Eternal Immortal Clan: It All Started When I Married My Junior Sister!

16: The time has comeIt was dusk three days later when Chen Xu returned to Ninghai Town with Chen Qingqing.

The Flying Sword slowly descended at the back gate of the Chen Family Courtyard.

Chen Xu did not want the Mortals in the town to see Chen Qingqing in such a state, which might cause unnecessary gossip.

As he helped Chen Qingqing stand firm, the tightly closed back courtyard door creaked open from the inside.

Bu Yifan, Zhao Linger, and Sun Xiaoyue were all waiting inside the door with anxious expressions.

Behind them, more than a dozen children also craned their necks, curiously peering outside.

Seeing Chen Xu return safely, all three women breathed a sigh of relief.

But when their gazes fell upon the emaciated, pale-faced woman beside Chen Xu, whose legs were bound by grotesque Magical Artifacts, their hearts sank instantly.

”Qingqing...”

It was Sun Xiaoyue who spoke first.

Her voice trembled slightly, and her eyes immediately turned red.

She and Chen Qingqing had competed for half their lives, and she had pursued her for half her life.

In her heart, Chen Qingqing was always that radiant, unreachable elder sister.

She had never imagined that one day she would see her opponent in such a desolate and miserable state.

This impact was even stronger than when she herself had lost all her cultivation back then.

Chen Qingqing’s body stood rigidly in place.

She looked at the three women in front of her, especially Sun Xiaoyue.

She was not familiar with Bu Yifan and Zhao Linger, but Sun Xiaoyue, she knew too well.

This woman, who once followed behind her, gritting her teeth and refusing to admit defeat, now stood there, with a rosy complexion and the gentle warmth of a wife and mother in her eyes.

And she herself had become a cripple who needed external support just to stand.

The enormous disparity pierced Chen Qingqing’s heart like a thorn.

She instinctively wanted to retreat, to escape from here.

But the heavy leg Magical Artifacts made even turning around incredibly difficult for her.

Bu Yifan was the first to notice her embarrassment and unease.

She quickly stepped forward, without saying much.

She simply and naturally took Chen Qingqing’s arm from Chen Xu’s hand.

”It’s windy outside, let’s go in first. The food is still warm.”

Bu Yifan’s voice was gentle, carrying a reassuring strength.

Zhao Linger also stepped forward, timidly calling out to Chen Qingqing: ”Sister Qingqing, I’ll help you with your sword.”

She carefully took the Azure Frost Sword, which had never left Chen Qingqing’s side, from her hand.

Chen Qingqing did not resist; she seemed to have been drained of all her strength, allowing Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue to support her, one on each side.

She walked into this strange yet familiar courtyard.

The atmosphere at dinner was somewhat somber.

Chen Xu deliberately did not let the children sit at the table; there were only the five of them in the dining room.

Bu Yifan and Zhao Linger kept putting food on Chen Qingqing’s plate.

They only spoke about everyday matters.

They deliberately avoided all topics related to Sects and Cultivation.

Chen Qingqing remained silent, simply lowering her head and mechanically eating the food in her bowl.

After dinner, Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue helped Chen Qingqing to a guest room that had already been tidied up.

The room was clean, the bedding was new, and calming incense was burning.

”You should rest well first. We’re next door, call us anytime if you need anything.”

Bu Yifan tucked her in, speaking softly.

Chen Qingqing lay on the soft bed, watching their busy figures with complex eyes.

After Zhao Linger and Chen Xu left, Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue did not leave.

Instead, they sat down on the stools beside the bed.

The room was silent.

After a long while, Sun Xiaoyue was the first to break the silence.

”I heard that you had an accident in Lone Eagle Ridge.”

Her voice was very low, without the competitiveness of the past.

Only an indescribable complex emotion remained.

Chen Qingqing’s body trembled slightly, but she did not answer.

”I used to... always wanted to surpass you one day.”

