The gathering ended and Mu Yan went back to his quarters.
Here, Renyu and A’qi were already waiting for him.
"It seems you took a little longer than I expected," he said when he saw both of them at the Foundation Building stage.
"We asked and it seems your speed of stabilising your breakthrough was a lot faster than usual. Our speed was also quite fast, just a bit longer than yours." A’qi replied, admiring him slightly.
"Very well, as long as you advance, everything else is less important.
Co here and sit down." He gestured to the seats and looked over to Ren Yu this ti.
Sigh, Ren Yu exhaled, knowing that for the rest of his life, he would probably be the junior brother.
Taking out a tea kettle, he served everyone a cup.
"Brother, tell us, how did the investnt go?"
"It went very well. The Hua family..."
Mu Yan started explaining the investnt he expects, while also informing them of the Stone Lotus County.
...
In the Hua residence, Lady Lingyi, her parents, and the two uncles and aunts sat in the main hall.
The main chair was empty.
After a few monts passed, a little flower suddenly flew in from sowhere, flying into the hall and falling down to the main chair.
Everyone rose and bowed, "Greetings Elder i Zi!"
Petal after petal flew from the flower, hovering in the air for a mont before taking position.
With thousands of petals, the figure of a person ford.
Finally, the petals exploded and in its place, the vision of a person appeared –
Although the person hadn’t appeared themselves, this avatar was like a true manifestation, seemingly real and difficult to discern.
"Hello little Lingyi, it has been many years since we saw each other."
The figure was an elegant lady in a plum-coloured dress, looking at Lingyi, the only one she hadn’t seen in a long ti.
"Grandmother i Zi, when I was just a little child, I was still playing in your courtyard!"
"Hehe, mother, that was when she would steal your plums!" Anyu laughed when she thought of that scene.
"Indeed, I rember. When you co over next ti, I will give you a few plums, haha." i Zi was very kind when she was looking at her families’ lineage.
How many years has it been since she ford it?
Initially, she was just a minor mber of the Hua family, unpromising and useless. She worked hard, rising one cultivation stage at a ti. And finally, after four thousand years, she entered the fifth stage!
Becoming a Family Elder, she was able to form her own branch lineage. Now it had been just a thousand years and her lineage had grown so well –
She looked at the faces of her three children, especially at Lifan. While her eldest son and second daughter were extrely diligent in cultivating, they all focused on their paths.
It was Lifan who took a step back, beca a spiritual farr, and finally married a wife to start a family. This instantly gave their lineage a fourth fourth-stage cultivator!
Even more, the continued lineage...
Among all her grandchildren, she loved two the most, one of them right in front of her, "Lingyi, I know your hardships.
You cultivated a dual-cultivation art to the third stage with the support of my Hua family and i Zi lineage to marry into the Royal Family.
Now after only twenty years, you bore two excellent children and raised them to ten and twelve.
I can’t be more proud to have such a dedicated daughter.
Don’t worry, your efforts won’t go in vain.
The dual cultivation art you cultivated, as you know, focuses on the birth and blessing of child bearing.
Your own cultivation will be absorbed, but your blessings will grow stronger with your children’s achievents.
I have prepared a whole Dao Changing Plan for you. When you return to the family next year, you can enter seclusion. Reaching the third stage for a second ti will be easier."
"Thank you, grandmother, for your help! Lingyi will never forget it!" Lingyi had just thanked when she saw her mother in tears.
"Thank you mother, truly, for helping my Lingyi!"
"Alas, Anyu. I know your hardships haven’t been few either. Without a dual cultivation thod, expending your vitality and lowering your chances for further advancent, you still bore my son five children.
I will not forget your contribution either.
No matter what happens in the future, once I advance to the sixth stage, I will make sure to get a breakthrough material for you and Lifan!"
When the two older siblings of Lifan heard this, they were envious, but there was no bad blood. They knew that this was compensation. If it wasn’t for them, the loss they’d have to bear would be equivalent to having one material less.
Anyu nodded but didn’t comnt.
The emotions rose and fell, but i Zi focused back on the important part, "What about the Royal Family? Did they notice anything? And my two grandchildren, are they fine?"
From the start, she never considered these children part of the Royal Family but part of her own.
Lingyi spoke, "Both are very well. Initially, I thought poisoning my husband would be noticed, but as grandmother said, my husband rely thought he was sick because of the fall in his fortune.
Even the royal doctors checked him and didn’t see anything.
As for my children, they are well. Since we had this plan from the start, naturally I made sure they didn’t form any attachnt with my late husband. They got used to it very fast and even call brother Mu Yan ’Father’ after I told them to.
Considering everything, they will quickly forget that ’Father’ was a different person in the past."
"Hmm, that’s good. The doctors such a Royal Prince could invite is only of the third, at most fourth grade. They can’t possibly detect a fifth-grade poison. As for the loss in fortune... it did cost us quite a bit to create a beast wave in the county he was assigned, causing losses in his absence when he went to the capital.
As for that Eunuch Mu Yan, how is he?"
Anyu spoke up this ti, "I inspected him and also gathered the information of his grades. It’s good all these eunuch palaces allow access to their eunuchs scores.
Based on everything, he doesn’t seem to have an overly strong respect for neither Royalty nor Legitimacy. His priorities seem to be first his own path, second the path of his children, and third the prosperity of the world. The Royal Family doesn’t seem to have much importance."
Lingyi nodded, "In the assignnt, he only said that he respected the Imperial Family for their hardships in guarding the world and the people of the empire."
"Is that so?" i Zi thought about it and nodded, "That’s good. Selfish motives are easy to satisfy. In addition, those who seek the prosperity of the world all have one thing in common: they can accept small losses to achieve great success.
As long as he’s loyal, you should consider investing more."
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