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

"Yunhan, why aren't you at the camp? Where did you go to the market?"

A tall, white-haired woman walked towards him. Her figure was curvaceous and graceful. Her pure white dress contrasted sharply with Chu Mingkong's unchanging black attire.

"On the way back, I saw a market in the city that sells children's toys. I just went to take a look, but unfortunately I didn't see anything new or interesting."

"I can only shrink, that's all. I don't play with children's toys..." Chu Mingkong felt a little tired.

"I wanted to buy it for the cat and Jiao'er, not for you."

"..." Chu Mingkong was extremely embarrassed, his lips twitching. Was this the embarrassment of being presumptuous, or the relief of not being treated like a child anymore?

"You want one? I can buy you one too." Xiao Yunhan noticed that her younger brother had stopped walking.

"No need, no need. I didn't come here to ask Yunhan for toys. I just came to thank my master's wife for her help at the auction."

Xiao Yunhan unconsciously slowed her pace. When talking about what happened at the auction, she also had some questions she wanted to ask her younger brother.

"Where did you get your icy spiritual energy?"

Chu Mingkong knew this couldn't be hidden from Yun Han's eyes. Images of absorbing spiritual energy flashed through his mind, followed by towering snow-capped mountains and lush, juicy plumpness...

These things shouldn't be revealed to Yunhan!

But don't panic. There are many ways to transfer spiritual energy. His master's wife just gave him the method with the least loss... Chu Mingkong felt guilty even thinking about this.

"That icy spiritual energy was given to me by my master's wife. Back then, in order to deal with the emperor, my master's wife secretly helped me a lot, but she couldn't show it openly, so she could only do it secretly to add a trump card."

"Did we give you a lot? How could we possibly provide you with so much?"

The move that Chu Mingkong used to freeze the water dragon's head today was not a technique, but purely the application of spiritual energy. Without combat skills as a foundation, such an attack would consume a lot of spiritual energy.

"There are quite a lot, so when I received my master's wife's care back then, I felt very guilty and specially found a spiritual herb for her to nourish her."

Yunhan had a feeling that his master's wife had some kind of secret relationship with him...

Fortunately, Yunhan did not investigate further and did not notice anything unusual, while she and her brother had already arrived at Shen Xuejun's door.

They went inside together. Perhaps because her disciple Xiao Yunhan was there, Shen Xuejun didn't let him shrink down so she could hold and play with him. Instead, they chatted simply and casually.

Shen Xuejun adhered to the rules, showing courtesy where appropriate, but without seeking elaborate formalities. Chu Mingkong expressed his gratitude verbally and that was it.

Taking this opportunity, Chu Mingkong inquired about the matter of the soul and spiritual energy, subtly probing as he said:

“Master’s wife, I had a brief exchange with Dragon King Ao Wei today, and I felt that his use of spiritual energy was unusual. I just asked him about it and I suspect that he may have some unique skills in cultivating his soul, which is why his control over spiritual energy is far stronger than that of ordinary opponents?”

Xiao Yunhan was also present. Shen Xuejun did not hide her opinion or explain why she showed favoritism towards her two disciples. She said directly:

"Yes, I just mentioned this to Yunhan a few days ago. This Dragon King Ao Wei is someone who possesses the cultivation of the divine soul, but he must have used evil methods to strengthen his divine soul. It was not cultivated normally at all. He is not proficient in it. His physical body realm is just short of the mid-stage of the seventh level, but his divine soul realm is at the perfect seventh level. However, his spirit is scattered and not solid."

Can people who still have spiritual cultivation now be cultivated normally? If one's spiritual energy is depleted, what is the difference between this kind of cultivation and seeking water in the desert?

Giving yourself a sip of water is probably more practical than seeking water in the desert; this is the current predicament of spiritual cultivation.

Hmm... Yongzhen's cultivation method is a bit strange, but it can be considered as cultivating little by little, right? She can be said to be constantly improving her soul's perception of that rare spiritual energy, absorbing a drop or two of sweet dew from the parched world and accumulating it little by little.

However, the results were minimal. If she didn't waste her time on those spiritual cultivation techniques, she could achieve twice the results with half the effort by focusing on ordinary cultivation methods.

Xiao Yunhan nodded, her calm expression revealing nothing of her thoughts. After a moment, she asked again:

"Should I not have come into contact with that kind of strange magic?"

"Contact is permissible, but not permissible."

The solution to the bottleneck Xiao Yunhan is facing now is to wait.

