Chapter 173
Without Fang Caiyue, his one true love, there could always be another.
After being scared by Qiu Chi’s ghost act, Nie Zhicheng had become somewhat neurotic.
Old Master Nie couldn’t just watch his son descend into madness, so he sent him to a hospital.
In the hospital, there was a nurse who had returned from studying abroad. Nie Zhicheng felt cured by her and insisted on marrying her.
The nurse also had a favorable impression of Nie Zhicheng, and the two eventually married.
But Madam Nie was not an easy person to get along with. The nurse couldn’t stand Madam Nie’s imperious attitude, and on top of that, Nie Zhicheng himself wasn’t much of a catch.
He appeared refined and gentle on the surface, but in reality, his time abroad had only given him a thin veneer of gold. Underneath, he was just a useless fool with an empty head.
The more time the nurse spent with him after their marriage, the more she looked down on him. This feeling intensified after she ran into Fang Caiyue one day and learned of their past, solidifying her decision to get a divorce.
After their divorce, Nie Zhicheng began to spiral into decadence.
Old Master Nie wanted his son to start learning how to do business, but Nie Zhicheng told him, “I am a new-era youth, a man of culture. How could I be like you, thinking only of business day in and day out, reeking of the stench of money?”
Old Master Nie was baffled. “???”
He couldn’t understand how his perfectly fine son had become a moron after a single trip abroad.
Deeply disappointed in his son, he started looking for concubines again, thinking he would try his luck at having another son.
Madam Nie, naturally, couldn’t bear this and went berserk. Nie Zhicheng also felt his father was trapped in feudalistic thinking, but Old Master Nie was resolute in his decision to have another son.
The Nie household was thrown into utter chaos, a situation made worse by the constant parade of Nie Zhicheng’s various “true loves.”
The Zhai family was in a similar state. The difference was that the Zhai family had many sons, none of whom were love-brained. They were all fixated on the family business and inheritance. They had plenty of petty cleverness, but none possessed any real talent.
The infighting in the Zhai family had always been fierce, but it escalated dramatically after Qiu Chi emptied their storeroom.
In short, both families were in complete turmoil. Oh, right, they also had to deal with the daughters they had sent to the warlord.
As daughters who had been sent away, they were, of course, filled with resentment toward their families.
Nie Yaya and the Zhai family’s daughter not only targeted the Nie and Zhai families but were also restless themselves, fighting fiercely with each other. Not that the warlord paid either of them any mind.
When Qiu Chi returned to Xuzhou City and saw all this, she was utterly speechless.
All she could say was that the two families’ luck had run out, and they deserved to be on the decline.
Qiu Chi didn’t think it was her fault. After all, these two families were still far wealthier than others; they were simply masters of their own destruction.
In comparison, Fang Caiyue was actually the more normal one, normal in that she only married once.
Of course, this might have been because she had no other choice.
Fang Caiyue’s family was poor compared to the Nies, but the fact that they could afford to send her to study abroad meant they weren’t that poor.
Initially, the Fang family had been very satisfied with Nie Zhicheng as a son-in-law, but that prospect fell through.
However, Fang Caiyue had many well-connected classmates, so they weren’t worried about her finding a good match.
In the end, Fang Caiyue married a classmate who was in love with her.
This classmate truly did love Fang Caiyue, but his possessiveness was also terrifyingly real. He was a bit of a psycho.
Don’t think being a psycho is a good thing. When he lost his temper, he would resort to violence.
He would hit Fang Caiyue.
Things like Fang Caiyue meeting Nie Zhicheng were completely intolerable to him.
Now, Fang Caiyue was practically a shut-in, never leaving the house. She spent her days placating him, terrified of accidentally doing something wrong and triggering one of his episodes.
But even her cautious placating didn’t work. The man was a scumbag; he felt that this version of Fang Caiyue was different from before, spineless and no different from any ordinary woman. He didn’t like it.
Coupled with her mother-in-law’s passive-aggressive remarks, Fang Caiyue’s life, while appearing comfortable to outsiders, was driving her to the brink of madness.
As for divorce?
She wanted to, but she didn’t dare. That psycho would actually kill her.
After seeing how their stories ended, Qiu Chi left directly.
The next world was a cultivation world. The theme: Kill Wife for Dao.
The phrase “Kill Wife for Dao” immediately piqued Qiu Chi’s interest.
“Kill Wife for Dao? What kind of Dao is that? If the Heavenly Dao of that world allows him to ascend, it must be blind. It might as well just step down.”
Unlike the previous stories, the male and female leads of this world had physically transmigrated.
The two were already a married couple before they transmigrated. During their honeymoon, they somehow ended up in this cultivation world.
New to a different world, they naturally understood nothing. The cultivation world was incredibly dangerous, and if they hadn’t been rescued by disciples of the Tianyuan Sect, they probably would have died shortly after arriving.
The Tianyuan Sect was the undisputed number one sect in this world. Although other sects existed, none could compare to Tianyuan, because only the Tianyuan Sect had a Divine Transformation ancestor.
The spiritual energy in this world wasn’t particularly dense, and it had been a very long time since any cultivator had ascended to the upper realm.
Unable to ascend, they could at most cultivate to the late Nascent Soul stage. With their lifespans limited, they were naturally unwilling to accept their fate.
The Divine Transformation cultivator of the Tianyuan Sect had only managed to break through by force using a secret method, all for the sake of finding a passage to the upper realm.
The arrival of Ge Yanling and Tao Zhiyuan was their hope for ascension.
In this small world where Divine Transformation was the pinnacle, cultivators at that level could perceive a sliver of heaven’s secrets.
Thus, the Divine Transformation ancestor of the Tianyuan Sect had sensed that a person would come from another world and change the current state of affairs.
He had sensed only one person, but two had arrived from the other world.
After testing Ge Yanling’s and Tao Zhiyuan’s spirit roots, they unanimously focused their attention on Tao Zhiyuan, who possessed a Mutated Thunder Spirit Root. They believed that the person who could change the small world’s situation had to be someone with exceptionally good spiritual aptitude, and Tao Zhiyuan, with his Mutated Thunder Spirit Root, fit this description perfectly.
As for Ge Yanling, she had the most common and unremarkable Five Spirit Root.
At that time, Tao Zhiyuan and Ge Yanling had only just arrived and were still unfamiliar with this new world. Even though the Tianyuan Sect’s attitude toward Tao Zhiyuan was unbelievably good, the two of them were the most familiar with each other, and their relationship was still very strong.
The Tianyuan Sect was determined to keep Tao Zhiyuan. As his wife, they naturally had to keep Ge Yanling as well.
However, Tao Zhiyuan was to be personally taught by the Divine Transformation ancestor, while Ge Yanling could only remain in the Tianyuan Sect as an outer disciple.
They saw Tao Zhiyuan as their hope and naturally didn’t want him to be bogged down by matters of love.
The Divine Transformation ancestor said to Tao Zhiyuan, “You have a Thunder Spirit Root. Your cultivation speed can be described as a thousand miles a day, and your lifespan will increase with your cultivation level. But your wife possesses only the most impure Five Spirit Root. Even if she can cultivate, her speed will be astonishingly slow.”
“You start at the same point. When you are at the Qi Refining stage, she is at Qi Refining. But by the time you reach Foundation Establishment and Golden Core, she will still be at Qi Refining. Her lifespan probably won’t allow her to stay by your side forever.”
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