If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 99: No Thoughts of Returning (Added for the Alliance Leader "Book Friend 160322003002867")
Xiaoyu found that he had underestimated Aunt Liu.

Among the five major elements of immortal martial arts, mind, spirit, will and qi, Aunt Liu's strongest element is actually "qi".

At the beginning, Aunt Liu used her newly acquired "Blooming Flowers" sword skill to fight against Mrs. Huo.

But Mrs. Huo’s sword moves were experienced and her sword intent was strong. With just two moves, “Magnificence” tore “Flowers Like Brocade” into pieces.

When the peony blooms, all other flowers fade.

There were only peonies in full bloom in the field, while the azaleas were squeezed to the corners, suppressed and set off by the dogtail grass on the roadside.

At that time, Xiaoyu felt that Aunt Liu was about to be defeated.

Then Aunt Liu exhaled and said, "Haha!"

Colorless yet tangible energy burst out from her body, like a violent storm, destroying the gorgeous peonies blooming in the courtyard; like a scorching hot sun, taking away the peonies' prosperity and splendor, making the petals lose their beauty and become withered.

And in the center of the huge energy, clusters of rhododendrons bloomed again, making the courtyard look red.

When the "internal energy" leaves the body and interacts with the surrounding vital energy of heaven and earth, it is no longer "internal energy" but "true energy".

It is obvious that Aunt Liu is an internal martial arts master who has reached the "True Yuan Realm"!

"Okay!" Mrs. Huo said in a low voice, and began to mobilize her true energy with all her strength.

Aunt Liu's true energy is vast and continuous like the waves; Mrs. Huo's true energy is thick and solid, like a reef in the waves.

Both the waves and the reefs are endowed with the soul of famous flowers.

The water in the waves seems like a bunch of flourishing azalea flowers, while the ones standing proudly and motionless in the tide are the rich and glorious peonies.

Of course, the above are all Xiaoyu’s spiritual feelings.

In the eyes of the maids and young ladies who were shouting in the distance, although they could see some shadows of peonies and rhododendrons, there were more gorgeous and swift movements, the flashing and elusive sword shadows, and the flying smoke and rolling gravel caused by the whistling of true energy.

After half an incense stick of time, Aunt Liu's sword moves began to become disorderly, and Mrs. Huo began to blush and gasp for breath. The two looked at each other, and tacitly stepped back a few steps, sheathed their swords, and ended the fight.

"Jin Tong, your peony charm is really amazing."

"Your flowers are also very beautiful," said Mrs. Huo.

Aunt Liu shook her head slightly, "I'm just relying on my inner energy to hold on."

"Qi is the foundation of immortal martial arts. Using true qi to overwhelm others is honorable and not shameful at all." Mrs. Huo said.

Aunt Liu smiled and said, "This is the first time I've heard you say this."

"This is also the first time you've fought me to a draw." Mrs. Huo said with a complicated expression.

For more than forty years in the first half of her life, she has always been stronger than Liu San. Even if Liu San became the leader of the Tianmen Society and learned the top breathing method "Hunyuan Wuliang", she could still suppress her with her sword intent.

Now Liu San has also mastered the "Nine Flowers Charm", and there will be a day when his sword will be perfected.
"It seems that I will be able to hear your praise often in the future. I'm so happy." Aunt Liu smiled triumphantly.

Mrs. Huo pursed her lips and said, "Not necessarily."

——Even that old slut Liu San can make further progress. I, Huo Jintong, am not only more talented than her, but also have the advantage of practicing Nine Flower Sword. I am already a noble lady, full of wealth and nobility, while she is still wandering around in the land of romance, only with a bit of sluttiness and now with a bit more blessings. However, I will definitely find it easier than her to comprehend the second "Nine Flower Charm".

Mrs. Huo instantly cleared the dejection in her heart and once again felt the passionate impulse that had disappeared over the years.

"How many moves of the old widow's 'Peony Sword' did you memorize?"

Aunt Liu left the "General Pingnan's Mansion" without even having a cup of tea, let alone eating.

It was not until the carriage left Yong'an Street where the general's mansion was located that my aunt started asking.

"I didn't remember any of the moves." Xiaoyu said.

"What did you say?!" Aunt Liu almost jumped up - if the carriage hadn't been so low, she really wouldn't have been able to jump up.

Xiao Yu smiled faintly, "I had memorized everything, but I forgot everything before I left the General's Mansion."

Aunt Liu stretched out her hand to grab her face, "Do you know how difficult it is to see that old widow?"

Xiao Yu quickly dodged and shouted, "Hey, aunt, don't worry, you have to forget the moves before you can master the sword's meaning!"

