Lu Xuening's face was as pale as paper, and she trembled. With so many Void Refinement stage experts staring at her, if it weren't for the protective treasure she was wearing, their combined pressure alone would have been enough to kill her. But... but she didn't do it on purpose, did she?
Little did she know that Tuantuan would run out of the spirit beast bag and eat the seven-colored begonia.
Nangong Rou's face was also deathly pale. She had messed up, she had messed up terribly.
Nangong Rou was filled with regret. How could she have brought a stranger to Tianxin Peak? Was she out of her mind?
She regretted it, and even more so, she hated Lu Xuening.
Why doesn't that bitch Lu Xuening take good care of her spirit pet?
"Brother Lu, tell me, what do you plan to do about this?" The head of the Nangong family looked at Lu Xiuwen coldly.
Lu Xiuwen looked at Lu Xuening and said in an icy voice, "It is my fault for not teaching my daughter well. Brother Nangong can do whatever he wants with this wretched child, even if you make her a furnace for your third young master."
A furnace or cauldron?
Xu Lianxin looked at her husband in disbelief.
Xiao Ba is someone they've spoiled rotten, how could they give her away to be used as a furnace? Besides, she's already engaged to the Gu family, wouldn't that be a slap in the face to the Gu family?
Lu Xuening suddenly looked up at Lu Xiuwen. Father, Father actually wanted her to be Nangong Qi's furnace? He wanted her, the precious eldest daughter of the Lu family, to be a lowly furnace?
What is a furnace/cauldron?
Not only are they toyed with, but their cultivation is also drained. If they encounter a ruthless master, they will lose their lives after just one act of absorbing his essence.
No, no, she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to!
Lu Xuening looked at Lu Xiuwen with sorrow. Before she could even cry, she heard Madam Nangong sneer, "A furnace? To be my son's furnace? She doesn't deserve it!"
Lu Xuening couldn't even cry anymore. How dare they say she wasn't even worthy of being a furnace cauldron? This was too much! But she didn't dare say a word. She knelt there, utterly humiliated.
"Then, Madam Nangong, just say what you want. It is indeed my Lu family's fault in this matter. As long as it is within my power, I, Lu Xiuwen, will try my best to satisfy you," Lu Xiuwen said. As he said this, he wished he could kill Lu Xuening right now.
That's Nangong Qi's life-saving medicine, wouldn't the Nangong family take this opportunity to make exorbitant demands?
After Lu Xiuwen finished speaking, the Nangong family head, his wife, and the other elders communicated with each other telepathically. After a while, Madam Nangong said, "Our Nangong family doesn't want anything else. If you want to compensate our Aqi, then give your family's seventh young lady to our Aqi and let them become Daoist partners."
Aqi is a genius that the Nangong family has only seen once in a thousand years. The Lu family ruined one of their geniuses, so they're sending another one over. The last leaf of the Lu family's ancestral elixir, Deer-like Grass, was eaten by Xu Lianxin. The medicinal effects are hereditary, and Lu Xueyao is her biological daughter, so she, like her mother, is prone to having many children.
Aqi still has a hundred years to live, enough for Lu Xueyao to bear him an heir. Even if a woman is initially unwilling to have a child, she will compromise for the sake of the child. Regardless of whether Lu Xueyao has anything going on with Xu Fengzhi of the Shenmeng Sect, once she has a child, she will definitely side with the Nangong family in the future.
Even if we take a step back and assume that she has a child and doesn't stay in the Nangong family afterward, why would the Nangong family be afraid of not coming if they are in trouble?
What? !
The Lu family members' expressions changed drastically.
They actually want the Seventh Miss!
"That's impossible," Lu Xiuwen said angrily.
Lu Xiuwen glared angrily at the Nangong family members, and he immediately understood what they were up to. They were really scheming; their schemes were practically jumping out of his face.
