I have the best bloodline

Some time ago, when the merfolk's transport fleet was swimming back in the river, they sensed the presence of pheromones emitted by a powerful demon race in the river's surface. These pheromones contained a strong and continuous aura and emitted a sweet fragrance.

The cloying scent was just like courtship. The merfolk transport team returned to their clan's territory in the underground water system and informed the merfolk in their clan. All the merfolk who were preparing to reproduce gathered in the Xia Yu River to search for the demon race that was emitting the sweet pheromones.

The night before last, when Su Yan dumped the sewage again, Jiao Nanwu's friend intercepted the water source. After careful examination, they were certain that the powerful demon seeking a mate was in the brothel. The friend immediately relayed this information to Jiao Nanwu, urging her to be the first to drink the soup before the other demons could get there first and drain the powerful demon dry.

Jiao Nanwu arrived full of hope, but found no powerful male demons, only a young white fox with no sense of public morality.

"A fox! It's normal for it to have a smell, especially since it smelled like milk before!"

As she spoke, her aunt winked at Su Yan, urging him to reveal his true form and prove to the merman in front of her that he was too young to withstand any torment.

As a seasoned veteran of the underworld, Chong Qiong was not as ignorant as Su Yan.

If it's a good match, the aunt will go along with it, since her little nephew won't lose out. But the merfolk are a type of demon race that values ​​collective interests. If Su Yan continues to stubbornly prove himself, the merfolk will definitely come at any cost to kidnap him and make him their stud.

The Merfolk are a friendly race, but they are particularly stubborn about the survival of their race. They have always followed the old traditions of their ancestors and treated sons-in-law as disposable. Unless they are powerful enough to force Merfolk women to marry outside the clan, they basically just work hard in the fields for two months and then take some spirit stones ashore.

Although Chong Qiong was poor, she wouldn't stoop to the level of a few pounds of spirit stones offered by the Merfolk as a means of survival.

He pushed his own nephew into the pit.

"Come on, give Jiaonan Wuying a kiss."

The aunt was giving Su Yan frantic hints to reveal his true form. Although Su Yan didn't understand why, he knew that his aunt wouldn't trick him for no reason, so he wisely revealed his true form as a white fox in front of the two of them.

When Jiao Nanwu saw Su Yan appear in human form, revealing his little fox appearance, he was stunned. He became quite depressed and squatted down under the eaves to shut himself away.

It's difficult to determine the age of a demon who has transformed into human form, but once they reveal their true form, other demons can immediately tell what stage the other person is in.

The three stages are categorized as childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

After Su Yan revealed his true form, Jiao Nanwu could tell that Su Yan was currently in his infancy. No, he should be in his toddlerhood. To put it bluntly, this little demon hadn't even been weaned for three to five years. He was far too young.

Instead of finding a powerful demon clan, they found a little fox that had just been weaned.

Jiaonan Wu has completely become withdrawn.

"Turn back to human form to eat, and don't make a mess of the table with hair."

Auntie gave Su Yan a nudge, telling him to transform back into human form so he wouldn't get hair all over the table, otherwise he wouldn't be able to eat his midnight snack.

"I haven't even grown all my fur yet, how could I be shedding!"

When Su Yan saw his aunt slandering him, he jumped off the dining table, stood up, raised his arms, and frantically twisted his waist and hips, shaking his body for a while. Sure enough, not a single fox hair fell off his body.

"I have white fur all over my body, and I'm cute and clean. If I get my fur dirty at home, my mom will put me on a washboard and scrub me hard, and then hang me on a bamboo pole to dry."

As a white fox, Su Yan's hygiene habits were taught by his mother, and he dared to play in the mud outside.

Su's mother dared to grab Su Yan by the back of the neck, sit by the river, put down a washboard, put Su Yan in the detergent, and scrub him vigorously on the washboard until he was clean.

"Then what is this?"

The aunt used her chopsticks to pick out a yellowish-white hair from the dish and placed it in front of Su Yan. After a brief comparison, she found that it really didn't match.