Sun Xiaoyue continued on her own: ”I cultivated desperately, just to make you look at me squarely once. Later, I reached Qi Refining Great Perfection, failed to break through to Foundation Establishment, and lost all my cultivation. I thought my life was over.”

She looked up at Chen Qingqing: ”At that time, I felt like the sky had fallen. I hid in the mountains, didn’t want to see anyone, and thought about just dying every day.”

Chen Qingqing’s gaze finally shifted from the ceiling beam to Sun Xiaoyue’s face.

”Later, Brother Chen found me and brought me back here.”

Sun Xiaoyue showed a faint smile: ”When I first came, I was just like you, feeling that everyone pitied me and sympathized with me. I felt like a cripple, a burden.”

”But later I found out, they didn’t.”

”Sister Yifan treats me like a younger sister, and Ling’er has a soft personality and respects me greatly. The children’s innocence also made me slowly forget those unhappy things.”

”Here, no one will ask how high your cultivation is, no one will care what your past identity was. You just need to... be yourself.”

Bu Yifan also took over the conversation, her voice even gentler: ”Xiaoyue is right. Qingqing, I failed to break through to Foundation Establishment back then, that kind of despair, I understand.”

”The interruption of the Dao path is indeed the greatest pain for a Cultivator.”

”But if the Dao path is cut off, it doesn’t mean the path of life is also cut off.”

She looked into Chen Qingqing’s empty eyes and said earnestly: ”Taking a different path might lead you to see different scenery. Look at Xiaoyue, isn’t she living very well now?”

Chen Qingqing’s lips moved.

She seemed to want to say something, but in the end, she said nothing.

She just slowly closed her eyes.

Two lines of clear tears slid down the corners of her eyes, disappearing into her temples.

Seeing this, Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue exchanged glances and did not continue speaking.

They knew that some knots in the heart could only be untied by herself, slowly.

The two quietly exited the room and closed the door.

Late at night, when all was quiet.

Chen Xu pushed open Chen Qingqing’s door and walked in.

She was not asleep, just keeping her eyes open, quietly looking at the moonlight outside the window.

”Can’t sleep?”

Chen Xu sat down by her bed.

”What are you doing here?”

Chen Qingqing’s voice carried a hint of wariness: ”Are you here to mock me? To see what became of the spirited Inner Sect Prodigy from back then?”

”I’m not that bored.”

Chen Xu’s tone was calm: ”I just want to tell you that your legs and Meridians might still be salvageable.”

Chen Qingqing’s body trembled violently, she suddenly turned her head, looking at Chen Xu in disbelief: ”What did you say?”

”I’ve been studying the Dao of Pills recently.”

Chen Xu didn’t look at her, just continued on his own: ”In our backyard, there’s a Medicine Garden with many high-grade Spirit Medicines planted in it.

Among them, several are the main ingredients for refining the Bone-Regeneration and Meridian-Connecting Pill.”

He turned his head, meeting Chen Qingqing’s shocked gaze: ”This Medicinal Pill might not allow you to return to your Peak, but it shouldn’t be a problem to help you stand up again and recover some of your cultivation.”

”It’s just that the refining method is complex, and I’ll need some time.”

Chen Qingqing stared at him intently.

She wanted to see a trace of a lie on his face.

But Chen Xu’s eyes were calm.

”Why?”

Chen Qingqing’s voice was dry: ”Why are you helping me?”

”Because you are Yifan and Xiaoyue’s friend, and they want you to stay.”

Chen Xu paused, then added: ”Also, because we were once fellow disciples.”

”You can settle down here and recover. Don’t worry about anything else.”

After speaking, Chen Xu stood up and turned to leave.

When the door was closed again, darkness once more enveloped the room.

Chen Qingqing lay on the bed, but she couldn’t calm down for a long time.

Chen Xu’s words were like a stone, thrown into her dead-still heart, like a pool of stagnant water.

Stirring up ripples.

Hope.