"You have already mastered it." Aunt Liu was shocked at first, then her face was full of doubt, "Are you sure you mean 'mastered', not understood?"

Xiao Yu said: "I have mastered it and barely got started."

Aunt Liu looked at her as if she were a monster and murmured, "It's too exaggerated. I only watched it once."

Xiao Yu sighed, "If it were any other sword manual, even if I read it once and was taught a hundred times, I might not be able to get started. But the Nine Flower Sword is different."

"It will only be more difficult to comprehend the charm of the Nine Flower Sword." Aunt Liu said.

"It depends on the person." Xiao Yu thought for a moment and said, "I only said a few words yesterday, why did Aunt Liu immediately understand 'a profusion of flowers'?"

"Before you said that yesterday, I had practiced the Nine Flower Sword for more than thirty years and visited hundreds of aristocratic gardens," said Aunt Liu.

Xiao Yu nodded and said, "That's right, you have a solid foundation, and once you realize it, you will be able to make great achievements.

But you have a background, and I also have a rich background!"

"What background do you have? You haven't even seen a truly carefully cultivated famous flower." Aunt Liu said.

"I have never seen the famous flowers in the royal gardens, so it is difficult for me to get started, but I have all the insights after the perfection of the Nine Flower Sword." Xiao Yu said with a complicated expression.

"Where did you get this insight?" Aunt Liu asked puzzledly.

"I've seen a picture of a shadow god that was painted by a saint." Xiao Yu said vaguely.

The "fairy spirit" that the painting master Zhang endowed "The Nobleman Dancing with Swords" contains a charm that is even more graceful and elegant than the perfect masterpiece of "Nine Flower Sword".

Before Aunt Liu's epiphany, Xiaoyu hadn't thought of the Shadow God Diagram.

When she saw Aunt Liu's "flourishing flowers" with her own eyes, she immediately felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

After returning to Xiaojingxuan, she suddenly became enlightened.

I recalled all the feelings and insights I had when I watched Shadow God Picture that day.

The feeling of watching the Shadow God Picture was not good. She felt very uncomfortable after watching it. The charm of the fairy in the painting was not what she wanted.

She had an instinctive aversion to it.

But to be honest, the "imperial concubine" in the eyes of the painting saint of Shangbang is far more noble and gorgeous than the foreign noble who created "Nine Flower Sword".

Aunt Liu looked thoughtful and said, "Since you have a profound background, let's keep working hard and visit the next master who has mastered the Nine Flower Sword." She opened the curtain and said to the coachman, "Let's go to 'Busigui' instead."

"Go through the front door or quietly go in through the back door?" asked the groom.

Aunt Liu said angrily, "I am so shameless? I went through the back door to the General's Mansion, and I am going through the back door again when I don't want to return?"

She was willing to go through the back door of General Pingnan's mansion, not because she felt humble and unworthy of being in a noble place.

She was simply trying to save face for her old sister, Mrs. Huo.

Mrs. Huo is now the general's wife, managing a large family of servants and young ladies, but she also comes from Hongxiufang.

Her appearance at the gate of the general's mansion would make others think and discuss that Mrs. Huo was also a bitch.

"No, no, no, I'm just worried that the gamblers who don't want to return home will bump into my aunt." The groom explained quickly.

Aunt Liu sneered, "We are a whore, we are afraid of nothing but being bumped into by a man."

The coachman was speechless, driving the carriage silently and no longer speaking.

Xiao Yu's mouth twitched as well, and she said, "Auntie, maybe you can always bless yourself with the 'Red Mountain Divine Will', just like Madam Huo, who is in a state of practicing every moment, and eventually becomes a natural demeanor."

"So she has comprehended the spirit of peony since she was fifteen years old. Now, decades have passed, half of her body is buried in the soil, and she has not yet comprehended the spirit of the second flower." Aunt Liu said.

Xiaoyu had nothing to say.

"Bu Si Gui" is a gambling house.

There weren't many customers inside. It might be because there were few people in the morning, or it might be because of the "crackdown" triggered by the Thousand-Handed Thief Saint.

There are more "gangsters" sitting at the door eating melon seeds, chatting and watching the show than gamblers.

"Ah, it's Aunt Liu, Aunt Liu is here!"

As soon as Aunt Liu entered the lobby, she was recognized by a "gangster".

"Aunt Liu is such a rare guest, such a rare guest!"

The leader of the "Afghans" was a young man of about 24 or 25 years old, wearing a warrior's uniform with a short knife on the back of his waist. He was of medium build and very strong, with a tuft of dark goatee on his chin, which looked quite handsome on his face.

