771: Chapter 505_2 771: Chapter 505_2 Ye Tian’s abilities were higher, and if they traveled together, perhaps they could protect someone with Cai Xiangxiang’s physique from being bullied by others.
People with Cai Xiangxiang’s special physique, if encountered by those with certain intentions, all felt she was an object of cultivation.
There were concerns about her being snatched away.
Yan Weiwei had agreed to let Cai Xiangxiang join them in their travels, but she had to be obedient, listen well, and not act on her own accord.
She would ask her senior brother to visit Cai Xiangxiang’s hometown with them.
Cai Xiangxiang agreed and promised to behave, as long as she could see her family.
Cai Xiangxiang’s unique physique was unknown to the other nine women; they simply thought Cai Xiangxiang was too beautiful and, with her low abilities, dared not venture out.
The abilities of these women were not low, yet none of them could detect Cai Xiangxiang’s special physique through Ye Tian’s magical treasure.
This only meant that Ye Tian’s artifact refining skills and magical treasure were exceptional; those with lower abilities than his could not perceive the uniqueness of his magical treasures.
When Ye Tian had refined the body-protecting magical treasure for Cai Xiangxiang, he was only at the Nascent Soul Stage, yet his skills were already enough to hide the purpose of Cai Xiangxiang wearing the artifact from anyone below the Ocean Wheel Stage.
Upon advancing to the Ocean Wheel, Ye Tian took the opportunity to upgrade the level of Cai Xiangxiang’s body-protecting magical treasure once more.
The next day, Ye Tian bid farewell to his family and, taking Yan Weiwei and his family members, including Cai Xiangxiang, boarded his flying artifact.
Jiang Tang waved goodbye to Ye Tian’s group and then emerged from the Ye Family with nine beauties in tow.
Today, he was to visit the clans of these nine women and meet their relatives.
When Ye Tian and his group had left earlier, Cai Xiangxiang’s reluctant gaze was certainly noticed by Jiang Tang, and the beauties around him saw it too, but pretended otherwise.
Today, Jiang Tang was to visit the Xuanyuan Mengting Clan.
Previously, when the nine women’s families together invited him, he would have the women draw lots.
Today was different; feeling that Xuanyuan Mengting was the first woman he met, and having verbally declared her as his principal wife, he decided to visit her family’s clan first.
This gave Xuanyuan Mengting the greatest honor.
With Jiang Tang’s first visit being to Xuanyuan Mengting’s clan, naturally, she was overjoyed, believing Jiang Tang loved her the most.
The other women were somewhat unwilling in their hearts, thinking that if they couldn’t be the first, they must strive to be the second.
Lin Dandan’s expression was especially disappointed; among all the girls, she had given herself to him first, because she believed this man loved and favored her the most.
Yet, to her surprise, Jiang Tang’s first visit was not to her family, which implied there was still a struggle ahead, right?
Jiang Tang enjoyed seeing the little jealous looks in the girls’ eyes; their desire to compete meant they liked and loved him more.
Having multiple women by his side, a man did not want it to be just for the sake of benefits or a marriage of alliance.
He yearned for what is called love, although not the kind that burns bright and fierce with a love that is life or death, but at the very least he sought a sublime place in their hearts.
“You all want your husband to visit your families together, but clearly, your husband can’t split himself into many; I can only visit each family one by one.
There’s no distinction of order; you all occupy the same place in my heart,” Jiang Tang declared.
Nevertheless, the women secretly vied for position in their hearts.
With the principal wife’s spot taken, they competed for the second-in-command.
As for who would be the last, Laojiu, it depended on whether that person had less ability than the others.
They were all the same age now, not like those where the principal wife was much older, followed by much younger wives.
Being of the same age, of course, they fought for their positions.
The principal wife was the legitimate wife; the second wife might be equal status, or closely following in rank.
Those at the forefront naturally had a bit more power.
Xuanyuan Mengting’s family was also within the Imperial City.
A mere moment on Jiang Tang’s flying artifact, and they had already arrived, before anyone had much time to contemplate further.
Originally, Jiang Tang could have brought just the respective woman when visiting each family.
But there were no extra women; Jiang Tang had no choice but to bring all nine women with him.
