Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

Ye Liuyun chuckled.

"As expected of my eldest sister, you saw through my thoughts. Good. Where are Father, Mother, and Grandpa now?" Ye Liuyun asked directly.

Ye Ninglu chuckled.

"Can't you guess?" Ye Ninglu asked back.

After thinking it over carefully, Ye Liuyun replied.

"I can roughly guess that my father and mother are most likely in Beiyuan. As for my grandfather, he's probably not in the capital, is he?"

Ye Ninglu was taken aback.

"Hey...you're pretty smart, how did you guess that your parents are in Beiyuan and your grandfather is in the capital?" Ye Ninglu was surprised.

"My God, is it really true? So, I'm actually a member of the Beiming family, right?" Ye Liuyun said with a look of surprise.

She was just guessing, but she was right.

After learning from Ye Ninglu that her other two older sisters were in the Ximen and Dongfang families respectively, she began to wonder: if the three major families were all forming alliances through marriage, was the Beiming family really absent?

After much deliberation, she finally set her sights on her mysterious old mother.

The main reason is that Ye Liuyun had never heard of where her mother's family was, nor had she ever heard her family mention it.

She only knew that her mother's name was Liu Yue, and knew nothing else, mainly because she had never thought about it before.

“That’s right. Our mother is from the Beiming family of Beiyuan. Her original name was Beiming Yue. In fact, the Beiming family was the first to form a marriage alliance with our Ye family,” Ye Ninglu explained.

Ye Liuyun found it increasingly outrageous.

"Then? Then, Mother, could she also be a cultivator?" Ye Liuyun couldn't help but ask.

Ye Ninglu shook her head directly.

“That shouldn’t be the case. The four great families have similar structures, with internal and external cooperation. My mother is indeed an ordinary person from the Beiming family who doesn’t have cultivation aptitude,” Ye Ninglu explained.

Ye Liuyun had already thought things through during her decades in Bixia Valley. She decided to do whatever she wanted and do whatever made her happy. Since her sisters were all cultivators, she planned to turn her whole family into cultivators so that she wouldn't be lonely in the future.

As for any other messy concerns, forget it, she couldn't be bothered to think about them.

"Oh, I see. Oh! You kept it a secret for so long. It made me feel like an outsider. I'm sad and upset," Ye Liuyun said, feigning displeasure.

"At the time, I didn't tell you because I didn't want you and Aoxue to get involved in danger. After all, the family's arrangement was inherently risky. You have to understand. You and Aoxue are the hope of both the Lin and Ye families," Ye Ninglu said helplessly.

However, Ye Liuyun may be about to shatter this hope. To be precise, the hopes of the Lin and Ye families have long been shattered, they just don't know it.

"Well, sister, I might have to extinguish your hopes." After a moment of hesitation, Ye Liuyun decided that she still had to say it.

"Huh? What do you mean? I don't understand," Ye Ninglu asked doubtfully.

Ye Liuyun thought for a moment and then gave Ye Ninglu a reminder.

"Big sister, let me ask you something. Do you remember, before I went home to marry Aoxue, during that period, didn't strange things happen in Jiangzhou Prefecture? The world changed, causing the genders of the people in that area to be reversed," Ye Liuyun said, forcing a smile.

Upon hearing this, Ye Ninglu immediately became somewhat embarrassed.

"Why are you bringing this up? This is probably one of the darkest moments in my life. Back then, your brother-in-law and I were still in Jianglin City. When I became your sister, I suddenly turned into a man, and your brother-in-law turned into a woman. If he hadn't turned back later, I wouldn't know how to explain it," Ye Ninglu said awkwardly.

"Huh? You've changed too. What did you say back then?" Ye Liuyun exclaimed in surprise.

"Would I possibly say something so embarrassing? My parents have changed too, but they didn't say anything either," Ye Ninglu said speechlessly.

Ye Liuyun was about to roll her eyes again, but it didn't matter.

Ye Liuyun wasn't trying to get involved in this matter; she just wanted to use it to tell her sister what had happened to her.

She certainly wouldn't say that she made herself into this state by concocting medicine; using well-known reasons would be the easiest way to explain it.

"This? Sis, you'd better be prepared for what I'm about to say." Ye Liuyun gave Ye Ninglu a heads-up.

"Just tell me what happened, is there anything else I can't stand?" Ye Ninglu said with amusement.

Ye Liuyun wasted no more time.

“Because I’ve changed too, and you should know that back then there was a group of people who changed their gender but didn’t revert to their original gender, and your brother was one of them.” Ye Liuyun blurted out his question in one breath.

Originally, Ye Ninglu thought it was nothing serious, but after hearing Ye Liuyun's words...

Her composed expression gradually changed from calm to uneasy, and she even began to stiffen and become numb.

"You, you, but, you are like this now? Me?" Ye Ninglu was completely unwilling to believe what Ye Liuyun was saying.

Ye Liuyun sighed heavily, and then removed his disguise.

"This is a disguise, I was afraid you wouldn't be able to handle it all at once," Ye Liuyun said helplessly.

After she finished speaking, a white light shone from her body, and she quickly transformed back into a woman in a white dress, exuding an ethereal and alluring charm.

