The Immortal Emperor Returns

Chapter 289 She Is Really Not My Daughter!

Chu Xun healed the wound on the little boy’s neck before leaving.

He sensed the location of Jiu You and rushed away.

When he reached where Jiu You was, he saw Jiu You pierce through the third-grade Human King’s neck with a silver spear.

“Chu Xun promised not to kill you, but I didn’t promise that,” Jiu You withdrew her silver spear and said in a childish voice.

“They are just a group of nobodies and all from the Broken Souls Cult,” Jiu You walked over and looked at Chu Xun, saying, “among them, this man had the highest cultivation.”

Most of the people in the building who were from the Broken Souls Hall were only in the Grandmaster Realm, and she killed them all.

“They attracted those warriors with spiritual herbs to let them hunt the fierce beasts. They disturbed the peace of Gujiang City and challenged your dignity.” Though Jiu You was small, she did have a point.

Chu Xun nodded slightly.

“The other reason that they did so was that they wanted to disgust me.”

“They succeeded,” Jiu You said in a playful tone.

Chu Xun chuckled. The Broken Souls Cult was indeed a very disgusting sect. Yet, what happened reminded him that Gujiang City needed someone to protect it.

He called Wu Busi, asking him to move the Tianwu Sect to Gujiang City. If it didn’t work, he could set up a branch there.

Moreover, he ordered the troops that were stationed there to shoot down all the battle pets that entered the city.

After that, he hurried to Qianlong Mountain with Jiu You.

When seeing that Chu Xun appeared with a very pretty girl, the group of people had a strange look on their faces.

“Kid, is this girl our granddaughter?” Chu Tianhe was stunned for a while before saying.

Chu Xun was stunned and amused, shaking his head.

“I picked her at the roadside. She was homeless, so I took her back with me,” Chu Xun explained in a teasing tone.

Jiu You pouted her small mouth with dissatisfaction, looked at Chu Xun, and said in a childish voice, “Dad!”

Tang Rou had been in seclusion to practice, and when she heard that Chu Xun came back, she went out to welcome him happily. However, when she heard Jiu You call Chu Xun dad, she froze in surprise.

“Don’t make fun of me!” Chu Xun warned.

Jiu You pouted her small mouth and looked so pitiful.

“Brat, piss off!” Liu Ran shouted. In her heart, Jiu You was such a pretty and adorable girl that she couldn’t bear to see Chu Xun yell at her. She went forward and kicked Chu Xun away.

Jiu You didn’t know Liu Ran. Back when Chu Xun fought against the Heaven Tao Sect, Jiu You was deep in sleep, so she didn’t see Liu Ran and hadn’t been able to see her since then. Yet, she immediately realized that Liu Ran must be Chu Xun’s mother since she dared to kick Chu Xun so hard.

“Little girl, don’t be afraid. Come here, I’m your grandma.” Liu Ran protected Jiu You and glared at Chu Xun.

“Grandma!” Jiu You shouted sweetly. Her crisp voice sounded like pearls falling on a jade plate, which was quite pleasing to Liu Ran’s ears.

Chu Xun felt helpless. He was a human being, while Jiu You was a human-shaped beast. “Mom, she is not my daughter!”

“Shut up! I’ll deal with you about this later,” Liu Ran said, on hearing which, the famous Chu the Devil closed his mouth with a bitter smile.

“Tell me, what’s your name?”

“Grandma, my name is Jiu You.”

Chen Hanlong and others found that this name was very familiar, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t figure that Jiu You was the colorful snake they knew in the past.

Jiu You was pretty, well-behaved, and sensible. She kept calling Liu Ran grandma, which made Liu Ran very happy.

“Mom, she’s really not my daughter.” Chu Xun tried to explain.

“So what? If you dare to bully her, I’ll skin you,” Liu Ran said in a fierce voice.

Jiu You secretly winked at Chu Xun, feeling extremely complacent.

