Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

The girl was pure and lovely, with a pretty face, fair skin with a rosy glow, a slender figure, and her hair was tied into a simple long braid. She exuded a friendly yet indescribable special temperament, and her pure face had a captivating charm that aroused men's desires.

The woman's eyes were filled with helplessness. She bent over in a pleading posture. Although her clothes were simple and plain, they gave Chu Mingkong just the right angle to admire her fair and deep cleavage.

She lunged forward, intending to offer her fragrant body to him, but Chu Mingkong dodged with a short step. His movements were simple yet exquisite, and after the woman missed, it looked as if she were kneeling in front of him.

Those cultivators who specialize in movement techniques glanced at the footsteps just now, trying to figure out what kind of movement technique it was. It seemed that he hadn't even lifted his leg yet, but his body had already dodged!

Moreover, the fact that they could dodge such a beautiful woman's advances with such unwavering determination shows that even with their twenty years of training and skill, they would definitely not be able to avoid it and would inevitably get a touch of her embrace!

Looking closer, the companion beside the black-robed young man was a woman dressed as a man...

Do you like this strange taste?

"Who are you?" Chu Mingkong remained unmoved by the unexpected beauty that had come his way.

A pure and pitiful girl, no way.

Chu Mingkong wouldn't make a move; he's a man with principles.

If it's a pure and pitiful young woman—he might reluctantly listen to her grievances.

The girl wept, her eyes brimming with tears:

"My father has contracted a rare and strange illness, his spirit is failing, and he is on the verge of death. We have nowhere to find a cure. I just heard a senior physician say that a wisp of the fragrance of a divine medicine wafted from your place, young master, and that it can cure my father's strange illness..."

Chapter 83 I should have blocked this window!

Chu Mingkong rarely encountered such a thing, where a beautiful female cultivator suddenly appeared and started asking for medicine for her father.

It's not that such things don't happen; they frequently occur in the secular world, such as young women selling themselves to bury their fathers. Even in a peaceful place like Xiling, such things are not uncommon. This is not a problem that Xiao Zhi's governance can solve.

However, this is less common among cultivators. Or is it something that is more likely to happen in the East China Sea?

Chu Mingkong's guard went up instinctively. He couldn't quite pinpoint the source of this wariness, but something just felt off.

Yes!

With his spirit and soul exhausted, he desperately sought medicine!

This was most likely because when she was shopping with Yongzhen, she opened the bottle cap for a short while, and the fragrance was noticed. However, in this generation, the understanding of the soul should have been interrupted, and only a few people know the inside story.

Where did this healer come from who could immediately recognize the aura of the Soul-Sealing Pill? In other words, if there really was such a monstrous old healer who could recognize this pill's fragrance, wouldn't he know how rare this pill was? As a healer, why wouldn't he be curious and come to Chu Mingkong to ask about the medicine?

Why did they suddenly point out a woman seeking medicine to come here? Why didn't the powerful figure come over himself?

That's the problem.

"Soul exhaustion?" Chu Mingkong asked calmly, his expression unwavering in the face of the beautiful woman's plea for help. "I don't have that kind of pill. Perhaps you've come to the wrong person, or are you referring to the bottle of pills in my hand?"

Seeking medicine and treatment is not a rare thing, and the surrounding cultivators did not find it strange. Cultivators also encounter difficulties such as their relatives being seriously ill. Cultivators are not orphans.

The female cultivator's striking beauty was truly eye-catching. Her slightly conservative dress accentuated her long, slender waist and hips, and her smooth, beautiful legs were particularly striking. Many male cultivators stopped to watch how the man in the black robes would react. If they encountered such a woman seeking help, even if they were temporarily without medicine, they would at least try to accompany the poor girl and become as close to her as possible.

"The medicine bottle in his hand is quite extraordinary. High-grade pills require bottles made of special materials and engraved with exquisite magic arrays to ensure that the medicinal effects will not dissipate!" A knowledgeable person immediately noticed that the white jade medicine bottle in Chu Mingkong's hand was no ordinary bottle.

"That's true. I once protected the clan's Supreme Elder when he took high-grade pills. If they weren't refined in time, the medicinal power of the pills would be lost. It's as if the heavens and earth are vying to reclaim the blessings within these pills!"

Chu Mingkong opened the white jade porcelain bottle in his hand a crack. It only took a blink of an eye, but the rich fragrance of the pill caused an uproar among the cultivators who had stopped to watch. It was truly a high-grade pill!