Aunt and Su Yan looked back and gazed at a pair of round, dark eyes by the kitchen doorway.

The two stared at each other for a long time without saying a word, and then the backyard erupted in chaos again.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 13 Imperial Examinations and Military Examinations

"Squeak squeak squeak."

After a chaotic scene in the backyard, the "cooks" who had been in the kitchen all lined up, hugged each other, and looked at the proud Queen with tears in their eyes.

"I don't need to tell you, do I? Just be more considerate," Auntie said, looking at the cooks.

"squeak"

The monkeys exchanged glances, their faces displaying an extremely human-like grief and indignation. One of them, like a human, stood upright and ran back to the kitchen, retrieved the pine resin used to remove feathers when slaughtering chickens and ducks, and melted it over a fire in the backyard, applying it to the monkey's body.

"Squeak-yah!"

As the older monkey grabbed the pine resin and yanked it, the younger monkey seemed not to be getting its fur removed, but rather as if its soul had been pulled out along with the pine resin hair removal gel. It lay weakly on the ground, unable to help but let out a groan as if its soul had flown away.

After the older monkey finished plucking the fur from the two younger monkeys, they switched roles. The two younger monkeys watched with savage grins as the older monkey smeared resin all over their bodies.

"hiss"

As a fox who also possesses fur, Su Yan watched the movements of those agile monkeys and involuntarily gasped in pain, experiencing phantom limb pain.

"Can't you just use a razor to shave? Is it really necessary to use something as strong as pine resin for hair removal?"

After the three monkeys finished shaving, they put on a slightly loose silk skirt and ran to Chong Qiong to report for duty, looking as proud as if they had done something important.

"Okay, once you've finished cleaning the kitchen, everyone can go and rest!"

Seeing the three hygienic monkeys, the aunt nodded gently and didn't pursue the matter of the hair in the food any further. She told them to clean up the kitchen before they could go and rest.

Monkeys are amazing creatures. They are extremely intelligent and have a strong learning ability. In addition, they are diligent and hardworking, and are often used as servants in the homes of monks.

However, the spirit monkeys were not captured; they were demonic beasts that liked to sell themselves. They had to pay spirit stones as wages every month to work for cultivators.

If you don't give it any, it will just sit idly by. Even if you beat it, it won't change anything. Since it won't have spirit stones as a salary, it will just sit idly by.

Once given spirit stones, they become so diligent they could practically overwhelm human servants and maids.

Because of the fact that she was opening a brothel, Chong Qiong took into account the human people's respect for the separation of men and women from the beginning. Therefore, she did not hire male workers, but instead purchased three spirit monkeys to be in charge of cooking and doing some heavy work.

Su Yan would refer to the spirit monkey as: the miserable second party in the cultivation world.

Monkeys are born with countless clients, and the entire clan hopes to sell themselves for a good price. They then rely on the wages of vassal cultivators to cultivate, and the cultivators also like to use the spirit monkeys to do things like murder and disposing of corpses.

Not liking to speak human language is actually an advantage, as the clever monkeys know many of their master's secrets.

………………

After having a late-night snack, Su Yan began practicing the Water Illusion Technique until late at night before returning to her room to rest. She used breathing exercises instead of sleeping while sitting on the bed. Meanwhile, her aunt saw Jiao Nanwu still sulking in the corner and kindly offered her shelter for the night.

A night and a morning passed, and Su Yan woke up from her meditative state of breathing exercises. After washing up as usual, she went to her aunt's bedroom and looked longingly at her aunt sitting on the bed practicing breathing exercises.

"Just say what you need to say."

My aunt, being a powerful demon, possesses the ability to perceive everything happening within the entire brothel even without activating her senses.

She already knew when Su Yan ran to her dormitory, but she didn't say anything until the little fox pitifully squatted by the bed, staring at her without saying a word, which made her aunt ask Su Yan what she was doing running over so early in the morning.

"I want to go shopping, to the area near the Imperial City. Xiao Jin said there's a great textile workshop there, and I want to process the silk threads my aunt spun into cloth."