She was still wearing the Seven Illusions Glazed Dress, but she had changed its color. This was a treasure, and it could change colors on its own. Red was too flashy, so she would change it to red when needed.

Ye Ninglu watched as her younger brother suddenly appeared before her, completely petrified.

"Hey? Sis, what's wrong? You can't take the blow, can you? I didn't want to either, but I had no choice." Ye Liuyun looked at her sister, who was in a daze, and quickly shook Ye Ninglu to bring her back to her senses.

After being shaken a few times, Ye Ninglu finally turned her gaze to Ye Liuyun and carefully examined her.

In the end, I had no choice but to accept this reality.

"It's over. I thought our family's situation was over, but it turned out to be a false alarm." Ye Ninglu had a terrible headache.

"Sister, I can't do anything about it. It's already like this, I can only accept reality." Ye Liuyun shrugged and said.

"Sigh! So, when you and Aoxue went home, you had already become a girl, right?" Ye Ninglu sighed heavily.

Ye Liuyun nodded, and then told Ye Ninglu about some of his things, telling her everything he could.

Ye Ninglu wasn't an unreasonable person. This matter really couldn't be blamed on Ye Liuyun. After all, back then, that incident affected many people, not just one or two families.

"Is that so? Never mind, never mind. It's already like this. Aoxue hasn't complained about you, so what can I, as your older sister, say?" Ye Ninglu said, both amused and exasperated.

She could imagine how her father would react if he found out about this. He always thought he had won against the Lin family, but in the end, it was still a draw.

"Anyway, it's already difficult for cultivators to have offspring. Since we won't have any, it doesn't matter. The bloodline of our Ye family will depend on you, my sister, to continue it," Ye Liuyun joked with a grin.

“But our child will not bear the surname Ye.” Ye Ninglu shook her head.

They are, after all, people of this world, and they care a lot about things like bloodline inheritance. Of course, even in Ye Liuyun's era, they cared a lot about it.

Chapter 401 Challenged (4500 words + 2 Fire Scrolls Bonus Chapter)

Ye Ninglu sat down, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

"Sister, don't look upset. I could have kept this from you. If you were all mortals, it wouldn't matter whether I told you or not. But now that I know you're cultivators, I have no choice but to tell you." Ye Liuyun quickly sat down next to Ye Ninglu to comfort her.

Ye Ninglu understood this principle, but when she saw her only younger brother transformed into a woman who looked even more beautiful than herself, she still found it hard to accept.

This is a cognitive conflict that takes time to resolve.

"Hey! Don't worry about me. I'm not too heartbroken over this. Liuyun, how have you been all these years? You must have been completely unable to accept it at first, right?" Ye Ninglu asked.

"I'm not a pervert, how could I accept this fact from the beginning? It was a gradual, subtle acceptance. Of course, the most important thing is that Aoxue didn't despise me, and didn't dump me because I became a woman. If she had dumped me because of this, that would have been the biggest blow to me," Ye Liuyun sighed.

Ye Ninglu nodded, and just then, people came in from outside. This time, it was a middle-aged couple in their early thirties.

"Hey? Father, Mother, you've arrived." Nangong Hui, who had been waiting outside for a long time, rushed forward to greet the man and woman who had descended from the sky.

Ye Liuyun and Ye Ninglu naturally heard this voice as well.

"Someone's here, sister. I'll change back now. You know my true gender, it's not appropriate to tell anyone else for now." After saying that, Ye Liuyun took the disguise pill again and returned to her previous appearance.

As Ye Ninglu watched her younger brother revert to his manly form, she felt as if she were dreaming, and it was a nightmare at that.

"Ninglu, Father and Mother have arrived." Nangong Hui's voice came from outside the door.

Ye Liuyun and Ye Ninglu quickly stood up, and then gestured for Ye Liuyun to go out with her.

When the two arrived at the gate, they saw a middle-aged couple walking towards them with smiles.

"Daughter-in-law greets Father and Mother. It's a small matter for my younger brother to come and visit me, and I shouldn't trouble Father and Mother. But I feel it wouldn't be right not to say hello," Ye Ninglu said with a smile.

"No need for formalities. After all, he's your brother, so we should come and meet him," the middle-aged woman said with a smile.

After sizing up the two, Ye Liuyun immediately stepped forward to greet them.

"Ye Liuyun of the Ye family pays his respects to his uncle and aunt." Ye Liuyun said respectfully.

"Hmm, indeed, interesting. You really are a body cultivator, and a pure body cultivator at that. No wonder my second son gave you power for free." Nangong Hui's father exclaimed after looking Ye Liuyun up and down.

"You're exaggerating. I was just joking around with my second brother," Ye Liuyun said with a shy smile.

Nangong Hui quickly introduced his parents to Ye Liuyun.

“Brother Liuyun, this is my father, Nangong Lingtian, and this is my mother, Shang Haihui,” Nangong Hui said.

Ye Liuyun immediately memorized their names.

The two men also came in; they must have some questions for Ye Liuyun as well.

