673: Chapter 456 673: Chapter 456 Facing Tang Feiyang was somewhat better, they were equals in strength, and although they cultivated different techniques, neither could fly using Magical Treasure as those Cultivators from the Immortal Realm do, possessing such power as to fly on their own.
It was even possible to fly without external tools; Flying Artifacts in the high skies were a sight of envy.
“Ah, at least you’re a bit more promising.
It’s necessary to find better medications.
The King’s complexion has improved a lot these past two days, which made me wonder if that eunuch hasn’t been putting medicine in his food.”
It was the first time Liu Tao heard from his father that the King’s health had improved.
He recalled that just ten days ago, his father had said the King was close to death.
Half a month ago, he had visited the Imperial Palace once, that time under orders to go to Immortal Venerable City, where he had seen the King looking ill.
“Could it be that the palace’s physicians have become more skilled?
Is it possible they’ve found a cure for father’s poison?”
Liu Xu shook his head with a sigh, “There haven’t been reports of any physician more capable than those the palace already has, and the physicians in the palace are under father’s control.
It’s impossible for such Detoxification Medicine to exist.
The King has not only improved his Cultivation but his health too, and his complexion indicates the poison has been cleared!”
Liu Tao grew even more confused.
Not only had the King’s health improved, but his Cultivation had also increased.
Was it that easy to enhance one’s Cultivation?
“Father, could it be that the King received guidance from a great expert?
Or perhaps he asked someone for Pills?”
At that, Liu Xu suddenly thought of the Supreme Elixirs that had appeared in the Cultivation World.
“Could it be Ye Tian?” Liu Xu recalled that ten days ago, Ye Tian was summoned into the Imperial Palace by the King.
At the time, he and Tang Weiguo had argued on the road, which delayed them.
By the time the two of them arrived at the Imperial Palace, Ye Tian was no longer there.
Later, he found out that Ye Tian had taken on a mission and left.
In those ten days, his team had been causing continuous trouble, protected not only by Tang Weiguo’s team but also monitored by the General’s men on patrol.
They couldn’t force Ye Tian to return from afar, and he felt certain there was some unknown matter at hand.
Unfortunately, those men were unreliable.
They had agreed to create disturbances on the outskirts of the Imperial City.
Yet they disappeared just like that, leaving only Yingzi with him, stirring movements within the city with those women.
This could hardly cause any ripple of disturbance.
While Liu Xu mentally supported what Yingzi was plotting, he neither sent men to assist nor allowed his wife and daughter to join their gatherings.
Liu Xu was helpless in this matter; he couldn’t let his wife and daughter fall under Yingzi’s influence as well.
Moreover, he thought of disassociating himself from them, not allowing anyone to know that Yingzi’s activities were in any way connected to him.
In truth, they had nothing to do with him; it was entirely Yingzi and his group acting on their own.
“Father, with our wealth, we could also purchase resources like the King, buy Elixirs.
It seems the King must have consumed the Supreme Elixir rumored in the Martial World, which, if one has money, can be purchased by anyone, and not just by the King.”
Liu Tao said confidently, fully aware of the considerable wealth his father had amassed over the years.
Liu Xu was somewhat reluctant to part with his money, but he agreed with his son that as long as they had money, they could buy Pills that could enhance their Cultivation.
Even if there was no cheap offer, the auction house deliveries were enough for him to guess the price—just much more expensive than what others had paid for a single Elixir!
He would buy Pills, giving only one to his son and keeping the rest for himself.
With this decision, Liu Xu wanted his son to stop fooling around in the courtyard and genuinely focus on Cultivation!
Liu Tao didn’t take his father’s words seriously.
With that kind of Elixir, was there really a need for such hard cultivation?
Just one Immortal Pill could grant eternal youth and longevity.
In Liu Tao’s eyes, the Supreme Elixirs that could raise one’s Cultivation with a single dose were nearly the same as an Immortal Pill.
…
At this moment, Yingzi was secretly meeting with Du Jiaolan on the second floor of a teahouse.
Both were wearing veils, almost entirely covering their faces.
The sparkle in their eyes was enough to discern each other’s expressions through the sheer fabric.
“Du Jiaolan, your actions are too slow.
When will you capture Tang Feiyang’s heart and enter the Minister Mansion?”
The dissatisfaction in Yingzi’s tone was clear, sternly scolding Du Jiaolan for her slow progress.
“Leader, Tang Feiyang seems wary, he constantly keeps me at a distance.”
Du Jiaolan felt wronged; she had used all her charms, but whether Tang Feiyang was firm-hearted or simply uninterested in beauties, she couldn’t tell.
Perhaps it was because whenever she approached this man, her eyes already brimmed with caution.
She felt like a ferocious beast among humans, as if by simply stepping into this man’s proximity, she embodied the scheming and devious plots he suspected her of!
Their crafted conspiracy, from the outset, was not meant to harm him.
Once she became part of his family, she’d be helpless to do anything but carry out the organization’s mission.
“At any rate, you must act quickly,” he commanded, “Within one or two months, your group needs to become engaged to the target families.
If it’s not possible with the one you love, then for the sake of your goals, even a person from their clan will suffice.”
“Yes,” Du Jiaolan understood what the leader meant— if she couldn’t become Tang Feiyang’s wife, then being a concubine to another man in his clan, or even to his father, would do.
Yingzi and Du Jiaolan chatted briefly.
As they prepared to leave, they passed through the lobby without noticing a black man and a woman sitting there, the latter of whom, out of jealousy, was chopping at her foot!
Bian Shasha had been following the black man for over two months, from abduction and resistance to falling for this man.
From a young girl, she had transformed into a frivolous woman following a man in black.
Bian Shasha’s transformation was not insignificant; at first, she despised her companions for abandoning her, and she hated the man in black even more.
The man in black, using his nefarious cultivation technique, subdued Bian Shasha and turned her into a woman who delighted in dual cultivation.
Their initial time was spent hidden in the Boundless Forest, within that cave they cultivated day and night.
Using dual cultivation with Bian Shasha, the man in black continually raised both their cultivations, emerging from time to time in search of food.
After more than two months, their novelty as a new couple faded, and they settled into a familiarity akin to an old married couple, lacking the impassioned love of earlier days.
The man in black then thought of going out to find new women, to keep the woman by his side from leaving him, he couldn’t bear to kill Bian Shasha.
Although Bian Shasha initially had been taken by force, she grew to like the man, and by now, she had become even more scheming than the man in black.
Whilst the man in black wanted to find women, her desire was to acquire male pets!
Seeing the man in black ready to trail two women, Bian Shasha was seething with jealousy.
Resignedly, Bian Shasha followed the man in black, pretending to be a passerby in pursuit of the two women riding in a carriage.
At a crossroads, their carriage parted ways, each going in a different direction.
The man in black watched the directions the women took and decided to follow the one who left first, assuming she held a higher status.
As a result, Bian Shasha and the man in black ended up trailing one of them straight into the Prime Minister’s Residence.
The man in black and Bian Shasha watched from the shadows as the woman entered a courtyard, while all the guards of the Prime Minister’s Residence practiced Ancient Martial Arts.
Unnoticed by the guards, they used a Magical Treasure to fly into the sky, observing every movement within the Prime Minister’s Residence from high above.
As night fell, the man in black prepared to turn burglar, seeking to descend into the woman’s courtyard.
Out of spite, Bian Shasha quarreled with him in mid-air, he also scoured the estate below for a young noble to prey on.
She spied a young master whose appearance was acceptable, barely meeting her standards for a male pet.
At nightfall, Liu Tao, surrounded by maids serving him wine and a lavish feast, had completely forgotten about cultivation, as well as the day’s discussion with his father.
He was immersed in the intoxicating and pleasurable revels.
“My beauty, have another drink.”
“Master, let me pour you wine!”
As they drank and flirted, they remained oblivious to the extra woman in the room.
Bian Shasha crept closer to them step by step.
“Who are you?”
One maid suddenly noticed the masked woman in the room and screamed in panic.
Liu Tao and another maid turned their attention to this new woman.
“Beauty, how did you get in here?” Liu Tao felt no malice from the woman, which emboldened him and aroused his lust, lending him false courage.