Maybe Chu Tianhe and Liu Ran were the only two people in the world toward whom Chu the Devil had to hold back his temper all the time.

“Dad, she is not my daughter.” Chu Xun explained to Chu Tianhe.

“I know!” Chu Tianhe replied with a smile. They were not stupid that they knew Chu Xun was deep in love with Hua Qingwu and would not fall in love or have a daughter with another woman, after thinking carefully.

Tang Rou figured this out, too, and she had an expression of joy on her beautiful face again.

“You know nothing! This girl is my granddaughter. Do you have any objection?” Liu Ran glared at Chu Tianhe.

Chu Tianhe was stunned and smiled bitterly, saying, “No, no, I have no objection... she is my granddaughter too.”

“Jiu You, you must be hungry after such a long trip. Let me make you some food,” Liu Ran said.

Aside from cultivation reasons, Chu Xun was in his thirties, and his parents were in their fifties. Thus, they were looking forward to have grandchildren.

Certainly, they also knew that Hua Qingwu was sealed in ice now, and their dream wouldn’t come true unless Hua Qingwu woke up. After Jiu You appeared, Liu Ran felt the joy of being a grandmother. Moreover, Jiu You was as adorable as a doll, so Liu Ran was happy to have a granddaughter like her.

“Grandma, I’ll go with you!” Jiu You said sweetly. She said so because she was afraid that Chu Xun would deal with her after Liu Ran left.

Liu Ran was naturally happy with the suggestion.

Several seniors went to prepare food.

“Brother Chu Xun.” Tang Rou went up to Chu Xun. She was a quiet girl of few words and would get shy easily.

Chu Xun looked at her and was surprised by her fast cultivation speed. She was in the late stage of the Qi Refinement Realm now.

Chu Xun naturally knew Tang Rou’s feelings toward him. However, he had already felt sorry toward Jing Hong; he couldn’t betray Little Wu this time. Thus, he pretended to be unaware of Tang Rou’s feelings toward him and felt guilty because of this.

He was a human being, so naturally, he had feelings. He and Tang Rou were childhood sweethearts, and he had some feelings for her, but he could only hide it deep in his heart.

“Wow, bravo! You’re like a heroine now.” Chu Xun teased her. With her current cultivation, she could protect herself wherever she went.

Tang Rou was very happy to hear that. She practiced so hard just for Chu Xun’s praise.

Chu Xun turned to look at Chen Hanlong and the others. Except for Zheng Qian, who had reached the middle stage of the Qi Refinement Realm, the rest of them had made no progress.

“Have you guys been sleeping all day long? Why haven’t you made any progress in your cultivation?”

Chen Hanlong and others smiled embarrassedly.

Chu Xun was right. They were living a leisure life now, and cultivation was too boring to them, so they had spent more time sleeping and having fun than cultivating.

“Where’s Hong Ling?” Chu Xun recalled that before he left, Hong Ling had been learning swordsmanship in front of the sword stone.

“Sister Hong Ling had gone out for training. She came back a few days ago, and now, she has reached the Great Completion of the Grandmaster Realm. She would become a Human King if she gets a good chance,” Tang Rou said.

“How impressive!” Chu Xun thought to himself. Now, he began to look at them with more admiration.

He suddenly thought of the seeds of Green Dragon Flower, for which, the Sifang Sword Sect and Tianlong Fort had a fierce battle. After eating such a seed, Hong Ling made a breakthrough.

Chu Xun thought that he should try to cultivate Green Dragon Flower so as to give his lazy friends some seeds of the flower.

Chu Xun took them to the square and gave each of them a Level-improving Pill.

On hearing that this pill could help them make a breakthrough, Chen Hanlong and the others were all smiles. They thought that it was really good to make a breakthrough without taking much efforts.

Chu Xun set up a formation to help them break through.

After a few hours, the group of people all made a breakthrough one after another, and their foundations were solid now.