But Xu Lianxin thought this was a good idea. She anxiously transmitted her voice to Lu Xiuwen: "Husband, Nangong Qi won't live long. Even if Xiao Qi marries him, she will only be able to come back in a hundred years."
Lu Xiuwen looked coldly at Xu Lianxin and transmitted his voice, "A hundred years? If she has a child with Nangong Qi, do you think she will come back?"
The reason he wouldn't agree to A Yao marrying Xu Fengzhi was because he was afraid that after she got married, she would be devoted to her husband's family. Once a woman gets married, even if she misses her own family, it can't compare to her children and husband.
"Letting Xiao Qi marry your son Nangong Qi is not an option, there's no room for discussion." Lu Xiuwen's voice was icy.
The head of the Nangong family sneered: "So, Brother Lu means we should have a fight?"
“Patriarch Nangong, although our Eighth Miss is at fault, isn’t your Fourth Miss also at fault?” Elder Lu Jing of the Lu family said.
“The place where the Seven-Colored Begonia Flower is located is heavily restricted. Our Eighth Miss is only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. Even if she has malicious intentions, she can’t go up there,” another elder of the Lu family, Lu Qing, interjected.
Then another elder from the Lu family said, "If it weren't for your fourth young lady leading the way and breaking the restriction, this wouldn't have happened."
"Yeah, we can't blame it all on us!"
The elders of the Lu family didn't say that because they liked Lu Xuening; they mainly did it to absolve the Lu family of any responsibility.
Lu Xiuwen replied, "While I may be a poor teacher, the Nangong family may not be any better at raising their daughters either. Such an important thing should not be taken to see outsiders so casually."
The Lu family members nodded. For example, their Lu family's Deer Grass only grows a single leaf every seven or eight thousand years, and it takes thousands of years for a single leaf to grow. The grass has been planted in the forbidden area for tens of thousands of years. Apart from the family head, the family head's wife, the second master, and the supreme elder, no one else is allowed to even glance at it.
Lu Yanwen shook his head: "No matter how much I dote on my daughter, I never taught her the incantation to enter the Lu family's forbidden area. Fellow Daoists Nangong, you really are..."
"You've got a big heart."
To translate Lu Yanwen's words:
Your Nangong family carelessly gave the forbidden area incantation to your dim-witted daughter, which led to this situation. How can you say it's all our responsibility?
"You..." The head of the Nangong family was so angry that his face turned ashen, but he had to admit that he did bear some responsibility.
Looking at his daughter, the head of the Nangong family also wanted to strangle this wretched child.
Nangong Rou lowered her head, bit her lip, and her eyes were filled with tears.
It was her fault, it was all her fault, she was so sorry to her third brother...
"Is your Lu family trying to shirk responsibility?" Madam Nangong slammed her hand on the table, causing cracks to appear in the thousand-year-old ironwood table.
Lu Xiuwen said, "We will naturally take responsibility for our side, but if you want my Xiaoqi, there's no room for discussion. You are also at fault."
"Good! Good! Good! The Lu family is something else! It's been a long time since I've made a move!" The hot-tempered Madam Nangong suddenly stood up. This Madam Nangong's name was Qin Liniang.
She was stunningly beautiful, but had a notoriously bad temper. In her youth, she was known for her fiery temper and fierce reputation, earning her the nickname "Rakshasa Fairy." She started as a rogue cultivator, but after marrying into the Nangong family, she was nurtured and trained with great care. Now, her strength surpasses that of her husband, and she has reached the late stage of the Void Refinement realm.
As soon as she released the pressure of the late-stage Void Refinement Realm, Lu Xuening, even with the protection of her treasures, suddenly vomited blood. Nangong Rou fared better than Lu Xuening. Although both of them had treasures protecting them, Nangong Rou's strength was at the Nascent Soul Realm. Although her face was paler, she did not vomit blood.
"Little Eight!" Xu Lianxin went to help Lu Xuening with heartache. She released her spiritual pressure to shield Lu Xuening from Madam Nangong's oppressive aura.
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