The man with the goatee was gambling with a young man in a brocade robe, and he immediately apologized, "Master Xu, you saw that Aunt Liu is here, how about I excuse myself for a moment?"

"Go, go!" Master Xu stared at the Pai Gow in his hand without turning around to look at Aunt Liu.

"Aunt? What are you doing?"

"Xiao Huzi, is Manager Liao here?" asked Aunt Liu.

"It's in the backyard." The young man with a goatee didn't waste any words and immediately led the way for Aunt Liu.

"Master Liao, please, give me a few more days, or lend me another two hundred yuan so that I can make a comeback. Hui'er is my only daughter!"

"Old Xu, don't blame me for being unkind. Bu Si Gui borrowed nearly thirty taels of silver from you, not counting the interest. I only used your Hui Er to pay off the debt, and I gave you two taels of silver instead. That's very generous of me!"

Shopkeeper Liao was a sturdy fat man with a white and chubby face like fermented white dough. His small eyes, small nose and small mouth were almost completely hidden by the fat on his face.

At this moment, he was carrying a birdcage and feeding the birds under the corridor.

A middle-aged man in a short brown robe knelt at his feet and begged.

"Boss, Aunt Liu is here." the man with goatee shouted.

"Oh, Aunt Liu, I heard a magpie calling early this morning. It turns out it was you."

Shopkeeper Liao immediately walked towards Aunt Liu, but the hem of his robe was grabbed by Lao Xu.

"Mr. Liao, please be kind. Twenty-five taels of silver is too little. Hui'er is my only daughter!"

Shopkeeper Liao sneered, "Aunt Liu is an expert in buying 'daughters'. Ask her how much a plain-looking yellow-haired girl is worth."

Old Xu really looked at Aunt Liu with eager eyes.

Aunt Liu said calmly: "If you want to sell your daughter, go to Qingshui Bay yourself. We will teach the monastery not to buy good girls as prostitutes."

Shopkeeper Liao signaled to the man with the goatee to drag Old Xu away.

He hung the birdcage under the eaves again, led Aunt Liu to a small pavilion in the backyard, and served her a cup of fragrant tea.

"What brings you here, Aunt Liu?"

"Are the boss and the two priests here?" asked Aunt Liu.

Shopkeeper Liao smiled bitterly and said, "Chen Taiping has brought the Yulin Guards into the city, and there is also a Thousand-Handed Thief Saint who is hiding somewhere. The storm is coming! The boss told us not to run around recently, and now we are all resting in the backyard."

Then he asked, "Aunt, do you want to go see the boss?"

Aunt Liu said, “Since you are resting, I won’t disturb the boss.

Take me directly to Plum Garden to see Mr. Lan. He still lives in Plum Garden, right?"

"Of course, Mr. Lan loves plum blossoms the most. He wishes he could eat, drink tea, and sleep in the plum forest."

The plum forest is quite large, with more than one acre of land planted entirely with plum trees.

Now in late spring, the petals of the wintersweet have fallen, branches and leaves have begun to grow, and the plum blossoms are in full bloom.

A handsome scholar in his early thirties, with long hair loose, wearing a white shirt with wide sleeves that trailed the ground, holding a pot of wine in his left hand and a green jade brush in his right hand, was painting a picture of plum blossoms in the woods in front of him.

Draw a stroke on the scroll, look up to take a sip of wine, admire the plum blossoms in full bloom, then lower your head to draw another stroke.
Xiaoyu has to admit that this first impression of being wild and unrestrained is very impressive, like that of a master.

Especially in Tianmen Town where every inch of land is valuable, there is such a large plum forest hidden. Damn, they are really rich!
"Mr. Lan——"

"Liu San, you don't need to say anything." Auntie was interrupted by Mr. Lan just as she opened her mouth.

He continued to tilt his head back and pour the wine into his throat. The sake spilled from his lips and wet his clothes, looking very free and unrestrained.

After taking a sip of wine, he continued to paint with his head down, without even turning around to look at Aunt Liu.

"The little girl next to you is the 'Sha Man Yu' who is born with wisdom and sword-bone magical powers, right?
Haha, I know exactly what you are going to do.

Let me demonstrate the Nine Flower Sword so that she can secretly learn my Meilan charm? That's a nice idea."

There are still three chapters to go. Please wait a moment. I will go have a meal and then come back to proofread. Although there are many typos in the published chapters, which makes me embarrassed, I proofread them very seriously. It takes me nearly an hour to finish three chapters. My brain CPU is relatively poor, so my reading efficiency is too slow. Please forgive me.

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