A leisurely life in the world of cultivation

Chapter 222 Incorporation
Three hundred miles west of the Xuanlei Sword Sect's mountain gate, in an unnamed mountain stream, the moment Li Weizhou and Zhou Yueniang appeared, several moon rabbits and little spirit butterflies scattered in fright.

Li Weizhou's face was somewhat pale. On the other side of Earth, the sea of ​​blood was surging with waves, because about half the blood of West Lake was missing.

However, his pale face was not due to this. Nowadays, he gains almost the equivalent of a West Lake's worth of health points every day, so this amount of consumption is nothing.

However, using the Eastern Emperor Bell to protect Zhou Yueniang consumed a lot of her divine sense, and she was a little overwhelmed.

"Husband, are you okay?"

Zhou Yueniang noticed that Li Weizhou was not feeling well and quickly asked him with concern.

Li Weizhou waved his hand and laughed, "It's nothing. I just need a rest. Hehe, that old bastard from the Xuanlei Sword Sect is probably still feeling the afterglow. If they really offended a spatial magic user, the Xuanlei Sword Sect will never have peace again. Come on, let's find a big city and go shopping!"

Zhou Yueniang, however, was unwilling and said, "Let's wait a little longer. It will be more interesting for me to go shopping with Situ and the others when we reach the Spirit God Realm."

With her Spirit God Realm cultivation and innate supernatural powers, she is confident she can escape even if she is pursued by a Celestial Spirit True Monarch.

Moreover, the spirit realm is so vast, yet how many immortal spirits and true lords are there in this world?
Furthermore, with a spatial ability master like Li Weizhou standing behind them, no force would be willing to provoke such an enemy...

Li Weizhou said speechlessly, "Then when will we get there?"

Zhou Yueniang shook her head and laughed, "We're already a million times faster than others. By observing and comprehending the divine imprints within the Hidden God Palace, our cultivation is progressing by leaps and bounds. How can we be dissatisfied? Let's go home!"

Li Weizhou chuckled and said, "Everyone has to be strong, strong in cultivation, and strong in love!"

"Oops~"

Zhou Yueniang gave him a push and scolded, "What are you saying... Hurry up and go home!"

Li Weizhou laughed heartily, then summoned his flying sword and flew westward with Zhou Yueniang.

……

three days later.

Five Elements Sect, Green Wood Peak.

Inside the Green Wood Hall, a mournful cry rang out, and two figures emerged from the meditation room.

A figure in light green, radiating a refreshing charm; a figure in light yellow, laughing with a bold and flirtatious air.

After a while, Zhou Yueniang sat cross-legged on the large round couch in the quiet room, her body radiating golden light, while a chaotic luster shone from her lower abdomen.

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, surrounded by black and white, Li Weizhou stood by the couch, marveling at the sight.

After a long while, when the light finally subsided, Zhou Yueniang opened her eyes and a smile instantly bloomed on her face as she exclaimed, "I've got it!!"

Upon hearing this, Li Weizhou was overjoyed and immediately used his divine sense to perceive it carefully. After a moment, he sensed a faint, almost imperceptible flame of life and burst into laughter.

Although he didn't have a system that promised many children and much happiness, he still loved children.

Perhaps it's related to his background; those years on Earth were too lonely...

Just as Li Weizhou had sent Zhou Yueniang back to Xuanjin Peak, his senior sister Tao Ling'er rushed over with Xi Mei, saying, "Sect Leader, something terrible has happened! People from the Tingyang Clan of Zhongzhou have come, specifically requesting to take back the half of the 'Thunder Sword Manual' from our Five Elements Sect! They say it's from a direct descendant of the Tingyang Clan!"

Zhou Yueniang took a deep breath and looked at Li Weizhou, saying, "They finally found you. How many people are there?"

The Tingyang Clan of Zhongzhou, what a prestigious name they are!

Tao Ling'er said, "How strange, there's only one!"

Li Weizhou smiled and said, "You can rest assured and take care of your pregnancy. The patriarch of the Tingyang family is coming. I still have to be on high alert and deal with him carefully. Sending a grandson of some unknown generation is simply absurd."

Upon hearing this, Tao Ling'er and Xi Mei forgot about Tingyang's scruffy bird and stared wide-eyed at Li Weizhou before turning their attention to Zhou Yueniang like searchlights.

Zhou Yueniang was delighted. She pinched Ximei's increasingly beautiful cheeks and said, "From now on, you won't be the youngest in the family anymore. Let's see if you're still so smug!"

Xi Mei pouted and looked at Li Weizhou, still somewhat worried.

Li Weizhou smiled and patted her head, saying, "From now on, you'll have someone to play with. You're going to be an aunt."

Xi Mei was dissatisfied and only looked at her brother. Li Weizhou chuckled and said, "You'll always be my good sister, okay?"

Zhou Yueniang reached out and tapped Ximei's forehead. Seeing her smug and beaming face, she said ruthlessly, "I'll find you a good husband sooner or later!"

