si Song’s injuries, Chen Mo did not stay long in the Capital City. He left the same day with Nalan Yiren, Si Song, and Liang Mu.

Xingluo dispatched a team of Imperial Guards to escort them. Chen Mo did not refuse, as without a guide, he wouldn’t know the way back to the Great Song, and Si Song needed care along the way.

As for the injured Shuang’Er, she was taken along by Princess Deti when she escorted Lin Xuelan and the others back to the Lin Family.

By this time, the events in Yelang were almost all resolved.

On the road, Chen Mo curiously asked Nalan Yiren about the potion the Yelang official soldiers had smeared on their arrows outside the valley the previous day.

"I found out that this potion was given by Tang Yichen, and it should have also come from Poison King Valley."

Chen Mo had to take it seriously; arrows smeared with this miraculous potion could penetrate the defense of Innate Spiritual Qi. If this potion could arm the entire army, combined with compound bows, they would be invincible.

Inside the carriage, Nalan Yiren dressed in black, with half her face mask removed since getting in, seemed clearly weary and tired after being injured yesterday, getting up this morning, and using blood to heal Xingluo. Hearing Chen Mo’s words, she said weakly:

"What you’re talking about is the Spirit Transformation Water, which is similar to the Bone-Eroding Water I gave you before. The difference is, the Spirit Transformation Water can only be refined by an Upper Third-Grade Martial Artist. It’s made by condensing the Innate Spiritual Qi within an Upper Third-Grade Martial Artist into liquid, then adding various venomous liquids that can erode Innate Spiritual Qi, boiled together for forty-nine days before it’s obtained. Moreover, an Upper Third-Grade Martial Artist can only condense a small bottle of Spiritual Liquid, and there is a considerable loss during the boiling process, hence the Spirit Transformation Water is extremely precious.

Once exposed to air, it can only last two ke, making it somewhat thankless."

Hearing this, Chen Mo couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed. According to Nalan Yiren, the Spirit Transformation Water couldn’t be produced on a large scale.

Nalan Yiren also guessed that Chen Mo wanted to use the Spirit Transformation Water on the battlefield. After pondering for a while, her pale lips moved slightly: "For the sake of you avenging my grandfather, I will help you refine it."

"No need, I was just asking casually." Chen Mo initially thought the Spirit Transformation Water could be refined in bulk, so he had the idea, but now seeing how troublesome it was, taking forty-nine days to make a small bottle, plus the Innate Spiritual Qi needed and Nalan Yiren’s own recuperation time, taking about two months to refine such a small bottle, he felt it was too much to trouble her.

Nalan Yiren kept staring into Chen Mo’s eyes. Seeing him say that, her eyes flickered, and she pouted slightly: "Your romantic encounters are really flourishing, going to the Western Regions once and bringing back two girls, no, it should be three."

Nalan Yiren also included Yu Zhu.

"Including Miss Nalan?" Chen Mo chuckled softly.

"Do you dare touch me?" Suddenly, a cloud of colorful poison smoke arose from Nalan Yiren’s body surface.

Chen Mo instinctively shrank back. The Innate Spiritual Qi emerged to form a defense, but the colorful poison smoke passed right through, prompting him to quickly say, "Just joking with you, don’t take it seriously."

Nalan Yiren retracted the colorful poison smoke, though her expression remained calm, her lips curled up slightly: "Coward."

...

The Third Year of Yong’an, late October.

Outside Yangtian Pass.

The wind suddenly whipped up, lifting endless yellow sand, and a convoy moved forward slowly under the sweeping sands.

In front of a huge stone engraved with the three red characters of "Yangtian Pass," Lin Xuelan stood like a longing wife, gazing distantly at the horizon of the desert with eyes full of expectation.

Suddenly, she spotted a row of small black dots on the distant dunes. As the dots grew larger, the convoy traveling under the sweeping sands came into her view.

"Miss, that seems to be the Imperial Guards..." Yu Zhu, standing behind Lin Xuelan, had her pupils shrink slightly, her expression carrying a trace of the fear she felt back in the Capital City.

"It should be King Wei and his people." A cold voice sounded behind the two women.

Lin Xuelan turned to look; Princess Deti, dressed in a red tight-fitting outfit exuding heroic beauty, walked over.

Princess Deti held a sword at her side, wearing a wide-brimmed bamboo hat for shade.

Jin City and the Capital City, on the way to the Great Song, were on the same road, and since Lin Xuelan had left first, she did not linger in Jin City, arriving at Yangtian Pass two days prior.

The convoy stopped at Yangtian Pass.

The leading Imperial Guard dismounted and came to Chen Mo’s carriage, saying, "King Wei, we have reached Yangtian Pass, I and my men shall return to report."

After hearing Chen Mo’s response, the squad of Imperial Guards turned their horses and left.

"In the desert, the carriage’s speed is slower than that of a camel."

Liang Mu stepped off the carriage first and said to the carriage behind.

"Miss, it’s King Wei and his entourage." Yu Zhu recognized Liang Mu and told Lin Xuelan.

But Lin Xuelan was nowhere to be seen; at the moment she saw Liang Mu, she had already rushed forward to greet him.

Yu Zhu: "..."

By the time Chen Mo got off the carriage, Lin Xuelan had already thrown herself into his arms, tearfully.

"Xuelan, what’s the matter, why are you crying?" Chen Mo held Lin Xuelan, slightly startled.

"Mother...she’s gone." Lin Xuelan’s emotions, suppressed for days, burst out like a dam breaking.

It turned out, Lin Xuelan’s Uncle Lin Luo’s speed was ultimately no match for the speed of those sent to Jin City by the Third Prince.

When Lin Luo returned to Jin City, the Government Office had already ransacked the Lin Family.

Lin Xuelan’s mother from the Hu Clan, knowing the fate awaiting women after their family was ransacked, chose to take her own life rather than face humiliation before being captured.

Aside from the Hu Clan, Lin Luo’s wife and several other women from the Lin family followed suit.

When Lin Xuelan and the others returned to Jin City, they rescued the remaining captured members of the Lin Family from the Government Office, along with Lin Luo, who was also detained upon returning to Jin City.

Chen Mo furrowed his brows; the worst-case scenario had still occurred.

The events of the Lin Family were pitiable; seeing Lin Xuelan like this, Chen Mo lowered his head, feeling only heartache.

"Don’t cry anymore, I will take care of you from now on." Chen Mo gently comforted her.

"Miss Lin, the dead cannot be revived, and with the Third Prince dead and the Diao Family also imprisoned, revenge is considered taken, life must go on." Si Song, supported by Nalan Yiren, got off the carriage.

Before Chen Mo and his group left the Capital City, to ease Chen Mo’s mind, Xingluo executed Xingyin the very day.

Nalan Yiren, watching Lin Xuelan leaning tearfully against Chen Mo, frowned slightly, then looked at Chen Mo, saying, "King Wei, your great kindness will never be forgotten by Poison King Valley. Now I must return to Poison King Valley with the Great Elder to comfort my grandfather’s spirit. This is where we part ways."