672: Chapter 456 672: Chapter 456 Liu Xu was enraged by the King, feeling the most humiliated ever in his years of being an official.
Previously, it was he who threatened the King, with the three factions united against their enemies.
Even the King had supported him in playing the villain, so what was this sudden closeness with the General all about?
Hadn’t he been cautious of the General before, deliberately strengthening their two teams to contain the General’s faction?
What made this useless fool manage to heal his body and even advance a level in his Cultivation within just a few days, infuriating him to death!
Liu Xu huffed back to his home, thinking of other people’s sons who were so promising, while his own son was concerned with nothing but women at home.
Thinking of his son, he headed to his son’s courtyard.
These days, to keep him away from Yingzi and prevent this spy from harming his son, he used guards and Death Servants to monitor the courtyard.
As Liu Xu approached his son’s courtyard, he could hear his son’s voice, along with the voices of some women, a mixture of laughter and flirtatious sounds.
“Don’t run, let this heir hug you, you’ll be in for it if I catch you!”
“Heeheehee, the heir is chasing after this servant!”
“Hahaha, you can’t catch me, heir!”
Listening to these sounds, Liu Xu, already frustrated, grew even angrier, his mustache bristling with irritation.
“Master…!”
The two guards stationed at the entrance saluted upon seeing their master, bowing their heads and not daring to look at the expression on his face.
They wisely opened the gate to the courtyard for their master to enter.
Liu Xu, with a dark expression, did not even glance at the guards as he walked through the door they opened into the courtyard.
Upon reaching the garden, he saw his son chasing after two maids in a scene others might find amorous, but all he saw was cause for anger!
“Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough!”
Liu Xu’s deliberate cough sounded like a siren to the two maids, who immediately halted in their tracks.
Caught up in his revelry, Liu Tao did not notice his father’s cough and finally caught the two maids, hugging them close: “Hey hey, I’ve caught you now, beauties!”
With one arm around each woman’s waist, he was about to indulge in a kiss.
“Heir, no, no, no!”
“Heir, stop messing around!”
Liu Tao, thinking the maids were merely shy, grew even more excited: “Beauties, I, this heir, am all about creating a ruckus!”
“Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough!” Liu Xu’s cough was not feigned anymore; he had choked on his own saliva!
It was then that Liu Tao heard his father’s cough, his expression freezing for an instant.
Having been spoiled and weakened by pampering, it didn’t take long for him to brazenly wear a smile again.
To avoid getting too close to the maids and causing them harm, he quickly waved his hand, signaling them to leave.
As soon as Liu Tao released the maids, they fled as if fearing for their lives, having served as the heir’s warming maids without having become concubines or the female head of the household—none wished to end up dead, so they made a swift exit!
“Father, what brings you here?
Oh, right, it’s time for lunch!
Are you here to have lunch with your son?”
Liu Xu barely managed to calm his anger as he glared at his son: “All you know is foolery and eating.
Look at yourself.
While others are accomplishing great things, what about you?”
Liu Tao felt wronged by his father’s scathing rebuke.
Wasn’t it normal for a man to have women around him?
As an heir, wasn’t it even more normal for him to have women around?
Only eunuchs remained unaffected by women, right?
Even monks could renounce asceticism, indulging in all worldly pleasures.
Why then shouldn’t he have women by his side?
Why should he be limited by having some highborn princess, constraining his life?
Liu Tao came to a realization; if that Imperial Princess didn’t want him and insisted on someone else, why should he grovel to see her favor?
The world wasn’t devoid of women.
Even a noble princess was just another woman in the night, wasn’t she?
“Aren’t you there to deal with great matters, Father?
What’s the point of hanging around those low-lifes all day?”
Of course, Liu Xu had talked to his son about it in this period, how Tang Feiyang and Ye Tian took their teams patrolling.
Liu Tao had suffered a great loss in Immortal Venerable City last time, entirely at the hands of Tang Feiyang and Ye Tian; he was not grateful, believing that those two had foiled his great plan.
Far from being thankful for being rescued, he felt entitled due to his status, believing that no one would dare to harm him.
Nor did he trust Yingzi to harm him!
Banned by his father from seeing Yingzi and being infatuated with her, he was agonizingly deprived of her company.
To entertain himself, he resorted to playing with the maids around him.
However, under his father’s furious scolding, his growing rebelliousness turned him into a man who had given up completely, like a shattered jar beyond repair.
“You’re so hopeless.
Haven’t you seen others advancing their Cultivation?”
Liu Xu motioned his son to join him in the study.
As he entered his son’s study, he saw cluttered pictures and some third-rate books, which gave him a headache all over again.
“Father, I’ve been cultivating too, haven’t I?
We don’t have any other resources for cultivation.
Isn’t it foolish to suffer through laborious practice?”
Liu Tao felt that, given his status as the heir, how could he be compared with ordinary warriors?
Since he wasn’t competing to make a living through ability, and without better resources, his situation was indeed genuine.
They, members of the Ancient Martial Arts lineage, had to rely on resources and medicinal aid for their cultivation.
What use was there in brute force like an ordinary warrior?
The claim that practicing Ancient Martial Arts could develop Inner Qi was just talk.
Others completely relied on medicine, yet their ancestors hadn’t become Immortals for tens of thousands of years.
It was a shameful decline with each generation, even their acrobatic skills were nothing impressive.
Sometimes, facing Ye Tian, he felt a sense of inferiority and shame.