Li Family West Zone
Herb Garden
In the open field of the herb garden , a small table was placed with a simple tea set.
Su qiqi was seated on one of the two simple chairs while Li shuarang came and sat on the second opposite her.
Su qiqi looked downtrodden, it's now the second day since Li Wei had left her courtyard to his own and she was already suffering from his absence only to receive word that he wants his belongings moved out of her courtyard to his own.
"My love , what's the matter ,you look so worried , you invited me for tea saying it's very urgent.
Please share with you husband what troubles you " shuarang asked, as his face was full of concern for his wife.
"darling , it's our son , our son has left us! " qiqi stated as tears threatened to fall from her eyes.
Li shuarang sprang from his seat , as his aura of foundation establishment peak started surging in every direction.
the workers on the field some distance away where almost passing out from the immense preasure but his control was top tire as not even an ounce of said pressure reached qiqi who was right in front of him .
"Who dare's !!! " Shuarang thundered
"Tell me my love, who had the gall to lay a finger on my boy!!" his voiced carried through the fields and flecks of flame qi began dancing around his form.
"Who cultivated audacity rather than cultivating spirit qi and dares lay hands on my precious son ?! "
"Yue " Li shuarang called aloud
"Yes patriarch" came a response as the visage of a lady in black tight robes, wearing a mask that only revealed brown eyes brimming with purpose and duty, materialized out of thin air.
"Mobilize all protectors , we are going to war! "
"At once patriarch" replied Yue
"My love , tell me where the body of my boy is, my dear son, where is he now, let me at least lay eyes on him and declare to the world how I've failed as a father"
Qiqi , who wasn't even paying attention to what was being said and was still in a melancholic mood , simply answered while still looking away into the distance.
"it's too late , I shouldn't have forced him to leave the courtyard, he already moved out to his own courtyard at the far end of the zone"
"He even sent his maid to come retrieve all his belongings this morning " she finished speaking in a shaky voice as tears streamed down her face.
Yue who was laser focused as she was about to activate her stealth technique and disappear to go carry out the order, froze mid step.
Yue".."
Li shuarang ".."
They both looked at each other at the same time as it dawned on them that there's been a gross loss in translation.
Shuarang steadied himself as he asked.
"So ... my love, you're saying our son is fine and simply moved out? "
"yes" replied qiqi
"just yesterday ? "
"yes "
"and he's just over at the courtyard that was prepared for him ? "
" darling , I dont like your tone , are you trying to say am overreacting?! " asked qinger as she for the first time since the conversation started shifted her gaze from the distant horizon onto shuarang.
Shuarang quickly composed himself and immediately changed his tone.
After hearing his wife asking if she's overreacting, he knows nothing good would come out of pissing off this eccentric wife of his.
Even if she's at fault , he dares not say it, quickly shaking his head left to right as he called back all the pressure he's been releasing.
"Never my love , Overeact ?! In fact I should say you are undereacting! " he said as he sat back down and discreetly waved his hand at Yue who disappeared again into thin air.
"exactly, I know you would understand my darling, now please take back the courtyard from weiwei so he will come running back to mama" qiqi demanded confidently Like it's the most natural course of action.
Shuarang was almost crying at this point , there was tons of things to do in the family but he could never refuse this wife of his when she calls for him.
Something his other wives are not privileged to, he knows he's being partial but what could he do, out of all his wives, only she he married because he was in love with her and not some politically forged union of convenience.
"My love, you know that is not possible , wei'er is one of the only two son's of the main family line and an automatic candidate to become young patriarch"
Looking at his cute wife who was still pouting seeing as she's not getting her way, shuarang heaved a heavy sigh as he continued.
"He can't not have his own courtyard"
"But .....the patriarch can arrange for him to apprentice in the herb fields until the happenings in the family settle down and he's called to be tested for his Spirit root"
Qiqi's eyes started to widen and a smile started forming on her face as she started catching what he husband was laying down.
"And let's say this patriarch was to maybe forget to test weiwei's spirit root for maybe a year or ... maybe two ? " qiqi added with a raised eyebrow at shuarang as an evil grin started forming at the corner of her mouth.
" Oh my ! such an incompetent patriarch! " exclaimed shuarang as he started grinning with his wife like villains from a movie.
seeing this two behaving this way , no one would know this was simply a mother wanting to spend more time with her child and a father supporting that endeavor in their own twisted way.
Yue still in her stealth form seeing all this only had one thought in her mind.
'oh how I pity second young master'
Ethan's courtyard
Ethan who had no idea what his dear parents had planned for him was deeply engrossed in his cultivation.
He had closed his eyes for three minutes now, digesting the first level of the spirit Cultivation technique.
It was quite straight forward, he had to sense the qi around him and draw them in and simultaneously directing them through the qi pathways that had been opened up by the innate qi present in his body.
Ethan's innate qi now stood at a staggering one hundred and forty thousand and still rising , so the spirit qi pathways in his body was exactly forteen thousand times larger cleaner and more powerful than that of a regular genius.
He could have pushed further to gain more innate qi but time was of the essence and he could feel the rate at which the body strengthening Scripture generated the innate qi getting slower and slower the more innate qi he had'
But his cultivation speed would already be fourteen thousand times faster than that of ordinary geniuses who only had at most ten innate qi before stepping in qi gathering realm.
And the amount of qi his cells could hold would also be that much, combined with his already monstrous comprehension and providence.
Ethan activated the technique and he didn't even have to sense any qi or draw them in, they just starting flooding in like a vortex all consuming in nature.
Filling all his qi pathways, strengthening his bones , muscles, organs and cell tissues.
Filling them with immense amounts of qi and going through the circulations on their own.
Thats when it struck him, this technique was actually semi passive in nature or was it just him that was monstrous, because he didn't have to activively be in his meditative state and going through the motions.
He just has to consciously allow the qi in and it runs itself, but if he decides to push , the speed almost doubles .
Ethan closed out all his thoughts and focused his mind on cultivating.
Thirty minutes after, he opened his eyes, exhaled a cloudy mist of spirit qi from his mouth, as he looked around his room.
He felt himself lighter, more flexible, like he could scale buildings easily now without feeling that much strain on his body.
The colors around him were more vibrant now, he's senses sharper, extremely so, his now improved senses complemented by his Spidie Tingles technique.
He folded his fingers inward into a fist and punched the air in front of him.
"BWHAM"
The air in front of him riplled in waves as his silver hair and robes fluttered backward from the wind recoil as a wide grin spread across Ethan's face.
"Early Stage Qi Gathering Realm"
"Feels Good"