Chapter 44: Calm and Stormy Weather (Third Update Seeking Votes)
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Yang Tianwen settled down like this, and at first, he still followed Yu Qinghong to play around. However, after the Northern Ming Chen family was exterminated again, Yu Qinghong was called by his old man to handle official business, busy every day, exhausted, and had no time to accompany Yang Tianwen to play.
Yang Tianwen also stopped going out and stayed in the house to practice his internal energy and refine his jade. Every day, the Jade Family would send over several hundred kilograms of raw jade ore for Yang Tianwen to work on. This kept him busy every day, refining the jade ore into real jade, which not only increased the amount of jade but also helped to temper his body's innate purple energy.
During his free time in the daytime, he would also play with Xiao Bi'er and Xiao Bai. The courtyard was filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers, and the scenery was quite pleasant, with a spacious and elegant pavilion. Water Lian's piano skills had made tremendous progress over the past few days, reaching another level altogether - this was truly the mark of a master pianist.
With the company of Xiao Bai and Shui Xinlan, Bi'er gradually regained her cheerfulness. Although she often got distracted, she had become much more normal. Yang Tian's worries were alleviated a lot.
Time flies, and a month has passed unnoticed. Three of the nine major families have already disappeared. The murderer is now in Beiming. Among the remaining three families in Beiming, only the Wang family and the Zhu family of the imperial family are left. This alarm forces the remaining few major families to gather together. Abandoning the poor and lonely Donglong Imperial Family Zhao, at this moment, inside and outside the palace, countless soldiers and masters have gathered, never relaxing for a moment.
The royal families of Beiming, the Wang and Zhu families, have joined forces and are recruiting countless famous martial artists from the Jianghu to assist them. As long as their abilities haven't surpassed the boundaries of the mundane world, many top martial artists will be enticed by fame and fortune to join in. However, if one's abilities exceed those boundaries, even imperial power can't restrain you. Just like the imperial family of Donglong, although they are high above, they still can't help but be on edge every day.
I don't know if it's because of the good feng shui or other reasons, but although no tragedy has ever occurred in Nanzhu, the three major families are not fools and must prepare for a rainy day. The cooperation between the three families has already begun to take shape, with Yu Qinghong busy every day coordinating everything. Why coordinate? After all, each family has its own interests, who doesn't want to gain an advantage or have some reservations about each other? There's a lot of maneuvering going on in the middle, but if Yang Tianwen were to solve it, it would definitely be a big headache.
The head of the Jade family, Yu Hengshan, can be said to have the least pressure. Why? Because there is a Bixiaoyaojun (a god-like figure) living in the house! In recent days, some elderly and weak members of the Jade family began to move into the east wing, surrounding Yang Tianwen's courtyard. This was not intended to provoke Yang Tianwen, but rather to borrow his strength to ensure the Jade family's bloodline and future. Among the third generation of the Jade family, except for the eldest, second, and third sons, all the others were very young, with the oldest being less than 15 years old and the youngest still not weaned. These were the ones that needed to be protected. The original south wing was now empty, with only some elderly members of the family, elite disciples from the second generation, and a group of high-ranking experts who had been raised by the family since childhood remaining. At least half of it was vacant.
Of course, the East Wing was not just handed over to Yang Tianwen alone. The outer circle secretly protected a batch of high-ranking experts from the Jade family who were kept hidden. Anyway, Yu Hengshan was making two-handed calculations, and some important clan members without combat power were handed over to Yang Tianwen and the secretly trained trump card for protection. On the other hand, it was naturally the cooperation of the three families, jointly responding to the situation. Therefore, the Jade family is one of the nine major families with the lightest pressure. Yu Hengshan, Yu Linshu, and other leaders of the Jade family were all celebrating that they had not been blinded by the interests of the Longevity Sword in Wan City at that time. Otherwise, the Jade family would have been even more miserable than it is now.
For this, for Yang Tianwen's request, the Jade family can be said to have sought after, what does Yang Tianwen want? Isn't it just a batch of jade mines? No big deal, the Jade family doesn't have much, but they have plenty of jade! This little requirement is nothing, so these jade mines are more and more abundant every day, better in quality every day. They were sent to Yang Tianwen one after another, as for what Yang Tianwen took them for, they were smart enough not to ask, nor did they go to inquire.
Yang Tianwen was also happy to be idle and carefree, every day sitting in meditation to practice his internal energy, accompanying the two women and Xiao Bai playing for a while, otherwise it was just polishing and refining jade ore. In half a year, Yang Tianwen's ordinary jade had reached tens of thousands of catties. Indeed, half a year passed quickly, but this half year was surprisingly calm, that demon-like murderer did not appear again, and gradually returned to calmness. And Yu Qinghong ran to the east wing more and more frequently, recently it seemed like he had finished his work, and simply moved in, right across from Yang Tianwen's room.
For the past six months, Yang Tianwen's life had been extremely calm. The congenital purple energy within him had reached a limit, and both of his Dan Tians were filled with dense, almost liquid-like purple energy that was slowly diluting. If it were a normal cultivation method, this would be the time to successfully transform the gaseous True Qi into liquid-like True Yuan, then enter the False Dan stage, gradually accumulating True Yuan and forming the Golden Elixir. However, Yang Tianwen's "Self-Existing Great Way" was different. It actually went against the norm, slowly diluting the almost liquid-like congenital purple energy back to its original state, continuously compressing the purple energy and deepening its color. The countless meridians throughout his body were circulating with the mysterious congenital purple energy, even nourishing his physical body, which was often neglected by cultivators. It was precisely because of this that Yang Tianwen had not shown any signs of aging in the past decade, looking just as he did before.
When the two Dan Tian's innate purple energy is completely diluted, it can naturally enter the Lian Qi period. This made Yang Tianwen extremely happy, originally if he relied solely on the worldly thin spiritual energy, it would be absolutely impossible to make such progress. However, because the Lian Xin Dan fire refines the original jade while also purifying the internal energy and tempering the innate purple energy. This result also made Yang Tianwen overjoyed. Fortunately, he had spent a lot of money and lost more than half of his innate purple energy to plant the Lian Xin Dan fire, which was the result of his efforts for more than five years. Who would have thought that this Lian Xin Dan fire actually had such a function? As the saying goes, "break before standing", the ancient method of refining energy is indeed extraordinary and wonderful.