Waiting is painful, tantamount to handing over the power of decision while being powerless to do anything. This is especially true for someone like Xiao Yunhan, whose cultivation path has been smooth sailing. It's like a young couple sending out a love letter and waiting for the other person's acceptance; an unemployed person struggling to make ends meet, carrying the burden of feeding their family, waiting for a foreman to recruit them; a weary and seriously ill patient looking at a silent doctor taking their pulse, waiting for his diagnosis.

During this process, it felt like sitting idly by and waiting for death, not knowing when the opportunity for a breakthrough would come.

Xiao Yunhan pondered her master's words, then nodded after a moment. Her expression remained indifferent, neither showing helplessness nor compromise.

"Then this disciple will continue to wait."

Chu Mingkong sometimes didn't know what kind of relationship the master and disciple had. Wasn't Shen Xuejun afraid that Yunhan would go astray?

However, given the current situation, it's not advisable to come over to Shen Xuejun's place today to get closer to her.

He took his sister with him and led her to the Xiaoxiang Qin Academy, where Xiao Zhi's mother was. It would be a good opportunity for the mother and daughter to keep each other company.

“Yunhan, I don’t know Ao Wei’s cultivation method yet, but I suspect it’s not good. You must not make contact with it without permission. If you really want to make contact, tell me. My extreme Yin power might be able to counteract some of the bad effects.”

As a regular at the teahouse's storytelling section, Chu Mingkong knew that in typical storytelling tales, the female protagonist was unwilling to accept defeat and would recklessly attempt something, forcing the other party to come out and provide assistance.

Xiao Yunhan gently shook her head: "I won't try it. Since Master said it shouldn't be done, then it's not good."

"So decisive, Yunhan, aren't you planning to court death?"

"If you become a disciple but don't listen to your master's words, why did you become a disciple in the first place? It would have been better to cultivate at home."

That makes sense, but sister, your decision was a bit too decisive...

If her reaction was genuine and not just a pretense, then Chu Mingkong truly recalled the time when he first met his master's wife, when she demonstrated by giving him a whole tube of her liquor.

"You know what? In the stories I heard from the storytellers in the teahouse, if the protagonist is someone who trusts their teachers as much as you do, then the teachers are often hiding some kind of conspiracy that you never discover in the end."

It's also possible that after seeing the truth, they'll finally realize what's happening and say, "I was so stupid, so very stupid..."

“...You have a lot of drama.” Xiao Yunhan finally managed to utter this sentence after a long pause.

After accompanying Yunhan to sit with Xiao Zhi's mother for a while, Chu Mingkong did not linger any longer, saying that he was going back to his room to study hard, leaving the mother and daughter to chat on their own.

Yunhan may be quiet, but she doesn't ignore her family. Xiao Zhi is used to her taciturn daughter and doesn't feel uncomfortable talking to her. She treats it like chatting with a child who isn't talkative.

Chu Mingkong returned to his room and glanced at his filial piety account. He found that in the past half day, his "deposits" had increased by ten or twenty thousand in bits and pieces. This was the "psychic interest" he had received from the jade dildos he had sold before.

Jade dildo... Ugh, just thinking about it annoys me!

Last time, Rong'er said she wanted to see how close he and Yongzhen usually were, so I'll prepare a complete set of toys for her.

For Chu Mingkong, the most useful thing about ordinary filial piety right now is to exchange it for some trivial trinkets, and the rest is just about blind box lotteries.

Having gotten used to the "spoiled filial piety" type of blind boxes, opening a regular filial piety box just feels a bit off; it lacks the anticipation and excitement of a lottery.

Chu Mingkong wasn't paying attention to anything else, he was just focused on drawing lots, planning to check the shipment summary one last time. Distracted, he bothered the system girl.

"Mom~ Does Yunhan have any cultivation techniques or anything that can help her break through her current bottleneck?"

No, if she were a sixth or seventh-level cultivator, I might be able to give her a few sets of cultivation techniques, but the problem she is facing now is not hers. Since the problem is not hers, no amount of help will help. Waiting is indeed what she can do at this stage.

She was on the right path, but the road ahead was blocked.

The master's wife's viewpoint is consistent with "Niangye's," which means that while the master's wife's understanding of the ancient world may be incomplete, she at least has a fairly good grasp of the general direction!

A major event will occur in the East China Sea in a few days.

"Ao Wei?"

[His situation is not a big deal.]

"Then I need to plan my escape, I have my family to take with me... Wow, why are there so many sexy lingerie? And what's this, a veil?"