"Most of them are for cleansing the marrow and rejuvenating the meridians. They are usually prepared by powerful cultivator families for their future prodigies. They are hard to buy even if you have money. It's a pity I couldn't smell what grade they were... What's wrong with you people? You don't know anything. Why are you following along and inhaling the fragrance of the pills? You're even more exaggerated than old women who sit on the ground and suck up dirt!" A hunched old man with a cane said angrily.

"Even if I fart in bed, I have to inhale it with a big gulp. Why wouldn't you inhale the fragrance of the pill?"

"vulgar!"

The cultivators nearby chatted amongst themselves, while Chu Mingkong responded to the woman.

“Young lady, you should ask the doctor who guided you again. This is a pill for cleansing the marrow and improving one's constitution, and I have already given it to my female companion. It is a great pity that it cannot help you or save your father. See if you can ask someone else for help?”

He expressed regret, but his polite expression betrayed his indifference.

He bent down slightly and left with Shangguan Rong without looking back.

Some people were suspicious of his powerful background and wanted to see which direction the young man in black left in. However, even though their eyes were fixed on him, he and his female companion suddenly disappeared.

When everyone came to their senses, some of the male cultivators who had been attracted by the pure and simple pitiful woman wanted to talk to her and see if they could strike up a conversation.

If only the relationship of helping each other could be transformed into one of "repaying kindness with one's own body," that would be the best outcome. But in the blink of an eye, that pitiful and filial woman disappeared!

"That's strange. Where is that girl? I know some healers and cultivators from Medicine King Valley. I could have introduced her to them. Why has she disappeared? I'm very worried about her!"

"Hypocrite, you're just after her looks!"

"Nonsense! I just couldn't bear to see a girl so heartbroken, kneeling down in the street begging for help without any regard for her dignity!"

Chu Mingkong activated his Domain of Annihilation and didn't go far. He wanted to see where the girl was going, but unfortunately he couldn't see clearly. The woman really did disappear in the blink of an eye after he left.

They didn't even give Chu Mingkong a chance to counter-track!

Shangguan Rong sensed something was wrong, but she knew very little about the affairs of the cultivator community, so she asked:

"This is... some kind of scam? Trying to swindle medicine with their looks? There are so many cunning schemes even in a place full of cultivators. Mingkong, you only took out this bottle once, and that girl has already set her sights on you?"

Chu Mingkong shrugged. He was also confused about the situation and scratched his head, feeling a bit bewildered.

That woman must have been eyeing him while Yongzhen was with him, coming after the scent of the pills. But don't tell Rong'er about this. If she knew that Yongzhen had also received the pills, even if she knew it was normal, she would still be upset for a while.

"I'm not really sure what's going on, but I just felt something was off, so I was on my guard. I guess it really is some kind of scam."

These days, even the bar for becoming a con artist is so incredibly competitive; you need this kind of looks to even become a female con artist and lure people in.

Although Chu Mingkong coldly rejected the woman, he still had to acknowledge her looks. Ignoring her figure, if the maximum score was 10, he would give Shangguan Rong a 9, and that would give the female swindler about 8.5 points. There was a strange charm in her temperament that was very attractive, and half of that point was due to that strange temperament.

Shangguan Rong, recalling what had just happened, was still puzzled, not by the event itself, but by Chu Mingkong's reaction. She asked curiously:

"It felt like... that wasn't Mingkong just now. Why did you reject that woman so decisively? Was it because I was there and it was inconvenient to show your fondness for women? I know all that, so you don't need to hide it from me."

These words were blunt and disrespectful to Chu Mingkong, but judging from the slight upturn of her lips, Shangguan Rong was quite pleased with Chu Mingkong's rejection of her advances.

In the situation just now, Chu Mingkong could have pretended to be a gentleman while also trying to taste the sugar coating on the other party's sugar-coated bullet. He could have simply not dodged when the girl rushed over crying and begging for help.

Chu Mingkong was surprisingly unable to refute it, and honestly replied:

"I enjoy women, but I'm not blind; I can accept any woman!"

"That girl was pretty, wasn't she? And... she must be the kind of girl who really evokes a man's protective instincts?" Shangguan Rong wasn't sure if her description was accurate; after all, she wasn't a man.

Chu Mingkong looked up at the sky, recalled the brief encounter just now, and commented:

"His face is indeed not bad, but you can't just look at a woman's face. If that's the case, then you'd like her even if you chopped off her head."

"You have to look at the whole picture. When she missed and knelt down in front of me, I caught a glimpse of the outline of her hips. They were a bit 'bony,' triangular. Rong'er, didn't you notice?"

"No..." Shangguan Rong was a little speechless.

