Duan Xianyang's Speechlessness

Chapter 173 Duan Xianyang's Speechlessness

Li Yunshu felt wronged. Her brother had promised her that he would come back to see her when she got older.

But she waited for seventeen years, and her brother never came back!

Although several months would pass quickly during cultivation, her longing for her brother grew ever stronger.

"Brother, you're finally back! I thought you didn't want me anymore!" Li Yunshu said, hugging her brother and her voice trembling with tears.

Hearing his sister cry, Li Yunfan felt a sharp pain in his heart.

For him, the past ten years or so passed quickly in his cultivation, but for his younger sister, it was a span of time from childhood to adulthood.

He gently patted Li Yunshu's head and apologized to his sister again.

Gongsun Ji and Situ Nan stood at a distance, silently watching the brother and sister reunite.

They wouldn't be foolish enough to go and pay their respects now; not only would they fail to leave a good impression, but they might also cause the other party to feel resentful by disturbing them.

That would be extremely bad for the two of them, and even for their families.

After a while, Li Yunshu finally got out of her brother's arms, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and looked at Li Yunfan and asked.

"Brother, how long are you planning to stay this time?"

Although she missed her brother and wanted to spend more time with him, she wasn't the kind of spoiled and willful little girl.

Knowing that her brother has amazing talent and has now joined the Luoyun Sect, she naturally has to devote most of her time to cultivation.

Li Yunfan looked at his younger sister and felt very gratified by her understanding.

"Two days. Now that I have formed my Golden Core, I need to go to a faraway place to deal with the things from back then, so I can't delay for too long," Li Yunfan said softly.

Upon hearing that her brother would only be staying at home for two days, Li Yunshu's expression immediately turned somewhat melancholy, but she quickly recovered and said with a smile.

"Your mother has been thinking of you a lot. Let's go see her!"

Li Yunfan smiled and nodded, then Li Yunshu pulled him by the arm and led him deeper into the Li family compound.

When they reached Gongsun Ji and Situ Nan, Li Yunfan stopped, then pulled Li Yunshu back.

Seeing Li Yunfan stop in front of them, the two hurriedly cupped their hands and bowed respectfully.

"Junior brothers Gongsun Ji and Situ Nan pay their respects to their seniors!"

Although the two men were standing at a distance, they could still hear their conversation.

Especially when they heard Li Yunfan say that he had already formed his Golden Core, the two of them were shocked once again.

The other party actually advanced to the Core Formation stage!

Seeing the two of them acting so reservedly, Li Yunfan simply gave a soft "hmm".

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to have any dissatisfaction, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Li Yunfan's next words made them all shudder at the same time, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

"Go back and tell your two family heads that they don't need to play such petty tricks. As long as they behave themselves and don't do anything harmful to the Li family, they will still be the two great families of the Qingxia Mountains!"

Gongsun Ji and Situ Nan dared not say more and could only honestly reply "Yes".

"Go back now, the Li family will not be receiving guests today!"

Li Yunfan gave the two of them some instructions, then pulled Li Yunshu away from the training ground.

The two waited respectfully until Li Yunfan and his sister left before simultaneously letting out a sigh of relief.

"Brother Gongsun, it seems that we no longer need to compete for anything!" Situ Nan said with a somewhat melancholy expression.

Gongsun Ji glanced at Situ Nan, and said with a wry smile, "Let's go. We should hurry and tell the clan about this. How we get along with the Li family from now on is not something that juniors like you and me can decide!"

The two then left the training ground.

Inside Yang's room deep within the Li family compound, Li Yunfan and Li Yunshu were chatting and laughing with their mother, Yang.

Because Yang took the "Youth-Preserving Pill" given to her by Li Yunfan, her appearance remained that of someone in their forties.

However, with Li Yunfan's current cultivation level at the Core Formation stage, he could still sense the slow loss of life force within his mother's body.

In this world, mortals who cannot cultivate in the mundane realm generally have a lifespan of only seventy or eighty years, with only a few able to live to be a hundred.

Because the Yang family has always lived in a family rich in spiritual energy, even without cultivation, they can live more than ten years longer than ordinary mortals thanks to the nourishment of spiritual energy.

In addition, with the regular use of elixirs and spiritual energy for nourishment, living to over a hundred years old is still no problem.

But that's all.

In the evening, the Li family held a rare family banquet.

There's only one reason: the young master of the Li family has returned and become the first Core Formation cultivator in the Li family!

This news greatly excited the Li family. They naturally knew what a Core Formation cultivator meant, and they also understood what kind of glory Li Yunfan could bring to the Li family in the future!

Of course, the most excited were the two elderly clan elders.

Li Lie and Li Yan were already over 180 years old, and only a few decades remained before their lifespans ended.

Now, before his passing, he is more delighted than anyone else to personally witness the birth of the Li family's first Core Formation cultivator!

That night, the entire Li family stayed up all night.

The next day, Li Yunfan did not cultivate. Instead, he used the Cloud Piercing Boat to carry his mother and sister away from the family and went out for a whole day of sightseeing.

The three did not return to their family until noon on the third day.

Afterwards, Li Yunfan, along with his father Li Qingzhou, the two clan elders, and Li Heng, discussed the future plans of the Li family for several hours in the main hall.

It was called a discussion, but it was actually more of a suggestion from Li Yunfan. The other four thought about it for a while and then agreed.

On the fourth day, Li Yunfan bid farewell to his father and mother once again and embarked on his journey back to Luoyun Sect.

This time when he left, he had acquired many more spiritual herbs and spirit stones.

These medicinal herbs were collected by the Li family when he was still with them, and some of them happened to be the ones he needed right now.

However, besides these, another person appeared by his side this time—

In the Yanyang Hall atop Huoyun Peak of the Luoyun Sect.

Duan Xianyan looked at the two people standing in front of him with a very strange expression, feeling very complicated.

Shock, joy, speechless, envy —

A mix of feelings left even this mid-stage Core Formation cultivator, the peak master of Fire Cloud Peak, speechless.

"Junior brother—is your Li family really not descendants of some great power?" Duan Xianyang finally managed to utter this question after looking at it for a long time.

Li Yunfan smiled helplessly: "Senior brother, the Li family is indeed just a small family. My spiritual body was only activated by chance, but it is true that Yun Shu has a heavenly spiritual root."

Duan Xianyang was speechless. What did he mean by coincidence? How come he never had such a coincidence?

A small family that previously didn't even have a Core Formation cultivator was able to simultaneously produce a Fire Spirit Body and a Heavenly Spirit Root. The probability of this was even lower than when he broke through to the Nascent Soul stage!

"Senior brother, I've already tested Yun Shu's celestial spiritual root; it's a single water attribute. I remember that Senior Uncle Lü seems to specialize in water attribute cultivation techniques, so I'd like to see if Senior Uncle Lü would consider Yun Shu as his disciple!"

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