Qi Boyang glanced at it casually and then ignored it.
Qi Boxing glanced at it, smiled, and offered no comment.
Seeing that no one paid him any attention, Qi Boyue became dissatisfied: "Dabao, look at you, you don't say a word, how can you win a woman's heart? Today is different, I got a lot of communication jade slips from female immortals." As he said this, he wrote with a smug look on his face.
"They're all older than you," Qi Boyang relentlessly attacked.
Qi Boyue: "..." Brother.
“Age isn’t a problem, as long as you look young,” Qi Boyue retorted.
Qi Boxing said, "Second brother, you should worry about yourself. You've accepted so many communication jade slips from female cultivators. Aren't you afraid of capsizing in the end?"
Qi Boyue shrugged: "What do you know? True strongmen are always surrounded by beautiful women. I'm considered one of the few."
Qi Boyang ignored it.
Qi Boxing was surrounded by many people, but he always kept a good distance from them. Even if he occasionally received some resources, he would return them when he had the ability to earn them back.
Unlike Qi Boyue, who seemed eager to flirt with every female cultivator, and so blatantly at that, though each chat consumed a lot of resources. He suspected those girls might also enjoy it; after all, Erbao at most touched hands and didn't do anything else. If he were one of those female cultivators, he'd be happy to play along with Erbao. Not being taken advantage of and getting some decent talismans—who wouldn't be happy? With the quality of those talismans, he could sell them or keep them for himself.
This behavior of always pulling out his treasures seems like the act of someone who's being taken advantage of.
Fortunately, they knew beforehand that Erbao had a habit of squandering any spirit stones he had, as if he had no motivation to continue earning spirit stones unless he squandered them all.
"What do you mean? Aren't you surrounded by so many people too? Don't think I can't see through their ulterior motives because you've been letting them run wild," Qi Boyue said. "Speaking of which, you've been getting quite close to a few Divine Lords lately. Which one have you taken a fancy to?"
"Don't talk nonsense, we're all just friends," Qi Boxing said in a pure and innocent tone. "They're all good people."
"Pretending." Qi Boyue rolled her eyes dramatically. (The remaining text appears to be a list of characters and doesn't translate directly.)
"I already know, why are you asking?" Qi Boxing said. "Of all the people you picked, I don't like a single one of them."
The two brothers were equally bad at each other, and they disliked one another, but Qi Boyang remained the most indifferent.
Because in his heart, besides cultivation, there was only alchemy.
In short, the three brothers, who have very problematic love lives, seem unlikely to find their soulmates.
The banquet lasted all day, and after that, everyone dispersed, having obtained all the necessary contact information. Whether they wanted to contact each other privately or not was now their own business.
When the three brothers were later asked if they had found a suitable candidate, Qi Boyang and Qi Boxing both shook their heads and said no. Qi Boyang, however, named several names in a row and then said, "I think these are all good. Why don't you help me choose one, Father?"
Qi Zhiheng's face darkened, but he held back and said, "I will help you check on the character of these people." As far as he knew, several of them were not very good.
A few days later, Qi Boxing went to the Yangxi Divine Realm again.
Qi Zhiheng also investigated the situation of those female cultivators, and each of them had different problems! Some had had temporary partners, some frequented various difficult cultivators, and some had moral issues...
He took the information he had received and went straight to Qi Boyue, scolding her: "Look at the kind of people you've chosen!"
Yang Yitian chimed in, "Your father is right! Your great-grandfather has already found a good match and they're currently getting to know each other. If all goes well, they should be able to become Daoist partners soon. And your aunt and uncle, their choices are all more reliable than any of yours. Are you a garbage can? They just keep dumping garbage on you."
Qi Boyue was thoroughly scolded and dared not speak while clinging to Hu Ren.
"More importantly, what do these women you chose look like? They're not even as good-looking as Hu Ren." Yang Yitian couldn't stand this kind of thing the most. It was bad enough that they had bad character, but they were also not good-looking!
Fox Ren let out a soft howl, then turned around and rubbed its fox head against Qi Boyue as a sign of comfort.
Qi Boyue felt wronged after being scolded, but was finally allowed to leave and returned to her room.
He lay down on the bed with the Xuan Shui Fox in his arms, lifted the fox up by its armpits to look at himself, and complained, "They look decent enough, but who knew they were such bad people? My dad actually nagged me for half a day over such a small thing. Isn't it because they want me to find a Daoist partner? I found one, and they complained about it. Sigh, parents just love to make a fuss over nothing."
Hu Ren rolled his eyes, disagreeing with Qi Boyue's eye for talent.
"You rolled your eyes at me?" Qi Boyue kissed the fox's furry forehead and then pulled it into his arms, rubbing it hard several times as punishment.
He messed up the fox fur on Hu Ren's body.
