Chapter 428

Chapter 428: Maybe Young Master Tu Has Been Unwell Lately
Huo Shao Yan noticed Shui Qiu Bai and Feng Jiusi trading looks and said unhappily: “What kind of riddle are you two playing at?”

But neither of them paid him any mind. Shui Qiu Bai turned to Tu Xiao and said: “I’ll give you a personal seal. Next time you take part in the Auction Gathering, I’ll stamp it for you and give you half off.”

Shui Qiu Bai was using the family clan’s profits to shut Tu Xiao up.

Tu Xiao was still a bit unhappy, but when he thought he could win back his loss, he stopped talking. For the rest of the trip he stayed quiet and withdrawn.

Other than occasionally sneaking a glance at Feng Jiusi, he made no extra moves.

Maybe when misfortune reaches its peak, good fortune follows.

Only a few days after they escaped from the abandoned planet, they found a small world marked on the star map and immediately used divinatory calculation to work out the route home.

When the outline of the Earth Domain appeared before their eyes, everyone’s spirits leaped with joy.

They had finally returned.

The Tu Clan’s clansmen did not know that Tu Xiao and the others were inside the starship. When they saw a pile of broken scrap iron land on Tu Clan’s territory, they rushed over and surrounded it aggressively.

One of the more hot-tempered men shouted angrily: “Who said you could park this ugly heap here! Get out of here!”

Tu Xiao jumped out of the starship, his face dark: “I said they could. You got a problem with that?”

“Young Heir?”

Everyone was shocked when they saw Tu Xiao.

Then, when they watched Feng Jiusi, Shui Qiu Bai, and the others step out of the starship one after another, their jaws almost dropped to the ground. They stared for a long moment, then hurried to bow their heads and apologize.

The sight of their foolish faces only made Tu Xiao more annoyed. He waved his hand to shoo them away, telling them to get lost.

But they had not gone far before Tu Xiao called them back again.

He ordered them to hurry and clean up the guest rooms, then led Feng Jiusi and the other three to pay respects to his father.

Yu Zhao had seen Patriarch Tu once before at a grand ceremony. Back then she had only felt he was a strict and old-fashioned man.

Seeing him again now, he still looked cold and imposing. After only a few words, he sent them away.

As Huo Shao Yan walked out from Patriarch Tu’s hall, he muttered in a low voice: “Uncle Tu is getting scarier and scarier.”

After he spoke, he even dared to reach out and hook an arm around Tu Xiao’s neck, saying: “You really have it hard.”

Tu Xiao exploded like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: “What are you doing! Don’t touch me!”

Huo Shao Yan stumbled from the shove and almost fell, and he got angry too. He snapped back: “I should be the one asking what you’re doing! You’re not a woman, what’s wrong with touching you once?”

“Did I say you could touch me?” Tu Xiao shot back.

As he scolded him, Tu Xiao still reached out to pat Huo Shao Yan’s shoulder, while secretly glancing at Feng Jiusi’s expression.

Feng Jiusi’s brows were tightly furrowed, and a wave of nausea rose in his chest.

Watching this farcical scene in front of him, Shui Qiu Bai felt his head pounding.

In the end, when he saw Feng Jiusi had no intention of smoothing things over, he had no choice but to step forward and apologize to Tu Xiao on Huo Shao Yan’s behalf.

Huo Shao Yan had been very unwilling, but when Shui Qiu Bai glared at him, he reluctantly shut his mouth. In his heart, though, he was already angry at Tu Xiao.

Even his back, as he went off to rest, was full of resentment.

Yu Zhao was about to return to the room the Tu Clan had prepared for her to rest in when a voice called from behind her: “Liuyun.”

She turned around and smiled slightly at Feng Jiusi: “Young Master Feng.”

“Liuyun, when Tu Xiao was unconscious, you were with him the whole time,” Feng Jiusi said calmly. “Did you notice anything strange about him?”

Feng Jiusi’s face did not show any change, but Yu Zhao still saw probing curiosity in his eyes.

He was suspecting her.

Yu Zhao deliberately pondered for a moment, then shook her head and said: “Young Master Tu was very quiet when he was unconscious. There was nothing unusual…”

Halfway through, she suddenly let out a soft “ah,” as if she had remembered something important.

Feng Jiusi quickly pressed her: “What did you remember?”

Yu Zhao hesitated, as if she wanted to speak but held back.

Under Feng Jiusi’s repeated questioning, she finally said: “When I was searching Young Master Tu for medicine, I found some yang-tonifying pills on him.”

“Yang-tonifying?” Feng Jiusi’s expression froze.

Yu Zhao blinked quickly, hiding the smile in her eyes and doing her best to patch things up for Tu Xiao as she added: “Maybe Young Master Tu has been feeling unwell recently…”

She was not just making things up.

Back then, when she searched Tu Xiao, she had not only found a young woman’s personal belongings on him, but also a lot of things meant to liven things up.

He had spent years indulging in women until his body was weakened. If that had led to poor performance and a change in his preferences, it almost made sense.

Feng Jiusi left in a daze.

For the next few days, he shut himself in his room and refused to see anyone.

Tu Xiao was busy looking for people to repair his starship. He was like a divine dragon that showed its head but not its tail, rarely seen.

Shui Qiu Bai and Huo Shao Yan took the chance to run to Yu Zhao’s room every day.

The two cousins were together from morning to night. The more they saw each other, the more displeased they became. Somehow, they started competing over whose gifts for Yu Zhao were more expensive.

During this time, the words Yu Zhao said most often were: “This is too much,” “How can I accept this,” and “You treat me so well.”

Before they could decide a winner, Feng Jiusi finally came out of his room. As soon as he did, he said he wanted to take Yu Zhao back to the Wind Realm.

In name, Yu Zhao was still his Dao companion. If he wanted to take Yu Zhao away, no one could stop him.

When Tu Xiao got the news, he rushed back. The first thing he said when he saw Feng Jiusi was: “You rarely come here. Why are you in such a hurry to go back?”

Feng Jiusi had already seen through Tu Xiao’s feelings toward him. For the sake of the relationship between their two clans, he could not tear things open. He only said calmly: “The Daqian Alliance selection is coming up. Time is tight, so I won’t stay long.”

“Then I’ll go to the Wind Realm with you,” Tu Xiao blurted out.

A trace of impatience flashed between Feng Jiusi’s brows as he replied: “No need.”

“There is a need, there is a need.” Tu Xiao started to speak, then caught sight of Feng Jiusi’s expression and faintly sensed something was wrong. He quickly changed his tone, pretending to be displeased as he said: “Don’t forget we still have a bet. Before Liuyun makes a decision, you can’t stop anything I do. You aren’t afraid of losing, are you?”

“Do as you like,” Feng Jiusi said coldly.

He had too many concerns and did not dare directly expose Tu Xiao’s feelings, so he could only respond like this.

Shui Qiu Bai and Huo Shao Yan also had no thought of giving up halfway. So the group of them returned once more to the Feng Clan, and Yu Zhao’s life became lively and colorful again.

In order to decide a winner as soon as possible, and also to raise Yu Zhao’s cultivation level quickly, they used all sorts of excuses to send her gifts, all of them great supplements that increased spiritual energy.

During the day, Yu Zhao politely played along with them.

At night she sat in meditation in her room to cultivate, and her cultivation level advanced by leaps and bounds.

In less than a month, her cultivation level had already risen to late Nascent Soul great perfection.

She was only one step away from Divine Transformation.

However, Divine Transformation was not a realm one could reach just by piling up spirit power. A cultivator needed true understanding and had to enter the divine through the Dao.

This barrier had stumped countless Nascent Soul cultivators.

Many people could not cross this threshold in their entire lifetime.

Yu Zhao was also stuck at this crucial step. Her cultivation level refused to break through.

Yu Zhao herself was not anxious, but they were the ones who grew anxious first.