After making a funny face, Xi Mei ran off with Tao Ling'er.

Li Weizhou went ahead to the reception room inside the mountain gate.

……

The reception room of the Five Elements Sect is different from other places in the Spirit Realm. Few cultivators in the Spirit Realm would meticulously build a reception room specifically for receiving guests.

Let's learn about the cave dwelling.

Even in formal occasions, sects have halls, such as the Five Elements Hall, but a guest room like this, with bright floor-to-ceiling windows on all four sides, offering a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery, is a first for the Spirit Realm.

But both Tian Ru and Tao Ling'er said that after tidying it up, it really looked good.

Other sects can certainly use magic arrays to create a similar effect, but if they use spiritual power, it won't be as special...

In the center was a long table made of thousand-year-old spirit wood, the tabletop gleaming with a faint luster, and the corners of the table carved with simplified five-element runes.

The seats on both sides are covered with dark velvet cushions, which are soft yet dignified.

Two pots of evergreen bamboo stood in the corner, their leaves glistening with dew. When the wind blew, the dewdrops fell into the bluestone basin, making a soft, rustling sound, which was quite elegant.

Hou Haikun was already waiting in the hall. Seeing the people from Zhongzhou, he glanced around at the furnishings and straightened his back. "Ha, you country bumpkin from Zhongzhou, you've seen something new, haven't you?!"

Before long, seeing Li Weizhou enter, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sect Leader!" He paused and then whispered, "That person was extremely rude. He came in and sat in the main seat. He even asked me to change the spiritual tea we prepared, saying that 'coarse tea is unpalatable.'"

Upon hearing this, Li Weizhou glanced at the tea set on the table. Originally, there were celadon cups brought from Earth, but now they had been replaced with a set of silverware with thunder patterns. The rim of the cups was also engraved with the emblem of the Tingyang Clan, which was obviously brought by the other party.

He smiled, walked to the long table, and instead of sitting down, pointed to the set of thunder-patterned silverware. Looking at the young man sitting in the seat and scrutinizing him, he said with a hint of amusement, "Young Master Tingyang is quite particular, even bringing his own tea set. I just wonder if the thunder-attracting patterns on this silverware are based on the 'Thunder Gathering Pattern' in the 'Great Tingyang Scripture'?"

Upon hearing this, the young man in the main seat suddenly narrowed his pupils, and his previously nonchalant expression instantly became more serious.

He looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. Of course, you can't tell a cultivator's actual age just by looking at his appearance.

This guy will probably look the same way when he's 250.

He wore a purple-black brocade robe with dark gold thunderbird patterns embroidered on the collar, and faint purple thunder patterns flowing between his brows, which were the unique marks of the direct descendants of the Tingyang clan.

Upon hearing the words "Gathering Thunder Pattern," he finally stood up from his seat. Although he still carried the arrogance of a scion of a noble family, he now looked at him more seriously and said, "You actually recognize the patterns of the Great Thunder Yang Scripture?"

"Know a thing or two."

After casually pulling over a chair and sitting down, Li Weizhou picked up a celadon cup from the table, poured himself a cup of spiritual tea, took a sip, and said, "Back then, after our ancestor, the Five Mountains True Lord, won half of the Thunder Sword Manual, he studied the thunder techniques within it and verified them against the Five Elements Technique. Some annotations are still left in the sect's records."

The young man raised an eyebrow and sat down, his fingertips unconsciously tracing the rim of his silver cup. Looking at Li Weizhou, he chuckled, “I am Tingyang Xiao, the direct descendant of the Tingyang clan. I’ve come here for the *Thunder Sword Manual*… not to forcibly take it, but the elders of the clan always say that it is the culmination of our ancestor’s life's work, born from observing the golden crow born from the Nine Heavens Thunder Sea, and cannot be left outside. If the Five Elements Sect simply kept it within the sect, that would be fine, since without my clan’s bloodline, it would be almost impossible to master it. But…” The lightning patterns on his palm glowed, “I heard from the Flowing Cloud Sect that someone in your Five Elements Sect has actually mastered it?! Is it your wife who opened the Hidden Divine Palace and awakened the innate lightning divine power?”

Li Weizhou nodded and smiled, "Exactly."

Upon hearing this, Ting Yangxiao couldn't hide his envy, which was directed at Li Weizhou. He said, "You're really something!"

Li Weizhou chuckled, took another sip of tea, and savored its flavor with contentment.

After taking another look, Ting Yangxiao chuckled and pointed to the surrounding glass windows, saying, "This is interesting. No magic array was used; it's made of glass... I've never seen such clean glass before."

If a weapon refiner focuses on research, it shouldn't be too difficult to produce glass like this.

But it's unlikely that any weapon refiner would dedicate themselves to refining such useless "trash"...

Furthermore, monks usually don't have this need.

But looking at it now, it does look pretty good.

Building a house like this, where one can sit and enjoy the view on windy, rainy, or snowy days, must be quite pleasant.

