I have the best bloodline

Knowing the whole story, Su Yan revealed his true form as a little fox, perched on his aunt's shoulder, and whispered to the glutton:

"Are you really not planning to take the Crimson Mountain God with you when you leave? Back then..."

"Chidi Mountain God?"

The old glutton was taken aback upon hearing this. His eyes, hidden beneath his black robe, slightly turned towards Su Yan, and he said with a smile:

"The past is the past. Killing the Red Earth Mountain God is meaningless. Keeping him here is the only way to make him useful and atone for the evil deeds he committed when he abused his status as a mountain god."

"Moreover, although the Red Mountain God lends money, he is still a businessman who acts in his own interest. If I really have to blame someone, I can only blame my mother's own stubbornness and honesty."

Before his cultivation level dropped, the Crimson Mountain God possessed the cultivation level of the peak of the Integration Stage.

However, the white snake who came from Yuanhai City also possessed the cultivation of a half-step Earth Immortal. If the white snake hadn't been honest and stubborn in insisting on repaying the debt, none of the subsequent events would have occurred.

If the White Snake were a little more tactful and a little more shameless, the Mountain God of the Red Land would really have no way to deal with her. After all, the White Snake had a dragon father. For a mere few hundred catties of spirit stones, she beat up this widowed pregnant woman. It would be a miracle if the dragons didn't skin her Mountain God alive.

The White Snake possesses dragon blood, so who do you think you are, daring to bully a lonely pregnant woman?

If the White Snake could be more tactful and shameless, instead of being so stubborn and inflexible...

"Those things are in the past, there's no need to dwell on them."

The old glutton looked at Su Yan and said, "There's no need for our affairs to affect your view of the world. The world is so vast and boundless, and the creatures living in it are naturally a mix of good and bad. We were just unlucky and encountered evil spirits that we didn't know how to distinguish. So, the benefactors we meet along the way will naturally all be evil spirits."

"By the time you realize the danger, the evil forces behind you are pushing you forward, and you can never turn back."

"Discernment is what you need to learn. The West Coast is just a small corner of the world."

The old glutton had warned Su Yan through telepathy.

"Let's end the inspection here for now! I've specially ordered a banquet to be prepared for everyone in the city."

"nature."

The gourmand's excellent business skills earned her a high score from Ao Jin, and naturally she had no reason to refuse the banquet invitation from the city lord of the near-sea city.

After all, gourmets don't need to bribe, so Ao Jin ate this meal with a clear conscience.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 448 Xia Yu! I'm back!

After having dinner with the gourmand, Su Yan stayed in the coastal city for about three more days to digest the spiritual energy accumulated from the Dragon Palace and the banquet.

He kicked open the threshold of the late Golden Core stage and directly arrived at a realm where Su Yan was completely in the dark.

Cultivation begins with the Body Refining stage, which involves tempering the muscles and bones to prepare for Qi Refining. It also involves using one's abundant blood and Qi to open up the meridians in the body to prepare for receiving spiritual energy. By the time cultivators reach the Foundation Establishment stage, they begin to possess the power of cultivation techniques.

However, the Foundation Establishment stage is only the beginning. It requires the formation of a Golden Core within the body. The Golden Core circulates continuously, constantly absorbing spiritual energy, allowing cultivators to unleash Five Elements techniques to form a spell bombardment zone, resulting in an unprecedented improvement in continuous power.

In the eyes of ordinary people, a Foundation Establishment cultivator who can take to the air and use spells to kill enemies can already be called a god, and a Golden Core cultivator who can use spells to destroy mountains and forests with a wave of his hand is an immortal among immortals.

However, in the eyes of sects and clans with a strong foundation, cultivators before the Nascent Soul stage are all young people, and all their efforts and struggles are in preparation for the Nascent Soul stage!

For cultivators who cannot reach the Nascent Soul stage, no matter how impressive their past talents were, it is all in vain.

The Nascent Soul stage is a qualitative change stage for cultivators, much like a Nascent Soul stage cultivator transforming from a mortal to an earth immortal, or a Tribulation stage cultivator advancing to become a celestial being who controls the universe.

Advancing from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage is the first watershed moment that cultivators encounter on their path of cultivation.

Su Yan has now broken through to the late stage of the Golden Core realm. His internal mana is more abundant than ever before, and the dragon pearl that is being nurtured within him is further compressed in size. His surface is gradually showing signs of becoming smooth and shiny.

But what should we do next?

Su Yan did not feel any bottleneck. He felt that after his spiritual awareness was improved, it was like the feeling of being able to leap freely in the vast sky and sea, and fly freely like a bird. However, his internal mana did not change at all.

"Hmm? Your cultivation level hasn't improved? I suggest you stop cultivating unless you have something else to do, little fox."

My aunt sat in front of the stove, counting the treasures she had seized from the thugs in her storage ring while keeping track of their value. She then looked at Su Yan, who was running beside her, and said:

"In the late stage of the Golden Core realm, there is no need for cultivation. The only thing to do is to manipulate, using one's spiritual sense and magical power to diffuse into the surrounding space, forcibly converting the surrounding spiritual energy into one's own, and allowing the spiritual energy that has been fused with one's own magical power to form spells to defend against enemies."

