Are you really trying to cultivate immortality? Something feels off.

"I was just wondering what kind of scheme or ambition this guy was plotting," Yu Xintang said, laughing in exasperation, "but it turns out he's just a desperate widow missing his wife?"

[Oh my god, big brother, a real yandere has arrived!]

[With such a weak body, yet still managing to cause such a stir in the cultivation world of Nanchuan, where strength reigns supreme and women are superior to men, putting everything else aside, Shen Yuan, you're something else.]

[With that kind of skill, there are so many other things you could do.]

Nie Qingyi pushed Shen Yuan away in annoyance, her fingers clenching slightly.

"Nonsense," she said coldly. "If I weren't afraid you'd hurt the Phoenix Maiden today, I wouldn't care if you died."

[Aunt Nie is so heartless, but I love it!]

[So, the hatred and passion for love in the Nie family of Nanchuan is hereditary?]

The most deeply ingrained lesbian hatred in East Asia is actually between mothers and daughters.

Nie Zhao sneered: "As expected, in your eyes there is only the Phoenix Maiden, not your daughter."

"You!" Nie Qingyi raised her hand, wanting to slap him.

Nie Shiyun tried to stop her, but Nie Zhao blocked her way and looked coldly at the woman in front of her.

Nie Qingyi frowned, but hesitated to slap him, her face pale for a long time.

"Pfft—!" She turned her head and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Mother!"

"Ayi——"

Shen Chunri was stunned for a moment, then a force came from behind.

Xie Weixing picked her up and kicked her away: "It's your turn to perform. Hurry up and get to work."

Blood kept spilling from the corner of Nie Qingyi's lips as she leaned back in her chair, her chest heaving.

"Ayi," Shen Yuan held her hand tightly, his fingertips trembling, "Ayi, what's wrong?"

"I'm here! I'm here!" Shen Chunri quickly stepped forward to take the patient's pulse. "I'm a medicine practitioner!"

She squatted down beside Nie Qingyi's legs, looking like a little green dumpling, and whimpered for a while before frowning: "Backlash from bloodline power?"

Nie Zhao frowned: "How is that possible?"

How could her mother, whose cultivation had already reached the Divine Transformation stage, be backfired by the power of the Chidi bloodline?

Shen Chunri wanted to continue taking her pulse, but Nie Qingyi withdrew her hand and said coldly, "No need, you can leave."

Nie Zhao suddenly grabbed her wrist and pressed it down forcefully: "Continue taking her pulse!"

Nie Qingyi's beautiful eyes widened as she glared at her, but the rush of blood made her speechless.

Shen Chunri asked again, and the answer remained the same: "It's the backlash of bloodline power. I'm also from another race, with the Azure Serpent lineage, so it can't be wrong."

Xie Weixing stood beside her, ready to step in and save Shen Chunri at any moment.

Thirty years of professional experience in handling medical disputes.

Shen Yuan's eyelashes trembled slightly: "How could this be?"

"Tell me!" Nie Zhao looked at Nie Qingyi, anxiously, "How could you possibly suffer a backlash? I never suffered a backlash when I was in the Golden Core stage!"

“Pah!”

Nie Qingyi slapped her and said angrily, "How dare you question your birth mother? You've gone too far!"

Nie Zhao was knocked to the side by the blow.

Shen Chunri trembled and weakly shielded her, saying, "Why, why did you hit me?"

"So what if I hit her?" Nie Qingyi glared angrily. "I hit this unfilial brat who has no respect for her parents!"

"Will you talk or not!" Feng Zhi drew her sword, its blade pointing directly at Nie Qingyi.

"Sister!" Nie Shiyun exclaimed in shock.

"What?" Nie Qingyi said coldly, "You even dare to kill me?"

Shen Yuan stood in front of her without hesitation.

"Um." Xie Weixing cleared his throat, slowly stepped forward, and carefully pinched Feng Zhi with his fingertips. Before anyone could react, he flipped his wrist.

The sword, which had been aimed directly at Nie Qingyi, fell back to Nie Zhao's neck.

Nie Qingyi's eyes widened, and she grabbed the armrest of the chair.