Chu Mingkong guessed that the female swindler from earlier was probably not of human blood; she had only transformed into a human to live. Her body and bone structure could be described as beautiful and slender, but in Chu Mingkong's eyes, she looked a bit like a "stick figure," with her thighs almost the same width as her calves.

Remember those beauty filters and leg-lengthening effects popular on apps like Douyin in his past life? The visual effect was somewhat similar to that girl from earlier. This world has many alien races, so perhaps the people here have a higher tolerance for aesthetics, but Chu Mingkong found it hard to accept.

Even if a woman looks ethereal, slender, and graceful when she wears a white dress, she should still have a certain plumpness and voluptuousness when she takes off her clothes. Otherwise, how can she be described as radiant and beautiful?

Chu Mingkong activated the Annihilation Domain and escorted Shangguan Rong back to the Xiaoxiang Qin Academy's residence, arriving at that familiar nearby alley.

It was Shangguan Rong who dragged him here; Chu Mingkong didn't lead the way on his own initiative. He planned to take Shangguan Rong directly back to his residence.

"I want... Mingkong, kiss me here." Shangguan Rong looked up at the man, her voice a little soft, her words straightforward and frank, but not very assertive.

Could it be that Rong'er watched the whole kiss with Yongzhen just now...?

That's not right either. The Nirvana Domain was open, wasn't it? That's when Yongzhen walked out of the alley and Rong'er saw it.

But since it's already happened, why bother thinking about it? Just kiss!

"Not only do I want to take a few bites of you, I also want to eat your ears, Rong'er~"

Chu Mingkong cupped the woman's fair face in his hands. Her sculpted features looked sharp, but they were smooth and soft to the touch. The sensation from his palms was more comfortable than silk. He slid his hands over her slender neck and, without much effort, slipped her delicate collarbone into her clothes.

My fingers were brushed against that plump, soft flesh, and before I knew it, my palm had wandered to the alluring waist and hips.

"When you kiss me, why does your hand always seem to unconsciously wander off to other places...?"

"It might be an instinct etched in our blood, but I think it's Rong'er's waist and hips that have a suction effect, drawing my hand towards her~"

He planted several strawberries on his daughter's fair and firm skin, and then applied the perfect brakes to her anal sphincter.

Chu Mingkong stopped short of making a point, fearing he might not be able to stop, and carefully instructed Shangguan Rong on how to refine the pills as soon as possible after returning home.

"If there's nothing else, I'll take Rong'er to visit other places later."

"Don't call me after you've finished shopping with Yongzhen..."

"..." Chu Mingkong gave a wry smile.

After dispelling the Annihilation Domain, Chu Mingkong watched Shangguan Rong's beautiful figure enter the mansion, and subconsciously glanced at the upstairs window.

Jin Yu was looking at him with a stern face.

"..." Chu Mingkong's bitter smile disappeared.

Chapter 84 The Unbearable Weight of Power

However, we can't take Jinyu to the market this time. Although there are many people there, many cultivators can spend most of the day there, and we might get recognized.

When the female swindler stopped causing trouble, the other male cultivators, seeing him constantly switching girls to stroll around, were likely to say something that would expose him, which made Jin Yu extremely angry.

Therefore, Chu Mingkong chose a place with fewer people. Guanhai City is located by the sea, and there is a small fishing village near the shore. The scenery is so-so, but listening to the sound of the waves rising and falling is quite enjoyable.

Chu Mingkong then took Jin Yu for a chat and a walk nearby, followed by a three-hit combo of nibbling on her collarbone, completing the planned task ahead of time to prevent Jin Yu from taking him to that side alley and continuing the endless nesting dolls at that window.

The whole day consisted of going to the auction house for consignment sales and taking the girls shopping in turns. By the time Jinyu was sent back to rest, it was getting dark and the stars were shining brightly overhead.

Whether it's the celestial phenomenon over the East China Sea or just a random occurrence, there's always a faint glow in the night sky. If someone wakes up at this time, they probably can't distinguish between dawn and night.

"Chu Lang, let's go to the alley and talk some more." Jin Yu pulled Chu Mingkong and wanted to walk into the side alley. These girls all hold grudges. Since they couldn't confront them directly, they wanted to get back at the ones they had been wronged by.

Chu Mingkong glanced at the upstairs window. The curtains weren't drawn, and who knew when another pair of eyes might be giving him a death stare.

A wise person will not stand under a dangerous wall, even if it means being in a melon patch or under a plum tree.

"That's not a good idea, Jinyu. Look over there. It's late at night, and the disciples of Xiaoxiang Qin Academy are patrolling. If we move around in those dark places, they might misunderstand. Let's not cause any trouble!"