The person that impressed Chu Xun the most was Tang Rou. She reached the Great Completion of the Qi Refinement Realm and would soon enter the Foundation Realm.

“Brother Chu Xun, can I go out with you this time? There are a lot of things that I want to see,” Tang Rou said.

After thinking for a while, Chu Xun nodded and agreed. If Tang Rou didn’t experience hardships and always hid in the greenhouse, she would waste her cultivation.

The seniors had finished preparing food and were waiting for them to have the meal.

They sat around a big table with more than 20 seats.

Chu Xun was surprised to find that there were beast meats on the table.

“Sister Hong Ling brought those meats back several days ago. They were from a wild boar which was bigger than a small hill.” Tang Rou explained to Chu Xun.

Chu Xun looked at Chen Hanlong and the others. “No wonder they would become lazy. It was difficult for them to remain diligent for they could easily enjoy beast meats and Immortal Water and were surrounded by the dense spiritual energy of the Qianlong Mountain.”

Chen Hanlong and the others noticed Chu Xun’s current expression, and they had a bad foreboding.

“You guys are in the middle stage of the Qi Refinement Realm. If anyone of you fails to make a breakthrough in the following two years, I’ll leave him fighting against fierce beasts in remote mountains.”

Chen Hanlong and the others suddenly became frustrated. They knew that their leisure life came to an end.

During the meal, Liu Ran kept serving food to Jiu You, filling her bowl with all kinds of food.

Jiu You had a bitter expression on her small face for she only ate jade stones and the alike things.

“Grandma, it’s enough,” seeing that Liu Ran kept filling her bowl with food, Jiu You said hurriedly.

Chu Xun smiled in secret, picked up a large piece of meat, and gave it to Jiu You. “Have more.”

Looking at these delicious food, Jiu You frowned and looked embarrassed.

After the meal, Chen Hanlong and the others went to cultivate. They didn’t want to be thrown into remote mountains to fight the wild beasts.

Chu Xun chatted with the seniors, and most of the time, he had to listen to Liu Ran’s lecture.

Chu the Devil, now was like a quiet cat, listening to his mother with a smile on his face.

In the following several days, Chu Xun enjoyed some leisure time, doing sightseeing among hills and up and down rivers, going shopping with Tang Rou, and listening to the seniors’ lecture. He had a good time.

However, the moments of happiness always passed by quickly. One day, Chu Xun received a call from Yan Yi, who told him that he had news of the purple-haired woman.

He really wanted to know if the purple-haired woman was Jing Hong. Moreover, Little Wu’s soul was on this woman.

Liu Ran scolded Chu Xun for a good while, complaining that he was about to leave so soon.

Chu Xun certainly knew that Liu Ran was worried about him. It took him a while to comfort and persuade her.

“Xiaorou, I’ll take you to open your eyes in the outside world the next time after I come back.” Chu Xun couldn’t take Tang Rou with him this time, because the purple-haired woman had already misunderstood him, and if she saw Tang Rou, she would misunderstand Chu Xun even more.

After saying goodbye to everyone, Chu Xun went on his journey alone this time, and Jiu You was forced to stay there with Liu Ran. Seeing Jiu You’s resentful eyes, Chu Xun felt better during the departure.

Yan Yi told him that an ancient relic was found in Kunlun Mountain, and some warriors saw a powerful purple-haired woman there. The woman was quite like the person that Chu Xun was looking for.

Kunlun Mountain, which was also known as Kunlun Relic, was the number one legendary mountain in Huaxia. There were many legends about it.

Therefore, it was not surprising that an ancient relic was found there.

Chu Xun took a flight to Yanxue City in a hurry. The city, 200 kilometers away from the Kunlun Mountain, was under the protection of the famous Yan family, an ancient martial family. One could enjoy a good view of the towering Kunlun Mountain from every corner of the city.

At this time, there was a great gather of warriors in the city for no warrior could resist the attraction of an ancient relic. Though they knew it would be dangerous, they still wanted to try their luck there.