He also felt that every time all nine women came along, there was hardly any private space left.
Jiang Tang yearned for a world with just the two of them.
With so many women accompanying him each time, how could he steal a moment of affection?
Lin Dandan had already become his woman, but he wanted to be intimate with the other women as well, even have conversations with just two of them.
He needed to create such opportunities.
When they arrived at Xuanyuan Mengting’s family clan, could he perhaps visit the women’s boudoirs?
He came up with a strategy.
This time, he would visit each woman’s family clan and leave the other women waiting in the flying artifact high in the sky, regardless of how long he spent with each woman’s family.
As soon as he thought of this, he did just that.
Taking Xuanyuan Mengting’s small hand, he told the other women that this time they should wait for their return in the flying artifact hovering high above.
Xuanyuan Mengting, holding hands shyly, felt that Jiang Tang must want something from her.
Otherwise, he would not take her alone.
The other women, upon hearing that Jiang Tang would not take them along, became anxious.
They stomped their feet and chattered away, sharing their thoughts and how waiting would make them miss him.
Jiang Tang consoled them, saying that he was only visiting Xuanyuan Mengting’s family to discuss matters, and would surely return within two days.
He would treat visits to their families the same way and then called out their names in order.
Lin Dandan was the second, Yuan Baozhu the third, Yun Duoduo the fourth, Tang Yanran the fifth, Hua Xian’er the sixth, Zhang Nianjiao the seventh, Su Feifei the eighth, and Dugu Yan’er the ninth.
Dugu Yan’er was the most reluctant.
Why was she last, number nine?
According to Jiang Tang’s schedule, it would be over ten days before he visited her family.
Wouldn’t her heart ache from waiting so long?
Jiang Tang further comforted them, explaining that the purpose of the visits was to discuss engagement arrangements with their families.
He suggested that the engagement could be set after the base was built, or even combined with the wedding ceremony.
It was entirely up to their families’ wishes; the initiative lay with their family clans.
Spending two days at each family was to ensure fairness, as they could not just stop by like visiting relatives and leave shortly after.
Didn’t they also want the chance to meet family and friends back home?
Upon hearing Jiang Tang’s explanation, the women finally became silent.
The long wait would have to be endured through cultivation and even using the time to improve their skills.
Since knowing Jiang Tang, each of them had acquired numerous skills, but these were not enough.
They needed to stand beside this capable man not only for love but also to improve themselves; otherwise, they might lose their place by his side to someone else.
If they did not progress, they would not be able to keep up with this man’s pace.
Though Xuanyuan Mengting was named first, she couldn’t have any complaints at this moment.
It was already ordained that so many women would share one husband; a day would come when she would feel lonely.
But as cultivators, what they were best at enduring was loneliness.
The long road to cultivation was not filled with affection but was spent in isolation during intensive training.
Having soothed the other women, Jiang Tang then took Xuanyuan Mengting’s hand and leapt off the flying artifact.
Using his powerful Divine Sense, he left a sliver of awareness to control the artifact in the sky so he would know of any misconduct, be it an attempt to meddle with the flying artifact or any attacks against it.
The flying artifact did not require his Spiritual Energy to be in constant use; it could automatically absorb and store the Spiritual Energy from the air, unlike the artifacts of other cultivators in the Cultivation World that required Spirit Stones for control.
This would consume large quantities of Spirit Stones, and the flying speed would not be fast, thus not as advanced.
Of course, Jiang Tang was not short of Spirit Stones.
His flying artifact originated from the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space and was akin to an Immortal Artifact.
As far as he could tell, no one’s flying artifact in the Cultivation World was as fast or as advanced as his.
Jiang Tang gently flew down from the sky, holding Xuanyuan Mengting’s hand, and landed at the gate of the Xuanyuan Family’s mansion.
Their arrival was noted by the soldiers on guard who recognized both the young miss and the prospective son-in-law.
“Greetings, Miss; greetings, Sir!” said the two guards in unison.
The gate of the Xuanyuan Family was wide open.
However, many luxurious residences within, as well as significant areas of the family estate, were still guarded, naturally by the family’s appointed soldiers.