Unable to withstand it, he flailed his limbs wildly but failed to break free. In desperation, he transformed into a boy with fluffy fox ears and a large, bushy fox tail.
Because of their previous posture, when he transformed into a human, he sat on Qi Boyue's stomach.
"How did you suddenly turn into a human?" Qi Boyue's eyes lit up when they caught sight of the other's fluffy tail.
Qi Boyue sat up abruptly, pounced on Hu Ren and knocked him onto the bed. Then, she shifted her attention and grabbed Hu Ren's fluffy tail, rubbing her face against it several times.
Qi Boyue liked his spirit pet to be in the form of an animal so he could hug and pet it to his heart's content. He never expected that Hu Ren could not only transform into a human, but also have this other form.
The fluffy tail is more pleasant to touch than the whole fox.
Fox Ren's sensitive tail was grabbed, and her face turned slightly red. She raised one foot and placed it on Qi Boyue's stomach: "Let go of my tail."
"I won't let go!" Qi Boyue really liked the tail and didn't want to let go at all. "Why aren't you a nine-tailed fox? If you were a nine-tailed fox, you would have nine tails."
"Then why don't you go find a nine-tailed fox as your spirit pet?" Fox Ren reached out and grabbed his own tail, making a gesture as if to retract it.
"I was just saying! Those foxes smell so strong, they don't smell as good as you," Qi Boyue immediately coaxed.
After Hu Ren followed Qi Boyue, he consumed countless rare and precious herbs. Among them was a spiritual fruit that Qi Boyue had specially found for him because he disliked the fox scent on him. This spiritual fruit had no other effects, except that after eating it, one's body would emit a faint fragrance that could be smelled when one got close.
Fox Ren pulled his tail back.
Qi Boyang pounced again, but missed the tail, so he turned his attention to the fox's ears. He restrained the fox and kissed its furry ears several times.
Fox Ren's ears burned, and in an instant, he turned into a blue Xuan Shui fox.
"Why did you turn back again?" Qi Boyue lifted the fox up and kissed it several times on the head.
Fox Ren suddenly said, "If you find a Daoist partner, you can't treat me like this anymore."
Qi Boyue hugged the fox back into her arms: "Why?"
“Your partner will definitely not agree,” Hu Ren said, “unless they don’t truly like you.”
Qi Boyue didn't care much: "Then let's not have a Daoist partner. Anyway, I haven't had one for so many years, so it's okay if I don't in the future."
"Really?" Hu Ren was a little happy. He thought that Qi Boxing only found people who wrote all sorts of nonsense, so it would be better if he didn't have a Daoist partner at all.
Qi Boyue stroked the fox fur again: "Anyway, I don't think Da Bao and San Bao will have any Daoist partners, and neither will I. My father and father-in-law probably won't say anything."
"That's not necessarily true. Who knows, the Three Treasures might bring their Daoist companions next time they come back," said the hedonistic Fox-Man.
Qi Boyue immediately retorted, "Impossible. He would never give up the whole forest for a single tree, not even the tallest one."
Upon hearing this, the fox nudged his hand with its head.
Da Bao has been practicing diligently these past few days. Qi Zhiheng gave him some new pill formulas. These formulas were all new pill formulas researched by Qi Zhiheng. Only by combining them with the divine herbs of the Guiyi Divine Realm could the pills be refined.
Besides refining pills, he also needs to research new pill formulas, so he is currently studying the properties and effects of the divine herb.
In fact, some of the properties of these divine herbs might not even be known to their creators. Therefore, in addition to refining elixirs, he also wanted to study these properties and, incidentally, create several new elixir formulas.
As for finding a Daoist partner?
Isn't alchemy beautiful? Why seek a Daoist partner?
Finding a Daoist partner requires resources, and he doesn't want to give away what he has worked so hard for to others.
Qi Zhiheng was helpless about his son's obsession with alchemy. He said, "Although your great-grandfather was also obsessed with alchemy, at least he got married. You are not even as good as your great-grandfather."
Qi Boyang remained unmoved and casually asked Qi Zhiheng some questions.
Qi Zhiheng helped him answer, and Qi Boyang's eyes grew brighter and brighter. His own father was really not bad. Apart from his recent eccentricities in wanting them all to find partners, there was nothing to complain about. His knowledge of alchemy was also so abundant. Qi Boyang was very satisfied with this.
At first, Qi Zhiheng was able to answer in front of him, after all, he had been refining pills for a long time.
But later on, he genuinely couldn't answer some of the questions.
Qi Boyang always asks questions he hasn't even thought about himself. He hasn't done any experiments, so how would he know?
And so, Qi Zhiheng had no choice but to leave somewhat dejectedly. He didn't want to answer any more questions for the time being.
After successfully driving his father away, Qi Boyang began refining elixirs.
Qi Zhiheng was at his wit's end, so he simply gave up and left it to fate.
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