Chapter 159: Xue Jue Stripped of His Title

How could the three refuse an invitation from the big shot who had made Qin Yao and his group slap each other’s faces with just a single sentence?

And it was in front of so many people, no less.

What a boost to their face!

The three agreed repeatedly.

Sang Ning led the three into her own compartment and invited them to sit down. She also poured a cup of tea for each of them.

They could still keep their composure in the large compartment, but the spiritual tea before them—if she hadn’t seen wrong, wasn’t this the Snow Domain Lotus Red Tea that the spiritual tea aristocratic family had been promoting on the forums recently? It was worth a thousand gold and hard to come by.

The tea soup was clear and red, with spiritual energy blooming like a lotus flower within. Just smelling it refreshed the mind and spirit, and one sip cleared the divine sense.

Seeing that the three were a bit reserved, Sang Ning took a sip first. “Everyone, don’t stand on ceremony. Give it a try.”

She deliberately changed the subject. “Thank you all for your help today. Are you also heading to the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow to cultivate?”

“Yes.” Seeing Sang Ning’s gentle demeanor, the Talisman Cultivator nodded. “My senior sister and I are going to cultivate inside the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow. We also want to find a kind of tree unique to the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow—it seems to be called Three Flower Wood? To make talisman paper.”

The nearby Talisman Cultivator senior sister: ‘…Little sister, why do you blurt out everything…’

“I’m going too. I want to cultivate and also find Dragon Blood Wood to forge artifacts.” The male cultivator said this and then asked the two Talisman Cultivator sisters, “I’m still looking for teammates. Do you want to team up?”

The two Talisman Cultivator sisters didn’t respond, and the male cultivator didn’t press further.

While the four chatted over here, Feng Xian Yue carefully peeled the grapes one by one over there.

She placed each peeled grape into a small bowl, with a little fork beside the bowl.

The bowl, like white jade, was filled to the brim with grapes as translucent as crystals. It looked absolutely stunning.

Sang Ning also learned about the three’s situations. The two Talisman Cultivators were fellow disciples from a Small Sect, while that male Artifact Cultivator had no sect but came from an aristocratic family behind the scenes.

Normally, when heading to a dangerous place like the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow, everyone would set out in groups.

When aristocratic family disciples traveled, the family would prepare companions in advance to protect them.

However!

This male cultivator not only had no family-prepared escorts but was even finding teammates on the Flying Boat.

Seeing the puzzled gazes from the four female cultivators, the male cultivator hesitated.

“If you don’t want to say, then don’t. It’s fine.” The Talisman Cultivator junior sister said.

“Sigh, it’s not that I don’t want to say.” The male cultivator let out a long sigh. “You all have Spirit Hand Tokens, right?”

Everyone present nodded. Spirit Hand Tokens weren’t too expensive; they always kept some stored.

“A couple of days ago on the forums, wasn’t there a post about the Xue Family’s true young master returning home and the fake young master being kicked out?”

Sang Ning remembered it. That gossip had made her feel so awkward at the time—what was this if not a true-fake young master drama?

The Xue Family of Lingyun State was an aristocratic family specializing in woodworking spirit artifacts. The spirit artifacts they made from wood were exquisitely crafted, almost otherworldly.

Affordable in price and ingenious in design, they were must-haves for cultivators heading out to train.

Then, two days ago, a post suddenly appeared on the forums.

It said that the Xue Family’s true young master had returned.

The Xue Family was also considered a century-old aristocratic family, and in this generation, there was only one direct-line male descendant named Xue Jue.

Jue, as in beautiful jade.

Xue Jue had almost perfectly inherited the Xue Family’s woodworking skills and had become the presumptive next Family Head.

But at that moment, a man came to the Xue Family claiming he was the true direct-line young master.

How could the Xue Family believe it? So they directly initiated a bloodline verification.

The verification shocked them.

This man really was Xue Family blood.

They verified Xue Jue as well, and damn—the results showed Xue Jue had no blood relation to the Xue Family at all.

In the end, Xue Jue was expelled from the Xue Family.

Sang Ning looked at the male cultivator before her. “You aren’t…?”

“Yes, I am Xue Jue. Now, I’ve truly been stripped of my title. Haha.” The male cultivator named Xue Jue was extremely humorous about it.

Xue Jue explained that the family had originally prepared several guards for him to head to the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow for training together.

But after this incident, not only were his guards taken back, but he was also kicked out of the house.

Even his Storage Ring was reclaimed; they didn’t leave him a single Spirit Robe. In the end, he wore ordinary clothes given by a kind-hearted servant.

After leaving, he borrowed a sword from a Sword Cultivator to chop wood and crafted a spirit artifact.

He sold the spirit artifact to scrape together travel money and a thank-you fee for the Sword Cultivator.

Xue Jue said he had just reached the Nascent Soul Realm and needed Dragon Blood Wood to make that spirit artifact, which would help stabilize his realm further.

Everyone looked at Xue Jue and thought he seemed pretty optimistic.

“What can I do if I’m not optimistic? I’m at least at the Nascent Soul Realm. Even without the family, I have to live well.” Xue Jue sighed lightly as he spoke.

The Talisman Cultivator junior sister thought for a moment and spoke to comfort Xue Jue. “Well, don’t be too sad. A Nascent Soul Realm Loose Cultivator is already quite strong. Work a bit harder to reach Nascent Soul Mid-stage, and you could easily become an Elder in some sect.”

“Mhm.” Xue Jue nodded and downed a cup of tea in one gulp.

Sang Ning looked at the three and said, “My senior sister and I are also entering the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow. Why don’t we team up?”

“Great!” Xue Jue was overjoyed. He had seen earlier in the cabin that these two female cultivators—one Sword Cultivator was insanely strong; more than a dozen cultivators from Qin Yao’s side hadn’t broken her sword techniques.

And this female cultivator, though he didn’t know her cultivation path, could control those dozen-plus people from Qin Yao’s group to slap each other’s faces with just a word. Her power was obvious.

Teaming up with them was his good fortune!

“Um, I-I’m an Artifact Cultivator. Although the Xue Family kicked me out, they didn’t strip me of my techniques. I just swore not to pass them on externally. I can make lots and lots of spirit artifacts, as long as there are special woods!”

Xue Jue was so excited that his words came out jumbled. “Once we enter the Chaotic Spiritual Qi Flow, I’ll provide all the spirit artifacts!”

Since others had extended an olive branch to him, he had to grab it tightly!

The Talisman Cultivator sisters glanced at each other. The senior sister was still hesitating, but the junior sister agreed directly. “Um, we want to team up with you all too!”

“Although our abilities aren’t top-tier, we’ve learned all the sect’s spiritual talismans. Once inside, my senior sister and I will provide all the spiritual talismans!”

The Talisman Cultivator junior sister agreed, and though the senior sister still hesitated inwardly, she nodded on the surface. “Mhm, we’ll provide the spiritual talismans.”

“Um, I’m a Technique Cultivator, and my senior sister is a Sword Cultivator who will protect us.” Sang Ning said.

After all, she was from the Healing Arts Peak of Spell Peak in Tianyan Immortal Sect—how wasn’t that a Technique Cultivator?

She couldn’t very well say she was Merfolk.

“I’m Jiang Jingjing, and my senior sister is Mo Yu.” The Talisman Cultivator junior sister introduced herself and her senior sister.

“I’m Sang Ning, and my senior sister is Feng Xian Yue.” Sang Ning also introduced herself and her senior sister to the three.