"This spiritual energy of heaven and earth is very unpredictable. When you can't control it, it will act coquettishly. If you touch it, it will immediately summon a Nascent Soul stage lightning tribulation to open your eyes."

"Unless you're prepared to deal with the lightning tribulation, your aunt doesn't really recommend you flirt with it."

When a human reaches the late stage of the Golden Core realm, they may need some pills to help them, but the demon race, because of their strong physique and ability to contain more spiritual power, can prepare to break through to the Nascent Soul stage at any time as long as they can disperse their spiritual consciousness and mana.

Of course, there are also some cultivators and demons who are unable to disperse their spiritual consciousness and magical power, and will never be able to grasp the spiritual energy of the surrounding world, so they stop here with regret.

But Auntie never considered that Su Yan would have such a problem.

The bloodline within him dictates that Su Yan will not stop before reaching the Nascent Soul stage. Where in the world are there nine-tailed foxes and black dragons who cannot break through to the Nascent Soul stage? Bloodlines with inherent flaws and defects have long since gradually disappeared from the world in the natural evolution of the demon race.

In her aunt's imagination, Su Yan's desire to break through to the Nascent Soul stage should be as simple as breaking through a child's hymen.

That's why she suggested that Su Yan temporarily stop cultivating when he raised the issue, and instead use his cultivation time to work on his other weaknesses or prepare for his tribulation.

To break through from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage, one must undergo three tribulations of lightning to gain the approval of the laws.

If one cannot pass the test of the lightning tribulation, one is naturally not qualified to control a region's spiritual power.

"It's time we prepared to go back." Auntie put away the magical artifacts on the table and looked at Su Yan, who was squatting on the table, and said, "We originally just came to help Nanwu deal with the family, but unexpectedly, we got involved in the West Sea Dragon King's revenge and even exposed your little fox's little bell."

In previous years, the atmosphere on the west coast was very lively during the Merfolk Winter Festival. Even the demonic cultivators from the southern states would come here to join in the fun and see the beauties, and incidentally buy some creatures from the Great Fish Clan to take back as sacrifices.

Unexpectedly, the leader of the Nightmare Town Cult in the western state seized the opportunity and joined forces with the followers of Nightmare Town in the southern state to set up a grand gathering of demonic cultivators called "Dirty Slap" in the coastal city. This attracted a large number of demonic cultivators, causing chaos on the west coast. As a result, a large number of powerful sea beasts were summoned by the city lord to come to the coastal city to help the old glutton manage the order in the city.

As a result, the leader of the Nightmare Town cult in the western state almost captured them all and squeezed them into dried beast meat.

Fortunately, the Dragon King of the West Sea was waiting in the wings, and with thunderous force, he directly suppressed the followers of the Nightmare Suppression.

In less than a month, the ups and downs made Auntie, who was used to Xia Yucheng's leisurely life, suddenly feel very helpless. If it were Xia Yucheng, the moment the Nightmare Town Sect made its move, Emperor Wusheng could jump out of the palace and kill the entire family of the Nightmare Town disciples.

How could the common people fall into a trap? Normally, it's just the Nightmare Suppression Cult fighting with the ministers, and it usually doesn't harm the common people. But after leaving the territory of the Xia Yu Dynasty, every time I go out, I encounter the Nightmare Suppression Cult's collective revelry.

My aunt wasn't a complete novice either. When she and her sisters traveled the world before, they had seen the Nightmare Town followers causing trouble, but back then, the number of Nightmare Town followers was far less than it is now, and their strength was incomparable to that of the Nightmare Town followers now.

The number of people practicing nightmares and spells in the cultivation world now can be described as rampant.

Although my aunt no longer cares about matters of the martial world, she just wants to find a quiet place to cultivate.

However, she could also sense that there must have been some changes in the upper echelons of the cultivation world. Otherwise, the Nightmare Town lineage, which had always been marginalized, could not have grown so large, or at least not to the point that she could see several Nightmare Town disciples with the cultivation level of Tribulation Transcending stage who could be called sect leaders.

........................

"cough cough"

After her aunt decided to return home, Su Yan immediately ran to the Merfolk territory, reluctantly preparing to say goodbye to Jiao Nanwu. After a round of kissing, Jiao Nanwu mistakenly thought that she wanted to have sex in broad daylight. After taking Su Yan to the dormitory, Su Yan realized that Jiao Nanwu had not said that she wanted to stay in the territory. She really just brought Su Yan back to the territory to register.

If he really wants to go home, he will only bring Su Yan back with him when the harsh winter arrives.

Meanwhile, Hu Lian, who witnessed the entire process of Su Yan and Jiao Nanwu misunderstanding each other and entering the dormitory, couldn't help but cough lightly, implying that Su Yan shouldn't be so concerned about inequality. However, because Su Yan's status was really too high for him to reach, Hu Lian couldn't flirt with Su Yan in front of him as before.