This word, which she had long since dared not even dream of!

Once again, it appeared in her life.

In the following days, Chen Qingqing settled down in the Chen family.

She still spoke very little, spending most of her time in her room.

But everyone in the family could feel it.

The lingering Death Qi on her was gradually dissipating.

She began to allow Bu Yifan and Sun Xiaoyue to push her.

To bask in the sun in the backyard.

When she personally saw the Medicine Garden, enveloped by a Spirit Gathering Array, shimmering with spiritual light and fragrant with medicinal scents, the shock in her heart was immeasurable.

She also saw Chen Xu’s Pill Room, and watched him fail furnace after furnace.

And then tirelessly start over again and again.

She also saw the Chen family’s children, those children with Spiritual Roots.

Every morning, they would meditate and absorb Qi in the courtyard.

Their Foundations were so solid that even she, a former Inner Sect Prodigy, felt startled.

She finally understood that this man, whom she had once looked down upon.

Had, in his own way, forged a completely different grand Dao.

Time flew by, and more than seven months passed.

On this day, the atmosphere in the Chen Family Courtyard was particularly tense.

Zhao Linger was in labor.

This was the Chen family’s twenty-first child, and Chen Xu put down everything he was doing.

He, along with Bu Yifan, Sun Xiaoyue, and Chen Qingqing, waited outside the delivery room.

This was the first time Chen Qingqing had experienced such a scene.

She watched Chen Xu pace back and forth outside the door.

With an expression of nervousness and anticipation she had never seen before, a strange feeling suddenly arose in her heart.

”Wah—”

A loud cry came from inside the delivery room.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Xu’s face showed uncontrollable joy.

The midwife quickly came out holding a swaddled baby: ”Congratulations, Master Chen, it’s a daughter, both mother and child are safe!”

Chen Xu carefully took the child, looking at the tiny, pink life in the swaddle, his heart filled with tenderness.

And just then, in his mind, the System’s voice arrived as expected.

Detected that the host has given birth to the twenty-first descendant, Bloodline rating: Profound Grade Low Grade.

The Immortal Clan’s prosperity has increased, rewards issued!

One: Host’s lifespan increased by one hundred and fifty years!

Two: Host’s Pill Dao comprehension has been enhanced, and the proficiency of the ”Jade Cauldron Pill Manual” has increased!

Three: Detected that the host’s cultivation has reached Qi Refining Great Perfection, and Spiritual Root Aptitude meets the standard. Special reward issued — Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Method!

Boom!

A vast and profound stream of information instantly flooded Chen Xu’s mind.

It was a Foundation Establishment method far beyond his scope of understanding.

Ordinary Cultivators, when establishing their Foundation, merely draw Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into their bodies, and within their Dantian Qi Sea.

Compress and condense gaseous spiritual power into liquid true essence.

But this Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Method goes a step further on this basis!

It requires the Cultivator, at the time of Foundation Establishment, to use their body as a cauldron, Five Elements spiritual objects as a catalyst, to draw down heavenly lightning for Body Tempering, and earthly fire for Spirit Refining.

Finally, within the Dantian Qi Sea, to forge a perfect and flawless ”Dao Platform”!

Once the Dao Platform is established, the Cultivator’s Foundation will far surpass those of the same Realm.

Their true essence will be several times more profound, and their future path to Golden Core and even higher Realms will be smooth sailing.

This is the true Foundation of the Immortal Dao!

Chen Xu held his daughter in his arms.

Feeling the profound method in his mind, his heart was filled with soaring ambition.

He had the Medicine Garden, the Pill Formula, the foundation establishment pill, and now this supreme method.

Everything was ready.

He glanced at his family members beside him, who were happy for him.

He then looked at Chen Qingqing, who was sitting in a wheelchair not far away, with complex eyes.

He knew that the time for his Foundation Establishment had arrived.

This Foundation Establishment was not just for himself.

It was even more so for the family behind him!