Su Yan then stated the purpose of her visit.

The main city of Xia Yu is very large. In the cultivation world where transportation is not well developed, the straight distance from the brothel to the imperial city is estimated to be more than 30 miles. Su Yan's speed is naturally not a problem, but he doesn't know the way!

Xia Yu's main city is really too big. Su Yan is currently only familiar with the routes to Wan Hua Ge or Yan Zhi Street.

The map wasn't even open for other locations.

"Alright! Your aunt will go with you."

Seeing Su Yan's resigned agreement, her aunt said, "If it weren't for your tender face, which exudes a coy and alluring charm, I definitely wouldn't be willing. Going to the capital now would be nothing short of torture."

"?"

Su Yan typed a question mark, not quite understanding what her aunt meant.

But as her aunt led Su Yan out, walking through the clouds towards the imperial city, Su Yan finally understood why her aunt was unwilling to come to the imperial city.

The streets of the imperial city were packed with people, and even the windowsills and observation decks of buildings were filled with people. There were also many cultivators squatting in the sky, blocking more than a dozen streets near the front gate of the imperial city.

Even the walls of the imperial city are now a spectacular sight of people packed together.

The cheers and jubilation surged higher and higher, but there were also some angry and aggrieved curses among them.

"here it is"

Su Yan looked at her aunt with surprise at the scene of tens of thousands of people gathered.

"The martial arts examination, held every five years, is a city-wide entertainment event for the people of Xia Yu City, with the imperial court offering betting odds for the citizens."

My aunt said with a long face, "I used to like coming here to place bets too, but I mostly lost. Their cultivation levels are all too weak."

A cultivator's cultivation level is not the same as their actual combat strength. Cultivation level only determines combat strength on paper. It is also necessary to consider the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements, secret techniques, supernatural powers, and magical artifacts in order to truly measure a cultivator's actual combat strength.

During the martial arts examinations, the imperial court would only announce the candidates' cultivation level, five elements compatibility, and age. Whether they possessed family secret techniques or inherited supernatural abilities would not be disclosed. Whether the candidates used them or not was up to them to decide.

As a grand event held every five years, Chong Qiong had participated when he first settled in Xia Yu. As a result, the entire arrogant worm lost so badly that it gave those young cultivators a harsh lesson in abstaining from gambling.

Chong Qiong gets angry whenever she sees the martial arts examination, so she doesn't want to come at all when it's held in the capital.

Money isn't important, what's important is losing face!

For some cultivators in the Body Refining and Qi Refining stages to make her, a dignified half-step terrestrial immortal, fall into a pit is an utter disgrace. To this day, she still has no face to tell others that she lost six hundred stones here.

One stone was equivalent to one hundred catties in the Xia Dynasty. He lost 60,000 catties of spirit stones in two martial arts examinations.

The entire insect was paralyzed and unable to move.

"It's Yu Yanning!"

Su Yan had no interest in gambling. He had been beaten up by lottery shops since he was a child and had never won a scratch-off lottery ticket. Naturally, he didn't care about any martial arts betting odds. However, he still liked to join in the fun. Seeing the huge crowd, he squeezed through the crowd and went forward.

"Hey! Kid, this way, the view is great."

Su Yan's shoving displeased some of the cultivators who were flying through the air in the already crowded area.

The monk was about to curse.

The aunt raised her hand as if to slap him across the face.

The monk's tone became extremely refined as he invited the little fox to sit on his shoulder to watch the competition.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 14 Land Immortal

On the martial arts arena, Yu Yanning's palms and back were ablaze with orange-red flames. Her fists, clad in knuckle dust, clenched and throbbed with a whooshing sound. With a powerful punch, she struck her opponent's chin, sending the one- or two-meter-tall man flying seven or eight meters into the air.

We won!

Yu Yanning dissipated the flames from her arms, raised her hands high, and let out a cheer. Those who bet on her to win outside the arena erupted in waves of cheers and shouts for her.

"I think I understand why she keeps muttering about wanting a perfect husband."