Li Weizhou chuckled and said, "If Young Master Tingyang likes them, I can... sell you some."

Upon hearing this, Ting Yangxiao laughed heartily. He always received the things he wanted from others who eagerly offered them to him. This was the first time he had ever seen someone treat him so casually; it was quite a novel experience.

Of course, all of this is based on strength.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll buy some when I leave. I really didn't expect there to be so many good things in the lower realm. Your walkie-talkie is also quite good, it's interesting. What surprised me the most is that it's not based on array runes, but on lightning. Impressive, impressive."

After listening to his rambling for a while, Li Weizhou was running out of patience and asked bluntly, "Tell me, what are you planning to do with that half of the 'Thunder Sword Manual'?"

Tingyang Xiao thought for a moment and then asked, "What do you think should be done?"

Li Weizhou thought for a moment and said, "How about I exchange my half for your half?"

Ting Yangxiao couldn't help but laugh again, then chuckled and cursed, "As expected, 'bad people come from poor and remote places.' How could you even come up with something like that? Let me ask you, what do you cultivators from the Northern Spirit Domain think of the people of the Central Plains? Do you think we're all fools?"

Li Weizhou chuckled and said, "Then tell me, how do you plan to resolve this? How about we follow the example of our patriarch and have a duel? If you win, you can take the half of the Five Elements Sect manual, and I won't say a word. If I win, you can give me the other half to read for half a year."

Ting Yangxiao cursed, "You really think we people from Zhongzhou are fools? You can kill three late-stage Spirit Gods with one sword and block a True Monarch Sin Cultivator. Do you think I can compare to you?!"

Tsk, not stupid at all, he figured it out beforehand.

Li Weizhou wasn't disappointed. He chuckled and asked, "Then what do you suggest we do?"

Ting Yangxiao said solemnly, "Li Weizhou, don't think that me wanting that half is a bad thing. The half that the Five Elements Sect has is the second half. Without the general outline of the first half as a foundation, forcibly cultivating it won't show any results in the early stages, but in the later stages, without the general outline's methods of harmonization and resolution, let alone killing enemies, the lightning power will destroy you first..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Weizhou said with a smile, "I thought you knew everything, but it turns out you're nothing special."

Tingyang Xiao frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Li Weizhou smiled and said, "It's fine to tell you. You can go back and ask someone who knows what the Hidden God Palace is. The Hidden God Palace of an innate thunder divine power user... is definitely not what you think."

Ting Yangxiao felt incredibly uncomfortable right now.

What do you mean? The direct descendants of the Tingyang clan of Zhongzhou have become ignorant villagers here?

He gave Li Weizhou a deep look and said, "I'm not threatening you, but the Tingyang Clan will take back this half of the Thunder Sword Manual no matter what. I'll try to negotiate first. If we can't reach an agreement, the clan elders will come. If the elders can't reach an agreement either, the Supreme Elder will come. Let me put it this way, those two True Monarchs of the Sin Clan, my clan's Supreme Elder could kill three of them with one slap."

Li Weizhou nodded and said, "Just out of curiosity, how did your ancestor lose to my ancestor back then? I don't mean anything by it, it just seems a bit strange. Logically speaking, your family should have taken it back long ago."

Ting Yangxiao's rather handsome face twitched slightly as he said, "The Five Mountains True Monarch is not from the Northern Spirit Domain; he was originally a member of a prominent family in the Central Continent. It was only because of some trivial matters that he broke ties with his family and made enemies, which led him to leave for the Northern Spirit Domain and establish the Five Elements Sect. However, in the eyes of other prominent families in the Central Continent, it's just child's play. Since it was won fairly and squarely, if my clan were to take drastic measures, they wouldn't stand idly by."

Li Weizhou chuckled and said, "I was wondering why the Liuyun Sect acted so arrogantly. Everyone says your Tingyang Clan has the worst temper, and I thought you would come knocking on our door directly. I didn't expect you to be able to talk to us so nicely. I thought the rumors were wrong, but now it seems that you are still relying on the blessings of your ancestors."

Tingyang Xiao shook his head and said, "The Hu family is not in a good situation right now, and my Tingyang clan is not afraid of the Hu family. Besides, Wuyue has been dead for two thousand years, and the Hu family has probably long forgotten this branch. The reason we are here to talk is that the Tingyang clan hopes you will join our clan. The Five Elements Sect will become a branch of the Tingyang clan in the Northern Spiritual Domain, and your family can exist as a core branch of the Tingyang clan. The only requirement is that your children and the children of your four wives must marry direct descendants of my Tingyang clan. And if any of your descendants are born with the Divine Thunder Bloodline, they must be given the surname Tingyang. Apart from that, there are no other constraints or restrictions. Brother Li, you will be the most core branch of our clan, and you will even be engraved in the clan's jade register!"

Li Weizhou scratched his head. Good heavens, they've come directly to recruit us.

It seems that not many people within the Tingyang Clan have mastered the "Thunder Sword Manual".

……

(End of this chapter)