"Liu Yun, I heard from your sister that you joined the Yunxia Sect, right?" Nangong Lingtian asked after the group sat down.

"Oh, that was a long time ago. I left the Yunxia Sect and joined the Yun Sect more than sixty years ago, and I am now a disciple of the Yun Sect," Ye Liuyun replied.

"Oh, a disciple of the Cloud Sect, not bad, not bad. The Cloud Sect is one of the four representatives of the Supreme Response Sect in the Southern Region. So what level are you at in the Cloud Sect?" Nangong Lingtian asked again.

Ye Liuyun had said almost everything he could say, and these issues weren't things he couldn't talk about.

However, Ye Ninglu, who was standing to the side, had no expression on her face, but she felt that her parents-in-law were asking too many private questions, as if they wanted to dig out Ye Liuyun's background completely.

However, due to her status, she couldn't say anything.

As they talked, they soon came to the topic of the Supreme Response Sect, or more precisely, Lin Aoxue.

Ye Ninglu and the others may not know Lin Aoxue's current situation, but Nangong Lingtian does.

Such a grand event as the Nanling Cultivation World Gathering was something the couple couldn't possibly have missed.

The reason they asked so many questions was mainly to confirm whether Ye Liuyun's wife, Lin Aoxue, was indeed the current goddess Lin Aoxue of the Taishang Ganying Sect.

After asking a whole bunch of questions, Nangong Lingtian finally asked the question he most wanted to know.

"Well, Liuyun, may I ask if I may? Lin Aoxue, the first place winner of the Nanling Grand Gathering back then, and the current Goddess of the Supreme Response Sect, is she not your wife, Lin Aoxue?" Nangong Lingtian asked.

Ye Liuyun finally understood. The couple in front of him were asking all sorts of questions, but their ultimate goal was to find out whether Lin Aoxue of the Taishang Ganying Sect and Ye Liuyun's wife Lin Aoxue were the same person.

However, their roundabout way of asking questions is understandable. After all, they had only met Ye Liuyun for the first time, and their relationship was not good enough for them to ask about this matter directly.

"Huh? This? Liu Yun, Ao Xue was the first place winner of that year's Nanling Grand Gathering? No way? It should just be a coincidence of names, right?" Ye Ninglu found it hard to believe.

Unfortunately, this is the truth.

"Well, sister, I forgot to tell you, Aoxue did indeed win first place in the Nanling Grand Gathering, and she also became a goddess of the Supreme Response Sect," Ye Liuyun said, nodding.

When everyone heard Ye Liuyun's admission, especially Nangong Lingtian and his wife, the way they looked at Ye Liuyun changed.

In the cultivation world, the Nangong family would be considered only a semi-large sect, still lagging behind the Supreme Response Sect.

By the way, there's something Ye Liuyun doesn't know: the Nangong family, or more accurately, one of the four great families, has remained standing in the mortal world because their ancestor was an important figure in the Nine Heavens Holy Land.

This is why the four major families dared to join forces with the Lin and Ye families to clash with the Li imperial family.

Because within the Nine Heavens Holy Land, there are numerous factions vying for power, especially the position of the next Holy Lord. This position has actually been decided internally, with Li Muyun being one of them, but there are several other competitors.

The four major families also have outstanding disciples in the Nine Heavens Holy Land. If nothing unexpected happens, the next Holy Lord will most likely be Li Muyun.

This is one of the reasons why the four major families are willing to cooperate with the Ye family, which can be considered as placing a bet on Li Muyun in advance.

If Li Muyun becomes the Holy Lord of the Nine Heavens Holy Land in the future, then through the marriage alliance, their families will definitely be able to rise to a higher level. Perhaps, they can even leave the small place of Tang Kingdom and go to the more vast Divine Continent.

No one wants to be a frog sitting in the sky. The power of the Li family in the Nine Heavens Holy Land is not what it used to be. Every time they compete for the Holy Lord position, it is a bloody battle.

In short, what appears to be an internal strife in the secular world of the Tang Kingdom is actually an internal strife within the Nine Heavens Holy Land.

Because if the Li family of the Nine Heavens Holy Land holds a stable and immortal position, who would dare to cause trouble in the Tang Kingdom? That's a very realistic situation.

"Is that really true? That's wonderful! I've heard that your wife has exceptional talent, a cultivation genius that's a once-in-a-millennium talent in the Tang Kingdom's cultivation world. With that kind of talent, she'll definitely stand out at the Yaochi Immortal Gathering two hundred years from now and then enter the Nine Heavens Holy Land."

“This is truly an unexpected delight. Your grandmother, Li Muyun, is already a saintess. Having another wife, whoever ascends to the position of the Nine Heavens Saint Lord, will be an excellent outcome.” Nangong Lingtian and Shang Haihui exchanged glances and said.

They are happy; they made the right choice.

"This? Eh? Sister, is there something you're hiding from me?" Ye Liuyun sensed something was off as soon as she saw the expressions on Nangong Lingtian and his wife's faces.

Ye Ninglu felt awkward. She did have something she hadn't said, but now she could.

"This, Liuyun, I'm sorry, I did have something to hide from you. It's because I never expected that Aoxue would reach such a level."