“They are your maids, how can you not control them?” Lu Yunshen said.
Ayao didn't even want to talk anymore. Even her brothers ignored her and didn't care about her. How could the maids take her seriously? She looked at Lu Yunshen and Lu Yunxing and even wondered if they were pretending to be stupid.
“I went to Buquan Palace to ask, and they said that there was one time when you didn’t have what you wanted, and you got angry and never went back. Xiao Qi, you have a bad temper and you push the responsibility onto others. Can’t you learn from Xiao Ba?” Lu Yunxing said, looking at A Yao. He felt that his attitude was already very good.
But he didn't know that his words, "Can't you learn from Xiao Ba?" had touched a nerve with A Yao. A Yao looked at Lu Yunxing and became agitated: "You believe everything they say, but you don't believe anything I say. You're convinced that I'm lying. I don't understand? Besides the fact that I'm a bastard and don't even have the same father as you, I don't understand why you treat me like this?"
"Lu Xueyao!" Lu Yunxing raised his hand, looking fierce as he was about to slap A Yao.
Ayao shouted, "Go ahead and hit me, Fourth Young Master! Anyway, I'm an unwanted bastard, anyone can hit me, anyone can bully me. When I'm beaten to death, Mother will probably feel that she has no stain on her reputation... You, you'll all be happy, happily with Lu Xuening..."
As she spoke, large tears rolled down Ayao's face.
Lu Yunxing didn't slap her. A Yao's words just now stung his heart. Bastard, bastard, does she really think she is a bastard?
“Xiao Qi, don’t say such hurtful things. How does your saying this affect your mother?” Lu Yunshen said with a heavy heart.
Ayao cried and asked, "Did I say something wrong? Isn't it okay for anyone to hit me and mistreat me? If I really were born of the same father and mother as you, would you punish me so often? I can't think of any other reason besides the fact that I'm a bastard."
Lu Yun Shen opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound.
Lu Yunxing was furious. He really wanted to beat A Yao to death, but if he did, people outside would really think she was a bastard, and the smear against his mother would be impossible to clear. Even if the Lu family had a million mouths, they wouldn't be able to explain themselves.
Rumors stop with the wise, but if there are so many wise people, how can there be rumors?
"You, you are..." Lu Yunxing felt a surge of anger welling up in her chest, as if it was about to explode. "Whatever, I'm not going to care about you anymore."
Wasn't he disciplining her for her own good? If she weren't his own sister, he wouldn't even bother to discipline her. But she's the one who hates him and says such hurtful things. He doesn't care anymore; he'll never care about that bastard Lu Xueyao again.
Lu Yunxing strode outside, and once outside the hall, a flash of light appeared on his body, and he transformed into a streak of light, flying away into the distance.
Lu Yun Shen looked at A Yao, seeing her pale face and tears streaming down her cheeks, and his heart ached. He wanted to wipe away her tears, but A Yao pulled away. Lu Yun Shen withdrew his hand and said softly, "No, Xiao Qi, it's not what you think. We...we..."
“That day, the eldest young master really wanted to kill me. If only you hadn’t stopped him that day, I could have died…” A Yao said, choking back tears as she looked at Lu Yun Shen.
Looking at A Yao like this, Lu Yunshen felt a dull pain in his heart. He wanted to comfort A Yao, but at this moment a streak of light flew in from outside and flew towards Lu Yunshen. It was a sound transmission talisman. A worried voice came from the talisman and said, "Third Young Master, Eighth Miss has fainted from a muscle strain while practicing her martial arts."
"Xiao Ba".
Upon hearing this, Lu Yunshen turned into a streak of light without looking back and flew towards the direction of Ziji Peak.
The simple hall was empty. Looking at the empty hall, Ayao let out a final tear. She wiped away her tears and walked towards the large table to continue working on her elixirs.
Lu Xueyao, Lu Xueyao, why do you always have expectations of them? See, you're just being delusional again.
You're nothing but a bastard, you're nowhere near as good as one of Lu Xuening's fingers.
Days passed, and because of that rumor, A-Yao's life actually improved considerably. Neither Xu Lianxin nor her brothers continued to beat her or throw her into the water dungeon. They treated A-Yao like she wasn't there, and A-Yao was happy with that. The maids still ignored her, and A-Yao ignored them too, focusing on her cultivation.
She quickly reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment and was about to form her core.
As someone with a Heavenly Spiritual Root, she originally didn't have a bottleneck in Core Formation. However, her foundation was damaged by being repeatedly thrown into the water dungeon and subjected to torture. Xu Fengzhi had given her some spiritual medicine that repaired her foundation once before, but unfortunately, she was imprisoned in the water dungeon again and was kicked by her mother, who was in the Void Refinement stage, which damaged her foundation once more.
A Yao didn't know if this would affect her Core Formation.
Ayao felt it would be safer to buy some medicinal herbs and refine the Dust-Reducing Pill, which could increase the chances of forming a Golden Core.
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Tianxi City, inside the market area.
The market was bustling with activity, with many cultivators setting up stalls on both sides of the street to exchange various items with fellow cultivators. As Ayao walked along, she looked around, collecting materials for refining the Dust-Clearing Pill.
Inside a palace high above, a handsome man in white robes stood before a white jade balustrade, holding a folding fan. Xu Fengzhi had only intended to admire the scenery, but unexpectedly, he spotted A Yao in the marketplace. This was the first time Xu Fengzhi had seen A Yao in two years, since their last meeting at the Tianshui Palace banquet.
Xu Fengzhi looked at A Yao's face; she was still haggard, pale, and lacking in color. Xu Fengzhi had recently broken through the bottleneck of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm and was now at the early-stage Deity Transformation realm. With his cultivation level, he could tell at a glance that A Yao was now at the late-stage Foundation Establishment realm, only one step away from Core Formation.
He saw Ayao there and was a little curious about what she was doing.
So his divine sense followed A Yao and he discovered that the little girl was collecting materials for the Dust-Reducing Pill.
Isn't she a Heavenly Spiritual Root, without any bottleneck to Core Formation? What does she need the Dust-Subduing Pill for?
On second thought, he understood A Yao's thoughts. He guessed that she wanted to refine the Dust-Reducing Pill because her foundation was damaged and she was afraid it would affect her Core Formation.
He really wanted to tell Ayao that while damage to her foundation wouldn't affect her Core Formation, it would significantly impact her Nascent Soul Formation. However, he remembered how, last time at Tianshui Palace, she had only exchanged a few words with him, and her two older brothers had seen it, resulting in her being humiliated and beaten.
Xu Fengzhi frowned, thought for a moment, and then called over a maid.
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