"The little fox has really grown up." Seeing Su Yan emerge from the dormitory, carrying Su Yan and Jiao Nanwu on her back—both with rosy cheeks and beaming smiles—playing and laughing in the courtyard, Hua Yu Zhenren, who sat next to Hu Lian, couldn't help but remark with a sigh:

"Back then, no, there was no back then. It was only about two years ago. I took off his pants and left him with lipstick marks. He was a little fox who was blushing and couldn't get an erection. Now, he's already tasted the sweetness."

"I wonder where my Destiny True Insect is playing hide-and-seek with me."

Master Hua Yu sighed at the cruel twists of fate, then looked at Su Yan's aunt with a suggestive expression.

"I have a little fox, I don't need your two spirit stones," Auntie replied to Master Huayu with a beaming smile.

Hua Yu Zhenren and Hu Lian, who were from the same school, frantically tried to signal to the aunt and nephew with their eyes, but the two seemed to be blind to it and completely ignored them.

Su Yan came here genuinely intending to say goodbye, with no other thoughts in mind. Thinking they were really parting ways, the two of them went to the dormitory in a daze.

Su Yan wasn't unaware of Hu Lian's hints; he simply didn't want to pay any attention to them.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 449 Feng Shiqi's Troubles

"Yes, take good care of yourself when you get there, and try to communicate with your father if anything happens."

After learning that they were preparing to return to Xia Yu, Jiao Nanwu led Su Yan to the Washe District and found the Mermaid Mother who was busy rearranging the formation. She then explained that she was going back to Xia Yu.

The Merfolk Mother smiled as she looked at her wealthy fiancé, showing no intention of trying to keep Jiao Nanwu from leaving. She squatted down and gently patted Jiao Nanwu's shoulder to encourage her to work harder.

Su Yan is the most precious of all. If Jiao Nanwu doesn't follow Su Yan back to Xia Yu, the Mermaid Clan Mother might just sweep Jiao Nanwu away to Xia Yu with a broom!

Don't you know how despicable female beasts are? Those guys will do anything for a single spirit. They left Su Yan to return to Xia Yu alone. Who knows what shameless female demons he might encounter on his way back?

Keep a close eye on him and don't let the other fairies kidnap him. It doesn't matter whether you come back for the Winter Festival or not, just bring Su Yan with you!

However, Jiao Nanwu did not understand the merman mother's inner thoughts. She simply thought that her mother respected her choice, so she hugged her mother with a face full of emotion and expressed her reluctance and longing.

………………

"See you later!"

While inside the city lord's mansion, the old glutton was busy crafting a coffin that could isolate spiritual energy. He was alerted by a servant outside the door that his aunt and Su Yan's group had arrived. The old glutton roughly guessed the reason for his aunt's visit, so he put down what he was doing and went to the main hall to have a short chat with the group.

The gourmand smiled and led everyone to the teleportation array, instructing the staff to give all the old classmates a free meal.

When returning to the Xia Dynasty, Auntie did not choose to take the boat as they had come. She had initially chosen the boat because she felt Su Yan would enjoy the experience of flying over waterfalls, so she specifically took him on a boat trip to ride the mountain-crossing boat.

However, as it turned out, Su Yan was rather indifferent, but was pleasantly surprised by the low price of the boat ride.

Therefore, for the return journey, my aunt chose the more common teleportation array. Although it could not directly teleport her to Xia Yu City, that short distance was only a matter of moments for an Earth Immortal.

"Please show your valid household registration certificate, or a travel document recognized by Xia Yu."

After the light from the teleportation array faded, Su Yan saw familiar-looking spearmen. The soldiers from the Xia Yu Dynasty were guarding the teleportation array, asking the people inside for identification documents in a humble yet assertive manner.

The beings inside the teleportation array come from all over the world. Some of these continents and seas contain deadly wastelands that are difficult for ordinary beings to enter. They may be unaffected by miasma or other factors, but that does not mean they are unaffected by beings with weak cultivation.

Therefore, upon being transported to the Xia Dynasty, one would inevitably encounter soldiers demanding identification. If one could not provide valid proof, one would be isolated in a room for basic poison testing.

Su Yan and his group had all lived in Xia Yu City. They presented the certificates issued by the Xia Yu court and easily walked out of the military camp, arriving at the outskirts of a town that provided accommodation for merchants and cultivators.

"go home!"

My aunt paid no attention to the town. With a wave of her hand, she swept everyone up and they all turned into streaks of light, returning to Xia Yu's main city without any intention of stopping there.

"Finally, I can get a good night's sleep."

As Su Yan leaned on her aunt's shoulder, watching the giant city draw ever closer, a sense of relief unconsciously welled up within her.

Su Yan hadn't visited many of the other cities of the Xia Yu Dynasty and wasn't very clear about their situations, but whenever the main city of Xia Yu was mentioned, words like hospitable, lively, and incredibly safe would naturally come to mind.

As long as one abides by the laws established by Emperor Wusheng and avoids provoking the power of the government, then anyone can live a very comfortable life in Xia Yu.