Xie Weixing withdrew his hand and made a "please continue" gesture: "That way the threat will be more effective."

Tan Suiting pulled him aside and asked in a low voice, "What do you mean?"

Xie Weixing raised an eyebrow slightly: "When facing a lover, it's far more useful to keep the knife on yourself than on the other person."

Tan Suiting blinked.

Xie Weixing glanced at him, sighed, and after a long while said helplessly, "Brother, you're twenty-three years old already. All you do is talk to me like a child all day long. What's wrong with you being a little more sensible?"

He always felt embarrassed to make a move because he was a minor, and he still hasn't become the Crown Princess of the East Sea Taixu Dragon Clan.

"What?" Tan Suiting grabbed him tightly, a little unhappy, "Don't talk about me."

"Okay, okay, okay."

"Put Fengzhi down," Nie Qingyi said coldly. "If you want to know, I'll tell you."

Nie Zhao didn't move, he just looked at her.

Nie Qingyi calmed her breathing a few times and slowly said, "Back then, I made a mistake in my cultivation, which left me with health problems and made it difficult for me to conceive. It wasn't entirely your father's fault."

"I only learned about this later. At that time, the elders of the Nie family were harassing me with the issue of having offspring, bringing in one handsome man after another from outside the mansion. Your father also argued with me about this, which I found extremely annoying."

"Nanchuan Chidi needed an heir, so I used a forbidden technique, consuming my own bloodline essence, to give birth to you." Nie Qingyi looked up. "Because of your greatly reduced cultivation, I had to go into seclusion, so I hated and resented you. Now that I've come out of seclusion early, it's even more of a backlash from my bloodline power. Are you satisfied with the answer now?"

"How could this happen?" Shen Yuan's eyes reddened as he leaned against her legs. "You didn't go into seclusion because you resented me or didn't want to see me."

Nie Qingyi waved his hand away: "I married you into the Nie family back then because I was young and ignorant. Did you expect me to be entangled with you for the rest of my life? The Nie family in Nanchuan ruined you. I don't understand why you're still not out."

With a thud, Feng Zhi fell to the ground.

Nie Zhao's wrist slumped limply, his eyelashes trembled slightly as he looked at the woman before him.

It turns out that her mother really didn't love her, and even hated her.

Truly, I was heartless towards her.

"The reason I gave birth to Senior Sister is because Nanchuan Chidi needs an heir," Xie Weixing said slowly, looking at her. "What about Nie Shiyun?"

Sometimes, what those directly involved cannot see, bystanders can point out with keen insight.

Nie Qingyi froze, and faint blue veins appeared on her fair neck.

"After Senior Sister was born, you didn't go into seclusion, which means that the loss of your bloodline's original power wasn't too serious," Xie Weixing said, looking her over. "Nie Zhao is the Phoenix Maiden of this lineage. According to you, since you already have an heir, why bother having a second one?"

Nie Zhao turned to look at him, her brain, which had been dulled by grief, finally began to stir a little.

"When you are in seclusion, you will not be completely unaware of changes in the outside world," Tan Suiting said coldly, pursing his lips. "Aunt Nie, you roughly know what Shen Yuan is doing, but you turn a blind eye because you also hate the Nie family of Nanchuan. Today, you felt your senior sister's power and were afraid that she would get hurt, so you came out of seclusion. You were unaware that Nie Shiyun was imprisoned in the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, right?"

Nie Qingyi's eyes were cold and beautiful, and her jawline was sharp and defined: "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You won't admit it," Tan Suiting frowned slightly, "You said you gave birth to your senior sister because your family forced you to, but what about Nie Shiyun? What about your second child? Why did you choose to give birth to her even at the cost of depleting your bloodline's source power, to the point where you could only cultivate in seclusion?"

Nie Qingyi's narrow eyes were dark and deep.

"Because you love them," Tan Suiting said, his thin lips unconsciously tightening. "You love Shen Yuan, and you also love Senior Sister and Nie Shiyun, so why can't you say that?"

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The parents' pairing is so exciting, it felt so satisfying to write... (This isn't a secondary couple, it's just that the plot needs to be closed out!)