Chapter 93 Rong'er: Yongzhen is playing so wildly with you? ? ?

Chu Mingkong glanced at the overall shipment list. He had drawn nearly 150 ordinary filial piety gifts and only got two red-quality gifts. If it were gold, purple, or something he didn't even want to look at, it would be a disaster.

Those odds and ends of "miscellaneous goods" were naturally all taken to Qingse for processing, rather than being taken the time to examine slowly.

Those two red-quality items lessened Chu Mingkong's expectations this time, as they were from the "Otherworldly Treasures Atlas," which had been released twice before; the fact that two copies were being released at once...

"I wonder if keeping it can help me synthesize a two-star manual, allowing me to learn even more powerful techniques."

There's no way I'll sell these two books. I'll just see who needs them and give them away.

Among the gold and purple quality gifts, there were many women's underwear items, as well as a "Soul Cultivation Set" for Shangguan Rong. Although it was not as good as Yongzhen's all-red set, it was still good for Shangguan Rong to try it out.

Chu Mingkong picked up a bellyband in his hand, glanced at it, and decided to take it to Rong'er to see which one she liked.

Shangguan Rong was meditating and cultivating in her room, dissipating the medicinal effects of the pills. Her waist was straight, and her fair and tender skin, like a freshly steamed egg, was covered with fragrant sweat, making her skin even more crystal clear. Unconsciously, her clothes were soaked with sweat, like a lotus emerging from the water, a beauty emerging from a bath.

Fortunately, he arrived at the right time. Shangguan Rong had just finished a phase, and Chu Mingkong woke her up.

"Why didn't you say anything before coming in?" Shangguan Rong said lightly, without any intention of blaming, but only feeling embarrassed.

She was covered in sweat and felt sticky and slovenly, and didn't want Chu Mingkong to see this side of her. But perhaps the girl's self-perception was a bit off. What she felt embarrassed about was, in Chu Mingkong's eyes, more like walking through a flower garden in the morning and getting covered in dew and mist.

"It's nothing. It's normal to sweat a little to dissipate the effects of the medicine. Do you remember when we went out last time, you said you wanted to see what kind of contact Yongzhen had with me before, and how he cultivated?"

"Yes, but... Mingkong, could you please let me take a bath and change first?"

"no problem."

Chu Mingkong immediately fetched a large bath tub, took out a small bottle, and poured out a steady stream of hot water to fill the tub, allowing her to bathe inside.

Shangguan Rong meant that since Mingkong had invited her to come and chat, she should at least get herself ready before meeting him. She didn't expect that he planned to watch her wash up while they chatted.

Shangguan Rong thought to herself, "Oh well, it doesn't really matter anyway. I've seen everything I needed to see."

Taking advantage of the moment when Chu Mingkong drew the curtains, Shangguan Rong quickly walked to the screen and took off her clothes.

The curtains were drawn, and the light in the room suddenly dimmed considerably, but the graceful silhouette on the screen remained clear.

The man's robe slipped to the ground, and a soft, undulating body was immediately reflected on the screen. With a graceful figure, she bent over and removed her underpants, revealing the flawless, full waist and hips that fully displayed the woman's sensual tension.

The black and white silhouettes on the screen, though faintly visible, were exceptionally visually striking.

Shangguan Rong had no intention of taking a bath, so she did not prepare a bath towel. She could only use her slender arms to slightly cover herself as she stepped into the bathtub and let the hot water submerge her body.

Chu Mingkong then took out the "equipment" piece by piece. As Shangguan Rong looked at them, she felt something was off. Although she had been bothered by Chu Mingkong countless times, she rarely touched the props.

"These are underwear...?"

Shangguan Rong reached out from the water, manipulated her spiritual power, and lifted a pair of underpants that resembled a spider web. They were completely open and "completely exposed," and in the two places that Chu Mingkong used as "entrances," a question mark shape was cut out.

“These are underpants,” Chu Mingkong affirmed, nodding confidently.

"But... why does this look like a fishing net or a spider king covering her buttocks?"

"It's probably because the weaver ran out of fabric when she was sewing these underpants." Chu Mingkong had already briefly confirmed the capabilities of these gold-quality underpants, which came with a defensive shield against attacks from the five elements.

This perfectly aligns with the principle that less fabric means higher defense!

Shangguan Rong's expression turned complicated and astonished. Yongzhen is a princess of a country! How could she be so wild with Mingkong in private?!

She felt inexplicably nervous, pointed to the rather mysterious string of beads, and asked softly: